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"grass!"

It's not a good experience to be stared at with menacing gazes by dozens of pale, decaying dead heads on a whole tree.

If Gu Xia still had a body, the hair on his body would have exploded.

The next breath, Gu Xia started running wildly in the forest, and behind him on the ground were dozens of human-headed octopuses chasing boys and girls who had drowned.

Their putrid mouths, which are covered with fine sharp teeth, occasionally emit harsh and unpleasant screams.

…

After a long time, Gu Xia finally got rid of the group of human-headed octopuses and was able to breathe.

If he is still in the world, Gu Xia promises to kill everyone with a spear.

But in this world, Gu Xia, who only has a soul body, is no match for these little monsters, and was almost eaten just now.

He looked at a wound on his arm.

It was bitten by an octopus with a human head. The wound in the soul does not bleed continuously like the wound in the body.

Instead, there is a gap in the arm, just like a hole in a human-shaped porcelain piece.

Looking into the hole in the soul body's body, one can see that it is not flesh and blood, but a glowing cloud like nebula gas.

Because the soul body's shell is damaged, thin luminous clouds are constantly floating out of it.

It was obvious that his arm was injured, but Gu Xia felt a terrible headache and a kind of weakness deep in his soul.

Negative emotions such as annoyance, sadness, and fear also continued to arise, making him feel extremely hesitant and uneasy.

This is the effect of divine injury, which can cause damage and weakness from the source.

The real horror of mental injury is the sequelae, which can make people fall into the abyss of negative emotions and gradually lead to despair and even world-weariness.

Similar to the psychological impact Gu Xia had on Yu Chen, it caused flaws in his Taoist heart.

Moreover, there is almost no cure for mental injuries. Treatment of mental injuries can only rely on two good medicines, one is time, the other is...

"It's just a small injury! I won't be afraid or flinch! How can the worldly distractions disturb my heart!"

Gu Xia forcibly dispersed all kinds of distracting thoughts in her heart, leaving only the heart that became stronger.

Soon he found that the headache caused by the mental injury was relieved, the luminous cloud in the soul stopped overflowing, and the wounds on his arms began to slowly heal.

This is a sign that Gu Xia's Taoist heart is slowly healing the scars on his soul body.

He moved on.

…

Some time passed.

The palace was still far away, but Gu Xia couldn't bear it. He only had a soul, and no longer had any mysterious skills. After running around for a long time, he was injured again.

Now very weak and "hungry and thirsty."

"Why is this damn underworld full of monsters!"

Gu Xia cursed.

He has encountered several waves of strange existences in the woods.

Some humanoid creature with moth wings, a piece of human flesh and bone, facing a field of sunflowers, a zombie-like rotten monster with antlers and a deer's head.

Fortunately, these beings are very territorial and will not chase them as long as they run up to a hundred steps.

Gu Xia experienced the feeling of being at the bottom of the food chain for the first time in a long time.

Then he saw a puddle.

"If you can't find any food, let's have a drink..."

He leaned down, took some water and poured it into his mouth, regardless of whether it was clean or not.

After taking a few sips, he discovered the problem. The water seemed unable to meet the needs of his soul and body and did not quench his thirst at all.

"Are the rules of the underworld so different from those of the human world?"

Gu Xia had no choice but to give up, and planned to continue to endure hunger and thirst and go to the palace to find a way to return Yang.

But he suddenly found that his reflection in the puddle had changed.

In other words, somewhere in the puddle, there was a woman with red makeup, half of her cheeks rotten and infested with maggots, and half of her cheeks intact, quietly staring at Gu Xia. The corners of her mouth that were so rotten that her teeth were exposed seemed to be grinning.

At this moment, the two eyes met, and the woman in the water suddenly stretched out her corpse-like hands to grab Gu Xia, trying to pull him into the puddle.

"Gan!"

Gu Xia struggled hard, but fortunately the woman's rotten arm seemed not strong enough. With a pull, all the rotten flesh and tendons were torn off.

He finally managed to break free and quickly ran away before the woman fully emerged from the puddle.

…

I ran for a while.

Gu Xia stopped panting.

"This forest..."

Gu Xia suddenly wanted to go back to the previous wasteland, which was just barren. Although the woods were calm, there were strange and vicious beings everywhere.

We walked for another half hour.

"Alas... alas..."

The sound of the old man moaning in pain suddenly came into the air.

I saw a big pit in front of me. At the bottom of the pit lay an old man in ragged clothes, with a big stone pressing on his body.

Gu Xia didn't want to meddle in other people's business and was going to go around.

Old man: "My little friend, can you help me?"

Gu Xia turned a deaf ear and continued to move forward.

The old man said again: "Little friend, I can smell that you don't belong here. Do you need my help?"

When Gu Xia heard this, he stopped.

"Oh, grandpa, you know I don't belong here?"

"You are from the human world! No one from the human world has been here for a long time. Your smell is very obvious!

The monsters here will want to eat you! If you help me, I can escort you back. "

"Oh?" After hearing this, Gu Xia became interested: "Why do they want to eat me?"

The old man: "You are a living person who should not be here. As long as I eat your soul, I can replace you and go to the human world."

Gu Xia was curious: "Then why don't they keep chasing me?"

"Because everything in this world is based on cause and effect and rules. If you don't actively create causes, they can't create results, and once you leave the area where their rules are, they can no longer harm you!"

Gu Xia realized: "So as long as I don't take the initiative to provoke them, or escape in time, I will be safe. Then how can I return to the world?"

Old man: "Well... if you help me out of trouble, I will help you return to the world, how about that?"

"Thank you for your reminder, grandpa! I'll take my leave first." Gu Xia walked around the big pit and left.

"Wait! Wait! Don't you want to know how to return to the world? I can really help you..." The old man's voice shouted.

But Gu Xia had gradually walked away.

It was not easy to meet a being who could communicate, and he also hoped that someone could help, but this world was too weird.

If what the old man said was true, Gu Xia would create enough cause and effect if he helped him. Maybe the old man was a monster, and he would be finished.

If the old man was lying, there was no need to help him.

And it can be confirmed that the old man is not a human, because Gu Xia observed that his feet grow backwards, and his heels are in the opposite direction, which is very similar to the wild man with reverse heels recorded in the "Xuan Hai Jing".

Looking at the towering palace in the distance, Gu Xia had a strong intuition in his heart, telling him that the way to return to life is there, as long as he walks over, he can return to the human world.

After that, Gu Xia walked through the forest carefully, trying to avoid the cause and effect of various strange existences here.

…

I don’t know if it will be one or two days later.

Gu Xia finally walked out of the forest, and in front of him was a desert with flying sand.

To reach the palace, you need to pass through this windy and sandy land first.