Chapter 780

Seeing Yang Wang Jian agree, Li Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

He was the key to his mother's resurrection. If he refused, there would be nothing he could do but accept this cruel reality. But fortunately, this Yang Wang Jian had agreed.

"I will hand your mother's soul over to you. Afterward, I will send you back to this point in time. Once everything is over, you will cross dimensions and leave. Do not come to Dachang City again."

Yang Wang Jian said while walking, and a road appeared before his eyes.

This road was scarlet like blood, with no end in sight, as if it connected the past and the future. Moreover, in front of this road, it was filled with coldness and terror, as if it were about to lead Li Yi into the abyss of hell.

"You are afraid that a cross-dimensional traveler, an uncertain factor, will affect your future, right?" Li Yi said immediately: "That is why you want to reverse time and space, coming from the future to the present to meet me. In other words, you are protecting your own past."

"You are quite right. Therefore, I will nip some unstable signs in the bud as early as possible. This is not selfishness or cruelty, but for the sake of the future of the entire world." Yang Wang Jian walked calmly along the scarlet path.

Li Yi followed behind. He felt a cold power twisting time and space, and he was being detached from this world. However, he remained calm and continued to ask: "Since that's the case, why didn't you appear when I first crossed dimensions and kill our entire cross-dimensional squad? Wouldn't that have been better?"

"You are a participant." Yang Wang Jian only replied with this short sentence.

"So that's it. Just because I met you at the Ghost Post Office, you didn't reverse time and space to deal with me. You really are cautious enough," Li Yi said.

"You should understand the principle of the butterfly effect," Yang Wang Jian said.

"I haven't read many books, my cultural level isn't high, and I don't know much about scientific principles," Li Yi said.

"Since that's the case, I won't explain it then." Yang Wang Jian continued to walk forward.

At this moment, everything around them had undergone a huge change. Li Yi was no longer by the riverside, but had walked into a shattered city. This city was actually burning, and eerie flames had ignited the place.

The air was filled with a burnt stench, and from time to time, shrill screams and hair-raising wails came to his ears.

Li Yi saw that all kinds of people had actually appeared on the surrounding streets.

These people were pitch-black, appearing to have been scorched, in a twisted state. Some opened their mouths in pain, some reached their hands toward the sky as if wanting salvation, and some lay on the ground in a crawling posture, as if wanting to stay far away from this burning city.

Li Yi stared at one of the scorched human shapes.

Suddenly.

That pitch-black human shape's head creaked and twisted in a circle, then revealed a resentful and cold eye, staring fixedly at Li Yi.

But soon.

A flame shot out from within that eyeball, quickly scorching it into a charred state.

"To be scorched like this and still be alive." Li Yi's expression changed: "It seems they aren't people, but ghosts."

He looked around.

This burning city was huge, with no end in sight. Countless vengeful ghosts were scorched by the flames, trapped here as if they had fallen into hell, never able to leave.

Yang Wang Jian continued to walk forward.

The burning city quickly disappeared from before his eyes, replaced by a cold lake. The scarlet path stretched across this endless lake surface like a floating bridge.

Although everything seemed calm, Li Yi saw that countless people were submerged beneath the lake water. These people were soaking in the lake, motionless, like cold dead corpses.

But no matter how many years had passed, these corpses in the lake had not changed at all; they had not rotted, nor had they floated up, but were forever frozen in the water.

"Are the ones soaking in the water also vengeful ghosts?" Li Yi felt secretly shocked.

How many vengeful ghosts were there in this world? If these ghosts weren't trapped here but appeared in reality, just thinking about it made his hair stand on end.

However, as they continued to walk forward, the surrounding scenery changed again. This time, Li Yi had come to a wilderness.

This wilderness was also boundless, with no end in sight, but countless large blades stood on this wilderness. These blades were dense and thick, more numerous and lush than wild grass, filling every corner of this wilderness.

And within it existed many eerie figures. These figures wandered in the wilderness, but as soon as they touched these large blades, their bodies were torn in two. If the incomplete corpses continued to move, they would be cut in two again, until finally, the corpses were shattered and could no longer move.

But Li Yi saw that as time passed, those motionless, incomplete corpses began to squirm again, attracted by an incomprehensible power, piecing themselves back together, and then standing up again. But when those restored figures wandered again, they would once again touch the large blades standing in the wilderness and be slashed in two again.

This went on in a cycle, never able to end.

"It's not countless blades, but only one blade. Supernatural power has affected the space here, causing this blade to appear in every corner..." After observing further, Li Yi discovered a shocking fact.

Looking at it this way, everything here was not naturally formed, but a place meticulously crafted by someone, with the purpose of keeping those unkillable vengeful ghosts trapped here forever.

Moreover, every place was equivalent to a layer of space. Even if there were "fish that slipped through the net" that crawled out of that burning city, they would fall into that bottomless lake. If vengeful ghosts walked out of the lake, they would have to experience the wilderness filled with large blades... Interlocked, even after hundreds of years, it wasn't certain that any vengeful ghost could escape these cages.

"What is this place? Why are so many vengeful ghosts imprisoned here?" Li Yi asked.

"This is hell." Yang Wang Jian, walking in front, only replied coldly.

Hell, huh?

Li Yi felt a chill in his heart; this place was indeed like hell.

As they continued to walk forward, he passed through one layer of hell after another. He didn't count them in detail, but there were at least a dozen layers. Moreover, the deeper they went into hell, the fewer the imprisoned vengeful ghosts, but correspondingly, those vengeful ghosts were also more terrifying.

Fortunately, Li Yi was a practitioner and wasn't that afraid of these eerie things. If it were an ordinary person, they would have probably fainted from fright long ago; how would they dare to walk in this hell-like place?

And the small red path beneath his feet seemed to ensure safety. Li Yi walked through more than a dozen layers of hell without being attacked by vengeful ghosts, which made the cracked short stick in his hand have no use.

Soon.

The Yang Wang Jian in front stopped his footsteps, and the small red path also came to an end.

This was a dark, dead-silent world. Although there were sky, earth, roads, and buildings, it was lifeless and empty, as if this were a forgotten place.

"We're here. Wait here for a moment; I'll go guide your mother's soul over." Yang Wang Jian said, and then, without waiting for Li Yi to agree, his figure suddenly disappeared.

At this moment, it seemed that only Li Yi remained in this dead-silent world.

He held the short stick, alert to his surroundings, and at the same time flicked his finger. His magic power transformed into layers of large nets, covering a radius of tens of kilometers. During this time, anything moving within the range covered by his magic power would be accurately sensed by Li Yi.

In a world full of supernatural phenomena, Li Yi wouldn't be careless in the slightest.

However, he soon sensed traces of human activity in a dilapidated village more than ten kilometers away, which made Li Yi understand that even in such a place, vengeful ghosts existed.

It was just that everything here was isolated by hell, so people in reality were not affected.

"Is this the truth of World No. 36?" Li Yi thought to himself.

If this were the case, it would be too terrifying. How was this any different from living on top of a bomb all day? Who knew when hell would collapse, and those sealed and imprisoned vengeful ghosts would appear.

Fortunately, he didn't wait long in this desperate world.

Before long, something suddenly appeared out of thin air beside him.

It was a small black cat, but in Li Yi's eyes, it wasn't as simple as an ordinary cat. A soul was attached to this small cat, and his eyes could see the light of the soul blooming on this small cat.

"Is this my mother?" Li Yi had an inexplicable feeling.

This small black cat also looked at Li Yi at this moment, an expression of disbelief appearing in its eyes.

(End of chapter)