Overturned Tower

This is the "way of temperance".

Hang Ling was walking slowly against the snow... In order not to leave here, every time he walked a certain distance, Hang Ling would turn around and walk back the same distance.

So and so, he has been repeating for two days.

Relying on the fire of anger to warm up, he can continue to persevere like this...

Anger, vengeance, love—when such strong emotions that can be condensed into flames are manifested in the dream world, they become flames that can burn in the body.Just like reality... Rational anger, desire for vengeance, and great love can all make people endure pain for a longer period of time.

Only by obtaining the restraining power of the way of temperance can the shape of anger be restrained and it can be transformed into various shapes.

When Hang Sha turned around again, he saw a young man with a dark blue ponytail and a bright smile appearing behind him at some point.

"Good evening, Godfather."

Strangling said in a low voice.

His back is always slightly hunched due to the damage of spirituality, but even so, with a height of more than 1.9 meters, and his arms thicker than a barber's thigh, he looks extremely oppressive.

"If it weren't for your vest, it would be quite protective in this snow."

The barber looked at him and said with a joke: "Your fur color is really hard to tell here. Should I say that it's a good thing you're a lion in clothes?"

Hanging's clothes look like "fighters".

He was wearing loose trousers that bound his ankles, fluttering under the strong wind.

As for the jacket, there was only an open tiger-skin vest, and his own layer of white lion fur was used inside.

If it weren't for the trousers and vest, his own coat color could completely blend into the slow snow mountain.

"You seem to be in a good mood today?"

Looking at the barber who always had a smile on his lips, Hanging glanced at him and walked in the right direction: "Follow me, but don't speed up... Tell me if you can't keep up with me. I will slow down .

"Yeah, I know. You said the rules when you came last time. It's only been three or four days, and I still haven't forgotten it."

The barber looked left and right at the extremely monotonous environment of the slow snow mountain, but it seemed very fresh.

He said in a brisk tone: "I think that the process of walking on this snow-capped mountain is itself a part of cultivation. It is also a hard practice of accepting pain and tempering one's mind.

"If it is true, this level of austerity may leave irreparable damage to the body.

"But in the dream world, as long as you enter the next area, all the damage and pain you endured in the previous area will be transformed into the power of spells.

"As long as you endure the pain, you can gain the growth of your xinxing and strength, and you don't need to pay a real price-is there a better penance place than this? If they can't leave from the slow snow mountain, it can only mean that they really don't have The talent for 'temperance'.

"But if you obviously don't have the talent for temperance, you shouldn't be able to enter the gate of temperance. Then there is only one answer...

"—That is the thief of the power of the dream world."

The barber showed a bright smile full of malice: "I don't have the fit of 'power of temperance' at all, but I followed the map of others and stepped into the door that I would not have entered, and knocked on the door with the answer copied from others. Door. It is only natural to be sanctioned and punished by the dream world."

"You look really good today."

Without looking back, Hang Shou made a cold voice: "Today we talk a lot."

In his cognition, although the barber is not so taciturn, he is somewhat restrained emotionally.

But today, the barber can hardly suppress the joy and excitement...

With his character, such emotions can appear.There must be something very good about it.

"really."

The barber's mood gradually cooled down.

But Hang Kill doesn't need to look back, he knows that there must be a smile on his face.

Because the smile in those words couldn't be concealed at all: "You have no idea what I did."

"You said."

"I killed Director Camalthe."

The barber smiled brightly: "An elf director."

Hearing this, Strangling stopped immediately.

He turned around in disbelief: "What did you say?"

"Ha. Sure enough, you have to be a knowledgeable person to understand the gold content of this great cause."

The barber let out a breath of white air.

He raised his head and said sonorously: "Just go out and spread the word, it doesn't matter.

"You can go out and spread the word-the godfather designed to kill an elf director, and he is now in a very safe situation. Even the head office has kept silent about it, and has no intention of doing anything to him. As long as it is used well, this will become our last Good publicity tool."

"...This matter is of great importance, I have to verify it first."

Hang Kill was silent for a while, but still slowly shook his head: "It's really... too unbelievable.

"But you are right about one thing. If this matter is true, this matter will become our greatest help..."

Stretch turned his head back, and while walking in front of Russell, he murmured in a low voice:

"So... are elves mortal too?"

He turned his back to the barber, and the pupils that had always been calm, at most filled with anger, were strongly shaken for the first time——

Amazement, admiration, shock—and the fire of uncontrollable ambition slowly ignited.

Chapter 22 The Fire of Jealousy and Greed

In fact, plans such as "jumping onto the chessboard" and "becoming a competitor of the head office" proposed by the godfather just made strangulation "sound as if it would work."

But that's about it.

In fact, strangling is the most pessimistic person.

The reason why he was willing to support the godfather's plan was because he didn't trust ale in the first place.

The "melting pot" school and the "embers" school are originally opposed to each other.

One emphasizes tempering oneself with the hammer of pain, the fire of anger, and transforming oneself into something great... The whole external world is tribulation and trial, all joy is false, and all pain is opportunity.

The other believes that everyone will die, even the world will be destroyed, and everything will be reduced to ashes after being burned by fire.Whether it is great or not is just the difference between how many embers are still hidden in this embers... It is the most correct way to enjoy yourself while you are burning.

These are two completely opposite schools of spells.

The inheritance of the school of magic itself includes the world view.

Just as the godfather said... According to the concept of the "melting pot" school, every area in the dream world is equivalent to a kind of training.After enduring hardships and going through trials with all our strength, the individual's character will also be reshaped by it.

Strangling is always silent and reliable.This is not unrelated to his experience of walking in the way of contemplation and temperance and experiencing many hardships.

For example, "Heart Lake".

He wants to drive a lone boat in the never-ending lake.As long as there is even the slightest distraction in his mind, the originally calm lake will become churning and agitated; if he feels restless and anxious, the lake will become terrifying like a tsunami; if he feels fear and panic, the lake will really There will be monsters attacking the lone boat.

The only way to get across that area is by remaining calm and always ignoring the churning waves.

And the experience in this process has definitely had an irreversible impact on strangling himself.

Because of this, he and malt wine studied from opposite schools, which proves that their three views must be opposite.

Not exposed, just because the ale is dodgy enough.She hid her true self to convince the strangulation.

So when the godfather proposed another plan, Hang Hang agreed without hesitation.

Whether it succeeds or not, the ability to solve the problem at hand and keep the ale from getting its way is enough to keep him on board.

——But in fact, the strangulation is a distrust from the heart, and this plan of the godfather can really be realized smoothly.

Until now.

For the first time, he suddenly felt... that he had unknowingly reached such a high position.

He actually... has grown to the point where he can influence the world.

Although it was The Godfather who really changed the world.But from another perspective, the godfather was also pulled over by him.

He was able to recruit the godfather because he felt the pressure from the veil of ignorance and eternal reincarnation.And this kind of self-esteem as a leader is tempered on the "way of the melting pot".

It is precisely because he never stops and absorbs all the pain from the outside to strengthen himself that he has the opportunity to recruit the godfather to his subordinates.

The pain that has tempered him has indeed yielded results...

And at that time, some ideas that he didn't dare to think about before also burst out.

It was... lust for power.

The "family" they formed may really be able to influence those big names in the upper city.

Those high and mighty people who made Hanging feel scared since he was a child, and made him feel angry when he just remembered... unexpectedly, at this moment, they became so close to him?

Before, he didn't even dare to look up at those big men.

Because he has really seen how powerful those people are... He really knows how powerful money and power are.From a very young age, that kind of fear has been deeply rooted in Hang Ling's heart.

That's not even an elf director, it's just a human director.That's not even the director of the head office, just the owner of a small company...

The way he wields his power wantonly and treats others as items, buys, sells and dismantles them left a deep psychological shadow on Hang Hang.

So he never decided to go head-to-head with Uptown like the other two organizations did.

This is because Hangsha has an extremely clear understanding of himself——

He can't win.Absolutely can't win.

They're just a bunch of sewer rotten dogs who can never beat real "people."

...But now, the godfather told him.He's already been able to kill an elf director.

After just avoiding for a mere two days, he was able to enter the dream world calmly... But he knew that the godfather used the "self-binding ritual" when entering the dream world.

If it is not safe enough, using self-binding to enter the dream world is tantamount to seeking death.

Could this be understood as the fact that it took only two days for the Godfather... to defeat those "elf directors" who seemed impossible to fight against and would never be able to defeat?

Then in the future, will the power of the directors of the company...even the power of the directors of the head office be lower than that of the godfather?

If it is said that the lower city can really confront the upper city...

Is he going to try his best to make the "White Lion Group" mark on the godfather clearer?

Malt wine and that elf kid are both full of greed for him.They've wanted him for a long time... the mare still called him Daddy.

But in any case, the godfather came out of the white lion group.

He is the talent I found!

he's mine--

The "shadow" lurking in the bottom of my heart made the original blood-red flame at the bottom of Strangler's pupil gradually become lighter...

It turned into a gray flame, with occasional flashes of pale orange.

——That is not the fire of anger, but the flame of jealousy and greed.

It was a remnant of when he walked in the dream world only by instinct.

It was when he hadn't inherited the way of the "melting pot", just relying on his own nature and walking on the path that suits him best...it was when he didn't understand the rules of the dream world, and he was envied by the way and greed. Attacked by the shadow of the Tao, but the "demon" always remains in the bottom of my heart.

Jealousy, greed, madness, fear...that was the path he had gone through during the confused period before embarking on the path of "anger".

He thought that after he embarked on the path of anger, these emotions had been turned into firewood, fuel for anger.

But didn't expect...

"Is it still in my heart..."

Thanks to the experience of "Way of Contemplation" and "Way of Temperance", Strangling gradually reacted.

He realized that there was an impurity in his emotions that shouldn't be there.

Contemplation and temperance work to restrain greed and envy.

And when he was too "restrained", deep snoring suddenly appeared from all directions.

……shadow?

"Be careful... the barber."

Hang Hang immediately stopped his previous thinking, and replied solemnly: "That is the shadow of the way of contemplation.