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In order to ease the awkwardness, Jiang Lu deliberately changed the subject: "But let's be honest, there is no big difference between you and me, right? Even if the clues are not provided by you, you don't need to care too much. What should be left will be left for you."
"That's not what I meant." Scythe shook his head: "If you say so... there may be many details that are not clear."
He said it very tactfully, but everyone understood what he meant.
Jiang Lu is not a core figure, and there are still many things he doesn’t know.
But Jiang Lu didn't understand.
"Eh? No way." He patted his chest carelessly and said, "I have read all the notices and memorized them all. Don't worry."
"That's not what I meant." Scythe explained with great embarrassment: "What I meant is that the system is not as simple as you think."
"Uh..." Jiang Lu, who finally reacted, suddenly felt a little disappointed.
Dong Wanggong took the opportunity to pat his shoulder comfortingly and said, "No wonder you know so much about working part-time. So you are working part-time yourself?"
Looking at Jiang Lu's expression, Sickle felt a little guilty and thought that what he said was too hurtful.
But I can't take care of him now, it is more important to know the truth.
"Jiang Lu has just talked about the general cultural background, so I won't go into details. I'll just get to the point."
Scythe sorted out his thoughts and described the situation of the supernatural revival over there in a way that everyone could understand:
“Twenty-two years ago, our world, which originally had no spiritual power or any supernatural powers, suddenly welcomed the advent of something strange. Countless ghosts and monsters invaded our world, and many terrifying visions that only existed in myths and legends suddenly became real.
In addition to this, many spiritual realms similar to what you call small worlds have descended, each with different laws. We need to enter them and complete specific tasks in order to stop them from descending and bringing greater threats to this already devastated world.
This is how we came to you.
People who are given this ability to enter the spirit realm, such as the three of us, are called exorcists in our world.
This ability, including some of the supernatural powers we gain after successfully preventing the advent of the spirit realm, requires a medium known as the Exorcist System.
Many exorcists don’t carefully explore its origins, and even Jiang Lu certainly doesn’t understand it, and this is the point I want to make.”
Having said this, he paused, and then said word by word:
"He did not appear out of thin air, but was given to us by a being who calls himself a guardian god to protect our world. This is a secret that only the top leaders know."
"Guardian..." Jiang Lu was shocked: "I have never heard of this before."
Having said this, the performers had no choice but to get on board.
He added on behalf of Scythe: “In fact, it is impossible to find out even if we investigate, because this matter is top secret and only the top leaders know about it.
That mysterious existence can only be seen by exorcists who have reached level 60. He guided the founder of the guild to establish the Exorcist Guild and taught us how to build a safe zone that can block the weirdness, but he never mentioned the truth about the revival of the supernatural.
So we still don’t know why the spirit realm came. If we follow the standard you just mentioned, Queen Mother of the West, then the guardian deity who can give ordinary people the ability to enter and exit other worlds at will may be the kind of existence you are talking about.”
Upon hearing this, Queen Mother of the West showed an expression of "as expected".
Jiang Lu also suddenly realized that it wasn't that there were no gods in the forbidden land of gods. It was because there were creatures higher than the main god. So just like it was difficult to see other predators in a jungle where there were ferocious beasts, were all other gods driven away?
"That should be it."
Queen Mother of the West nodded:
“Logically, when such beings are in an imperfect world, such as the Three Pure Realms, they usually lower their own dimensions, whether actively or passively, to adapt to the current world, just like my father did.
But if that guardian angel is really as you said, and can give ordinary people the ability to travel to other worlds at will, then he is definitely not just at the same level as me and my brother.
The fact that he can exert power beyond ours without lowering the dimension proves that your world is by no means ordinary. At least the upper limit is much more advanced than the big world in the general sense, such as the Three Pure Ones Realm.
You don't have spiritual power or supernatural powers. I guess it's probably because he restricts you. Maybe there's some reason or law that prevents this kind of supernatural power from appearing."
"I know." Jiang Lu narrowed his eyes: "I heard that after the founding of the country, no one can become a spirit."
Everyone: "..."
“It’s not really such a rule…” the performer held his forehead with his hand.
"Okay, but the answer is obvious now." Jiang Lu shrugged, "I guess the psychic resurrection was caused by the guardian god. Otherwise, if he is really the guardian god, he has this ability, there is no reason why he can't solve it."
"Don't be too subjective." Scythe shook his head: "Maybe he has some difficulties, or some reason that he can't tell us. It's hard to say. After all, everything was fine for thousands of years before this."
"Thousands of years?"
At this time, Hong Yi suddenly asked:
“I was just wondering, the spiritual revival you mentioned has only been going on for 22 years, and I didn’t expect that your recorded history is only a few thousand years old?
Jiang Lu, it has been more than thousands of years since you died in the underworld, right?
What did you do during the missing time? "
"Well, this involves another setting." Jiang Lu explained: "Our time flow rate is different from yours. The ratio is one to one thousand. That is to say, if converted to your time here, the resurrection of the spirits was about 22,000 years ago, and my resurrection time was more than a thousand years earlier."
He had just finished saying this when he suddenly froze.
"Hong Yi... When you say thousands of years, do you have a specific number?"
The others also realized it later and their expressions suddenly became very strange.
"I don't know the details. I never paid any attention to you before you came here." Hong Yi looked at the Queen Mother of the West.
"I remember..." The Queen Mother of the West, who had been secretly paying attention to Jiang Lu's situation, suddenly felt a little dry in her throat: "The exact time from your death to now should be 9,881 years."
Hong Yi's face was solemn: "After you were resurrected in that world, you have been growing according to time, right?"
"Isn't this nonsense? Can you grow while jumping?" Jiang Lu made a joke, but even he couldn't laugh.
It is absolutely impossible to be dead for ten thousand years in this world and exist for twenty-three thousand years in another world.
"Is it possible that the two worlds are not connected and are not running at the same time, or that the guardian god caused the distortion of time?" Xuannv analyzed.
Queen Mother Xi shook her head: "If they were two independent worlds that did not interact, this would indeed be possible, but they have come here, proving that the two worlds are connected, so this is absolutely impossible."
"Then why..." Dong Wanggong was very confused.
"Or maybe something went wrong when you were traveling through the world, resulting in the wrong time point for traveling?" Hong Yi put forward a new guess.
But there is no proof and no clues.
Only Jiang Lu and two other exorcists who were traveling with him had some vague guesses.
They knew clearly that the spiritual realm of Sanqing Realm was not a spiritual realm that could be entered normally.
It is a random spirit realm.
What is a random spirit realm?
There is no Exorcist strategy or the strategy has failed, and finally it descended into the real world and became a spiritual realm where the source of pollution floats around.
In short, it is a waste file.
Thinking of this, the three of them already had the answer in their hearts.
They looked at each other, as if considering who would tell the others the cruel truth.
In the end, Jiang Lu sighed.
"Well...I have a more reasonable guess."
He forced out a rather unpleasant smile:
"It may be hard to accept, but there is a more reasonable possibility."
"what?"
"The Three Pure Realms were destroyed 9,881 years after my death, so in the next 10,000 years, no matter when we arrive, we will appear at this time point..."
Chapter 368 The Voice of the World Appears Again
As soon as these words were spoken, it was like a bolt from the blue, shocking everyone present.
"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"
Dong Wanggong was the first one who couldn't accept it: "The Immortal Realm is still there, and my sister has just survived the True Immortal Tribulation. If there is a danger that threatens the Three Pure Realms that even they can't solve, I believe that even if he is my brother, he will definitely take action!"
"Yeah, that's unlikely, isn't it?" Xuannv wasn't as absolute as Dong Wanggong, but she also expressed that she couldn't believe it: "Unless all the main gods from other worlds attack the Sanqing Realm together, I really can't imagine the possibility of the Sanqing Realm being destroyed."
"This..." Jiang Lu looked at the sickle and the performer.
They know that it is difficult to convince others. It is like telling a lively person that you are going to die without any evidence. No one will believe it.
But this is most likely the case.
A spiritual realm that has been abandoned and turned into a source of pollution represents decline in itself.
If you think about it carefully, only the spirit realm that has been successfully conquered or has not yet been conquered can be entered repeatedly. And after many verifications by Jiang Lu, such as the most direct [Infinite Prison], it has been proved that the people in the spirit realm have memories of the exorcists who have appeared in the past. It is these details that helped Jiang Lu determine that the spirit realm is a real world.
A real world with huge holes in its history is enough to explain the problem.
Could it be that the ten thousand years in between were stolen?
Queen Mother of the West looked serious: "If that is the case, it is indeed possible..."
"Sister!" Dong Wanggong roared, as if he couldn't understand why Xi Wangmu could accept this.
But Queen Mother Xi ignored him and just said to herself: "If your world is regarded as the heart of all worlds, and you can go to any world through the spiritual realm you mentioned, and then complete a specific task, then does this count as... an invasion from a higher dimension?"
"You mean..." Hong Yi continued her words, "Their patron saint is using exorcists to invade other worlds, or change established facts, or affect something important?"
"That's right." Queen Mother Xi nodded and asked Jiang Lu: "The move you used before came from the power of the exorcist, right?"
"Yes." Jiang Lu did not hide it: "After coming here, all our abilities have been cleared, but only a few forbidden abilities and props can still be used."
"How many?! How many did you say?!" the performer couldn't help but exclaimed, interrupting the conversation.
Thinking that they would lose their memory soon anyway, it would be a waste if they didn't pretend to be so. Jiang Lu shrugged and said, "If you want to get involved in this business, you have to have some good stuff to keep with you."
Hearing this, Scythe and the performer looked at each other, and saw a hint of bitterness on each other's faces.
After working so hard for so many years, the best quality items they have are excellent props, and at most a legendary skill to save their lives.
And all of these became blank the moment they came into this world.
They originally thought that Jiang Lu, who had just joined the Exorcist Guild, might not be as good as themselves. Who would have thought that he had more than one forbidden items and skills.
Comparing yourself with others is really frustrating.
But think about what he has done and the people he has come into contact with along the way.
Okay, relieved.