Chapter 198 Taboo
After a short recovery, Li Sian found that his injuries were not serious.
But the miserable howl in my mind echoed in my heart.
The most important thing is that when I listened to the miserable howl, I didn't feel the slightest bit unbearable. Instead, I felt a sense of pleasure in killing in my heart.
Li Sian quickly thought of why there were so many weak evil ghosts deliberately arranged in the first level.
"I probably understand that the purpose of that formation is to induce us to kill those evil ghosts."
"Their various sinister appearances and provocative words are intended to immerse us in killing."
After only killing one evil ghost, Li Sian had such a big reaction when he passed through the barrier.
If it had not been for Qin Shezhi’s reminder, someone else would have died from the punishment of the barrier.
“Everyone should try to be careful in what they say and do next, and never act recklessly again.”
After Li Si'an reminded everyone, he turned around and began to investigate the scene on the second floor of the underworld.
Different from the courtyard on the first floor, after passing through the barrier, the scene in front of you has changed dramatically.
A long and narrow passage came into view, with various rare items placed on the shelves on both sides of the passage.
There are some rare treasures of heaven and earth, spiritual fruit and fairy grass.
There are also some precious magical instruments and rare treasures.
As for gold, silver, jewelry, jade and antiques, they are everywhere.
On two of the shelves, there are even the extremely precious cultivation methods of the Yin Division [Heavenly Evil Pictures] and [Ten Thousand Ghosts Record].
This seems to be the treasure house of the Yins...
A few people looked at each other and subconsciously wanted to take what they needed from these shelves.
Even Shiyi, who has no need for money, saw a dragon liver at the end of the shelf, which contained abundant life essence and was extremely precious.
But just when everyone reached out to reach for the shelves, Li Sian subconsciously stopped everyone:
“Be careful!”
Li Sian understood that even if the Yinsi really had some treasure house, It would never be displayed openly and openly in such an obvious place.
At least there should be some kind of protective formation, or a way to prevent thieves from entering.
So many treasures are displayed openly in this corridor, just like the evil ghost in the courtyard before, as if they are trying their best to lure people to steal their treasures.
This test may be very difficult for ordinary people.
But almost everyone present would not be deceived by worldly treasures, so they quickly made a decision to give up taking these treasures for the time being.
Besides, as long as they complete the attack on the Yin Division, they will naturally be able to slowly get these treasures when they come back.
However, when they reached the end of the corridor, everyone couldn't help but hesitate.
It turned out that at the end of the corridor, what greeted everyone was a heavy iron door, and there was a heavy copper lock on the iron door.
Obviously, everyone needs to find a way to open this lock to reach the third floor.
In fact, such an inconspicuous copper lock can be easily destroyed by a few people present.
But I think of the previous layout of this underworld to lure them into stealing these items.
Everyone couldn't help but have a guess. Can breaking the copper lock by force or stealing the key to the copper lock be counted as theft?
For a moment, everyone couldn't help but hesitate...
Although they guessed the key to this layer, everyone couldn't figure out how to solve this problem.
Even if Li Sian summons a false monster in his mind to destroy this door, there is a high probability that the blame will be placed on Li Sian himself.
Li Sian has already suffered punishment once before. If he experiences a more serious punishment again, the consequences will be unpredictable.
But now that time is running out, everyone really has no time to calm down and think about the solution.
At this moment, Wei Fang stood up and said:
"You guys go first. After I cut this thing open, I can stay on this floor. At least I can stop external enemies for you."
Li Si'an nodded, agreeing with Wei Fang's idea.
As a sword flashed across, the huge iron door shattered, revealing a barrier leading to the lower class.
Everyone except Wei Fang no longer hesitated and passed the barrier as quickly as possible.
However, even if no one committed any theft, they still felt a sense of powerlessness the moment they passed through the barrier.
It was as if he was carrying an extremely heavy thing on his back.
"What's going on? Didn't we steal nothing?"
Li Sian was surprised and fell into hesitation for a moment.
Qin Shezhi explained:
“I can probably guess that these barriers seem to block us based on the degree of violation of the precepts.”
"Even if we didn't commit theft, but we came with your sword ghost friend, he is the principal culprit, and we will naturally be the accomplices."
Just like the stolen items are stolen goods, sales Stolen goods are stolen goods.
They entered the gate through Wei Fang's help, and they can be regarded as part of the accomplices.
But fortunately, Wei Fang took the initiative to bear most of the crimes for them and stayed on the second floor.
Therefore, the impact on them is relatively limited, and they can probably exert 90% of their strength at their peak.
"Let's go quickly."
Everyone set off again and stepped onto the third floor of space. The space on the third level is a long road. The sun in the sky is extremely hot, baking the dry and cracked earth.
Although everyone understands that this underworld is in another dimension, there can be no sun at all.
This so-called sun may be just an illusion constructed by the formation.
But this hot feeling is really hard to erase.
After walking for a while, everyone felt like they were covered in sweat from the sun, and their lips were extremely thirsty.
Everyone who was hot and thirsty just wanted to drink a sip of water at this moment...
Among them, only Qin Shezhi looked as usual and was still focused on traveling.
Shiyi was the most affected among the people. Her body was originally cold and cold, but now she was dizzy from the heat and her steps were shaky.
Although this false sun in the sky has no ability to purify evil things, it can still imprint a burning feeling in everyone's hearts.
Even the evil corpse, which does not need food at all, is already restless and unable to maintain its sanity.
Li Si'an looked at Qin Shezhi's unaffected appearance and couldn't help but ask for advice:
"Qin... Taoist Master Qin, why are you not affected by this level of illusion?"
“This is simple to say. Since this level confuses my senses with illusions, then I only need to use meditation to guard my original mind to get through this level safely.”
The method of meditation?
Li Sian has also practiced meditation for a long time, so after receiving the guidance from Qin Shezhi, he also began to use meditation to forget the thirst and fatigue of his body.
The strange feeling in his body disappeared as expected, making Li Sian's journey much easier.
But at this moment, everyone saw a jar of wine appearing on the roadside.
In the eyes of everyone, this jar of wine has also become a jar of fine wine that they long for when they are most thirsty.
Everyone who was already thirsty hurried forward, but just one step away from the jar of wine, everyone suddenly stopped.
Because at this time everyone has realized that the previous two levels of levels were forbidden to kill and steal.
Is it possible that there is some kind of temptation on this level to force them to violate the taboo?
But even so, everyone was still unable to extricate themselves from smelling the aroma of wine in the altar.
My lips that are so thirsty that they are already on fire just want to have a drink to relieve the heat and relieve the inner fire.
Even Li Sian, who had already used the method of meditation, was attracted by the drink in front of him and stopped moving forward.
In his world, all the delicacies and delicacies had turned into slop.
But now in his eyes, this jar of wine is just the original, real jar of fragrant nectar.
"Let's leave quickly. The longer we stay here, the more we will be bewitched by this jar of wine."
A few people nodded and hurriedly took a few steps away from the jar. A wine that exudes temptation.
But before walking far, everyone saw that the road ahead was covered with dozens of large jars.
Unless you have to walk a long way, you can only cross over these big jars.
“Be careful, don’t be tempted to drink this wine.”
At this time, Qin Shezhi had also seen the meaning of the formation set up by the Yin Division.
“If my guess is correct, these precepts are the Five Precepts from Buddhism.”
"Quit killing, stealing, drinking..."
Hearing this, Li Si'an also breathed a sigh of relief.
The most difficult thing about this kind of test is knowing the content of the test. Once you know the content and prepare for it in advance, the difficulty can be drastically reduced.
Isn’t it true that you can’t drink alcohol...
Just when everyone jumped up and prepared to jump over the wine jars piled up into a hill.
But they saw dozens of large wine jars shattering instantly, and the wine inside shot out like a fountain, splashing towards several people.
If it was just some liquid splashing, everyone might be able to dodge it easily.
But as the wine jar broke, a strange aroma spread, making everyone intoxicated and couldn't help but take two deep breaths with their noses.
“The wine smells so good...”
Shiyi is so greedy that she can hardly suppress her instinct.
The same is true for evil corpses. They are all evil creatures driven by instinct.
Although it is not acceptable for human diet, this strange wine is also very tempting to evil things.
For a moment, the two of them were already on the verge of collapse, as if they were about to rush forward, hold the wine in the jar and drink it all in one gulp.
With no choice but to close his eyes, Li Sian tried his best to imagine that the countless fine wines in front of him were rancid and dirty swill.
Sure enough, as Li Sian exhausted his concentration and fantasized, the allure of those fine wines was greatly reduced, causing everyone to hurriedly cross the wine jars and flee directly.
Seeing that everyone had fled, Li Sian finally relaxed his consciousness.
Using his powers on such a large scale to affect reality in this environment is too taxing for him.
For a moment, Li Sian only felt that his head was slightly swollen, and he was so dizzy that it was difficult to concentrate.
I also walk a little crookedly, and my body's reflexes have become a little slow for some reason...
(End of this chapter)