Lord of Deception

The upstart still couldn't understand the divination results in the crystal, so he could only understand them separately.

According to his previous understanding and last experience, the first half of the game may indicate his current situation, and the second half of the sentence may be a reminder.

This kind of reminder may be good or bad, but it is all given according to his heart and thoughts.

The prompt this time was relatively simple, just the meaning revealed by the runes. He felt that this was only the superficial meaning, and he didn't quite understand the deeper meaning.

The person sitting there with his back turned, just waited quietly.

"Have the divination results come out? Have you thought about it?

Want to die more happily? Or should you fight to the death and be turned into a human candle by me again? "

The nouveau riche looked at the crowd of people kneeling in the courtyard, with pain, regret, resentment, despair, and cruelty constantly alternating on his face.

Since the largest abyss crack in the western part of Dali stabilized and was no longer an endless flesh and blood mill, and the existence of Bushi Town, many people have begun to focus on the western part of Dali.

The Dali court cannot force people to develop the western part of Dali, nor does it have that much money and resources to burn here.

In this way, some people are staring at this place, and the imperial court is just groping around, formulating rules, and attracting forces with resources and people to develop here.

Everything else is actually minor details, similar to other places, only one is very important.

The imperial court nods for you to come to this virgin land to explore and develop resources, but you have to pay taxes.

Prince Dali is very far-sighted. One day, if a big power emerges here, it will be difficult to tax him again.

Now, with the preferential policies in name, the tax rate is only half of that in the prosperous areas in the eastern part of the country, but it can make a good start.

However, over the past few decades, no one who can really take root here and thrive here does not have a background behind him.

There is a background behind the nouveau riche, but this backer is actually not that good and is only for outsiders to see.

The real background is the person in front of me.

He came from a small monk family, which was a family in name only, but in fact, only four generations of the whole family were alive.

As for those with a little bit of strength, a longer existence, and a little bit of foundation, there may be more than a dozen generations in a family.

In a large family that has reached the stage of becoming a powerful force, the elders in the family may have been born thousands of years ago, and their descendants a hundred generations later have descendants. Many of the descendants who are not talented may have never spoken to the family ancestors until their death.

At that time, family members might just have the same surname.

If you hear an ordinary person doing a small business bragging in a tavern, and he is from a big family, he may not be bragging.

After a long time, and after the family has grown into a big business, it is normal for this situation to occur.

But small families generally have strong cohesion because everyone has a close bloodline and spend a lot of time together. They have even endured hardships and risked their lives together.

The nouveau riche brought his whole family to work hard in the west of Dali. Now he has become a nouveau riche, but that kind of relationship cannot be given up just because he has become rich.

He spends a lot of resources on his own people every year just to have two gangs.

He alone cannot develop a family.

Now, it's all over.

All he can do is to free those tribesmen who were made into human candles.

All this was just because when he faced a life-and-death crisis, he used power that he shouldn't have used and exposed it to living people.

But before, the order he received was to find this sixty-four-sided crystal at all costs.

Now looking at the miserable situation of his clansmen, he completely understood.

Whether you support him or give him a way to gain strength, all this is not to take him under his command, but just to let him do this well.

After this matter is done, his value will be gone, or in other words, his own value will be far lower than the risk.

Now I'm just looking for an excuse to silence him.

Because his identity is clear, he bought the tetracosahedron crystal from the auction and it can be easily traced.

As long as he dies and his clan is exterminated, everything will end here.

No one knows where the divination crystal went.

At this moment, the upstart finally understood why the divination crystal used that tone to give prompts.

Because of his situation, he has always been teased and controlled by others, and he has always been in a situation where he could be abandoned at any time.

Looking at the people and candles all over the ground, he seemed to hear the souls of the clansmen wailing. Every trembling of the flames was their desperate struggle to die.

This is the price to pay for everything now.

He knelt on the ground, grieving endlessly, hating his own stupidity, hating his own ambition, and hating the man in front of him.

Black power was floating on his body, and the extremely strong negative aura began to escape.

Wisps of black aura twisted into a ball and rushed forward.

The man sitting there didn't move and just shook his head.

The black aura that hit him spread out automatically and spread to both sides about a few feet in front of him.

In an instant, the black aura condensed into shape, turning into countless black blades, turning into a storm, crushing all the people on both sides, giving them relief.

From the broken human candles, the screams and wails of the wronged souls came out, and the blue flames burning on their bodies seemed to have suffered greater pain at this moment.

The black energy rolled around, extinguishing all the guilty souls, allowing them to be completely liberated.

But as a price, all the blue flames were rolled up by the black energy and fell on the upstart.

The upstart knelt there, letting the flames burn his body. The pain in his heart, as well as the pain endured by those wronged souls, seemed to be all inflicted on him in just one moment.

He roared and raised his head, a faint blue light burst out from his seven orifices, and his body began to disintegrate, leaving only a piece of black energy in place, with a faint blue light flashing inside.

There is only endless pain, mixed with various negative thoughts, and an ominous atmosphere spreading around.

The man sitting on the chair stood up and shook his head in surprise.

"You gave them liberation, but you will never be free again, so why bother."

He stretched out a hand, grabbed the crystal ball, took a step forward, and disappeared.

After losing the target, there was only the black air rolling and roaring, destroying the place where the man was just now.

He had completely lost his mind and was overwhelmed by the pain in his heart mixed with the pain caused by the blue flames.

One day later.

Yu Ziqing took a flying boat and came nearby, looking for where the upstart family was.

He was going to save some time and ask and chat directly face to face.

However, when he came here, he saw a rolling mass of black air above the manor, constantly changing into various shapes, with faint blue light flashing from time to time.

Not a single living thing could be seen around for a long time. There were traces of destruction everywhere within a radius of more than ten miles.

Before he even got close, he felt painful thoughts. The black energy was exuding painful thoughts that could drown the consciousness of low-level monks all the time.

Other evil thoughts and other negative thoughts, and even the strong ominous aura, were forcibly suppressed by the painful thoughts.

Yu Ziqing frowned slightly, this kind of power was the kind of weird power that the upstart had inspired before.

It's like a demonic path, and it's like an evil path, but it's different.

Yu Ziqing looked at the big sun in the sky and waited quietly in the distance.

From the other direction, people were already coming, including people from the Shadow Division and nearby monks, but unfortunately no one dared to approach.

Not to mention that the monks were not willing to be imbued with the ominous atmosphere at all. Just the crazy and painful thoughts that were out of control, if they got a little closer, they felt as if they were being tortured.

Those with weaker strength and weaker will may even have some traces of being burned in their souls.

After a day of investigation, the news spread, and it was confirmed that the strange black energy would not leave here, and everyone from the Shadow Department had left.

There are so many weird and dangerous things and places in this world that it is impossible to deal with every one of them.

As long as it is confirmed that the danger can be controlled within a certain range, the conventional approach is to draw a forbidden area.

As for the degree of danger, generally speaking, it is directly proportional to the scope of the forbidden area.

By the way, the full name of Jinlan Mountain in the Divine Dynasty is still Jinlan Mountain forbidden land, and the map has always marked a large area of ​​forbidden land.

And this is also a tacit admission that if someone takes the initiative to go to the forbidden area, they deserve to die.

At least this is the attitude of the court. No matter who it is, as long as they take the initiative to find trouble in the forbidden area, the court will not say anything to Jin Lanshan under any circumstances.

The same applies to other great forbidden areas, regardless of whether the environment is dangerous or there are extremely dangerous beings inside.

The place where the upstart family is located, a strange creature, can be regarded as a small forbidden area at best.

Previously, the largest forbidden area in the west of Dali was the Abyss Rift Valley. Counting from the edge of the Great Rift Valley, within a radius of a thousand miles, everyone was within the scope of death.

The responsibility of the imperial court is to control the dangers in the abyss and rift valley as much as possible within a safe range.

But on the map, this forbidden area is thousands of miles in radius, and the rest is a buffer zone to prevent unexpected situations.

Since the Hungry Ghosts appeared, Dali has taken over a territory that used to have only disadvantages for no reason. How can the Dali court be unfriendly to the Hungry Ghosts?

Yu Ziqing waited until it got dark and no one came.

When the bright moon shone on the earth, Yu Ziqing immediately used the magical power of moonlight to see what happened.

When he saw a dark figure, Yu Ziqing's eyes narrowed slightly.

I can't see his appearance, but in the past two days, Haoyue's power has been strong, and I can see his clear outline and body shape.

It's the same person I saw last time at Dadui Archway.

After watching the whole process, Yu Ziqing thanked the Moon God and dispersed the moonlight magical power.

This man was really decisive in his actions. Even if he was a nouveau riche, he couldn't hold back the power he had finally cultivated. He was so rich.

If you have money, you will definitely develop quickly in the early stage. As long as you are willing to spend money, all kinds of relationships can be established.

After hundreds of years of development, the foundation will slowly come in. After eighteen hundred years, if you reach the ninth level and step into the threshold of a great power...

It's a pity that the other party was extremely decisive and silenced him as quickly as possible. He even threatened to kill his whole family and destroy his entire clan, but he was not as ruthless as this person.

Yu Ziqing wanted to chase him, but unfortunately, this man was extremely cautious and didn't make any move from beginning to end. He even didn't know what method he used when he left.

Even if he wanted to use the moonlight magical power to chase him all the way, there was no way to pursue him.

But enough information.

Yu Ziqing had heard of the method of turning people into human candles. It was an extremely advanced skill.

I heard Xi Yang say that there are such people in the caves where some powerful men live.

It is said that the strong man back then was nearing the end of his life. Unfortunately, he had offended too many people during his lifetime. When he was about to die, he suddenly started to care about his descendants.

Therefore, the man spent his last life, captured all the people he had offended, and made them into human candles to be buried with him.

Instead of killing them all on the spot, it is said that they were afraid that some of them might have some special means to make them into adult candles. Their death would be a little slow, but it would be thorough enough.

Yu Ziqing looked up at the billowing black air floating above the ruins of the manor.

The dark figure showed no resistance throughout the process, but the power of the upstart was still invisible.

Yu Ziqing looked carefully and saw that it was intentional by the nouveau riche, and it was true that that kind of power could not hurt the black shadow.

That guy doesn't completely deal with the upstart, which doesn't suit his style.

In other words, he is not capable of completely killing the upstart who has completely lost his mind in his current form.

Some are like the evil things that fish bones say.

It is full of ominous thoughts, full of negative thoughts, and cannot be completely eliminated.

Yu Ziqing thought for a while and didn't rush to do anything. He just quietly sensed the painful thoughts. After getting a little closer, he could clearly feel that the pain was contagious, like a flame burning his Yangshen again.

Yangshen opened his eyes and looked around, then closed his eyes again.

The normal way is to be burned by flames, which affects the soul and thoughts.

Now it's the other way around, first affecting the mind, then the soul, and then the effect of being burned by flames appears out of thin air.

Unfortunately, this thing is of little use to Yu Ziqing.

He has the flame himself. When Yang Shen opens his eyes, it will be blood flames. As for the pain, Yu Ziqing has already starved to death twice. The thought of pain at this distance cannot shake him at all.

After waiting for two days, the fish bones quietly appeared.

Yu Ziqing pointed at the rolling mass of black air that was constantly changing its shape.

"Does it look like the evil thing you mentioned?"

Fishbone was too timid to get close, and the image of a saint turned into an evil creature involuntarily appeared in his mind.

But then, he was suddenly stunned, glanced at Yu Ziqing, and felt the tattoo on his back, and his waist straightened up with a brush.

He is now afraid of a hammer.

The best this evil thing can do is kill him, but it's absolutely impossible for him to turn into an evil thing too.

Yugu straightened his back and came behind Yu Ziqing, feeling the pain and feeling a little happy in it.

"Your Excellency, this is an evil creature. He has lost control and lost his reason and self.

It's just different from what I've seen before. There's a little more of that blue flame inside him.

It cannot be completely eliminated, only controlled.

If it were me in the past, after coming into contact with evil objects, if I was affected by them, I might become evil objects.

Of course, this evil thing is not worth mentioning to you. "

"Is he also a saint?"

"I don't know about that. I can only confirm that he must have borrowed the power of some terrible existence. After his mind was shaken, he couldn't control it and became like this."

Yu Ziqing nodded.

The core point is to borrow strength like a saint.

The difference is that the saints use the objects of sacrifice as tools, and they control their own power, and they also have perfect promotion methods.

Yu Ziqing walked towards the ruins of the manor, feeling the painful thoughts, he grinned.

Except for starvation, all other pains are bearable.

Yu Ziqing slowly approached, and an ominous atmosphere began to permeate the rolling black air.

Yu Ziqing allowed the ominous atmosphere to invade him, and his smile gradually became abnormal.

Ominous?

I'm just unlucky.

As Yu Ziqing got closer and closer, the billowing black air became more intense. The painful face of an upstart appeared on it, followed by the faces of a bunch of people wailing silently.

He approached step by step, and the moment he stepped into the manor, the black energy rushed towards Yu Ziqing.

In the distance, Fish Bones knelt on the ground piously, feeling the painful thoughts rising straight up. He gritted his teeth and endured the pain, his eyes were both pious and crazy.

He saw Yu Ziqing walking step by step, slowly breaking away from the outer appearance, and turning into a human form made of rolling black oil. Black flames intertwined with blood-colored flames. The terrifying and ominous outer appearance completely crushed the evil creature opposite. things.

Even the ominous aura of the evil thing seemed to make the surrounding environment more comfortable for the great Lord.

Fishbone made no resistance at all and allowed the influence of the evil object to penetrate into his body.

The tattoo behind him was filled with even stronger power. It did nothing but existed, suppressing the power in his body and blocking the way to turn him into an evil creature.

Even if he lies flat, he is not allowed to turn into an evil creature.

Fishbone's eyes widened and he almost laughed out loud as he looked at the ignorant creature that dared to attack.

Yu Ziqing walked into the manor, looked at the black air surrounding his body, and slowly stretched out a hand.

He felt the burning of a faint blue flame, which was fueled by the soul, will and pain.

His face turned into the appearance of a hungry ghost, and his body also turned into the appearance of a hungry ghost. He grabbed a ball of blue flame and devoured it directly.

Feeling the fire burning in his belly, Yu Ziqing laughed strangely.

His Hungry Ghost Path is bound to flames, so when he meets someone who is very suitable, he cannot let him go.

Black energy gathered in his palm, and the pain Yu Ziqing felt began to escalate. Bloody light began to appear in his eyes, and blood flames began to burn.

Slowly, the rolling black energy condensed and gathered into a human form, showing the appearance of a nouveau riche.

He held his head high, moaning and roaring, his eyes completely devoid of consciousness, only endless pain.

Yu Ziqing placed one hand on the head of the nouveau riche, completely empathizing with him.

In order to free his people, this guy absorbed all the flames and the pain of all the people. In that case, how could he be able to bear it alone.

Yu Ziqing felt this kind of pain and torture, and there was still a smile on his lips, but unfortunately his whole expression was a little distorted.

The strings of will were beating loudly, and an idea emerged in his mind involuntarily. He would try using black fire and blood flames to see if he could burn the evil thing in front of him into nothingness.

Yu Ziqing continued to absorb the faint blue flame, and when only a ray was left, the upstart's eyes were so hollow that only pain remained, and finally there was a glimmer of light.

His illusory body also showed signs of solidifying again.

Yu Ziqing put a hand on the head of the upstart and asked.

"Do you know where your power comes from?"

The upstart was not in a hurry to answer. His consciousness was not yet clear, and his mind was still filled with endless pain. He had not yet understood what was going on.

He turned his eyes, looked around, saw the traces around him, and felt his condition again, and then he understood why he was still alive.

He was out of control.

He knew that he was bound to die, completely lost control, and turned into a monster, but he had a chance.

Is the current situation what the word "micro" in divination means?

A tiny bit of vitality?

His eyes looked at Yu Ziqing, he couldn't see clearly, he only felt a kind of pressure.

"I don't know where it comes from. I only know that the power is dark, obscure, and difficult to control. If you are not careful, it will lead to an abyss."

"Are you interested in cooperating with me to do some research? If it succeeds, you may be able to maintain your self-awareness."

"It's up to you." After experiencing life and death, the mentality of the nouveau riche also changed.

No matter what the man in front of him is going to do, if he has a chance to maintain his sense of self, he will have a chance to get revenge.

He had nothing to lose, not even his life.

"Fishbone, give him a tattoo." Yu Ziqing waved to the fishbone in the distance.

Yu Gu grinned and immediately began to prepare the ritual.

He also wanted to know whether other than saints could use this ritual successfully.

Others help perform rituals and tattoos to see if they can be successful.

The person in front of me is the best test subject.

Because he succeeded, he could still live.

If it fails, he can be freed.

All good results.

Yu Ziqing even wanted to know whether this evil ritual method was effective or not, and what side effects it had.

Fishbone clearly tells the nouveau riche what may happen. What options do the nouveau riche have?

Someone came to the door to bring warmth, what else could he ask for?

The sharp blade carved lines on the upstart's back, and a somewhat abstract human figure emerged. The flowing blood was like burning blood flames.

After carving out half of the body, he still didn't suppress it. The fishbone didn't say anything and continued to carve out the whole body.

While he was carving, he was secretly feeling sour. The person this guy was relying on was much more powerful than the red cloth tablet they were offering sacrifices to.

When you go back, you must look for an opportunity to change the object of sacrifice again.

The abstract hungry ghost's whole body was depicted. As the ritual progressed, the unstable body of the upstart began to solidify.

Those crazy out-of-control forces began to slowly converge.

Seeing that his eyes were still closed, it was enough to suppress him, and Yu Gu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

And here, Yu Ziqing was also wondering, why didn't he feel anything this time?

Everything went very smoothly, and the person whom the upstart borrowed money from didn't show up to make a fool of himself.

Yu Ziqing raised his hand and pondered for a while.

Why?

After thinking about it, it seems to be a possibility.

The other party has seen him before and knows that there is no point in coming. He might even report his home address and wait for a big buck.

Just pretend to be dead, pretend not to know, do whatever you want.

Yu Ziqing sensed it for a moment, but still didn't feel any pressure. Yang Shen still hugged the source of the earth and closed his eyes.

After completing the ritual, the upstart felt the power in his body. It was dark and gloomy, but at this moment it seemed like it belonged to him.

Even when I use it, I still have negative emotions and the pain is still there.

But the feeling of losing control and being doomed is gone.

"Let's go first."

Yu Ziqing took out a dirty gas bucket, exploded it, washed the area with dirty gas, and then recycled it with a new dirty gas bucket.

The way the black shadow conceals Hui Shuo is indeed exquisite.

It's a pity that more details are left.

How can it be better to just smear an area with shit like this?

It doesn't matter if someone knows he's here, it's just that the black air is drowned in the filthy air.

Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway.

If you just copy the cat and imitate the tiger, won’t it work?

That’s none of my business. With the same method, some people are at the first level and some are at the ninth level. What can I say?

Yu Ziqing left with the people.

The upstarts have been silent.

Arriving in a secret room, Yu Ziqing made tea and gave each of the fish bones and the nouveau riche a cup.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

There was a flash of pain in the upstart's eyes, and he started talking bit by bit.

His whole family came to the west of Dali to fight, but unfortunately they were too weak to succeed.

At that time, the black shadow found him and gave him a way to increase his strength, and even told him the location of a spirit stone vein.

Since then, he has been working for Sombra.

However, until the last moment, he never saw the other person's face. It seemed that the other person's back was always turned to him, no matter what happened.

"Hey, I seem to have heard of this situation somewhere..."

In an instant, Yu Ziqing remembered the Dadai Archway. That archway stood there. No matter which direction you came from, as long as you came to the archway, you would always be facing the front of the archway.

Hiss, that guy, when he stood in front of the Dadui Archway for so long, wasn't he trying to learn a secret by referring to the Dadui Archway?

"You go on."

Immediately afterwards, the upstart talked about the hexagonal crystal and the divination he did.

"The first time, it was 'the goddess stands on the ground, the dragon is unscrupulous'.

Even though I didn’t understand it and couldn’t quite understand it, I still relied on the prompts and escaped with the crystal.

The second time, it was 'death, lala, rising from a small wave'.

I still don't quite understand, but I can probably understand that this means that the black shadow will kill me and silence me after using it.

I was definitely going to die, so I thought, I would do everything I could before I died.

That micro word definitely meant that I had a glimmer of hope. "

The upstart described in detail his understanding of the two fortune tellings.

Yu Ziqing held the tea cup and stared blankly at the upstart's serious face, with question marks on his forehead.

"There is a saying that waves are formed between gentle waves..."

"I see." The upstart seemed to have some realization.

Yu Ziqing was stunned. What are you doing? What do you understand?

That's just randomly generated garbled code!

Yu Ziqing stood up and left the secret room, found a corner, and checked quietly to make sure there was no mistake.

After checking, he found the genuine copy indeed.

So what's going on?

Oh my gosh, the juice isn’t really flavored, is it?