Two teams of twenty people hurriedly rushed outside the city. Many people in the team came to this city for the first time, including Anli.
Anli and her team descended on two Winged Demons and stopped outside a hotel outside the city.
Monsters cannot enter the town of Xiinsai. This is an oath made by the monster family to God.
"This gate is so big! It should be built recently, right?" A member of the Demon Hunting Group exclaimed as he looked at the tall and majestic city gate.
"Full of a sense of religious ritual." Just looking at the city gate, there is a sacred feeling.
"I've heard about Stan City a long time ago. Maybe this is what the Holy Land feels like!" After Anli finished speaking, she led the people towards the city gate.
The team members are also looking forward to seeing the sacred relics of the past and feeling the weight of history.
But no one noticed that when they entered the city, the sun in the sky suddenly dimmed.
When they walked out of the doorway, a burst of dark clouds drifted across the sky, blocking the originally bright and brilliant midday sun.
Anli raised her head: "Is it going to rain?"
The team member said: "The weather has been really changeable recently."
Anli looked around. People were coming and going on the street. There were trailers parked in front of the shops, and people were unloading and loading trucks.
Everything is business as usual, nothing seems to have changed.
However, if those cultists want to carry out any conspiracy, according to their usual habits, it is unlikely that they will carry out it with great fanfare.
The problem can be seen from the surface, so why do we need a demon hunting group?
An Li ordered: "First contact the chief priest of Tao Temple and ask them to cooperate with us."
"If the city lord of Stan City and the local police chief come to see me immediately, if the Ghost Religion really wants to take any action, it will be impossible without revealing any flaws or traces."
The team immediately divided into several parts and began to act separately.
Anli went directly to the Tao Temple and met with the chief priest of the Tao Temple.
On the first day, members of the Anli team checked out all the powerful people inside and outside the city, investigating any trends regarding supernatural power.
The next day, Anli met with the city lord of Stan City and began to investigate the movements of all nobles and businessmen, especially to find out whether any of these businessmen had betrayed their faith and believed in evil spirits.
On the third day, Anli received the results of several investigations from the sheriff. Although there were many criminal incidents in the city, they basically had nothing to do with the Ghost Cult.
Temple of Tao.
The team members yawned one by one, and everyone was very tired.
Even Anli, who was always energetic, felt a little sleepy.
The investigation was in trouble. The entire Stan City was so normal that they could not find any clues or incidents related to the Ghost Order.
This made Anli couldn't help but wonder: "Did my sister really think wrongly? The target of the Ghost Religion is not Stan City?"
Thinking of her sister Vivian, Anli suddenly felt something was wrong.
"wrong."
Anli suddenly stood up from the table, and her movements were so large that the table moved, making a piercing sound.
All the members of the Demon Hunting Group looked over immediately, wondering why the deputy leader suddenly made such a loud noise.
Anli's entire face changed, and she kept mumbling.
"wrong!"
"wrong!"
Anli rushed outside the temple and looked at the bustling city.
The sky was still gloomy and so dark that it made people breathless, but even so, it never rained.
The darkness before the rainstorm had lasted for three days. I had not noticed it before, but now I suddenly felt that it was too unusual.
What's even more abnormal is.
It's been three days, but not a single inquiry message has been sent from the City of God's Descendants.
"It's been three days, why hasn't the headquarters contacted us?"
An Li immediately asked the other members of the Demon Hunting Group behind her: "Where is the news we sent through consciousness projection? Did the other party respond?"
Someone stood up and responded: "I passed the news here yesterday, but there has been no response yet."
Only then did Anli and the team members realize something was wrong.
They immediately gathered and headed outside the city, wanting to leave the city.
The group of people came to the city gate again and saw the gorgeous and tall city gate again.
They passed through the door, but the moment they left the door, they found themselves right back where they were.
The other side of the door is not outside the city, it is still the scene inside Stan City.
In the lazy afternoon, many workers and rickshaw drivers fell asleep leaning on the street. The bosses of the shops also leaned on the tables with their sleepy eyes open.
No one else in the city felt anything was wrong, but at this moment, Anli and the members of the Demon Hunting Group opened their mouths wide.
No matter how stupid they are, they still know that something is definitely wrong with them.
An Li looked up at the sky. She suddenly flew towards the sky, but immediately fell from the sky again.
This time, she said with absolute certainty.
"This is not Stan City."
"This is all fake."
The team members whispered to each other and said one after another.
"How can this be?"
"This city is fake, so are the people we have met these days also fake?"
"How many people have we met in the past few days, including members of our demon hunting group stationed here? How could it be fake?"
An Li immediately asked: "Have you noticed that everyone is tired?"
All the members of the demon hunting group don't understand, what does this have to do with whether they are tired or not?
Anli immediately analyzed and said: "We must have been pulled into an illusion, or a realm created by the power of myth."
"Everything here is false. Only the consciousness of mortals, spirits like ghosts and existences like myths can travel through it."
"Our consciousness is trapped here, but our bodies are still in reality. It has been almost three days now, and our bodies have reached the point of exhaustion."
Anli spoke faster and faster, and became more certain.
"Although the illusion blocks our perception of the body, we cannot feel the hunger, thirst and weakness of the body."
"But our bodies are gradually weakening, and our consciousness is naturally exhausted, which is why everyone wants to sleep."
Anli looked at the city and everyone in the city.
"Although this city is fake, all the people in this city are real."
"This is also where we haven't felt the slightest flaw in the past few days."
As Anli spoke, she also felt panic and fear.
"Someone has used some kind of power that is so powerful that it is beyond imagination, trapping the entire Stan City, including us, in this illusion."
After Anli finished speaking, all the members of the demon hunting group became silent.
"The entire...people in the city have been pulled into the illusion?" After a long time, someone asked tremblingly.
"How powerful is this?" Some people still didn't believe it, so they rushed out of the door again and again and returned to the same place again and again.
"Myth...that mythical monster...evil..." At this time, everyone believed Anli's judgment.
Anli's guess was correct. When they passed through this door that afternoon three days ago, they had already entered a fog of fantasy from the real world.
But at this moment, it was too late for them to escape.
They have become bait, or chips, for the Ghost Religion.
Stan City in reality.
It's different from the world behind the door. It's cloudy, but it's bustling with people and bustling.
The sun is shining brightly here, but the city is completely silent.
The Temple of Tao is full of sleeping Trileaf people, as is the entire city.
This place has become a terrifying place that can only be entered but cannot be exited.
The door in Stan City is the embodiment of the Door of Truth.
The other end of the door is connected to the domain of Anhofors, the villain in the bottle.
The Door of Truth is the manifestation of the ability of the knowledge and information controlled by the villain in the bottle. It can extract all the knowledge and skills of the ghost and store them in its treasure house.
This also includes everyone's consciousness.
This kind of power is so powerful that even Anli fell into it without warning, and it took several days before she even noticed anything was abnormal.
The High Priest of Truth of the Ghost Order sat under the stone statue of the great poet Tito, admiring the city that fell into his hands.
He didn't deliberately kill people in the city, because everyone here was his bargaining chip.
He stood in the present world, but his eyes were fixed on the world behind the door.
It's like looking at bugs caught in a bottle.
For the first time, he truly knew how powerful the power of myth was, and for the first time, he felt it.
As God.
What a feeling.
Standing high above, looking down on all living beings.
Everyone is a worm in his own bottle, a puppet in his own hands. Everything and life in this world are so fragile that he can destroy them with just one thought.
No one can resist oneself, oneself is an existence separate from everything.
With this power in hand, he felt like he was floating on the clouds.
When he discovered that Anli had seen something abnormal and deduced their current situation, the High Priest of Truth said something.
"Ah."
"It's been discovered!"
The chief priest didn't panic at all, he just had a relaxed look on his face.
"But...it's too late."
"When you are in my net, it's time for bigger fish to take the bait."
So what if he is discovered? Behind the door of truth he holds, it is impossible for the other party to escape.
What can a bug trapped in a bottle do even if it knows the current situation?
Can they break the bottle? Or can they fight the gods outside -
The city where the gods descended.
"Sure enough, something happened."
Vivien immediately covered her forehead when she saw the information that only people entered Stan City and no one came out for three consecutive days.
She was extremely worried about the situation in Stan City at the moment, and she was also worried about something unexpected happening to her sister Anli.
But she was even more worried: "Could this be a conspiracy to attract us there and then turn around to deal with the City of God's Advent?"
after all.
She is no longer the same as before.
She is not only a sister, but also the leader of the Temple Demon Hunting Group.
Vivien paced around the room anxiously. She was extremely hesitant and lost her usual calmness.
"wrong."
"can not go."
"If their target is Stan City, in this case disaster has already struck, why wait three days."
Vivien has been the leader of a demon hunting group for such a long time, so she still has the necessary experience and judgment.
"What do they mean by this gesture? It's obvious that they want to attract me."
"That's right."
"Their goal is definitely not Stan City, but the City of God's Coming."
Reason was telling Vivien that the trap set by the other party must be aimed at her, but emotion was telling her otherwise.
If she didn't go, her sister Anli might not be able to come back.
Finally, Vivien sat down.
Holding his head tightly.
At this time, groups of shadows gathered in the room.
Blood Plague Steen walked out of the shadows and leaned against the corner.
"No need to hesitate."
"Vivien!"
"I can kill those evil people! Even if the evil spirit comes here, I can put him back into the bottle where he belongs."
Steen's face was cold: "I will never let the scene in Cross City happen again in Stan City."
After so many years of confrontation with the villain in the bottle, Anhofors, the Temple of Truth and the Demon Hunting Group have gradually analyzed some of the weaknesses of the villain in the bottle.
According to the goblin, the man in the bottle has an unstable mythical form.
Does this mean that once it leaves the bottle, it is likely to fly to ashes and be annihilated in an instant?
It is not the bottle that imprisons it, but its fragility itself.
Perhaps this is why it does not dare to leave the Holy Mountain easily.
Vivien asked: "What if the target of the Ghost Order and the evil spirit is the City of God's Advent?"
Steen looked out the window: "Stan City is not far from the City of the Gods. Even if something happens, you should be able to survive for a while relying on the Eye of True Knowledge and the Magic Wheel House, plus the palace's barrier.
.”
"I can also rush back as soon as possible."
Hearing what Stuen said, Vivien raised her head and her eyes flashed.
Although Stuen always said that he was not Lester, Vivien could always see the shadow of Lester in him.
She looked at Stuen sincerely: "Then it's up to you, Stuen."
Steen laughed: "I would be more than happy to kill these villains."
After saying these words, Steen's body turned into a ball of blood, collapsed, and disappeared into the room.
The Blood Plague left the City of God's Descendation and arrived in Stan City within an hour.
The chief priest of truth in the Temple of Tao suddenly raised his head out of boredom and became refreshed.
"coming."
"coming!"
"Finally here."
There was a little fear in the eyes of the Priest of Truth, but also a trace of expectation.
Finally, he said very seriously.
"Blood Plague Stun."
"This time, I'm not afraid of you."
As usual with the blood plague, he turned into a river of blood and rushed into Stan City with extreme violence.
However, the river of blood flows through the streets, but what can be seen is not a bustling city.
It is a sleeping city of Stan.
All civilians, traders, soldiers, nobles, and powerful people all fell into dreams, and their consciousness was artificially dragged to another level.
"?"
But this doubt did not last long, as Steen immediately sensed the initiator of everything.
In the distant temple, there is a figure that is moving alive.
A powerful person who exudes the aura of that evil spirit and a foul stench.
In front of the Tao Temple, the light and shadow are constantly twisting.
at last.
A huge copper-colored door stood up.
This door of truth completely sheds all disguises and reveals its true colors.
In front of the Gate of Truth and the Temple of Tao, stood a figure wearing a gorgeous black robe. He looked at the river of blood rolling in under the stairs.
"The Plague of Blood."
"Are you looking for where the light of their conscious thinking goes?"
"They're all inside this door."
The High Priest of Truth raised his hands high and turned his back to the giant door.
"look!"
"What a great power, this is the power that belongs to God."
Steen's figure walked out of the river of blood and walked up the stairs step by step.
"Original sin, truth."
"Which one are you?"
The chief priest of truth said with fanatical eyes: "I am the apostle of God."
"I am the priest in charge of truth and the embodiment of knowledge."
"Stuen!"
"I heard that your birth was a gift from God. Why are you standing against God?"
Steen opened his mouth and burst into laughter, but there was unparalleled fury in the laughter.
"A gift?"
"Hahahahaha!"
"I will also reward you with such a gift today."
The blood river set off a huge wave of tens of meters, rushing towards the giant gate and Tao Temple.
The Priest of Truth responded calmly: "Gate of Truth."
"open!"
The door behind the Priest of Truth opened, pouring out colorful light.
The power of the Gate of Truth and Steen's power collided together, instantly erupting into a strong air wave that exploded in the low altitude.
Immediately afterwards, the giant door showed an extremely powerful suction force, trying to directly put the blood river into it.
And the blood river continued to expand and surge, turning into a sea of blood surging in the city, forming a whirlpool and pouring violently towards the Gate of Truth.
The Chief Priest of Truth wants to lock the Blood Plague into the Gate of Truth. This method is irresistible to weak beings.
But if you encounter a powerful being, you may be asking for trouble.
Not only can the Gate of Truth fail to imprison the other party, it may even be broken open by the other party.
It is clear.
That's what Steen is.
Steen did not resist at all and controlled the river of blood to flow towards the Gate of Truth. He was ready to destroy the realm manifested by the Gate of Truth and release all the consciousness trapped in it.
"Stupid villain."
"How can a bottle hold rivers and seas?"
But the High Priest of Truth didn't want to defeat Stuen in the first place. The oracle he received was just to hold Stuen back.
Use the power of this giant door.
Use the countless civilians inside this door.
The Chief Priest of Truth himself also retreated into the Gate of Truth at this moment, looking at the giant door that kept buzzing without any fear.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
"bring it on!"
"bring it on!"
The Priest of Truth whispered: "Soon you will know who is the real fool."
The contest between Stuen and the Priest of Truth continues. The Priest of Truth is obviously losing ground little by little, but Stuen is also entangled by him.
At this time, a signal for help from the sea was sent to the City of God's Advent.
Place.
From the Isle of Mists.
When Vivian got the news, her expression changed instantly, and she even showed fear.
"How can it be?"
"Anhofors, the man in the bottle, appeared on the sea, and the god descended on the island of mist."
"Since ten years ago, the location of the Island of Mist has been moved, just to prevent others from finding the location of the Temple of Truth."
"How did this evil spirit know? How did it know..."
"Except for the day when I accept students, even I don't know the exact location if I don't contact the teacher."
Vivien slapped the table hard: "Someone betrayed us, someone must have betrayed us."
Only then did she understand.
The Holy Land of the Three Leaf People as mentioned by the Ghost Order.
It's not the city where gods descended, nor is it the so-called Stan City.
It was another holy place that she had never thought of. In recent years, it has gradually become a holy place in the hearts of all priests.
The Temple of Truth on the Isle of Mists.
The intelligence officer on the side held Vivien's shoulders: "It's useless to say this now."
"Lord Leader, we must come up with countermeasures immediately."——
Above the sea.
The original name of the Mist Island was Dead Man's Island. It was an island in the Sarah territory of the Kingdom of Demonic Abyss. At that time, the Kingdom of Demonic Abyss and Xiinsai were still mortal enemies. This was the place where those three-leaf people who invaded the sea were executed.
In the early days of the Star Luo Kingdom, the great poet Tito landed on this island and gave this island a different meaning.
With the arrival of the Henir Dynasty, the Sage of Truth Sandian chose this island as the location of the Temple of Truth, and it gradually became a holy place in the hearts of the priests.
"Crash."
The edge of the Misty Island is always filled with thick fog, and waves regularly roll across the shore.
If you look carefully, you can see that the island is moving.
This is the idea left by the first generation sage Sandian in the past, to use the power of Tao's magical brand and cursed spirit to control the movement of this island, turning it into a fortress and ship floating on the sea.
Ten years ago, the second generation truth sage Lan En realized this idea.
But with the power of the stone demons, the six third-level stone demons became the source of power to transform and promote the movement of the island.
In the ritual workshop.
Lann used the brain of the Stone Demon King sent back by Vivien to try his latest experiment.
about.
An experiment in another mythical path of wisdom power.
The mythical organ that was originally in the form of a brain now turned into a small stone ball the size of a palm.
Or.
More like an egg and egg.
This egg was placed in a glass vessel painted with ritual patterns. It could be seen that even Lan En was treating it with great care.
Lan En looked at the eggs inside the glass and said with some anticipation.
"The mythical organ of wisdom and power is the brain, and we transform the mythical organ into an embryo or seed."
"Do you think it will become a new life and undergo another round of transformation?"
Beside, an old student sitting in a wheelchair observed the experiment.
After all, there are only a few geniuses who can become a person of divine grace.
In contrast, the kind of people who are stuck at the top of what they can reach all their lives and can no longer move forward.
That's the majority.
However, even at this age, students still maintain a strong curiosity for knowledge.
Although, his talent no longer supports him going any further.
"teacher!"
"When the mythical organ transforms from the form of the brain into other forms, won't our memory and consciousness be disturbed?"
"If we lose our memory and former personality, will it be ourselves who appear again?"
Lan En looked at the egg he created: "It depends on whether the King of Stone Demons will grow as we expected after it grows again."
"Mythical organs have the ability to retain and store memories to a certain extent, but this is only the best assumption. The actual results will depend on the experimental results."
"If the egg form I tried this time doesn't work, I might try other forms and methods next time."
"For example, seed form, or spirit form."
"I believe there is always a way."
The student asked again: "Is this rebirth and entry into the next life infinite? Doesn't that mean this is eternal life?"
Lan En and his students explained: "The mythical organ is not eternal. To put it bluntly, it is actually a special organ evolved by combining the Divine Grace Stone with your body."
"After a certain period of time, the mythical organ will degenerate into the divine grace stone again."
"It even transformed directly into a spirit of divine blood and cursed seal."
“On the path of power and strength, if you don’t move forward, you will retreat.”
Lan En discussed it over and over with his students, while sorting out the errors and omissions in his own ideas.
At this moment, a huge earthquake suddenly occurred throughout the Mist Island.
"Boom!"
Above the ritual workshop, a large amount of dust fell.
Lan En appeared outside the workshop in a flash, and the students behind him slowly rushed out pushing wheelchairs.
I only saw a huge black shadow condensing out from outside the island, shrouding the entire misty island.
Lan En immediately recognized who it was: "Anhofors, the man in the bottle."
On the island, all the tutors, assistants, and students all saw the scene where the shadow of the myth emerged.
"This is? Shadow?" The moment ordinary people looked directly at the shadow, they fainted and fell to the ground.
"What's the shadow of something? This is too strange." The students had never seen anything like this before. After looking at it for a few times in confusion, they felt dizzy and fell to the ground vomiting.
"Don't look at it, don't look at it!" When some instructors saw the shadow as high as a mountain, their faces immediately changed and they shouted.
"Hurry up and bow your head." The instructors warned the students.
"That's a myth, don't look directly at it!" The voice echoed across the island like a bell.
The original sin chief priest who committed a serious crime is very honored to become the carrier of the "God of Knowledge". It is obvious that his carrier is more powerful and more suitable than the previous carrier of the city of divine descent.
The moment the Shadow of Myth appeared, a bottle-shaped barrier appeared on the Island of Mist.
just like.
A giant put the entire island in his bottle like a toy.
Inside the castle, several instructors responsible for contacting the outside were anxious.
"No, it's going to come down from the gods."
"Quickly inform the city of God's descent."
"Let Lady Vivien come over and rescue us quickly."
Someone on the castle side immediately took advantage of the fact that the boundary blockade had not yet been fully formed to send out the news of the arrival of the evil spirits, and looked forward to Vivien's rescue.
Lan En looked at the sudden appearance of the mythical figure and was stunned for a moment.
Like Vivien who was about to receive the news, he also couldn't figure out why the evil spirit could find the island moving on the vast sea so accurately.
The original reason why the island was moved and hidden was to avoid and prevent this evil.
Someone betrayed the location of the Isle of Mist, and Lan En also thought of this like Vivien.
However, he is different from Vivien who is far away on the other side of the sea and does not know the situation. He knows more about the situation.
behind.
The sound of the wheelchair rolling came and slowly came behind Lan En.
Lan En turned around and looked at his student calmly.
"is it you?"
"resemble!"
The student sitting in the wheelchair showed a smile that had the same meaning as his name. Even if he was exposed, he had no fear.
At his age, after experiencing so many things like them, there are very few things that can make them panic.
He said calmly.
"teacher!"
"I don't want to die like this."
Lan En said: "There are other ways."
A student named Xiao pushed the wheelchair next to Lan En: "I am not willing to die like this, not just because I am afraid of death."
"What I'm not willing to do is..."
"I obviously have the same wisdom as anyone else, but because of the difference in talent I was born with, I will never be able to reach the top."
Lan En looked at Xiao: "So you sold your heart to the devil and wanted to use its power."
Xiao and Lan En looked directly at each other: "Teacher! This is a deal."
Lan En: "Do you know the consequences of making a deal with the devil?"
Xiao didn't speak for a long time, he just looked at his legs that couldn't move and his decayed body.
Then he said: "I only have a rotten body and an unworthy talent."
"The only thing worth relying on is this head."
"I need a step, a step that allows me to get on the stage. As for what will happen next."
The smile on Xiao's face spread: "Let's all rely on our own abilities!"
yes!
If you can't even get on the stage, and you don't even have a chance to end, what's the point of ending up?
You can only become a shadow that disappears without a trace under the stage, and no one will notice your existence.
A hint of disappointment appeared in Lan En's eyes, and he closed his eyes.
"You know too many secrets of the Temple of Truth. I can't keep you."
After saying that, Lan En opened his eyes.
A huge shadow appeared behind him and headed towards Xiao.
Before the Divine Grace Puppet's fist touched Xiao, a strong force field corroded Xiao's body.
Half of Xiao's body decomposed under the force and disappeared into ashes.
But at the same time, the twisted shadow of the myth finally took shape.
A black shadow spread from the coast, covering Xiao in the blink of an eye, dragging only half of his body into the darkness.
The power of the God's Grace Puppet bombarded the Shadow of Myth, and although it exploded one big hole after another, it never penetrated the protection inside.
The last thing Lan En could see was Xiao's calm smile.
Outside the island, the terrifying figure standing on the sea lowered his head and looked at Lan En in front of the ritual workshop.
It said in its evil and wanton tone: "Lan En."
"There are no secrets anymore, everything you have... everything the Temple of Truth has."
"Now, it all belongs to me."
The myth comes, bringing destruction and disaster.