Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1040 Catastrophe caused by bad omen

Lin Lan has always believed that although he is not a good person, he is definitely not a murderous person.

But when he peered through the mind of the invisible breath and witnessed hundreds of innocent villagers being slaughtered and treated as "blood food" from the memories of these two extremes, he finally understood one thing.

This is the Natland Empire where the weak prey on the strong and strength is respected.

In the eyes of evil cultivators whose minds have been distorted by X, those unarmed civilians are "blood food" no different from animals.

And the little sword spirit reminded him before he took action that the corrosion in these evil cultivators was completely integrated with their bodies and souls, and could not be purified by the touch of holy mercy.

This is also the reason why he kills without mercy.

Lin Lan finally looked at the dark-haired girl, the Ultimate, whose face was full of despair.

By snooping into the other party's memory, he learned that more than a hundred years ago, several elders of Qingxiao Pavilion secretly collected the so-called "life tax" from various villages in the Evergreen Mountains.

As the name suggests, the longevity tax is that the extreme ones use the power of extremes to draw vitality from the bodies of mortals and refine them into various elixirs or spiritual weapons.

Although this kind of behavior is expressly prohibited by the state king and Natlan officials, there are also quite a few extreme people who disdain to take the elixir refined by longevity tax.

But in fact, not only the Qingxiao Pavilion, but also the famous and decent sects of the entire Natlan Empire would more or less collect life taxes from mortals within their sphere of influence.

It is different from evil cultivators who directly regard mortals as blood food.

Respectable people from well-known families collect life taxes and often give corresponding rewards to mortals.

Either provide silver and property, or help kill enemies, or give pills and food, or give fertile fields outside the sect and protect the village.

Even these well-known and decent people often do not force mortals to pay life tax. Instead, mortals take the initiative to beg to hand over their life span.

The reason was very simple, and it made Lin Lan extremely sad.

That is, in the Natland Empire, in recent years, the corruption and exploitation of officials in various places and the rampage of evil cultivators have made it difficult for almost all mortals to survive without the help of the sect.

Through the memories of the two of them, Lin Lan learned that compared to the situation around Dakang County where people were almost in poverty, the mountain villages within the Qingxiao Pavilion had been considered a paradise before.

After all, the officials in those counties would not let the refugees enter the villages under the jurisdiction of Qingxiao Pavilion.

And just the afternoon before yesterday, those in Qingxiao Pavilion who had been taking the longevity tax pill for a long time to practice, whether they were elders or disciples, suddenly felt endless hunger and thirst in their hearts.

Driven by endless hunger and thirst, they first attacked the villages around the sect in tacit agreement and devoured the villagers as blood food.

But for them, this is just a drop in the bucket.

The hunger and thirst in these extreme people's bodies seems to be never-ending, making them more and more miserable and eventually falling into madness.

Even the headmaster of Qingxiao Pavilion and the two supreme elders were also tortured by this nameless hunger and thirst.

So just this morning, these extreme ones turned their attention to their fellow sect members who never resorted to the longevity tax pill to practice.

Using immortals as blood food can give you much more satiety than mortals.

"The bad omen is really a great gift to Natlan... Could it be that except Qingxiao Pavilion, other Natlan sects are also in the same situation?

"If a similar situation occurs in all the sects in Liaozhou, the disaster of evil cultivators... tsk."

Although the expression on Lin Lan's face remained unchanged, deep worry was already rising in her heart.

The time when the minds of those extreme people in Qingxiao Pavilion were distorted was almost the same as the time when the bad omen came to Xinghai Base.

He had already seen that the X aura that he and the little sword spirit had just sensed was the aura of the three extremes who had been transformed into evil cultivators by bad omens.

It seems that what the bad omen said at that time was true. I am afraid that chaos will really break out in this other world. Fortunately, when he was in Liaozhou, he and the Chongying ship girls had eradicated all X-related threats in Liaozhou.

But Olan seems to have never been attacked by X from beginning to end.

If not, the disaster facing Liaozhou will probably be even more severe.

At the same time, Lin Lan finally understood why the soul of Zhuo Haokong, the great master of Natlan at that time, repeatedly told him not to practice extreme power.

I am afraid that Zhuo Haokong had discovered the truth about evil cultivators and extreme power as early as that time.

But what does all this have to do with the god-killing curse on the Natlan royal family?
Lin Lan sighed softly. He originally planned to go to Oran to find the prince about the God-killing Curse after Valentine's Day.

Unexpectedly, the clue was right in front of him, but he missed it because of the sudden attack of bad omen.

Fortunately, Sister Shenlianying and several Liaozhou Island owners happened to go to Huanyang City, otherwise the outbreak of the God-killing Curse would be a troublesome matter.

After repeatedly confirming that the last remaining extreme girl had not taken the longevity tax pill and had no X aura on her body, Lin Lan released Xi's psychic spying ability.

But as he dispelled this ability, the Invisible Breath skill became unusable again.

"What is the principle behind this? I didn't feed it the power of faith, either?"

Lin Lan was a little puzzled. He really couldn't understand why Invisible Breath suddenly gave him benefits just now.

Looking at the blood mist that floated from the air onto the stream as he released the control of the water element, dyeing the stream with a light red color, he had a vague suspicion in his mind.

"Could it be that when I fight and confront the evil cultivator whose mind has been twisted by X, the invisible breath will arouse the desire to fight?"

Thinking back then, Omen could use the power similar to the Invisible Breath to summon the Black Claw, and how Unzen and the Shigesakura girls called the Invisible Breath X Penumbra.

Lin Lan felt that his inference should be fine and he could wait until the next time he fights the evil cultivator to test it.

With the precedent of the Gu Liao Continent's Haunted Guards, those evil cultivators who not only failed to resist their own desires, but also indulged themselves in killing innocent people indiscriminately, in his eyes, were no different from the Demon King's army, no, even from the incarnation of X.

Seeing the blood mist falling around her, the girl from Qingxiao Pavilion who was still flying in the air suddenly came back to her senses.

It was only then that she realized that the fabric of the green shirt on her back was soaked with cold sweat.

She didn't dare to talk to Lin Lan, but she was also afraid that if she escaped, she would be attacked like the three people who had just chased her. She could only float helplessly above the stream.

Lin Lan ignored the extreme girl, turned his back, and walked towards the shriveled corpse behind him.

"Master Patroller, the fish you just asked the children to bring... ah, is it the Immortal of Qingxiao Pavilion?"

Just when Lin Lan was thinking about how to explain to the villagers that all three hunters were killed, the white-haired village chief holding a wooden stick happened to walk out of the village.

The old village chief originally greeted Lin Lan warmly, but when he saw the girl holding the sword, he suddenly trembled and quickly dropped his crutches and knelt down.

"Xun... Haiwei?!"

When the injured girl holding the sword heard the village chief's address to Lin Lan, her pupils suddenly shrank and she shouted:
"Senior, you, you are a patrol guard!"

"Noisy."

Lin Lan felt very unhappy because she had just witnessed the bloody killing last night through the power of breath.

But what he didn't expect was that this extreme girl seemed to be too seriously injured. After being threatened by him, she fell unconscious on the spot and fell into the stream.

(End of this chapter)