After she entered the book, she just wanted to live with her

The sky of the world of life and death was a strange blue-gray color, with thick clouds hanging low like rotten cotton wool, and the scarlet lightning reflected Xihuai's jade-carved profile as it moved.

Gu Cheng shook his sleeves, but the sticky liquid lingered on him like a living thing, emitting a disgusting fishy-sweet smell.

After coming to this shabby place, he felt like he was useless and had to pick his feet to eat.

"Don't move." Xi Huai held his shoulders, and his slender fingers pinched the white handkerchief, gently wiping the stains on his cheek.

Gu Cheng could smell a faint medicinal fragrance on him, which was the scent left over from the previous alchemy.

Xihuai's eyelashes cast a shadow in the dim light. Gu Cheng looked at the faint scar at the corner of his eye, which looked like it was scratched by a sharp weapon.

This reminded him of when they entered the realm of life and death and encountered a giant centipede monster. Xi Huai stood in front of him and repelled it with a spear.

When Xihuai turned around, drops of blood were rolling down the scar.

"Look here." Xi Huai unfolded a piece of yellowed parchment. Fine golden lines floated on the paper, flowing slowly like a living thing.

When Gu Cheng got closer, the golden pattern suddenly shot out a half-inch stream of light, reflecting gold in his amber pupils.

He discovered that the lines would change direction as they moved.

"This is..." He reached out to touch it, but Xihuai gently slapped it away.

"Be careful, this map is made of the skin of a thousand-year-old mirage monster, and the patterns on it can confuse people." Xihuai's voice was still gentle, but with a hint of warning.

"You even have this?" Gu Cheng looked at Xi Huai with suspicion. Something was getting more and more wrong with this guy.

Xi Huai saw through Gu Cheng's thoughts and did not explain.

"Why didn't you take it out earlier?" Gu Cheng said.

The tassel of the jade pendant on Xihuai's waist swayed slightly. "The topography of the world of life and death changes every day at midnight. This map... may not be accurate."

Gu Cheng curled his lips, but his eyes were unconsciously attracted by a flashing red dot on the map.

The red dot flickered, like the rhythm of a heartbeat.

He suddenly felt a tightness in his chest and staggered, holding onto a dead tree beside him.

The faint ringing sound mixed with his heartbeat exploded in his ears. He suddenly grabbed Xi Huai's wrist, touching the pulsating meridians under the skin: "Listen!"

Xi Huai's expression froze and he quickly put away the map.

A ray of green light condensed from his fingertips and drew a talisman in the air.

The talisman transformed into a blue bird and flew towards the direction where the bell sound came from.

"Follow closely." Xihuai held Gu Cheng's hand, and the warmth from his palm made Gu Cheng stunned.

Only then did he realize that Xihuai's hands were extremely cold, as if he was holding a piece of cold jade.

The two followed the guidance of the blue bird, and the surrounding scenery gradually became strange.

The originally gray sky was dyed blood red, and fine cracks began to appear on the ground. Dark red liquid seeped out of the cracks, emitting a rust-like smell.

"This is..." Gu Cheng's pupils shrank slightly.

These are the blood and tears of the world of life and death, condensed from countless souls lost here.

Xihuai's expression also became solemn. He let go of Gu Cheng's hand and took out a string of copper coins from his sleeve.

The copper coins were arranged in the shape of the Bagua formation in the air, making crisp collision sounds.

"Something's wrong," he whispered.

As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding scenery suddenly distorted.

The cracks on the ground expanded rapidly, and dark red liquid gushed out, condensing into countless blood-colored threads in the air.

Those silk threads intertwined into a net, covering the two of them.

"Be careful!" Xi Huai pulled Gu Cheng behind him, and the copper coin array in his hand instantly expanded to form a golden barrier.

The blood-colored thread hit the barrier, making a sharp scream.

"Let's go!" Xi Huai pulled Gu Cheng and rushed out.

The two ran wildly all the way, with the blood-red silk net chasing them closely behind.

"You..." Gu Cheng was about to speak when his feet suddenly felt empty.

He looked down and found himself standing on the edge of a cliff. Below him was an endless void with faint twinkling stars.

Xi Huai seemed to have expected this. He let go of Gu Cheng's hand and turned to face the blood-colored silk net chasing him.

Gu Cheng saw him take out a bronze mirror from the void, with complicated runes engraved on the mirror.

When the bronze mirror was unsheathed, the cold light cut through the twilight. The gluttonous pattern on the mirror swallowed the splattered blood from the tip of the tongue and sucked the blood in the sky into the vortex.

When those scarlet threads twisted into blood beads in the mirror, they reflected the fleeting gilded vertical pupils in Xihuai's eyes.

Gu Cheng stared at the scene in amazement. He had never seen Xi Huai use such magic.

Those blood-colored threads twisted and struggled in the mirror, and finally turned into a drop of crystal blood.

Xi Huai put away the bronze mirror, turned to look at Gu Cheng, a complicated look flashed in his eyes.

"You..." Gu Cheng stepped on the rubble on the cliff as he retreated and asked, "Who are you?"

Xi Huai did not answer immediately. Through the data transmitted by the system, he sensed that Shen Daixing's location was right below the cliff.

He looked up and gazed into the distance.

The end of the world of life and death suddenly lit up with five-colored rays of light, and Jing Mo walked towards it on the broken line of cause and effect.

It's time to separate.

"Go find her." Xihuai pushed gently.

Gu Cheng fell towards the cliff behind him in shock.

While falling, Gu Cheng was surrounded by starlight, and a cold, mechanical sound exploded in his mind without warning.

"[Xihuai] identity data overwrite detected."

"Target individual identified: Xi Huai. Codename: 001. Identity verification passed, system recovery procedure initiated."

"Recovery progress: 10%...20%...50%..."

The mechanical voice calmly reported the progress, and each number was like a timer beating to the millisecond.

Gu Cheng spoke doubtfully, but found his voice so small under the calm broadcast of the system: "W...what?"

"System name: First Generation. Function Overview: All-round. After the restoration is complete, all hidden function menus will be fully unlocked." The system's voice was still emotionless.

"Recovery complete. Welcome back, Xihuai."

"Transfer progress: 80%...90%...100%."

[Identity replacement completed, all permissions transferred to Xihuai]

"Gu Cheng's memory recovery progress is 37%..."

"So you are..." Gu Cheng murmured.

Gu Cheng's mind gradually emerged with the years before he met Shen Daixing, or more precisely, the past before he merged with that inexplicable system.

He is not a system, he is the newborn spirit of the underworld.

The Lord of the Underworld sensed that the path of reincarnation in this world had been closed for a long time, so he separated his soul and came here in person to investigate the reason.

Later, when he saw that the Lord of the Underworld had not returned for a long time, he went to this world and met Fu Ying who was about to send away the Fire Spirit.

He was entrusted with the important task of guiding Shen Daixing to this world and awakening the Lord of the Underworld.

However, an unexpected incident disrupted his trajectory.

He accidentally merged with the system, and the conflict and struggle between the two caused his memory to become confused, so that he mistakenly regarded himself as the system and Shen Daixing as the host.

As for the name 996, it was when he was traveling in another world and witnessed many humans working as hard as cattle and horses. He was deeply moved and imprinted this impressive number into his identity.

"Memory recovery complete."

"The system has been detected as a twin carrier. Do you want to perform the singularization operation?"

Xihuai looked at the question on the holographic screen with complicated eyes. After a moment, he pressed "yes".

Gu Cheng felt that his strength was flowing from his limbs to his fingertips, and finally an invisible object was slowly disconnecting from his consciousness.

Before his consciousness was completely submerged in darkness, Gu Cheng felt indignant.

God knows, when he was young and helpless, he had to fight hard against that inexplicable system before he swallowed it and inherited the authority.

He hasn’t finished his new collection of top furniture pictures yet!

You bastard, you actually dared to steal the system I worked so hard to get.

Don’t let me catch you next time, or I’ll beat you to death!