Chapter 241.

All of the terrifying aura came from this figure.

After the pale figure stepped out from the black palace, Zhou An could feel that terrifying aura.

The White King was like a small ant in front of this pale figure.

It was an old man, wearing a cloth garment that was old and worn out.

The old man’s stature was short, and his waist and back looked a little stooped due to his age.

And where the old man’s left hand was, was an empty sleeve robe, no arm present.

The right hand was still there and was carrying a brush with undried ink on it.

In the old man’s body, there was an ancient and desolate aura, accompanied by an aura that made all beings tremble, as if it was an endless abyss, with no head visible at a glance.

The old man’s eyes were not cloudy either, but a rare sense of exhaustion after countless years.

Zhou An narrowed his eyes, observing in secret, and gripped his longsword tightly.

He still had the beads left behind by the White King after his death, which the people of the Miscellaneous Sect collectively called Miscellaneous Weapons.

If the current situation was not right, he would immediately ask Black Jade to bring out Cheap Mother-In-Law, so that Cheap Mother-In-Law could touch base with this one-armed old man.

So far, the Bagua in front of Zhou An’s eyes was still a golden color.

This proved that this old man in front of him did not seem to be in any danger.

“There is no hostility.” Zhou An thought to himself.

At least for the time being, this one-armed old man with an endless sense of age did not have the slightest bit of hostility towards him.

Thinking of this, Zhou An pondered slightly before slowly speaking.

“Elder, may I ask your name?”

The one-armed old man was also sizing up Zhou An since he came out and did not speak.

Those eyes with an endless sense of age seemed to be able to see through everything, causing everything to sink into the ages of history.

When Zhou An asked these words, the one-armed old man shook his head, and an aged voice appeared.

“I don’t remember, it’s been a long time, I’ve forgotten.”

A rare look of confusion appeared in the one-armed old man’s eyes, “Who am I, and what is this place, I don’t even remember.”

“All I know is that I have to stay here, I have to be here, to make a trace of everything.”

“Do you want to know? Come with me, I don’t know how many years have passed without seeing anyone.”

After the one-armed old man finished speaking, he unexpectedly turned around directly, as if he did not care if Zhou An followed him or not, and walked in towards the black palace.

Soon, the one-armed old man’s figure, disappeared into the door of the black palace.

Zhou An was slightly stunned, then reacted, looking at the black palace in front of him, and took a deep breath.

He slowly raised his feet and walked in towards the inside.

Coming here, there was still a huge and incomparable secret that was in front of him, if he didn’t go and take a look, then Zhou An would regret it.

Moreover, the Bagua Arithmetic was still a golden color, representing that this trip was fine.

It’s fine, so be brave and reckless, how can you see something good without being reckless?

As Zhou An stepped into it, a heavy history emerged from Zhou An’s body.

Inside the black palace, the space was very vast, and at a glance, it was all black.

Whether it was the walls, or the ground, even the top of the palace, it was all black.

However, Zhou An observed it meticulously.

On top of all this blackness, there were many unusual places.

Reliefs!

Densely-packed reliefs, from where Zhou An stood, gradually extended towards the outside.

Apart from the ground, the surrounding walls, and even the ceiling above, were all carved with dense black reliefs.

These black reliefs were all portraits of people, and they were lifelike.

There were men and women, old and young, to name a few.

On top of that, Zhou An even felt that an extremely familiar aura was constantly circulating above these reliefs.

“City walls, it’s the feeling of city walls.”

Zhou An quickly realized that this aura was none other than the half wall outside.

It was almost exactly the same.

“They are all heroes that survived in history, but died long ago, and then their bones were carved here.”

Zhou An looked at the one-armed old man who was waiting for him, not far ahead, and asked, “It was you, who carved them here?”

These, all the bones of the corpses that the years could not wear down, were truly terrifying things.

It could be said without exaggeration that even if one was pulled out at random, if it was a living person, I’m afraid that they were all walking ancient myths.

When the one-armed old man heard Zhou An’s words, a confused look appeared on his face before he nodded, “It’s me, I don’t know, why I carved them here.”

“But I know that my mission is this, I have to do it.”

As the words fell, Zhou An’s eyes as he looked at this one-armed old man had become somewhat solemn.

If it was truly as the one-armed old man had said, then the identity of this one-armed old man, then it was self-evident.

Perhaps, this was an ancient epic that had truly survived from that extremely ancient era and was still alive today.

“I’m confused because I’m looking at these reliefs and it’s painful.”

The one-armed old man squatted down, then stroked the reliefs on the wall, “I feel that they are all my dear friends, family members, comrades in arms, and too many more.”

“I witnessed their deaths with my own hands, carved them into them with my own hands, and the feeling, every time, tore at my heart.”

“But I had to do it, even if I have, nowadays, forgotten a lot of things, I still haven’t forgotten it all.”

“Carve, write, and be there.”

At that, the one-armed old man stood up.

“Keep walking.”

Zhou An nodded and followed behind the one-armed old man.

He didn’t know, why the one-armed old man had lost his memory, but he knew from the one-armed old man’s narration just now, the person the one-armed old man was working on.

This was a cemetery from the graves left behind by countless sage people after they impacted the rift in that ancient and early era.

The years did not dare to erode, but the sages would eventually have a place to return to.

Here, it was formed.

Those bas-reliefs, each one of them was a graveyard, burying the heroic epics of that ancient and early era.

And the one-armed old man, like a tomb keeper, was here alone, burying the bones of one and all, and always kept here.

Long years had passed, and this place was still the same, as was the one-armed old man.

Zhou An looked at the surrounding reliefs, a hint of admiration in his eyes.

He was not a hero, but respected heroes.

At least, he couldn’t do such a generous death until he had no choice.

It was easier said than done.

Of course, if it came to the last resort, Zhou An himself was not afraid of death.

Even with his temperament, if he really had to die, he would have to pull his enemies to die with him.

Zhou An looked for a few moments and continued to follow behind the one-armed old man.

Ever since those few words, the one-armed old man did not continue to speak, but silently led the way in front.

Zhou An followed behind, and only then did he realize the difference in the black palace.

Here, there were no extra rooms or aisles, all the rooms had been opened up just to rest the bones of these corpses.

In addition to the room in front.

Not far away, a four-square room stood in the empty interior of the black palace.

Zhou An was slightly surprised as he looked at this black room.

If those bas-reliefs represented, it was a thick history, an existence that the years could not erode.

Then this black room, gave Zhou An a feeling as if it was the years itself.

Even as Zhou An stood here, he could feel, with an overwhelming sense of solemnity.

“What is …… this?” Zhou An finally opened his mouth and asked.

“Something very important.” The one-armed old man said.

“Well …… I haven’t gone in to see it either, but it’s really important.”

Zhou An looked back and forth, realizing that even the Thousand-Mile Sight could not penetrate it completely.

Just like this black palace, the only room here, which was likewise built with special materials, was able to isolate the penetration of the Thousand-Mile Sight.

“I only know that the reason I stayed here, and the mission to stay here, is because of this place, this room.”

The one-armed old man showed a confused look in his eyes and said, “Can you help me?”

Zhou An asked, “How and what?”

He knew that the one-armed old man must have a reason for letting him in.

If not, how could he be so straight to the point?

Zhou An even had a guess already.

Just now, the one-armed old man had said that he would let him help, perhaps this help was related to this room in front of him.

“You help me, go and look inside the room, what is there.”

The one-armed old man said, “Every time I get close to the room, there will be an intense sadness that surfaces in my heart.”

“If I force myself to go outside the room, I will turn into yellow earth, in the midst of sorrow.”

“I still have to live, or at least keep watch here, I can’t die.”

“If you can’t feel the grief, then ……”

The words were not finished, but the meaning was already obvious, and it was indeed as Zhou An thought, that he wanted him to look at the room.

But …… Zhou An clearly refused.

“Not going.”

Zhou An shook his head and said, “This cannot be done.”

Just now, when the one-armed old man was speaking, Zhou An began to quietly project whether entering the room would be bad or good.

The result was unexpected.

There was neither golden nor black light.

This situation was the reason why the projections could not be made.

Not even projecting, it was obvious that this room in front of him was beyond Zhou An’s ability.

This was a death wish, Zhou An was a very stable person and would not make a death wish.

When the one-armed old man heard Zhou An’s statement, he didn’t seem to intend to give up and continued, “Help me go in and take a look.”

“I can let you choose one of these reliefs.”

“Choose one of them? What does this mean?” Zhou An frowned and asked.

The one-armed old man pointed at the surrounding reliefs and slowly said, “Although they are dead, they still retained a part of them, and I call this retained power, a talent.”

“All you need to do is to find a talent similar to yours, and you will be able to obtain a great and incomparable benefit.”

“And that, in turn, will add color to your long life.”

Speaking here, the one-armed old man’s eyes carried a hint of emotion, though they were still confused.

“Talent?”

Zhou An narrowed his eyes and slowly said, “Who exactly are you?”

Just now, with the one-armed old man uttering these words, Zhou An realized that something was wrong.

He was aware of this thing called talent.

Back then, Yu Hang had talked to him about things that had to do with talent.

Those existences that had once died generously, in the endless years, worried that there would be no one to succeed them, and were also afraid that their descendants would not be able to carry on the times, so they used special methods to place their talents.

Yu Hang, for example, had a talent that once belonged to the world’s number one reader of that era.

Truly, when Zhou An first heard this news, he felt that this group of heroes were truly selfless and fearless.

Now, combined with the words spoken by the one-armed old man, Zhou An felt that what was going on here, would not be so simple.

The talent had already been placed a long time ago, and now these reliefs, how could they be talent?

And thinking carefully, this one-armed old man in front of him, seemed to have some problems.

If you say that these are talents, is it hard to change a talent out?

As Zhou An said this, the one-armed old man sighed as if he had some regrets.

The confused aura on his body gradually disappeared, and in its place was an aura of indifference to the living world.

“You see it.” The one-armed old man said indifferently, “Now, what era is it? How many years has it been since the Great Domain Years?”

The Great Domain Years?

Zhou An stroked his chin and said, “Is it the title of your era?”

“I don’t know.”

He really didn’t know, because he hadn’t even heard of it, so how could he know?

“So that’s how it is, it seems that the power of the ages has turned everything into ashes.”

The one-armed old man sighed and changed the topic, “Tell me, what else did you guess?”

“I guessed that this is a hero’s grave.”

Zhou An smiled, “You, on the other hand, are not a hero, and this grave, more like a prison, seals you here.”

“The reliefs, they are shackles.”

“It’s on the walls outside, and it’s also in the palace here.”

“The walls outside were destroyed, so you were able to walk around like this, and just now outside, you never made it out of the black palace, proving that you only walked around a little bit this far.”

“As long as the reliefs here are not destroyed, then the …… shackles are still shackles, they just let you walk farther.”

“The room, the key, can open the shackles, but …… you can’t get it.”

With Zhou An’s narration, the one-armed old man unexpectedly nodded his head repeatedly, as if he was satisfied with Zhou An’s statement.

“Not bad, right guess, but there is one thing, you are wrong.”

The one-armed old man said indifferently, “They? Worthy of being called heroes?”

“I, likewise, am a hero.”

“It’s just that the two have different philosophies.”

Zhou An laughed, “Why is it different?”

“It’s something that has to start from a long time ago.”

The one-armed old man seemed to have not spoken to anyone for a long time, and slowly spoke, “Back then, once upon a time, many cracks appeared in the sky.”

“But that group of people, went to their deaths to seal all the cracks, these secrets, perhaps you haven’t heard of them.”

Zhou An wanted to say that he had heard of them, but did not speak, meaning to let the one-armed old man continue.

The one-armed old man continued, “Later on, the cracks in the sky were gone, and there was much less weirdness, but never would I have thought that there were still cracks in the ground.”

“Thus, this place appeared, at that time, there were not many experts left, and they could not go to their deaths to solve it, thus, the psychic space appeared ……”

In the black palace, the voice of the one-armed old man rang out, and in this space, it seemed extremely empty.

Mostly, it was about how to seal the rift in the sky, and the reason for the formation of the psychic space.

These things, in fact, Zhou An had already known long ago, but he did not interrupt.

Sometimes, it was only by listening to people who belonged to that era that one could know if there were any errors.

Soon, this story came to an end.

There was the question about the idea that was finally spoken by the one-armed old man.

“By what right, do we have to use our lives to make a psychic space?”

“I don’t want to be the one to do this experiment, at that time, there were many ordinary people.”

“There are too many people than those in our line of work, using their lives, it’s still possible, it’s just a larger amount.”

The one-armed old man clenched his fists and said, “Those of us in the lineage who live, we can still prosper just the same, and we can also equip our future generations with a better environment.”

Hearing this, Zhou An already understood exactly what it meant.

In the end, it was that he did not want to die.

This old thing was trying to use ordinary human lives to test the stability of the psychic space.

But how could an ordinary person be compared to a person in the middle of the line, the amount needed would be astronomical.

But this old thing didn’t care about that.

“Being afraid of death, being described as a philosophy by you, is really interesting.” Zhou An laughed.

The one-armed old man raised his eyebrows and said, “You are not afraid of death?”

“Afraid.”

Zhou An was very straightforward and said, “I think it’s normal to be afraid of death, but it’s not normal for you to mess with someone else, or an ordinary person you’ve never met before.”

The one-armed old man laughed, “I know, and you won’t agree, but that’s how I am.”

“In my life, I started out as a farmer farming the land, and only got here today, step by step, on what grounds?”

“Although they respect our wishes and let us volunteer, who knows if they’ll change their minds when all the people in the trade can’t make it?”

“I was just secretly doing an experiment, just a dozen lives, and they locked me up.”

“The leader of the Miscellaneous Sect at that time, Green Clothes, directly stepped in and suppressed me, using these bullshit corpses and bones to keep me lingering on.”

Miscellaneous Sect Leader, Green Clothes.

This name, Zhou An had heard of it before, that was the leader of the Miscellaneous Sect in the ancient and early era.

It seemed that in the end, because of the two factions in the Psychic Space, they used their own lives to add a layer of shackles to the Psychic Space, so that anyone who did not belong to the Psychic Realm would not be able to enter.

Like the other three major sects, they all died as well.

“I later learned that Greenie died, died before me.”

The one-armed old man waved what was left of his arm, extremely happy, “So what if I was imprisoned, I still lived longer than her! Hahaha!”

Saying this, the one-armed old man’s expression, had become extremely maniacal.

Zhou An silently annotated all of this and shook his head, “To be a prisoner and still be so happy, you are unique.”

The one-armed old man sniffed, the maniacal color on his face gradually subsided, saying, “So what, now, let’s return to the topic, are you helping or not?”

“Scram!”

Zhou An faintly spat out a word.

“You’re not afraid of me?” The one-armed old man’s eyes widened.

Zhou An shrugged, pointing at the surrounding reliefs, saying, “Being in the shackles, but a prisoner of the lower order, you can do it, you would have done it long ago.”

If it was really to open the shackles, it was estimated that the one-armed old man would have used force to coerce, and now it was useless, which proved that the one-armed old man did not have the means to do it.

If he was in the shackles and could still do it, then the shackles, too, would be useless.

The one-armed old man fell into silence.

Zhou An knew that he had guessed correctly and said with a smile, “I’m puzzled, why didn’t the Green Clothes in the beginning, directly kill you?”

If the one-armed old man really thought this way, killing might even be more painful.

After all, staying here would cause problems sooner or later.

Zhou An could find it, and it was likely to be found by someone else, it was just a matter of odds.

And just because Zhou An was able to resist this temptation and even recognize the breakage, it didn’t mean that others could see it.

Talent, it really was too tempting, it was a person in the line of work, that couldn’t resist.

This one-armed old man, the plan did not have the slightest problem, from the beginning to the end, all of them made themselves look like amnesia.

It was good that Zhou An knew about the talent thing.

“Kill me?”

The one-armed old man shook his head and said, “She couldn’t do it, at that time, she was actually heavily injured.”

“I only learned about it when I fought with her, that she had once entered a crack in the ground in order to go find the bones of that different sister, Qingfeng Zi.”

“Inside, she killed untold numbers of bizarre, but she also suffered injuries that she could never recover from.”

Zhou An sniffed and came to a sudden realization.

No wonder, Green Clothes would die in the Psychic Space, so it turned out that before, she had already been injured.

If it was the Green Clothes in its heyday, I’m afraid that adding this rule to the Psychic Space wouldn’t cause it to die.

“Alright, since you are unwilling, then go.”

The one-armed old man waved his hand and didn’t seem to care if Zhou An didn’t agree.

He had waited for too long, been a prisoner for too long.

To put it mildly, a long time had been stayed down, so where did he care about some bullshit little bit of time.

If he could run into Zhou An today, he could run into someone else next time, and just because Zhou An didn’t fall for it didn’t mean that others wouldn’t.

“Go?”

Zhou An laughed, “And then let you stay here, wait for time to pass, find someone who can let you out, and then come back to take revenge on me?”

This old thing, absolutely cannot be kept.

At this point, a beam had already been formed, and keeping it was a scourge.

The one-armed old man sneered, “What, you can still kill me?”

“Although I’ve become a prisoner here, the injured green clothes can’t even kill me, let alone a little thing like you?”

“Even if you go out, what if you tell your elders?”

“Here, the ones at the Passage Realm can’t get in, it will always be me who meets someone.”

“When I get out, I will break you, along with all your closest relatives, into pieces!”

Every word the one-armed old man spoke carried an intense anger.

It was as if he had already seen the gesture of Zhou An kneeling and begging for mercy in front of him while he, in turn, inflicted a hundred tortures on Zhou An.

“Of course, if you kneel down in front of me now and kowtow twice, perhaps I will be lenient and let you save me.”

The one-armed old man was smug: “Or even, after going out, I’ll accept you as my righteous son, and make you one man.”

Zhou An stroked his chin, “So tempting.”

The one-armed old man’s eyes lit up, “You promise?”

Although he wasn’t worried about not being able to meet the others, it always took time, and if Zhou An could strike immediately, it would save too much time.

Zhou An shook his head, “No, what I mean is that you will definitely die.”

The corners of the one-armed old man’s mouth twitched, “You little thing, there’s something wrong with your brain, I’ve already said that with you, you can’t kill me.”

“What about a different person?” Zhou An narrowed his eyes.

The one-armed old man frowned, “Have I not made myself clear, those of your elders who are above the Tongling Realm, cannot come in.”

“Old thing, you still don’t get it.”

Zhou An smiled, “What I said, what if it’s not people?”

Not a human?

The one-armed old man didn’t understand what it meant for a moment.

At that moment, Zhou An turned his head and looked at Black Jade.

Black Jade had been standing quietly at the side, looking at the one-armed old man very cautiously.

The bizarre state told her that this one-armed old man was dangerous.

Now after feeling Zhou An’s gaze, Black Jade looked over suspiciously.

Zhou An smiled, stroked Black Jade’s head and laughed, “Good boy, take our mom out and give this old thing a lesson.”

“Oh oh.”

Black Jade understood, and then didn’t ink, a face of excitement.

Immediately afterward, a gloomy aura flowed from Black Jade’s body.

This was Black Jade summoning the Guile Gathering.

Zhou An looked at the one-armed old man with a smile, as if he was looking at a dead man.

Come on, my background is super large alright.

On the human side, Eunuch Wei covers me, and on the bizarre side, Cheap Mother-in-Law covers me.

How can you win?

If you’re not sure about something, just go to your cheap mother-in-law and it’ll be solved.

Didn’t you hear the cheap mother-in-law say that she knows all the scents on the city wall?

Get you is not simple?

The one-armed old man did not know how, suddenly felt a chill all over his body.

He this realm, never felt so cold, according to reason, will never have.

But now, it was just so clear and spread throughout his body.

The one-armed old man’s gaze, crossed over to Zhou An and looked towards the black jade behind Zhou An.

Immediately after, the one-armed old man felt, an extremely familiar aura.

“It’s …… weird!”

“You’re crazy, summoning Creepy here!”

“This is the tomb of the heroes of human history, these ancient epics, even if they are dead, they are all naturally tired of the bizarre, even if they are remnants of their power, they can be reduced to nothingness, along with you and the bizarre!”

The one-armed old man finally realized that he felt Zhou An was looking for death.

These heroes, even if they were buried here, had an endless hatred for Guile.

How could they let Creepy appear in their graveyard?

To appear was a death.

But Zhou An couldn’t care less.

He had to kill the one-armed old man!

Besides, the Creepy Gathering was different, it was one of the oldest Creepy Gatherings.

Even Eunuch Wei, had once said that in the home ground of the Guile Gathering, Eunuch Wei had to be careful.

If they were in the main field of the Guile Gathering, both of them would probably lose both of them.

The Black Jade Summoning, was to turn everything here, into the main field of the Guile Rally.

The rules of the psychic space were for people in the line of work, not for the bizarre, so this method worked.

While the two were talking, everything around them had changed.

Dilapidated streets, surfaced in this black palace, and dull shenanigans, appeared in the street stalls.

And not far in front of Zhou An, the mature woman with a plump figure descended here with a terrifying gloom, as if an endless abyss.

“Quick, give it to her!” Zhou An said quickly.

Black Jade was also an old hand at this, and quickly took the beads left behind by the White King and threw them to Guile Rally.

After all, it was his own daughter, and Guile Rally’s instincts didn’t resist it, and he smoothly took it.

The next moment, the beads were like ice meeting water, rapidly melting and quickly disappearing without a trace.

The coldness and fury in the Guile Assembly’s body was gone, and in its place, there was a rationality.

Combined with Guile Rally’s maturity and plumpness, coupled with the rational temperament, it mixed with a forbidden beauty similar to Black Jade’s.

When the Guile Rally regained her senses, she once again saw Zhou An, and a look of surprise appeared in her eyes.

Even she felt surprised.

“You brat, you’ve killed so many All Saint realms recently?” Guile Assembly subconsciously said.

The thing that allowed her to regain her sobriety only existed in the All Saints Realm’s experts.

As the saying goes, there is no sale, long no kill.

Every thing that restored her to consciousness represented a life in the All Saint realm.

That was why the Guile Gathering had uttered those words.

In a short period of time, being able to take out so many lucid things, she doubted that Zhou An was specifically looking for All Saint realm’s to kill.

When Guile Gathering said this, her arrival did instantly cause a reaction from the surroundings.

Here, was the tomb of heroes, a remnant of ancient epics, how could Guile be allowed to exist?

Everything around them was becoming incomparably terrifying.

All the bas-reliefs, emitting residual power, were all pointing at the Creepy Gathering.

The bizarre assembly similarly felt it, and a trace of nostalgia appeared in its eyes, “What a familiar feeling, well …… all of them were people who once came to me and stole a lot of chances.”

“Originally, you all have died, the years, really ruthless.”

The trick rally itself also represents chance.

Every time it appeared, people in the lineage tended to rush to it, and the Guile Rally was ancient and had experienced too many of them.

“I am sober, how about giving a face?” The Guile Assembly smiled.

As she finished the sentence, what emanated from her body was no longer bizarre frenzy, but incomparable rationality.

The relief targeted Creepy, and Creepy’s characteristics were instinct and tyranny.

But here, there was a problem, and that was that the bas-relief was not a living thing.

The bas-relief was always dead, only remnants of power, so after the Guile assembly became rational, the power of the bas-relief gradually disappeared.

When everything disappeared, the Creepy Coven would look at Zhou An, the corners of his mouth twitching slightly.

“You kid, you’re a natural source of trouble, aren’t you, what kind of heavenly trouble did you go and cause again.”

“I’ll give you this, you’re like this, you won’t live long, I’m worried about the safety of the Black Jade.”

Zhou An pointed to the one armed old man and said, “Mother in law, bah! Senior …… someone got me!”

Just now, almost shouted smoothly.

Guile rally will smile: “You have not yet explicitly married, called seniors rusty, call me aunt can be.”

Zhou An froze, thinking that aunt is not a good word.

But now, it doesn’t matter.

Calling something, really not important, now the most important thing, is to kill this old thing in front of him.

The Guile Gathering didn’t nag, following Zhou An’s gaze, he looked at the one-armed old man.

In those eyes, there was an endless baleful aura, as well as Creepy’s unique grimness.

At this moment, the one-armed old man opened his mouth wide, as if he had seen the most unbelievable scene under the sky.

“Creepy rally …… awake?”

“Impossible!”