"No!"

Xia De couldn't accept this result at all. Against the biting cold black wind, amidst the repeated whispers and whispers of countless dead, he approached the two towering gray stone doors. At this time, the golden ember traces on his body really pulled towards him like flames. The power he felt was even stronger than the gods in the form of saints.

"What exactly is death itself?"

Standing in front of the door, stepping on the last footprints of Priest Augustus, looking up at the whole picture of Shimen in the dark. All the clues stop here, the priest has crossed this door and gone to another world.

He stood there, thinking about everything. Suddenly he raised his hand and pressed it on the stone door in front of him. The icy cold feeling gave him the illusion of falling into the abyss. Without "her" giving a reminder, Xia De himself felt what was behind the door.

Behind the door is "The End".

"Do you want to end here? Admit that Priest Augustus is not lying, that he is really dead, and then turn around and leave..."

Xia De asked himself, and then looked down at the burning fiery red thread on his wrist.

"Across life and death, I've already come here, should I just turn around like this?"

He looked up at the huge stone gate again, his eyes fixed on the "gate", blood seeped out from the corner of his eyes continuously, this gate divided the gate of death, and the level of the relic itself would definitely not be lower than the sage level (level 2).

"Are you willing?"

Shad asked himself, his soul cold and hardened by the imminence of death. Everything has its end, and behind this door is end.

[Then what are you going to do, outsider? 】

Even this time, she was still able to chuckle.

"Excuse me, if I also walked into that door, can I still turn back?"

He asked softly among the countless whispers of the dead, not in his heart. The golden light on his body shone on the door in front of him, but it could only form a faint light and shadow.

[Everyone is mortal, but you want to turn back? 】

She whispered in his ear, the ancient language is so beautiful.

[But with one drop of divinity contained in your soul, and your soul washed away by two drops of divinity, can you really be considered a mortal? 】

He felt the wind in his ears, and Xia De wasn't sure whether it was "she" appearing, or the wind of death.

"So when I step through this door, I can turn back?"

[You can only be sure of this if you step to the other side. 】

"Yeah?"

Xia De slightly exerted his right hand on the door, but Shimen remained motionless, it seemed that he needed more strength.

[But I can guarantee that you can come back. 】

"Because of that drop of divinity?"

For gods, crossing life and death is the simplest thing.

Xia De shook his head, and came to the center of the two doors from the huge stone door on the right, letting the wind blowing from the crack of the door, representing the end of all things, blow directly on his body.

The body became cold and stiff, and the physical strength and spirit that were slowly recovering were completely silent. The wind contained the original intention of death, and he was getting closer and closer to the [Death] spirit rune.

If he could obtain the spirit rune in this kind of place, he couldn't imagine how powerful it would be.

Stretch out your hands, hold a door with each hand, then bend down slightly, and force your waist so that your shoes sink into the mud on the ground:

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"Ah~"

All the strength in my body is eager to push the door open, but the door does not move.

【No, because I am with you. 】

She was chuckling, as if to praise herself.

Xia De felt that he was hugged, and this time it was not an illusion, because he really saw a pair of silver transparent arms around his neck.

"Help."

He said softly, the voice was in the empty darkness, only he could hear it.

[Do you still remember how to say it? 】

She is still smiling.

"You are me..."

The siren blared and the bell rang far and wide. In the scorching steam mist, the brass life ring covered with fine golden spots appeared behind Xia De. The black wind passed by Xia De's side and blew on the life ring, leaving scratches on the life ring. The ring of life seemed to be shattered, but as the rust-like coating around the light marks peeled off, golden light marks shone under the brass.

It's a pity that Xia De didn't look back, so he didn't see this scene.

[...I am you. 】

The pair of silver arms overlapped with Xia De's arms, but separated again at the palm. The palms of both hands pressed against the cold and huge stone gate at the same time, as the ten spirit runes on the life ring behind Xia De emitted dazzling aura at the same time, as the golden light marks on his body representing divinity became brighter and brighter , as the silvery moonlight in his eyes grew brighter—

squeak! ah!

Xia De took a step forward, and the door was pushed open.

Dazzling white light shot towards Xia De's eyes from the crack of the opened door, and as his eyes turned white, he heard the sound of the tide in his ears.

Leaving all the items on his body in front of the door to prevent them from being affected, Xia De walked towards the white light.

Behind him, the door slammed shut.

[Outlander, you are entering death. 】

[Outlander, you have a better understanding of "death" and "sleep". 】

Foreigners who have probably died once before coming to this world do not know what death is. He originally thought that the world on the opposite side would be a void and darkness, or some weird and bizarre scenes, but when the white light in front of his eyes disappeared, he actually found himself standing on the shore, facing the endless water in front of him.

The sky was black, and it was extremely low. Behind him was a stone wall that could not be seen at the left and right ends. The two huge stone gates were inlaid on the stone wall. Only in front of the stone gate was a tidal flat where one could stand.

The tide could be clearly heard, but the water surface under the low black sky was exceptionally calm.

Looking up, I saw a huge silver moon resting on the horizon, but only half of the moon was above the water. The other half was invisible beneath the black water. The silvery moonlight was so silent, so eerie, and even had a maddening sense of holiness.

Although the silver moon looks big, it seems to be far away from the endless black water surface, and the moonlight makes the calm water surface sparkle.

The water surface is not empty, shadows, countless white shadows are indistinct, with their backs to Shade, standing on the calm and boundless water surface, as if they are moving towards the distance. The moonlight illuminates them, but their physical characteristics cannot be seen clearly, and their distance cannot be distinguished.

Xia De knew that it was the soul, and on this boundless water, the dead soul was continuing to walk towards the half-sinking moon.

"Mingyue..."

The surroundings were extremely cold, and Xia De even felt that he had lost the ability to sense temperature.

He looked down at his hand, the cracked golden light was still so dazzling in the dark. He raised his hand to face the maddening silver moon, and the moonlight shone on his face from between his fingers. His hand didn't become transparent, it was still a colored entity. But he could feel the rejection of himself here, and the power that would make it absolutely impossible to open his eyes once he fell asleep again.

"Is this the world after death?"

He couldn't describe it in any words, he just felt extremely tired.

"Can I have a laugh?"

So he asked in his heart, and the familiar voice chuckled:

[Strange request. 】

The ancient language and the light laughter made Xia De's rapidly exhausted spirit better, and at this time there was a voice behind him:

"This is not real death. Death is a concept, not the world. And here, it is just the area closest to death shown by people's cognition of death. Of course, it can also be regarded as death here. The difference is not the same. Not much. But the real Sleep and the Wall of the Unbelievers is at the end of the water, and people come from their mother's amniotic fluid, so they end up back in the water, and that's why you're seeing all of this."

Xia De turned his head to look, and the old man in a priest's robe left the ground, embedded between the two huge stone doors behind him.

It was Priest Augustus, with a pair of broken white feather wings stretching out from his back, exposing the skeleton and flesh. Most of the white feathers had been scorched, which looked particularly terrifying.

The old man leaned against the crack of the closed stone door, the back half of his body seemed to be completely integrated with the two stone doors, and the pair of wings were almost completely integrated into the stone door.

His feet were about half a person's height away from the ground, and two wings spread from his back ~lightnovelpub.net~ like tree roots sprouting to the entire stone gate. The huge charred wings and skeleton, perfectly blended with the death image of the stone door itself, as if the door should be like this.

Shad turned around, allowing Priest Augustus to see his face. The outsider turned his back to the huge silver moon behind him, and the old priest widened his eyes in astonishment:

"Hello, Shad...Huh? Shad?"

For a few seconds, the tired old man could only make strange noises with his throat, and was even unable to speak due to excessive surprise:

"Shad? What happened? You died too?"

"Actually, I'm more curious about how I pushed the door open just now."

There was a smile on the corner of Xia De's mouth, he said in a low voice, and then looked up at Priest Augustus on the door:

"I'm not dead, Dr. Schneider entrusted me to come to you. It's really not easy, you can't imagine how hard I worked..."

Apart from being a little tired, the old man was not much different from the last time we parted at Tobesk Railway Station, even the clothes were the same. Priest Augustus always seemed to like to wear this priest's robe.

"How are you... oh, aren't you curious about the wings behind me?"

The priest seemed to want to reprimand him, but in the end he just asked wearily. The voices of the two were almost silent in this piece of death, but they could be clearly heard.

"Aren't you curious about this weird skin look on me?"

Xia De asked, he was also adapting to this world, he didn't even open his mouth, but the voice appeared directly in the priest's ear.

The two looked at each other, behind the priest was the stone wall with death scenes, and behind Xia De was the half-submerged silver moon and countless souls.

These questions are actually unnecessary.