The Guide to the End of the World: Four Sentinels Compete for Favor

Mrs. Bai was startled, and looking at Ai Wanxin's half-closed eyelashes, a bad idea jumped into her mind.

"...What do you mean?" she asked persistently.

Ai Wanxin raised her right arm, and faint blue threads of light, like floating lion's mane jellyfish tentacles, flowed out from her palm and covered Mrs. Bai like a dragnet.

"What is this--?" Before Mrs. Bai could even finish her words, her limbs were entangled by the light threads and she was firmly fixed in mid-air.

She only struggled a little, and she felt the energy flowing through her limbs like a basin pouring out of a jar. Mrs. Bai immediately dared not move again, her eyes flickered with doubt and she shouted: "What is this?!"

Ai Wanxin felt a little strange. Hasn’t Madam Bai seen the Crown of the Starry Sky?

But she didn't ask immediately, nor did she answer Mrs. Bai's words. She just said, "You should have felt it. This is something that can kill you."

"Now I am the butcher and you are the meat. If you want to live, answer my questions well."

Madam Bai suppressed the deep trembling in her heart, and forced the corners of her mouth to smile: "What do you want to ask, little cutie?"

Ai Wanxin glanced in the direction of the group of people who were entangled like mummies by vines. Although she had many questions that she wanted to get answers from Mrs. Bai, it was obviously not a good time, so she could only ask the important questions.

"The Hell Well wasn't opened, so how did you and Lucifer come to our world? Besides you two, who else came?"

Mrs. Bai saw Yin Yan coldly looking at her and knew that hiding anything was useless. In addition, if she made any unusual movements, her energy would dissipate like sand in her palm. She could only say, "You may have forgotten what the Land of Evil Spirits is. It is a void where the ancient gods banished the chaotic and evil forces in all time and space, so it originally connected all time and space."

"Those chaotic and evil forces are fighting all the time. The violent energy fluctuations sometimes tear open a narrow and unstable space-time crack. However, the internal environment of these space-time cracks is extremely harsh. Only strong souls can pass through. Mortal bodies cannot pass through such cracks, not even us."

"As for who else has come to this time and space, Lucifer and Adrian don't trust me, and I know nothing about their arrangements, so I don't know which other demon lord they have summoned."

Ai Wanxin thought carefully for a moment, and asked in confusion: "Didn't you just say that the rift in time and space was torn in the evil spirit land? What about summoning?"

She clearly remembered that Adrian gave the Holy Spirit Blade to Sheng Xiuming and asked him to summon Lilith in the Resurrection Hall.

This means that apart from trying their luck in the land of evil spirits, they have a way to open such a space-time rift on their own.

Madam Bai looked at the Absolute Winter Dream at the center of the crater and said faintly, "What you just said is correct. The Crown of Stars is the legendary Tree of Life and Time. Its branches connect all realms, and naturally also lead to the Land of Evil Spirits. By using its power, it is not difficult to open a rift in time and space leading to the Land of Evil Spirits and summon the soul of a demon lord, or even merge the two worlds."

"It's just that." Madam Bai laughed contemptuously, "Is it so easy for them to use its power? They don't even consider whether their dirty and filthy souls are worthy of it."

Ai Wanxin was a little confused. Who was Mrs. Bai scolding? Adrian?

"What about the Hell Well?" She didn't dwell on the topic and asked instead.

Madam Bai smiled somewhat forlornly and said, "My dear, I don't know if you remember that some of us... don't like to call ourselves demons, but prefer to call ourselves the remnants of the ancient gods. Do you know why?"

Before Ai Wanxin could ask, she continued, "Because we are indeed the descendants of the ancient gods."

ha?

Ai Wanxin blinked, but she was soon relieved, just like the emperors in ancient times liked to mythify their own births, for example, Yao was the son of his mother and a dragon, Ziqi, the ancestor of the Shang Dynasty, was born after his mother swallowed a black bird egg, hence the saying that the black bird was sent by heaven to establish the Shang Dynasty, and Ji Qi, the ancestor of the Zhou Dynasty, was born after his mother stepped on the footprint of a giant.

So it’s not surprising that the demon lords give themselves a mysterious-sounding origin.

Seeing that she didn't believe it, Madam Bai chuckled and said, "Our ancestors are indeed ancient gods. They worship the Tree of Life and Time. They are the most powerful warriors, guarding the worlds from being eroded by evil forces."

"However, somehow, the Crown of the Starry Sky, which they guarded closely, was devoured by the flames of doom, withered and died, and they were exiled to the Land of Evil Spirits."

Although what Mrs. Bai said were things that Ai Wanxin didn't know, she seemed to have gone too far with the topic.

Ai Wanxin had to help her get back to the topic: "...So the Hell Well?"

"The Star Crown withered and died, but our ancestors never gave up looking for a way to revive it. They believed that the day the Star Crown was reborn would be the day we would be accepted by the Ancient Gods again."

"Their souls wandered through the cracks of time and space in various worlds. Some dissipated in unstable cracks, while others could not find their way back."

"And the ancestors who visited Earth accidentally discovered that the mysterious race born on this young planet had found a way to connect to the Land of Evil Spirits."

"Hmm?" Ai Wanxin was a little confused.

Madam Bai smiled sarcastically and said, "There is no doubt that the Hell Well is a masterpiece of mankind."

"It was humans who summoned the demons from the Land of Evil Spirits."

“Humans’ desire for power makes them extremely creative, while their fear of death makes them make many incredible decisions.”

Ai Wanxin turned her head slightly and whispered, "Brother Han, I have a headache."

Yin Yanhan raised his hand and gently massaged her temple: "Then let's not talk about it."

Mrs. Bai couldn't help laughing: "Little cutie, you have become different. I have never seen you act like a spoiled child with anyone before."

Ai Wanxin grabbed Yin Yanhan's hand, put it back on her waist, looked at Madam Bai and said coldly: "Okay, you are good at telling stories, but why do I feel that it is of no use? Let me ask you one last question, where are the people you took away from the Ninth Mountain Division?"

"Oh?" Mrs. Bai suddenly realized, "So my most proud work was stolen by you, right?"

"In Zhangcheng." Yin Yanhan whispered.

"Boom--" Just as he finished speaking, a deafening thunder was heard from the northeast direction of the volcano. A dazzling beam of bright green light shot up into the sky, winding and coiling on the clouds to form a complicated magic circle shape.

Once you have seen this scene, you will never forget it.

The hell well in Zhangcheng has been opened!