Altar of Infinity

Niu Kuyin's movements became smaller and smaller, gradually dying out.

On the one hand, the rampant and powerful novice Guan Boss leaned against the tree like a pool of rotten meat.

Just in case, Xie Ji swung the long knife around Niu Kuyin's throat twice to make sure that the other party was dead.

No matter how brilliant and how long you live, after death you are just a body//body that is slightly heavier than ordinary people.

He flicked the blood from the long knife, it was quite useful, let's see if he can ask Jiang Jichu where he got it, and he will find a way to get one.

Xie Ji turned his head, intending to share the news of victory with his novice Guan temporary teammates, but only saw the picture of Jiang Jichu slowly falling into the rain.

Behind Jiang Jichu was Niu Er who was bowing his body.

Thank you for posting: "Jiang Jichu!"

He ran quickly and forced Niu Er back with a single blow, but before he had time to see Jiang Jichu's situation, Niu Er attacked again.

Niu Ergang was beaten by Niu Kuyin with mutilated limbs and holes in his body, and his strength and speed, which was already a bit behind Niu Kuyin's, were even more difficult to handle.

In his anxiety, Xie Ji nailed Niu Er between a pile of broken bricks and tiles without much effort.

He finally had time to pick Jiang Jichu up from the ground: "Jiang Jichu, wake up!"

The young man who just said that he would trouble him after he got out was cold and his eyes began to lose focus. He could even feel the sound of life passing in his arms.

The heavy rain did not stop, Xie Ji seemed to return to that night a long time ago, the suffocation feeling squeezed along the chest and back and rushed to the brain.

Xie Ji closed his eyes and took a deep breath to calm himself down.

The wound on Jiang Jichu's chest was too big, and even though he had special experience in treating external injuries, he couldn't use it on the deserted village road, so he had to simply plug Jiang Jichu's wound.

Maybe it was his actions that made Jiang Jichu feel pain, and the other party trembled and looked at him.

Jiang Jichu's eyes were out of focus, but he knew that Jiang Jichu was looking at him.

Jiang Jichu: "...Brother..." The voice is too soft, if you don't listen carefully, you will be swallowed by the sound of rain and wind.

Xie Ji was overjoyed, he could still talk, maybe he could be saved!

Xie Ji: "Jiang Jichu, hold on! Didn't you say that you can recover from multiple injuries outside? Niu Kuyin is dead, when can you go out?"

Jiang Jichu's slack consciousness came back sporadically: "Dawn."

Xie Ji glanced at the time.

There are still two hours until dawn.

Two hours...Jiang Jichu's injury may not be able to survive two hours of ICU.

There must be a way.

There must be a way!

A light flashed in Xie Ji's mind, he picked up Jiang Jichu and ran to Niu Kuyin's house.

He was anxious, or maybe it was because Jiang Jichu was thin and weak, and the 1.8-meter man seemed to be unable to feel the weight in his arms, and it didn't slow him down at all.

He kept running and encouraged Jiang Jichu: "Don't sleep, Jiang Jichu, your watch hasn't been repaired yet, so you can't sleep!"

Xie Ji: "Jiang Jichu, think about your brother! Your brother must be reluctant to let you die!"

Jiang Jichu finally moved, and even tried to adjust his posture in Xie Ji's arms.

Seeing that it was useful, Xie Ji reminded again: "Hold on, if you can't hold on, you will be angry when your brother sees you down there!"

Jiang Jichu: "Don't be angry...I...I know I was wrong...brother...don't be angry..."

Xie Ji: "You won't be angry if you hold on to your brother, we're almost there, just keep going!"

Fortunately, the entrance of the village is not far from Niu Kuyin's house. Xie Ji kicked open the door and rushed to Niu Kuyin's bedroom. He opened the bedside table to open the cellar entrance, endured the pungent smell, and ran down holding Jiang Jichu.

He kicked the coffin board of the coffin in the center of the cellar directly to the ground, and carefully put Jiang Jichu in.

The blue liquid submerged Jiang Jichu, and the liquid would get into the mouth and nose and choke him to death. Xie Ji even specially found a brick to make do with it and put it behind Jiang Jichu's head.

The blue liquid is the medicine that Niu Kuyin used to refine ordinary people into Shouren. It can enhance the physique of ordinary people, including recovery ability.

After placing Jiang Jichu in place, Xie Ji kept observing Jiang Jichu's state.

No...

Jiang Jichu had new injuries plus old ones, and the injuries were too serious to be healed with the strength of the liquid.

He hesitated for a moment, took the long knife and cut his wrist. The bright red blood dripped into the blue liquid and was quickly absorbed, forming patches of beautiful and coquettish purple.

Soaking in liquid is a way to refine Shouren. If he adds his own blood, he is afraid that he will have "control".

But Niu Er is Niu Kuyin, which took more than ten years to successfully refine, and this time alone, it shouldn't have much impact.

Xie Ji didn't know the ratio of Niu Kuyin's formula, but judging from Jiang Jichu's blood feeding to Niu Er, it seemed that the more the better.

He didn't dare to stop, the blood loss and the pungent smell soon made him dizzy.

He shook his head, and pinched the knife edge again, using the pain to stay awake while ensuring that the knife edge didn't condense.

An adult who lost 30.00% of his blood would be in danger of life, but Jiang Jichu's 30.00% of blood must not be enough, and the two of them will not know who will be unable to hold on first.

Xie Ji gritted his teeth and turned over into the coffin.

The bad smell almost made him faint.

The coffin in the cellar was no more like the one where Niu Kuyin lived, it was more like a container.

Although it is a bit more spacious, Jiang Jichu is 1.8 meters tall, and Xie Ji is 1.8 meters six. Two big men are still squeezed inside.

Niu Kuyin and Niu Er fought fiercely, but none of the villagers came out to check. This may be some mechanism of the novice level.

He rushed back to Niu Kuyin's house from the entrance of the village with Jiang Jichu in his arms, and none of the remaining seven passers-by wanted to "wake up".

So even when the squall and shower were blocked on the ground, there was only silence in the cellar.

Xie Ji could clearly feel the beating of his own blood vessels, as well as Jiang Jichu's almost non-existent breathing.

He and Xie Quan have had a good relationship since childhood, and Jiang Jichu is only one year older than Xie Quan, and they are still in the same school. When he sees Jiang Jichu, he often thinks of his brother whose life or death is unknown.

Jiang Jichu was unconscious just now, but he kept thinking about that brother, and the relationship between the two brothers should be very good.

The thunder rumbled, Xie Ji was in a trance for a moment, and the old scene reappeared in front of his eyes, and the tide rushed towards him, engulfing him again and again, trying to drag him to the sea.

In the deepest part of the sea, he heard the most desperate and mournful cry...

"cough--"

Suddenly a real movement came from beside him, and Xie Ji broke out of the hallucination immediately, only to see Jiang Jichu coughing up blood clots, but he was still in a coma.

Heartbeat and pulse were still weak, but gradually leveled off.

The tide receded slowly, and Jiang Jichu's vital signs kept him awake more than the pain.

One second, one minute, one hour...

Xie Ji counted the time, left the coffin 10 minutes before dawn, stuffed the long knife that fell on the ground into Jiang Jichu's arms, and checked Jiang Jichu's pocket to make sure that the watch that was cherished by the other party was also well carried. Only then stepped into the coffin again.

He supported the coffin wall with one hand, and just as he was about to lie down on his side, Jiang Jichu suddenly opened his eyes.

Xie Ji choked for breath, then smiled as usual: "Are you awake?"

Jiang Jichu didn't move, and didn't reply, just lay there quietly, his eyes were slowly and firmly fixed, like a computer that had just turned on and was running the startup program.

After a long while, he sat up with difficulty supporting the coffin board, showing a complicated face about the fact that he was lying in a strange liquid in a coffin.

Jiang Jichu's voice was hoarse: "You threw me in?"

Xie Ji: "It's an expedient measure, you are hurt too badly."

Jiang Jichu wanted to say something, but his mouth almost fainted from the smell, and finally he could only say: "Thank you."

After a pause, he said again: "But the account of the watch still has to be settled."

Xie Ji: "..." When will I still remember this.

After Jiang Jichu finished speaking, he tried his best to get out of the coffin.

Xie Ji couldn't wish for it, if it wasn't for the fear that he would lose too much blood and couldn't hold on, and because he had to observe Jiang Jichu's state, he didn't want to stay in it. The smell was so strong that his internal injuries would almost be smoked out.

Now that the two are in a stable condition, they hurriedly gave their hands to step out of the coffin with Jiang Jichu, but before they stepped out, the cellar in front of them instantly disappeared into nothingness.

After the scene collapsed to the extreme, it unfolded full of white light.

When the white light dissipated again, Xie Ji found himself in a strange city.

It was just dawn in Niujia Village, but it was just dark in the city, and a crescent moon hung high in the sky.

The building looks like the style at the beginning of the last century, and the maintenance seems to be not perfect. Large pieces of wall dust have fallen off, and the steel bars of the anti-theft windows are full of rust. It can be seen that it is quite old.

The street lights were covered with stains, and the road was half narrower than the dirt road in Niujia Village. It was only enough for two cars to sit side by side. The greenery on both sides was basically zero. There were no people on the street, let alone animals. It was empty, like a dead city.

Novice level is over.

He came to the main city of the altar, only the two of them were around, and the other people in the novice level were missing. He guessed that there was more than one teleportation point after clearing the level.

Xie Ji came back to his senses, and said to Jiang Jichu: "How does your body feel?"

Jiang Jichu: "It's okay, I will recover quickly in the main city."

"That's good," Xie Ji, "The main city of the altar is different from what I imagined."

Jiang Jichu: "It's a slum in the main city."

ghetto?

Xie Ji wanted to inquire again, when a figure in black suddenly appeared in front of him.

He immediately recognized that it was the guide who first asked him if he wanted to formally enter the altar... the guide ghost.

The guiding ghost bared its sharp white teeth as if they had just seen it for the first time, and smiled at them stiffly: "Congratulations for passing the novice level, I will present the book of life and death for you two."

As he said that, a black booklet appeared out of thin air from the hands of the guide ghost, and he handed it between the two of them respectfully.

"1000 points, this is the maximum point limit for beginners."

The book of life and death is the most special existence of the altar, which can be hidden in the air by the will of the passers-by.

At the end of the level, the settlement points will be displayed on everyone's life and death book from time to time.

Jiang Jichu was going to take out his life and death book to see how many points he got in the novice pass, so he stretched out his finger and pulled it in the air.

... nothing was pulled out.

Jiang Jichu:?

In doubt, he heard Xie Ji's voice from the side: "Two names?"

Jiang Jichu realized that something was wrong, so he immediately went to see the book of life and death in Xie Ji's hand.

The first page of the book of life and death should display the personal information of the passers-by, but the book of life and death in Xie Ji's hand has two sets of information side by side.

Name: Xie Ji

Sex: Male

Age: 26

Points: 1000

Passed the highest level: novice level

Name: Jiang Jichu

Sex: Male

Age: 19

Points: 1000

Passed the highest level: novice level

Jiang Jichu's expression suddenly turned cold: "What's going on?"

Receiving the ghost: "This is the judgment of the altar. The lives of the two of you were bound when you left the novice level. Xie Ji's life and death book was newly generated, so your life and death book is also bound together."

"That means that Jiang Jichu and I will share the same life and death book from now on." Xie Ji was not as impressed as Jiang Jichu, "How is it different from using the life and death book alone?"

The guiding ghost explained in an orderly manner.

"It is in the team formation state by default, and there is no need to register with the relevant institutions for team formation.

"During the sharing of the book of life and death, the team status cannot be canceled.

"Points are exclusive, and you don't need another person's consent to spend them.

"Because the sharing of life and death books is rare, please dig out other differences by yourself."

Jiang Jichu: "How can it be re-divided into two separate life and death books?"

Guiding ghost: "The second rule of the book of life and death: the book of life and death cannot be destroyed and cannot be tampered with. Therefore, if you want to change it into a book of life and death for a single person, one of you must die."

"Friendly reminder, when one party dies, all its points will belong to the other party."

Chapter 17 The altar, all the people, ghosts, monsters, and bosses on the altar call her... Queen.

Room 3, 3029rd Floor, Hotel A, Slum Area.

The room is about 30 square meters, and the interior decoration is unified with the exterior, both in the style of the last century.

As soon as you enter the door, there is a toilet on the right hand side. There are sinks, urinals, and showers. Further forward are pure wooden tables and stools, which are rough in workmanship and have burrs on the edges. The single iron bed in the deepest part is next to the only one in the room. A window, fortunately, the sheets and quilts are clean, which gives people a lot of comfort.

Through Jiang Jichu, Xie Ji had a simple understanding of the prices in the slums.

One day for staying in a hotel is [-] points, there is no kitchen, and meals can only be bought in the supermarket downstairs, with a minimum of [-] points for a meal.

Sleeping in the open is prohibited in the main urban area, and violators will be forcibly thrown into the next level of checkpoints that have passed the highest checkpoint.

In other words, even if you only eat two meals a day, the daily cost of living in a slum is [-] points.

He now has [-] points, and he can stay for five days with a full playbook, no more, no less.

The range of points available for the novice level is zero to one thousand.

This one thousand points is the highest score he and Jiang Jichu got for clearing the novice level together and solving Niu Kuyin. With Wang Dan and his group's behavior of only looking for safety in clearing the level, they can get up to [-] points.

Those who are capable have already broken through the high-level levels, and those who are still hovering at the low-level levels or even the novice levels, most of them only have the ability to live on a minimum guarantee.

He has three meals regularly, and he has no bad habit of skipping breakfast. Moreover, he lost a lot of blood to save Jiang Jichu, who was seriously injured again, and both of them needed to take care of their bodies.

Their points are only enough to last four days—and that's without buying other supplies.

No wonder there is no one on the streets in the slums, they are all running for their lives.

Xie Ji never sits and eats mountains, let alone he doesn't even have mountains now.

If it was only him, he would go straight to the next level after sleeping, but because of the mandatory binding of the book of life and death, he had to consider Jiang Jichu who had just survived from the life and death line.

The two of them asked for two rooms, but at this moment they were staying together because they wanted to discuss what to do next, and they were sitting at the end of a bed and at a table and were silent with each other.

Jiang Jichu was probably still angry, and the novice pass was with him all the way, and finally he had to pass the pass at the risk of his life, just to make trouble for him after he came out, so that he could vent his anger on the broken wristwatch.

Now it's all right, the two share the same life and death book as teammates, and Jiang Jichu's trouble with him is equal to trouble with himself.

Unless Jiang Jichu wanted to kill him directly...

The Jieyin ghost said that he wanted to take the book of life and death as his own, unless the other party died.

And when the other party dies, all of its points go to the living owner.

There is no benefit in binding, but killing people and getting more money can make a lot of money.

This is undoubtedly a huge hidden danger planted between him and Jiang Jichu, making them have to guard against each other.

Xie Ji looked at Jiang Jichu, who was obviously still angry, his overly pretty face was so heavy that it could drip water.

He said helplessly, "Aren't you happy?"

Jiang Ji glanced at him for the first time, but didn't speak.

"Think about it, sharing a life and death book is better than dying," Xie Ji, "If you still miss your watch, I will fight with you when you recover from injury, but if you agree in advance, I will repair it for you." , but you won’t be allowed to fight, your attack is too dark.”

Jiang Jichu's words were sarcasm: "My hands are black?" Who is it that is thinking about digging people's graves every day, killing a lifespan with a knife?

Xie Ji blinked: "Then we are the same?"

Jiang Jichu tried hard to control himself not to go back, and changed the subject to talk about business: "Go to the next level tomorrow night."

Xie Ji: "Tomorrow night?" He subconsciously looked at Jiang Jichu's chest. The other person was wearing a newly bought clothes that cost [-] points. He couldn't see the wound through the fabric, but he remembered how serious the injury was, no matter how late it was. A little bit of soaking into the blue liquid will kill you.

He also had a bloodletting wound on his wrist. Judging from his own recovery speed, Jiang Jichu would definitely not heal tomorrow night.

Xie Ji: "Are you going to pass through the level with injuries?"

Jiang Jichu: "It's okay."

Xie Ji: "Why don't you get in the way, have you forgotten how the car overturned this time?"

When he persuaded Niu Er to deal with Niu Kuyin, he realized that Niu Er was not as honest and upright as Niu Fugui said, and had little reaction to several lives. He decided to take revenge on Niu Kuyin after seeing Niu Wei's body.

At that time, he suspected that Niu Er's decision to deal with Niu Kuyin was not even for Niu Wei, but for himself.

Only those who have died once know how terrible death is.

So he reminded Jiang Jichu to be careful of Niu Er, but unexpectedly something happened. He was only concerned about Niu Kuyin at that time, and didn't pay attention to the strange situation behind him.

Jiang Jichu was regarded as an "old Jianghu", and he didn't notice Niu Er's sudden attack, probably because he was seriously injured, his consciousness was blurred, and his defense was lowered.

Although Xie Ji wanted to leave the altar as soon as possible, he didn't want his teammates to continue to suffer injuries. First, it was inhumane, and second, it might also affect him.

Jiang Jichu didn't justify his mistake, but he pursed his lips and said, "There won't be another time. I'll recover almost by tomorrow."

Xie Ji: "You have already cleared [-] or [-] checkpoints, and you don't need a day or two. What's the rush?"

Jiang Jichu was silent for a moment: "No one wants to stay at the altar."

Xie Ji smiled: "No one wants to stay at the altar, but you have to make adequate preparations. I just happen to be walking around the main city tomorrow to find out the way. If you recover well, we will enter the next level the day after tomorrow."

Jiang Jichu thought about it: "I'll take you around tomorrow."

Xie Ji: "You should take a good rest."

Jiang Jichu: "It's just walking. And I have to go out tomorrow."

So it's settled.

After breakfast the next morning, the two went out together.

The slum area is the largest and most desolate and dilapidated area in the main city. There are two other areas: the civilian area and the selection area.

According to Jiang Jichu, he even bought a house in the selection area, but after the life and death book was bound to him, even the highest pass was cleared, and the house became a decoration that could not even be seen.

It sounds irritating.

Xie Ji inquired about the housing prices in the three areas. The slum area started with 100 points, the civilian area started with 500 million points, and the selection area started with [-] million points.

It seems that whether it is the real world or the main city of the altar, many people still have to rush to buy a house.

They walked all the way to the end of the slum, where stood a huge altar stretching from sky to earth.

The bottom of the altar is made of black jade, and the top is built with seven sides. It is a bit like a tower, but the edges and corners are not so clear. The overall color is dark brown. The material of the wall cannot be seen from the outside. Circle upwards in turn until they are submerged in the clouds.

"The full name of the altar is the half-step Fengdu Four Elephant Soul-Sealing and Reincarnation Primal Chaos Altar," Jiang Jichu said, "the official checkpoint has seven sides and eight floors, connecting three large areas."

Xie Ji was surprised: "You actually remember such a long name?"

Jiang Jichu: "..."

Jiang Jichu: "If you want to enter the checkpoint, go to the inside of the altar through the black jade steps."

Xie Ji: "Is there any difference on each side?"

Jiang Jichu: "No."

Thank you for posting it, it was built this way to look good or divert people.

He continued to ask: "Seven sides and eight floors, corresponding to the novice level and the final level of the formal level, the seventh floor?"

Jiang Jichu looked up at the cloud.

"As long as you pass the seventh floor, you can leave the altar. The eighth floor is the residence of the altar ruler.

"All the people on the altar, ghosts, monsters, and bosses call her... Queen.

"It is said that the altar was built by her, and it has been thousands of years."

thousands of years...

Xie Ji: "In these thousands of years, has anyone successfully left the altar?"

In Jiang Jichu's words, I don't know who he was mocking: "Yes."

Xie Ji figured out something from Jiang Jichu's attitude: "Which hero is it?"

Jiang Jichu: "They all said yes, but no one could say a specific name."

Xie Ji immediately understood.

What about painting cakes?

The so-called successful leavers are nothing but illusory symbols, which inspire those who break through to climb up.

But for thousands of years, is it true that no one has successfully left the altar...

He thought of Jiang Jichu standing beside him.

Before Jiang Jichu's book of life and death started from scratch, he had read the other party's book of life and death, but Jiang Jichu only showed him a few pages.

Xie Ji: "How many floors have you reached?"

Jiang Jichu's eyes fell on a certain pattern at random, and his voice was steady: "It's not important anymore."

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Except for the altar, there is nothing to see in the slums, and the two basically chatted while walking.

Mostly, he asked questions about the altar, and Jiang Jichu answered them.

Xie Ji learned that the time flow rate in the altar world is uniform, and the ratio of the time flow rate in the real world is about 28:1.

While he is in the altar world, he in the real world will act according to his original personality, similar to a stand-in, or an empty shell. Once he dies in the altar world, the real world will also die.

That's good, at least his parents or secretary won't worry and call the police because of his sudden disappearance.

Otherwise, I don't know how to explain it after I go back desperately.

It was almost dusk after visiting the slums, Xie Ji and Jiang Jichu came to a barren hill outside the main city.

It is also the cemetery of all those who died at the altar.

It is said to be a cemetery, but it is more like a large cemetery formed day after day.

As far as the eye can see, there are grave mounds everywhere, without rules and uniform patterns, but it still makes people feel solemn.

Xie Ji frowned slightly.

How many people were pulled into the altar, and how many people were buried here without a sound.

Jiang Jichu: "I'm going to pay homage to someone, it's up to you."

Xie Ji didn't follow, and only watched Jiang Ji from afar as he walked to an unnamed grave and stood still in front of an unknown grave.

Sunshine is a saturated warm color, and even Jiang Jichu's expression, which has always been owed him 800 million by others, is rarely set off with a bit of peace.

It should be talking to the deceased, but it was too far away for him to hear.

The vast majority of people died within the checkpoint, and the corpses could not be brought out. Teammates would bring the deceased's relics for burial.

Jiang Jichu put a bunch of irises that he bought on the road in front of the grave, his voice was very soft, as if he was coaxing people: "I was in a hurry before, so I didn't have time to say goodbye to you."

After a while.

"Can you see the man standing over there, Xie Ji, our books of life and death were bound together by accident... no, not by accident.

"The queen does not allow anyone to challenge her authority, only she can do this. Under arrogance, mistakes are most likely to occur, the plan is forced to advance, and the success rate will also increase.

"I can't avenge you, but Xie Ji can.

"Wait a little longer."