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Chapter 739: The Journey of the Old and Disabled Wizard

Knowing this, when we look back at Yi Lei's actions, they begin to have special meaning.

Yi Lei piled up corpses on the golf course, guarding his place like a lion guarding its territory, which was very similar to the process of the Undefeated Beast constantly fighting with other duelists in "The Song of the Red Cave". So, is the character represented by Yi Lei in this remake the Undefeated Beast?
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Murong Shangjin remembered that during the raid, many strange people were shouting "Mom".

If we put these people's roles into mythology, then are they the second coming?
Or... these people wanted to become second-borns, so they took the lead in assuming their identities.

Murong Shangjin hadn't finished reading the book yet. He briefly digested the new knowledge and soon started reading another book.

He had to figure out how the second-born kept being born. After all, it was impossible for the Duke's daughter to give birth to a child and then be named the second-born.

There must be some key steps or processes before being born again.

The next book Murong Shangjin read was a translation, which means that the author of the book was just a translation and had no understanding of what he wrote. Therefore, Murong Shangjin could not gain the author's insights and understanding from the book.

However, he still knew what was written in the book, but when he ate it, he did not realize that the content of the book was related to the Second Rebirth.

This is a story called "The Journey of the Old and Crippled Wizard".

The protagonist of the story is a wizard. The opening chapter briefly describes his noble character and kind heart, and how he has helped many people and is loved by everyone in the kingdom.

But soon, the wizard became disabled due to an incident. He took in a wounded wanderer and promised to keep his whereabouts secret at the wanderer's request. However, the wanderer was actually a thief from another country who was hunted down and wanted for spreading the affair between the king and his daughter-in-law.

So, when the pursuers from the neighboring country arrived at the wizard's country, they found the wizard and asked about the thief's whereabouts. The wizard kept his promise and hid the thief's whereabouts, eventually allowing the thief to continue his escape.

Up to this point, the story has only lasted for two pages, and on the next page, the time spans forty years. Forty years later, the wizard is already an old man, and the neighboring country has long since collapsed. This little past event has disappeared without a trace like a drop of water dropped into the sea.

But one day, a group of soldiers rushed into the wizard's house, kidnapped him, put him on a prison cart, and brought him to a middle-aged man wearing a crown. He was the new king of the neighboring country and the king who destroyed the old country.

The king stood in the dazzling sunlight. The wizard could only see his golden outline and dazzling crown, while his face was hidden in the deep shadows and could not be seen clearly.

The king said to the wizard:

"Wizard, do you know? My mother was once a princess, and my father was my grandfather. Do you still remember this old story from forty years ago?
Forty years ago, after the shameful whistleblower revealed the secrets of my biological father and mother, my biological father expelled my mother from the kingdom, and my nominal father cut off my biological father's head and ascended the throne as the new king of this country.

Later, my mother was found and killed by the new king, and I, who was only six years old, was taken away by a maid and survived.

Over the past few decades, I went through countless hardships and finally killed that man, but I knew that he was not the source of all these tragedies.

My miserable life does not come from my biological father, because without my biological father, there would be no me. It is also not the fault of my nominal father, because my mother's betrayal of him is an indisputable fact.

There are countless shameful things in the world, but as long as they are hidden in darkness, the world will be bright. If my grandfather could catch the leaker back then, none of this would have happened. The leaker would have been sentenced to dismemberment for blasphemy, and the real rumors would have disappeared with time.

However, he was unable to catch the man, and the day the leaker brought evidence of my parents' adultery to Silvermoon, my father (Translator's note: the prince) raised an army.

So I had a life of wandering for forty years, and all this was because of you, just because you hid the whereabouts of the leaker and took him in, this is the crime you committed against me."

The wizard bowed his head and said, "My dear king, I am just keeping my promise."

King: "Yes, so why was I able to find you? Because after I caught the whistleblower, he confessed that you were hiding him in exchange for his own life. Even though he is now an old man, he still wants to use you to exchange for the remaining years of his life."

The wizard was horrified: "Why is this happening?"

"Wizard, I respect you. You will have to bear the punishment of dismemberment that he should have suffered, but I will spare your head." After saying that, the king ordered the executioner to drag the wizard to the execution ground and cut off his limbs.

The executioner was born in the country where the wizard lived in his early years and admired the wizard's virtues. Therefore, when executing the wizard, he did not cut off his limbs at the roots, but left only a short part.

This is the content of the first half of this book.

Murong Shangjin was completely confused and could not see any connection between this book and the Second Born. If he had to say the only connection, it would be that the Silver Moon City that appeared in "Song of the Red Cave" also appeared in this book. The thief disclosed the secret evidence of Lao Wang's adultery with his daughter-in-law in Silver Moon City.

Apart from the place name, the other content has nothing to do with the belief in the Blood God. Instead, it seems to be discussing the beliefs of the secret person who changed the Crescent Moon.

It was also the first time that Murong Shangjin knew about the existence of the Secret Transmitter. The Secret Transmitter was the name of a god that appeared when the translator was thinking. In the translator's opinion, this Secret Transmitter seemed to be a god with the same name as Canyue and of equal status, but why had he never heard of it?

In all the classics that Murong Shangjin had read, there was not a single word about the secret person. This was the first time he came across this mysterious name.

In addition, Murong Shangjin also tasted the confusion of the translator of this book during the translation. When the original author wrote this story, the changes in the titles were extremely complicated. The names were obviously very simple to express, but the original author had to go around in circles to change the titles.

For example, the king who executed the wizard, his biological father is the old king, and his nominal father is the prince, but the author uses "my father", "my grandfather", "my biological father", "my father's father" and other redundant and dyslexic titles to refer to them interchangeably.

If it is an ordinary literary work, then it is fine to have a unified and highly recognizable name, but when this happens in secret documents, translators often consider whether the author has other expressive intentions hidden in it.

In short, after reading the entire first volume, Murong Shangjin felt that this was not a text related to the Second Rebirth, and it had nothing to do with the Blood God.

(End of this chapter)