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Under such circumstances, Cecilia Orcutt's pride had no place to stay, and she gradually became lost in the crowd, and was even ostracized by everyone. She could only stay alone in a corner, quietly watching those people excitedly discussing the various secrets and methods of the cult.

She was in pain, depressed, and unwilling, but no matter how hard she trained, there was no progress. Once she stood on the training ground and confronted those believers, the other party would completely suppress her with a reaction speed that was completely inconsistent with common sense, and then find her flaws in an instant and defeat her.

No matter how much she trained, she could never have the reaction speed of those people.

And it seems that all you need to do is accept the devil's gift.

Cecilia Alcatel was not one to accept herself as an ordinary person.

Some people say that one of the functions of a prestigious school is to let those who have been role models in learning since childhood recognize who the hell you are. Although the IS Academy is neither big nor small and it still recruits students at the high school level, its enrollment scope still covers the whole of Japan, and there are only a few hundred students each year. Although there is a threshold such as the IS adaptability test that can block the admission qualifications of many people, it is obvious that those who can cross that threshold will not have too outrageous family education, and they must have been attending cram schools since childhood.

Of course, what is competed in the IS Academy is not academic performance, but combat training results.

The combat training results themselves are the most intuitive way to see a person's ranking in the group.

Not to mention that Cecilia has the support of her family and owns a third-generation machine, but she is still no match for her classmates who generally operate second-generation machines.

Although she had better conditions than her classmates, she still failed miserably and became like everyone else. This fact embarrassed the proud blonde girl more than ever before. She wanted to drop out of the school late at night and return to England more than once. In that case, perhaps she would still be among the best among her peers, and would not have to be disturbed by some messy factors in this messy school to compete for IS pilots.

But her pride wouldn't allow her to accept failure.

This pain and unwillingness made it unbearable for her.

If she returned to England, it would only mean that she was just that good.

So she finally decided to listen to the devil's whispers. Even if she fell into hell, she had to regain her pride and glory. She could not tolerate her own failure, just as she could not tolerate her relatives trying to seize her property after her parents passed away.

She downloaded all the messy information from the class's internal information group, but before she started to look at it, she felt an inexplicable chill. Although her current residence was bright, when she reached out to click on the information, she felt as if she was opening a door to darkness.

So she couldn't help but silently pray in her heart: "Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner."

But she still opened the devil's gift without hesitation.

Volume 3: Between God and Man: Chapter 6: Conversation and Restraint

It takes a strong desire to condense the seeds of faith.

Cecilia Orcutt's desire was naturally strong enough that she was willing to give up the beliefs she had grown up with in order to regain her pride.

Not to mention that her original understanding is not low.

Moreover, Ling Wu Ji once borrowed the second and third grade students who were originally his followers to provide corresponding translations and interpretations to the freshmen.

Even if Ling Wuji wanted to stop the spread of the belief in "Star God" in IS Academy, it was too late now. Those interpretations had already been secretly spread among the first-year students. In order to avoid the school's inspection, the old students even used the communication software developed by the Temple Foundation.

So she easily succeeded in condensing the seeds of faith with the help of those complicated rituals, such as worshiping the Big Dipper, stepping on the magic circles, chanting a passage from Taoist scriptures in a fixed syllable, and other such messy behaviors.

Then, Cecilia's spirit was thrown into the vast starry sky, echoing with the believers around her, and helping each other, strolling in the ocean of consciousness, and traveling in that magnificent world that was completely different from the usual one.

This experience is quite novel.

If she had to put it bluntly, it was very similar to when she normally flew the IS in the air, but when driving the IS, she would be restrained by gravity, air, and armor. But now, it was as if her soul had left her body and was flying freely in the sky. After a long time, she realized her original purpose, and just as it was written in those materials, she made a mental request to the North Star in the starry sky. Then she saw that in her field of vision, a single-digit number was displayed at the top, and then a group of things like a spell list in a game were listed below.

Cecilia Orcutt knew exactly what it was:

That is the reason why my classmates have always surpassed me!

As long as she uses her willpower to exchange for the right to use these spells, she will be standing on the same starting line as those people!

"But in fact, your starting points were not the same, right?"

It was as if someone could hear her inner thoughts, and a clear voice suddenly rang directly in her heart.

"you are?"

Cecilia Orcutt thought of a rumor. According to the word of mouth of the old people, the "Star God" was not like a god in the general impression that he was high up in another world and looked down on all living beings. Instead, he really lived in reality. Moreover, in the mouths of those people, this Star God seemed to be the embodiment of all the beautiful fantasies of young girls. He was an unparalleled beautiful boy, as if he had walked out of a girls' comic.

She found it somewhat absurd.

The reason why I didn't join this cult at first was because this legend sounded too fake, as if it was a deliberate lie.

But when she heard this voice that sounded like that of a young boy, Cecilia Orcutt couldn't help but want to find out his true appearance and confirm whether the boy was really a beautiful boy who walked out of a girl's comic as the old students said.

But the boy did not answer her question.

He didn't even show up.

He just said to her in her heart: "You already have a third-generation machine. Although the performance of the machine is not the decisive factor in winning or losing, it also occupies a considerable proportion in the conditions of winning or losing. It is wrong to say that you are standing on the same starting line with them."

"But since they joined the cult earlier than me, they also have more 'skill points' right?"

"That is the specific value of your own wish power..."

Ling Wu Ji shook his head where she couldn't see.

"So, is there a way to increase these points quickly?"

Cecilia was born into a merchant family. She knew that even if the voice that suddenly appeared was not that of the "Star Lord", it must be someone who was closely related to him, so she took the opportunity to ask.

"The conventional method is already written in that Taoist scripture."

"What about unconventional methods? There must be some, right? What would it cost me? Information on 'blue tear'?"

The blonde girl was obviously no mediocre person. When she heard him say that, she immediately asked.

This guy is indeed a smart guy.

It’s a pity that I’m too smart and can’t tolerate my own failure.

In Ling Wu Ji's opinion, winning or losing in high school doesn't mean anything at all. Of course, some people think that one wrong step will lead to all the wrong steps, so you must be relatively perfect at any stage so as not to fall behind in the future. However, Ling Wu Ji has also seen many people who are full of energy in school but struggle when they enter society.

However, perhaps from her perspective, she cannot imagine what the future will be like. Perhaps failure now does not mean that she will not be able to succeed in the future, but accepting failure now means accepting failure in the future. The only thing she cannot accept is this fact.

So Ling Wuji didn't know what to say.

The opening line of The Great Gatsby says: "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, remember that not everyone in this world has had the conditions you have."

So in response to her question, Ling Wuji simply said:

"Indeed."

"So what's the price? What exactly do you want me to do?"

"What if I say I want you to discipline the first-years who have joined the Order?"

"Restrict the first-year students who have joined the cult?"

When Cecilia Orcutt heard him say this, she was immediately surprised: Aren't you the one who has been letting them spread their beliefs wantonly? Why are you saying you want to restrain them now?

and……

"why me?"

"If you haven't figured out the answer yourself, then I need to think more carefully about the candidate."

When Cecilia heard him say that, she immediately thought of something: "Is it because of my 'Blue Tear'? But as for the pilot of the third-generation aircraft, isn't there Huang Lingyin? Moreover, Xiao Zhizhishu's younger sister is also in the IS Academy now. It is said that her elder sister has developed a fourth-generation aircraft for her to use, and she is Japanese. From this perspective, she is actually more suitable to restrain..."

"Huang Lingyin is not a believer. As for Xiao Zhizhi Shu, Xiao Zhizhi Shu and I have an agreement that I will not directly interfere with her choice."

Ling Wu Ji just said.

"So, you have met that Xiao Zhizhi Shu?"

no answer.

So Cecilia soon realized that she was overdoing it.

But in the end she still asked: "If I accept it, you will give me more points?"

Is this the only thing you pursue?

Book 3: Between Gods and Men: Chapter 7: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Ling Wuji had thought about issuing an order directly to stop this internal circulation trend.

But he was too far away.

Moreover, he had decided to withdraw from the affairs of the mysterious side for the time being, and now he was too lazy to care about such things. The current situation was not something he could solve just by wanting to control it. Even if Ling Wuji wanted to control those believers, how could the later ones willingly give up when they saw that the predecessors could take the upper hand with this method? He did not speak out at the beginning, but now he speaks out again, and he may not necessarily gain the absolute trust of those new believers.

So he needed someone to stand up and unify their voices.

The reason why he chose Cecilia Orcutt was not only because she had a third-generation machine and had the basis for unifying the voice of this group, but also because she was a foreigner. In the words of feudal power politics, she was the so-called "lonely minister". The reason why a lone minister is a lone minister is not because of how much she contributed to the system or gained the recognition of most people in the system, but because her power base came from the imperial order, which is the so-called "favor comes from above."

Therefore, a lone minister must obey the emperor's orders.

Because that is the only foundation of the lone minister in this system.

Ling Wuji didn't care whether she understood this but tacitly didn't say it out loud or didn't understand it at all. In any case, he had no intention of stepping forward and would not allow her to use his name to restrain those believers and prevent all kinds of messy interpretations.

But seeing the situation develop into this state, Ling Wuji inevitably had doubts about tearing down the wall between the inner and outer worlds:

The mere competition between believers and non-believers already makes him feel powerless. If it continues to expand, can he really handle it?

Perhaps for some people, everything just needs a start, and their historical mission is simply to make that start.

But that's speaking as a human being.

But Ling Wuji now calls himself a "god".

There is absolutely no way to equate the historical missions of the two.

He couldn't help but think of what he had said to Araya Soren before, that with intervention, differentiation would occur, and with differentiation, opposition would be formed. Opposition made chaotic phenomena clearer, and at the same time, it gave the previously chaotic phenomena the concept of a beginning and an end.

Therefore, God should not love the world; He should only be responsible for creation and destruction.

He inexplicably thought of the "Liezi" he had read before. In the "Tang Wen" chapter, there was a very famous anecdote, which said that someone wanted to avenge his parents, but he was born with a weak physique, but he was unwilling to leave the matter to others and had to do it himself. He heard that Kong Zhou had the "Three Swords of the Yin Emperor", so he wanted to ask him for one of them to take revenge, but Kong Zhou said that among the three swords, "Han Guang" cannot be seen or touched, "Cheng Ying" can only be seen at dusk, and only a slight sound can be heard when it is swung, but it cannot make people feel pain, and "Xiao Lian" can see the shadow but not the light during the day, and the light but not the shadow at night. Although it can be used to hurt people, when the sword passes by, the person's wound will heal, and people will only feel pain.

When Ling Wuji heard this story in his previous life, he had also thought about this: if the Han Guang Sword cannot be seen or touched, then how can we confirm that it really exists?

But later he realized that the sword of light actually refers to time.

Time is the most powerful sword in the world.

Taoism has always advocated "non-action", which means allowing things to develop, die and be destroyed over time without interfering too much, so the Hanguang Sword ranks highest among the three swords of Emperor Yin.

Shakespeare also said in his sonnet: "Time will pierce the gorgeousness and delicacy of youth, will carve parallel lines on the forehead of beauty, will eat up rare treasures, natural beauty, nothing can escape his sweeping scythe!"

If Ling Wuji really wanted to ascend to the throne of god, then all he had to do was watch everything in the world develop on its own, and he didn't need to do anything more.

Ling Wuji really didn't care much about that kind of thing.

In the Christian philosophy, the reason why "original sin" is "original sin" is essentially because those emotions deviate from human "love".

"If that's the case, then perhaps all the problems are just because I'm too arrogant."

"Arrogance" is the greatest original sin.