Chapter 342: Distinguishing the Tree of Good and Evil?

Spirits' abilities vary widely and are numerous.

But their common trait is that they all appear as young women; no matter how the years pass, they always retain the appearance and figure of youthful maidens.

Moreover, these lively existences all possess unparalleled powerful force without exception.

And "Astral Dress" and "Angel" are the absolute shield and strongest spear they wield.

The so-called Astral Dress is naturally the Spirit's attire; as a symbol of their Spirit identity, composed of Spirit Power, whenever they manifest in the world in Spirit form, the Astral Dress follows them like a shadow...

That is to say—

An example like a Magical Girl transformation.

A signature uniform containing incredible magic and aesthetics.

Like glowing Ribbons, light Membranes blooming with incredible radiance, short skirts unfurling like blossoming flowers... and so on and so forth.

As for Angels, they are undoubtedly "miracles with form," and existences that best symbolize the nature and direction of the power a Spirit wields.

Just like the Angel manifested by Kurumi Tokisaki—the Angel of Time "Zafkiel."

It is a giant clock over twice her height, its long and short hands transformed into a flintlock rifle and a pistol, as if time were Materialized and solidified in Reality.

And when the power of "Zafkiel" is activated, shadows are injected into the gun muzzle from the numbers on the clock, and then striking the target produces an effect...

This is plain as day; even someone meeting her for the first time can guess a thing or two about her ability based on this obvious symbolism.

As for other Spirits' Angels, it is naturally the same.

Although they may not be as intuitive as the image of a clock, one can still glimpse a thing or two from various details.

For example...

—The Angel of Natsumi.

As the second Spirit confirmed in the World, she has lived until now, naturally she is a... well, a useless old thing.

Her Achievements can be checked.

Indeed Shameful.

The Angel manifested by Natsumi is the Angel of the Book "Ratziel."

It is that huge book resembling a Bible, bearing a cross; its ability is the omniscient ability to acquire Intelligence.

The Angel itself has two special "pages"—

Including the Intelligence Retrieval Page, and the Blank Page.

Anything other than the future, things happening from now on, who is doing what, and so on and so forth, whatever Intelligence one wants, can be learned on the Intelligence Retrieval Page.

And the Blank Page is like the Positioning of a future diary, except... it is that kind of subjective use.

Simply by writing with the pen worn on the Astral Dress on the Angel's Blank Page, one can turn what is written into a "Future Record" of Reality.

To be frank—

Such an Angel, such an ability, is indeed Intelligence-specialized rather than Combat-specialized.

So Natsumi being a bit weak is understandable.

However, wielding such Intelligence ability, yet still being caught by DEM Company and imprisoned for five years, that is a bit hard to explain...

Even according to the original Fate/Trajectory, this Spirit was eventually driven to Reversal.

The Angel of the Book also became the Devil of the Book—

That is, that huge pitch-black book...

Its ability is similar, but it can automatically record Intelligence onto the book, with recording speed greatly increased.

It can also Materialize existences recorded in the book, and convey known facts to others through Imagination.

There is also the ability to wrap up attacks and neutralize attacks...

It can also create paper doll girls using Quantity as weapons...

—This is very crucial, especially that last ability, always giving people the feeling that it might be able to conquer the World.

—After all, mastering paper dolls means mastering the future; Humans with fish lips cannot resist this power, they can only obediently offer their wallets and Belief, and be slaughtered at will.

However, even this Devil's power...

Was eventually taken away by someone.

DEM Company's founder, Isaac Ray Peram Westcott, obtained Natsumi's Reversal Crystal and fused it into his body, thus being able to use the ability of "Beelzebub."

This was the Trajectory of the originally established World Line.

If no accident, no Variable interference, everything would lead to that established Road.

However, Fate always likes to joke with people; accidents arrive Quietly, and Variables also Appear.

The entire World, under the interference of the Great Will and Brutal Force, began to deviate from its original Orbit, racing toward another unpredictable Direction.

No matter how atrocious DEM Company was, covering the sky with one hand, fully demonstrating the corruption and inherent flaws of capital...

It still could not withstand someone striking straight at the Yellow Dragon, directly killing its way to the Headquarters, uprooting the entire headquarters and sweeping it clean!

For this, not hesitating to bury the capital of an old strong nation with it, almost flattening more than half of the metropolitan area...

And completely cutting off the last lifeline of that old strong nation clinging to its last breath...

Similarly having its lifeline cut off was Isaac Ray Peram Westcott. The venture failed midway; this ambitious ambitious man naturally could no longer tread that original Road.

However, this ambitious man's idea was still not bad.

In Immortal Dao cultivation, killing and seizing treasures is an indispensable link that must be savored.

After killing the opponent, naturally all valuable Loot must be Taken Away; Xia Zhi also implemented this well, fully embodying a Cultivator's self-cultivation.

The book treasure he refined, its original Vessel embryo, was a Possibility conceived from the future of that Timeline he destroyed...

Correct.

It was not taking Natsumi's Angel power, nor Taking Away her Spirit Crystal or anything.

He merely extracted that Concept from the original Fate/Trajectory, now an "if" Timeline.

This process isn't complex.

Even a Golden Core Cultivator cannot yet perform the operation of Pruning Events to "harvest" parallel world groups.

After all, that is a spontaneous operation of the universe itself, a kind of unconscious directionality that keeps itself stable across the present, past, and future.

However, simply observing another "if" World Line and extracting Intelligence from it is not difficult.

Rather, this is actually the most basic performance of a Great Dao Golden Core.

Observing and calculating the constantly branching "Fate" by the second, even if he doesn't deliberately do anything himself—

he basically observes all Parallel Spacetimes completely every single minute and second, recording countless "ifs".

And once that possibility is obtained, the rest becomes even simpler.

Relying on extremely profound Magecraft Mastery, rich experience accumulated in the world of magecraft regarding Conceptual Dresses, and a deep understanding of Noble Phantasms—materialized miracles built on the skeleton of fantasy—

he converted all these precious experiences and insights into corresponding immortal-path Artifact Refining methods, for the Artifact Refining Technician.

Finally, he refined such a mottled book volume.

Basically inheriting all the abilities of "Ratziel" and "Beelzebub".

And not only without any weakening, but also received a huge enhancement.

Even if the original were brought to the Scene to observe, she probably wouldn't have any suspicion, thinking this is a clumsy imitation of her own abilities.

Because that is clearly a Superior Alternative to her own power; it's more likely to say her power comes from simulating this book volume.

"Every moment, automatically recording and aggregating Intelligence on this planet……"

"Based on the history of the Victor of correct choice and correct Prosperity, maintaining the Grand Order……"

"The future written on blank pages, if there are no Paradoxes and contradictions beyond Cognition, then it will inevitably Arrive, inevitably happen……"

The young Daoist sat cross-legged on the High-Dimensional Dao Platform, his fingertips gently brushing the yellowed pages of the book, strange light flickering faintly in his pupils.

He could see the law Ripples emitted by the book in the Void.

Like an invisible net, closely connecting the past and the future.

This thing can almost replace the Quantum Recording Fixed Belt……limited to the Earth level, equivalent to building a local area network to play by himself.

——It cannot change history, only maintain history from being easily influenced.

——It cannot interfere with the present, only retrieve the vast Data Stream of the present.

——But, it excels at weaving Fate about the future, materializing the Existences recorded in the book.

And as long as it can be successfully activated, probably only a Spirit of the strength of the Bad Woman could barely Perceive that future events were being manipulated.

Only Xia Zhi himself felt somewhat conflicted, thinking he was merely a "Golden Core Stage" cultivator, and the artifact refined might not even reach the rank of a "Magic Tool".

At most just a "Magic Tool".

However, in fact, if the standards were relaxed a bit, this was outright an Immortal Artifact.

"Perhaps it can be further enhanced……"

The Daoist reached out and lightly flicked his finger, and a yellowed page from the book instantly flew out.

On the blank page, densely packed words instantly formed, but in a flash, they disappeared in an instant.

It wasn't the words that disappeared, but the page itself.

Scattering into countless light particles, they instantly Roared into a torrent in the Void; as far as the eye could see, it was filled with Endless light.

Nothing—

Unlimited—

Unlimited Light—

That was an Endless Ocean of light.

And also a Giant Tree composed of Endless light.

Only within the Vision of a Higher Dimension could one see this inverted Giant Tree, taking the sky as its root and growing downward.

Like a Projection of a Higher Dimension, covering the entire Earth, the entire World.

"Four Worlds, Ten Sephirot……"

The young Daoist observed calmly, while also casting a glance at other Time Planes.

The existence of the Ten Spirits and their Angels seemed to have a one-to-one Corresponding Relationship with the Ten Great Particles of the Kabbalah Tree of Life and their guardian Angels.

And if they were Reversed, then all these Corresponding Relationships would become the Ten Qliphoth and the Representative Demons on the Reverse Kabbalah Evil Tree.

This seems to be simply a Coincidence.

Yes.

Xia Zhi carefully retrieved once, even tracing back from the 4.6 billion years of Earth's formation all the way to the future thousands or tens of thousands of years after the Planet.

Discovering this really seems to be just a Coincidence; in terms of event nature, it also feels more like shooting an arrow first and then drawing the target.

Just that in Mystery, there is a general principle.

Symbolic Meaning is greater than actual Meaning, whether in academia or religious forms.

The Golden Core Cultivator relaxed slightly, and also very pragmatically began thinking about how to utilize this symbolic system tree.

At first, he also subconsciously thought, like refining the "Book of Ages", by using the other Spirits as Mediums, and then refining nine Treasures.

If counting the Bad Woman, perhaps one more could be added.

Having ten or eleven such Treasures, relying on the Kabbalah Tree Formation Diagram to interconnect, Resonate, and empower each other, undoubtedly could be amplified to an extremely powerful level.

This is the most direct line of thought.

But soon, he thought of another Possibility.

"The process by which Humans fall from the Perfect Man Realm is called the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, because after eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, they were expelled from Eden Garden by God and lost eternal life……"

"And when Humans achieve Realization, wanting to recover the Perfect Man Realm, the path of reverse improvement is the Kabbalah Tree of Life……"

Xia Zhi whispered softly, the light of a Divine Spark briefly surging in his pupils.

He thought of a Spell.

It was a Spell model he had previously found extremely baffling, and also extremely wondrous.

It was likewise very Foundation, not some high-level Spell, Legendary Spell, or anything like that.

Mors However... objectively speaking, the effect was extremely bugged.

Its name was "Detect Evil".

And now, he was seriously considering whether to try fusing this purest Spell model into that System Tree.

Just like the Ancient Serpent's prophecy——

"Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil".

(Chapter End)