Infernal Artist

Deep inside Hellfire Castle.

Liu Ping stood in front of rows of huge bookshelves, looking up at his surroundings.

Every row of bookshelves is filled with books.

Liu Ping pulled out a book with a metal cover, and saw an iron lock wrapped around the cover. The book was completely sealed with a twelve-round secret key lock and could not be opened.

"This is--"

"Your Excellency, these are the knowledge of Purgatory and Eternal Night, as well as various secrets. You can use the Staff of Hellfire Bank to open all the secrets here."

"I see."

Liu Ping took out his scepter and pointed it at the book.

"Your Excellency, be careful!" The director on the side screamed and jumped into the void, fleeing in panic.

All twelve locks on the book are opened.

A voice sounded from the book:

"This is the ultimate secret about the Balrog clan. They were originally born in the Endless Pillar and thrived there. The spirit guarding the pillar is extremely powerful and has been protecting the Balrog until..."

Along with this sound, a fiery aura gradually surged in the void, as if something had been awakened.

"Ah, so that's it." Liu Ping said.

The prison knife on his waist made a gentle buzzing sound.

Lines of burning small characters then appeared:

"The power of 'Silence' on the prison sword has been activated."

"——Those who hold this sword can hear all secrets and have nothing to fear."

After the sound of the knife.

The fiery breath and abnormal noises spreading in the void gradually disappeared.

——No wonder the director who followed him ran faster than a rabbit.

Hearing any secret is risky.

If you are not careful, you are very likely to get into trouble with someone stronger than yourself and fall into danger.

When everything calmed down, Liu Ping suddenly felt a feeling in his heart.

——All his misfortunes are over.

He looked into the void and saw lines of small burning characters floating in the air:

"You successfully survived the Thousand Tribulations Realm."

"Due to the profound merits you have created in the past, your Thousand Tribulation Realm did not trigger too terrible a disaster."

"Congratulations."

"You have successfully been promoted to a practitioner in the Taixu Realm."

Liu Jing calmly felt the surge of spiritual power in his body. After thinking for a moment, he raised his hand and kneaded a spell.

A strange wave emerged from his body and began to gradually calm down all the chaotic spiritual energy around him.

One breath.

Two breaths.

The spiritual power calms down, returns to the Dantian again, and flows through the limbs and bones, moving according to the thoughts, and is extremely tame.

"The strength of my spiritual power and soul has grown a lot... This allows me to release more spells and techniques in my memory."

Liu Ping muttered to himself, and suddenly couldn't help but sigh again.

The fighting skills and strength he has mastered in many lives are enough to deal with any living being, but he cannot defeat the nightmare monster.

He lightly stamped his scepter on the ground.

The void opens.

The director wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief and walked back to Liu Ping.

"Sir, are you okay?" He forced a smile.

"It's okay." Liu Ping closed the book and asked, "How many years have you managed this secret treasure house as a director?"

"It's been more than three thousand years," the director said.

"Then let me ask you, now that big changes are coming, what secrets do you think are related to the current situation?" Liu Ping asked.

"If there's one thing that will make us all live or die - there's only one secret," said the director.

"What?"

"Your Excellency, please follow me."

The director led Liu Ping through countless bookshelves and all the way to the innermost part of the entire treasure house.

I saw an altar here, with a crystal ball placed alone on the altar.

Liu Ping noticed a striking red line on the passage near the altar, with a line of words written next to it:

"Be careful not to cross this line, otherwise you will risk your life or death."

The director cautiously stood in front of Liu Ping and said, "Stop!"

"What is this?" Liu Ping asked with interest.

"A long time ago, there was a divination master who could divine all the secrets in the world. Until one day, he sensed the catastrophe related to the entire Purgatory and the Eternal Night Pillar, and then made a divination using a crystal ball. Seal it and store it here." said the director.

"In this case, many people should come to hear this secret." Liu Ping said.

"In the beginning, there were indeed many powerful people who wanted to give it a try, but the secret sealed in the crystal ball is obviously not trivial. Most people will be killed by the 'emergence' of countless laws just by getting close to it," the director said.

"Where is the divination master?" Liu Ping asked.

"He died on the spot after making this prediction." said the director.

"...It seems that this secret is really no small matter." Liu Ping said with his arms crossed.

"Yes, Your Excellency, we can go back now, and I will take you to see other treasures." The director turned around, stretched out his hand, and prepared to walk in another direction.

"Wait a minute." Liu Ping said.

"Huh? What?"

"I'm going to look at that crystal ball."

"...Your Excellency, you are really going to die. Countless people have died due to this divination in history."

"Whenever there is a problem, I will never be stubborn."

After Liu Ping finished speaking, he crossed the red line on the ground and walked towards the altar step by step.

The director raised his hand as if to stop him, but felt that he had no way to stop him, so he had to stand there and wait.

There was a flash of void.

Two other directors were also present.

"What's going on? We finally gathered all the forces and wanted to really follow him. Why did he seek death on his own?" Another director asked irritably.

"Let's see. If he really dies, it will be God's will. There is nothing anyone can do." The third director said solemnly.

Liu Ping walked slowly, and suddenly felt that the surroundings were covered with fog, and a series of misty voices sounded in his ears.

Looking back.

The director is no longer visible.

It seemed that ever since I crossed that red line, I had entered an extremely special place.

"This secret can actually manifest a world-like scene... It's really extraordinary."

Liu Ping murmured and continued walking forward.

He climbed the steps to the altar.

The illusory whispers in his ears suddenly became clear and strong.

"coming."

"It's him, he's here."

"According to the prophecy, he arrived on time at this moment..."

"The time is almost up."

"The day of destruction...he will personally take action..."

Liu Jing listened quietly and glanced around, only to see nothingness around him.

I don't know how these sounds are produced.

He walked up the steps and came to the crystal ball.

I saw a dream-like mist floating in the crystal ball, without any clues.

Liu Ping reached out and held the crystal ball.

suddenly--

All murmurs disappeared.

A scene enveloped Liu Ping, revealing a scene he had never seen before.

In the endless black void——

The Pillars of Purgatory and Eternal Night are slowly collapsing.

Countless nightmare creatures are wreaking havoc on Purgatory and the Pillar of Eternal Night.

The divine pillar slowly collapsed.

All soul bodies are imprisoned and used as food reserves to be divided up by beings from nightmares.

Just when everything is going to perish.

A being wearing a huge armor appeared in the distant darkness.

It flew down on the divine pillar, held down a section of the divine pillar that was about to collapse, and roared at all the nightmare creatures.

Liu Ping tried hard to hear its voice clearly, but found that he couldn't hear anything.

The next moment.

All the scenes gradually became blurred, like a storm, constantly rotating around Liu Ping.

He was isolated on the altar by this storm and temporarily lost all contact with the outside world.

Suddenly, a voice sounded in his ear:

"find me."

"Quick, you must hurry up and find me!"

"In the deepest part of eternal night, or at the top of purgatory——"

"You must find me as quickly as possible, otherwise it will be too late!"

Liu Ping was shocked.

These words were recalled in my memory when I first entered the eternal night and traveled through time.

But it was too vague to hear at the time.

This time I finally heard it clearly, it was Andrea’s voice!

It turned out that she had traveled through two timelines, the past and the present, and she kept reminding herself of this.

boom--

The blurry storm wall gradually dispersed, turning into gusts of breeze, and finally subsided.

The crystal ball in Liu Ping's hand cracked into cracks, and finally completely shattered into powder and fell from his hand.

The three directors standing far away were stunned.

One person said: "He..."

The second person said: "I got it——"

The third director said: "Yes, he got the prophecy and he didn't die."

Liu Ping stood on the altar, stunned for a few breaths, and suddenly asked: "Which world is at the top of the Purgatory Pillar now?"

"Your Excellency, this is a world without people. Apart from storms, there is only barren stone land in that world." A director said.

"Prepare manpower immediately," Liu Ping said.

"What do you want to do? Please tell us what you want to do so that we can arrange the corresponding manpower." Another director said.

"Go through that world and don't leave out any problematic areas - let's go, let's leave immediately!"

Liu Ping said.