Bulwark of Light

Chapter 1002 Taboo Library (Second update! Ask for a monthly pass!)
What is beyond the Red Lake?
No one knows the answer to this question... except Meng Xizhou.

The fog of the Red Lake does not exist to her, so in theory, as long as she walks far enough, she can see the other side of the Red Lake.

In fact, there is nothing on the other side of the Red Lake.

There is only one simple wooden house.

No one would have thought that the legendary God of Light would live in such a primitive and extreme building.

Meng Xizhou stopped in her tracks.

There is no way for her to move on, and here is the closest place to God.

In the water of the Red Lake, there are countless patterns of ancient characters.

She had a premonition, one more step forward... the pattern in the lake would explode.

What are the consequences of touching the prohibition personally placed by the god seat?
She didn't know and didn't want to know.

"My lord."

Meng Xizhou took a light breath, her voice was not loud, because she knew that the voices in the entire God's Domain could be heard by the God Throne.

"I am coming."

After she finished speaking, she waited quietly.

The starry night is like an oil painting, the radiance falling on the lake, suddenly a breeze blows, and the radiance fades away——

The cabin was opened.

A figure slowly opened the door. It was an old man in a clean white robe and his white hair neatly tied up. His face was very pale and his eyes were sunken.

He raised his head and looked at the outside world.

Then he looked down at Mengxizhou on the lake in the distance.

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Bright City today is very similar to Nagano back then.

Thousands of eyes fell on this.

Meng Xizhou wants to see the light, and everyone wants to see the light... What everyone is concerned about is how the "disease" of the God of Light is.

Before Xidu, many people speculated that the so-called "serious illness" was probably fake.

However, there are two false methods.

The more the God of Light does not show up, the more everyone will think in a bad direction.

It's not just the large missions from all continents who have such thoughts, even the holy inquisitors inside the Temple of Light are unavoidably apprehensive.

Even Meng Xizhou, who is a goddess, wants to know the answer.

And now, she already knew.

"Your body seems to be very weak..."

Meng Xizhou looked at the old man, and it took her only a second to confirm the identity of the person in front of her.

The moment of showing up.

The countless glows of the Red Lake are surging toward the body of the God of Light. This is the power that the body of a "god" possesses, which surpasses any ordinary realm. It is far from comparable.

The sky was dark tonight.

But before the old man pushed away the wooden house and stood by the lake, the other side of the Red Lake lit up, as if the sun had risen.

Compared with him, Meng Xizhou lost all color.

But... the starry night at this moment has not changed much. After the Bright Seat opened the wooden door, the new sun did not appear, and the miracle did not continue.

From this point, it can be judged that the old man in front of him is far from the peak of the past.

"No one can stand against time...and I am no exception."

The old man smiled, and at this moment, surrounded by countless blazing lights, his face gradually disappeared, leaving only large patches of white light.

Meng Xizhou no longer looked at the sun on the other side of the Red Lake.

Now that the seat of God has appeared.

Then if she continued to stare at him, it would be regarded as a kind of blasphemy.

Meng Xizhou lowered his head slightly, and said softly, "I don't understand many things."

The old man said: "You don't understand, why I watched you being taken into a secret prison, you don't understand, why I don't care about Gao Yan stealing the [undead] blood, you don't understand, why I stay here all the time, and don't want to go out to see you Seeing the world..."

Gao Yan is the name of the Great Elder.

Except for the God of Light and Yuan Yang, not many people know the name of the Great Elder, because he has lived for so long that the later holy inquisitors have forgotten the name of the Great Elder.

Everyone calls his honor.

"Yes."

Meng Xizhou said, "I really don't understand what you said."

The old man said: "Come here."

Meng Xizhou raised his head slightly, his eyes a little dazed.

The old man standing on the other side of the light waved to her lightly, and said with a smile: "When you come here, you will understand everything."

Meng Xizhou struggled for a second, then she took a step slowly.

In the last dozen or so steps leading to the other side of the Red Lake, there were countless taboo ancient texts floating under the water of the lake... But at this moment, these ancient texts did not respond.

Meng Xizhou walked to the other side so smoothly.

Standing beside the old man, her expression was still dazed. Standing beside Guangming, she felt the grandeur and warmth that she had not seen for a long time.

It's just that she still doesn't understand the answers to these questions.

"Look."

The old man put his hands behind his back, raised his chin, and asked, "Have you seen the answer now?"

"..."

One old and one young, just standing in the glow on the other side of the Red Lake.

Meng Xizhou looked hard for a long time, her eyesight was very good, and the fog of the Red Lake did not exist for her.

But after looking at it for a long time, she didn't see anything.

"I can't see it, and I don't understand it." So she could only respond frankly.

"Now you are standing on the other side of the Red Lake, beside the light...you have reached the 'end'."

The old man turned his head slowly, looked at the goddess, and asked earnestly, "Since we have reached the 'end point', is the road we came here still important?"

Meng Xizhou was silent.

"Gao Yan stole the blood of the [undead], trying to restrain the disaster and ominousness... In the end, he died in the backlash."

The old man continued: "Everything he wanted to do failed."

After these two answers were spoken, Meng Xizhou understood everything.

She said softly: "So it's not that you don't know, you know everything, and you just watch."

"Yes. I just watched."

The old man's tone was as flat as ever: "What I have done for the past ten years... is to watch. Why do I want to meet the world? Just like the Red Lake you are looking at at the moment, every inch of the lake here will be blown out by the wind. Waves, I don't need to help. In the same way, every creature in this world has its own "end" that they will reach. What I do is to watch them reach their respective "ends" and try not to go to Intervene."

"If you came forward, a lot of people would die less."

Meng Xizhou said: "Gao Yan has done many wrong things in recent years."

"On this lake, every time a few ripples disappear... a few more will appear."

The old man said softly: "If you really want to calculate the 'gains and losses', then you have to consider what you can see and what you can't see. After I intervene in Gaoyuan, many things will disappear. Some people survived, but At some point in the future, many more people will die."

"Then you can intervene a second time," Meng Xizhou said.

"Then there will be countless times, and the result may be worse each time."

Meng Xizhou couldn't refute.

"I know what you want to say today."

The old man said again, "First of all, I am still alive... Although my condition is not good, I know everything that happened outside. Jia Wei died, Gao Qiao died, and the team sent by the temple to the ice sea disappeared. All these years I watched everything that happened outside the Red Lake, but I just watched and didn't interfere."

"I can clearly hear the breathing sound of every creature in God's Domain."

"Many years ago, I started a long calculation. All the non-interference is to make it all freeze at a specific moment."

"In my opinion, the really important thing...is for you to stand before me with determination."

"It's important, more than everything put together."

"The reason why I don't go to see sentient beings is because I really don't have much time, and my energy is only allowed to do one or two things."

"If Guangming City is destined to usher in the sunset, then I hope that this sunset can only be seen by those who stand on the other side."

He moved his head slowly and said, "That's you."

"The seat of God..."

Meng Xizhou's eyes were full of irrepressible shock after listening to the long words.

"Yes, in my heart, there is no more suitable 'successor' than you."

The old man lowered his brows and smiled, and said: "When Gu Nanfeng came to Guangming City, I gave him a token. At that time, I was very optimistic about that young man named Song Ci... Unfortunately, he seemed to be very fond of Guangming City." Tinder has no interest. Picking a successor is not good news worth showing off, after all, it means that I am about to die."

Meng Xizhou was silent.

After a long time, she spoke: "You mean, I will become the successor of 'Bright Tinder'?"

"Yes, you will become the next God of Light."

The old man said calmly: "If there are no accidents... When I die, you will be the God of Light."

"Accident?"

Meng Xizhou raised his eyebrows and said, "What do you mean by accident?"

"The weight of tinder cannot be carried by ordinary people."

The old man lowered his eyes and said: "Even if you are born with the light and are loved by the gods, you may not be able to smelt the 'light fire' smoothly. Not only do you need a strong extraordinary source quality as support, but you also need an extremely tenacious will. A little bit of luck..."

A short pause.

The old man continued: "... Only then can we become the sun."

Meng Xizhou took a deep breath and asked seriously, "So what should I do?"

"Do what you should do, do what the sun should do."

The old man chuckled and said, "Haven't you already asked yourself countless times in the secret prison? The answer is in your heart."

"I……"

Meng Xizhou hesitated for a moment and said, "I have one more request to visit you this time."

The old man stopped talking, but looked at the woman.

Meng Xizhou said: "I hope you can open the restrictions of [Forbidden Book Building]."

In the perception of the world, the biggest miracle of Guangming City is Sunset Mountain and Red Lake.

But actually...

Just as the temple was built around the Red Lake of Sunset Mountain, Sunset Mountain and Red Lake existed to protect the Forbidden Book Building.

There are countless books in this library.

It is said that there are answers to all the problems in the world——

As long as you have a relationship with this answer.

Well...you can find it in the library.

The power in the [Forbidden Library] has nothing to do with the spark of light, it belongs to the illusory "fate" and "karma".

However, the ancestor of Guangming who first came to this ancient city 600 years ago protected it layer by layer and set countless restrictions. Only each successor of the God of Guangming has the right to open it.

"You want to open [Forbidden Library]..."

The old man narrowed his eyes: "I remember that many years ago, you went to see it once, and now you want to go to see it a second time?"

"Yes and no."

Meng Xizhou said: "I would like to invite you to open the [Forbidden Library] so that the whole world can have a look."

(End of this chapter)