I play the role of Jiajing in Zongwu: What crime have I committed?

"lie."

He said coldly.

"Do you know that the number of Grandmasters in the world is limited? Only those chosen by the divine messenger are qualified to break through to the Grandmaster realm."

"A divine messenger?"

Baihu wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his brows furrowed.

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Hehe, Langya Pavilion was chosen by the Divine Envoy to oversee the organizations in the four regions of Daliang, Nanchu, Beiyan, and Dayu."

Lin Chen flashed to the white tiger's side and said coldly.

"Our mission is to strictly control the number of Grandmasters in the four regions."

Zhu Houcong was still completely confused, so he controlled the white tiger to speak, "Actually, we are not from Daliang, we come from Qin."

"Heh, still trying to fool me?"

"The true energy within your bodies simply lacks the unique energy of the Divine Temple Technique. Regardless of whether you are from Qin or Liang, it is impossible for you to break through to the Grandmaster realm."

As he spoke, Lin Chen's tone suddenly turned stern, and he stared intently at the two of them.

"Therefore, you are heretics!"

Temple?

Zhu Houcong keenly grasped this key word, and it struck him like a thunderbolt.

He then suddenly realized what was happening.

I almost forgot that this world is a world that incorporates the worldview of "Joy of Life".

Zhu Houcong asked tentatively, "You mean that temple deep in the Arctic?"

Chapter 173 The Four Divine-Level Techniques of the Temple

"That's right."

Lin Chen's eyes were filled with fervor.

"The entire world was created by the temple, and even the martial arts techniques we cultivate originated from the temple. The higher the level of the technique, the stronger the cultivator."

"And neither of you has any energy fluctuations from the temple's techniques within your bodies!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Houcong finally understood why Lin Chen had declared the Azure Dragon and White Tiger to be heretics as soon as he appeared.

The Azure Dragon and the White Tiger are essentially puppets created using the Great Heavenly General Pill, and their internal energy has absolutely no relation to the temple's techniques.

According to the setting of the drama "Joy of Life", this world once experienced an unprecedented nuclear war due to its advanced technology.

This directly led to the destruction of the entire world.

Only near the Arctic do remnants of prehistoric civilizations remain.

Also known as the Military Museum.

Its essence is a refuge for prehistoric human technology and weapons.

The entire military museum is controlled by a central computer system.

Computers, by analyzing the history of the destruction of human civilization, have concluded that the root cause of human destruction is that technology has become too advanced.

To prevent humanity from being destroyed again, after human civilization re-emerged in this world, they began to send robot messengers to intervene.

It hinders the progress of civilization and restricts technological development.

The so-called temple messenger that Lin Chen mentioned should be the robot in the temple.

The mission of Langya Pavilion should be to be chosen by the temple to act as its lackeys and help it stop the process of modernization.

But why do they limit the number of Grandmasters?

Furthermore, if the temple was limiting the number of Grandmasters, why was the development of martial arts in the Qin state so prosperous?

As is well known, the number of Grandmasters in Daliang was not even in the same league as the number of philosophers in Qin.

So Zhu Houcong, controlling the white tiger, quickly came up with a clever idea and spoke in a suggestive manner.

"We also cultivate the temple's techniques. Perhaps it's because our techniques are at a higher level than yours that you can't sense our energy."

"A clumsy lie."

Lin Chen sneered upon hearing this, and the next second, he crossed his left index and middle fingers in front of his chest, forming a strange hand seal.

"Shaking the Dragon!"

In an instant, three ferocious black dragons appeared in the void, rushing towards the white tiger with an aura of destruction.

Wherever the black dragon passed, space itself was distorted.

Before the white tiger could react, it was torn to pieces by the three black dragons.

Lin Chen looked coldly at Qinglong, his voice as icy as ice.

"Don't test my patience. If you dare to lie again, this will be your fate."

Suppressing his shock, Zhu Houcong continued to ask, controlling the Azure Dragon, "How can you be so unreasonable? Have you seen all the martial arts techniques of the Hundred Schools of Thought?"

"And how can you be sure that our techniques aren't more advanced than yours?"

"Hmph, telling you won't hurt."

Lin Chen stood with his hands behind his back, speaking with an air of arrogance.

"Among the many cultivation techniques in the temple, four are divine-level techniques: the 'Dragon Seeking Technique' that I cultivate, the 'Yangzhou Slow' from the Cloud Mist Mountain of the Great Stream Dynasty, the 'Free and Easy Wandering' of the Qin Kingdom's Taoist school, and the yet-to-be-released 'Overlord True Qi'..."

Perhaps Lin Chen was too confident in his own abilities, because he revealed everything he knew.

It turns out that ever since the re-emergence of human civilization, the temple has been secretly monitoring the progress of this new civilization.

From the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, human development progressed steadily within the framework set by the temples.

However, during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, an unprecedented intellectual explosion completely shattered this balance.

The contention among the Hundred Schools of Thought not only brought about the liberation of thought, but also inadvertently triggered two completely different evolutionary paths.

Some wise people, through observing the workings of heaven and earth, discovered a simple method of breathing exercises.

To their surprise, they discovered that the air contained some kind of mysterious energy.

However, they did not know that those were radioactive elements left over from a prehistoric nuclear war.

Through breathing techniques, they absorb and transform these elements, turning them into a source of power to break through human limits.

This is how true qi is generated.

Meanwhile, another group of skilled craftsmen made amazing breakthroughs in the field of mechanics.

They crafted ingenious mechanisms from bronze, iron ore, and wood, and even created mechanical beasts.

Some of these components are made with a level of precision comparable to that of machine tool processing.

That's why the temple's alarm system went off.

However, in the risk assessment of civilization evolution, these tech-savvy individuals had not yet reached the threshold for elimination, so the temple initiated an intervention plan.

Thus, the first temple robot, the temple messenger, stepped out of the temple gates.

Carrying the "Free and Easy Wandering" martial arts manual, after undergoing countless aptitude tests, it finally found a wandering knight named Li Er outside Hangu Pass.

This person later became the founder of Taoism.

Lao Tzu.

From then on, martial arts civilization developed rapidly on this land like wildfire, completely suppressing the growth space of technological civilization.

Those who were originally leading the way in mechanical civilization have completely lost their market.

Even the leaders of this path, the Mohists and the Gongshu School, had to prioritize martial arts.

Apart from a few disciples who are still studying mechanical beasts, the vast majority of disciples from both families have turned to martial arts cultivation.

However, human greed is insatiable.

To put it bluntly, the central computer in the temple is just a program, far less complex than the human heart.

The computer quickly discovered that the development trajectory of Taoism had completely deviated from the preset path.

Some people began to covet the temple's secrets.

They even gathered a group of top martial arts experts and set up a trap to surround and destroy the two temple robots.

Ou Yezi used two robots as raw materials to forge famous swords from the famous sword manual.

Seeing that things were not going well, the temple began to devise a plan to intervene in the Taoist community.

This allowed them to successfully split into three major schools.

The Taoist Heavenly School, the Taoist Human School, and the Yin-Yang School.

With the split within Taoism, the divine cultivation technique "Free and Easy Wandering" was also dismantled.

No one else can reproduce the divine power of the complete technique.

However, the temple's troubles were not over.

In the southwestern region of Tahiti, a group of skilled craftsmen have also broken through technological barriers.

They not only manufactured gunpowder, but also human-powered tanks.

This time, the temple messenger used the same trick again.

With the Yangzhou Slow Technique in hand, they found a hunter in the Cloud and Mist Mountains who made a living by gathering herbs.

With the release of "Yangzhou Slow", a martial arts craze swept through the Tahiti region.

Martial arts civilization has once again successfully extinguished the spark of technology.

As the temple messengers frequently appeared and intervened in the world, the top martial artists in the regions of Daqing, Dayu, Daliang, Beiyan, and Nanchu gradually noticed the anomaly.

They pieced together a startling truth from the smallest clues.

Their world was being secretly controlled by some mysterious force.

This mysterious power resides deep within the Arctic.

Chapter 174 The Murderer of Meng Zhi Has Been Found

Thus, these martial arts masters, coveting the temple's treasures, gathered together to explore the temple.

Soon, an epic battle erupted between humans and the temple.

This earth-shattering battle lasted for two days and two nights, and the ice plains were littered with the corpses of temple robots and martial arts masters.

After this battle, very few temple robots remained.

All the warriors from the five kingdoms perished in this frozen wasteland.

This battle directly led to the severe decline of the martial arts civilization of the five nations.

After suffering heavy damage, the temple urgently needs a "representative" to strictly control the martial arts forces of the five kingdoms.

Temple Computer is worried that the five martial arts powers will resurge and attack Temple again.

After careful calculation, they selected a small sect that dealt in trading information about the martial arts world.

With the "Dragon Seeking Technique" manual in hand, they found the founder of Langya Pavilion.

They were instructed to periodically eliminate any high priests who might threaten the stability of the temple.

Just as Lin Chen was speaking eloquently...

The Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise, who had already eliminated Xie Yu, Xie Bi, and Xiao Jingrui, met at the city gate.

Zhu Houcong was controlling them and was about to head to the training ground when he suddenly sensed a sharp aura breaking through the air.

A figure in blue appeared in the distance, moving like a fleeting shadow, and arrived at the city gate in an instant.