Chapter 360: The High Priest (2)

The name of the high priest was certainly not called the high priest in the first place.

What is the name of the high priest, there is not even any record in the soul of the high priest, this is the result of An Xiaoyu connecting the soul of the high priest to kill him.

At the beginning of it all, the high priest was just an ordinary peasant child. No money, no status, no ideals. At that time, his biggest dream was to get out of his home and see this vast world.

When he finally had enough, he went home, inherited his father's family business, and took good care of the few plots of land that belonged to them. One plot was planted with rice, one plot with wheat, one plot with fruit trees, and another with vegetables.

Throughout the year, they rely on their own labor in exchange for food, or some surplus can be sold, if there is none, they will save money, from birth to old age and death, a lifetime has passed like this, without a little wave, without any accidents.

It is better to have two sons, so that when you are old, the children do not have to work too hard, and you can take turns to take care of them. When it was time to die, he was in his own home, lying on the recliner at the door, bathing in the warm sun, looking at the flowers and trees in the yard, and closing his eyes.

He thought that his life should be like this.

In fact, his life was supposed to be like this.

However, everything changed from a curious adventure, a youthful dream, and a chance coincidence, which made his life and life begin to change dramatically.

That morning, in order to go out to see the vast world, he wept his parents and parted with him, promising that he would return in five years, and that he would take with him the few clothes he had in the family and some dry food, and the young high priest went out of the village and came to the town for the first time.

It was the first time he had seen so many people, the first time he had seen so many goods, and the first time he knew that there could be so many people in this world besides the people in their village.

The pedestrians and vendors on this street are almost three times the population of the village...... No, five times as much. Such a world overwhelmed him and made his heart excited.

In the past, all the stories about the world outside the village came from the stories of the traders who came to the village, but now he saw such a scene with his own eyes, which was more exciting and alluring than the stories said.

It turns out that this is the world!

He found a shop in the town, and as a temporary apprentice, he became a fellow in the shop, and when he learned a certain amount of knowledge and accumulated a certain amount of knowledge, he met a singing ranger and befriended him.

The ranger had a long sword in his hand, and he boasted that it was with this long sword that he had slain seven hundred and forty-nine aliens and rescued a beautiful girl from the hands of the aliens. The girl desperately wants to marry the ranger, but she feels that she has a heavy responsibility, and the ranger shirks it in every possible way, and finally ignores the girl's tears and leaves her.

It was such a drunken boast full of loopholes that made the young high priest's heart yearn for it.

Disturbed by the ranger's nonsense, the young man, who had planned to live in the town for a while and visit the city before returning home, quit his job in the shop and followed the ranger on a wandering journey.

Although the ranger likes to drink and brag, he is really good at singing, and he can speak well, which is very popular with women. Everywhere he went, the ranger would stop a little and sing in every town and village, attracting the attention of others and earning money for travel and food.

Of course, as a ranger, the sword in his hand is not an ornament. When encountering a small group of bandits harassing the villages and towns, he will also rely on his superb swordsmanship and cunning plan to kill the bandits and accept the grateful gifts of the villagers and townspeople.

Then take the head of the bandit and go to the middle of the town to find the local government and earn a bounty.

More often than not, they would eat and sleep in the open, and when they walked to a place where there was no shop in front of the village or behind the store, the rangers would hunt and kill their prey with the young men, and rely on the salt and pepper in their pockets to satisfy their hunger.

After eating and drinking, the two of them lay on the paved leaves beside the fire and on the edge of the road, looking at the stars in the sky, talking to each other, telling about their past and future dreams, and discussing which girl had the better figure the other day.

Then, the eyebrows and hair tips were wet by the morning dew, and the unbearable dampness was dried by the sun, and it was a new day.

The young high priest didn't care about the ranger's boasting, although they didn't rely on two people and two swords to take back the girl from the hands of the aliens, and none of the beautiful girls fell in love with them at first sight, but he felt that such a life was enough for him to remember for the rest of his life.

If he hadn't chosen to go out of town with the Ranger, perhaps his vision would have been limited to that alley with a population only three to five times the size of his own village, and he would only be able to calculate some simple accounts and know some common goods for the rest of his life, and when he returned home, he would die of old age for the rest of his life.

But now, he and the ranger have not only learned to talk and bargain, but also learned a lot of basic survival skills, learned to make traps, learned to deceive others, and obtained more benefits. He even learned the swordsmanship and resourcefulness he had accumulated over the years with the Ranger.

Weapons relied on the money earned by walking all the way, and he had a sword of his own, which he hung around his waist, and became a true ranger.

Although I haven't learned to sing yet, I don't know why I can't find a tune all the time, but this doesn't affect the interest of young people. Usually halfway through, the ranger and the young man take turns on an ox cart that rides along the way, singing one song after another, and the people working in the fields by the roadside bring cheers.

Young people think that this kind of life is wonderful.

However, the heavens played a joke on him again, and they finally met a bunch of interracial scouts with a beautiful maiden.

When the rangers and the young men encountered this group of scouts, they were about to fall asleep at midnight. Half-asleep, the young man heard some slight noises and some strange words, and when he opened his eyes, he saw several strange-shaped people walking in the distance on the mountain road.

Since they were camping at the foot of the mountain, the boulders at the foot of the mountain obscured their form and the flames, and the aliens did not see where the two of them were hiding.

Quickly extinguishing the fire, the young man softly woke the ranger, and together they hid behind the big rocks, looking at the aliens who came down the mountain road, and the richly dressed and beautiful girl who was bound among them.

The two of them glanced at each other, and both understood what the other meant.

Using the throwing stones, they tested the strength of the aliens, and after making up their minds, the two men rushed down the hillside with long swords in hand, and fought with the aliens.

After paying the price of several wounds, they finally killed the alien race and freed the princess. And the boasting of the rangers is no longer boasting, they really have such a thrilling and truly glorious experience that belongs to the rangers.

And the girl who was rescued by them obviously has an extraordinary status, although she is not a princess of a country, she is also the daughter of the lord of a city, after being rescued by them, the girl hired them to escort her back to her city, and after arriving in the city, she promised to give them a lot of commissions.

Although there was nothing to promise, but the large sum of money was also moving, the ranger and the young man of course agreed, and the three of them rushed back to the nearest city overnight, and sent the girl to the hands of the city lord, and got their own reward as they wished.

Immediately afterward, the lord of the city invited them to serve as warriors in the city. As a hired warrior of the castle lord's family, he can not only enjoy a certain salary every month, but also enjoy the right to buy houses and land in the city at a preferential rate, and even become a nobleman after making enough contributions.

Faced with such conditions, the ranger and the young man had no reason to refuse, and they immediately agreed.

So from the second day, they changed into exquisite clothes, brought sophisticated weapons, and were also able to get in touch with some basic cultivation exercises to improve their strength. Relying on years of combat swordsmanship experience, the two of them quickly stood out among the martial artists and became the best.

After having a certain status, young people enjoyed the taste of power and fame for the first time, and were fascinated by it. He constantly despised the ranger's laziness and mixed eating and waiting for death, and was not satisfied with the ranger's lifelong existence as a martial artist of the city lord.

He wants more, he wants more.

First of all, he had to earn enough merit to earn a knighthood, own his own fiefdom, keep his own slaves, let the tenant farmers cultivate for him, and enjoy the respect of the whole city.

After having the status of a nobleman, he can pursue the daughter of the city lord openly, and wait until the city lord is a hundred years old, he will succeed him as the new city lord, and from then on, in this huge city, he will exert his revenge, benefit the people in the city, have children, and reproduce.

With this ideal in mind, the young high priest gradually abandoned his old ranger friends and began to gather a small group centered around him among the warriors, relying on the boasting and coaxing of the rangers.

When this small group was formed, the young high priest took advantage of a sneak attack by the alien race, quietly crossed the city and the battlefield of the alien race, directly touched the base camp of the alien race, sacrificed all his companions, and stabbed the alien leader.

When the young man carried the head of the alien leader, step by step, walked out of the alien camp and stood on the top of the hillside, the entire battlefield was stunned.

Immediately after that, there was the complete rout of the alien race and the victory of the human race.

From then on, the young man became the hero of the city.

With such feats, the young man finally received the title of baron, and in the innermost part of the outskirts of the city, he had his own private fiefdom and estate. The lord rewarded him with enough food, tenant farmers, and population to allow him to bring his parents back to live in the domain.

The young man was not in a hurry, but first invited the ranger back to his home, and let his old friend be his butler, and with the help of this reliable friend, the young man was able to gain a firm foothold in the territory, and was finally able to leave the city and go home to pick up his parents in person.

Returning home, full of spirit, all the success and fame are nothing more than that.

The young man rode a tall horse, took the guards lent to him by the lord of the city, and returned to his hometown, where he met his parents. The old father and mother could hardly believe that this young man in gorgeous clothes and followed by sword soldiers was actually his unsuccessful son.

The family is finally reunited, and the young man takes his parents and sets out on the journey home.

One evening, however, when they had stopped to rest for the night, the young baron suddenly heard the sound of wind and thunder in the valley in the distance.

This successful person who came from a small place in the countryside and gradually reached the peak of his life with a keen sense of smell, sensed something unusual at this moment, or was this another adventure? The young man thought to himself and ordered the guards to take his parents to a safe place.

And he himself, single-handedly, reached the edge of the valley and finally saw what was going on here.

First, he saw a young man who looked about the same as himself.

This person was dressed in a black robe, and had a handsome face that was unparalleled in the world, but there were many scars on his body, and blood was running down the grass in the valley where the corner of his clothes was, but he didn't care at all, just raised his head and stared at the whirlpool in the sky.

In the sky, the wind and clouds seemed to gather in this valley, even the sky began to hang downward, and the vortex of the whole sky was facing the position of the young man, lightning and thunder suddenly sounded in the wind and clouds, echoing in the entire valley, and even thunder and lightning fell directly on the man's side.

He was not afraid of the majesty of the heavens, his eyes were bright, and he stared at the darkness in the whirlpool of the sky. Finally, he sneered, "God, you're nothing more than that!" ”

The rumbling in the sky grew louder and louder, and the young high priest trembled. He never thought that there were still people in this world who could directly face the coercion of God, in the midst of thousands of thunder and lightning, without fear, scolding at God, and God had nothing to do with him.

The man had scolded enough, and he was tired of scolding, and the blood stains on the ground accumulated, making his face more and more pale, and his body began to shake a little.

He smiled, "Why don't we make a bet!" ”

After this person said this, it seemed that ten thousand thunders suddenly sounded in the sky, and ten thousand lightning bolts lit up, and the young high priest almost lost his sight and hearing, and the whole person did not react, only remembering that the whole world became white and bright, and there was not a single sound, which overwhelmed him.

Am I going to die like this? He thought, waiting, but death was not yet coming.

When he came to his senses again, the scenery in front of him suddenly returned to its brilliance. The silent moonlight flowed in the valley, and the canopy was gone, and the man was gone, not even the blood on the ground in the middle of the valley.

It was as if he was the only one in the entire valley from beginning to end, there had never been any wounded masters, there had never been any storms and thunderbolts, there had never been any confrontations and bets, all of this was his illusion.

The young high priest almost doubted himself, and he staggered back to his place, following the marks left by the guards to find their foothold, and under their questioning, the young high priest did not know what to say.

This matter has been hidden in his heart since then, and he has not told anyone about it.

Immediately afterwards, life was like his own arrangement, relying on his own shrewdness, he built the entire territory into the most prosperous place in the whole process, and repeatedly offered ideas in front of the city lord, obtained benefits for the city, and fought against other enemies.

Under everyone's optimism and matchmaking, the young man finally won the favor of the city lord's daughter, and the two embarked on the palace of marriage.

Not long after, the high priest's parents and the lord of the castle passed away, and he was called by the kingdom, and he inherited the title of lord of the castle, succeeded him as the lord of the castle, and thus fulfilled the goal of the son's life.

Life should have been better from now on, but gradually, he realized that things were not as simple as he imagined.

He thought that the thing hidden in his heart back then really didn't happen, except for that absurd memory, nothing left for him.

But as time passed, his parents grew old, the lord of the city died, his wife gradually became old and decrepit, and the ranger died of old diseases. Even his son and daughter became adults.

He found that he still maintained the appearance of his youth, the physique of his youth, as if he never died and never aged.

Gradually, rumors came out of the city that their city lord was an immortal demon, and that after a hundred or two hundred years, even if his family had died, he was still the same as when he was young, and he must be an alien evil.

Because of this, the high priest was removed from his position as lord of the city, sent out of the city by his own subjects, and even the graves of his wife and relatives were dug up, exposed to the sun, and thrown into the water to ward off evil spirits.

He watched his past be destroyed, watched his friends and relatives die one by one, and he was finally left alone between heaven and earth, wandering the wilderness like a wandering spirit, without eating, drinking, or even sleeping.

He himself felt like a monster.

Immediately afterward, he relied on his tenacious vitality to walk to a cultivator's camp, and since then he has come into contact with the world of cultivation, and has spent a lot of time looking for natural treasures and improving his body, but he has never been qualified to practice at all.

Don't let me die, and don't let me live well?

The High Priest's heart was full of resentment, resentment against the Heavenly Dao, resentment against the original person, resentment against this world.

He has since embarked on the path of searching for death, he has allowed himself to grow old, but he cannot die. He dissected himself, but he could not die. He slashed countless living beings under the sword, but the Heavenly Dao still didn't let him die.

So, what the hell are you going to ask me to do?

In the process of pursuing death, the high priest began a journey to find the root of immortality, if he found the cause of immortality, then he would be able to solve his own immortality, right?

With an old countenance and shabby robes, he finally came to a country by the valley, and he came to the king, told him of his vengeance, and told him that he had in his hands a method that would transform their practitioners into the bravest warriors.

So he became the high priest.