The weather in Yaoyu was very bad. After waking up in the morning, Li Fenglan only felt that the surrounding air was extremely cold.

Even for a monk, he couldn't stand it.

Li Fenglan woke up and saw that Chenghuang was still asleep, so she didn't wake it up, but gently opened the door and walked out first.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Li Fenglan opened the door, he saw a familiar figure appearing in front of his eyes.

It is Ling never tire of.

"Master?"

In the early morning of Yaoyu, the sun has not yet fully risen. Therefore, there is only a little bit of light in the sky, and at the same time, the water vapor that has been condensed all night also turns into small water droplets, which hang in the air and cannot disperse. The whole world is foggy and slightly blue.

I don't know how long I stood here, Li Fenglan saw that Ling Buyan's clothes and hair were already wet by the moisture in the air.

"Yeah." Ling smiled and nodded slightly at him.

Although this is the palace of the demon clan, there are demon cultivators everywhere, but unlike human cultivators, demon cultivators don't pay attention to hard work. After the banquet last night, most of the monsters are still asleep.

The demon domain in the morning was unusually quiet.

Li Fenglan stood face to face with Lingbuyi, the surrounding was extremely quiet, only the "tick" sound of water droplets falling from the eaves, and a few birdsong from the distant mountains could be heard in his ears.

Everything was extremely lonely.

And Li Fenglan and Ling Buyan stared at each other in such silence.

Unconsciously, Li Fenglan's cheeks turned red.

I don't know how long the two of them were in a daze, but Li Fenglan finally asked cautiously: "Master, don't you come in and sit down?"

"Okay." Ling nodded tirelessly.

After rebirth, Li Fenglan used to write all her emotions on her face.

Therefore, Ling Buyi actually found out a long time ago that Li Fenglan looked at her, as if she had a question to ask.

When the two entered the room, Li Fenglan turned around and slowly closed the door, then poured two cups of hot tea.

"Fenglan, do you have something to tell me?" Ling Buyan took the tea slowly and asked Li Fenglan.

It seems that she didn't expect Master to ask herself directly. After hearing what the other party said, Li Fenglan couldn't help hesitating for a moment, then nodded and said, "Uh... yes."

The last time Li Fenglan saw the endless purgatory in Ling Buyan's memory, Li Fenglan didn't tell anyone, including Ling Buyan. So after nodding her head this time, Li Fenglan paused, and decided to betray Chenghuang...

Li Fenglan thought about what she saw last night, and then said to Ling Buyi: "Chenghuang had a nightmare yesterday."

His tone was very serious, so as soon as Li Fenglan opened his mouth, Ling Buyan knew that the person sitting opposite him this time was not trying to share anecdotes about Cheng Huang, but had a serious talk with him.

"Yeah." Ling Buyi nodded slightly.

Li Fenglan continued: "Chenghuang said that he had dreamed of many fires, but Chenghuang could not speak many words, so after listening to what it said, I was puzzled, and then I entered its consciousness while Chenghuang was sleeping. In the sea."

After hearing "many fires", Ling Buyan's expression obviously became serious.

"Then I saw a place. If the record is correct, that place should be in the legend..." Li Fenglan paused, and finally looked into Ling Buyi's eyes, and said the four words, "Endless Purgatory .”

"Endless Purgatory..." Ling Buyi gently repeated these four words.

There was no smile on his face, and his gaze fell unconsciously, as if he was recalling something.

Speaking of the last moment, Li Fenglan was still thinking about how to convey the scene she saw later to Ling Buyi, but at the moment when she saw the master contemplating, a thought suddenly appeared in Li Fenglan's heart.

—He will never tire of cheating.

cough cough.

So Li Fenglan first cut the long story short: "I saw Cheng Huang in the Endless Purgatory, and even swallowed the life-saving card."

Without leaving Ling Buyan any time to think, Li Fenglan threw out the last sentence: "And I saw... Master."

He saw Ling Buyi in Endless Purgatory, but it wasn't yesterday.

After saying this sentence, Li Fenglan couldn't help feeling a little guilty. But hearing his words, the person opposite was even more guilty.

Ling Buti quickly raised his eyes to look at Li Fenglan, and subconsciously asked, "What did you see?"

Ling Buzhi's reaction was bigger than Li Fenglan's imagination.

Seeing this scene, Li Fenglan couldn't help being taken aback... From this point of view, endless purgatory should be very important to Ling Buyan.

Before Ling Buyan spoke, Li Fenglan wanted to just say that she saw the other party, but after hearing Ling Buyan's tone, Li Fenglan made a decision—he wanted to take this opportunity to ask about everything he saw before.

"Baishi Minghuo," Li Fenglan stood up slowly, gritted his teeth and said, "I saw Baishi Minghuo, and Master's soul, there seems to be a big problem..."

Although she still doesn't know the relationship between Ling Buyan and Endless Purgatory, Li Fenglan can tell from the other party's expression that this memory is probably extremely bad for Ling Buyan.

In his expression, there was a bit of pain that could not be concealed.

Other people might not have noticed it, but as the person who is most familiar with Ling Buyan, Li Fenglan could spot it at a glance.

At the same time, Li Fenglan's own heart also felt a pain.

The person sitting at the table took a sip of the tea that Li Fenglan poured for him just now, then put down the cup of tea in his hand while smiling lightly.

"Yeah... Like Cheng Huang, I have been in endless purgatory for a while."

Ling Buyan's tone was very relaxed, as if he was telling Li Fenglan that the cup of tea he just drank was good.

"For a while?" Li Fenglan asked softly.

Hearing this, Ling Buyan paused for a moment, then suddenly frowned and said, "...I don't remember the exact number of years."

"En." Li Fenglan nodded and sat down on the stool again.

At this moment, he, dressed in white, just sat in front of Ling Buyan with his chin resting on his back. And in the eyes of the person on the other side, his own world also shrinks infinitely at this moment, so small that there is only this room.

In fact, before today, Ling Buyan was not willing to tell people about the endless purgatory.

The reason is very simple, just like what Li Fenglan thought before, Ling Buyan is a genius, a truly proud son of heaven. People like him don't like words and memories associated with "failure".

For him, Endless Purgatory not only represented failure, but also pain.

But today, when these four words came from Li Fenglan's mouth, Ling Buyan actually forgot all the secrets of the past.

He is willing to share this experience with Li Fenglan.

"Do you remember what Duan Jili said yesterday?" Ling took a moment to think about it, and then started from here.

Duan Jisu said a lot yesterday, but the amazing thing is that after Ling Buti asked this question, Li Fenglan immediately understood what he meant within a few breaths.

"I thought you were still in the upper realm..." Li Fenglan thought of this sentence, and said it subconsciously.

"That's right, that's it." Ling didn't tire of knowing that although Li Fenglan occasionally looked a little silly in life, as the number one person in the cultivation world, he had good brains and comprehension.

The words Duan Jisu said yesterday must have been deeply remembered by Li Fenglan.

And now it seems that this is the case.

Ling couldn't tire of smiling, and he said while recalling: "I have known Duan Jili for many years, and he and everyone in this world who knew me thought that I had already ascended to the Tao."

"En." This point is the same as what Li Fenglan thought before.

Did the master lower his cultivation base like Qiu Wanyou?

— Before Li Fenglan had time to say this sentence, Ling Ling did not tire of speaking again.

"It's not true," his tone was still so relaxed, but what he said shocked Li Fenglan a lot, "I have never been to the upper realm at all. The place I went... was endless purgatory from beginning to end."

Li Fenglan:! !

Master, what does this mean?

Even though Li Fenglan was an experienced monk, Ling Buyan's words were completely beyond his imagination.

But in just a few breaths, a lot of weird ideas popped up in Li Fenglan's mind.

Could it be that something went wrong when Cheng Ling did not tire of shattering the void? Didn't go to the Upper Realm, but went to the Endless Purgatory?

But it doesn't make sense... With Master's cultivation and ability, how could he do such a thing.

Ling did not tire to see that Li Fenglan was wondering, but this time he did not tell Li Fenglan the reason.

At this time, it finally started to rain heavily in Yaoyu. In Li Fenglan's ears, there was a drizzling sound. The teacup on the table was also cold, but Ling Buyan didn't care. He lowered his head to pick up the teacup, and drank all the remaining cold tea in the cup in one gulp.

Ling Buyan's tone suddenly changed and became more relaxed.

He said to Li Fenglan: "Chenghuang and I met in the endless purgatory at that time. It arrived many years earlier than me."

"what?"

Li Fenglan felt that Ling Buti's tone was as relaxed as saying that he and Cheng Huang met on the street.

The monk dressed in black looked past Li Fenglan, glanced at Cheng Huang who was lying on the bed soundly asleep, and then concluded: "It really doesn't have the charm of the previous life at all."

"What was Chenghuang in the previous life like?" Li Fenglan asked curiously.

Ling took no time to think about it and said: "There is no difference from its kind. If there is anything...Cheng Huang is not only tired of his own kind like every fierce beast in this world, but also tired of endless battles." .”

At that time, as long as the life-saving card appeared in the world, it would disturb the peace in the world. This situation lasted for at least three or four thousand years. And Chenghuang, who wanted to stay away from right and wrong, was involved in the melee again and again because of this.

At that time, it was much more powerful than the little guy who only eats and drinks all day long.

Logically speaking, Cheng Huang should have no problem dealing with those of his own kind. But it was extremely tired of melee, after being besieged by a group of ferocious beasts, it did not choose to kill other ferocious beasts, or chose to follow its instinct and perish with the other ferocious beasts.

It did something that was unexpected by all the ferocious beasts.

Cheng Huang, who was seriously injured, chose to swallow the Dusheng card into his stomach!

"...Endless purgatory is the home of all the beasts. Cheng Huang himself wanted to disappear with the life-saving card. But he didn't expect..." Ling Buyi suddenly laughed when he said this, "The life-saving card can absorb the surrounding All auras, I didn’t expect it to be the same in Endless Purgatory. It stands to reason that when all living beings arrive in Endless Purgatory, their souls will be burned by the fire of the underworld during the daytime, and then everything will be reduced to ashes.”

Li Fenglan nodded seriously.

Ling Buti continued: "I never expected that when Cheng Huang Yi brought the life-saving card there, before it was reduced to ashes, the life-saving card absorbed all the spiritual energy in the endless purgatory. Its burnt spirit has been mended. Just like this over and over again..."

Although the aura in the endless purgatory is thin, who calls it "endless". Therefore, the aura collected by the crossing card is still very impressive.

Speaking of the Dusheng card, the reason why it caused unrest in the world many years ago. Not only because the life-saving card will absorb all the breath, but also because after absorbing all the aura in a place, this thing will move to other places by itself.

After arriving in the endless purgatory, it is still like this.

Feeling that there is no aura around him, Du Sheng Pai intends to leave Cheng Huang.

Then came the scene that Li Fenglan saw yesterday—every time Du Sheng Pai wanted to leave, Cheng Huang would repeat the act of swallowing Du Sheng Pai back into his stomach, just like it did "before it was alive".

When he said this, although Ling Buyan's tone was relaxed, Li Fenglan's mood became extremely heavy.

Bai Shi Minghuo burned the soul, and then was urged by the aura in the crossing card to make it up forcibly?

Although what Ling Buyi was talking about was Chenghuang, Li Fenglan's mind was full of what she had seen at the beginning, Ling Buyi's broken soul.

…

Many years ago, endless purgatory.

The huge beast repeated the action of devouring the Dusheng card over and over again.

I don't know how many years have passed, its soul is no longer afraid of the scorching fire of the underworld fire during the daytime, and it will not even shatter easily.

However, the endless loneliness and the never-ending sea of ​​fire pushed the beast to its limit.

At this time, a second person finally appeared in Endless Purgatory.

That person is never tired.

Except for Chenghuang who swallowed the life-saving card, all people and beasts will be melted by the underworld fire during Baishi when they fall into the endless purgatory, and become part of the endless sea of ​​flames.

But Ling Buyi was different. Although he didn't have a life-saving card, he fell to the bottom of the endless purgatory alive.

Then, Ling Buyi saw Chenghuang.

Fierce beasts are different from humans. Their natural minds are not as developed and sensitive as humans. Especially those ancient ferocious beasts that were born tens of thousands of years ago, they have almost no contact with humans, and their emotions are more primitive.

Therefore, even if it has been pushed to the limit, for the not very "smart" beast, it just has a deep sense of boredom.

At this time, Cheng Huang was thinking at most that if he couldn't get out all the time, he might as well stop swallowing the life-saving card, and it would be fine to die directly.

And in this state of mind, Cheng Huang was only a little curious when he saw Ling Buwei.

"...You are Ling Buyan, I recognize you." The scarred beast walked to Ling Buyan's side stepping on the Baishi Minghuo. It paused and said, "I saw you killed my kind."

Cheng Huang refers to the fact that Lingbuyi killed the last four ancient beasts in the world.

Speaking of this, the tone of this scarred and hoarse beast was a bit happy—after all, the instinct of the beast is to slaughter its own kind.

But the focus of Ling's tireless attention is not this.

Covered in blood, the man kneeling in the sea of ​​flames slowly opened his eyes enduring the severe pain of his soul being burned and torn apart.

He looked at Cheng Huang, and tried to ask, "Ahem...can you see outside?"

Normally, this arrogant beast would definitely disdain human beings. But now, it hasn't spoken in many years. So Cheng Huang, who was no longer afraid of Bai Shi Ming Huo, sat down slowly, and said casually, "Oh, I can see a little bit."

This ferocious beast spoke much more sharply than the current Chenghuang. However, it didn't hurry up to answer the seriously injured man in front of him.

After all, the life and death of a human being is not important to it at all.

And Ling Buyan didn't urge Chenghuang, he used his spiritual power to resist Baishi Minghuo, while trying to absorb spiritual energy from this space.

After an unknown amount of time, Ling Buyan finally pieced together the answer from Cheng Huang's words—

The place of endless purgatory is the home of all things, and it is also the place closest to the way of heaven in this world.

And if Tiandao "pays special attention" to something or someone, people in endless purgatory can also see the people and things that Tiandao is paying attention to in this place closest to Tiandao.

But according to Cheng Huang's words, it has spent at least ten thousand years in the endless purgatory. However, I have only seen a few times of cataclysms, as well as major events such as the battle of fierce beasts.

As for people, Cheng Huang has only seen one Ling.

When Cheng Huang was here, he saw that Ling did not tire of killing four ancient beasts. He also saw that when he founded the religion in Tianmian Palace, he carved the four characters "Tianmian Daosheng" on a huge stone with a long sword in his hand.

So for Chenghuang, Ling Buyan is also an old acquaintance.

…

That time, Chenghuang and Ling chatted for a long time.

In the end, Ling Buyan reached a deal with Chenghuang.

He used the remaining aura in his body to send Cheng Huang out, and in return, at the moment of leaving, Cheng Huang gave Ling Buyi the crossing card.

Speaking of which, compared to the upper part of the endless purgatory, the environment at the bottom of the purgatory is actually milder.

Although Ling Buyan has a way to leave here, but his current spirit can no longer support the whole process of going out. If he wanted to go out, Ling Buyan had to do the same thing as Cheng Huang, first use the Life-saving card to repair the soul at the bottom of the endless purgatory, and then he could make this attempt.

At the last moment, the huge ice-blue eyes of the fierce beast looked towards the top of the endless purgatory, and there was a bit of excitement in its eyes.

At that time, although Cheng Huang was covered with scars and there were countless corpses of the same kind under his claws, his personality was as brutal and bloodthirsty as all fierce beasts. But it has been lingering in the endless purgatory for a long time, and for some reason, it suddenly has a bad habit of talking too much.

At the moment before Ling Buyi sent it out of the endless purgatory, Cheng Huang first slowly sighed about his life in purgatory these years. In the end, he said something that shouldn't have been said: "Now that those of my kind are all dead, I'm finally the only natural-born beast left in this world. After I go out, won't this world let me run wild?"

Ling Buwei:?

Why has it been imprisoned in the endless purgatory for tens of thousands of years, but its personality as a ferocious beast has not changed a bit.

He even listened to what Cheng Huang said, now that he has no one who competes with him for territory, he has more opportunities to "show his talents".

Although Ling Buyan doesn't have much affection for the new world of comprehension, but as a person who killed the four ancient beasts with his own hands, how could Ling Buyan allow Chenghuang to continue to do harm to the world?

So at the moment when Cheng Huang was sent out of the endless purgatory, Ling did not tire of using a little trick.

——The farther the beast was from the endless purgatory, the smaller its body became. When it left here completely and returned to the human world, its body had already become as big as a palm.

The born fierce beast Cheng Huang was born in the cold ice.

"Ling Bu Tien, you just wait and see—"

The moment he left the endless purgatory, Cheng Huang returned to the inside of the ice before his last roar.

It has to be the same as it was many years ago, and wait here for tens of thousands of years before it can grow up and be born again.

Unknowingly, the sky has completely brightened. And Li Fenglan, who was fascinated by listening, finally concluded: "I understand, so after Cheng Huang left, the master used the life-saving card to repair the soul, and finally left the endless purgatory."

"That's right, that's right." Ling said with a smile.

"It's amazing..." As a monk, Li Fenglan would not take what Ling Buyi said just now as a storytelling, just listen to the excitement and go.

Unlike Chenghuang, a ferocious beast whose intelligence is not fully developed and whose perception of the surrounding world is slow, the place of endless purgatory is really a piece of purgatory in various senses for people.

It is difficult to repair the soul, but it is even more difficult to overcome loneliness and maintain oneself in the endless purgatory.

Li Fenglan couldn't help taking a deep breath, he shook his head slightly and said, "I really can't imagine, if I also go to the endless purgatory, how can I survive that time."

How much willpower does it take to endure it?

Li Fenglan couldn't even imagine that if she went there, she would choose to give up because of endless loneliness and pain before her soul was repaired.

"If I were you, perhaps within a thousand years, I would have reached my limit." He muttered to himself.

But Li Fenglan, who was thinking about it, didn't see it. At the same time that he couldn't help but say those words just now, Ling Buyan, who was sitting opposite, slowly turned his gaze to him again.

Ling did not tire of saying in a voice that only he could hear clearly: "Actually, I was really like this at first..."