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Chapter 172 Another Eye of Lehman

Cui Chengze's eyes became distant, and his gaze returned to the time when he was trapped in the shipwreck zone.

"To be honest, until today, I still can't believe that I really escaped from that area. When I boarded the Sea Anthem, I even thought I had never left this shipwreck belt."

As Choi Sung-taek recalled, he began to describe everything that happened to him in the shipwreck zone.

Choi Sung-taek entered the shipwreck zone eight years ago on the Louis passenger ship.

Like the Sea Song and Star Leap, it was not an accident but a man-made disaster.

Like a script that has been played out countless times, the captain of the Louis, together with the new cosmic sect on the ship, successfully took over control of the cruise ship.

They deliberately created conflicts and panic, found excuses to kill the disobedient guys, and made the passengers feel uneasy. In order to seek psychological comfort and follow the herd mentality, they all joined the New Universe Sect.

They spent thirty nightmarish days in the shipwreck belt, and finally crossed the shipwreck belt and reached the end of their journey.

An extremely calm sea.

On this sea, the new universe sects began the sacrificial ceremony.

Before boarding the ship, Cui Chengze was a well-known fortune teller. His family was once the royal wizard, and the family had passed down the knowledge of mysticism from generation to generation.

It's just that their family's level was average, and their qualifications were below average. The skills were passed down from generation to generation, and by the time it was passed down to Cui Chengze's grandfather, the underground occult circle no longer wanted to include them because their level was too poor.

By the time it reached Choi Sung-taek, their family's mysticism had already lost its combat effectiveness, and they could only make a living by mysteriously telling fortunes for ordinary people. Even so, the probability of divination being effective was only 30%.

Due to his incompetence, the New Universe Sect did not consider him as an insider at all, but only as a swindler, and did not keep a close eye on him or eliminate him in advance.

Unexpectedly, although Cui Chengze's level was poor, he still had some knowledge reserves. He took advantage of the time when the ceremony was being prepared to find a weakness in the ceremony and used all his life's knowledge to set up a safe zone.

The next moment, he saw the entire ship radiating light.

After the light disappeared, except for a few high-ranking officials and captains of the New Universe Sect, everyone else disappeared in the light.

He hid in the shadows and saw a speedboat pick up the captain and several members of the New Universe Sect. He wanted to take the opportunity to escape, but as soon as they left, a huge whirlpool formed under the sea and brought the Louis back to the shipwreck zone.

Ever since he saw the light of the sacrificial ceremony, he seemed to have become enlightened. The occult knowledge that seemed like a heavenly book became as easy to understand as elementary school textbooks.

He cast a fishing spell to attract the surrounding sea fish, and used the fishing rods of the passengers on the boat to get food.

The sunken ship brought a lot of rain, and when you were thirsty, you could drink the accumulated rain water.

Relying on sea fish and rainwater, he survived alone on the boat for nearly two years. During this time, he saw another ship entering the shipwreck zone, but he did not dare to approach it actively, because the stronger his power of mysticism, the more he could sense how terrifying these guys who arranged the sacrificial ceremony were.

He could only watch the cruise ship appear and disappear.

After that experience, he was ashamed of his weakness and hated his powerlessness, so he practiced mysticism desperately and vowed that if he met those people again, he would find a way to stop them.

Not long after that, he was fishing as usual when he caught a huge fish.

At this point, Cui Chengze suddenly stopped and said, "You will never guess what I caught."

Wu Chang frowned. He suddenly thought that Cui Chengze was talking so much nonsense. Could it be that the fisherman was showing off his catch?
How do you know that I once caught an 800-pound tuna in the shipwreck zone?

He didn't think that anything he caught would help Choi Sung-taek leave the shipwreck zone. Not to mention tuna, it would be useless even if Choi Sung-taek caught a blue whale.

He curled his lips and said sarcastically: "You can't fish up the sea god."

After he said this, he saw Cui Chengze's face instantly fall, as if he was a child who wanted to show off a secret to his parents, but the answer was guessed by the first sentence.

"Damn, are your intuition always this sharp?"

Wu Chang: “…”

Shit, he actually caught the sea god?

Cui Chengze sighed. Although the answer to the riddle was guessed, he became excited again when he thought of his past glorious achievements.

"I caught a golden dragon king that day! You can't imagine how big that dragon king was! I only saw a piece of scale across the sea, and it was over three meters long!"

"My hook got caught in the gap between its scales and it dragged me into the sea. I couldn't resist and could only hold on to the fishing rod with all my might. When I woke up, I was already lying on the shore."

"I looked up and saw a statue of the Sea God placed on a reef not far away. I am sure that the Dragon King I caught that day must be the Sea God!"

Wu Chang recalled the legend of the Sea God, and there seemed to be some connection between the two.

Assuming what Choi Sung-taek said is true, and Poseidon really exists in this shipwreck belt, then is the thing calling him in the deep sea the so-called Poseidon?
But judging from the sound and method of calling, that thing doesn't seem like a good god.

Both his reason and his inspiration told him that he must not obey the call and go to see that thing rashly.

In other words, what Choi Sung-ze had caught was not the Dragon King, but some evil creature. However, with Choi Sung-ze's level of inspiration, he was unable to distinguish the existence of the other party and mistakenly thought it was the Dragon King.

Wu Chang tapped the table rhythmically with his fingers, believing that no matter whether what Cui Chengze said was true or false, it would not lead the entire ship's crew to leave the shipwreck zone.

It's impossible for everyone to have a fishhook and let the Dragon King hang a string of people on his hook while swimming.

What do you think of the Dragon King? A wall-mounted underwater train?

Putting aside the matter of leaving the shipwreck zone early, Wu Chang looked at Cui Chengze and said:

"You said you once swore that if you met the people from the New Universe Sect again, you would do your best to stop them. Now that you have taken the initiative to board the Star Leap, do you think you have the strength to stop them?"

Cui Chengze nodded, "Before I came here, I thought I had it. After seeing the light of the sacrificial formation and the true body of the Sea God, my vision and perception have been greatly improved."

"I defeated the strongest of those underground mystic circles hiding underground, eager to control Takagi Country through mysticism, two years ago. There is no stronger mystic user than me in the entire Takagi Country."

Wu Chang teased, "But during the previous battle in the cargo hold, I didn't see your posture as the strongest occult user in Takagi Country."

Cui Chengze was not embarrassed by his previous performance, and said confidently: "There are always people who are better than you, and there are always better things than you. I realized my shortcomings, so I asked you for help."

Wu Chang continued to ask: "Why did they arrest you?"

Cui Chengze's face froze, and he cautiously asked, "Maybe they found out that I'm a survivor and want to silence me?"

Wu Chang sneered and said, "But when they fought, it was obvious that they didn't want to hurt you."

Choi Sung-taek: "So what kind of information do you want to get from me?"

Wu Chang: "One of them is a high-ranking member of the New Universe Sect. What information does he need from you?"

Choi Seong-taek: …

Wu Chang: ...

The two of them stared at each other for five minutes. Finally, Cui Chengze couldn't hold it in anymore and took out a stone shaped like an eye from his arms.

"Actually, it's because of this that I dared to board the ship alone and stop the New Universe Sect's actions because two years ago, when I defeated the underground mystic circle, I attacked the New Universe Sect's headquarters and stole their holy relics in order to test my own strength."

"I don't know how those two guys detected it, especially the powerful master of mysticism. He caught up with me first and asked me to hand over the thing."

When Wu Chang saw the eye-shaped stone on the table, he was shocked. Why did this eye-shaped stone look so familiar to him? He seemed to have a stone of similar shape on his body.

"May I take a look at it?"

Cui Chengze shrugged and said, "Please, if you help me stop the conspiracy of the New Universe Sect, I can give it to you. But I personally suggest that you don't take it. Even the believers of the New Universe Sect cannot use its power, and it is covered with curses, which will make people unfortunate."

Wu Chang picked up the eye-shaped stone on the table, and its attribute panel appeared in front of him.

"Item name: Eye of Lehman (not activated)"

「Item type: copy item」

"Item level: unknown"

"Item Description: The large amount of sacrifices you have offered pleases Leman. To reward your performance, you will be granted some of the glory of the gods before it descends."

"Item Skill: Gift of Piety"

"Skill Description: When holding the Eye of Leman and using mysticism-related abilities, you will receive a significant improvement in all aspects. It can resist a serious negative effect for the user. This effect can be reset once every 1,000 high-quality sacrifices."

"Note: The new left eye of the evil god Leiman contains the evil god Leiman's enormous divine power and endless curse."

As expected, the holy object of the New Universe Sect that Choi Sung-taek stole was the Eye of Leman!
If he remembered correctly, the Eye of Leman that he had obtained from the Moonlight Sanatorium was also a left eye. Judging from the description of the item, it seemed that the evil god Leman had just grown a new left eye and it fell into his hands again.

Tsk, that's a bit too much.

What's the point of just grabbing the left eye and moving it around? What about the right eye? Why don't you move your right eye around?
It seems that the reason why the New Universe Sect has been performing sacrifices for so many years has been discovered. The large number of sacrifices is to allow Leman's divine power to squeeze through the plane barriers little by little and descend to the copy plane in the wasteland.

Lehmann's new left eye is the result of their years of hard work.

The grand sacrificial ceremony being prepared on the Star Leap is, if nothing unexpected happens, to awaken the unactivated Eye of Leman.

As for why the New Universe Sect started preparing for the ceremony without finding the Eye of Leman, it was probably because they didn't need to look for it at all.

When Wu Chang got the Eye of Lehman, he could feel that it had a special connection with the mystical rituals on the Star Leap.

Whoever gets it will appear on the Star Leap on the day the ceremony begins.

This is the cause and effect formed by countless sacrifices. From the moment it was condensed, the result today was determined.

As long as it doesn't fall into the hands of other gods, no one can stop it.

However, the so-called cause and effect can only make the Eye of Leman appear on the Star Leap. Whether it can be taken back depends on the ability of the New Universe Sect.

Wu Chang didn't wait for Cui Chengze's consent and directly put the Eye of Lehman into his personal space.

After obtaining the Eye of Leman, he could feel that his body absorbed the occult pollution more than twice as fast. Not only that, the effect of his occult-contaminated organs was further enhanced.

When he had seen the occult ritual on the ship before, it was a complicated spider web, but now when he looked at it again, he saw that there were countless more threads on the web.

These threads are specific to every believer of the New Universe Sect on the ship. The mystical rituals and the believers of the New Universe Sect together constitute the rituals on the ship.

Cui Chengze watched Wu Chang put away the Eye of Leman and said, "I have answered all your questions and given you the token of the New Universe Sect. Now you should believe me."

Wu Chang nodded. He was sure that Cui Chengze was not from the Ningjing sect. No believer of the Ningjing sect would dare to give away the eyeball of their own god.

"Of course, my friend, I never doubted you from the beginning."

Cui Chengze grinned. If he had not just experienced being cornered by a secret ritual master and a werewolf and realized that his plan could not succeed on his own, with his temper before boarding the ship, he would have turned hostile when facing Wu Chang's interrogation-like questioning just now.

"Very good. Now that we trust each other, we must prepare to stop the Tranquility Sect."

"First, what we need to do is to draw out the potential in you, which is the ability that allowed you to see the mysterious formation in the cargo hold and cut it off."

Wu Chang said: "In fact, I already have some ideas on how to apply this ability."

As he spoke, in front of Choi Sung-taek, he absorbed the occult pollution into his body with all his strength, and transformed it into his own energy through the arcane trial emblem.

"I have been able to see some inexplicable energy for a long time. I have heard some people who claim to be masters call the energy I see occult pollution."

"He said that I have a peculiar physique. For ordinary users, the occult pollution is a deadly poison, but for me, it is a treasure that can strengthen my body. He also gave me this little thing, saying that it can help me better absorb the occult pollution."

After the demonstration, he placed the arcane trial emblem in front of Choi Sung-taek.

The two of them are now in the same force and have the same goal. Others can show him the Eye of Leman, so he certainly has nothing to hide from others with just an arcane trial emblem.

Cui Chengze trembled as he picked up the arcane trial emblem, observed it for a moment, and suddenly shouted:

"Bullshit! Bullshit! Which unskilled bastard dares to pretend to be a master of occult studies and mislead students!"

"Oh my god, that bastard must have found an antique manuscript that was hundreds or even thousands of years old and taught himself some backward mysticism. Damn it, those antique manuscripts are a waste and a crime if they fall into the hands of outsiders!"

Cui Chengze stared at Wu Chang with his eyes wide open, "What you absorbed was not some kind of mystical pollution, it was the most fundamental power of mysticism!"

Wu Chang asked, "The origin of mysticism?"

Cui Chengze confirmed: "That's right. We, the users of mysticism, use complicated rituals and complex formations in order to transform the ordinary energy in the world, that is, the qi in the bodies of those bodyguards, into this power that constitutes the origin of the world."

"You deceived that bastard who claimed to be a master of mysticism. Although the mysticism he taught himself was backward, he could easily transform the original energy of mysticism. However, the backward mysticism could not drive such powerful and pure energy, which caused the energy to backfire and killed the user."

Cui Chengze became more and more excited as he spoke, and continued:

"That must be the case. Because the origin of mysticism backfires, those who practice this method will die early, resulting in the loss of inheritance. If I could see those records and learn how to apply that kind of mysticism, I would never lose to that guy from the New Universe Sect in the cargo hold!"

When Wu Chang listened to Cui Chengze's speculation, all the doubts in his heart were immediately resolved.

No wonder the pollution of occultism is even stronger than occultism itself.

No wonder the arcane knights, without having to master the knowledge of the occult, can be more exposed to the occult than wizards and priests.

No wonder Choi Sung-taek, as a user of the occult, has been able to live so long without showing any signs of physical decay despite his not-so-strong body.

It turns out that the mysticism technology tree of the Moonlight Sanatorium plane was originally misplaced.

Some unknown method was used to skip the normal path and use crude occult rituals to directly trigger the origin of occultism.

In the religious context, this energy that they cannot control is naturally regarded as the price of using extraordinary abilities, and it is named occult pollution.

Wu Chang coughed lightly, interrupting Cui Chengze's annoyance, and said:

"Putting aside the matter of the mystical school, let's continue with the previous topic, how can I further master this power."

Cui Chengze clenched the arcane trial emblem in his hand, his eyes flashed, as if he had thought of something, and he said excitedly:

"Although I can't see the manuscripts that record the special mysticism, I can see the mysticism array on this emblem. I can expand it based on its ideas and further improve it to speed up your process of absorbing the essence of mysticism!"

"Didn't you ask me before if there was a way to leave the shipwreck zone early? Originally there wasn't, but now there is!"

(End of this chapter)