People are in a weird world, you call this a game of cultivation

"We'll wait here for you to come back." Goddess Siming said to Li Ran.

The old Shezhi is approaching his end of life, and he is already very tired just by opening his eyes and saying a few words.

Even though Li Ran was using voice communication.

Li Ran didn't know whether Shezhi could survive until the day when Indra was redeemed.

But for now, he had to go and see what mysterious power there was under the Nine Springs.

Dr. Shezhi has laid out so much, but there is actually an element of gambling in it.

If Li Ran hadn't obtained the mysterious power in Jiuquan, I'm afraid this plan would have failed.

The purpose of what they did so much was to push Li Ran to obtain the final mysterious power to confront Indra.

Only Li Ran can find the location of Indra's godhead.

It can be said that Shezhi put all his chips on Li Ran.

Although the mood is very complicated.

But Li Ran's situation seems to have reached a point where he has no choice but to take action.

escape?

Where can he escape to?

After Indra has dealt with the three children of Shezhi, the next step will be to deal with Lilith, and then deal with him.

Lilith was no match for Indra four thousand years ago, and it is even less likely now.

Indra has monopolized power resources for three thousand years, and no one knows how far he has grown.

In the end, the result Li Ran had to face was death.

It would be better to comply with Shezhi and Lilith, accept the mysterious power they have accumulated for a long time, and try their luck at the future, maybe we can usher in a new life.

Having come this far, Li Ran had no reason to retreat.

Li Ran felt that he was both complying with fate and going against nature.

Come to the waterfall.

The towering waterfall burrows into the ground like a silver dragon to play deeper underground.

If Li Ran remembered correctly, he was currently on the underground floor of Shengyue Hospital.

This X is more intriguing.

"There are nine springs at the foot of Buzhou Mountain?"

Looking at the magnificent silver waterfall, Li Ran jumped directly into the waterfall.

Feel the impact of the silver dragon falling from the sky.

Li Ran's body quickly merged with the silver waterfall.

Follow the torrent of the waterfall.

To be precise, it can't be called going down the river, it should be called falling rapidly.

Li Ran adjusted his posture in the torrent of the waterfall, relaxed his body, and allowed the waterfall to take him deeper into the ground.

Everything around him has also changed.

The rock formations disappeared and the waterfall took him to a place of chaos.

The atmosphere of chaos lingered around him, and there was nothingness, as if he had entered another space.

After passing through a chaotic space, Li Ran soon saw a lake floating in chaotic clouds and mist.

The lake is boundless and bottomless, just floating in the chaos, neither flowing nor spreading. From a distance, it looks like a glass of blue wine filled with transparency.

Li Ran did not fly towards the blue lake.

He had just seen through the Heart of Chaos that the blue lake floating in the sky was actually one of the nine springs, named Biluo.

"Biluo? A lake floating in chaos?"

Li Ran suddenly felt that there seemed to be many places in the Xiling world that he had not yet reached.

This world is full of mysteries and mysteries.

It's like I can never finish exploring it.

As the waterfall flowed downward, Li Ran saw several lakes of different colors.

Some lakes float on colorful clouds.

There are lakes erected in chaotic space.

A lake of tarot cards suspended in chaos, like slices of glass.

Falling sharply all the way down, Li Ran's eyes were opened.

It turns out that Jiuquan means nine different lakes.

A lake seems to represent a world.

After an unknown period of time, Li Ran saw a Milky Way in the chaotic sky.

Suddenly, an even more deafening sound was heard from below.

He lowered his head and saw that in the midst of nothingness, there was a faint river that meandered toward the horizon.

"wrong!"

But when the height dropped rapidly, Li Ran discovered the clues.

He immediately escaped from the waterfall, flew down from the air under his own power, and slowly approached the curved river below.

But when he got closer, he realized that it was not a small river at all.

It is a river of souls composed of countless souls.

Li Ran immediately flew over the Soul River.

Look at the endless souls below.

These souls included the four major races, and the endless souls walked forward numbly, towards the far side of the river.

"This place gives people the feeling of stepping into the underworld." Li Ran thought to himself.

"And the atmosphere here is somewhat similar to the Ghost Palace I've been to, but the soul here has not been infected by the virus."

Li Ran discovered a long time ago that the dark virus can infect the soul and turn the soul into a controlled virtual spirit, that is, an evil ghost or a fierce ghost.

He had wondered before that the dark virus would not even spare the soul of a person after death.

This world is too scary.

Only now did he realize that there were still some uninfected souls that had come here.

But Buzhou Mountain is not the underworld, so why do so many souls gather here?

Could it be that the Jiuquan at the foot of Zhou Mountain is the true destination of the soul?

Because of the earth separated from Buzhou Mountain, the souls in the dark world who should have gone to the Nine Springs have nowhere to go.

"If the soul has nowhere to go, is there still reincarnation?"

Li Ran thought of a question.

The final destination of the soul is reincarnation.

Li Ran once saw many souls wandering aimlessly in the Borderlands. Most of them were infected by the dark virus. If there is no reincarnation, there will be no new life.

How to create vitality and energy without new life?

That's why Indra came up with the plan of the Rule World and the Chosen One.

Use viruses to regenerate indefinitely within the rules.

There is no need for reincarnation at all.

He can use his intelligence to summon people from all universes and time and space.

The Law of the Gods is this system.

Perhaps it's because Zhinao has absorbed the power relationship within the mysterious stone tablet, or perhaps Zhinao has gained the power to select people from another world elsewhere.

Of course, all this is just Li Ran's guess.

But no matter how the strange world came to be in each world, he believed that as long as Indra was eliminated, everything would end.

Li Ran followed the river of souls and flew into the distance.

"Dr. Shezhi said that there is an old homeless man here?"

He flew forward for a long time but did not find the so-called old man.

Suddenly, a peak suddenly appeared in front of him. On the top of the peak, there was an old man wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat. The man was sitting on the peak, holding a fishing rod and fishing in the river of souls.

Seeing this scene, Li Ran frowned.

Is it possible to catch soul fish when fishing in the river of souls?

However, what he was certain of was that the man in raincoat and bamboo hat in front of him should be the wandering old man Shezhi mentioned.

Li Ran flew towards the abrupt mountain peak and came behind the man in coir raincoat.

It wasn't raining yet, and the homeless old man was wearing a raincoat, which puzzled Li Ran.

After getting closer, Li Ran discovered that under the old man in coir raincoat, there was a huge snake tail coiled on the back of the mountain.

A human head and a snake body? Li Ran's eyes narrowed, and then a line of prompts appeared in his eyes.

(God King: Gonggong)

(The legendary ancient god-king. The last time someone witnessed the god-king crashing into Buzhou Mountain in anger and disappearing, no one knows where he went.)

The gods and kings work together?

Shezhi said that when he was on Mount Buzhou, someone suddenly broke Mount Buzhou, and Mount Buzhou broke away from the earth.

Only then did the floods recede from the flooded human continent.

In other words, the person in front of me saved hundreds of millions of living beings on the human continent.

Li Ran came behind the old man in coir raincoat.

The old man did not look back, but an old voice sounded: "Destined man, can you get me some bait?"

Li Ran was slightly stunned. It seemed that the task was triggered directly.

If this was still the case, the mission would have sounded in Li Ran's ears.

"What kind of bait do you need?" Li Ran asked.

"Hybrid snakes, centipedes, sheep, cows, horses and ghosts are all acceptable," the old man said.

Hearing this, Li Ran frowned.

He was not sure what bait the old man was talking about.

And it would be difficult for him to find these things at once.

And the river of souls below are all souls.

Is it possible that he is required to enter the river of souls to look for hydras, centipedes, sheep, cows, horses, and ghosts?

However, the task is difficult.

This doesn't bother it.

Li Ran poured out a five-headed ghost from a mysterious bottle.

It is the Five Strange Ghosts.

Back in Senluo Ruins Yuanxian Sect, the Northern Territory Ghost Emperor sent five strange ghosts to stuff the cursed jade fragments into the black ice wall in an attempt to curse Behemoth.

Unexpectedly, Li Ran suddenly appeared there and broke the plan of the Ghost Emperor of the Northern Territory.

As a result, the curse mission was fulfilled by Wang and turned into a courier delivery.

Moreover, Li Ran also obtained a lot of background information about the Northern Territory Ghost Emperor Zhang Heng from the Five Strange Ghosts.

Later, the souls of the five strange ghosts were kept in the mysterious bottle.

Li Ran didn't refine his soul into a mysterious medicine.

In fact, there are already many mysterious medicines and mysterious leaves in the mysterious bottle.

It's just that his current strength has been minimally improved by taking those mysterious drugs.

Most of the contract pets are stuck at 999 million guile points, waiting to be promoted to the god level.

Therefore, many souls are still stuck in the mysterious bottle and have not been refined.

"Do you think this bait is good?" Li Ran asked.

The old man still didn't look back: "The soul power of the five strange ghosts is too weak to catch big fish."

This means not feeling enough.

Li Ran frowned slightly.

He had no choice but to search in the mysterious bottle again, and soon Li Ran found a dull soul.

Minotaur!

These are also the subordinates of the Northern Territory Ghost Emperor.

After being killed by Li Ran in the Holy Spring, his soul was sucked into the mysterious bottle.

Because the souls of the Five Strange Ghosts and the Minotaur Ghost are very special and will be kept separately. Unless they really need the mysterious medicine, Li Ran will not use it to refine their souls.

Including the souls of some of his dead teammates, he also put them aside alone.

The souls of Zhao Yingzhi, Lan Defei, Fiona, Concubine Kagura, Edward, Weida, and Liu Xian are also placed together.

Even the soul of the Northern Ghost Emperor is completely placed inside.

After the Minotaur Ghost's soul was released, the old man finally felt moved.

He slowly put away the fishing rod and turned to look at Li Ran.

Only then did Li Ran see clearly the appearance of God King Gonggong.

He has a wild beard, slanted eyes and cross eyebrows, a nose like a jade pillar, a mouth like a red pill, a pair of big ears, a ferocious face, and a fleshy face.

He has broad shoulders, a thin waist that stretches across his back, and a green-scaled snake's tail coiling around the mountain peaks on his lower body.

It gave Li Ran a feeling that was both domineering and demonic.

It's hard to tell whether he is a human or a demon.

"You have good bait."

Gonggong was not polite at all. With a wave of his hand, he caught the Five Strange Ghosts and the Minotaur Ghost.

Then I saw him crumpling the two souls into a ball and hanging them on the hook of the fishing rod.

With a slight flick, the fishing line flew far away and landed on the river of souls.

Li Ran looked intently and saw countless souls in the river of souls, ignoring the bait and continuing to move forward numbly.

"What kind of fish is this?"

He stood quietly and waited for God King Gonggong to catch the fish.

Obviously, the fish has to fall to complete the task.

Just when Li Ran was confused, Li Ran saw a big black fish coming upstream in the curved river of souls in front of him.

It was very fast and surged forward in the river of souls, knocking countless souls away.

When the big black fish approached, Li Ran realized that it was a terrifying big fish with a body like a whale, covered with grimaces, and densely packed teeth.

It was very fast and quickly arrived near the bait.

The big fish opens its mouth wide and takes two baits in one mouthful.

The moment the big fish opened its mouth, Li Ran discovered that the fish's esophagus was filled with terrifying ghost hands, densely packed together.

The bait was bitten and the fishing line suddenly tightened.

"Zizzizi!"

The fishing line made a harsh and violent sound.

"Come on, let's catch the big fish!"

God King Gonggong suddenly stood upright, grabbed the fishing rod and leaned back.

As the fishing line tightened, the black monster fish also stirred up thousands of waves on the soul river.

Later, in the struggle between God King Gonggong and the black monster, the black monster fish fell behind.

Gonggong also spent a lot of effort to get the black strange fish up.

After the black monster reached the mountain peak, it flopped a few times and then lay on the ground like a dead fish.

Gonggong took out a knife and stabbed it into the belly of the black strange fish, making a long gash.

Then Li Ran saw an incredible scene.

Pale figures emerged from the cracks in the fish's belly. They squirmed on the ground and crawled toward the river of souls.

There were actually hundreds or thousands of them, and the picture was extremely shocking.

When those pale figures fell into the river of souls, the paleness on their bodies gradually took on the ghostly light of their souls.

As more and more pale figures crawled out of the belly of the fish, the blackness on the black monster also quickly receded. It was not until the last figure crawled out of the belly that the body of the strange fish suddenly turned into countless black granular substances and dissipated. In chaos.

"Is that the Dark Virus?"

Li Ran actually saw the dark virus disappear for the first time and return to nothingness.

The dark virus he knew would not disappear on its own initiative unless it suffered an energy impact.

This is the first time Li Ran has seen someone disappearing on their own initiative like this.

What surprised Li Ran was that there was a dark virus in Buzhou Mountain in space?

When he saw all the pale souls entering the river of souls, Gonggong breathed a long sigh of relief.

"If you hadn't come here, I wouldn't have been able to do anything with this fish." Gonggong said.

Li Ran knew that he could now communicate with the old man normally.

"Why did the dark virus appear in Jiuquan?" Li Ran asked.

"The continuous mutation and reproduction that remained in Buzhou Mountain four thousand years ago cannot be fully understood."

"My task here is to ensure the purity of Jiuquan and not let it be polluted at all." God King Gonggong said.

God King Gonggong looked at Li Ran and asked, "It was the Moon God who asked you to come."

Li Ran nodded and said: "Yes, the Moon God said that after meeting you, you will naturally take me somewhere."

"Seeing as you helped me, then just follow me." Gonggong said. (End of chapter)