Putting down High Priest Nua's notes, Su Xiao's eyes filled with thought. Based on his guess, the Luoyang Continent should be some kind of native world, and High Priest Nua had come from there.
The participants Death House selected for its games were not limited to the Void. As for the "blasphemy against death" mentioned in the notes, there were too few clues to reach an answer.
High Priest Nua was one of the dead in Death House. The dead were not corpses—they were still alive.
Many visitors had once come to this wooden house. At first, High Priest Nua had dealt with them amicably, exchanging knowledge and the like. One person had even become his friend. Before leaving Death House, that person had risked returning here to visit High Priest Nua one last time.
Unfortunately, the friendly exchanges did not last long. After learning that obtaining a Shadow Stone would let him leave the wooden house, High Priest Nua began slaughtering his visitors.
After killing the first person, High Priest Nua was immediately shackled by an iron manacle around his neck, attached to the wooden wall. At that time, the chain was still very long, and he could move freely around the room.
As High Priest Nua killed more and more visitors, the chain imprisoning him grew shorter and shorter. By the time Su Xiao arrived, only three meters remained.
Killing visitors did not merely shorten the chain. Even more terrifying was the loss of intelligence. By the middle and later stages, High Priest Nua had already forgotten who he was. Strangely, he still remembered the knowledge in his mind, as well as the phrase, "I truly have fallen."
Su Xiao had previously wondered why High Priest Nua was so stupid. His strategy of opening and closing the door