Death compensation.

However, he saw Lu Mei's unwavering eyes and the knife getting closer and closer.

Grand Duke Qiangwei had to change his words immediately: "It's identity. The key to driving away the lamp is identity!"

As this sentence ended, Lu Mei's knife happened to fall on his neck. As long as Grand Duke Qiangwei's words were slightly delayed, his head would have to move.

Although it is said that death here does not really mean death.

But the more he dies, the more seriously his body is parasitized by the Time Worm.

The more serious the parasitism, the more serious the burden on the soul.

The worm of time will make people gradually become less like themselves, just like a normal person who will be gradually eaten away by worms.

Therefore, being parasitized by the Worm of Time will gradually promote the transformation into a living corpse.

Why would Grand Duke Qiangwei rather sleep here than find a way to relieve the Eternal Land?

That's because he doesn't dare to take risks. Once he is killed a few more times in the process, the progress of his transformation into a living corpse will continue to accelerate.

And once the zombie transformation reaches a certain level, everything about him will be dissipated, and any plan will be meaningless.

"Go on." Lu Mei pushed the knife deeper.

The cold blade pressed against his neck, making Grand Duke Qiang instinctively feel some kind of threat, as if he would really die if he was killed.

"The key to the living corpse is the dissipation of self-identity. The key to the exorcism lamp is to borrow the rules of the name world. As a lord, I can legitimately use the power of the name world to determine the name and have the ability to be a human being. Only those with this status will not be affected by the light of exorcism.”

"Holland's research?" Although it was a question, Lu Mei had almost made a conclusion.

Grand Duke Rose is a very standard aristocratic class. What they pursue is privilege. Higher-level power research like this must be done by the academic school.

"Yes." Although he wanted to say that he invented it, Grand Duke Qiang saw the blade on his neck and chose to tell the truth.

After the arrival of the time realm, the connection between this place and other realms became much easier. Hollander was originally an intellectual studying the realm.

In the process, he observed the world of fame.

The so-called name realm is the place where the identities, egos, impressions, reputations, etc. of all living beings are integrated.

As the living corpse progresses, the self within it dissipates, and the identity, impression, and reputation also dim or even disappear.

Grand Duke Qiangwei helped because this was his nominal territory and he was the person with the highest status in this area.

So he acted as a medium and constructed the Lamp of Expulsion.

"In other words, everything you complained about before is not necessary to seize the holy relic." Lu Mei shook her head, her words full of disdain.

"Don't, don't, don't, I'm very important." As if sensing Lu Mei's murderous intention, Grand Duke Qiangwei said quickly: "I am the medium of the Light of Exorcism."

"Once I die, even if the light of expulsion does not disappear, its effectiveness will be greatly reduced."

"The whole city will inevitably be in trouble, and there will also be problems at the small entrance to the garden. When the small entrance closes, you will never be able to leave here."

Upon hearing these words, Lu Mei stabbed directly into Grand Duke Qiangwei's body.

The expected pain did not come, but I felt that most of the power in my body was instantly sealed, leaving only basic mobility.

Then the thorn ring fell into Lu Mei's hand.

"I give you two choices. One, come with me to find a way to remove the Eternal Land."

"Second, wait here to die!"

"One by one!" Princess Rose immediately made a choice, not because he really wanted to follow Lu Mei, but because...

I saw Grand Duke Rose raising his hand. The thorns that were wrapped around his body were a little sluggish at this moment. Even the sharp spikes became limp at this moment, as if he had just climbed out of the mother-in-law's bed.

"I can't leave the Ring of Thorns too far. Just when the ring is separated from my body, the effectiveness of the thorns on my body has been reduced by half."

"If I really leave too far, my injuries will explode directly."

"I have such an important handle in your hands. Now we finally have a basis for cooperation!"

At this time, Grand Duke Qiangwei finally showed some grandeur.

His situation was actually very serious at the time, because when he was robbing the holy relics, he was surrounded and attacked by members of the religious sect, and he was killed once.

It was that time that he was completely infected by the Worm of Time. At the same time, compared to others, his mental state was not strong.

After just one death, he almost couldn't bear the pain of death and turned into a living corpse.

In order to treat him, Hollander gave him the Ring of Thorns. After all, at that time, Archduke Rose was still needed to create the exorcism lamp.

In addition to being able to create and control thorns, the Ring of Thorns also has a life-stimulating effect. The individual wearing the Ring of Thorns will have thorns wrapped around their body, and their life will always be in a tough and self-recovery state.

People in the eternal land have no ability to recover themselves.

If they are dismembered, unless they find the body parts and use special abilities to sew them up, even if they turn into living corpses, their limbs will still be mutilated.

And in the process, pain will always be with them.

This kind of pain will inevitably accelerate the transformation into a living corpse.

Therefore, healing abilities are important.

Even if they are dead, the 'corpse' must be treated, otherwise they will remain in the pain of death and quickly turn into living corpses. This was the case with Grand Duke Rose. He was stabbed in the back and couldn't bear the pain. The Lamp of Exorcism hadn't really been created at that time. He was just a medium to draw out part of the power of the world.

It was with this strength that they successfully raided the Insect Cult and snatched the holy relics from inside.

In other words, Grand Duke Qiangwei actually played the role of a mascot in the whole matter, and also acted as a hindrance.

But no matter what, he obtained the Ring of Thorns and used this thing to stimulate his body, giving him strong recovery capabilities and the ability to tolerate pain.

Later, he even used the Ring of Thorns to put himself into deep sleep. This was an ability he developed to stimulate the transformation of life into a directional posture.

"Do you want to collect all the items from the original ceremony and then reverse the ceremony?" After walking out of the cave, Grand Duke Qiangwei followed Lu Mei and asked.

Then without waiting for Lu Mei to reply, she said to herself: "It's useless. Hollander also considered this matter, but this damn traitor finally chose to give up."

"He said at the time that the change in the ceremony was not an accident." Grand Duke Rose's words were full of contempt for Hollander, but he was also full of trust in the other party's words.

"So he gave up collecting ritual items, and then used the time pocket watch to open the small portal."

"And then trapped us here!!!"

Grand Duke Qiangwei complained about all this, but he did not dare to show off too much.

Racing along, they soon arrived at the south garden.

There are a lot of driving lights here.

Grand Duke Qiangwei looked at the exorcism lamp and quickly ran forward to get one.

Following Lu Mei along the way, they were naturally attacked by living corpses.

This made Grand Duke Rose, who did not have the Ring of Thorns and whose combat effectiveness was worrisome, feel slightly frightened.

Fortunately, they successfully entered the south garden. At least there were no living corpses here.

But Lu Mei did not lower her vigilance. According to Liping Chongzi, the cult sent many outsiders who were not transformed into living corpses to the south garden.

However, none of these people went back.

There's something not quite right about this.

If it is the first few people, they choose to leave the small door immediately and ignore the people in the sect.

But the people behind will definitely have the methods of the religious group in them.

Either coercion, inducement, or all together.

In short, it is impossible that none of these foreigners brought back corresponding information.

However, the fact is that the south garden seems to be in a desperate situation, and these outsiders have never returned.

Lu Mei is only missing three things now.

Among them, the whereabouts of the sacred relic Blood Leaves are unknown, and the Insect of Time is hiding somewhere.

The only thing that currently knows its whereabouts is the broken timetable that was transformed into a small portal key.

So no matter what, Lu Mei could only come to this garden, on the one hand to obtain the timetable, and on the other hand, to look for traces of the Blood Leaves.

"Okay, okay, since you are stubborn." Grand Duke Qiangwei saw that Lu Mei ignored her and walked directly into the garden, and quickly followed behind.

"But Hollander betrayed us by not fully opening the Little Door."

"So, I used the Ring of Thorns to force Hollander to transform the small portal back."

"But I didn't expect that Bu Jingye would actually run away with the Bloody Leaf."

"We are no match for Hollander, so we can only escape with the Ring of Thorns."

"At that time, he was not too far away from Bu Suiye. I found that he was running towards the valley to the north."

Later, Grand Duke Qiangwei introduced Bu Jingye to Lu Mei.

This is the largest businessman in this area. He relies on money to win over many combat experts.

During the raid on the sect, he exerted a little effort.

Then he successfully grabbed the Bloody Leaf, which was always in his hand.

When studying how to open the portal, Bu Jingye only temporarily lent the Bloody Leaf for a while.

Then I discovered that all I needed to open the small portal was a time pocket watch.

Grand Duke Qiangwei didn't understand why Bu Jingye didn't coerce Hollander with him at that time, but now it was too late.

Hollander had already run away with those people, and no one in the small portal could change it except the other party.

However, not long after entering the garden, they saw a tall man standing in front of them.

The moment Grand Duke Qiangwei saw the figure of the other party, his body trembled.

"Holland!" (End of Chapter)