Purgatory Artist
Chapter 689: The World Line

Chapter 689: The World Line

Sha ... sha ...

Liu Ping followed the dim candlelight of the secret passage forward.

This time, he didn’t plan to stop.

The pixie’s technique was very useful, so he had to take advantage of the two hours he had left to go deeper into the bronze cage.

"Strange, ever since we entered this place, that female voice hasn’t been heard" Andrea commented.

"It is a bit strange ..."

Liu Ping slowed down his steps.

In front of him, a few Void Thorns were lined up in a row, blocking his path.

These things can’t be moved at all, and I don’t know where their roots are.

The only way is ...

Liu Ping muttered: "You can’t see me"

As soon as he said that, he disappeared and reappeared behind the rows of Void Thorns.

He successfully passed.

As he was about to continue forward, a floating thread appeared from the void of space.

"What is this?" Liu Ping was surprised.

Lady Mystery suddenly spoke up: "How miraculous, there’s a timeline here before the nightmare descended"

"A timeline?" Liu Ping asked.

The World Thread seemed to be floating in the water, giving off a flickering light.

Lady Mystery asked: "Have you heard of the concept of a holographic universe?" Something like quantum entanglement, but I don’t know much about technology. "Liu Ping answered.

"World-class life forms all have their own characteristics, creating a complete universe with each other. A timeline is a teleportation method that allows World-class life forms to communicate with each other according to the rules of the universe." Lady Mystery explained.

"Living beings can’t use it?" Liu Ping asked.

"Only World-class life forms can use it." Lady Mystery answered.

The glowing thread seemed to have sensed Liu Ping and slowly floated towards him.

"Can I refuse?" Liu Ping asked.

"Of course you can, but you don’t seem to have a choice right now." Lady Mystery answered.

Liu Ping looked forward.

The end of the secret passage was a dead end.

There was no way out.

There was only this timeline.

"I hate it when I can’t control myself like this."

Liu Ping sighed, reached out his finger and lightly touched the glowing thread.

Almost instantly.

With a sudden tug of the string, he disappeared from where he stood.

In the blink of an eye.

Liu Ping landed on the ground and cautiously looked around.

This was a small, narrow room. The floor was covered in dried bones, and there were a few Void Thorns on the walls.

An old man was nailed to the wall by a Void Thorn, unable to move. He looked extremely weak.

"The flow of time has changed "Lady Mystery said.

"Is the time here different from outside?" Liu Ping asked.

"It’s not the same. The time outside has been destroyed, and this is the space-time line that was imprisoned back in the day. That’s why you don’t know which era you’re in. What an ingeniously designed cage." Lady Mystery lamented.

Liu Ping looked at the wall.

"Save ... save me."

The old man groaned.

As soon as he opened his mouth, the tentacles of the Void Thorn let out a sizzling sound and began to extract something from his body.

The old man immediately shut his mouth.

A line of words appeared above his head:

[World-class life form]

They were of the same kind.

Lines of words appeared on the skeletons on the ground:

[The remains of a god]

It seemed that most of the gods in the old man’s hands had died. In the end, he was nailed to the wall.

But why didn’t the Void Thorn devour him?

It seemed like this old man had some trump cards up his sleeve.

"How do I save you?" Liu Ping asked.

The old man struggled to open his mouth and spat out a Card.

On the card, there were two people with their backs facing each other, and they were constantly rotating.

"Ahahaha! I’ve finally met someone of the same kind! "

"Serves you right for being unlucky!"

The old man endured the pain on his body and laughed maniacally.

The Card turned into a flash of light that connected the old man and Liu Ping.

The two of them spun around.

Liu Ping crashed into the wall, causing the entire wall to tremble.

While the old man stood where Liu Ping originally stood.

This was the power of that Card!

As soon as the old man landed, he jumped up and rushed to the door of the room, about to leave.

Pfff!

A small sound.

The old man slowly lowered his head.

A Void Thorn had pierced through his chest and pulled him back.

"NO! WHY!? I CLEARLY MANAGED TO BREAK FREE! "

The old man held onto the door frame with all his might and barely managed to turn around.

Only to see Liu Ping standing behind him.

As if the Void Thorns couldn’t see him, they let him go and pierced into his body one by one.

"What a pity, if you didn’t do that, I was planning to help you." Liu Ping sighed.

The huge force caused the old man to lose his grip on the door frame and was once again fixed to the wall.

"Save me, I’m sorry just now, I was too impatient."

The old man begged.

"Tell me, what happened to you?" Liu Ping asked.

"I came here to look for treasures, but I was accidentally captured by these damn monsters. You have to save me, I have countless treasures as compensation!" the old man said.

Lies.

Liu Ping shook his head, he really didn’t want to deal with this old man anymore.

He didn’t know how long this guy had been trapped for, but he still had the World Line, the Card that allowed him to exchange locations, he could even stay alive.

Full of lies.

If he wasn’t careful, he would attack again.

Bringing someone of the same kind with him would be very tiring.

Just let him continue to be trapped here.

Liu Ping opened the door and walked out.

The moment the door closed, the old man’s desperate screams were cut off from the room.

Liu Ping looked at both sides of the corridor.

It was a dead end.

On this path, there was only this prison room, nothing else.

A few flickering World Lines floated in the corridor.

Liu Ping ignored them and walked straight to the end of the corridor, pressing his hand against the wall, attempting to activate [You Can’t See Me].

But a line of burning text appeared from the void of space:

[Conditions not met, unable to activate current ability]

Unable to activate.

Could it be that the bronze wall behind it is solid?

Liu Ping walked to the other end of the corridor and pressed his hand against it.

Still unable to activate.

He lightly leapt onto the ceiling and lightly tapped the bronze wall with his hand.

Judging from the dull sound, this probably wasn’t a wall, but rather a space without any gaps.

Could it be that only World Lines can be used to leave?

Liu Ping landed and looked at the drifting World Lines.

"Lady Mystery, in the previous era ... did all World-class life forms use these kinds of World Lines?" Liu Ping asked.

"It is a kind of universal connection, a naturally occurring clue. World-class life forms can use it to travel through time to meet other of their kind in places that were originally unreachable." Lady Mystery answered.

"That’ll only put themselves in danger, who would use it so easily?" Liu Ping shrugged.

"In the previous era, the Laws of the previous era were still there, everyone could use divination and other foresight methods, or even directly use the Laws to identify who the World Lines are connected to." Lady Mystery answered.

"Not anymore." Liu Ping said.

"That’s right, the Laws are all dead." Lady Mystery replied.

Liu Ping looked at the World Lines one by one.

To leave this place, he had no choice but to randomly pick one.

He lightly tapped one of the World Lines with his finger.

The World Line instantly gave off a blinding light that pulled him away like a bolt of lightning, disappearing from the corridor.

The void of space opened.

Liu Ping silently landed.

This was another bronze corridor.

Four humanoid entities were standing around him.

They were all in human form, but in reality, they were all World-class life forms.

"Be careful, the flow of time has changed again, we don’t know what time this palace is in." Lady Mystery whispered.

Liu Ping lightly nodded and glanced at the end of the corridor.

There was a door there.

I can finally see the door!

He pulled his gaze back and looked at the other entities.

"Hah, another one of our kind has arrived." a person with two heads said.

"Let me count, there are five of our kind in total, that’s about enough." a muscular man whose lower body was a horse and upper body was a human said.

The others also agreed.

"Everyone, what are you gathered here for?" Liu Ping asked.

Everyone went silent and looked at him with a strange gaze.

"You didn’t use any foresight abilities to check before coming here?" a woman in a long dress asked curiously.

Foresight abilities ...

The Laws are all dead, and I came from the Dream World, what can I see?

But I can’t say that.

Lady Mystery suddenly spoke up: "Tell them, you’re enveloped in luck today, so you can’t be bothered to Divine."

Liu Ping smiled and replied: "I’m extremely lucky today, so I can’t be bothered to Divine."

It was now that everyone realized.

"You’re lucky, it’s a rare Law of Fate, for you to be enveloped by it is also our entire group’s fortune." the centaur laughed out loud.

Everyone appeared relaxed and no longer looked at Liu Ping with cautious gazes.

The two-headed man began to explain to Liu Ping:

"I found a bronze cage, its craftsmanship had surpassed the standards of my era, so I’m guessing that there must be some sort of secret hidden inside."

"Perhaps it’s treasure." his other head said.

"In short." the woman continued: "He had activated the Quest Timeline, any World-type life form that enters this cage would be able to see his timeline and come to explore together with him."

"So that’s how it is." Liu Ping nodded.

"Although we’re all from different eras, since we’re all here, let’s work together. After all, this place isn’t simple at all." a middle-aged man in a black robe said.

"I’ll go first, I’m from the Era of Divine Spring, I’m an expert in close combat." the centaur said.

"I’m from the Era of Shamans, I’m an expert in spells." the black-robed man said.

"I’m from the Era of Chaotic Fall, I like to play with curses." the two-headed man said.

"Era of Artifacts, like that horse, I’m an expert in close combat." the woman in the long dress said.

Liu Ping’s mouth twitched, but felt that it wasn’t appropriate to tell them where he came from.

"The end of the Era is a big secret, you can’t tell them. Just tell them that you’re from the Old Desolate Era." Lady Mystery whispered.

"I’m from the Old Desolate Era, I’m an expert in a few strange and unusual spells, but who has a Blade? I left in a hurry, so I didn’t bring any weapons. "Liu Ping said.

Everyone was speechless.

"You didn’t even bring a single storage item?" the woman in the long dress asked.

"I’m sorry, I really didn’t." Liu Ping apologized.

A thick and simple dark yellow machete was tossed in front of Liu Ping.

"I’ll lend it to you, return it to me after the exploration." the two-headed man said.

Liu Ping held the machete.

Two lines of burning text appeared:

[You’ve obtained the Blade of Illusion]

[This blade cannot be unsheathed, you will need to rely on your mind to manifest a physical form and blade to attack]

Liu Ping held the machete down.

All of a sudden.

A shadow of him flew out and slashed continuously in the air, sending out sharp saber lights in all directions.

"Interesting, thanks." Liu Ping said.

"You’re welcome, I only hope that your luck will bring me a bit of good luck." the two-headed man chuckled.

Everyone walked to the end of the hallway.

The Centaur walked forward and kicked open the door.

Whoosh!

In the blink of an eye, a giant hand made of countless Void Thorns reached through the door and grabbed him out.

"Hahaha, with just you?"

The Centaur roared and attacked the giant hand with all his might.

The corridor trembled, and a shockwave instantly erupted, throwing the few of them out one after another.

Everyone was still in mid-air, but they could see their surroundings clearly.

This was a bronze hall.

In the hall, a giant monster formed by countless Void Thorns was putting the Centaur into its mouth and chewing slowly.

"Void Thorns Mother!"

The woman in the long dress exclaimed.

She immediately flew towards the hallway she came from.

But that wall had already become extremely smooth, she couldn’t see the door and hallway from before.