Chapter 164 Chaos Block No. 13 (21) Go ask the sun...
Epiphyllum Ridge Auditorium.
There are four sculptures standing here, which are very similar to Gao Mengtang's twelve ghosts. They are wearing black robes, holding black tower lanterns in their hands, and their heads are lowered.
There were sequins of various colors floating in the air. When I got closer, I found that they were identity cards.
Or the ID card model only has a shape and cannot be used.
"The Seventh Wise King, the Eighth Wise King, the Eleventh Wise King and the Twelfth Wise King." said Wei Xiangchen.
The bases of the four statues of wise kings are engraved with their life stories in both Esperanto and Common.
Wise King Seven: The throne governs death, the devil vine governs life; harmonize yin and yang, and the feast is complete.
This sentence should be referring to the fact that the wise king Qi used the Tongxin vine as an embryo and umbilical cord to conceive a child with the dead.
Among the four sentences, the other three are easy to understand, but how should "the Lord of the Throne dies" be interpreted?
"Perhaps you have heard of a viewpoint," Wei Xiangchen brushed the words with his long nails, "that the fetus can live anywhere, but only in the womb can the mother live."
"Life in the other world is the same. The embryo can live anywhere, and will live better. It will endlessly absorb energy until the mother dies. The throne is the mother of the revelers."
Wei Xiangchen walked to the statue of Xian Wangqi again and looked up at it with reverence: "At the beginning, Xian Wangqi attached the embryo to the throne. In fact, he wanted to use the offspring of the moon and the dead birth to drain the power of the throne and destroy it."
The result was obvious, failure. But the throne was still severely damaged.
"Starting from the Seventh Wise King, a gap appeared in the perfect circle of the Supreme Order, which led to a series of... changes afterwards." Wei Xiangchen walked to the bottom of the sculpture of the Eighth Wise King.
Xian Wang Ba: Order builds a wall, and the resentful spirits are like the wind. Yin and Yang are twins, so you should ask more about things that cannot be stopped. Even if the moon is full, there is still a tiny star, and it is difficult to bury a dead body in the snow.
It seems that Xian Wangba knows some secret. The Supreme Order built the [Wall of Weeping] to keep the shadow creatures out, and the voices of resentment blew through the wall like the wind. No matter how bright the moon is, it cannot cover the light of the stars. When the snow melts, the buried bodies will be exposed sooner or later.
Combining the meaning of the text, if I am not mistaken, the secret that Xian Wangba knows is related to the saying "Yin and Yang are born twins".
Going around to the side, there is an engraved text recording the achievements of the Eight Wise Kings.
: During the reign of the Eighth Wise King, he ignored the throne's instructions and eased the relationship between the Moon, Shadow, and Death. He predicted the destruction of the Underworld and began to prepare for the "New World". The Eighth Wise King used Black Tower Zero as a map and created the first copy.
"It turns out that the Black Tower game has been planned since the time of Wise King Eight." Gao Mengtang muttered to himself and went to look at the sculpture of Wise King Eleven.
Although they were both wearing black cloaks, subtle differences in their body shapes could be seen.
Among the four sculptures, the Eighth Sage King is stronger than the other three, while the Eleventh Sage King is the weakest. The hand holding the lantern is pale and slender, but it gives people an inexplicable cold feeling.
Wise King XI: You can turn into a butterfly, your heart is as hard as iron, but do you know that the law is like a furnace, burning everything? High walls are built, and weeping for the past, but there is no way to replace the supreme order and eternal power.
The side of the base is engraved with the words: Since the eighth wise king, the Moon and the Shadow have gradually made peace. Before the eleventh wise king ascended the throne, shadow creatures and the dead were even able to settle in the border town ruled by the Moon.
: After the eleventh wise king ascended the throne, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse. He used the power of the throne to seal the leader of the dead born at that time, and wiped out a large number of dead born and shadow creatures. Among all the wise kings, the eleventh wise king reigned the longest.
: Although the Eleventh Wise King did not promote the construction of the new world subjectively, he objectively promoted the birth of the new world.
There is only one sentence on the base of the sculpture of the Twelve Wise Kings: When peace comes, disaster will come, and there will be no light again forever.
: The Supreme Will has high hopes for the Twelve Wise Kings.
: The life span of a wise king is usually less than 200 years. Such a short time is not enough to create a perfect successor. Therefore, the next wise king is often hastily registered, and their souls are more or less flawed.
: The Eleventh Wise King has been on the throne for more than 500 years. He has enough time to personally act as a sewer and remove all impurities from his soul...
"Why did the Wise King die?" Gao Mengtang asked, "Aren't they moon creatures? Can't they be resurrected?"
Wei Xiangchen shook his head, indicating that he didn't know: "I only know that the ending of a wise king is that he always becomes a madman, and then his soul is imprisoned by the throne."
Gao Mengtang continued to read the inscription.
: The Supreme Order had a premonition that the perfect person He was expecting was about to appear. In order to avoid repeating the same mistakes, He controlled the eyes of the Wise King Twelve, preventing Him from seeing the suffering outside the high walls.
The "high wall" appeared again. Gao Mengtang already knew that outside the "Weeping Wall" in the other world, there lived the despised dead-born and shadow creatures. The suffering outside the high wall should refer to their miserable lives.
Repeating the same mistakes refers to the period from the seventh wise king to the tenth wise king, when one disobeys the will of the Supreme Order, accepts the shadows, and even gives birth to offspring with them.
"Explain it to me." Gao Mengtang pulled Wei Xiangchen's sleeve and asked him to read this passage, "Why does the throne not allow the moon and shadow to come into contact as if it were a plague?"
“I don’t know.” Wei Xiangchen said.
Gao Mengtang: "You know too little."
: The Twelve Wise Kings possess an immortal spirit, master the art of splitting souls and creating life... and most powerful of all, his unprecedented magic of salvation for those in distress.
Gao Mengtang pointed at the inscription, then at himself: "Transcendence. An unprecedented spell. I am in the woods, not only do I grow beautifully, but I also have the best photosynthesis."
Wei Xiangchen: “…Yes.”
: The method of salvation can awaken the faint kindness in the soul and dispel the chill of the long night. It can make the butcher who has committed heinous crimes put down his butcher knife and become a Buddha on the spot.
: The Twelve Wise Kings are almost perfect... almost, which means they are not yet perfect.
: A large number of facts show that Wise King Eleven took advantage of the throne's trust in Him and secretly left a fatal gift in Wise King Twelve's soul - arrogance.
: The arrogant Wise King Twelve could not tolerate the Supreme Order that was higher than him, so he blinded himself, destroyed the throne, and completely destroyed the Supreme Order. From then on, the inner world was like a long night forever.
"You are not only the most beautiful leaf with the best photosynthesis," Wei Xiangchen smiled, "but also the leaf that can destroy the entire forest."
Now it was Gao Mengtang's turn to be silent.
Wei Xiangchen floated into a room next to the auditorium: "The history class is over. Now, it's time for a gem appreciation class. Chief Gao, please follow me."
They walked up the spiral staircase to the next floor and entered another large room.
There was a huge black instrument in the room. When the sensor light came on, Gao Mengtang suddenly saw the full picture of the instrument and his eyes widened.
The appearance of the instrument is exactly the same as that of the Thirteenth King!
He entered the other world twice and met the wise king Thirteen twice, which left him with a great psychological trauma.
The scarlet monster had arms all over its body, crisscrossing like a spider web. I was relieved to find that it didn't move, so I walked closer to take a closer look.
"It's called a refining furnace. Hundreds of years ago, a prince's younger brother made it under the guidance of the thirteenth virtuous king," Wei Xiangchen said in amazement. "Give it the appropriate materials, and it can refine 90% of the Black Tower items. The remaining 10% cannot be refined and needs to be picked up in the ruins of the other world."
"That prince's younger brother, the founder of Tanhualing."
"So, the purpose of the existence of Epiphyllum Ridge is to assist the Wise King Thirteen in establishing the Black Tower game?" Gao Mengtang asked.
Wei Xiangchen smiled, and that smile meant: There are some things I won’t tell you.
Gao Mengtang was tactful enough not to ask any more questions.
"To refine soul gems, you need... sorry, old people don't have a good memory," Wei Xiangchen took out a pink elementary school notebook, "you need 100 pieces of first-level ancestral bones, which I have prepared; 12 mysterious gems for identity card evolution, which I have prepared; a faint fire ignition wire, 1kg of colorless crystal, which I also have; 100ml of blood from a moon creature, thank you for your hard work; and the last thing, the silver hair of a moon creature..."
Wei Xiangchen suddenly raised his head: "Chief Gao, have you ever dyed your hair?"
Gao Mengtang was observing the refining furnace when he suddenly stopped and said, "No."
"Then why is your hair black?"
"…hereditary?"
Wei Xiangchen had a look of disbelief on his face. He looked at the list, then at Gao Mengtang. It seemed that if he looked at them a few more times, the word "silver hair" on the list would turn into "black hair", or Gao Mengtang's hair would turn white in a second.
The miracle did not happen.
Gao Mengtang: "If I stay here, can I still help you?"
"Perhaps, color is not important?" Wei Xiangchen held on to the last glimmer of hope, "You can try it. The worst consequence is that you will become bald."
Bald? Gao Mengtang said decisively: "No."
Wei Xiangchen: "Try it. You are a man, don't be so obsessed with beauty."
"This is not just about beauty," Gao Mengtang said seriously, "Think about it, refining a gem requires 100 pieces of rank 1 ancestor bones and 12 mysterious gems, all of which are precious materials. If you fail, can you refine it a second time?"
Wei Xiangchen: “Yes.”
Gao Mengtang: "? Don't you feel any regret at all?"
"I don't think so." Wei Xiangchen said firmly, "Captain Gao, I have shown my sincerity. I will give you a mysterious gem, please accept it."
After saying that, he took out a gem and placed it in Gao Mengtang's palm.
The mysterious gem can upgrade the identity card, and Gao Mengtang is a little tempted.
More importantly, Wei Xiangchen was really sincere. He was told so much information, but he refused to give up his hair, which made him seem dishonest.
Anyway, there is a powerful hair growth liquid in the Black Tower Props Mall.
Gao Mengtang: "I take good care of my hair. I need two mysterious gems."
“…Okay.” Wei Xiangchen gave him another one.
"You'll cut my hair?"
"Please wait a moment."
Wei Xiangchen placed 100 pieces of ancestral bones, 12 gems and other fuels in the monster's hands. During this time, Gao Mengtang was circling around the refining furnace.
Suddenly, he found a bulge on the back of the model of the Wise King Thirteen, which seemed to be... a person.
The thirteenth virtuous king was carrying a man on his back. The man was face down, with his arms around the thirteenth virtuous king's neck.
In the first two meetings, he had not seen the full face of the Sage King Thirteen, and had never noticed his back. Gao Mengtang pointed at the man and asked, "Who is this?"
"He," Wei Xiangchen looked up, "has no name. I heard that after his soul dissipated, the Thirteenth King used his own flesh and blood to nourish him, keeping his body from decaying."
Wei Xiangchen put away all the preparation materials and continued, "What's more interesting is that his soul was refined into an identity card [000 Blind], which is the one you have. It's ready, please come in."
He brought Gao Mengtang to the front of the refining furnace, took one of the arms of the model of the Wise King Thirteen, and placed it in Gao Mengtang's palm.
Snap, snap, snap. The model crushed all the remains of the ancestor, and a mouth full of sharp teeth appeared in the palm of its hand, swallowing the bone residue whole.
More than a dozen hands reached out to Gao Mengtang, pressing his face, ears, mouth and head.
"Wei, Wei Xiangchen," Gao Mengtang said strugglingly, "you need to close your eyes for a while."
"Why?"
"Bald heads don't look good."
“…Yes, sir.”
Another hand climbed up Gao Mengtang's head, the movement was very gentle. Gao Mengtang felt sad, not because of the side effects of participating in the gem refining, but because, he guessed, his long hair was falling off automatically.
I regret it. I should have asked for 3 mysterious gems.
Dozens of arms embraced Gao Mengtang. It felt unexpectedly comfortable, but soon, he felt sleepy and dizzy.
Messy fragments of memories flashed before his eyes. It seemed that every time a hair fell out, a picture flashed by, so fast that he couldn't see clearly. Later, the speed of the pictures slowed down, and Gao Mengtang thought that he didn't have much hair left to fall out.
Regret it the second time.
Then, he saw some mottled and chaotic fragments. He had never experienced those things, like a series of bizarre dreams.
In this bizarre illusion, Gao Mengtang became possessed by another person and saw his own face, except that that person had the standard "ice-white hair and dusty eyes" of a moon creature. He was wearing a sparkling white dress and a crown inlaid with colorful gems on his head. He was sitting leisurely in a chair with his legs crossed, his head slightly tilted, and a smile in the corners of his eyes and eyebrows.
His strong intuition told him that the person in front of him was the Twelfth Wise King.
"Why do you want to be the only king?" asked the person possessed by Gao Mengtang.
"Go ask the sun why it shines so brightly." The smile of the Wise King Twelve became even gentler.
The perspective changed again, Gao Mengtang saw his left hand on the throne, wearing three gorgeous rings. He looked up and saw the face of the person opposite him. Gao Mengtang was very familiar with it, because he had seen it for more than 20 years. The black hair and black eyes were exactly himself, but...
There were two bloody holes in his eye sockets.
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