List of strange talismans

Chapter 242 Rules 4K
Gu Xiuya stood there for a moment and felt separated.

Michus's stubbornness exceeded his expectations, and the downfall of the gods was already doomed when the Titan ignored the warning.

Once Dusk learns of the current situation of the Old One, no matter whether he ultimately chooses to join Haoyue or turn to the Old One, what awaits the gods will not be a good outcome.

If it's the former, it's fine. Haoyue may not necessarily cleanse Shuntianjiao after winning.In this case, he might still get a bargain.

But if it is the latter, the old days of getting out of trouble will definitely be a devastating blow to Galanz.

Gu Xiuya felt helpless about this, but he had done everything he could. Michus didn't believe him, so there was nothing he could do.

The good news is that He has arranged for the followers to leave in advance.As long as people are still there and faith is still there, industry will eventually be reborn from destruction.

Gu Xiuya was ready to return to the ground and take a look.

He wanted to see who the winner of this battle was, and how powerful the old man really was.This information will become his new bargaining chip to help him do better on his next trip.

Gu Xiuya raised his head and looked around.

Although he could no longer remember where he came from, there were caves everywhere left by old activities, and there must be passages leading to the ground.

He spread his hands and summoned the power of the Stupid Earth Python. Catkin-like tentacles suddenly emerged from under his skin, and large swaths of spore dust rose up in the wind and spread.

These little things will help him search the countless caves in front of him and find the passage.

As for himself, Gu Xiuya stretched his hand to his chest and took out a series of strange jars.

The previous nightmare reminded him that the consciousness pollution that was inadvertently emitted in the past could even affect him without material channels. The seemingly powerful wisdom of the gods was as fragile as thin ice under this level of consciousness pollution. .

He couldn't always hope for help from the stupid python.

In order to prevent a similar situation from happening in the future, he must always be prepared to break away.

Gu Xiuya held the strange urn in his hand and paid close attention to his surroundings, waiting for the information to be sent back from his body.

The result is this time.

The next moment he took out a series of strange things.

A soft human voice sounded like a whisper.

"what a pity."

Gu Xiuya was slightly taken aback.

This voice was the voice that reminded him in his nightmare!
Gu Xiuya turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound, and immediately saw the gray rock wall floating like mud, and a human figure emerged from it and landed on the ground.

That can't even be called a human being.It only has a partial human-like external form, with a limb structure, but its arms and feet have no knuckles, but a piece of wriggling, streamlined tentacles.

Its head is even weirder, it looks like a large bag, without eyes, nose and other organs, only a few tentacles of different lengths like body hair.

Gu Xiuya carefully looked at the weirdo in front of him, assessed the threat of the opponent, and prepared for a fight.

But the weirdo seemed to have no intention of taking action.

The tentacles on its head floated slightly, sending out waves of consciousness, followed by a murmuring voice.

"I was already prepared to receive this body, but I didn't expect you to be able to escape from it under the gaze of Xiu Meidel."

"What an unexpected blessing."

"Come back from now on. God of luck. You have mistakenly entered the palace of the past. It is not too late to leave now. If you stubbornly move forward, you will become the rot of the earth like your own people."

The weirdo's pronunciation of Bai Xing's Mandarin is very non-standard, sounding like it was pieced together from human voice clips taken from a tape recorder.If it weren't for his superhuman intelligence, someone else might not be able to understand what it was saying.

Xiu Meidel, is this the name of the earth-burrowing demonic insect?

A bug actually took on a human name, which somewhat surprised Gu Xiuya.

What surprised him even more was that the other party seemed to know this place very well, and could even interfere with the hallucinations he experienced.

"Thank you for the reminder. In fact, that's what I meant."

Gu Xiuya looked at the strange man, his eyes lingered for a moment on his body that was very similar to the old one, and asked: "Your Excellency, are you its dependent?"

The weirdo didn't answer.

Gu Xiuya then changed the question: "The hallucination just now"

"Illusion?"

The weirdo asked in reply, accompanied by a mocking smile.

Gu Xiuya frowned slightly.

The other party's meaningful sneer made him doubt his own judgment.

But if that nightmarish scene is not an illusion, what is it?

Gu Xiuya didn't pay attention to the weirdo's slightly perverse attitude. The other person had taken the initiative to remind him in his nightmare. For this reason alone, he owed the other person a favor.

"Sir, I believe you are not so bored that you show up to laugh at me. If you want to get something from me, I am willing to help you without endangering myself. The premise is that you can answer my doubts."

Gu Xiuya said to the weirdo.

The weirdo glanced at Gu Xiuya: "Does it include releasing the old days?"

Gu Xiuya said: "I will not do anything that endangers my own safety."

The weirdo said calmly: "In fact, you have already done this."

Gu Xiuya didn't quite understand the meaning of this sentence.

The weirdo then said: "Have you ever thought about a question? Why can the old man who is trapped in a seal move freely underground?"

"Because someone broke the seal and released it."

"No, it can move freely before the seal is destroyed."

".Then what kind of seal is this?"

"Why, do you think that just by relying on a group of god thieves, you can seal the old body and its power under the mountains?"

"It's impossible."

"The old day is the embodiment of the rules, and everything that makes up it is magnificent and beyond the comprehension of other things. The god thief you just contacted can be said to be powerful among your so-called gods. But even He is not qualified to know the nature of the past." "That is the great thing that transcends all life. He is now, has been, and will be forever. For them, endless time is just a measure of great power. They want to It is unrealistic to seal such a creature into a cage constructed solely by divine power.”

"It makes no sense to just seal the current version of it. Because it can borrow power from its past self at any time. The seal must cover all the time it has existed and surround all its origins to truly produce the desired effect. "

"The God Thief who claims to be the God King has accomplished this feat that can be considered magnificent even for gods at the expense of his entire pantheon."

"But how could the Great Old One be willing to be trapped in the earth forever? In order to break through the seal, He has been working hard in His own way."

"What you just experienced was not a hallucination and nightmare, but a real past in endless time. 300 years ago, a god thief like you entered here by mistake. He was bewitched by the past and launched an attack on the star stone wall. attack."

"This was an accident worth mentioning. His power alone could never break through the seal left by the God King. But your appearance changed the situation."

The weirdo looked at Gu Xiuya: "Time is complex and ever-changing, like an inverted tree crown with endless veins. Things that happen at different times will not necessarily have an impact on the present, unless there is some kind of connection node between the two."

"You are that node."

Gu Xiuya frowned deeply: "You mean, everything I just experienced, including the attack on the seal, was real? But it didn't happen in the time and space I am in?"

The weirdo's head nodded slightly.

Gu Xiuya suspected that the other party was talking nonsense to him: "This is ridiculous. Even deep space-level gods can't break through the shackles of time. How could I return to the time and space hundreds of years ago just because of looking at each other once? What if? The old one is so powerful and can play with time wantonly, how can it be sealed here?"

"This is one of the reasons why I came to see you."

The weirdo said calmly: "For hundreds of years, the past has bewitched many living beings, but no living being can truly step into the long river of time and go back to 300 years ago like you."

"You shouldn't ask me questions, you should ask yourself - what makes you so different?"

Gu Xiuya was slightly startled, but his eyes fell on his right hand involuntarily.

Is it because of this thing?

The weirdo noticed Gu Xiuya's gaze. It followed Gu Xiuya's line of sight, but only saw an empty hand.

Gu Xiuya fell into silence as he chewed on the shocking information revealed by the weirdo.

The weirdo stared at Gu Xiuya for a while, wondering what he was thinking.

There was a long silence in the deep cave.

After a long time, Gu Xiuya looked at the weirdo: "What should I call you? The prophet hiding under the earth's crust?"

"Names mean nothing to me."

"But that will make me feel your sincerity. Let me think about you, Your Excellency. Will you believe the information told to you by a person who suddenly appears and does not even have a name?"

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The weirdo didn't know that Gu Xiuya's stubborn purpose of obtaining his name was to find the traces of this name in history after returning to the future.

He thought for a moment and finally answered: "Kusin. This is my Zengjin name."

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Kuxin. My name is Shuntian, and I am the god of Galanz." Gu Xiuya stroked his chest and saluted.

The weirdo doesn't seem to be used to this kind of interaction, or maybe his long underground life has made him forget human etiquette.

He imitated Gu Xiuya's actions and returned the salute without saying a word.

Gu Xiuya said: "Your Excellency Cu Xin, I admit that your words astonished me, but even if everything you said is true, even if I did briefly return to 300 years ago, I am just I punched the star stone wall, but that punch didn't even expand the cracks on the star stone, and it was insignificant to the entire seal. How could the situation worsen?"

"Honestly, I highly suspect that you are trying to burden me with a sin that I should not bear."

Ku Xin glanced at Gu Xiuya: "Your knowledge has limited your understanding of [Seal]. What do you think a seal is, an intuitive contest between a strong shield and a sharp spear? Whoever is stronger can win?" "

"This is a very superficial and one-sided perception."

"If power can decide everything, the past will never be sealed by a mere god thief."

"The confrontation between the seal and the sealed person is a battle between rules and authority. The river flowing from west to east is the [rule]. The gods letting it pour back is the [authority]."

"The essence of the seal is that the gods who created the seal have defined that certain things can only follow their will activities within a certain range. This is equivalent to a game. The God-King has formulated the rules of the game in advance, and uses himself and the entire At the expense of the gods, the old days were forced to enter and this game started."

"The old days that are forced to participate in the game must abide by the rules. They can only look for opportunities to win within the rules."

"Strength is just the ticket to this game. It does not determine victory. What determines victory is the understanding and application of the rules by the rule controller."

"Rules are a very complex and magical thing. They are the source of all authority and the fundamental reason why gods are called [God Thiefs]."

"The expressions of power between the two are similar, but they are very different in nature. The most intuitive difference is that the holder of authority does not need to pay a price when using authority, but there are rules."

"When you set a rule, you have to pay a corresponding price to make it effective. The more powerful the rule and the fewer loopholes, the greater the price."

"Moreover, once new rules are born, they will trigger various chain reactions and affect existing rules."

"The rule that the God King planned to set at the beginning was: the old days will sleep forever under the mountains. But after trying it, he found that in order to realize this rule, at least a thousand gods would have to sacrifice for it."

"Not all gods have the courage to sacrifice themselves to protect the world like him. He can't find so many warriors who are willing to give everything to help him realize the rules. Therefore, he can only choose to lower the strength of the seal and try to make the old days last forever. There’s no way out.”

"This rule is also difficult to complete. In fact, it is extremely difficult to use the power of rules to set restrictions on the old days, no matter how small the restrictions are, because old Japan is the embodiment of rules and is inherently able to resist rules."

"But the God King is very smart. He set up three simpler rules at the same time, pieced together into a logical blockade that works together and checks and balances each other to achieve his goal."

"The three rules set by the God King are -"

"One: Old Day will fall into a long sleep, but Old Day can choose the time to wake up each time."

"Two: The consciousness and body of the past will gradually be separated during the long sleep. But the past can still control them separately."

"Three: The consciousness and body of the past cannot wake up at the same time, but the past can choose how to wake up."

"Every rule of the God King has loopholes. There is no [absolute]. It can even be said to [connive] the old rebellion against the rules. As a result, the price He needs to pay is greatly reduced. This is exactly He was able to successfully seal the key to the past.”

"But the amazing thing is that every loophole in the rules is blocked by another rule."

"This is a victory in the game of pure wisdom. Cutting the consciousness and body is an ingenious idea. This directly resulted in the old being unable to borrow power from the past self to break through the blockade."

"——The God King did not restrict the old days from borrowing power from their past selves, but the rituals required to complete the purpose of borrowing power require the cooperation of consciousness and body at the same time. Without consciousness, the body can only follow instinctive activities; without No matter how exquisite the idea of ​​body and consciousness is, it cannot be achieved."

"The two have become a parallel line that never intersects, and the past has become a caged bird."

(End of this chapter)