Fang Zheng certainly knew why Shi Dong asked this question.
In fact, on the first day he came here, after summoning the angel due to the effect of breaking through the air, Shi Dong and the old bishop had asked Fang Zheng if he had received the protection of the Holy Spirit. Fang Zheng neither admitted nor denied it, he just pretended to know nothing about it - and in fact, this was indeed not information that an ordinary person could know. Fang Zheng only found some clues about the information about the Holy Spirit's protection in the materials after entering the temple.
In the not too distant past, there was a group of people on this continent. They were all born with or acquired the protection of the Holy Spirit Angels for some reason. These Holy Spirit Angels would protect their lives and pass on the knowledge and power of the angels to them.
People see it as a gift from the Holy Spirit.
In the temple, these people are regarded as messengers of the goddess of order on earth. They will use this power to eliminate chaos, maintain order and fight evil.
The Holy Spirit Knights used to be the celebrities of the Temple, and each of them was a widely loved hero.
But as the saying goes, the tallest tree in the forest will be destroyed by the wind.
The Knights of the Holy Spirit also attracted the attention of Chaos Monsters and Cultists. The demons coveted the power of the angels, while the Cultists hoped to destroy the cornerstone of order. In the end, with the combined efforts of both sides, the disaster occurred.
They incited the people, and organized those clergymen in the temple who were dissatisfied with the excessive power of the Holy Knights to suppress them. They even lured several young Holy Knights to fall, and together with their guardian angels, they fell into the minions of Chaos. At the same time, they used this as an excuse to investigate the Holy Knights.
At first, the Holy Knights were able to accept this kind of investigation, but soon, the people in the Temple became more and more aggressive. Perhaps it was difficult to see the Holy Knights who had always been high and mighty being so "docile", so the actions of those in power in the Temple became more radical. They could even make up a reason and take the Holy Knights away for investigation. In the end, some of them even tried to torture the Holy Knights into confessing that they were cultists.
As time went by, the differences between the two sides grew larger and larger. The Holy Knights had had enough of being treated as heretics, while the powerful people in the Temple relied on the support of the Temple and became more and more unscrupulous. The conflict between the two sides gradually escalated, which also made the Supreme Bishop at the time feel uneasy. He tried to order to stop the spread of this trend and wanted to start reducing the intensity of censorship.
But what the Supreme Bishop did not expect was that his order became the last straw that broke the camel's back.
When the bishops below learned that the Supreme Bishop intended to end the investigation, they were unwilling to stop there. In order to completely suppress the Knights of the Holy Spirit, the bishops who were blinded by desire and power made a crazy decision. They accused Antonio, the leader of the Knights of the Holy Spirit, of being a cultist on the spot, and imprisoned his wife and children, torturing them in order to obtain so-called "evidence" to force Antonio to confess.
But Antonio would not surrender so easily, he led his men directly into the Supreme Court, trying to rescue his wife and children. Unfortunately, Antonio was a step too late, and when he arrived, all he saw were the bodies of his wife and children.
Antonio was filled with grief and indignation and was extremely angry. He announced in public that he was breaking with the Temple and at the same time, in the name of the Knights of the Holy Spirit, he declared war on the entire Temple!
It was an extremely dark time. The Holy Knights who were supposed to maintain order raised their blades and attacked the Temple. The Temple was defeated by the Holy Knights. They tried to stop it, but the situation was over. The Holy Knights were also human, not saints. During the previous review, most of them had already been full of anger. How could they just nod and admit their mistakes?
Not to mention, at this moment the Holy Spirit Knights are not just dissatisfied with the censorship. They have begun to suspect that the Temple has deviated from the guidance of the Goddess and succumbed to worldly desires and power.
Things have now developed into more than just a dispute of wills, but a dispute of ideas. The negotiations between the two sides eventually broke down, and Antonio led the Knights of the Holy Spirit to attack the Supreme Temple, trying to completely end the rule of the temple.
However, in front of the gate of the Supreme Temple, the Holy Spirit Knights finally encountered an obstacle - the protection of the Goddess surrounded the Supreme Temple, and they could not move forward a single step.
The cardinals at that time were also out of their minds. They felt that they had the protection of the goddess and these Holy Spirit Knights could not do anything to them, so they immediately started to mock them and even stated in public that the killing of Antonio's wife and children was the will of the goddess and they were just acting according to the goddess's will!
The effect of a bad teammate is the same in any era and any place. Antonio, who was extremely angry at the provocation of the Cardinals, finally made a decision that shocked everyone.
He and his Holy Spirit chose to degenerate into Chaos Lords in full view of everyone, and then slashed through the Goddess's protection with a sword, completely wiping out the College of Cardinals.
After this, Antonio only left one sentence: "If this is the case, then there is no meaning in the existence of this world", and turned away with the Holy Spirit who fell with him.
After that, the Knights of the Holy Spirit split into two groups. One group resolutely chose to fall and followed Antonio to the Twilight Border. The other group of Knights of the Holy Spirit chose to leave the Temple forever and never meet them again.
After the internal strife and the departure of the Holy Knights, the Temple was seriously injured. At this moment, the cultists and Chaos Demons began to stir and launched a crazy attack on this continent. Without the Holy Knights, the power of the Temple was weakened a lot. In the end, although they still successfully expelled the demons and cultists and once again ensured the existence of order, they were also seriously injured and have not recovered until now.
Not to mention, after that, there were very few people protected by the Holy Spirit on the continent. Inside the temple, there was also a vague saying that the goddess was disappointed with the temple's practices, so she no longer sent her messengers to this world. Only when the temple realized its mistakes could it be forgiven by the goddess.
This is why the old bishop wanted to report to the Central Bishops' Conference as soon as he saw the guardian angel behind Fang Zheng.
However, Shi Dong was obviously not interested in this. He was more curious about how Fang Zheng became so powerful after just one night. Could this be the result of the Holy Spirit inheritance? After all, that happened many years ago. Nowadays, the information about Holy Spirit Knights is very rare. It is either destroyed or blocked. Ordinary people can't see it at all, even if he is a great knight. Therefore, Shi Dong is quite interested in Fang Zheng's "inheritance".
“I don’t know if this is some kind of inheritance.”
Just like before, Fang Zheng did not admit Shi Dong's guess. After learning about the history of the Holy Spirit Knight, he knew that this identity had advantages, but also many disadvantages. So he never admitted other people's guesses, but only chose to express his own thoughts.
"After I went back home last night, I was thinking about how to improve my sword skills. Then I discussed it with her, and then she made me have a dream..."
In response to Shi Dong's questioning, Fang Zheng did not hide anything too much. He just said that the system was the guardian angel summoned by him because of the Sky-Breaking Sword, and then told Shi Dong everything about his experience in the copy as if it were a dream.
The reason why Fang Zheng chose to speak out was not only to gain Shi Dong's trust, but also because he had already thought about it before coming here, so he would show his peculiarities without hesitation. Even if Shi Dong didn't ask, he would find an opportunity to ask Shi Dong for advice.
The reason is very simple, three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang!
Although Fang Zheng could indeed gain experience by fighting in that world, wouldn't it be faster if he could have the guidance of someone who had experienced it? Why not take the shortcut and take a detour instead?
And even if you can be resurrected, being hacked to death must be very painful!
He is not a masochist who would feel comfortable only after being hacked to death.
"There is actually such a world..."
After listening to Fang Zheng's description, Shi Dong couldn't help but marvel. He had more experience, so he immediately understood how desperate the world Fang Zheng described was. A world that can only survive by burning flames, when the flames go out, everything will face death... Just thinking about it, Shi Dong can feel the sadness of that world.
But fortunately, it was just a dream.
“Hahaha, luckily that was a dream. Otherwise, with your skills and not being allowed to use your strength, you would have died a hundred times over just relying on your sword skills to fight those enemies.”
Hearing Shi Dong's answer with a laugh, Fang Zheng rolled his eyes helplessly, but he had nothing to say, because he had indeed died a hundred or eighty times!
Maybe even more.
"Well... But it's not that there is no solution at all. Judging from your previous fighting style, you have already mastered the trick, but the method is not quite right..."
However, Shi Dong did not disappoint Fang Zheng in the end. He just thought for a moment and then quickly began to give Fang Zheng some advice. As a great knight, Shi Dong had much more experience in this area than Fang Zheng, and Fang Zheng also listened carefully to his advice. After all, these were things that could not be bought. There was no exchange function in the system at present, and even if there was, Fang Zheng did not think that it could be exchanged for experience.
And now...I have such a mentor, isn't it for learning?