The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 402 Soul Temple
With the unconditional support of the double-type light cannon, the colossus controlled by the fourth lady finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Under the cover of heavy light cannons, the Colossus fought and retreated, and eventually lured the skeleton construct to a place less than ten miles away from the Icecrown Tree.

At this distance, the heavy light cannon is equivalent to firing at the enemy's forehead.

The six arms of the skeleton construct, which was under massive fire suppression, were burned to pieces by the high-temperature energy rays because they were protecting its main body.

One of the four supporting legs was also seriously damaged.

This was a good opportunity for counterattack, but Si Niangzi continued to call on Er Gou to increase firepower support while controlling the Colossus to retreat continuously.

What’s amazing is that after experiencing several rounds of energy ray baptism, the skeleton construct seemed to have reached its limit and it scattered into a pile of flesh and blood.

The Fourth Lady controlled the colossus and returned to the top of the Icecrown Tree, but the colossus was already in tatters, with wounds and damages of varying sizes all over its body, and countless blood and flesh stains on its surface.

But when he saw those pieces of flesh and body parts, Ergou's gaze couldn't help but shrink.

When the fourth lady emerged from the giant statue with a livid face, Ergou asked solemnly, "What happened?"

The fourth lady replied with a flickering look on her face: "I encountered some unfair things on the way and was entangled by the evil spirit. I... fought hard to get out of it."

After saying that, the fourth lady ran towards the lower area of ​​the Ice Crown Tree as if escaping.

Ergou looked at the fourth lady's receding figure meaningfully, and then turned his gaze to the pile of corpses formed by the skeleton construct.

Although the long-range vision function of the Spirit Bone Armor was not very useful, it still helped Ergou see the details of the pile of corpses easily.

But when Ergou saw the details of the pile of corpses clearly, he couldn't help but feel angry.

He quickly rushed down the Icecrown Tree and was about to head towards the pile of corpses when he suddenly received a piece of information in his mind.

——Found a pile of polluted high-elf corpses. Warning! This pile of corpses has been desecrated by the Chaos Demons. Please stay away from them or purify them.

At this time, Ergou's wisest choice was naturally to turn around and leave, but he only paused for a moment and then walked towards the pile of corpses that exuded endless malice.

As Ergou got closer to the pile of corpses, countless mutterings and noises began to fill his mind.

——I died so miserably! Who can save me?
——My savior, why didn't you come to save me! You abandoned me!

——I am in so much pain! My savior! Please, help me find my body!
—That damn bitch! She abandoned us! She cheated on me!
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These evil sounds were mixed with countless tragic scenes, constantly torturing Ergou's nerves, trying to make him sink into them.

But Ergou remained unmoved. He held the [Demon-Repelling Pearl] in one hand, and in the other hand a flame transformed from spiritual energy rose.

He chanted the spell for exorcising evil spirits and burying souls that was exclusive to demon-suppressing people:
At the beginning of ancient times, who preached it?
The upper and lower are not formed, why test it?

Who can be the best between darkness and darkness?
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As Ergou's voice echoed in front of the seemingly noisy but actually silent pile of corpses on the snowy plain, all kinds of disturbing demonic sounds and distracting thoughts began to fade, and more voices began to repeat the same content in the tone of Ergou:
At the beginning of ancient times, who preached it?
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What was surprising was that the mountain of corpses gradually disappeared with Ergou's clear voice.

[Heavenly Questions] appears to have 374 sentences and more than 1,560 words, but it contains hidden questions about everything unknown, from the separation of heaven and earth, the changes of yin and yang, the sun, moon and stars and other natural phenomena, to myths and legends, the viciousness and stubbornness of saints and sages, order and chaos, rise and fall.

She is the cry of the civilized self!
It is wisdom's questioning of chaos!
It is the essence that a civilization must answer in the process of development.

Chaos is not unable to answer [Heavenly Questions],
But I can’t! I dare not answer!
Because all the answers Chaos knows were plundered from civilizations throughout history.

There is no single answer. Each one represents the fruit of a type of civilization, and is also what Chaos most wants to seize from the emerging civilization.

If chaos gives a certain answer to a later civilization, this later civilization will no longer be able to bear the fruit that chaos wants.

The civilization that has disappeared in the long river of history will be reborn on the carrier of this later civilization.

This reborn civilization is of no value to Chaos, but it is Chaos' most deadly enemy.

Therefore, [Heavenly Questions] is a taboo for all chaotic things.

When a desecrated and twisted soul began to follow Ergou in reciting the chapters of "Heavenly Questions", it was like a rag doll stuffed into a high-powered washing machine. Countless twisted and filthy things were kneaded, squeezed and expelled, including some things that originally belonged to the soul itself.

Finally, the poor soul was cleansed of all impurities, leaving only a pure white base. He smiled at Ergou, and then disappeared into the depths of the sea of ​​souls.

Without the restraint of their twisted souls, the remains of flesh and blood melted into smelly pus, flowing freely on the snow, and eventually became part of the snowfield.

Er Gou Song questioned for three full hours, torturing all the twisted souls and eliminating the foul corpses on the ground.

The chaos receded, the evil thoughts were lifted, and the snowfield returned to its original color.

But Ergou was not feeling well. His spiritual energy was almost exhausted, and the spiritual flame in his hand was dying like a candle in the wind, about to go out.

His spirit was exhausted and his head was splitting with pain. Ergou just wanted to lie on the ground and sleep soundly for three days and three nights.

At this moment, he received another message in his mind:
——You have purified the desecrated corpses and souls of the High Elf, and have been praised and noticed by the High Elf ancestors. Your Eldari reputation has been slightly improved, and your High Elf hidden reputation has been greatly improved, and you have been awarded the title of "High Elf Savior".

Ergou had no intention of paying attention to what was contained in it. He just went into the snow pile and soon began to snore loudly.

Just then, countless little goblins came out from the snow pile. They wrapped Ergou in a soft blanket, and then dragged him away in the snow like a fish.

Ergou was unaware of this, he was too tired.

Under normal circumstances, unless it is a critical moment, the demon suppressor rarely uses the trump card of [Heavenly Questions].

[Heavenly Questions] is not so easy to recite, especially if one wants to exert the effect of [Heavenly Questions] to shock and dissipate the power of chaos, the reciter needs to constantly consume his own spirituality. This spirituality can be the reciter's psychic energy, and then the soul.

Ergou is so selfless, of course it doesn't mean he really likes to sacrifice himself for others.

But it was to clean up the mess left by the Fourth Lady.

Ergou learned the truth of the incident from the distracting thoughts of those dead souls who were desecrating the corpse.

The fourth lady was jealous of Ergou for gathering those high-elf followers, so on the way to the Temple of Souls, she couldn't help but gather some high-elf followers.

However, as time went on, the psychologically unbalanced Fourth Lady became more and more aggressive, especially when she felt that she had the support of the Colossus, and eventually she gathered more than a thousand high elves.

Then this huge team attracted countless enemies.

At the beginning, the Fourth Lady was able to rely on the power of the Colossus to repel those alien races and defeated several war blood regiments.

However, there is a characteristic of War Blood Cults. If the nodes connecting them to the subspace cannot be cut off, they will tend to increase in number.

For example, Ergou was able to rescue the high elf before, not because he was so good at fighting, but because Ergou accidentally used the right tactics and reached the Ice Crown Tree before triggering the excessive backlash of the evil demon.

The Fourth Lady was overly superstitious about the power of the Colossus. After she defeated and destroyed several demon armies, a 10,000-man demon army appeared. The tsunami-like demon army dispersed all of the Fourth Lady's efforts.

All the gathered high elves were captured by the evil demons.

After the evil demons brutally tortured and desecrated these poor captives, they used cruel sacrifices and distortions to forge the High Elves' desecrated bones into horrific corpse constructs, driven by twisted resentment and corrupted souls, and transformed into sharp blades for hunting down colossi.

The fourth lady's reckless behavior not only led to the tragic deaths of thousands of high elves, but also wiped out the slight advantage that Ergou had previously won for the high elves in the Yujianxing Arena.

As the saying goes, every sip and every bite is determined by fate.

Although Ergou was sleeping soundly, his subconscious mind was not at peace.

In a trance, Ergou heard someone calling him softly, the voice was vague and seemed to be there and not there.

Ergou looked and saw a pure white shadow.

Ergou didn't recognize them, but he felt as if he knew them.

The phantoms bowed to Er Gou and said, "Thank you for saving us from chaos!"

Er Gou suddenly realized, and thought to himself, "So it's that pile of corpses. I didn't expect to meet them here."

But when he said this in his heart, it was like thunder roaring among the shadows, shocking them into a trance.

As the saying goes, the voice of the heart is like thunder.

Ergou was shocked and didn't dare to think about it anymore.

The phantoms steadied themselves, and many of them said as one person, "Your benefactor has attained divinity, and your power is as mighty as thunder! We have no way to repay you, but we ask if you have any doubts, and we may be able to answer them."

Ergou said: "I want to go to the Soul Temple and activate the second protocol of Genesis, but I don't know the way."

The shadow said: "It's just right for you, benefactor! The Soul Temple is the greatest secret of Yu Jianxing. It cannot be found in the real world. One must fight to cross from the depths of the sea of ​​consciousness to reach it. We are not talented, but we can lend a helping hand to you, benefactor!"

Countless phantoms smiled and overlapped each other, transforming into a lone boat. Only the last phantom jumped onto the boat, turned into reality, and became a boatwoman holding an oar. Then she said to Er Gou, "My benefactor, please get on board. I will ferry you to the Soul Temple."

Ergou jumped onto the lonely boat as he was told, but he just felt like he was stepping on clouds, empty and insecure.

The boat girl smiled and said, "My benefactor, please be careful and do not fall off the boat, otherwise your consciousness will be lost in the depths of the sea of ​​consciousness and you will never wake up in reality again!"

After the boat girl finished speaking, she just paddled the boat in her hand. Ergou felt a surge of force suddenly hurling him out and he rushed into a strange sea area.

This sea area is very peculiar.

The sea is divided into two sides, one is water and the other is air. Giant creatures are patrolling under the water, and there are clouds and rain in the air and water.

Ergou was in the middle of it, and he could be turned upside down in an instant.

Moreover, the sea surface and the seabed sometimes interchange, with the area above the sea becoming the seabed and the area below the sea becoming air.

The danger of this abrupt change is not the psychological discomfort caused by being upside down, nor the disordered change of center of gravity. After all, all the physical characteristics in the sea of ​​consciousness are just the illusion of the consciousness itself.

What is truly terrifying are the horrific monsters lurking on the seabed.

They are the source of all nightmares, predators of the deepest worlds.

Once any consciousness falls into the depths of the sea of ​​consciousness, if it cannot find a way back to itself as soon as possible, it will soon be captured and swallowed by these horrible existences.

Alien consciousnesses like Ergou, who ride a lone boat and race through the depths of the sea of ​​consciousness, are precisely the favorite targets of the giants in the sea.

And this is exactly the meaning of the existence of the boat girl and the lone boat.

She must try her best to ensure that the boat stays on the sea surface. Once the sea surface and the seabed are reversed, the boat girl must control the boat to rush out of the seabed as quickly as possible and return to the surface of the sea.

All Ergou needs to do is to ensure that he will not be seduced by certain illusions in the process and voluntarily leave the boat.

When he dived out from the bottom of the sea for the first time, Ergou vaguely saw his master Chen Tong'e. Old man Chen was standing on the bottom of the sea and waving to him.

In response, Ergou just smiled faintly and rushed out of the sea with the lone boat.

Afterwards, Ergou saw a series of familiar figures including Master Pang, sister-in-law Yang, senior brother Chen Guang, good friend Zong Ze, Han Cunbao, etc. in the repeated changes of the sea area, but without exception, Ergou smiled and passed them by.

It was not until Ergou's mother appeared at the bottom of the sea that the old farm woman pointed at Ergou and cursed him, saying that he had harmed her child.

Ergou's heart trembled, and he was about to argue, but his mother had already come close to him. She held a broken bowl that Ergou remembered deeply, and said to him softly: "My poor child, you are hysterical. Be good! Drink this bowl of soothing soup quickly. This is the prescription given to your mother by the old immortal. If you drink it, you will be back to normal."

Ergou looked down at the bowl and saw a familiar figure inside, wailing in pain.

Er Gou was shocked. Could this be the soul consciousness of his original body? !
Ergou was not panicked when the victim came to his door. However, when he was about to speak, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

He could not help but let out a "hey" sound, which was like thunder, and it actually shattered "Ergou's mother" and the bowl into pieces, turning them into invisible things.

Then Ergou realized that he had been pushed out of the deep sea by a lone boat and returned to the surface.

Recalling what just happened, Ergou felt a little worried.

At this moment, the boat girl suddenly said, "We are here! Benefactor! The Soul Temple is in front of us."

Hearing this, Ergou looked forward, but could not see any temple. There was only a simple stone platform that looked quite quaint and crude.

Ergou pointed at the stone platform and asked doubtfully, "Is this the Soul Temple?"

The boat girl smiled and said, "Everything you see here is just an appearance. Whatever you think the temple is, the Soul Temple will appear in that way."

When Ergou heard this, he suddenly realized that this was the case.

He stepped forward, and the lone boat and the boat girl turned into stairs, providing support for Ergou's footing.

When Ergou approached the temple, all the stairs disappeared into nothingness, and only countless phantoms merged into the temple slowly and quickly.

At this time, Ergou looked more closely and found that the original simple stone platform had disappeared, and a magnificent and majestic building appeared in front of him.

As tall and majestic as a mountain, and as majestic as the abyss of hell.

(End of this chapter)