After the kiss, Xiao Zhi was like a scumbag who ran away after flirting, ignoring Frost's implicitly reluctant gaze, saying goodbye to his freshly-baked boyfriend, and finding Alifa and heading towards the Adiya Lake together.

Because he wanted to take the Holy Flame Crown, Xiao Zhi did not have the effect of activating the Soul Crystal of the Dead.

Originally, he wanted to see what Alifa's reaction was, but he didn't expect that Alifa didn't react at all. He was still so enthusiastic and fond of acting like a spoiled child. It seemed that in his heart, the undead version of Xiao Zhi and the living version of Xiao Zhi were the same.

Of course, it's also possible that the stupid Alifa couldn't tell the difference at all.

The location of Lake Aditya is the area between Hesse and Bresse, which is covered with snow and ice all year round, and there are many snow and ice monsters growing here.

Originally, this place existed as an ascetic area for the Brethian religion, and devout believers and clerics often came here to practice.

After being beaten by Hessian, the undead did not like the bright aura that permeated the air in the entire area. Therefore, there are hardly any figures here at this moment, only the whistling cold wind and the occasional monsters wandering in the snow field.

Xiao Zhi rode on Alifa, feeling that he was being blown messily by the wind, and even took out a cloak woven with fire spider silk to keep him warm.

Following Greerata's instructions, Xiao Zhi moved in a direction.

On the way he saw many collapsed buildings, all from the architectural style of Brace, and even a cathedral that looked very high-end and exquisite. It is a pity that most of these buildings are now covered with heavy snow, and the glory of the past is no longer there, only a loneliness is left.

Finally, Lake Aditya arrived.

The entire lake has been covered with a thick layer of ice, and the ice layer has completely blocked everything below. You can tell just by looking at it - it is very cold, very cold, and big pants can freeze you hard.

Xiao Zhi: "..."

To be honest, don't want to go down a bit...

Alifa stepped on the ice with big claws full of bones, carefully digging with his sharp nails, feeling that his bones were about to freeze: "Gu..."

To be honest, don't want to go down a bit...

Xiao Zhi sighed, took a series of underwater medicines, and a bottle of warm medicine with Alifa's family, and entered the lake with the reduced Alifa.

The visibility in the lake was very low. Occasionally, creatures in the lake swam past. Xiao Zhi followed Greerata's instructions and came to a large rock at the bottom of the lake.

These stones are stacked in an inconspicuous place, and various underwater algae grow on them. They look unremarkable, just like the most ordinary lake bottom landscape.

Xiao Zhi found an inconspicuous scratch on a certain stone, which was the mark Greatta said.

Then he started to move from this mark, removed one, there was another one below, and then moved away, it was still a stone... He moved sixteen stones one after another, and when he doubted whether he was looking in the wrong place, he finally revealed one. Dark channels.

After the warm-up exercise, Xiao Zhi felt that the bottom of the lake was no longer so cold, and he couldn't help but murmured, "Archbishop Greerata, are you a groundhog?"

"Goo." Alifa agreed.

Xiao Zhi took Alpha into the passage.

The inside is still dark and very narrow, and there is no high-end atmosphere that belongs to the archbishop at all.

After a while, the road ahead came to an end.

Generally speaking, in the face of such a situation, normal people will feel that they have reached a dead end, and then they will choose to return. But Xiao Zhi knew that this was the first layer of seal set up by Gregory Tower. Everything in front of him was only interfering with the perception of the incoming person. In fact, there was still a way to go.

After turning around in the passage, bypassing countless labyrinth-like forks, and passing through the seven seals one after another, Xiao Zhi felt a slight warmth coming from the water in front of him.

There are three remaining seals, but the influence of the Holy Flame Crown has been able to penetrate through the layers of barriers and come to the outside world.

At this time, Alifa seemed a little uneasy, her shrunken claws grabbed Xiao Zhi's shoulders tightly, and her wings flapped subconsciously.

As an undead, it keenly felt the terrifying aura coming from the front, and instinctively told it that if it moved forward, it might be injured by that thing, or even...killed.

Xiao Zhi looked at Alifa: "Alifa, you should stay here, I can go there alone."

"Gu." Alifa grabbed the clothes on Xiao Zhi's shoulders, not intending to spread his claws.

Xiao Zhi gently grabbed Alifa, placed it on a raised spot on the channel wall, and touched Alifa's head: "Don't worry, I'm fine."

"Cuckoo..." Alifa rubbed Xiao Zhi's palm with his hard head.

Xiao Zhi smiled: "I'll be back soon."

Alifa's empty eyes kept following Xiao Zhi, watching him go in a direction that looked very dangerous.

Finally, Xiao Zhi came to the last seal.

In the end, this seal looks very complicated, and it is also the largest and strongest of these seals along the way, but even such a seal cannot completely block the power of the Holy Flame Crown.

The surrounding lake water has become quite scorching hot, and even Xiao Zhi's skin felt the burning pain, and the blood volume began to drop slowly. After Xiao Zhi applied a magic shield to himself, the drop in blood volume stopped.

He undid the seal according to the method Greatta said.

Immediately, a searing wave rushed towards Xiao Zhi, almost instantly impacting Xiao Zhi's magic shield to the verge of crumbling, the surrounding passages were also splashed with gravel by the heat wave, and even the lake water showed signs of boiling. .

Xiao Zhi hurriedly drank a bottle of potion to replenish his mana, and renewed his life for the shattering spell shield.

Only then did he look forward. There was a small space in front of him. There was no decoration in it. There was only a large stone in the middle, and a gorgeous crown was randomly placed on it.

The crown is a white background with intricate golden patterns on it. In the middle is a gem that contains powerful fire energy. Every line on the crown is amplifying the effect of this gem, making the entire crown of holy flames. become extremely powerful.

The Holy Flame Crown just lay there quietly, without any dazzling light, but the ubiquitous heat indicated its presence, and people would never ignore it.

With each step forward, the surrounding heat increases by one point.

Xiao Zhi couldn't help but wonder if someone could really wear this kind of thing on their head? This heat is more exciting than the overhead grill, is it really not going to be burned into a charcoal grilled pig's head?

I always feel that Greatta has forgotten something important and didn't tell him...

Hesse.

Greatta, who was complaining about Blaise with her new friends, suddenly stopped laughing.

The undead beside him asked, "What's wrong?"

Gretta floated in mid-air and touched his chin: "I seem to have forgotten to tell the regent..."

You must first be recognized by the Holy Flame Crown before you can become its master.

Otherwise, it will be directly burned to ashes.

But...Greata herself doesn't know how to be recognized by the Holy Flame Crown. When he received the crown, the owner of the crown, the former Pope Ernestier, was still alive. With the Pope's will, the Holy Flame Crown would not exclude his contact, but it could not be used by him.

As soon as Gregoryata received the Holy Flame Crown, he was plotted by Andre, and then entered the dreamer's book for hundreds of years, and did not have time to accept the inheritance of the previous Pope.

He doesn't know how to make the Holy Flame Crown admit himself in a state of no owner.

Forget it, anyway, Mr. Regent is an Asanasi, and it doesn’t matter if he dies. believe that with his intelligence, he will definitely be able to figure out a way to be recognized by the Holy Flame Crown without dying many times.

Well, Mr. Regent will definitely do it.

Another lich asked, "Forgot to tell the regent what?"

"It's nothing, it's just a small matter." Greerata shook her head and threw the thoughts out of her mind: "Come on, I will continue to tell you about the old man Andre, how hypocritical it was back then..."

Immediately, the surrounding undead cast aside the question just now, and continued to eat the old melon of the Pope.

Although the melon is old, it is secret, exciting, and more flavorful than fresh.

Xiao Zhi, who was facing "little things", felt that he was getting used to it.

His advance seemed to anger the Holy Flame Crown, the surrounding water was boiling frantically, and the powerful heat flow quickly eroded the magic shield, so he had to keep replenishing mana.

Fortunately, Gretta placed the Holy Flame Crown under the ice lake. The temperature of the lake water can slightly restrain the power of the Holy Flame Crown. If it were placed in the Long Moon Desert, Xiao Zhi suspected that he might be lying in Asanassi now. on the floor of the realm.

Finally, Xiao Zhi walked to the front of the Holy Flame Crown with difficulty.

At this moment, he felt a powerful coercion, as if to make him kneel in front of such a force and completely succumb to the crown.

Xiao Zhi gritted his teeth and stood up straight, and against the scorching heat, he stretched out his hand towards the Holy Flame Crown.

The surrounding temperature skyrocketed again.

Almost in an instant, the magic shield was shattered, and the unbearable high temperature suddenly rushed towards Xiao Zhi, instantly leaving terrifying burning marks on his skin, and the blood volume also dropped at a terrifying speed. Whistling, about to run to zero.

Everything is warning the people in front of you, stop, this is not something you should touch.

Enduring the high temperature that seemed to burn his muscles and bones together, Xiao Zhi desperately stretched out his hand and tightly grasped the Holy Flame Crown.

next moment.

Xiao Zhi only felt that his eyes were filled with dazzling light. The strong light made his vision white, and he could not see anything.

The high temperature that almost burned him to ashes also disappeared in an instant, and he suddenly left the high temperature environment, which made Xiao Zhi suddenly feel relaxed, the pain on his body disappeared, and he only felt warm, as if he was immersed in warm water.

The picture appeared in front of me again, this time it was a dilapidated alley.

Dirty buildings were everywhere, the ground was full of stagnant water, and the air was filled with the rancid smell of fermented garbage. Xiao Zhi looked at himself and found that he had become skinny, with slender limbs. like a malnourished child.

A gust of wind blew with a biting chill.

Xiao Zhi suddenly forgot who he was.

He remembered in a trance that he seemed to be looking for food. If he couldn't find food, he would probably starve to death today...

He struggled to support his weak body, endured the pungent odor, found a few broken bricks to support his feet, and rummaged through the trash can that was taller than his people, and finally found half a piece with Tooth-printed bread.

An arm that was much thicker than Xiao Zhi's hand suddenly stretched out from behind him and roughly snatched the bread from his hand.

"Hahaha, kid, this is ours!"

Xiao Zhi turned around abruptly and saw a group of children older than him.

These children were also as dirty as him, and their clothes were tattered. They were obviously poor children. Although they were not strong, they were much stronger than Xiao Zhi, who had thin arms and thin legs like bamboo poles.

Several older children were tossing half a piece of bread around like a joke, laughing loudly at Xiao Zhi while throwing it back.

"Hahahahaha, only the lowest rubbish would eat this kind of thing!"

"My dad says he's just a piece of shit no one wants!"

“Chops are only for rubbish!!”

"Hahahahaha-"

so hungry...

Crazy hunger swept through the body.

This is obviously mine, Xiao Zhi thought.

Looking at the big kids laughing in front of him, he felt as if he should do something.

But, looking at his thin arms, what could he do... what?

Suddenly, one of the children missed, and the bread fell to the ground. There happened to be a puddle full of dirty water on the ground. The bread suddenly turned gray after absorbing the water, and it looked a little disgusting.

"Cut, I don't have to play anymore."

"Let's go, it's boring."

A few older children were about to leave with their shoulders clasped together, when they saw the dirty little devil suddenly rushing in front of them.

"What, do you want to do something with us, little bastard?"

"Hahaha, just him? Jump up and hit our knees?"

They let out a roar of laughter, sneering at the over-the-top guy in front of them.

After a few people had laughed enough, the dirty little ghost in front of them kept staring at them, neither saying a word nor leaving. A few people suddenly felt a fire rushing up in their hearts, how dare they look directly at them like this little bastard?

The faces of several people gradually darkened, and the child in the lead rolled up his tattered sleeves. He imitated the fierce look of his father and walked towards Xiao Zhi: "Teach him a lesson."

Seeing this, several other children followed suit, clenching their fists and walking towards him.

There seems to be no doubt that the half-old child who is about to be called a teenager will win or lose against a young and thin child. There are still some adults around, but their faces are full of expressions of watching the show. No one chooses to stand up for this child, as if he is just a little mouse wandering on the street, who can easily run over to death.

So, insignificant.

The older children raised their fists, and their shadows cast on Xiao Zhi, almost shrouding his world in darkness.

Xiao Zhi heard his own heartbeat, nervous, rapid, restless, angry... Countless emotions were intertwined, and it seemed that they were about to explode in his thin chest.

In the next instant, a scorching flame erupted violently with Xiao Zhi as the center, and ruthlessly pushed the besieged older children away.

"Ahhhhhhh-"

"Fire, fire, fire!!!!"

Tongues of fire licked their clothes and hair, causing them to roll on the ground and wailing, tumbling in the filthy muddy water in fear, countless times more embarrassed than Xiao Zhi, who had been mocked by them before.

"He, he, he is the patron of the holy flame!!!"

The children who were burned by the fire screamed, but the people around them ignored their voices as if they had ignored Xiao Zhi before. Everyone's eyes fell on the flames surrounding Xiao Zhi, and many people began to kneel and kneel toward the flames, as if it was something very sacred and incredible.

Soon after, a whole group of people in gorgeous costumes respectfully took Xiao Zhi away.

In this world, the power of the holy flame is supreme, it blesses the entire country, keeps the citizens safe from foreign enemies and keeps them away from natural disasters.

Among the people, those who are favored by the holy flame will gain the ability to control the flame. The weak can only light candles, the strong can control the flames to fight, and someone like Xiao Zhi who can unleash a large flame by himself just after awakening is the top of the Holy Flame Blessed, and is known as a rare encounter in a thousand years. genius.

From this day on, he went from a stray child who was starving and ignored and abandoned by everyone to the most talented Holy Flame Blessed One in the sanctuary.

In this way, Xiao Zhi learned and grew up in the church almost without hindrance.

He is always the one who has made the fastest progress among the saints of the same rank, and he has improved his rank all the way at an inhuman speed. Countless geniuses were ashamed in front of him, countless arrogant nobles were willing to extend a hand of friendship to him, countless praises and praises poured towards him like flowing water.

By the time Xiao Zhi was eighteen years old, he had already stood at the top of all holy flame followers, and even the high priest was far inferior to him in controlling flames.

He also finally got the chance to reach the top.

A sunny day.

A grand ceremony is being held on the holy platform where the crown of holy flame is enshrined. Aristocrats and followers of the Holy Flame all over the country came to the scene to watch the ceremony, and countless people rushed here one after another in order to pay their respects to the legendary Holy Flame Crown.

"Are you willing to swear allegiance to the Holy Flame and dedicate your time, life, all loyalty, and soul to the Supreme Holy Flame?" the high priest asked solemnly.

Xiao Zhi looked around, he was standing on the highest holy platform, surrounded by countless crawling believers, their silhouettes stretched out all the time, so dense that they could not see the end at a glance.

As long as he is willing to swear everything to the Holy Flame, he will become the supreme person in the entire country. From then on, countless glory and honor will accompany him for the rest of his life.

Xiao Zhi turned his gaze back to himself and looked at the crown of holy flames that stood high above.

It is so delicate and beautiful, full of power.

It symbolizes status, it symbolizes glory, it symbolizes innumerable wealth.

If he wants to...

Everyone is waiting, waiting for the expected but exciting answer.

Xiao Zhi showed a smile, but said softly, "No."

The high priest stared wide-eyed, at first surprised, and then seemed to be angry at his rebellion: "Don't think that you have a reputation for being a genius, you can do whatever you want—"

"Shh—" Xiao Zhi put a hand in front of his lips and made a silent gesture towards him.

Then, he turned around, took a few steps forward, and in front of everyone, took down the holy flame crown enshrined like a god from the high platform.

Then, amid the uproar of everyone on and off the stage, he put the crown on his head.

Xiao Zhi looked at the shocked and angry faces around him, and said word by word, "I am the owner of it."

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Athan:  …

Xiao Zhi: Huh? won't it? It seems to have to learn it all over again.

Asen: ... God, why is Xiao Qi so handsome.