Simultaneously, they travel through time, starting from the God Ranking.

Chapter 63: Memories of the Past

Masked guards cleared a path, carving out a passage on the iceberg formed by the shattered dragon's roar.

The separated small souls, under Fang Xiu's manipulation, left the shield's range and entered the soul-guiding wave.

Fang Xiu's vision suddenly split in two, but unlike Xiao Qi and the others' immersive experience, Fang Xiu received a third-person perspective. He appeared like a ghost beside "Long Cheng" and the others, watching everything unfold.

Logically, it should be like this: Fang Xiu's divided soul should replace one of the people in his memory and become part of the story under the influence of the soul-guiding wave.

"Is it because this is just a fragment of a soul, or is my strength greater than Cui Shao's?"

Fang Xiu wasn't sure, but he felt the first possibility was more likely.

The divided soul had already been connected. Fang Xiu once again made a hand seal, connecting the magic to everyone present. He could communicate with people's minds!

This telepathy is not the same as that telepathy. Fang Xiu certainly did not know the telepathy that is one of the five supernatural powers in Buddhism. In fact, this is a magic technique that has been improved by Xuan Yi.

Its function is to allow others to see what one sees and hears. Thus, everyone present simultaneously witnessed everything that Fang Xiu's divided soul saw, and together they witnessed the beginning and end of the events that had occurred in this city...

As the envoy, Long Cheng led four Divine Court Guards through the tunnel that everyone was walking through, and arrived at a country called Bis Kingdom.

The Kingdom of Bis is called a kingdom, but in reality it consists of only one city, a kingdom within a cave. Long Cheng and his group came here to bring rain to the Kingdom of Bis. The King of Bis warmly received them. It was at this moment that a guard came to report that Princess Elizabeth had passed away.

Upon hearing the devastating news, the king swayed and collapsed to the ground, unable to support himself any longer.

"Eliza? That's not..."

"Quiet! Keep watching!"

Upon hearing the familiar name, Xiao Qi couldn't help but shout it out, only to be suppressed by a hand.

The scene before the split soul continued. The king was grieving the princess's death, but at this moment, Long Cheng said that he could bring the princess back to life.

Long Cheng took out a box from his storage bag. Inside the box was a fist-sized, jet-black sphere.

"This item is called Shifang. Legend has it that it is a magical artifact that can reverse yin and yang and bring the dead back to life! I obtained it by chance and have never used this treasure."

"Oh! Such a wondrous object exists in the world!"

The king's sorrowful eyes suddenly lit up with a spark of hope.

"Of course, but according to ancient records, Shifang can only be activated with the blood of an emperor, so..."

"Hahaha! If it can bring this little girl back to life, what are a few drops of blood!"

The king laughed heartily, completely unconcerned about the price, and even felt that it was the will of heaven, that he had plenty of royal blood in his veins!

Upon hearing this, Long Cheng continued, "I must warn you beforehand that when this magical artifact is activated, the blood donor will suffer as if falling into the deepest hell, enduring the agony of a thousand needles piercing their heart, and may even lose their life!"

Long Cheng's unspoken meaning was already quite clear, but the king's mind was made up. He was willing to risk his life to save his daughter!

Seeing that the king insisted, Long Cheng stopped trying to persuade him and instead helped the king and princess set up the formation. Then he took blood and activated Shifang.

The power of Shifang was real; the princess who had supposedly died had indeed come back to life. To celebrate, the king hosted a banquet for Long Cheng and his entourage. During the banquet, the king even offered to marry his daughter to Long Cheng, but Long Cheng did not accept.

Long Cheng did not intend to accept the marriage proposal, but Princess Elizabeth became extremely curious about this foreign celestial envoy. As they spent more time together, their relationship gradually grew closer.

Long Cheng and his group came to the Kingdom of Bis to bring rain. With the rain prayers successful and the heavens bestowing down sweet rain, Long Cheng and his group were about to leave, and Eliza was reluctant to part with them.

However, Long Cheng and his group's plan to leave was interrupted that very night when the plague broke out.

The king, who had arrived in haste, immediately knelt down and grabbed Long Cheng's robe. Just now, he had received news from his subordinates that the plague in the country had suddenly worsened, and hundreds of people had already died.

As a small kingdom nestled in a cave, Bis had a permanent population of only a few thousand, so the deaths of hundreds of people were no small number.

"Lord Long, to be honest, it was this plague that caused my daughter's death."

After listening to the king's explanation, Long Cheng shook his head helplessly. "Your Majesty, I am but a minor official in the Heavenly Court. Medicine is not my forte, and I am powerless to help with the epidemic."

"Lord Long! My nation is already weak in manpower, and this calamity will surely bring us to destruction. I humbly request that you lend me Shifang again, so that I may use the power of the divine artifact to resurrect my fallen citizens!"

Clearly, the king had his sights set on Shifang from the very beginning.

Long Cheng looked troubled, and his Divine Court Guards repeatedly advised him that using Shifang to revive the dead was going against the will of Heaven and violated the laws of nature.

After a moment of silence, Long Cheng finally agreed to lend Shifang to help the Kingdom of Bis overcome its difficulties and to use the power of Shifang to revive its deceased citizens.

The news that Long Cheng was going to resurrect those citizens who had died from the plague quickly spread throughout the entire Kingdom of Bis. Because of the rain-praying incident, the people of the entire Kingdom of Bis had a very high level of trust in Long Cheng.

A magic circle was set up at the old spot where the resurrected princess had been, with the king sitting at one end and the corpses of those who had died from the plague placed at the other. Long Cheng activated Shifang between the two.

The king's blood dripped onto Shifang, and Long Cheng activated Shifang, causing red energy to emerge once more.

As the king cried out in pain, the people who had died opened their eyes again.

And so, the supposedly dead citizens actually emerged from the palace one by one, and the prestige of the King and the Dragon King in the Kingdom of Bis reached its peak.

Several more days passed, and it seemed that due to the high-intensity use of Shifang, the king felt that the pain in his body had lessened recently. Not only that, he also seemed to have become younger.

During this time, Long Cheng and Princess Elizabeth's relationship gradually grew closer and they became intimate.

As time passed, all those who had died from the plague were resurrected. Long Cheng congratulated the king, but the king's eyes darted around, staring intently at the Shifang in Long Cheng's hand.

At this point, Shifang had changed significantly from what it was initially; a mysterious light was now gathering in what was once pitch black Shifang.

If the story ended here, it would be a satisfactory conclusion. But unfortunately, this is not the end, but the beginning of a tragedy.

As night fell, Long Cheng was chatting with a mysterious figure dressed in linen clothes whose head had been replaced by a sphere in the courtyard.

The sky was covered with beams of firefly light, which were the souls of those resurrected in Shifang, and the direction in which the fireflies converged was the king's bedroom.

"The souls of the resurrected will only be absorbed by the king in his sleep."

"At the current rate, how long will it take for the king to drain them dry?"

"Without Shifang's help, at the current rate at which the king absorbs the nutrients, it would probably take five years."

"So what happens next? How will the king react after absorbing these souls?"

"Based on my observations these past few days, the spiritual power within the king's body has been gradually increasing, and his appearance is also developing towards a younger look. The energy in Shifang is also gradually becoming more active."

Long Cheng and his group came to the Kingdom of Bis, ostensibly to pray for rain, but in reality to conduct experiments on Shifang.