With My System, I Can Even Tame Gods

"The All Time Sect just wanted to obtain the artifact since it was too dangerous to keep out there in the world. The Chaos Sect wanted to use the artifact to control the lifespan of the mortals to keep them under their thumbs the entire time."

Though the voice said this, Lin Fan was still a bit doubtful of this since it was just what one person was saying.
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Still, there was a part of the story that Lin Fan did believe.

It was because it matched the parts of the story that he heard from Huo Mu Chen previously.

It also made him realize how much of the story Huo Mu Chen had hid from him.

But that didn't mean that he would take everything at face value.

There were still other temples to visit before he came to a decision.

After he finished listening to the story, the voice said, "The reason that I don't want you to help us is because we're also being used as part of the seal to ensure that the artifact doesn't appear again."

"Huh?" Lin Fan was surprised to hear this since he didn't hear anything about this from Huo Mu Chen.

"You should already know that this artifact is one that uses both life and death energies. That was why it stole the life energy from us and we were all doomed to die without that life energy. In the final moments, our two sects sealed ourselves in this place, but the sect master of our All Time Sect used a special seal that caused us to become a living seal for the artifact. That is why there is death energy that keeps seeping out of our temples, they are coming from the sealed immortal artifact under this land."

Lin Fan deeply knitted his brows when he heard this.

If this was true, then it explained the Land of Death and why there was so much death energy in this place.

But that also didn't explain where the life energy of the immortal artifact went.

"The life energy is being drained by the temples as well. It's being used to maintain our bodies so that the seal will never break. That is why the immortal artifact is sealed under this land."

After a pause, the voice added, "But that also means that if you revive us, that will break the seal on the immortal artifact and release it into the world. That's why I don't want to be revived. Or at least not until we have a way to deal with the immortal artifact."

The voice gave a sigh before saying, "But that thing is an immortal artifact. It's because it's an immortal artifact that we had such a hard time dealing with it in the first place."

The things that the voice said filled in a few blanks and seemed much more convincing than anything that Huo Mu Chen said before.

But it wasn't as if Lin Fan would let his guard down just because of what someone said.

After listening to the voice murmur like this for a bit, Lin Fan said, "Then before reviving you, you want me to find a way to deal with the immortal artifact first?"

The voice gave a bitter laugh before saying, "It doesn't seem like I'll be able to stop you from reviving us. I just want to know why you want to revive us so badly."

"Well, it's a deal. If I revive you, naturally you have to pay the price for it. So you can consider anything that you give me as an investment for your own future." Lin Fan said in a confident voice.

There was only silence that followed after he said this, but Lin Fan wasn't bothered by the silence.

He was already used to this and had been expecting this silence.

Rather, Lin Fan would have found it strange if there wasn't this silence.

Only the words that the voice said next was a bit surprising to Lin Fan.

"You're greedy." That was all that the voice said after that long moment of silence.

Lin Fan recovered from his surprise and said, "Isn't it only natural to be greedy?"

"Ha, ha, ha, I'm not saying that it's a bad thing to be greedy. Greed is a fundamental part of being human and the main reason that humans cultivate in the first place. Humans cannot resign themselves to living their short lives, so they are greedy to seize their fortune from the heavens, increasing their own lifespan." The voice went on to give an entire speech about greed and how it was a fundamental part of being human.

After a long silence, Lin Fan asked, "Is that your personal motto or is that the creed of your sect?"

"It's a bit of both." The voice said in an honest tone.

Lin Fan raised a brow at this, but he didn't say anything else.

He just stood there as if he was waiting for something from the voice.

The voice didn't say anything else, instead there was this release of spiritual energy that suddenly appeared in front of Lin Fan. When he looked up, he found that there was this hairpin that had appeared in front of him.

Lin Fan raised his hand out and the hairpin fell down into his hand.

He could feel the spiritual energy fluctuations that were coming from this hairpin, so he knew just what this thing was.

It was an artifact just like the spear that Huo Mu Chen gave him.

However, he could tell that this hairpin was actually stronger than the spear that Huo Mu Chen gave him.

This hairpin seemed damaged just like the spear, but the aura that came from it was greater than the spear. It seemed like it was already in the Soul Formation Realm and if it was repaired, it would have reached the Rebirth Realm.

That gave Lin Fan an idea of just how strong the All Time Sect and the Chaos Sect were.

Such powerful sects had been destroyed like that in the ancient times?

After the hairpin landed in his hand, he could feel that he could use this hairpin with just a single thought. But at the same time, he could feel that there was a different will inside of this hairpin.

It was just like the spear where he would be able use it, but he would never be the real master of it.

Or at least that was what Lin Fan thought until the voice said…

"Hold on, let me release my will on it first or else it won't belong to you."

Lin Fan was caught off guard when he heard this.

He had almost been certain that the owner of the voice wouldn't do such a thing since it meant giving up one of their artifacts like this. Not to mention, they had even gone on about how humans were greedy in the first place.

It seemed strange that the owner of the voice was willing to give up this artifact like this.

But it didn't take long for Lin Fan to feel that there was a change that happened with the hairpin. It was as if the will that had been inside of the hairpin disappeared and it became an object without an owner.

The most important thing was that he was able to use his Appraisal Eyes on it.

He was able to see everything about the Azure Frost Hairpin in his hands.

If it was an artifact that was still bound to the owner of the voice, that never would have been possible. After all, the will inside of the artifact would have prevented him from being able to use his Appraisal Eyes on it.

Once the will was gone, even if the artifact was stronger than him, he was able to use the Appraisal Eyes on it since he controlled it to allow him to use it. It was that it was an empty artifact that he could see through it.

This was more than enough to prove that the owner of the voice really gave up the artifact.

So Lin Fan couldn't help being taken aback by this.

"You should be able to use that artifact now. It's one of my personal artifacts, so I can attest to its power. When you need to, use it to protect yourself."

Lin Fan didn't say anything in response at first, but then he asked, "Are you really willing to invest this much into me? What if I was lying and I never come back?"

"Ha, ha, ha, then that's what it is. In the first place, there was no hope for me to escape this place. So in a way, you can say that I'm greedy as well since I want to see if I can still live."

Lin Fan didn't know what to say in response to this.

After a long silence, he said, "Alright, I'll be back."

"My name is Xue Bei He, I hope that you will at least remember me. Or if you go to see the others, please tell them that I'm still well." The voice spoke again, catching Lin Fan off guard.

He didn't know how to feel after she said this.

After all, it felt like she was the one that had controlled the conversation instead of him.

It was as if she had seen through everything that he wanted and had led the conversation to the result that she wanted.

But it wasn't as if this was a bad thing for Lin Fan.

All he could do in the end was give a nod and walk out of the temple while still holding the hairpin in his hand.