"Ugly Master.
Xuanyuan'e said softly.
Hate
No.
There was only pain in her heart.
Killing Miss Luo Ling at this moment was the purpose of his trip and the meaning of this battle.
She just felt pain.
The pain was several times greater than what he had endured in the virtual world before.
"This is not revenge."
Xuanyuan'e carried the girl back on her back and spoke softly.
"I know."
Chou Ke nodded slightly.
"I'm just fulfilling her last wish."
Xuanyuan'e stood with a sword in her hand, with three thousand white silk threads spreading out and moving in the wind.
The seemingly plain sword in his hand was faintly flashing with an indistinct cold light that seemed to be able to burn the eyes.
When seeing this scene, Chou Ke's pupils shrank slightly, and he realized that Xuanyuan'e's sword... became purer and sharper.
At this moment, Xuanyuan'e, even without the help of Luo Ling's "kingdom", could cut the nothingness in the sky with just her sword.
... Xuanyuan family.
Even though she had betrayed countless years ago, Xuanyuan E was still a member of the Xuanyuan family.
Even the Xuanyuan family itself believed that the purpose of the hunt was to strangle this Xuanyuan rebel.
"Master Ugly, I am here to see you off for the last time."
She raised her sword and pointed it at Chou Ke, her gray eyes filled with sword intent.
"... please."
Chou Ke is just standing with his hands behind his back, surrounded by tombstones
Chapter 97: Hall of Valor (8k)
A relic of the past.
This was not the first time Luo Ling had seen this strange old relic. She looked around and the surrounding layout style made her feel familiar.
Simple and plain, yet with an inexplicable creepy feeling.
Although it is indoors, it seems spacious and lonely. There are numerous columns standing around. The reliefs that should have existed on them have been almost completely worn away by the passage of time. Only a few broken bumps and depressions remain, and it is impossible to find even a little information.
Outside these columns was a spreading darkness that could only be slightly dispelled when consciousness moved closer, as if Luo Ling's vision was a lantern with a limited range.
"here it is... "
Luo Ling took a step forward and walked between the cylinders, his eyes scanning them meaningfully.
But unfortunately, none of the cylinders carried any useful information.
She who was standing here at this moment was just a wisp of consciousness.
Perhaps, even this ancient relic is just an existence similar to consciousness.
Beyond these awarenesses, the war should still be going on.
Luo Ling was very clear that if he killed all the incarnations of Chou Ke in one breath, he would directly bear the despair he had faced since he embarked on this path.
But... unlike Chou Ke and Xuanyuan E's understanding, this is nothing to Luo Ling.
Luo Ling didn't know whether these despairs could make her mind collapse, but she had deeply experienced the funeral of the world in her dreams, and she knew how difficult the road ahead would be.
She knew from the beginning that if she really wanted to save this world that was about to fall into "doomsday", she would have to face despair.
Therefore... facing it is the best option.
only...
The current situation was beyond Luo Ling's expectations.
It was not known whether it was because Chou Ke had integrated everything in his mind into his incarnation, or for other reasons, but after Luo Ling endured all of Chou Ke's despair in a brief moment, his consciousness stepped into this strange and mysterious place.
There are still some sad impressions left in my mind, but they quickly disappeared.
... All the despair at this moment is still far inferior to the world funeral in the dream of the past.
At that time, Luo Ling witnessed the failure of all civilizations almost in an instant. Even the last four places of origin were called insignificant "mourners" by the Black Mourning Woman.
"... etc?"
At this moment, Luo Ling seemed to have thought of something, and his expression suddenly became serious.
She remembered where she had seen this style of arrangement.
-Mysterious cemetery.
The place where the Doomsday Messenger was first established. The first twelve messengers received the legendary divine revelation here. After realizing the truth of the world, they fell into despair and embarked on this path.
Previously, Luo Ling was restricted by Xuanyuan E, and the range of his activities in the mysterious cemetery was limited, so he was unable to see the entire picture of the mysterious cemetery.
Moreover, Xuanyuan'e herself didn't know much about the mysterious cemetery, because she was just a sword. Before she became disabled, she was only responsible for killing enemies. After turning into Yin Ke, for her own reasons, she hardly participated in most of the decisions of the Doomsday Messenger.
Needless to say, she was not even the original messenger. For her, the mysterious cemetery was just a place where she could hold meetings in an absolutely safe manner.
Of course... after Luo Ling appeared, this absolute became relative.
The secret of the mysterious cemetery is only known to Zi Ke and Chou Ke.
If that's the case...
Luo Ling immediately quickened her pace, and soon she discovered that there were other things besides these cylinders.
Statue of a deity.
All the weird idols.
Found it!
Looking at these familiar statues, Luo Ling's guess was confirmed. This place... was indeed the mysterious cemetery.
"It's just that, rather than a 'cemetery', this place is more like a temple..."
Luo Ling thought about it carefully. He was not very clear before because he did not know the whole picture. But now it seems that this so-called "mysterious cemetery" is very similar in architectural style to the temple ruins of Valhalla, the place of origin.
Valhalla did not have a place to record the sequence similar to the forbidden stone tablet in Victoria or the stele in the Great Xia Imperial City. Luo Ling had already known this before.
However, whether it was never there from the beginning or it was lost, there is no way to know.
Whether it is the records of Valhalla or the files of the Xuanyuan family, the place of origin Valhalla is incomplete, and it seems that there was a period of history when it was completely cut off. Even their legendary place "Nibelung" cannot be confirmed to exist.
If this is the lost part of Valhalla, this is where they recorded the sequence...
It's not impossible.
Luo Ling continued to walk forward. She remembered clearly that at the end of these statues was the meeting room of the Messenger of Doom.
However, just as Luo Ling was about to reach the end of the corridor of strange statues, she keenly noticed the movement of some people, and she immediately became alert.
Even if it is just consciousness, Luo Ling can also display the powers related to "Doomsday" and "Transformation", which is her most original power.
only...
After Luo Ling became alert, he discovered that the moving figures... were really just figures.
She stood at the door of the conference room, watching the constantly changing figures in the room, in silence.
These are the past of the Messenger of Doom.
The first thing she saw was the white-haired Xuanyuan E, who was sitting in a corner with a sword in her arms and her eyes closed, wondering what she was thinking about.
Sitting next to Xuanyuan'e was a tall woman with black hair, who was arguing heatedly with someone else.
She also saw Chou Ke, who was sitting a little behind the main seat, wearing a pair of reading glasses. He ignored the arguments of others and just flipped through the tattered book in his hands.
Unfortunately, the figure was just a figure, and even the face was hard to see, not to mention the voice, which was just some distorted rustling sound, like a broken phonograph.
However, Luo Ling could still barely figure out the meaning behind this scene.
"This... seems to be the memory of the Doomsday Messenger's first visit to this mysterious cemetery?"
These figures were gradually pushed forward as time passed, changing at an extremely fast speed. Luo Ling had to concentrate fully to barely keep up.
Gradually, the arguments became less and less, and these original messengers seemed to have made a decision. The rustling sound became clearer, and Luo Ling could vaguely hear brief words.
"... cemetery... doomsday... guarding the grave..."
Perhaps this consciousness was born at the Chou moment, so even though after the rustling sound became clear, he could barely distinguish the voices of several people talking, but Luo Ling could only hear the Chou moment clearly.
Luo Ling really wanted to hear what Xuanyuan E said back then, and what she was thinking as a member of the Xuanyuan family.
However, in these images, Xuanyuan'e spent most of her time holding the sword with her eyes closed, and only occasionally spoke a few words to the black-haired woman next to her. Even if you could hear her voice clearly, it would probably be meaningless.
Luo Ling patiently deciphered Chou Ke's words, and then through these incoherent fragments, he gradually pieced together some of the truth of the past in his heart.
"... ... ...
As the image progressed, the number of messengers at the beginning kept decreasing, until finally, there were only four people left.
Apart from Chou Ke and Xuanyuan E, there is also a man suspected to be Zi Ke, and the last one is the original messenger who almost reached the level of "tombkeeper" in the legend.
The image came to an abrupt end, followed by a strange pause, and all the figures disappeared.
This pause lasted for several breaths.
You know, from the initial establishment of the postman to this scene, it was only about ten breaths, and the rapidly changing figures conveyed a fairly complete past.
Just when Luo Ling thought that this was the end, the image reappeared, and this time, it was the layout she had seen before.
Zi Ke sat in the main seat, Chou Ke sat beside him, and on the other side was the blindfolded Xuanyuan E.
It was obvious that the battle that determined the future of the Doomsday Messenger was over.
From then on, Xuanyuan'e embarked on an irreversible path, until her entire body was almost completely sacrificed to "Doomsday", and she could only stay in the virtual world all day long.
It can also be seen from the states of Zi Ke and Chou Ke that they suffered a lot of injuries in this battle.
"Now, we win." At this moment, Chou Ke's voice was extremely clear, and his voice revealed calmness and restraint, "But... it's not over yet.
"Our great vision of 'watching over civilization' has only just begun... until this moment."
At this point, the image completely disappeared and the conference room fell into complete silence.
Luo Ling's held breath began to flow again, and her mind was filled with the fragmented information she had gained from these images. Through what she saw, all of them were connected together.
“… So that’s how it is.”
This is indeed an ancient relic, but... it is not a distant ancient relic, but an ancient relic that is close at hand and appeared after the birth of the four origin places.
Its creator is the civilization of Valhalla.
Its function is to abandon the physical body and avoid the "end of the world" with the existence of consciousness.
Before the fall of the old "Metamorphosis", it did its best to create the four origin places, and protected these origin places from being eroded by "Doomsday" with the protection of "Metamorphosis", but doing so can only delay time.
Just like the Great Xia Imperial City that was guarded by "Metamorphosis" when it was shattered, Valhalla also suffered an extremely heavy blow when it first faced the terror of the virtual world.
At that time, the Great Xia Imperial City was fortunate to have the "Emperor", who successfully contained the spread of "Doomsday" and survived this terrible disaster with the sacrifice of the "Emperor".
But... Valhalla was not so lucky. Not only did no "Emperor" appear, but even the "Doomsday" disaster it endured was much more serious than that of the Great Xia Imperial City.
Three of the nine worlds were directly destroyed, and the remaining worlds faced the unstoppable spread of "doomsday" in fear, waiting for the arrival of despair.
This "mysterious cemetery" was created during this period and is called "Valhalla".
The strange statue was not created by Valhalla, but like the forbidden stone tablet and the stele, it is a divine object left over from "transformation".
This creation, which exists in the form of a conscious entity, carries the expectations of the ancient Valhalla, and attempts to escape the despair brought by the "end of the world".
Unfortunately, it failed.
When the "doomsday" comes, the heroic spirits who have abandoned their mortal bodies also accept their own "doomsday" and are all annihilated in the "Hall of Valor".