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"Bang!" "Bang!"

The strong wind roared from high above, and various windows in the library were opened and closed in succession. While they were banging and banging, streams of green water vapor and rain of paint poured into the room.

The stone statues and armors in the corridor trembled restlessly, the heavy curtains danced like ghosts, and the shredded papers and fallen pages on the floor were rolled up and scurrying like snowflakes.

"Promoted to the Lord of Witnesses? Don't you dare say such nonsense!" In such a weird environment, Fan Ning was holding the shredded paper in his hand in disbelief.

Even the esoteric cult organizations that are best at promising benefits to people have never seen anyone who can draw such a big picture as "you will directly become an evil god from now on", right?

The leaders of those churches only claim that they have the most profound understanding and research of a certain Lord of Witnesses, and are the most able to communicate directly with Him, claiming that believers who follow them can receive His gifts... But in fact, that It is not clear whether the witness leader has noticed this person and whether he cares about the rituals they performed.

It is difficult to tell whether the existence of the Lord of Witness is a living thing or a non-living thing, an abstract concept or a mysterious substance.

"So what exactly did they discuss?... Listening to Oakgun's evaluation of the attendees, 'Obviously he is just a third-level profound student', which shows that he and the ancestor of the MacAdam family are very likely to have reached the level of order enforcer. Realm... How will these people who have climbed to a higher level, understand the existence of 'gnosis' and even understand part of 'true knowledge', view this problem? "

When Fan Ning finished reading the words on the scrap of paper, he had very strong doubts and ran inside quickly.

The contamination of the Alchemist Association and the disappearance of Okegang are very closely related to the Immortality Secret Cult and the Harmony School. If you know what Okegang was doing in the last period of his life, it will be very helpful to clarify the current situation here. .

If you want to go to the second floor of the library, this is probably the direction.

As Fan Ning walked, he sucked the snowflakes flying in the sky into his hands, quickly read, filtered and discarded them.

At first, he didn't gain much, because what he saw were fragments of the contents of the book. The Oakgun Diary he first discovered while standing by the window was a special case.

But as he walked deeper into the library, he found that the number of torn diary pages increased in number.

The ink handwriting is interspersed and exuded with profound colors. Fan Ning roughly sequenced and read it through a rough browsing impression.

"...Facts have proven that research on mystery will be more effective only when everyone stops being secretive. Today we did a thought experiment. The basic logic is a "premise" or a "backwards" ”

"...If the Order Executor can be promoted to the Lord of Witnesses, or if there really is a Lord of Witnesses with a "fourth type of origin," then we can't help but wonder, what qualities should this Lord of Witnesses have? Of course, the nature of His existence is unknowable, but are there some aspects, some aspects of the past, aspects before the process, that can be understood from a human perspective? So we integrated conjectures about Him, or His past? , in theory, it should have at least three qualities——"

"Master a complete "Pleroma"; possess the seventh-highest "grid"; and successfully pass through the "Gate of the Dome" once."

Fan Ning stood in the elegant but strange library, listening to the strange roar of the wind in the corridor outside, holding a pile of notes and gradually reading them in awe.

"As soon as the conjecture comes out, even those who are not highly promoted know that these three qualities, or these three conditions, are basically nonsense, and they are becoming more and more nonsense one after another. !”

"Master a complete copy of "Pleroma"? Even those who have climbed to the sixth level of the Execution Order, the "true knowledge" or "divine nature" they have seen is only a little over 30%. According to the guidelines given by the Glow Garden and revelation, only the completely perfect "true knowledge" can be called "Pleroma"... This is something that cannot be coveted. You must know that the cost of freely entering and exiting the migration and Huita is high, and the body of the orderer is almost Having broken away from the surface of the world, he has become the same existence as a shifting creature, and his mind is on the verge of dangerous collapse. If the containment ratio of "True Knowledge" increases again, even if he is completely exiled to the abnormal zone, he may not be able to suppress this collapse. The trend..."

"Possessing the seventh highest degree of "G"? It's just a joke. The purity of language today is no longer as pure as it was in ancient times. In the early days of the third history, there were still many philosophers, moralists, politicians, mathematicians and combat heroes." "Torchbearers" have emerged, and under the current situation of language pollution in the New Era, the "ge" achieved in other fields of humankind has almost completely lost its climbing efficiency! The field of poetry as a "rebellion against language" is also in danger, and it can only be independent of language The art field is the last piece of pure land! Thousands of troops are crossing the single-plank bridge, and the road is getting narrower and narrower. The "torch bearer" is already one or two art masters in a style, a "father" level existence?

"Passing through the "Gate of the Dome" once? This joke is even bigger. How to pass through the "Gate of Non-Gate", "Gate of Dawn" and "Gate of Glazed Glass"? Everyone knows that these are the abilities of mortal creatures. The highest point reached in the Hui Pagoda, judging from my experience of approaching it infinitely, it is true that its borders are flat, smooth as a mirror, broken like powder, and cannot be opened. Even the most beautiful things mentioned in the secret history are true. The ancient Jie Yuan God just symbolically walked back through the "Dome Gate" after the above-mentioned HOS seats to show respect..."

"...the discussion about the heights of the house in the past few days was finally stopped by Bologna. He emphasized that the current situation of the Hoffman Empire is turbulent, the people in the southwest border are fighting with those foreigners, and the contradiction between the school and the church has reached a point where it is incompatible. Now is the critical moment to carefully identify whether the new partner is reliable... Let's just talk about unofficial history to adjust and add flavor. If it takes over the main topic, it will be too much."

"I basically agree with Bologna's attitude. Instead of believing that humans can be promoted to the Lord of Witness, it is more credible to believe that the Turungaria Dynasty, under the instruction of an older existence, used external objects to concoct the "third type of origin."

"In a nutshell, people are not as good as things. The body and spirit of ordinary creatures are ultimately useless."

These shocking terms, theories, speculations, and details revealed in Oakgan's evaluation, reconstruct Fanning's mystical cognition of the heights of Huita again and again.

The perfect "true knowledge" is called "Pleroma" by them? The proportion of "true knowledge" or "divinity" of the strong in the sixth level of the Order is only a little more than 30%? The state of the Order is almost the same as that of the migrating creatures?

"Character" is not only for the field of art? So the sum of philosophers, scientists, politicians, historians... the sum of the world's memory and cognition of them is also their "character", but because of the pollution of language, these "characters" no longer have the ability to rise? Only half of the poetry field of "rebellion against language" and the art field that does not rely on language are left?

Fanning remembered that shortly after he became a knower, Dupont mentioned in the book "On Price and Origin" in the mysticism course that "non-language" art transmission method is the safest third type of hidden knowledge transmission form, because the essential reason why receiving hidden knowledge has the risk of pollution lies in "language" - human thinking relies on language, and language is the creation of the Lord of Witness. When using language, humans will inevitably be eternally gazed at.

He lowered his head to read the paper, thinking and walking slowly, and suddenly felt that something in front of him looked at him.

"What?"

Fan Ning, who was always highly alert to the Special Patrol Office, suddenly raised his head.

The bookcases on the wall in his field of vision were arranged like petals. There was a spiral staircase leading to a higher floor on the right, and a hemispherical multi-layer ebony reading table below.

A high-raised palace gilded chair behind the table was facing him empty.

"Bang." "Bang." In the corridor far behind him, the doors, windows and curtains were still struggling and dancing in the storm.

Fan Ning stared at the chair in doubt, slowed down his pace, and walked forward step by step.

After looking up at the spiral staircase on the right side of the bookcase and thinking for a while, he decided to pick up the scraps of paper on the ground nearby.

I don't know how long the timeline has passed.

"...On the day he came back from his inspection of the Secret History Research Institute, Bologna asked me to talk alone and shared what he called "a discovery". Although the tone he used was factual, I could hear a subtle change in his attitude, and I was also shocked by the meaning of this incident itself-"

"He revealed that from the late Turungarian Dynasty to the New Calendar, there may be more than one mortal creature passing through the dome door!"

"Then, Bologna enthusiastically described the "fourth type of origin" to me. He said that although the Lord of Witness is an unknowable abstract concept, since mortal creatures are all flesh and blood, at least this type of origin, we can To confirm that it was once a real material, so we can call this kind of witness Lord "quality source God"! "

"I was so shocked that I couldn't speak for a long time. As an alchemist, I firmly believe that people and all things are made of basic materials, and I also understand some ways of mutual transformation and influence between matter and spirit. But if you say that "real matter can be conceptualized as an abstract concept of the witness Lord", this really subverts my personal cognition! I asked him whether the "quality source God" has a basis for verification, he avoided talking about it, but when I questioned whether it has a realistic possibility, he patiently showed a set of ideas and asked me if I am interested in trying it. "

The content at hand has been read again.

"Quality source God? There is such an origin classification?" Fanning's mind emerged several witness Lords who didn't know how to divide their origins before.

And, Bologna... this name caught his attention again.

What ideas did he come up with?

On the night when he first arrived at Santaran Castle, Roy shared with him the history of their school in detail. Later, on the night when he took office as the president of the branch, Viadrin also told him some history of the containment of the God of the Source of the Instrument.

The Bologna School is an extraordinary force with the academic clique as the core and the traditional aristocracy united. At first, they inherited four pieces of the remains of the God of the Source of the Instrument, but they all failed to contain them one after another. The part studying the "Red Pool" split away from it very early. The three core families during the Hoffman Empire were: the Bologna family, who was proficient in the mystery of the "Hidden Lamp", the Oakgang family, who was proficient in the mystery of the "Fountain in the Painting", and the McAdam family, who was proficient in the mystery of the "Disaster".

However, the Bologna lineage later declined to a side branch, and the branch of alchemists in Oakgang was even more collectively corrupted. In the industrial age when Roy lived, only their McAdam lineage was left to preside over the overall situation of the school, but even so, they still controlled the House of Lords and almost all the noble schools in Theolian.

It is enough to see how huge the foundation and influence of this organization were in the feudal aristocratic era.

Judging from the tone in Oakgang's diary, the Bologna School was still in its heyday when the three major families were still alive, and the entire school even had more than one executive.

In addition to some writing tones and details, such as Oakgang's ridicule that "xxx is as nonsense as the popularization of steam engines", Bologna said that "the situation of change in the Hoffman Empire is undercurrent", which indirectly confirms that the technology had sprouted at that time but the steam revolution had not yet arrived, and the time may be after the middle of the 7th century, that is, the period of 650-680 in the new calendar.

"So why did the families of Bologna and Oakgang have problems afterwards?"

With many doubts, Fanning began to search for pages in this room, even without missing the gaps between the exhibits.

After reading all the big and small things reflected in these diaries, he had a general understanding of the personalities of these three family heads. McAdam was an absolutely conservative type who was consistent in appearance and reality; Oakgun, the alchemist, seemed to have a frivolous tone in his writing, but he was actually a "talkative player" with outstanding mystical talents, but he was withdrawn and timid; while Bologna, although he showed the calmness and strategic planning of the school leader in public, actually seemed to have extremely crazy ambitions, courage and pursuits.

The order of the shredded paper was very messy and jumped a lot. When Fanning found the topic related to it again, the timeline had been completely discontinuous.

"Strip off 70% of your own "spiritual knowledge", forcefully increase the proportion of 30% of "true knowledge" to 100%, and then temporarily accommodate and assimilate a portion of their "pleroma"?"

"Imitate the attainments, characteristics, achievements or feats of the target object with the seventh high "level", confuse the judgment of the secret history, and make yourself and the object indistinguishable in the eyes of the world?"

"Pay tribute to the secret past in a symbolic way, and simulate the process of a certain ancient witness lord passing through the "Dome Gate"?"

"...I now suspect that Bologna may have really verified the secret history of the birth of a certain "quality source god", because these methods are not something that you and I can construct with my mysterious knowledge and mind."

"...Crazy! This person is crazy! The so-called "attempt" he mentioned turned out to be a mirror ritual-borrowing the twin relationship of the two lost source gods in the secret history to usurp the seats of the "light and spring" that once lived in the high house!!"

"Boom!" Outside the window at the end of the corridor behind him, green lightning as thick as a bucket split the night sky.

Fan Ning, with his pupils wide open, looked at the empty palace gilded chair in the library, and a certain uneasy premonition in his heart became stronger and stronger.

"Boom!" The whole library was flashing and changed color.

It seemed that he was in a trance for a moment. When Fan Ning's eyes followed the chair and looked at the bookcase behind again...

He saw cracks all over the wall.