The whole weird world is waiting for me to go to heaven

Chapter 624: The Grand Temple (Two in One)

After chatting for a while, Old Lady Su saw that it was almost time, so she took Liu Sheng and hurriedly left the National Academy.

The two of them got on Old Lady Su's high-tech carriage and headed for Chang'an.

After a while, Liu Sheng couldn't help asking, "Master Su, why don't we just go over there with our flying swords?"

The main reason for this question is that although this carriage is a spiritual weapon, it is still running on the ground, so it is very bumpy, and its horsepower is limited, so its speed is far slower than that of a flying sword.

Upon hearing this, Old Lady Su glanced at Liu Sheng.

"It's snowing outside. Am I, with my old bones, supposed to fly in the cold wind?"

Liu Sheng was slightly stunned and could only smile to express his understanding.

However, after experiencing the cloud sedan and flying car that are both comfortable and fast, Liu Sheng still feels a little uncomfortable, and always feels that nothing can compare to the past.

She glanced at the snowflakes flying outside the car and thought to herself that once her cheap uncle developed the "hearse", it would quickly become popular in Chang'an and Qingyun Pavilion would become famous overnight.

However, there is still room for discussion about this name. In short, she is opposed to it.

The journey was long and bumpy, and there was silence in the carriage for a while.

So Old Lady Su started talking about Liu Sheng's articles.

“Your article…”

Old Mrs. Su leaned against the wall of the car. Although her tone seemed casual, her eyes were sharp.

"It seems that you want to explore the source of spiritual energy. In other words, you don't think that spiritual energy comes from the palace of the Supreme God?"

Liu Sheng quickly lowered his head and said modestly: "Student dare not."

"Why not?" Old Lady Su chuckled. "Although the Temple is very secretive about this, if they really didn't want to know, they wouldn't have approved my research topic."

【Isn't this because of your high moral character? 】

Of course Liu Sheng wouldn’t say it.

But Old Lady Su herself said frankly: "Ahem, although I also used some means."

"But given the status of the Temple, what do my connections mean? If the Temple is not interested, they will not easily compromise even if I insist."

Liu Sheng nodded thoughtfully.

"So, don't worry." Old Lady Su waved her hand. "Besides, the Temple probably wants to know the answers more than you do. Otherwise, they wouldn't be so anxious to summon me to the capital."

"Moreover, you should have felt the spiritual energy of spiritual practice recently..."

As they were talking, the carriage passed through the Chang'an city gate but was stopped.

The curtain was lifted, and a gatekeeper wearing gleaming Jinwu Guard armor looked at the two people in the carriage and said sternly:
"Please show us your pass and ID."

Old Lady Su and Liu Sheng looked at each other, took out their identity tokens and handed them to the people in front of them.

The gatekeeper's eyes under his helmet were originally very cold, but when he took the tokens and looked at them, one was the token of a second-rank university scholar, and the other was the token of a student of the National Academy, his eyes immediately softened a lot and his attitude became polite.

"Excuse me, Grand Secretary and Scholar, for your pass..."

Old Lady Su took out a letter from her bosom and handed it over. "This is my letter of participation in the meeting. I am the special advisor for today's meeting in the temple. This is my student."

The gatekeeper carefully took the letter, on which was clearly printed the symbol of the Supreme God—a face without facial features, symbolizing the Supreme God who could not be looked at directly or described.

Naturally, no one would dare to forge such a logo.

He carefully opened the letter and took a quick look at the seal of the temple. It turned out that what the Grand Secretary said was true. He quickly put it back and handed it back politely.

"Correct."

The general process would end here. Just as Old Lady Su was about to urge the carriage, she heard the gatekeeper say, "Please wait a moment, sir."

Then, he took out a jade piece that Liu Sheng was very familiar with and said with an apologetic smile, "Grandmaster, this is just a routine inspection. Please don't mind."

"What is this?" Old Mrs. Su asked curiously.

"This is a spiritual weapon that our boss urgently purchased from the Qingyun Pavilion early this morning. It is said that it can detect strange auras." The gatekeeper explained.

When Liu Sheng heard this, his mind moved.

After a while, a green light appeared on the jade piece, and the gatekeeper nodded with satisfaction: "You can enter the city now."

But Old Lady Su couldn't help but ask one more question: "Usually the inspection is not so strict, what happened today?"

The gatekeeper did not dare to neglect the matter and replied respectfully: "Replying to the Grand Secretary, there is a strange creature escaping from the city, and it is very secretive. In order to prevent disasters, the inspection of people entering and leaving the city will be stricter today."

"I see." Old Mrs. Su nodded in understanding.

The carriage started.

Pass through the city gate and enter Chang'an.

The atmosphere in the city was indeed different. Patrolling soldiers and priests could be seen everywhere, and even the streets and alleys were being searched carefully.

"It seems that this strange creature is not simple. Even the temple cannot catch it, and it has to borrow this new spiritual weapon refined by the people. This is strange..." Old Mrs. Su put down the curtain and said thoughtfully.

"This strange creature..." Liu Sheng pondered, then whispered, "It is not only good at hiding its strange aura, but also seems to be very good at anti-reconnaissance. It may even be in human form, or, most likely, it was once a human."

After all, Old Lady Su used to be the director of the Weaving Institute's Inspection Department. When she heard what Liu Sheng said, her pupils shrank slightly, and she stroked her chin and began to think.

After a while, she slowly said, "The strange creatures we have seen today, even if they were originally human, can hardly maintain human thinking under the erosion of strange energy... If it is true as you said, this strange creature has a strong independent consciousness, then it is very dangerous."

Liu Sheng suddenly felt a chill in his heart.

Isn't this a weirdo?
Could it be that the power of the Supreme God has begun to fail, finally ushering in the era of evil men?

……

The carriage drove along the central axis of Chang'an, passed Zhuque Street, arrived at the gate of the imperial city, and then continued to circle around, heading north along the wall of the imperial city.

Liu Sheng looked through the car window at the high ground behind the imperial city, and his heart moved slightly.

She didn't expect that the temple was built further north of the imperial city.

On second thought, this makes sense.

In this world, the temple is above the imperial power. According to the layout of Chang'an, it is located on the high ground further north, overlooking the imperial city and the entire Chang'an, which is truly in line with the supreme status of the Supreme God.

The carriage went higher and higher and gradually entered a mountainous area.

The towering mountains rise from the ground, covered with a thin layer of snow.

From afar, Liu Sheng saw the temple on the top of the mountain. The golden roof reflected dazzling light, like a pearl inlaid between heaven and earth.

[It is indeed condescending. 】

On the way up the mountain, Liu Sheng could see many believers coming and going, and some even bowed their heads with every step. It turned out that their levels of piety were completely different.

Reaching the top of the mountain, the carriage slowly stopped.

Liu Sheng followed Old Lady Su out of the car. Looking around, he saw a magnificent building complex appearing before his eyes.

In Liu Sheng's original world, there was no time to build the temple.

Wen Xuanning is still the strange and frightening temple in Li Xuan's hand, but it is a distorted image of the temple.

The one in front of us completely meets people's fantasy of a "temple". The main hall is majestic and magnificent, with a gate as high as five meters, and its imposing manner makes people look up in awe.

The walls around the main hall are covered with huge relief carvings, vividly reproducing the scene of the Supreme God descending to the world and protecting all living beings in the first year of Shenxian.

In front of the temple is a vast bluestone square surrounded by tall ancient cypresses, which seem to isolate the hustle and bustle of the world, leaving only the lingering smoke of incense.

On the high mountain behind the temple, a huge altar could be vaguely seen. It looked familiar to Liu Sheng, as it was the altar used to transform the small world during the imperial examination.

"This temple is indeed not simple..."

Liu Sheng pondered secretly and followed Old Lady Su into the hall.

What catches the eye are countless reliefs surrounding the four walls, and carved pillars reaching into the sky supporting the dome, while above the dome are depicted the wonders of the world of gods.

Liu Sheng looked up and realized that this was all from his imagination.

In the inner hall, believers came in an endless stream, kneeling on the cushions and praying devoutly.

The smoke and fog were thick, as if the entire hall was covered in a layer of dim smoke, giving an eerie feeling.

At the end of the hall, there stood a huge statue of the Supreme God.

The statue stood tall and towering, its face shrouded in the shadow of the dome and could not be seen clearly.

This is countless times larger than Liu Sheng’s statue in the new world.

Standing at the feet of the statue, I naturally felt insignificant, and I wanted to kneel down on the ground to express my awe and worship to the statue of the Supreme God.

Liu Sheng knew that this was a trace of his past divine power.

She quickly got rid of the restraining force and when she came to her senses, she saw that Old Lady Su had already knelt down and was praying devoutly on the mat.

Seeing this, Liu Sheng's heart trembled. He slowly knelt down, closed his eyes, clasped his hands together, and pretended to pray.

However, the moment he closed his eyes, Liu Sheng felt a strange fluctuation.

She seemed to be pulled into a certain space, and in the void, she saw the huge true body of the Supreme God again.

The god was majestic, looking down at her, his majesty was inviolable.

She knew that this was the beginning of spiritual enlightenment.

But although the spiritual state still existed, she could keenly feel that something was different.

The sense of oppression from the Supreme God has weakened a lot.

Moreover, it seemed that there was only a little gift left for her to obtain from the Supreme God.

This should be the residual power of the Supreme God's device.

She could even feel that the god before her was gradually decaying.

The sacred light gradually faded, revealing a dark and dim abyss background. The outline began to blur, no longer looking like a fixed entity, but like countless twisting worms, twisting and swimming at the edge of her vision.

An indescribable fear arose spontaneously.

And was approaching her.

She quickly practiced the "Method of Removing the Shackles and Ascending to Immortality" and forcibly pulled herself out of it.

As she pulled away, she found herself leaving the void and arriving on top of the hall, close to the dome, looking down at the believers who were praying below.

A low and distant whispering sound came from the depths of the hall, like thousands of overlapping whispers, or like a hum seeping out from the void.

She felt the temple below her breathing slowly, as if it had come alive.

The sacred scenes on the reliefs were distorted and deformed in her eyes, becoming indescribable weird pictures.

And those pillars were twisted like knotty dough twists, with countless groaning human figures sticking out from them, as if they were made up of corpses.

The body of the statue in front of him seemed to be melting, and maggots were born. Sticky black liquid overflowed from its faceless face, outlining its sneering features. It looked down at the kneeling believers and turned them into crouching and crawling monsters...

She wanted to look away, but found herself unable to do so, as if there was an irresistible force forcing her to stare at the gradually disintegrating form of the statue.

The face of the statue began to change. The face where the black liquid was flowing cracked into long and thin cracks. Strange light flickered in the cracks, like countless twisted stars rotating.

"It's looking at me..." Liu Sheng's heart was beating like a drum, and his consciousness seemed to be torn to pieces by that gaze.

She heard Old Lady Su whispering in her ear, but she couldn't hear what she said clearly.

The sound mixed with the mumbling and flooded into her brain like a tide.

【wide awake!】

Liu Sheng's own voice penetrated the chaotic mumbling and pierced into his mind.

At this moment, Liu Sheng finally regained consciousness. His figure slowly descended from the air and merged into his kneeling body. He once again concentrated on practicing the "Method of Removing Shackles and Ascending to Immortality".

Only then did she wake up completely.

She slowly opened her eyes, still pious on the surface, but her heart was in turmoil.

The Supreme God is falling.

The god can no longer practice.

She shouldn't be the only one feeling this way, but why hasn't anyone heard of it so far?

[I think no one dares to say anything. They just think that maybe they have done something wrong, which caused the Supreme God to no longer favor them and punish them.]

Liu Sheng lowered his eyes and sighed slightly:
[Sure enough, faith is the strongest shackle. ]

After regaining consciousness, Liu Sheng finally had enough energy to think about whether the void just now had anything in common with the void she had entered with the help of the Seven Profound Orders.

If there really is something in common, then is the temple's communication with the gods equivalent to a natural Seven Mysterious Order, through which one can return to the original world?
However, Liu Sheng quickly calmed down.

The void just now was different from the void that had its own strong autonomy.

The so-called communication with gods should be similar to the Supreme God allocating different lines to individuals, forming a short-term link that can only reach a designated isolated space, which is a certain distance away from the real void.

In that space, one can sense divine inspiration and receive spiritual energy.

However, how much one can gain depends entirely on one's own three-dimensional practice. That is, the device itself will evaluate individuals based on certain standards and allocate "spiritual energy quota" accordingly.

However, this pool of spiritual energy is now gradually drying up.

Liu Sheng knew that this was related to her. Although she had no choice, she still felt a strong sense of responsibility and needed to solve this problem quickly.

This is also the reason why she chose this article title now.

After completing the routine prayer to the Supreme God, Liu Sheng slightly opened one eye and quietly looked at Old Lady Su beside him.

I saw Old Mrs. Su slowly regaining her composure, tremblingly holding on to her cane, as if she was preparing to stand up.

Liu Sheng hurried forward to support him.

She did not miss the surprise that flashed across Old Lady Su's face, as well as the deep fear in her eyes, so she asked tentatively:
"Master Su, are you okay?"

Old Mrs. Su frowned slightly, and after a moment of silence, she shook her head.

I was busy these past two days, so I posted it late.