Purgatory Artist-Chapter 434: The Tree and the Clothes

Fog.

In the depths of the fog, he could vaguely see the dilapidated building not far away.

Liu Ping moved his wrist.

The Baina Saber jumped from his waist and landed in his hand.

"Be careful, none of your companions can appear here, you must be extremely careful."

A buzzing sound came from the saber.

"I know, but it's really strange here, there's no one here, where are the monsters?" Liu Ping said as he looked around, but found that he could not see anything.

He switched the saber from his left hand to his right hand and walked towards the building step by step.

It was quiet all around.

Liu Ping quickly passed through the fog and arrived in front of the building.

He looked up at the building.

Densely packed human bodies twisted, tangled, and coiled together, forming a giant tree that reached the sky.

But this giant tree seemed to have suffered some severe damage, it was cleanly cut from a height of more than ten meters, revealing countless squirming flesh in the middle.

"... How should I put it, I now have a clearer understanding of 'nightmares'."

Liu Ping hugged the saber and muttered to himself.

He turned around and walked towards the depths of the fog.

After a while.

The fog dispersed.

Liu Ping found himself back in front of the Giant Tree of Flesh.

"Eh? I'm back? "

Liu Ping glanced at the tree, left it again, and walked towards the depths of the fog.

After a few minutes.

He found that there seemed to be a shadow hidden in the fog in front of him.

He walked forward to take a look.

It was still the Giant Tree of Flesh.

Liu Ping fell into deep thought.

I can't leave the area covered by this giant tree?

He slowly stood in front of the giant tree, holding the saber in his hand and quickly wrote a few lines on the ground:

"Three thousand six hundred and fifty-seven steps, under this tree."

After he finished writing, he immediately kept his saber and walked towards the fog again.

After a while.

Liu Ping appeared from the fog and stood in front of the giant tree again.

He looked at the ground and saw that it was flat, without any scratches.

"In other words ... this is another Giant Tree of Flesh?"

Liu Ping thought for a while and turned back according to the path he came from.

After a while.

He counted his steps, controlled the direction, and finally arrived at the place he came from after taking three thousand six hundred and fifty-seven steps.

Under the giant tree.

There were no words.

He clearly wrote a line of words here!

Liu Ping calmed himself down, drew his saber, and wrote another line of words:

"What are you?"

After he finished writing, he put away his knife and took a few steps back.

He stared at the line of words in silence.

One breath.

Two breaths.

Three breaths.

...

The tenth breath.

Liu Ping's gaze froze.

The ground wriggled as if a wound were healing.

The small words he had carved disappeared.

"Strange ... Am I standing on the body of something?"

Liu Ping immediately looked at the tree again.

He saw that the place where the tree touched the ground was seamless, without any trace. Now that he looked at it again, it didn't look like a tree anymore.

Instead, it was more like a thorn growing out of a huge body.

Liu Ping sighed and carefully put away his long saber. He muttered to himself,

"I hate these unknown things the most. There's no way to deal with them at all. Even the intelligence has to be gathered from scratch."

To be honest, it was the black scale that placed him here.

Why?

It had to have some purpose.

What was it trying to do by sending him here?

Liu Ping walked around the tree.

No, it didn't seem to know what it was.

In short, Liu Ping walked around it a few more times but didn't find anything.

He stood in front of the "tree" and muttered, "Does it need some kind of power to activate it?"

A Holy Light flew out from his hand and landed on the "tree".

The human bodies on the "tree" gradually moved.

However, they wriggled a few times and stopped moving again.

It worked!

But it wasn't enough!

Liu Ping thought for a moment, his hands were full of Holy Light, and he waved it at the "tree" as if it was free.

After being nourished by so much Holy Light, the "tree" finally wriggled non-stop.

It gradually produced some kind of rhythm.

It was as if it had come alive.

The wriggling of the entire "tree" became more and more frantic. It looked quite frightening, as if it would collapse at any time.

Liu Ping raised his saber and took a few steps back, saying, "Hey, brother, slow down. Don't go overboard. If a monster jumps out, I won't go easy on it."

As soon as he finished speaking.

The giant "tree" opened up a crack.

This crack continued to extend to both sides, revealing a blood-colored skeleton hidden inside.

The human bodies that formed the "tree" opened their eyes together, and millions of painful groans erupted from their mouths.

The "tree" wriggled even more frantically.

It kept squeezing forward, squeezing the blood-colored skeleton out.

The moment the blood-colored skeleton left the "tree", the entire "tree" suddenly quieted down.

The surroundings fell into dead silence.

Liu Ping stared at the blood-colored skeleton.

It slowly fell from mid-air and landed not far in front of Liu Ping, but it didn't make any sound.

Then it stopped moving.

Liu Ping took a few more glances. He saw that although the blood-colored skeleton looked a little ferocious, it didn't have any aura or energy fluctuations.

It was like an inanimate object.

"That's not right ... In the past, I spent so much effort to hide such a place. Is it just to let me see a skeleton now?"

Liu Ping murmured.

He thought for a moment, walked forward, and tried to touch the blood-colored skeleton.

Almost instantly.

The skeleton suddenly jumped up and sat down cross-legged. It then said with a serious expression: "Please don't attack. No matter where you come from, when you touch this product, this product has already confirmed your identity."

"Is that so? Who am I?" Liu Ping asked.

"I don't know," the blood-colored skeleton said.

"Then how did you confirm my identity?" Liu Ping asked.

"This place is a rare deserted place in nightmares. It has no value, so it's relatively safe. It's most suitable for returnees like you to land here," the blood-colored skeleton said.

"Returnees?" Liu Ping asked.

"Yes, this used to be a world that belonged to humans, but now, not many people can return. Everyone who is qualified to return to nightmares is the most precious treasure of humans," the blood-colored skeleton said.

"Then what are you?" Liu Ping asked.

"I'm... wait! Something is coming, "the blood-colored skeleton said.

It raised its head and looked at the sky.

A whistling wind gradually came from the depths of the fog-filled sky.

It seemed that something was coming.

Liu Ping gradually felt an irresistible feeling in his heart.

All his emotions were stripped away, leaving only one emotion that spread wildly in his heart.

Despair.

Just the aura in the sky made him feel this way. If it appeared, who knew what the situation would be like.

Liu Ping could swear that he had never encountered such a terrifying existence in his life.

The blood-colored skeleton quickly said, "There's no time to explain in detail. If you're discovered, you'll definitely be eaten without any resistance."

"Maybe not," Liu Ping said.

He put away the Baina Saber and took out the Warden Saber.

Life Protection!

The saber let out a low hum.

"Don't use this move!" The blood-colored skeleton suddenly screamed.

Liu Ping forcefully stopped the saber.

"Why?" He asked.

"Time has no effect here. It's just an endless' circle '. The thing you slash out will eventually return. At that time, you won't be able to escape even if you want to," the blood-colored skeleton said.

With that, it quickly stood up and asked, "Do you know how to play dead?"

"I do, but is it useful to use such a crude method against an enemy that even a parallel world can't avoid?" Liu Ping could not help but ask.

"Of course it won't work if you play dead, but if we play dead together, it'll be effective" the blood-colored skeleton answered.

"I do believe that sometimes, the simplest method is the most effective, but isn't playing dead a little too simple?" Liu Ping was still doubtful.

"There's no time!"

The blood-colored skeleton suddenly turned into a stream of blood and circled around Liu Ping.

In an instant, lines of burning text appeared:

[You've obtained a type of 'Nightmare's Embrace':]

[Blood-Colored Skeleton]

[This is a strange armor created from the original material of nightmares. Its most basic function is to conceal your identity as a human]

[The other Traits require further exploration]

All the text disappeared.

Liu Ping looked down at himself.

Only to see that all his flesh and hair had disappeared.

He had turned into a blood-colored skeleton!

At this point, a strong sense of danger appeared in his mind. At the same time, the blood-colored skeleton's voice resounded in his ears.

"Hurry! That guy is coming, play dead! "

Liu Ping fell to the ground without hesitation.

He was like a skeleton.

That's not right!

He was a blood-stained skeleton, silently lying on the ground as if he had been dead for a long time.

Dead silence.

In the sky.

A huge finger pierced through the fog and silently pressed against the ground, creating a deep crater in the ground.

The finger moved back and forth until it finally touched the 'tree'.

At this point, the finger stopped and circled around the 'tree', rubbing it for a while.

At the tip of the finger, an eye suddenly appeared.

It silently observed the 'tree', then looked around and finally found the blood-colored skeleton.

The finger moved and lightly landed on top of the blood-colored skeleton.

Time slowly passed.

One breath.

Two breaths.

Three breaths.

...

The eye was completely focused on the blood-colored skeleton.

After a while, the sound of overlapping echoes could be heard in the sky, as if some kind of gigantic existence was talking to something.

The eye then turned and retracted back into the finger.

He raised his finger silently and disappeared into the thick fog.