Chapter 860: The Traveler in the Forgotten River

The scene before my eyes is a bit magical.

The part of the [Old Ruler] that was separated and sealed cursed the Soul King.

The indescribable master of the virtual universe that Lu Yao imagined...the filter was suddenly shattered.

The winged people he came into contact with, whether it was Amer, the winged scholar who created Hilgiris, or Rahab, the hunter who hunted the Creation Machine, or even the mysterious "Good Luck", all maintained a restrained decency.

On the contrary, their source, the [Old Rulers], showed a simple and crude attitude.

Scold me! If you are satisfied with the scolding, I will give you a reward! This made Lu Yao sigh, as expected, everyone is essentially a makeshift team.

After calming down, he discovered a suspicious point: he had no way of confirming what was going on with the increase in Lord Donghuang's attributes.

So Lu Yao activated [Arbiter], clicked [Break the Law], selected Donghuang Jun and the surrounding area, and it was shown that the consumption reached 1.01 million spiritual energy.

There's something strange.

Lu Yao clicked to invalidate the nearby laws. Dong Huangjun suddenly froze, and a sweaty expression appeared on his bird-headed mecha: "Lord Yaoshen, I have lost control just now... [The Old Ruler] is dragging me in, no, it's more like swallowing me, or assimilating me."

"It is taking over my body. I can feel that this body is about to be sucked into the boundary wall..."

"The curse is just an appearance and a disguise. It wants to eat me to replenish itself!"

"Fortunately you took action! That was a close call!"

Lu Yao looked towards the Sea of ​​Xirang.

I just said it.

If one can gain attributes here just by scolding the Spirit King, then I'm afraid the Feathered People and the Curse Clan will flock here, and this will become a gathering place for top keyboard warriors and super trolls.

The fact is, there is no trace of cursed insects or winged people here.

Lu Yao asked Dong Huangjun.

——Why weren't you controlled last time? "Lord Yaoshen, I was timid at that time. I was just an ordinary Curse Clan with mediocre strength. Asking me to curse the Spirit King... Although I don't know who the Spirit King is, I also know that such words should not be said casually."

An awkward smiley expression appeared on the bird-headed mecha's head: "So I didn't act rashly, but I was bewitched by the power of [Li Dai Tao Jiang] over there..."

"I only dared to say this after seeing you here. I didn't expect there would be a problem. There is no such an easy shortcut. Even if there is, it won't belong to an unlucky guy like me..."

Lu Yao understood.

Those who drown are usually those who can swim.

Now Lord Donghuang was a little inflated and almost died.

Those who coveted this power should have been buried in the Sea of ​​Xirang, and turned into nutritious meals for the [Old Rulers].

It is not difficult to understand that both the Divine Realm and the Time Stop Zone have the Sea of ​​Xirang as their boundary wall. These two places are originally two sides of the same coin in the virtual universe, and are also intertwined at the bottom of the Strong Repulsion Zone that separates the virtual and real universes.

Lu Yao asked again.

——How many boundaries are there in the Time Stop Zone? "I'm not sure about that. I was just a member of the Curse Clan before... But there is a very famous boundary, called the "Seventh Heaven" in the Time Stop Zone. There are sleeping [Old Rulers] inside, who grant power through holy objects and dreams. It is guarded by the seven angels, each of whom has monarch-level power. It is a very famous holy place."

"I avoided the expansion of black matter and the contraction of space all the way, but I didn't dare to get close to the territory of the Feathered People along the way, so I wandered all the way. As a result, I found a reappearing passage in the black rock layer... It was near this boundary wall. I think it should have been built by the Feathered People in the past, but the [Old Ruler] here is different from the rumors in the Holy Land. It's really scary."

A look of fear appeared on Donghuangjun's head.

Lu Yao took note of it silently.

There are at least two boundary walls in the Time Stop Zone, and the parts that seal the [Old Rulers] are different.

The Christian mythology protects a sleeping God, while the Sea of ​​​​Silence protects a hungry God.

Lu Yao took out the [Taoist Resin] and solidified Lord Donghuang.

Although the bird-headed mecha was puzzled, it did not dare to resist and quickly turned into a light yellow resin figure.

Lu Yao put it into the prop column.

Three winged men lined up neatly.

The main purpose of making a body for Lord Donghuang is to make it look better when collected.

…

Lu Yao stood up from his seat, took the glass to the refrigerator, added some ice cubes, and poured a glass of apple cider vinegar.

"Hello, what's the connection between Huangquan and the Styx?"

The three-headed dog lying next to the cardboard box at the door yawned and licked its tongue. "I've never been to Huangquan, but I heard that it's a place in Chinese mythology, right? It's also the destination of the dead, so they should end up in the River Styx."

"Let's go and take a look?" Lu Yao suggested after taking a sip of his ice drink.

"That's fine." Haro shook off his fur.

It is now fat and strong. It has changed from its former proud and thin figure to its current fat body. It no longer walks briskly, but staggers.

If the past was the last glimmer of the classical and proud knights, now is the retirement life of the contemporary Cerberus.

Lu Yao, in the form of Huang Jia, brought Hello into Kunlun.

The Kaiming Beast's nine heads glowed again, pointing out nine doors hidden in this spatial anchorage. Unlike last time, this time the door in the well was on the mountain wall.

From this, Lu Yao learned that the channel was constantly changing, similar to a dynamic encryption system.

Unfortunately, the mythical anchorage of Kunlun has been destroyed by the [First Law of the Old Gods] and cannot be modified or repaired through backend.

"This is my first time in Kunlun."

Haro looked around, and when he saw the immortal tree that blocked out the sun and sky, his eyes widened and he straightened his neck: "The immortal tree actually exists... and it can control the old gods. This ability is even more amazing than the god of death. What an incredible monster."

"Let's go." Lu Yao waved his hand and took the lead to step into [Yellow Spring].

…

There was still thick fog, and the Xirang River flowed to the invisible end of the horizon.

The Nine Gates of Kunlun are constantly changing in the mythical anchorage, but their coordinates on the [Huangquan] side are very fixed, almost exactly the same as last time.

As soon as Lu Yao arrived here, he once again clearly felt some kind of strong restraint. The ubiquitous pressure squeezed his whole body, making his body much heavier.

Miracles and props cannot be used either.

Harro's sleepy eyes suddenly became sharp: "This is a tributary of the Styx."

Its body suddenly swelled up and turned into the fighting posture that Lu Yao had seen before.

The black and white hair reconstructed a trident-shaped head, and under the neck was a changing body that appeared and disappeared from time to time, like a four-legged ghost repeatedly outlined in three-dimensional space by some rough black pen.

The form of Cerberus, between reality and illusion, is fully unfolded.

At this time, the sense of oppression and divine power exuded by Haro far exceeded that of ordinary gods.

Lu Yao didn't care.

Just like the Kaiming Beast can only exert 100% of its strength in Kunlun, a three-headed dog like Haro can only be at its strongest in its hometown, the Underworld.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Harrow's strange black and white body has no facial expression.

It looked around and said, "This is a tributary of the Styx, but I have never been to this part of the river. The Styx is very big, and the places I have been to are very limited."

Lu Yao thought: "The water of the Styx is the Xirang?"

"Yes. Xirang is also called the underworld, but according to the rules, I can only talk about the underworld here."

White air came out of Haro's mouth, and the trident pointed toward the broad black and white river: "Do you see those black substances? Those are the ashes of gods, which are formed after the death of gods. That stuff will make the Styx very heavy. Once you fall into it, it will be difficult to get out."

"However, different tributaries of the Styx have different effects, which are related to the content of the ashes of the gods and their own movement. For example... Oh, I see. This shape and proportion are the River Lethe."

The three-headed dog tilted its head and said, "This tributary has different names in different myths. In Greek mythology, it is called the River of Forgotten, in Chinese mythology it is the River of Nai or the River of Oblivion, and in Buddhist mythology it is the River of Three Ways. The same main stream has many tributaries, and different myths have different destinations, so they have different names."

"But the same thing is, if you stay in this river for a long time, your memory will gradually fade away until you forget everything that happened before."

It further explained: "If a non-underworld being is here, the underworld will block all the power outside the body. It is best not to cause trouble or fight here, as it will attract the underworld's arrest and punishment."

Lu Yao nodded: "It seems that the security here is not bad?"

"Of course. No one would be so ignorant as to cause trouble in the underworld."

Haro said proudly: "After soaking in the Styx for a few days, everyone will beg for mercy and surrender."

Lu Yao thought to himself that this Styx was somewhat similar to the Hell in the gray vision.

But it's even worse here. We can't use the power of faith. Soaking in the River Styx is just like being buried in cement like an ordinary person. We also have to suffer mental torture such as losing our memory. It's really unbearable.

"Someone is fighting?!"

The three-headed dog was furious: "How dare you openly violate the rules of the underworld in front of Cerberus!"

It ran all the way, and Lu Yao sat on its back and bumped along the way.

Harrow ran along the Lethe River to the scene ahead.

There, a huge monster rushed out from the Wangchuan River. The monster controlled the Xirang and transformed it into tentacles and claws, which were entangled and attacking a woman by the river.

The woman had waist-length hair and was wearing a yellow robe. She didn't seem to notice that she was being attacked and just stared at Xirang in a daze.

The overwhelming Xirang limbs kept sweeping towards her, but all the attacks fell beside her, as if they were deliberately avoiding her. Wangchuan was clearly attacking frantically, but those attacks could not touch her. This scene was very strange.

Harrow yelled, "Cerberus, stop right there, Hades!"

This loud shout was accompanied by a black and white airflow ejected by the three-headed dog, flying towards the underworld beast wrapped in the soil. The underworld beast quickly retracted its tentacles and sank to the bottom of the Styx.

The three-headed dog then said, "I didn't expect it was the ghost beasts that were causing trouble. Sometimes they go crazy and attack the dead people next to them. These guys have very unstable personalities, but they can't be completely eliminated. It's more like a natural phenomenon to say that they are life..."

Lu Yao looked at the dazed woman.

Her hair was long, soft and slightly parted, and her eyes were out of focus, as if she was nearsighted.

The woman in yellow is the kind of beauty that everyone would take a second look at. Her beauty is not aggressive, but generous and natural, but her face is full of thoughts.

She reminded Lu Yao of Song Shiyi. Both of them had that empty feeling as if something was missing, like a faint crack on the surface of a piece of fine porcelain. There was a beauty that made people want to approach and feel regretful.

The person in front of him turned and looked at Lu Yao, his gaze gradually focused.

Her voice was clear and gentle.

"You're here?"

The three-headed dog Haro looked back and forth between the woman in yellow and Lu Yao: "Do you know each other?"

“No.”

Lu Yao asked the person in front of him: "Who are you?"

"Hello, this generation's Queen Mother of the West." The other party's voice was just gentle and appropriate: "My hoopoe, are you wearing it properly?"

Lu Yao's heart shuddered.

The title of [Queen Mother of the West] is in the form of a jade hoopoe headdress.

The person in front of him was the former Queen Mother of the West! She looked completely different from the furious leopard woman who was biting the King of the East. She seemed to be clear-headed and emotionally stable.

But isn't that the Queen Mother of the West over there? What's going on with this one?

Lu Yao was puzzled: "Why are you here?"

The other raised his hand and placed his finger on his lips.

She shook her body and gently touched Lu Yao's eyebrows with her fingers.

In an instant, Lu Yao felt as if he had become one with her.

(End of this chapter)