Doomsday courtyard begins to survive by planting pea shooters

In the pitch-black darkness, the wrinkled old man smiled kindly, recalling the past:

"You know, back then, the sky was blue, the grass was green, the sea was blue, and the sun was golden!"

"Although I was always hungry and always faced life-threatening situations, I liked that time the most."

"..."

The old man kept talking, but Xiao Jian didn't interrupt him, just listened patiently.

After nagging for an unknown amount of time, He finally got to the point:

"The core secret of the Holy Beast Walker is actually to make a Holy Beast Card. With a Holy Beast Card, anyone can become a Holy Beast Walker..."

"...How about it? Want to learn? If you want to learn, I can teach you."

Xiao Jian's face was neither happy nor sad, he just looked at him calmly: "But what is the price?"

"You need to judge for yourself, there may be no price, or there may be a very expensive price... For example, never getting fat? Ha! Who knows!"

Although the old guy did not lie, this sentence made Xiao Jian extremely vigilant.

It is not a good thing to be so vague.

The most rational choice is of course to turn around and leave. If you don't listen to him, you won't be fooled.

But the problem is that it took so long to find him. If you leave without any gains, Xiao Jian will be somewhat unwilling.

"..."

Xiao Jian was silent for a long time, then raised his eyes and looked at the old liar.

"Hey, hey, hey!! Don't be angry, I'm just kidding! I tell you once and you can learn it! I'm really not lying to you..." The old liar hurriedly explained. "Oh? You're really not lying to me?" Xiao Jian asked calmly. "Of course... of course! I swear, I promise! I tell you once and you can learn it! Really!" The old liar pointed to the sky with both hands and swore. "Then what's the price? What price do I have to pay?" Xiao Jian asked again. "Well, this, this is very complicated. The price varies from person to person..." The old liar began to be vague on this issue again. Xiao Jian snorted and didn't give him a chance to continue explaining. He directly unfolded the domain! Heaven and earth chessboard, chess pieces of all things. Haoran's domain pressed down on the old liar like a crushing force. It can be seen that he seemed to want to resist, but his resistance was too weak, just like a mantis run over by a wheel, and was easily included in Xiao Jian's domain. "Wow, it's amazing!"

"Such a young and energetic field... It's been a long time since I've seen it." The old liar was not panicked, but kept praising.

"Oh? Really?" Xiao Jian was not in a hurry.

After all, before he completed the attack, the old liar would be forcibly restricted by the war chess field and unable to move.

And Xiao Jian's current mobility is as high as 28 points. As long as he wants, there are so many things he can do.

"Of course! I can tell at a glance that you are a healthy great man who has not been corrupted..."

The old liar looked at Xiao Jian with a bit of loneliness, not knowing whether he was sighing or reminiscing about the past: "Every time a new great man comes, there will be a bloody storm."

"Blind Eyes is dead, and the wailing is gone. I guess the next one will be me..."

"Young man, it's a good thing to absorb more embers while you are still strong. I hope our power can become a part of you and let you go further..."

"...At least don't sink in this hell like us."

"Come on, start! Kill me and take my power."

"Then live well..."

The old liar said, and even closed his eyes directly.

"Why should I kill you?" Xiao Jian said unhappily, "If you tell me what the price will be now, I will let you go immediately."

"Huh? How is that possible!"

The old liar seemed to be completely unconvinced.

"All those who fell here are pitiful creatures, pitiful creatures who will do anything to survive! Even if you can bear not to deprive me of my power now, after a while, when the corruption comes to you, you will definitely be the first to attack me."

The old liar simply lay on the ground, as if he had already considered himself a piece of fat meat, making it difficult for Xiao Jian to kill him now, but it seemed a bit embarrassing not to kill him?

"Forget it, get out of here." Xiao Jian suddenly retracted his domain, spread his wings and turned around to leave.

"...Wait, you really are not here to take my power?" The old liar seemed a little surprised.

"Nonsense!" Xiao Jian said unhappily.

"You... are indeed different." The old liar sighed, "Since you won't kill me, I'll tell you."

"The Holy Beast Walker and the Holy Beast Cards are actually derived from the ancient Holy Beast Contract."

"Even after I became a god, I couldn't find the source of this contract... It's like it's a bottom-level rule like a foundation or a pillar."

Xiao Jian had heard of the foundation and pillar mentioned by the old liar before, but he only learned about it from the spirit camp.

The spirits believe that various "authorities" have different "foundations", just like the mutual generation and mutual restraint between the five elements, there will be similar mutual generation and mutual restraint between the authorities of different "foundations".

And to gather authority around a few "foundations" and build your own road... This road is called a pillar.

After discovering that Xiao Jian was familiar with these basic concepts, the old liar's explanation suddenly accelerated, talking about a lot of theories and experiences, but in the end he summed it up in two words: ritual.

Through rituals handed down from ancient times, when you transform yourself into a Holy Beast Walker, you will also transform the target contract object into a Holy Beast Card.

As the old liar spoke, he stretched out a finger and began to write and draw on the ground.

Soon, an extremely complex ritual circle was carved on the hard obsidian ground.

“Put a gem here, blood there, a living plant over here, and finally put your own hair in that spot.”

"... Just like this, you stand on this side of the ceremony. When all the items burn out of thin air, and you confirm in your heart that the ceremony is successful, this ceremony will really be successful."

Unknowingly, the old liar had already laid out the magic circle and sacrifices.

"How about it? Come and try it?" The old liar looked at Xiao Jian expectantly, "This is the last thing in my box..."

Facing the eager old liar, Xiao Jian did not believe him immediately. Instead, he looked at the old liar's face with interest:

"...If I stand up, what price will I pay?"

Xiao Jian asked this question again.

Because although the old liar seemed to be sincere in describing his knowledge, he was still vague on key points.

What was the "confirmation ceremony" and what was "success"? He still chose to avoid the most critical issues.

That was what Xiao Jian asked at the beginning.

Yes, at what cost?

Xiao Jian stared at the old liar and looked at the expression on his face seriously.

"What are you talking about? Why are you still struggling with this issue..." The old liar looked helpless, "...I have poured out my heart and soul, but you still don't believe me!?"

"So, what's the price?" Xiao Jian's face became increasingly impatient, as if he would take action in the next second.

"Okay, okay, let me tell you...you will only pay the price if you succeed. If you haven't succeeded yet, there will be no price!"

"..."

Xiao Jian suddenly became impatient.

He was extremely sure that the ritual circle in front of him should be real, and the success should also be real, but as for who succeeded, that was uncertain.

At this moment, so many clues and details from before came together:

An old liar peddling sacred beast cards.

The old liar deceived the little girl Kate's tribe.

Young people will be selected from the tribe to "work", and all those who go out to "work" never come back.

But now, the old liar needs Xiao Jian to stand in the center of the ritual circle to personally confirm the success...

...Plus the price that He has refused to reveal until now.

So, the answer is already there.

"If I stand up and confirm the effect of the ritual...will I turn into a holy beast card?" Xiao Jian asked.

"What, how...why do you think so?" The word "will" stuck in the old liar's throat for a long time, but he finally couldn't say it out.

It's simple, because "how could you" contains a negative meaning, but "how could you think so" is a neutral rhetorical question that does not contain any answer.

If he comes forward to deny it, then Xiao Jian's [True God] characteristic will call the police.

But if he just asked back, this would not be considered lying to Xiao Jian.

Yes, he has been using this "language art" to avoid any words that may disturb the characteristics of the [True God].

That is to say...

...As long as he says that answer, he will really lie!

"..."

Xiao Jian looked at the old liar expressionlessly, neither answering nor confirming his sophistry, but just staring at him.

The old liar became more and more embarrassed when Xiao Jian looked at him. In the end, he couldn't say anything anymore. He stared at Xiao Jian for a long time. Finally, he managed to squeeze out a smile, stepped forward and apologized:

"Hey, look, what a fuss. We haven't reached that point yet, right? Everything has to be discussed, so... go to hell!"

As he spoke, the old liar suddenly burst into flames, and his hands turned into black whirlwinds and suddenly covered Xiao Jian!

However... His attack came to an abrupt end.

The war chess domain was activated again, and this time it was different from the last time. The old liar was restrained by the power of the domain with almost no reaction.

"This...is this? Why!? Didn't your domain withdraw? Why is this happening!?"

The old liar was shocked.

"Oh? Who told you that my domain was withdrawn?" A smile finally appeared on Xiao Jian's face, "I just chose to end my turn... That's all."

"……What's the meaning?"

The old liar looked confused.

Since it didn't understand Xiao Jian's domain, after the heaven and earth chessboard bound it and prevented it from moving, it thought that this restriction was Xiao Jian's domain.

However, when Xiao Jian chose to leave desperately, he actually did not choose to stop the field, but chose to end his turn by himself.

But in the eyes of the old liar, that restraint has disappeared, and he can move, and can even attack Xiao Jian anytime and anywhere...

At this time, the old liar naturally thought that Xiao Jian had taken back his territory.

But don't you know that Xiao Jian's gesture of flying was just a gesture, and his steps didn't even move.

If the old liar had allowed Xiao Jian to leave, or had chosen to attack Xiao Jian from behind, then Xiao Jian would have had no choice but to cancel the domain and fly away or dodge.

But at that time, he was smart enough not to attack, but to "cheat" Xiao Jian back.

Xiao Jian naturally "stopped" his steps - but in fact, he was in the war chess domain and could not move in a non-turn!

Then the old liar used the "ritual" magic circle to trick Xiao Jian, and on the other side that he didn't know, Xiao Jian kept skipping his turn, so that the old liar could not feel the existence of the domain at all.

That was it, until the end.

Xiao Jian calculated that the opponent's turn was about to end, and asked the question "become a holy beast card".

The old liar used up his turn in silence but still didn't know it... and in Xiao Jian's turn, He couldn't attack at all!

"What turn? What does it mean?" the old liar roared.

"Go to hell and think about it again..." Xiao Jian shrugged and summoned nearly a hundred pots of [Pea Snipers], and each [Pea Sniper] was hung with a heavy gun assembly.

"You..."

"Puff puff puff..."

As Xiao Jian confirmed the order to attack, the [Pea Snipers] began to attack in turns.

At first, there were 10 in a group, which made the old liar scream.

Then it became 1 in a group, and began to slowly reduce the old liar's health.

Like other gods, Xiao Jian could not observe the old liar's health.

But this did not prevent him from estimating his health from the old liar's appearance and his reaction when he was hit - when a lot of blood began to spurt out of his body, when the old liar's mind began to be unclear, it was obviously the moment when he was about to run out of oil.

At the last moment, Xiao Jian looked down at him:

"Do you have anything else to say?"

"Heh..." The old liar spit out a mouthful of blood and suddenly grinned.

"..."

Xiao Jian frowned and mercilessly cleared the old liar's health.

"Bang..."

The old liar's body swelled and disappeared.

Then, nothing was left! !

Xiao Jian walked forward in disbelief and looked for it, but the problem was that He really left nothing! !

This...

A god died, not to mention how many cards were dropped, how could he not even drop the most basic sacrifices?

What is going on here! ?

Xiao Jian's brows were wrinkled into a big lump.

At this moment, a faint wave suddenly came from the direction of the 374 high ground behind him.

The information that something seemed to have broken its shell, like a ripple constantly spreading in the darkness.

This is...

...Xiao Jian turned around suddenly!