Chapter 1128 – Greedy Grieving Soul

　　An Qingyu frowned at the direction they had come from.

　　Faint rustling sounds came from behind the deep, lightless cracks in the ground, as if there was something that was slowly approaching this place.

　　Lin Qiye’s eyes narrowed as he reached out and put his hand on An Qingyu’s shoulder, while the other hand unsheathed the [Zhanbai] at his waist by half an inch, a faint aura flickered, and the two of them instantly disappeared into the void.

　　In the black and white intertwined world of the void, Lin Qiye pulled An Qingyu into the inner side of the mountain rock wall, the two of them held their breaths and stared at the dimly lit road behind them without saying a word.

　　Rustling-

　　A moment later, a pitch-black figure lumbered closer.

　　Through the vague red light, they could see that it was a bony man, he was bare-chested, his ribs clearly protruding on the outside of his pale skin, like a skeleton wrapped in skin, the lower half of his body was wearing a pair of tattered black pants, and at this moment, he was crawling slowly on all fours like a dog.

　　His eyes were hollow, and he seemed to have no consciousness of his own at all, and while crawling on his hands and feet, he opened his dry cracked mouth and seemed to be muttering something.

　　In the void, An Qingyu gave Lin Qiye a look and lowered her voice to ask:

　　”It’s a resentful soul?”

　　Lin Qiye nodded slightly.

　　Hell was originally a place used to torture the souls of humans who had committed sins in their lives, and when hell still existed, countless human resentful souls were imprisoned here, but now that hell was empty and the demons were no longer there, there should be quite a few resentful souls that survived after the divine war and wandered between the hells.

　　In front of me, this bony and craggy man has no actual body, but just a soul that has been wandering in hell for an unknown period of time.

　　At this moment, the gradually approaching man’s empty gaze suddenly focused on a certain place on the rock wall of the mountain, his skinny dog-like body shook, and then jumped up as if he had gone crazy, and ran wildly in that direction.

　　The direction he was heading in happened to be near Lin Qiye’s duo who had disappeared into the void. Seeing this resentful soul rushing over like a madman, Lin Qiye subconsciously gripped the [Chopping White] in his hand, and his eyes erupted with a fierce killing intent!

　　But before Lin Qiye could leave the void and deal a fatal blow to this resentful soul, the man flung himself to the ground and cupped a pigeon egg sized rock in the corner of the rock wall with his hands, his face filled with excitement and madness.

　　It wasn’t until this moment, at such a close distance, that Lin Qiye heard the words coming out of his mouth:

　　”Gold …… is gold! A lot of gold …… A lot of gold!”

　　Right at this moment, the man unexpectedly tilted his head and opened his own mouth, cupping the huge stone with both hands and frantically shoving it into his mouth.

　　The stone was so big that it completely opened his dry and cracked mouth, blood flowed down the corners of his mouth and dripped down on his jagged upper body, the sharp edges of the stone cut through his lips, tearing a shocking wound in his flesh, but even so, the man still looked like he didn’t know about the pain and frantically stuffed it into his mouth.

　　Witnessing such a bizarre and bloody scene with their own eyes, An Qingyu and Lin Qiye in the void simultaneously furrowed their brows as a chill ran through their hearts.

　　After the man managed to stuff the stone into his mouth, he desperately tilted his neck again, as if he wanted to swallow it into his stomach, but the stone just happened to be stuck in his throat, unable to go up or down, and his hideous face finally surfaced with a look of pain.

　　He just knelt in place like a dog, his ten fingers frantically scratching out traces of blood on the surface of his neck, he struggled for a long time, and finally fell headfirst to the ground, as if dead and motionless.

　　Just when An Qingyu thought everything was over and was about to open his mouth to say something, Lin Qiye gave him a look and shook his head.

　　One second, two seconds, three seconds ……

　　Suddenly, the “corpse” of the man on the ground stiffly climbed up, still on all fours, eyes empty looking around, whether it was the blood at the corner of the mouth or the stone choked in the throat, have disappeared, as if it had never appeared in general.

　　”Where is the gold …… Where is the gold …… I want big gold ……”

　　He mumbled while dragging his withered body, moving forward a little bit along the mountain floor cracks, gradually disappearing into the field of view of the Lin Qiye duo.

　　When he was completely far away, a void ripple swept up and Lin Qiye and An Qingyu stepped out one after another, looking at the man’s departing back in deep thought.

　　”This hell’s resentful soul, it’s really terrifying ……” An Qingyu recalled the scene just now and couldn’t help but speak.

　　”That should be the torture of punishment inflicted by the demons of hell when his soul was dragged into hell.” Lin Qiye said thoughtfully.

　　”He treated the stones as gold and searched frantically driven by greed, but ignored the relatively small ‘gold’ and always focused on the overly large ‘gold’, so every time he would be tortured by his own greed exceeded the limit of what he could bear, and suffered and died …… After his death, he would be resurrected to reopen the next round of searching, sinking into suffering for eternity.

　　His original sin in life would have been greed.”

　　”So his soul just choked to death over and over again over countless years, hardened by stones?” An Qingyu shook her head, “What a vicious maneuver.”

　　”Now is not the time to care about these resentful souls.” Lin Qiye glanced at the depths of hell and frowned, “Although I don’t know why the exploration ship sailed into the deepest part of hell, but Drag is caught up in it alone and injured, and Jiang’er is also lost …… The longer the time drags on, the more critical the situation will become.”

　　An Qingyu nodded with a grave face, and the two of them quickly darted forward along the mountain cracks.

　　Hell, the deepest part.

　　Towering black peaks stretched out under the crimson sky, and in the corner of one of the peaks, a blood-covered figure was holding onto the wall, stumbling and hiding into a hidden cave.

　　Shen Qingzhu waved his hand and dispersed the air barrier around him that was used to block the ash, leaned down and stuck to the side of the gap in the cave, looked at the dense demonic figures that were constantly circling above the mountain peaks, and his face became more and more unsightly.

　　He had propped up this air barrier, partly because the flying ashes were too dense, blocking his vision of escape.

　　On the other hand, it was because, after he first touched the ashes, he felt some itching on his palm, which made him begin to suspect that these ashes contained toxins.

　　Shen Qingzhu covered the wound on his waist and abdomen and sat down with his back against the mountain wall, his face pale and pale.

　　”What the hell …… place,” Shen Qingzhu cursed in a low voice.

　　He took out a cigarette from his pocket, holding it in his mouth was about to light it, looked at the demons flying and hovering outside, sighed helplessly, and put the cigarette back.

　　The palm of his hand covering the wound in his waist and abdomen slightly loosened, gurgling blood gushed out, a hideous wound almost ran through his entire waist, like a trace after some kind of giant beast had torn it, under the severe pain, the corners of Shen Qingzhu’s mouth slightly tugged.

　　According to this amount of bleeding he was currently experiencing, I’m afraid that it wouldn’t take long for him to bleed to death.