Chapter 548: Apollo's Prophecy

And such an artifact is what today's Feiyang urgently needs, with a cultivation comparable to that of a heavenly immortal, it can be regarded as a real foothold in this world, because although the cultivation of heavenly immortals is not very high, among the gods in this world, it has been able to rise from the lowest to the middle and lower.

Feiyang cast a spell and transformed the gold belt, making it unrecognizable, until he thought that even Ares, the god of war, could not recognize it, and then he was satisfied and hung the belt around his waist.

At this time, Pegasus had already walked a long way with Feiyang, and at this time, it was too late for the three gods to chase after him, and Feiyang no longer had any scruples, and immediately let Pegasus spread his wings and fly towards his territory.

And what he didn't know was that at this time, the sun god Apollo had noticed him, in the past few days, Apollo has always been restless, but he doesn't know why, he is the god of prophecy, he can intercept the heavens in the dark, all the prophets in the world, in fact, are just conveying his will.

Therefore, he probed many times, and finally found that the trouble turned out to be Feiyang, that is, Achilles, on the day Achilles was born, he ran to Feiyang's parents, pointed at Feiyang and said: He will become a great hero, but he will die on the battlefield in the end.

It was because of this prophecy that Feiyang's mother couldn't wait to burn Feiyang with heavenly fire, wanting to make him an immortal god.

But today, he predicted Feiyang's fate again, but found that Feiyang had become an immortal and immortal god, and his previous prediction was unexpectedly unsuccessful, which was simply impossible in the eyes of him, the great god of prophecy, and he had been running a prophecy business for so many years, and it was the first time that he had predicted wrong.

To know. Apollo's prophecy has never been wrong, and one of the predictions he is most proud of should be the prophecy that Oedipus will kill his father and take his mother.

Laios was the son of Rabdakos, king of Thebais, whose guardian was killed by political enemies due to the loss of his father at an early age. So deprived of his power as king of Thebais, he later defected to Pelops to work as a tutor for his son Clecyppus.

However, Laius fell in love with the beautiful boy Chrysippus, violently attacked him, and led him to death, so that because Laius had betrayed his benefactor, Pelops, whose son had been killed, prayed to Apollo, who prophesied that he would be killed by his own son.

Laios became king of Thebais after marrying Iocaste. Fearful of this prophecy and oracle, Laius avoided intercourse with his wife Iocastes in order to avoid the birth of a child, and Laius, who had a drunken one-night intercourse with Iocastus led to the birth of Oedipus, that is, Oedipus died on the premise of disobeying the will of his father Laius.

Throwing the newborn baby into the barren mountains of Cateron, Laius' intention was clearly to kill the son for whom he had no name, but he did not do it himself. Instead, the baby is abandoned in an environment where it cannot survive on its own, leaving it to die a natural death.

But. Laius's son was rescued by the shepherds and named "Swollen Feet" for his wounded feet, i.e. Oedipus, who became the adopted son of the childless kings Polybos and Queen Meropus of the neighboring kingdom of Cozhentos of Thebais, and was raised in the royal palace as his own son and was made heir to the throne.

Oedipus grew up because the oracle of the temple of Delphi said. Oedipus, who knew that the king and queen of Corinth were not his biological parents, left Corinth and vowed never to return in order to prevent the oracle from coming true.

At this time in the city of Thebais, in order to punish Laius for the crime he had committed against Chrysippus. Hera sent the Sphinx, the sphinx, and the whole city was in a panic, and the Sphinx asked passers-by to solve the riddle of "what is an animal that walks on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon, and three feet at night", and when no one can solve the riddle, she devours the citizens of Thebais.

On the way to the temple of Delphi, the king of Thebais, Laius, hoping that the oracle of Guò would find a way to repel the Sphinx, on the way to the temple of Delphi, he met Oedipus who was walking in the direction of the city of Thebais, because the narrow road could only accommodate one person and the two people did not know each other, King Laius rudely ordered Oedipus to give way, and Oedipus fought with Laius in a fit of rage, and finally killed him, of course, he did not know that it was his father who killed him.

After Oedipus entered the city of Thebais, he solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and the answer to the riddle was man, the morning was the child, the noon was the youth, and the evening was the old, so that the banshee committed suicide in shame, and Oedipus, who saved the city of Thebais, was respected by the people and was elected as the king, and according to the custom, he married the queen Iocaste of Laios, who lost her husband, so he fulfilled his oracle of "killing his father and marrying his mother".

Between Oedipus and Iocaste, two sons named Polynicus and Eteocles, and two daughters named Antigone and Ismene, due to Oedipus's unwitting sin of "killing his father and marrying his mother", plague and famine befell the city of Thebais.

Later, when the country ruled by Oedipus continued to suffer disasters and pestilences, when looking for the cause of the disaster, the king asked the gods for instructions to know why the plague befell him, and finally under the revelation of the prophet Tirisias, Oedipus learned that he was the son of Laios, and finally fulfilled his unfortunate fate of killing his father and marrying his mother.

Shocked, Iocaste hanged herself in shame, and Oedipus, who was equally grieved and indignant, cursed his eyes to see such a sight, he pierced his eyes with a brooch, went to the townspeople, and confessed that he was the murderer of his father, the monster who took his mother as his wife, the villain cursed by the gods, and the demon of the earth.

But the Thebans did not dislike the king, whom they had loved and respected, and they sympathized with him, and even Creon did not laugh at him, and took the man who had been punished by the gods into the inner chamber, and Oedipus, who was broken-hearted, was so moved that he gave Creon the throne and let him take the place of his two young sons.

In addition he asked for a tomb to be built for his unfortunate mother, and he handed over his unattended daughter to the new king, and as for himself, he was willing to be banished from the country, because he had defiled the land with double iniquity, and he said that he should be burned to the death on the top of Mount Catalon, where his parents had abandoned him, and now it was up to the gods to live or die. (To be continued......)