Even without cheats, we must survive the apocalypse

She looked at Lu Mu.

Xie Li's cultivation had just entered the Pi Palace, and he relied on devouring flesh and blood to increase his strength, which was an unrighteous way of doing things. In their eyes, this guy was just a small fry who could be killed at will, but Lu Mu needed to know something from him... For example, what was this guy doing in this Bone Burial Mountain?

"Since this illusion array is yours, let him experience the horror of being lost in it."

Lu Mu said lightly.

Gu Yunxi nodded.

She is not a kind-hearted person. On the contrary, she never shows mercy to her enemies. When faced with the cruel and evil cultivators, she takes action without any hesitation.

……

As Xie Li walked towards the cave, he still felt somewhat relieved.

Over the past few months, he and a group of evil cultivators have been sent to hundreds of places in the southern border of the empire, doing tasks that even they themselves were worried about.

This was the last place he had to visit near Zhaotian City. Once he was done, he would return to Nanling King's City to report to King Nanling. This way, he would be less busy and show up less often. After all, the Xianhuang Empire hated the existence of evil cultivators.

Although everyone in the Central Region wanted to kill evil cultivators, only the Immortal Phoenix Dynasty offered a particularly high reward for evil cultivators.

King Nanling was indeed an expert at commanding troops in battle, but Xie Li felt that half of the credit for him becoming King Nanling came from King Nanling's heroic feat of eliminating evil cultivators, which won him the appreciation of Emperor Xianhuang.

The Xianhuang royal family and the Xiexin Sect have an old blood feud...

If the cultivators of the Evil Heart Sect were discovered in the Immortal Phoenix Empire, it would be a luxury to expect a quick death.

That's why he wanted to finish the work here quickly.

Xie Li thought about it and his steps became lighter.

He didn't know that he had walked into an illusion that had betrayed him.

So, when the entrance to the cave turned into a mountain wall in front of his eyes, Xie Li's face turned pale in an instant!

Chapter 15: Into Despair

Xie Li stared at the abrupt mountain wall in front of him, and suddenly a huge rock sank into his heart, pressing him to the point where he couldn't breathe.

"damn it!"

He cursed with gnashing teeth, but no matter how angry he was, Xie Li knew clearly that the formation had been set up many days ago and there had been no problems. Yet, something went wrong today. It was obvious that someone was playing tricks!

"Who is it?! What kind of traitor is this?!"

"Get out of here!"

"I'm going to dig your heart out and eat it in front of you!"

Scorpion's aura shook, and the black and purple demonic energy rushed outwards, causing the surrounding grass and trees to fall down. However, the only response he got was his own echo, which spread farther and farther away, as if he had been trapped in a desperate situation from which there was no escape, and no one would come to help him.

His head was buzzing and there was a gray fog all around him, making it difficult to see his surroundings.

The thick fog had surrounded Xie Li without him knowing when. He was distracted for just a moment, and everything around him had changed. His feet were shrouded in gray fog, and only the touch of the soil under his feet was obvious, but he could no longer see anything around him. Everything was unreal.

Xie Li rushed towards a certain place filled with gray fog, and swept away the fog along the way like a sharp knife. The grass and trees disappeared rapidly behind him. But after a cup of tea, he stopped and looked around...

I am back to where I was.

"Hahaha--"

Weird laughter came.

Immediately afterwards, countless pale faces suddenly appeared, with sinister smiles on their faces, and flew towards Xie Li.

The miserable laughs of those ghost faces were mixed with a lot of resentment and angry words. They accused the rampant inhuman beasts in front of them of killing them and eating their flesh and blood.

Now, they are here to claim our lives.

Xie Li was already extremely nervous. He quickly condensed his true energy, and blades of energy flew out from the sky, slashing at the wronged souls and evil ghosts flying around him. As the blades passed, those pale ghost faces were chopped into dust and mist, but they soon condensed again and flew towards him again.

These are of course fake, illusions that reflect the darkest, ugliest selfishness and madness in Xie Li's heart.

Such an evil demon with a lot of blood debts has his heart already stained into something filthy and beyond redemption, needless to say, and this illusion array will reveal the mask that Scorpion Li fears the most in his heart.

The mind of an evil cultivator is not that strong.

If one really has the courage to face all kinds of evil, how could one choose to fall into the evil path?

"Get out of here, you pigs!"

"For the sake of my power, it doesn't matter if you losers die!"

Xie Li continuously slashed out air blades, but those resentful ghosts and ghost faces rushed towards him, and no matter what he did, it was of no use. Instead, a feeling of weakness surged up first, and the stinging pain from his dantian being squeezed spread throughout his limbs and bones, forcing fear and madness to overlap in his eyes, and even his mind became a mess.

In fact, he knew these were false.

But fear always makes people lose their remaining sanity.

"Get out of here!"

Scorpion roared angrily, veins bulged on his sturdy body, his pupils turned red, and a black and purple halo vibrated around his body. The power of the Pigong realm cultivator finally broke out, and within a few feet, all the resentful gray fog was repelled and disappeared.

But he was exhausted, sweating all over, his clothes were soaked, and he collapsed on the ground.

His vision was blurred and his ears were quiet for just a moment before the eerie and terrifying sobbing and crying came again, each one more shrill than the last, as if some evil spirit was lingering around him, making his consciousness increasingly blurred. His eyes opened wider and wider.

——A certain string in Xie Li’s mind broke at this moment.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

A vile wail came from the depths of his throat, he struggled to his feet, and ran desperately in the opposite direction.

"Don't, don't chase me...Help, help!"

Only then did Xie Li remember to escape.

But he couldn't escape.

After draining the last bit of true energy from his Dantian, Xie Li knelt on the ground. The thick fog covered his elbows. He heard footsteps coming slowly and lightly in front of him. His breathing stopped abruptly and his whole body became extremely stiff. He slowly raised his head and what appeared in his blurry vision was the hem of a light green dress.

Looking up slowly, I saw the slender waist wrapped in the skirt, and then the pair of straight and long legs.

A familiar face slowly became clear before his eyes, but the expression on that face was cold and indifferent.

Xie Li's face turned deathly pale, and he called out with trembling lips: "Why...why is it you?!"

There was no way he could forget this woman.

Last night, she suffered under him, and the despair and unwillingness before her death made him feel refreshed. He even remembered every inch of her skin, the sweetness and smoothness of her body, the bright red petals under her body, and her hoarse voice when he tore her throat and she drank blood...

The woman raised her eyebrows slightly, walked over, looked down at the embarrassed evil cultivator, and said lightly, "Surprised?"

Xie Li shook his head in horror: "How come you are still in front of me..."

"Yes, yes! You are fake. That damn guy is pretending to be a ghost and trying to scare me. It's impossible!"

He suddenly jumped up, his irrational expression trying to look vicious, but the woman bent down, stretched out her hand, grabbed Xie Li's neck, and actually lifted him up. She came closer and whispered, "Oh, am I fake?"

There was a cold murderous intent in her eyes, and Xie Li felt a chill rising from his tailbone and rushing straight to the top of his head.

The five fingers she was holding on Xie Li's neck suddenly tightened, and Xie Li suddenly felt suffocated. He kicked her shoulders with all his strength, trying to push her away, but the woman did not move at all. She looked down at him and chuckled, "Does it feel real enough now?"

"No, it's impossible..." Xie Li uttered the words with difficulty. Although fear had already shattered his reason, the outcome of being completely lost in the illusion array was far more tragic than death.

"What a shame."

The woman asked with a smile, her five fingers gradually contracted, her throat made a gurgling sound, and her eyes bulged out, "I wanted to kill you directly, but someone still thinks you have something to say."

"But I still have to vent my anger."

"I don't want your life for now, but a beast like you doesn't deserve to have a complete body."

She raised her hand and made a light stroke. With a flash of blood and fire, Xie Li's left arm was cut off silently.

Xie Li was convulsing in pain and his body began to struggle violently.

"How about this?" the woman asked with a smile.

She let go of his hand, and Xie Li fell to the ground. With two snaps, his legs shattered.

Xie Li shouted sharply again, his eyes red, and he looked as ferocious as a trapped beast.

The woman sneered contemptuously, "It's too late to admit your mistake now."

Suddenly, a blood-red flame ignited in her hand, and the fire burned fiercely in her hand. As if she had made up her mind, she slapped Xie Li's right arm without hesitation.

"Bam—"

After a muffled sound, Xie Li's right arm exploded like a brittle stone and turned into nothing.

"Ahhhh——!"

Xie Li roared heart-wrenchingly once again. He gasped like a dying fish, his eyes bloodshot. It was not just hatred or fear, or pain that made him grit his teeth.

The gray mist around him gradually dissipated, the illusion disappeared, and the dead woman also disappeared bit by bit. Xie Li was lying in the mud, his body covered with blood. He had lost his arms and his legs were broken, leaving only half of his broken body. He lay on his back, staring at the two people walking towards him with bloodshot eyes, and tears of despair flowed down the corners of his bloodstained eyes.

"I didn't realize you were so cruel."

Gu Yunxi injected his true energy into the illusion array, and even if it was an intimidating illusion, it could still hurt people.

When Xie Li stepped into the formation, the outcome was already decided, and Lu Mu watched a very satisfying show.

Lu Mu looked at Xie Li lying in the mud. His miserable appearance did not scare him. It was just that Gu Yunxi showed no mercy when she attacked him. Xie Li was probably just hanging on by a breath. Even for a cultivator at the Pigong realm, it would not be easy for him to survive with such an injury.

Although this inhuman beast deserves to die.

"Is this considered cruel?"

Gu Yunxi rolled her eyes at him and said, "I actually want him to have a taste of his own methods."

"Then we won't be able to ask anything."

"Okay, okay."

She waved her hand impatiently, "Ask anything you want to know."

The two turned around and looked at Xie Li who was lying on the ground, dying.

Lu Mu looked down at him and said, "You evil beast from the Evil Heart Sect, what do you want to do in this Bone Burial Mountain?"

Xie Li raised his head and stared at Lu Mu fiercely, his eyeballs were bulging and bloodshot, but he said nothing.

Lu Mu frowned.

Gu Yunxi couldn't help but sneered: "He's a tough guy."

"The cultivators of the Evil Heart Sect have all been poisoned with the truth poison. If they say something they shouldn't, their brains will explode. So whether he says it or not, he will die."

Lu Mu knew very well why Xie Li didn't speak.

He once dealt with the elder of the Evil Heart Sect, a guy named Scorpion Bone. It was because he said some things that could not be known to outsiders that the poisonous insect attacked him and he died.

Although their attempt to murder Luo Shuangning had failed, they had also lost the life of that useless Xia Jiuyou...

Lu Mu took out a pill and forced it into Xie Li's mouth.

"Okay, now the Mantra Gu has no effect at all."

He came prepared.

This way, Xie Li could be prevented from saying too much and being killed by the poisonous insect, and he could also be prevented from committing suicide.

"Ok."

Gu Yunxi was not worried. "If he doesn't want to tell, then don't tell. Just search his soul and hand him over to the Immortal Phoenix Dynasty. The reward for the Evil Heart Sect cultivator is not low."

Hand it over to the Xianhuang Empire.

Upon hearing this outcome, Xie Li, who had been waiting for death, suddenly opened his eyes wide, with huge anger and resentment bursting out of his eyes, but more of it was fear.

He feared another outcome more than death.

The Xianhuang Empire treated the Evil Heart Sect's monks by extracting their souls, tying them up with soul-binding chains, and throwing them into the Hell of Fire to burn them. The pain was so severe that they could neither live nor die.

"Haha, you don't want to?"

Gu Yunxi squatted down with a smile, "I'll give you a choice. Either we let you die quickly, or the Immortal Phoenix Dynasty will be happy to deal with you."

Lu Mu raised his finger, and a stream of true energy quickly invaded Xie Li's body, shattering his dantian. Now, he couldn't even destruct his dantian.

"Ahahahaha!"

Xie Li finally broke down, laughing miserably and twistedly. When his death was in the hands of others, despair truly came.