There is a mountain next to Dayue Mountain, called Zhongshan, which only appears every hundred years when the Blood Moon appears on Dayue Mountain. At this time, it is the time for outsiders to trade with the lord of the mountain, and also for the people in the mountain.
The only time to come out.
But this opportunity is always subject to the deployment of the Lord of Zhongshan. Originally, the arrival of the hundred-year period this time was the time for good deals, but for some reason, no one came to the opening of Zhongshan this time.
They are all uninvited guests.
When Bai Ze was escaping, he was directly chased by a group of blood rat demons and broke into Zhongshan.
As soon as he entered it, he was pulled into a palace.
There is neither sun nor moon in the sky above Zhongshan.
Gu Zun stared at the sky for a hundred thousand seconds. If converted into days, one day had passed, but the sky still had no intention of getting dark.
"We are in Zhongshan. This is a place controlled by Lord Martial God. There is no distinction between morning and darkness, and there are no changes in the four seasons."
A boy next to him who had lost half his body said to Gu Zun.
In addition to this boy who lost half of his body, there were a bunch of mutilated people lying next to him, including men and women, old and young. Gu Zun was the lucky one among this group who was not missing any part.
Son.
This is a mass burial ground. The people thrown here are waiting to die, and Gu Zun is thinking about how to survive.
This is Zhongshan, the place of eternal fighting. People here will fight forever until they die. There will be no winners here, only corpses who died in constant fighting.
Some people have thought of uniting to resist the God of War, but no one has ever been able to succeed.
In front of the God of War, humans are not even ants.
"If you want to survive, you can only escape from Zhongshan!"
This is the only way to survive that Gu Zun thought of, but it is also an impossible way.
The way out is at the top of the mountain, where is the palace of the God of War.
So even if you defeat everyone and go all the way to the top of the mountain, the last person you have to face is the God of War.
"Just wait here to die. It's better to die here than to be killed and thrown down."
The "corpses" around him were all trying to persuade him to just lie down and wait for death. There was no way he could survive outside anyway.
Gu Zun paid no attention to these poor people. He groped around in the mass grave, trying to find something that could be used.
But those who ended up here were all losers, and it was impossible to have anything valuable left on them. In the end, he only found a broken sword and an armor with only half left.
The other half of the broken sword was inserted into the head of a corpse. When the broken sword was removed, that half remained in the corpse forever, and only this half was taken away by Gu Zun.
The remaining half of the armor belonged to the boy. Half of his body was cut off, leaving only this half of the armor available.
Apart from these things, perhaps the most valuable thing he got was the boy's breathing technique.
Only half of his body is left but he can continue to live. Unlike others who are lingering and may die at any time, the boy is still very energetic. This breathing method definitely plays a huge role.
After lying next to the boy for a day, Gu Zun had already learned this very rhythmic breathing technique.
Since he started breathing according to the breathing method, Gu Zun felt that his hunger was much weaker, and the wounds on his body no longer felt pain.
The predecessor died of a stab in the chest, but now Gu Zun found that the wound had healed and his heart was beating vigorously.
At least it shows that he is not a living corpse.
"May I have your name?"
Gu Zun asked about this most special boy. Among these people waiting to die, only the boy mastered a different breathing method.
"My name is Gu!"
The boy smiled at him and said that he did not cry sadly because he lost half of his body. He was not among the people who had previously advised Gu Zun to wait for death.
"Okay, I will remember you!"
Gu Zun felt that this boy would not die so easily, but in a place of death struggle like Zhongshan, if he did not leave, death would be a matter of time.
"You can't survive if you only master the breathing method. You also need the assistance of the demon soul to let the natural breathing and the power of the law cooperate. Only in this way can you exert the most powerful ability in the world."
Gu said to Gu Zun, but Gu did not say where to get the demon soul. In other words, there was no place to get the demon soul in Zhongshan.
Carrying the broken sword and broken armor, Gu Zun left the mass burial site.
The mass burial site is at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain. Those who fight to the death can throw the opponent's body down the mountain after defeating their opponent, and then receive a reward from the God of War, including food and weapons, but no freedom.
I don't know how many dead bones have been piled up at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain. Perhaps only when the corpses pile up the entire Zhongshan Mountain, the God of War will end this deadly fight.
As soon as Gu Zun stepped out of the mass burial ground, an old man was killed from the side.
In Zhongshan, most people don't have time to become an old man. Here, if you can live for more than a month, you have proven that you are at the pinnacle of mankind.
Because there is no night or day in Zhongshan, nor any resources. If you want food, you can only get rewards by killing other people.
How long can an ordinary person live in a state of constant fighting, day and night, or even in a state of hunger and cold?
Wanting to live to old age can be said to be a delusion.
The old man in front of him was shambling and didn't look like he had been fighting all his life, so he was just an old man who was captured from the outside world.
Not all the people in Zhongshan were born in the mountain, most of them came from outside the mountain, some came on their own initiative, and some were sold.
The God of War will not catch people in person, but there will always be people who want to be rewarded by the God of War and capture a group of slaves and sell them to the God of War.
Gu Zun is one of the few children born in Zhongshan. It can be said to be a miracle that he managed to grow to such a big age.
In Zhongshan, people get stronger as they go up. Most of the people who stay at the bottom of the mountain are old people and children who have no strength. They can't even kill people and don't get rewards.
They either kill each other, or they have no choice but to eat the corpses at the bottom of the mountain.
Staying here is ultimately a hardship, so Gu Zun killed the old man with one sword.
After killing the old man, several fruits and a lump of meat from an unknown creature fell from the sky and landed at Gu Zun's feet.
Depending on the strength of the opponent, the rewards from the God of War will be different.
Gu Zun ate a few fruits, but he couldn't eat the meat. It was white and bloody, but he picked it up anyway, keeping it for emergencies in the future.
After practicing the breathing method, the hunger has been reduced to the greatest extent, and these few fruits are completely enough.
Just as he was about to leave, a pale soul emerged from the old man's body and then penetrated into Gu Zun's right eye.
This change made Gu Zun very calm, because this was the ability of his demon soul.
Zhong Shan does not have a demon soul, but he was born with a demon soul.
In the past, he only had demon souls. After absorbing the souls, he could continuously enhance his abilities. Now that he has the breathing method, he doesn't know if he will become stronger.
I looked at it with the broken sword and found that there was no change in my right eye, but I could clearly feel that I was now stronger.
He has no memory of the outside of the mountain. He only knows that this is the Zhongshan of the God of War. If he wants to survive, he can only become stronger.
He only needs to absorb souls to become more powerful. Theoretically speaking, as long as he is given enough and powerful souls, there is no upper limit to his strength.
So far, he has only absorbed human souls, not demon souls. He doesn't know how far he can grow after absorbing demon souls.
“This is the perfect place for me!”
Originally, Gu Zun wanted to leave Zhongshan as soon as possible, but now it seems that Zhongshan, a place of infinite death battle, is a place where he can quickly improve his strength.
However, Zhongshan is the territory of the God of War after all. It is still too dangerous for him to stay here. He should try his best to escape here if he can.
The old man's soul that he had just absorbed was not strong and had already decayed. After absorbing the old man's soul, he felt that his strength was a little stronger.
"I need more strength and more soul!"
After groping around the old man's body and finding nothing, Gu Zun turned around and headed towards the mass burial site.
There are many people there who have been left behind and are waiting to die. Instead of letting them rot and die, it is better to be his help.
Although doing this made him feel that he had no bottom line and was completely different from himself, Gu Zun just wanted to live.
In order to survive, he is willing to pay any price!
But when Gu Zun returned to the mass burial site, he found that all those people were dead, and only half of Gu Zun's body was left smiling at him.
"Why are you back?"
Looking at Gu Zun, Gu Zun tightened the broken sword in his hand, and finally did not swing it down, but threw the piece of meat to Gu's mouth.
"I give this to you, which is like repaying your breathing skills and armor. I hope you can survive."
After saying that, Gu Zun turned around and left. He was afraid that if he stayed any longer, he would really be unable to restrain his desire.
Ever since he knew that he could become stronger by absorbing the souls of those who were killed, he had the urge to kill everyone in the world.
However, he felt that he should still retain the bottom line of being a human being and repay any kindness he received, even if Gu was just passively showing kindness to him.
If humans have no bottom line, how are they different from beasts?
He wants to live as a human being, not as a beast.
What's the point of becoming a beast, even if you live forever?
Gu looked at the departing Gu Zun strangely and ate the meat in one bite.
"The God of War leaves Zhongshan every hundred years. This is your only chance to leave Zhongshan."
Gu Zun stopped when he heard this. The boy seemed to know Zhong Shan and Martial God very well, and knew a lot of information that no one else knew.
"If you can't reach the top of the mountain within seven days, then you will have to wait another hundred years, so take advantage of it!"
Gu Zun looked at the top of the mountain. He could feel that the top of the mountain seemed different now. It seemed that there was not a god of war, but a being who had the same power of death as him.