“Kid, you’re pretty good! How dare you step on me?”

Wang Daifu narrowed his eyes as he approached Qiao Yu, looking as if he was about to start a fight.

“What’s wrong? You don’t like it? Then hit me!”

Qiao Yu deliberately provoked Wang Daifu.

Unexpectedly, Wang Daifu coldly snorted and directly turned his head away.

“Seeing as you did it to save the little girl, I won’t bother arguing with you.”

Qiao Yu stared intently at Wang Daifu’s back.

He was now even more certain that Wang Daifu’s ambitions were great.

In Qiao Yu’s eyes, the Pluto Temple not far away was like a huge trap, just waiting for him to jump in.

“Let’s go quickly. Once we enter the Pluto Temple, let’s quickly finish this broken dungeon. I don’t want to stay here for even a second longer.”

Urged by the freckled woman, the group headed towards the Pluto Temple.

This time, Wang Daifu, contrary to his usual behavior, strode confidently to the front.

As if sensing the others’ doubts, Wang Daifu took the initiative to explain.

“There won’t be any danger here. The danger is all in the previous layers of hell. I’ve walked this road to the Pluto Temple several times. There won’t be any danger.”

Qiao Yu moved closer to Zuo Yu, winking at her to signal her to be careful.

Zuo Yu quickly understood.

The four arrived in front of the Pluto Temple. The towering gate seemed to proclaim that this was the residence of a god.

“Huh? That’s strange, what’s going on?”

Wang Daifu stepped forward and pushed the door, but it didn’t budge.

“That shouldn’t be. This door used to open with a single push.”

Wang Daifu pushed again with more force, but found that it still wouldn’t open.

Qiao Yu looked at the door and noticed two huge black holes on it.

He had a strong intuition that opening the Pluto Temple’s gate required the use of his and Zuo Yu’s crosses.

But then, the freckled woman took the initiative to walk forward.

“Wang Daifu, look here!”

The freckled woman pointed to the two black holes and asked, “Are these keyholes?”

“Huh?”

Wang Daifu raised an eyebrow.

“That shouldn’t be. I’ve never heard of needing any keys when I came here before.”

“This size…”

Wang Daifu turned to look at Zuo Yu and Qiao Yu, extending a large, fleshy hand.

“Bring your crosses here. I suspect those two crosses are the keys to open the door.”

Qiao Yu walked forward.

“No need, we can do it ourselves.”

Zuo Yu also cooperated and moved closer.

Wang Daifu didn’t say anything, just silently retreated to the side.

Qiao Yu reached out and felt around the black hole, then squinted one eye to look inside.

But it was dark and he couldn’t see anything clearly.

“Zuo Yu, I’ll count to three, and we’ll insert them together.” After failing to investigate, Qiao Yu decided to try with the crosses first.

“Okay!” Zuo Yu nodded.

Qiao Yu took out the black cross, which was even hotter than before.

“Three!”

“Two!”

“One!”

*Click, click, click*, accompanied by a series of mechanical clicks, the two crosses entered the two holes respectively.

*Creak!*

With a soft sound, the gate of the Pluto Temple slowly opened, and a long-sealed, decaying smell wafted out from within.

A wild, ancient aura rushed into Qiao Yu’s mind.

A shocking scene appeared before Qiao Yu’s eyes.

Everywhere were mountains of corpses and seas of blood, the earth already stained reddish-brown with blood.

The corpses of various creatures lay on the ground.

Qiao Yu couldn’t even name these creatures.

Some had scales all over their bodies and three eyes;

Some were shaped like horses but had wings;

Some had six legs and four wings…

The corpses of these monsters now lay prostrate at the feet of a man.

He wore a white robe, his body surrounded by lightning, and a hazy mist concealed his face.

His slender figure gave off an imperial威严 (wēi yán – majesty).

The man in white suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze piercing through the mist and heading straight for Qiao Yu.

Qiao Yu felt a splitting headache just from looking at him!

*Huff, huff, huff!*

Qiao Yu, regaining his senses, gasped for breath. He couldn’t help but tremble.

But when Qiao Yu opened his eyes again, where was the magnificent scene from just now?

In the middle of the Pluto Temple was only an ancient, sacred crystal coffin.

And above the coffin, a man in a white robe lay quietly.

Qiao Yu had a strong feeling that this man in white was the one he had just seen.

Could it be that what he had just seen was the man in white’s dying moments?

“Qiao Yu, are you okay?” Zuo Yu noticed Qiao Yu’s abnormality immediately.

“I’m fine. Did you see any scenes just now?” Qiao Yu asked.

“Scenes? No!” Zuo Yu shook her head.

Qiao Yu frowned slightly. Could it be that only he had seen the scene just now?

“Damn! What’s going on?”

Wang Daifu was also stunned. He stepped forward and gently stroked the crystal coffin, his face full of disbelief.

“That shouldn’t be! I’ve been to the Pluto Temple so many times, and it’s always been empty! How can there be such a big coffin this time?”

Qiao Yu was shocked. Could it be that Wang Daifu couldn’t see the man in white inside the crystal coffin?

Qiao Yu also walked forward. The man in the crystal coffin was very handsome, even妖异 (yāo yì – bewitching), and his face didn’t look like it could grow on a human being.

However, as Qiao Yu approached, the man in white suddenly opened his eyes!

The man’s eyes had no whites, and he stared straight at Qiao Yu like two deep black holes.

“Hiss!”

Qiao Yu was so frightened that he retreated again and again. What was this thing? A zombie?

Qiao Yu felt a chill in his heart.

Then, the crystal coffin suddenly exploded, and the man in white rushed towards Qiao Yu.

Qiao Yu quickly raised the Corpse Ancestor Ring, but he found that the Corpse Ancestor Ring was ineffective against him!

This was the first time since he obtained the Corpse Ancestor Ring!

He could only watch helplessly as the man in white rushed towards him.

In desperation, Qiao Yu could only quickly raise his hands to block his face.

However, the attack he imagined didn’t come. The man in white passed through him like a ghost and disappeared.

“Congratulations to the player for obtaining the Seed of Pluto.”

《冥王之种》(Míng Wáng zhī Zhǒng – Seed of Pluto): S-grade disposable item, currently has no special effects.

Huh?

Qiao Yu was even more confused. An S-grade disposable item, and he couldn’t use it?

“Qiao Yu!”

“Qiao Yu!”

“Qiao Yu!”

A burst of frantic shouts made Qiao Yu open his eyes again.

He saw Zuo Yu looking at him with a worried expression.

“Zuo Yu?”

Qiao Yu was stunned. Shouldn’t he be in front of the crystal coffin?

“What happened to me? Why am I in your arms?”

“You froze as soon as you touched that crystal coffin, and then you didn’t respond no matter how I called you,” Zuo Yu explained.

“Then you suddenly started waving your hands frantically, like you were possessed.”

Zuo Yu’s expression was very serious.

“Is that so…”

Qiao Yu looked thoughtful. So the scene he saw just now, and the man in white rushing towards him in front of the crystal coffin, were all his illusions?

No, rather than illusions, it was more like the man in white had specifically created those images for him to see.

Qiao Yu stood up and looked towards the crystal coffin.

The man in white inside had disappeared at some point.

Leaving behind only an empty crystal coffin.