Sandian received a letter, a letter from the Ice Temple.
The letter was written personally by his student, the Food Priest Lan En, but after reading it, Sandian also felt that there was an inquiry from the Henir Dynasty and the Nine Temples behind the letter.
Not long ago.
Several spiritual priests from the five temples of iron, oil, pottery, weaving, and ink have disappeared, including the serving priests who are second only to the main priest.
They are all the best among the major temples. Their status may not be the highest, but their bloodline power is among the best.
These priests not only master various esoteric magics, but also have the power of rituals.
Lan En even went to see the Weaving Temple in person.
According to the traces, one of the spiritual priests was knocked to the ground with one blow and then dragged away without any resistance.
Being able to kidnap so many powerful priests quietly and without any ability to resist, everyone believed that the attacker was a third-level cursed seal priest.
Currently, only Sandian and his two students have third-level power.
Lan En said at the end of the letter: "On the day the priest disappeared, a mysterious ship approached the port of the City of Gods and left immediately late at night."
"There is news that this ship has the mark of the Misty Island."
Sandian suddenly stood up with the letter, he was a little angry.
He believed that this was the slander of the Temple of Truth by the nine high priests. These temple priests had never dealt with him and the Temple of Truth, and they tried their best to suppress the priests who came from the Temple of Truth.
If it weren't for King Henir's will, his student Lan En would never have become the chief priest of the Ice Temple.
"This is impossible."
"Is it any wonder that the ships from the Isle of Mist go to various ports every month for purchasing?"
"The disappearance of several priests must be related to the Temple of Truth?"
"Do you need any third-level power to defeat several spiritual priests from the Nine Great Temples? Just learn a few powerful divine arts."
As the Sage of Truth, the most powerful priest of this era.
Sandian certainly has the confidence to say this.
Even so, if Lan En can judge like this, it means that he should have discovered some traces of the power of the third-level curse seal priest.
Suddenly, Sandian remembered something.
Not long ago, Haru said he was going to meet Lan En, but Lan En's letter did not mention Haru's arrival at all.
"Haru~"
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In Haru's ritual workshop.
The bottle of fire demon was placed on the ground. There were seven or eight fire demons wandering around in the corked flask. These transparent spirits would stick to the glass wall from time to time, revealing their faces.
Haru stands on the opposite side of the Fire Demon's Bottle, which happens to be two symmetrical points with it.
Anhofors stood outside the ritual formation, looking at his teacher nervously and excitedly.
today.
He might be about to witness a miracle, he thought to himself.
"This is a mortal's exploration of the truth and the unveiling of the mysteries of life."
Although he is a descendant of the royal Samo family, Anhofors considers himself a seeker, and he did not deceive his teacher Haru in this regard.
Compared to the so-called noble blood, he wants to pursue the most powerful power in the world.
And this power lies in the hands of his teacher and the sage of truth.
He worships the strong, and Haru is the strong one in his eyes.
He finished placing the last sacrifice and said respectfully to his teacher Haru.
"teacher!"
"It's just the last step."
Haru didn't respond. He stared blankly at the bottle of fire demon and the spirits wandering inside.
He had made the final decision and was standing here, but suddenly he hesitated.
What he was worried about at the moment was the same as what his teacher was thinking.
"Is this kind of power really the right path we are pursuing? Give up the fragile body of the cloverleaf and possess the powerful body of the fire demon."
"The secret of reincarnation."
"Fire Demon Body."
He suddenly thought of his father who died at a young age and the priests who died at his hands.
Life is so fragile, he learned at a young age.
Just a signal or a look from the superior can take away everything from the weak.
His father was killed by those people because he wanted to implement teacher Sandian's ideals.
And reason.
I just want to give the teacher a warning.
Just to give a warning, sacrificing an unknown little person, what a trivial thing.
But he lost everything at a young age.
Thinking of this, all the hesitations disappeared instantly.
"ah!"
"As long as you take one step, you will break free from the shackles of life and gain a lifespan far beyond what a mortal should have."
His eyes revealed the desire for strength and power, as well as the greed for having a powerful body.
At the deepest level, one can still faintly see the fear of death.
At this time, the sound of bells came from outside the workshop.
Someone came along the cliff road, and this was the warning he set.
Haru immediately put away the bottle of fire demon and hurriedly opened the door of the workshop with Anhofus.
Standing in front of the gate was actually his teacher Sandian and several temple instructors.
Haru was a little surprised. The teacher rarely came to his workshop. If anything, he would just ask him to go to the castle to discuss.
"teacher!"
"Why are you here?"
Sandian's expression was a little solemn, and he looked at Haru with complicated eyes: "I have something to ask you."
Powerful mental power swept through Haru's workshop. This method of exploration was extremely offensive to others. Even the Sage of Truth, Sandian, would not use it on others easily.
But today he used it.
He first looked at the front hall of the workshop and found nothing.
But when the mental power swept over Haru himself, it was completely different. A strong wave of mental power that had been sealed instantly exploded and swept through the entire hall.
Everyone present immediately saw the bottle of fire demon hidden under Haru's robe, as well as the fire demon surrounding it.
Sandian was stunned for a moment, and then asked Haru sharply: "Where do you get your magical props?"
Haru panicked and wanted to put it away, but it was too late.
Facing Sandian's questioning, Haru remained silent.
Sandian's voice was extremely stern. This was the first time he spoke to Haru in this voice: "I asked you how you got here?"
Haru had a premonition that he couldn't cover it up. He originally wanted to defend himself, but when he opened his mouth, he couldn't say anything to deceive his teacher.
He lowered his head and said in a low voice.
"Teacher, you don't want to know."
A temple instructor who came with Sandian tapped his foot on the stone slab: "Sage, there is a hole in the ground."
Sandian waved his hand and the floor was lifted instantly.
With a loud noise, a large hole opened in the ground, revealing a hidden underground altar.
The light disperses and the darkness illuminates Haru's hidden secrets.
In order to make the experiment of "Fourth Level Power" successful, Haru personally killed several priests of ancient families and extracted their mythical blood and spiritual bodies in a cruel way.
At this moment, his underground altar is like a skinning purgatory, with the corpses of those priests piled up, the latest one being killed just yesterday.
Their resentment still lingers in the air.
Sandian and several temple instructors were stunned as they looked at the bloody altar underground.
He looked at his student Haru as if he were meeting him for the first time.
Sandian's original stern expression suddenly turned sad, filled with disbelief. He guessed that his student had done something wrong, but he did not expect that it would be so wrong.
Sandian's voice became slightly trembling.
"Haru!"
"What on earth are you doing?"
Haru stepped back step by step and said.
"teacher!"
"They are all conservatives. They are all our enemies and the enemies of all Trefoils."
"Teacher, didn't you kill them too?"
"It is their honor that guys like them can contribute to the new era, and it also atones for their past ugliness.
He retreated along the passage and into the innermost stone room, which was also the room where he first prepared to perform the secret technique.
Xander pressed forward step by step.
While he was angry and angry, he was also hesitant.
He knew that his student had made a mistake, but he had not yet fully figured out how to deal with it.
"Didn't I tell you?"
"This is not a reason to brutally kill others. Divine magic items cannot be made with other people's lives."
"I have avenged all your hatred for you, and everything about your father is over."
"None of this should continue with you."
Haru retreated to the center of the ritual circle and stopped. He took out the bottle of fire demon from his sleeve.
By this time, Haru's initial panic gradually subsided.
He finally made up his mind.
"Teacher, I still did it."
"Some things cannot be ended with just one sentence."
His tone suddenly became higher, and his voice spread beyond the passage and could be heard in the front hall outside.
"but!"
"I was not wrong, they deserved to die."
As he spoke, the ritual formation under his feet was activated.
This ritual formation was originally used to refine fire elements. At this moment, it not only acted on the sacrifices, but also directly acted on Haru and the bottle of the fire demon.
Sandian immediately understood what he wanted to do, and he quickly ran through the passage to catch up.
He wants to interrupt the process of the ritual and take away the bottle of fire demon from Haru's hand.
Sandian shouted to Haru: "Haru!"
"Don't do it, you'll regret it."
The ceremony started, and huge and continuous fire elements filled the space.
"Boom!"
Violent flames erupted, throwing Sandian away as he rushed over.
At the same time, Haru's body standing in the center of the ritual circle was burned to ashes.
Amidst the blazing flames, a demonic monster composed entirely of gas crawled out. It did not have a completely stable form, and it kept twisting and turning into a terrifying fire demon.
The entire cliff instantly turned into a sea of fire, and the buildings collapsed layer by layer.
Sandian was also thrown away, but the mental barrier blocked the flames and allowed him to land smoothly on the ground.
In an instant, everything on the cliff turned into a sea of fire and ruins.
The fire demon opened his eyes, and Haru realized at this moment that he had turned into a giant more than ten meters tall.
Seen from this perspective, everything seems so small, and even the entire island cannot accommodate itself.
The three-leaf people are like insignificant insects, and they themselves are like gods.
"look!"
"Teacher, I succeeded."
"What a powerful force! No longer bound by a fragile body."
"I will not die easily, nor will I age like a mortal."
"Nothing in this world can kill me easily."
The fire demon laughed. The smiling face made of burning flames looked a bit like Haru's, but it looked so ferocious.
The huge fire demon, which was more than ten meters tall, looked at Sandian and talked to him.
"It's not as scary as you think. Teacher, you always worry too much."
"You said that hesitation and hesitation can't bring about a future. Why did you hesitate this time?"
Sandian was extremely angry: "Haru, do you know what you are doing?"
"You gave up your identity as a Trefoil, and you became a monster."
"Do you remember these principles I taught you?"
Haru gave up his Trefoil body and became a fire demon, a strange being made of gas.
Huge fire element surged in his body and became the source of his power.
The fire demon lowered his head and said angrily: "I just followed the principles you gave me!"
Sandian laughed angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
The Sage of Truth launched an attack on the Fire Demon, and the power of the Three Realms Curse Seal Priest was immediately released.
A stone giant broke free from the cliff and rushed towards the fire demon.
He would never allow his student to become someone who sacrificed others at will to make them into props. He was even more afraid of the spread of an evil force more powerful than the secret of immortality.
He wanted to stop Sandian and save his students.
"Boom!" The moment the flame giant and the stone giant collided, they saw layers of flames and boulders falling from high places, hitting various parts of the island.
The Stone Giant tightly wrapped around the Fire Giant, trying to seal him.
The flame giant seemed a little scared and confused. He did not dare to fight the stone giant head-on, and kept avoiding and retreating.
But even so, the battle between the fire demon Haru and the stone giant was extremely fierce. To the people at the foot of the mountain, it seemed like two gods were at war.
"teacher!"
"What are you doing? Why are you attacking me?"
Sandian looked at Haru, his eyes full of hatred.
"You made a mistake, and you went astray."
"Give up the power of the fire demon and stop it immediately."
"It's not too late to turn back now."
Haru didn't understand at all. This power was obviously what he and Sandian were pursuing together. He just did what his teacher wanted to do.
"wrong?"
"Where did I go wrong?"
During the fight, the fire demon became more and more crazy.
I don't know if it's because this power itself has flaws, or because without the body of the three-leaf man, desire and madness can no longer be suppressed.
The power of humanity gradually drained away from Haru.
He went from resisting and retreating to attacking without any seriousness at all.
"teacher!"
"Why did you attack me? Did you want to kill me?"
"Why? Why is this happening?"
"I am your student."
Haru's eyes turned red. He once again thought of those who killed his father and the corpse he saw when he was a child.
"Kill them, kill them."
"I am not wrong, they are all sinners."
"Roar!"
The fire demon burst out with a roar, and thick flames spurted out from his mouth.
The tens of meters high flames wrapped around the stone giant like a tornado, melting Sandian's stone curse spirit. Sandian, who was wrapped in the stone, had to explode the stone giant he controlled to escape. This devastating blow.
"Boom!"
The violent explosion threw him away and hit him heavily at the foot of the mountain.
Sandian did not expect that his strength was not enough to deal with the fire demon.
He was defeated by his own students.
And Haru also didn't expect that Sandian, the teacher who used to be aloof, would be defeated by him.
Seeing that Sandian was seriously injured, Haru finally regained his consciousness.
Fire Demon Haru ran down the cliff step by step. He looked anxiously at the seriously injured Sandian at the foot of the mountain.
He was a little scared and a little overwhelmed.
The terrifying giant face made of flames showed panic and uneasiness: "Teacher~"
Sandian was supported by several temple instructors. The instructors wanted to take him to escape from the out-of-control fire demon. In their opinion, Sandian was defeated and the place had become a dangerous place.
All the instructors and students in the temple were frightened by the terrifying power of the fire demon.
Sandian broke away and stood up unsteadily.
"do not be afraid!"
"What are you afraid of!"
"He is Haru and I am his teacher."
The bone armor on Sandian's body was shattered and full of traces of burning, and blood dripped from the corner of his mouth.
He looked up at the huge fire demon on the mountain path and said loudly.
"do you remember?"
"At that time in the Sky Temple, I once told you when you were young."
"You can be a great person who changes the world, or you can be a mediocre person who doesn't care about the world."
"Rather than be the same person who killed your father, a greedy, depraved, evil person."
"How did you promise me in the first place?"
"Haru, it's not too late now."
Until this moment, he was still trying to save his student.
Or.
own children.
Haru did not dare to face the teacher who was seriously injured by him. He turned his head in shame: "I haven't changed."
Sandian: "You have changed. You have become exactly like the people who killed your father."
"Look at how you look now, do you still recognize yourself?"
The fire demon roared crazily: "Teacher!"
"I haven't changed."
After Haru said this, the flames all over his body were extinguished.
He didn't dare to look at his teacher anymore. He turned into a ball of transparent gas and penetrated the clouds, flying towards the distance.
As for the Temple of Truth, all that was left was a mess.
There was also Sandian standing in the ruins. He watched Haru leave the direction and didn't speak for a long time.
It wasn't until he staggered and fell to the ground that the people around him immediately gathered around him.
"Lord Sage."
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