That swordsman, he didn't have a soul?

So what I have in my house is just a walking corpse?

Tian Xian stayed there in shock, a little speechless for a while.

However, soon Tian Xian came back to his senses, looked at Old Belen with scrutinizing eyes, and Tian Xian warned himself very seriously that this old man's words could not be fully believed now.

Old Belen didn't have to ask any questions, and explained to himself: "Although his soul is injected into the container, he is still alive and well, although he looks a little silly, but he is not completely soulless, right?"

Tian Xian nodded cautiously.

Old Belen smiled and sighed helplessly, "At the beginning, those of us who entered the White Water Pool didn't know each other, and we made a vow together to get the power of the gods, to put it bluntly, we didn't have a friendship, but for this poor guy, I still sympathize with it, after all, ...... Maybe it's just a little bit, and I'm the one who completely lost my soul. ”

Tianxian's eyes jumped slightly.

"Because Ivan tampered with the oath, there was an accident, and the guy's soul was completely infused into the container, which was not exactly what the oath described, so he was excluded from the oath, and the survivors who were contacted by the oath did not actually include him. ”

"Originally, having lost all his soul, he would have become a corpse and be buried forever in the bottomless sea, but ...... That deity is not short of souls......"

Tianxian's eyes jumped fiercely.

"So...... He was still himself when he went, but when he came back...... In fact, it was no longer him, another person's soul fragment was injected into his body, and that's it......"

Tian Xian suddenly remembered the first time he saw the swordsman in the arena, his extremely distorted power and body, was it because the soul and body were not unified?

"So, he doesn't really know who he is......" Old Belen shook his head, "he didn't even know that he had ever existed, but he had some vague physical impressions, such as ...... I'm good at using a sword, something like that. ”

Tianxian couldn't help but say: "So his memory is also very confusing, once he said that a friend saved him underwater, so he became a survivor, and he wanted to save his friend...... Isn't that friend ......?"

Old Belen smiled bitterly, "No, it's not what you think, the friend he is talking about, I don't know who it is, because every once in a while, his memory changes drastically, and there was a time when he even thought he was Ivan." ”

Tianxian couldn't help but take a slight breath.

"I know that he has a special ability to see what has happened and what will happen, and you've tried it, right, it's not his, it's from the soul that has been infused, I think he told you that he never left the White Pool, right...... must have said it, because only at this time can he be regarded as really sober for a little time, a little ...... Probably a few breaths in time. ”

Holding the teacup in his hand, Old Belen looked at the fire with a melancholy expression, "The price paid for us to obtain divine power is too great, he has indeed never left the White Water Pool, his people are here, but there is a line connecting him, and the other end ...... In the hands of that god in the White Pool. ”

After speaking, Old Belen couldn't help but laugh self-deprecatingly, "Why aren't we like this, it's just that his situation is more special, do you know why he can leave with his own container?"

Tianxian shook his head.

Old Belen shook his head, "I don't know, but I can probably guess, because everything is just the pastime of that god, welcoming explorers, watching them die in batches, collecting souls, entertaining those who are lucky enough to die, vows, giving strength, getting living soul fragments, watching them dance in his own hands, everything is his pastime...... Perhaps, he just suddenly wanted to change the way of pastime, wandering around alone with his soul, haha......"

Tian Xian didn't smile, his face was tense, this kind of sadness made people unable to laugh.

Old Belen had vicissitudes in his eyes, "Human beings have only been around for a hundred years, and grievances and hatreds are just a pastime, nothing more." ”

Both of them were silent for a while, and Tianxian suddenly asked, "So...... Is that kind of ability real?"

Old Belen looked at Tianxian with a strange gaze, "What do you see?"

Tian Xian chooses to be silent.

After hesitating for a moment, Old Belen replied with certainty: "It's true." ”

Tianxian felt a chill on his back......

"That wild dog, not within the shackles of the oath, that god also inexplicably let him return to the shore with his soul container, he is a very special existence, and even without the shackles of the oath, he still got divine power, although it is owned by part of the fragment of another soul, but there is no doubt that it is real divine power!"

Looking at Tianxian's slightly ugly face, Old Belen paused, thought about it or didn't ask, and said directly: "I don't know what you saw, but that kind of power shouldn't be wrong, to be honest, foreseeing the future, this kind of thing is not difficult for the gods, and even some gods can shuttle between the past and the future at will." ”

Tian Xian was a little surprised, "Can you shuttle between the past and the future?"

"Yes! I've met one. ”

Hearing this, Tian Xian couldn't help but open his mouth wide in shock.

"Don't be surprised, the past and the future are really not very special things for the gods, and we made a bet that he would go back to my past and change one thing, and then go back to the present to verify it. ”

"What has he changed?" asked Tian Xian in disbelief.

Old Belen rolled up his sleeves to reveal a tattoo-like mark on his arm, "He went back in time and left this symbol on my arm with special ink. ”

"There is...... This kind of thing!" Tian Xian looked at the symbol in old Belen's hand, it was an ancient inscription.

Putting down his sleeves, Old Belen said: "Originally, I wouldn't know the difference between before and after, but he interfered with my time flow, until he recovered for me, I didn't know that there was an extra symbol on my arm, and the moment I saw it, the memory of the past came to mind, it turned out that this was the spur I gave to myself when I was learning the inscription of the ancient gods, and my teacher tattooed it for me." ”

Tianxian's jaw was about to fall this time.

Old Belen nodded, "Yes, young man, you are not mistaken, the reason why I am good at energy formations is not because I have any talent and talent, but because of what the god who made a bet with me at the beginning threw to me in order to prove it. ”

Tianxian felt slightly bitter in his mouth, and he was a little speechless.

"What are you betting for?"

Old Belen shrugged, "Perhaps most of the gods are boring, especially as a god who can travel between the past and the future, he loves to listen to stories, and after I lost I had to tell him all the stories since I could remember, I don't know how long I have been telling them, for him it is a pleasure to read time." ”

Tianxian frowned and pondered, and said after a while: "In this way, everything in this world does not have much meaning, because time can be played with by the gods in the palm of the hand. ”

Old Belen laughed when he heard this, "Boy, you're wrong!"

"Am I wrong?"

"Yes, it's not that this world doesn't have much meaning, it's that we humans ...... I don't know the world at all. ”

Tian Xian was stunned.

"In our cognition, time is irreversible, and the years only pass slowly, which is our law, but for the gods, this is not a law at all, it is just a small thing that can be changed at will, and we are ignorant of the laws of the world that the gods obey. ”

Old Belen smiled helplessly, "Although I am very unwilling, I have to say that we humans know nothing about this world. ”

Tianxian couldn't help but fall silent, and once again contemplated with his eyebrows.

"Can you tell me what you see?" asked old Belen tentatively.

Tian Xian did not answer, did not say anything, but said: "It is irrefutable that human beings do not know the world as well as the gods, but we are not useless, because the gods who travel between the past and the future are not still interested in the experience of a small human being, and in the same world, we still have a lot in common, and ...... Since you don't know anything, it's better to learn and know. ”

Old Belen nodded appreciatively, "That's right, that's what I actually thought! That's why I have to go to more and farther places, but it's a pity...... Never left after getting here, huh...... That's why I gave you my beloved Black Trumpet, and I can see in you the shadow of my youth. ”

"I'm not going to lie, I don't blink, and I don't play dead. ”

Old Belen smiled, "I can't help it, there is no time to discuss the imminent matter." ”

As he spoke, Old Belen suddenly became puzzled, "Speaking of which, I found that you seem to be very attached to the affairs of the gods, I don't know if I feel wrong." ”

Tian Xian suddenly raised his vigilance, and his face completely returned to indifference.

Old Belen had no choice but to smile, "Okay, okay, I'm not a person who likes to snoop on other people's secrets, don't be so guarded, let's go on and talk about our business." ”

Coughing, Old Belen thought about what he was talking about, and then continued: "Actually, for that wild dog, we are all free to meet him, he is a survivor, but not a person within the oath, although the meeting will feel very hard because of the same divine power, but it will not reach the point of backlash, so I am fighting the idea of that container, but I didn't start." ”

"Why? Why didn't you grab it?"

"Because he's so good, I can't fight him!" said old Belen very honestly.

Tian Xian was surprised, "But, that thing is ......"

"Yes, it was given to you by Aelita and she got it from the wild dog, but here's the problem, she didn't know what I had been doing for so many years, and she didn't know that I needed that thing, she found out about it by accident, and the wild dog was very wary of me, but she wasn't too wary of Aelita, and after my investigation, Aelita exchanged half a piece of bread for that container. ”

Half a piece of dough...... Tian Xian didn't know how to describe his feelings.

"I've been trying to figure out how to find out if the baby I want is gone, but I can't contact her in any way, even indirectly, and the power of the pledge is not a joke, and we can't afford it. ”

Touching his beard, Old Belen looked at Tianxian's face, "Later, I knew that the thing was in your hands, and I was happy for a while, but what about it...... You're no easier to deal with than that wild dog, and you're familiar with the use of energy arrays, which was a lot of trouble for me, but I later discovered your weakness. ”

Speaking of this, Tian Xian couldn't help but be angry.

Old Belen still said: "Being too young is your biggest weakness, innocent and kind, like a white and immaculate child, ah...... Forgive me for lying to you, but my research has reached a critical point, and the time for the oath to loosen is coming to an end, and I can't think of a good way but to do it. ”

"What's the matter with the loose oath?" asked Tian Xian, angry.

Old Belen smiled mockingly, "The loosening of the oath is caused by Ivan's two successive drives of the unjust soul to conduct a large-scale search, he fell into a state of weakness, as the leader of the oath, his weakness affected the effectiveness of the oath, according to my research, this situation would not have appeared, but this oath was tampered with, and there were many flaws, which Ivan could not do." ”

Tianxian's eyes were on fire: "So, there is no oath to fight back now, right?"

Old Belen explained weakly: "But it will be soon, Ivan will recover quickly, and it will only take a few days for the oath to re-establish a strong binding force, haven't you noticed that the wild dog has been getting old recently? That's because the divine power of the oath is almost gone, and his strength is also weakened greatly, and when the oath is re-established, he will be young again, huh...... Of course, the sanity has returned to its former state. ”

So that's what happened!

Tian Xian thought about it carefully, the swordsman did start the first time the Great Lord Ivan launched a city-wide search, and from that time he aged rapidly.

Suddenly, Tian Xian thought of something, and couldn't help but ask, "You said that you have used up his soul, what does that mean?"

Old Belen's eyes moved, and his expression dodged slightly, "Ah...... It's just used up, it's gone...... Do you understand?"

Tianxian's expression suddenly froze, "You...... Kill him?"

Old Belen saw that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly waved his hand, "No, no, no, no! I'm not such a cruel person, but ...... Let him exist in another form, you have to believe me!"