Chapter 34: Soul Refining
A blood moon hung high in the sky, and the little red light in it looked like a pupil, and the first glance made people shudder! It's just that this is the Dead Realm, and most of the creatures living here are undead, and they don't know what fear is. They were used to this dark and strange atmosphere, and they didn't have any sense of fear at all. In the Dead Realm, there are basically flat land, mountains, rivers, and there are no in the Dead Realm, and there are only patches of cage-like basins here, and groups of creatures live in the basins.
In the very center of the eight basins, there is a kind of castle, the color of this castle is strangely white, and if you look closely, you will find that this castle is all made of bones! The high walls were tens of meters long, and they looked like they were impregnable, and it was unknown how many corpses of creatures would be needed to build such a majestic castle. Above the city walls, armored lichs patrol the walls, their eyes peeking with eerie ghostly fire.
The so-called lich is the result of the living sacrificing their body in some way at the moment of death, and the body has died in the process of sacrifice, but the soul will not leave the body, but will continue to live in the body, just like the living dead. Lichs are numerous in the Dead Realm, and many creatures choose this way to live as if they were alive before they die.
Above the castle, several huge bone dragons were hovering in the sky. These bone dragons don't have any flesh and blood on their bodies, and the huge skeletons are simply impossible to withstand the wind. The magical power has made their bodies resist gravity, allowing these bone dragons to fly above the sky. On the backs of these bone dragons stood knights in heavy armor, no matter what world they were in. The dragon is a powerful creature, and the dragon knight is synonymous with power!
With so many powerful creatures to be seen from the periphery of the castle alone, the strength of the owner of this castle is absolutely extraordinary! In the realm of death, everything is the law of the jungle, and if there is no means to absolutely save life, there will never be a dragon crossing the river. Because the more powerful the person, the more powerful the bait, which will attract the prying eyes of others. This also makes it extremely difficult to fight between castles and forts.
Just above the wilderness, a figure slowly walked towards the castle. The man was dressed in a black robe, and the pitch-black robe covered his entire body. So that outsiders can't see the situation inside the robe clearly, and can only see that it should be a human being. In the man's hand was a pitch-black crutch, and at the tip of the crutch was a reddish-brown stone with a blood-red thread. It looks like a vein. There seems to be something wrong with this man's legs and feet. He limped as he walked, as if a gust of wind could knock him to the ground, but the man walked towards the castle step by step.
"The man is a lich? Say you want to see me? In a certain room in the castle, a man dressed in white looked coldly at the lich kneeling in front of him and said, "Oh? When did I, Siglas, become an existence that others can see if they want to? ”
The lich kneeling in front of Siglas was just a minor character patrolling the city walls, but at all times there was class oppression. Everyone knows that it is extremely dangerous to meet Siglas to tell this matter, so this most dangerous task is to be handed over to the most incompetent person. The lich was almost lying on the ground to show his loyalty, and when he heard Siglas's words, he hurriedly handed out the so-called token and said, "The lich said. When you see this cane, you will see him, and your subordinates will think that this lich knows you. How dare your servants, your subordinates intercept ....... ”
Seeing this crutch, Siglas's expression was slightly stunned, and then he stretched out his hand, gently took the crutch in his hand, and looked at it carefully. This crutch is just made of ordinary iron ore, and the real treasure is the stone at the tip of this crutch. The Blood Soul Stone, as its name suggests, is condensed with countless souls and blood. The lines on this blood soul stone were formed by countless blood penetrating deep into the stone, and this stone was originally a mortal thing, but because it was eroded by countless evil spirits, it turned reddish-brown. Once the Blood Soul Stone is formed, it has a strong ability to gather ghost fire, and it is terrifying!
Siglas held a cane in his left hand, and gently stroked the Blood Soul Stone with his right hand, with a gentle expression and technique, as if he was caressing his lover. This kind of colored blood soul stone, I'm afraid that without tens of thousands of soul cleansing, it is impossible to reach this level! In this realm of death, blood is relatively precious, and if you want to get this blood soul stone, I'm afraid that you can only make it by slaughtering dozens of tribes!
Thinking of this, Siglas's heart moved, and he quietly put his cane at his feet, and said very gently: "Let that lich come over, it seems that this sea of people is really an old friend I haven't seen for many years." ”
I'm afraid your old friend is not the lich, but this Blood Soul Stone, which is a great help for your cultivation. But the lich who knelt on the ground only dared to think about it in his heart, and did not dare to say it at all. As if he had been pardoned and slammed his head on the ground, the lich fell backwards on his knees, and it was not until he had exited the door that the lich dared to stand up, and turned and walked towards the outside of the castle.
Under the high city walls, the black-robed lich was standing quietly, looking at him, he should be looking at the gate of the castle at this time. This city gate is also made of bones, and the skulls of each creature are the neatest and hardest, and this city gate should be made of countless creature skulls. And above the city gate is a fierce beast. It almost had basin-sized eyes and four sharp fangs, which made this beast look extremely hideous.
Just as the black-robed lich was carefully looking at the city gate and the arrangement of the soldiers on the city wall, a figure suddenly appeared on the city wall and shouted: "Lord Siglas has an order, let this person enter the city!" ”
Click! With the snapping of gears, a crack suddenly appeared in the middle of the beast on the city gate, and then the crack grew bigger and bigger. In the end, it became a passage that could accommodate a person to walk through. The black-robed lich withdrew his glance, lowered his head slightly to prevent people from seeing him, and slowly walked into the passage. Walked towards the castle.
Behind the city gate is a long passage, on both sides of which are countless fierce beasts, some of which are giant birds with four wings, and some of which are extremely thick arms but small beasts, making this passage look like a hundred beasts, which is extremely attractive to attention. But this strange sight was not seen by the black-robed lich, it just lowered its head. Walking quietly forward. Although his body was a little staggering, he looked a little weak and humble, but his eyes were full of confidence. It was as if anything that dared to stand in his way would be crossed by him.
Everyone has a unique temperament, domineering and arrogant. Wretched. Dispirited....... But I don't know why, I can't feel any temperament on this person's body, and if I don't even put my eyes on this person's body, I won't even feel the existence of this person! It's an extremely faint sense of presence, as if in the next second, this person will be ignored. And as long as you take your eyes off his face, it is an extremely strange feeling that you will forget what this person looks like in an instant. Let the thousands of troops lie ahead. In his eyes, it was as if they did not exist!
The black-robed lich walked slowly ahead of the curve, dozens of minutes later. He walked into the castle. As soon as you enter the castle, the surrounding environment changes suddenly. There is the smell of death everywhere in the dead world, there are no plants, all the environment is bare, but there is a garden in this castle, and there are many flowers planted in the garden.
These flowers are like flytraps that have been magnified countless times, with sharp spikes and round mouthparts, and the overall eyes of the flowers are dark red, as if the eyes of countless blood have fallen silent, making people feel a gloomy feeling from the bottom of their hearts. But even so, the plants bring a sense of freshness to this gloomy space, a light in front of the eyes, and a sense of clarity.
In the midst of this sea of flowers, a thatched house stands quietly in the center. This thatched house looks a little rough, but if you look closely, you will find that this thatched house does not show a little gap, and it can't be blown in by any wind and frost, giving people a feeling of becoming another space. Looking at the sea of flowers in front of him and the thatched house in the sea of flowers, the body of the black-robed lich shook slightly, and then lowered his head and smiled bitterly, before slowly walking forward.
The lich who led the way did not follow, but looked at the black-robed lich with a look of pity. These flowers are called Demon Flowers, and as their name suggests, they are extremely evil. These flowers do not survive by fertilizing, but by blood! As long as a creature steps into the territory of this Demon Flower, then these Demon Flowers will show their sharp fangs and swallow people! Of course, the Demon Flower is a flower after all, and it can't hurt the master no matter what, but the owner of this castle, Siglas, loves this Demon Flower very much, no matter how important his subordinates are, as long as they hurt this Demon Flower, then they will be given death immediately! That's why it's a forbidden place!
The black-robed lich didn't seem to know how terrifying the flowers in front of him were, and still walked quietly forward. Just when the lich servant thought that this black-robed lich would die among the countless demon flowers, something shocked it happened! At the moment when the black-robed lich stepped into the garden, these demon flowers trembled, and their proud heads were buried deeply, as if a low-level creature had met a dragon!
With a soft creak, the black-robed lich stepped into the thatched hut. What is very inappropriate with the layout of the outside world is that the layout in this thatched hut is extremely luxurious, and it has great benefits for cultivation, the ground made of crystals, the stones condensed by the blood qi, and countless items that can increase the cultivation speed are just placed all over the small thatched hut! There was only one bed and a table and two stools in the thatched hut, and there was a teapot and two teacups on the table. At this time, the two teacups had been filled and were quietly placed there.
Siglas sat on the stool and gently stroked the Blood Soul Stone with his left hand, his eyes full of doubt. The black-robed lich didn't speak, but quietly walked to the table, sat down to himself, and said, "More than five hundred years ago, you said you wanted a scepter made of blood soul stones, when you were still very young. I don't know how many precious things there are in this world, you think that iron ore is a good thing, and you think that the blood soul stone is the world's top item. Five hundred years have passed. I know you don't care about this little iron scepter and this Blood Soul Stone now, but I don't know what else you like, so I'll give you this. ”
Siglas's pupils contracted rapidly, and every word of the black-robed lich's words pierced Siglas's heart like a needle, and an impossible name immediately appeared in his heart! Siglas's body trembled slightly, and after a while, he said with difficulty: "Big ...... Eldest brother. Is that you? You're not already ....... ”
"It's gone, isn't it?" The black-robed lich took a moment of vicissitudes, then stretched out his hand and gently took off the cloak on his head, revealing a face that was absolutely unfamiliar to Siglas and said, "Originally, I thought I had disappeared. But I didn't expect that I was still alive. Although I have changed my body, my memory is still there. I'm Sig Hall! ”
Sig Hall. Just four words. But Siglas's tears fell as if a broken thread had been broken! If someone else sees this scene, they will definitely be stunned, even if their favorite favorite concubine is slaughtered, the indifferent Grim Reaper who will smile will actually shed tears! As one of the four city lords under Hecarim, Siglas has extremely powerful combat power, but the most awe-inspiring thing is that he has no weaknesses! No one cares, no possibility of being threatened!
But no one knew that when Siglas first came out of the small village, he had a brother. It was his older brother who protected the young Siglas and helped him ward off countless dangers. In the end, he traded his life for Siglas's survival in an absolutely dangerous battle! Since that day, Siglas's heart has died, everything he lives is to live for his brother, in order to help his brother fulfill his dream! His brother's name is Sig Hall!
Sieghall looked fondly at his younger brother, Siglas, whom he hadn't seen in five hundred years. These five hundred years have hardly left any traces on Siglas's face, but he has only become a young man back then. It sounds ridiculous, but after 500 years, it has only grown into a teenager, isn't it an extremely strange thing!
Taking a deep breath, Sighall didn't wait for Siglas to ask himself how the past five hundred years had passed, and he had already taken the first step to say: "Now I have my own master, and the master is going to kill Hecarim." There are nine great lords in the entire Dead Realm, and Hecarim is one of them, and you are one of the four city lords of Hecarim, so I am here. ”
Siglas's ecstatic expression suddenly stiffened, and after a long moment, Siglas suddenly smiled and said, "Then my dear brother, if I reject you, do you want to kill me here now?" ”
But in an instant, Siglas's expression changed from ecstasy to calm. In the space of five hundred years, Siglas has seen countless betrayals and frame-ups! The son kills his father for power, the elder brother kills his younger brother for power, and the lovers calculate each other....... So Siglas wondered if the lich in front of him was not his brother!
Sighall still looked at Siglas kindly, without any hesitation, Sighall shook his head lightly and said: "Five hundred years ago, I died in your arms, at that time I had already done everything I wanted to do, just a few days ago, I was awakened from my slumber, my master gave me a new body, but my master did not restrict my freedom. The owner told me that my life is my own, that I can make all my own decisions, which is why I am here. I've only come here to see how you've been doing in the past five hundred years, and if you promise to help your master, then I'll be glad that we're brothers fighting side by side again. But if you reject me, I won't be unhappy, because I am already satisfied when I see that you are doing well, but my life is given by the master, although I really want to fight side by side with you, but how can the eldest husband betray the benefactor, so when the master's army is pressing, I will end my own life and will not help you. ”
Siguras looked deeply at Sighall in front of him, his eyes full of mockery, as if he was questioning Sieghall's words. However, there was only a thick kindness in Sighall's eyes, and he couldn't see any other emotions at all, only calmness. After a long time, Siglas finally lost the battle and said: "Your master has won, and from today on, he will be the master of the two of us...... ”
Just as the matter of Siglas and Sighall is playing out wildly in the realm of death, no matter what kind of strong person he is, he will have companions, and no matter how strong he is, there will always be the weakest place in his heart. Countless people who have come back from the dead have traveled to various parts of the Dead Realm, some of them telling the truth like Sig Hall, but many more are constantly designing and framing! After all, they are all people who have died once, and some of them die for the sake of their beloved, but many more are unwilling to die again! Dead friends are not dead and poor, they are doing their best to save their lives!
These people are the same as Sighall's contract, they come back from the dead, and if they want to live, they have to rebel against the people they care about, either live or die, there is no second way to go! Some of them attack the people they care about in order to survive, but they are not willing to lose this opportunity to live again, and some of them are self-defeating and unwilling to let their brothers make decisions. But no matter what, as long as you come back to life once, then you will definitely choose to see the person you care about the most, so countless resurrected people are running in the dead world, some are persuaded, some are not, and even the initiators of all this do not know how much power they have in their hands.
In a certain corner of the Death Realm, Xiao Chao looked at the Dan Furnace in front of him with a sad face, and what was refined in this Dan Furnace was not any pill, but countless souls! Xiao Chao suddenly had a whim some time ago, since this entire dead world is the place where souls belong, there must be countless souls, if these souls are refined, will it be able to resurrect the dead?
Xiao Chao's final result was very successful, he captured countless souls into a Dan furnace, and then let them devour each other like raising Gu, and finally formed a relatively powerful soul! This soul is made up of countless souls, because the soul contains memories, and countless memories clash together, which makes this powerful soul a soulless being. As long as Xiao Chao wants to find the person he wants to control, and then input this person's information into it, then the soul that conflicts with this person's memory the most will awaken!
In other words, Xiao Chao is using countless souls to help others resurrect, using the power of countless souls to gather together, and then resurrecting a person's soul, this is what Xiao Chao has done during this period of time! Xiao Chao used this method to control countless puppets, these puppets have memories of life, but life and death are controlled by Xiao Chao and in their hands, as long as Xiao Chao's mind moves, then these puppets will die, so it is absolutely safe.
However, this method also has a drawback, that is, it needs to plant the seed when the last soul is left in the Dan furnace, and then the life and death of this soul can be controlled. As long as it is one step too late, then this soul will be wiped out, and countless souls will really become waste. This is also the reason why Xiao Chao is so miserable, Xiao Chao has not rested for several months, and even Xiao Chao's body is a little unbearable.
These souls devoured each other, and no one knew when it would be finished, so they could only wait slowly. This is the last furnace, originally Xiao Chao wanted to go to rest after refining this furnace, but he didn't expect that he was too tired, and he fell asleep, which made this furnace scrap. But even so, there are countless souls that have been distributed to various places in the fourth order, becoming one hidden bomb after another, as long as Xiao Chao gives an order, these bombs will explode!
In fact, Xiao Chao has no expectations for these bombs, after all, those who become great things are extremely determined people, and they will not change their views and positions for the sake of their relatives at all, so Xiao Chao can only look forward to catching some big fish. Siglas is of course the biggest of these fish, but he is not the biggest. (To be continued......)