Thinking of this, Qi Ji couldn't help but feel a headache.
If the church ruled by the "First Creator" was a powerful and large-scale evil organization, it would be easier to deal with.
Just airdrop into their base camp and fight your way up to the throne from the entrance to the Kingdom of God in the cathedral.
The only difficulty is that it requires overwhelming strength, and problems that can be solved by pure brute force are not a big problem - at least for Qi Ji.
Although the plan of breaking the whole into pieces like the "First Creator" makes the power of a single organization very weak, it also makes its overall vitality extremely tenacious, making it difficult to completely eradicate it.
After all, even if Qi Ji could easily destroy the "New World" sect, there are still a lot of "Old World" sects, "New Hope" sects, and "Almighty God" sects among the people...
We can't kill them all, can we?
There are so many folk beliefs, and there must be many innocent people. She would rather kill a thousand people by mistake than let one go. She can't do such a thing.
Therefore, they have to be identified one by one, and only after confirming that they believe in the "First Creator" can they be eradicated - this will take a considerable amount of time and energy.
By the time she had finally destroyed one, the "First Creator" might have already developed and cultivated ten more organizations among the people, and there would be no end to it.
——For a mythical being that truly possesses divinity, it is too easy to establish faith in the secular world. Just think about how many so-called "leaders" on the earth who are only good at talking can fool a large number of ordinary people and even the powerful into believing in them!
"Although this guy's methods may be weak in terms of power, he is indeed good at disgusting people..."
No one knows what his purpose is. He split the forces under his command into small scattered organizations. Their vitality has been strengthened, but their cohesion and overall strength have become extremely weak.
What good is this? Is He just trying to survive? But if He really just wanted to survive, He should have kept a low profile and shouldn't have founded any church at all.
It’s really confusing…
Although she currently has no intention of targeting the "First Creator" and destroying Him, she always has a premonition in her heart that sooner or later she will have to face this mysterious evil god one day in the future.
Thinking about these issues in advance is a way to prepare for a rainy day.
"Well, even if there is no way to find him out directly for the time being, it's always a good idea to leave a 'back door'."
She suddenly thought of a way, so she looked at Fasti's shadow and asked:
"How many fourth-level transcendents are there in your organization?"
According to Roman, there is no demigod-level combat power in the "New World" sect, so "saints" or "metallurgists" are their top-level power.
"Besides... me and the traitorous 'Saint of Deconstruction' Romon... my lord has at least three 'high priests' under his command... They are... 'Saint of Calamity' Newins, 'Saint of Madness' Saliga, and 'Saint of Darkness' Dabi..."
Perhaps because it involved confidential information within the organization, Fasti's tone of explanation became very slow and awkward, and his expression was also tangled, as if he was having some psychological struggle:
"They... are all legendary masters in the Chaos realm, responsible for receiving my Lord's oracles and shepherding the entire church..."
After listening to Fasti's confession, Qi Ji was somewhat curious about how the "First Creator" bestowed these priests with the power of the "Chaos" realm. Isn't He a god from the "Moon" realm?
Putting aside this currently unanswerable question for the time being, she nodded, asked a few more detailed questions, and then ended the maintenance of the "Fourth Authority·Distant Star" in her hand, allowing Fasti's floating shadow to dissipate.
"Although I don't have a good impression of this cult leader, at the moment, it is more valuable to let him live than to kill him directly."
Thinking slightly dissatisfied, Qi Ji raised his right hand and snapped his fingers crisply.
"Snapped!"
With a sharp and crisp sound, a small indigo light emerged from her fingertips and fell towards Fasti's head along a smooth and round trajectory.
As soon as it touched his body, the small spot of light merged into it and disappeared completely.
But it did not disappear. As the indigo light merged into Fasti's head, Qi Ji felt a "window" suddenly appear in his heart.
Through this illusory "window", she could directly see all kinds of thoughts in Fasti's mind - of course, since this guy was currently in a completely unconscious and severe coma, he could not see anything, only darkness.
"OK, now the 'chess piece' is set up."
Qi Ji's lips corners slightly raised, eyebrows curved, and he whispered with a smile.
That small indigo dot of light could be considered one of her masterpieces, embodying her highest level of understanding and application of spiritual magic.
The function is actually very simple, which is to implant a "Trojan horse" in the mind and spirit of the target, which can not only spy on all its thoughts and perceptions at any time, but also affect it in turn.
As long as the method is appropriate, one can even make the target act completely according to one's will without anyone noticing, and the target is completely unaware and thinks that these are all his own thoughts.
As for outsiders, there is no chance of them noticing anything unusual.
Qi Ji spent a lot of energy on "hiding traces". He believed that even the most meticulous and mysterious inspection would not be able to find any traces of the "Trojan horse".
This is much more advanced than a living puppet.
In this way, Fasti, a high-ranking member of the "New World" sect, became a pawn for Qi Ji to infiltrate the organization under the command of the "First Creator".
Although it may not be of much use at present, if there are enough chess pieces infiltrating the First Creator organization...
Perhaps, at a certain moment, incredible subversive power can be gathered.
After that, Qi Ji used mental magic to modify Fasti's memory.
This is a delicate job, and we cannot simply delete all the parts about Fasti in his memory and call it a day.
He also had to fabricate sufficiently reasonable memories to fill the gaps, otherwise when Fass reminded him, both he and other senior executives in the organization would easily notice the abnormality.
After a full ten minutes, the spiritual fluctuations released from Qi Ji's hands and enveloped Fasti gradually subsided.
"It's done."
Qi Ji put his hands on his hips and looked down at the "masterpiece" in front of him with confidence.
Although on the outside, Fasti did not change at all and was still sleeping intact.
But in his subjective consciousness, the reason for the failure of his action to liquidate Roman was not because Qi Ji suddenly intervened, but because legendary powerful men such as the "Iron-Blood Knight" and the "Shield of the Empire" joined forces to defeat him.
As for how he survived and escaped from those strong men...
At the last moment, he took advantage of the omissions caused by the lack of close cooperation and mutual constraints among many powerful people, and before the arrival of the apostle "Xiaguang" of the Setting Sun Spiritual Cultivation Association, he broke through the space in time, escaped into the great secret realm, and slipped away in an extremely thrilling way.
The specific details were perfected in the seventh season quite reasonably, without any illogical or awkward places. In short, Fasti would definitely not be able to find anything wrong.
"Everything is ready. Now we just need to throw him back to the Great Secret Realm and then wake him up."
Wiping the non-existent beads of sweat from his smooth forehead, Qi Ji waved his hand, and an invisible force lifted Fasti's body and threw him directly out of the window of the tree house.
“Snap!”
At the same time, vertical cracks appeared in the space outside the window, and Fasti was engulfed by the dirty and blasphemous colors and the strange and restless outlines of the secret realm.
As the cracks healed quickly, everything returned to normal.
Chapter 385 Memory
"Xiaoyao, are you... done?"
Seeing Qi Ji suddenly throw the strange man out, Donna asked in confusion.
She was basically in a state of confusion. Xiaoyao asked the man's phantom many questions, which seemed to reveal a lot of information. Donna felt that she seemed to understand some of it, but she also felt that she didn't understand anything.
But there was one thing she heard clearly and understood exactly what it meant:
"They...they want to assassinate His Majesty the Emperor?!"
Qi Ji looked at the little guy who was a little angry about the news with some helplessness, and said in a relaxed tone:
"They did intend to do so, and they did it just a few minutes ago."
Suddenly, the expression on Donna's face became extremely strange, turning pale and blue, and the intense shock and fear almost overflowed from her eyes.
"Okay, okay, don't worry."
Seeing that she was about to faint from fear, Qi Ji stopped teasing her and hurriedly explained with a wry smile:
"These guys didn't succeed. The specific circumstances... well, it's a bit complicated, but anyway, your emperor is fine now, and apart from those assassins, there are basically no other casualties."
Hearing this safe and happy result, Donna breathed a sigh of relief. She patted her thin chest with one hand, and said in a half-blaming and half-joking voice:
"Canyang... Xiaoyao, please stop breathing so hard when you talk. You really scared me to death just now..."
"Hey, why do you care so much about the emperor's life or death?"
Qi Ji looked at her expression and suddenly realized something strange:
"And your reaction to Candice's disappearance was a bit exaggerated, wasn't it? Could it be that you have some connection with the royal family?"
The reason why Qi Ji felt confused was that he felt that Donna seemed to be too concerned about the safety of the royal family.
Although Donna is a native of Twilight City and although she does not come from a wealthy family, she is not one of the poorest people either. It is normal for her to have a certain liking for the country's rulers.
After all, in a country, those who have the most trust in the ability of the ruling class and the country's laws, systems, and institutions are generally the middle class who are neither high nor low, neither wealthy nor poor.
Donna's father is a small businessman who owns his own small shop in Midtown. Although he works hard from dawn to dusk, his annual income is roughly around two hundred ells, which perfectly meets the above criteria.
But even so, Donna's attention to the royal family...seems a little unusual.
When she heard the news of the emperor's assassination and discovered that Candice had suddenly disappeared last time, the excitement she showed... was not like abstract sympathy and concern, but a real emotion directed at a specific person.
The former is like the sadness that a kind-hearted person naturally expresses when hearing that a major disaster has occurred in a certain area and there have been tragic casualties. The latter is the heart-wrenching sorrow when a loved one passes away.
The two are completely different, and Qi Ji can tell them apart at a glance.
"Uh, this..."
Hearing Qi Ji's question, Donna became a little embarrassed for some reason. She looked away slightly evasively, scratched her cheek restlessly with one finger, and spoke hesitantly:
"It's nothing. I'm just concerned about His Majesty's safety. He is a wise and courageous leader! Uh..."
Qi Ji had a smile on his face and kept looking at Donna with an intriguing look, which made her very uncomfortable.
So, after a brief but extremely awkward silence, her expression suddenly changed, she forced out a smile and said loudly:
"Oh, by the way, I have activities this afternoon! It's getting late now, I have to hurry back to school to prepare..."
I'm still thinking about your activity. Now the school's top management is in a mess because of Fasti's "secret projection" attack on Roman. All academic competition activities have been urgently stopped!
However, Qi Ji was not in a hurry to expose her excuse. He just shrugged with a smile, waved his hand, and opened a portal on the wall of the library that led to somewhere in the Imperial National University:
"On your own."
"Thank you, Xiaoyao. I'm leaving now!"
As soon as the portal appeared, Donna rushed in as if she was escaping, and she looked so anxious.
When you go out, the first thing you’ll see when you look up will probably be a sky full of military airships… I hope you don’t get scared.
After closing the portal, Qi Ji reached out his hand and grabbed something from the storage subspace, muttering to himself:
"It seems that Donna also has some stories..."
Spreading out her palms, she saw that what she had taken out from the storage subspace was a soft purple-black thread emitting bright starlight, which was sealed by a thin but extremely thorough and tight seal.
This was the hair she had just secretly pulled from the Star Girl.
She didn't want to take it out so quickly, but for some reason, as soon as she got this thing in her hand, even though there was a seal that was so sophisticated that even a demigod couldn't penetrate or break it, she inexplicably felt a sense of familiarity.
And as time went on, this sense of familiarity grew stronger and stronger, almost to the point of being restless.
It was as if... something that could transcend distance and space was calling out to me through this tiny strand of hair.
This feeling was very strange and made Qi Ji feel that it was not normal, so she decided to take it out and study it as soon as possible.
With a thought, she set up new isolation seals around the tree house and the edge of this small subspace to prevent accidents. She tightened her fingers slightly and rubbed the dark purple and almost black hair vigorously to remove the seal on its surface.
"brush--"
At the moment the seal was lifted, a surge of vast, deep and distant mysterious power burst out from the hair.
In an instant, the interior of the small tree house was dyed dark purple by light from no source.
All surfaces, whether the floor, ceiling, walls or furniture, are covered with a layer of brilliant starlight, flowing quietly and distantly.
These gorgeous colors seeped out from the windows and gaps in the walls and entered the small subspace outside the tree house, instantly making the pitch-black space become extremely colorful.
If Qi Ji had not set up multiple layers of sealing barriers in advance to isolate it, this subtle but unpredictable and beautiful picture would probably have continued to expand and spread, and even affected the real world.
"This is... Tsk, I see."
Surrounded by the dreamy, abstract, unreal and fairy-tale-like colorful world, Qi Ji pursed her rosy lips and understood something.
She knew where that familiar feeling came from.
It is precisely from the "dreamlike color" hidden in the hair of the starry girl!
This thing was not unfamiliar to her at all, or rather, she was familiar with it to a very deep degree——
is divinity.
It is the ash of connection.
