Infernal Artist

Liu Ping floated in the darkness, looking towards the Yongye Divine Pillar.

I saw a majestic and magnificent statue appearing on the Eternal Night Pillar.

It has four faces, facing the four directions of darkness.

——But the gray fog kept rolling in the darkness, making it difficult to see the appearance and body of the statue.

Lines of burning small characters appeared quickly:

"You concluded a mysterious side of power contract with this ancient existence, and obtained the Halo: Forty Meter Summons from it."

"You have reached level 10."

"Now, you have to communicate with it and express your wishes."

"——This is your chance to choose the direction of development."

Liu Ping felt it carefully.

suddenly.

An unparalleled consciousness appeared in his mind.

This consciousness did not make any sound or language, but the moment it appeared, Liu Ping naturally knew that the other party was telling him something.

"Sacred and prison, although they look a little weird, they are two different paths..."

"You can't have both..."

Everything disperses.

A fork in the darkness appeared.

On the road to the left, there are countless statues lined up. They have majestic faces, solemn expressions, and holy light emerging from their bodies.

The road to the right was full of cages and iron locks. Countless strong men were trapped in the cages, groaning in pain.

"Sacred, or prison...you need to make a choice."

Liu Ping took a look, shook his head and said, "This is their path, not mine. From now on, I will find a way to combine them and create a brand new path."

In the middle of the forked road, another road appeared.

The fog completely covered the road, making it impossible to see everything on the road clearly.

“The path may be made, but what is your will?”

"Light, or darkness."

"You need to make a choice."

Liu Ping couldn't help but asked: "Is there such a difference between roads?"

That vast consciousness made no answer.

But on that brand new road, a blazing holy light emerged, like the sun.

Under the road, the black mist billowed endlessly, and countless screams and wails sounded from it, which made people feel creepy.

Obviously, this is what has been answered.

So.

bright

Or darkness?

Liu Ping couldn't help but sigh, he opened his mouth to speak, but then swallowed it back.

…

then.

In a bustling city.

An old man and a young man were squatting on the flower bed by the roadside, each holding a large bowl of noodles and eating enthusiastically.

"Disciple, you have achieved great success in cultivation. There is only one thing left for you." The old man said.

"What?" the boy asked.

"Will you follow the righteous path in the future, or will you follow the evil path?" the old man asked.

"It's an old question. Master, you have been in the spiritual world all your life. Can you come up with something new?" the young man said impatiently.

The old man took a sip of noodle soup, wiped the sweat from his head and said, "You brat, this is a fundamental problem for any monk, so how can it change?"

The young man did not answer, but asked: "We made a fortune before. The wealthy family named Qian in this city has been doing good deeds all his life, but today he is facing death. Master, have you figured out what happened?"

"Of course, don't underestimate me," the old man said, "Qian Dashan accidentally obtained a magic book and practiced Taoism. Today, the righteous sects will send people to kill him to prevent him from becoming a demon. ."

"That's it?" the young man said disdainfully.

"What else?" the old man asked.

"That technique was secretly placed in Qian Mansion's study by a disciple from several decent sects nearby."

The boy finished the last bite of noodles and continued: "I didn't calculate it until the fifth hexagram. You see how secretive they are."

"Then - have you decided what to do?" the old man asked.

"I've seen some of those magic techniques. I'll borrow them later and have a look at them, and help him deduce a road to the underworld!"

After the young man finished speaking, he put down the bowl and chopsticks, stood up and laughed:

"The Supreme Being and Jiuyou, the righteous path and evil spirits are all just a cover for this world -"

"No matter whether you are a monk or an ordinary person, you can't escape the law of the jungle."

"You are weak, you are defenseless, and if you have something good about you, you are someone else's prey."

"I'll go and slaughter these decent people in a moment!"

The young man waved his sleeves, turned around and strode away.

The old man quickly put down his bowls and chopsticks, rushed up to him and pulled his clothes and said:

"Slow down! The Tu Clan has gone too far, it's passed!"

"Old man, are you teaching me how to do something?" the young man said disdainfully.

"There must be some innocent ones," the old man said.

"The mass graves behind the mountain, two hundred years ago, the dead bones of tens of thousands of innocent souls, not innocent, not innocent, hahahaha."

The young man laughed wildly, rose into the sky, and disappeared in an instant.

The old man stood silently, sighed, walked back to the flower bed, and said loudly: "Boss, have another bowl, add more spicy pepper, and add an egg!"

"This immortal...can you give our shop an inscription?"

"You waive the bill, I'll ask the question."

"Easy to say, please."

…

Liu Ping shook his head, suppressed the memories, and considered:

"I think it's okay to go both ways at the same time... I also think dark and light can coexist."

"Why is this so?" the huge consciousness asked.

"Because no one said no, did anyone say it?" Liu Ping asked.

The huge consciousness fell into silence.

Liu Ping said: "Of course - if it really embarrasses you, then I will take another path. In short, I will not limit myself to death."

suddenly.

He sensed something.

——Countless bricks and stones were quickly piled up into steps at the fork in front of him, forming an upward path.

"Is there really any other way to go? I like this kind of unexpected surprise."

Liu Ping stepped forward and climbed up the steps step by step.

Below him.

The forked road gradually disappeared.

——He is walking on a new and hidden path that has never been explored before.

The surrounding scenes gradually disappeared.

the other side.

Machine City.

In front of a rectangular table.

The man in a black robe blew out a smoke ring, sat quietly on his seat, and said to the others:

"That's what happened. The boxing demon I sent out was killed by the opponent."

A man laughed and said: "The Boxing Demon is dead? It's interesting. He was a master of your 'Evil Shadow' team, and he died like this. It seems that the person who challenged our three major teams this time has two skills."

"It's for a restricted area pass, right?" asked the man wearing a half-skull mask.

"Yes." The man said, holding the smoke in his mouth.

"Evil ghost, I feel very happy to see your 'evil shadow' defeated." The man wearing a half-skull mask laughed.

"But, restricted area passes are our common interests. It seems a little inappropriate for you to just enjoy them." Xie Gui said expressionlessly.

The man wearing half a skull mask stood up and said with a smile: "What a big deal, you even called us here for a meeting - bring the Boxing Demon's death card, I will solve the problem right now."

"Hang Qiang," Xie Gui grinned and said, "I have always felt that you are not qualified to be the head of the 'Apocalypse' team, but today it seems that you are still acting vigorously and resolutely."

He placed a card on the table.

On the card, there is a gray portrait of a character, which is the dead boxing demon.

The man wearing a half-skull mask picked up the card and smelled it, closed his eyes and said, "Ah, I roughly know the location of the prey. Who can cover my breath so that the machine owner doesn't notice that I'm doing bad things. "

"Let me do it."

The evil ghost stood up, walked slowly to the man, holding a gray-white card book and said:

"Soul covering."

The invisible wind blows quietly.

"Okay, watch me kill those troublesome boys."

The man known as Mad Gun kicked open the window and looked out into the deep darkness.

He stared silently into the darkness, as if looking at something.

"Deep in the snowy mountains - already in the snowfields, do they want to enter that frozen kingdom? It's ridiculous, there is no way to enter there."

A sniper rifle was mounted on the windowsill.

The man drew a card and installed it on the sniper rifle.

Bang!

A black scope appeared on the sniper rifle.

The man held the gun, squinted at the scope, and whispered: "I saw them. On the edge of the cliff, the boy was playing the flute to his partner."

"It's so romantic, to hell with it."

Boom!

A line of fire penetrated the void like a thunderbolt and disappeared instantly.

"Desperate mandarin ducks, let's die together."

Boom!

Another shot!

Tens of thousands of miles away.

Liu Ping closed his eyes and still maintained the posture of playing the flute.

suddenly.

Lilith suddenly emerged from his hair and screamed: "This direction - I smell death!"

In the flash of lightning, the two flying insects stopped flapping their wings.

They jumped down and pounced on Liu Ping.

"not enough!"

Lilith yelled with all her strength: "Come out, big bug!"

boom--

A giant insect emerged and blocked the edge of the cliff beside Liu Ping.

-Then the bullet came.

In an instant, half of the giant bug's body disappeared.

The first flying insect raised its carapace——

Snapped!

Its entire body exploded.

Immediately afterwards, the body of the third flying insect also exploded.

A thick book with a black cover continued to block Liu Ping's face——

Boom!

A dull sound.

Liu Ping and his book were knocked out and fell rapidly down the cliff.

blocked!

Lilith breathed a sigh of relief.

She grabbed the card book with one hand and pushed Liu Ping's eyelids hard with the other hand, shouting: "Liu Ping! Liu Ping! Wake up!"

Liu Ping's eyelids moved.

I saw a gleam of light emerging from under his feet.

This ray of light quickly connected into a blazing runic halo——

The halo of light danced in the air for a week and landed gently on Liu Ping's head.

But he still didn't wake up.

Therefore, I didn’t see that line of urgent reminder:

"You canceled the show."

"Attention, the prisoner has escaped from your 'scene stealer'."

"It's about to wake up."

"Repeat, it's about to wake up!!!"

at the same time.

On the cliff.

The listening look on Hua Qingkong's face gradually disappeared.

She slowly raised her head and looked around.

"here it is--"

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning traveled across the sky, struck from an extremely distant place, and hit her head straight.

Snapped!

Hua Qingkong was beaten so hard that she slightly raised her head.

"Who tried to kill me in such an imbecile way when I just woke up?"

"It's really...foolish..."

Streams of crimson light surged out from around her, suddenly turning into a huge amount of blood mist and rushing into the sky.

Tens of thousands of miles away.

Machine City.

In the conference room.

Next to the window, a man holding a sniper rifle fired two bullets in a row.

"How's it going? Is it over?"

The evil ghost asked.

The three major team members present at the meeting all looked at the man.

The man was silent.

Attentive people noticed that his hands had begun to shake.

On his scope——

Hua Qingkong suddenly met his gaze.

She smiled at him.

The next moment.

She's gone.