Volume 9: Star Cave Chapter 89: Everything before my eyes is false!
This shows the extent of religious persecution in the area where the stone man is located.
They don't even have the basic sense of dignity and directly send large numbers of people to join the war and die, intercepting their souls, even those of demons.
This behavior must have some internal cause?
"Could it be that the Holy Spirits are planning to use these souls to create some secret weapons and then destroy this layer of the abyss?" Lu Bai frowned.
Logically speaking, the Sanctuary focuses on the mind and has some research on the soul, but it is definitely not much, and may even be not as good as the Abyss.
After all, the Abyss still needs souls to reincarnate as demons.
In this case, it is difficult to say why the Holy Spirits intercept souls.
"Are there any other factors that I haven't noticed?" Lu Bai frowned. The behavior of the Holy Land actually deviated from the rules of action of the Holy Land itself.
According to common sense, the Sanctuary should now be preparing to flee with the harvested souls.
Leaving behind a ruined world, which was then washed away by the abyss, and finally turned into a devilish land.
And since they have deviated from the other party's usual routine, there must be other factors that interfered with their choice.
"Is there some secret treasure in this layer of the abyss that requires souls?" Lu Bai felt it was unlikely.
If there really was such a secret treasure, it would have been found by the demons long ago.
After all, the human world was previously called the human world, but in fact it was the devils’ private domain.
If there really were any secrets or treasures, the demons would have discovered them long ago.
"Or is there some force that is good at soul-related methods hiding behind this?"
If we rank them according to our understanding of the soul, the Netherworld, the Filthy Land, and the Abyss are all real dimensions on the list.
To be honest, Lu Bai is very familiar with the Netherworld and the Impure Land.
If they really have something behind this, Lu Bai dares to say that he can basically find it out.
"So it's the abyss's problem?" Lu Bai frowned.
This may seem like a ridiculous conjecture, but it is actually very possible.
Demons are a group of individuals with boundless desires. For their own desires, they can do things beyond the common sense of normal people.
Although Lu Bai's behavior of getting the will of the abyss for free was shocking, it could only be included in the annual joke list. This was because Lu Bai let the Sanctuary take the blame, borrowed the power of the beast herd, and then tricked Linji, involving multiple real dimensions.
There are many more incredible things in the overall ranking.
Desire is like this. Once it takes over, you will not care about anything else.
If Lu Bai dares to do such a thing, then let alone those demon lords.
You might have gotten tired of flattering the will of the abyss every day .
So he secretly contacted the Holy Land and prepared to do something big, which is also a very normal behavior.
As for whether the Sanctuary will secretly cooperate with the Demon Lord, all we can say is that it is entirely possible.
"Then the Holy Spirits and the Demon Lords used souls as a means to break away from the Abyss and become the king of the mountain?"
"As a result, the benefits were not evenly distributed, and the Holy Spirits and the Demon Lords fought each other, leading to the destruction of the entire Abyss layer and the death of all the individuals within it?"
This is indeed a very possible thing.
So Lu Bai wandered around in the abyss for a while, and then found a passage to return to the human world.
No matter what, the key is to first find those souls intercepted by the holy spirits, figure out what tricks these guys are planning, and then take advantage of the situation and take the benefits into your own hands. This is the most correct approach at the moment.
Lu Bai quickly found a battlefield of stone men.
In fact, it is not difficult to find. Now the Stone People only have that little piece of land left.
Overall, the abyss demons are still gaining the upper hand little by little, after all, they are fighting at home.
During this period, it was only thanks to the Stone People's "fearless and suicidal" resistance that the battle was dragged on to this moment.
If we observe with our current strength, we will naturally find some problems.
On the front battlefield, the Sanctuary still retained some dignity and only intercepted the spiritual power of the stone men, luring them to the glory of the distant sky and transforming them into spirits.
The harvesting of souls is done in a certain layer of space when the souls are captured by the Styx and are intercepted before they float towards the Styx.
This further confirmed Lu Bai's guess that there was a demon inside.
Although the Styx was modeled after the Netherworld, the Abyss also underwent localized modifications to prevent people from the Netherworld from causing disturbances.
Even for Lu Bai, if he wanted to use his experience in the underworld to try to harness the power of the Styx, it would take a long time of repeated experiments.
If this group of holy spirits could intercept souls in front of the River Styx, they must have had help from the locals.
Lu Bai quietly transformed his body shape, and used the power of the devil to operate his skills such as Dragon Sleep and Qiankun Xi.
He followed the intercepted souls, wanting to see where they went.
But suddenly, the souls turned to the other side halfway.
Lu Bai realized that something was wrong, so he immediately restrained his breath and stopped moving forward, while quietly retreating backwards.
But at this moment, the space changed.
This feeling is like some kind of observation force acting on the surrounding space, forcibly changing its structure.
The one who did all this was not far away from Lu Bai. He changed the space and pulled Lu Bai in front of him.
That was a man standing on the edge of the River Styx.
He looked down at the River Styx and could see souls still floating in it.
As the water of the Styx changed, the power of the abyss was gradually engraved on those souls, allowing them to gradually acquire a body and become a demon egg.
Looking at the man's back, Lu Bai let down his guard, and asked in a dazed and strange manner , "Dongshan Stone?"
"That's right!" Dongshanshi nodded, but did not turn back.
It was only at this moment that Lu Bai realized that he had been blinded by one thing.
When guessing which force was cooperating with the Sanctuary to intercept souls, Lu Bai successfully determined that it was the abyss itself.
However, they also set their sights on the demon lord who was the traitor, and perhaps most of the demon lords even thought so.
However, judging from the current situation, it is very likely that the traitor does not exist at all.
The one who cooperated with the Sanctuary to do all this was none other than the "natural holy spirit" Dongshan Shi, who founded the Stone Heart Church, observed the Sanctuary, and used it as a support to pull it into the abyss.
"When I was very young, I could observe the angle of space and then see the River Styx." Dong Shanshi looked at the River Styx and told Lu Bai something.
"At that time, I realized that no one could escape the fate of being swallowed by the Styx and becoming a demon."
"And we discovered a hidden demon that used the space layer to harvest desires and souls in the human world."
"Many people only know that I saw through the devil and expelled it, but they don't know that many people who helped me at the time, including my closest friends, died and became devils because of it."
"Then one day he reincarnated as a demon and appeared before me, full of greed and violence, wanting to rob me of my life."
"And through the demon's body, I saw the familiar soul of the other party."
"But in the end, for the safety of others, I had to kill him myself."
"I vowed at that time that I must change this and let people at least have peace after death."
"It was also at that time that I developed a method to intercept souls."
At this time, Dongshan Shi turned around and looked at Lu Bai.
At this point, no one cared what the Dongshan Stone looked like.
The moment you see him, his compassionate yet tough temperament emanates from his body, making people ignore his race, appearance, and even physical characteristics.
"Then you regret it!" Lu Bai said with a smile.
He noticed similarities between the two men.
Lu Bai was born with a strong body, which led to strong desires. These overly strong desires made him gradually see everything in the world clearly, thus making him a person who is awake but not yet aware.
Dongshan Shi was born with a strong mind, an overly strong mind that gave him strong emotions. He could easily see through false appearances and grasp the inner essence of things.
Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Dongshan Shi now looks like an enlightened being, but in fact, he is just like Lu Bai now, both of whom are enlightened but not yet awakened!
As long as he lets go of a little bit, or even just changes his thoughts a little bit, he can become an enlightened being, escape from his mortal body, and become a holy spirit in the holy realm.
But he did not do so for various reasons.
He can't let go!
"Yes, I regret it." Dongshanshi chose to cover up Lu Bai's words without any concealment.
"I regret seeing it so early, but so late."
"Regret founding Stoneheart Church."
"I regret bringing the Sanctuary here."
“Regret helps them intercept people’s souls.”
"It's all too late now." Dong Shanshi said with regret.
"If we had seen you earlier, perhaps I would have learned from you and used their power to check and balance each other, and then got rid of my special dependence on any one of them."
In the past, the Dongshan Stone was filled with all the ugliness of the demons from the abyss.
He hated the abyss so much that his mind was filled with conflicting thoughts, either this or that.
So after discovering the sanctuary, they instinctively placed everything on it.
If he were given another chance, he would still hate the abyss, but he would also use the power of the abyss correctly to seek a glimmer of hope for the world.
Just as he himself said, he saw the abyss too early, but saw the sanctuary too late, which made everything irreversible.
Dong Shanshi looked at Lu Bai with envy, then lowered his head to look at his own palms.
Then he said with regret: "After all, I and this world have already died a long time ago, right?"
"Everything before my eyes is false!"
