The Legend of the Demon Hunter

"Brother Xiao, wake up!" Xiao Zhu was awakened by the urgent shouting.

When he opened his eyes, he saw Ning Zhiwan's beautiful face. The blood on her mouth was not dry yet, and her expression was full of worry. When she saw Xiao Zhu open his eyes, she showed a look of surprise on her pretty face, and her smile was like a spring water rippling.

At this moment, Ning Zhiwan behaved like a gentle and virtuous wife who was thinking about her lover. She was completely different from the arrogant leader of the Red Lotus Sect just now.

Perhaps, only in front of Xiao Zhu would she show such a gentle side!

"Brother Xiao, how do you feel?" Ning Zhiwan asked with concern.

Xiao Zhu shook his head and said, "I'm fine. Where are we?"

Ning Zhiwan helped Xiao Zhu sit up. He saw that he and Ning Zhiwan were on a vast grassland. The emerald green grassland spread from near to the horizon. The sky was blue without a trace of clouds. The green ground and the blue sky formed the main colors here. It seemed that the whole world was so simple.

"If I'm not mistaken, we should be in Zhulong's [horizon]." Ning Zhiwan looked around and said.

"Horizon? What is that?" It was the first time Xiao Zhu heard this term.

"Brother Xiao, do you still remember the Tianxing chess game that Sun Yi performed?" Ning Zhiwan reminded Xiao Zhu.

Xiao Zhu remembered that not long ago Sun Yi trapped him in the Tianxing chess game, allowing him to witness with his own eyes what Ning Zhiwan had experienced many years ago. Sun Yi must have done this under Ning Zhiwan's arrangement.

"Of course I remember. Did everything I saw in there really happen?" Xiao Zhu thought of this question.

“Well, after my mother died, I entered the Shura form for the first time. My heart was completely blinded by hatred at that time. The Shura form lasted for more than a month. If it weren’t for Duan...that person who appeared, I’m afraid I would have been completely controlled by the Shura form in this life and turned into a half-human, half-demon demon.” Ning Zhiwan said with a gloomy expression.

"Wan'er, the dead are gone, and we still have to look forward." Xiao Zhu looked at Ning Zhiwan and comforted her.

Ning Zhiwan nodded, and her eyes once again revealed deep affection.

"By the way, Wan'er, is the vision you mentioned the same as Sun Yi's Tianxing chess game?" Xiao Zhu asked.

“It can only be said that they are similar. Both use thoughts to create a virtual world, but Zhulong is a boundary breaker, so his vision is much better than Sun Yi’s Tianxing chess game. As for the specific situation, I am not too clear about it.” Ning Zhiwan explained.

"But why didn't Zhulong just kill us, but instead trapped us here?" Xiao Zhu still didn't understand.

Ning Zhiwan shook his head and said, "I don't know the reason either. I can only guess. Maybe it's because of our special bloodlines, and it wants to take away our bloodline power."

"What? Can the power of blood be taken away?" Xiao Zhu was shocked.

"According to the rules of this demon hunter world, bloodline power cannot be taken away. This is an iron rule. But Zhulong is a boundary breaker. It is difficult for us to imagine whether he can break this rule."

Xiao Zhu felt a chill in his heart. For a demon hunter, having his bloodline power taken away was more painful than killing himself.

"Of course there is another possibility. You have the same psychic blood as Tianhuan. Tianhuan once sealed Zhulong for thousands of years. You can imagine how deep Zhulong's hatred for Tianhuan is. And I want to kill it today, so the two of us are the people it hates the most. It may have trapped us here just to prevent us from dying so easily, and then torture us slowly. Of course, no matter which possibility it is, it is a result more terrible than death." Ning Zhiwan said, but her expression was calm, and she didn't seem to be very afraid of death.

Xiao Zhu thought for a moment, shook off the terrible thoughts in his mind, and said, "Wan'er, don't think too much, let's walk around, maybe we can find a way to escape from here!"

"Yeah." Ning Zhiwan nodded.

Xiao Zhu stood up with difficulty. He felt that his body was extremely weak, and there was almost no spiritual power here, which caused his injuries to heal very slowly. Ning Zhiwan saw Xiao Zhu's weakness and hurriedly supported Xiao Zhu. The two walked forward shoulder to shoulder. Although Ning Zhiwan was also injured, her strength was much stronger than Xiao Zhu, and she was in much better condition at this time.

The two didn't know how long they had been walking. In such an empty and monotonous grassland, no matter how many steps they took, the surrounding scenery would not change at all. This gave Xiao Zhu and Ning Zhiwan the illusion that they were standing still.

He walked until Xiao Zhu's forehead was slightly sweaty, and he suddenly stopped.

"Brother Xiao, what's wrong?" Ning Zhiwan asked puzzledly.

"Wan'er, I have a feeling that although we have been walking, we don't seem to have gone very far." Xiao Zhu said with a frown.

"Ah?" Ning Zhiwan felt strange.

Xiao Zhu thought about it, and then took out an item from the storage bracelet. It was the Magic Shadow Bow that Xia Shi's father gave him. He had kept the bow in there since it was damaged. Xiao Zhu took a look at the Magic Shadow Bow and threw it on the ground.

"Brother Xiao, what are you doing?" Ning Zhiwan felt more and more confused.

"Wan'er, let's go. Just go straight in this direction and don't turn." Xiao Zhu pointed in a direction casually.

Although Ning Zhiwan didn't understand what Xiao Zhu was thinking, he had 100% trust in Xiao Zhu, so the two of them walked in that direction. They walked for a long time, because there was no sun on this grassland, so they didn't know the time, but subjectively it felt like they had walked for a whole day.

A black dot appeared on the grass far ahead, and Xiao Zhu couldn't help but be startled.

"Let's hurry up." The two quickened their pace and walked towards the black spot. When they got closer, they could see clearly that it was the Demon Shadow Bow that Xiao Zhu had discarded earlier.

"How could this happen? Are we back to square one?" Ning Zhiwan was so surprised that she didn't know what to do.

"Yeah. If we change direction, the result will be the same. As long as we keep going in a straight line, we will always return to the starting point." Xiao Zhu explained.

"Why?" Ning Zhiwan was a little confused.

"Because this space is closed. Imagine there is a ball, and two little ants start from any point on the sphere. As long as they keep crawling in a straight line, they will always crawl back to the starting point. Even if these two little ants crawl until they die of exhaustion, they can't leave the sphere." Xiao Zhu explained: "The horizon we are in now is such a ball, and the two of us are the two ants on the ball."

After hearing Xiao Zhu's explanation, Ning Zhiwan suddenly understood. She said in a daze, "So the horizon exists like this. It has no beginning, no end, and no variables. It's like... eternal death."