Chapter 234: The God of Mercury (I)
Seeing the priests of the temple who all knelt down in front of her, and then looking at the countless obelisks that were magnificent and completely different from the style of the seas and mountains, Mei Xue also guessed who the person who summoned her to come here was.
In this illusion trial, the god who once ruled the Heavenly Luo Holy Kingdom, the ancient god named "Mercury", is theoretically the ultimate enemy that the candidates will defeat.
Of course, it is impossible for any candidate to actually defeat an enemy known as a "god", so in this illusion trial it is really just a background, and it is absolutely invincible as the ultimate goal.
But now, Mei Xue came to this target and heard its call.
"Why did you choose me?" This is the biggest question in Mei Xue's heart.
The culprit of what happened to him after entering the Illusion Trial was obviously this mercury god in the background of the Illusion Trial, otherwise he should have been a member of the million fleet a long time ago, instead of appearing in the center of this huge temple in such a posture.
"Come to me and listen to the voice of your own heart." In the whisper of a soft voice, a path appeared in front of Mei Xue, a path rippling with mercury brilliance.
On either side of this path are one after another temple priests clasped together in prayer.
These priests of the Mercury Temple all have slender bodies, snow-white skin, and faintly graceful curves on the spider-patterned robes they wear, so that Mei Xue's eyes don't know where to put them.
There were no men among the priests of these mercury gods, all of them were young women, ranging from sixteen to eighteen years of age.
However, as Mei Xue advanced on the Mercury Path, the spider-patterned robes worn by these priests began to change significantly.
The closer they got to the end of the road, the more intricate and mysterious the spider patterns on the priests' bodies became, and the two mercury priests at the end of the road were even depicted with clear silver spider patterns on their foreheads, showing their extraordinary status.
However, in front of Mei Xue, all the mercury priests bowed their heads reverently.
This is because Mei Xue is the son of the god shown in the oracle, and the king of the mercury islands selected in the oracle issued by the great god of mercury himself.
His position does not belong to the mortal world, he is a god son with the blood of a god, and his waist-length silver hair and cold silver eyes are the best proof of this.
No human being would have the cold silver hair that seemed to freeze the soul, the mark of divine power, the grace of the god of mercury.
Walking to the end of the mercury road, Mei Xue clearly felt that she had stepped into a special realm.
In the eyes of the mercury priests, Mei Xue was just standing at the end of the mercury road, looking at the crystal statue in the center of the temple, which was the proof of the belief of the great mercury god in the world.
And in Mei Xue's world realm, he came to a world realm that did not belong to the seas and mountains.
In this world, everywhere is covered in infinite mist, and the ground is full of clusters of huge silver crystals, like a jungle of silver crystals.
Silence and silence are the biggest characteristics of this world, except for the silver crystals that rise everywhere, Mei Xue can no longer find anything else.
It was as if the entire world was made up of clusters of silver crystals.
The voice that summoned him here also disappeared after he entered this world, and only Mei Xue's footsteps remained in the entire world.
One step, two steps, three steps...... Although no one gave Mei Xue the right direction, Mei Xue still followed her own pace and headed towards a certain part of this silver crystal jungle.
There is no reason, and there is no need for a reason, just as the voice told him, just listen to the voice in his heart, and he will naturally find the direction.
Stepping over clusters of silver crystals rising from the ground, in the silver crystal Senluo that seemed to be a natural labyrinth, Mei Xue ignored the obstacles of the surrounding fog and headed in the right direction.
In the silent world, only Mei Xue's footsteps kept ringing, making this silver crystal forest even more weird.
Mei Xue didn't know how long she had been advancing, but when she was about the thousandth step, all the fog in front of him disappeared in an instant, revealing the most central scenery of the entire Silver Crystal Forest.
It was a beautiful beast with eight silver limbs, and its entire belly was connected to the earth.
Her lower body is like a spider, but her upper body is in the form of a human woman, and she is a dazzlingly beautiful beauty.
Snow-white to almost transparent crystal skin, clear and soft silver eyes, long silver hair that is almost the same as Mei Xue now but several times longer, and wearing seven different armbands on his arms.
Starting with the wrist, the first one is a black wood bracelet.
The second is a bracelet decorated with flowers.
The third piece is a bracelet decorated with stars.
The fourth is a hollow but cleverly connected silver bracelet.
The fifth is a silver ribbon that is tied up.
The sixth piece is a turquoise armband.
The seventh piece is a shoulder strap with a seven-colored flower.
On the slender fingers, there are also six different rings.
On the middle, index, and ring fingers of the left hand are rings in the shape of butterflies, flowers, and stars.
On the middle finger, index finger, and ring finger of the right hand are spiders, diamond glasses, and sun-shaped rings.
On the long silver hair that was nearly three meters long, a pair of transparent butterfly hair accessories divided the crystal clear silver hair into three bundles.
On her snow-white forehead, the eight crystalline feet on the silver spider's hair ornament stretched out, giving her soft face a little more mysterious and ancient.
This is the god of mercury that Mei Xue saw, and it is also the true face of the crystal statue in the mercury temple that was believed in and prayed by the mercury priests.
"Here you are, my child." The first time Mei Xue stepped into this sacred realm, the god of mercury opened his eyes and smiled at the new life that had been conceived by his strength.
"The god of mercury?" Although she already knew the true identity of the beautiful life in front of her, Mei Xue was still shocked when she saw the true face of this great life.
It was an extreme beauty, pure and sacred, and he didn't feel the slightest evil aura in the mercury god in front of him, and even had a suffocating feeling of seeing the inviolable divine life.
Beauty itself is a kind of power, a kind of power that is longed for and longed for by hundreds of millions of living beings.
Obviously, although the god of mercury in front of her is not human, the beauty she possesses can capture the hearts of countless people, and even make people completely ignore her alien identity.
"Yes, that's what the humans of the Luo Holy Kingdom call me this day, although I only have the word mercury in my name."
"My real name is Mercury Spider." The god of mercury did not hide her alien identity, she was not a human in the first place, and this half-human, half-spider posture was her true body.
At this time, Mei Xue finally remembered the information about the God of Mercury that she had obtained before entering this illusion trial.
"In the one thousand and first year of the Tianluo calendar, Tianluo Mountain suffered a catastrophe of heaven and earth, the heavens and the earth wept and mourned, the sun and the moon were without light, and a silver beast was born, suppressing the earth, water, fire and wind, erecting an altar, proclaiming the name of the gods, and saving all the people from fire and water, which is for the mercury god."
Obviously, there is nothing wrong with this part of the information, and the god of mercury in front of him is indeed a strange beast with supreme power as in the legend, so he can save all the people from fire and water and become the god who rules the Tianluo Holy Kingdom.
But what's going on with the latter part?
"However, this strange beast is extremely evil in nature, and every year it has to sacrifice three hundred virgins for food, and the parents of the Tianluo Holy Kingdom have been sad since then, and they hope that the girl will not return."
"A hundred years later, the princes of the Tianluo Holy Kingdom will crusade against the evil gods together, and all parties will come to their aid, and they will fight the evil gods to the death."
"In this battle, we will never retreat! Never say never! Even if he fights to the last person, he will annihilate the evil god and never die. ”
The god of mercury in front of him is an evil god, a man-eating monster that devours three hundred virgins every year?
With the supreme supernatural power of suppressing heaven and earth, such an existence needs to eat people to sustain life? What are you kidding, at least Mei Xue Zhidao, who came to this illusion trial from the era of immortal civilization, this is simply nonsense.
The more powerful the existence, the higher the requirements for food, and the power of the qi and blood of a mere virgin may be useful for some low-level monks, but for a supreme being who can be called a "god", it is nothing at all.
Perhaps those who are naturally bloodthirsty and strong may commit the crime of killing because of their impermanence, but it certainly cannot be because of such a ridiculous reason as "wanting to eat people".
"Do you really eat three hundred virgins a year?" I don't know what Lu Dao is for, although she is facing the legendary evil god, Mei Xue still asked this question according to her heart.
The answer to this question is crucial to all the choices he will make next.
He already vaguely understood that he was probably the biggest variable in this illusion trial—for all the candidates of the Blue Dragon Academy.
Because, he is the only one among all the candidates who has been selected into the camp of the god of mercury.
"From a human point of view, I did take their daughter from them, but this is the agreement I made with them when I saved humanity." Speaking of this, the god of mercury was a little confused, as if he didn't understand what humans were doing in such a short period of time, completely changing the hexagram and completely tearing up the agreement between the two parties.
"I suppressed the catastrophe of this heaven and earth, and as a promise, human beings sacrifice three hundred pure bodies to me every year, worship me as a god, believe in me, and help me comprehend a higher realm."
"This agreement should be valid forever, but human beings have broken this agreement by themselves, I can't understand it."
"If you don't agree to such an agreement, why didn't you bring it up in the first place?"
Of course, this is because, human beings always love to cross rivers and tear down bridges...... Of course, Mei Xue knew the answer, in order to survive, the human category said that there were three hundred virgins, and a greater price could be paid.
But after the ecumen, mankind will never allow such sacrifices to continue forever.
But you really asked them to sacrifice 300 virgins every year!