Purgatory Artist
Chapter 684: Death Is Not Enough

Chapter 684: Death Is Not Enough

The sand continued to move.

The surface of the sand was uneven, and lines of small words appeared on it.

[God has convinced the Dream Guardian]

[Now, place your hand on the sand to communicate with your Four Saint Pillars]

[We are the main pillars of your world, so we can gather the power of the Four Saint Pillars into your sequence, allowing you to unleash the original power of a world-type lifeform in the real world]

[This process will take about a few minutes]

[Let Andrea protect you]

Liu Ping quickly finished reading all the words and couldn’t help but ask:

"When can I save you from the Dream Realm?"

On the sand, two more lines of words appeared:

[We belong to a different situation, we entered the Purgatory and the Divine Pillar of Eternal Night to fight or avoid the demons, so we weren’t imprisoned]

[You will probably have to reach the end of the Eternal Night, or enter the Purgatory to find us]

Liu Ping and Andrea finished reading it together.

Not far away from them, the monster revealed its complete body.

Its body was like a dragon and a horse, with a single horn on its head, its four claws pierced deep into the sand, sharp as knives; its entire body was emitting a fluctuating blue-green light, as if it could produce lightning at any time.

Unfortunately, this was a world where everything was forbidden.

「A world where only physical combat is allowed? How laughable, do you think you can defeat me like this?」

The monster snorted, slowly aiming the horn on its head at Liu Ping and Andrea.

Andrea opened her mouth.

"I’ll deal with that monster and buy you some time."

"Be careful, if you can’t do it, retreat." Liu Ping said.

"Don’t worry."

Andrea smiled and suddenly disappeared from where she stood.

A giant dragon flew across the sea of sand at a low altitude, recklessly crashing into the monster’s body.

Dong.

Amidst the dull thud, the monster let out a blood-curdling screech as it was sent flying.

The giant dragon stopped in place, lazily yawned, then turned back into Andrea, floating in the air:

"In terms of physical combat, even if you’re qualified to be a prisoner, you’re still not a match for us dragons."

She turned to look at Liu Ping.

Liu Ping squatted down and pressed his hand on the sand.

In an instant.

The sand around him seemed to come alive, with him as the center, it kept moving up and down, as if it was gathering some kind of power.

Lines of burning words appeared:

[I’ve already received permission from the Dream Guardian]

[Your Four Saint Pillars are communicating with you through your dreams]

[This Sequence is receiving the power of your Saint Pillars]

[Attention!]

[Please keep your hands in contact with the ground and do not move. This will last for five minutes]

After reading these notifications, Liu Ping raised his head and looked into Andrea’s eyes.

"Hold it for five minutes."

Andrea nodded and looked at the monster again.

Several thousand meters away.

In the sea of sand, the single-horned monster slowly got up from the sand pit and walked forward step by step, its aura growing stronger and stronger.

「I can feel that you are very weak ... That collision just now must have used up all your strength. 」

It shook off the sand on its body and turned its gaze from Andrea to Liu Ping.

After thinking for a bit, the monster understood.

「So that’s how it is. You really are existences from the Dreamscape. You are now re-absorbing the power of the Dreamscape.」

「What a joke, I actually helped you. 」

Andrea snorted and said disdainfully, "You talk too much nonsense."

When she said that, the monster became even more interested.

「But it doesn’t matter. 」

「You probably don’t know, as an existence qualified to be imprisoned in the Eternal Night, I actually like to slack off, that’s why I use Lightning spells to kill people. 」

「My true strength is. 」

Liu Ping raised his eyebrows and instinctively wanted to draw his sabers, but then he remembered that his two sabers did not follow him into the real world.

A muffled sound came from afar.

That was the sound of the monster’s four claws stomping on the ground when it attacked with all its might.

In an instant.

It rushed in front of Liu Ping and opened its mouth full of ferocious fangs.

"SCRAM!"

A delicate shout was heard.

With a flash, Andrea arrived just in time and kicked the monster away.

「Naive.」

The monster grinned and ran at an extremely fast speed.

Its speed became faster and faster. With Liu Ping as the center point, it ran like a bolt of lightning without stopping. In the end, it even turned into a continuous afterimage.

This speed was beyond Andrea’s expectations.

She did not know which direction the monster would attack from, and could not block in front of Liu Ping in time.

Liu Ping’s eyes flashed and suddenly said, "Fine, let’s fight it first."

"No, I haven’t admitted defeat yet!"

Andrea gritted her teeth and said.

Her body shook and turned into a dragon again. She spread her wings and protected Liu Ping under her body.

With the help of the dragon’s huge body.

This time, no matter which direction the monster attacked from, she could protect Liu Ping!

Seeing this, the monster could not help but laugh.

「Hahaha, since you want to block for him, I’ll kill you first! 」

A huge figure as fast as lightning crashed into the dragon’s body and quickly moved away.

The dragon could not help but spit out a mouthful of blood, but she steadied her body and continued to block Liu Ping under its body.

The monster’s voice came from afar with a hint of pride.

「Poor dragon, you’re going to die because of me. 」

「By the way, I saw the words that appeared in the desert. There are still three minutes and eleven seconds before he can obtain the power accumulated in the dream, isn’t that right? 」

An anxious look appeared in the dragon’s eyes.

It would take a total of five minutes.

According to the time, it would indeed take more than three minutes.

The monster had already seen through everything!

The monster discerned Andrea’s expression, and its voice became more aggressive.

「Naive Giant Dragon, you don’t know that this place actually limits your power, and I ... 」

「I’ve killed many giant dragons! 」

As soon as it said that, intense killing intent radiated from the monster’s body.

It ran even faster.

Andrea couldn’t catch any trace of it at all, so she could only cover Liu Ping’s head with her dragon wings to protect him.

At this point.

Liu Ping’s expression was a bit strange.

Logically speaking.

Be it Master Pao, Gaia, Death Goddess Meng, or even Pixie princess Rita, all of them were smart people.

And that God.

Oh God.

That guy knows everything!

Could it be that the power transfer method they designed together was so easily manipulated by the enemy?

If that’s the case, God would’ve thought of a way to remind me.

But the current situation is ...

God didn’t give me any reminders!

Which means ...

Liu Ping looked at the void of space, only to see lines of burning text floating there:

[This Sequence will take a total of two minutes to connect with the four Saint Pillars]

[The connection has been completed]

[The four Saint Pillars have begun to rotate]

[You will immediately obtain an ability of Earth, Water, Fire, or Wind to use in combat]

All the text faded away.

Liu Ping quickly skimmed through it and nodded.

That’s more like it.

What five minutes? That’s a lie, it only takes two minutes.

Sure enough, they’re a bunch of deceitful people.

The void of space flashed.

A huge gust of wind blew towards them.

The prisoner’s voice filled with killing intent resounded:

「Time’s up, die, you’re the 39th dragon I’ve killed! 」

It suddenly appeared behind Andrea.

Just as it was about to attack, another person also appeared behind it.

Liu Ping!

The monster reacted quickly and tried to dodge.

But its feet were stuck in the desert, unable to pull itself out.

"Earthbind, it’s very simple, many people know a similar technique."

Liu Ping pointed his finger like a blade.

Strands of Blade qi radiated from his finger.

The monster desperately struggled, but couldn’t escape from the ground no matter what.

Liu Ping raised his finger.

As if he was raising the blade in his hand.

He continued: "The only difference is that my Earthbind has reached the level of a World Technique, so it’s not that easy to escape."

The blade was about to descend.

In the sky, a howling sound could be heard.

A large dragon claw struck the monster’s body, causing it to spit out a mouthful of blood.

Andrea.

In other words, thick smoke was rising from the dragon’s body.

Even though this was a forbidden world, dragons were born with the ability to emit flames based on their emotions. This was the physical strength of these creatures.

Whoosh

The flames gradually covered the dragon’s body, showing how angry she was.

Liu Ping raised his head and took a look. He simply kept his hand blade and slowly retreated.

Leave it to the furious Andrea.

The Colossal Dragon looked down at the immobile monster, extended a dragon claw in front of the monster, and asked calmly,

"I heard that you have killed over thirty giant dragons, as expected of a prisoner. However, I would like to ask ..."

"When you couldn’t move, were you hit by the Flame Dragon Claw? Hmm? "

The monster looked at the dragon scales flowing with lava and the sharp dragon claws made of all the dragon scales. Its body trembled, and it suddenly revealed a flattering smile:

「Honorable dragon, I was just joking. 」

"Just joking." the giant dragon replied.

The monster hurriedly said, 「Yes, I’m just joking, I’ve always been ... 」

The ferocious, sharp dragon claws burning with flames and spraying lava pierced through the void and smashed onto the monster’s body with full force.

This was not the end.

Since the Colossal Dragon’s attack landed, her emotions seemed to be ignited. She waved her claws and kept hitting the sand.

The more she hit, the more excited she became. She hit until the ground was full of flowing lava. Even the desert was melted. The monster’s screams turned to groans and then to silence.

Finally.

Andrea was done venting her anger.

She turned back into a little girl in a red dress. She stuck out her tongue and came in front of Liu Ping. She held his arm and said:

"I didn’t stop and killed it instantly."

"This is the first prisoner we’ve captured, but I’ve already killed him ..."

"You won’t blame me, right?"

Liu Ping was silent for a moment.

Only when Andrea started to panic did he slowly walk over to the monster’s corpse.

"Liu Ping ..."

Andrea called out softly. Her voice was filled with sorrow.

Liu Ping lowered his head, stepped on the monster’s burnt head and said:

"It’s not enough, Andrea."

Andrea was stunned and asked in a low voice: "What’s not enough?"

Liu Ping lifted the monster’s head and raised it in the air: "It wanted to kill you just now."

"So?" Andrea asked.

Liu Ping nodded towards the void of space.

The desert world disappeared in a flash, disappearing from their surroundings.

The dark sky reappeared.

Around them was a barren land shrouded in dust.

Eternal Night!

They returned to Eternal Night together with the monster’s body.

Liu Ping raised the monster’s head and said: "It wanted to kill you just now. Are we going to let it go just like that?"

He raised his other hand and formed a hand seal with great familiarity.

Nine Serenities– Soul Hunter!

A faint shadow appeared from the monster’s head and circled around Liu Ping’s hand.

Liu Ping played with the soul and said softly, "It tried to use me to threaten you, wanting you to be killed in despair."

"For villains like this, death isn’t enough. I want its soul to suffer as much pain as possible to compensate for the despair you experienced, until the day you no longer feel afraid of what happened just now."

He held the monster’s soul in his hand.

The soul let out an unwilling roar, but due to the pain inflicted by the soul technique, the roar was quickly replaced by begging for mercy.

Liu Ping held the soul and handed it to Andrea.

"If it begs for mercy, then torture it."

"What if it doesn’t?"

"Or torture it."

Andrea stared at him in a daze, looking at the soul that he handed to her.

A few moments later.

Her lips curled up slightly.

She quickly ran towards Liu Ping, letting out a high-pitched squeal unique to little girls:

"Liu Ping, you’re even more handsome than in my dreams!"

Before she even finished.

She had already jumped onto Liu Ping.