Chen Luo discovered he could scavenge the minds of the dead.
So he went to a graveyard and scavenge the brain of a deceased Great Emperor, figuring he’d borrow it for a bit.
While other...
As Chen Luo watched, the woman in the painting retreated little by little, and finally disappeared into the ink deep in the painting. The original painting frame turned into a rotating portal, as if waving to him.
Buzz!
Chen Luo touched it with his fingers and found that the blank painting had turned into a water curtain and his palm could actually penetrate it.
Taking his hand back, Chen Luo used his spiritual sense to probe.
The painting was completely dark, with nothing but ink, and nothing could be sensed.
Chen Luo stood at the entrance of the scroll and took out a stack of yellow talismans from his sleeve. Dozens of talisman paper figurines flew out of his hands. The remaining yellow talismans flew into the scroll entrance like butterflies, piercing through the water surface. An orange-yellow fireball exploded on the picture, illuminating the scene in the painting.
The space hidden under the black ink is an ordinary study.
The table was neatly laid out with a row of bamboo slips on it. Chen Luo threw the talisman paper man in and tried to flip through the two books, only to find that the contents were the same, with only one word - "Chu".
The power of the talisman paper quickly burned out, and the study room inside the scroll fell into darkness again.
The strange woman also disappeared, and it was unknown whether she had left or gone somewhere else. After the light was lost, the surface of the blank painting turned into a black vortex again, and the talisman paper figurine that Chen Luo had thrown inside also lost contact after the light dimmed.
'Transform into virtual space?'
An idea flashed through Chen Luo's mind, and he remembered the Spider Lady's virtual space. A sixth-level demon could create a similar space, which was not real. It could be a painting, a mark, or a piece of text. It was only the sixth-level strongman's ability to "convert virtuality into reality" that made these false spaces become real.
The folk tales of "Dreamland", "Suddenly Encountering Peach Blossom Forest" and "Journey to the Underworld" are all similar methods. The sixth-level strongman can pull those folk stories out of the falsehood and throw real people in. When the "dreamer" wakes up, the story will become unreal again, and the awakened person will not think too much, but just think that he had a dream.
Chen Luo skipped the blank scroll and continued moving forward.
"My husband, it's time to enter the bridal chamber."
A faint voice came from the other wall. Following the sound, he saw that the woman who had disappeared before had appeared here at some point. Her clothes had turned into a red wedding dress, and the way she addressed him had changed from "senior brother" to "husband".
This painting, like the scroll Chen Luo had encountered before, took up an entire wall.
When the woman's breath became active, the wall also began to fluctuate. On the originally pure white wall, there was actually an extra room. The woman sat in front of the mahogany dressing table, looking at him shyly, her expression was very much like a bride waiting for her husband to return.
'Strange painted monsters - Monsters in Strange Tales. Fearful of thunder, cannibalism.'
A thought suddenly emerged in Chen Luo's mind.
When he accidentally broke into the Inn of This Life, he once met a painted monster pretending to be the proprietress. This thing has a mysterious origin and is a strange monster like Qianmian!
The painting monster in front of him was even more powerful than any Chen Luo had encountered before. Her aura kept changing, and with Chen Luo's current level, he was unable to tell her strength at once.
"My parents said that you are not allowed to touch me before we are officially married."
An abnormal blush appeared on the woman's shy face.
Chen Luo took two steps forward, walked to the edge of the mural, and carefully observed the woman in the painting. Under his gaze, the woman in the painting became more and more shy.
Suddenly, Chen Luo raised his hand suddenly.
A wisp of gray bone energy flashed across his arm, and lightning arcs exploded. With a force almost as great as that of a demon dragon, he grabbed the face of the woman in the painting, and his five fingers were like iron hoops.
boom!!
The wedding room in the painting looked like it had been hit by an elephant. All the furniture around it exploded, and the mirror on the dressing table exploded. The woman whose face was pinched by Chen Luo was like mud, and was pressed to the ground by him. The flesh and blood exploded, and the room in the painting also shattered into pieces.
Darkness came, and Chen Luo pulled his arm out of the painting.
The dark ink soaked his arm, and there were drops of ink on his five fingers. He had tried it with the talisman paper figurine in the scroll before. This kind of painting only looked weird, but it was not powerful in nature.
After pinching the woman in the painting to death, Chen Luo stood there waiting.
The picture was distorted, and slowly pieced together like a black lake. The fragments of the explosion degenerated into ink, and under the influence of an invisible force, they became a ball. Not long after, the ink dispersed again under the influence of an unknown force and turned into a new picture.
The same wedding room, the same woman.
Even the words spoken are exactly the same.
"Is it not possible?"
Collecting his thoughts, Chen Luo ruled out one option.
move on.
Not long after he walked, another painting appeared in front of him. The woman he had crushed to death appeared in the painting intact. However, the woman in this painting had changed from a bride to a young woman. Her belly was bulging, and one hand was gently stroking her belly. Her face, full of a maternal smile, looked particularly strange at this moment.
"Husband, you're back? I've already thought of a name for the child. What do you think of 'Chu'?"
Hearing the footsteps, the woman looked up in surprise. She seemed to have completely forgotten what Chen Luo had done before, or perhaps she herself was a painting.
Different paintings represent different stages.
This time Chen Luo did not move forward, but stopped and looked at the white jade wall next to him. After walking for so long, several of his external brains had already noticed something was wrong. If nothing unexpected happened, he would go down this passage, and there would be paintings of women in their middle age, old age, and even after death. But these were not real, they were just "paintings".
Chen Luo raised his hand, and the power of the corpse demon surged out from the cave gourd and gathered on his right arm.
The power of the fifth-level demon!
Surrounded by black air, he clenched his five fingers into a fist and smashed the white jade wall pillar.
boom!!
The ground shook, and a crack appeared on the white jade wall. The wall that had been indestructible outside before was broken open with just one punch.
'Lower left, nine four.'
In the external brain, the brain that is proficient in formations and prohibitions keeps pouring out thoughts. In Chen Luo's vision, the pure white wall in front of him is like a grid, divided into countless areas, some areas are golden, and some areas are white.
Above the 'square' in the lower left corner, there was a glaring black flash.
boom!!
Another punch.
This time, the cracked wall collapsed, revealing a passage. Standing outside the wall, Chen Luo saw a gray alchemy room. The room was surrounded by cabinets for storing elixirs, which were filled with bottles and jars. In the middle stood a huge alchemy furnace. The furnace was nearly five meters long, with the top connected to the roof and three round tripod feet below. There were round medicine holes on the tripod, and black elixir residue could be seen in the furnace.
"who!"
Before Chen Luo entered, a low voice suddenly came from inside.
Chen Luo stopped walking. He recognized the identity of the owner of the voice. It was the leader of the Heart Demon Sect, the ambitious current leader Tu Cheng! At this moment, Tu Cheng's eyes were all bloodshot. He was half-bending, lying beside the alchemy furnace, as if talking to someone.
"Who are you? Why are you here!?"
Tu Cheng didn't remember Chen Luo. In his impression, there was no such person as Chen Luo in the Heart Demon Sect. His knowledge of Chen Luo was only on paper from the beginning to the end. He was the "Jiedan Junior" recommended by the elder in black robe, and then he was kicked out of the sect by him.
This kind of small person is just a name in Tu Cheng's memory, and it is impossible for him to remember the real person.
"A passerby!"
Chen Luo walked into the secret room expressionlessly, the aura of the corpse demon emanating from him. Looking around, he found that this place had been abandoned for a very long time, the bottles and jars on the wall were all empty, and the cabinets and alchemy furnaces were covered with dust.
Tu Cheng was originally prepared to kill directly. He paid a huge price to get here, and now he was about to reap the rewards, but suddenly a stranger appeared. At the moment this thought arose, the aura of the corpse demon on Chen Luo also emerged.
Deification?!
Tu Cheng's heart trembled, he suppressed the murderous intent in his heart and remained silent.
Strength is always the prerequisite for dialogue.
"I don't want to fight you"
Tu Cheng was halfway through his words when Chen Luo, who was checking the alchemy room, suddenly changed his expression.
He ignored Tu Cheng and walked out of the alchemy room from the other side. Tu Cheng was left with a dazed look on his face, not knowing what had happened. But he quickly put this emotion behind him and looked back at the alchemy furnace.
"I can agree to your terms, but I have one condition."
Chen Luo looked back after leaving the alchemy room. Tu Cheng in the room seemed to be crazy. He was talking to the alchemy furnace alone, and his expression was as if he was negotiating terms.
'Evil thoughts take shape, it's very dangerous! Leave immediately.'
After taking a look at the feedback from Brother Changqing, Chen Luo withdrew his gaze and quickly left the place.
On the other side of the alchemy room is the garden. Chen Luo broke through the wall and came in. He didn't know the rules of this place. Judging from the naked eye, this place is very different from the previous mural passage. The size of the plants in the yard has returned to normal. There are rockery and flowing water in the yard, as well as some green plants, a garden scene with small bridges and flowing water.
"Fate is wonderful! It turns out that my fate is here."
The moment Chen Luo entered the rockery, a voice suddenly rang out.
Chen Luo looked in the direction of the sound and found that a person had been crushed under the rockery in the yard. This person looked like a demon monkey suppressed by the Buddha, with his entire body buried in the rockery, with only his head left outside.
The head left outside was very dirty, with dishevelled hair and a face covered in mud.
He tilted his head and looked at Chen Luo out of the corner of his eye.
"Young man, come here quickly! I have the supreme immortal method here. If you are willing to save me, I will pass it all on to you!"
The person who was trapped under the mountain shouted to Chen Luo excitedly.
"What else?"
Chen Luo walked to the side of the head and waited for a moment. After finding that there was no follow-up, he couldn't help but ask. (End of this chapter)