If the other party is really Master Lingchi, then is it possible that it can live for three thousand years? After all, it was responsible for strangling the Antelope Witch.

Yunwen squatted beside me, ready to shoot arrows with both hands, guarding against sneak attacks from the mermaids. I sighed, pressed down her hands, and said, "Forget it, this is an enemy encirclement, no matter how many bows and arrows we have, it will be useless."

At this time, the one-and-a-half-meter-tall toad came towards me. I pulled Yunwen behind me, and the toad put its frog hand on my head. It was outnumbered and powerful. If I resisted and angered it, I would probably be pounced on and torn to pieces by the surrounding mermaids in an instant. Since this guy was called "Master", his status among the mermaids must be very important. If I acted rashly, I would definitely die, and Yunwen would also be harmed.

So I stood still and let it slap its sticky frog hands on my head. It was very cold and sticky, but there was one thing that was particularly strange. Its arms seemed to be connected by scales, and what should have been frog hands had claws growing out of them. Its eyes were also red, like blood pupils. Seeing this reminded me of the Antelope Witch in the City of Death.

The eyes were the same colour and the aura was similar, but the strange thing was that its body was cold from the inside out, not from the coldness of the seabed.

At this moment, it turned my head with its hands, making me unable to move, and looked at me straight with its bloodshot eyes. I saw rotating petals in its pupils, exactly the same as Bai Lu's bloodshot pupils when it used the Gate of Life and Death. I immediately shouted in my heart, it's over!

Suddenly, my head buzzed, the world around me spun, and I entered a dark, empty, endless area.

The realm of nothingness, indeed.

This is the other party using the special radiation in the pupils to forcibly intervene in my aura, open up the realm of my thought frequency, build a bridge and unlock the bolt. Life and death are not in my control. This is the magic skill of the Gate of Life and Death.

"This guy was responsible for strangling the Antelope Witch and imprisoned her under the water in the cave of Four Seasons Mountain. How could he use the other party's witchcraft?" I muttered in the darkness, and the sound kept echoing.

Is that possible?

I sneered immediately, thinking that the mermaids executed the Antelope Witch in order to resist evil magic and restore righteousness, but now that I think about it carefully, it seems that is not the case. I remember Yunwen said that if you want to inherit the blood pupil, there are two ways. One is to be cursed through special sacrifices, such as the red-eyed monster and the wooden man, and the other way is through the nerves being infected by toxins.

The latter can directly graft the blood pupils of the deceased, which is the origin of Bai Lu's blood pupils. Now it is understood that this is also the origin of the blood pupils of this Lingchi Toad. Otherwise, its eyes would not be able to cast the Gate of Life and Death like Bai Lu. The only explanation is that it burned the Antelope Witch to death, but it needed the crystals left after the Antelope Witch was burned.

By swallowing the crystal, one can obtain the blood pupil of the high priest, just like Bai Lu obtained it. It turns out that this is not a just punishment, but an evil plunder, which is chilling.

At this time, there were movements in the dark space. I thought to myself, it’s just a toad, its brain is not enough, even if it opens the door of life and death, what terrible ideas can it come up with to scare me?

"If you have the guts, get some female toads to scare me." I sneered and said, "I understand."

At this moment, the dark space was suddenly filled with sea water, and I felt like I was forced to watch a horror movie. Looking at the scene in front of me, I felt a chill in my heart, a feeling called thalassophobia.

Suddenly, under the deep sea, there was a buzzing sound and the water began to sway. I saw the ugly dead monster in front of me. He had become a broken shell, covered in blood and flesh, with pale bones exposed. His lifeless pupils stared at me. He pulled out the arrow from his shoulder and walked towards me, step by step, dragging his feet.

I was unable to move and could only watch it coming towards me. My body was forcibly fixed here by a force. At this moment, the entire dark space was filled with voices, and that voice turned out to be my own voice, as if I was talking to myself.

“If you have the blood of a mermaid on your body, you must pay it back with blood. Today I will borrow its soul to repay blood with blood, life for life.”

After saying that, the ugly monster made a creaking sound in its throat, and jumped over with the arrow that Yunwen had shot at its shoulder in its hand, intending to pierce my heart. My vision, ears, smell, and senses were all controlled. The only possibility was that my central processing system had been intervened, and my brain had also been intervened.

So here, if it stabs me, I will still feel pain. If it kills me, my brain will also feel that it is being killed, and my body will enter a state of death, which is equivalent to letting the subconscious mind kill itself.

There was once a classic case in which a scientific research team tied a death row prisoner to a box, covered his head with a cloth, and told him that his wrist artery was about to be cut and he would bleed to death. Then they scratched the prisoner's wrist with a low-temperature ice cube. The prisoner felt the low-temperature stimulation of the ice cube and believed it to be true. In addition, they placed a basin on his wrist and got a water pipe, so that the water in the pipe dripped into the basin. The prisoner had the illusion that his blood was constantly flowing.

The sound of dripping water gradually increased, and finally he really died of heart failure!

This is a classic case in some psychological analysis books. What kills the death row prisoner is not a real knife or gun, but his psychology. He kills himself. It is the same for me now. Although I know that this is just an illusion, my subconscious mind cannot distinguish between truth and falsehood. If I am stabbed and the nervous system gives the necessary stimulation and reaction, it will give the brain the correct feedback.

My brain will think that I am really dead, so the cells will begin to fail, and eventually I will die of psychological failure like the death row inmate. I think this is the real reason why the Gate of Life and Death can touch upon "life and death".

"No, I didn't kill him. I just helped bury him at sea. He was killed in the wild. Otherwise, how could his death be so miserable, with his muscles and flesh eaten alive and his bones and flesh incomplete?" I shouted.

However, the voice kept replaying in the space: "Killing someone for a life, it's only right, killing someone for a life, it's only right!"

The voice kept echoing, but it was my own voice, which sounded particularly uncomfortable.

In an instant, I saw the ugly mermaid rushing towards me and about to stab an arrow into my heart. I felt that my own body was really scared. Although I comforted it, it was always useless. There is a saying that if the conscious mind fights against the subconscious mind, the winner will always be the subconscious mind. Therefore, my comfort has no effect at all in my own body.

Not only that, I couldn't close my eyelids and could only watch myself being pierced through the heart by the arrow stained with the mermaid's blood. However, I would believe it and "cheat" myself to death!

The Gate of Life and Death will indeed decide my life or death.

But at this moment, there was a sudden ding sound, and someone actually blocked the sound for me. I saw the familiar back, but I forgot who it was for a moment.

I didn't remember it until I heard his rough voice and a burst of wild laughter.

"Old ghost? Is it you?" I was greatly surprised.

I never thought that spiritual beings could intervene in the realm of nothingness at the gate of life and death. This surprised me deeply.

But then I thought, ghosts are also some kind of energy, and I often hear that ghosts can make people have horrible hallucinations. Since the methods are the same, they both occupy control of my brain. This is probably the reason why the old ghost can intervene in the realm of nothingness.

"Go, go, go!" the old ghost said to me, and then pushed me hard. I fell into a bottomless pit and my body floated in it for a long time. When I landed, I had woken up in reality.

Yunwen was beside me, full of anxiety. When she saw me open my eyes, she patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief.

I remember that the Lingchi Toad put its hand on the top of my head just now, why is the situation around me completely different now?

"I just saw the old ghost in the realm of nothingness. He saved me." I said.

Yunwen nodded, then looked around and said, "He is indeed saving us, look around."

In the blink of an eye, the entire coast was filled with countless ghosts, led by the old ghost. Those dark green ghosts all gathered here, forming a confrontation with those mermaids.

But I was completely confused. Why did all these ghosts come out in droves now? Were they to save me?