The next day, while everyone was patiently waiting outside the mountain gate for the Nethermountain to open.
Linley quietly walked out of the crowd and went to the red-haired woman who was still fishing.
"You seem to know me?" Linley asked softly, staring at the red-haired woman.
"Hehe, Linley, the genius powerhouse of the Four Divine Beasts Clan of Hell, your name has long been known throughout the entire Netherworld!" The Sovereign of Death chuckled softly.
Linley suddenly realized, muttering, "So that's how it is!"
"But with your strength, the Netherfruit should be useless to you, right?" the Sovereign of Death asked in confusion.
"I have some things I'd like to ask the Death Sovereign for help with, and the only thing I know of is that Chief Sovereign exists on Nethermountain, so I came here." Linley smiled helplessly.
"Can you tell me what dangers are inside the Nethermountain?" Linley knew that the red-haired woman had been running a hotel in the Nethermountain for a long time and definitely knew some inside information that others did not.
"The person who told you there was Chief Sovereign in Nethermountain, didn't he tell you about the dangers here?" the Sovereign of Death retorted to Linley.
"Heh, it was my older brother who told me, but he certainly didn't tell me what dangers were here!" Linley chuckled bitterly, secretly regretting his oversight. Why hadn't he thought to ask his older brother before setting off?
"O(*￣￣*)o, since your older brother didn't tell you, then I won't either. Go try it yourself. Anyway, with your strength, you shouldn't die on the mountain." The Sovereign of Death laughed as he spoke to Nuo Yu.
"Huh?" Linley looked at the red-haired woman with a strangely happy expression in astonishment. Seeing that she really didn't intend to tell him, he shook his head with a wry smile and walked towards the direction where the mountain gate opened.
"Boss, did you get anything out of him?" Bebe walked quickly to Linley's side and asked curiously.
"No, we didn't get anything out of him. He just said that this Nethermountain poses no danger to my life." Linley was also puzzled.
At the Nethermountain, in a garden behind the grand, dark purple palace, a woman dressed in luxurious black attire walked quietly toward a room with its door tightly shut.
" Bolan, your brother Linley has arrived at the foot of Nethermountain and is preparing to venture into the mountain!" the woman said softly to the tightly closed gate.
" Lilith, thank you for your help. Once Linley goes up the mountain, please have him go to the Plane Battlefield!" Bolan's grateful voice came from behind the door.
"When... when will you be able to complete the fusion of the three systems?" Lilith, the Sovereign of Death, asked curiously from outside the door.
"Soon, at most a thousand years, I will be able to fully integrate the three systems of death, Fate, and life. Only the Destruction Rule will probably have to wait a while longer..." Bolan's voice gradually lowered until it was barely audible.
The Sovereign of Death Lilith, smiled slightly and murmured, "The first Soul Mutation involving four elements in history. I wonder what surprises the day of complete fusion will bring me."
Linley and Bebe had just left the White Mist Zone of Nethermountain and entered the more chaotic Grey Mist Zone.
"Boss, we've finally made it out of the White Mist Zone!" Bebe shouted excitedly, and Linley also smiled broadly.
It's clear that the two of them really suffered a lot in that White Mist Zone it was easy to get lost.
"Be careful, this Grey Mist Zone looks even more eerie and dangerous than the White Mist Zone!" Linley said to Bebe with a serious expression, listening to the roars and screams coming from the Grey Mist Zone.
"Hehe, boss, you're just too cautious." Bebe laughed heartily as she walked towards the Grey Mist Zone.
... half a day later...
"Boss, run! Those lunatics are catching up again!!" Bebe, looking disheveled, shouted anxiously to Linley.
"I told you to be careful, but you wouldn't listen and even went to provoke those people trapped in the illusion." Linley, exasperated, followed Bebe as they ran.
"Hehe, who knew those guys were so strong? They were already trapped in an illusion, but when they encountered danger, they still knew to stick together and cooperate. It's unbelievable." Bebe chuckled and scratched the straw hat on her head.
"Go to the left, the fog seems to be thinner there." Linley glanced around and suddenly noticed that the Lost Ones weren't chasing them on the left, and the fog had thinned a bit. He quickly called to Bebe to go to the left together.
"Phew~ Phew~ Phew~ Boss, those lunatics haven't caught up yet, we're safe for now." Bebe wiped the dust off her face, glancing back with lingering fear. Only after confirming that no one else had followed did she breathe a heavy sigh of relief.
"Wait, there's no more fog here! Sniff~~~(╯▽╰) What's that smell? It smells so good!" Linley cautiously looked around and found that there was no longer any fog where they were, and they could even smell a pleasant fragrance.
"Boss, look ahead! There's a tree. The fragrance seems to be coming from it!" Bebe walked forward and soon discovered the Netherfruit Tree standing quietly.
"A tree? The Netherfruit!!!" The two exchanged a glance, both seeing a hint of surprise in each other's eyes. Then they exclaimed with great joy.
A moment later.
"Boss, is picking this Netherfruit that simple?" Bebe scratched his head in confusion, looking at the Netherfruit that was so close to the two of them.
"I don't know, it's definitely too quiet here." Linley looked around warily.
"Hehe, never mind him, let's pick this Netherfruit first." Bebe chuckled and reached out to pick the Netherfruit.
"Whoosh~~~" A sound of air being torn apart came. Linley's expression changed, his body instantly transformed into a dragon, and a heavy sword appeared in his hand, pointing straight at the direction of the sound.
"Clang~~~" The sound of sharp weapons clashing rang out. Linley quickly pulled Bebe back a few steps, looking at the newcomer with a wary expression.
A middle-aged man dressed in a golden robe, holding a long spear, and with a helpless expression, stood quietly in the spot where Linley and his companion had just stood.
The man in the golden robe straightened his expression and calmly addressed Linley and his companion, saying, "Defeat me, and you can take the Netherfruit with you."
"Hmph, you were the one who ambushed me just now!" Bebe roared, her body conjuring hundreds of clones that attacked the golden-robed man from all directions.
"All show and no substance!" The man in the golden robe chuckled. His spear seemed to come alive, and with a gentle shake, it conjured up the same number of clones as Bebe, which then pointed at Bebe's clones one by one.
"Clang!" Bebe was struck directly in the chest by the spear and was instantly sent flying several meters away.
" Bebe, how are you?" Linley flew towards Bebe with a worried expression.
"Boss, I'm fine. That guy couldn't break my defense." Bebe gently patted the spot where the spear had struck her, and only a small white mark remained.
"As expected of the God-slaying Rat, its physical defenses are truly formidable!" the golden-robed man exclaimed, then laughed, "While I can't break through your defenses, sending you into the Spatial Turbulence is still quite easy."
"Hmph, then you can try my trick!" Bebe shouted angrily when she saw that the man in the golden robe opposite her seemed to look down on her.
"Yo~~~" A piercing, mad voice rang out. Bebe opened his mouth, and at the same time, a huge phantom of the God-slaying Rat appeared around his body. The God-slaying Rat phantom's cold eyes were fixed on the golden-robed man not far in front of Bebe.
P. S.: Guess what will happen!!!