Chapter 464: Virtue and Sin

There used to be three sacred trees in the human world, one called "Destiny", one called "Time", and one called "World". Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The elves are special beings born from the "World Sacred Tree", and the ripening of the fruit of each World Sacred Tree means the birth of an elf baby.

Elves have been called "the embodiment of beauty" since ancient times, not only because most of them are beautiful, but also because they were blessed with the "Seven Virtues" by the sacred tree of the world at the moment of their birth.

For human beings, the theory of the inherent goodness of human nature and the theory of the evil of human nature have always been the topic of endless debate, using the behavior of infants to explore the initial good and evil of human nature, arguing whether human beings have learned good behaviors or contaminated with evil bad habits in the process of growing up in life, such a debate topic is not able to argue for thousands of years, because from their respective perspectives and positions, the explanations obtained by both sides are reasonable, and neither can completely refute the other, and no one can prove that they are absolutely correct.

However, there is no such awkward argument for the elves, because "born to be good and beautiful" is the greatest favor of the world's sacred tree to the elves.

The elves are born with seven precious "virtues" - chastity, temperance, generosity, diligence, patience, tolerance, and humility.

For example, if an elf does not need to work because of her wealthy family background and lives a worry-free life, her "diligence" virtue will be exhausted in this day-to-day waste.

The elves who can maintain the seven virtues throughout their lives and do not disappear are extremely rare, almost non-existent, only the "holy elves" recorded in legends really retain all the seven virtues, but the "holy elves" are only legends after all, and it is impossible to judge whether they are fictional or real.

Normally, well-educated elves are generally able to maintain two or three virtues, but the rest of the virtues will disappear as they grow up, becoming not much different from ordinary humans.

However, there is one thing that is never permissible and despised for the spirits who are born with virtue—virtue may disappear, but it must not become sin.

For example, "diligence" can disappear, but it must not become "laziness".

"Chastity" can be lost, but "lust" must never be indulged......

The elves can condone the disappearance of the virtues bestowed by the World Tree, seeing it as their own incompetence, but they must not be tainted with the seven original sins corresponding to the seven virtues, because that would be the most serious betrayal of the World Tree that gave birth to them.

However, if an elf is contaminated with any of the seven original sins, whether it is an elven commoner, an elven nobleman, or even an elven queen, as long as they are contaminated with "sin", they will be regarded as "fallen elves", and they will be expelled at least and killed at worst.

The "Fallen Elves" are the most despised race of the Elves, but sadly, while the Sacred Tree of the World bestows on them the Seven Virtues, it also sows the seeds of "Fall".

Because as long as you destroy a certain "virtue" of yourself and actively "degenerate" into "sin", you can trigger the seeds hidden in the elf's body, so that the elf can temporarily gain explosive power.

"Falling" in exchange for power is the most benign gift that the World Sacred Tree gives to elves when they give birth to them, but it is also the most malicious test.

Because even the elves who yearn for peace have to surrender to power, and then they have to make a choice whether to obtain the necessary power at the cost of "sin", especially when faced with greedy human hunting, their lives, chastity, and dignity are threatened, and whether these things are more important than "virtue" becomes their most difficult choice.

The vast majority of elves will choose to "fall" to resolve the crisis at the most critical moment, even if it means betraying the World Sacred Tree, it is easier than betraying themselves.

This is the origin of the fallen and the fallen elves, who were born with the seven virtues in the first place.

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10,000 years ago, the first "Doomsday Tribulation" befell the human world.

The strongest destroyer of the Catastrophe, the Heavenly Tribulation Original Sin, gave priority to the destruction of the three sacred trees that were the pillars of the human world, and the World Sacred Tree was naturally not immune to this catastrophe.

After that, the Seven Original Sins, as the "Cleaners", began to slaughter the living beings in the human world, and the elves suffered a catastrophe as a result.

In that catastrophe, only one of the elves survived.

The only elf that survived was the flower glass that was chosen by the World Sacred Tree as the inheritor because she still retained the seven virtues in her cardamom years.

Without the reproduction of the World Sacred Tree, Huali became the last elf in the human world.

Since then, Huali has been aware of her fate and mission, and has secretly vowed that in order to preserve the last bloodline of the elves, she will never use the power of the "Fallen Seed" and will never become a "fallen elf".

Luckily, she has possessed near-invincible power from the very beginning, and has always been an "ugly old woman" when she travels through different dimensional worlds, so she has not encountered a desperate situation that requires the use of "Fallen Seeds" for 10,000 years.

Although in the 10,000 years of travel, she has lost her "tolerance" because of the enemy who exterminated humanity, lost her "humility" because of her too strong strength, and lost her "diligence" because of her ability to teleport across half a world without walking, she has not fallen into the phenomenon, nor has she encountered a crisis that requires active degeneration, which is already an incredible miracle.

However, not long ago, when she was self-sealed because she entered the Nine Turns Transcendent Tower, and was trapped by the god-killing formation arranged by the four tower lords as the eyes of the formation, in order to save Shi Xiaobai, who almost died, she fell into a desperate situation where she had to use the "Fallen Seed".

When "sacrificing Shi Xiaobai" and "sacrificing oneself" were placed on the same scale, Huali did not hesitate to choose the latter.

She destroyed the virtue called "patience", took the initiative to accept the evil called "anger", and in order to save Shi Xiaobai, she broke her oath, betrayed the sacred tree of the world, and became a "fallen elf".

She doesn't regret it, and even if she had to do it all over again, she would make the same choice.

Although compared with the 10,000 years of time, the time of acquaintance with Shi Xiaobai was as short as a grain of dust in the desert, but for her, this short time was more precious than the long 10,000 years.

Because in 10,000 years, it is not only life that is long, but also the loneliness of being alone.

And in this short period of time, she secretly observed Shi Xiaobai's colorful adventures, watching him sometimes laugh heartily, sometimes angry, sometimes sad, sometimes passionate, sometimes desperate......

Though he was unaware of her piercing gaze, though he knew nothing when she smiled or frowned, though she was only a lonely observer, she felt no loneliness at all.

What she got from Shi Xiaobai was far more than she imagined.

Therefore, how could she stand by and watch the life that filled her "emptiness" be destroyed?

How could she allow that teenager, who had higher ideals than anyone else, to die at the beginning of his journey?

Even if she had to deceive herself with the lie that "she is not an ordinary elf, but the inheritor of the world's sacred tree, even if she becomes a fallen elf, she will only betray herself, and this is just a trivial matter", she will never let that young man fall into the eternal sleep of the night.

So she chose to "fall" to complete his "salvation".

She has no regrets about it.

But what happened next made her regret it until now.

Shi Xiaobai did not live up to her dedication, and even gave her unimaginable returns.

He "snatched" her "fall".

How did she "snatch", even she was a little dazed in the process, but she only remembered that she fell into panic and shyness because she was suddenly "pushed down" by him, and when she was worried about how to refuse, he gently reciprocated her for her efforts.

It's just that this "reward" is like a "retribution" for her.

Shi Xiaobai snatched the evil called "anger" from her and turned her into a pure spirit who was not touched by sin, for which he paid a high price that could be dominated by "anger" or seduced by "depravity" at any time.

Hua Li felt guilty for her negligence, and more moved.

True love is such a "selfless" dedication as hers.

And to be truly loved is to be rewarded with such "selfishness" as he is.

The first thing Hua Li did after leaving the Nine Transformations of the Transcendent Tower was to go through all the materials about the "Fall".

The Seven Sins are passionate about destroying living beings, but they have no habit of burning books, so she luckily kept some of the elven books 10,000 years ago.

However, the more she flipped through the thick texts and learned more about the "Fall", the more she felt lost.

Because all books describing the "Fallen" are based on the premise that the identity of the Fallen is that they are all spirits.

Yes, there is no description of humanity that has sown the seeds of sin as a result of the "Fall"!

For human beings, virtue and sin both originate from human nature, but it is a normal thing that the two ends of human nature are differentiated, so when the "seed of evil" that belongs to the elves is sown in the flower field of human souls, there is no precedent to follow what kind of "flower of evil" will bloom.

Without lessons from the past, this is the most embarrassing status quo.

Shi Xiaobai took away the evil seed called "anger" from her, and it is impossible to predict what kind of changes will occur and what kind of changes will occur.

It wasn't until Shi Xiaobai fell into a desperate situation again, she smiled bitterly at how many times this young man who had obviously only been cultivating for a long time would encounter a life-threatening crisis before she would give up, while nervously waiting for the last moment when she had to make a decision.

This time was different from before, and she couldn't make decisions with absolute calm. Subject to the Demon Queen's deliberate arrangement, she can only save one side after all. Once she rescued Shi Xiaobai, it meant giving up the other seven newcomers who were in danger in order to save Shi Xiaobai, even if she had no habit of caring about "morality", but this kind of "revenge" was still too unmoral.

Therefore, he and them are on the verge of danger, and the only way to reach a perfect ending together is to save each other or save themselves.

However, the newcomers who have been caught by the ninth-layer lord "Shadow Ghost" probably have no room for resistance.

Holding the girl and running wildly, Shi Xiaobai, who fell for the sixth time, seemed to have no strength to get up again.

Things have come to this point, it should have been a desperate situation - if Shi Xiaobai's body was not buried with the "angry evil seed" that was "snatched" from her.

The "Evil Seed of Wrath" wields its reliable yet abominable power.

Shi Xiaobai once again gained the power given by the "Fall".

Hua Li didn't expect this at all, because this was the first mutation that had occurred so far.

Elves can gain power by destroying "virtues" and inducing the fall of "sin", but they can only be used once in a lifetime.

If you can obtain a power far beyond yourself countless times, it is not a gift from the World Sacred Tree, but a "plug-in" that breaks the rules.

But it seems that with the emergence of a precedent for humanity to acquire the seed of sin, the rules have been broken.

Elves can only gain power after the first fall, and if the direction of the fall is "anger", then they will become prone to uncontrollable anger in the future, which is equivalent to being tainted with the vice of irritability.

But Shi Xiaobai is the second time because of "anger" that he has gained strength far beyond himself!

What's going on?

Fall after Fall?

After falling into anger and gaining strength again, what price will he pay?

Hua Li was shocked, she forced herself to calm down, and carefully observed the monsters in the world of Shi Xiaobai's torture and killing formation that had lost her mind due to "anger".

It is still as powerful and ruthless as when it tortured and killed the four tower lords, it is still the same cruel method of tearing apart its prey directly with both hands, and it is still the devil who allows his blood to stain himself into silver-haired demons......

Compared with the first "anger", there seems to be no change, but if you look carefully, you will find that this time Shi Xiaobai is obviously more ruthless than before, and he is more decisive in tearing up his prey, more like a "devil" who follows his killing instincts.

This means that compared with the last time, Shi Xiaobai's residual self-consciousness has become more vague and vague in the state of "anger".

It's just that although he paid a painful price, Shi Xiaobai's side finally completed the "self-rescue".

Just when Hua Li comforted herself with such a lame statement, the story went to a bleak trough.

Because of Li Chenxi's awakening and calling, "Shi Xiaobai", who was already no different from the devil, finally noticed her existence.

The silver-haired devil, who completely followed his killing instinct, finally stretched out his blood-stained hands to the soft and warm delicate body of the girl who was close at hand.