Ruins of the past

When Mrs. Qu and the high-ranking being in her arms were completely evaporated by the light beam falling from the sky, the entire Tongtian City gradually recovered from the chaos.

The barking dogs regained their composure, the rats scurrying around hid in their burrows again, and the crows in the sky also dispersed.

The originally agitated, panicked and even somewhat frantic people were freed from their nightmare state and were surprised as to why they had lost control so much just now.

In the Qu family's manor, all the twisted and mutated monsters collapsed and were freed amidst bursts of howls, turning into scattered flesh and blood that exuded a thick stench.

When the Holy See's rescue team arrived at the scene, all they saw were broken limbs and remains on the ground.

Whether they are the investigators, hunters, or the monsters summoned from another world by the Qu family, they have all been completely put to rest under the power of the Emperor's Sky Star.

The only one who survived this disaster was investigator Zhan Tian.

He was carried out of the Qu family manor with everyone watching. He was treated like a hero afterwards and became the biggest contributor to this incident.

According to the Holy See's public statement, Zhan Tian, ​​with the courageous and never-giving spirit bestowed by the emperor, discovered the dirty deeds of the Qu family under the surface of a great good man.

He led other investigators to destroy the rituals of the cult, and under the inspiration of the power of Emperor Tian, ​​killed the evil god who descended from the outer world...

While people were cheering and celebrating, Zhan Tian had been sent to the mental sanatorium in Cam City and underwent a comprehensive inspection by the Holy See.

He was stripped of all his clothes and inspected from head to toe by groups of people... without sparing a single hair.

Then he was surrounded by a group of priests and performed the whipping ceremony of the Emperor, was soaked in the Holy See's talisman water many times, and was taken to various mental tests by those crazy psychiatrists...

All this process was to prevent him, the only survivor present, from being influenced by the evil god and having his mind contaminated by the abnormal power outside that day.

In this mental sanatorium, what Zhan Tian heard most was the screams of other patients and the priests' constant prayers day and night.

At this moment, Zhan Tian was lying on the bed after being tortured.

The electric lamp next to the hospital bed was lit day and night, just because Zhan Tian couldn't bear the darkness for a minute now.

The nightmare-like scenes under the Qu family manor were still in his mind.

He hadn't had a complete sleep for a long, long time since he left the basement.

He felt that the deep terror from outside the sky and the thick malice from the depths of the universe had not left, but were hiding in the darkness, ready to come back at any time.

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded in his mind.

"Your feeling is correct."

"Who?" Zhan Tian was shocked and immediately jumped up from the hospital bed.

But no matter how he responded, the voice wasn't ringing.

Zhan Tian banged the door of the hospital bed in fear, calling the names of the priest and doctor...

…

Sala Palace.

Chu Qi Guangpan was sitting in mid-air. The blood pools around him and the living corpses in the blood pools were continuously performing rituals to communicate with the void, increasing his efficiency in receiving void information.

But Chu Qiguang felt the intermittent messages coming from the void, and still frowned slightly: "It seems that the signal of this miniaturized ritual track is still too poor, and there is no way to connect to it all the time."

During this period, while Chu Qiguang was using the void to collect knowledge and intelligence, he also communicated and learned with friends in the Book of Void, and completed some explorations of miniaturization of rituals.

The result was a small ball of flesh and blood parasitic on the body of 'Investigator Zhan Tian'.

However, this kind of miniaturized ritual obviously has problems in many aspects, such as the signal being very unstable.

Chu Qiguang had just exchanged a word with Zhan Tian, ​​but he had already received no response from the other party.

"Take your time. Although the Qu family's operation failed, Zhan Tian has gained a firm foothold in the Holy See after destroying the Qu family's lair. Anyway, I won't lose."

Unable to receive the signal for the time being, Chu Qiguang started doing other things at hand.

Along with the sacrifice of a large amount of qi and blood, Chu Qiguang's eyes appeared one after another in the transformation of saints. This was exactly the effect of the 'Hetero Sacrifice', which allowed him to refresh the transformation of saints by sacrificing qi and blood.

However, multiple refreshes in a short period of time would cause a significant increase in energy and blood consumption, so he chose the most cost-effective option of three times a month.

The four transformations of the Holy Spirit obtained this time are the 'Void Rite' that speeds up the speed of traveling in the void, the 'Vajra Reversal' that transforms offensive and defensive power, the 'Variety of Divine Powers' that are related to deducing magical powers, and the 'Variety of Magical Powers' that is related to the Ring of Foolishness. A fool becomes enlightened'.

The four transformations all encountered similar situations in his future deduction, and he chose Fool Qianwu with a flash of his eyes.

"Fool Sengo."

"The Mark of the Fool similar to the Ring of Fool."

"Comes from the power of counterfeit foolishness."

"It enables stupid people to apply profound knowledge without knowing anything."

"It is said that ignorance was once the best way to counteract knowledge."

"But driven by greed, this method has long been used by no one."

"The first foolish people have given up, and those who follow are just pretending to be true."

This transformation related to the Ring of Foolishness was also the transformation into a saint that Chu Qiguang could only achieve after he created the "Great Joyful Magical Power Book".

After all, the "Book of Great Joyful Magical Powers" condenses all he has learned, including the secrets of the Ring of Foolishness, so it is not surprising that he can achieve a similar transformation.

After absorbing this transformation into his body, Chu Qiguang felt as if his consciousness was covered with a layer of cotton. He no longer understood the connotation of many transformations, but he could know their applications.

"This power of transformation is equivalent to turning many mysterious powers into complete black boxes."

"The user can know the results of using it, but they have no knowledge of the details and various taboos."

"This thing is useless to me, but it is a great thing for the general public..."

The next moment, Chu Qiguang stored the four transformations of the sage into his body: everyone is like me, heretics offer enlightenment, fools realize thousands of times, and the magical book is stored in his body.

Then he used a self-created Taoist technique to unify these four powers of transformation.

"The common people will be free and happy, and there will be eternal calamity in the future, and they will have supernatural powers!"

I saw Chu Qiguang forming seals with his hands, and a huge door burst out from between his hands, containing infinite mystery and power.

This Taoist technique is called 'The Gate of Wonders'. It is a profound Taoist technique that Chu Qiguang deduced after hundreds of deductions and a lot of energy and wisdom. It is used to integrate the core transformation he selected.

At this moment, as the Gate of Wonders emerged, the powers of the four major transformations were sucked into it one after another, turning into a mysterious and mysterious aura.

"It's done for now."

Feeling the power running in the gate, Chu Qiguang thought to himself: 'Now as long as you contact the people of the Gate of Wonders, you can use the power of this platform to spend your energy and blood to draw out new transformations. ’

‘The transformations chosen by them will be temporarily stored in the Gate of Wonders and will be loaned out when they need them. ’

‘However, it can currently only afford 50 users. Each user can only borrow the power of one transformation at a time and can store two transformations. ’

‘This is considered to be the Gate of Wonders 0.1 beta version for the time being. ’

‘In terms of pricing…then the first draw will cost 10 gas, the second draw will cost 100, and the third draw will cost 1,000. The price will be reset at the beginning of each month. ’

‘After all, I also want to protect my capital, so it’s reasonable to charge a little more than if I smoked it myself. ’

With the existence of the Gate of Wonders, fifty more people were suddenly added to help Chu Qiguang extract transformations, and the number of transformations that could be accessed suddenly reached 100. The efficiency brought about was a qualitative improvement.

But Chu Qiguang knew in his heart that in order to develop this magical power to the height he desired, he had to continue to collect more knowledge and integrate the power of "Vajra Phases" to continuously optimize the magical power itself.

‘Anyway, let’s test it first. ’

So in the following days, Chu Qiguang selected some people in Night City to become the first users of the Gate of Wonders, and asked them to test the entire process to see if there were any problems.

At the same time, the situation on investigator Zhan Tian's side gradually developed new developments due to Chu Qiguang's intervention.

…

"Mr. Zhan Tian, ​​we checked your physical and mental condition."

In the office of Kam Sanatorium, Zhan Tian's attending physician smiled kindly: "You are very normal. There is no sign of being contaminated by the evil god from the inside to the outside of your body."

But Zhan Tian didn't think so. He slapped the table and shouted loudly: "I can dream about everything in the Qu family manor every day this year."

"And that evil god...he's been talking to me! He's in my head!"

The attending physician pushed up his glasses and said patiently: "Mr. Zhan Tian, ​​what happened in Qujia Manor was an unforgettable nightmare for everyone. It is possible that you have some memories left in your heart because of that experience. Trauma."

"The evil voice you heard is just an hallucination caused by some trauma."

"You should relax and stop being so nervous all day."

Zhan Tian looked at the doctor in front of him angrily. He had reported his situation to his superiors time and time again in the past year.

At the beginning, the Holy See attached great importance to his report, detained him with the highest standards, and continued to search for traces of the evil god's power in him day and night.

But as time passed, more and more priests and doctors said that his physical and mental condition was normal.

Some senior investigators also said that without rituals and sacrifices by cultists, it is unlikely that an evil god could transcend the limitations of time and space and communicate directly with Zhan Tian.

Gradually... people began to think that Zhan Tian was simply mentally stimulated.

Some professors believed that he could not accept the deaths of his teammates and subconsciously punished himself out of guilt, insisting that he had been contaminated by the evil god.

Zhan Tian dismissed the words of those bullshit professors, but it turned out that the experts at Cam Sanatorium were indeed helpless about his situation.

"Hahahaha, do you believe it now?"

"No matter how hard you struggle, it's useless. You can't escape my control."

Listening to the malicious ridicule in his mind, Zhan Tian shouted with a cold face: "Get out of here!"

But what greeted him was the Evil God's more wanton mockery, as well as the surprised and pitiful looks of the doctors, nurses, and priests around him.

The evil god's voice came again: "If you keep making such a fuss, they will probably arrest you as a mental patient."

"After staying in this sanatorium for so long, you should understand how mental patients are treated here."

"Even if you are the great hero who saved Tongtian City, they will bleed you, burn you with boiling water, and whip you with whips..."

Zhan Tian calmed down a little, and after apologizing to everyone around him, he walked back to his ward.

"What does he want to do? Your arrival has failed."

"If you want to use my body to come again, then just wait for disappointment. Even if you commit suicide, I won't give you a chance."

A burst of laughter came, and Zhan Tian felt the incomparable malice and sarcasm from the laughter, and he laughed uncontrollably as if he had seen something extremely funny.

When Zhan Tian held his head and felt waves of dizziness, the voice said again: "Failed to descend?"

"No...no...no..."

"The arrival has already been successful. It was already successful when you left the ceremony."

Zhan Tian resisted: "Absurd lie..."

The evil voice said: "Lie? Have you forgotten?"

"Your grandmother is also a Tongtian person, and you are here to attend her funeral."

"Do you know your grandmother's last name?"

"Her surname is also Qu, and she is the illegitimate daughter of a Qu family."

"You are also a descendant of the Qu family."

"You also have the evil bloodline that has been passed down for hundreds of years."

"Your arrival itself is part of the ceremony."

"That's why I can integrate into your flesh and blood and come to this world through your body..."

Zhan Tian shook his head in confusion: "It's impossible...such a thing..."

But although Zhan Tian was unwilling to accept this information, he also knew that there was no point in staying in Cam Sanatorium.

He began to hide his abnormality and appeared normal in the eyes of others.

He was successfully discharged from the hospital soon after, and because of his outstanding performance in Tongtian City, he became a senior investigator of the Holy See, able to lead more than ten ordinary investigators.

And he quickly took the time to return to Tongtian City and investigate the life experiences of himself and his grandmother.

"It's actually true...it's true..."

Looking at the citizen information in front of him, Zhan Tian fell to the ground and said with a hesitant look on his face: "Why is this happening... I actually..."

He couldn't accept the truth of his life experience for a moment, but the evil god on the other side said: "In order for you to become a container, the Qu family has spent decades and spent countless connections and wealth."

"Even Mrs. Qu who was killed by you doesn't know your true identity..."

Ignoring the evil god's ridicule, Zhan Tian gradually recovered his mood after a month of decadence and began his work as an investigator.

At this moment, he seems to want to forget everything, or use his work to cleanse his true identity as a descendant of a cult.

Under his selfless work, he solved one case after another, and he personally arrested various serial murderers, fraudsters, cultists, and lunatics.

Just as Zhan Tian's reputation and position were rising higher and higher, the voice of the evil god seemed to be gradually disappearing, making him even wonder whether he had really just heard a hallucination in the past.

But the exploration of a bizarre case made him realize that it was not an illusion.

It was a dark, quiet midnight.

In the eastern part of the New World, in the bustling city center of New York, Zhan Tianzheng is leading the team to hunt down a serial murderer.

The recent serial killings in this bustling city have claimed twelve victims. Each victim was cut into pieces and had various signs of being eaten by wild beasts.

The horrifying details of the case, the rising number of victims, and the newspapers and media adding fuel to the fire, all caused panic in the entire city.

But today, Zhan Tian and the others finally found the criminal's traces based on the various clues left by the criminal at the scene, as well as the ritual traces full of symbolic meaning.

They found multiple dismembered bodies in the basement of each other's homes, organs soaked in formalin, and minced meat that had been beaten into balls in the refrigerator.

Even the investigators who have been investigating cases for many years and have seen all kinds of perverts and lunatics can't help but vomit at this moment.

Filled with righteous indignation, they lurked around the basement, waiting for the murderer to fall into his trap.

But when the murderer revealed his horrifying true face under their roundup, everyone present was still frightened.

Rows of jagged fangs protruded from the corners of the mouth, facial features full of deformities, and flesh and blood all over his body that exuded a fishy smell and dripped green pus.

The murderer in front of him is already an inhuman thing, and he contains evil power that far exceeds that of ordinary people.

Swords and bullets could only make shallow wounds on his skin. Before the priest could exert his power, the ghostly creature took out his heart.

In the blink of an eye, more than half of the team that rounded up the murderer had been killed or injured. The police officers had already fled in fear, and the investigators also began to retreat one by one.

Zhan Tian, ​​who stayed behind, was slapped and flew out. He hit a dent in the wall and fell down, spitting out a large mouthful of blood.

The monster smiled sinisterly and said: "Investigator Zhan Tian, ​​you are the only one left. You can't escape."

Zhan Tian wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said viciously: "The Holy See will not let you go. We don't know how many evil forces we have dealt with, and you are nothing like this."

The monster stretched out its scarlet tongue, licked it, and said calmly: "Don't confuse me with the trash fish you dealt with before."

"I am the vessel of the true evil god, and I have withstood the terrifying power from the depths of the starry sky."

"You have no idea what kind of existence you are against."

The monster grabbed Zhan Tian's head and lifted him up: "I heard that you prevented an evil god from coming in Tongtian City before?"

"I will let you and the people in the Holy See understand that I am completely different from that third-rate thing."

The monster's claws on Zhan Tian gradually tightened, making a real cracking sound of cracking bones.

Zhan Tian felt that his life was gradually coming to an end, and immense fear surged into his heart.

"Do you want to live?"

The voice that had not appeared for a long time emerged from his mind again.

"Just give me your body."

"It only takes a while and I can help you sort out the situation outside."

Just when the monster was about to crush Zhan Tian's head, Zhan Tian's eyes suddenly turned white in front of him, and then a cold voice came from it: "Let go."

The monster's facial features were distorted, and he sneered: "Humble reptile, even if you beg for mercy now, it's already too late..."

‘Zhan Tian’ pinched the monster’s wrist with one hand and said coldly: “Dirty sand sculpture, who do you think you are talking to?”

As 'Zhan Tian's' palm came into contact with the monster, endless lights, shadows and illusions appeared in front of him.

That is the profound knowledge from the end of the starry sky, and it is the darkness composed of countless historical taboos.

His body began to swell, and his flesh began to lose control.

A horrified voice emerged from his throat: "You... what are you!"

The other party said in a cold tone: "This person, this planet, and this civilization all belong to me."

"You and the third-rate characters behind you...it's best to get out forever."

Amid the screams, the monster has been infused with knowledge. Except for its head... it has been completely transformed into a being covered with tentacles.

Then 'Zhan Tian' pointed his finger on the monster's head, and saw that the area under the monster's head turned into a ball of blood and merged directly into his body.

He clenched his fists and said to himself: "After all, the void can only carry information, and the power of Mo Ran is more convenient."

The next moment, he closed his eyes again and let out a roar when he woke up again.

Zhan Tian clenched his fists, and his mind was full of the scene where the monster was transformed into a demon and then absorbed by himself.

He couldn't help but vomit it out, feeling intense discomfort all over his body.

But as reinforcements arrived, the monster's remaining head was taken away by the Holy See.

And Zhan Tian's record of fighting evil objects alone quickly spread to the top.

After numerous inspections, he was promoted again and became the chief investigator of New York State.

Over the next ten years or so, Zhan Tian experienced many battles along the way.

He solved unsolved cases that had been unsolved for more than ten years, arrested Xiao Shengmiu, a fraudster who defrauded countless rich people, and fought various ghouls, tentacle monsters, sea monsters, extraterrestrial evil beings, and even sealed the evil god himself.

As the embodiment of justice, he not only fights on the front line day after day, he also publishes books, shoots advertisements, opens a real estate company, and sells his own souvenirs.

He even participated in the election for state legislators. By wooing poor people and immigrants who suffered discrimination, he became a politician widely loved by the people. He once changed the rules of the political game and promoted the legitimacy of political donations.

When he was sixty years old, Zhan Tian, ​​who was already famous all over the world, participated in the presidential election and successfully stood at the top of power in the New World.

But Zhan Tian felt a sadness in his heart, because no one knew that he, the president of the New World, was the real monster, an inhuman walking corpse controlled by evil forces.

…

When Zhan Tian felt extremely sad, Chu Qiguang also felt a twist.

‘It’s the 136th time and it still doesn’t work. ’

'I can only develop along a certain trend in that world. Once I try to break that trend, such as sharing knowledge, reforming the Holy See, etc... the situation will immediately get out of control. ’

'That world... is almost as if certain rules have been set in advance. You can act arbitrarily within the rules, but as long as you exceed the rules... the whole world will come to prevent everything from happening. ’

‘Even if I have enough power, I can only develop the world according to a certain trajectory. ’

‘Is this the destiny decreed by the Emperor... regarding that world? ’

‘And Zhan Tian obviously plays an important role in this destiny. ’

The more Chu Qiguang repeatedly affects that world, the more he can feel the horror contained in it.

At this time, he also understood the gap raised by the future demon.

Even if he can affect the past and future situations, he still can't change that trend or destiny.

So Chu Qiguang decided to change his method, directly giving up the way of using that world more efficiently, and chose to directly use the sickle to harvest.

…

When Zhan Tian thought that he would be controlled by the evil god forever and become the opponent's puppet.

After waking up one day, he found himself lying in the Vatican's large library, with tens of thousands of books scattered everywhere, surrounding him.

The secrets that had been sealed for many years, the darkness buried in history, the knowledge that was considered taboo by the Holy See... all came to his mind at this moment.

He also overnight became the worst president in history, the biggest traitor to the Holy See, and the first scandal in history.

There will be countless stories about evil presidents and evil investigators in the future.

Since then, Zhan Tian has never received any more messages from the evil god.

But during subsequent investigations, they gradually discovered the historical truth and pieced together the trajectory of the evil god's influence on the world.

And ‘Tongtian’ is the other party’s name.

Even though society continues to develop and history moves forward, Zhan Tian has not forgotten the hatred brought by this evil god...

…

At this moment.

In a certain corner of Huangtian World.

A pair of eyes awakened from the darkness.

"Zhan Tian, ​​are you dreaming again?"

"Well, I dreamed of Him again."

"How long until we reach His homeland?"

"I can't wait to see His horrified look and let Him see what kind of retribution this starry sky will bring to Him for these thousands of years of misdeeds."