The old man you see with your phone is highly suspicious.

But now, his face was ashen, and he leaned against the castle wall, quietly watching the stars and the moon in the sky.

There are stars in subspace, which is strange, but not so far-fetched. Xue's Law has observed that the stars in this sky are stationary and may just be projections.

However, at this moment, it seems that all one can do is stare blankly at these things.

The next day, the "princess" died, halfway through the ceremony.

Next to die should be Xue's Law.

“Father, why did she come to the rooftop alone? Is there really an evil spirit haunting this island?” the Baron’s voice rang out.

He kept thinking about why as he went upstairs.

He couldn't understand the key point: why would that intelligent woman do something so foolish?

"Maybe."

Xue Daolu simply sat calmly beside the baron and said, "I have no ability to save others, but tomorrow should be my death day. I will go first and help you find out the method of killing in this ritual. Look at my body and the cause of death, and see if you can find any clues."

The baron fell silent, and then, for a moment, the atmosphere became silent again. After a long silence, he finally spoke: "Father, a war took place on this island, a war between the island's lord and another army..."

He slowly revealed his guess, but Xue Dinglu already knew all of this.

Furthermore, Xue's Law went on to supplement his work, highlighting four key figures.

Princess, courtesan, island lord, and legion commander of the empire, a priest.

These four people are a microcosm of the stories that once unfolded on this island.

It's a story that can be described as farcical: the princess, unwilling to marry the island's lord, had a courtesan take her place, leading to a series of consequences.

The negotiations between the kingdom's army and the island lord were also sabotaged by the princess, which led to a fierce battle between the kingdom's army and the lord in the dead of night. The lord's wife, whom he had just married as the princess, was also tied to stones and drowned in the sea because of her status as the culprit.

However, what the princess did not expect was that this war, which she originally only wanted to ruin her marriage, ended up with the two sides fighting each other, and she herself was caught in the middle, falling off a cliff and dying on the spiked wooden stakes.

The kingdom's army leader recklessly entered the lord's house and was burned to death in the fire, which almost completely engulfed the entire island.

In the end, the lord disappeared without a trace, and the entire island became a dead land, known as the "Island of Wraiths".

This is the story of the island. The information Xue obtained, combined with the baron's speculation, pieced together all the stories.

While not necessarily accurate, and there may be many differences in the details, this is generally how the story of the entire island unfolds.

Xue Dinglu thought for a moment and immediately said, "Then I'll die in the fire tomorrow. I'll try to stay as far away from the fire as possible before I die. You can see how I'll be burned to death. This is the last bit of help I can offer you..."

Just as he was about to get up and leave, the Baron said, "Father, thank you for everything you've done. Would you like to hear my story?"

"A monster's story."

……

He was a baron of the empire, a title his parents earned through meritorious service in war.

Although it was the lowest rank of nobility, it was still a noble class that others had to look up to.

Even nobles of this rank are not much different from knights; they are simply knights with their own territory, which is very small, probably only half a village. They can't even afford to support soldiers, let alone knights.

Therefore, he was both a baron and a "knight".

From a young age, he admired the heroes in chivalric romances, who protected their country, defended their territory, rescued princesses, and ultimately won the hearts of their beloved, while also gaining a higher rank...

So from a young age, he learned to act chivalrously like the protagonists in knight tales.

He participated in the imperial campaigns as a grain transport officer. Even without killing any enemies, he still earned considerable merit. Although these achievements were not enough for him to be promoted, they allowed him to establish himself in the capital instead of becoming a small lord in the countryside. He became the city guard officer of the entire capital, responsible for the security and access control of the capital.

This was a lucrative position, the best one he could earn through his military achievements. Although there were five city guards in the entire capital, he at least had the right to guard one side of the capital.

Furthermore, this is a place where one can earn merit, and perhaps after earning merit, one can be promoted to viscount, further elevating one's family's status.

This was his former ideal: a nobleman from the lower class with a chivalrous spirit.

He served as a city guard officer for over a decade. During this time, he made many acquaintances among the imperial nobles and married the second daughter of a count in the capital, becoming a member of the capital's noble circle. Although he was in a lower-middle position, if he had been able to avoid making mistakes as a city guard officer before he could no longer wield a sword, he could have become a viscount.

Subsequently, his son, with the support of his maternal uncle's earl, could potentially rise further from his original viscount position to become an earl or higher noble, thus firmly establishing himself in the empire.

If nothing unexpected happens, this is his plan for his future.

Until a serious incident occurred in the area under his jurisdiction.

It is quite normal for a large number of outsiders and people from the lower classes to go missing, their fate unknown. There are also many corpses of unknown people in the corners of the capital, especially after winter.

But this time is different, because there are too many people involved. It is conservatively estimated that thousands of people have gone missing in this way within a year.

Although they were all people from the lower classes, this had attracted the attention of those above him. Therefore, the Baron needed to resolve this issue before those above him paid full attention, so as to ensure that his career advancement would not be disrupted.

So he immediately led dozens of city guards to begin the exploration.

However, he found nothing. With time running out, he remembered his days as a "hero" and came up with a plan: to pretend to be a lowly commoner and go fishing.

Soon, he caught a fish, even a big one, at the home of a viscount in the outskirts of the capital.

However, when he arrived, he discovered that this was not a viscount's residence, but a den of demons. Countless twisted human bodies and corpses were scattered throughout the manor. Underneath the manor was a bottomless pit filled with corpses that had been tortured beyond recognition.

Tens of thousands, densely packed.

He only felt a chill run down his spine, and an inexplicable...anger!

And this was done simply for...

“It’s fun!” These were the viscount’s exact words. “Seeing the expressions on those lowly people’s faces as they were happy to receive my help, and then their expressions as they fell from heaven to hell in an instant, that’s the expression I want to see! I want to see that twisted expression on their faces!”

He was supposed to be one of them, but the Viscount's family didn't expect him to be so powerful. He single-handedly cut through the Viscount's guards, and the city guards were waiting to rush into the Viscount's house and expose everything.

This caused a huge uproar throughout the capital.

The king was furious, because the capital was legally his territory, and his people were being killed on his land.

My money!

This is my property!

However, the law does not apply to nobles. Even though he was just a viscount, after a long argument, the verdict was finally handed down.

The viscount family was expelled and stripped of their viscount titles, and could only travel to the imperial border with the lowest rank of baron, which was in effect a form of exile.

He received the newly stripped viscount title and became a rising star among nobles.

Everything seemed to be moving in a positive direction, and he had achieved his life's goal.

But he looked at the viscount's face, at their arrogant and conceited faces.

"Hahaha, is it just a demotion?" a provocative voice rang out. "By the way, I can also go to the border; it's more convenient for my research there."

Looking at that face, and at this twisted nobleman, anger seemed to completely overwhelm him.

Obey the empire's arrangements, inherit his viscountcy, and exile this murderer to the border...

Then, he couldn't do it!

That sense of honor he felt from childhood as a wandering knight and knight made it impossible for him to do this!

"Whoosh!" The iron fist slammed into his face.

At this moment, he didn't care about the viscount title or the future. He just sat on the nobleman's body, beating and torturing him mercilessly to vent all his dissatisfaction and anger.

Not only him, but also his wife and daughter, made these two accomplices suffer the most brutal violence and torture!

Three days later, when the Baron came to his senses, all that remained before him were three corpses twisted beyond recognition.

Now, he is covered in the blood of the Viscount's entire family. He killed the monster's knight and, after being stained with the monster's blood, has become a new monster!

Chapter 455 The Seven Great Evils of Humanity Reveal Their True Names

A not-so-interesting story.

Xue Lu thought to himself, but at the same time said, "It's a very good story."

The baron paused for a moment, then seemed to realize something, and smiled with relief: "Yes, it's just a story about a little knight..."

The story of a young knight who, even after slaying a demon, is corrupted by the demon's blood and transformed into a monster even more terrifying than the demon.

The moment he killed the demon, he himself became the demon.

This time, the two were even more silent, with little communication. The Baron did not ask about Xue's past, perhaps because he realized that Xue was very mysterious, his condition, his divine powers, and his self-proclaimed identity as a "priest".

They are all filled with mysteries and secrets.

There was no need for me to delve into these deeper matters. After all, they were just strangers who had met by chance and only joined forces when they encountered danger. Now, that alliance was no longer necessary.

They had no idea where their enemy was, how to stop the ritual from continuing, or even what means to stop it. It seemed that as long as they remained on the island, they were powerless to stop the ritual.

He looked in the direction of the former death cruise ship and found no cargo ship in sight; only thick fog and darkness remained in the sea.

How much longer can I live?

He thought to himself.

……

Xue's Law was not idle; he waited for the next day.

He arrived in the consciousness space and found the corpse there, its chest wide open and all its internal organs hollowed out.

This is a body that my mother had retrieved earlier, and they followed this body to this death cruise ship.

Xue later learned that the corpse was actually the former captain of the deadly cruise ship.

However, he is now making the most of what he has.

The corpse was stitched up and filled with fake internal organs that mimicked human organs as a disguise, while Xue's Law began to modify it for human evil.

This time, a "beast" with rings on every one of its ten fingers slowly sank into the corpse.

The Beast of Compassion, a monster representing all of humanity's pity, hesitation, indecisiveness, and fussiness, sank into it.

When Xue Dinglu first thought of the identity of this compassionate beast, it was the killer whale, whose ability to handle such matters was undoubtedly unmatched. However, when he finally discovered the person to whom the beast corresponded, he smiled with relief.

"The bandits who seized your right to your homeland and your race are now slaughtering your true descendants and kin," Xue Dinglu said sarcastically. The next moment, the man with rings on all ten fingers slowly sank into the corpse.

The Beast of Mercy, King Solomon, the king of Jutia, who lived almost as recently as Zeus.

But in fact, most of the people who are being genocidal in the isolation zone are descendants of King Solomon and his people. According to the genealogy of human migration, Jesus is also one of the "descendants" of Solomon's people.

Those soap people who claim to want to "restore their nation" are actually the traitors who betrayed Solomon and Jesus, and are nothing more than robbers who have seized their right to belonging and their race...

This is truly... the complete reversal of the Heavenly Stems...