Monster?

Upon hearing this, Su Ziyu walked out curiously. Two petite figures appeared in his sight. Their faces were like those of young children, one boy and one girl, wearing feathered clothes, their arms were a pair of wings, and their feet were bird claws. They were currently suspended in mid-air, with a slightly anxious expression on their faces.

They looked like a pair of underage monsters, their strength was average, and the demonic aura on them was very faint.

"A monster?" Su Ziyu secretly glanced at Liu Ji, indicating that she should take this opportunity to escape.

Qingji mentioned before that since some dimensional gaps appeared in Fuso during the Warring States Period, many monsters that had never been heard of before have appeared.

The 'hollow' mentioned by the monsters should be one of them.

"My dear husband."

"I have to deal with those monsters first." Qingji turned around gracefully.

Su Ziyu couldn't help but smile and said, "Let's go together."

"I want to see what it is, too."

Since it is a monster, there is a high probability that it will drop source power.

It would be nice to go and take a look.

"Okay." Qingji didn't hesitate at all, and her figure took off into the air and flew towards the outside of Taoyuan Township.

The perch fish followed closely behind.

At this time, a crow-like cry was heard in the sky, and then another monster wearing a crow mask appeared. It seemed to be another Crow Tengu.

"Your Highness Bai Ji."

"Monsters have also appeared 20 miles away from Sakurajima." The crow tengu quickly approached and said, "People in the underworld said that there might be a new crack. Monsters have also appeared in Tokyo, Osaka, Beihai and other places."

Qing Ji's expression became more serious after hearing this, and she murmured, "Why did so many monsters suddenly appear?"

“This shouldn’t be the case…”

Su Ziyu, who was standing by, was stunned for a moment. He touched his nose and thought to himself, "It's not because of me, is it?"

His means of arriving at this plane were somewhat violent.

Although the space rift in Tokyo has been automatically repaired, it cannot be ruled out that something will run out at that time.

The vibration of space nodes may open cracks in the gaps of other planes.

soon.

Su Ziyu and Qingji came to the sky above Sakurajima outside. At this time, a faint evil aura was surrounding the sky above the entire sea near Sakurajima.

"Legendary level?" Su Ziyu frowned slightly.

Spiritual abilities are only mastered by creatures of legendary rank, so that demon is most likely a legendary monster.

boom.

The sea surface in the distance shook violently, creating a wave more than ten meters high. An overturned fishing boat could be vaguely seen.

"It's a hollow!" Qingji frowned and said, "Raven Maru."

"Let the others leave here temporarily."

The crow tengu immediately accepted the order and said, "Yes, Your Highness Baiji."

A faint wailing sound was heard.

In Su Ziyu's spiritual vision, a blood-red light appeared on the sea in front of him, accompanied by a distorted and hazy shadow, and an extremely distorted and weird figure appeared in his sight.

It looks like a clown wearing a mask, with a long black sharp nose on its face, its hair is a piece of black flowing substance, and there are faces similar to masks on its chest, back, arms, abdomen, etc. Other parts have some human characteristics, but they are all made up of a piece of black flowing substance.

The most eye-catching part is the chest area of ​​this monster.

There is an extremely strange hole there!

"What is this?" Su Ziyu's expression was stunned for a moment, as if he was a little surprised, and he murmured: "Ring of Darkness?"

"What is the Ring of Darkness?" Qing Ji turned around and asked in confusion.

"I'm not particularly sure either." Su Ziyu shook his head slowly, his expression gradually becoming solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "The emergence of the Dark Ring is related to the loss of humanity."

“It’s something from another world.”

In the later period of the Dark Souls world, Su Ziyu went to the painting world with Sister Friede.

Since the painting world had become corrupted, Yurshika proposed a solution, which was to find new dark blood and repaint the painting.

But blood can easily deteriorate.

Doing so is actually just a way to prolong the survival, so in the end this plan was temporarily put aside.

On the one hand, it was because the painting world had not yet reached the point where it needed to be destroyed and repainted, and on the other hand, they were temporarily unable to enter the place called Ring City.

However, at that time, Su Ziyu also learned a lot of information about the Dark Ring.

Some people living in the Ringed City have a similar hole on their bodies. It is said that it is a hole formed after humanity is drained away, and the location is also in the chest. At that time, he also speculated that if the situation worsened, the dark ring on the wandering soul would also be revealed, and eventually form a similar hole in the chest.

"Alarm! Alarm!"

"A polluted body has been found! Mental pollution has been detected!..."

The big hollow that appeared in the sight of the group was not small in size, estimated to be seven or eight meters tall, with a very conspicuous hole in the center of its chest. There were some other hollow faces on the surface of its body, each showing them a weird clown-like smile.

The Xu that appears in the Hundred Demons Plane is a special kind of evil spirit.

Their biggest feature is [Soul Devouring]!

The earliest Xu appeared from the gap between planes, and was then sealed into hell by everyone working together.

But later, some of the dead in this world, due to their attachment to the present world or other factors, could not enter the reincarnation and wandered in places that attracted them. After years of sorrow and torture, some of them eventually degenerated into the void. The characteristics of the void are a strange mask on the face and a hole in the chest, which represents the emptiness in their hearts.

If a virtual being is born, the first thing it wants to do is to fill its own void. Often it will devour the things it once cherished most, such as relatives, lovers, friends, etc.

If they are very hungry, they will also devour other Voids.

Most of the Hollows will instinctively hunt souls when they appear. They can grow rapidly by devouring souls like the undead.

Therefore, once the Void appears, it must be eliminated, otherwise it will soon become a source of disaster.

"It smells a bit like the Ring of Darkness!" Su Ziyu's expression became more and more serious, and he murmured, "It's the lost humanity!..."

"Its soul is like a zombie that has completely lost its mind!..."

The hole in the chest of the Great Hollow that appeared in front of him was not as exaggerated as that of the Dark Ring. The power of the Dark Ring was purer and could appear on living people, but the Hollow in front of him was a materialized evil spirit.

The biggest difference has to do with human nature.

The Dark Ring will continue to bleed out humanity until it is completely drained, but the empty space in front of the chest still has some residual humanity, which means that they can retain a certain level of sanity and devour to fill the void in the soul driven by instinct.

"My dear husband."

"It's coming." Qingji's voice came.

After seeing their figures, Daxu, who was not far away, suddenly disappeared on the sea, and appeared directly in front of them the next second.

"Teleport?"

"Space ability?" Su Ziyu frowned and silently pulled out the Dragon Hunting Spear. It was a bit tricky.

It can actually use spatial abilities so easily.

at this time.

A strange and crazy distorted murmur echoed from the sea:

"Let you look down on me!..."

"You guys bully me!..."

“Keep laughing at me?… Hehe… Hahaha… Hehe… Laugh… Keep laughing… Why don’t you laugh anymore?…”

"oh!……"

"So I ate you all..."

The distorted masked faces gradually turned into painful cries, wails and pleas for mercy, only the masked face on Daxu's head turned into a neurotic and weird smile.

final.

All the crying, wailing and begging expressions disappeared, and they slowly and synchronously turned into weird black and white clown smiling faces.

“What a nice smell.”

The masked faces on Daxu turned towards Su Ziyu at the same time and murmured, "I'm so hungry!..."

"I want to eat your soul!..."

The words fell.

The great void in front of him suddenly disappeared, and its figure gradually became blurred, as if it had left the material plane and entered another world.

——"Spiritual Vision."

A gleam of inspiration flashed in Su Ziyu's eyes. Without thinking, he suddenly turned around. When the space behind him fluctuated and a dark circle emerged, he suddenly clenched the dragon hunting spear in his hand and stabbed out.

"Husband, be careful behind you!" Qingji's warning voice came.

A pitch-black arm with sharp claws stretched out from the dark void that was invisible to the naked eye. Before it touched the corner of Su Ziyu's clothes, it was instantly pierced by the dragon hunting spear. Accompanied by a crackling sound, jumping light golden arcs spread, and a painful scream came from the dark circle.

"Wandering in the spirit world?" Su Ziyu pulled back the dragon hunting spear and gently shook off the black mucus on the spear.

This monster is not stronger than the Fire King, but the special talent it possesses is very strange.

Its spatial ability is a kind of shuttle ability.

Similar to the 'shadow shuttle', 'dimensional displacement' and 'wandering in the spirit world' of the Abyss Plane, the Abyss Lurker possesses this kind of short-distance space jump ability. It does not really travel through space, but enters the shadow plane and directly folds into the material world.

The monster in front of us is traveling through the spirit world.

"Want to eat me?" Su Ziyu raised a smile and said slowly, "That depends on your ability!"

"How can you eat me if you don't come out?"

The enemy is not in the material plane.

The black ring of nothingness when it appeared was very strange, as if the hole in its chest gave it the ability to travel between the gap between the spiritual world and the real plane.

"Eat...eat you!..."

A crazy whisper was heard, and a dark circle appeared beside Su Ziyu. Daxu's figure flew out from it. Its hair spread rapidly like seaweed and suddenly wrapped around Su Ziyu's body.

A flash of white light passed by.

Qingji finally couldn't help it anymore. She flew out with a white paper umbrella in her hand. A white light accompanied by a faint blue flame instantly burned when it touched Daxu's body.

The dark blue flame spread all the way and directly enveloped Daxu's entire body.

——"Thunder Gun!"

Su Ziyu clenched the dragon hunting spear and pointed it toward the sky. Then there was a rumbling sound of thunder and a light golden lightning struck down. The next second, the dragon hunting spear, mixed with dancing electric snakes, turned into a ten-meter-long lightning across the sky.

boom!

The dragon-hunting spear went straight through the head of the big virtual being in front of him, leaving a broken hole in its white mask.

Then its body began to collapse and dissipate.

"No!……"

One after another, distorted soul phantoms emerged and were instantly reduced to ashes in the jumping golden electric current.

"Gain 8 points of source power."

Su Ziyu raised his hand and retracted the Dragon Hunting Spear. Then he turned to look at Qing Ji beside him and said solemnly, "Were there many monsters like this before?"

"There were quite a few during the Warring States Period." Qing Ji looked at Su Ziyu tenderly and said softly, "At that time, the entire Fuso was in constant war, and some great hollows devoured many souls."

"But later they were all suppressed in hell."

"These Voids that appear now are not particularly difficult to deal with."

Su Ziyu nodded silently upon hearing this. What he didn't care about were those voids. What he cared about was the hole on the chest of the void, which contained a trace of power similar to the Ring of Darkness.

There are obvious signs of the loss of humanity in Xu.

If it only appears in a small area, it would be fine. What Su Ziyu is most worried about is that the situation will deteriorate and develop into a phenomenon like the Dark Soul Plane.

"Tell me about Xu." Su Ziyu said in a deep voice.

"Yeah." Qingji nodded slightly, and the two of them talked about things related to Xu while rushing to another place.

The original void emerged from the gap between planes.

Warring States Period.

There have been some very powerful Hollows who even possessed intelligence close to that of normal people and were stronger than some big monsters.

Fortunately, the Hades reacted quickly at that time. With the help of Nura's connections, the Hades and the big monsters joined forces to suppress these Hollows. However, although the earliest Hollows were suppressed in hell, some other ghosts in this world would still fall into Hollows for various reasons. Once they become Hollows, their souls would be reshaped, with strange masks on their faces and strange holes on their chests.

At the same time, they will automatically gain the ability of [Soul Devourer].

"Hyaku hasn't appeared for a long time." Qingji looked at a black shadow in the distance. It was a monster like a giant spider. It had a human-shaped head but a huge white mask on its face.

The forms of emptiness are varied and strange.

The best way to identify it is the hole in the chest.

"I don't know why so many of them appear this time!" Qingji opened her red lips and spit out a faint blue flame. The flame fell on Xu's body and burned it to ashes in an instant.

Gain 1 power point.

This is an ordinary Hollow, which was born not long ago and its strength is similar to that of an ordinary ghost.

Generally speaking, the closer a Hollow is to human form, the more dangerous it is.

"fine."

"These virtual beings are essentially evil spirits, and the situation in the Dark Soul Plane should not occur." Su Ziyu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

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