Chen Lun immediately couldn't wait to open the book in his hand.
But the next second, a prompt popped up on the panel—
Does not meet the reading requirements!
Missing "Yanitar Language LV5 (Passive)", "Ancient Wizard Language LV2 (Passive)", "Mystical Schematology LV3 (Passive)"!
Chen Lun was a little stunned.
He flipped through a few pages at random and found that the texts recorded on them were all some strange tadpole-shaped symbols and some incomprehensible geometric figures, which seemed to correspond to some mysterious symbols.
After a few seconds of silence, Chen Lun had to close the book and sighed.
'Sure enough, nothing is easy on the road to sanctification...'
He kept this precious mythological book in safekeeping and began to think about it.
"I remember that there are books on these languages and mystic skills in the exchange library of the Imperial Inquisition. I will exchange them when I have enough merits!"
Chen Lun knew that Philip was not to blame for this matter. It was not that the other party was deliberately making things difficult for him, but most mythological knowledge was like this, requiring an extremely high reading threshold, otherwise it would be impossible to understand.
Then, he left the abandoned White Tower and simply calculated the time, and found that there was only half an hour left before Lady Sigh returned.
"Time is running out. I need to go to the end of darkness to confirm the root cause and truth of the turmoil in the spirit world..."
Chen Lun flew over the small town of Kazt and headed towards the gloomy plains in the west at full speed.
According to Philip, the special area where the dream world and the spirit world are connected is somewhere deep in the Haze Plain.
When he entered the Haze Plain, the environment here was exactly like a fairyland. It was filled with gray fog all around and the visibility was very low.
But the warnings sent by spiritual intuition are far stronger than those from the fairyland.
It seemed as if behind the thick fog, there was something extremely terrifying hidden.
Chen Lun held the silver cane and used it to calibrate the direction while moving forward carefully. While maintaining his speed, he was always alert to changes in his surroundings.
Woo!!
Not long after, Chen Lun discovered that the fog in front of his left side began to roll violently, and three long and narrow, large blue-black wolf heads emerged from the air behind the fog.
Nine pairs of pitch-black eyeballs suddenly turned and instantly locked onto Chen Lun's figure.
'Oops… '
Chen Lun cried out inwardly.
Even his spiritual intuition failed to detect the other party's trace, as if this monster appeared out of thin air. The strong sense of danger made the hairs on his body stand up like a conditioned reflex.
He immediately tried to test it by using the life-seeking technique, but the result surprised Chen Lun greatly.
This monster actually only revealed a very small amount of information!
This means that the opponent's level is much higher than his!
'The real Moonless Shadow... a semi-mythical polluting creature!'
Without even thinking, Chen Lun used instant teleportation to pass the three-headed monster and rushed forward.
However, the monster's reaction was also extremely fast. Its entire body suddenly split into three, transforming into three pitch-black shadows, which chased Chen Lun relentlessly. They soon blocked in front of him and reorganized themselves.
roar!!
The three huge wolf heads opened their mouths and swooped down on Chen Lun!
The dark eyes that flashed across the wolf's face were filled with hatred, cruelty, and a strong desire to kill... The densely packed fangs in the wolf's mouth were uneven, yet revealed a ferocious look.
Chen Lun did not hesitate and directly entered the "Pale Knight" form.
boom!!
The silver giant sword blocked the bites of the three wolf heads. Chen Lun raised his right arm and turned it into a group of pale snakes that coiled around the opponent's neck and body.
However, even so, Chen Lun still felt the violent force coming from the sword, and he couldn't help but take two steps back.
Chen Lun narrowed his eyes, and with an expressionless face, he suddenly exerted force to push the monster away.
Immediately, he swung the giant sword with all his strength and chopped.
Bang bang bang!
The gray fog was turbulent, rolling and spreading in all directions. Two huge figures, one black and one white, flashed by and fought fiercely.
In just a few dozen seconds, Chen Lun had no idea how many times he had slashed with his sword, but the monster in front of him was not hurt at all... The opponent's strength and speed were much higher than his own, and his use of shadows had reached the extreme.
Not only did the slashing blow fail to hit the target, but it would also be entangled by the shadow. Several times, Chen Lun was almost penetrated by the all-pervasive shadow and penetrated into the gaps in his armor.
'This monster's strength far exceeds the level of ordinary mid-sequence extraordinary people, and touches the level of myth... In comparison, ordinary saint incarnations may be defeated by it head-on.'
Chen Lun used the giant sword and the pale hand to deal with it while calculating the strength of both sides.
'If I don't hesitate to use all my trump cards, I can probably kill it, but it's hard to do in a short time... But Ms. Sigh will be back soon, and I can't be dragged here.'
He immediately teleported and distanced himself from the monster.
The next second, three huge shadows were chasing after him like maggots on the tarsal bones. Chen Lun glanced at them indifferently, and then his fingers flashed, and a bright red ace suddenly appeared.
He waved his hand.
stop!
A loud rumbling sound erupted behind him, and countless gray mists, along with the three shadows, were all stirred together like liquid in a coffee cup, and were immediately blown away by the unstoppable repulsive force.
Chen Lun took the opportunity to use teleportation again, and in a few flashes, he completely got rid of the monster's entanglement.
After a moment.
He came to a dark pool of water.
This place is located in the northeast corner of the Haze Plain. The fog has dissipated. If you go further, you will reach the deepest part... which is where the White Cocoon of Corpse Mountain is located.
Chen Lun didn't dare to go there rashly. Just observing from afar in the fairyland had caused his sanity value to drop by thousands of points. The power of the "original" in the dream world would only be stronger... Perhaps, he would die on the spot with just one look.
'This pool of water is the special area that Philip mentioned. From here you can reach the end of darkness...'
Chen Lun took a deep breath, jumped up, and flew in like a bird into the forest.
thump!
The black water in the pool was quite viscous and heavy. When Chen Lun fell into it, there was not much splash. After a few dull gurgling sounds, the pool returned to silence.
Chen Lun only felt that his body was imprisoned by the strong water pressure underwater. If his spiritual breath had not been kept open, perhaps the extremely dense black water would have poured back into his body.
Everything in the dream world is full of absurdity.
The black water had no buoyancy at all, and Chen Lun was like a stone falling into a deep valley, sinking straight to the bottom of the pool.
Darkness follows like a shadow, and depth is everywhere.
The chill grew stronger and stronger. After an unknown amount of time, Chen Lun's consciousness suddenly came back and he was shocked to find himself lying on the ground.
Before I sat up, I heard a loud bell ringing from a distant place.
when!!
He quickly stood up and looked in the direction where the sound came from.
when!!
Another round of bell ringing echoed throughout the universe.
This was accompanied by a strong white light that spread across the sky and bloomed at the same time as the bell.
The white light slowly faded away, and the surroundings returned to deep darkness.
"Is this the end of the seventh level of the dark world?"
Chen Lun stood in the darkness, thinking.
"What was that bell sound and white light just now..."
when!!
The strong light accompanied by the deafening bell sound came again, and Chen Lun's face was pale. Because the light was too strong, he couldn't even take the opportunity to see the surrounding environment clearly.
His face looked solemn, and he decided to go in the direction of the bell sound and the white light.
when…
when…
As he got closer to the source of the sound, Chen Lun began to notice something strange.
Beneath the huge bell sound, there seemed to be countless roars hidden.
Finally, he climbed over a hill and saw the scene behind him clearly.
Chen Lun stood on the top of the mountain, and Tong Kong shrank suddenly.
He saw a wooden house below, a bonfire, and a figure standing in the darkness.
The back figure was thin and dry, like a corpse that had been dead for a long time. The skin was covered with scars and there was not even a single intact place.
On the shoulder blades behind him, there grew iron swords one after another, stacked up to form a pair of huge steel wings. In his hands, he held a huge and blazing golden beheading sword, the luster flowing on it was like lava or sun spots.
The sword suddenly swung out.
when!!
The blinding white light filled the field of vision and illuminated the front at the same time.
In the darkness, there are densely packed and ferocious figures moving around...
Those are countless Didak insects!
They were all strange and bizarre, and there were even some giant insects that were tens or hundreds of meters tall, roaring and rushing towards them ferociously! But these thousands of insects were all burned into nothingness under this sword and returned to darkness.
when!!
Another sword rang the bell at the end of the darkness, isolating the endless tide of contaminated insects.
Chen Lun was speechless as he witnessed this shocking scene.
After a while.
'That's Arnold?!'
He looked at the figure from behind, but he already knew the answer in his heart.
He still remembers clearly what he said to himself at the "End of Darkness" reproduced in Wonderland at the end - Hunting darkness forever.
At this moment, Chen Lun finally understood this sentence.
At the same time, his memory suddenly went back to the opening CG of version 1.0, and the fleeting figure in it overlapped with the man in front of him.
'She has been here all along, fighting against countless waves of contaminated insects...'
Chen Lun's expression was obscured by darkness, but his eyes reflected the golden luster of Arnold's beheading sword.
Continue to move your sight forward.
In the brief golden light, Chen Lun vaguely saw a huge "star" floating in the sky at the end of the darkness. Its surface was dark and deep, but underneath it was hidden an extremely bright red color, like a dying sun.
'This is exactly the same as the Red Mother in Matthew's Land... But this one is obviously much bigger, and the sense of oppression is countless times stronger!'
Chen Lun felt an involuntary stinging pain in his eyes, and tears began to flow.
His sanity was rapidly diminishing, and pollution along with knowledge poured in, violently squeezing into his mind.
Sequence 9 - Medium, Sequence 8 - Executioner, Sequence 7 - Requiem Master, Sequence 6 - Night Watchman, Sequence 5 - Black Knight...
And Sequence Four - Undead!
The entire path was exactly the same as the moon before the high sequence, until the original sequence four - the ferryman, it changed.
Chen Lun learned the real name of this path directly through the information in his mind—
Black sun!
Black Sun Path!
The true god at the end is called "Deep Mother", "Dark Sun" or "Shadow of the Sun"!
"Lord of the Deep... Lord of the Spiritual Refuge... Sublime Darkness... Galsworthy... Sadly, I will always cherish your glory, but the sun only needs one."
A cold and indifferent voice suddenly rang out in Chen Lun's mind.
Chen Lun suddenly felt tinnitus and blood came out of all his seven orifices.
He fell to his knees, struggled to take out the tranquilizing potion and put it into his mouth, and at the same time lit the handmade cigarette given by Ms. Fredetri and started smoking fiercely.
The clanging of the bells continued.
Chen Lun endured the severe pain, raised his eyelids and looked below the "Real Red Mother".
On the surface of the red and black star, a dark liquid kept dripping. Just one drop of it splashed into a crater on the ground at the end of the darkness. The crater was filled with sticky black liquid and countless bubbles were coming out of the surface.
As the bubbles burst, one Didak insect-man after another struggled to crawl out. They followed their instincts and fled outwards, spreading, craving killing and chaos.
However, Arnold's back stood under the black-red sun, blocking the contaminated insect tide on the front line.
But even so, Chen Lun still discovered that one percent of the insect swarm escaped Arnold's interception... because Arnold seemed to have completely lost his humanity and reason, with only a body left to execute his last will before his death.
'She has done her best... The spread of pollution is unstoppable and will eventually cause unrest in the world...'
Chen Lun unconsciously had this thought.
At the same time, this scene was deeply imprinted in my mind.
Then he turned and ran away without looking back, returned to the special place where he came from, lay down there, and forced himself to sleep.
Fredetra meditation method was fully activated, and Chen Lun quickly let his consciousness enter the dream world, thus communicating with the dream world, and his body sank into darkness.
Crash!
A moment later, Chen Lun's figure jumped out from the black pool on the gloomy plain of the dream world.
He used all his strength to perform Air Walk and flew in the direction he came from.
There are less than ten minutes left before Lady Sigh returns to the Sleeping Gate. He must leave the dream world and return to the real world before this time.
Otherwise, his fate would be like Philip's, trapped here forever!
After crossing the town of Kazt again and returning to the dense forest on the side of the cobblestone path, Chen Lun found Nada and a dozen other black cat warriors, as well as Mr. Taote.
"Have you packed up? I will take you out of here now."
Chen Lun spoke to them in a deep voice.
"We are ready, Master Curler."
Nada replied solemnly, dragging the huge axe.
Chen Lun glanced at them, nodded, and then said, "Follow me."
He led the way in front, his figure moving quickly through the natural forest. Because the speed was too fast, Mr. Tote's old arms and legs could not keep up, so two black cat warriors carried him on their way.
Even so, Tote kept screaming and wailing, his heart somewhat unable to bear it.
Chen Lun calculated the time and crossed the natural forest. He found a broken staircase leading upwards. The moment he stepped on it, he found that the surrounding scenery changed and turned into that long, dark and cold stair tunnel.
The Black Cat Squad and Tout soon appeared here, all of them looking surprised.
Chen Lun's expression suddenly changed.
At this moment, spiritual intuition suddenly sent a strong warning.
He subconsciously thought that Ms. Sigh might be back soon!
"Walk!"
Chen Lun roared and shot upward like an arrow.
Nada was stunned at first, then he quickly called his companions, and they followed the Curator to run up the stairs as fast as they could.
After crossing the door of sleep.
After running up another 70 steps, Chen Lun returned to his dream.
He turned around for some unknown reason, but saw a lady whose face he couldn't see clearly standing behind him!
A dark green long skirt came into view, and the exquisite patterns and designs on the skirt left a deep impression on the retina.
A resentful sigh was heard, and Chen Lun's heart sank to the bottom.
He felt cold all over as if he had fallen into an icy cave, and thought to himself, "Oh no!"
But at this critical moment, Chen Lun suddenly caught a glimpse of another female figure in his peripheral vision.
"Let him go, Dominia."
A clear but pleasant female voice sounded.
The dark red skirt flashed in Chen Lun's sight, and the figure of Ms. Sigh disappeared.