Wu Niang said that among the apostles of hell there are apostles who master death.

As the chief deputy hall master of the Absolute Holy Church, Yu Taiying still knows a lot about the Hell Apostle who is making waves in the New World, and she tells Qi Xuansu in detail the specific situation of the Death Apostle Samuel.

Strictly speaking, there is a considerable difference between this mastery of death refers specifically to the deceased and the afterlife, while killing is when death is in progress.

Cirilla and Samuel are a great pair, just like Wu Luo and Si Ming Zhenjun.

Friends who often kill people know that killing people is easy to kill and difficult to throw away corpses. Cirilla is responsible for killing, Samuel is responsible for throwing corpses, this is the tacit understanding of the cooperation between the two.

These two apostles of hell also have specific images.

Cirela often takes the form of a young Western man with black hair and black eyes, dressed in classical aristocratic straits, armed with a sword and dagger, gloomy and cold, from which many of his titles of "prince" are derived.

Samuel was a complete different, often wearing a looser black robe with a hood that was integrated into the robe, and under the hood was darkness, occasionally revealing a skeletal face. He often held a long-handled scythe in one hand and a balance in the other, because he also had the priesthood of justice, which was also the priesthood when he was an apostle, and after the fall into the apostle of hell, this justice had another meaning, which meant that before death, everyone was equal, and death was the greatest equality.

Compared to Cirilla, who often comes to the stage to make trouble, Samuel does not like to stand in the spotlight, he prefers to hide behind the scenes, watch everything in silence, plot conspiracies, and harvest life. The raven is his messenger and his eyes and ears, through which he can observe and spy on everything in the world, and the crow announces the arrival of death, and the black cat conveys his oracle.

At the same time, Samuel also has a part of the priesthood of fear and doom, spreading his influence to the world through the primordial fear of death of the living, but perhaps yin and yang, and occasionally the former apostle will give the illusion of tolerance and mercy.

So Samuel's emblems are bones, scythes, and crows.

Samuel, of course, also had believers and clergy who created fear in the world and made the common people fear death.

However, Samuel's faith is not extensive, his followers have the characteristics of secret associations, many worship Samuel out of fear, and offer sacrifices to Samuel at funerals or other death-related occasions, but few people really believe in him, let alone build a temple for Samuel, and even if there is a temple, it is difficult to exist openly in the world.

Because of this, Qi Xuansu had a suspicion that the upper temple and the underground area might be two parts, the upper part was just a mask, and the underground part was the true face behind the mask.

Since it is Samuel's temple, the architectural style is naturally different from the local architecture of the Southern Continent, with a distinct Western style.

All of this seems to reveal the truth that this Shadow Tide was orchestrated by the old friends of Cyrilla and Samuel in order to devour the soul and flesh through blood sacrifices.

Both motivation and ability are very consistent, and there are no obvious loopholes.

The two apostles of hell, Cirilla and Samuel, need divine power, and under normal means, they can obtain very little divine power, so they plan this wave of shadows, with Cirilla harvesting the soul and Samuel devouring flesh and blood, each taking what he needs. As the god of lies, Cirilla deceived the priests of the Sun Temple, leaving a black sun mural in the depths of the temple, leading to the Shadow Tide of Kamakai, and Samuel used a fugitive to introduce the Condor in charge of chasing the fugitives into his temple, and finally devoured the Condor in his own temple.

This seems to make sense logically.

At least that's what she thinks.

However, Qi Xuansu didn't think so, he raised an objection: "Judging from all indications, this temple belonging to Samuel has existed for a long time and has been abandoned for a long time, and the tide of shadows has erupted here, which does not mean that the shadow must be from Samuel, or someone else may have borrowed this temple." At the very least, let's investigate the situation here before making a conclusion. ”

The habit of the Daomen, whether it is an immortal or a god, does not use honorific titles such as "he", and is also collectively referred to as "human", not to mention what not to look directly at God, not to blaspheme God, and to focus on equality.

It's a disenchantment. If you can't deconstruct the gods, you will fear them. If you can't understand the gods, you will be afraid of the unknown. Even if the gods do not possess the priesthood of fear, they will make mortals fearful, and eventually they will be overwhelmed by their own fears. As the saying goes, you scare yourself and then be scared to death.

But if you deconstruct the gods, understand the gods, know what the essence of the gods is, no matter how powerful the gods are, there will be ways to fight against them, and then it is just a powerful person.

Daomen worships Dao Ancestor, it is not a god worship, it is more similar to ancestor worship, and the Li family is a great saint ancestor, not my lord, and there is a big difference between the two.

Qi Xuansu's "other people" here does not refer to people, but can also be understood as "other gods".

Tai Ying had no choice but to follow Qi Xuansu through the stone gate and enter the interior of this underground temple.

It is said to be an underground palace, but it is more like a mausoleum rebuilt. Because there was no shadow barrier, and there was no obstacle from the Grim Reaper believers, so the two of them walked all the way unimpeded, and after walking for about half an hour, they came to a three-way intersection, not counting the road when they came, where the deep tomb road was divided into three different tributaries, leading to three unknown directions.

The place where the different "tributaries" meet is not small, like a hall, and on the wall facing the road from which it came there hangs a portrait that is also covered in dust. Qi Xuansu waved his hand and swept away the dust on the portrait, it was a silhouette in a black robe, wearing a hood, his face hidden in the darkness, his back leaning on a huge scythe, his hands in his sleeves, a crow standing on his shoulder, and a black cat in his arms. The background is blurry, but you can vaguely see that there are countless white skeletons.

It is the portrait of Samuel, the god of death.

Needless to say, the last time Taiying came in, the portrait was covered in shadows, so she didn't notice the painting.

Yu Taiying pointed to the location of the wall below the portrait: "This is where I found the blood book. ”

Qi Xuansu looked at this position carefully, there was no trace of a fight, but there were traces of slight leaning, as if someone had sat under Samuel's portrait, with his back against the wall, for a short rest.

There is no doubt that this person must be the missing Condor Commander, and he is here to leave a bloody letter.

Qi Xuansu asked, "Is there any earth qi backtracking?" ”

Yu Taiying replied, "After the shadow receded, I asked the people below to go back once, and as expected, the earth qi has been completely chaotic,"

Qi Xuansu first stared at the place where the Condor Guard commanded the servants to sit and leave the blood book, and then looked up at Samuel's portrait, and did not speak for a long time.

Taiying couldn't help but ask, "Chief Qi, what do you see?" ”

Qi Xuansu took out the blood book and said: "Judging from the messy handwriting on the blood book, the commander of the Condor Guard has fallen into a huge panic and chaos before and after leaving this blood book, and the other Condor Guards are not much better, it will only get worse, it is likely that this is the main reason for their disappearance." ”

Yu Taiying did not speak, this is something that has been determined.

Qi Xuansu continued: "So I'm thinking, if people fall into great fear and panic, then will there still be the consciousness of leaving a few words? If it were me, when I ran away like a headless fly in panic, would I have remembered to leave a little clue for future generations? Probably not. When I was in Kamakayi not long ago, I confronted Kukulkan's fears, and I had no other thoughts than the most basic thoughts of saving my life. Leaving a bloody letter will only be if I am in a desperate situation but still remain calm, and I will have this idea and put it into action, provided that I am calm. Are these missing Condor guards calm? ”

Yutai Ying was stunned, this is what she didn't expect: "Of course not calm." ”

Qi Xuansu said: "So there are two possibilities for the matter of blood books. The first possibility is that the mastermind behind the manipulation of the Shadow Tide deliberately forged and left it behind, in order to confuse the public and mislead the direction of our investigation. ”

"What about the second possibility?" Taiying couldn't help but ask.

Qi Xuansu looked at the portrait of Samuel again: "The second possibility is that other external forces intervened, causing this variable and leaving a flaw. ”

Tang Taiying glanced at Qi Xuansu with some surprise, which she hadn't expected. She had to admit that this Chief Qi from the Dao Sect was indeed a famous and unworthy person, no wonder he could make many meritorious achievements and occupy the position of the chief of Beichen Hall, and he was by no means a gentleman.

However, Tang Taiying would not know that the reason why Qi Xuansu made such a judgment was entirely based on his own experience.

Many of the plans of Zhou Mengyao and the people behind her have no flaws and are perfect. But because of the intervention of the Celestial Master, there were flaws and variables, which caused Qi Xuansu to detect it in advance and began to actively save himself. This is the main reason why it is so difficult for a beaded conspiracy to succeed.

Taiying asked again: "If it is the second case, then what is the external force?" ”

Qi Xuansu didn't speak, and gave the answer with his gaze - the portrait of Samuel that he had been staring at.

She was not stupid either, and immediately realized a situation: "The missing Condor Guard commander used to sit under Samuel's portrait. ”

Qi Xuansu stared at Samuel's side face on the portrait, and remembered the picture scroll given by Ziguang Zhenjun, on that picture scroll, Yao Yueyan, who was about to walk towards Lingshan, suddenly stopped, turned her head, and made a gesture to take off the ancient witch mask on her face, but the picture seemed to be weak when she arrived here, and it came to an abrupt end.

Qi Xuansu had a feeling that when the Condor Guard commander sat under this portrait, the portrait of Samuel, who was originally facing people on the side, also came to life, and became a face to the person, and the eyes under the hood were staring at the poor man below, which made the commander who fell into madness regain some of his senses and have a moment of soberness, so he wrote this scribbled blood letter.

When Samuel retracts his gaze and turns back to the side of the man, the poor man falls into madness again and eventually disappears into the depths of the temple, leaving behind only this bloody letter.

Why did Samuel do this?

Qi Xuansu remembered Taiying's introduction to Samuel: Occasionally, the former apostle would give the illusion of tolerance and pity.