Chapter 104

The priest looked at the crowd who didn't believe him, but he wasn't annoyed, just saying softly and gently, "God said that in the beginning, everything was clean. There was no chaos, no pollution, no spirituality, no extraordinary things. Everything in the world climbed according to the perfect Tree of Life array specified by God... By the way, I am quoting 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 it was messy, there was actually a pattern.

For example, there were more than a dozen villagers who looked timid, who should be from ancient times or the Middle Ages. There were more than a dozen others who looked generous, 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.

They seemed to be mixed together, but in fact, they all had their own small circles.

The priest was still saying at this time, "But when life evolves and technology develops to a critical point, it will lead those in power to master power that does not belong to them. This power transcends the limits of what 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? The last time you came in, only the three slave owners targeted you, but this time when you appeared piloting a mecha, even the blacksmith took the initiative to attack."

Yi Shanjiu nodded repeatedly and shouted, "Yeah, you and the blacksmith sell your labor to get food, you aren't slave owners, why did you have to target me too?"

The priest still didn't answer directly, but said gloomily, "I come from the middle of the 33rd century. To be precise, I entered Castlevania in 3255. And the 33rd century is also called the End Century. At the end of that century, a giant of chaos came stepping through the air, devouring everything in the world. The Sea of Spirituality transmitted this scene to the upstream of time, which is why the Papal Court 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, and I don't know what giant of chaos, but when I came to the Castlevania region at the end of the Age of Gods, there was indeed a tremor in the Sea of Spirituality, but the information was unclear, the meaning was unclear. That puppet called mecha just made me feel disgusted, uncomfortable, and hateful, even more intense than facing dark life forms."

The priest immediately said, "This is caused by 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 it was born—past, present, and future—it is just like ripples on the water surface. The place where the stone falls is where the ripples are first generated, and the further away, the weaker the ripples received, and the longer the time. Therefore, in the early days of the birth of the Sea of Spirituality, which is the Age of Gods, the information you can receive is limited, leaving only the defense 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 ones 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 previously possessed by Xu Shilan 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. 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 involve this dream world, but also to involve the real world, involving all the drastic changes, including the reasons for the formation of the dream world, etc.

At this time, the priest continued, "According to the description in the forbidden canon, God said that in the beginning, there was no chaos, no pollution, and everything in the world was running according to the Tree of Life. Sentient life gradually became powerful and mastered the power of rationality, 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 life forms full of greed finally stepped into taboo and relied on Singularity Technology to bring in 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 resist chaos. Sentience that can carry chaos, when combined with chaos, will turn into spirituality, thereby deriving the extraordinary. And sentience that cannot carry chaos, when combined with chaos, will turn into pollution, thereby leading to various curses, distortion, pollution, and horror."

"God said, chaos is pollution, spirituality is chaos, spirituality is pollution, and so it is."

The priest stated the content of the forbidden canon directly. The first person to object was the little wolf girl Daphne. She loudly denied it, "This forbidden canon of yours is simply fake. If you follow this statement, there was no so-called extraordinary in the beginning, so what's going on with the Age of Gods? The big guy is still here. Do you want to deny the existence of the Age of Gods?"

The so-called Age of Gods is the mythological era, which is when gods were still walking on the earth. At that time, there were gods, and there were various mythological life forms, 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 Age of Gods, when I entered the Castlevania region, the Age of Gods 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, as a future person, said, "It's also very strange to infer from time. You are a member of the Papal Court, right? The Papal Court 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 a mythological era really existed, it would mean that the extraordinary was far earlier than technology. This forbidden canon is completely reversing cause and effect!"

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 isn't what I said; it's what God said, because the forbidden canon directly describes the two words 'God said,' proving that this is God's original words."

Yi Shanjiu said thoughtfully, "Just like 'Thus have I heard' in Buddhist scriptures? If there are these four words, it proves that this is the original words spoken by the Buddha... Has the God of the Papal Court appeared 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 sentient life's cognition of chaos. 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. Some believed, some didn't, and some were discussing. And Wu Pifu was still thinking about the connection between the Singularity Technology mentioned by the priest and the Singularity Technology he knew.

After another while, 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 okay to have no power. If a few more selfish extraordinary beings 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 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? That way we can temporarily return to our era and world."

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Wu Pifu asked Daphne, not knowing why.

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 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 inside Castlevania. As long as you enter it and kill the chaos monsters inside, you can gain strength. The more you kill, the stronger the strength you gain. Even if it's a mortal, as long as you dare to fight, you can become an extraordinary being in Castlevania. And once you become an extraordinary being, you have power, wealth, strength, immortality, etc."

Wu Pifu was stunned and murmured, "So it's... experience points? As long as you grind monsters, you can gain experience points? Are there drops?"

Yi Shanjiu laughed loudly on the side, "Yeah, experience points. I felt the same way at the time. This Castlevania is just too much like a holy land for grinding monsters."

Daphne gave a huff of annoyance, 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. This is a Chaos Treasure, also known as a Fantasy Creation. It is either a weapon, or armor, or a strange object. Each one possesses special attributes or powerful attack and defense attributes, and each one is worth a fortune."

It really is a holy land for grinding monsters? Thinking about it this way, what shield openers, various miraculous shields, what infinite vacuum blades...

As Wu Pifu was thinking, he suddenly asked vigilantly, "Since Castlevania is such a good place, where you can gain extraordinary power, gain fantasy objects, and find return nodes, why are they all unwilling 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 a 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 the Chaos City is the entrance to the Demon Realm's chaos. Everything inside is chaotic, and all return nodes will move randomly. And once you stay inside for too long, what awaits you is..."

"Depravity, decay, distortion. In the end, you will become one of the countless monsters in Castlevania, wandering in it forever and ever, never to be liberated."