Chapter 488
Chapter 488 - 468: The Right Person
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Perhaps most have already forgotten, Xue En’s Talent Abilities were not innate... Normally, such a bizarre family wouldn’t be born.
He belongs to the "Inheritance System" among the Six Great Ability Systems. The reason it’s called inheritance and not bloodline is that their ability values are often passed down from one generation to another, from a certain "source."
That source could be a Rule-level or even a higher powerful Taboo item, a super ancestor who has transformed into an Outside Domain Sky Demon, or perhaps only a special notebook that has inherited special skills.
Abilities can be copied, passed down from one generation to another, and the "supernatural families" that construct their own power systems with a certain attribute, ability, or skill as the core are known as the inheritance system.
The Su Family of Zhebei River inherits special "blood" characteristics. Naturally, the family produces powerful Tamers generation after generation, passing down the accumulated combat experience and skills from the past. The starting point of the descendants is naturally higher, which should be considered a positive and virtuous inheritance.
And the famous "Broom Star the Xue Family" inheritance seems to be something more intangible.
They can always cause various low-probability events to erupt and mostly in a bad way.
For example, there’s an ant hole in a dam. Theoretically, it could collapse one day, but many builders may have died hundreds of years ago, and the dam still stands until one day a "Broom Star" visits there, sees the ant hole, and thinks of the saying "a thousand-mile levee is ruined by ants."
And so, what should happen happens.
Disasters will not come from nothing, but it seems that natural disasters, man-made collapses, and even the World Apocalypse don’t need anything to be spontaneously generated. There are always sparks and explosive flames in the air. Several large countries have banned the Xue Family from entering, and if Xue En doesn’t die, it is only a matter of time.
Outsiders can never know what the Xue Family has inherited specifically, and there is no answer to questions. They are simply regarded as humanoid natural disasters, and when it is necessary, they are used... but as a matter of fact, the Xue Family doesn’t know themselves! They don’t even know where this misfortune came from.
"I really don’t know why it’s like this..." a person from the Xue Family explained.
"Hehe, here it comes again. I’ll just believe it this time."
Each time the Xue Family tries to explain themselves to the outside world, they ultimately receive just such a subtle "trust."
Perhaps they’ll believe in your character, but they definitely won’t believe that you won’t court disaster.
The only thing that can be determined is that this misfortune follows, from birth to death, uninterrupted, after awakening.
"Ah, how did I turn into a Panda-man..."
At this moment, Xue En was stunned for a second, and then...
"Damn, I can’t wear any of my clothes and shoes at home. How much would it cost to replace them? Please spare me, my loan is already three years overdue."
After the initial surprise, he quickly regained his composure.
After all, when it comes to their family’s past experiences, this "getting fat and growing fur" experience isn’t worth mentioning.
"Heh, still alive and able to move, what’s the big deal?"
This kind of "cheerfulness" is probably incomprehensible to outsiders... Without this cheerfulness and mindset, they would have probably killed themselves long ago.
Their "natural misfortune" deepens as they age and time passes. If one’s own strength and experience cannot keep up with its advances, they will become fireworks one day... Well, it’s not much different even if they keep up.
Living to die? That’s probably it, living one day is a win.
It’s also because of this open-mindedness that he didn’t actively resist the "transformation" that he managed to retain most of his sanity.
However, now, many people probably don’t expect him to have "sanity."
"This, is the divine coffin?"
In the golden-styled palace, there is a massive coffin. It exists there and occupies most of the room’s space.
But Xue En doesn’t think it is a Deity... He doesn’t feel the threat within, whether from the naked eye or by touch, it’s just a sculpture carved from clay.
Right, he went ahead and touched it directly...
"It’s weird, it’s just a sculpture. Is it really necessary to be so concerned about it?"
People were shouting and clamoring outside, but Xue En didn’t care too much, he couldn’t understand them anyway... However, he did see their emphasis on this room.
That was a tall giant God, about five or six meters high, with a lion head, wolf tail, bear claws, dragon tail, and a pair of huge wings on its back, making it look like a beastman with an unknown number of mixed bloodlines.
But its whole body was shimmering with gold armor, and its pupils were fiercely gazing, making it look very majestic and grand.
"...No matter how you look at it, it seems like a sculpture...except for that hand."
The sculpture seemed and felt solid, and the most apparent evidence was the broken hand on the floor.
It was the result of being cut off, a stone-made right hand, directly cut off from the wrist and carefully placed on the ground.
Except for the statue, there was a complete mummy hand wrapped with many strange symbols in the place where the right hand was supposed to be, and judging by their size, they were nearly identical.
"This can’t be the Hand of the Divine, can it?"
Making such a judgment did not require much knowledge of taboo, merely witnessing all this was enough to sense the terrifying distortion.
In fact, all the changes at present, including those on Xue En’s body, originated from this arm.
"Akesuun, craving blood..."
On the walls of this God’s Sleeping Chamber, the painted patterns were almost identical to those previously, only highlighting the protagonist Akesuun, who had returned to the world after a long "sleep".
Perhaps fearing that the Resurrection Ceremony would be forgotten by later generations, the mural also depicted the process of "reviving the deity".
In reality, it was quite simple, just offering the deity’s "arm" and tearing open the seal to automatically link it... Then, Akesuun would return, leading his people to live a beautiful fairytale life.
Of course, the principle behind it is extremely complex.
Akesuun had already died, and his remains were sealed within the earth’s veins in this area.
This was the Sun God’s seal, and only the Seal Master in the world could try to unseal it... forcibly unsealing it was unrealistic, and even digging it out from the earth’s veins was improbable.
As a result, they built a palace here, with the entire palace serving as the Resurrection Ceremony for the deity. Once the conditions were met, the ceremony would proceed automatically.
The "Broken Hand" was a sacred relic of Akesuun, and also a "legacy" he left behind from a previous bloody battle... This was collected by Akesuun’s followers and was a taboo item of extraordinary power.
It contained the bloodline of not only Akesuun but also the Sun God; however, a single broken hand on its own was, of course, meaningless.
𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖
But as long as it entered the Ceremony process and formed the arm of the sculpture Akesuun, it could pull the "sealed objects" within the earth’s veins through the ceremony and transfer a part of them into the stone statue.
Once the deity entered the Holy Image, the Seal Power would naturally weaken; then, the "Divine Hand" and the reality of the "Sun God’s departure" would make its return viable.
The entire Ceremony was just entering a critical stage.
The Broken Hand was placed at the connection point, and then sacrificial offerings were supposed to be presented, followed by the Great Priest presiding over the Resurrection Ceremony... However, at this point, for some unknown reason, something went wrong.
"Why would the Holy Relic awaken on its own...?"
Something completely incomprehensible occurred in reality. When none of the believers could understand what was happening, the Holy Hand relic awakened on its own, producing a massive amount of evil transformations... Although most of the arriving high-level believers had strong resistance to transformations, some still had problems, causing a series of chaos.
Then, the defense line collapsed, people fell in disarray, and at this time, the Great Priest was attacked by the opponent’s "Truth-level item," which dragged down the Resurrection Ceremony.
And then... Xue En arrived, destiny led the most inappropriate person to come.
At this moment, Xue En was staring at the broken connection between the arm and the stone statue, muttering to himself.
"Uh, this seal seems a bit crude; it won’t fall apart naturally, will it?"
"This stone statue... it looks a bit strange; has it mutated?"
"Uh, I’m so tired, so hungry; in movies, these underground mausoleums usually end with self-destruction; there won’t be any of those chaotic mechanisms set up here, right?"
When people are tired, their thoughts naturally tend to wander; even knowing that some ideas shouldn’t surface, many distracting thoughts still flash through their minds.
"This thing looks alive; it won’t suddenly come to life, right...?"
Then, it... moved.
— End of Chapter 488 —