Daisy tilted her head and dry-heaved a few times. Before she could completely recover from the nausea, Mrs. Gary pounced on her and hugged her tightly in her arms.
"Are you okay!? Daisy, are you hurt?!"
With tears in her eyes, she lifted the hair behind her daughter's neck and carefully examined the fair and tender neck. Only after she was sure there were no scars did she heave a long sigh of relief, hugged her tightly and sobbed softly, obviously frightened.
After Gary reacted, he immediately took a step forward, went to the side of Les who was lying on the ground, and kicked the red agate cane that had rolled to the ground.
The cane, which obviously looked like a weapon, was kicked far away and fell into the shadow cast by the wall.
"Run! Go to the Deep Blue Church and find Miss Yaoliuliu!"
After "disarming" Les, he immediately took a few steps back, retreated to his son, grabbed his arm, and then shouted anxiously to his wife and daughter.
In this situation, the couple did not dwell on why their daughter had such magical powers. Instead, they chose to flee the scene and seek help as soon as the crisis first came into contact with them.
Hearing her husband's urgent calls, Mrs. Gary did not act hypocritically. She immediately stopped crying and tears, grabbed her daughter's hand and ran away.
At this moment, a dark and familiar figure descended from the sky and landed right on the path they came from.
Seeing another person suddenly appear, Daisy's body suddenly tensed up, and the couple also nervously took a few steps back and blocked themselves with their arms.
"Relax, it's me."
Qi Ji stood up, glanced at Rice who was lying on the ground, and then comforted him in a gentle tone.
"How can I trust you?"
After being cheated once, Gary became wary. When he saw Qi Ji appear, he did not believe her on the spot, but questioned her in a vigilant and serious voice.
Upon hearing this, Qi Ji shrugged his shoulders with a hint of helplessness but not unexpectedly, and briefly clarified: "When I first saw you guys at the town cafe yesterday, I gave you a processed glass ornament."
When she said this, she was looking at Mrs. Gary and also described some details of what happened.
After her explanation, Gary nodded doubtfully, breathed a sigh of relief, and turned to point at Rice, who was lying motionless not far away:
"This guy disguised himself as you and tried to attack us...but was...stopped by Daisy."
As he spoke, he looked deeply at his daughter who was lying in his wife's arms, turning her head away and not daring to look him in the face. His eyes were complicated. He wanted to say something else, but finally closed his mouth.
"People safe is good."
Qi Ji comforted her and then asked:
"Mind waiting a moment? I want to check on the guy."
As she said this, she pointed her chin at Rice, who was lying on the ground.
Gary and his wife looked at each other, hesitated for a few seconds, and then nodded and said, "Okay, but please be quick."
Mrs. Gary reminded: "This man has a very strange cane, which Gary kicked into the corner. You can keep an eye on it."
Qi Ji nodded to show that he understood, then walked to Les' side, lowered his eyes slightly and stared at his back, and recited in a low voice almost like talking to himself:
"Invoke: The Fourth Authority: The Distant Star."
Chapter 153 New Wool
Qi Ji originally wanted to use some mental spells to extract some information from Rice while he was still breathing. After all, brainwashing and forcing confessions was a tried and tested method.
But when I walked up to him, I found that... this guy was already dead. Upon closer inspection, I found that the cause of his death was suffocation.
In other words, Rice, who was lying face down on the ground, had difficulty breathing because his body was too old and the muscles related to breathing could not support his own gravity. He died not long after.
As a transcendent being with the strength of a high-level righteous mage, the final ending is so funny, which is indeed a bit comedic.
However, Qi Ji is not helpless in this regard.
If it were a few minutes ago, she really wouldn't be able to get anything out of the dead man.
But now, it's different.
"Invoke: The Fourth Authority: The Distant Star."
As she spoke in a low and soft voice, a "star map" with black, purple, white and gold as the main colors lit up on the palm of her outstretched right hand.
At the same time as it was officially formed, a very obvious change occurred and another completely new picture replaced it.
Brilliant gold and deep sea blue quickly generated and spread, becoming the dominant color of the pattern in an instant. A large number of bright and distinct colors intertwined with each other, outlining distinct outlines:
The moon-white book is spread out, and surging and turbulent waves are rolling on it.
On this ocean of books, a huge sailing ship with golden color as the main color is powerfully breaking through the waves, and the huge waves are broken into countless fine waves on its side and tip.
One of the nine major churches, the holy emblem of the “Enterprise Chamber of Commerce”, whose believers are mostly navigators, sea adventurers, and merchants - “The Ship of Enterprise”!
Behind it, it represents determination and progress, symbolizes wealth and business, and controls the authority of God in the fields of "guidance", "dedication", "wisdom" and so on...
"The Fourth Authority: The Distant Star".
Yes, at this time Qi Ji has cracked the "anti-reconnaissance force field" in the Deep Blue Church and successfully replicated the authority of Di Ka, the "God of Ocean and Love".
Fortunately, this authority... happens to include some areas related to spiritualism.
Daisy was held in her mother's arms, a little far away from Qi Ji, but she still poked her head out from Mrs. Gary's chest with curiosity, looking at the situation over there.
She was very sure that the wizard sister in front of her was the real wizard sister, because she had the wizard sister's blood in her body and her magical powers also came from the wizard sister.
There was some kind of strange and invisible feeling between the two of them, as if there was a magical thread entangled them together.
In fact, she sensed something was wrong the moment she saw Rice, disguised as Qi Ji, walking out of the Deep Blue Church. She felt that there seemed to be some differences between her and the real mage sister.
The reason why I was unable to see through Rice's disguise on the spot was simply because I had never encountered a similar situation, so after noticing something unusual, I did not associate the matter with that aspect.
But even so, Daisy was careful and set up a few "presets" of the power of "cowardice" for herself and her family in advance, just in case.
Facts have proved that this decision was extremely wise. Otherwise, she would have died in Rice's insidious sneak attack.
Of course, she didn't know that Qi Ji had actually been watching over her in an invisible state nearby. If she really encountered a life-threatening situation that she couldn't resolve by her own strength, Qi Ji would come to the rescue in time.
In short, because there is some strange connection between the two, Daisy is very sure that Qi Ji at this moment is the real Qi Ji, and she can also vaguely feel that the current wizard sister...
There are new changes.
"Sister Mage... has become stronger?" Daisy looked at Qi Ji, who was pointing her palm at Rice on the ground, muttering something, as if she had noticed some subtle changes. "She seems to have learned some new abilities?"
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Qi Ji recited a series of fluent words in a low voice:
“A beacon of secrecy, a bright star of civilization;
“The wise men who guide wisdom and reason, safeguard the secret laws of commerce and contracts;
"——Watch over the spirits of the stars!"
After reciting the honorific name of "God of Ocean and Kindness" Deka in a rather perfunctory tone, she raised her voice slightly and continued to whisper:
"I command in my name:
"Accept my prayers and guide this spirit that has not yet dissipated...
"So that I can communicate with his regrets."
As the last syllable fell, a layer of deep sea blue suddenly appeared on the surface of Rice's body.
It was a faint yet deep blue light, containing a rich spiritual aura.
Then, this layer of spiritual light began to gather towards the same position, and soon condensed into a blue halo on Rice's back, fluctuating in brightness like breathing.
After a few seconds, this halo without clear boundaries rose upwards and soon reached the level of Qi Ji's eyes. It basically separated from Rice's body, with only a very inconspicuous filament connecting it.
It was like a balloon hanging on him.
Qi Ji stared at the slightly swaying and flickering halo and was silent for a few seconds. Then he raised the hand with the holy emblem of "Ark of Progress" and pressed his palm on its surface.
Daisy's eyes widened, observing it all intently.
She saw the strange sea-blue light fluctuate violently, flickering in brightness like a candle swaying in the wind.
This change lasted for several seconds, and then the blue halo suddenly "popped" like a popped soap bubble, bursting without leaving any trace.
"Tsk, you used too much force..."
Qi Ji withdrew his hand, digested the memory information pouring in, and pouted in dissatisfaction.
She had just recited the name of Dika, the God of the Ocean and Love, which meant praying to Him.
But in fact, because she has successfully replicated the authority of "Distant Star", if she wants to use the power of this authority, she doesn't need to pray to any god... or in other words, she only needs to pray to herself.
However, she chose not to use her own power directly, and instead asked the sea god to "help".
The reason was simple: she was worried about using too much power that currently belonged to other gods...
It will get their attention.
Although she seems to be a deity, this is only a preliminary guess. Secondly... even so, there is no guarantee that her current strength can compete with a real deity with hundreds of millions of believers.
So far, the only god she had actually come into contact with was the strange "First Creator", and she had easily killed the incarnation of His will in seconds.
But no matter what, it is just an incarnation, and its strength is definitely far inferior to that of the original body.
Besides, this "First Creator" is obviously an evil god, and it is hard to say who is stronger between him and the nine righteous gods.
In short, before her own strength is fully restored and the sealed memories in her mind are fully awakened, it would be better for her to avoid rashly attracting the attention of the gods...
Chapter 154 Springboard and Interface
It is much safer to pray to Him directly and ask for power from Him than to invoke the authority of other gods without authorization.
After all, as a righteous god with countless believers, there must be countless mortal believers praying to Him every minute and every second, and a large number of clergymen praying to Him for power...
I guess he is so annoyed that he is unlikely to pay special attention to his ordinary prayer.
Of course, this is not certain. Maybe the gods’ thinking power is so strong that they can really pay attention to the detailed information of every petitioner?
But obviously, in the absence of clear circumstances, no one can make any firm "guarantees" and can only make choices with potentially lower risks based on current information.
As for Daisy, Qi Ji does not intend to limit the frequency of her invoking "Wandering Mist".
Qi Ji was not worried that she would be put on the gods' "special attention" list because she always used this power.
Because in essence, Daisy's power is the power of the Seventh Season.
Whenever she invoked her authority, Qi Ji could feel it and could perform operations on it to a fairly in-depth degree.
For example, every time Daisy calls upon "Wandering Mist", Qi Ji has the authority to decide whether the call will take effect.
In other words, she can also "graft" Daisy's use of authority onto herself:
Whenever Daisy tries to use her authority, the "Qi Ji blood" in her body will first send a "request" to Qi Ji, and then Qi Ji will pray to the corresponding gods, ask for power, and then "return" the results to Daisy.
This created an illusion: it seemed that Daisy used the power of Qi Ji retained in her body to perform various operations, but in fact it was Qi Ji himself who accomplished all of this, and it was through "praying" to the gods, not the authority used by Qi Ji.
Therefore, both Qi Ji and Daisy can freely use the power of authority without worrying about attracting the attention of other gods by invoking the authority that currently belongs to them.
Of course, everything should be done in moderation. This kind of operation should not be done too frequently and the intensity should also be controlled.
Otherwise, if the god finds that the same "believer" is always asking for too much power from him... he might click to take a look, and the result will be hard to predict.
So Qi Ji decided to remind Daisy not to invoke her authority too frequently, and at the same time teach her some relatively "conventional" spells and supernatural knowledge.
In addition to not wanting to attract the attention of the gods due to frequent prayers, Qi Ji also considered other equally realistic issues.
That is... Qi Ji also doesn't want Daisy to rely too much on the power of "The Ninth Authority: Panacea".
After all, this was... too easy for her to obtain.
From Daisy's perspective, this magical supernatural power was inexplicably given to her, and the various methods of using the "Wandering Mist" were also directly "instilled" into her by Qi Ji in a way that was almost like "enlightenment".
She had hardly experienced any of the steps that ordinary transcendents had to go through, such as getting started in cultivation, laying a solid foundation, breaking through bottlenecks, practicing hard to advance, and consolidating her realm. Basically, all the opportunities were "given" unilaterally by Qi Ji, and it was not difficult for her to obtain them.
The only actual combat experience was the battle against Rice just now, and he was a bully at that.
Yes, by Qi Ji’s standards, this guy Rice is a “waste”!
Although he has reached the realm of a high-level righteous mage, he can be considered a master by the standards of human transcendents.
But he was obviously not good at fighting in his area of expertise, and the aspects he was best at, such as "flesh and blood", "refining", and "life", were restrained by the "lingering fog" representing "decline", and he obviously underestimated the enemy.
In a word, Daisy's strength is built on castles in the air. If she is allowed to develop like this, it will definitely not help her "digest" the "blood" in her body.
Secondly, this may lay hidden dangers that may erupt at any time and cause extremely tragic consequences.
When it comes to cultivating extraordinary powers, Qi Ji feels that one should proceed step by step, otherwise... at best one will become self-inflated and insane, at worst one will become possessed and die, or even live a life worse than death.
All kinds of thoughts raced through his mind. Qi Ji turned around and raised one hand. He hooked his fingers, and the silver invisibility bracelet covered with runes on Rice's wrist swayed in the air.
