The portable grandfathers that appear are all problematic.

Xue's Law didn't understand why this was happening, but he nodded nonetheless.

"Just do it if you want to," he said.

Therefore, Xue Lude then saw her seemingly perform some kind of strange dance, a movement unlike any dance on Earth, yet very graceful. Even for Xue Lude, who had absolutely no artistic talent, it was pleasing to the eye.

The sacred object in his hand swayed as if performing some strange ritual.

Her toes, encased in pure white stockings, trod across the sticky, filthy ground. Her pristine white sleeves billowed in a cloud-like arc as she spun, the morning sun shining on her face. Her devout dance revealed a divine compassion.

This scene left Xue Dinglu speechless. He wondered which one was the real witch, the one who had tried to reproduce here yesterday.

She also said that four evil spirits were watching them, meaning that she was in this environment yesterday and still wanted to give up and have a close conversation with him right under the noses of the four evil spirits.

Perhaps it was his own slap that woke her up.

Xue Lu thought to himself.

A few minutes later, as the dance ended, Xue Dinglu asked, "Is it finished?"

“Yes, I’ve led them to the Pure Land,” the girl said.

She seemed very tired at this moment; her divine dance moves seemed to be particularly exhausting in terms of physical strength and magic.

But she was already so exhausted after purifying only four evil spirits. How many evil spirits in this city are there that Xue's Law cannot see?

several thousand?

Tens of thousands?

How many more times does she have to keep doing this dance? Perhaps this dance won't work, and we need to try other methods.

"What is your world's pure land like? Have you ever seen it?" Xue asked, flipping through "Innovation Century" in his hand.

The girl stood up slightly and stepped onto the wooden clogs. Her toes, which had just walked on the ground, were once again spotless, as if they possessed a magical ability to refresh themselves in real time.

"The Pure Land? Legend has it that it is borne by the giant walnut tree Margaret. The trunk of Margaret is the world of the Pure Land, and its roots are the final destination of the Pure Land. Each leaf of Margaret represents a soul that died unjustly. It will gradually absorb the impurities of this soul and then return it to the roots, which is the destination of the Pure Land." The priestess recounted the myth of this world.

However, Xue's Law will suffer from PTSD after hearing terms like "giant tree" or "tree root".

He suspected that the so-called Pure Land might be a sacred tree.

However, upon further investigation, Xue Lude guessed that it might just be a coincidence, since the giant walnut tree supporting the Pure Land seemed to have no interest in living people or corpses, but only delighted in "evil spirits".

This is completely different from the habits of the sacred tree, which is most interested in living people, then corpses, and souls are just byproducts, not really of interest to it.

It might really just be a coincidence.

Thinking this, Xue asked, "Have the four evil spirits you just mentioned already been led into the giant walnut tree?"

“Hmm…” she nodded. “This is our method for dealing with evil spirits: to guide them to the giant walnut tree. This is also the only way to deal with evil spirits.”

“Evil spirits are immortal and indestructible. Even walnut wood can only trap them. Therefore, the Pure Land is their final destination and a super-large-scale seal.”

After listening to the witch's rambling tale, Xue felt that the ecology of this world was quite wondrous.

Perhaps this so-called giant walnut tree was created by the world specifically to target evil spirits, just as there exist bacteriophages on Earth that specifically counteract the divine tree.

The world will not allow anything to exist without a solution, so there will always be a situation where one thing can overcome another.

However, for some reason, this world seemed to collapse in an instant half a year ago. There was no resistance, no trace of any large-scale battle, only a world full of evil spirits and people trying to escape by car.

There were signs of a car accident everywhere along the way, and the interior of the car was covered with a viscous liquid, but there was no body in sight.

"How long will it take you to guide all the evil spirits in the world? You seem to have already exhausted all your strength with just four," Xue Luding said, looking at her.

The girl remained silent, but she seemed to have made her decision. Perhaps it was her mission as the only survivor to guide all the evil spirits of this world to the Pure Land, and she would become the last guardian of the Pure Land.

“Perhaps I will spend the rest of my life doing this… After all, I don’t know what else I can do…” she said, her sapphire-like pupils seeming to have lost their luster since yesterday.

"I thought your behavior yesterday was about reviving your race, planning to have ten or eight children while you're still young, and finally revive your extinct race." Xue Dinglu said expressionlessly, bringing up her audacious behavior from yesterday.

“No, I just wanted to satisfy my desires with you.” She retorted, “I’ve said it before, priestesses have long lost the ability to reproduce. Once we embark on this path, we are no longer normal people, and we can only serve the gods in this life.”

"So even if I wanted to have children, even if I wanted to prevent the extinction of the Candle Star people, it was impossible. Even ordinary people would die if they were in contact with us for a little longer." As she spoke, her pupils seemed to have completely lost their luster.

"The Candle Star People are practically extinct. I am just the last living dead."

She said this, and then, as if she had completely lost hope, she began to leave the abandoned supermarket.

So you don't think you'll affect me at all? Xue Luding thought to himself, rolling his dead fish eyes, while he also noticed another adjective.

"Living dead?" Xue asked rhetorically.

“Yes, the so-called shrine maiden is not actually a living person. I died when I was 6 years old. My body was hollowed out, filled with talismans filled with spells, and then buried in the shrine, under the walnut tree. That is why I became a 'shrine maiden'.” She said this, raising her head to look at Xue Dinglu.

"How about it? Although I am now exactly like a normal person, I can cry, I can eat, I can live like a normal girl, and I even have the same desires as a teenage girl, my true form is just a dried-up corpse buried under the shrine."

"Therefore, I was able to use a little bit of the power of the giant walnut tree to guide a portion of the evil spirits into the giant tree Margaret through myself."

"This is probably why clergy can't marry ordinary people, because we are essentially living dead, or rather, we are just a group of 'evil spirits' who consider themselves to be alive."

She smiled, but seemed to want to take off her shrine maiden clothes. She puffed out her chest and said, "Isn't it amazing? My original body is a dried-up corpse, but I can still grow normally and feel my chest gradually developing every day after I wake up."

"Before I even realized it, my neck was sore from all the growth, and it even stretched out of my shrine maiden outfit. So I had to bind my chest and wrap it with bandages to prevent it from growing any further, otherwise it would really bother me."

"It's amazing that someone like me, a living dead, can feel a sore neck, isn't it?" She didn't seem to regard Xue Daolu as a man or an old married couple at all, and directly wanted to untie her breast binder to show Xue Daolu.

However, he was stopped again by Xue's Law.

However, Xue Dinglu felt that her situation was somewhat similar to that of a certain type of corpse-dissolving immortal in his hometown. Seeing that she had the same body temperature and the same sense of touch as an ordinary person, and that her body was basically no different from that of a normal person, he knew that even in the age of gods on Earth, this would be the top-level corpse-dissolving immortal.

Even the cursed blood failed to detect anything unusual about her body, assuming she was simply a special alien race.

However, this "Corpse-Dissolving Immortal" is just too stupid.

According to her, all clergy in the world are in this state; they risk their lives to fight and deal with evil spirits.

Perhaps it was because "only evil spirits can fight evil spirits" that this bizarre state was created.

“Let’s go, let’s keep going. I still have many compatriots to extradite… I might have to stay in this city for three to five years.” As she spoke, as if she had come to a realization, she began to prepare to extradite the next evil spirit.

“I might be able to help you. My technique can easily cover an entire city,” Xue Dinglu said.

"Hmm?" The girl's pupils lit up for a moment, and then she looked at Xue Dinglu as if she had met a savior.

Although I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life guiding evil spirits around the world, who would want to work hard every day if they could cheat their way through life?

"Really?" she asked.

"Give it a try, it's free anyway, there's no harm in trying." Xue Dinglu said, turning the pages of the book "Innovation Century," and complex spells began to gradually envelop the metropolis filled with invisible evil spirits.

In fact, the scope of the Innovation Era has always been the entire planet. Considering only covering one city is already a waste of resources. However, this world is dead, and the Innovation Era cannot proceed normally.

Ultimately, it completely enveloped the entire city.

The shaman named Susu once again performed that dance that blended divinity with beauty, and this ritual was amplified by Xue Luding's magic to cover the entire city.

In an instant, the bloody handprints inside the house, the marks on the bluestone steps, and the whispering alley were all covered by the magnified ritual.

She looked extremely strained, but she still continued to dance according to the steps of the divine dance.

Xue Lude, acting as the "amplifier," also sensed it; there were indeed distorted souls passing through his spell, as if they were being absorbed by this witch.

According to her, this place is just a transit point; eventually, everyone will be led to the Pure Land to attain eternal peace.

Xue Daolu didn't know if this eternal peace was real or fake. He couldn't even see those evil spirits now. His perception was out of sync with the underlying logic of this world. At most, he could only sense a tiny bit of soul fluctuation.

"Alright, it's resolved." She put away her divine amulet and stepped back into her wooden clogs.

The petals on her body still occasionally fall and land on the ground, as if they will never be tainted by this world.

Xue Dinglu raised his head and looked at the rising sun over the entire city.

Sure enough, those twisted and eerie bloody handprints, the bloody clothes floating in the sky above the city, and even the viscous liquid that filled the city all disappeared.

The city no longer had that eerie appearance, but now it was deserted. The viscous liquid had disappeared, but the traces of blood had not completely faded. Many places still bore the marks of the human struggle, as if telling the otherworldly beings that the civilization here had once tried to resist.

But in the end, only this dilapidated ruin remains, like the last trace of this human civilization.

“Let’s go to the next city; maybe we can find more survivors there,” she said to Xue, seemingly trying to comfort herself.

Xue's Law doesn't think there can be any survivors in this world.

If the world were to be overrun by demons, even by the Shub insectoid race, Xue's Law would still believe there's a one in a billion chance of survivors. But these invisible and intangible evil spirits...

He felt the chances of survivors were ten thousand times lower than in a world occupied by the Shub insectoids.

However, he wasn't so tactless as to directly shatter her dream. As they walked together, he casually asked, "How do you think the world has become like this?"

This is what Xue's Law can't understand. It's not an external enemy, but rather as if the world suddenly ended internally, with evil spirits everywhere, and humanity was completely wiped out after only a few struggles.

Not a single person survived, and no useful information was left behind.

"I don't know," Su Su replied straightforwardly. "I can't imagine why this is. I'm just a priestess who isn't even that top-tier. There are many clergy who are more powerful than me, as well as the World Government's Bureau of Anomalies and the Special Affairs Division for Anomalies. They can seal demons within themselves and utilize their power. Those are the truly powerful people."

"But why did so many powerful people seem to be wiped out in an instant, so easily destroyed that the whole world couldn't mount any significant resistance afterward..." She looked at the desolate city.

"From the outbreak of the disaster to its complete demise, it felt like only a few days had passed for the entire world. In just a few days, it was utterly destroyed..."

Xue's law couldn't figure it out either, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

The situation in this world may be more complicated than he imagined, and at the moment, there is no clue what to do about it.

That's settled then. He'll try to guide all the evil spirits to the Pure Land first. At the same time, he'll start analyzing the Divine Purification Demon Eye on Su Su's body and try to use the cursed blood to modify his own eyes to have some of the functions of the Divine Purification Demon Eye.

This means we've connected to the servers in this world, allowing us to view some of the backend data.

"Buzz..." The earth seemed to tremble.

Xue Luding frowned, a very bad premonition creeping into his mind for no apparent reason.

Then came the tremors that even the shrine maiden could feel, as if the entire earth was about to crack open.

Xue Dinglu immediately became alert and entered combat mode.

He has absolutely no backup plan right now. He's the type of fighter who challenges others to a duel. If given time to prepare, he could potentially dethrone even a low-ranking apostle.

However, in the event of a skirmish, especially now that the world's consciousness has died and the Innovation Century can only provide a very small amount of assistance, Xue's Law can be said to have only ordinary mythical-level combat power.

In Greek mythology, he would be at most on par with those demigod heroes; whether he could defeat Achilles and Hector is still questionable.

Clearly, he had no choice but to accept this unexpected encounter, which he was completely unprepared for.

The next moment, enormous tree roots emerged from the ground. They were something completely different from the divine tree that Xue Dinglu had seen. Countless eyes covered the roots, each eyeball resembling a sapphire pupil, twisting and trembling on the roots, finally all staring at Xue Dinglu.

Even though he had lost his fear, this scene still made his spine instinctively raise goosebumps on his skin.

Wait, sapphire-like eyeballs?

Xue Dinglu immediately met Su Su's gaze, and he was horrified to discover that those eyeballs were almost identical to the ones in Su Su's pupils—the Divine Purification Demon Eyes!

At this moment, it seemed as if tens of thousands of divine and demonic eyes were staring directly at Xue Dinglu; this aura was...

Level 5!

He wanted to pick up Susu and run away immediately, but he noticed that the witch Susu was in pain, as if she wanted to vomit but couldn't. She was clutching her chest tightly and said in fear,

"Margaret the Great Nutcracker is refusing my offer to let the evil spirit in!"

"He is thinking, spit out those evil spirits I just brought in..."

Chapter 349 The Legend of the Fantastic Eyes in Another World

Xue's Law slowly carved out another question mark.

He gained a completely new perspective on the anomalies of this world, especially when he heard that souls that had reached the Pure Land could be returned to their original location. He even looked at the suddenly appearing tree roots with a strange gaze.

And, a giant tree covered in eyeballs.

When he first arrived in this world, he discovered that the tree with eyeballs was located in the abandoned shrine.

At first, he didn't pay much attention to the fact that there were too many abstract scenes in this world, thinking that it was just one kind of evil spirit, or just an ordinary creature that was simply distorted and affected by evil spirits.

But now it seems that the tree with eyeballs might be the "walnut wood" that the witch Susu and the others called it, and that the tree with eyeballs might even be the one that buried her body.

Could these eyeballs be formed from all the clergy that Su Su mentioned?

After all, in her words, the so-called clergy were a group of "pseudo-demons" who were born by specially processing their own corpses at a very young age and fusing them with walnut wood.

Walnut wood is said to be connected to Margaret, the goddess who governs the underworld in their world…

Now, seeing those colossal tree roots emerging from the ground, covered with terrifying eyeballs, it's hard not to associate Xue's law with the Pure Land deity Margaret.

Similarly, Xue's law instantly connected this giant tree with the divine tree.

However, there seems to be a great difference in their essence. It is really like a subspecies of a divine tree, not one that was cultivated by the apostles to absorb human spirituality. Instead, it is more like a subspecies of a divine tree that has been in this world since ancient times and has naturally adapted to it.