Chapter 265: White Orchid Rain Festival (Part 48)
Human beings finally discovered this gradually expanding city, and were surprised to find that in addition to them, there were other races in the world competing for living resources.
Without any hesitation, they decided to raise their swords against this different tribe.
Nan Huan was trapped in the body of the Dragon Lord and saw the story that Old Man Zhang had told them.
The dragons did have the upper hand at the beginning, and their original intention was indeed just to protect the home where they lived. Although the Dragon Lord had not had a good impression of humans since the last divine punishment, they did not start a killing spree at the beginning. After all, the appearance of humans had already foreshadowed the trial that the voice mentioned.
Therefore, the Dragon Lord has been restraining his killing, and on the basis of ensuring the safety of the dragon clan and Xiao Bailan, he has not plundered more, but he has ignored the greed of humans and their nature.
In the end, the battle was lost because humans finally discovered that Xiao Bailan, who was hiding among the dragon clan, was essentially a normal human. Unlike those dragons with extraordinary combat abilities, she was just an ordinary human.
This time there was no divine punishment, but it is possible that the entire Bailan City had turned into a sea of blood and corpses. After seeing with his own eyes that little Bailan's life was so fragile in human form and disappeared before his eyes once again, the Dragon Lord realized that human life was so fragile and vulnerable.
And humans can be so ruthless to their own kind. Even if Xiao Bailan survives by chance, according to the human lifespan, she will still leave her one day. She seems to understand that immortality, from a certain perspective, is not something to be happy about.
Nan Huan's vision dimmed again as the Dragon Lord disappeared, and he seemed to have returned to endless chaos.
"Why? Why can't I have the best of both worlds? If that's the case, why don't you let me become a human? If I can't protect the other party as a dragon master..."
The Dragon Lord's shrill questioning voice resounded through the sky, carrying with it boundless loneliness and pain.
The surroundings were very quiet. Nan Huan could not sense Xiao Bailan's presence, but she could feel that someone was watching her, or in fact it was the Dragon Lord. Just when Nan Huan thought that the other party would not reply, that steady voice sounded again.
"You still don't understand the purpose of this trial..."
The other party seemed a little annoyed. It was unknown whether it was because he had witnessed such a lose-lose situation, or because after Xiao Bailan left, the Dragon Lord no longer cared about his so-called trial at all, and only vented his anger. "You were born a dragon, this is destined, and this is always a trial. Trials are always accompanied by pain. If you never understand, then this cycle will never end..."
This time the other party said a few more words, but the content was still confusing. Not to mention the Dragon Lord, even Nan Huan couldn't figure out what this so-called trial required them to do.
Just when she thought that things on the barrier side had reached this point and she had understood the Dragon Lord's original choice and should look at the Dragon Lord's current choice, she discovered that the situation on her side had not been frozen this time.
Time continued to flow, and when Nan Huan opened her eyes again, she saw a newborn baby, the one she had seen in the pawn ticket and whose face she was very familiar with when she grew up.
This time, Xiao Bailan was born as Jiusheng, and the Dragon God turned into a piece of wood sculpture and was born with the birth of Jiusheng.
The life trajectories of the man and the dragon are basically the same as what Nan Huan had seen in the pawn ticket before. Now with the previous background, Nan Huan can finally understand what Jiusheng said before.
Jiusheng believes that the purpose of this trial is to save and kill, which means that the Dragon Lord can no longer attack humans. If the two sides are to live together in peace, some changes must be made.
Moreover, the Dragon Lord was born in this form this time. Jiusheng felt that perhaps the prophet had other intentions.
So until Jiusheng was treated as a monster and tied to the altar for the first time, she knew clearly about the resentment of humans towards the dragon clan and the war a hundred years ago, but she still did not want the Dragon Lord to take action. She even naively thought that if she really died, perhaps she could end this torture of the Dragon Lord.
But everything happened again just as Nan Huan had seen before. The Dragon Lord could not bear to watch Jiusheng being burned to death, so he revealed his true form in desperation.
However, the scene in front of her was slightly different from the scene Nan Huan had seen in the pawn ticket before. To be precise, because she was now the Dragon Lord, the first-person perspective and close observation made her notice some scenes that she had not noticed before.
At the moment when the Dragon Lord transformed, Jiusheng was a little surprised, perhaps because of the two colors that kept changing around him, or maybe Jiusheng instinctively sensed some danger, and then Nan Huan found that Jiusheng's face suddenly changed.
From the initial ignorant vigilance, it turned into worry as if some signs had finally appeared.
"Don't let her control you, you can do that, right?"
These words came out of nowhere, but the black air that enveloped the Dragon God's body seemed to have made Nan Huan understand who the 'she' in this sentence was referring to?
At this moment, Jiusheng gave her a familiar feeling, just like the expression she had in the Dragon God Temple when she calmly held Yizhihua's dagger and asked the other party not to make a wish.
After all, it is impossible for Jiusheng, who lives in this world, to predict things that haven't happened yet, but she actually said these words, and her behavior was completely unlike that of a person from this world.
The Dragon God did not speak, but kept struggling in the air with a painful expression on her face. Just when she was covered in black air and wanted to attack the people under the altar, she was pulled back to reality by Jiusheng's words and regained the right to choose.
"I felt like something was wrong with my body, like it was invaded by something."
The Dragon God returned to the state of a wooden sculpture, but the black energy on her body did not completely disappear. She could feel that the thing was still inside her body, struggling for control.
"This should be our training," Jiusheng looked at the people under the altar who were shocked by the scenes just now and were shouting loudly. He seemed to suddenly understand something, "The prophet wants you to become the object of human faith, so that you can redeem them..."
Longshen did not answer immediately, but just looked at Jiusheng's face. For a moment, she suddenly felt that Jiusheng was a little strange, not the person she was familiar with, but this feeling soon disappeared.
"Are you okay?" The Dragon God was a little worried. "I can't care about that. I just want to ensure your safety. If I can break through all this and take you to a place where there is no one, where there are only the two of us, living a peaceful life will be enough..."
"You know that's impossible," Jiusheng said frankly for the first time face to face. She couldn't bear to let the Dragon God leave this world for her again, nor did she want him to suffer such torture again. "Only if you are not controlled by the power in your body and pass this trial, can we truly usher in peace. I promise..."
If Long Shen didn't recognize this tone, it was not Jiu Sheng's usual tone at all. In addition, this promise seemed quite meaningful, so she directly questioned the other party, "Who are you? You are not my Jiu Sheng? What basis do you have for making such a promise?"
"Remember what I said. Only in this way can there be hope."
However, Jiusheng did not answer the other party, leaving only such an ambiguous answer. When Jiusheng opened his eyes again, he had returned to his original appearance.
"What's going on?" She tilted her head in confusion, then looked at the Dragon God, "Are you okay? Why do I feel like my memory is a little blank just now?"
In fact, she has always had this feeling since she was a child, but because the time was very short, and she already remembered what happened before, she was a little uncertain. But this time it was particularly obvious.
The Dragon God did not hide anything from her and told her what had just happened.
"So now that you have become the Dragon God of Bailan City, you have to accept their beliefs and fulfill their wishes? But I don't understand how you can be considered to have redeemed these humans?"
Jiusheng accepted it well. After all, nothing that happened to her was surprising. She also strongly suspected that it was the prophet who used her body to say these words. After all, apart from him, no one knew her and the Dragon God's original identities, and they had no idea about such a trial.
The Dragon God did not quite agree with this view, but judging from the current situation, there was really no other possibility, so the two of them could only grope forward like blind people crossing a river.
After all, the punishment from heaven had not come down, and they were still living in Bailan City. And after what had just happened, those humans even began to revere them as saints and dragon gods, and started to pray devoutly to their enemies from a hundred years ago.
The first crisis was overcome so easily, but Nan Huan knew very well that this was just the beginning.
After the establishment of the Dragon God Temple, the Dragon God's condition became worse. She could feel the power in her body becoming stronger and stronger, gradually shaking her control.
The situation in Bailan City was getting worse and worse. Only during the monthly rain festival could she barely transform into a dragon. The rest of the time, let alone transforming into a dragon, sometimes she couldn't even maintain basic clarity. Every day she was in chaos, and she heard another voice from inside her body, clamoring to fight for control of her body.
In addition, since the Dragon God Temple was built, I don’t know if it was because the Dragon God’s body was invaded or for some other reason, but the Dragon God could still hear the voices of prayers at the beginning, but later found that he could no longer hear the voices of prayers, while Jiusheng could hear them. The red lines drawn by those wishes were all pierced into Jiusheng’s body one by one.
But the strange thing is that those wishes that she could not fulfill seemed to be able to be temporarily realized through this method of consuming Jiusheng. In the past, the Dragon God could have stepped in to stop this behavior, but now it is very difficult for her to just stay awake. However, she still did not forget what she promised Jiusheng, and could not let the other party take away control of her body, so she kept working hard.
Nan Huan has always been skeptical about whether the prophet exists in this game, or in what form it exists. But she is sure that the person who used Jiusheng's mouth to speak the true purpose of this trial must not be the prophet. After all, according to the tone of the game, there is no free lunch in the world.
But Nan Huan was not sure what the other party meant by redemption. Could it be that he had to use Jiusheng's life to fulfill Bailan City's wish bit by bit?
How can this be called redemption? It is simply a fearless sacrifice.
What happened next was basically the same as what Nan Huan saw in the pawn ticket. The evil god had already shown signs of being born. She used a flower to enter the Dragon God Temple, stabbed Jiusheng, and left Jiusheng with the red thread of wish tied to her. She had no way of fulfilling the wishes of the people of Bailan City, so she was also despised along with the Dragon God.
Finally they arrived at the scene of the last Rain Festival. Seeing the moment when Jiusheng's body was divided up by everyone, the Dragon God could no longer control himself and allowed the evil god to control his body. But before he lost consciousness, a small wooden sculpture with red light was born from his body.
The world was paused in a sea of blood. Nan Huan glanced to the side and saw the Dragon God on the other side of the barrier, his eyes were already bloodshot.
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