thump!

Jani knelt down in front of Li Xiu with a plop, and said with tears in his eyes: "I am grateful to you for your appreciation in this life. I have no way to repay you. I am willing to go through fire and water for you. But I will not be around anymore in the future. Please take good care of yourself, Lord City Lord..."

The members of the SS standing by were stunned. They could not imagine that the SS Captain Jani, who usually looked so high and mighty in front of them, actually had such a side to him.

Li Xiu almost couldn't hold back his laughter, and said with a forced smile: "Okay, get up, no one asked you to die. I'm really not used to not having you around."

"Sir... with your words... my death is worth it..." Jani looked pessimistic as if a gentleman would die for his friend, but he just didn't get up to pick up the wine glass.

"Get up, you don't have to drink anymore. Find someone to drink for you, are you willing?" Li Xiu said.

"I'm willing, thank you very much, sir." Seeing Li Xiu's expression, Jani didn't dare to play the victim anymore. He stood up and nodded.

With Jani's consent, Li Xiu directly picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

The liquid like an icy spring flowed down the throat into the stomach, and the cold air immediately spread throughout the body, as if falling into an ice cellar.

"Sir..." Jani was stunned when he saw that Li Xiu actually drank the wine by himself, and felt very regretful.

It wasn't that he realized that the glass of wine was a good thing, but he thought that Li Xiu was using the glass of wine to test him and that he had missed an opportunity to show his loyalty.

Li Xiu ignored him and directed the horrible coldness in his body towards the evil spirit card.

"You guys go out first." Li Xiu said lightly.

"My Lord, I..."

Jani wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Li Xiu: "Go out and wait outside the door."

"Yes." Jani didn't dare to say anything more. He took the members of his guard out of the dark house and stood guarding outside the door.

"Crime and Punishment is one of the three most difficult drinks to mix. Any deviation will not only be useless, but will make you neither live nor die. You are very bold to dare to mix this drink." The proprietress's voice came from the second floor.

Li Xiu no longer had the ability to chat with the proprietress. The coldness in his body was getting worse and worse, and his whole body seemed to be frozen. Not only could he not open his mouth to speak, he couldn't even move his lips.

He channeled the terrifying energy into the Evil Spirit Card, and just as he expected, after the terrifying energy entered the Evil Spirit Card, the blue light vein diagram lit up.

As more and more energy was introduced into the Evil Spirit Card, the light veins on the blue light vein diagram continued to light up.

“Even if you succeed in mixing it, not everyone can drink this cup of Sin and Punishment. It also has a name called the Eternal Seal of the End of Fall. If an ordinary person drinks it, they will be sealed forever and it will be difficult for them to wake up for tens of millions of years.” The proprietress sighed and said, “It’s so hard to find a bartender who is not considered a bartender. You must not die.”

Changing the subject, the lady boss said with a smile, "But if you are sealed here forever, it's not a bad thing for me. At least there is someone here to accompany me all the time, which relieves some of my loneliness."

Li Xiu naturally could not answer the proprietress. The coldness in his body seemed to be endless. After completely lighting up the blue light vein diagram, it was still pouring in madly.

Fortunately, the evil spirit card has an unusually strong ability to withstand the cold. With the influx of cold air, the evil spirit card began to undergo strange changes.

Super spirit itself is a process of quantitative change leading to qualitative change. Generally, after the symbiotic contract with super spirit, the body shape will undergo certain changes.

The Evil Spirit card is now changing, indicating that it has begun to become super spiritual.

Li Xiu originally thought that he would have to drink at least a few glasses of wine to make the evil spirit card super powerful, so he asked so many people to come over. However, the energy of this glass of wine was beyond his imagination.

The red and blue light vein pattern on the evil spirit card shone brightly, and the card itself seemed to melt and gradually disappeared.

Only the red and blue light remained, and the red and blue light actually merged with the light veins in Li Xiu's body, turning it directly into a physical existence.

This is equivalent to directly condensing the light veins, and they are complete red and blue light veins, no different from the light base level.

This kind of light veins are somewhat different from the light base level light veins. When ordinary people break the covenant to form a base, the condensed light veins are born out of thin air. However, after the evil spirit card and Li Xiu merged, the red and blue light veins became like blood vessels. Not only did the light veins themselves store a large amount of light energy, but they could also accommodate the flow of light energy inside.

Because the light veins were so strong, when looking at Li Xiu from outside, one could actually faintly see red and blue light veins shining through his body, as if his entire body was covered with blood vessel light patterns.

"Madam Boss, you're worrying too much. If you want someone to accompany you, just say so directly. If I'm really frozen here and can't even say a word, what's the point of me staying here with you?" Li Xiu said with a smile.

In a moment, Li Xiu had absorbed all the energy transformed from sin and punishment into the light vein transformed from the evil spirit card.

Generally speaking, after Qi enters the super spiritual state, the super spiritual limit can be improved from 1%.

However, because the energy of sin and punishment is too strong, after it is completely absorbed, the upper limit of the super spirit of the evil spirit card directly reaches 100%. As long as there is an opportunity, it can now break the contract and become a foundation.

Li Xiu did not do so, because he had no intention of following the path of breaking the contract to form a foundation. He wanted to form a foundation directly with his own light seeds, without the need to fuse the contract to build a foundation.

"It's been digested so quickly?" The proprietress seemed a little surprised. She was well aware of the power of Sin and Punishment. Even if a super spirit drank this glass of wine, it should not be possible to digest it completely so quickly.

"It's just a glass of wine." Li Xiu said calmly, "Boss lady, let me ask you something. Do you know the City of Love?"

"How did you know about the City of Love?" the proprietress blurted out.

"I've been to the City of Love. So where exactly is the City of Love?" From the proprietress' tone, Li Xiu knew that she not only knew about the City of Love, but also had some connection with it.

"Impossible, how could you have been to the City of Love?" Li Banniang immediately denied Li Xiu's statement.

"Why is it impossible for me to have been to the City of Love?" Li Xiu immediately realized that there was something wrong with what the proprietress said.

"How could you have been to a city that no longer exists?" The proprietress snorted, "Where did you hear the name of the City of Love? Why are you talking nonsense here?"

"Do you know Old Man Wu?" Li Xiu asked tentatively.

“You…how do you know Old Man Wu…where did you hear all this from…” The proprietress’ voice was a little excited.

"I not only know Old Man Wu, I also know Black Knight, Cardoer, Blind Tailor... There is also a tavern like this there, but it's not called the Underworld House, it's called the Tavern, and there is also a proprietress there..." Li Xiu said slowly.

"Where did you hear this?" the proprietress interrupted Li Xiu harshly.

"I said, I've been to the City of Love." Li Xiu said word by word.

"Impossible, how could you have been to the City of Love, unless you've seen a ghost." said the proprietress.

"Why did the City of Love disappear? Where was it before it disappeared?" Li Xiu asked, staring at the second floor.

But there was no sound coming from the second floor. Li Xiu couldn't help but frown and asked a few more times, but the proprietress still didn't say anything.

After a long while, the proprietress's voice rang out again: "No matter where you heard about the City of Love, it is meaningless now. It is not something you should know. Don't ask about anything related to the City of Love anymore, otherwise you will inevitably be killed."

"What are you afraid of? Are you afraid of the God of Death?" Li Xiu asked forcefully.

"Go away." After saying this, the proprietress remained silent. No matter how Li Xiu asked, she did not respond at all.

Li Xiu left the Dark House reluctantly. He was now more and more certain that there must be some connection between the City of Love and the City of Black Death.

Jani and others were waiting outside the door. Li Xiu was not in the mood to hunt evil spirits, so he asked them to go to the canyon to hunt mechanical skeletons by themselves, while he walked towards the city gate that had never been opened.

He had some vague guesses in his mind, but he couldn't connect the dots completely. He needed more evidence.

When a person comes to the city gate, he can hear the sound of ghosts crying coming from outside through the city gate.

Li Xiu summoned the Jedi Knights without hesitation and raised the city gate.

Li Xiu himself also merged with the evil spirit card again and entered a super spiritual state. His super spiritual state was comparable to the light base, and was even stronger than the ordinary light base.

As the city gate slowly rose, Li Xiu frowned when he saw the scene at the city gate.

Outside the city gate was a large cemetery with graves of all sizes standing there without tombstones or plaques. There were probably thousands of them.

"No..." Li Xiu looked at the graves and became confused again.

Li Xiu's memory can be said to be excellent. There are only a few hundred people in the City of Love, but there are thousands of graves here.

Li Xiu had been wondering before whether the City of Love would be the City of Black Death, the former City of Black Death. Perhaps the City of Love that was brought in by the Tablet of the God of Death was just a place similar to a time illusion created by the Tablet of the God of Death.

But now it seems that Li Xiu's previous suspicion was somewhat wrong. There are only a few hundred residents in the City of Love. How could there be thousands of graves?

"It seems that I have thought too much. The City of Love is not the Black Death City of the past." Li Xiu also knew that his ideas were too far-fetched.

The tortoise shell and magic core that Li Xiu brought out before had already made him realize that this idea was unreliable, but he still held on to a glimmer of hope.

Now that I see so many graves, I probably realize that I was overthinking.

It's a pity that there are no tombstones on those graves, and there are no words next to them. If there were epitaphs, it would be possible to find out who is buried in the grave.

Apart from these graves, no evil spirits were found, and even the sound of ghosts crying heard in the city disappeared.

Li Xiu was still somewhat unwilling. After hesitating for a moment, he walked to the nearest grave, intending to dig it up to see what was buried inside.

"If I were you, I wouldn't dig it up." A voice sounded suddenly.

Li Xiu looked over there vigilantly, but saw nothing. A grave blocked his view.

The red and blue light patterns on Li Xiu's body bloomed, and he walked around carefully. He immediately saw a man leaning against a grave, drinking from a bottle of wine.

"Human?" Li Xiu was slightly stunned. He didn't expect to meet a living person here. He thought it was an intelligent demon spirit.

The man had disheveled gray hair, his clothes were tattered like a beggar, and his beard covered most of his face.

The man ignored him and just drank his wine.

"Who are you? Why are you here?" Li Xiu stared at him and asked.

But the man still ignored her and continued to drink.

"Are you from the Demon Country?" Li Xiu asked again.

"Who I am, and does it matter to you?" After taking a big sip of wine, the man put down the bottle, wiped his mouth and said.

"Very important." Li Xiu said in a deep voice.

"Sorry, I don't know who I am. Just think of me as a wandering ghost with nowhere to reincarnate." said the man.

"Why don't you let me dig the grave?" Li Xiu stared at him and asked.

"No one is stopping you from digging graves. If you really want to, just go ahead. I'm just reminding you that if I were you, I wouldn't dig those graves," said the man.

"Why?" Li Xiu frowned.

"Because these graves are buried with evil spirits, evil spirits that can devour everything. If you dig them out, you will be finished, and this city will be finished too." The man took another sip of wine and said.

"Evil ghost? Do you mean that there is a very powerful demon buried here?" Li Xiu thought for a while and asked.

“Maybe.” The man said calmly, “If you’re fine, leave. Don’t come here again. This is not a place for living people to come.”

"Aren't you alive?"

"I told you, you can treat me as a wandering ghost."

"But to me, you are a human being."

"Then don't treat me as a human being."

"Can you tell me your name?"

"I forgot. I am just a wandering ghost who has forgotten my past life. How can I have a name?"

"There has to be a name, right?"

"Whatever you want to call me."

"Okay, then I'll call you Ah Gui." Li Xiu stared at him and said, "Can you tell me why you are here?"

"I don't know. This was where I woke up." Gui replied.

"Then what do you know?" Li Xiu frowned.

"I only know that there are evil ghosts buried under these graves. They are roaring and screaming all the time, which gives me a headache." said Ah Gui.

“Now?”

"It is available now as well." Ah Gui nodded.

Li Xiu listened carefully, but heard no sound, not even the sound of the wind. It was so quiet that he could hear a pin drop, let alone the roar of an evil spirit.

"Are you sure?"

"I am sure."

Li Xiu listened attentively again, but still heard nothing.

"Since you feel so uncomfortable, why don't you leave here?" Li Xiu asked without further hesitation.

"You can't leave." said Ah Gui.

"Why can't we leave?" Li Xiu asked.

"I will die if I walk out of this cemetery." The man smiled.

"How could he die?" Li Xiu didn't believe what the man said at all.

"You will die." The man did not intend to explain.

"What if I take you away?" Li Xiu stared at him coldly.

This person is weird, and his words are full of doubts, making it hard to believe.

"Whatever you want." The man looked indifferent and continued to pour wine into his mouth.

"Then I'm sorry." Li Xiu gathered light energy and stretched out his hand to grab the man. He wanted to see what this man's origins were.

Unexpectedly, the man did not resist at all and allowed Li Xiu to grab his wrist.

"Sorry for the offense." Li Xiu was slightly stunned, but he didn't intend to let him go. He pulled him out of the cemetery.

The man did not resist and let Li Xiu pull him and stagger out of the cemetery.

thump!

Li Xiu had just pulled the man out of the cemetery when the man fell to the ground with a thud. Li Xiu was horrified to find that the man was no longer breathing.

When I reached out my hand, I found that not only was the person no longer breathing, but his heartbeat and pulse were also gone. His originally warm body was rapidly cooling down.

Originally, Li Xiu thought he was faking his death, so he pulled out his gun and shot him in the head.

The bullet hit the man's head, but he didn't move. If he could pretend to be dead to this extent, then he really can't be considered a human being.

This shot was an immortal bullet, so it naturally couldn't really hurt him. The bullet got stuck in his skull and gradually disappeared.

However, this immortal bullet made the man's body, which had been gradually cooling down, warm up again, and his heart began beating weakly.

But the heart only beat twice before it stopped beating again.

Li Xiu quickly pulled the man back to the cemetery. He didn't want to kill anyone for no reason, nor did he really want the man to die.

Miraculously, after Li Xiu dragged the man's body back to the cemetery, the man's heartbeat and breathing soon resumed.

After a while, the man sat up by himself, looked at Li Xiu and said with a smile: "Do you believe it now?"

"How do you know you will die if you leave the cemetery?" Li Xiu was still a little skeptical.

If the man had left the cemetery, he should have been dead. How did he get back to the cemetery?

"Because someone has done the same thing as you before." The man stood up, picked up the bottle that had fallen on the ground, and took another sip.

"Who?" Li Xiu asked.

"He said his last name was Li, an interesting man," said the man.

"The surname is Li!" Li Xiu couldn't help but think of the Lord of Hongsha City.

The Lord of Hongsha City is the president of Changshengtian, so his surname is Li, and he was the one who built the City of Light in the first place, so it is not surprising that he has been here.

"Is it an old man with a somewhat wretched look?" Li Xiu described the appearance of the Lord of Hongsha City.

"No, it was a handsome young man, but he said he was very old." Ah Gui said as he walked slowly to a grave and sat down against it. "You should leave now. If you are any later, you may not be able to leave."

Ah Gui's words made Li Xiu more suspicious that the man was the Lord of Hongsha City.

"Ten...nine...eight..."

Li Xiu wanted to ask something, but Ah Gui suddenly started counting down.

Of course Li Xiu understood what he meant. He was urging him to return to the city.

"What will happen if I don't go back to the city?" Li Xiu asked Agui.

Ah Gui did not answer, but continued to count: "Seven...six...five...four...three...two...one..."

When he finished counting, he heard a loud bang, and the city gate that Li Xiu had raised suddenly closed by itself.

"Now you can't leave even if you want to." Ah Gui sighed.