After the kiss, Xiao Zhi was like a scumbag who ran away after flirting, ignoring Frost's hidden and reluctant eyes, bid farewell to his freshly released boyfriend, found Alifa and went to the direction of Aditya Lake together.
Because he wanted to take the holy flame crown, Xiao Zhi did not activate the effect of the undead soul crystal.
Originally, he wanted to see how Alifa would react, but he didn't expect that Alifa didn't respond at all. He was still so enthusiastic and coquettish. It seemed that in his heart, the undead version of Xiao Zhi was the same as the living version of Xiao Zhi.
Of course, it is also possible that the stupid Alifa can't tell the difference at all.
The location of Lake Aditya is the area between Hessen and Bresse. It is covered with ice and snow all year round, and there are many ice and snow monsters growing here.
Originally, this place existed as a penance area taught by Brace, and devout believers and clergy often came here to practice.
After being beaten down by Hesse, the undead didn't like the bright atmosphere in the air of the whole area. Therefore, at this moment, there are almost no people here, only the howling cold wind and the occasional monsters wandering on the snow field.
Xiao Zhi was riding Alifa, feeling himself being blown messily by the wind, he even took out a cloak woven with fire spider silk to keep warm.
According to Greata's instruction, Xiao Zhi moved towards a direction.
On the way, he saw many collapsed buildings, all in the architectural style of Bresse, and there was even a cathedral that looked very advanced and exquisite. It's a pity that most of these buildings are now covered by heavy snow, the previous glory is gone, and only loneliness remains.
Finally, Lake Aditya has arrived.
The entire surface of the lake has been covered with a thick layer of ice, which completely covers everything below. Just by looking at it, you can tell that it is very cold, very cold, and your big pants can freeze you hard.
Xiao Zhi: "..."
To be honest, I don't want to go down...
Alifa stepped on the ice with his big paws full of bones, and carefully dug it with his sharp nails, feeling that his bones were about to be frozen stiff: "Gee..."
To be honest, I don't want to go down...
Xiao Zhi sighed, took a series of underwater potions, and took a bottle of warming potions with Alifa's family, then entered the lake with the shrunken Alifa.
The visibility in the lake was very low, occasionally there were creatures swimming by in the lake, Xiao Zhi followed Greata's instructions and came to a big rock at the bottom of the lake.
These stones are stacked in an inconspicuous manner, and various underwater algae grow on them. They look unremarkable, just like the most common lake bottom landscape.
Xiao Zhi found an inconspicuous scratch on a certain stone, which was the mark Greyata mentioned.
Then he started to move from this mark, moved one, and there was another one below, and moved again, it was still a stone... He moved sixteen stones in succession, and when he wondered if he had found the wrong place, he finally revealed a black line. Painted channel.
After warming up, Xiao Zhi felt that the bottom of the lake was not so cold anymore, and he couldn't help but slander: "Bishop Greata, are you a groundhog?"
"Goo," Alifa agreed.
Xiao Zhi took Alifa into the tunnel.
The inside is still dark and very narrow, without the high-end atmosphere and sense of class exclusive to the archbishop.
After a while, the road ahead came to an end.
Generally speaking, in the face of such a situation, normal people will feel that they have reached a dead end, and then they will choose to return. But Xiao Zhi knew that this was the first layer of seal set by Greyata, everything in front of him was just disturbing the perception of the coming person, in fact there was still a way ahead.
After twisting and turning in the passage, bypassing countless maze-like forks, and passing through seven seals one after another, Xiao Zhi felt a slight warmth coming from the water in front of him.
There are still three remaining seals, but the influence of the Holy Flame Crown has been able to penetrate through layers of barriers and come to the outside world.
At this time, Alifa seemed a little uneasy, his shrunken claws tightly grabbed Xiao Zhi's shoulders, and his wings flapped subconsciously.
As an undead, it keenly sensed the terrifying aura coming from ahead, and instinctively told it that if it walked forward, it might be injured by that thing, or even... killed.
Xiao Zhi looked at Alifa: "Alifa, you'd better stay here, I can go there alone."
"Gu." Alifa grabbed the clothes on Xiao Zhi's shoulders, and didn't intend to shake his claws.
Xiao Zhi gently grabbed Alifa off, placed it on a raised spot on the passage wall, and patted Alifa's head: "Don't worry, I'm fine."
"Cuckoo..." Alifa rubbed his hard head against Xiao Zhi's palm.
Xiao Zhi smiled: "I'll be back soon."
Alifa followed Xiao Zhi with empty eye sockets, watching him go in a very dangerous direction.
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Finally, Xiao Zhi came before the last seal.
The last seal looks very complicated, and it is also the largest and strongest of these seals along the way, but even this seal cannot completely block the power of the Holy Flame Crown.
The surrounding lake water has become quite scorching hot, even making Xiao Zhi's skin feel burning pain, and his blood volume also began to drop slowly. After Xiao Zhi applied a magic shield to himself, the decline in blood volume stopped.
He unlocked the seal according to the method Greata said.
Immediately, a scorching wave rushed towards Xiao Zhi, almost instantaneously impacting Xiao Zhi's spell shield to the point of collapse, the surrounding passages were also splashed with rubble from the impact of the heat wave, and even the lake water showed signs of boiling .
Xiao Zhi quickly drank a bottle of potion to replenish his mana, renewing the life of the soon-to-be-shattered spell shield.
Only then did he look forward. There was a small space in front of him. There was no decoration in it. There was only a big stone in the middle, and a gorgeous crown was randomly placed on it.
The crown has a white background, with golden complex patterns on it, and in the middle is a gemstone that contains powerful fire energy. Every line on the crown is amplifying the effect of this gemstone, making the entire Holy Flame Crown become extremely powerful.
The Holy Flame Crown just lay there quietly, without emitting any dazzling light, but the ubiquitous heat showed its presence, and people would never ignore it.
Every time you step forward, the surrounding heat will increase by one point.
Xiao Zhi couldn't help but wonder, this kind of thing, can someone really wear it on their head? This heat is more exciting than the overhead grill, will it really not be burned into a charcoal-grilled pig's head
I always feel that Greata has forgotten something important and hasn't told him...
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Hesse.
Greata, who was complaining about Blaise with her new friends, suddenly stopped laughing.
The undead around him asked, "What's wrong?"
Greata floated in mid-air, touching her chin: "I seem to have forgotten to tell the regent..."
One must first be recognized by the Holy Flame Crown before becoming its master.
Otherwise, it will be directly burned to ashes.
But... Greata herself doesn't know how to be recognized by the Holy Flame Crown. When he got the crown, the owner of the crown, that is, the former Pope Ernitiel was still alive. With the Pope's will, the Holy Flame Crown will not reject his contact, but it cannot be used by him.
Not long after Greata received the Holy Flame Crown, she was conspired against by Andre, and then entered the Book of Dreamers and stayed there for hundreds of years, without having time to accept the inheritance of the previous Pope.
He didn't know how to make the Holy Flame Crown, which was in a state of no owner, admit him.
Forget it, anyway, Mr. Regent is an Athanasi, and it doesn't matter if he dies. I believe that with his ingenuity, he doesn't need to die many times to figure out a way to be recognized by the Holy Flame Crown.
Well, Mr. Regent will certainly do.
Another lich asked, "Forgot to tell the regent something?"
"It's nothing, it's just a small matter." Greata shook her head, throwing out the thoughts in her mind: "Come on, let me continue to tell you how hypocritical this old Andre was back then..."
The undead people around immediately put aside their doubts just now, and continued to eat Blaise Qianqianqianqian... the old old melon of the Pope.
Although melons are old, they are secret enough, exciting enough, and more flavorful than fresh ones.
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Xiao Zhi, who was facing "little things", felt that he was almost ripe.
His advance seemed to have offended the Holy Flame Crown, the surrounding water was boiling crazily, and the powerful heat was quickly eroding the spell shield, forcing him to replenish mana all the time.
Fortunately, Greata placed the Holy Flame Crown under the icy lake. The temperature of the lake can slightly restrain the power of the Holy Flame Crown. If it was placed in the Changyue Desert, Xiao Zhi suspects that he may already be lying in Asanasi on the floor of the world.
Finally, Xiao Zhi walked in front of the Holy Flame Crown with difficulty.
At this moment, he felt a strong coercion, which seemed to make him kneel down in front of such power, and completely succumbed to the crown.
Xiao Zhi gritted his teeth and stood up straight, facing the scorching heat, he stretched out his hand towards the Holy Flame Crown.
The surrounding temperature skyrocketed again.
Almost in an instant, the magic shield was shattered, and the unbearable high temperature immediately rushed towards Xiao Zhi, leaving terrible burn marks on his skin in an instant, and his blood volume also dropped at a terrifying speed. Roaring, about to go to zero.
Everything is warning the people in front of you, stop, this is not something you should touch.
Enduring the high temperature that seemed to burn his muscles and bones together, Xiao Zhi desperately stretched out his hand, and tightly grasped the Holy Flame Crown.
The next moment.
Xiao Zhi only felt that his eyes were filled with dazzling light, the strong light made his vision white, and he couldn't see anything.
The high temperature that was about to burn him to ashes also disappeared in an instant, leaving the high temperature environment suddenly, Xiao Zhi immediately felt relaxed, and the pain in his body also disappeared, he only felt warm, as if soaked in warm water.
A picture appeared in front of my eyes again, this time it was a dilapidated alley.
Dirty buildings are everywhere, the ground is full of filthy stagnant water, and the air is filled with the rotten smell of fermented garbage. Xiao Zhi looked at himself and found that he had become skinny and his limbs were thin. Like a malnourished child.
A gust of wind blew by, carrying a biting coldness.
Xiao Zhi suddenly forgot who he was.
He remembered vaguely that he seemed to be looking for food. If he still couldn't find food, he would probably starve to death today...
He struggled to support his weak body, endured the pungent smell, found a few broken bricks to cushion his feet, rummaged through the trash can taller than his own, and finally found half of it with a Bread with tooth marks.
An arm much thicker than Xiao Zhi's hand suddenly stretched out from behind him, roughly snatching the bread from his hand.
"Hahaha, brat, this is ours!"
Xiao Zhi turned his head suddenly, and saw a group of children who were older than him.
These children were also as dirty as him, and their clothes were ragged, they were obviously the children of the poor. Although they were not considered strong, they were much stronger than Xiao Zhi with thin arms and legs like bamboo poles.
A few older children were throwing half a piece of bread back and forth as if they were joking, laughing loudly at Xiao Zhi while throwing it back.
"Hahahahahaha, only the cheapest trash will eat this kind of thing!"
"My dad says he's a piece of shit that no one wants!"
"The offal is only good for eating garbage!!"
"Hahahahahaha—"
so hungry...
Crazy hunger swept through his body.
This is obviously mine, Xiao Zhi thought.
Looking at the laughing children in front of him, he felt that he should do something.
But, looking at his thin arms, what could he do... what
Suddenly, one of the children lost his hand, and the bread fell on the ground. There happened to be a puddle full of dirty water on the ground. The bread immediately became dusty after absorbing the water, which looked a little disgusting.
"Che-, there's nothing to play."
"Let's go, let's go, boring."
Several older children were about to leave, shoulder to shoulder, when they saw that dirty brat suddenly rushing in front of them.
"Why, do you want to fight with us, little bastard?"
"Hahaha, just him? Jump up and hit our knees?"
They let out a burst of laughter, sneering at the overwhelmed guy in front of them.
When the few people had laughed enough, the dirty kid in front of him kept staring at them, neither saying a word nor leaving. A few people suddenly felt a fire rushing up in their hearts. How dare such a little bastard look directly at them like this
The complexions of the few people gradually darkened, the leading child rolled up his tattered sleeves, imitating his father's ferocious expression, and walked towards Xiao Zhi: "Teach him a lesson."
Seeing this, several other children followed suit, and they all clenched their fists and walked towards him.
For a half-grown child who will soon be called a teenager, there seems to be no doubt about the outcome of a young and thin child. There are some grown-ups around, but their faces are all looking forward to the show, and no one chooses to stand up for this child, as if he is just a little mouse wandering on the street, who can be easily crushed to death by anyone.
So, trivial.
The older children raised their fists, and their shadows cast on Xiao Zhi, almost covering his world in pitch black.
Xiao Zhi heard his own heartbeat, nervousness, haste, anxiety, anger... countless emotions were intertwined, as if they were about to explode in his thin chest.
In the next moment, a burst of scorching flames erupted violently centered on Xiao Zhi, violently pushing away the besieging older children.
"Ahhhhhh—"
"Fire, fire, fire!!!!!!"
The tongue of fire licked their clothes and hair, causing them to roll and howl continuously on the ground, and rolled in the dirty muddy water in fear, countless times more embarrassed than Xiao Zhi who was laughed at by them before.
"He, he, he is the patron of the Holy Flame!!!"
The children who were burned by the fire screamed, but the people around them ignored their voices as if they had ignored Xiao Zhi before. Everyone's eyes fell on the flames surrounding Xiao Zhi, and many people began to kneel and bow towards the flames, as if this was something very sacred and inconceivable.
Not long after, a whole group of people in gorgeous costumes took Xiao Zhi away respectfully.
In this world, the power of the Holy Flame is supreme. It protects the entire country and keeps the citizens free from foreign enemies and natural disasters.
Among the citizens, anyone who is favored by the holy flame will gain the ability to control the flame. The weak ones can only light candles, while the strong ones can manipulate flames to fight, and someone like Xiao Zhi who can release a large flame alone just after awakening is the top among the holy flames, known as the one-in-a-thousand-year genius.
From this day on, he transformed from a homeless child who had no food to eat and was ignored by everyone, to the most talented Holy Flame Blessed One in the temple.
In this way, Xiao Zhi studied and grew up in the church almost without hindrance.
He will always be the one who has improved the fastest among the Holy Flame Blessed Ones at the same level, and he has improved his level all the way at an almost inhuman speed. Countless geniuses feel ashamed in front of him, countless proud aristocrats are willing to extend a hand of friendship to him, countless praises and praises flow towards him like flowing water.
By the time Xiao Zhi was eighteen years old, he had already stood at the top of all the Holy Flame Blessed, even the High Priest was far inferior to him in controlling flames.
He finally got his chance to reach the top.
A sunny day.
On the holy altar enshrining the Holy Flame Crown, a grand ceremony is being held. Nobles and holy flames from all over the country came to watch the ceremony, and countless people rushed here one after another to pay tribute to the legendary holy flame crown.
"Are you willing to swear allegiance to the Holy Flame, and dedicate your time, life, all loyalty, and soul to the supreme Holy Flame?" the high priest asked solemnly.
Xiao Zhi looked around, he was standing on the highest altar, surrounded by countless prostrating believers, their figures stretched all the way, so densely packed that no end could be seen at a glance.
As long as he is willing to swear to dedicate everything to the Holy Flame, he will become the supreme person in the entire country. From then on, countless honors and respects will accompany him for the rest of his life.
Xiao Zhi turned his eyes back to his side, looking at the crown of sacred flames high above.
It is so delicate and gorgeous, full of power.
It symbolizes status, glory, and countless wealth.
If only he wanted to...
Everyone was waiting, waiting for the expected but exciting answer.
Xiao Zhi showed a smile, but said softly, "No."
The high priest stared wide-eyed, surprised at first, and then seemed angry at his rebellion: "Don't think that you can do whatever you want because you have a reputation as a genius—"
"Hush—" Xiao Zhi put a hand in front of his lips, and made a silent gesture to him.
Then, he turned around, took a few steps forward, and in front of everyone, took down the Holy Flame Crown enshrined like a god from the high platform.
Then, in the uproar of everyone on and off the stage, he put the crown on his head.
Xiao Zhi looked at the frightened and angry faces around him, and said word by word: "I am its master."
The author has something to say: Small Theater:
Xiao Zhi: A Sen, today I will check your reading ability, please read the contents of this note.
Arsen: ...
Xiao Zhi: Huh? won't you? It seems that I have to re-learn it all over again.
A Sen: ... Oh my god, why is Xiaoqi so handsome.