High Priestess
Li Mo sat on a soft chair, next to a cup of fragrant black tea. The old woman opposite her was dressed elegantly, and even in her old age, one could tell that she must have been a beauty in her youth.
"Your father infiltrated the Shadow Cult back then, and I knew him then." The old woman took a sip of red tea and smiled calmly, "Don't let my current appearance fool you; ten years ago, I was still quite young."
"When your father infiltrated the organization, I was the one who received him. We had a good relationship, and it was only because he showed mercy that I was able to escape after that incident. Strictly speaking, you should call me Auntie."
The old woman sat in the chair, a look of reminiscence on her Li Wen had infiltrated the Shadow Order. At that time, the Shadow Cult was just a handful of people. In order to carry out a summoning ritual, they recklessly kidnapped the residents of Holy Sight Mountain.
Then the ill-fated relationship between the two groups began. Li Mo inherited Li Wen's good looks. When Li Wen first joined the Shadow Cult, he attracted the attention of many female instructors. An old woman received Li Wen and taught him Li Wen basic methods of cultivating shadow power.
"Even after your father returned to Holy Sight Mountain, our contact wasn't severed. Much of the Shadow knowledge I acquired back then was incomplete, and it was through discussions with your father that I was able to complete it." The old woman's face held a warm smile of reminiscence. "It's a pity that Holy Sight Mountain was too stubborn."
"They accuse the power of shadows of being evil, but aren't all powers roughly the same?" The old woman said with a bitter smile, "When I encountered a great calamity here, and was surrounded, your father wanted to use the power of the Shadow Essence to protect us."
"Unfortunately, while we made it through, your father had an accident." The old woman sighed at the unpredictability of life, and the mark of the Black Day on the back of her hand shone brightly.
This is the first protagonist halo that Lu Li created. Since the first impression of a protagonist is that they are lucky, the main function of the protagonist halo he created is to enhance luck. Unfortunately, due to poor manufacturing process and substandard technology, it is a defective product.
With this protagonist's halo, she could unleash a miraculous power of luck, and for a period of time, she was like a god, turning misfortune into good fortune and being invincible. However, this method had many side effects, the most obvious of which was that the high priest, who should only be in her thirties or forties, had turned into an old woman in her sixties or seventies.
The less obvious side effect was that while the High Priest succeeded, Li Wen on the other side encountered a series of bad luck. When he went to steal the Shadow Essence, he happened to run into the previous Mountain Lord who was there to check. They fought over it, and although he only intended to knock the previous Mountain Lord unconscious, he accidentally killed him.
During their escape, Ke Su and Ling Piaoluo caught up with them. Li Wen, who had cultivated the power of shadow, could have easily escaped, but was unexpectedly held back by Ling Piaoluo at the cost of her life, and was then killed by Ke Su with a single blow.
Li Wen wasn't like Lu Zhu, who used a gun, yet his bad luck was unusually bad. Lu Li also included this issue in his research. Luck doesn't arise out of thin air; it has a certain interconnectedness.
The High Priest only used the miraculous power of the protagonist's halo three times to forcibly change the fate of the Shadow Cult, developing it to its current state in just ten years. Each time he used it, the High Priest lost more than ten years of his lifespan.
"Old people tend to be talkative. Go and get some rest. The Shadow Cult leadership succession ceremony will be held tomorrow." Hearing Li Mo's cough, the High Priest said with concern, "Don't worry, everything will be alright."
Li Mo's lips moved, but he didn't say anything in the end. After bidding farewell to the high priest, he was led by the guards to stay in a side hall. He would move to the main hall after he succeeded as the leader the next day.
As Li Mo left, the old woman sighed, her eyes filled with sorrow. The Black Day on the back of her hand spun slightly. Suddenly, she threw her teacup aside. "What else do you want? You've ruined me, ruined A-Wen, and now you want to ruin his son too!"
"Tsk tsk tsk, what do you mean by 'harmful'? I've always been in a state of giving." Lu Li's figure was projected from the mark in the high priest's hand, sitting in his seat, looking at the high priest with a faint smile.
"You're just asking for too much." Lu Li ignored the old woman's angry glare and said calmly, "I just put the things there. It was your own choice that led to all this. Why are you blaming me in the end?"
"You missed the feeling of home, you wanted to become Li Wen's ally, you wanted him to abandon the sect and elope with you, so you rebuilt the Shadow Cult, and so you used the power of miracles to preserve the Shadow Cult. All of this was your own choice; I did not force you."
"But it was you who seduced me. You described a bright future to me, and I used the power of miracles to save the Shadow Cult, but in doing so, I killed Awen!" The High Priest roared almost madly, "I would rather it was the Shadow Cult that Destruction!"
"That really wasn't my arrangement. You have to blame fate, that ironic fate," Lu Li said nonchalantly. He was wronged too. He knew that the first artificial protagonist halo had flaws, but he didn't expect the flaws to be so great. Although it was a protagonist halo, it was definitely the halo of a protagonist in a tragic novel.
After gaining good fortune, even greater misfortune is bound to befall. The protagonist's fate is exceptionally tragic. Furthermore, the High Priest's two subsequent uses of the power of miracles are also followed by different misfortunes.
For this reason, the high priestess was practically at odds with Lu Li. However, the gap between them was too great, so the high priestess could only verbally interfere at the moment. Her Artificial Protagonist Halo was too deeply integrated with Lu Li's, and she had also cultivated the shadow power passed down by Lu Li, making it difficult for her to escape Lu Li's control.
In fact, Lu Li could directly parasitize the High Priest now. The High Priest has already been almost completely corrupted, and Lu Li could directly descend into the High Priest's body.
Unfortunately, preferring quality over quantity, Lu Li preferred to wait a little longer. The use of the power of miracles several times had completely exhausted the high priest's physical potential, leaving him like rotten wood. He wasn't completely unusable, but using him would be a losing proposition.
"So my ultimate fate wasn't arranged by you, Lord Black Day!" The High Priestess was completely powerless, and she cried out in sorrow, "It doesn't matter if I die, but why do you continue to torment Li Wen's son?"
"I already said he's not a menace. His mark will only get better, I guarantee it. Of course, that's on the condition that you're willing to make sacrifices. I can also give you a little discount," Lu Li chuckled.
These people are too attached to their own feelings, indulging in base pleasures, and swayed by their emotions. Lu Li smiled and continued, "Death doesn't mean the end of everything. And some people, if they prepare in advance, can still leave something behind."