Throne Steps

"Why do I feel that once he came back, you completely ignored me?"

On the way back to the Ainuma Temple, Menzel finally realized that something was wrong, and took advantage of one day when he was camping, he went to Li Chen's side.

Li Chen glanced at him: "Come to act in front of me again, why not boil water if you have time."

"I'm almost becoming a professional water boiler." Menzel put his hands on his knees, bowed his body and looked up at him, "Is there anything else you can entrust to me?"

He always talks to Li Chen in such a submissive and obedient manner, even Li Chen admires his methods a little bit.If it was someone with a softer heart, he might be fooled by him.

"Yes." Li Chen looked down at him, then pointed to the side, "Put up a tent."

Menzel smiled helplessly, just in time to see Fudexi came back, and said to Li Chen: "Well, I hope you don't say too many bad things about me behind my back, I'm going to pitch a tent."

After that, he walked away.Fudexi walked back from the woods with two gray birds in his hands, threw them to the person in charge of the food in the team, and then went straight to Li Chen.

"What did he tell you?"

When he said this, he didn't shy away from it at all, and the black swans around him basically heard it.Menzel hadn't gone far, and he heard a general idea, but he acted as if he didn't hear it, and naturally walked to the place where the tent was pitched.

"It's nothing." Li Chen smiled at Fudexi, "What did you bring back?"

Fudexi didn't pursue the previous matter, and replied: "Two gray mountain pheasants."

Li Chen said: "Oh, I've seen it before, but everyone said it was too fast, and there was not much meat. It's boring to try hard to beat it back. I didn't expect that the first freshly slaughtered one I ate was actually from a your hands."

Fudexi didn't seem to take it seriously at all: "It's easy, it's not as difficult as you said. Most of them are big killers, of course they don't bother with such small things."

The archer who blew up the experimental hut earlier happened to pass by, and he patted Fudexi on the shoulder: "Hey, I'm here too, don't say I'm useless, okay?"

Fudexi glanced at him, brushed his hand away, and then looked away silently.

The archer sneered, said with emotion, "I haven't seen you in five years, but my temper is still so bad", and shook his head away.

Li Chen smiled and said: "You are right, you are an archer, it is really not that difficult. It would be a waste of your martial arts skills to dig you over."

Fu Dexi said nonchalantly: "Anyway, it doesn't have much power."

Li Chen glanced at the tail feathers protruding from the quiver behind him, and pointed out: "But it's different now?"

Fu Dexi froze for a moment, then raised his eyebrows: "Maybe."

Fudsh began to drill into Lichen's tent at night.

Because Akye would be summoned by Li Chen from time to time in the past, the black swans are already familiar with this kind of scene.But Menzel had never experienced such a scene, and he was a little surprised when he saw it at first. He asked the black swan beside him, "Fodexi... entered Lichen's tent?"

"Is it strange?" The black swan seemed to dislike him for being so rare.

"Isn't it strange?" Li Chen should be regarded as the real leader of Black Swan, but the influence of Fudexi and Clement on him is too great, right?Moreover, Lichen's tent is obviously very small, and it's not an urgent war, so is it necessary to squeeze into a tent to have a long talk?

Black Swan didn't want to care about Menzel, a curious baby, and he waved to Menzel as he walked to the side: "It's not surprising, you will get used to it after watching more."

Menzel couldn't get any effective information, so he squinted at the back of the departing black swan, and then turned his head to look in the direction of Lichen's tent.

Lichen's tent was always in the middle of the station, it was small, enough for one person, but definitely crowded for two.Not long after Fordhi entered, the lights in the tent had been extinguished, and there was no one on the canvas.And Menzel tried it quietly, and detected that the tent has been surrounded by magic to prevent eavesdropping and spying.

It's not good to go on like this...

Menzel frowned when he remembered that Li Chen had become increasingly estranged from him since Fudexi's return.

In fact, about Menzel's "bad words", Lichen and Fudexi had already negotiated before departure.The bedtime stories these days are all about Fordhi's journey of "becoming an elf and getting rid of the curse".

Li Chen can be regarded as the only non-elf who knows that Fu Dexi is a half-blood elf—oh, now it has to be called an elf race—and the remaining black swans, even if they follow Li Chen to pick up Fu De Xi's team, can only do so. Where did Dang Fudexi go to practice and practice for five years.Not to mention Menzel who came in forcefully, it would be great if he could match the real person Fudexi with the legend.

The story of Fudexi in the elves is actually very simple, but it can also be very lengthy.But in view of Fudexi's personality, he divided the five years into two parts-officially becoming a member of the elves and getting rid of the curse.

To put it in more detail, after he arrived in the elves' territory, the elf king said that he had to perform a ceremony first, and the so-called "relief of the curse" would be effective for him after he truly became an elves.

Although Fudexi felt that this statement was trying to deceive people at the time, he couldn't judge the truth, so he could only listen to the Elf King's mercy.

It takes time to prepare for the ceremony, and the ceremony itself needs to wait until the right time and take the right amount of time.It was more than a year later when Fudexi was able to approach the tree of life and carry out the real release process.

Then he sat under the tree of life almost all day long, meditating.

What method should the Elf King have used, and what effect the tree of life might have produced, but Fudexi basically didn't notice it. He was just asked to meditate, meditate, and understand under the tree of life day after day.This kind of day feels like doing nothing, aimless, and at the same time, it doesn't change, it doesn't work, and doing it every day seems like a waste of time.For a while, Fordhi was too restless to sit quietly and meditate.He went to the Elf King and asked if he could undo the curse, how long he would live like this, and why he was still in chaos under the tree of life all day long when his core was broken and he could no longer improve.

"Be patient, my child." The Elf King answered him this way, "Magic power or fighting spirit is only a part of the power of every living being, not most, let alone all. If you really don't know what to do under the tree of life, Just ask questions."

Furdhi stared at him: "I've already asked."

"Then keep asking." The Elf King replied, "Saenz, Wiggins... and the person you are loyal to have all asked the tree of life question. When they get the answer, they will no longer show doubts Look. My boy, have you done it?"

It is true that the more he asked, the more confused he became. After hearing what the Elf King said, he had to go back and think again.

Or at least find something to do.

When talking about this, Fudexi asked Li Chen: "What question did you ask? I heard that you went to meditate on the second day after you arrived. How did you decide that 'this is the question'?"

Li Chen raised his eyebrows in the dark. It seems that Fudexi has indeed been changed by the elves and the tree of life. At least the former Fudexi has always disdained to pursue such philosophical questions close to the origin.

However, he was still a "son of the curse" before, and he didn't know how long he could live, and he couldn't figure out what kind of origin his father was.Even if the physical source is clear, there is really no need to worry about what is in the heart.

"The question I asked was actually very simple." Li Chen recalled with his eyes closed, "I asked a question...that I knew the answer to."

Even the slander expert Fudexi was speechless for a while: "Since you know the answer, why do you still ask?"

"This is similar to the standard of the so-called contract and oath I told you before." Li Chen replied slowly, "I know the answer, but that's just the answer I think. Sometimes, I also doubt my own Judgment, I'm afraid that I will deceive myself. Therefore, I need an external force to tell me... No, it is to help me strengthen my own thoughts, which is correct."

In fact, one of the so-called answers of the tree of life is that Li Chen has an objective answer, and the other is to help the questioner find the deepest thoughts in his heart.The question Saenz asked back then was the answer he found in this way, but it was not Saenz but Li Chen who found the answer in the end.

Furdhi had no further thought of exploring the hearts of these people, he just continued to talk about his own experience.

Afterwards things are much simpler.In short, three years after Fudexi went to meditate under the tree every day, one day, the elf king Mogadishu grabbed his wrist while he was meditating, and put a force into his body.This force circulated in Fudsh's body, and before Fudsh could feel anything, the Elf King said that the curse had been lifted.

The announcement of the end came unexpectedly, and for a while, Fudexi even thought that the Elf King was joking with him.After he repeatedly confirmed, questioned, and even dared to ask the Elf King to apply a small light magic to him, he finally believed it.

"Wait a minute, are you saying that the Elf King suddenly came to you and gave you power, and then you suddenly recovered?" Li Chen felt that this was too weird, "Did he explain anything? This process... I It can be considered that the previous work is useless, just skip to the step of asking him to input power for you!"

"I asked the same question." Fordesh replied, "His answer is that the power of the tree of life has helped me weaken the power of the curse to the thinnest, and he just helped me untie the last shackles. Because of this, I will not notice until he declares that the curse is lifted."

"My God..." Li Chen took a long, deep breath, "I thought you were going to suffer a lot, but in fact it was just three years of beating. I don't know if it's necessary to sit?"

Fudexi narrowed his eyes, and his tone was mocking: "Do you think it's so fun to meditate under the tree of life? Even if the body is not directly hit, the mental oppression will cause physical discomfort."

Li Chen didn't know that the tree of life would sometimes give the questioner a bad "traversal" - just like what Saenz experienced - but at least he knew that asking the tree of life for answers was a lot of energy.But at the same time, Li Chen also believes that the questioner will consume too much energy because of this, and he is completely made up by his own questions.Therefore, even if Fudexi suffered mental torment under the tree of life, in Li Chen's view, a considerable part of the reason was caused by himself.

But he wouldn't say it so bluntly.

"Okay. Anyway, all this is over." He found Fudexi's hand in the dark and patted it. "You don't need to be oppressed by the tree of life anymore."

His tone of voice was pretty good, and just as Fudexi wanted to soften his attitude and say something, he heard him say: "Go back to Black Swan, just be oppressed by me."

"...Li Chen!"

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