Chapter 1578: Vengeful Ghost
Tianxian had a very bad feeling, this dark energy array ...... On my behalf?
"What do you mean on behalf of me?" Tian Xian consciously or unintentionally moved away from the energy array.
Old Belen looked at this energy array, and it was hard to hide the excitement on his face, "This is my life's work, with this thing, I can forcibly reverse the oath and twist the original oath in different directions, and in this distortion, the three people who must be Ivan and me, as well as you!"
"Ivan represents himself, and I ...... It represents the survivors who can reach the White Water Pool, and you, the survivors who will not reach, and we all add up to all of us who are the owners of this vow. β
Tian Xian carefully looked at this energy array a few times, he really couldn't understand it, it was too complicated, it was too weird, Tian Xian had never seen anything like this.
"Where is the swordsman's soul?" asked Tian Xian.
"Here!" Old Belen nodded at the white energy array that represented him, "his soul has been infused into this energy array. β
"Injected into the energy array?" Tianxian's eyes jumped, "So can you still pull it out?"
Old Belen understood what Tian Xian was going to say, but shook his head, "No, the energy array has begun to operate, and the power of the survivor's soul is the cornerstone of operation, just like the oath is taking effect." β
Tianxian immediately understood.
"So, he's actually dead, like a tree, and he just hasn't burned all the wood yet, right?"
Old Belen nodded, "Actually...... The tree is long dead, I'm just moving it, like that...... He doesn't rot and can emit some light and heat. β
Tian Xian nodded, then took a step back, rubbed his forehead and said, "I thought he was living so freely, you dared to say those words just now, it seems that I am indeed too young." β
Old Belen stared at the energy array and said in a deep voice, "This ...... It was already the happiest time for him to live in more than 100 years. /β
"Are you happy to be consumed a little bit?" Tian Xian sneered, took a deep breath and strengthened his guard, "Can I ask the last question, the energy array that needs the power of the soul to support it, Ivan's, my ...... All of them need to be right?"
Old Belen fell silent.
Tian Xian looked around and said thoughtfully: "This is really a good place, no one knows about the secret room, and even the old mansion outside the secret room is protected by a powerful energy array, even if you kill someone, no one will know." β
Old Belen slowly turned his head, a bitter smile on his face, "Boy, I need your help. β
"But I don't want to be calculated!"
Tianxian's eyes turned cold, "A person who does not hesitate to consume other people's souls, why should I believe him? You can inject his soul into the energy array, but you have never thought of stuffing it back into his body, right? For your own sake, you can sacrifice others without hesitation, even if it is a human life, ah...... I'm also alone, it's terrifying!Isn't it? There's an energy array that represents me, so ...... Do you want a fragment of my soul? or do you want all of them?"
Old Belen looked a little helpless: "Young man, don't think I'm some kind of treacherous person, this doesn't need your soul fragments, and ...... I don't have the ability to extract your soul, so the only, necessary condition for this energy array to work is the soul of that wild dog, I hope you can understand me. β
"No, that's great! But hopefully it's a little longer, because what you say to me usually doesn't take long to take effect. β
Knowing that his impression in Tianxian was already very bad, Old Belen smiled bitterly, and finally sighed, his eyes fell back on the energy array, "If my plan is to be implemented, I need your full help, I won't harm you, because that is tantamount to harming myself, and I have just said that this plan is very beneficial to you, and you are the one who benefits the most." β
Tian Xian didn't believe this, standing far away, he seemed to be interested in the books on the shelf, "I really want to hear why I am the one who benefits the most." β
"Because this vow is directed to you, you will be the one the oath chooses, just like Ivan. β
Tianxian looked back at Old Belen and smiled lightly, "I probably guessed, but I didn't dare to think so, so why? Why am I the beneficiary, why not you?"
"If I can benefit from the fact that the three of us represent all the people who have sworn a covenant, then why can't you?"
"I ...... It's no longer possible......"
Old Belen suddenly laughed, "We...... No, only I know about this now, not even Ivan, the bastard. β
He didn't bother to ask, but once again took a step and began to browse the corners of the old BelΓ©m's research room.
Old Belen didn't care, and said to himself: "For more than a hundred years, I have been studying the oath that binds us, its energy flow, its strength, its structure, whether it has regularity, whether it follows some principle that we know, what is the way it can be easily controlled, and finally ......"
"Almost nothing...... old Belen sighed.
Tian Xian couldn't help but glance at it, thinking to himself, if you get nothing, then what is in front of you?
Old Belen said a little weakly: "The power of the gods is almost beyond our comprehension, although their power will always be imposed on us, but the fact that the gods are gods, and mortals are mortals, has never changed. β
"This energy array is my life's work, but you haven't seen what the original energy array looks like, if you do...... I don't think there's anything advanced about this thing of mine. β
As he spoke, Old Belen twitched a large piece of parchment from the table next to him, "Come, boy, take a look at what the energy formation used by the gods looks like?"
Tian Xian turned his head to look at it, and then frowned.
There was almost nothing on the large sheepskin, except a large circle, the tail of which had not yet been drawn, and in the middle were a few plausible symbols, which seemed to be a triangle and two quadrilaterals piled up there, if that could be called a triangle and a quadrilateral.
It's like the homework handed in by the little girl in the picture class at the grocery store opposite.
Is this an energy array?
Shaking the large piece of parchment, old Belen said to himself: "See, this is the oath that binds us, represents the part of the oath energy that works, and once any of us break the oath, it is this thing that will attract the power to attack us!"
"In that temple in the White Pool, the container of soul fragments for each of us is placed on such a thing, and this is the true face of the oath. β
Tianxian was a little skeptical, because this thing is really ...... It's a bit outrageous.
"Is this an energy array? old man...... You can't be mistaken, can you?"
Old Belen said, "Even if I forget who I am, I will never forget this thing! This is the most unforgettable thing of my life! In the depths of the water, in that temple! Nothing is heavier than the weight of this thing in my life force! You think I will be mistaken? No! Boy! Never!"
Throwing away the parchment, Old Belen said loudly, "Do you think this thing is useless? It's a pity that I have to tell you that I have tried countless times to break my oath and backlash before I got my energy array from this thing! I don't want to admit it, but that's the way it is, that's what the oath bondage circle left by that god is! Isn't it funny? It's like a trace of sleepwalking and peeing. β
His eyes widened, and Old Belen often exhaled, his eyes moist, "The life of our people, we are extremely poor, in fact, we are just random things in the eyes of the gods, and pastime is already a lot of respect for us, don't you think?"
"That thing...... So you came up with an energy array?" Tian Xian didn't want to argue with an unanswered question.
"Yes!"
Attention returned to the energy array, and Old Belen's mood became high-pitched again, "Yes, yes! Although I don't know what the energy array is all about, but I can personally feel its power backlash, countless times and countless attempts, I through the continuous recording and research of each backlash, and finally made this energy array purely copied, this thing has no order, and there is no real structure at all, it is completely pieced together in the most basic way of energy operation, it is very complicated, now even I don't remember how many symbols and patterns there are, I only know that each symbol and pattern represents a change in the energy array, this is part of my research resultsγ β
"Part of it? And what about the other part?"
Old Belen's smile was a little more inexplicably relieved, "The other part is that I have realized very clearly that we ...... Those of us who have been infused with divine power are actually dead. β
Tian Xian was stunned, "Dead?"
"Yes, dead...... If the divine power is gone now, we guys will wither and die in less than a day, we have lived for too long, and we are just supporting life with divine power, and the divine power is eternal, but we are not, and even then we are irresistibly aging. β
Gently stroking the energy array, Old Belen shook his head helplessly, "It's not that the divine power has given us a long life, it's just that it didn't let us die, in fact, we are all like that wild dog, our bodies are about to decay, but we haven't fallen yet." β
Tian Xian was indifferent, and he would think of the few survivors he had talked about, only the great lord Ivan was young and powerful, and the rest were ......
"It's no longer possible for us to be infused with divine power. Old Belen smiled, "This kind of power can make us strong, but ...... But it is not something that humans can bear, and our bodies begin to crumble as early as a few years before we are infused, but we are just careful to hide them, and then we don't die. β
Tian Xian couldn't help but think of the little old woman Alita in the ruined city, in the Divine Domain Array of the small building, the terrifying scene when she revealed her true face, her body had begun to collapse, but it was true...... Just like good people.
"Ivan, he wants to be the chosen one again. Old Belen smiled, "That's because he thought he was okay, only he was still young and strong among us, but he seemed to forget that we were following the same oath, and in the eyes of that god, we didn't make any difference at all, he was just stronger and looked stronger, once the divine power declined...... Hey, hey, hey......"
Tian Xian suddenly thought of something.
"So, all the survivors of the last time, this time they can't actually be infused with divine power anymore, that is, they can't become survivors anymore?"
"The tattered bag, there is no way to hold more goods, force it in, you can only tear the bag, Ivan...... It's just a bigger bag. β
Tian Xian pondered for a while, "Then how can you complete the plan with this energy array?" All the survivors regrouped and revised the oath again, you are here, I am also here, but Ivan will not come!"
"But he'll enter the White Pool and fulfill his vows as a survivor once again, and that's our chance!"
Tianxian couldn't help but feel ridiculous, "If the chance is like that, you can let Ivan go to death, anyway, as long as you become a survivor again, he will die, wouldn't it be easier for you to watch him die." β
Old Belen's eyes suddenly widened, and he stared at Tianxian deadly, "Look? You said to watch him die!?
Tianxian frowned slightly, "What, what's wrong with this?"
"No! that's not right at all!" Old Belen's face turned hideous, "it doesn't matter whether he himself is dead or alive, what matters is whether I can let him die or live! I want revenge! I want him to live rather than die! Do you understand what I mean?"
Tianxian couldn't help but be stunned.
Old Belen roared in a low voice: "More than a hundred years! More than a hundred years! For nearly two hundred years, I was tormented and persecuted by him! You made me just watch him die by himself?
"What about my pain, what about all that I have endured, how shall I be reconciled for all the torments I have suffered for so many years?" said old Belen, looking at Tian Xian with red eyes, "No! boy! Not like that! I want him to taste what my days are like! I want him to know how I spent those years! Let him know...... What is pain!"
Taking a deep breath, Old Belen slowly recovered, "Yes, young man...... I'm a vengeful ghost! I'm dead when I made the oath...... However, revenge is all I have, and until I am gone, I only have revenge!"
"And you...... You'll get real divine power, and you'll not be as powerful as Ivan, after all, many of us will die, but it's enough for you to live a lifetime as a human being, ah...... You can go back to your hometown, and there are no problems in the human world in the face of divine power. β