At night, the camp outside the central city gradually became quiet.

Under the moonlight, a shadow passed lightly and entered the temporary prison cell in the camp. The member of the card maker family they had captured before was imprisoned in it.

The cell was very simple, but you could still see a person lying on the bed. His arms were covering his face, but you could still see the clothes on his body, which were exactly what the person was wearing.

The moonlight through the window grille reflected a silver light, which stabbed at the vital point of the person on the bed at an extremely fast speed.

However, at the moment when the silver light was about to harvest the other person's life, the temple knight finally realized that something was wrong.

The person who was originally lying on the bed sleeping like a dead pig suddenly jumped up, and a supplementary card in his palm hit him, but the shadow that was stabbed dissipated in the air like smoke.

Although he didn't hit anyone, he didn't care at all. A spear appeared in his hand, and the tip of the spear ignited a light blue flame, illuminating the entire room and his face. It was Qin Ke. The

temple knight immediately realized that this was an ambush, and turned around to escape, but was blocked by Aigla.

Although this temple knight was good at stealth assassination, he was really no match for Qin Ke and Aigla in this kind of direct confrontation. In addition, Qin Ke and the others were unintentional, so they quickly caught him.

But he was very tight-lipped, and he didn't get anything out of him after being interrogated for a long time.

Fortunately, the other person was not as tough as him. After knowing that the temple sent people to kill him, he was already angry and uneasy. Qin Ke sent people to scare him again, and he was immediately defeated and told everything like a bamboo tube pouring beans.

He was not the core heir of the card maker family, so he didn't know much, but the things he confessed were enough to make Qin Ke and others dumbfounded.

Thinking that they fought desperately to defend the line and resist the evil spirits, but the temple and the card maker family were doing this in secret, they were furious.

Fortunately, the two were also experienced generals, and they finally calmed down and discussed what to do.

Douglas walked around in the room. He had been restless since he sent people out.

Now, several hours have passed, and the man has not returned. The feeling of uneasiness has become more serious. He doesn't even know why things have become like this.

At this time, a priest came in and whispered in Douglas's ear about the interrogation of Clement.

The temple's surveillance of the central city is very complete. After Clement escaped the bloody punishment, he contacted outside the city. At this sensitive time, he was quickly discovered. When he was caught, information related to Anthony Ignaz was found from the fragments of the data he was destroying, proving that he had been investigating related matters before.

How Anthony died is well known to everyone in the temple.

They were afraid that Clement had seen something he shouldn't have seen, so they immediately interrogated him. However, Clement was the only remaining blood of the Melorne family, so they didn't dare to do anything to him, for fear of killing him.

Clement might have known this, so he was fearless and kept silent no matter what they asked.

Douglas said with a sullen face: "Since he doesn't want to talk, there's no need to ask anymore. He is asking for death, so let him have his way. Hasn't he finished his blood punishment yet? There's no need to follow the date. Let's see how long he can hold on!"

The priest was shocked. The pain of blood punishment was already unbearable for ordinary people, and the longer it lasted, the more painful it would be. If there was no rest in the middle as a buffer, people might die of pain.

But since Douglas had already spoken, he could only agree.

After he left, Douglas felt more and more uneasy. He knew the origin of the temple. Once the news spread out, the anger of the outside world would be enough to raze the Central City to the ground. At this time, he must take care of his own life first .

In order to avoid more trouble, he decided to complete the secret method as soon as possible and then leave the Central City.

He first found the temple knights who stayed behind. The temple knights always followed orders and would not ask questions, so he arranged it easily.

As for the other priests, he did not intend to take any of them.

However, in order not to let them disturb him when he was completing the secret method, he pretended to be indifferent, arranged things for them separately, and let them leave the tower.

After doing all this, he walked down the tower alone.

He checked the formation again with the notes, and after confirming that there were no problems, he suppressed his excitement and proceeded step by step according to the notes.

The tall statue seemed to be looking down at him, and as he moved, wisps of black gas slowly floated up from the floor.

After completing the secret method, a breeze suddenly blew in the originally closed space, and the wisps of black gas slowly floated around Douglas and the statue.

Douglas felt his body gradually getting hot. He looked at his hands, his eyes full of excitement and greed, as if he could see his body regaining its youth and immortality in the future.

But at this moment, a painful expression appeared on his face, he strangled his neck tightly, and his eyeballs bulged.

He felt another soul appear in his body, fighting with him for control of his body.

No! Impossible!

He had clearly followed the steps in the notebook, how could this happen!

He seemed to hear a mocking chuckle in his ears.

Douglas raised his head suddenly and looked at the statue in front of him.

At this moment, a wisp of black air lingered beside the statue. In the dim room, the statue's expression was half-smile, as if it was compassionate and mocking.

Something exploded in Douglas's mind.

He remembered that when he was a trainee priest, he secretly followed the former high priest to the bottom of the tower and saw this statue for the first time.

The moment he saw it again, he seemed to be deceived and spoke out his ambition without reservation. Then a faint voice appeared in his mind, telling him that it would help him achieve his wish.

With the help of this voice, he became the high priest smoothly. Under its guidance, he found the notes of the first high priest and learned the method of immortality.

He never thought that it would betray him.

He finally understood that there is no free lunch in the world, but it was too late.

The black gas rushed into his body.

His skin color suddenly turned gray and his expression froze, as if he had turned into a statue in an instant, and fell straight down.

After an unknown amount of time, the gray color of his body faded, and his eyeballs under his eyelids turned exaggeratedly and opened again.

He sat up somewhat stiffly, looked at his hands curiously, touched his face again, and said "tsk" in disgust. These people in the temple are really getting worse and worse.

He is the first high priest Lancelot.

When he and eight other families devoured the flesh and blood of the gods, they thought they could be immortal like the gods, but soon he found that his body was still gradually aging according to the laws of nature. They were even worse than ordinary people because their souls were immortal and would be trapped in the rotten body forever.

Some of them could not accept the fact and soon collapsed.

But Lancelot was unwilling to give up. After countless experiments, he finally found a way to transfer the soul.

But it was very demanding to achieve this. Not only did it require many precious things, but also someone had to be willing to contribute his body as a container for his soul.

To this end, Lancelot deceived others, created evil spirits, and then appeared as a savior.

Lancelot was eloquent and had a deceptive appearance. In addition, he possessed the power of God, so he quickly made people believe that he was the spokesperson of God. After that, he put his soul into the statue, selected those greedy priests, and seduced them step by step, and finally seduced them to sacrifice themselves, and he entered the other party's body and replaced them, forming an alternative immortality.

Lancelot stood up slowly. At first, he was a little slow, as if he was not used to walking. But gradually, he moved more and more freely. When he walked up to the tower, he was no different from Douglas before.

He stood on the top of the tower, breathing the long-lost air.

Suddenly, a temple knight walked towards him and knelt on one knee respectfully: "High Priest, everything is ready according to your instructions. When are we leaving?"

Lancelot: "?"

Under his questioning, the temple knight honestly repeated his previous instructions and told him about the siege of the temple.

Lancelot frowned and wanted to curse him.

He felt a little regretful. He had only thought of picking the greedy and stupid ones so that he could control them more easily. He never thought that he would almost ruin the temple's foundation.

The expression on Lancelot's face was simply colorful. He finally calmed down and said, "I'm not leaving."

The temple knight was stunned, but he was used to obeying orders, so he didn't think much about it and took the order to leave.

Lancelot looked outside the central city with a grim expression.

He was just a scumbag. No one in the world could stop him.

Outside the defense line.

Gu Xingmian suddenly frowned.

Xiao Qiong: "What's wrong?"

His voice attracted the attention of Gwen and others, and then they heard Gu Xingmian say, "The pollution has worsened."

Everyone was shocked.

After Gu Xingmian recovered his memory, he told them everything, including Lancelot's evil reincarnation technique. Every time Lancelot reincarnated, he would pollute a part of the God Card Pool. When he completely polluted the God Card Pool, the gods would disappear from the world, and humans would forever lose the ability to use cards and be controlled by Lancelot forever.

Gwen and others then realized that the evil spirits that attacked them were created by the temple, and they actually cried thief.

The blood and tears of pain left in the military area over the years were just for the greedy desires of one person.

This made them painful and angry, and they wanted to return as soon as possible to expose the true face of the temple.

After Gu Xingmian recovered his memory, all his abilities were also restored. With him around, no evil spirits dared to disturb them on the way back, and the speed was many times faster than the way there. However, the distance of the journey was so long that it would take at least half a month at the fastest.

However, now that they heard that the pollution was getting worse, it meant that Lancelot had used the reincarnation technique again.

Everyone felt a sense of urgency and sped up again.

In the end, they arrived at Solo Castle two days earlier than expected.

Since they left, August would subconsciously look in the direction they left whenever he had time, but he was always disappointed.

And on this day, he looked in that direction as usual, but saw a figure vaguely appearing on the horizon. He thought he was dazzled, so he rubbed his eyes and looked over again, only to find that it was not an illusion.

August didn't care about anything else and rushed out of the military base.

The figures became clearer and clearer, and those familiar faces, covered in dust, made him cry with joy.

It was not a dream!

They are really back!!

He quickly welcomed them into the military base, wanting them to have a good rest.

Although Gwen and the others had been away for less than two months, it seemed like a lifetime ago. He asked August about what had happened recently.

Because of the influence of evil spirits, Soloburg could hardly communicate with the defense line. August was not well-informed and could only rely on the teams that came to deliver supplies every once in a while to bring some news.

When Gwen and the others asked about it, he said that according to the news received a while ago, Douglas agreed to negotiate with the Card Makers Alliance and took a series of measures to appease them. The originally tense atmosphere was said to have improved a lot. Qin Ke and Aigla decided to enter the temple with several representatives of the Card Makers Alliance to negotiate.

Gwen frowned after listening to him.

These practices are sophisticated and high-end. If they had not known the truth, they would probably be confused.

He has dealt with Douglas many times and knows his character and ability very well. This is definitely not something he can do.

It seems that Lancelot's soul should be in Douglas' body at this moment.

Lancelot is a cold and cruel person. It is impossible that he is just for negotiation. He must have a conspiracy. If Qin Ke and the others really enter the temple, it will be troublesome.

After realizing this, Gwen and the others could no longer sit still, and prepared to travel light, and they rushed to the central city first. Gwen

only brought a few personal guards, Gu Xingmian, Xiao Qiong and others. The God Cards spread their wings and carried them into the defense line.

As long as they entered the defense line, they could change to a flying vehicle.

However, when they were halfway through the flight, they were suddenly attacked.

Fortunately, Gwen and the others reacted in time and were not injured.

Looking at the auxiliary card that fell to the ground, Gwen seemed to realize something and his face changed suddenly.

At this time, the next wave of attacks came again.

Everyone saw clearly that the attackers were wearing military uniforms.

The leader of the attack was Admiral Noah of the Second Military District.

Gwen looked at him in disbelief.

Noah's face no longer had the carefree smile he had before, but was extremely cold.

They had been partners who had fought side by side, but now they were very unfamiliar.

Gwen had figured it out: "You betrayed us... No, you were not on our side from the beginning. You were a nail that Lancelot placed in the military district."

He thought of Noah's character, who had always kept a low profile, and the Second Military District was also very low-key under his leadership. He

just didn't expect that Lancelot's layout was so deep.

Noah's face changed slightly when he heard Gwen say Lancelot's name.

At this time, a voice came from behind him: "You really already know, so I can't spare your lives."

Gu Xingmian and others looked over in the direction of the voice, and saw "Douglas" slowly walking to Noah's side, but his expression was completely different from the real Douglas.

His eyes just lightly passed Gwen and others, and then fell on Gu Xingmian, and jealousy flashed across his face.

He wanted to be immortal in his dreams, and for this, he did not hesitate to kill gods and study the art of reincarnation, and he didn't know how many times he failed. But what about Gu Xingmian? He was clearly just a wandering soul from outside, but the gods were willing to share their power with him. He was born with divine power and shared immortality with gods.

Why! !

He looked at Gu Xingmian grimly: "If that idiot Douglas had been more motivated and let me wake up earlier, you would have died long ago!"

Gu Xingmian rolled his eyes: "If it weren't for the restrictions of the world's rules that made me lose my memory and abilities, I would have smashed your broken temple long ago!"

Lancelot sneered: "You are still stubborn even when you are about to die."

"Where do you get this confidence from? Do you think that if you kill us, no one will know what you have done?" Gu Xingmian couldn't help but say.

Lancelot sneered: "News from outside the defense line can't reach inside. As long as you die, everything will return to the original state, and no one will know..."

Before he finished speaking, a voice came from afar: "Really? Unfortunately, I already know."

Leus looked older than before, but he was wearing a military uniform and stood straight. Next to him was Song Nanting, who looked solemn. There were sporadic bloodstains on her clothes, and it was obvious that she had just fought a fierce battle.

Immediately afterwards, the voices of Qin Ke and Aigla were also heard from other directions.

Noah's face suddenly became extremely ugly.

In order to prevent Gu Xingmian and others from entering the defense line, he sent people to guard along the line to encircle them, but he didn't expect that he would be surrounded by them instead.

Behind them, there were mercenaries from the Mercenary Corps, members of the Guards, card makers from the Card Makers Alliance, as well as Eric, Fu Fenglin, Nina, etc.

He even saw Alicia in the crowd. She was holding the sword left by Uncle Alfonso, and she and the pale-faced Clement supported each other. Seeing him, Clement smiled faintly.

Lancelot looked at everything in front of him in shock: "Impossible... How could you..."

They had been ambushed here long ago, and it was impossible for anyone to enter the defense line and pass on the message.

Gu Xingmian looked at them in surprise.

There was indeed no way to send the message back from outside the defense line, but the God Card Pool could. After Gu Xingmian's ability was restored, he could sense the God Card Pool and communicate with it, so he secretly told the God Cards that had not been drawn and contaminated.

And it happened that the day before yesterday was the card drawing day.

Lancelot didn't even take the card masters who had just drawn the cards seriously, and didn't even think about this aspect, and was picked up by Gu Xingmian.

Lancelot's eyes were red with anger, and he roared: "Then you all die here!"

As he finished speaking, countless evil spirits appeared in their sight.

Gu Xingmian recognized them instantly. They were all cards in the God's Card Pool that were contaminated by Lancelot. This made him extremely angry. Lancelot deliberately used this trick to make him feel torn.

Both humans and cards were his companions.

He couldn't watch the evil spirits kill humans, nor could he take action against the cards that grew up with him.

Just when he was in pain and entanglement, a hand gently rested on his shoulder, and Xiao Qiong's steady voice came: "Calm down, you can definitely think of a way."

Gu Xingmian looked at him in a daze, and his originally painful and worried emotions seemed to be smoothed out in an instant, and his chaotic mind became clear.

He turned his head to look at the clusters of nebulae, but suddenly remembered the scene when he treated Ah Mu and the others. What if these polluted evil spirits were regarded as sick cards?

Their star patterns were messy, but as long as they were put back on track, they would definitely recover.

Gu Xingmian calmed down, and his fingers danced quickly between the star patterns like playing a piano. This was more difficult than treatment. During the treatment, he also borrowed the power of the blood crystal, but now he had to rely on himself.

One, two, three...

His fingers moved faster and faster, and the originally manic evil spirit gradually calmed down, the terrifying tentacles retracted, and the spikes on its body gradually turned into soft fur, and finally turned into a snow-white sheep.

At this moment, a vortex appeared above the sheep's head, and the scenery of the God Card Pool could be vaguely seen in the vortex.

The sheep called Gu Xingmian affectionately twice, then walked into the vortex and disappeared.

At that moment, Gu Xingmian seemed to understand something.

He named the new skill - Purification.

Lancelot was shocked to see the evil spirits turned back into cards in Gu Xingmian's hands and returned to the God's Card Pool. He could feel that his influence on the God's Card Pool was gradually weakening, and his own power was also gradually weakening.

This shocked him greatly.

He knew that he could not stay here, otherwise they would definitely deal with him when they came to their senses.

His soul was now in Douglas's body, too far away from the statue. Once he died, he would be really dead.

So he had to return to the temple as soon as possible, so while everyone's attention was on Gu Xingmian and the evil spirits, he slipped away quietly.

But Douglas's body, which used to be well-fed, would be out of breath after running a few more steps.

Lancelot was tired and angry, but suddenly saw the back of a temple knight in front of him.

He looked happy: "You are here to save me..."

The smile on his face froze, and he stared at the knife stuck in his chest, and then saw the eyes full of hatred under the golden mask.

Lancelot felt that his life was slipping away, and the temple knight opposite him was even more miserable than him, with countless blood pouring out of his mouth, but he didn't care at all, holding the knife in his hand tightly, and turning it decisively.

The life of the temple knight is connected with the high priest. If the high priest dies, the temple knight will also die.

"Why...why..."

Lancelot was shocked and puzzled, but he could no longer hear the answer.

Isaiah showed a relieved smile, his body fell heavily backwards, and the golden mask fell off his face.

"Crack"

it broke into pieces, revealing the slightly pale face underneath, which was somewhat similar to Xiao Qiong.

I'm afraid Lancelot never thought of it until his death.

He was defeated by those "scumbags" he looked down upon, and finally died at the hands of the temple knights he thought he could control.

Lancelot's body turned into black ash, and the black air that had nowhere to live dissipated instantly.

On the other side, Gu Xingmian was still trying to purify the contaminated cards.

But the number was too large, and repairing was originally more difficult than destroying.

Gu Xingmian soon felt that his power had reached its limit, and the cards in front of him were only half purified. If he gave up, he would become an evil spirit.

Gu Xingmian gritted his teeth and decided to push himself.

At this moment, he felt a warm current entering his body.

He turned his head and saw Gugu clenching his fist and passing his power to him.

There were also Harman, Amu, Molly...

and those God Cards he knew or didn't know...

Countless tiny card powers entered his body, but gradually gathered into a river.

This power passed through his body, purified the polluted cards, and finally returned to the God Card Pool. The

God Card Pool, which was originally polluted and riddled with holes, gradually restored its former appearance.

Gu Xingmian's consciousness returned to the God's Card Pool.

A gentle voice rang in his ears: "Thank you, Xingmian."

But this time, Gu Xingmian saw His appearance.

In a halo, the god slowly walked towards him, with long silver hair to the ground, handsome face, and a sad and tolerant temperament. The horns condensed from starlight extended from His long hair, and the nebula-like wings behind Him were like the starry sky.

Brilliant but soft.

Gu Xingmian was surprised and happy: "You...you have recovered?"

He smiled and nodded: "Next, I will fall into a deep sleep. In return, I still have some divine power now, and I can send you back to your original world..."

Gu Xingmian was stunned.

The god did not urge him, but just waited quietly.

However, after Gu Xingmian came to his senses, he just shook his head: "No, I want to stay."

"If possible, can you turn me back into a human?"

God: "If you turn back into a human, you will have no divine power, and you will grow old, get sick and die like ordinary people."

Gu Xingmian nodded without hesitation: "I understand."

At this time, a gentle breeze blew by.

The ethereal boundary of the Saint Robert continent gradually melted away, extending a new continent.

Everyone looked up at the sky as if they had sensed something.

Only Xiao Qiong didn't care, but just stared at Gu Xingmian tightly.

Until Gu Xingmian's consciousness withdrew from the God's Card Pool, he was hugged tightly into a familiar embrace.

Gu Xingmian was stunned for a moment, and then he also stretched out his arms to hug each other.

Maybe some people wish to live forever, but Gu Xingmian just wants to be an ordinary person.

Live happily and grow old with his lover.

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