chsdbacks Chapter 420: Famous as Heavenly Cao
Chapter 420: Famous as Heavenly Cao
Chapter 420: Famous as Heavenly Cao
"If you join my lineage, you will be accepted into my school."
Xia Er pondered what benefits he could offer the Goddess of the Night.
He did make it up on the spot, after all, it's quite difficult to fool the Goddess of the Night.
"You just see me as the other side of your scale?"
The Goddess of the Night couldn't stand it any longer and made up a reason for Xia'er.
Both of them knew that these were all just empty words, but Xia Er really wanted to give a proper reason.
"Those who are not of our kind will surely have different hearts."
"But you are female, so it's fine to leave behind improved genes."
Chael stopped pretending; helping Roselle and helping Klein were the same thing, just traditional mindset.
His words were quite impolite. If it were Renette Tinicol, she might have been secretly annoyed, but the Goddess of the Night remained calm. As a former executive in Northern Europe, she had a lot of information available online, including various ideas and concepts.
According to the Goddess of the Night's speculation, a person like Xia'er would rather awaken the Heavenly Venerable of Fortune and Profound Yellow and let the world fall than allow the gods of the North and South continents, or other ancient beings, to rule the West continent. The less he cares about the North and South continents, the more he values the West continent.
I'd rather destroy it than give it to an outsider.
This sense of territory isn't unique to humans; animals have it too, so it's nothing unusual.
"Of course, I'll only say such a rude thing once."
"I also think it's incredibly disrespectful."
He bowed slightly apologetically to the goddess of the night. Those... well... radical thoughts only need to be said once, there's no need to bring them up repeatedly, that would be embarrassing.
"That's really impolite."
The Goddess of the Night nodded, knowing that this was the most unpleasant and blunt thing that Xia Er had deliberately chosen to say.
"How do you feel seeing the elves, after so many generations, gradually leaning towards the style of the Northern Continent?"
The goddess of the night suddenly raised a question, and a smile appeared on her face.
"Quite cute."
"However, Goshinam is still here, so elves are still elves, and most elves still maintain their traditions."
Xia'er knew that what the Goddess of the Night meant was that after so many generations of reproduction, coupled with the living environment and other reasons, some elves now resemble the people of the Northern Continent in appearance. But this was normal. As long as Goshinam was still alive, the core things could be passed down through characteristics and other means, so it didn't matter.
This kind of fusion is nothing. In the original timeline, those who were like wandering ghosts, only able to move around in the corners of civilization, regarded as outcasts or monsters, all the high-sequence beings perished, and the two strangers who later had some connection with them were selectively ignored, were in a situation like the forgotten ones. That was what made Xia'er feel uncomfortable.
"I am civilization, and He is civilization."
"But I also want to see civilization develop naturally, under our care..."
"It's strange, really. I love the Elf race more than I love Goshinam, even though the latter helped me the most and was the closest to me."
"Gohshinam is finished, and the elves are almost finished too."
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"When we think about it, it's really hard for us to just stay alive."
Shael's sigh made the Goddess of Night want to roll her eyes. Since the Second Age, the elves had been lording it over the northern and southern continents and the five great seas, and had fallen into a glorious era. Before they were targeted by the ancient sun god and the Church of Storms was about to take drastic measures, a hermit rose up among the elves.
It's only been a decadence, a little over a thousand years, yet you've kept track of it from the Fourth Era to now, almost four thousand years.
When the ancient sun god ruled the world, the whole world had to bow down and dare not look up at the sun in the sky, not just you elves.
The goddess of night smiled politely and remained silent. She slew the demon wolf with a single sword stroke, leaving no room for empathy.
Xia'er then took out the "Scroll of Gods." The lingering yin energy on it made the Goddess of Night pause in surprise. Another item with an aura of eternal darkness? How come there are so many?
She looked over there.
This is an Eastern-style landscape painting. If one is discerning enough to appreciate it, one can clearly see the dark, ghostly handprint on the scroll that resembles a seal.
The painting contains mountains and water. The mountains are Yinshan, full of graves, and the water is stagnant and silent.
The spirits lingered, and the air was thick with ghostly energy.
There was no way to live, and no way to die.
The enslavement controlled by this painting exists in a state between life and death, even worse than that of the secret puppet, which at least lacks "spirit" and "resentment".
"You need to pay respects to the patriarch, and then I will accept disciples on behalf of the patriarch and pass on the teachings on behalf of the patriarch."
When it came to etiquette, Xia Er carefully explained the details that could not be omitted.
Who is the founder?
The Goddess of the Night didn't mince words, but couldn't help asking out of curiosity.
The Great Emperor of Fengdu? The Great God of Mount Tai?
"Of course, it's the River of Eternal Darkness itself."
Chael answered naturally.
The Goddess of the Night's eyelids twitched, and her expression, unusually, began to falter.
Learning from nature and the universe, isn't that normal?
Shael looked at the Goddess of the Night with a puzzled expression. "Is there a problem?"
"To join your Haoli lineage, we need to establish a connection with the River of Eternal Darkness?"
The Goddess of the Night asked, recalling Xia'er's previous performance.
"Yes, this is the foundation of our religion, and it can also be called ordination."
Xia Er briefly explained the process.
First comes the ordination, which establishes a basic connection with the River of Eternal Darkness itself. Then comes the ascension to the Heavenly Court, the attainment of a divine position, and the authority to receive the rewards from the ancestral master. This is similar to how the Phoenix Ancestor created the Underworld and distributed some of the Death God's authority to the Sequence 5 gatekeepers.
"Is it the River of Eternal Darkness of the Western Continent, or a tributary of the Underworld of the Northern and Southern Continents?"
The Goddess of Night continued to inquire.
"Of course it's the Western Continent. Now that you've become my junior sister, your seniority will naturally rise. How could I possibly mistreat you?"
"The tributary of the underworld in the northern and southern continents has not established a related divine system, mainly because apart from me, you have no connections there, and my connections are not very strong, sometimes effective and sometimes not."
When Shael talked about the underworld, he also missed the deceased Salinger. Before the death of this underworld emperor, Shael had a good relationship with Gregar, the progenitor of the phoenix.
However, after Salinger's death, he became more powerful than Greta in the Eternal Darkness branch, and Chael's help to Greta was limited, so their relationship gradually became distant.
But the bond of kinship remains.
The Goddess of Night is not so good. If she establishes a connection with the River of Eternal Darkness, Salinger might harass her indirectly. Of course, this is not a big problem for the Goddess of Night, who holds secret authority. It's just that the development of the River of Eternal Darkness is not strong enough.
It doesn't have much value in terms of "receiving ordination," the input-output ratio is low, and the conversion efficiency is too low.
"Can I just study the law first?"
The Goddess of Night pondered for a long time, but still decided to trust Shael and establish a possible fateful connection between herself and the unfamiliar, uncertain details of the Western Continent's Eternal Dark River. She knew there were pitfalls; she didn't want to be sold out and then end up counting the money for someone else.