Chapter 373 The day of harvest has arrived
At the other end of the virtual world, the Pope of the Solipsi people was kneeling in front of the huge holy stone, praying devoutly before nightfall.
This is a tradition passed down from generation to generation by Solipsi people.
However, to be honest, he actually believed in the power of gold more than the illusory gods. After all, in his memory, the church had never used any mysterious power to accomplish anything, but it had accomplished many things with money.
Although legend has it that the huge stone in front of him once gave the ancestors living on this land a good harvest, but who has seen the true God with his own eyes?
Perhaps——
Perhaps the ancestors just got it wrong.
After all, the Solipsi people are very good at farming.
They have many hands and can operate different tools at the same time. They are smart enough to have invented many useful tools a long time ago.
As long as they work hard, they will be the richest creatures on this earth.
As for how they came into this world and who created them, to be honest... he actually didn't care that much.
Of course, deep down in his heart, he did not lack a desire - he wanted to see the Lord who only existed in legends.
Many prophets claimed to have seen Him, and even painted His appearance on the walls around the holy stone. It was a smooth face without tentacles, with two lonely eyes hanging on a pipe.
To be honest, he thought it was average, even though many theologians regarded it as a treasure and even claimed to have understood the true meaning of the universe from the star-like deep eyes of the true God!
But no matter what, if the Lord really exists, He may have a way to save the Solipsi people who are constantly sliding into the abyss of desire.
Their world is too narrow to feed their insatiable ambitions, and sadly, they cannot find a way out of this world.
Perhaps his piety was finally sensed by his "lord".
Just when his faith was about to completely fade into nothingness and he fell asleep during the long prayer, a majestic and unfamiliar voice suddenly sounded clearly in his mind -
"The time has come..."
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Because of fear, the tentacles all over his body tensed up instantly, twisting into a ball like a twist.
He looked around in panic, but could not see the source of the sound. But soon, the bone-deep fear was replaced by a burst of unparalleled ecstasy.
It is the voice of the Lord!
Their main god answered their prayers for the first time in five hundred years!
From the whisper in the dark, he vaguely heard a vague pronunciation, which seemed to be the name of the true god——
It seemed to be Colin?
"My Lord!" He burst into tears, and countless tentacles on his face were trembling violently, "You...you finally responded to your humble servant!"
What made him even more ecstatic was that this time, the sacred gaze did not close due to his call, but instead opened his eyes wide!
He could feel that the great will still resided on the holy stone, looking at his humble soul like dust with loving eyes!
He could even feel His heavy breath!
He took courage and tentatively asked the first question in his heart: "Colin... is this your name, my lord?"
The notes spit out from his mouth were converted into pure spiritual signals, and by virtue of the resonance effect of source power and source power, they were converted into frequencies that the magicians of the academy could understand.
This is a major groundbreaking research by the Yuanfa School——
Although they cannot understand the writing of people from other worlds, they can hear the whispers from the depths of their souls issued by some extremely inspired people!
In Corinth Tower, sensing the mental signals fed back through the magic circle, Luo Yan's lips curved into a pleasant smile.
Language does not seem to be a barrier to communication.
But it’s normal.
They were not communicating with sounds originally, but with some kind of power that was closer to the origin of the universe than extraordinary power——
That is the soul!
Through the magic circle, he delivered a concise and powerful response to the hot and beating soul.
Yes.
"I give you permission to call me by my real name."
After receiving the affirmative answer, the Pope's body trembled even more.
He immediately knelt on the ground, pressed all his tentacles tightly to the cold ground, and began to confess his sins.
"My lord, the supreme true God, the venerable Colin, please forgive the greed of your servant! As you can see, I amassed gold in your name, but please allow me to justify my sins, everything I did was not out of selfish desires!"
He paused for a moment and continued to confess without stopping.
“Everything I have done is due to the growing power of the church, which has been running like a wild horse in the endless wilderness. As the leader of the secular authority for you, I can only use these worldly wealth to satisfy the insatiable desires and ambitions of believers! I beg you to forgive me. My most pious Lord, please give guidance to your lost servant!"
Luo Yan did not ask him to do anything, nor did he make any judgment on his behavior. He just sent grace from the gods to his children like a kind and majestic father!
"I forgive your sins, and I will also give you great power over mortals, and you only need to do one thing for me."
The pope burst into tears of gratitude, and the viscous liquid wetted his robes along the tentacles, and spread a muddy swamp on the holy floor.
“What do you need me to do?”
Luo Yan said calmly.
“I don’t need anything, I just need you to write down an agreement about the future in the new covenant that is reborn from the ashes.”
He will not say what he wants.
He wanted them to guess.
Only in this way will they offer their most precious things in anxiety.
Hearing that the price of power does not need to be paid immediately, a trace of uncontrollable ecstasy appeared under the face covered with tentacles.
The Pope lowered his head and made a promise in an extremely pious voice.
“I do!”
He did not dare to disobey.
There is no reason to disobey.
Since the gods can bestow grace, they can also send down punishment.
He would also use the harshest language to write the teachings of the New Testament, and use the most vicious threats to force his descendants to fulfill the teachings.
Anyway——
That doesn't require him to pay.
The New Testament written by his own hand will become a new boulder, deeply engraved in the bones of every Solipsi!
After completing the contract, Luo Yan stopped talking to the Pope and turned his attention to Miller standing aside.
The young teaching assistant was stunned. He never thought that the virtual realm could be used in this way!
What made him even more unexpected was that the respected His Highness Colin was actually so skilled, and in just a few words, he was able to make people from other world willingly sacrifice everything!
Is this really his first time exploring the virtual realm? !
"Miller, we passed on the most basic concepts of source magic, about how to guide and release it, to our first 'prophet' through spiritual resonance."
Miller suddenly came back to his senses and nodded excitedly.
"Understood! Teacher! He is the one who wants to take what he wants, but must give it first, right?"
Luo Yan was stunned for a moment, then he thought that he had taught him this, so he said with a smile.
"That's right, go ahead."
Taff, who was lying on his shoulder, remained motionless, holding her breath and staring with her eyes wide open, as if she had not yet recovered from the shock in front of her.
She has also played the role of a god before, but she didn’t expect to be able to play like this.
"You... are such a devil." She whispered in Luo Yan's ear in dragon language, with a rare hint of fear in her voice.
If she had imagined that she could find her way home through the virtual realm before, now she was a little scared, and even couldn't help but pray in her heart that she must not let this guy find her hometown.
She has no doubt that those silly people with extremely high moral standards will definitely be fooled by this man who does everything possible!
Although the citizens of the Zeta Empire have extremely high moral standards, who doesn’t have selfish motives and desires in their heart that are difficult to express?
For example——
He promised to allow the Zetas to lay eggs.
Of course, she said this not because she thought it was a good thing, nor because she thought it was comfortable or exciting.
This is just an example!
"Thank you for the compliment."
Luo Yan smiled slightly and quietly waited for his assistants to operate.
Conversing with people from other worlds is not difficult for the magicians in the school. The difficulty is only in "how to establish an effective dialogue mechanism" and "what to say when communicating."
Coincidentally, this is what the top students of Demon King Academy are best at, and it is the professional counterpart for Luo Yan, who is an outstanding graduate.
The transfer of knowledge began quickly.
Or——
The whispers of the ancient god Colin have begun!
The magician in the hall first activated the source of power on the magic circle, causing the time flow rate of the two worlds to deviate.
This is the basic operation of virtual realm research.
Magicians of the Source Law School do not have to wait for the same story to be repeated day after day behind the virtual realm. Instead, they can actively drag the progress bar backwards to make the time on the other side faster compared to the universe outside the "event horizon".
Don’t be too fast.
Thirty times is enough.
Every night, Miller and other teaching assistants would repeatedly broadcast the jade sound in the head of the Solipsi Pope, instilling the magic theory about the source of power.
Although these techniques of using magic are so primitive in the eyes of Xue Bang, they are just right for the Solipsi people whose spiritual world is barren.
The same goes for Mr. Pope.
Although the whisper that reached deep into his soul tortured him to insomnia all night long, the feeling of enlightenment made him feel unparalleled physical and mental pleasure.
He can use magic!
At first he only rekindled extinguished candles, but gradually he was able to heal people's wounds and even curse his enemies with illness.
Since the world over there did not give birth to systematic magic theories and extraordinary beings cultivated by systematic theories, even some simple spells were enough to make this pious pope the absolute authority in his civilization.
He doesn't have to be very powerful.
Just a little bit stronger than ordinary people is enough.
There were no surprises——
With the blessing of divine power, he quickly became Colin's "Chosen One", and over time he learned the secret to harnessing extraordinary power.
Inspired by destiny, he went into the cities and countryside of the Solipsi people with evangelistic zeal, and promoted the grace of the true God Colin in the industrial areas lined with chimneys.
His words were like flames, easily igniting the desire in the hearts of the people for the blessings sent down by the true God of the past, and leading them to miss the days when the true God had favored them, and to miss the "good old days" when farmland and pastures had not been swallowed up by factories.
No matter whether the old days were really good or not, at least the current pain is visible to them with the naked eye.
Especially his "magic", which is an irrefutable miracle, causing countless believers to kneel at his feet, chanting his name and praying.
An organization called the "Holy Light Society", like a prairie fire, rose from the lowest workshops and the poorest alleys, and then swept into the magnificent streets.
A new flame is burning in the ashes!
Just when the Pope was doing his best to spread the gospel of the true God, Luo Yan, who was standing on the other side of the virtual realm, did not stop.
In order to quickly observe the long-term effects of this intervention, he continued to issue his second instruction to Miller and his team - to increase the output power of the magic array, deflect the timeline on both sides of the virtual realm channel to a greater extent, and further accelerate the flow of time behind the virtual realm!
Generally speaking, the time flow rate of thirty times is already very fast. In order to avoid missing important details and to prevent the precious communication time between the two worlds from being exhausted early, the magicians of Xuebang usually do not drag the "progress bar" of the virtual world at a higher speed.
The two worlds don’t always intersect in the void that is vaster than the universe. Maybe they happen to collide only once or twice in tens of millions of years when they look back.
No one knows how much progress is left for the two civilizations. Maybe if you miss it this time, you will never meet again.
However, Luo Yan is not worried at all, not only because he got this virtual realm for nothing, but also because he is confident enough in his research decision-making!
When the magicians of Xuebang study the virtual realm, their viewpoint is either on the windmill, on the rotten stone, or on the crown of a lord.
But he is different.
He planted the "perspective" of research directly into the souls of Solipsi people!
From the moment Colin’s name became the symbol of the ancient gods, he firmly captured the soul of this civilization!
As long as the Solipsi and their history do not disappear in the long river of time, they will definitely meet again in the future!
At most, it’s just another person.
Under Luo Yan's order, the entire research team devoted themselves to the work with unprecedented enthusiasm.
They continued to inject surging magic power into the magic circle, and the images in the virtual lens began to flow rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The alternation of the sun and the moon, and the reincarnation of the four seasons, seem to be compressed in a moment!
The speed of thirty times was accelerated to three hundred times!
They no longer focus on the trivial details, nor do they covet the seemingly tempting but useless tributes. Instead, they focus their energy on what is more worthy of concentration -
They want to play the role of the gods of creation!
Let the Solipsi who are already accelerating continue running at a faster speed!
The first year passed quickly, and the time came to the second year.
This torrent of pure faith has overflowed into the dilapidated and desolate streets and alleys, and has officially launched an attack on those greedy old priests!
The old rulers were shocked that their Pope had taken the lead in launching this massive change, but it was too late to stop him.
What's more, even the gods stood by his side this time, supporting him in issuing divine punishments for the order dominated by the Old Testament!
The temple built on gold and lies soon collapsed.
It was not destroyed by the roaring siege cannons, but by the believers who embraced the Holy Light and shouted for the truth.
The old priest class was overthrown, and the "Holy Light Society" naturally became the new ruler of the entire world.
They clarified the name of the ancient god who "sent miracles of fertility when the Solipsi were in distress, and divine punishment when they were arrogant", and rewrote new doctrines.
In the third year, a new order was completely established.
The Solipsi people created a new calendar, taking "the day of the miracle" as the first year of the new era.
The rune symbolizing "Colin" is branded on every new steam engine, hung on the lintel of every new factory, and engraved on the dome of every new temple.
The entire civilization began a new evolution around this great god and entered a new historical cycle.
From this beginning, the true god "Colin" is no longer just a religious symbol, but a cultural symbol that has been passed down forever.
· Also passed down together were the reformed "New Testament" doctrines.
The pope fulfilled his promise and wrote his commitment to the true God in the most prominent position in the New Testament and emphasized it three times.
At this moment, his mission was finally completed.
Perhaps he realized his destiny in this process. After completing everything, he quietly retreated behind the scenes with his disciples and returned the world to the world.
They have not disappeared.
It's just that he no longer appears in front of people as a ruler, but hides in the shadow of history as a mysterious researcher.
An organization called the "Shadow Association" was born.
The pope gradually realized that the whisper from the underworld was actually not a good thing, and his plot might be more terrifying than he imagined.
The price of the contract is likely to be something that his descendants cannot pay.
He is unable to resist His will, and the Solipsi people cannot afford to resist Him, but he can plant the seeds of resistance for future counterattacks at the moment the deal is completed.
The Pope who once thought, "I will take care of the flood after I die," ultimately did not leave everything to future generations who knew nothing about it.
He decided to spend the rest of his life doing this last thing -
Find out what the whisper in the dark is!
The world behind the virtual realm has undergone earth-shaking changes, but here in Osland, only three days have passed!
Just when Miller and his team were excited about this miraculous research progress and were about to record more data, an accident happened again——
The image of the virtual world that had always been extremely stable suddenly rippled violently like a lake rippled by the wind.
Everything was just like the accident a few days ago, the blue light blooming on the mirror disappeared into nothingness again.
The connection...was interrupted again.
But this time, no one was depressed, and no one was desperate. Instead, every face had an excited expression.
"Mentor!" Miller walked quickly to Colin and suggested excitedly, "This is definitely a groundbreaking discovery! We...we have found a way to stably interfere with and guide the evolution of civilization in the virtual territory! I suggest that you publish this result immediately in the "Sage Newspaper" within the academy! I bet that this result will definitely shock the entire Tower of the Great Sage!"
Luo Yan smiled and readily agreed to the proposal.
He patted Miller on the shoulder and said, "Very good, that's a good idea. As for the specific writing of the paper, I leave it to you, Miller."
Preaching, doing business and solving doubts can reap the power of faith, and of course he would not refuse such a thing.
This is not just to show off.
“Leave it to me?!” Miller was flattered and almost jumped with excitement.
He could almost predict that this paper, led by His Royal Highness and bearing his own name, would become the most important resume in his academic career!
Especially considering the academic results they are about to present, he has no doubt that this paper will be enough to make his future academic career smooth!
“That’s right, I’ve left it to you, are you confident that you can complete it?” Looking at Miller who was so excited that he forgot all about it, Luo Yan joked with a smile.
"Yes! It must be there!" Miller nodded excitedly and swore firmly, "I am willing to swear to Saint Sith! I will do my best to complete the task you gave me!"
Luo Yan nodded, expressing his understanding, and handed the matter over to him.
Hashmonically, as a supervisor, his name will be the first in the signature of the paper, and he does not need to worry about these trivial matters personally.
The smart people in Xuebang are best at these things.
The excitement passed, and Miller quickly asked his most curious question.
"By the way, mentor, you haven't told me yet, how did you give the Solipsi people a good harvest? I never thought that Yuanli could be used in this way. Your spells... seem to be more effective than the magic of the School of Life."
Hearing this, Luo Yan's expression changed slightly.
It is certainly impossible for him to explain the existence of the "godhead" and the fact that using the power of faith is as easy for him as breathing.
He pondered for a moment and answered in an enigmatic tone.
"This... I'm actually still in the exploratory stage. Once I figure out how to express it theoretically, I'll publish it. Is this important?"
"That's not true, it's not that important!"
Miller immediately shook his head like a rattle, fearing that His Highness would not publish the paper this time out of academic rigor.
His Royal Highness Colin may not care about the limelight, but he really needs this opportunity for progress!
After a pause, he said with a smile.
"Compared to this, our research results on the evolution of the virtual realm itself are amazing enough! I'm just worried that other professors will be curious about this. Writing it in the paper can save us the time of replying to letters one by one..."
"That's it, Then let them be curious first," Luo Yan smiled faintly and said casually, "I will talk about the use of source power after I have thought about it. You can just publish the research results on the evolution of the virtual realm first."
He paused and said his true purpose.
"Also, remember to put the name of my laboratory, the "Magical Science Laboratory", on the cooperating units of the paper. Can that be done?"
For the "scientific" school he had just founded, this was undoubtedly an excellent opportunity to stand out in front of the entire academic world.
Whether this has anything to do with science or not, if he says it does, then it must exist.
In any case, the final right of interpretation belongs to him alone.
How could Miller not understand his mentor’s intentions? He immediately nodded enthusiastically, with a smile as bright as the sun on his face.
"No problem! Just leave this little thing to me. Don't worry, I understand everything!"
(End of this chapter)