Chapter 118

Just as Li Yu received the bad news of the "Demon Star Summons," good news also arrived.

The salesman Shi Dazhu, who had taken the reward, finally sent the traded items over after several days.

They were all special ingredients and medicinal materials such as "Heart-Eating Worm," "Desire-Ending Egg," and "Love-Severing Grass."

As a cook, Li Yu wouldn't arouse suspicion even if he bought these, just thinking he wanted to research some strange medicinal cuisine spiritual food.

Who would have thought that using these strange objects, one could refine the 【Pityless Elixir】 that would allow one to impersonate a practitioner of the Hanging King path after taking it.

Of course, the core medicinal guide and main materials needed to be collected by himself.

That night!

Li Yu separated from Hongdou for the first time, one master and one servant, splitting into two paths, each heading to the Taiping and Yongning transcendent markets.

The competition between these two markets was becoming increasingly white-hot.

All kinds of normal and despicable commercial war methods were used, and it was still first and second, without a complete winner, but unexpectedly, the third, fourth, and other transcendent markets following behind were beaten out of existence.

Therefore, they also divided up the transcendent beings in the city, making it abnormally prosperous and lively.

And Li Yu and his servant, in this one night, spent all their remaining huge sums of money, buying ten portions of the main materials and medicinal guides needed for the Pityless Elixir, such as "Hanging Strange Rope," "Self-Slaughtering Magic Sword," "Ghost Hair in the River," etc.

Only after returning home, Li Yu didn't immediately start refining the Pityless Elixir.

If it were before his skills advanced further, he might have really done it recklessly, which would definitely have caused disaster.

"Sequence Six level elixirs, although far inferior to the real Sequence Six, the destructive power of alchemy failure is also far beyond before."

"Sword Pellet Elixir failure, with my Dharma Body as a buffer, so the overflowing sword Qi only destroyed the alchemy furnace and damaged part of the alchemy room."

"But once the 【Pityless Elixir】 fails, the consequences will be ten times more serious."

"Ghost things like suicide memes and sadness viruses are simply not something my body and alchemy room can block... Once formed, and not refined into an elixir by me, they will spread, contaminating all the neighbors on this street, making them hang themselves on the rafters."

"In this way, I am also in danger."

When the thought reached here, Li Yu had a look of relief.

After his skills advanced further, he completely left the level of an elixir apprentice and had his own unique understanding of alchemy.

How to refine the Pityless Elixir?

With a change of thought, he also had a plan.

"Going to the forbidden ground outside the city won't cause any external spillover damage, and I can refine elixirs safely, but the success rate still won't be high. Ten portions of materials, maybe not even one Pityless Elixir will be formed."

"Refining this elixir, the first key point: how to make the formed 【Self-Hanging Meme】 not escape, and obediently be smelted into an elixir by me?"

"The train of thought is the same as the Sword Pellet Elixir: create, or enter a place where the meme has nowhere to escape, and it can be done."

"For example... the Hanging King God Tree!"

When Li Yu had the thought, a special realm he had seen many times in the Wanfu Daily automatically appeared in his mind.

To be exact!

That was a wonder.

At the junction of the West District and the South District, there was a towering giant tree cast purely from cold steel.

On the tree, there were all kinds of things, and they only had one function, which was to help you end yourself.

For example, extremely high platforms for you to jump off, or hanging ropes hanging everywhere, and secret rooms storing all kinds of weapons or poisons... everything was there, only things you couldn't think of, nothing that didn't exist on that tree.

This tree was named "Liberation God Tree," and the caster was a major organization in the city: 【Hanging King Sect】.

On the preaching day, they also conducted a promotion:

"Practitioners in the city who are determined to join the Hanging King Sect, come here to liberate yourselves."

"Any citizen who is unwilling to bear the torment of the mundane world and the pain of the secular world can come here. Just chant the name of the Hanging King God, and our sect can take away all the causal troubles on you, letting you be liberated without any worries."

"Without pity or sorrow, eternal as this."

Regardless of which reason it was.

In short, there were an abnormally large number of people who committed suicide on that liberation tree.

A large amount of sadness virus and Qi gathered and brewed inside, having long formed an extremely terrifying, wide-ranging suicide meme.

If it were just an ordinary person, let alone entering it, even if they just wandered around the periphery, they would be infected by the meme, and thus uncontrollably hang themselves on the God Tree.

This kind of silent meme virus without any antidote, when spreading, was more terrifying than any poison or plague.

It could wipe out the citizens of several streets overnight.

Unfortunately, there were many other True God organizations in the city.

Under the containment of the 【Sacred Nest】 and 【Fallen Buddhism】, the Hanging King Sect took the initiative to restrain the spillover, only letting the area around the God Tree become a forbidden ground, or rather, a holy land for suicide.

And tonight, at this time.

Li Yu was just like an ordinary person, mixed in the crowd, walking toward the giant tree step by step.

Looking around, they were all muddled people, men, women, old, and young, all of them. On every person's face was either despair and a desire for liberation, or indifference to life, death, and self; it seemed their last bit of strength was used to approach the God Tree.

The closer they got, the more serious the pollution, and the stronger the thought of ending oneself.

At the same time, I don't know if they were "praying" or "repenting," but they were muttering in their mouths, revealing their reasons for suicide one by one.

Li Yu was forced to listen, and a look of intense sadness gradually appeared on his face.

Some were because of gambling, smoking Qi, etc., and had no way out, so they chose to come here.

But many people were because their encounters were miserable and their fate was unfair. In just a dozen breaths!

In Li Yu's ears, it seemed he had heard all the sadness and suffering in the world.

And ahead, on the vast ground, corpses, old or new, could be seen everywhere; the old ones rotted into withered bones, the new ones seemed to have just died, falling from a high place like mud, but on their faces were smiles of liberation, as if their souls had gone to the legendary blissful peach blossom land.

Looking up, steel tree branches, short or long, high or low, almost filled the sky, densely packed and incomparably oppressive.

On every tree branch, people were hanging.

Most were ordinary people, but there were also powerful practitioners; even after hanging to death, they still emitted terrifying Qi.

The waning moon, which was not very bright tonight, could not shine on the gloom and strangeness of this place at all; it seemed that in an instant, it changed from vivid to a gray, colorless world. This was a dead land existing in the world of the living.

There was only the smell of despair in the air, moisturizing the body and soul every moment, making everything meaningless.

Even Li Yu!

At this time, a look of despair and desire for liberation appeared on his face, and in his heart, he couldn't help but have a thought:

"This other world is terrifying and crazy; it's not a place for people to stay."

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"I might as well really hang myself on it; maybe after I die, I can return to the original world..."

"Hmm?"

"That was close, almost got hit."

As soon as the thought arose, before it could take root and sprout in Li Yu's heart, it was extinguished.

It wasn't just because of the Alchemist's resistance to negative states, but more because of Li Yu's own particularity.

After the Truth Soul Body awakened, his last bit of reason was locked.

Even if he came here as an ordinary person, he would likely be able to resist it; of course, it was possible he would wake up in the first second after hanging.

"What a ghost place!"

Li Yu cursed quietly in his heart.

Immediately, he observed for a while; his luck tonight was not bad, and there was no high-sequence powerhouse of the Hanging King path around. I think they only come to harvest after a period of time.

Li Yu followed the sparse crowd and began to climb the God Tree.

And very quickly, he selected a thick steel tree branch.

In front of him were dazzling hanging ropes, and a dozen hanging ghost corpses swaying.

"Don't blame me, everyone, squeeze in."

He muttered in his heart.

Li Yu started to act. He first took out a large number of bottles and jars and swallowed them constantly, appearing to be poisoning himself to death, but in reality, it was about the same. What he ate were special ingredients like "Heart-Eating Worm" and "Love-Severing Egg" that could make people cut off love and desire, without pity or desire.

After eating everything, he took out those strange objects with considerable power. If they were in the hands of ordinary people, each one could take their lives in an instant.

Li Yu successfully disemboweled himself, cut his wrists to commit suicide, and finally let a "strange rope" like a living thing wrap around his neck, hanging him on the God Tree.

Accompanied by a crisp sound, his neck was broken, and he didn't even have time to take a look at Wanfu City below from a high place.

But it was also at this instant that elixir fire surged in Li Yu's body, miraculously pulling him back from the edge of death.

And so!

He entered a special state of "being neither dead nor alive."

And here, it was completely permeated by the self-hanging meme virus and the Qi of despair and sadness, which would automatically gather, thereby helping the living beings in this state to be completely liberated.

Whoosh!

The bone-chilling wind of despair rose suddenly, instantly forming a vortex, sweeping Li Yu's body, blowing it to sway, creaking and creaking.

Li Yu didn't open his eyes, nor did he urge the art of "demon body" to resurrect himself.

Instead, he tried his best to maintain the heat of the elixir fire, letting himself always be between life and death.

He knew very well that if he was off by a little bit.

The Pityless Elixir couldn't be refined.

I don't know how much time passed, but those gusts of sad wind blew more and more fiercely, even implicating the few hanging ghosts next to Li Yu, who also swayed creakingly. Not long after, the hanging ropes broke one after another, and the corpses fell to the ground like falling gourds, smashing onto the ground with a patter.

Suddenly, at this moment.

Li Yu opened his eyes suddenly, and the two arts of "elixir fire" and "demon body" in his body were urged to the extreme by him.

Some strange things that could kill ordinary people, but were essentially evil spirits, the hanging strange ropes were immediately burned off by the elixir fire.

With a bang, Li Yu landed on the platform under the tree branch, rolled on the spot, but entered a secret room inside the nearby tree trunk that was filled with all kinds of poisons that could make people die instantly.

Unable to care about anything else, he "vomited" again.

Immediately, he felt as if countless cold and sticky tentacles were forcibly passing through his throat from his abdomen, and then turned into wisps, like smoke, or like gray liquid evil Qi.

It poured down like a waterfall.

In it, a pill that seemed to be condensed purely from fog appeared.

On the surface of the pill, there was a human face, a face that looked down on all things, life, death, and everything.

"Pityless one, Pityless Elixir."

"I succeeded again, blessed by the treasure land, the heat is excellent, one-time elixir production."

(End of chapter)