Chapter 397 416. [Heart]
——Boom!
Thunder roared, but it was not a punishment.
The moment Xu Zhi completed the [Heart] attribute circuit, the thunder power left in her body in Mansu echoed with the thunder in the sky. For a moment, the forest seemed to be dyed silver-white, but Xu Zhi did not feel the thunder falling on her.
As if it was just some kind of announcement, at the moment the thunder sounded, several eyes from the outside world looked towards the lost place, with inquiry, surprise and surprise.
They seemed to know what the thunder represented, and their expressions of loss when they looked at each other were not very good. Perhaps, the thunder was not good news for them.
But this thunder was indeed good news for Xu Zhi.
The moment the thunder struck, her [Heart] attribute circuit was completed.
In an instant, a new and unfamiliar supernatural energy began to flow in her body. Although this attribute seemed particularly weak compared to other supernatural attributes, it was the third supernatural attribute she possessed!
When the energy of the [heart] flowed through her body, for some reason, it caused the thunder that filled her body to continue to flow throughout her body along with the [heart] attribute energy. Xiaoju seemed to have sensed it as well, and followed this energy around to join in the fun.
For a moment, Xu Zhi felt that the place where the three streams passed was numb from the lightning strike and had a mild burning sensation, but it was quickly healed by her heart. It was a very strange feeling, as if her body had turned into a furnace and everything in her body was being continuously melted.
But the energy in his body would never harm him, so Xu Zhi did not intervene and let it flow around in his body like strolling in the street.
And when she completed the [Heart] attribute circuit, as she expected, her mental power increased again. Faintly, she seemed to "see" a regular existence in the sky without using the [Eye of Insight].
But it was only for a moment, and it was not very clear.
But even if she had never come into contact with rules before, it was already an extremely incredible thing that she could understand how to see the embodiment of rules at this time, not to mention that she had seen the rules a long time ago.
Only now, Xu Zhi had a hunch that perhaps she could successfully draw the regular fragments belonging to midnight in her mind.
However, this will have to wait until midnight before attempting again, and now she needs to continue hunting to improve her level.
Because she knew that carving the [Start] circuit would only be more difficult. She could barely complete the [Heart], but she would not be able to carve the fourth circuit smoothly with her current strength. She needed to be stronger.
As long as the [Start] circuit is completed, then including her clan and spiritual body, she will have eight attributes!
Today's thunder gave Xu Zhi a message. Maybe no one knew what she was doing, but [Glow] must have seen everything.
But since Lei Ming was not a punishment for her, then, wasn't it an affirmation?
Affirming the attempts she was making and the path she was taking, could she take this thunder as some kind of compliment?
Then when she really possesses the eight attributes, I wonder if she will receive any substantial rewards?
Xu Zhi had a nice idea and was ready to implement his plan seriously.
In the Lost Land, Xu Zhi's strength was not very strong if any attribute was taken alone, but her strength could not be viewed with such conventional means. What's more, there were several clansmen around her who were eyeing her covetously. This also resulted in any prey that Xu Zhi had set his eyes on having no chance of survival.
After replenishing her energy, Xu Zhi tried again to peek into the rules in the wooden sign, and this time, she no longer gained nothing.
She clearly saw the symbols representing the rules on the wooden sign.
In fact, this time she did not have the strong feeling of glimpsing a powerful and mysterious object that could not be looked at directly, as when she stared at the Midnight Rules. Although the feeling of disorder and illogicality still filled her mind, and she still saw it but could not understand it, she was able to observe carefully without being so shocked that her brain could not function too much.
"It seems there's still a big gap between these wooden signs and midnight."
She could still feel the majesty from the rules of the wooden sign, but that majesty was different from midnight.
If I had to say, it's probably the difference between the natural fear that ordinary people feel when they see the bottomless abyss and the unknown deep sea, and the fear that they feel when they see man-made weapons.
Both can make people feel scared, but the former is the ignorance and helplessness engraved in genes, while the latter can also make people feel dangerous, but you know that this danger is man-made, and it will lose a magnificent and mysterious veil.
The rules contained in the wooden sign are not simple, so the symbols that embody the rules appear dense and complex. Generally speaking, for extraordinary people who have not yet understood the rules, it is unlikely that they can remember so many rule symbols at once, but Xu Zhi has never been able to infer using common sense.
Just like when she had no idea about circuits, she was able to rely on experience and intuition to crack them. Now, without understanding the rules at all, she carefully memorized all the irregularly running symbols that appeared on the [Light] attribute wooden sign.
After she finished memorizing it, her brain felt a surge of pain, which was a sign of overusing the brain.
Obviously, having an additional [Heart] attribute circuit, even if this circuit is only at the understanding level now, is a huge improvement for Xu Zhi. At least, in terms of the stealth level, she has already reached another level.
Before she had the [Heart] attribute circuit, she couldn't even see through the rules on the wooden sign. But now, with just an extra circuit at the comprehension level, she can see through it directly and even memorize the complete rule symbols contained in a wooden sign.
Of course, one wooden sign is definitely not enough. Xu Zhi guessed that the rule symbols on each of the eight wooden signs are different, but they are interconnected. Only when the eight signs are connected together can they form the complete [rules] of the wooden signs.
However, it was useless to just see and remember the rules. She had to understand them first before she could try to control them.
But for this kind of thing, she had neither a teacher to guide her nor any books to refer to. She could only rely entirely on her own understanding, which made Xu Zhi a little confused.
So she simply ignored those things for the time being and left the exploration of the rules to her spirit body, while her main body began a hunting journey with an empty mind.
The spirit body that received the task also had a helpless look on its face. Since she was the [Lazy] Archbishop, she must be lazy. If possible, she really didn't want to do this kind of brain-consuming and labor-intensive work!
But although she is currently an "individual", she is still Xu Zhi in essence. No matter how lazy she is, she has to bite the bullet and analyze.
Sitting on the sofa in the dormitory living room, her spirit body was no longer covered by a cloak or hood. During this period of time, she had exposed her scarlet eyes and long hair that looked like flowing blood in front of Qi Yanxin. As time went by, her control over the power of the Archbishop became more precise day by day, so her appearance gradually became closer to that of the [Cup].
Fortunately, Qi Yanxin did not make a fuss about this. In fact, based on his observations over the past few days, Xu Zhi helplessly discovered that even after becoming a believer, Qi Yanxin's life had not changed at all.
She still gets up on time every morning, makes breakfast which is tasteless to believers, watches the morning news from outside, cleans the house in the morning, and maybe does some small handicrafts in the afternoon. She is neither crazy like other believers, nor does she seem to pursue strength and flesh and blood.
The invasion of [Cup] didn't seem to change anything in her. After observing her for these days, Xu Zhi was even more surprised to find that Qi Yanxin was a little too indifferent to the orders of [Cup].
She didn't even care about the situation in Liancheng and the outside world, and she never tried to contact any of her kind.
It was as if he had already made up his mind to die quietly in this dormitory.
This also resulted in the fact that even though the spiritual body and Qi Yanxin had lived under the same roof for some time, they still had not become proficient.
Xu Zhi sighed in her heart. Her spiritual body did not have the [Eye of Insight], so she could not see Qi Yanxin's current situation. However, based on the archbishop's perception of believers, she could only sense that there was nothing wrong with Qi Yanxin in the archbishop's perception.
But how can it be okay?
These days, the fog in Lotus City has begun to spread. Now, the entire Lotus City, no matter which layer, is immersed in the fog, and the four seasons that were once random have gathered together and erupted. Fortunately, only believers are left in the entire city. The [Season of Rampant Disease] is no longer a worry for believers, but the effect of the three seasons of [Rising Ambition], [Hidden Suspicion] and [Despair and Helplessness] superimposed on each other cannot be ignored.
If there were only ordinary extraordinary people in Liancheng, it would probably have become a hell on earth. People would be full of suspicion and distrust, violence would be the only means of communication, and even a glance could cause a tragedy. Fortunately, there are only believers in Liancheng now, and no matter how fierce the fights between believers are, it will not affect the overall situation.
Even the blood shed between believers' fights will only become fertilizer to nourish the circuit under their feet.
As for whether the believers will all fall into internal strife under the influence of the season and be defeated by the outside world?
That is of course impossible.
In fact, as time passed, the believers had gradually become accustomed to the feeling of extremely intense emotional outburst and gradually began to restrain themselves. Once they were able to control themselves a little, their brains, which had seemed to be rusty, no longer got stuck and began to work again.
As the archbishop, Linghu naturally saw this change.
In the short term, the number of believers in the city did decrease sharply due to internal strife, but in the long term, this resulted in a rapid improvement in the quality of believers.
Moreover, due to the outside world's siege of the [Cup], a large number of outside believers are still trying to come to Liancheng. The sharply reduced number of believers in the city has been replenished, and the number has even begun to far exceed the number originally converted in Liancheng.
As one thing grows, the other shrinks, and the result is that if the outside world does not withdraw from Lotus City soon, the quality and quantity of believers in the city will increase day by day.
If this continues, it will not be a good thing for the outside world. Unfortunately, they are not aware of this change.
If you don't step into the fog yourself and stay there for a while, you won't be able to experience the impact of the seasons on people firsthand.
Xu Zhi was still wondering why the outside world had not taken any action against Liancheng. If this continued, it would give Liancheng's believers time to develop, which might lead to a disaster.
Just as she was thinking this, suddenly, her spirit body felt a ripple in the air of Liancheng.
This is actually just a subtle feeling, an almost intuitive feeling, the induction between strong people and strong people, or the induction between extraordinary people and extraordinary people.
When a powerful extraordinary person arrives, the extraordinary factors in the air around her will become more active, and in the eyes of other powerful people, it is as if ripples are appearing in the air.
"Is someone coming?"
The only person who could make her feel this way is an agent.
But the believers in Liancheng did not move, which meant that the outside world did not come with an army, and the agent sneaked in on his own.
"It seems that the Agent can indeed pass through the circuit barrier, and none of these foolish believers have discovered it yet."
Xu Zhi said helplessly that the agent had arrived and she could no longer sit idly by.
To this day, she still didn't know what the god of the [Cup] was going to do with Lotus City, but seeing the familiar red light rising into the sky, she had a premonition. And based on the death rate of believers in recent days, she reasonably suspected that this huge ritual circuit was absorbing the flesh and souls of the believers after their death.
This is the same operation
"People in the real world don't know that the Cup likes to do this, right?"
Of course, there should be more than that. It is impossible to put all the eggs in one basket in Liancheng, let alone such a conspicuous basket.
"They're probably putting a dangerous shell on Lotus City, even going so far as to create something truly threatening at all costs, but their real goal doesn't seem to be in Lotus City."
This is not a trick, it is one of the options.
If the outside world really lets it go, Liancheng will become the source of crisis.
Now, she should go and find out what the agent who sneaked into Liancheng is doing.
Before leaving, Xu Zhi hesitated for a moment, then found Qi Yanxin and said, "I have something to do and need to go out for a while. I'm not sure when I'll be back."
As soon as she finished speaking, she realized that this sentence was a little too similar to what her original body said when she left. Before she had time to feel upset, she saw Qi Yanxin's dazed expression.
"Really?" she murmured, then quickly regained her composure: "It's okay, go ahead, don't worry about me. You should have seen that there's no danger here."
"Well anyway, I'll try to come back early."
After she finished speaking, she was about to leave to look for the agent when she heard someone knocking softly on the dormitory door.
Then, there was a young girl's voice.
"Hello? Is anyone in there?"
This was not the first time the door had been knocked. In other words, when the spirit body first moved in, there would often be believers looking for their own kind who would come to the door after seeing signs of human activity in the house, either to recruit them or to kill the people in the house for blood food.
But recently, few people come knocking on the door, because the believers living nearby have either died, left, or know that the people here are not easy to deal with.
Today, why did someone suddenly knock on the door? Xu Zhi knew the voice as soon as he heard it. It was a completely unfamiliar voice that he had never heard before.
(End of this chapter)
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