Chapter 432 Endless Darkness

In the pitch-black passage, Li Yan was "crawling" forward little by little in a strange posture, with one hand raised above his head and the other hand hanging down to his leg.

Li Yan didn't dare to retreat, nor could he do it. The entrance he had just entered seemed to be blocked.

Li Yan kicked back a few times before, and the feeling from behind was just like the wall beside him, which was motionless at all.

He could still move back and forth in the passage after crawling forward, but he would definitely not do that.

In the pitch-black and hot passage, it seemed like there was no end to moving forward. A person was crawling slowly, and the space around him where he could not move freely brought psychological depression and eternal loneliness.

It's not that Li Yan didn't want to use his spiritual power and move forward quickly. It would take a lot of physical strength to move forward a little distance here. He couldn't waste spiritual power without knowing the specific situation ahead.

In a dark and narrow space, a person will slowly lose the sense of time. You don't know how long it has been. Maybe it's just one day, but you think it's many days and nights.

In the end, even if it is just a moment, it will become as long as decades in your heart, so helpless and tormented.

In this environment, the best thing to do is to calm yourself down and slowly seek a way out.

Unfortunately, the narrow dark passage where Li Yan is will not let you calm down at all, because it has a temperature that can melt mortals in an instant.

The suffocating heat continues to come from the passage. Even if the immortal cultivators resist, they will become more and more anxious and oppressed because of the constant consumption of spiritual power and physical strength.

Here, you can't see a trace of light, hear no sound from the outside world, only your heavy breathing, and every breath of turbid air like fire that accompanies you.

Li Yan has been counting his heartbeats silently. He needs to roughly calculate how long he has been here.

Two hours have passed, and he has crawled forward less than 20 feet, which is not much faster than a snail.

The black robe on his body was wet and dry, dry and wet again. Li Yan had to stop occasionally and perform the "Yunyu Jutsu" so that he could catch some water drops in his mouth, but this way, his spiritual power was consumed faster.

Although the dark passage tightly imprisoned his body, fortunately, it did not isolate the spiritual energy, so the immortal arts could still be performed.

Li Yan also wanted to try to perform the "Earth Spike Jutsu" on the wall of the passage, and then use the spiritual power to turn into a long rope to wrap around the protruding earth spikes in front, and use the force to pull himself forward quickly.

But unfortunately, even with his current cultivation, after the spell was cast, except for a rumbling sound, not even a small hole could be left on the wall of the passage.

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The Bright Fire Kirin looked at the black passage in front of him in disbelief. This was the fifteenth time it had tried to enter in three days, but each time it was directly pushed away by an irresistible repulsive force.

"It's been three days, why hasn't that kid died yet? This is unreasonable!" The Bright Fire Kirin was a little anxious and crazy.

There are two passages behind the red gate. Although the pitch-black passage will not cause any attack after entering.

But anyone who can come out of the black passage alive would rather enter the golden passage and fight continuously than enter the pitch-black passage for the second time. The most terrible thing is that it leaves an eternal fear experience for the living.

The black passage makes you have no hope of survival. You have lost the cultivation of qi and mind in decades or even hundreds of years. It will only make you despair in helplessness and lose your life in despair.

Although the constant fighting in the golden passage will make people feel extremely tired and weak, there will always be intermittent rest. The most important thing is that there is a wide space, so that the cultivator knows in his heart that he is still alive, his body is free, and his senses are free.

The Bright Fire Kirin is the gate guarding here. It can easily enter the two passages. There is no special reason. It is that the original refiner allowed it to enter.

But there are still special circumstances. Only one living body can enter the passage at a time. As long as he is not dead, even the Bright Fire Kirin cannot enter.

Therefore, there are countless "fire eyes" on the mountain of "Huoyan Palace" for many people to enter at the same time.

"Damn human boy, I want to see how long you can hold on. When the elixir on you is used up, see if you have any way to survive." The Bright Fire Kirin looked at the dark passage and thought bitterly in his heart.

In its opinion, Li Yan who entered the passage must be the core disciple of that big sect, otherwise why could he come here with such a low cultivation level.

Of course, he has a protective magic weapon like the pale yellow folding fan. Any magic weapon needs to consume spiritual power, not to mention that the passage is not suitable for cultivation and recovery, so he can only use elixir to replenish spiritual power.

If you want to break through here, the price is life. After all, a cultivator's storage bag is limited, and it must not be filled with only elixir.

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Li Yan felt abnormally uncomfortable. He has maintained this strange posture for five days. The two arms up and down have limited bending arc. He can only rely on bending his legs slightly and moving forward a little bit.

The speed was extremely slow, and he had to stop to rest frequently. This seemingly easy movement of pushing off the ground to move forward was actually extremely exhausting.

In the past five days, he estimated that he might not be able to crawl more than 500 feet. At first, Li Yan was still thinking about his mistake and how to get out, with all kinds of thoughts coming to him.

He doesn't regret his choice, nor does he resent the bright fire unicorn. He can survive to this day only by being careful.

Although sometimes I am too careful

, but Li Yan doesn't think he is a god. He is a human being after all, and he will make mistakes. It is impossible that he is the only smart person in the world and everyone else is stupid.

Every time you suffer, you gain wisdom. As long as you don't lose your life immediately, there is a chance to make up for everything.

In his consciousness, there is still no end ahead, and his clearly audible breathing sound can be heard in his ears. In the gap between breaths, Li Yan can also hear his own "dong dong" heartbeat, which is so loud that he even feels All a bit deafening.

Of course, all of this is just a feeling. You can hear your heartbeat, but it's not that loud. It's just that there is no day or night here, and the heat and sweltering heat never stops. In addition to listening to your own heartbeat and breathing, you move forward a little bit. Nothing else happens.

At this time, if someone could use great supernatural power to open the passage, looking from above, Li Yan would be lying in a coffin, trying hard to move the coffin out little by little.

Li Yan felt that he was lucky to be practicing the Guishui Sutra, which could still be used by him under the cycle of five elements, so that he would not prematurely exhaust his spiritual power.

Li Yan's forward movements had become mechanical and numb. In the darkness, simple and boring repetitions of a single movement made it easy for people's thinking to stagnate.

The stagnation of thinking means that he will slowly lose consciousness. Li Yan has had hallucinations several times. Sometimes he doesn't know whether he is crawling or has stopped.

Only when he realizes this will his mind suddenly wake up and he will know what state he is in.

But then in the boring crawl, you will slowly lose consciousness again, and many disturbing and strange thoughts will come to your mind. Even the thoughts of the previous moment have no connection with the thoughts of the next moment.

Sometimes he would wonder how far ahead there would be, and whether there would be any sudden changes here. Before he could imagine any changes, the scene of his father and mother sitting at the dining table eating and chatting might appear in the next moment.

And when he wanted to take a closer look at what his parents were talking about, the scene in Qingshan Pass City came to mind again. The flags were shaking in the wine shop, and how could Li Yu poke his head out of the building again...

Daqingshan, the Sprite Sect, Senior Brother, Seventh Senior Brother, Zhao Min, Gong Chenying... and even Lord Tianbei from the mountain behind Xiaozhu Peak... it was a mess, and I didn't know what they were thinking.

Suddenly, Li Yan was startled, and his eyes returned to the boundless darkness. This was when he briefly regained consciousness, and he was still crawling slowly... Soon, he would fall into chaos again. among.

In this way, Li Yan gradually lost the concept of time. He didn't know the sun, the moon, or the length of time. He went back and forth between confusion and wakefulness. His spirit also began to fall into a fuzzy state, and finally he was partially in a state of confusion. It feels like I have forgotten where I am and why I am here again.

My heart becomes more and more turbulent. If I stay in the same position for a long time, my body will feel abnormally uncomfortable. Sometimes I will even give birth to something.

The terrifying thought of cutting off these arms to free my body.

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The bright fire unicorn outside gradually fell into a rage. It had been waiting outside for twenty days.

Now every half an hour it will hit the black passage, and then be thrown high back, fall to the ground outside the red door, and then get up again with red eyes.

After the previous ray of red fire was refined by it, what excited the bright fire unicorn was that its soul power had improved a little, which had caught up with the past few months of hard work.

The soul and consciousness are equally difficult to cultivate, and the heavenly materials and earthly treasures that can improve them are extremely rare. Even if they exist, they are usually only possessed by monks with great supernatural powers.

This kind of stimulation is huge, and the bright fire unicorn is even more eager to let Li Yan die immediately. Now it has regrets. It should have killed the kid desperately at the beginning, instead of suffering like this now.

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Li Yan didn't know that what he had experienced was the reason why many fake elixir monks came here. To be promoted to the fake elixir realm, most of the spiritual power had been condensed to the level required for elixir formation. What they lacked was the state of mind. Realization, and breakthrough in the line between life and death.

The two passages in the "Fire Palace" have exactly these two functions. The dark passage refines the monk's state of mind and leads to nirvana and rebirth in the midst of inner demons. This has a similar effect to the "Dustless Pill".

It's just that this kind of tempering is more domineering and thorough. You won't die after eating the "Wuxin Pill", but in the black passage of the "Fire Palace", it is extremely dangerous. Even death is light, and in pain The struggle to survive is the psychological shadow of a lifetime.

Monk Yiming finally chose to enter here after swallowing the "Dustless Pill" several times to no avail.

There is endless killing in the golden passage. You cannot stay where you are. Even if you kill all the powerful souls nearby, more powerful souls will still be regenerated soon after. All the monks have to do is to keep moving forward and tearing apart. Kill until you finish the golden passage.

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In the eternally silent world, depression and darkness always lingered around Li Yan. Finally, one day, Li Yan stopped moving forward. His consciousness became chaotic. Anyone who has been in the darkness for who knows how many days will eventually lose his mental balance. Li Yan is a human being, and he is no exception.

Listening to his own breathing in the darkness, and not being able to feel whether his arms are still conscious, Li Yan's eyes are suddenly no longer dark.

Crystal snowflakes bloomed in the sky, making the world bright, and in the snowflakes, many familiar faces came and went. They seemed to be saying something to him, with anxious and helpless expressions, but Li Yan just couldn't hear clearly, only a buzzing sound.

Suddenly, Li Yan had a moment of clarity. This was a dream, as messy as the many dreams he had had during this period, but this dream was more real and close.