Chapter 104

The priest looked at the crowd who didn't believe him at all. He wasn't annoyed, just continued to say softly, "God said, in the beginning, everything was clean. There was no chaos, no pollution, no spirituality, no extraordinary. Everything in the world climbed according to the perfect life tree array specified by God... By the way, I am speaking the original text, the original text of the forbidden canon."

At this time, some interested villagers had already gathered around.

Wu Pifu also keenly discovered that villagers from the same era or near eras gathered together. Although messy, there was actually a pattern.

For example, there were more than a dozen villagers who looked timid. They should be from ancient times or the Middle Ages. There were more than a dozen others who looked generous. They were either from the Renaissance era or later eras. There were also some who were talking loudly, discussing how to transform this village. These were modern and future people.

Seemingly mixed together, in fact, they all had their own small circles.

The priest continued at this time, "But when life evolves and technology develops to a critical point, it will lead to those in power mastering power that does not belong to them. This power crosses the limit that the vast majority of mortal things can perceive, just like the horizon caused by a black hole, unobservable, undetectable, and this is singularity technology."

When Wu Pifu heard singularity technology, there was a buzzing sound in his mind, and he immediately asked, "Priest, are you talking about theology? Or are you talking about technology?"

The priest smiled happily. He drank the wine in his glass and didn't answer Wu Pifu's question directly, but looked at Yi Shanjiu and said, "You must be very confused, right? Last time you came in, only the three slave owners targeted you, but this time when you appeared driving a mecha, even the blacksmith took the initiative to make a move."

Yi Shanjiu nodded repeatedly and shouted, "Right! You and the blacksmith sell your own labor to get food, and you are not slave owners. Why did you target me too?"

The priest still didn't answer directly. He said gloomily, "I come from the middle of the 33rd century, to be precise, I entered Castlevania in 3255. And the 33rd century is called the End Century. At the end of that century, a giant of chaos stepped through the air and devoured everything in the world. The Sea of Spirituality transmitted this scene to the upstream of time, so the Papal Palace opened the forbidden canon in the middle of the 33rd century."

At this time, the sub-giant sitting slightly further away also said, "I don't know what end, nor do I know what giant of chaos. But in the late Divine Era when I entered the Castlevania region, there was indeed a tremor in the Sea of Spirituality, but the information was unclear, and the meaning was unclear. That puppet called mecha just made me feel disgusted, uncomfortable, and hateful, even stronger than facing dark life."

The priest immediately said, "This is due to the time diffusion rule of the Sea of Spirituality. Although the Sea of Spirituality transcends time and space and has existed forever since the moment of its birth—past, present, and future—it is just like ripples on the water surface. The place where the stone falls is the place where ripples are first generated, and the further away, the weaker the ripples received, and the longer the time. So in the early days of the birth of the Sea of Spirituality, which is the Divine Era, the information you could receive was limited, leaving only the precaution against mecha."

The priest's words gradually became profound and professional. Not only did the sub-giant not understand, but everyone around, one by one, didn't understand at all.

And Wu Pifu's mind was still echoing with the four words "singularity technology."

Singularity technology, huh!

In the Baseline Reality 1.0 world, which is the main world, there is singularity technology. On the eve of the Fourth War, the people who controlled the power of the entire human world were actually the thirteen singularity technology companies. Their power and influence even surpassed the human unified government. For example, the "Death Return" that Xu Shilan possessed before was a masterpiece of the Sixth Singularity Technology Company.

This is the process of using technology to interfere with death, and it even seems to involve the afterlife!

And there are thirteen such companies.

At this moment, Wu Pifu only felt full of doubts in his mind. Singularity technology, spirituality, pollution... This series of information seemed to have a main thread connecting them all, but it was hazy and blurry. Wu Pifu couldn't figure out the causal relationship at all, and these causal relationships seemed not only to be this Dream World but also involved the real world, involved all the drastic changes, including the reasons for the formation of the Dream World, etc.

At this time, the priest continued, "According to the content described in the forbidden canon, God said, in the beginning, there was no chaos, no pollution. Everything in the world was running according to the life tree. Sentient life gradually became powerful and mastered the power of reason, thereby exploring the mysteries of all things in the world, until they mastered the power called 'singularity technology.' Greed began to be born and became powerful. These sentient lives full of greed finally stepped into taboos and relied on singularity technology to attract the initial chaos."

"Chaos is pollution, and it is also the initial source of the extraordinary."

"When contacting chaos, the sentience of sentient life will be their only power to fight against chaos. If the sentience can carry chaos, chaos and sentience will combine to turn into spirituality, thereby deriving the extraordinary. And if the sentience cannot carry chaos, chaos and sentience will combine to turn into pollution, thereby leading to various curses, distortion, pollution, and horror."

"God said, chaos is pollution, spirituality is chaos, spirituality is pollution. This is the reason."

The priest said the content of the forbidden canon straightforwardly. The first person to object was the little wolf girl Daphne. She denied it loudly, "This forbidden canon is fake at all! If you follow this saying, there was no so-called extraordinary in the beginning, so what about the Divine Era? The big guy is still here. Do you want to deny the existence of the Divine Era?"

The so-called Divine Era is the mythological era, which is the time when gods walked on the earth. At that time, there were gods, there were various mythological lives, such as Titan giants, dragons, phoenixes, etc.

The sub-giant was also full of confusion and said, "Although I was born at the end of the Divine Era, when I entered the Castlevania region, the Divine Era had already ended, but I did see gods, I saw Titans... I also think the forbidden canon is fake." At this time, even Yi Shanjiu, who was a future person, actually said, "It is also very strange to infer from time. You are a member of the Papal Palace, right? The Papal Palace was founded in the first year of the common era, and human civilization had already developed for thousands of years before the common era. If there really was a mythological era, it would mean that the extraordinary was far earlier than technology. This forbidden canon is completely a case of putting the cart before the horse!"

The priest spread his hands and said, "Hey, hey, hey, I'm just a weak priest title. What I said is also the content of the forbidden canon. This is not what I said; it is what God said. Because the forbidden canon directly described the two words 'God said,' proving that this is God's original words."

Yi Shanjiu said thoughtfully, "Just like 'thus I have heard' in Buddhist scriptures? If there are these four words, it proves that this is the original words spoken by the Buddha... Did the God of the Papal Palace appear in the mythological era?"

The sub-giant and the little wolf girl were both at a loss.

The priest spread his hands and said, "Isn't this explaining what spirituality is? The explanation in the forbidden canon is just this. Spirituality is the cognition of chaos by sentient life. As long as one can withstand the impact of chaos and use sentience to produce cognition, then the initial spirituality will appear. And once there is spirituality, the extraordinary will be born naturally. At the same time, under spirituality, all technological weapons will be extremely weakened or even ineffective."

Everyone didn't speak. There were those who believed, those who didn't believe, and those who discussed. And Wu Pifu was still thinking about the connection between the singularity technology mentioned by the priest and the singularity technology he knew.

Another moment passed. When the villagers and everyone were drinking and having fun, Yi Shanjiu asked several villagers, "What do you plan to do next? It's always not good to have no power. In case a few more selfish extraordinary people come later, you will still be enslaved by others. Relying on the mountains, the mountains will fall; relying on the sea, the sea will dry up. Only the power you master yourself will not betray you!"

The villagers looked at each other. Except for a few people who looked away, most of them looked directly at Yi Shanjiu. A villager said, "We decided to break into Castlevania!"

"That's right, there must be power that can protect ourselves!"

"Maybe we can go to the return room? In that case, we can also temporarily return to our era and world."

!

Wu Pifu asked Daphne in confusion.

Daphne explained, "Didn't I tell you before? There are only three ways to enter the Castlevania region from the outside world: one is huge greedy desire, power, wealth, strength, immortality; two is the black magic ritual; three is having karma with Castlevania."

"How do you think you get huge power, wealth, strength, and immortality? All of this is in Castlevania. As long as you enter it and kill the chaos monsters inside, you can get strength. The more you kill, the stronger the strength you get. Even if it's a mortal, as long as you dare to fight, you can become an extraordinary person in Castlevania. And once you become an extraordinary person, you have power, wealth, strength, immortality, etc."

Wu Pifu was stunned. He murmured, "So it is... experience points? As long as you brush monsters, you can get experience points? Is there any drop?"

Yi Shanjiu laughed loudly on the side, "Right, experience points. I felt the same way at the time. This Castlevania is simply too much like a holy place for brushing monsters."

Daphne gave a disdainful "cut," and the priest smiled on the side, "There are also drops. When killing these chaos monsters, there is a very, very small concept that causes their chaos to condense into objects, which is called chaos treasure, also known as fantasy creation, or weapons, or armor, or strange objects. Each one has special attributes or powerful attack and defense attributes. Every one is worth a fortune."

Is it really a holy place for brushing monsters? Speaking of which, what kind of shield openers, various magical shields, what infinite vacuum blades...

While Wu Pifu was thinking, he suddenly asked vigilantly, "Since Castlevania is such a good place, where you can get extraordinary power, fantasy objects, and find return nodes, why don't they want to enter Castlevania to explore and fight? Is it very dangerous?"

Wu Pifu asked this, but no one answered. Everyone was silent. After a long time, the little wolf girl Daphne said gloomily, "The reason is very simple..."

"Once you enter Castlevania, as long as you don't find the return node, you will never be able to leave it. Even if you want to return here from Castlevania, you can't do it. And Castlevania is the entrance to the chaos of the Demon Realm. Everything inside is chaotic, and all return nodes will move randomly. And if you stay in it for too long, then what awaits you is..."

"Fall, decay, distortion. Finally, you will turn into one of the countless monsters in Castlevania, wandering in it forever, never to be liberated for eternity."

(End of chapter)