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"But I think there's no reason for you not to help, right?"
In a sense, Lu Yinghua did see through Ling Wuji.
He knew very well that, regardless of whether it was possible or not, even if Ling Wuji finally had the ability to defeat Luo Hao, he would not kill Luo Hao, because the mysterious side of southern China needed such a person to maintain stability and balance, so the two of them would at most decide the winner -
Although it cannot be ruled out that Ling Wuji might be crushed to death by Luo Hao.
However, according to the intelligence Lu Yinghua has collected during this period, Ling Wuji should be able to protect himself now.
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Lu Ying's plan to resolve the conspiracy against the Monkey King was not too complicated.
Although the details of the technique used to seal the Monkey King, "Bimawen", have not been made public, as long as one has carefully investigated the details of the movements of the personnel of the Official History Compilation Committee and the effect of the technique, one can roughly understand the conditions for unlocking the seal: the God of Disobedience of the Dragon and Snake Godhead sets foot on Japanese territory, and the Hime-mikoto of the Official History Compilation Committee enters the place where the god is imprisoned.
Although there should be further specific details, Ling Wuji was not worried that Lu Yinghua would not be able to find them out.
The only problem in completing that plan is the coming of the God of Disobedience of the Dragon Snake Godhead.
Theoretically, this problem is simply an unsolvable problem.
The gods of disobedience come to the world because their egos break through the shackles imposed on them by human beliefs. The standard for measuring whether a god of disobedience is powerful is to see how firm his ego is and how deep his obsession with changing the world is. It is simply a fantasy that such a being will obey human arrangements and fulfill human wishes, because they essentially come to the earth because they have broken through the wishes that humans have placed on them.
"That's generally true."
Lu Yinghua did not refute Ling Wuji's statement.
"So what is the unusual situation?"
"There are quite a few. For example, there are those who have not yet fully remembered their identities when they first descended. There are also some who were resurrected by relying on the immortality of the dragon and snake godhood and were demoted to god ancestors, but they can be temporarily upgraded through certain rituals," Lu Yinghua said, "so we have two goals for now."
"Two goals?"
"One is the Gorgon Stone from Italy, and the other is Angela, the commander-in-chief of the North American Warlock Camp. She is a god ancestor..."
Ling Wuji interrupted him immediately. He was no rookie. When Gorgon was mentioned, he knew that it was the snake-haired Medusa. The dragon and snake godhood were also related. He was concerned about the other one. He said, "Since Angela is some kind of ancestor god, theoretically she is hostile to the God of Disobedience. Why should she cooperate with you?"
"She wasn't that opposed, and was even happy about it." Lu Yinghua didn't care much about the intentions of those people. In a sense, he just wanted to complete the task assigned to him by Luo Hao. But he was indeed very talented and quickly thought of something. "However, it is said that some gods are looking for the arrival of a disobedient god, claiming that it is the 'strongest steel', the 'last king' or something like that. Maybe she also wants to confirm whether Sun Wukong is the last king?"
Ling Wuji hesitated for a moment, but in the end he didn't think too deeply about it. He just said, "But the North American Hades helped me recently. I can't get involved with her enemies."
Hearing him say this, Lu Yinghua was also surprised: "Since you were able to contact him, why didn't you go directly to North America?"
"Bah! That was after I came to Japan!"
"Oh, yes, you have had a very colorful life in the past six months."
"It doesn't matter who gave it to you!"
Lu Yinghua just wanted to reach out and pat the boy on the shoulder, but Ling Wuji dodged it. He didn't care and just said, "Then you should work hard and try to overthrow the tyrant's rule as soon as possible."
"Hey! Is it really okay for you to speak ill of your master so directly?"
"Oh, I thought we were like-minded partners!"
"Bah! Like-minded? What the hell! Weren't you the ones who were behind my back, talking nonsense in front of Luo Hao and saying that I should be exiled to Japan?"
Lu Yinghua immediately jumped up and said, "Damn it! If we hadn't said that at the beginning, Master might have crushed you to death! You are just trying to be nice to others, you don't know how to appreciate a good person!"
"You are also a good person?"
Ling Wuji and Lu Yinghua exchanged insults for a while, and then suddenly fell silent.
After all, saying too much of this kind of meaningless garbage always feels like an insult to one's intelligence.
So the two of them changed the topic again:
"So, our only choice is the Gorgon Stone?"
"Since you guys have already made so many preparations, it doesn't really matter whether I join or not, right?"
Let Wu Ji speak.
In fact, he was not very interested in such icing on the cake.
"That's fine, whatever you want. Anyway, when the time comes, maybe the master will remember you and take you away as a witness or sacrifice you. You have to be mentally prepared," Lu Yinghua said indifferently, but finally asked, "What about the cooperation with Fei Shiyuan?"
Ling Wuji pondered for a moment:
"What do you want to do?"
To be honest, Ling Wuji still didn't understand the reason why Fei Shi Institute came up with this kind of cooperation project with Lu Yinghua.
Although Fei Shiyuan's original intention was probably just to suppress himself.
In this case, he would have to carefully consider whether to openly join forces with Lu Yinghua and his people.
However, since the people from Fei Shi Academy had bad intentions and Lu Yinghua had found me, was it really necessary for this project to continue?
"The reason or excuse that Fei Shiyuan told us was to add a mysterious side protection structure to the IS, and then use it to deal with the demons rampant in Japan. You should also know that the demons in Japan have their own unique 'fear', which separates the world of humans and demons. Ordinary people cannot see the demons who want to hide themselves because of 'fear', even if they use the corresponding detection equipment, they cannot find them. Their purpose is probably to further let the IS pilots see the demons so that they can attack them, right?"
Ling Wuji thought for a moment:
Although this problem can be easily solved after he expands the sky curtain barrier to the whole of Japan, at that time he can completely clarify the order between the monsters and humans in the mysterious side of Japan.
However, the ancients have long said that "the tool and the name cannot be delegated to others." If Ling Wuji were to do even such a thing by himself, the position of Fei Shiyuan in the mysterious world would surely become precarious.
Is that why they want to do these things first?
"But 'seeing ghosts', or 'being able to see ghosts', is also a rare talent in the mysterious world, right?"
It is true that after reaching the Yin Shen realm, cultivators can see through the boundary between life and death and thus see ghosts. Some innate beings can also do it because they have condensed the true meaning of martial arts such as sword and fist and opened up the six senses. Although both Yin Shen and innate beings sound a bit low compared to Luo Hao's realm, there are no more than five thousand people in the whole world who are at this level.
Strictly speaking, these talents are the backbone of the mysterious side.
Not to mention that there are also exceptional people like Ling Wuji.
Except for a few people who are born with the so-called "yin-yang eyes", there are very few people who have the ability to "see ghosts".
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"Of course, so everyone actually thinks that the other party is up to something. I think their reactions will be very interesting if they see me pulling you over as well."
Lu Yinghua's smile had a somewhat joyful temperament.
Ling Wuji actually thought about it seriously, and finally said: "They shouldn't ask you for help in this matter, they should ask the Shinto people for help, for example, they should unite with the people of the Official History Compilation Committee. However, the people on the Japanese mystical side are basically the ones who build the wall. So, you have so many people in Hong Kong who push the wall?"
"Bah! No one would think of pushing the wall in this regard, okay?"
The so-called wall-pushing faction and wall-building faction, the wall here refers to the gate between the inner and outer worlds. These two factions are the popular thoughts in the mystical side in recent years. The wall-pushing faction believes that the mystical side and the secular side should no longer be distinguished, while the wall-building faction is determined to distinguish between the two sides. Of course, organizations like the Holy Church and the Magic Association are basically impossible to lean towards the wall-pushing faction. In fact, the so-called wall-pushing faction is by no means the thinking of people in large organizations that are deeply rooted in the mystical side.
Most of them come from small sects like Ling Wuji.
Although there are some people from famous sects who occasionally want to push down a wall or smash a satellite.
"But when you say Shinto, do you mean the Japanese Shintoism, or the practice of calling on gods to descend?"
"It's the talismans of the Fulu Sect."
“It doesn’t sound like anything new.”
Lu Yinghua was born into a famous sect and had a profound background. Even though he had chosen the path of a warrior, he could certainly think of what Ling Wuji could think of.
"As for the new idea, they have to create a new mythology, emphasizing that the new god's duty is to control the boundary between life and death, and then let the IS pilots pray to him every day, and strengthen the ritual before going into battle. It is estimated that it will be effective within three years. As long as this tradition is maintained, this power will probably be able to effectively strike against the mysterious side in the future."
Ling Wu Ji said it casually.
Lu Yinghua just looked at him blankly.
"what?"
Ling Wuji noticed that he looked strange, so he asked.
"Wouldn't it be more appropriate for you to be the god you're talking about?"
Ling Wuji was also stunned for a moment, and then he subconsciously said: "Don't be ridiculous, in modern society, it is not as easy to create a personal god as before. It is better to use a virtual image to refer to it. In that way, it will be easier to use the means of faith and magic. What's more, I am not even a golden elixir now, so it is inevitable that the personality will be distorted by faith."
"But don't you have the basic authority of the Sky Curtain Barrier? If you show a 'miracle' casually, won't you be able to attract believers? As for the collection of faith and the use of divine arts, you can also use the Sky Curtain Barrier as a transit. And aren't you still short of people now? You can also recruit a group of tools to help you continue the stratification and subsequent development of the Sky Curtain Barrier."
Lu Yinghua became interested and started to help him analyze it.
When Ling Wuji heard him say that, he immediately looked at him in surprise:
“It’s not completely unfeasible.”
If one is a believer of the Shinto system, the development of the sky curtain barrier does not necessarily require the believer himself to have a corresponding realm, because in essence, the believer and the God Lord can have a common relationship. If Wu Ji really wants to become the God Lord, he can temporarily bless the believers with some of the knowledge he knows and let them help him complete related tasks, although this blessing is only temporary and not permanent.
But isn’t this the relationship between believers and gods?
Some gods don't even look at their lifelong devout believers.
Moreover, Shinto methods are undoubtedly more flexible than the Sky Curtain Barrier. The Sky Curtain Barrier relies on the control of the earth's spiritual energy, while Shinto methods are not limited by the distance of space. At that time, even if those believers leave the Sky Curtain Barrier, he will have a way to bless the believers with divine arts through the air, and there will be no problem of ineffectiveness outside the Sky Curtain Barrier.
Moreover, with the Sky Curtain Barrier as a transit hub, there is no need to worry about one’s personality being polluted by faith.
The only problem is the priesthood.
It’s not like there haven’t been precedents of this kind of thing on the mystical side, and even Taoism itself is an expert at this. Some people, purely for the convenience of a certain priesthood, arbitrarily fabricate classics to associate that priesthood with a certain ancestor, so there are many differences between the previous and later versions of Taoist myths. However, the numerous sources of Taoist myths have also caused quite a lot of problems, one of which is that they rise and fall quickly, as the saying goes, "Its rise is rapid, and its fall is sudden." It is often changed after being circulated for no more than a generation, so the accumulated beliefs in that priesthood are probably like a small puddle of water.
Compared to the faith in the Three Pure Ones which is as vast as the ocean.
Of course, there are also magical arts that borrow the faith of the Three Pure Ones, such as the "Magic Mantra of Laozi". People who have achieved certain accomplishments in this method can directly eliminate all external forces within the range of their thoughts. However, the duties of the Three Pure Ones are too vague and too high. It is too difficult for ordinary people to find the corresponding faith and borrow it. This is why later generations created a more specific priesthood, so that people who practice Shinto methods can more conveniently borrow faith and use magical arts.
But as to what kind of priesthood to use, Ling Wu Ji was quite hesitant.
Moreover, the court might not agree with him doing this.
Although it is not easy to attract believers by using virtual images, the advantage is that it is stable. It is just like you worship an AI as a god. You provide it with power and it will give you computing power in return, just like doing a transaction. Although many people on the mysterious side think that recruiting gods and ghosts is a transaction in itself, it’s just that some people like to force buying and selling. In this case, Fei Shiyuan will not think there is any problem.
But engaging in personal idol worship is a big problem.
There is no reason why the academy would allow Ling Wuji to do this in IS College.
But maybe it’s really possible to set up a 17-year-old cult and become a cult leader?
Ling Wu Ji thought of the original "elimination", then he couldn't help shaking his head, sighing, and without continuing to talk nonsense with Lu Yinghua, he got up and left.
"Hey! What are you doing? Is this possible?"
It's indeed a good idea.
But Ling Wuji himself does not have the means and personal charm to manage believers, so any good method is just a castle in the air for him.
Or, in other words, support someone to be your Pope and let him... or her help you govern?
For some reason, Ling Wu Ji suddenly thought of Kamiya Kaori.
Volume 3: The Long Sword is Needed to Rely on the Heavens: Chapter : Cutting Through All the Human Hearts and Demons ()