I guard the world with the Lord of the Underworld

The road to the mountains was getting harder and harder. Ye Chutang opened the way in front of him and it went smoothly until he arrived nearby. Ye Chutang slowed down and said, "It's right in front."

"Okay." Hua Qingyao said to Lin Xi behind him, "Be careful."

Lin Xi nodded and followed Hua Qingyao closely.

The three of them walked for another ten minutes, then turned a corner and suddenly saw a bright light.

"So beautiful!" Lin Xi couldn't help exclaiming.

In front of you is the sparkling lake, which is shining with little bits of light under the moonlight and is beautiful.

Ye Chutang turned off the flashlight, stepped forward, felt it, and turned around and said, "If nothing else, the artifact should be at the bottom of the lake."

Hua Qingyao frowned, "Can't we dive down to look for them?" He hadn't considered the water yet. They couldn't breathe in the water. If something were to guard them and trap them at the bottom of the lake, they would be completely wiped out in a short time.

"It's not wise to go down." Ye Chutang had the same idea as Hua Qingyao. It would be too dangerous to go down hastily.

"It is very likely that the artifact has been contaminated." Ye Chutang said. If the artifact was normal, then the people in the village would not be like that. Therefore, there must be something wrong at the bottom of the lake.

Hua Qingyao walked to the lake and smelled the clear smell of the lake. It seemed that the lake was still a living lake, with exchanges of underground water flow.

Lin Xi also stepped forward to study the lake water, squatting down and reaching out to explore the lake surface.

"Be careful." Hua Qingyao warned when he saw her hands extending outward.

"Boss, there seems to be something." Lin Xi said, and a strong suction force sucked her into the lake.

"What?" Hua Qingyao finished his words, leaving only splashes of water.

"Xiao Xi." Hua Qingyao shouted and was about to step forward, but Ye Chutang hugged him, "Don't be impulsive."

"We don't know what's going on in the lake right now, so we can't go down casually." Ye Chutang advised.

Hua Qingyao glanced at him sideways, "Of course I know. If you let go, I'll find a way."

When Hua Qingyao said this, Ye Chutang immediately let go of him and stopped disturbing Hua Qingyao's thinking.

Hua Qingyao thought for a long time and suddenly asked Ye Chutang, "Do you think the water in this lake has a source?" He observed for a long time that the water in the lake was flowing.

Although it is not obvious, it also shows that the water flow under the lake is alive, and what is alive has its source.

Ye Chutang thought for a moment and said, "In this way, you figure out a solution here, and I'll find the source."

After saying that, he looked at Hua Qingyao. If he wanted to find the source, the risk factor would be relatively high, but there was nothing he could do now.

Hua Qingyao felt uncomfortable, but at the moment it would save the most time. "You must be careful. If you can't do it, don't be brave. Do you understand?"

Seeing Hua Qingyao's troubled face, Ye Chutang couldn't help but curl his lips. Knowing that Hua Qingyao was worried about him, he was very satisfied, "Then I'll go, you have to be careful."

"Yes." Hua Qingyao nodded, looked at the other person's leaving figure, turned around and continued to stare at the lake, and began to think of a solution.

Is there any way to force what's inside out?

At this time, Lin Xi, who was sucked into the lake, found that he was in a strange place. He wondered if he should be at the bottom of the lake and why the surroundings were so dry.

Lin Xi took a step forward and her eyes widened. Peach blossoms were falling in front of her eyes. The ten-mile peach forest was so beautiful that Lin Xi couldn't help but stretched out her hand to touch the petals and murmured in a low voice, "I'm back...I won't leave..."

"Huh!" Lin Xi suddenly snorted coldly. The scene in front of him changed. It was a dead space with no grass growing around it. The beautiful scene just now was nowhere to be seen. "It's a fantasy again."

Just when Lin Xi was in the strange space, Ye Chutang had already found the source of the lake.

Ye Chutang stood outside a cave, feeling the water vapor coming from inside. He reached out and gently twirled his fingers, curled his lips with a smile, and stepped in.

After entering the cave, there was no movement inside. I could only hear my own footsteps. There was no light inside and I could only rely on the flashlight in Ye Chutang's hand for illumination.

The cave has no twists and turns, going straight to the bottom. Then it turns a corner and you see a pool in front of you. There is no grass around it, not even a moss.

Logically, the water around the pool would be wet, which would definitely breed moss, but the one in front of it was clean, and the surrounding stones seemed to have been polished, making them smooth and shiny.

Ye Chutang walked closer and stared at the surface of the pool. There was no circulation in the cave and there was no wind, but the surface of the pool was rippled, gently washing away the surrounding stone surfaces.

Ye Chutang just stood upright, watching the pool of water wash up, gradually getting bigger and bigger, gradually approaching him, slowly raising the corners of his lips, and turned off the flashlight.

The cave immediately fell into darkness, and only the slight splashing of the pool below could be heard.

After a while, a stream of water flexibly hit Ye Chutang's ankle like a snake. With a strong tug, Ye Chutang was dragged into the water with a pop.

After entering the water, it did not sink to the bottom, but arrived in a strange space. It was surrounded by ruins, unknown buildings collapsed, and there were ruins and broken walls everywhere, making it look desolate.

In the distance, the wind picked up rocks and rolled them around, making a small crackling sound.

Ye Chutang lowered his head and looked at the cracked ground. It was like a post-disaster scene that had just experienced a major earthquake.

The scene in front of me is full of despair and panic.

"This is the world you want." A voice sounded muffled.

Ye Chutang glanced around casually, smiled slightly and said, "It's not enough."

The voice paused, and I didn't know how to answer it for a moment.

He thought that Ye Chutang would be nervous and frightened and deny it, but he didn't expect that the other party would be so calm and even think that he didn't destroy it thoroughly enough.

This is obviously Ye Chutang's deepest thought. Don't most people just deny it hysterically when exposed? Those who entered the illusion were all led to the most disgusting thoughts in their hearts.

And human beings are that kind of people who clearly know their true inner thoughts, but they suppress themselves, deny themselves, and don't want others to see them.

"So...show me my own thoughts, and then what?" Ye Chutang asked slowly.

The first time I met someone like Ye Chutang, the person hiding in the dark was somewhat confused.

"The villages downstream are probably polluted by you." Ye Chutang confirmed.

"Haha...their desires are my most delicious tonic." The air around him shook, as if he was laughing along with that person.

Ye Chutang sneered coldly. He knew that from ancient times to the present, how much humans care about their offspring, especially in the feudal era, having a son to carry on the family line was engraved in their bones.

In some places, the wife is allowed to continue to bear children until she gives birth to a son, or if she has money, she takes a concubine and has a son. However, perverted practices like those in that village are very unusual.

If an artifact is used by unclean things, its power will mutate accordingly. The Kongtong Seal can make people immortal, but it will never let people have such extreme and perverted ideas.

"Haha, it's all their own fault." The voice laughed again, "I just inspired their truest hearts."

Ye Chutang ignored his words and asked what he wanted to hear, "Did you use the power of the artifact to escape from the underworld?"

With one sentence, the man's laughter suddenly stopped and he started to tremble, and the air around him kept shaking.

Ye Chutang waited quietly. Sure enough, after a while, a gap opened in the ground, and a black mist emerged from it. It quickly stretched and solidified into a human figure.

A thin man appeared, with pale skin that had not been exposed to the sun for many years, and wearing a loose black robe.

"Who are you? How did you know that I came from the underworld?" the thin man asked, staring at Ye Chutang, wishing to dig into Ye Chutang's brain.