Chapter 59: A Tale About the Demon King
District 13, one of the most developed cities in southern Asia, has one of the most commercial and entertainment industries.
The explosion a month ago had already been advertised as an ordinary earthquake, and about the sudden collapse of the white high-rise building, everyone knew that it was caused by the judgment of the main god on Li Xiang.
No one pursued its cause and effect, and in the hearts of the people of Area 13, the young man who suddenly appeared and wanted to use his own power to present the truth to the public was like a shooting star, although it was dazzling, but it was also as short-lived.
That name, almost as always, will soon be sealed in people's hearts.
It's just that anyone with a little conscience knows that the man who is strong enough to kill a divine envoy, if he wants to be alone after that incident and leave Area 13, he should be able to do it without being aware of it.
It was his death that brought an end to a trial that affected millions of people.
Looking at the city streets outside that have lost their former order, many people will even unconsciously think of that young figure, and then sigh: "The mantis arm is a car." ”
The power of the temple is still as steady as Mount Tai, just look at the city that has gradually become silent again.
In less than two months, forgetful people will be on the streets again and will be living their lives as usual.
In the dilapidated residential buildings of District D, five young people walked through the potholed streets with curious faces, staggering with people from time to time, and politely apologizing if they got in the way of each other.
"Team Li, it turns out that you used to live in such a place. I thought you were just like us, at least you don't have to worry about eating and drinking. Lu Da looked at the dirty and messy streets, looked at the buildings with clothes and pants hanging on both sides, typical urban village style, and smiled.
Li Xiang smiled slightly, his eyes swept over the familiar scene, and he did not speak.
A month or two ago, this was still their home, and at that time, Mina was still dreaming of being reborn in Area C, and Chen Hong was still worried about her daily cosmetics.
But now both of them are gone.
Maka said unhappily: "Lu Da, you don't say anything cool." ”
Lu Da smiled: "I know Team Li won't be angry, that's why I'm making this joke, why are you so serious?" ”
In fact, Lu Da is the most nervous one. Not far away is the high temple, like a triangular pyramid building, no matter when you look at it, it is so grand and solemn, but without the light of the gods, it is no longer sacred.
Today, it was Li Xiang who proposed to go directly to the temple.
Li Xiang himself has never been to this place, but he has heard Mina and Chen Hong say in the past that the temple can be entered and exited at will, and even many people come here to pray every day after work, but unless there is something special, it is difficult to see the divine envoy.
There are only two human administrators in the temple, both dressed in standard black robes, with only the collar and cuffs golden.
Once inside, it's like a theater, with neat rows of seats, a three-meter-wide passage in the middle, and a statue of a god at the end of the passage.
The same appearance, the same posture, stepping on a black sculpture under his feet, no facial features, but that hideous and painful posture came to his face.
It's a story that almost everyone knows.
Sixty years ago, the demon king rebelled against the rule of the gods, leading a kind of demon to fight a decisive battle with the gods in the land of the gods, and the last god died with the demon king for the future of mankind, so that mankind has a peaceful and happy life today.
In today's temple, there are only a dozen people praying.
The five of them walked through the middle passage and sat down at the front, looking their surroundings up and down.
Hong Dansheng took out two hundred yuan, sent the staff who came up, and said, "Have you ever heard of another version of the story about the Demon King?" Only some accounts exist in the Mystical Codex. ”
As soon as Hong Dansheng spoke, Lu Da immediately became interested.
"Does Hongda know anything else?" As freedmen, of course, they knew that the myths and stories that seemed to be above board were only intentionally made up, and they had listened to them with relish when they were children, but with the liberation of their cities by the freedmen, these stories were no longer mentioned, and the statues of the gods had long since been smashed.
Anyway, Lu Da wouldn't believe even a punctuation mark.
But to everyone's surprise, the freedmen seem to be secretive about this history, and no one takes the initiative to mention it.
Hong Dansheng saw that the team members were so interested, and immediately lowered his voice and said: "I found a secret book in my father's study before, which recorded some stories that were different from what we had heard. Among them, the description of the demon king is just the opposite. Five years before the first year of the Apocalypse, the first god came to the earth and brought great disasters, and in the next five years, the civilization established by human beings for thousands of years was destroyed. The team of the God Hunter Squad, at that time, could be said to be a god-like existence, everyone in that team was basically the most talented warrior on the earth, they grew rapidly in the war, swept half of Asia in a few years, and recaptured countless territories for mankind, and now the person pressed under each god statue was actually the captain of the God Hunting Team that gave the gods the most headache back then. ”
"It is said that in the final battle called the Divine Fall, the God Hunting Team led almost all the innate powerhouses at that time, facing thousands of gods, and there was also a main god who was at the peak of the advent level, and the captain of the God Hunting Team who was already in the five realms of the Innate Five Realms at the age of less than twenty finally chose to rush into the nuclear power plant with the main god and die with all the gods."
"After that battle, the gods suffered heavy losses, and humanity was finally able to breathe. It was he who made the gods realize that the growth of human warriors would be fatal to them, so there was a later negotiation. ”
"At that time, one side of humanity still advocated continuing to fight the invaders, while one side chose to compromise and allow humanity to continue to exist under the rule of the gods."
Lu Da interjected: "Isn't it the current free people who advocate confrontation? ”
Hong Dansheng nodded and said, "That's right, the human representatives who advocate continuing to fight are the current free people; And those who advocate coexistence with God are the members of the highest council of mankind that we often hear about. ”
"The Free Folk retreated to the area that had been recovered by the Hunter Squad, and secretly developed; And the Supreme Council, which led most of humanity to accept the rule of the gods, united the gods in the decades that followed, and nearly defeated the freedmen several times. It wasn't until more than a decade ago that there was a turnaround. ”
Hong Dansheng's eyes flashed, and he suddenly became a little excited. "Two things that happened suddenly more than a decade ago changed the decline of the free people. One of them is that there was a human innate powerhouse, who broke into the first three districts alone, not only smashed the Supreme Council to pieces, but also almost demolished the Supreme Temple there, and the battle lasted for three days and three nights, and finally the Supreme Temple suppressed him after paying the price of a Heavenly Father-level Supreme God and countless order-level and Heavenly God-level true gods. ”
A few people next to him listened with relish and were dumbfounded.
The Supreme Shrine in the first three districts is an existence that has caused great headaches for the free people so far, and the Heavenly Father-level Supreme God that only exists in legends is equivalent to the strength of the Seven Realms of Human Innate Martial Artists, which is almost a destructive power that humans dare not imagine.
And the order level and the god level in Hong Dansheng's mouth also correspond to the strength of the six and five realms of human beings.
Even the man with the highest strength of the free people now, the marshal who guards the side of the rain queen and is known as the invincible god of war, is only the peak of the innate six realms, and he can't cross that threshold alive or dead.
Whether it is congenital or acquired, every three realms is a big chasm. Just as countless innate powerhouses will eventually stop at the innate three realms, the six realms are also insurmountable moats for the martial artists of the middle three realms; And once it crosses, it's a different world.
Unexpectedly, there were even people among the free people who had reached the Seven Realms.
They almost couldn't believe that they weren't human anymore in a sense, were they?
Li Xiang frowned slightly, but he had heard the old man say that the limit of human martial artists was in the Innate Nine Realms, and then it could only exist in the mythical world of thousands of years.
The old man said that Li Xiang should be the one with the best chance to break through the Six Realms, but he didn't expect that sixty years later, there would be someone who had reached this height.
Hong Dansheng continued: "That powerhouse of the Seven Realms finally did not know what happened, and even if he was in the headquarters of the Free Folk so far, it was absolutely secret; And the second thing is that I guess every one of you freedmen has heard his story, and he is the true god in the hearts of all freedmen after the rain. ”
Maka grew his mouth: "You mean 'cockroaches'?" ”
When this code name was spoken, everyone's eyes were filled with deep admiration and awe.
"That's right. It is precisely because of that man who claims to be omniscient and omnipresent that the headquarters has been ahead of the enemy in everything for more than ten years, and has turned evil into good fortune many times. He is the patron saint of the freedmen, and the true god of all the freedmen's spies. It is said that in the past ten years, the temple has issued no less than 100 wanted notices, and the prize money is as high as hundreds of billions, but no one still knows where he is, or even who he is. He is like his code name, he cannot be killed, he cannot be destroyed, he breeds in every corner, and once he appears, there are countless of hims. ”
Speaking of which, even in the identity of Hong Dansheng, he is full of admiration and expectation.
"It is because of the appearance of these two people that the free people have gained the upper hand in many wars in the past ten years, and finally stabilized the situation where they can now faintly fight the gods head-on."
Li Xiang remained silent until Hong Dansheng finished speaking, and then he spoke: "Does anyone know where the members of the previous God Hunting Team are now?" ”
Hong Dansheng sighed and said: "The people who have experienced that battle and the following years are now at least seventy or eighty years old, either they are super strong people who can't see the end of the dragon, or they are the real backers of the bigwigs of all parties, how can ordinary people get in touch with that level so easily." Naturally, no one knows what happened to that legendary squad now. ”