The rising sun shatters the darkness!

Chapter 479: Living King of Hell (asking for monthly ticket)
The first target of Xu Shu's mountain patrol was the ancient temple in the mountain that was closest to him and looked very suitable as a place to stay.

No one knew who this temple was dedicated to. The statues of gods and Buddhas inside had long since turned into rubble, and it was obvious that it had been abandoned.

Some broken arms, Zen staffs, stone beasts, etc. were scattered around, and the buildings were in ruins.

Xu Shu looked around and listened carefully, then he walked around the temple wall and couldn't help but frown.

This ancient temple was apparently empty and quiet, yet he always felt as if the place was vibrating slightly.

"There's something fishy going on. Could it be that there's a secret hidden beneath the temple, or some underground secret room?"

"Why do all these buildings in the ruins like to have underground fortresses..."

Xu Shu's heart moved slightly. While he was silently complaining, he also wanted to go in and explore to see what was causing the trouble.

What if you happen to encounter a treasure like the 'Cold Chi Ice Pearl' that is inherently contaminated, or a monster whose strength is roughly equivalent to that of the biological mother body, then wouldn't that be another huge profit?

However, after considering it and hesitating for a long time, Xu Shu finally sighed and chose to avoid this place.

He was now alone and helpless, and he did not have the number of resurrections in the Taichu Volume. Even his strongest attribute [Sit-ups] was on cooldown, so his ability to resist risks was quite weak.

This adventurous idea must be curbed!
Xu Shu was quite decisive. He suppressed his inner greed and turned around and entered the ruins of the town at the foot of the mountain.

There was nothing wrong with this process at the beginning.

He only encountered two or three strange creatures with indescribable appearances along the way. They jumped out to attack and were easily crushed to death by Xu Shu.

Their levels were not high, with the strongest ones being only level two corpse generals, and most of them only level one, a mixture of ghosts and corpse soldiers. There were even a few that didn't even drop crystals after being killed.

After patrolling like this, Xu Shu had already made a preliminary judgment.

Except for the ancient temple on the mountain which was suspicious and suspected to be hiding high-level dangers, the rest of the place was relatively safe for him.

"Not bad, that's it!"

Xu Shu was quite satisfied with the surrounding environment, and immediately chose the top of a relatively intact building. He killed several bloody zombies that jumped out of the toilet, set up camp on the spot, and hid inside.

He planned to rest here and wait for the time to end and leave the ruins!

As a result, he found that he seemed to be happy too early.

Less than half an hour after resting, the vibration heard in the ancient temple appeared again.

Moreover, this time it was no longer the weak and almost inaudible sound as before, but it became like a god beating a drum, rumbling and getting louder and louder, as if something was gradually reviving and getting closer!
[Oops!]——The Taichu Scroll gave two small golden characters, which flashed before Xu Shu’s sight.

"...If something happens to you, then oh no! Aren't you supposed to protect me? Check to see what happened!" Xu Shu stood up unhappily, alert to the situation around him.

Looking around, I saw that the originally empty and quiet streets around me were suddenly crowded with ghosts, zombies, and all kinds of strange and bizarre creatures.

They were originally hiding in the corners of the ruins and in the sewers, and Xu Shu didn't find them at all.

But at this moment they all came out at once, pouring into the street like a tsunami. There were so many of them that they could not be seen by the naked eye. It was a level that people with trypophobia would faint on the spot if they saw it.

"Oh no, it's coming for me?!"

Xu Shu was startled and ran away without saying a word.

As the saying goes, a swarm of ants can kill an elephant. If he were surrounded by tens of thousands of monsters, that would be very bad. He didn't want to be killed by the monsters here!
But after running for a while, he stopped on an iron tower, stammering.

He noticed that these dense waves of evil spirits did not try to attack him.

Not to mention those on the ground who were running, even a group of bat-like humanoid monsters flapping their fleshy wings and flying directly past him simply ignored Xu Shu.

They didn't even look at him, but instead ran away all at once, pouring into the depths of the mountains, as anxious as dogs that had lost their homes!
"This...isn't directed at me?"

It was a false alarm, but Xu Shu was extremely puzzled and had a bad premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, less than half a minute later, he saw a fierce flame rising into the sky from the ancient temple where he was before on the distant mountain, followed by a deafening explosion that made the sky collapse and the earth collapse!

Looking around, the billowing smoke and dust covered the sky like the end of the world, and spread out in all directions;

Not only that, there was also a giant fire wheel that broke out from the ancient temple on the mountain.

The fire wheel was as high as dozens of stories, and its surface was covered with distorted Sanskrit. As it spun, it made a roar like thousands of monks chanting scriptures, and moved towards the town at the foot of the mountain.

Wherever it went, mountains and rivers collapsed and turned into red flames under the scorching fire, submerging all obstacles like a flood.

It is worth mentioning that the magma is not ordinary lava, but a dark red fluid mixed with human bones.

Wherever it passed, whether it was steel bars or concrete, trees, flowers or grass, strange buds grew out of them. These buds turned into bloody and fiery blades with skull handles, and they shot out like mature spores.

They caught up with the fleeing evil spirits and easily dissolved them, "saving" them alive amidst bursts of shrill howls, and pulled them back and merged them into the giant ship.

The flames are brighter, the chanting is louder, and the ship is moving faster!
"What the hell is this?"

Xu Shu's pupils suddenly shrank, and his hair stood on end. Without saying a word, he went in the opposite direction and joined the fleeing army. Relying on his own strength, he left the others far behind and quickly caught up with the large group.

Now he understood what was going on with the monsters lurking underground causing the riot. They had been running for their lives for so long!

At the same time, as a flash of inspiration came to his mind, Xu Shu suddenly figured out something.

Before, when I first met with the remnant team of Yan Huoxing and Lu Bingwei, they mentioned that the reason they lost manpower and became a remnant team was because of a "Fire Blade Wheel". (Note 1: Chapter 125 of this volume)
Xu Shu was still thinking, what a weird name this monster has, it sounds weird, and its experience is also very puzzling.

In this [Night Parade of One Hundred Demons], what kind of monster could be able to turn a team like Lu Bingwei, Zhang Runzhi, and Yan Huoxing, whose minimum strength is almost comparable to that of the late third stage, into a crippled team?
It feels impossible!

This place is not the Death Ridge, but an ordinary "large ruins". As long as you don't venture into any secret realm, the highest enemy you can encounter is only at the peak of the third level.

Until he was framed by Zhang Runzhi afterwards, Xu Shu still believed that the giant fire-blade ship was an ambush set by the Red Emperor's army.

Now it seems that we have wrongly blamed the Red Emperor Army on this point.

The "Fire Blade Ship" was really an accident. It was simply a local natural disaster, a natural disaster that looked like a spirit!

Judging from the terrifying level it displayed, it was definitely not something that Yan Hui and his people could create.

On the contrary, judging from the levels it displays and those Sanskrit words that clearly relate to Buddhism, this object is very likely related to the "Ksitigarbha" that once appeared in Japan!
“Damn it, is this the horror of a god-level existence? Even if He Himself is not here at all, but the traces He left behind can cause such a death dilemma for a Mid-Sequence Transcendental?”

"But why do I feel that I, the Dragon God, was not so strong back then... The Dragon God and Zhu Wu together seem to be slightly inferior. Is Jizo so strong? Then how did he get taken down by the God of Death?"

At this moment, Xu Shu was complaining but also feeling extremely fortunate.

Fortunately, I didn’t rashly explore the ancient temple just now!
Otherwise, I would probably have died here today.

But now, because the distance was not too close, he had enough time to react and escape after the incident.

Thump thump thump! Thump thump thump!
In the critical moment, Xu Shu did not forget to spit out some blood and smear it on the mermaid, making it his target and escaping by driving the "Kuafu chasing the sun" strategy.

——The key point of Kuafu chasing the sun is the word "chase". When Xu Shu chases the target with his blood or body fluids on his body, his speed and physical strength will increase sharply.

Most people who possessed this kind of skill would choose to target someone running ahead of them, but Xu Shu was different. He chose to chase the mermaid.

The effect is comparable to hanging an apple in front of a donkey and letting it run, almost like a perpetual motion machine. It is an extreme application of the unique skill of "Kuafu chasing the sun". It is extremely difficult to think of such a method unless you are a talent like Xu Shu.

[Wow, this is really amazing. What appears before everyone now is Xu Longxiang's strongest form: Xu Paopao! ]

[Your behavior is very similar to the path that some ancient great powers took when they rose from obscurity. It seems that you are one step closer to becoming a great master. Quack!]

The narration of the Taichu Volume is still making jokes, but this time it seems to have acquired some information, so it is not just babble, but displays more subtitles:
[The sad thing is that you accidentally encountered a god-level disaster in a large ruin: the Wheel of Reincarnation! ]

[In order to facilitate your understanding, the Taichu Volume will give you a further explanation. For ruins of this level, 'disaster' is the only one that can be unrestricted and exert power beyond the limit of this world.]

[Enshrouded by the huge Sanskrit sound, the wheel of rebirth devours souls one after another. You don’t understand this translation, but luckily the Taichu volume has translated it for you. It sings: I will not become a Buddha until hell is empty; I will not attain Bodhi until all sentient beings are saved! ]

“It really is Him!”

Seeing those familiar words, Xu Shu almost vomited blood.

As expected, I was right in my guess. The giant ship was indeed something left behind by Ksitigarbha!

This old Deng not only caused himself to lose his mother due to carelessness, but the things left in these ruins also seemed to be full of murderous intent, causing great harm to people!

But then again, why haven't I heard Xie Xiaochan and the others mention things like god-level disasters?

Did they forget to tell me, or do they not know clearly either? They just know that this giant ship exists but don’t know the logic behind its existence?
Xu Shu's intuition told him that the latter possibility was more likely.

Forget it, I don’t have time to think about so much right now, the most urgent thing is to escape, I will be done with it if I run...

Xu Shu thought silently in his heart and walked faster and faster, but he soon realized something was wrong.

That "Wheel of Rebirth" was clearly still harvesting the evil spirits around it, and the most recent batch of evil spirits it had taken away were even more than ten kilometers away from Xu Shu, and the apparent distance seemed to be gradually increasing.

But the strange thing was that the burning sensation and the smell of death that was overwhelming him not only did not subside, but instead seemed to be getting closer and closer, as if it was hitting him in the face.

Moreover, the Sanskrit chanting was becoming louder and closer.

I was clearly running madly, faster than all the evil spirits, but I couldn't seem to get rid of it!

"what happened?"

"Isn't it possible that I'm being targeted by it?"

"Damn it, I didn't provoke it!"

Now Xu Shu was really anxious.

This thing is so huge, yet it has the ability to lock itself and cross space. It's really outrageous.

It seems that if I can't get rid of it, I can only fight it head-on?
"I don't know if I can handle this... No, I can't handle this at all."

Xu Shu swallowed.

This thing looks ten thousand times stronger than me!
Is it true that I will die here today? !

Xu Shu gritted his teeth, thinking that it was no wonder that Yan Huoxing and his men had lost so many men. They were really unlucky to encounter such a "natural disaster" that could lock their heads.

In a hurry, he glanced and saw some information appearing in the narration of the Taichu Volume:
[Oh, you can't seem to run away. You are almost out of sight, but you know you are perfectly locked and will definitely be caught up. This is bad. Fortunately, Taichujuan is here to protect you. ]

[It is said that the sharpest point of any existence in nature is often also the weakest point, which is exactly appropriate here. ]

[As a product of rules, its only weakness is that it has certain rules, so it has no independent consciousness. As long as you find the flaws in the rules, you can avoid being hurt. ]

[So what are the rules of this wheel of rebirth? Now is brainstorming time. ]

"rule?"

"You mean I'm trapped in some kind of rules now. Only by finding the hidden loopholes in the rules can I escape the lock of the giant ship?" "Rules...what are the rules?"

Xu Shu's expression was slightly stunned, and he felt that Taichujuan seemed to have said something, but also seemed to have said nothing.

His biggest feeling was that there was a fire burning behind him, and his temples were throbbing from being chased.

Tnnd, who has the energy to play a quiz game now!
The next moment, the Taichu Volume displayed: [Timeout, the quiz game is over! Now give the standard answer. After a period of scanning, the Taichu Volume found a flaw! ]

[It turns out that the flaw is hidden in the Sanskrit. Every time the Wheel of Rebirth appears, it will save a large number of dead souls. All the dead souls within the range will become its target, and it will not disappear until it is full.]

[You are now within its range of salvation and cannot escape. Moreover, as the most powerful ghost around, you are a great tonic to it and it will never let you go easily. It must surpass your level this time! ]

"..."

No, it means that I must die this time, right?
Xu Shu was stunned at first, then a little surprised, and then he had an idea, "Wait, there is a problem, I am not a ghost."

【…】

[You seem to have discovered a blind spot.]

[That’s right, since you are not a ghost, you naturally cannot be considered a target to be saved in hell, so logically, it cannot save you! ]

[As expected of you, Master, you found the loophole right away. Amazing wisdom! Taichujuan highly respects and approves your logic! ]

[However, after observation, it can be found that the Wheel of Rebirth does not seem to agree with your logic. It even regards you as the freshest and most deserving soul to be liberated! ]

[Damn it, damn it, it really made a huge mistake, it shouldn't have done that. ]

[If you have any objections, you can stop and protest to it. Taichujuan will help you strongly condemn it! ]

"..."

The corner of Xu Shu's mouth twitched. He felt the anxiety behind him and looked at the evil spirit screaming "ascend to heaven". In the end, he chose to ignore this suggestion.

"Damn it, not only did you make me lose my own mother, but you even made a mistake in the traces you left behind. You and I are irreconcilable!!!"

Xu Shu cursed, but chose to keep running obediently.

He knew where this so-called "weakness in the rules" was.

In fact, it is very simple to say. You just need to keep running until the wheel of rebirth has swallowed and transcended enough of its own weight and then disperses on its own.

In layman's terms, it means "feed it up."

So how do you feed it?
Of course, we should take it to a place where there are more and stronger evil spirits, and let it have a good meal!
Since Yan Huoxing and his crew were not completely destroyed when they encountered the giant ship, but only lost 8 lives, while the other four escaped, it means that the appetite of the 'Ship of Rebirth' must be limited!
In fact, Xu Shu didn’t know whether this idea was right or not, but he had no other choice now, so he had to give it a try!

"flash!"

Without saying a word, he increased his speed and dived in a random direction.

Suddenly, a strange scene appeared on the dark land where hundreds of demons roamed at night.

A gigantic flaming wheel, carrying hundreds of meters of magma, bounced over a thousand meters and hopped along the ground.

When it encountered mountains and rivers along the way, the mountains and rivers melted; when it encountered cities, the cities collapsed.

It rumbled forward with an attitude of crushing everything and burning everything. Wherever it went, ghosts wailed and corpses screamed. It was a horrific scene.

The smarter ones sensed something was wrong before the flaming ship approached and fled in advance;

Or they are very powerful and rely on their burst of speed to kill their own kind and escape themselves. The saying “I don’t need to outrun the tiger, I just need to outrun you” is exactly this truth.

If someone could look far away and observe carefully, they would find that in front of this huge ship whose route is swaying, there is a small black dot moving rapidly.

This little black dot was naturally Xu Shu.

He once again transformed into a humanoid locomotive, this time starting independently, crossing mountains, trampling plains, and crushing cities.

Under his leadership, a large number of ruined towns that were originally inhabited by various evil spirits encountered the unexpected disaster of the "Wheel of Rebirth" and were destroyed one after another in the sulfur fire of saving all living beings.

The entire land of Japan was devastated, riddled with holes and full of fires.

But even so, Xu Shu discovered that the giant flaming wheel seemed to be at odds with him.

If it is a question of strength, it prefers the words of its own salvation rather than the words of those first- and second-level little Karamis.

It had clearly encountered several towns with the lairs of third-order Yin Kings and Corpse Kings on the way, but why did it only take a few actions, and only stop if it was lucky enough to catch one or two out of dozens or hundreds of them, and did not even chase after the rest that ran away, but just kept targeting it?
What the hell is this?
After a little thought, Xu Shu felt that he had roughly grasped the logic of this "wheel of rebirth".

It's probably not just because of its strength level that it locked onto me, there is another reason.

That is what makes me different from other evil spirits—I am a “living person”.

They are living human beings, not evil spirits!

This thing likes to eat fresh food! So it holds on to it tightly and won’t let go!

"You are so picky about food!"

Xu Shu gnashed his teeth in hatred, knowing in his heart that if he wanted to escape today, he would have to get some living people for the "Ship of Rebirth" to eat.

Moreover, he had to be a transcendent being whose realm and cultivation level was higher than his own “Level 47 Legendary Dragon Elephant”!
This kind of thing would naturally be impossible to achieve in small or medium-sized ruins, but in large ruins, with many people entering at the same time, it is naturally possible.

"If any of you unfortunately lose your life because of me, I can only say sorry. I will burn more incense for you in the future if I have the chance!"

While silently mourning for the unlucky guy who didn't know who would be the next one to be hit, Xu Shu chose the direction of Shibuya, which should be the center of Kyoto, and prepared to drive over it - before that, he was worried about hurting innocent people, so he subconsciously walked towards a more secluded place.

But now, even though I feel guilty, I have to make a choice.

The burning pain like a thorn in the throat and the Buddhist verses of "all sentient beings are saved" became louder and louder. He knew that if he could not find someone to take over, he would really die!
If a man does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth. In order to save himself, Xu Shu felt a chill in his heart and changed direction.

Not long after they ran, the evil spirits of another town were affected, and ten of them were killed or injured. Among them was even a team of second-level extraordinary people who were fighting here, and they were also running for their lives.

Fortunately or unfortunately, they were about to be wiped out because they challenged a monster that was too powerful for them, but the arrival of Xu Shu, the "disaster star", gave them a turning point.

Faced with the pressure of the "Wheel of Rebirth", all the monsters fled for their lives, allowing them to escape. As a price, a seriously injured "Iron Armor" among them had no time to run away, and was easily liberated by the wheel, turning into one of the skulls in the lava.

Next, because Xu Shu had already gone far away, the ship was busy chasing him and had no time to pay attention to the others, so they escaped.

“…Did you see it?”

"Someone! I saw someone saving us..."

"Who is that person? What a fast speed!"

"I don't know. It's a pity that Old Lu is dead. Let's retreat quickly. This seems to be the legendary Fire Blade Ship."

The confused survivors thanked Xu Shu silently in their hearts, and took advantage of the chaos to scatter and move away quickly.

At the same time, Xu Shu discovered that the Wheel of Rebirth was even willing to give up the surrounding second-level living people for this piece of "fresh fat meat", and he suddenly had an extremely bold idea.

"It seems like they are targeting me, a Level 3 survivor."

"There are definitely people in this relic whose realm and cultivation are higher than mine, but they are definitely not many."

"I'm blindly looking around most places, but if it's there...are they still there?"

His eyes were solemn as he looked in the direction of the northernmost part of the continent: Hokkaido!

It was the space tunnel that was finally opened up after the previous chase by Yan Hui and Zhang Runzhi, leading to the junction of "Death Ridge"!
Given the blood feud and grudges between the two sides, Xu Shu strongly suspected that the other party might be waiting there, waiting for him and his group to come out. In some cases, it was possible that the people who entered the Death Ridge were teleported back to the entrance! For Yan Hui and his group, this was much cheaper than searching for a "random exit" in a haystack.

Of course, there was only one chance. At his speed, if he found Yan Hui and the others were not there, he would have no choice but to go to the central area to trap them. Moreover, he might not be able to withstand the injuries and be directly saved.
Apart from anything else, Xu Shu now felt that his mind was filled with the secret Buddhist verse of "saving all sentient beings" and he could hardly hold on any longer.

"Never mind all that. If all else fails, I'll just give the strong stranger a hard time. I'll take the blame!"

He gritted his teeth, did what he said, and rushed to the north without saying a word.

He charged forward without leaving any room for maneuver, with great force and without hesitation!

During this period, countless evil spirits were affected, causing chaos and wailing everywhere.

Looking down from the sky, it was as if a mischievous boy deliberately stirred up the mud in the originally clear stream, leaving a path of blood, fire, and screams of ghosts.

at last……

Under the dark and gloomy clouds, the dividing line between the sea and the sky suddenly appeared.

The deep, dark waves washed against the cliffs, carrying with them the heart-pounding atmosphere of the Sea of ​​Death.

This was probably the happiest day Xu Shu had ever seen the Sea of ​​Death.

His shoulders felt as if countless hands were pressing down on him, and his heart seemed to be on fire and was about to explode, while his mind was completely filled with dense and strange Buddhist verses.

And at this time, what did Xu Shu see?
From a distance, he saw a large group of knights wearing silver armor and carrying red-sheathed huge swords, gathered on the cliffs by the sea;
He saw a swordsman whose body seemed to be mostly rotten, with his feet on the full moon, chasing him with murderous eyes and hatred;

I also saw a person named No. 274, Zhang Runzhi, the Golden Eyed Wolf Knife, who appeared in front of me at the fastest speed with an evil smile on his face!
They actually hid here, trying to wait for Xu Shu, Yan Huoxing and others who might appear!

"Hahahahaha!"

However, at this moment, Xu Shu showed a smile on his face that was happier than when he saw his biological parents.

This really confused Zhang Runzhi, who was the first to notice the approach of a powerful enemy and therefore took the initiative to attack.

"?" Zhang Runzhi was about to pierce Xu Shu's forehead with the bloody broken blade in his hand, but he couldn't help but stop when he saw this, feeling surprised and doubtful.

What's wrong with this guy? Is he crazy?

As soon as this doubt arose, the murderous intent, anger, and surprise on everyone's faces disappeared.

Because they saw a huge, sky-blocking wheel of fire, like a rising red sun, suddenly appearing.

It had been locking onto Xu Shu until the heroes hiding here showed up and the rebellion broke out, and then it immediately became inspired.

It sensed more and some of the "ghosts" were more vivid and powerful and in urgent need of salvation!
"I will not become a Buddha until hell is empty! Only after all sentient beings are saved can I attain Bodhi!!!"

There seemed to be a rhythm, but it was impossible to understand. Amid the violent and strange Sanskrit sounds that made people's hearts palpitate, a huge ship larger than a mountain, with an unshakable and irresistible power, directly covered the entire Hokkaido, and smashed down like a world-destroying force!

Boom~ Its range was even amplified because of the cheers and excitement, covering everyone, including Yan Hui, who was ranked 250th on the human list!

Yan Hui:?
Zhang Runzhi: ? ?
Red Emperor Army Paladin: ???
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(End of this chapter)