Chapter 3338

"The cave left by that ancient god in the mountain is just like this."

This was Luweiya's voice, and Claire was skeptical:

"I feel your purpose is not just this; you never reveal your true thoughts. It's like you said you wanted to support my apprentice to become the Chosen One, but I know you absolutely didn't appear on Fatumunster Island for this."

Luweiya seemed to smile:

"Say whatever you want; I have already made her the current first in line, and you are still doubting my purpose? Alright then, coming here today is actually to secretly murder you here, and then sink your corpse into the water to see if the purpose of this ritual is really to reinforce the seal of the snow mountain."

Claire's tone was obviously unhappy:

"You don't have to say it if you don't want to, you don't need to threaten me like this."

Luweiya's mood was obviously very good:

"You are indeed different from other great witches. If it were them, they would have already started fighting with me. However, if you really want to know what I want to do, it doesn't matter if I tell you; those relics that manipulate destiny are too annoying, I am looking for a way... to restrain them."

"Does this spring have such power?"

"No, but isn't it drawn very clearly on the murals? Your ancestors found a way."

Then there were footsteps, and they turned their backs to the spring to look at the murals:

"To suppress the chaotic destiny of impermanence, one needs to drill into a box and then sink into the water. In my opinion, whether it is life or death is not important, and even whether it is a Fatum person is not important; after all, you have not lived here since the Second Era."

Luweiya paused:

"The water veins inside this snow mountain have problems; if the water veins flow along the cave drilled by Mr. Ring, the snow mountain water that penetrates inside and outside probably represents the flow of destiny itself. Sinking corpses into the water can suppress the torrent of destiny, but perhaps it can also allow the living to listen to the voice of destiny more clearly, and then find the whereabouts of those three relics that dared to attack me.

This is of course very dangerous, and requires finding suitable nodes of water veins, and also requires some luck."

Xia De cat felt that he suddenly understood why he could hear the voice from the "past life" in the water; if the spring can be considered an important node of the water vein, then entering the water vein and those corpses sinking into the water did the same thing.

It still wanted to continue listening, but the conversation stopped like this.

It waited for a long time again, confirmed that no sound continued to come, and then surfaced back to the water surface with Little Mia.

In the cave illuminated by silver moonlight, there was indeed only the unicorn Ai Li waiting for them; after going ashore, Little Mia quickly shook off its fur, and was then picked up by Xia De who had restored his human form and was using fire to dry his clothes.

He didn't go to manage that spring anymore, but observed those faded murals carefully like the Luweiya of the past life.

The present world had undergone many changes because of the arrival of the outsider, but not all changes were positive. The one who came here in the past life was Luweiya, who could see the hidden meaning of the murals at a glance; while the one who came here in the present world was Xia De, who couldn't understand the clues provided by the murals.

He was looking at the murals illuminated by moonlight at this moment, and in his heart, he even thought of the scene where Luweiya and Claire stood here talking together. That was something that he confirmed had happened in a non-existent time; destiny branched because of the arrival of the outsider, so the people standing here at this moment became other people.

After looking at the murals and recording them completely in the 【Moon Library】, Xia De brought Ai Li and Little Mia to the edge of the cave lake outside again. Just now he was still rejoicing that he didn't have to dive down like Claire yesterday, but now it seemed he had to go into the water.

It was just that this time he went into the water in his human form; to prevent danger, he specially put Little Mia on Ai Li's back, and then instructed the cat and the unicorn not to follow down:

"I'll say it again, don't follow down."

He repeated to the cat, and only felt relieved after the cat extended its claws to grab his finger. After taking off his coat and shoes and socks, Xia De walked into the water of the deep cave lake, and then dived down.

After crossing the edge of the lake, the lake water suddenly became deep, so he dived directly towards the bottom of the lake, and only swam forward slowly along the bottom of the lake after touching the bottom. The mud and sand at the bottom of the lake made the lake water turbid because of his arrival, but this did not prevent Xia De from soon seeing the metal boxes sinking at the bottom of the lake.

These boxes came from different eras, and the styles and degrees of decay were also different. Xia De could not feel the breath of the undead from them, which showed that the corpses in the boxes were all normal. After checking roughly, the boxes here added up to only fifty or so, and this number was much less than Xia De thought:

"Suppressing water veins consumes corpses, so they need to be replenished generation after generation?"

He approached and checked carefully, and really found that those boxes with more serious corrosion seemed to be "melting" in the water. This was hard to describe, probably like the appearance of butter put into an oil pan.

So he let himself sit among the boxes, and then closed his eyes to feel the fluctuation of the water flow, trying to understand the "perceiving the flow of destiny" mentioned by Luweiya.

He once had the feeling of merging with the snow mountain in the snow mountain, and at this moment, listening to the gurgling sound of water, he gradually found that feeling again.

So the five senses of the body gradually disappeared, leaving only the last strange "inspiration" to explore everything around. Water was no longer water, but rather like some kind of invisible ripple; many ripples overlapped and were quite chaotic, but feeling carefully, Xia De clearly felt that this chaos was also a kind of law, in which there were unnatural disturbances from four directions.

"Hmm? Four directions? Aren't there three relics?"

【Need to concentrate.】

"Oh, okay, okay."

【Strong Spatial Perception】 played a very good effect at this moment; the disturbances from four different directions, one in the urban area of Time Wheel City; one not on the island but on the sea near the island, probably some ship; one in a remote place on the coastline on the east side of the island; the last one was near Kyle-Todd Town.

"So close to Kyle-Todd Town? Who is it?"

He opened his eyes, and also exited the wonderful feeling of perceiving ripple disturbances, but since he had succeeded once, it was equivalent to completely mastering it. This was not a concrete strange spell, but a clever application of his own inspiration. Of course, theoretically, if Xia De studied this technique carefully, he might really be able to create strange spells like "water pattern divination," but he didn't have this idea for the time being.

"She" reminded softly at this time:

【Also, there is something in the mud behind you.】

"What?"

He turned around in the water to grope, and after stirring up another piece of turbid mud, he really touched a piece of hand bone buried in the mud under the water. Following the hand bone, he touched the finger joints, and then he touched that cold ring.

There was no elemental reaction before touching, and only after the skin contacted did he perceive that there was actually a relic here.

His eyes had not yet observed the appearance of the ring, but after his fingers rubbed the surface of the ring, "she" helped read out that string of runes—

【The slaughter between you and me is the tempering of the essence of will.】

"Hmm?"

After coming out of the water, because of worrying about the source of the destiny disturbance near the small town, Xia De quickly rode Ai Li and brought Little Mia back to the foot of the mountain. He could not locate the four places suspected of being caused by relics very accurately, but the one near Kyle-Todd Town gave him a very bad premonition.

At this time, the sunset had already set, and the unicorn flying in front of the sun was quite energetic. However, Xia De did not let it land in the suspected area, but landed in the cedar forest after seeing the small town at the foot of the mountain from afar.

Xia De jumped down from Ai Li's back neatly, stood firm, closed his eyes to recall the general position detected by his perception just now, and then placed the cat on his shoulder on Ai Li's back again:

"You two wait for me here, don't follow, there will be danger."

After speaking, he applied an illusion to hide his figure, and then walked quickly towards the front.

His walking speed gradually slowed down, because the further forward he went, the more he could feel an unusual atmosphere. Clearly, the atmosphere of the sunset at dusk in the cedar forest was very normal, the color of the sunset, the looseness of the snow surface, and the background noise of the environment were all so normal, but Xia De felt the pressure.

Walking forward according to the feeling in his heart, before long, he saw a large rock in the cedar forest, and on the rock sat a middle-aged man wearing a black robe, looking like a priest. His hairstyle was very unique, black hair and white hair were arranged in strips in order on the big back head; this hairstyle was even more conspicuous than Miss Larsen's silver hair, just short of writing "I am a Ringed Shushi" or "I have mental illness" on his face.

When Xia De appeared, the other party was lowering his head and writing and drawing on the black notebook placed on his knees, and he only raised his head when Xia De came to a position one hundred meters in front of him.

And because of this, Xia De saw the bright metal holy emblem hanging on his neck; this was not an unfamiliar holy emblem:

【Wan Shu Gui Yi Society】.

This was a sect formed by the believers of the evil god 【Probability Great Demon】. The believers of the 【Bad Luck Church】 pursued spreading bad luck, while the 【Wan Shu Gui Yi Society】 was keen on controlling destiny by controlling probability; they were all very proficient in the fields of mathematics, bad luck, and good luck—although most of the time the 【Wan Shu Gui Yi Society】 was also spreading bad luck like the former.

The holy emblem itself was a kind of divine magic tool for these evil cultists; the outer edge of the holy emblem was engraved with twisted numerical symbols, and the rotating pendant inside could specify a certain probability for them when it rotated.

?? PS: This chapter's picture "Holy Emblem · Probability Great Demon"

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