Chapter 160

Within the original manor, Pingxi Marquis's meals, when Feng Xiansheng was available, were his responsibility. Later, He Chunlai took over. The once passionate youth pursuing the restoration of Jin, now became the new "imperial chef."

As long as conditions permitted, the Marquis naturally enjoyed the highest standard of catering services.

But in reality, the level of the kitchen within the residence was really not bad. Under high standards, the skills of several cooks, if released, could also be in charge of a top restaurant.

So,

The fish soup was very delicious.

In the deep winter season, enjoying the scenery while drinking fish soup with sesame cakes was indeed a kind of enjoyment and style.

Xiong Liqing initially fed Tiantian two mouthfuls.

Tiantian also gave face and drank two mouthfuls,

Then,

Tiantian stopped drinking.

The princess understood and ordered someone to fetch a small stool and a small square table from the carriage, placing them here.

Tiantian sat on the stool, and there was a compartment under the small square table. He familiarly reached out and took out a napkin from inside, hanging it around his neck himself.

Then, from the compartments on both sides, he took out a silver spoon and a pair of small silver chopsticks.

The fish soup and sesame cakes were placed on top,

Tiantian looked carefully and still put the chopsticks back, picking up the sesame cake with his left hand to bite, and drinking the fish soup with his right hand.

He usually ate obediently by himself at home.

The black cat and the fox lay prostrate nearby, very well-behaved.

Xiong Liqing also slowly drank the soup, occasionally glancing at Tiantian, who sat beside her, looking like a serious little adult.

This child was really likable, well-behaved, sensible, quiet, and obedient.

Everyone actually had calculations, but she tried not to consider them, because she clearly knew her husband's feelings for the Jingnan King, including this child.

Therefore, she had to follow this pace, desperately restraining her instinct to calculate.

"Good boy, just drink the soup, don't eat the fish, be careful of bones."

"Mm."

…

The blind man didn't drink the soup but held a cup of tea, sipping slowly.

He went to visit the families of several households, making sure that no one had any health problems due to the journey, before leisurely walking back.

Then,

He saw a strong and extremely plump figure,

Sitting next to the iron pot simmering fish,

Eating and drinking from a large sea bowl.

This one could also be considered a member of the household, and her level was not low, she was Xue San's family.

Xue San brought her back from Liang,

If it was just a dish that Xue San liked, that would be fine;

But this woman, named Hu Bamei, had vaguely spoken the prophecy of "The Descent of Magic."

Although the blind man really disliked those "prophecy" scenes, always feeling they were cliché and uninspired.

But because it might involve himself and others, you really couldn't afford not to pay attention.

Originally, some of the Devil Kings had the idea of directly killing this Hu Bamei, which was the best way to ensure the current quality and pace of life.

But unfortunately,

This choice violated the Devil Kings' code of conduct.

Because Xue San fancied her, whether physically or mentally, you can't buy a man's happiness.

So, in the end, Zheng Fan, as the master, made the decision to temporarily shelve the matter.

Next,

Hu Bamei lived a fairly stable life in Xuehai Pass,

Every day, she just ate, slept, and tended to the small vegetable garden in her yard. She usually didn't go out.

Mm,

She just had a bigger appetite, but after all, she was such a large person.

The blind man stood behind Hu Bamei, first watching her back, then slowly pulling his gaze away, looking at the frozen pool surface.

At this moment,

Hu Bamei took out a handkerchief and wiped her mouth. She had already drunk her fill of fish soup, rubbed her belly, and like a country girl, leaned back on her hands, sprawling on the ground.

"Burp………”

She let out a few loud burps.

The blind man slowly walked to Hu Bamei's side and asked,

"Are you full?"

"I drank too much soup, it's not very filling. Luckily, I still have some dry food stored away, haha."

The blind man nodded.

"Your family's food, no matter what it is, is so delicious."

Clearly, Bamei was very satisfied with her meals in the Earl's mansion during this time.

"You can continue to eat it in the future."

Bamei grinned and nodded, saying, "Yeah."

Afterward,

The blind man stopped talking;

Bamei,

Also stopped talking.

The blind man didn't speak because he felt that the scene was suitable for daydreaming, for spacing out, which was the so-called touching the scenery and giving rise to emotions.

Imagining the vastness of the world, lamenting one's own insignificance in the vast ocean.

When you get the chance to be pretentious,

Please put everything down,

And enjoy this hard-earned taste of pretentiousness.

And Hu Bamei didn't speak,

Not because she didn't want to disturb the blind man's refined interests, or because she was full and began to calm down to appreciate the scenery and prepare to compose a poem;

But,

Her eyes became somewhat clouded,

Staring at the pool surface in front of her,

Her lips were still trembling slightly.

If the blind man's vision was normal, standing beside her, he might not have noticed this scene;

But the problem was,

He was blind!

His perspective, in his mind, was actually more delicate and had a richer angle than ordinary people's "vision" because of the mental force scanning coverage.

The blind man took a step forward and squatted down in front of Hu Bamei.

Once again,

Bamei showed this expression,

Which indicated that,

She seemed to have gained some kind of opportunity, or had sketched back a little memory.

This was easy to understand,

Before a shaman plays the trick of possessing a ghost, they always have to shake and shake in front of you, and if they're dedicated, they even have to froth at the mouth a little.

In short, it's to attract your attention and tell you that something is about to be said.

The blind man was waiting, quietly waiting;

However,

Hu Bamei said nothing, nor did she do anything.

The cloudiness in her eyes was slowly receding, and her lips were no longer trembling so much.

Obviously,

She was returning to normal.

The blind man frowned,

I waited so long,

Just to wait for you to return to normal?

Since Hu Bamei last spoke about the prophecy about the "Devil King," the blind man had proactively collected many myths and legends.

Generally, those who can come into contact with "prophecies" are actually the clergy of this world.

There were fewer of them in Yan, because the Yan people generally didn't believe in this, and the current Yan Emperor showed the spirit of a monarch who didn't believe in fate when Zang Fuzi entered the capital to cut off the dragon vein.

The only one worth mentioning was the former palace grand eunuch, but he wasn't really associated with "clergy."

The Jin people also didn't really believe in this, because under the pattern of the Three Families dividing Jin, the He Lian family had barbarian blood in their ancestry, the Wenren family favored Confucianism, and the Situ family didn't believe in evil. The decentralization of power and the division of preferences directly broke the original theological system in Jin. Before Jin was destroyed by the Yan people, they hadn't actually given birth to a worldview that could justify itself. The original ones were basically grafting some of the former Great Xia.

The others,

All had them.

Chu had wizard officials, barbarians had star guide envoys, Qian had Qi refiners in the back mountains, and the barbarians had priests;

A unified power base was the real soil for the birth of theology, just like Marquis Zheng organizing a large group of swindlers in Xuehai Pass to preach in the snowfield;

The ethereal gods were created to serve the "gods" of the human world.

As for Western Europe in another time and space, where theocracy once superseded secular power, in the blind man's view, that was a misplay.

The blind man searched all kinds of prophecies about those places, and to pick a few representative ones, they were roughly:

The desert priests had a prophecy that in the near future, a new wolf king would appear among the barbarians, and he would reshape the golden glory belonging to the barbarians;

The snowfield barbarians' prophecy, the most profound recent contact, should be in Yu Renling's prophecy that the barbarians would give birth to a new king to lead the revival of their holy clan;

The Chu wizard officials had a prophecy that the fire phoenix would descend on the earth again, and the blood of the Chu ancestors would burn again.

As for Qian,

There was no such prophecy,

The reason was simple,

They cared about face.

It was true that the Qian army was bad at fighting, but their development in other aspects was truly unique.

Qian officials could wear Taoist robes and be a little unrestrained, which was fine, it was a matter of taste and personal preference, but if they wanted to go too far, the scholar-official class would wield a big stick.

Therefore, the back mountains of Qian had always been very low-key. They had close ties with the Qintian Directorate, but only did some divination about astrology and would not suddenly jump out and say that something would happen in the future to subvert something. Everyone maintained a sense of propriety.

But the problem was that,

The barbarian priests' prophecy didn't say that the wolf king would appear with seven Tibetan mastiffs;

The Yu Renling's prophecy didn't say that the new king of the holy clan would have seven loyal warriors by his side;

The Chu wizard officials' prophecy didn't say that the new monarch under the awakening of the fire phoenix would have seven civil and military officials.

The image of the "savior" was actually the same as the "Devil King," which was a very broad concept. Even "Devil Lord," "Devil," or "Lord of Hell" could be used interchangeably with "hero" or "true warrior." After all, the hero of one is the enemy of another.

But the problem was that the element of the Devil King was not the most important. The "seven" behind it was the most nerve-wracking.

So far,

Only in the prophecy that Hu Bamei vaguely uttered last time did the concept of "seven" appear so clearly.

Grandma,

Stone tablet,

Then:

Devil King descends,

Under his command, seven loyal subordinates,

Bringing endless darkness to this world.

Grandma and the stone tablet should be the trigger;

Devil King corresponds to the Lord;

Seven corresponds to their seven;

Loyalty?

That kind of traditional loyalty didn't exist, but the problem was that now the Devil Kings all had a consensus: if the Lord advanced, they could advance with him, so if the Lord died, they would probably die together…

With this kind of bond, the purest loyalty could be guaranteed.

Bringing endless darkness to this world wasn't that what they were doing now, especially since it was the blind man himself who had always insisted on the creed that since one lived in this world, one had to try the temperature of the dragon throne.

The most important thing,

Was still the descent!

There were many ways to descend:

Popping out of a crack in a rock,

Being smashed out by a falling meteorite,

Being born from the womb of a woman who had been pregnant for three years under an anomaly,

These all counted, but none of them were strictly accurate in the true sense.

Because,

His seven and the Lord were truly "descended."

The Lord was in a coma for half a year longer, but everyone else had collectively appeared in a coma on the edge of the desert.

Without the help of a medium in this world, they had descended so abruptly and out of nowhere.

At this time,

Seeing that Bamei was about to return to normal.

The blind man stretched out his left hand,

And placed it on top of Bamei's head.

"Were you touched by the scenery just now? That feeling should still be there, right? It's okay, I'll intensify that feeling for you, and let you sink into it again."

Xue San wasn't here,

So the blind man could be presumptuous;

But in other words,

Even if Xue San was here, if only the blind man was here, Xue San would indeed object, but if the Lord and the Devil Kings were all here, even Xue San wouldn't be able to object.

Because this prophecy was of great importance to everyone.

To put it bluntly,

At the same moment,

Xue San, who was attending the "wedding banquet," expressed his subtext about the princess "is she worthy of being called the Madam," revealing the Devil Kings' pride and "disregard for human life" worldview to the fullest.

And what the blind man was doing now,

Was nothing more than practicing this one point.

Usually, they were either polite, or lazy, or taciturn, or charming, or nonchalant…

But in essence,

It was actually Fan Li's sentence from the beginning:

Why don't we just kill the Lord?

Did you really think it was just a joke?

"Ice and snow, I'll expand the area for you, a larger area of ice pool, more snow, more frigid weather………”

"Fish soup, pot, hot, hot springs, boiling, white mist, I'll add it for you…………"

"We people who are together, believers, submission, worship, I'll add it for you…………"

Most likely,

Hu Bamei was only briefly touched by the scenery, but the blind man used his ability to reset, beautify, and deepen the existing elements according to his understanding, in order to conform to the true model in Hu Bamei's lost memory.

This was actually a means of psychological treatment,

For example,

Letting someone with amnesia return to the house they used to live in, the room they used to sleep in, was essentially the same.

Bamei's body began to tremble,

Her eyes began to become more cloudy,

Her lips,

Were even turning purple.

The feeling that had been gradually fading away was gradually returning, becoming more and more intense, and also more and more clear.

Sweat had also oozed out of the blind man's forehead.

Building a scene and destroying a person with mental force were two completely different concepts. The former was several times more laborious than the latter.

"Wuwuwuwuwu……………”

Hu Bamei began to sob.

Her crying was very shrill.

The commotion here inevitably attracted the attention of people on the periphery.

Tiantian put down his spoon and looked over there.

At this moment,

The princess came over, reached out and hugged Tiantian, covered Tiantian's ears, and at the same time, ordered:

"Isolate them."

"Yes!"

Although she didn't know what Mr. Bei was doing, not interfering with him was a must.

And by the ice pool,

The blind man was hesitating,

Hesitating whether to invest his mind into Hu Bamei's consciousness to see with his own eyes the scene in her mind, which was the true appearance of the prophecy.

Perhaps,

There he could see clues about "Grandma" and the "Stone Tablet."

But,

The blind man was also a little afraid.

His ability was mental force, so he knew more about the ins and outs of it. Some people seemed "harmless," but who knew what was inside them.

For example, the Lord.

If anyone wanted to use illusions against the Lord, then the magic pill in the Lord's body would be happy to tell him what the real ancestor of illusions was.

The blind man didn't want to walk out of Xuehai Pass standing and then be carried into Fengxin City lying down.

For safety's sake,

The blind man didn't dare to go deep,

But asked:

"What, do you see now?"

"Snow……… So much snow……… So much, so much snow…………"

"Look more closely, see if there's anything else in front of you?"

"White……… White………… Crystalline white…………"

"Crystalline white? Is it ice?"

"It's ice, ice, so much ice, ah, it's all ice………"

"What's on the ice?"

"Ice………… On top………… Is snow………… Snow is falling………”

The blind man calmed down and continued to guide:

"Look behind you, do you see people?"

"People……… So many, so many people………"

"Did you see what they're doing?"

"They……… They……… Are kneeling…………"

"Turn around again and look at the ice again, do you see anything?"

"Ice……… On top is………… Snow is falling………”

"Walk onto the ice."

"I……… Walked onto the ice…………"

"Lower your head, look down, and keep walking forward."

"I……… Walk forward……… Look………… Down…………"

The next moment,

Without waiting for the blind man to continue asking questions,

Hu Bamei suddenly screamed,

"Aaaaaaaaaah！！！！！！！！！！”

She was very frightened, as if she had seen something terrifying.

"What, did you see!"

"People, ah ah ah！！！！！！ I saw a person！！！！！！ He's about to wake up, he's about to wake up, he's about to wake up ah！！！！！！”

Hu Bamei began to twitch, and her body began to spasm.

The blind man hesitated for a moment,

And still withdrew the hand he had placed on her head.

"Thump!"

Hu Bamei fell to the ground:

"Grandma said……… On the stone tablet………… It's written………… Devil King descends……… Seven……… Seven devils……… Darkness………… Darkness…………"

The blind man pointed to his face,

And said:

"Is it me?"

Hu Bamei's whole body suddenly stopped spasming,

Her complexion also became incredibly calm all of a sudden,

Even,

Showing a strange smile:

"You, are you worthy?"

After speaking,

Hu Bamei fainted, and then, snoring sounded.

The blind man closed his eyes,

His hands suspended in front of him,

His fingertips sliding,

He usually played the erhu, but what he really liked was the piano;

Making this movement,

Proved that the blind man was in a very happy mood now, happy to the point of being unable to control himself;

"Hehe……… Hehehe………”

The blind man smiled,

And said:

"I'm, very much looking forward to it."

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Thank you Lei Wenjun for becoming the 160th Alliance Master of The Descent of Magic!