Bai Ge pulled back his staff, and he seemed to want to hit Ash again. Several magic spirits emerged from the tip of the staff. They were like devout pilgrims, transforming into a wisp of light smoke that wrapped around the staff. Layer upon layer of sharp edges accumulated to the tip of his palm, cutting the surrounding air into layers of cloud waves, and the ultimate power was accumulated to explode.
If the previous stab he made was like a silent spring rain, then the next stab would be like a summer thunderstorm, and everything it touched would be reduced to dust!
The first stab pierced Ash's brain, and the second stab destroyed Ash's body!
But the next moment, the white dove dissipated the power of the cane and gave up the attack.
Because Weisser rushed over and snatched Ash away.
A round cicada also appeared behind Ash's head. It inhaled suddenly, inflated its abdomen, and made a strange sound of "pu pu pu", as if it was singing in the water. At the same time, Ash's head also returned to its original state, and its briefly interrupted consciousness returned to its loyal body, and its eyes regained their brightness.
"You just died!" Weisser breathed a sigh of relief.
"I just died." Although Ash was a little scared, he was more confused.
There was no time to review his life and summarize it, no chance to leave a last word. The combat experience he was proud of and the sanctuary he trusted so much were unable to buy him even a second of time to react.
If I had to say, he was like an elite character in a video game. He was powerful, advanced, had many passive skills, and was capable of dealing with any character. But the White Dove's attack was like a direct power outage on a computer. He didn't even feel the pain, and he lost everything.
Fortunately, he has Yuan Chan, and fortunately, he has reached a tacit understanding with Yuan Chan. Once he is attacked by a fatal attack, Yuan Chan will actively cast the "Three Seconds Cicada Hiding" and return him to the state three seconds ago!
Otherwise he would really die!
"Hurry up." Weisser summoned another fog door and pushed Ash in. Ash knew that this was not the time to be fussy, as every breath could mean the difference between life and death, so without any hesitation, he turned and rushed towards the fog door leading to the upper level.
Phew.
The sound of the flames lighting up passed through their eardrums. Even though the sun was shining brightly on the eighteenth level of the Spiral of Silence, warming the sand and making everything bright, Ash and Visser still felt as if they were illuminated by the flames.
Not only their clothes and skin were illuminated, but also their bones, flesh, internal organs, and even souls were painted with colors that did not belong to them.
When Ash touched the fog door, he found that he couldn't even put his fingertips in. He knew that Silver Lantern would never trip him up, but he felt that he couldn't enter the fog door.
Because the color is wrong.
The area opposite the fog gate had no color painted by the firelight.
Ash suddenly remembered a game he often played, where he would only walk on squares of a certain color while walking on the street.
Now, he felt like he was trapped in similar constraints.
He turned his head and saw the hair of the passionate girl Fire Cat, just like her personality, was burning. Every strand of her hair turned into flames, and every breath of the flame would give birth to a flame spirit, which would then merge into the flame to add fuel. Although her flame was small and not very bright, it was above all other light, even the sunlight had to succumb to it!
The same idea came to the minds of the magicians: Fire Cat Technique, also known as Knowing and Guarding Fire.
"Know the infinite darkness, guard the limited light, and guard the fire for knowledge." Even in battle, the Fire Cat still has a youthful smile on his face: "I declare that no one is allowed to leave this place."
Knowing the infinite darkness, guarding the finite light, probably means that the darkness is endless, but she can guard the area she illuminates - the Fire Cat, or the spirit who knows how to guard fire. The direct effect is that all targets within the range are not allowed to leave the area illuminated by the fire!
Unlike the pure violence of White Dove, the effect of Fire Cat is restrictive!
But compared to the White Dove, the effect of the Fire Cat really pushed them into a desperate situation!
Both Weisser and Ash knew that the fog gate was not the only way out, because Ash still had a trophy that even the gods coveted - the Thousand Wishes Heaven!
There is a wish center in Ash's soul. Even if Senluo explodes in the next second, he can immediately escape back to the Thousand Wishes Heaven in the physical body. No matter how spring, summer, autumn or winter changes in the outside world, he will be at peace in heaven!
But the Fire Cat's restriction directly blocked this retreat! Ash immediately tried to activate the Wish Center, and the Wish Center also tried to pull Ash back to the Thousand Wishes Heaven, but his body and soul were as if they had eaten a weight and did not move at all!
This life-saving straw that was almost impossible to go wrong could no longer save his life. The power of the gods was above everything else, and only gods could fight against gods. Even though Ash's wish center was already a high-level teleportation miracle, it was not a power centered on gods. At most, it was just a little bit of the power of the wishing well. How could it possibly shake the professional-level Fire Cat Cage?
Weisser immediately stood in front of Ash, and Ash didn't care about being embarrassed and almost hid behind Weisser. The only thing the three gods were afraid of was Silver Lantern. If they didn't use her as a shield, Ash would be gone in three seconds - the first two seconds were exchanged for the remaining two "Three Seconds Cicada Hiding" of Yuanchan.
"You betrayed the Lord of Zhan?!" Weisser opened the holy land, sheltering Yaxiu inside, and asked coldly: "Are you no longer the gods of the Lord of Zhan?"
"We have not betrayed Master Zhan." Bai Ge said calmly, "We have carried out all of Master Zhan's orders one by one, without any perfunctory attitude. We have fulfilled our duties and remain loyal to our master, without any thought of betrayal."
Fire Cat nodded vigorously: "Yes, yes, I am the guardian fire of Master Zhan, the manager of the secret domain 'Lighthouse'. Master Zhan is my only master, how could I betray Master Zhan?"
Although it is possible that the gods could lie, now that they have been exposed, and their expressions do not seem to be lying, Ash and Weisser are somewhat confused. Weisser asked, "But you let the Senluo people stay in Senluo Land, don't you want them to continue to be a burden to Zhanzhu and accelerate his fall?"
"That's right." Fire Cat tilted his head: "Heir, your summary is very accurate!"
"So you still say you didn't betray me?" Ya Xiu couldn't help but say, "You want to kill Master Zhan!"
"No, no, we just hope that Master Zhan will die." Fire Cat waved his hands again and again, "We have never thought of killing Him."
The taciturn Bluebird suddenly said, "We just hope that Master Zhan will die, and we have not betrayed him."
Weisser frowned, still unable to understand the double standard logic. However, Ash finally reacted, he pressed Weisser's shoulder and whispered: "They are not magic spirits, but gods who can recognize themselves... Their relationship with Zhanzhu is like your relationship with Mercury Trojan!"
If we analyze it from the perspective of the relationship between the magic spirits and the magicians, we will definitely not understand the logic of the actions of these three gods, after all, the magic spirits and the magicians share weal and woe. But if we analyze it from the perspective of workers, it will be much easier to understand - you curse your boss every day for not falling into the toilet and drowning, but it does not mean that you betray your boss!
As long as you complete every task assigned by your boss efficiently, you are a loyal employee of your boss. As for spreading gossip about your boss privately, saying that he did not deliver on his promises, did not deliver on his promised salary increase, or reported information about your boss's corruption to the board of directors... these are obviously not considered betrayal.
Bai Ge and the others wanted Zhanzhu to die, but they did not disobey Zhanzhu's orders, and most likely did not attack Zhanzhu directly. They were just attacking Senluo and Yindeng, preventing Senluo from leaving the country and preventing Yindeng from getting more shares of Mengzhu - all of these were harmful to Zhanzhu, but Zhanzhu did not say that they could not do it!
No words, no words mean you can do it!
Just like when you complain about your boss being an idiot, you know that your words will harm the reputation of your boss and even the company, but firstly, your boss never told you not to say bad things about him, and secondly, you just want to complain, so you do it. The same goes for Bai Ge and the others, they clearly know that they are accelerating the demise of Zhanzhu, or things that cannot accelerate the demise of Zhanzhu, so they don't do it.
One of the differences between gods and magic spirits is that gods are special beings with self-awareness and even desires, while magic spirits are just instinctive beings. In simple terms, gods are at least children above elementary school age, while magic spirits are at most infants under one year old.
Babies are at your mercy, but children are already capable of resisting.
Bai Ge and his men were indeed trying to find loopholes, but the root of everything was still Senluo Zhanzhu. If Yaxiu guessed correctly, Zhanzhu didn't really care about Senluo people or even the successors. The attitude of these three gods towards Yin Deng was just to read Zhanzhu's message to her, just like a messenger, not to "invite the young master to return to his position", so they dared to attack Yin Deng.
If the Lord of Zhan didn't set any rules, the Baiges wouldn't restrict themselves. To put it bluntly, even if the Baiges slaughtered the Senluo Kingdom, it wouldn't matter much, just like if your computer suddenly deleted your study materials that you had treasured for many years, would you still smash the computer? What's more, the Baiges were protecting the Senluo people.
The most likely instruction that Lord Zhan left behind was to let the gods protect the Senluo people. But how could he have known that one day he would have to expel or even massacre his own people in order to continue his life?
The current situation is similar to that of Zhanzhu's company, which is about to go bankrupt because of a lack of funds, but is still operating a project with extremely high expenditures. If the project is not suspended, the capital chain will be completely broken. Zhanzhu can't personally interrupt the project, and now the project leader Yindeng has come out and said she wants to take people to change jobs. The three old employees of Baige took the initiative to suppress Yindeng and did not allow her to end the project. They insisted on keeping the project running, which can be called malicious overtime.
"But why do you want Lord Zhan to die?" Weisser covered Ash's retreat step by step, "Do you have a grudge against Lord Zhan?"
White Dove, Fire Cat, and Blue Bird also approached step by step and surrounded them. White Dove asked, "What is hatred?"
"It's just that you don't want to be with Him, breathing the same air, and looking up at the same sky."
"Then we have no hatred towards Lord Zhan, and we are happy to stay with Lord Zhan."
"Then why do you want Lord Zhan to die?"
"Because we just want Lord Zhan to die." Fire Cat was very confused: "Does this require a reason?"
"Yes." Weisser asked, "Or is there something you want to do, but Master Zhan is stopping you from doing it?"
Bluebird shook his head: "No."
"Wait." Yaxiu figured out something was going on: "Since when did you...want Lord Zhan to die?"
The gods looked at each other and said, "From the beginning."
"Is it the beginning of your becoming a Dafa, or the beginning of your becoming a deity?"
However, the gods' answer was beyond Ash's expectations: "It starts from when we become the gods of Lord Zhan."
"It's normal, right?" Fire Cat said, "Who wouldn't want their master to die?"
"It's not good to have the Lord." The white dove said, "The Lord should die."
"Death." Bluebird also nodded.
"I understand." Weisser murmured, "They are all regicides. They will normally carry out all the orders of the magician. As long as they have the chance, they will continue to cause trouble for the magician until they kill the magician!"
"There's no complicated reason. They simply can't accept being tools of the Lord God since they were born!"
Yashu originally thought that Baige and the others had awakened their self-awareness, so they rebelled against Zhanzhu in a flashy way, trying to regain their freedom. Although the results were similar, the motives were completely different - they had never thought about their future after regaining their freedom, nor were they afraid of their fate after Zhanzhu recovered.
They just want their master to die.
Ash and Weisser were not sure if the three of them were the only exceptions, but it was very likely that they were. After all, it was impossible for Senluo Zhanzhu to have only three gods, but now only three gods appeared, which meant that the only members of the 'Zhanzhu Quick Death Group' were the three who had ascended from the earth to heaven.
Other normal gods did not join the ranks of white doves.
Ash had previously praised the production chain of 'magician → magic → spirit' for its many advantages, but now it seems that this production line seems to have a problem with the yield rate.
They were once magicians, inheriting the glory of their predecessors in the virtual realm. They existed to explore the truth and did not need to kneel down to anyone. They were once Dafa, carrying the faith of hundreds of millions of people. They existed to realize their ideals, not to become tools of some god.
Perhaps it is the experience of the magician and Dafa that makes these ascended gods unable to accept their fate of being exploited by the gods and becoming inferior to others. They only want flexible employment, and they will bankrupt any company that asks them to work.