Chapter 787: Interior and Exterior

Most of the saints and demigods in the world are divided into two types.

One is to open the sanctuary, plant the mental landscape in a corner of this world, and transform oneself from being rejected by the world into a lord who breaks the earth and becomes the king;

The other is to keep the seeds of the world in your body, constantly seek the truth, nourish it, and grow it.

The former is called the royal way, and the latter is called seeking the way.

There is no absolute strength or weakness between the two.

The difference is that seekers of the Tao make up the vast majority and have a limit to their lifespan; those who seek the Tao are a very small minority but can live a long time.

The reason why there are so few kings is because there are very few places suitable for planting seeds. It is like a position, there are only so many positions, and there are only those positions. If those who come after want to sit on it, they must either outlast the previous one or die. Kill the previous one.

The Queen of the Kingdom of Shadow in Scathach is one of the positions belonging to the king. She planted the seeds on the land of the Kingdom of Shadow, and her mental image and scenery merged with it. From then on, she became the master of many heroes in myths and legends.

Although it was briefly mentioned in Scathach's description, Bai Yu could guess that the battle for the king must be very fierce.

But she's not afraid of any challenge.

Anyone who covets the Kingdom of Shadows will have to face the edge of the magic spear. Even if they are saints or demigods, no less than a hundred people have died by her hands.

The magic spear that Scathach is best at is specially used to kill seekers.

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At the dinner table, Bai Yu asked the master curiously: "Can the Holy Grail of the Fairy Kingdom be considered the king?"

"It? It's half." Scathach said lightly: "That thing belongs to a special system left by the previous king of the Fairy Kingdom. The blessings it left behind are essentially the blood and blood of the previous king. Meat, the blessed Knights of the Round Table will inevitably become the guardians of the Holy Grail."

"After breaking through the canonization, the mental images of these knights will be assimilated into the fairy kingdom."

"So the more Holy Grail Knights you collect, the more you can grow the Fairy Kingdom."

"The Holy Grail values ​​your potential, so it invites you to accept the blessing and go to the fairy kingdom."

...It's really sinister. It's the middle of winter, and there are so many scheming old silver coins.

Bai Yu raised his eyebrows and was about to spray.

Scathach continued: "But there are also benefits. Becoming a Knight of the Holy Grail does not mean that you lose yourself. Because of the influence of the king's way, those who stay in the goblin kingdom will age at a much slower rate than ordinary people. If they are canonized, they can live for thousands of years even if they maintain normal activities. If they choose to sleep, it will be easier to live for thousands of years. "

"This sounds quite profitable." Bai Yu touched his chin: "Generally, a saint can only live for three hundred years, and then he will be sent to reincarnation."

"The advantage is that you can live longer, but the disadvantage is that the upper limit of these Holy Grail Knights is limited." Scathach said lightly: "It is impossible to reach a higher threshold in this life. If you want to increase your strength, the fastest way is to It is to increase the number of Holy Grail Knights as soon as possible and expand the Fairy Kingdom, but..."

"The greater the number, the less power will be obtained after expansion. When there are a few people or a dozen, the progress will be obvious. When it reaches more than a hundred, it will become less and less, and it will even be almost insignificant." Bai Yu briefly summarized: "Marginal effect. "

"Yes, so in my opinion, the Holy Grail's approach is a bit wasted." Scathach shook his head and said.

"Catch all the knights with potential and lock them in the fairy kingdom, but they can't provide any further space. Even if they live for a thousand years, they will just wait for a long time to die." Bai Yu lamented.

He suddenly thought of the setting in a work. If Qin Shihuang was really immortal and lived into the 21st century, he would collect all the powerful generals in history and let these generals freeze into sleep. When needed, he would After awakening these generals, the real-life generals can be made... very similar to the Holy Grail method.

"It's not like I can't understand what the Holy Grail does." Scathach said one sentence. There was obviously a second part, but she didn't continue.

The shadow servants in the Kingdom of Shadows brought today's dinner, which was a white batter.

Bai Yu picked it up: "What is this?"

"Nutritious meal." Scathach picked up the spoon and put a mouthful into his mouth, expressionless: "There is no grass growing in the Kingdom of Shadows, and you can't even grow potatoes. These are the only things."

"I have something to say, I don't know if I should say it or not."

"Then don't say it." Scathach's attitude was quite ruthless. She naturally knew that the conditions in the Kingdom of Shadow were difficult.

Even some students who were originally apprentices dropped out of school because they found that there were no toilets here and they could only have sex.

Part of it was because there was no grass growing in the Kingdom of Shadows. Every time I went out for a field trip, I couldn't find any blades of grass and had to scrape them with stones. In the end, I was forced to drop out of school because of Kikube's work injury.

The rest is partly due to the poor food here, which caused severe constipation. I couldn't even poop out, so I broke down and skipped school.

All I can say is that things like Lashi...it seems like it has a small impact, but in fact it has a huge impact. You can't even go to the toilet, but you still want to have a good class?

Scathach thought, would this have mattered thousands of years ago?

Which one doesn’t all come here like this?

How come today’s scholars can’t even endure this little hardship?

She quietly turned her gaze and looked at Bai Yu, thinking to herself, if you dare to say it tastes bad and act mean, I will hang you on the top of the castle and let you calm down for the night.

Bai Yu reluctantly took a bite, and then immediately painfully masked... It cannot be said that it is very unpalatable, at least it tastes like chewing wax.

He raised his hand, released the Storm Chaser's car, opened the trunk, took out a few buckets of instant noodles and put them on the table: "Try this, Your Majesty, this is delicious."

Bringing your own food was impossible in the past historical conditions.

Even if some people were willing to bring food, they could not deliver it to the Shadow Kingdom.

Even if the food was delivered to the Shadow Kingdom, the most filling food was usually rice, wheat, etc., which was edible, but not much better than porridge, and the nutritional value was average.

If you want to eat meat and drink soup... you can only wait until modern civilization begins to take effect and various canned foods and fast foods become popular.

Bai Yu took out the bucket of noodles and operated it skillfully.

It was very fast.

Scathach pushed the porridge in her hand aside. She had not satisfied her appetite for many years.

Or, she had never tasted delicious food at all, and instinctively thought that the taste was no different from grilled fish and grilled meat, but in fact, the difference with or without spices was really big.

In line with the principle of not wasting, Scathach ordered Bai Yu to finish all the porridge, including the portion she didn't finish, and then put away the bucket noodles, indicating that high-quality ingredients should not be wasted.

Looking at the serious expression of the old woman with two guns, Bai Yu hesitated to speak. He wanted to say that this thing was only a few dollars a bucket, and now it is no longer the era when spices are more expensive than gold.

She also insisted that she was not an antique.

Who knows that the last time this queen opened her eyes to see the world was hundreds of years ago.

By the way, is there a signal from the world tree here... Can you pull a network over?

Use the ever-changing Internet world to give this BBA a little worldview shock.

It can only be said that Longdong is still too backward, at least fifty years behind Rome, and the Queen of the Shadow Kingdom, who is more backward than Longdong, is even more...

"What's that look in your eyes?" Scathach inserted a starch sausage.

"Master, your old man's view of the world is a little relaxed." Bai Yu said tactfully: "But the cognitive gap between you and Longdong makes up for this very well."

Snap!

The wooden spoon hit Bai Yu's head.

"Hiss!"

He covered his head: "It hurts... No, it hurts?!"

Where's my cat?

I'm hanging my cat, how can it hurt?

Scathach said calmly: "The magic spear that must be destroyed is not necessarily only for magic spears. When you can use a spoon, you will be considered to have mastered this move."

"This also has a penetrating effect?" Bai Yu didn't understand: "I am clearly a mysterious protector."

"If you can't even penetrate the mystery and the holy domain, how can you kill the seeker?" Scathach said: "My magic spear has two strikes in total, one strike to tear the holy domain, and one strike to penetrate the god-killer."

"So I have to learn two guns too?"

"No need." Scathach supported his cheek: "It takes too much time."

Bai Yu sat up and asked again: "I actually want to ask, after canonization, how are the realms divided?"

"Too high aspirations."

"If I don't know the strength of the enemy, how can I judge whether it is appropriate to use the magic spear?" Bai Yu shrugged: "What if it is too powerful?"

"Above the canonization, the realm division is not too clear, and the strength and weakness shown by different seekers may be completely different."

"Just like the belief in canonization?" Bai Yu despised it in his heart, that is the shame of canonization.

"Faith canonization is a mental landscape formed by the will of living beings. It gathers the power of the masses and is therefore extremely fragile."

Scathach said lightly: "It is indeed the weakest level."

She thought for a while: "The strength of canonization is closely related to the strength of the self-world."

"Most of the canonized saints who have just broken through are in the initial stage. They are rejected by the world. Although they have formed a holy land, they are not deep enough in seeking the truth and cannot visualize the mental landscape. This stage can be called..."

Speaking of this, she stopped, obviously thinking of a suitable adjective.

"Inner scenery." Bai Yu said: "Inner scenery."

"The name is not important, but the saying of inner scenery is quite accurate." Scathach said: "And the second stage is to manifest the inner scenery to the outside, so that the world of oneself can be connected with the outside world. It can be called... external manifestation."

"Good name." Bai Yu was a worker in her previous life. She would not blush when she said such words to praise the leader's good writing skills. She could say it at will.

But the queen doesn't buy this. Sweet words are useless to a woman who is old enough to be an ancestor.

"The stage of manifestation is actually too general. It covers a lot of things, because once you reach manifestation, it means that you can create a new land in this world and become the master of a country."

"However, the size and duration of the self-world that is manifested will be restricted."

"The limit of manifestation..." Bai Yu said: "It probably means that you can create a world?"

"World?" Scathach's cold expression was more subtle, as if he saw a silly child asking 'What did people breathe before oxygen was discovered?'

"Isn't it?"

"The world is so huge that it is not a great feat that a manifester can accomplish. The world you are talking about is not the world, but the land under your feet."

Scathach raised his eyes and said meaningfully: "But in my eyes, this level of manifesters actually exists."

"What do you mean?" Bai Yu couldn't help but sit up straight. Just discussing this topic made him feel a chill down his spine.

I thought it was just a discussion about realms, but the queen said, "That exists." It was like everyone was laughing and saying that magical girls are cute, but the guy at the next table actually took out a fairy wand and transformed.

Scathach raised her finger: "Look up at the sky, what do you see?"

Bai Yu raised his head and looked out the window. The Shadow Kingdom is a cold and dead world where even the sun cannot shine, but every night, the aurora comes from the polar night, and the stars shine in the night sky.

He widened his eyes.

"...Is it the stars?"