Volume 13: The Son of Darkness, the Lord of the Netherworld, the Happy One Chapter 18 The Long Road
Nowadays, extraordinary knowledge is no longer limited to accumulations, and even the utilization of accumulations has been greatly improved.
The original pile of materials can be used by holding it in your hand and activating it using some methods. It is very unstable. Many people just use it but have no way to explore why it can be used.
After the establishment of the college, they also obtained a lot of deposits and conducted research on them.
Facts have proved that it is easier to get things done by concentrating our efforts.
As people gather together and break away from their previous work and life, concentrating on research and teaching, the level of science and technology is increasing rapidly.
At this time, Lu Mei was sitting on a magic carriage.
This carriage is the product of that research.
Although it is called a horse-drawn carriage, the carriage is actually extremely spacious. In order to increase the efficiency of carrying people and goods, the carriage has been widened several times.
And Lu Mei knew the uncle who was driving.
Originally, the uncle was just a wanderer, the kind of wanderer who doesn't get married but just wanders around everywhere.
According to most people, these people still maintain the same living conditions as they did more than 30 years ago.
At that time, they were all dead and could be killed by soul beasts at any time, or die due to insufficient supplies from soul beasts.
So naturally they don't look forward to tomorrow, but only look at the present, working for two days and playing for three days.
He wandered around everywhere and left no savings.
Lu Mei had seen the uncle when she was a child. At that time, he was drunk and fell headfirst into the snow and almost died.
It was Lu Mei who asked someone to move him into the house, which allowed him to survive.
But somehow, the uncle later got married and had a child, and he stopped being a playboy after that.
Started freight transportation.
From the initial rickshaw to the current magic-powered carriage, he has saved a lot of money.
It has also changed from the initial "drinking while the wine is here" to the current "just gossiping about family matters".
He always talks about his children.
To use the words in the newspaper, children are the primary productive force.
Although there is no limit to the lifespan of the dead souls, they cannot live forever. They will die as time goes by and their mentality ages.
In this case, children are the carriers of their future.
When there is an heir, everything will be prioritized to give the heir a better future.
Lu Mei has a good relationship with the other party because she saved the other party's life in the past.
So he was willing to give her a free ride to the nearby Holy Tiandong Empire.
After that, Lu Mei had to leave alone.
In the car, Lu Mei took out some dry food and started eating.
It is said that this is also a technological achievement produced by the First Academy.
Originally, the soul body could only replenish strength by hunting, but now, some fruits and vegetables can also replenish physical strength.
At the same time, it is said that some meat can still be preserved.
It has to be said that their underworld is becoming more and more like the human world at this moment.
Lu Mei recalled the knowledge she had learned, because to enter the First Academy, she had to take an exam.
And this knowledge will definitely come in handy in the journey ahead.
The current First College has published many basic knowledge publications, and their orphanage has also received corresponding publications donated by others.
Lu Mei completed her elementary education with the help of these publications, and then carried out basic training. Then she found the registration method for the college in the publications, and registered with the mentality of giving it a try, but she did not expect to be actually admitted.
At present, no matter whether it is the soul formed when the underworld was created, or the soul born through gestation later, if no extraordinary practice is performed, it is regarded as a ghost.
And then comes the extraordinary practice.
Nowadays, the orthodox way of practice is to awaken the spirit through a ritual. The ritual is not complicated and can be completed by one person as long as he meditates successfully and grasps the limited floating supernatural power of the underworld.
After awakening the spirit, one can obtain soul power from food and prey to replenish one's soul body.
Once the soul has been replenished to a certain limit, you can begin to construct various soul techniques.
These soul and body techniques were disassembled from the accumulations of the past and possess various extraordinary powers.
But they are not considered powerful, they generally improve strength, agility, recovery and so on.
Because the power limit of the underworld is there, these techniques are called basic techniques, and are also the main power that Lu Mei now possesses.
After reaching the limit, one needs to start the spirit world ritual and enter the spirit world to look for the secondary source beast.
Nowadays, the spiritual world has changed a lot.
The source beasts became more and more powerful, but the number of secondary source beasts also increased.
Every conflict in the dream world will create more secondary source beasts.
As for what the dream world is, that is not something Lu Mei can know now.
She only knew now that the spirit world was very dangerous, and an ordinary person should not explore the spirit world without being fully prepared.
The dream world is a more dangerous place, and it is an area that only professors in the academy can explore.
Individuals like her who have reached the limit of the underworld are called the underworld level, while individuals who have successfully explored the spirit world are correspondingly called the spirit level.
The others are similar. The realm you successfully explore is called that level.
This is the general division of the current power system.
Of course, combat doesn't work that way.
In the underworld, there are plenty of examples telling people that even if one is at the Spirit level or even the Dream level, if one is not careful enough, one will still be killed by the Underworld level.
The reason is that the underworld has power restrictions. If no other methods are used, then even if it is the Dream Level, one can only exert the power of the Underworld Level in the underworld.
At most, he is just a little stronger in the ability to control various forces.
The focus of the spiritual level is to construct one's own ritual field, which can form a field around itself, thereby ensuring that it can exert power beyond its limits in the underworld.
As for the Dream Stage, it is said that one can make the ritual field rise with a single thought, but it is difficult to say what the specific circumstances are.
At the same time, in addition to this type of practice, the First Academy’s publications also introduced the practice methods of various major religious groups.
Basically, they are similar, except that their awakening of spirits is accomplished through rituals and prayers to God.
After that, it will become much easier for them to reach the underworld, and they will not need to practice the techniques carefully. God's grace will bring them everything.
After reaching the spiritual world, there is no need for so much trouble, and you don’t even need to look for secondary source beasts. Instead, you can directly pray to the source beasts for strength and become a spiritual level relatively easily.
But all of this comes at a price. Once you join a cult, your body and mind can no longer be considered your own.
After that, when you enter the spiritual stage, you will merge into the source beast instead of developing yourself. With that kind of development, you are not yourself, but just a puppet and plaything of God.
Although it is not explicitly stated in the publication, anyone with a little intelligence can see the relevant information from it.
From here we can also see the relationship between the academic school and the church.
Therefore, her trip this time was filled with unpredictable dangers.
The Holy Tiandong Empire is an empire dominated by religious sects.
Although the sect was only mainstream, it did not completely transform the empire into a theocracy.
There are also academic schools and primitive schools in China.
But no matter what, within the cult's sphere of influence, going to school at a place like the First Academy that excludes the cult would be extremely challenging.
Fortunately, the orphanage where she was born was located in the Soul Beast Territory, a place where humans and soul beasts coexisted in relative harmony. There was not much chaos here, and it was not completely involved in the disputes of the neighboring empire.
After passing through the Holy Tiandong Empire, she still needs to pass through several chaotic territories.
The so-called chaotic territory is a buffer space for major forces.
Each of the forces involved is actually a spokesperson for the bigger forces.
This person has the advantage today, and the day after tomorrow another person will successfully capture the flag and then occupy the City Lord's Mansion.
If she wanted to pass through these places, it would be very dangerous even though she was a freshman at the First Academy.
"Fortunately, I'm not at the hell level yet." Lu Mei comforted herself.
Next to the Holy Tiandong Empire, there is a large religious state, and it is even more difficult to travel from the religious state to the territory where the First Academy is located.
She is now heading to the Holy Tiandong Empire and can also get some help from the academic community.
For example, she often saw publications, which were actually disseminated by some academicians in the empire.
When she first registered, she actually used the channels here, and her admission letter was also delivered by some forces here.
Therefore, the most urgent thing is not to rush on the journey alone.
Instead, find this channel and use their power to go to the First Academy.
Lu Mei got off the magic-powered carriage and then plunged into the city of the Holy Tiandong Empire.
When she first sent out her application for admission, she did so through a newspaper publisher.
These newspapers and periodicals dare to publish various articles about the First College and can help deliver application forms and admission letters, so they must have a relationship with the First College.
When Lu Mei went over there, she discovered something horrifying.
That means the newspapers were closed.
A large number of religious members wearing robes and with solemn expressions were standing outside, watching everything passing by.
Lu Meiqiang suppressed his flustered heart, pretended to look curiously for a few times, and then walked out naturally.
"It's over. Looks like I'm going to have to face the Hell difficulty level."
A single leaf can tell the coming of autumn. The closure of newspapers and periodicals can reveal the empire's tendency.
Academics seemed to be becoming increasingly disadvantaged in the Empire.
Moreover, some marginal forces of the academic school are being cleaned up at this moment.
"Perhaps it won't be long before this place becomes a religious country as well." Lu Mei thought worriedly.
She naturally stood on the side of the academy. After all, no matter what, she didn't want to become something that was no longer herself.
"So, I have to leave quickly." The affairs of the empire are not something that she, a student who has not yet enrolled, can handle.
What we need to do now is to find another channel to go to the academy, and then participate in the affairs of the empire after we have achieved academic success.
