Azur Lane: I took the graduation port area through time

Chapter 1040 Catastrophe caused by bad omen

Lin Lan has always believed that although he is not a good person, he is definitely not a bloodthirsty person.

But when he peeked through the invisible breath of the mind and witnessed hundreds of innocent villagers being slaughtered and used as "blood food" from the memories of these two extreme people, he finally understood one thing.

This is the Natlan Empire where the strong prey on the weak and strength is respected.

In the eyes of the evil cultivators whose minds are twisted by X, those unarmed civilians are "blood food" no different from livestock.

And the little sword spirit reminded him before he took action that the erosion in these evil cultivators' bodies was completely integrated with their bodies and souls, and could not be purified by the touch of holy mercy at all.

This is also the reason why he killed without mercy.

Lin Lan finally looked at the black-haired girl extreme person who was already full of despair.

By peeking into the other party's memory, he learned that more than a hundred years ago, several elders of Qingxiao Pavilion secretly collected the so-called "life tax" from various villages in the Changqing Mountain Range.

As the name implies, the life tax is the life force that the extreme people use their extreme power to extract vitality from the bodies of mortals and refine them into various elixirs or spiritual tools.

Although this behavior is expressly prohibited by the state king and the official Natlan, and there are also quite a few extreme people who disdain to take the elixirs refined by the life tax.

But in fact, it is not just Qingxiao Pavilion. The famous and upright sects in the entire Natlan Empire will more or less collect life taxes from mortals within their sphere of influence.

Unlike the evil cultivators who directly regard mortals as blood food.

When the famous and upright sects collect life taxes, they often give mortals corresponding rewards.

Or provide silver and property, or help kill enemies, or give elixirs and food, or grant fertile land outside the sect and protect the village.

Even these famous and upright sects often do not force mortals to pay life taxes, but mortals take the initiative to ask for their lifespans.

The reason is very simple, and it also makes Lin Lan sigh.

That is, in recent years, the corruption and exploitation of officials in various places in the Natlan Empire, coupled with the rampant evil cultivation, have made it difficult for almost all mortals to survive without the help of the sect.

Through the memories of the two people just now, Lin Lan learned that compared with the situation of people living in dire straits around Dakang County, the mountain villages within the Qingxiao Pavilion were already considered a paradise before.

After all, the officials in those counties would not allow refugees to live in the villages under the jurisdiction of Qingxiao Pavilion.

And just the afternoon before yesterday, the extreme people who had been taking Shoushui pills for a long time in Qingxiao Pavilion, whether elders or disciples, suddenly felt endless hunger in their hearts.

Driven by endless hunger and desire, they first tacitly attacked the villages around the sect and devoured the villagers as blood food.

But for them, this was just a drop in the bucket.

The hunger in these extreme people seemed to be endless, making them more and more painful and eventually falling into madness.

Even the head of Qingxiao Pavilion and the two supreme elders were also tortured by this nameless hunger and desire.

So this morning, these extreme people turned their attention to the fellow disciples in the sect who never used the longevity pills to practice.

Taking immortals as blood food, the feeling of fullness is much greater than that of mortals.

"The bad omen really gave Natlan a great gift... Could it be that in addition to Qingxiao Pavilion, other Natlan sects have also encountered the same situation?

"If similar situations occur in all sects in Liaozhou, the disaster of evil cultivators... Tsk. "

Although Lin Lan's facial expression remained unchanged, deep worry had already risen in his heart.

The time when the minds of those extreme people in Qingxiao Pavilion were distorted was almost the same as the time when the bad omen descended on the Xinghai base.

He had also seen that the X aura that he and the little sword spirit had just sensed was the aura of the three extreme people who were transformed into evil cultivators by the bad omen.

It seems that what the bad omen said at that time was true, and this alien world might really break out in chaos.

Fortunately, when he was in Liaozhou, he and the Sakura Empire ship girls had eliminated all the X-related threats in Liaozhou.

And Oran seemed to have never been attacked by X from beginning to end.

If not, the disaster facing Liaozhou would be even more severe.

At the same time, Lin Lan finally understood why the soul of the Natlan Grand Master Zhuo Haokong repeatedly told him not to practice the power of the limit.

I'm afraid that as early as that time, Zhuo Haokong had already discovered the truth about evil cultivators and the power of the limit.

But what does all this have to do with the God-killing curse on the Natlan royal family?

Lin Lan sighed softly. He originally planned to go to Orlan to find the prince to learn about the God-killing curse after Valentine's Day.

Unexpectedly, the clue was right in front of him, but he missed it because of the sudden attack of the bad omen.

Fortunately, the sisters Shen Lianying and several Liaozhou Island owners happened to go to Huanyang City, otherwise the outbreak of the God-killing curse would be a troublesome matter.

After confirming again and again that the last remaining extreme girl had not taken the life tax pill and had no X breath on her body, Lin Lan lifted the mind-penetrating ability of the breath.

But as he lifted this ability, the skill of the invisible breath became unusable again.

"What is the principle of this? I didn't feed it the power of faith? "

Lin Lan was a little puzzled. He really couldn't understand why the Invisible Breath suddenly gave him a benefit just now.

Looking at the blood mist that fell from the sky into the stream as he released the control of the water element, dyeing the stream water with a layer of light red, he had a vague guess in his heart.

"Could it be that when I fight and confront the evil cultivator whose mind was twisted by X, it will make the Invisible Breath want to fight?"

Thinking back then, Omen could use the power similar to the Invisible Breath to summon the Black Claw, and how Unzen and the Shigesakura girls called the Invisible Breath X Penumbra.

Lin Lan felt that his inference should be fine and he could wait until the next time he fights the evil cultivator to test it.

With the precedent of the Gu Liao Continent's Haunted Guards, those evil cultivators who not only failed to resist their own desires, but also indulged themselves in killing innocent people indiscriminately, in his eyes, were no different from the Demon King's army, no, even from the incarnation of X.

Seeing the blood mist falling around her, the girl from Qingxiao Pavilion who was still flying in the air suddenly came back to her senses.

It was only then that she realized that the fabric of the green shirt on her back was soaked with cold sweat.

She didn't dare to talk to Lin Lan, but she was also afraid that if she escaped, she would be attacked like the three people who had just chased her. She could only float helplessly above the stream.

Lin Lan ignored the extreme girl, turned his back, and walked towards the shriveled corpse behind him.

"Master Patroller, the fish you just asked the children to bring... ah, is it the Immortal of Qingxiao Pavilion?"

Just when Lin Lan was thinking about how to explain to the villagers that all three hunters were killed, the white-haired village chief holding a wooden stick happened to walk out of the village.

The old village chief originally greeted Lin Lan warmly, but when he saw the girl holding the sword, he suddenly trembled and quickly dropped his crutches and knelt down.

"Xun... Haiwei?!"

When the injured girl holding the sword heard the village chief's address to Lin Lan, her pupils suddenly shrank and she shouted:

"Senior, you, you are a patrol guard!"

"Noisy."

Lin Lan felt very unhappy because she had just witnessed the bloody killing last night through the power of breath.

But what he didn't expect was that this extreme girl seemed to be too seriously injured. After being threatened by him, she fell unconscious on the spot and fell into the stream.