Demon Royal Family

Reed can actually reveal the entrance to the Land of Return. What is the origin of this undead? Being able to do this kind of thing must be closely connected with the place of return.

"What is your identity?" Ivo asked.

Reed shook his head, "This is the only thing I can't tell you even if you bribe me."

Ivo had no choice but to turn his gaze to the gray vortex and stretched out his fingers to touch it, which could easily penetrate the colorful film.

The barrier of the main world can be entered or exited. If you touch the colorful film from the place of return, it must be indestructible. However, Ivo is not worried about not being able to come back. He has two tokens given by the Pope and the Patriarch, and he can penetrate the barrier of the main world at will.

The place of return has its own unique rules. The dead come in and the living come out. You will be fine with the help of Lao De's high status.

Finally about to enter the place of return, Ivo took a deep breath and was actually a little nervous.

Orton hurriedly grabbed Ivo, "What will I do if you leave?"

"Am I familiar with you?" Ivo asked helplessly.

Reed interjected, "You can stay on my ship if you want."

Orton looked around at the terrifying-looking undead, shuddered, and shook his head like a rattle, "No!"

"Haha, although we look scary, we are actually good people."

Orton didn't believe it.

"I'm in." Ivo adjusted his clothes, stepped across the colorful film, the space rippled like water, and his figure suddenly disappeared in front of everyone.

Reed snapped his fingers, and the entrance to the Land of Return disappeared without a trace.

At this time, the ghost parrot finally untied the iron wire on its beak, flew to Reed's head and pecked at it, "You broke the code again!"

Reed didn't care and puffed out smoke, "He is not an undead soul that needs me to lead him. Opening a place of return for him does not undermine my mission."

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As soon as his vision blurred, the scene suddenly changed.

There is no longer a sea of ​​ghosts in front of us, but a gray space. The sky is dark, there is no sunshine, there are only endless thick gray clouds, the earth is covered with dust, there is no vegetation, and occasionally there are cracks in the ground, and the cracks in the ground are shining with faint blue. The light is the only different tone in this world besides gray and white.

There was no wind, no airflow, no temperature. Everything around him remained unchanged, gray and dead, with no reference to prove the passage of time.

It's like a space where time has frozen.

"This is the resting place of ghosts, the realm of the gods of the dead, the place where the dead return!"

A feeling of suffocation gripped his throat, and an inexplicable pulling force came, as if his soul was about to be pulled out of his body. This feeling did not stop until Lao De snorted coldly in his mind.

Ivo exhaled with lingering fear. Sure enough, only high-ranking beings can be exempted from the rules of different secondary spaces. Ivo moved his hands and feet, and they felt heavier and the gravity was higher than in the main world.

Looking around, it was a gray wilderness. The entrance behind him slowly shrank until it disappeared. Ivo touched the colorful film, and it was indeed indestructible.

The location of the entrance is very important. Ivo buried a ghost fire mark on the spot. He and Lao De can sense it from a distance and will not get lost.

"So where to go next."

The Holy Spirit, Abel Helix, and the City of the Dead all needed to be completed, and he was very interested in the Land of Return, which was his first time in one of the Seven Realms.

Ivo took out a red spear, a white scepter, and a white wooden board, all three of which glowed slightly and pointed in different directions.

Everything in the place of return was unfamiliar to him. Ivo thought for a while and walked in the direction guided by the white scepter. He felt that this was more important.

Ivo trudged in the gray wilderness for an unknown length of time, and finally encountered a moving thing, an erratic ghost with a blank look on his face, moving step by step towards the distance.

"This is the life of death. All ghosts will come to the place of return and lose their memories of life." Lao De said.

Ivo suddenly asked: "The ghosts come to the place of return, and what will happen to them next?"

Lao De: "They will follow their instinct and head to the Sea of ​​Rest."

"And after that?"

"I am not the extraditer from Anxi Sea, so how do you know?"

Ivo frowned. Where to go after death is the ultimate question. No matter who is interested, it involves the operation of the entire world. What will the dead encounter when they go to the Sea of ​​Rest?

Is it reincarnation?

Is it annihilation?

Heading to another world?

Or live in the body of death? Eternity in disguise?

The ultimate of life is death, so what is the ultimate of death?

"What kind of place is the Sea of ​​Rest?" Ivo asked.

"That's the River Styx, the Realm of Death, a vast ocean, the palace of the gods of the Realm of Death."

Ivo looked at the memoryless ghost, unable to touch it. No matter what actions he made, the ghost still walked forward numbly.

"Would you like to follow the ghost to the Sea of ​​Rest?" This idea flashed across Ivo's mind, and then he gave it up. He was a "black household" in the place of return. If he got close to the gods of the dead world, accidents would easily occur, and there were no three guiding directions. In the direction of the Sea of ​​Rest where the ghost is heading.

After weighing it, Ivo continued to move in the direction guided by the white scepter.

As he walked farther and farther, the ghosts on the road gradually became denser, and new terrain began to appear around him, gray valleys and gray hills. Ivo didn't know the map of the place of return, so he could only take one step at a time.

The glimmer of the white scepter became brighter and brighter, and Ivo suddenly stopped. At the end of his sight, there was a gray castle, which was obviously traces of artificial excavation.

"There are buildings in the place of return!" Ivo's eyes widened, "Are there high-level undead living here?"

Lao De said doubtfully: "That shouldn't be the case. Only high-ranking beings can be exempted from the rules of the Land of Return."

Ivo's eyes flashed, "Could it be that the Holy Spirit the Patriarch talks about?"

After walking for a while, Ivo came under the castle. He found that the ghosts passing near the castle would unconsciously avoid the castle. This made Ivo even more surprised as to what kind of power would make those unconscious ghosts avoid the castle automatically.

The style of the castle is very old, and the gate is made of gray stone. Ivo observed it for a while, knocked on the door, but accidentally pushed the door open. The gate of the castle was actually unlocked.

The door opened, revealing the interior structure of the castle. Entering the door was a long corridor.

"Is there anyone there?" Ivo shouted.

The gray corridor was dead silent, no one answered.

Ivo hesitated for a moment, then walked in holding the white scepter, taking every step with extreme caution and looking around vigilantly. It didn't take long for Ivo to discover that there seemed to be no living creatures in this castle.

The castle has four floors and dozens of rooms. Ivo walked through each room. All the furniture was made of gray rocks that could be seen everywhere, and the colors were monotonous.

Only one room was locked, the basement door.

Ivo opened the basement door and saw the endless steps extending downward, which was very strange.

After calming down, he walked down the steps, counting the steps silently.

The further he walked, the more frightened he became. The castle only had four floors above ground, but the stairs to the basement were already more than ten floors deep.

Where does this staircase lead to?