Maybe I shouldn't die.

In the reception room of a small courtyard of the Hu family.

Master Hu made some tea, poured a cup for each of the three brothers and sisters, and then said with a smile:

"I know you have a lot of questions now, so just ask if you want to! I will answer everything I can."

As soon as she finished speaking, Hu Shi, who was sitting next to her, couldn't help but pull on the corner of her clothes and whispered:

"Sister, I have a lot of doubts too."

In response to this, Master Hu could only smile helplessly, stretched out his hand to comfort him and said:

"Just listen to me. If you have any questions, I'll explain them to you later."

Even though she had done this countless times, she was always patient with her stupid brother.

Hu Shi felt that he was being treated perfunctorily, but the one who treated him perfunctorily was not someone else but his most respected elder sister.

Forget it, just be perfunctory!

Anyway, sister also said that she would explain it to him alone later.

It’s been a long time since I’ve been alone with my sister!

Thinking of this, he sat aside obediently, but he couldn't help but show a look of anticipation on his face.

Such an expression would inevitably look a bit out of place on the face of Hu Shi, who was already a middle-aged cultivator, but Master Hu did not look uncomfortable at all.

It was as if the person in front of her was still a teenager.

But the eyes of the three brothers and sisters who saw this scene couldn't help but flicker, and they looked at each other for a few times.

After a moment, as if they had reached some kind of tacit understanding, Xia Weizhi said:

"Senior Hu, I want to know what this city and these monks in the city are."

Master Tiger? He didn't seem surprised to hear this question.

It should be said that this is not the first time she has heard this question.

She smiled and replied:

"Haven't you already guessed it before? Scarlet Cloud City was a remote town under the jurisdiction of the Yuxu Sect tens of thousands of years ago. The cultivators you can see in the city now are just souls."

Although he had already made relevant guesses in his mind, when the truth was revealed, Xia Weizhi couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness in his heart.

That’s tens of thousands of years!

It seemed that the grief on his face was too obvious, and Master Hu couldn't help but smile and comfort him:

"It's not as serious as you think. We only wake up once every fifty years, and each time is no more than three months at most. Most of the time we spend in deep sleep."

Although she said so, Xia Weizhi thought it was just words of comfort. Even if he could only wake up for three months every fifty years, he would wake up countless times over the past tens of thousands of years.

The endless years with no end in sight are the most difficult to endure.

However, Senior Tiger doesn't need sympathy the most! Thinking of this, he concealed the sad look on his face and turned to talk about business.

"Will this city only be awake for three months at most?"

Master Tiger nodded and said:

"Yes, it is three months. I know that your secret trial this time lasts for ten years, but this city, or the current level, only lasts for three months."

Xia Weizhi nodded thoughtfully and said:

"after that……"

He was interrupted by Tiger Master before he finished speaking. She said:

"I don't know the details of the subsequent trials."

After she finished speaking, she paused for a moment before saying:

"Even if you know, you can't reveal it. That is your trial."

The latter sentence was probably added because these people in front of him were from the Yuxu Sect.

Such decisive words made Xia Weizhi stunned for a moment, but he quickly changed the subject.

"Can you tell me the origin of this city? Why is it here, and why are the souls of these monks here?"

This is a very important question for the trial-taker.

Every time a trial begins, she might be asked this question, and of course she has to answer it.

In other words, she had already answered the same question hundreds of thousands of times.

Despite this, every time she recalled those things, she couldn't help but feel a vague pain in her heart.

Master Tiger? He was silent for a long time before he answered.

Her tone was extremely long, and contained a hint of melancholy.

"You also know about the monsters that invaded the world in Minglan tens of thousands of years ago!"

Xia Weizhi was not surprised that this might involve monsters. He nodded and said:

"There are records of this incident in the sect."

Master Tiger nodded vaguely before continuing:

"That war lasted for tens of thousands of years before it ended, and I don't know how many lives were lost in it..."

It was a sad history. The three brothers and sisters could not help but fall silent. For a while, the only voice in the living room was Master Hu's explanation.

“…The war that lasted for tens of thousands of years ended with most of the monsters being driven out of the Dark Mist World.

But this is far from the end of the war.

In the desolate world, there are countless monks who have been infected by the evil energy from outside the domain and become possessed.

Although there were methods to purify the evil spirits from outside the domain at that time, they were still immature. Those creatures that were infected and became too deeply possessed by evil spirits, or those that were infected by special evil spirits, could only wait for death.

Their death will be a real extinction, the kind where their souls will be torn apart.

The desolate world in the dark mist cannot bear such a loss because the number of these creatures is simply too large.

In the fight against the monsters, all living beings risked their lives and risked everything, without even considering their final outcome. "

When she said this, she paused and sighed in a long voice.

"I couldn't think about these things at that time. If we can't drive the monsters out, all the living beings in the entire Dark Mist world will become food for the monsters."

Although there were no drastic changes in her tone, Xia Weizhi couldn't help but have certain images appear in his mind as she spoke.

It was a desolate world. After the creatures in the world went through hardships and risked their lives to drive away the invading monsters, there was not much joy of victory on their faces.

The world behind them is still waiting for them to mend, and their companions who have been infected by the evil spirit from outside the domain can only wait for death.

The world's spiritual energy is fading, and its aura is becoming increasingly thin.

The trauma that war has brought to the world can only be made up by countless years.

……

Such a scene is so tragic that it makes people feel heartbroken.

"Woooooo~"

A cry of extreme sorrow broke the silence.

The three brothers and sisters who were immersed in grief couldn't help but freeze, and the same thought appeared in their minds at the same time.

Did I cry out loud?

However, their keen five senses soon told them that it was not them, nor their senior/junior brothers and sisters, who were crying.

If it wasn't the three brothers and sisters, then it naturally couldn't be Master Hu? So there was only one person at the scene who was sad enough to cry out loud.

Hu Shi now looks like a middle-aged man.

He was really too sad at the moment, and his tears were streaming down his face, so much so that Master Tiger, who was being hugged, couldn't help but hold his forehead.

But judging from the expression on her face, she didn't seem surprised by this scene.

This made Xia Weizhi think more.