Bulwark of Light

Chapter 675
The moment the mask shattered.

Seeing Chu Ling's true face, Ian was in a daze.He has walked the world for more than 100 years, and has never seen a woman with such an amazing appearance.

He could no longer imagine—

Such a beautiful girl, how delicious should the soul taste?

however!
At the moment when he bit down, he realized something was wrong! !

Under the ritual of life sacrifice, biting the soul is just an illusion, the real meaning is "life transfer". Since the longevity technique he has mastered is not complete, a large amount of life force will be lost in the void. In a ritual, what one can receive is only one-twentieth of the life of the person being absorbed.

But that's enough, the girl looks like she's only in her twenties.

Even if you only live another 60 years.

I can also have three more years of life...

But after the first bite, there was a feeling of "lostness". Ian felt as if he had gained nothing... Is it an illusion?
He quickly took a second bite!
Nothing happened, and my "life span" hardly increased at all, perhaps... How many minutes did it increase?In the long river of years he has experienced, these few 10 minutes are really like a wave.

There is no splash of water.

But soon the "exciting" stuff came!

Ian's pupils constricted, and he snorted. He felt a large amount of "memory" rushing in. He couldn't help but pour it into his spiritual sea. This was the "price" of taking two bites, and he had to bear it. Avoid "absorbing", there is no free lunch in this world, if you want to eat the "life" of the person who has been sucked, you need to eat the corresponding memory.

It seems that this is a good thing.

Instead, it was a disaster.

The longer a person lives, the longer the memory... For an antique like Ian who has lived for 120 years, his spirit has already aged, and his memory space has been filled even more.

To swallow a life span means to swallow a memory.

Then his spiritual sea will be filled with a lot of "memories"... He will gradually forget who he really is, and gradually lose his "self" in the memory war in the spiritual sea.

Longevity, this is the most powerful forbidden technique in the world.

Its side effects and costs must be the most terrifying.

……

……

Chu Ling didn't resist, she even stretched out a hand and held down Gu Shen who was about to make a move.

"I feel like...my life has been cut short."

She said calmly, "About one day less."

One day is not too little for her.

The life she has is shorter than Xia Chan's.

A complete life cycle is only more than ten days.

Gu Shen was a little hesitant. He looked at the blood-colored "monstrous pattern" and if Chu Ling hadn't stopped him, he would have tried to interrupt this evil sacrifice of life transfer...

He respected Chu Ling and understood what Chu Ling meant to stop him.

"This array pattern seems to be the beginning of everything...but in fact, everything has ended."

Chu Ling said softly, "From the moment he took the first bite."

She could feel that it wasn't just life that was passing.

Also, memory.

Massive data that cannot be described in words.

The data, which could almost crush the hard drives of the entire room, crazily drilled into Ian's head. In just a moment, the young man's face turned red, and it became difficult for him to breathe.

A strange picture suddenly appeared in his mind.

A flashing train roared past the bottom of the endless sea.

Then there are mountains, snowfields, deserts, blue seas, and tens of millions of cut-and-turn camera images. This is the surveillance image captured by [Deep Sea]’s eyes. These images flooded into Ian’s mind in an instant, and they are still Continuously splitting, the power of the longevity technique forcibly dragged him into the soul sea of ​​the original owner of this life, allowing him to experience the original picture of the birth of these memories.

These are the lowest and most useless garbage data in Chu Ling's spiritual sea.

Ian's forehead was bulging with blue veins, and his eyes were bulging.

"You are……"

Ian stared at Chu Ling, and he suddenly understood.

It's a pity that at this moment, his mind has been filled with massive data, and his own thinking space has been squeezed to the extreme. Even talking has become a luxury.

He tried his best to speak.

"You are!!!"

The next moment, there was a "bang"——

His head exploded!
All this happened without warning and extremely abruptly.

The bloody streaks in the room dissipated at the most intense moment, and the countless scarlets stopped surging and calmed down slowly.

It's just that there is really a layer of blood covering the ground, making the scene inside the cellar look weird and grisly.

I'm afraid no one would have thought that Ian, who had been calculating and shrewd all his life, would end in this way...

Such an ending is really ironic.

"You already guessed it?"

Gu Shen looked at the fallen headless corpse with a complicated expression.

"What he ate was not only 'life', but also memory." Chu Ling lowered his eyebrows and said slowly: "In this world, no one can carry my memory...he will definitely be exhausted. From the first bite, it was destined to be like this."

Blood flowed in front of the two of them.

It also flowed to the withered wheelchair.

An aging body trembled violently.

After Ian's death, his "mind control" over his disciple Hooper was also announced to be lifted... The bloody smell stimulated Hooper, who knew very well what it meant for him to wake up.

It's just that the current him can no longer hear, see, or speak.

Even his own spirit cannot be conveyed.

"Mr. Hooper..."

Gu Shen sighed softly from the bottom of his heart, he tapped his fingers and sparked a blaze of fire, crashing into the center of Hooper's brow, and shared what he saw with this "poor man" whose time was running out.

Ian died, burdened with heinous sins, and fell in a pool of blood.

No one shot to kill him.

It was his own greed that killed him.

This way of death seems to be a bit cheap for him, but for a "life greedy person" who is trying his best to live a few more years, this way of death is the most aggrieved and painful.

He could feel the uncontrollable excitement in Hooper's mental sea at the moment!
At the beginning, this young disciple came to Linz to serve and follow him because he sincerely admired the talent and morality of Grand Maester Ian. But not long after, he was killed by Ian with the "longevity technique" and tied up in the In a wheelchair, he lost his five senses and six senses, and became a living dead.

Today, he was finally able to see, he saw the fate of "Ian"!

The fragile body trembled violently.

"Thank you...thank you..."

Hooper tried his best to convey such a voice in the spiritual sea.

Just passing such a sentence, he exhausted the little remaining power.

The old body in the wheelchair stopped all movements, and the palms slowly dropped...

Chu Ling stretched out her hand, tested her breath, then shook her head at Gu Shen.

Hooper also died.

This is the natural death of old age, and it is the death caused by the exhaustion of all vitality.

……

……

"absurd."

Gu Shen and Chu Ling just stood quietly in the cellar. After a long time, the two of them had the same thought at the same time.

Everything that happened before, and everything that remains now, is absurd.

Ian is dead, and so is Hooper.

It was just two people, one was lying in a pool of blood, and the other was sitting in a wheelchair.

At this moment, in this cellar that no one knows about, there are only taboo blueprints full, incomplete ancient texts of "Longevity"... and only these cold dead things can prove that Gu Shen's trip is not a white one in the true sense. Come on, at least he has something to gain.It's just that this wasn't his original intention when he came. He came to Central Continent at first, just looking for a way to quickly connect with the members of the Ancient Literature Society.

"Is this... the bad luck brought by Hades?"

Gu Shen squatted in front of Ian's body, his voice was a bit complicated.

Ian's death was so dramatic that he couldn't help but suspect that it was because of contact with himself and the invisible bad luck that caused this catastrophe... If he hadn't come to Linz, this old guy might have survived. Live longer.

However, the next one to be absorbed may be "Holin" who rushed back to Linz.

In fact, Ian was not the only one affected by bad luck.

The biggest trouble is still on Gu Shen's side... First of all, the problem of linking to the Ancient Literature Society has not been solved at all. Ian taught himself a vivid lesson, never trust "strangers".

Fortunately, Chu Ling absorbed the "legacy" left by Ian. These spiritual messages are all garbled and out of order, but Ian probably would not have thought that Chu Ling's reading has nothing to do with the order, and she doesn't need to care about the order .

These "relics" are enough to decipher ancient texts.

Just need some time.

There are no shortcuts in this world.

This is true for deciphering ancient texts, and it is even more so for restoring the real connection of the ancient texts society. Ian's death made Gu Shen fully understand that this is not something that can be "done overnight", and it is destined to be a long and hard work.

Even if you are the [key], you have to walk slowly step by step.

However, I can be regarded as initially achieving my goal. At least I have harvested the "Wind Rose" of Rhine City. In the days to come, Ye Caroline can be used as the first choice for the "Pillar" of Central Continent.

All that remains are the corpses in the cellar.

This is not easy to deal with.

……

……

It was a sunny morning.

To the south of the small town of Linz, there is a public cemetery area. Many transcendents have come here to send white flowers of condolence for funerals to one of the new monuments... The owner of this tombstone is named "Ian Leon Nader".

If the people who came to express their condolences knew Ian's true identity, they would be the remnants of the Ancient Chinese Society.

Then they will not offer flowers.

If the members of the Ancient Text Society know that Ian abused the longevity technique and violated the bottom line of morality.

Then they will no longer pay homage.

This is an "old man" who has lived for too long and forgot why he lived. He is crazy and pitiful. Under the temptation of longevity, he finally wrote the word "ridiculous" on his own life.

It just doesn't seem to change anything.

Today, he died surrounded by flowers, and he still enjoys the high respect of countless people after his death.

Gu Shen was also at the funeral, but he stood at the back... In the past few years, he has seen too many "life and death", and attending funerals seems to have become a common thing.

He watched all this silently, without any fluctuations in his heart.

It is meaningless for him to expose Ian. As a foreigner, he will only cause countless troubles. Taking a step back and showing Ian's ugly face will also be a blow to the Ancient Chinese Society.

After thinking for a long time in the cellar, he made a decision.

Keep the good name of "Ian".

It's just... the person lying in the coffin at this moment, being offered flowers, being respected, and worshiped is the innocent victim Hooper.

The real "Ian" has been burnt clean.

Gu Shen explained to the outside world that Hooper, the disciple who was in charge of taking care of Ian, chose to travel around after his teacher passed away... No one would care about this young man, because in their opinion, Ian really died of old age.

"Mr. Gu, you don't seem to be sad."

The last person released in the team with him was the high-ranking envoy sent by the upper city to investigate Huo Lin's case.

The high-ranking star envoy checked Ian's body and confirmed that there was no problem before today's funeral.

"Master Star Envoy, you are not sad either."

Gu Shen glanced at it, and said calmly: "Human beings' sorrows and joys are different... Do we have to cry like them to prove our emotions?"

At the front, there were a few students who had been rejected by Ian, with sad expressions and "sincere feelings".

For Gu Shen who knew Ian's true face, this scene was a bit funny. These guys were all rejected by Ian because of their poor qualifications.

If they could really enter the courtyard, they would probably be the next ones to be absorbed by life... I don't know if they will still be able to cry by then?

"Too."

The high-ranking star envoy smiled after hearing the words.

He wasn't going to trouble Gu Shen with this matter.

The star envoy suddenly said: "Mr. Gu, when I left from Shangcheng, I heard something interesting... Maybe you, a guest from Dongzhou, would be interested."

Gu Shen raised his eyebrows: "Why, did any major event related to Dongzhou happen in the upper city?"

"It's nothing serious."

The Star Envoy said indifferently: "In front of the Tower of Origin, Lu Nanjin fought with one of the four god sons, the 'Suzaku God Envoy'. Back then, Qin Ye, the senior brother of the Suzaku God Envoy, died in your East Continent. When the two fought, It caused quite a stir."

"..."

Gu Shen looked calm, but actually his heart skipped a beat.

The so-called "look" by the senior sister is really not that simple.

The four god sons of the Tower of Origin are roughly equivalent to the "blessed sons" of Guangming City. These four are carefully selected by the two gods, and they will be the future representatives of theocratic power!
When Qin Ye's name came out, Gu Shen guessed the ending.

It was related to the old case back then, and the senior sister would definitely draw her sword, but if she meets Si Shenzi now, the ending may be more or less ominous.

"Lu Nanjin lost."

Sure enough, the high-level envoy paused deliberately.

When he said this, there was a smile on the corner of his lips, which was deliberately reserved until now, in order to see Gu Shen's reaction.

The envoy wanted to see surprise or dissatisfaction on Gu Shen's face.

But in the end he was disappointed.

There was no fluctuation on Gu Shen's face.

He asked calmly, "What happened next?"

"later?"

"She is not strong enough, and she is too far behind the Suzaku God Envoy. She was beaten until she vomited blood, and she was defeated miserably, and returned home." The Star Envoy paused, and smiled: "As far as I know, Lu Nanjin escaped from the Tower of Origin. It was very embarrassing... the Vermillion Bird Divine Envoy chased and killed him all the way, and no one knows what happened after that. I don't know if he has caught up now."

Was beaten to vomit blood?

Gu Shen's eyes gradually became gloomy.

(End of this chapter)