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Below the oasis is a large round house with books and scrolls everywhere, some spread on the tabletops, some piles piled on the floor to four feet high. Faded brocades and broken maps are hung with stone walls. Some heavy mudstone slabs half a person tall piled up in the corners. Besides, the only light comes from a tall black candle in the middle of the room.[]

The candle was so lit up that it was uncomfortable and disturbing. Ahhebourne closed the door hard and shook the paper on the table next to it, but the flames of the candle did not flicker. The color of the flame was strange, as white as fresh snow, as yellow as molten gold, and as red as flames, but the shadow it left behind was so dark, as if it were the black holes of the world. Sam found himself staring at it. The candle was three feet tall, as thin as a sword, with a spiral edge as sharp as a knife, and a slightly flashing black light.

"Is this..." Rosie whispered.

"…Obsidian." said Li Ou, "it's exactly the same material as the sword group spire."

"I thought it was just an ordinary black stone. But when I knew what obsidian was, I couldn't help but sigh that alchemists were always so extravagant and wasted." Yaheben greeted them and walked into the room and into the light of obsidian. Leo took a deep breath, and suddenly seemed to smell the smell of his hometown, immersed in the light of the truth of alchemy. "But I don't call it obsidian, but called it divine stone."

"Divine Stone?" Li Ou asked in shock.

"If you have anything to do with those guys, there will be no good things." Rosie snorted coldly.

"No, I have seen records about them in ancient books." Li Ou swallowed, "Roxi, do you still remember the ancient scrolls in our hands? The golden ancient scrolls. There are even words on them how to forge them and how to deceive the gods through it."

"Oris Du's Alchemy Scroll." Rosie and Ahiben said at the same time.

Rosie asked alertly, "How do you know?"

"Your father is looking for them," Ahiben told Leo, with a look of nostalgia appearing on his face. "It has seven volumes in total. It not only contains countless alchemy formulas, but also records the truth of the world, a cycle of futures."

Even Leo himself hasn't known so much. "Is this what my father told you?"

"No, I found it myself."

However, he was a mercenary in the first half of his life and a monk in the second half of his life.

"Yes. So I'm upset about the ignorance of my first half of my life." Ahiben said, while walking through the obstacles made by books. "The life of a monk gave me knowledge. I can't speak here, only books and prayers accompany me, which made me find peace and secrets that are unknown."

"What's the secret?"

"Time has eroded memories, and the yellow sand has covered up so much truth." Yaheben sighed like a scholar. He stretched out his hand, gestured in the air, and murmured endlessly. His fat slap, thick knuckles, and a low voice... Yaheben's spell casting looks made people laugh. He was a crappy apprentice who became a monk halfway, and Leo couldn't help but worry whether his spell would fail.

The magic appeared without warning, the familiar fluctuations, but the strange posture, the bewitching Yan Ling, and Li Ou couldn't help but be surprised. This is the so-called taboo technique? "What kind of magic is this? I have never seen it before." He whispered his doubts.

Rosie looked at Ahiben's gesture carefully, closed her eyes and listened to the other party's spells, and felt the turmoil of magic. "A variant of divine art." She opened her eyes and said, "To be precise, he directly transformed his pure faith into power. He did not pass through the gods, nor did he pray or confess. No wonder he was listed as a taboo."

Faith is faith, not about the gods. Leo understood what Ahiben said at this time.

A gust of wind appeared without warning in the underground stone chamber without windows. It gently rolled up books and papers, piled them together, and put them one by one, and the dust in the room was taken away by the breeze. A mud slab was lifted up, and then one after another, they were all placed smoothly on the table in front of them.

As the magic stopped, Ahiben took a deep breath and smiled reluctantly. His face was covered in sweat, and it was obvious that he was still not familiar with the spell. "I have too few opportunities to practice." He sighed, and turned to point to the mudstone slab in front of him. "There are many things recorded on it. Their history is enough to go back thousands of years."

Li Ou leaned over and looked. The cuneiform text above was obscure and difficult to understand, and some kind of cipher text concealed the true meaning. "The text above is exactly the same as the Alchemy Volume." He said in surprise, and read it carefully along the way.

"What did you write?" Rosie asked.

"Divine Stone." Leo told her, "there are some introductions about the alchemy scrolls. But without its origin, there are too few contents." There are only a few words carved on each half-person-high mud stone slab. "It's impossible to determine anything just by this. I would have liked more."

"No more." Ahiben sighed, "They are buried deep underground like this divine stone, buried in hidden places, engulfed by yellow sand, and quicksand eroded them."

"Okay," Rosie asked, "Let's not talk about these for now. What's the use of this sword-like divine stone?"

“The magic is based on faith,” Ahiben said. “Using obsidian, the gods can communicate with his priests; through it, the wizard’s sight can travel through mountains, deserts and lakes.”

Li Ou said in his mouth, "Does it also include entering other people's dreams to show illusions, or communicating information across half the world?"

Yaheben looked up at Leo for a long time. "Yes." He did not deny this.

"What about Brandik?" Leo chased him tightly, but a heart-wrenching pain came without warning, causing him to close his mouth tightly. He held Rosie's hand tightly, without saying a word.

"Yes. Just as you guessed." said the red-robed monk, "Magic transmission of messages is like whispering in silence, and so is the oracle. Anyway, no one has heard of God's metaphor for thousands of years, right?"

Poor Brandik. "I knew it would be like this. Now there is only magic, no gods." Leo said reluctantly, "I'm sorry for those priests, how many oracles they forged. Thank you so much." He wanted to continue to sarcasm, but the pain made him forget his anger. He forced himself to find a chair and sat down. Rosie brought a bench to him. She grabbed his hand, her body trembled, buried her head in his arms, and bit his shirt.

Ahiben bowed his head, and he did not see their pain. "I don't know anyone else. At least in this quiet sanctuary, I will know how to do it, and I just told... no, I was cheating on Brandik."

He still knew this was a deception? Leo thought he would still think that he was the gods in the pleasure of instructing others. The colic in his stomach made him almost unable to think, and Rosie almost shrank into a ball in his arms. But the question still hit his soul. How did the red-robed monk predict? "Why are every command always prescient?" He tried hard to make his voice sound normal. "Can obsidian predict it?"

"I don't know." Yaheben spoke something that surprised Leo.

Didn’t he stayed with mudstones all day long, holding the books and papers in the room for the night? “How come you didn’t know?” His chest was so painful, and his reason was torture. “Since that’s the case, all of the…what you said… are your imagination? I really admire your luck, but you were fooled by you.”

"Not as you imagined," said Ahhebourne. "I just saw it, heard it. I just didn't know where it came from and why it appeared in front of me alone. Everything is so real that it has to be believed."

Li Ou groaned, "Through this obsidian sword, obsidian candle?"

Ahiben nodded. "Who has a divine stone in his hand," he said. "It is obvious that she contacted me and showed me what she knew and predicted. The silent metaphor, which the gods of the Miracle Age did to the priests. I was skeptical, but your figure appeared in the other metaphor, and I had to be careful, so I sent Brandik and falsely sent the oracle to deceive him and induce him."

The monks of red robe were good enough to him. He still missed his old love. Leo had no doubt that he would do his best to help them. However, these words of him obviously conflicted with Brandik's description. This conflict was so huge that Leo was creepy that he forgot the torture of pain in an instant. "But, Brandik said that he heard more than one oracle. He was also led to meet an astrology."

"The old woman in Brandik's mouth? I know her." The red-robed monk said what he knew. "Before you arrived, he also met each other in meditation. The old woman said a lot of warning words to him."

"For example?"

"If I say the world is about to usher in the end, do you believe it?"

Li Ou shook his head.

Ahiben sighed sadly. "But her bewitching and intimidation made Brandik's faith shake. The Mario monk also noticed this. I should not blame him for it. He did it right and in time."

"What did that old woman say?"

"The woman told Brandik that the gods were going through hardships." Ahiben smiled bitterly, "What else can a guy who has died long ago suffer? But I can't tell him that. I can only hold this idea in my heart."

Li Ou nodded to show his understanding. "But she was indeed guiding Brandik before."

"Yes. I also confirm that she had no malice before, or rather, it was more like pretending to be kind. Everything was part of her plan. But we can't confirm this. You should be able to guess, and I'm sure that the one who showed me the future should be her, the old woman who tricked Brandik and tried to make her faith defeated."

"Her thoughts are not that simple." Leo commented. "But who is she? We have never seen her before." Could an old woman be the so-called mother of the desert? She is full of abscesses and maggots? "Brandick's description is unbelievable."

"She is a demon. I thought what she said was an oracle, but she was just a demon." Ahiben said with a serious expression. "Magic can always change the external image. Be careful."

It was getting darker and darker, and Li Ou could feel that it was approaching midnight.

Rosie shivered in his arms more and more uncontrollably. He could hear her roar as if she was trying hard to suppress her throat, her teeth were grinding, and the hilt of the sword kept colliding with the iron nail buckle on his belt, covering the slight rippling water waves above his head. He felt her pain in the same way. There was a pain all over his body, needles and bites, and all kinds of pain were covered like waves, from fingertips to heart, from the top of his head to the soles of the feet, and pain was everywhere. He could only hold Rosie tightly with one hand, and open and close his left hand desperately, breaking the infected and unhealed left hand, letting the pain overshadow the pain. But it was useless.

"Leo." Yaheben suddenly called him, "You..."

"...We're fine." Rosie said tremblingly in the alchemist's arms, "You're done with the talk. It's time for us to leave. We need a rest. We're tired all the way."

She struggled to stand up from Li Ou's arms and stumbled outwards. But before she could take two steps, she groaned and fell to the ground. Li Ou tried to pull her up, but he was weak and his legs weakened, and he knelt down. He felt that even opening his eyes was painful. Every inch of skin and every nerve was completely immersed in the pool of water called pain, and he could not escape.

Ahiben rushed up with a quick step. Leo felt him turn his eyelids and look at his pupils. He knew that his eyes must be filled with other colors.

"Damn it! You're dead!" the other party cursed loudly, and he looked at Luo Xi again, "How many alchemy medicines have you taken? I thought there was only one, but I didn't expect you..."

What else the monk in red robe said next, Li Ou had no idea, and he completely fainted.

In a daze, Leo heard the roar of the sea again and saw the giant ship of ghosts. However, this time the flag hung by the people of Leo Island was not an octopus sea monster, but a bright black sun, an erected dark golden eyes. The sun was lit in black light, and there was only the will to destroy in that eye, and there was no hope of creation.

The Phantom Ghost rushed towards him...

Li Ou suddenly woke up. The pain swept over. He inevitably let out a low cry, alarming Lu Yuewu who was standing beside her. She stood up from her thoughts and reached out to support him gently.

"Are you okay?" There was some concern and concern in her brown pupils.

"Yeah." Li Ou didn't know what to say. He looked around and found himself lying in the room, with dazzling sunlight shining in from the narrow window. "It's the next day?"

Lu Yuewu nodded. "It's noon now. The red-robed monk saved you." She paused and suddenly lowered her head. "Why did you do that?"

"What?"

"Why torture yourself like this?" Lu Yuewu shouted, "You almost died. Your hands almost couldn't be saved. Are you doing this to torture me? Let me see your pain? Let me blame myself?"

What's wrong with her? After being yelled, the anger in Leo's heart rushed up. "I've never been like this..." Lu Yuewu raised her head, and he saw her red eyes and tears hanging on her face. All the anger turned into guilt. He moved his lips, and finally made his throat mumble, "Sorry." He lowered his head.

Lu Yuewu took a deep breath. "You always do this!" she said.

As if she was silent and old, Lu Yuewu stood up. "I'll call the monk. He is treating Rosie." Without waiting for Li Ou to speak, she went out straight, leaving only a lonely and sad back.

The alchemist tried to figure out who was right and wrong between them, but this was more difficult to answer than the equation of alchemy. It seemed that the wool balls under the cat's paws were already wrapped in a mess. There was no other way to untie it again except to cut it into small pieces with scissors. He stared at the yellow ceiling in annoyance, and for a moment he could only sigh.

The only monk who returned to the room was the red robe. Lu Yuewu didn't know where he went. "You woke up faster than I thought." Ahiben walked in with a black wooden box and placed him at the head of the bed.

"Where is Rosie?" he asked impatiently.

"She is not awake yet, but nothing is wrong," said Ahhebourne. "For her, sleep is the best way to recover. I can guarantee that when you can't get down to the ground, she can jump around and gesture her spells."

It's fine. He breathed relaxedly.

"Give me your hand." The red-robed monk ordered. "Left hand."

Li Ou hesitated and stretched out his hand, watching him untie the bandage, he could hardly feel the pain. When the wound was exposed to the air, Li Ou couldn't help but be surprised that his hand was still on his arm. If it were someone else, the best advice he made was amputation. The bare hand bone was connected with pale fascia, and blood vessels were squirming and pumping blood. Several maggots were drilling into the gaps in the knife wound and twitching their fat bodies.

"They are dead." The monk from the red robe told him, grabbing the small tweezers with his big hand that once held the sword, accurately picking the dead maggots. "They ate the rotten meat, but they also gave up their lives. Your rotten meat is full of accumulated toxins. Fortunately, you came early, otherwise you would either delay for a few more days, or you would either die or follow your Zuopiao Astronomy Network."

"So we should have funerals for them, too." His joke didn't work.

The red-robed monk had a straight face, "Maybe he would add two guests, you and the wizard, when the death ceremony was held."

Li Ou twitched the muscles on his face, not knowing how to interfere. Although he said he didn't agree with the farewell of his left hand, he felt completely the opposite in his heart.

Ahheben cleaned the blood of the wound, "Red blood, red muscles, very good." He said, "It seems that your father has trained your body and he has taught you how to resist toxins. But if there is another time, I advise you to say goodbye to your girlfriends as soon as possible. You won't have such good luck next time."
Chapter completed!