Elux

## Description

Elux was once the Scion of Light having been shown to be an even more exceptional than Long Haochen at a early age, but as fate would have it his life turned as his lover Fu Luo and eventually with the whole world's betrayal, changing him into abandoning the light that once bathed him in radiance and turned to darkness seeking power to exact his revenge and to wipe out the human species.

His last wish : ***“If there is a next life, I don’t want to be the Scion of Light again. I just want to be an all the more ordinary human, and find a girl I can love whole-heartedly, marry her, have children, and live a peaceful life together. I have had a glorious period, but also a corrupted period. From the next instant on, all of this will turn into nothingness. Good bye, child. Take good care of your beloved one, your teacher wishes you the best.”***

His last words were : “**Holding all... lives... Plucking all stars, the world... Without someone... like me... Hahahaha... Haha...”**

## Appearance

He says he was as handsome as Haochen when he was his age.

## Personality

He was before a pure and kindhearted person like Hao Chen even after Fu Luo's betrayal. But when the whole world turned against him and Fu Luo executed his entire family publicly not leaving a single one it pushed him over the edge and he eventually became a merciless and insane Holy Necromancer, a special light attribute necromancer.

Throughout all of this he is never greedy and only has unending hatred for humans in his world as shown when he spares the Divine Snail of Sun & Moon. After Cai'er and Hao Chen's love for each other move him and he finally wakes up from his rancor and realizes his wrongdoings.

In chapter 139 of Soul Land 2 the Snow Empress recognized his strength but he simply replied "I'm just a human that didn't want to become a God plus right now I'm just a fragment, don't mind me".

## Plot

Long Haochen firstly met Elux, the Slumbering Calamity and Holy Necromancer upon his Demon Hunt Squad's first mission for General Grade i.e. ‘Exploring the Desolate Whistling Cavern’ when he and Haoyue found the Tower of Eternity, "Eternal Rest". Elux created the Saint Deathly Magic Arts, Eternal Melody, and Eternal Rest. He waited for his right successor to receive these inheritances.

He later reappeared when Cai'er passed all the trials of the Tower Of Eternity along with her comrades to resurrect Long Haochen. Though she had to pass the last trial by herself. Anyway, Elux appeared before her and says that she is not compatible with her inheritance so Cai'er decide to die and let Elux use her heart to resurrect Long Haochen.

But Elux refused and froze Cai'er to allow her to see the real nature of humans but Long Haochen and Cai'er with their deep love and devotion towards each other changed his opinion instead and let him realise that he was wrong in the past.

After which he decided to resurrect Long Haochen and gave Cai'er a gift.

### Giving Cai'er Pure Death Energy

After Elux realised his mistake of what he has done 6,000 years ago he decided to not allow Long Haochen and Cai'er to inherit his legacy and let it disappear but he gave Cai'er the pure death energy he has accumulated over thousands of years as a gift.

Elux pointed his right hand at the coffin in front of them. The previously spilling death energy immediately gushed out. His left hand made a gesture at Long Haochen and Cai’er, and their bodies immediately got surrounded in a golden barrier, therefore rendering them unaffected by any of the death energy.

One could clearly see that the death energy pulsing violently was all turned white, and although Long Haochen and Cai’er only had the time to sense a glimpse of that previous gush of death energy, they perceived an astonishing purity in that death energy.

A death energy of such purity was already beyond the scope of a Holy Necromancer’s level. That was all the accumulation Elux did throughout several thousand years! Such terrifying might could be called the totality of Elux’s attainments in life beyond holy light.

A white stream of air gathered as Elux slowly lifted his hand, causing strips of white light to revolve around his right arm. As his fingertips turned more and more glistening, that dazzling luster turned all the seventh floor of the Tower of Eternity completely white.

Elux declared impassively, “Cai’er, you have gone through a great torment, and when you finally walked past the final path, I had already decided to take you as my inheritor. You have certainly purified my heart and soul, making me realize how filthy this inheritance of mine is, thus I want to offer you something unrelated to holy necromancy. In my several past years of slumber, I had condensed the purest kind of death energy. As you have the Body of Samsara, you innately possess the power of purification. This death energy of mine will make a perfect synergy with you. Although I cannot offer my power for you to inherit, you can treat this as a gift for you. No need to consider rejecting it, or even try. What I, Elux, decided upon will necessarily take place. Unless you want to leave Long Haochen to kill himself, just gradually absorb all this death force of mine.”

The surrounding white light gradually vanished, and a peach-sized white, sparkling, translucent bead appeared in front of Elux.

In a flash of light, this white pearl quietly flew in front of Cai’er, the golden skull, Eternal Melody, floating back in reaction. But in this process, the Eternal Melody changed gradually, moving rhythmically like a liquid. The Eternal Melody transformed in the process, to finally turn into the appearance of Long Haochen’s portrait, floating in front of Cai’er.

The white death energy integrated with the pearl, and immediately, the golden Eternal Melody flickered in white. Not only could none of the death energy inside be sensed, but conversely, it was full of a sacred smell.

Hanging onto Cai’er’s neck, the new Eternal Melody stuck close to her chest, and just like before, embedded itself in her chest in a flash of white light.

Cai’er only felt a refreshing power spread from the Eternal Melody, entering her body and melding with her spiritual energy. Without need for her to do anything, her spiritual energy rose slowly.

Elux had his death energy stored inside the Eternal Melody, but didn’t directly give it for her to absorb out of fear about its excessive quantity, which Cai’er would immediately find unbearable.

### Making Heart of Eternity for Long Haochen

This is the heart he have reconstructed for Long Haochen. Haochen's flesh will be able to regain its functions and assimilate its power. It will become his strongest spiritual cavity in the future, as well as the source of his whole power. He called it **Heart of** **Eternity**, and if he may say, that’s the greatest masterpiece of his whole life.

Elux extracted all the light essence to turn it into holy power of the purest kind. Do you know what he have stripped and peeled from his very soul? It is his brand as a former Scion of Light. In other words, Elux did not give Haochen his power, but the power of the previous Scion of Light. It can be understood as receiving holy light and flesh of the purest kind from before the time Elux have become corrupted.

### Giving Cai'er Tower of Eternity and Removing the Backlash of The Sickle of the God of Death

#### Giving Tower of Eternity

He also purified the Tower of Eternity and purged it's intelligence and gave to Cai'er.

His left hand pointed to the sky, a grayish-black ray was abruptly shot forth, aimed at the top of the Tower of Eternity. Immediately, the coffin underneath Elux’s body bubbled up with a dense grayish-black fog scattering to all directions. The power dispersing from that Tower of Eternity only kept getting more and more powerful, and the whole Tower of Eternity shook violently, countless specters letting out sharp shrills.

What Elux was doing was unknown, but the Tower of Eternity seemed to gradually get weaker and weaker as that gray-black airflow travelled, and big expanses of white light started to wander over the stripped space of the tower. Immediately, the all-present graying black airflow started to travel from all around to converge toward Elux, and make its way into his soul. In just a little while, Elux’s soul became pitch-black just like ink.

“Intelligence strip, power strip. Purification!” Elux’s incomparably mighty voice spread to every floor of the Tower of Eternity.

Countless specters dissolved in the midst of shrieks of terror. The purest soul force gathered alongside those stripped elemental fluctuations, and the terrible stripping force entirely deprived these elemental fluctuations of everything other than pure energy.

As the greyish black airflow became stronger and stronger, a greying black ring of light appeared all around Elux’s body, and the Tower of Eternity gradually changed into a pure white color untainted by even the slightest speck of dust, devoid of any flow.

The intense shaking gradually turned into a lighter shaking before all movements stopped, and everything seemed to return to tranquility. Large amounts of white points of light containing fluctuations of spiritual energy slowly moved rythmically in the air.

Cai’er clearly felt the Tower of Eternity change, calming down in purity. It seemed that all the negative things, including emotions, disappeared due to Elux’s stripping. Furthermore, a strange connection created itself in her heart, reinforcing the link between the Long Haochen portrait shaped Eternal Melody and the Tower of Eternity.

After purification, the Tower of Eternity will be a divine tool combining attack and defense. Although he have stripped a lot of power and intelligence from it, it is still far more powerful than ordinary divine tools. Through its connection with the Eternal Melody, it will gradually fuse with Cai'er's soul, becoming part of her body. This way, she will have as prolonged a life expectancy as the one Long Haochen will have thanks to Heart of Eternity.

#### Removing The Backlash

At this point, the pride Elux had as the Holy Necromancer and Slumbering Calamity seemed to resurface at once. Lifting his right hand, he lifted it toward Cai’er, immediately absorbing the Sickle of the God of Death in her hand. That was quite a strange thing, but that powerful Sickle of the God of Death which is the natural enemy of all undeads was wrapped in the gray-black force in Elux’s hand, making its purifying power lose all its effects.

He suddenly flipped the Sickle of the God of Death in his hand, using the immense blade toward that terrible soul force forming myriads of white glows. This purifying force even exceeded the power of Cai’er’s seven arts of the God of Death. The blade slashed on a straight line, cutting into him and through the coffin underneath as well.

A terrible light of purification dispersed the dense soul force forming Elux’s body, and turned it into an unparalleled brilliant shine. Ear-piercing tinkling sounds occurred as something seemed to take place inside the Sickle of the God of Death.

Elux’s proud voice reverberated, “So what, God of Death? In the midst of getting purified, I have just broken your seal, now let’s see how you will inflict backlashes to my disciple? If I wanted it, I would already long since be a god.”

## History

### Early Life

Six thousand eight hundred ninety years ago, I was born in a city from the **Pombo Empire** on the northwest of the continent. This city was called **Sidi**.

My father was the lord of Sidi, a **hereditary earl**, and I was his only son.

From the day of my birth, I lived in nobility. For the sake of letting me succeed his position as earl in the future, he arranged the best teachers to teach me knowledge and etiquette. The year of my sixth birthday, my great affinity with light essence was found out: I was blessed with a constitution of a **Scion of Light.** Although nearly seven thousand years have passed since then, I still remember very well the great joy Father had at the time. He held me in his arms, and shouted in excitement through the whole hall, Elux, you are my pride!

From that point, I became a **light mage**. My cultivation was extremely fast, shocking every teacher, and during the year of my **eleventh birthday**, I had already become a **mage of the fourth step**. And at **thirteen**, the **fifth step**, then at merely **fifteen years old**, I became the youngest **mage of the sixth step** to have ever appeared in the continent.

### Winning Talent War

Father said that I was shockingly talented. Therefore, he personally brought me to **participate in the Talent War organized at that time between the three empires by the Glorious Church, where only** **youngsters below twenty were allowed to participate.**

I was without doubt the focus of this whole Talents War. The enemies that came out in front of me rarely resisted for over a minute. When I was young, I was also on par with your looks. Uncountable young ladies from the three empires gave me coquettish looks, and, during the finals, my opponent was the **Princess Fuluo** of the empire. She was also a genius, a powerful summoner. With the royal family’s backing, she already had a **Purple Thunder Star Dragon Emperor** as her contracted beast. Although her cultivation was below mine, her endless successions of summons were tough to face. That battle had lasted for a whole half of an hour, and in the end, because of her insufficient spiritual energy, she lost by my hand. I thereby became the final champion, and our Pombo Empire became the great winner.

The pope of the Glorious Church from that time rewarded me personally with a **direct title of viscount**, and a **feudal fiefdom of fifty kilometers**. My reward was a great item, later known as equipment of epic tier. The me of that time was quite pleased with himself, having become the **most glorious youngster** of all continent. Even the **Pope’s son Pelo** was nothing in front of me.

### Entering Royal Academy

Also, that saying **’a friendship may arise from an exchange of blows’ is true. That battle with Princess Fulo created a link between the two of us**: from that day onwards, we were known as the **two** **great seeds of the empire,** on whom great hopes were placed. I was then transferred to the royal academy, pursuing my studies alongside Princess Fulo, and received all the support of the empire.

During the period of my studies in the royal academy, I was with Fulo training together and researching magic together all the time. **Our feelings started to get deep between the two of us, and I deeply loved that** **beautiful genius**. When the two of us were together, we were never short of topics to talk about. **We made an oath of eternal love, engrossed with each other.** The rise of these feelings did not only not adversely affect our cultivation, but instead made it faster and faster. In the year I turned eighteen years old, I became a **Grand** **Magic Tutor of the eighth step**. Given my cultivation speed of that time, I was certain that I would surely be able to break through the ninth step at the age of twenty, making me the youngest powerhouse of the ninth step in the whole continent.

As time passed, the superiority of my talent became clearer and clearer. Although Fulo was also outstanding, in the end **she was unable to compare with my gifts as Scion of Light. When I broke through the eighth step, she had just broken through** **the seventh**. Back at that time, I could see that she was unhappy, but didn’t put a lot of thought into the issue. I told her that I was willing to make a pause to wait for her to catch up with my cultivation.

At the same time, I asked **His Majesty her father for her hand, and he accepted a marriage** **between** **Fulo and me.**

Everything went smoothly. His Majesty was extremely pleased about our relationship, and **the day I would break through the ninth step would be when we would** **marry**. At that time, I was already acclaimed as the man most **likely to rise to the level of god**. The pope of that time personally came to the empire, expressing the wish to take me as disciple, and to take over his position in the future.

**For the sake of the empire, and for Fulo’s sake, I refused**. At that time, the church was extremely powerful in the continent, and in some manner, all three kingdoms had to listen to their orders. I could feel His Majesty’s unwillingness, and for his Majesty’s sake, I preferred to offend the church rather than leaving the empire.

### Went Alone on Adventure

After **reaching the eighth step, my great speed of cultivation visibly slowed down**. My teachers in the royal academy told me that because I only kept cultivating all the time, I **was lacking in other experiences, and suggested that I go to the outside world and gain experience,** to discover all the miraculous places in the continent so that I would be able to progress while gaining in understanding. I followed their suggestion, and told Fulo about this matter, hoping to gain these experiences alongside her.

But, **Fuluo refused**. Although she loved me deeply, **she had an even greater eagerness to be number one. I knew that she was always looking to surpass me**, but the gap between us only kept getting wider. So she chose to remain in the academy to keep training hard, looking to catch up to my cultivation.

For the sake of reaching the ninth step as early as possible to take Fulo as my wife, as well as to bring an even greater honor and glory to the empire, I took this training trip. But never did I expect that because of the great gains in this trip, the **incoming period of my life would become a total nightmare.**

After leaving the empire, I roamed through the whole continent. With my cultivation reaching the eighth step, I **encountered almost no challenges**.

During **two whole years**, I wandered through almost all cities of the three great empires, discovering all the local conditions and customs and experiencing the joys and the sorrows of the world. The scope of my world and my cultivation all made considerable progress. And, maybe because I was the one chosen by the Goddess of Light, I had a lot of happy encounters in these two years, and acquired a **martial technique** of **incredible might**.

### Return to the Empire

When I returned to the empire, my cultivation had already reached the **peak of the eighth step**. Upon seeing Fulo again, I couldn’t help but take her in my arms while sobbing from extreme joy. I could feel that I was nearing the edge of the ninth step, only at one step from breaking through, and believed that I would be able to marry my most beloved Fulo in the near future, as well as to inevitably become the future greatest powerhouse of the empire.

At that time, I had almost no notion of schemes, and told Fulo about all my various adventures during these two years of training, to share the feelings I had during these moving encounters with her. However, something slightly displeasing happened to me later: the **son of the Supreme Pontiff** unexpectedly joined the **Imperial Magic Academy to study**. At that time, I found it very strange: why he would come there? Compared to our Pombo Empire, the Glorious Church should have reached even deeper levels of magic researches, so he had no need at all to come here to pursue his studies!

However, I didn’t give it much thought because of my joy from being on the verge of marrying Fulo. After I told Fulo everything about my trip, **she held a great interest toward that martial technique I gained in my encounters, hoping that I could hand it over for her to** **learn, but I rejected her**. That martial technique was certainly miraculous, but it could by no means be learned or used, because it came at a too great cost, and I feared she would get wounded in the process.

Do you know what kind of martial technique that was? Even now, I still find it to be really miraculous. Although it was just a move, it required a perfect harmonization with the owner’s soul to be executed. It seemed to come from an ancient tribe from another world. A type of **Martial Soul Technique**, this technique had a very strange name: it was called **Tortoiseshell Technique.**

When I had just obtained it, I still took it to be just a defensive martial art, but after deep researches, I found out that it had almost no relations with defense, but was **an ability of prediction**. Back then, the Glorious Church was the only other entity in the whole continent to have a **prophet**. I also have some understanding of it: all they can predict is the future. As for that martial technique, its use would execute a **kind of divination**, with a really overbearing aspect: its **unconditionality**. Launching the Tortoiseshell Technique would act on all living creatures in its scope, the user being no exception. And **even if a god** is in the area of effect, he will have no immunity either, being just as affected by its absolute control. It’s such a fearful technique! But at the same time, as it has absolute effects, it brings certain danger. This technique has a great indeterminacy: after using it, the user will have no control over its effects. In other words, the effects **may** **be positive just as they may be negative**. But no matter what, the user will have to bear some burden, so using it could very possibly offer the user as a sacrifice for the Tortoiseshell technique after a few uses if they are unlucky. How could I be willing to learn such a martial technique? Or even give it to Fulo?”

But **Fulo didn’t understand my painstaking effort**. She thought I wanted to keep it for myself, and thus refused to transmit it to another. Its absolute effects and efficiency against even a god was just too alluring, making her completely unable to treat it lightly. Why didn’t she consider that if I really wanted to keep it for myself, then I’d simply not tell her about it.

At first, I was thinking that she was just temporarily letting her emotions affect her decisions and didn’t think about it too much: it would likely calm down after two days. As expected, when I went to look for her two days later, she seemed to have entirely recovered, only looking as though she still had some worries. But her attitude to me was the same as before, and the matter of that day was not mentioned again. **Never did I expect her to be such a snake-hearted girl, who had already executed her schemes against me.**

### Ambush and Betrayal

Then on a **bright day with good weather**, with the blue sky stretching continuously over the horizon, and the sunshine was especially abundant... The intense light essence brought an indescribable sense of harmony to me as the Scion of Light: this sunshine was really ideal. Fulo had invited me to go for **an outing**, to which I naturally agreed gladly, and even told her that I would seclude myself to aim for the ninth step after that excursion, to ask His Majesty for her hand after I succeed in accomplishing this breakthrough. At that time, I believed His Majesty would at least offer me the **level of nobility of a viscount, as well as a title of court mage.**

We exited the empire, to head for the outskirts, and right when we were out for a scenic tour, I suddenly discovered that we were surrounded, a large amount of **black-clad men** sealing off every one of our routes of escape. These people were masked head-to-toe, making not even the slightest shred of their skins visible. Upon appearance, they launched a frantic attack at us. At that time, Fulo was in a daze, seemingly having even forgotten about the use of magic despite her cultivation reaching the eighth step. As a man, protecting my own woman seemed like common sense in my eyes, especially with how conceited I was at that time. Relying on my cultivation reaching the peak of the eighth step, I made use of the **various magics I had** **researched painstakingly**.

Those black clad men were extremely strong, but a lot of them were killed at my hands.

However, they were only growing more and more numerous, **each of them reaching at least the seventh** **step**. I found it very strange at that time: if this many powerhouses from the other two great empires were really infiltrated, how could the powerhouses from our empire disregard them to such an extent? If this kept up, I was afraid Fulo and I wouldn’t ever get away, so I made the prompt decision of bringing out Fulo to immediately break out from the siege.

At this time, Fulo seemed to have recovered her senses, immediately using various summoning spells to assist me, and **we rode her summoned beast to flee back to the empire.**

As we thought the enemies would already no longer catch up to us, we rushed out at full speed, and the distant walls of the empire even came into sight. But suddenly, a slight chill permeated in my heart, and when I lowered my head, I found **a pitch-black dagger** **piercing deeply through my chest, its handle** **being held in Fulo’s hand.**

At that instant, her look was completely filled with malevolence. Deep tears of sadness flowed out from Elux’s eyes, She even murmured, ‘**Why, just why didn’t** **you hand the Tortoiseshell over to me? Why? I hadn’t planned to go so far at first.'**

My heart was in pain, even more in pain than my wound. My cold chest gradually got numbed, and I could feel my vital force gush out through that dagger. Even at that time, I was still unable to believe that my beloved Fulo was the culprit of that act against me. I just loved her that much! For the sake of marrying her, I trained night and day. All for the sake of sharing happiness alongside her in the future. But she stabbed a **dagger full of poison in my left chest**, aimed at the **spot which should correspond with an ordinary person’s heart**. This stab inflicted complete despair in me. She should have been clearly aware that I had no suspicions at all toward her, and moreover, her stab was timed the instant my vigilance was the most loose.

This instant, even more black clad men came from in front of us. They seemed to have been lying in wait since long ago, and expected all of this to happen long since. The previous ambush was just a start, but **Fulo’s stab was the true critical point in the move against me.**

A **familiar-sounding cold voice spread**; that man told Fulo: ‘Kill him.’

That instant, I finally came to a realization. The desire for survival caused me to push Fulo away, jumping off from her mount. That instant, Fulo seemed quite in a daze, **seemingly having had a change of heart due to this stab**, which stopped her from immediately finishing me off. Taking advantage of this opportunity, I took out a scroll, which was forged by a great master for me, and used that **Escape Scroll, teleporting me instantly six kilometers away.** They clearly didn’t expect me to have such a thing in store, which is how I managed to get away. The instant the Escape Scroll took effect, I still remember clearly that the sobered Fulo hastily commanded her summoned beast to attack me. That instant, **her eyes were only filled with cold killing intent, without any of the former tender** **sentiments**.

### Recuperation

You are feeling that the mere betrayal of Fulo shouldn’t be enough for me to betray my holy convictions? You misunderstand. This alone would still be insufficient to cause these changes in me. But Long Haochen, as a Scion of Light, you should understand that the Scion of Light is the one chosen by the Goddess of Light, and the resolve he has as such. **However, the one to betray me was not princess Fulo alone, but this whole world.**

Through the Escape Scroll, I broke away from their ambush, and only felt a great chilliness fill me at that time. **The beautiful parts of my heart disappeared with Fulo’s betrayal, but even so, I couldn’t bring myself to hate her at that time. I loved her deeply**, and wanted to think of her good parts no matter what. That black clad man’s final appearance caused me to guess that maybe Fulo was coerced into doing that, and was completely unwilling. Although I was clearly aware that, as the princess, it was almost impossible that there could be anyone who could coerce her, I still wanted to keep this way of thinking. At that time, I was just really too foolish.

Fulo’s stab was aimed right at my left chest, but she didn’t know that **unlike an ordinary person, my heart was located on the right side**. Although her poisonous dagger caused heavy wounds in me, these wounds were not mortal. I resisted the pain with great difficulty, finding a hollow tree to treat my wound. Relying on medicine I had gotten in my adventures, I forced out the poison from my body before gradually eliminating all this poison by the means of my pure light essence.

This process was painful and long, but I knew very clearly that even if I wanted Fulo to clarify all this, I had to first wait for my body to recover entirely for that. I **heard a lot of brouhaha outside the hollow tree in the process, as if large armies were transferred around**. But at that time, I did not expect the reasons for these armies to be deployed.

It **took two entire years for my injuries to get better, and my cultivation to recover.** I stealthily exited the hollow tree to return back to the empire. But before arriving at the city gates, a thunderous scene came to my sight.

### Once Again Returning To The Empire

A very clear announcement from the royal family was displayed right nearby the city gate, in which was written: ‘**The duke of the empire, Elux, who attacked the princess Fulo to steal a powerful martial technique, snatching it and causing her to sustain heavy injuries, is wanted for the crime of treason. Their whole family is to be deprived of their territory, and get death penalties. Every commoner reporting traces of the criminal will get rewarded with ten thousand** **gold coins**.’

I absolutely didn’t expect them to use such despicable means, actually making such bogus accusations. Furthermore, this announcement from the royal family was not the only thing. There was also an **announcement from the Glorious Church with the same contents, designating me as a heretic corrupted by darkness.**

At that time, I took a whole half-hour to gradually come back to my senses. I loved Fulo deeply, but I wasn’t a total idiot. If I hadn’t realized this **huge plot** aimed against me at that time, I wouldn’t be fit to be the inheritor of the identity of Scion of Light. I immediately went into concealment to disguise myself, thinking at that time that I had to find a proof that they were deceiving His Majesty and the church; to prove my innocence. The key element to this proof lay in Fulo, which is why I went to look for her to make it clear.

Perhaps it was because several years had passed, or perhaps because I was thought to have died from the poison, the empire did not put emergency measures in place. So after I disguised myself, returning to the empire’s capital was very easy. Looking at these formerly familiar places, my heart was in great pain. At night, I stealthily infiltrated into the royal palace, still extremely familiar with that place. Although I was a mage, having a cultivation reaching the eighth step, I had numerous means for infiltrating my destination. Coming into Fulo’s quarters, I saw another man there. **The son of the Supreme Pontiff, Pelo**.

### Reveal of The Truth

**They were discussing, and that was in Fulo’s bedroom**. At that time, I already had guesses about the relationship between them, but was still unwilling to believe it. But when I clearly heard the contents of their discussion, I finally realized how stupid I was, and the extent of that plot.

Back then, Fulo questioned Pelo on why they hadn’t found me, and he replied that he had already mobilized the **Glorious Church’s force, matching with the Empire’s forces to find traces of me, dead or alive.** That **martial technique in my hands had to be seized ‘at any cost’.** I gradually constructed it all from the clues I heard in the midst of their conversation. It turned out that as early as when I was out for a few years, Pelo had already made a trip to the Imperial Academy, having two purposes in mind. **One was to discuss the matter of pulling me into the Glorious Church with the Emperor, and the second, to chase** **after Fulo**.

At first, His Majesty had no interest in enticing me to join the Glorious Church. But Pelo insisted, using countless means to seduce Fulo. Though, Fulo being so materialistic, **due to his flowery speech and the appeal of the numerous martial techniques and pills at the disposal of the Glorious Church, she finally gave in to his continuous offenses.** Pelo mentioned to her that the **Scion of Light would be a threat to the Glorious Church, hence the Church needed absolutely to get rid of me**, to make sure of **their eternal rule at the time he would become the pope and Fulo would be his empress**. Originally, Fulo still had some apprehensions, but Pelo expressed to his Highness the **will of the Glorious Church to support their empire in vanquishing the other empires and in uniting the continent**. Moreover, he promised Fulo to give her **all the martial techniques from me for her** to learn. Both the royal family and Fulo were finally ensnared by the benefits that way, while I became the sacrifice for all these benefits to be obtained.

This was supposed to be a perfect plan: by taking advantage of the trip I took with Fulo to ambush me, they wanted to deplete my strength, and then on the way back, Fulo would take advantage of my lowered guard and exhaustion to move against me, making it hardly possibly for me to escape. At that time, they would only need to kill me and report me as a betrayer to the Empire and the Church, so that even despite my reputation as the pride of the empire, the truth behind this **conspiracy would rapidly be drowned.**

### Ambushing Fulo and Pelo

I hated them bitterly; I never expected **my homeland**, **my lover, and my convictions to actually betray me** **together**. At that time, my brain went blank, and as **Fulo and Pero were in the midst of making out**, I suddenly rushed in and launched fatal attacks against them.

My appearance was just too sudden for them. Although they were top figures of the younger generation, there was a significant gap in our strengths, and this was moreover a situation of ambush. I very rapidly took the advantage, **wounding Pelo seriously while suppressing Fulo with my attacks.** Although a large amount of powerhouses from the palace immediately gathered as a result, they did not dare act rashly as I held Fulo and Pelo as hostages at that time.

Then I questioned Fulo, ‘**Why did you have to do this to me? What in me dissatisfied you?’** She only kept begging me for her survival then, but I had already heard all their previous conversation! How could I still trust in her words after that? At that time, **my only thought was take to them down with myself.** The former me was incredibly proud. At that time, I had been reduced to the position of traitor to the nation, completely unable to accept such a huge downfall. Having no more attachment to my own life, I only wanted to take down this cheating couple with me.

But that Pelo was, after all, the son of the pope, having many survival means at his disposal. Right when I was prepared to take them down with myself, **he used extraordinary means to summon the pope’s attack,** **causing me to get seriously wounded**. And, in the end, as I couldn’t bear to move against Fulo, I could only choose to escape the encirclement. After I finally made it out, I went into hiding in the capital, covered in bruises after a narrow escape.

### Annihilation of The Entire Family

Immediately, the Empire initiated a manhunt in the whole city, looking for traces of me. It was through the **help of a beggar that I formerly saved that I luckily escaped their chase**. But as I was just done healing my wounds came thunderous news. **They had caught** **my family**.

They knew that I was concealed in the Empire, which is why they released an announcement about executing the traitor’s family. I still remember that day clearly: the sky seemed to get blood-red colored as His Highness passed down the execution order in front of the masses. When I saw Pelo and Fulo clad in armor and cutting off my relatives’ heads, **I lost the last ounces of hope and light in me, which all faded away**.

Can you imagine? Someone who witnessed all his kin getting killed. **My father, mother, older sister, younger sister, and the rest of my family; even the young children were not spared: my whole family was executed with no exception.**

I knew that they were waiting for me to show up at that time. Waiting for me with a perfect bait, they just understood my character far too well. But at that time, a **black tile I had formerly gained in the previous training trip got affected by my dark emotions,** **turning my whole body cold and unable to move a single step**. It was because of this that I had to stare blankly at the scene of my family getting slaughtered one by one.

At that time, I was furious, having entered a frantic state. My kins’ blood dyed the ground of the public square of the empire’s capital: **not a single one of my** **three hundred sixty-seven family members escaped this fate.** They all met with violent deaths under their butchers’ knives. At the time I recovered from that cold state, the rest of my family was already extinguished. I seemed to catch sight of their specters, pacing back and forth irresolutely in the sky, utterly unreconciled.

I didn’t step in as my family was already all dead, and I left that place with an overwhelming rancor. As I did not appear from beginning to end in this slaughter, **they believed that I already had left the Pombo Empire, hence the hunt came to a provisional end. Instead, they went on to search for my traces over the whole continent.**

### Becoming **Slumbering Calamity Elux**

After finally exiting the Empire, I rushed out in a set direction, running frantically for seven days and seven nights, until getting completely washed out, finding myself in a valley. **From that day onwards, there had not been any more light in my heart, only an endless rancor and grudge.** This hatred was what kept me alive: I had to kill all those who had betrayed me and slaughtered my people.

For some reason, at the time I lost all light, **the Tortoiseshell Technique had ineffably disappeared, perhaps because it was disgusted with the hatred** I had. But this didn’t matter in my eyes: **that black tile I had was the inheritance of an ancient necromancer**. **Light and necromancy should be two totally opposite powers, but thanks to my innate gifts, I gradually fused them as one**. I needed power; I needed to topple the whole Pombo Empire and destroy all the Glorious Church’s forces. I had no more relatives: everyone else in this world were my enemies. Only their blood and lives could offset the rancor in my heart. I trained day and night, increasing my strength massively, all for the sake of taking revenge one day.

Revenge became my greatest driving force. **A Scion of Light hidden in deep mountains to train at a hundred percent. Can you imagine how frightening that is?** At the time I left these deep mountains, I was not the Scion of Light Elux anymore, but the **Holy Necromancer, Slumbering Calamity Elux**.

### Destroying Pombo Empire

I killed people at sight, turning all living beings into undead under my command. Starting from a small town, I gradually gathered my army of undeads. When I was **back at the Pombo Empire, I already had a million undead by my sides. I thoroughly destroyed the Pombo Empire, and when that slut Fulo followed Pombo back to the Glorious Church, I finally brought my undead army to destroy the Church.** I wanted to annihilate them thoroughly for the sake of avenging my family.

After I destroyed my own homeland, **the Glorious Church chose to unite hands with the other two** **Empires to handle me, initiating a war. At that time, I had already taken over close to a third of the whole continent,** and had a large amount of undead powerhouses under my hands, their soulfire being under my control, making them incomparably loyal. **An army of a billion undeads was under my command, throwing themselves at the Glorious Church like a plague.** Although the Glorious Church had powerful divine magic, **as a Holy Necromancer, the undead under my control had an extreme resistance** **toward light**. At the start of the war, I had a total advantage.

### Revenge Successful

But undead were after all merely undead. **Even if they were even more loyal, they had lost that intelligence** **belonging to humans**. The hearts the people united gradually in this Glorious Era, and once they steadied their troops, the counter offense was launched under the lead of the Glorious Church. At that time, **I was already exceedingly powerful, able to resist even the attacks from the pope of the Glorious Church**. But I couldn’t be certain that my undead army would win on its own.

In an ultimate decisive battle, **my undead army was defeated, and although it came also at a bitter cost for** **the human armies**, I was in the end defeated. Heavily wounded by the group of experts led by the Glorious Church’s pope, **I had a malicious weakening curse inflicted by that pope**. For the next millennia, I was in great pain due to that sacred curse, coming to an eternal slumber.

**This war ended with my defeat, but my revenge was still a success.** Although I suffered unredeemable heavy wounds, **those ones who harmed my kin were all killed, including the Pope, Pelo, and** **Fulo**. I still remember clearly that the instant **I broke Fulo’s heart in pieces, her eyes were filled with pain and struggle. I had taken out her heart to see whether it was still colored red. Pelo was turned into an undead by the most painful means. Keeping him by my side, I slowly boiled his soulfire over the course of a thousand years, finally annihilating it completely and eternally stopping him from reincarnating.**

### Entering into Slumber

Back then, **this Tower of Eternity was created to nurture my physical body. But unfortunately, I finally didn’t manage to surmount that hateful curse.** Otherwise, **given my cultivation of that time, I wouldn’t die even after living a thousand, no, ten thousand years. But in reality, what caused my eternal slumber was not the wounds on my body, but in** **my heart**.

After I had killed all my foes, I found out that there was nothing left to keep me attached to this world. **My loves ones were dead, my hated ones as well. My heart became empty, with no more care for living, so I** **finally chose to let myself die out**. Then I put myself into deep slumber here, because I was unwilling to recall about the war of that time, and to ponder about whether I was in the right or in the wrong. Now it looks **that I was in the wrong. I was really in the wrong**, no matter whether I had slaughtered them or not, my kin still wouldn’t be brought back. Moreover, I have taken so many innocent lives... **My guilt is already beyond redemption. I am the worst human sinner**.

### Realising His Mistake

I **need to thank the two of you for waking me up, and for freeing me of my former rancor**. I don’t know for how long I have been asleep, but after all of it passed and I finally calmed down for real, I can see the evil crimes I have commited. As you said, **my power is not fitting for you two to inherit. This inheritance belonging to necromancy should rather disappear forever, to avoid the possibility of another such disaster.**

I originally believed that all the humans in this world were despicable and shameless creatures, all beyond redemption. **But seeing the feelings between the two of you, I realize that I was in the wrong. Of the two of you, one was all willing to renounce her own life for the sake of the other one, paying with no hesitation the cost of her own heart. And the other one chose to rather give up on his holy convictions as the Scion of Light for his beloved one. You two have finally shown me what true devotion is, what a true couple united until death parts them is.** Thank you: upon finally witnessing the feelings between you two, I have finally understood that love really exists in this world, that not all humans are despicable creatures. So it really was a heartless urge I had to slaughter everything in my way.

There is already no more meaning in regretting since long ago, but, after telling all this to you, I feel much more comfortable. **The evil tendencies that filled my heart are also getting purified, and although I won’t ever possibly return to the embrace of light, at least this evil body can make a contribution with its** **holy origins**.

## Soul Land II

In Soul Land 2 he is the teacher figure for Huo Yuhao and teaches him necromancy with his piece of divine sense even though he has amnesia but just like the rest of his life it's all cut short when he needs to shatter his divine sense to prevent the Snow Empress' divine origin from exploding in Huo Yuhao sacrificing himself in the process.

## Etymology

* **Yi** means "he, she" (伊).
* **Lai** means "pigweed, lamb's-quarters" (莱).
* **Ke** means "gram/gramme, overcome, digest, restrain, subdue, can, capture" (克).
* **Si** means "given, present, whereas, while, such, this" (斯).

## Trivia

* He appears in [Soul Land 2] as a soul fragment to the protagonist (chapter 2 for first appearance and 80 for full appearance)