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School trips in middle schools usually only last three days.
Ling Wu Ji had spent the first two days running around with Kamiya Kaori, and slept soundly on the second night, so when the students gathered together on the third day, Ling Wu Ji realized that his school trip was over.
Of course, Ling Wuji didn’t really care about this school trip.
But when I thought about how I had been busy for nothing from the beginning to the end, and hadn't gained any benefit at all——
He did not think that cooperating with Athena would be of any benefit to him. Connecting the gods of Saturn, the Big Dipper and the Southern Dipper with her might affect the efficiency of his use of the magic in the sky barrier. After all, this was a self-aware god, and she also had an old grudge with Ling Wuji. Although Ling Wuji was not prepared to completely hand over the dominance of those stars, he was just thinking of giving up some of his willpower.
He even used a life-saving hair and used up one of his trump cards.
In fact, if you have to say it, the three things that Luo Hao promised him could be considered his trump cards, but Ling Wuji just intended to keep them to disgust Luo Hao.
So now that he found out that his outing didn't even trigger the system, he couldn't help feeling a little unbalanced. Then he remembered that when he first arrived in Kyoto, there was an android who said he was from the Einzbern family and wanted to invite him to visit the Einzbern family's castle in Fuyuki City?
And what about the Holy Grail system being related to the third law of soul materialization?
"There's nothing to do for the time being anyway, why not go take a look?"
So Ling Wuji left the team on the last day and started to do his own thing.
But in the end, he didn't discuss anything useful with the artificial human family.
What is really related to the Third Law is the original Holy Grail that was stolen to Romania, because the core of that Holy Grail is the finished product of the Third Law, that is, the Winter Saint Justisia Rizleich von Einzbern, who is also the prototype of the androids in the Einzbern family. As for other Holy Grail systems, according to the principle, they can indeed achieve the original purpose they were designed for, that is, using the souls of the servants that flow into the Small Holy Grail in the fighting of the Holy Grail War to form a void that reaches the root.
But that has nothing to do essentially with the Third Law.
Ling Wu Ji had no interest in the so-called reaching the root.
Even if he could make the Holy Grail system work as originally intended, who knows if he could come back after stepping into that void.
So Ling Wuji rejected the Einzbern family's recruitment.
"If there is a chance, maybe I can go to Romania to take part..."
Ling Wu Ji pondered that since the core of the thing in Romania was the finished product of the Third Law, it was not necessary to complete the Holy Grail War as planned. As long as he could deconstruct the core, he might be able to recreate the Third Law.
However, he did not realize one fact, or rather, even if he realized that the disciples of the Third Magician had worked for hundreds of years to create a work that surpassed Justisia, but ultimately failed to produce any results, he still had an almost blind arrogance about his own talent.
"But now is not the right time."
He thought of what Sun Wukong said before he left, and thought that Medusa's attitude towards him was much more moderate than Athena's, so after finding Medusa, it might not be as difficult to communicate with her as Athena. However, Medusa did not leave him anything as a means of contact like Sun Wukong did. It would be fine if she was not in Japan, but if she was still in Japan and moving outside the sky curtain barrier, deliberately looking for that kind of existence would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
But Wu Ji couldn't feel at ease if he left her alone.
However, after returning to Tokyo, Ling Wuji found her easily.
Volume 2: Yitian Wanli Xu Changjian: Chapter 48: Medusa
As an individual separated from Athena, Medusa's appearance is actually similar to Athena's. Both have silver hair that falls to the waist, pupils as dark as the night, and a face as delicate as if it was carved by a world-famous craftsman. The only difference is that Athena gives people the impression of holiness and divinity, while the goddess's age seems to be forever frozen at seventeen or eighteen years old. This age group seems to have a special meaning, while Medusa gives people the impression of being enchanting and seductive.
Even though they looked exactly the same and even had similar figures, Ling Wu Ji still felt that Medusa looked much more mature, and even her figure looked like a ripe fruit.
"Do you always comment on people's age before you go out with them?"
Medusa seems to be particularly sensitive about the issue of age.
"Date? Them?"
Let Wu Ji ask.
"Shouldn't a human like you have many spouses to serve you?"
Ling Wuji rolled his eyes and said, "I'm not an adult yet."
"Do the laws of modern society mean anything to you? Their definition of adulthood is only to determine whether an individual can leave his family, have full civil capacity, and fully bear his legal responsibilities. But even if an individual like you breaks the law, the violent institutions of this country cannot judge you, right?"
When Ling Wuji heard her say this, he immediately realized that she and Athena were indeed two different individuals.
At least Athena would never look at the problem from this perspective.
She would only pay attention to a particularly outstanding individual among humans. As for how human society actually works, it is probably just like how most people watch how ants survive. She has never cared about it at all, so she would never say the above words.
"Let's not talk about my problem for now."
Ling Wuji was too lazy to discuss that kind of thing with her at this time, so he just talked about the Last King.
Hearing Ling Wuji's suspicion that she would work hard for the awakening of the Last King, Medusa's face, which was much more charming than Athena's in any way, showed a little surprise, but she still looked at Ling Wuji with interest. She stirred the drink in the cup with a straw, and then held the straw with her lips. The action seemed particularly tempting to Ling Wuji. After that, she said calmly:
"The so-called Last King actually has another name, the Strongest Steel. Do you know why the Hero of Steel was created?"
Ling Wuji had heard of related sayings before: "Subjugating dragons and snakes?"
Medusa nodded. "I don't want to talk about the origin of dragons and snakes and human beliefs. I just want to say that in Greek mythology, I was beheaded by Perseus, who is also the so-called Hero of Steel. Why would I want to awaken a hero similar to Perseus? To repeat my nightmare? Or to experience that humiliation again? Not to mention, I can't even be considered a disobedient god now."
"But if that's true, then your past is actually fabricated, right? Even your entire existence is built on an illusion..."
Ling Wu Ji didn't continue speaking because Medusa's soft fingers were already pressing on his mouth.
This question seemed to have touched a certain place in her heart, so the eyes of this young woman, who was not wearing a Greek-style robe like Athena but was wearing modern jeans and a tight beige sweater, suddenly became fierce, and Wu Ji even felt that her magic eyes that could turn everything she saw into stone were about to break out. However, in the end, she only said in a dazed tone:
"Yes, if everything goes according to the myth, I am a priestess of Athena, but I was defiled by Poseidon in her temple. Athena is a virgin goddess. She exiled me to a deserted island on the grounds that my blood defiled her temple. This memory is based on your human legend, and I know that I am an individual separated from Athena. Theoretically, I should be the same as her, but the humiliation in that memory is still vivid, so sometimes, I can't tell what I should be like. Perhaps, you can help me confirm it?"
Her fingers slid down and rested on Ling Wuji's school uniform jacket, unconsciously drawing circles on his chest.
Ling Wuji wanted to flee for a moment, but he still forced himself to calm down and asked: "How... to confirm it?"
But it was obvious that the tremor in his voice betrayed his uneasy heart.
"Of course it was confirmed that way."
She leaned close to the boy's ear, as if she wanted to bite it, her breath was as sweet as orchid, and her voice was full of mature and charming tones, like a strong fragrance that made people want to fall deeply into it and unable to extricate themselves.
But Ling Wuji was so scared that he almost jumped up.
But when Medusa saw him like this, she quickly withdrew her hand, sat back down, and said calmly again, "I heard that you have cooperated with her?"
Where did you hear this from?
Ling Wu Ji immediately wanted to ask her.
But there is not much point in dwelling on this issue.
So he just nodded in agreement.
"How about I cooperate with you?"
Ling Wuji subconsciously asked: "Why?"
"Just think of it as some kind of jealousy," she said calmly, "Anyway, you don't really feel comfortable with me wandering around, do you? And she doesn't look like someone who can cooperate with you peacefully, right? So you need someone to deal with her. Besides, I'm different from her. As long as it's you, no matter what request you make, I will unconditionally meet it. How about it?"
Ling Wuji simply thought her last sentence was nonsense.
But since we already have an Athena, it is not impossible to have another Medusa. And according to the setting of Athena's completion, Medusa, who possesses most of the divinity of the Earth Mother Goddess, plus the divinity of the Blue Dragon is also quite interesting in a sense.
However, when Wu Ji thought that the specific gods connected to the sky curtain barrier he had built were actually characters from ancient Greek mythology, he couldn't help feeling a little depressed.
"By the way, I don't have a fixed place to live right now. Since you are my partner, I will leave this little problem to you, okay?"
Ling Wuji said in his heart, "I haven't seen any benefit from cooperating with you guys. Instead, I have to give the benefits first!"
How come you're getting worse and worse?
Volume 2: Yitian Wanli needs a long sword: Chapter 49: Checks and Balances, Balance of Power and Dan Formation
"Checks and balances" is an ancient political tactic.
Looking at the court struggles in Chinese history, except for the founding emperors, the means used by the monarchs to rule their subjects basically did not go beyond the scope of this kind of power politics. Those who played it to perfection would naturally make the monarch and his subjects get along well with each other, while those who did not play it well would naturally make the court chaotic and full of party struggles. As for those who played it too badly, they would naturally be overturned on the table by their subjects.
For example, in the Magic Book of Jin, Emperor Yuan of Jin, Sima Rui, was directly defeated by Wang Dun.
Although the most ideal relationship between the monarch and his subjects was undoubtedly that between Liu Bei and Zhuge Kongming, there was no need for any political tactics between the two.
But the fact that Kong Ming is regarded as a "perfect man" by many people in later generations is enough to explain many problems.
Therefore, Ling Wuji never expected that there would be someone who would devote himself to him until his death like Kong Ming did.
"But rather than saying 'checks and balances'..."
Ling Wuji didn't think Athena and Medusa were his subjects no matter how he looked at them, so he couldn't help but think of the balance of power foreign policy of the United Kingdom, which is known as the troublemaker in Europe. Humphrey also said in "Yes, Minister":
"British foreign policy has not changed in 500 years, creating a divided Europe. So we allied with the Netherlands to contain Spain, Germany to contain France, France and Italy to contain Germany, and France to contain Italy and Germany. We have to fight in and break it from the inside. We have applied external forces, but failed. Now we can make it a mess from the inside, picking Germany against France, picking France against Italy, and picking Italy against the Netherlands. MOFA is very happy, the glory days are back!"
But at the moment, Ling Wuji’s own strength is too weak. Even if he wants to suppress the strong and help the weak, he must also consider the actual situation.
But the reality is that he can't afford to offend either Athena or Medusa.
Moreover, the two were already full of hostility towards each other without his instigation.
On the surface, it didn't seem like he needed to do much.
But then again, in a sense, this also means that he can't do anything. The reason why the UK dares to play the balance of power diplomacy is because its own military strength is inherently decisive.
Being powerless is a fact that is hard to accept for Ling Wuji now.
Especially when he had defeated Luo Hao and was in high spirits.
If he wanted to change the status quo, the only thing he could do was to improve his own realm.
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The accumulation from Yin Shen to Jin Dan is naturally not achieved overnight.
Ling Wu Ji himself knew before that the biggest obstacle for him to advance to the Golden Core Realm was his character. However, what stood in his way was definitely not just his character, but also the coordination or running-in of the three elements of "essence, energy and spirit".
With Ling Wu Ji's talent and the resources he controlled, the several early small realms divided by the predecessors, such as out-of-body experience and night wandering, were naturally not difficult for him. He was even able to master them without a teacher once he broke through to the Yin Spirit. However, when it came to the coordination of "essence, energy and spirit", "harmony between spirit and energy" was as easy as eating and drinking water for him, but "harmony between energy and form" was far from it. And this step was closely related to the method of forming an elixir. It can be said that the key to whether one could form an elixir and what kind of elixir one could form depended on how well one did this step.
In essence, "Golden Elixir" does not refer to a real and specific object condensed in the Dantian.
Just like "Yuanying" does not really refer to a baby, but refers to the baby of the "Yuanshen", it means that after the cultivator breaks through the Jindan stage, the yin and yang in the Yin Shen embrace each other. As long as the yin is further exhausted and the yang is pure, he can break through to the realm of true person.
The so-called "golden elixir" actually refers to treating a person's body, true energy and soul as the materials for the elixir, and using "heart fire" to refine them. The hotter and purer the "heart fire" is, the more intense the refining of the three materials will be. Therefore, if the coordination of the three "essence, energy and spirit" is not done well enough, it is very likely that many "impurities" will be removed in the process of refining, and the resulting golden elixir will only be of inferior quality, and there will be no hope of breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage in a lifetime. If the "heart fire" is not hot and pure enough, many unnecessary impurities will be retained. Even if one is lucky enough to break through to the golden elixir realm, the problem is not just that the elixir will be of inferior quality, it may even trigger a heavenly calamity from time to time.
As for those who have both problems, why are you still trying to make an elixir? You might as well learn from your ancestors and directly achieve the state of transformation from a soldier to a corpse.
Leaving aside the issue of "heart fire" and the method of forming the elixir, Ling Wuji pondered over his problem for a long time and finally came to a conclusion: the reason why he had problems with "harmony between qi and form" was that his soul was too powerful for him now, so most of the time, when he cast his spells, he directly controlled the external spiritual energy through his soul. Ling Wuji thought about it carefully and realized that since he broke through to the Yin God, he had hardly used the true qi in his body.
Therefore, his "harmony of spirit and energy" can be described as perfect.
But "Qi and Form Harmony" is a complete mess.
"Now that I think about it, small tricks also have their advantages. I have always been too ambitious and looked down upon small tricks, which is why I ended up in this situation today."
The magic he is using now is really too lofty.
Therefore, if he wanted to solve this problem in a short time, he could either continuously absorb and refine the spiritual energy and then use it up, so that he could become more familiar with the various specific and subtle connections between "true energy" and "physical form" after entering the Yin God realm, or...