Chapter 61: Chapter 61: Pharaoh No. 3, Prophet
"Who are you!"
The Pharaoh looked at his subjects turning into dust one by one, enraged.
"What’s this gibberish." Chen Lan frowned, waving his hand.
Instantly, the scepter in the Pharaoh’s hand flew into Chen Lan’s hand, trembling violently.
"Quiet!" Chen Lan commanded coldly.
In an instant, the scepter stopped moving and quieted down.
Seeing his Divine Artifact so easily taken away by Chen Lan, the Pharaoh was utterly shocked.
That was the Divine Artifact he had painstakingly sought, allowing him to rest in his tomb for hundreds of years without dying.
"Give it back to me!" The Pharaoh shouted, releasing a surge of red energy from his body, rushing towards Chen Lan.
Chen Lan looked at the energy flowing towards him expressionlessly, and with a slight cold snort, he dispelled the energy.
The Pharaoh was instantly knocked back, crashing against the wall, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
However, the red energy within his body automatically healed his injuries, restoring him to his full state.
"If it wasn’t for needing you, I would have killed you already," Chen Lan said coldly, raising his right hand.
A force of attraction burst from his palm, pulling the Pharaoh over, gripping his neck, suspending him in midair.
"Tell me, where did this gemstone come from?" Chen Lan asked coldly.
"Haha, dream on, I will kill you!" The Pharaoh roared in agony, red energy gathering within him, preparing to attack Chen Lan.
"If that’s the case, then I’ll see for myself." Chen Lan’s eyes flashed with purple light.
"Aaaahh!!" The Pharaoh suddenly screamed, tilting his head back.
A terrifying energy was rampaging in his mind, destroying his brain, torturing his soul.
This was Chen Lan using Soul Search, wanting to know where the Pharaoh got this gemstone with a trace of Life Dao Rhyme.
In less than ten seconds, the Pharaoh stopped struggling, his body limply hanging, as if dead.
And the purple light in Chen Lan’s eyes faded, his lips slightly curling up.
"Not bad, I’ve gained something," Chen Lan released his grip, and the Pharaoh fell, soon kneeling on one knee.
"Master!" The Pharaoh spoke in fluent Huaxia.
"From now on, you’re Number 3, and your task is to find the other gemstones lost back then," Chen Lan said blandly.
From the Pharaoh’s memory, he saw a fist-sized red gemstone, much larger than the current marble-sized one in his hand.
If it was a whole gemstone, it must contain a lot of Life Dao Rhyme, which now isn’t even enough to fill a gap in his teeth.
Additionally, the Pharaoh made a decent subordinate, with a unique ability inside him.
Because he had worn the Life Gem for hundreds of years, he had absorbed quite a bit of Life Dao Rhyme, and even comprehended a bit.
Although not much, it enabled him to acquire an ability to absorb others’ life forces to replenish his own, allowing him to live eternally as long as he absorbed enough!
It was terrifying, but there was a fatal flaw.
If the opponent’s strength was too strong, they could overwhelm him, preventing him from absorbing.
That was just one of the Pharaoh’s abilities; another was to revive the dead as mindless zombies—mummies.
"Yes, Master," Number 3 nodded heavily.
"Someone is coming, handle it yourself," Chen Lan sensed hundreds of people approaching; they were ordinary humans.
The next second, Chen Lan vanished.
The three Tomb Raiders woke up groggily, only to find the Pharaoh standing before them, whispering demonically.
"You shall be my newest servants!"
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Playground.
Chen Lan sat under a nearby shady tree, watching people cultivate, then looked down at the red gemstone in his hand, a hint of doubt in his heart.
What kind of planet was Blue Star in the past?
He learned many incredible histories from the Pharaoh’s memory.
There were divine beings and extraordinary individuals hundreds of years ago!
In the memories, the Pharaoh had seen deities standing in the sky, summoning wind and rain, refining their bodies with thunder.
And beings who could breathe fire, summon wind waves, and control objects with their minds.
If these existed back then, why weren’t they seen later?
The answer was absent in the Pharaoh’s memory because soon after, he fell into a state of suspended death.
The gemstone was found by the Pharaoh with others when they went out and discovered it, a total of four were involved.
They found the gemstone, then divided it into four parts, each taking one.
Soon after, Pharaoh Country was invaded, and the Pharaoh, while fighting enemies, accidentally got severely injured and was on the brink of death.
When his blood reached the gemstone, it emitted a strange brilliance.
From then on, he gained mysterious abilities, until one day, a person identifying as a Prophet found him.
Claiming that hundreds of years later, Blue Star would undergo unprecedented changes, and his era was not present, but hundreds of years later.
The Pharaoh, resolutely, entered sleep with the Life Gem, while others thought him dead.
A Pyramid was built for him, creating that famous site.
No one expected that because of three Tomb Raiders, the Pharaoh would reappear and be enlisted by him as servants.
"It seems, Blue Star is indeed not simple; what did it experience to become like this?"
He could almost deduce that previously, Blue Star was definitely not simple.
Because during the Pharaoh’s era, there were exceptional people; if the timeline was pushed back thousands, even tens of thousands of years, wouldn’t there be even stronger beings?
And then there’s the Heavenly Dao, which was also cognizant only up to hundreds of years ago, around the time the Pharaoh went into slumber.
Chen Lan thought he must visit the library to read up on history.
Perhaps history books could provide him with answers.
Blue Star of hundreds of years ago was surely not simple!
With these thoughts, Chen Lan disappeared.
The next second, he appeared in the library of Qindu University.
Since the advent of the Cultivation Era, no one read books anymore; even the administrator was absent, leaving the library closed.
Chen Lan expanded his Divine Sense, quickly locating the history book shelf and finding a book.
[Huaxia’s Five Thousand Years of History]
But as he quickly flipped through the pages, his gaze became increasingly grave.
Until finally, he closed the book, feeling immensely heavy-hearted, frowning.
"History, is missing!"
No, it can’t be said to be missing, but more like a restart!
The book contained much history he had never learned.
And within the historical sequence, he clearly noticed a section that didn’t align, where one part mentioned The First Emperor of Qin constructing the Great Wall to repel invaders, followed by the founding celebrations of Huaxia!
Where did that significant portion of history go?
Chen Lan thought critically and was frightened; for so many years, everyone knew about The First Emperor unifying the six states and knew much history.
But now, upon opening this book, he discovered a large portion missing.
The strangest thing was not just that, but everyone believed the history to be correct, unaware their memories had been altered!
What about the history after the unification of the six states, was it merely human imagination, or forcibly implanted into their memories?
Wait, if human memory was modified and history lost.
Then, who wrote this book?!