Chapter 3359: Sleeping

【So, where are you lying now?】

"She" asked with a smile in the darkness.

"Don't scare me at a time like this!"

He was of course lying in that indescribable ancient black coffin at this moment; even with Xia De's perception, he couldn't distinguish whether this was reality or illusion. But if this was reality, it meant his body had also turned into a length of tens of thousands of meters.

【This world has no meaning in comparing size; the size of a soul has never been about the shape of the flesh.】

He wanted to get up from the coffin, but found he couldn't move at all. The boundless darkness above seemed about to collapse down immediately, and even worse, he found that he wasn't replacing the "tenant" that originally existed in the coffin; at this moment, he was sharing this coffin with the other party.

He instinctively restrained himself from using his peripheral vision to observe the right side, because he knew the thing that was originally in the black coffin was still there at this moment. The light of the "Divine Radiance" on his body was even clearer than when fighting just now, and the reason for this was of course because God was by his side.

Xia De lay on his back in the coffin unable to control his body, but the "corpse" beside him still had the ability to act. He kept his gaze straight looking upward as much as possible, and thus the bone right palm wearing a glowing golden bracelet and golden ring stretched out in front of him.

That bone hand spread out in front of him, and then slowly lowered, until a single palm completely covered Xia De's eyes.

Thus, darkness deeper than darkness appeared; Xia De could still clearly feel himself lying in the coffin with a skull arm covering his eyes, but a few seconds later, a light appeared in the darkness.

Then Xia De saw a very beautiful witch he didn't know, constantly walking forward against the strong wind just like they had just now. When she also walked to the "end" of the uphill road, that is, walked to the front of that huge black coffin, arms and that skull wearing a golden crown also poked out from the dark front.

Even if the strange witch was very strong, she couldn't react when suddenly facing a god. God then used his right hand to grasp her, and then threw her upward violently.

The witch then fell into a mass of pure white light during this process, and when the scenery around her appeared again, she sat up blankly from under a huge oak tree, clearly having returned to the world of the living.

Xia De felt he understood all at once:

"Hmm... so being grabbed by that hand is actually a necessary process for returning? The orthodox method of leaving the 【Tombstone Wasteland】 in this era is actually to come and meet the master of the kingdom before the ancient god's temple opens the road, and then be sent out by the master of the kingdom?

So we just now actually..."

The picture disappeared, the darkness in front of his eyes descended again, and Xia De immediately realized where this black coffin was located.

The first rule of the secrets of the Old Gods is that "the throne of the Old Gods sealed the Gate of the Dead, intercepted the souls that should have left, and forged their own kingdom." Therefore, the location of this black coffin was the center of the wasteland; this place was the location leading to the "Gate of the Dead," and this place was the throne of the King of the Kingdom.

The cold white bone covering Xia De's eyes still didn't move away, new light appeared, and then another segment of the picture unfolded before Xia De's eyes.

The light came from a golden bracelet floating in the void; the appearance of that bracelet was exactly the same as the five that had just been shattered; its light in the darkness became brighter and brighter, also letting Xia De see that it was currently embedded in the center of a huge ancient god's Saint Emblem.

"Is this the 'Death God Divine Artifact' that Priest Ao Gu Si spoke of?"

Suddenly that bracelet detached from the Saint Emblem and then fell downward, until it fell into the black coffin parked in the darkness. Thus, a bone hand stretched out from the black coffin and hung on the outer wall of the coffin, and that hand was wearing the golden bracelet from just now.

"This means... the authority and this kingdom were bestowed upon the 【God of Graves】 by the ancient god?"

The picture hadn't ended yet; below the black coffin, a huge crack appeared at some point.

Xia De felt very familiar with that crack, and then the black liquid constantly surging upward from below that crack, Xia De felt even more familiar:

"It's that water area!"

Thus, the hand wearing the bracelet stretching out from the black coffin pointed, and the entire coffin moved position slowly, until it completely blocked that terrifying crack.

But water marks still appeared from below the coffin, and the golden bracelet emitted dazzling light to constantly evaporate those water marks.

And not long after, faint silver moonlight appeared from the crack below the coffin, so the water marks no longer spread here, and the hand poking out of the coffin finally returned to the inside of the coffin.

These pictures looked even more confusing, but for Xia De, who had already experienced the story of death, what He wanted to show was quite clear:

"The divine artifact and this kingdom were bestowed upon the Old God 【King of Graves】 by the ancient god-ancient God of Death, in order to let Him better suppress that gap opening toward this world from true death."

That gap was even more terrifying than the "edge of life and death" in the real world; if it were really allowed to expand, not only would the wasteland become a part of death, but even death would enter the world of the living against the wasteland, therefore the road from this wasteland to the world of the living was also sealed by the Old God.

Water, cracks, coffins were all images, not real existences.

"Water" represented true death, represented the end; that dark water area was just something materialized so that souls could understand;

"Crack" was not a real spatial gap; after all, where death is is not space, that place is just the "end";

"Coffin" represented, as expected, the throne of the 【God of Graves】, which was the power of the God of Graves.

Xia De inferred from this that at the end of the First Era or the beginning of the Second Era, when the ancient gods were about to leave, they noticed this large gap, or that the "Gate" for the dead to go to the end had become a crack and a gap, so the ancient gods bestowed the golden bracelet upon the Old God.

Thus the 【God of Graves】 sealed the wasteland in the age when the old days ended and the ancient gods were not around, leaving power to watch over this place.

Thus the wasteland was completely sealed, there was no "entrance" and no "exit," so for living people to want to leave, it had to be done by the god himself; He had to prevent death from invading reality through this. And those who dug too many graves, whose sin was too deep, naturally had to stay.

As for the final silver moonlight... the story of the Underworld Moon was originally a legend for the Sixth Era; Joey Barton said that the Underworld Moon really existed in the First Era (Chapter 783), but it didn't exist after the ancient gods left.

But because in the autumn of 1852 of the Sixth Era, Priest Ao Gu Si, who entered death actively to seal the "edge of life and death," actively invaded Xia De's dream in death to leave a last word, the huge silver moon in Xia De's dream also lit up death, which originally had no light (Chapter 604).

The moon thus invaded the realm of death.

Later, Xia De fought the first candidate of death, Joey Barton, in death in the Sixth Era, and defeated him, completely anchoring the fact that "the moon defeats death," making the light of the Underworld Moon completely stable.

This represented not only the completion of the rules of death, but also seemed to make death more stable. And the "end" did not have the concept of time; Xia De's approach influenced the entire timeline, so this stability led to the crack sealed by the power of the 【God of Graves】 not being as tricky as before.

Thinking this through, "She" said with a gentle smile:

【Outsider, you have obtained part of the secret about the Old God "King of Bones" (3/3): The Old God manages this kingdom, watches over the 'Gap of the Dead,' and protects the world of the dead and the living—this is His agreement with the Lord of the End of All Things.】

【Outsider, you have known the secrets of the Old God-God of Graves, the sealing of the Gate of the Dead by the Old God, the inheritance of the Death God's divine artifact by the Old God, and the watching of the large gap by the Old God; you have understood the story about the coffin, death, the throne, and the grave.】

【The mission has been completed, you can choose to return.】

Xia De naturally wouldn't choose to return; he wanted to watch the witches return to the world of the living with his own eyes to be at ease.

And knowing the secrets about this kingdom and that god, the previous doubts could be explained.

When "fighting" with the god just now, the other party obviously didn't use full strength; on one hand, because the other party just wanted to send the group away, and on the other hand, because He seemed to know that death became stable again because of the Outsider, so He deliberately showed mercy.

Even including revealing these truths to him at this moment, perhaps it was also because this god saw that the stability of death was related to Xia De... thinking about it this way, the violent shaking before throwing Xia De away just now seemed like a kind of... venting.

Their group was indeed wrong to make a move because they didn't know the truth, but the reputation of the Evil God was after all too great.

And, it seemed possible that Xia De had also "hurt" the two Chosen of this god not long ago. However, the Swollen Lady and the Gravedigger really wanted to stop them from moving forward; thinking about it this way, perhaps they were tests deliberately arranged by the god for Xia De, otherwise this god could have directly expelled the group from this wasteland from the beginning.

The second picture ended, but the white bone palm covering Xia De's eyes lying in the coffin still didn't move away; after the darkness became dark again, not long after, the third new light appeared.

Xia De was puzzled in his heart about what it would be this time since he already knew everything, and then he found the light came from a corpse, the corpse of an angel with six wings.

Xia De just saw that corpse lying on the ground from afar, motionless. And the corpse was not fresh, but rather like it had been scorched by fire and then weathered for ten thousand years.

Most of the corpse's limbs were only bones, and the six wings on its back were also mostly charred black.

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