013. The greater the power, the more desires ()

That night, Amon came to Hanquan again, but he did not take a bath as usual. In the past, he would sit in the water at the edge of Hanquan, soak his body to wash his face and hair, but this time the old madman asked him to dive deep into the Hanquan and look for the spring. There was something special there, and he took it out and took it back.

As for what it was, the old lunatic didn't say.

The cold spring is biting cold, and a layer of mist condenses on the water surface under the moonlight. It looks like it is steaming, but it is actually a tiny droplet of water condensed in the low-temperature air close to the water surface. In this biting water, ordinary people will be unable to bear the war between a few breaths. Even if Amon wants to dive deeper, he needs courage.

Amon took a deep breath and silently penetrated the spring water, trying not to think about the biting coldness, and focused on using his body to feel the faint flow of water at the bottom of the water, looking for the spring. The center of the cold spring was not too deep, which was about the height of two adults, which was enough to make Amon lose his head.

Deep in the spring, the chill seemed to be boundless, and the heat in the body was rapidly losing. Amon tried to control himself and not tremble and twitch, but every pore was shrinking and trembling, and the tiny fibers of each muscle were trembling rapidly and faintly.

It is difficult to concentrate in this situation, but Amon did it. He felt the seemingly calm spring water flowing slowly in the depths, and traced back to the place where it originated. The source of the cold spring was gurgling in the cracks of a pile of pebbles at the bottom. Amon suddenly felt a deeper cold in the biting cold.

This subtle difference is difficult to distinguish because the whole body is cold. Amon touched a stone with his hand, which looked like a mineral core. When he focused his energy and carefully experienced it, his body suddenly had a cold war uncontrollably and almost choked on the water. The cold that he didn't care about was suddenly awakened and penetrated into his body madly.

It was not that the spring water became colder, but that Amon seemed to communicate the source of the chill, awakening and amplifying the feeling, which almost made him unable to stand for a moment. He just wanted to leave here quickly, and even suspected that he was going to be frozen in the spring water.

But Amon did not leave. A heat current rose in his body, spreading all over his body. This reaction usually only appeared when he left Hanquan and sat down to rest. At this moment, he appeared in the spring water, indicating that he had been staying for a long enough time and was about to exceed some limit. The body had instinctive self-protection and awakened a kind of power.

Amon held the pebble the size of a mine core and did not pick it up with force. It seemed like a stone scattered at the bottom of the water was fixed there by a mysterious force, and it was in a stalemate.

Amon, who held his breath, concentrated all his energy. In an instant, the chill and heat in his body seemed to be under his control. His whole body was trembling rapidly, his chest was so uncomfortable, and his right hand emitted amazing strength. The feeling suddenly loosened, and the pebbles were picked up by him. Amon's body rushed out of the water, and then fell down with a plop, and the stone was tightly held in his hand.

He climbed back to the shore, but ignored the pebble. Instead, he closed his eyes and sat there. It seemed that he was still moving, but he felt the blood in his body flowing rapidly, and every pore was trembling in a way that the naked eye could not detect. The water droplets on his body turned into hot steam and evaporated, but the chill in his body was slowly dispelled after a long time.

He only felt very tired after going into the water for a short time, but he stood up and moved his limbs. His movements were like strange gymnastics. After he returned to calm, he began to carefully look at the pebble. It looked very much like a mineral core, but Amon had seen many mineral cores and always felt that there were some differences. Although this thing was similar to natural pebble, it always felt that there were traces of artificial forgery, although it was very cleverly made.

When I sensed it in the spring just now, it was so cold, but at this moment, I held it in my hand, there was only a normal coolness of a stone, and I could hardly notice anything abnormal. Thinking of this, Amon suddenly realized something was wrong, put down the stone and entered the cold spring. The water in the cold spring was still cold, but as Amon guessed, the biting cold was gradually dissipating.

So far, Amon should have completed the task assigned by the old madman, but he had not stopped yet and sneaked into the cold spring again. This time it was much simpler than the last time. Soon he grabbed a pebble with one hand and threw it onto the shore, then changed his breath and dived again, throwing twenty pebbles one after another before climbing back to the shore.

This time he was frozen so cold that his body was a little purple, and his breath was shaking like a sieve. At this time, he felt that the moonlight seemed to have become brighter, with a warm feeling covering it, and slowly penetrated into his body. When he looked up, a divine stone was quietly floating above, emitting a soft light. When he turned around, the old madman had stood behind him from time to time.

"Child, you will hurt your body like this. I didn't want you to take out the entire magic array. Just find the blue water heart in the middle and use your power to take it out." The old madman said as he spoke, the divine stone hanging in the air became brighter, and the soft white light seemed to turn into thick mist, which gradually restored Amon's body, and at the same time there was a sense of oppression that made him speechless.

"But you are better than I thought. Letting you take out the Nine Blue Water Heart is mainly to test two abilities. The first is that your body can withstand the invasion of this cold spring and can still use its power without interference; the second is that your spirit and will are also strong enough to detect subtle changes in that environment. Only in this way can it be possible to awaken the power of both sides of the body."

The old madman spoke, waved his short staff in his hand, and the twenty pebbles on the ground shattered silently, just like a scene of mining a core with a sledgehammer, revealing the twenty divine stones inside. The pebble that Amon first took out showed fluctuations like water marks on the surface, and then it poured into sand like a stream of water, and a dark blue divine stone appeared in the center.

The old madman then explained: "Thirty years ago, I used a blue water heart and twenty divine stones to set up a magic circle here to create this cold spring. Now its mission has been completed. Those pebbles are not natural mineral cores, but are the disguise I made. It is not surprising to me that you can find blue water heart, but you have found all the disguised pebbles, which really surprised me."

After saying this, the divine stone fell down in the air and was caught by the old madman. Only the quiet moonlight was reflected on the water. Amon had already stood up and reached out to pick up the blue divine stone and asked, "It is called Youlan Water Heart?"

The old madman nodded: "Yes, divine stones of different colors have their own names, and the blue ones are called the Nine Blue Water Heart by the magicians."

Children who grew up in Duke Town certainly know that in addition to the colorless and transparent standard divine stones, there are four special divine stones, red, blue, black and white. However, this is the first time that Amon, the name of the Blue Water Heart, has been heard of. Although these four special divine stones are not as rare as the Tears of the Gods, they are also very rare. Even in a place like Duke Town, they can't produce a few a year. If you are not lucky, you may not see one in a few years.

Amon mined the tears of the gods last time, but before he could take them carefully, he was taken away by Fayol. This is the first time that he has the opportunity to study the special divine stones other than the standard divine stones. While playing, he found that the old madman had turned around and left.

"Where are you going?" Amon shouted from behind.

"Of course I'm going home to sleep! I'm afraid something happened to you in the cold spring, so I came over and took a look and prepared to save people at any time. Since you're fine, I can have a good sleep." The old madman replied without looking back.

"Where are these divine stones, don't you take them away?" Amon shouted again.

"I threw it here thirty years ago and never wanted to take them away. What you took out is yours, and it will be useful to keep it... It will be this time tomorrow night, and it is still in this place. I will hold a ritual of awakening power for you, but don't forget." As the voices gradually faded away, the old madman had disappeared in the black fire jungle.

After the old madman left, Amon sat by the spring water and looked at the faint blue water heart. When he concentrated on trying to experience it carefully, he always felt a mysterious power fluctuating between the divine stone and the spring water, and something in his body was ready to move, as if it was a breath of desire, and he was distracted again without realizing it.

...

The next night, the "Awakening Ceremony of Power" held by the old madman for Amon was actually a kind of prayer. But unlike the rituals held by the magicians, the great magician did not ask Amon to pray to any specific god, but only taught him how to focus his spirit. Everything outside was between the seemingly and unsightly, so as to clearly sense the subtle changes in his body and the heart, condense his spiritual introspection, and communicate with the original power symbolizing all things.

This is of course much more difficult than a magician who only needs to pray to the gods devoutly. The old madman told Amon again that he might as well pray to the gods, and explained with a smile: "That day you discussed the origin of the divine with Aristotle, and I also heard it. If you can understand what he said, then you can understand what I mean... To awaken the power, you must be prepared enough, otherwise the ceremony will not be successful, and you have already prepared enough that you can't be enough."

This ceremony seemed to open a door and touched an unknown world. The old madman asked Amon to put the dark blue water heart in front of him, and asked him to try to gather spiritual power to use the dark blue water heart as an intermediary to feel how to communicate with this unknown world. Amon really felt a cool feeling, as if there were, and there was no exact shape permeating around.

When he felt the coolness, it seemed that it could turn into a cold again. This was the most familiar feeling he had in the cold spring for a long time. Then he felt that the spring water around him resonated with it with a strange rhythm. This rhythm was not breathing or heartbeat, but a natural rhythm that could not be described clearly.

At the same time, the old madman saw the hazy water light emitted by the heart of the blue water that was shrouded on Amon, and couldn't help but sigh: "If you use the tears of the gods to perform this ritual, it will be much easier to awaken the power, and the heart of the blue water will be done with it. Even if you don't use the help of any external objects, you will succeed. It's better to master specific magic."

Amon didn't hear the old madman's words. He was immersed in a novel world. Is this the so-called power given by the gods? Or the power of the natural origin, or the power hidden in the body? What he felt was not only the strange fluctuations from the outside world, but also an indescribable sense of relaxation and pleasure in his body, feeling that he had never been so strong.

He felt inexplicably strong, as if he could control or defeat everything, and when he was introspective of his spirit, he really sensed the power of both sides of the body.

Desire always appears with power. The greater the power, the more desires it is. For example, a hungry person may just be a meal, while an emperor may want to conquer the entire continent and have endless wealth and power.

It seems that in tranquility, various desires or wishes also appear quietly, and it is hard to tell whether they come from the body or the mind. It may be suppressed in a focused prayer ceremony, but in every word and action, Amon quickly felt this trouble.

...

The ceremony was just the beginning. The old madman told him to gradually master it until he completely controlled this induction, and he could truly learn divine and physical skills. It might take some time. In the next few days, Amon would come to the spring water to pray intently every night, but for most of the day, he was still a miner in the town, and it looked no different from before.

He often thought of Maria, of what happened that night, of her body and lips kissing, of her hand in the collar and placed it on her chest, and his thoughts changed slightly subtly. He would indulge in a fantasy - gaining invincible power, able to defeat Gabriel, and drive Rhode Dick away even the personal guards, leaving only him and Maria, and then...

He does have unprecedented power, but with the emergence of power, there are subtle changes in his mentality. Desire and wishes will expand and amplify, and will fly endlessly like wings.

When he concentrates his mind and reflects his body and mind every night and senses external objects, he will be very awake to these things, as if he is enduring a torture. One voice seems to be saying, "Have the power, get everything he wants!" Another voice seems to be saying, "How ridiculous, you are so weak that you can only be ridiculed!" And Amon's soul seems to be watching coldly outside these two voices, and unconsciously being involved.

When Mary experienced all this, Gabriel told her that she only had to look at it with a pure heart and not to control it. The old madman didn't tell Amon so, he just told Amon that this was a test, and it depends on how he faced it himself.

In addition to the commotion that plagued the soul, Amon's body also had an abnormal reaction. He had an illusion that he was getting stronger every day, and his steps were so strong and steady when walking. Every bone and every muscle were making a slight sound, as if it contained infinite energy. He even had the urge to clench his fists and wanted to beat someone up.

The son of an alcoholic has been ridiculed in this town since he was a child. At this time, Amon had an inexplicable desire to beat anyone he saw when he didn't like him. He was like a fierce and aggressive beast lurking in his body. Amon did not fight in the town, but he did something that made the whole town stunned and envious.

As a result of the incident, Lord Xiao Gu, the priest and secretary of the temple, fainted in public and vomited blood.

The cause of the incident was the divine stones he took out from the cold spring. Amen kept carrying them with him carefully. When he passed by the Temple of Muyun that day, he saw Xiao Gu and his servants registering the taxes paid by the townsmen in front of the door, and the head of the town was standing aside. I don’t know where the impulse came from, Amen turned around and walked over with a sneer, saying loudly: “Master, I want to pay the taxes!”

Before Mayor Dasty could answer, Xiao Gu asked with some anxiety and curiosity: "Among, what tax do you pay? Your family has not received the mine core in the mine these days?"

Retrieving the divine stone from the mine core is the most critical last step. The place where the mining core is mined is the mine in the north of the village, which is on the edge of the mountains and ridges of the Syrian Plateau. It is impossible for a person to complete the work of mountain opening, stone chiseling, mining mine cores, etc. It is the collective work of the miners in the town, and there are people to supervise it. The mine cores obtained are distributed to each company according to the amount of effort. At the clerk Xiao Gu, there has been no registration recently that the Amon family has received the mine cores, and he is still grateful.
Chapter completed!