"What's going on?" Li Xiu noticed that Chu Jun's expression was not right and asked quickly.
Chu Jun stuttered, "I sense... I sense... there are a lot of S-level demons here..."
"Here? Outside the yard?" Li Xiu looked around but found nothing.
“It’s not… it’s… it’s right here…” Chu Jun pointed to the hall where they were, then pointed to the courtyard outside, and said incoherently: “Here… and outside… they are all full of demon spirits… so many… so many… I can’t sense their levels… and I can’t sense their names…”
Hearing Chu Jun say this, Li Xiu's heart suddenly turned cold. His first reaction was that there were many invisible demons that they could not see, and they were now in the hall and the courtyard. Maybe some of the invisible demons had opened their mouths wide, revealing their bloody fangs, and were about to swallow his head.
Thinking of this, Li Xiu got goosebumps all over his body, and summoned all the evil spirits he could without hesitation.
Various evil spirits formed a circle, surrounding him and Chu Jun in the middle.
The two men kept looking around the gloomy hall, but they could not see anything and could not hear any sound.
"How many evil spirits are there? Where are they? Can we sense them?" Li Xiu kept searching with his eyes and pricked up his ears, but still found nothing, not even a clue.
This made Li Xiu even more uneasy. He believed in Chu Jun and Chu Jun had never let him down. Chu Jun said there were so many evil spirits, so there must be some. But where were those evil spirits?
"I don't know. There are so many that I can't count them. They seem to be everywhere..." Chu Jun sensed it again and again, but the result was always the same.
"A lot...too many to count...everywhere..." Li Xiu seemed to have thought of something, his face looked a little grim: "I'm afraid we're really in trouble this time. Use your light energy to protect your body, and don't stop."
Although Chu Jun didn't understand why Li Xiu said that, he immediately did as Li Xiu said.
A white lotus light with blood-red energy appeared on Chu Jun's body, making Chu Jun's body emit a glowing light.
Li Xiu's body was also emitting white fluorescence, which was the light energy of the forbidden gun.
"What happened? What did you find?" Chu Jun asked.
"There are many evil spirits everywhere, but they are invisible. There is only one possibility. Those evil spirits are as tiny as bacteria, so small that they are invisible to our naked eyes. I suspect that those people were not bitten to death by evil spirits. They were most likely eaten away by those invisible tiny evil spirits bit by bit." Li Xiu expressed his guess.
Chu Jun felt horrified after hearing this. If it was really as Li Xiu said, when they did not use light energy to protect their bodies, those invisible evil spirits must have drilled into their bodies and were probably gnawing at their internal organs.
"No, I don't sense the presence of evil spirits in our bodies." Chu Jun realized that there was a loophole in Li Xiu's speculation.
If there really was an evil spirit that had entered their bodies, he should have been able to sense it, but he did not feel the presence of any evil spirit in his body.
"If there is nothing in our body, it means that those tiny evil spirits cannot invade our body directly, or if they invade our body, they themselves will be in danger. But they must have an opportunity to invade, otherwise those trial-takers who entered here before us would not have died." Li Xiu pondered.
"What is that opportunity?" Chu Jun couldn't figure it out.
"I don't know either." Although Li Xiu speculated that those tiny evil spirits should not be able to harm their bodies for the time being, he still maintained the light energy in his body. It would not hurt to be careful.
He took back his own magic spirits. Those magic spirits were no longer useful. No matter how powerful they were, they could not fight against magic spirits as small as bacteria.
Li Xiu's eyes fell on the corpse in the hall and he looked at the wounds on the corpse again.
After looking for a while, Li Xiu suddenly walked closer, looked at him carefully again, and his expression became more and more strange.
"What did you find?" Chu Jun followed and looked for a long time before he found nothing wrong.
"It seems that my previous speculation was wrong. These trial-takers were not killed by being swallowed by those tiny evil spirits." Li Xiu said in a deep voice.
Chu Jun breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. If he had to choose, he would rather encounter those powerful demons that he could not defeat than face those enemies that were so small that he could not even see them.
The unknown is what makes people most afraid, and things that cannot be seen are more likely to make people afraid.
"That's good. Then how did they die?" Chu Jun asked.
"They were bitten to death. I originally thought they were bitten to death by demons, but now after a careful look, I realized that maybe it wasn't demons that bit them to death. The wounds on their bodies looked more like they were bitten by human teeth..."
Chu Jun got goosebumps all over his body, his teeth chattered, and he said with a forced smile, "That's impossible. How can a person bite another person? And they bit the person like this. Are they crazy?"
"Maybe they are really crazy. What I meant just now was that they were not eaten to death by those tiny demons, but I didn't say that those tiny demons didn't exist. Maybe it was because of their existence that infected these humans like a virus, turning them into carnivorous monsters, eating each other, and leading to the current situation..." Li Xiu said slowly.
Chu Jun felt a chill down his spine when he heard this: "Then will we..."
"Yes." Li Xiu answered affirmatively without waiting for Chu Jun to finish his words.
"How can you be sure that we will become like that... We are fine now... Maybe we are much stronger than those trial-takers... Our physical fitness and light energy are enough to resist those viruses and evil spirits you mentioned..." Chu Jun didn't really want to refute Li Xiu, he was just comforting himself.
"As long as we can't get out, that is the inevitable result. In fact, if we really don't go out, even if those virus-like evil spirits don't turn us into carnivorous monsters, we will starve to death here." Li Xiu said lightly.
"That's true, but I would rather starve to death than turn into that kind of monster." Chu Jun said with a wry smile.
"If you don't want to die, you can only find a way to go back." Li Xiu said as he summoned the pink nightmare, rode it into the yard, and observed the dead bodies in the yard.
Chu Jun wanted to follow him out, but was stopped by Li Xiu.
"Don't come out. There is blood everywhere outside. The viruses and evil spirits may invade through blood." Li Xiu said.
Chu Jun hurriedly stopped and looked at Li Xiu in the hall.
Li Xiu didn't want to come out either, but he didn't have a better solution. He had to find a way to go back, otherwise both of them would die sooner or later.
The pink nightmare walked in the yard, stepping on the bloodstains, and headed towards the gate.
"Have you sensed the presence of evil spirit in the pink nightmare?" Li Xiu asked as they walked.
"No, I didn't sense any evil spirit in the Pink Nightmare's body." Chu Jun replied quickly.
Li Xiu was glad that he brought Chu Jun in, otherwise he would have died without knowing how he died.
When he arrived at the gate of the courtyard, it was open. Li Xiu looked outside and saw a square with more corpses on the square. This made Li Xiu very curious.
Judging from the condition of these corpses, they couldn't have been dead for too long, only a year or two at most. Some of the corpses looked like they had only been dead for a month or two.
Judging from the time, these trial participants were most likely those brought in by Boss Qiu, but how could so many people enter the trial site?
Could it be that they all have the ability to complete the final trial? Even if they all have the ability to complete the final trial, could it be that they are all so lucky that they just happened to get the admission ticket by chance?
Li Xiu didn't believe that there were so many lucky people, unless the rewards for the Golden Gate Trial Field made it easy to get an admission ticket, or it was inevitable that an admission ticket would be obtained.
Before, Li Xiu was wondering why there were no conventional rewards such as attributes and magic cores. Now it seems that it was probably to increase the probability of admission tickets appearing.
Li Xiu didn’t know why this trial ground was so special, but he no longer had the energy to think about it. He had to find a way to go back.
Riding the pink nightmare out of the yard, Li Xiu discovered that this was indeed a place similar to a temple.
The courtyard they were in was the left courtyard of this temple-like building. Opposite the square, there was a corresponding right courtyard.
Opposite the square, there is an even more magnificent temple, which should be the main temple here.
Unfortunately, the doors to the right courtyard and the main hall were tightly closed, and no one knew whether there was anything inside.
Opposite the main hall is a tightly closed gate, which should be the gate leading to the outside of the temple. Li Xiu naturally would not open that gate.
The temple should be a place similar to the Black Death City. When he is in the temple, the Eternal Lamp will follow him. Once he leaves the temple, the Eternal Lamp may no longer follow him, and it will be even more difficult for him to get out.
Although Li Xiu speculated that all the trial sites were connected, and that he might have a chance to go back if he went to other trial sites, who knew how long it would take to reach other trial sites? And who knew how many terrifying and unknown demons there would be on the road?
Rather than fighting for that illusory hope, it would be better to find a way to get back alive. At least they already know that this place is full of invisible evil spirits.
After searching the square carefully, Li Xiu found that the temple was very strange.
Most temples have many mysterious symbols or patterns, or statues and pictures.
There is nothing here, whether it is the left courtyard or the right courtyard, or even above the central hall, there is not even a plaque.
Not to mention words, there is not even a mural except the statue of God seen before.
Only outside the door of the central hall, there are two gatekeepers, one on the left and one on the right, just like the pair of stone lions placed in front of the doors of ancient mansions.
But unlike the stone lions, these two gatekeepers are lying on the ground with their bodies curled up, head to tail connected, looking like they are sleeping.
"There are no other demons. Does that mean that the only ones that need to be eliminated are the virus demons? As long as they are eliminated, we can use the Longevity Lamp to go back?" Li Xiu thought to himself, "How can I kill those virus demons?"
"If it were just an ordinary virus, it could be solved with high temperature, alcohol, or disinfectant, but these are evil spirits. If I had magic equipment, I could use high-power magic light to irradiate them, and maybe I could kill them. But as a trial-taker, the level of light energy in my body is not high, and the range of radiation is also limited. Even if I can kill some of the viruses and evil spirits, it will be difficult to kill them all..." Li Xiu thought about it, but there was no better way, so he could only try it first.
He returned to the left courtyard, where the evil spirits were most concentrated, and Li Xiu summoned the Jedi Knights.
The B-level Jedi Knight is considered to be the strongest fighter in Li Xiu's hands, and his light energy is also the strongest.
"Mr. Chu, let's do an experiment. I'll let the Jedi Knight release the Blood Light Slash. You should sense carefully to see if the number of evil spirits decreases where the Blood Light Slash passes." After Li Xiu instructed Mr. Chu, he let the Jedi Knight release the Blood Light Slash.
A crescent-shaped blood-red blade light shot out, traveled a distance of several dozen meters, and slashed on the wall of the courtyard, leaving a deep mark on the wall before completely dissipating.
The Jedi Knight's current Blood Light Slash is obviously much stronger than when it was at C level.
"No, the number of evil spirits has not decreased." Seeing Li Xiu looking at him, Chu Jun said with a wry smile.
"No effect at all?" Li Xiu asked with a frown.
"Even if there is an effect, it is minimal. At least I didn't sense a large number of evil spirits disappearing." Chu Jun replied.
"That's a bit troublesome. If light energy can't destroy the evil spirits, it means that the light energy in our bodies is probably useless and can't resist their invasion." When Li Zheng was thinking to himself, he suddenly heard a howl from outside.
Oh!
A wolf-like howl came from outside. Li Xiu rushed to the gate of the courtyard and looked out. When he saw the situation outside clearly, he was slightly stunned.
At some point, the two statues of gatekeepers in front of the main hall gate stood up, looked up at the sky, and howled like hungry wolves.
There was a red blood-light flashing in their eyes, and they seemed to be staring at the sky.
"Blood moon!" Li Xiu followed their gaze and found that the moon hanging in the sky had turned blood red at some point.
The blood-red moonlight scattered down, giving the already eerie and terrifying temple a layer of blood light, making it even more eerie.
Li Xiu was horrified to find that under the illumination of the blood-red moonlight, there seemed to be countless red spots of light surging in the air inside the temple.
Those extremely tiny blood-colored spots were almost invisible. If it weren't for the blood moon that made them fluoresce, they would not be visible to the naked eye.
They are like a beam of light shining into the darkness, and the tiny particles that can only be seen in the beam of light are so dense that they are countless.
Even if there is light energy to protect the body, people still have to breathe, and between those breaths, a large number of red light spots are absorbed into the body.
Li Xiu was horrified and light energy burst out from his body, driving away the dense spots of light. At the same time, he stopped breathing and quickly rushed into the temple in the left courtyard.
Although there are fewer red spots in the temple, they are still everywhere, and the fewer ones can be almost ignored.
Chu Jun was looking at those light spots in horror. Li Xiu looked at Chu Jun and discovered a strange phenomenon.
Those bloody spots of light did not even come close to Chu Jun.
"Mr. Chu, your white lotus seems to be able to restrain those virus-like evil spirits." Li Xiu reacted immediately.
Upon hearing this, Chu Jun hurriedly summoned the white lotus. Although it was called a white lotus, it was white inside and red outside, emitting a blood-red light, which was very similar to the color of those virus spirits.
Chu Jun made the white lotus bloom, and when the light touched the red dots, large areas of red dots immediately went out, as if they were burned to ashes by the flames.
Both of them were overjoyed. Chu Jun had never thought that his White Lotus Symbiosis Contract, which only had healing abilities, could actually kill evil spirits.
He waved the white lotus and rushed towards the place where there were many blood-red light spots nearby, and one red light spot after another went out.
But there were too many blood-colored spots, and the white lotus' light energy killed a large number of them. Immediately, a large number of red spots came over to fill the previous gaps, and the white lotus could not burn them all.
"Mr. Chu, take your hat." Li Xiu threw the gentleman's hat to Mr. Chu.
Chu Jun didn't care about much at this time. He just grabbed the gentleman's hat and put it on. He immediately felt a strange energy filling his body, as if he had taken stimulants. He had endless strength in his body, and the light on the white lotus became much stronger.
If what was just a torch before was now like a bonfire.
Relying on the light of the white lotus, the King of Chu burned the red dots around him, making them flicker, and large areas of them turned to ashes.
"Get on the horses, let's rush out." Li Xiu saw that the red spots could not be burned out no matter how hard he tried, and he knew that this was not a solution and he needed to solve the root cause of the problem.
Chu Jun flew onto the horse, Li Xiu squeezed his legs together, and the pink nightmare let out a long neigh. It charged through the dense red spots of light, rushed out of the yard, and rushed towards the two guardian beast statues at the entrance of the main hall that were howling towards the sky.
Li Xiu guessed that they were the source of these virus monsters, and only by killing them could these virus monsters be truly eliminated.
The closer he got to the gatekeeper beast, the more red light spots there were in the air. Li Xiu could no longer hold his breath, so he could only force the light energy on his body to move forward. He no longer held his breath, and with each breath he inhaled a large number of red light spots.
Li Xiu himself couldn't see that his eyes were filled with red bloodshot, and each of those bloodshot veins was emitting a blood-colored fluorescence, making Li Xiu's eyes look extremely weird.
"Li Xiu, your eyes!" Chu Jun was shocked when he saw Li Xiu's eyes.
Even though he was wearing the Dark Mirror, one could still see Li Xiu's eyes flashing bloodshot under the black lenses, like a ghost.
Li Xiu saw from Chu Jun's pupils that there was something wrong with his eyes, and gritted his teeth and said, "Kill those two guys first."
He drew out the Fire Lotus Sword and summoned the demigod Setsuna and the Jedi Knight at the same time, and rushed towards the two gatekeeper beast statues.