The Legend of the Demon Hunter

Xiao Zhu looked at Ning Zhiwan in disbelief and asked in confusion: "Miss Ning, what did you say?"

"I recognize him. His name is Gu Zeling and he's our senior. He was one of the students who participated in the illusion trial last time, but unfortunately he disappeared in the illusion and there has been no news of him since then." Ning Zhiwan explained.

"Then how did you recognize him?" Xiao Zhu asked puzzledly.

"It was just a coincidence. Gu Zeling was once a student of Teacher Yu Han. He was good at painting and regarded Teacher Yu Han as his idol. He once gave Teacher Yu Han a painting with both him and Teacher Yu Han in it. I have seen the painting, so I recognized him." Ning Zhiwan recounted the whole story.

"Fate is unpredictable. I didn't expect that a living person in the past would fall here and turn into an ice sculpture." Seeing what happened to Gu Zeling, Xiao Zhu became more and more desperate.

He seemed to see his future destiny. Will I also sleep here like him?

"Brother Xiao, is it true that we can't escape from here?" Ning Zhiwan had the same thought as Xiao Zhu, and she couldn't help but ask.

Xiao Zhu looked up at the sliver of sky and pointed, "Miss Ning, this place may be able to trap us for a while, but it won't be able to trap us forever. If there is really no way out, with the water spirit power in my body, I can open up a path on this cliff and we can escape."

"Although this canyon is deep, if we can't escape in one day, we can use a year. If we can't escape in one year, we can use three years. This place is covered with ice and snow, and there are corpses of monsters that fell to their deaths. If we are hungry and thirsty, we can just drink snow water and eat monster meat. In addition, this place has abundant spiritual energy, and we can practice and recover when we are tired. When the next illusion opens in three years, we can finally leave here."

Hearing this, Ning Zhiwan felt better. She said sincerely, "Thank you, Brother Xiao."

After saying this, Xiao Zhu took out the Demonic Shadow Sword, cut through the ice like cutting tofu, and took out Gu Zeling's body.

"Ms. Ning, after all, we are all alumni of Nuowan College. Let's bury him!" Xiao Zhu said.

Ning Zhiwan nodded. She bent down to pick up the storage bracelet that Gu Zeling had dropped on the ground. After picking it up, she carefully examined it for a long time. Her eyebrows gradually wrinkled, and a tangled look appeared on her face. She said to herself, "That's not right!"

"What's wrong?" Xiao Zhu looked at Ning Zhiwan and asked puzzledly.

"Gu Zeling joined Nuowan College only one year earlier than us, which means he entered this illusory world three years ago. However, his storage bracelet can hardly sense any mark of his spiritual power. How come it feels like he has been here for hundreds of years?" Ning Zhiwan said with a frown.

"What do you mean?" Xiao Zhu asked confusedly.

"Brother Xiao, you should know that this storage bracelet is made with the help of a kind of ore with spatial properties, right? This raw material ore is called Kongfan Stone, which is extremely rare. It is precisely because of the monopoly of this stone that Le Tianyin's family has become a powerful family in the Rhine Empire."

"When a demon hunter uses a storage bracelet made of void stone, he must leave his own exclusive spiritual power mark in it before using it. However, because void stone is not stable, the demon hunter's spiritual power mark will decay by half every hundred years. After a hundred years, the storage bracelet with half the spiritual power decayed will become a storage bracelet that can only be taken out but not stored. After another hundred years, its spiritual power will decay again. At that time, the storage bracelet will no longer be able to store or retrieve items. The items stored in it will be forever exiled to the different space and can never be found again, and this storage jade bracelet will become a useless ordinary stone."

Xiao Zhu heard this for the first time, and he took Gu Zeling's storage jade bracelet with surprise and doubt. He tried it and found that its spiritual power was very weak, and it was completely unusable regardless of storage and access. This storage jade bracelet had turned into an ordinary stone.

"How could this happen?" Xiao Zhu was puzzled.

"There is only one explanation." Xiao Zhu had never seen Ning Zhiwan's face turn so pale, and this paleness revealed a kind of despair: "The flow of time in this illusory world is different from the outside world. The flow of time here is nearly a hundred times faster than the outside world. Although only three years have passed outside, Gu Zeling has been frozen here for more than two hundred years."

"You mean, unless we can escape from here before this illusion closes, the next time the illusion opens, it will be two hundred years later here?" Xiao Zhu understood what Ning Zhiwan was thinking.

Ning Zhiwan was independent and strong-willed, but she was at a loss after this experience. She said unwillingly, "Two hundred years! Am I going to be trapped here for the rest of my life?"

Xiao Zhu stood there in a daze, not knowing how to answer. At this moment, Heshan Village, Fuguang Town, and Xia Shi flashed through his mind like fleeting shadows, and he was also unwilling to give in.

"No!" Xiao Zhu suddenly realized the problem: "If the flow of time here is nearly a hundred times faster than outside, then seven days of training time in the outside world should be hundreds of days here, which is almost one to two years. But the illusion trial has been going on for so many years, why haven't you noticed the problem of time?"

The question raised by Xiao Zhu made Ning Zhiwan fall into deep thought. After a long time, she answered: "There is a possibility that when the illusion of nothingness connects with the space we are in, its time will be consistent with the world we are in, but this situation will only last for seven days. After seven days, when it leaves our world, time will speed up to a hundred times."

Xiao Zhu shook his head, as if this answer could not convince him.

"Brother Xiao, there is actually another piece of evidence. Nuowan College arranges ten students to come here for training every three years. Although the casualty rate in the past years was not high, dozens of students have disappeared after more than a hundred training sessions. But the body we found at the bottom of this cliff was only Gu Zeling's, and it was covered by a thick layer of ice. Isn't this strange? I believe that there are no fewer people who have fallen here. The only explanation is that they fell a long time ago, after thousands or even tens of thousands of years, and have long been buried deep in the snow." The evidence that Ning Zhiwan presented made Xiao Zhu silent.

"Brother Xiao, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry! If it weren't for saving me, you wouldn't be trapped here with me." Ning Zhiwan said in a trance.

Xiao Zhu shook his head, not knowing how to answer.

Silence enveloped the two of them like a dark night, and they faced each other with their own thoughts.

After a long while, Ning Zhiwan suddenly said, "Are we really unable to get out? But I still have a wish that has not been fulfilled..." The light in Ning Zhiwan's eyes disappeared, revealing a look of despair: "Brother Xiao, do you want to hear my story?"

Xiao Zhu nodded with a heavy heart.

"I grew up in a poor family, and my birth brought a heavy disaster to my family. According to my mother, it rained heavily for three days and three nights, and on the night I was born, the rain was extremely heavy, with lightning and thunder, and the sky seemed to be falling. The flood caused by the rainstorm drowned dozens of people in the village, and my father was one of them." Ning Zhiwan said, looking into the distance.

These few short sentences immediately attracted Xiao Zhu's attention.