Chen Tai opened his eyes and saw a glimmer of light.
His consciousness had just vanished, but it has now returned. After a brief period of confusion, he understood what had happened.
He committed suicide in the Instance, but it was Anomalous Instance, so he should be alive again now.
Thinking about his experience in the Instance sent chills down his spine.
The boss is indeed as cruel and cunning as others have said.
He got ripped off terribly.
Those trials of fire and wind were truly excruciating.
He almost got sent to the Avici Hell.
Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough and chose to commit suicide in the critical moment; otherwise, he would have been in serious trouble.
That's the Avici Hell! The suffering there could exceed the sum of all the suffering in all the other hells combined.
Although he failed this Instance, he not only experienced something extremely painful, but also failed to retain his experience points.
But at least he didn't let himself fall into the Avici Hell.
From this perspective, he was still successful.
Although the current situation is terrible, it's still much better than falling into the Avici Hell.
He didn't know what happened to his three teammates, or whether they had successfully committed suicide.
"I hope they didn't succeed in their suicide attempt and instead went to experience the Avici Hell!"
Chen Tai thought to himself.
Actually, he had some doubts about Pei Yunfei at first. If it weren't for those three scoundrels who influenced his judgment, he would never have ended up in this situation.
He stood up, wanting to get a better look at his surroundings, but a sudden question arose in his mind.
"What's going on? Shouldn't I be resurrected at home?"
He entered the Instance at home, so he should be resurrected at home now as well.
But why is it such an unfamiliar place?
This is an ancient and simple hall, with torches burning all around to dispel the surrounding darkness.
There were no decorations here, only a huge stone table in the middle of the hall, on which sat a thick book.
"Where exactly is this?"
He had never seen such a place before.
Just as he was wondering, he saw three more people appear out of thin air in the hall.
Those three were his teammates in the game Instance.
How could this be? How did they get here? Is this still inside Instance?
An ominous premonition settled over him.
He never imagined that even though he had successfully committed suicide, he still couldn't leave that Instance.
How so?
He was almost going crazy.
The three of them regained their senses, looking around in confusion and exchanging glances.
"Didn't we already commit suicide? How could this happen again...?"
They couldn't understand why someone who had clearly committed suicide would still be here.
They should be in the real world right now.
Wang An was filled with fear, his voice almost frantic, "How could this happen? We didn't leave the Instance! Why did this happen!"
Yao Ting suddenly said, "We might have made a mistake. We shouldn't have committed suicide at all."
The boss wanted to torture us; if he had used his domain at that time, we wouldn't even have had a chance to commit suicide.
But he didn't stop us from committing suicide at all, because he knew that even if we did, we wouldn't be able to leave this Instance.
Wang An asked, "Then how can I leave the Instance?"
"There's no way we can leave!" Chen Tai's eyes were filled with madness; he was on the verge of a mental breakdown.
His words sent a chill down everyone's spine.
Are they going to be trapped here forever?
At this moment, Yao Ting analyzed, "We are indeed dead, and now we should all be considered souls."
But this is the underworld, the final resting place of souls, so we've ended up here again.
In other words, this Instance is different from Instance; if we die inside this Instance, we will never be able to return to the real world.
Miao Qian said, trembling, "But wasn't it said that you'd resurrect if you died in Anomalous Instance?"
Yao Ting continued, "The reason we were able to be resurrected is because the game's creator used his power to bring us back to life."
But what if even his strength isn't enough to do this?
"How is this possible!" Everyone else was incredulous.
The people who created this game exist like true gods; how could they possibly be unable to be resurrected?
Yao Ting said, "As far as I know, the Lord of the Netherworld is a true god, and a god of Netherworld and our world."
Even though He is dead, the rules He established will still be in effect.
This Instance is special; we cannot resurrect in reality by dying.
Unless someone clears this Instance and destroys the Land of Reincarnation.
Or perhaps the Lord of the Netherworld's authority will be destroyed before we can leave this place.
Yao Ting's words sent a chill down everyone's spine.
If that's true, they don't know what kind of suffering they'll endure in the Netherworld.
And it's unclear when this suffering will end.
At that moment, the book on the stone table was enveloped in a faint light and floated in the air.
Everyone stared at the book.
The book's cover displayed several large characters. "The Book of Life and Death!"
Legend has it that the Book of Life and Death governs the life and death of countless beings. Why would it exhibit unusual behavior at this time?
No one understood.
As the pages were turned, countless images and information flooded into their minds.
The four people each saw different things.
What they saw was their entire life experience, including everything they had done, both good and evil.
The four finally understood that every soul would come here to receive their final judgment.
The judgment in the Book of Life and Death will determine which level of hell they will ultimately enter and how long they will stay there.
These will be determined by their sins.
After they crossed the Sanzu River, they saw three paths, each different, and each person was free to choose which path to take.
If you believe you are deeply sinful, you can choose the rightmost path, but you can also pretend you are innocent and choose the leftmost path.
However, if one is indeed guilty but chooses the path of a kind soul on the left, then one will be considered unrepentant, adding sin upon sin.
At this moment, they began to feel grateful that they had chosen the most difficult path of atonement.
Because they do indeed have some sins, though not the most heinous ones, they will still be judged and sent to hell.
But because they took the most difficult path, their sins were redeemed in the process.
Therefore, they do not need to go to hell to atone for their sins.
In this way, their souls can leave the Instance, and they will be resurrected in the real world.
"I can leave here!" A sense of joy welled up in all four of them.
They never imagined that there was still hope of leaving.
But before they could even rejoice, they all witnessed the scene of them committing suicide in the Avici Hell.
Suicide is a very grave sin. Even though their other sins have been atoned, they are still condemned to hell because of suicide.
"No, how could this be! We... the BOSS forced us to commit suicide!"
The four people shouted hysterically.
Unexpectedly, their newly glimmer of hope was shattered again, and they were utterly devastated.
The Book of Life and Death reveals the final verdict.
"The Avici Hell, three hundred years!"
This is their sentence, their final judgment.