Lu Mingfei, who had read Dragon Clan before Dragon Slaying

Chapter 1072 Avalon (Two in one, please subscribe!!!)

"So how does the old guy plan to resurrect his leader?" Lu Mingfei asked following Chu Tianjiao's words.

"This involves Vincent's second secret. When I asked this question, Vincent winked at the people in the room, and all the hired veterans and those sexy and charming girls quietly left the room. Only Sasha remained in the room." Chu Tianjiao said, "It seems that this is a big secret. He doesn't even trust the girls who have had physical contact with Vincent, but Sasha is the only one who seems to be able to gain Vincent's trust."

"The old guy is very vigilant." Lu Mingfei said.

“After seeing what he showed me next, I still couldn’t understand why he was so cautious.” Chu Tianjiao shook his head and said softly, “People who have never come into contact with the dragon race will not believe what he says next. Even ordinary mixed-bloods will think that he is hysterical or crazy after hearing what the old man said.”

"Is it something related to the dragon clan?" Chu Zihang asked.

"I guess so." Chu Tianjiao nodded and said, "It is something... beyond human knowledge."

Beyond human understanding... This description is very interesting. For ordinary people, things in the dragon world are beyond their understanding, but when this sentence is said by Chu Tianjiao, the value of this sentence seems to be extremely high.

Everyone pricked up their ears and listened.

"That's a painting." Chu Tianjiao said slowly.

"A painting?" Everyone in the room looked at each other.

"Yes, I saw Vincent gesture to Sasha, and then Sasha walked step by step to the wall. I noticed the expression on Sasha's face. He looked cautious and awed, and there was fear in the depths of his eyes, as if what he was going to show me next was not a painting, but a man-eating demon." Chu Tianjiao said, "Sasha walked to the bookshelf behind Vincent, where I stared at the dealer. He moved a few books on the bookshelf. It was a special mechanism, and then a section of the bookshelf cracked in all directions, revealing a hidden compartment. In fact, I knew that the layout there was strange, but I didn't know what was hidden in it at first."

"The older the fox, the more it likes to hide its beloved treasure closer to itself." Lu Mingfei said.

“But in fact, for Vincent, that thing is more like a coordinate than a treasure, and it is also a kind of curse.” Chu Tianjiao said.

"Curse?" Chu Zihang said in a low voice.

This word reminded him of a brand on his shoulder that was left by Odin. Chu Zihang always believed that it was a curse inflicted on him by Odin. Whenever his bloodline was on the verge of getting out of control, he would feel a dull pain in his shoulder... Later, Chu Zihang learned that it was actually a kind of coordinate that could lead Chu Zihang into Odin's Nibelung again. Ever since he received the "dragon blood baptism" in Japan, the brand on his shoulder has never hurt again.

"In the secret compartment behind the bookshelf is a shrine, or an altar. On a small hollow platform is a burning candlestick. On the candlestick is a black gelatinous substance, which is the ever-burning mermaid oil. Behind the candlestick stands a statue of the Virgin Mary..." When Chu Tianjiao said this, an inappropriate voice was heard.

"Is the old man's faith so mixed?" Finger exclaimed, "Doesn't this guy believe in Xi Te Ba? But Xi Te Ba is a typical anti-Christian. What on earth does Vincent want to do? On the one hand, he believes in Germany, and on the other hand, he puts up a statue of Jesus' mother?"

"Vincent doesn't believe in Jesus or Christianity. He placed the statue of the Virgin Mary just to suppress the curse in the painting." Chu Tianjiao whispered, "The painting is placed behind the shrine, covered by a black curtain. When Sasha lifted the black curtain, an indescribable ominous feeling surged in my heart. The sky was pitch black, with long strips of cyan and purple light flashing. The sea was azure, and there were white islands and land, one after another, like clouds hanging in the sky."

"Are those glowing ribbons in the sky the aurora borealis?" Caesar asked.

"Yes, it looks like the aurora." Chu Tianjiao nodded.

"Wait a minute, you just said that in that painting, the earth is a blue sea with cloud-like islands on it, and the sky is black, like a black land with light strips on it." Chu Zihang pondered for a moment, looked at Chu Tianjiao and asked, "Isn't this the same as what you said before that the guest who had boarded the 'Yamal' heard from the sailor? The sky is like the earth, the earth is like the sky, everything in the world is upside down."

"Yes, I had a strong feeling when I saw the painting. It was a strange and terrifying feeling. There was a mysterious light floating in the sky in the painting, making it difficult to tell whether it was night or day. The light that fell from the sky illuminated the islands on the sea. Some of those islands had towering trees, and some had strange stones. The stones surrounded the morning light and formed high platforms similar to altars." Chu Tianjiao said in a very low voice, "In the center of the painting is the largest island. The white island is like a huge iceberg that has not melted for thousands of years. It is surrounded by eight smaller islands on all sides. A white figure stands in the center of the giant island with his back to the outside of the picture. His face cannot be seen clearly. He is wrapped in gray-white bandages and surrounded by densely packed black coffins. The man stands in the middle of the coffins, looking at the sky, as if he is praying or cursing."

"It sounds pretty creepy." Lu Mingfei imagined the scene in the picture and nodded.

"No, my description is not even one-tenth of the real painting. Only by seeing the painting with your own eyes can you experience its weirdness firsthand." Chu Tianjiao shook his head and said, "It is obviously an abstract painting, but its picture is extremely realistic. The color of the sky, the outline of the island, the texture of the leaves, the shape of the coffin... and the human figure standing on the island in the center of the picture. These elements are so surreal, but the painter has drawn it so clearly and vividly. I can imagine how determined and absorbed the painter was when he painted this picture. His face was between fear and madness, as if he had used all his life's courage in this painting, as if this painting was not something he dreamed of or imagined, but a scene he... had witnessed with his own eyes!"

“An abstract and realistic painting…” Lu Mingfei whispered, and an image of a painting unconsciously emerged in his mind.

It was a hideous, horrifying, and extremely realistic painting. Everyone present had seen that painting before.

“This type of painting…” Lu Mingfei looked at Caesar and Chu Zihang, “Boss, Senior Brother, do you still remember it?” Chu Zihang nodded, and Caesar whispered, “How could I forget it?”

They all knew which painting Lu Mingfei was talking about. It was the painting “Twilight of the Gods” that they saw on the CC1000 train when they entered school. It was the painting in which the Black King Nidhogg was gnawing at the World Tree!
Lu Mingfei once asked Professor Guderian and President Angers who the author of the painting was, but both the professor and the president answered that the author was unknown.

This was originally a huge unsolved mystery, because the picture in the painting looked just like the real thing, and the painting could even make almost all the hybrids have clairvoyance. People who had not seen the ancient black emperor with their own eyes could never describe his majesty... But is there really such a person in the world? He had seen the Black King himself, and survived, and had superb painting skills, recording the scenes he had seen with his brushstrokes. The probability of this series of coincidences was as small as the Black King being killed by an extraterrestrial meteorite while flying in the sky.

"No, the person who drew that picture must have seen the island with his own eyes." Chu Tianjiao suddenly interrupted Lu Mingfei's thoughts, "Or at least he had seen the island with his own eyes from a long distance, just like the perspective in the painting."

"Why?" Lu Mingfei asked subconsciously.

"Because Vincent has also been to that place." Chu Tianjiao said in a low voice.

"What?!" Everyone's eyes widened at the same time.

"Vincent told me that later. He stood in front of the painting and told me that the name of the painting was 'Isle of Death'. The painting was found in Xi Te's safe in the Nei Zu Party's Antarctic base. Xi Te collected three similar paintings." Chu Tianjiao said, "In fact, there are five such paintings in the world. Collecting all five paintings can piece together a complete coordinate. The coordinate records the 'Land of Eternal Life', but it seems that no one in the world has ever done this. Xi Te found two paintings when he was young and knew that the secret of 'eternal life' was hidden at a certain pole of the earth. Xi Te guessed that it was the South Pole, but he was wrong. It was not until he was old that he got the third painting and knew that the secret of eternal life was hidden at the North Pole, but his life was about to come to an end by then."

"What about the other two rare paintings?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"It can't be found. Vincent had never seen it before. He only found this one painting in Xi Te's safe. He knew Xi Te had three paintings from Xi Te's diary." Chu Tianjiao shook his head and said, "Before his death, Xi Te wrote down his new plan, including plans for a new empire and speculations about the 'Land of Eternal Life'. Vincent was completely brainwashed by the head of state, so he had to revive Xi Te no matter what. He inherited Xi Te's wealth and his plan. He followed the contents of the notes to the Arctic Circle, trying to find the legendary 'Land of Eternal Life' here and revive his head of state."

"The old guy is as loyal as an old Rottweiler who understands human nature." Finkel said with emotion.

"I have a question." Nuonuo suddenly raised her hand, she looked at Chu Tianjiao and asked, "In your narration just now, you mentioned two words, 'Island of Death' and 'Land of Eternal Life'. Do these two words refer to the same place?"

"Regarding this matter, in Vincent's cognition, these two words refer to the same place, and his notes also hold the same guess." Nuo Nuo seemed to have asked the key point. Chu Tianjiao thought for a while and said, "But some things that happened later made me think that these two places are probably not the same place."

"What did you encounter later?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"That's a story for later. I'll tell you right away." Chu Tianjiao said, "Vincent suddenly covered the painting. He leaned close to my ear and told me in a very small voice that he had actually been to that place once."

"I admit that I was shocked at the time, but this was also expected, because if he really went there, it means that the sailor on the Yamal did not lie. What Vincent said next was even more incredible to me." Chu Tianjiao glanced at everyone and said softly, "He said that the island has a name. It is the ultimate place, the beginning and end of the world. Its name is... 'Avalon'."

"Avalon!" Everyone's eyes widened.

According to the records in northern mythology, Avalon is indeed an island located in the far north, known as the "World of Paradise". No one knows where it is, as if its existence will keep changing with the changes in the world.

Legend has it that it is King Arthur's final resting place, a paradise in the afterlife, guarded by nine fairies. Living people cannot reach the island, and it can only be approached by ferryboats on the sea. It is surrounded by thick fog and auroras and is isolated from the world all year round. There are also rumors that King Arthur came back to life in Avalon. Time does not pass on the island, and the concepts of past and future do not exist at all. That land hides the secrets of death and immortality.

"Many myths have prototypes in reality. Maybe there really is an island called 'Avalon' in the world," said Chu Zihang.

"If there is 'Avalon' in the world, doesn't it just prove Vincent's statement and Xiteri's conjecture, as well as the painting, the 'Isle of Death' and the 'Land of Eternal Life'? They really exist." Caesar whispered.

“No scholar in the world has ever confirmed this, but Vincent told me that he could confirm it because he saw it with his own eyes. He was an eyewitness and his words were convincing.” Chu Tianjiao said, “In fact, I almost believed him at the time, but in order to make him confess more and tell me more, I provoked him with words. I sneered and said that these words were all one-sided. You can make up these words, and I can make them up too. I can say that I have been to Asgard and met gods and demons there.”

"This method of provoking someone is not very clever." Chu Zihang frowned slightly.

"But Vincent just happened to fall for it, because he needed me, so he also needed my trust." Chu Tianjiao said, "Vincent's face turned red at the time. He pointed to the coffin containing Xi Te La's body and said that this was the evidence. If he had never been to Avalon, where did this coffin come from? This is what he brought out of Avalon!"

"Coffin?" Nuo Nuo's eyes moved, as if he had thought of something. He looked at Chu Tianjiao and asked, "The painting you just mentioned?"