Gu Xi had not yet figured out how they were scouting when the strange ringing drew closer and closer.
Gu Xi immediately summoned the small Evil Coffin Guards, having them hold White Candles in one hand and defend with the other.
At the same time, the Mind Nether Lamp Holders appeared behind Gu Xi, allowing him to see everyone else's psychic threads.
However, Gu Xi noticed that even the psychic threads only revealed a direction once they entered the darkness. Beyond that, he could see nothing at all.
Gu Xi was rather helpless in the face of this situation. This darkness made it impossible for him to see reality clearly.
Yet he gradually realized that the distant sounds were approaching him, while the darkness remained nothing but darkness, as though there were no lights at all.
Could they move through the darkness?
Or could the darkness truly swallow every last trace of light?
Before Gu Xi could figure it out, a voice came from the darkness.
"Is there anyone ahead? If you're alive, call out. If you're dead, step aside.
"The living and the dead have separate roads. Passersby must pay the toll.
"Life-Life and Death-Death shall all meet; if you are not devoured, you may return home."
Hearing this, Gu Xi had no idea how to answer for a moment.
He truly did not know whether he counted as one of the living or one of the dead.
If he claimed to be alive, then as a Necromancer traveling with so many undead, there would be no explaining it once they came over.
But if he claimed to be dead, Gu Xi would definitely spit in their faces. He was perfectly alive. Even if he had become a Necromancer, that did not make him dead.
Just as Gu Xi