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"What a huge tree! Can trees really grow this big? Even the World Tree I touched wasn't this big!"

Kavaja shook his head slightly upon hearing Jiang Bai's words, "The real World Tree is located deep within the earth, permeating the entire world. The World Tree you see is not the real entity, and the two cannot be compared."

"Oh, I see..."

Ghulam, standing next to Kavaja, took out a small, leaf-like object. "When you get to Sumeru City, wear this."

Jiang Bai took the little thing, puzzled, and asked, "What is this?"

Guram pointed to his ear, which was covered by the Void Terminal, and gestured for Jiang Bai to wear it as well.

"This is a Void Terminal, a tool that can connect to the [Void]."

"And what is emptiness?"

"The void is a treasure trove of knowledge, containing all the knowledge of the world. Silently reciting, 'May I hear the voice of divine wisdom,' will open it."

Jiang Bai did as he was told, and the Void Terminal on his ear lit up. The method of using the Void Terminal naturally entered his mind.

It's incredibly convenient to acquire knowledge simply by thinking about specific content.

Jiang Bai didn't try to ask any questions, fearing there might be some kind of surveillance program involved.

"This must be something very precious, why are you giving it to me?"

“The Void Terminal is not particularly valuable; it is currently being distributed to all travelers.”

"That's so nice... cough cough..."

Jiang Bai suddenly coughed twice. "Sorry, my body seems to have been somewhat weak ever since I encountered the World Tree."

"It's alright, we'll help you recover. Medical services at Xumi are free."

After arriving in Sumeru City, they changed into a lighter carriage. Jiang Bai sat in the carriage, craning his neck, and found everything novel and interesting.

"Who are those people? They seem a bit different." Jiang Bai asked curiously, pointing at the people dressed as mercenaries and carrying firearms.

The scholar beside Jiang Bai was quite willing to answer his questions, as they were very helpful.

“Those are mercenaries in a group of thirty, currently responsible for guarding Sumeru City. Most of these mercenaries come from the desert, so their skin color is different from ours.”

Upon hearing this answer, Jiang Bai lowered his eyes slightly.

Surprisingly, there is no official army here; instead, mercenary groups are hired to guard the city...

Based on this, it seems that the defensive forces of Sumeru City are probably not very large.

After all, how many people can a mercenary group have?

Tens of thousands is the maximum.

With tens of thousands of people scattered throughout a large city, the defenses in each area would not be very strong.

Jiang Bai felt more confident about this trip to the Academy of Teachings.

He'll definitely be able to run away.

Following the winding path up the big tree, they arrived at the high-altitude church, where Gulam led Jiang Bai out of the car.

"You'll be staying with me for now; I'll be in charge of your treatment."

Gulam led Jiang Bai to an empty room inside the coaching academy.

"Travel is bound to be tiring, and you are too weak to reconnect to the World Tree. You should rest well first."

After saying that, he closed the door and left.

This room is said to be empty, but once the door is closed, it becomes a prison.

There are no windows, so we cannot see into the outside world.

The room contained only a bed, a desk, some simple food and water.

Jiang Bai checked the room and relaxed after confirming there were no surveillance devices.

He took off the Void Terminal, casually placed it on the table, and lay down on the bed with his hands behind his head.

"Is this like being in jail? This is quite a novel experience."

Gudu crawled out of Jiang Bai's pocket, looking around curiously.

Jiang Bai hung the Void Terminal on its body and said, "Little Gudu, come and see if you can use this Void Terminal."

Chapter 692 Everything Must Be Done with Caution

"Silently pray in your heart, 'May I hear the voice of divine wisdom.' How about that? Have you connected?"

"Goo?"

Gudu, carrying the void terminal, blinked at Jiang Bai, showing no reaction whatsoever.

Jiang Bai helped it remove the Void Terminal and sat on the bed, lost in thought.

Is it because its intelligence isn't up to the connection standards of the Void Terminal? But Gudu is quite clever. Could it be that there are some hidden barriers to connecting to the Void Terminal, such as only allowing access to human races...? Or is the Void Terminal bound to a specific person, and once activated, it cannot be used by others?

No one could answer these questions, so Jiang Bai had to put them aside for the time being.

He put on the Void Terminal and pretended to ask questions about how to retrieve his memories.

Soon, the void provided feedback: drug treatment, environmental stimulation, and self-recovery...

These methods are useful, yet ultimately useless.

Jiang Bai tried adding more keywords to the question, such as World Tree, Spirit Fragrance, Touch, and Amnesia, but World Tree did not provide any corresponding knowledge response.

It seems he doesn't have access to this kind of knowledge.

Upon further reflection, the void does not respond to each person's question; instead, it imparts corresponding knowledge based on each person's identity, experience, and age.

In short, to acquire higher-level knowledge, one needs a higher status and greater authority.

Moreover, the Void Terminal is indeed bound to an individual, and when it is bound, it records the individual's information and includes it in the Void's large database.

Therefore, this surveillance should theoretically exist.

Advanced Void Terminals can view the questions asked and searched by lower-level Void Terminals in the Void, but this is a relatively discreet matter and is not openly displayed.

Ordinary people's virtual terminals will not receive special attention.

Having realized this, Jiang Bai stopped holding back and began asking all sorts of questions that someone with amnesia would ask in order to solidify his persona.

Jiang Bai first searched for World Tree, and the answer he found was no different from what Tinari had given him, and even less than what Tinari had told him.

Clearly, his virtual terminal had extremely low access levels, allowing him to search only a very limited amount of content. This was likely intentionally set by the Council of Religion to restrict his access to knowledge.

Knowing he wouldn't find much information, Jiang Bai casually fiddled with the search, symbolically searching for the Great Compassion Tree King and the Little Lucky Grass King.

Five hundred years ago, the sages found a newly born god from the scorched ruins, who now resides in the Pure Land Palace.

Information about the Little Lucky Grass King is only one line long, and nothing more.

Searching for the Great Tree King immediately brings to mind many shining points of light, each representing the Great Tree King's deeds and people's deepest feelings for this deity.

Jiang Bai took off the Void Terminal, lay on the bed, and absentmindedly squeezed the Gudu (a type of gudong), while thinking about the Great Compassion Tree King.

What the Great Tree King meant by making the world forget her was less about forgetting and more about erasing her existence.

If you simply forget her, she will eventually remember you again. Only by completely erasing her existence can you ensure that the World Tree's disease is completely eradicated.

Would Sumeru be willing to forget their gods?

Obviously, they wouldn't want to.

Moreover, ordinary people cannot erase the existence of the Great Compassion Tree King, so even if this matter is mentioned, it will not have any effect.

"I don't want to think about it anymore, I'm going to sleep..."

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Meanwhile, Ghulam, who was in charge of Jiangbai affairs, entered an experiment located deep within the Religious Council.

[Beep, identity verification passed.]

An inconspicuous elevator door opened, and Ghulam descended, undergoing multiple identity checks before arriving at the experimental site specially set up by the Order of the Church to resolve the crisis of the World Tree.

This place is divided into several areas, and each area requires identity verification to enter. Inside, many scholars are conducting research.

Many of these scholars were unaware of the overall picture of the project; they were only responsible for their own small part.

But one thing they were absolutely certain of was that everything they did was to heal the World Tree.

Whether it's publishing papers, achieving a higher status, or having better development opportunities, as long as you join this project, the future is just around the corner.

Ghulam walked through the empty, wide corridor to his own academy's laboratory and knocked on the door of the office reserved for the sage.

"My lord, it is I, Gulam."

"Come in."

A familiar voice rang out, but compared to the amiable tone of the voice along the way, this one was much more serious.

"My lord, I've already taken him to rest. Do we really want to help him regain his memory?"

Kavaja was sitting in his office chair, reviewing the experimental data and materials that had been sent over, when he heard this and looked up.

"Recover his memories? Why should we help him recover his memories?"

"Hmm?" Gulam's expression shifted slightly, clearly indicating that he had the same idea as the Sage.

As the sage's confidant, he naturally knew far more than ordinary people, and even had some knowledge of the specific purpose of the entire project.

Recovering memories means there are many uncontrollable factors. Compared to the unknowns that come with recovering them, a blank slate is obviously easier to manage.

The key issue is that he doesn't know how to regain his memories.

It's worth noting that this is the only person who, by rashly absorbing the vast amount of knowledge about the World Tree, has not become an idiot but has only lost their memory.

Without case studies, there's no starting point.

The reason they brought him to the Order of the Church under the pretext of helping him regain his memories was simply because his physique was very useful to their project.

"Isn't a tool that we can manipulate more useful than a personality with its own memories?"

Ghulam understood immediately. "I know. I will take him to the Church House so that he can identify with and belong to it. But if I don't help him find his memories, he is very likely to become suspicious."

Cavajra picked up the research report on the table again and said casually, "Then I'll help him find it."

Ghulam thought about it and had an idea.

"I'll find a few adventurers from Liyue, extract some of their memories about Liyue and their adventures, create jars of knowledge from them, and then inject some of that knowledge into them at the right time to create the illusion that their memories are returning..."

This method is the safest and fastest way to take effect.

"I've already entrusted it to you. You can handle it yourself without asking me. Observe and test it for a couple more days. Only after confirming that everything is correct can you bring it to the laboratory, and then try to connect it to the World Tree."

"This environmental remediation project is of great importance and must be kept secret. If it is leaked, it could cause our entire plan to fail. We have now reached a critical stage, so we must be extremely cautious in everything we do!"

Chapter 693 The God of Wisdom is Not Qualified

Jiang Bai had no idea how the Order of the Church would help him regain his memories.

He agreed to come to the Order of the Church for two reasons: first, because of the Order's public promise to help him find and retrieve the World Tree; and second, to heal the World Tree.

As a member of this world, how can we not sit idly by when the World Tree, which is related to the entire world, faces a major crisis?

Right now, only Sumeru is affected, but who knows when it will spread to the whole world? What will he and Hu Tao do then?

Since it's impossible to leave this place and live in other worlds, we have to find a way.

He has obtained the method for curing the World Tree from the Great Tree King; the question is how to implement it.

His intuition told him that the key to implementation lay with the Little Lucky Grass King, but the Little Lucky Grass King did not seem to have the authority.

Therefore, the third method was to try to meet the Little Lucky Grass King through the connections of the Order of the Church.

Jiang Bai slept soundly until the next morning. After a full and dreamless sleep, he felt his mental energy had been completely restored.

Gulam came to visit Jiang Bai and thoughtfully brought him breakfast.

"How are you? Are you settling in?"

"It's alright, the bed is quite comfortable."

Jiang Bai plays himself as a somewhat sunny, gentle, and shy young man of unknown age.