Chapter 434

The moment he saw the crazy woman.

Many of the doubts in Wu Xian's heart were all resolved.

This world.

Was being fought over by the powers of the Black Hei Hei Tian Zhu and the Fire Huo De Xingjun.

Neither side had personally entered the fray.

The Fire Huo De Xingjun spread his own scripture-chanting through fire, influencing the malevolent entities in the world.

The Black Hei Hei Tian Zhu sent malevolent entities into the world through the underground labyrinth, and this task of delivery was completed by the Black Hei Hei Tian Zhu's number one lackey in this world.

Let's temporarily call this lackey the 'Labyrinth Will'.

The Labyrinth Will's ability to send malevolent entities was limited; after all, not every ordinary person who entered the underground labyrinth could kill the influenced malevolent entities and bring the malevolent entities from the labyrinth back to the surface.

More ordinary people only had time to tell a story and pull down an influenced malevolent entity before being killed by other malevolent entities.

Therefore, there were more and more malevolent entities in the underground labyrinth.

The Black Hei Hei Tian Zhu raised these excess malevolent entities like crops; when enough malevolent entities had accumulated, he would pull a woman from the surface and let her spend a long time in the labyrinth to satisfy certain conditions.

When the woman satisfied the conditions, it was time to harvest the crops.

The labyrinth's tunnels would close, the malevolent entities' blood would be squeezed out, and the Fierce Hei Tian Zhu would combine with the crazy woman, using the malevolent entities' blood as nutrition to gestate a powerful malevolent entity in the woman's womb capable of breaking the balance between the Black Hei Hei Tian Zhu and the Fire Huo De Xingjun.

The crazy woman's slightly distended lower abdomen confirmed Wu Xian's conjecture.

"Wait a minute."

"If that's the case, then there should be many influenced malevolent entities in the underground labyrinth; could it be that they were all killed?"

Wu Xian pondered for a moment and got the answer.

"So that's how it is!"

"The 'Dark Fear' curse permeating the entire underground cavern is not aimed at me, nor at other ordinary people, but at those influenced malevolent entities!"

"Once those influenced malevolent entities are in the curse for long enough, their rationality will collapse, and they will return to the nature of malevolent entities!"

Wu Xian glanced at Xiong Gang and felt fortunate in his heart.

Fortunately, he chose to weather the difficulties together with these influenced malevolent entities.

If he had driven Xiong Gang and Gong Xiujuan away, these two might have turned into enemies at any time.

"Wait!"

"The old lady summoned by Zhao Zixuan, and the marble girl summoned by Huang Debiao—I must find an opportunity to pull these two into a unified front, otherwise they will become our enemies!"

Then.

Wu Xian looked at the crazy woman.

How should he deal with her?

Wu Xian had once suspected that she was an NPC of the underground labyrinth.

Now it seemed she was just a pathetic victim.

In order to prevent the thing in her womb from being born, Wu Xian should, on the premise of ensuring his own safety, respond to her plea and save her from the shrine.

But how to save her?

Drag her out of the shrine and then beat her abdomen until she miscarries!

This would not only save her but also nip the danger in the bud.

But this line of thinking was too simple and direct, and since the Labyrinth Will had placed her in the shrine so openly, it wasn't afraid of Wu Xian playing tricks.

I'm afraid that not to mention bringing her out of the shrine, even wanting to kill her would be an almost impossible task. Perhaps just approaching the shrine would bring life-threatening danger.

Therefore, after hesitating for a while, Wu Xian did not act rashly.

He avoided the crazy woman's pleading eyes and turned to look at Zhao Zixuan on the side.

If the talisman wasn't activated with cultivation, Zhao Zixuan was no different from a dead person, so in the attack just now, his body remained intact, and no malevolent entity had taken the opportunity to take a few bites.

Now that everyone was incapacitated, it was just the right time for Zhao Zixuan to make an appearance.

Zing! Zhao Zixuan stood up straight and affectionately called Wu Xian 'Grandma'.

Wu Xian issued an order: "Go, enter the shrine, pull out the nails, and carry her out!"

Zhao Zixuan walked toward the shrine without hesitation; just when he was only one meter away from the shrine, suddenly 'Bang!', his whole body was sent flying, and blood flowed from his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.

"Sure enough, we have no way to interfere with the shrine."

Zhao Zixuan climbed up and, under Wu Xian's order, began to do other things.

He cut off the tentacles that Fu Ji'an had stabbed to death, skinned them, removed the mucus and some glands, skewered the remaining parts on the spider-leg spikes, and placed them by the fire to roast.

Before long, the fragrance wafted out, and Wu Xian and the other four all received a portion of fragrant roasted tentacles.

These tentacles looked scary, but the taste was unexpectedly good; they were chewy and very resilient, like a mixture of beef tendon and octopus legs; if there were seasonings, it could count as a delicacy.

Fatty was also given some corpse fragments, and it didn't mind, munching away happily.

With food in their stomachs, everyone had strength.

Then.

It was time to do the real work.

Zhao Zixuan still had some activity time left, so Wu Xian let him walk near the Pain Cube.

The Pain Cube was an evil sacrificial vessel; as long as one pressed their hand on it, they would be pricked by spikes and have to endure pain to restore the cube, which could gain a portion of a malevolent entity's power.

But as a price, if the person who gained the power could not leave the influence range of the magic box within seven days, they would become a slave to the cube.

The effect of the cube was very powerful, but everyone, including Wu Xian, was unwilling to take the risk.

Therefore, Zhao Zixuan became the best candidate to test the cube's ability.

Wu Xian had long observed the Pain Cube.

This cube was a tetrahedron, with nine triangular blocks on each side, each with complex patterns, but fortunately, the patterns were independent, and the four sides could be clearly distinguished.

Therefore, it was enough to treat it as an ordinary pyramid cube.

For things like cubes, the difficulty of knowing the formula versus not knowing it is completely different; although Wu Xian couldn't say he was proficient in cubes, he at least remembered many formulas, and restoring a 1.5-stage cube was not difficult.

"Put your hand on it and listen to my instructions."

After Zhao Zixuan put his palm on it, the spikes stabbed out fiercely, piercing his palm, making blood flow, and causing him to wince in pain; his fingers trembled as he followed Wu Xian's requirements step by step.

"The first step is to look at the four corner blocks, rotate the corner blocks, and align the faces of the small corners and large corners..."

"What? What are large corners and small corners? Forget it, this one, twist to the left, this one, twist down!"

Following the formulas in his memory, Wu Xian guided Zhao Zixuan to complete the Pain Cube; Zhao Zixuan's hands gradually became bloody and mangled, and some fingers even had severed tendons, but he executed the orders without any discount.

Soon.

The Pain Cube was restored.

The metal tetrahedral cube emitted an eerie glow.

(End of chapter)