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After Li Wei finished speaking, everyone present seemed to have fallen into an icy river, their very breath frozen.
An invisible force, like an arm, reached out from one of their directions, intending to drag their souls into the underworld.
Just then, a roar came from above them: "What kind of demon dares to kill my people in my territory?!"
"It's the High Priest!" The Zijing tribesman opposite Li Wei exclaimed excitedly.
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PSA: Hmm... It's rare for someone in the group to urge me to update, so I obediently wrote this chapter. At least I didn't break my promise.
Chapter 251 Is Li Wei about to be possessed?!
High Priest?
The others, especially the old man, were very excited. "Hahaha, Heaven is helping us! It's clear that even the Heavenly Dao is on our side. You arrogant little brat, why don't you surrender now?"
Almost the instant the old man finished speaking, a humanoid figure appeared in front of them, confronting Li Wei. Just as the humanoid figure appeared, with a loud boom, an invisible and intangible wave erupted from its center.
Faced with this impact, Li Wei couldn't help but take a few steps back, his mind momentarily dazed.
"Oh? You didn't lose your mind or have a mental breakdown?" the visitor said with a hint of surprise.
After Li Wei regained his senses, he saw that the person who came was a large sacrificial robe with various colors mixed together. The sleeves had purple thorn patterns, and the chest had the sun and moon intertwined.
The other person looked to be about the same age as a human in his seventies, which was obviously considered an old man in their race. He was holding a wooden staff that was almost as long as him and shaped like a "?".
"Are you the High Priest?" Li Wei asked calmly.
"Indeed, I am the 396th High Priest of the Bauhinia Clan, the one who inherited and awakened the noble sage bloodline of the Bauhinia Clan, and also serves as the oracle of our clan, responsible for issuing guidance."
After a lengthy introduction, the high priest continued, "Just before, I performed a divination, which indicated that the ** tribe would face a major turning point today. This turning point would involve an opportunity that would affect the future rise and fall of the tribe."
"Before this, I had thought about it countless times. What exactly was this so-called opportunity? Was it some kind of amazing treasure? Or would there be a powerful intervention from an outside force? Or would a hidden gem be born in our clan, misunderstood and neglected?"
"Unfortunately, I now have to overturn all these inferences, because I have seen you."
At this point, the high priest revealed a sinister smile.
That smile sent a chill down the spines of the seven people, even though they were on the same side as the High Priest. Only the Zijing tribesman, out of loyalty to his race, didn't feel anything special about it.
"Me?" Li Wei raised an eyebrow, as if he had guessed something, and his face instantly turned cold.
“Indeed, you—” The high priest pointed at Li Wei, his eyes turning fanatical, “What a pure and beautiful piece of jade! If I’m not mistaken, you must be one of the newly born chosen ones.”
"Of course, the title of 'Chosen Ones' was given to you by our ancestors. We don't really care what it actually is. But the documents we know record that you Chosen Ones will go on adventures in different worlds. Each time you survive a world, you will become stronger."
"So, you've thought of possessing someone else's body?!" Li Wei sneered.
"You are indeed quite different," the High Priest exclaimed in amazement. "Unfortunately, several High Priests throughout history, whose power far surpasses mine, have tried this, but for some unknown reason, perhaps due to the difference in their souls, even after possessing the bodies of you chosen ones, we... have still been unable to escape the constraints of this world!"
"This prison that confines our race!"
At this point, the high priest said with a ferocious expression, "Don't think we don't know. We are nothing more than a group of beings you keep like livestock, providing you with training opportunities."
"Otherwise, why would it be such a coincidence that every so often, a sense of inconsistency in memory would occur? Of course, only some of our high priests have experienced this feeling. Until one time, that priest seized a few of you and conducted a memory search. Although we only obtained vague and incomplete fragments, at least we learned the truth."
"I don't understand. Since you also know that even if you possess me, you can't give any of you a chance to escape this world, then your words seem contradictory."
"Or……"
Although Li Wei didn't say anything more, the high priest, unlike the others who were completely confused, was able to guess what Li Wei had left unsaid.
"That's right, what I value is your qualifications."
As he spoke, the high priest conjured a crystal skull from his robes, the skull's eyes emitting a terrifying purple light.
"The ultimate purple talent—this is the first time we've ever seen it in all the generations of our clan!"
The high priest spoke with great excitement, his hand holding the crystal skull trembling slightly. "Seven levels of talent. Sixth level is enough to achieve the position of demigod. Only the seventh level of purple talent can make one a true god and break the shackles of the world."
"Once I possess your body, it means my path to godhood will be wide open, I will be able to live forever, save our people, and even expose the secrets that have been enslaving us without our knowledge."
The power of gods is so vast that they can not only break free from the prison of the world and roam freely in the void, but also live forever, comprehend the great Dao of heaven and earth, and be worshipped by all living beings. If one has such ambition, it is not impossible to establish one's own divine kingdom.
A race only truly has the right to speak when it has a god in charge. In the Great World of Reincarnation, many races without gods become subordinate, or worse, an entire race is enslaved and treated as slaves. Not to mention those with the talent to become gods, even those with outstanding aptitude will be nipped in the bud.
Purple represents divine talent, and the ultimate level is the very pinnacle, meaning that... Li Wei's body possesses the qualifications to ascend to the God King realm.
Therefore, the high priest had no reason not to covet Li Wei's body and was eager to take his place.
Li Wei snorted coldly, "Then we'll see if you have the ability."
"Delusions are always beautiful, aren't they?"
Li Wei couldn't explain why he had become so arrogant and indifferent, looking down on everything with contempt. If it weren't for his rationality, those seven people would have been killed by him without any question.
Although it was all in vain, they were still on the side of the Zijing clan.
"Hahaha, you can say such things when your soul becomes my prisoner!"
Almost as soon as he finished speaking, the High Priest's eyes emitted a piercing gaze, and a strong impact pierced into Li Wei's consciousness, causing his vision to go black. The difference in mental strength between Li Wei and the High Priest was simply too great. If the High Priest hadn't held back to prevent anything from happening to this body, Li Wei would have suffered a mental breakdown and become an idiot from this attack.
At the same time, the High Priest's soul broke out of his body and rushed into Li Wei's consciousness, attempting to possess him!
"This body is mine! Hahahaha!" The high priest couldn't contain his inner elation.
However, what he didn't expect was that right after his soul rushed in, in the chaotic and empty sea of consciousness, three pairs of eyes simultaneously stared at him.
That... is a gaze that, if placed in the outside world, would be enough to annihilate the void and shatter space.
"Who on earth is so brave as to trespass into this place?"
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PPP: Hmm... A friend of mine has been having a tough time lately. Not only did he repeat a grade, but even when he plays League of Legends, his younger brother takes his phone, opens the game console, and tells his dad, "Dad, his brother is lying to you about not studying. Look, this is his game time..."
This kind of younger brother is simply amazing! [Just kidding]
Chapter 252 Eternal Exile, Sealed Land
What was clearly just a simple question sounded to the high priest like a deity descending to earth to ask him a question, making the common people even more terrified and at a loss than when they faced an emperor in ancient times.
"I, I, I..." For a moment, the high priest's soul was speechless.
How did he answer?
Labor and management are here to seize control!?
Or, oh, I just happened to be passing by. The weather is nice today. I'll leave now.
Only someone who thinks the other person is an idiot would say that.
As for his previous idea of seizing the other party's soul, the High Priest no longer has any of it; in fact, he feels utterly disheartened.
He had seen the sea of consciousness before. As a mental mage, he would sometimes look into his own sea of consciousness and occasionally enter the consciousness of his clansmen for various reasons. However, he had never heard of or seen such a sea of consciousness, let alone entered it, in either his own experience or in the records.
Generally speaking, the consciousness of living beings is more like an ocean. Some may have variations due to their own talents or species, and in extremely rare cases, even more unusual situations may occur, such as being like a thick fog.
However, no matter how strange or unusual something is, it would never present a state of emptiness like Li Wei's. Moreover, calling it emptiness is just the closest word the High Priest could find to describe it.
In fact, the high priest couldn't say what kind of sea of consciousness this was. To be honest, even if a knowledgeable person knew the details and told him, he felt a sense of fear at the thought of "knowing".
It's as if not knowing about this is already a great stroke of luck, the greatest blessing God can bestow upon living beings.
Perhaps only ancient gods and demons have the right to this so-called "knowing"?
The high priest couldn't help but think.
Yes, although he had never seen real gods and demons, in his heart, he had already compared the beings in his sea of consciousness to those powerful deities.
He felt that this comparison was not an exaggeration at all; the other party truly deserved to be compared to a deity.
This kind of being is someone he absolutely cannot afford to provoke, not at all!
Speaking of which, how could such a powerful figure reside inside that fledgling? The High Priest absolutely refused to believe that these three were the young man's soul. First of all, the difference in strength was too great; such a powerful soul was simply not something such a weak body could withstand. Furthermore, no one could have three souls existing at the same time, and all three of them could rival gods and demons.
If all three are the same, then... just having this conjecture is terrifying.
The high priest's thoughts, though complex, were also gleaned in the blink of an eye.
"and many more!"
The high priest, who had originally intended to confess and receive leniency, suddenly realized a problem.
Since the three people asked who had broken into this place, it meant that they didn't know what was happening outside, which meant that he still had a sliver of hope.
Of course, he wouldn't ask such a stupid question as what the relationship was between the three of them and the little chick. Either they were using a parasitic relationship, or they were like the old man with the ring. Otherwise, who would be so bored as to store their soul in someone else's sea of consciousness?
Moreover, in the High Priest's view, it was impossible for three people with such terrifying cultivation levels to parasitize and utilize this method. They could simply rebuild their physical bodies themselves, so why would they need to parasitize and wait to be possessed?
In addition, the little chick's god-level talent was probably caused by the accidental overflow of the power of the three.
So the high priest quickly came up with a solution.
"Ahem, actually, it's like this. I am the high priest of the Bauhinia Clan. I don't know why this young man collapsed in my clan's territory. We tried all the medicines we could find, but we couldn't wake him up. So, after much hesitation, we decided to try entering his sea of consciousness to see if there was a problem with his soul."
"Oh? There are so many ways to probe a soul, why use the most troublesome one?"
In the high priest's eyes, all three were shrouded in a layer of black mist, one of them even more so, as if he had fallen into the void. However, he was not sure if he was seeing things, but it seemed that there were some black chains faintly surging inside.
An illusion...right?
The question was asked quite seriously, but the high priest heard a flippant tone in the other party's voice. If a junior in the clan had spoken in such a tone, he would have given him a good scolding. But now, a true man can bend and stretch, and when it's time to be a little deaf, he can listen to less of what he's saying.
"This is because the senior's skills are extraordinary and his achievements are beyond compare. Unfortunately, the junior's knowledge is shallow and he can only use such a trivial skill. I hope you will forgive him."
The other person's voice sounded very young, but that only made it more terrifying. He didn't feel ashamed that he, at hundreds of years old, was calling himself a junior in front of the other person. Heaven knows how many tens of thousands of years that old monster had lived.
"So that's how it is." The other person's voice was as flippant as before, now tinged with contempt.
The high priest simply bowed deeply in response.
"The Bauhinia Clan, that ancient race, a branch of the Purple Emperor Clan," Li Wei said calmly in the future.
"135,764 years ago, I was captured by an ancient civilization and put into a project called 'Infinite Reincarnation,' where I served as a training ground in a small world."
"Unfortunately, even now, with that civilization destroyed, your race is still unable to escape the situation of being enslaved."
"The 123rd High Priest, also known as the Great Sage, finally discovered a part of the truth due to a certain opportunity."
"Later, through the efforts of several generations of high priests, a method of transcendence was found."
"The Zijing Clan generally lives to two hundred years old. Most members of the clan are known for their martial arts talent. Occasionally, there are those who are skilled in mental arts, who are exceptionally talented and often become high priests."
……
In the future, Li Wei revealed many secrets that even the High Priest himself did not know, which filled the High Priest with fear but also irresistible worship, while a kind of illusion arose in his heart.
"May I ask, sir, do you have any past relationship with any of my ancestors? Otherwise..."
Thinking of this, the high priest was overjoyed, feeling a thrill of narrowly escaping death. If his guess was correct, he was safe. Generally, someone who knows his family's background to this extent must have a very good relationship with him. They would probably take care of his descendants out of consideration for old friends.
"You seem quite surprised right now?"
"I wouldn't dare," the high priest said, but inwardly he breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed like things were settled.
"Well then, I want to congratulate you on..."
The high priest felt a weight lifted from his heart.
"guessed wrong."
It hit its own little J... foot.
"Also, we all understand why you entered the sealed land."
The egg was smashed.
"Then, then why..." the high priest was unwilling to accept it.
"Because it's fun," Li Wei said matter-of-factly.
"It's rare to find an idiot like this to play with, so are you in or not?"
The high priest felt utterly disheartened.
He really wanted to yell back, "Screw you, let me out!"
Unfortunately, before he could make a final reaction, his consciousness faded into darkness.
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