crossed border

Chapter 280 East Country

The huge lake just exists quietly. Under the winter sun, the frozen lake looks like a mirror, and the shore is crushed ice. Looking around, you can see the natural beauty far away from the world.

Moreover, a very miraculous phenomenon appeared on the surface of the lake. The ice cubes bulged upwards by as much as one meter, standing upright near the cracks like the bony plates on the back of Stegosaurus, like a beautiful chain of raised ice cones.

This phenomenon is called "God Wataru", because from a distance, it looks like a god is passing by on the frozen lake.

The scientific explanation is that the lake is fully frozen and the lake surface freezes to a certain thickness, and then the ice cubes shrink and expand due to the temperature difference between day and night——

For example, when the temperature drops at night, the ice will shrink and the lake will crack.When the temperature rises during the day, the ice will expand accordingly, so the cracked part is under pressure from both sides, making a sound and bulging.

Therefore, in the end, the ice cubes on the lake surface pushed each other and produced a linear uplift phenomenon, which is a very scientific and natural phenomenon.

but……

You can't say too much, you must know that there are gods and spirits in this world.There are too many extreme non-scientific and supernatural examples, and the things in legends may not be true.

For example, maybe such a phenomenon is really the trace left by the gods walking on the frozen lake?
"There seems to be a very powerful ground here..."

On the mountainside to the west of Suwa Lake, Mu Xiu stared at the whole picture of the huge frozen lake from a distance. In his eyes, the whole lake and the surrounding mountains, rivers and land seemed to exude a different atmosphere.

Specifically, it has a strong spirituality.

All things have animism, not only human beings and animals, but also the sun, moon, mountains, rivers, trees, flowers and birds, etc. all have animism, and even all natural objects will begin to be deified after their spirituality has accumulated to a certain level.

Conversely, it can also be said that if the spirituality of a piece of land is particularly strong.

——Then most likely, elves or even gods have been born in the local area.

"Land?... Oh, are you talking about the land god?" Penglai Shan Huiye's voice came from behind him, and it sounded like the princess was quite absent-minded.

"Yes, if I'm not mistaken...there may be not one god in this area, but two."

While talking, Mu Xiu launched a wide-area search, but he couldn't detect any special changes in his breath.In other words, because I noticed it, I couldn't see anything.

Just as a drop of water is best hidden in the sea, and a grain of sand is best hidden in the desert, the entire Suwa region is filled with that divine aura.

In such a vast area, the gods born out of faith have no real entities, so it is basically difficult to find them directly.

However, Mu Xiu didn't intend to find out the gods on this side of the land. It would be troublesome enough to know one. If there were two, he didn't want to provoke them at all.

Along the way, when he arrived at the nearby area, he could see clearly that the population density within a radius of thousands of miles was much higher than other places.

If there is no accident, those should be believers of the local gods.As far as belief in God is concerned, having a sufficient and stable source of belief in this era is the greatest capital.

That is to say, on this land, it is as if an earthly kingdom of God appeared out of thin air. The closer to the center of the kingdom of God, the stronger the power of the owner of the kingdom of God.

Mu Xiu roughly estimated that this place is already within the safe limit range. If he continues to approach, if there is a conflict due to something, he has no chance of winning.Although you are not afraid of such troubles, you can save as much as you can.

Anyway, getting here is enough.

He is very clear about his goal. He has been traveling all the way for half a month. Apart from hunting those terrifying aliens along the way, he just wants to go to the border land in the mountains far away from Japan, which is forgotten by time and the world. The predecessor of Taoyuan Township.

So naturally he won't give up the basics and chase after the trivial.

"Two gods? Then who is the master of this land?" Penglai Shan Huiye raised his head in surprise, "Or is it that one mainly relies on the spirituality of the land itself, and the other relies on faith?"

"I don't know about this. After all, there is no research. Is there any difference?" Mu Xiu withdrew his gaze and turned his head.

Behind him is a snow field that has been artificially leveled and spacious. There is an outdoor tent that is incompatible with this era. A noble and elegant black-haired girl is lowering her head in front of the tent door, concentrating on... PSP.

Her true nature has been revealed, she clearly disliked "house power" so much before, but now she is rapidly evolving into a house girl...

Mu Xiu complained silently in his heart, even though he himself was the instigator, he always felt absurd when he saw such a scene.But he doesn't have such a thing as a conscience, and Penglai Shanhuiye is gradually overlapping his impression.

"This concubine's identity is not very clear, but I heard Yonglin mentioned that the difference between believing in gods and ancient gods is not the most fundamental divinity, but the direction of development after possessing divinity."

Princess Hei Changzhi pressed the pause button of the PSP in her hand, she thought about it, and said in a very casual tone.

"The power of the former is mainly reflected in the field of "clergy" like the authority of the law, and the power of the latter is the absolute "power" formed by the fundamental concept of divinity..."

Priesthood?power?Mu Xiu was thoughtful.

Maybe Penglaishan Huiye wanted to relax or change his mood, so he said in detail: "Belief in God needs to rely on faith to maintain one's divinity and strength. When faith reaches its peak, no matter whether it is the sky or the ground, there is nothing Any threat at all..."

"But faith will fade." Mu Xiu interjected.

Yes, simple faith always fades.

Because unless the gods always show miracles and prove their existence and power to everyone, it is impossible to let the gods favor everyone, so naturally some people will doubt it.But if the gods always show miracles, proving their existence and power to everyone——

How much divine power does this consume?

Moreover, the more believers, the larger the scattered area, and the more divine power is required to perform miracles... This is a situation that cannot be developed into an absolute positive correlation no matter what.

In the end, if you really do this, the god is actually strengthening the weak base, and what you get in the end is not enough to spend.

"Yes, isn't it normal to have gains and losses? The characteristic of belief in God is that it can quickly gather strength and grow, and theoretically speaking, there is no upper limit to power... But once you lose your faith, your strength will begin to decline. In the end, I couldn’t even maintain my own existence.”

After a slight pause, Penglai Shanhuiye continued.

"The ancient gods are generally called natural gods, and their power does not come from faith. The power of faith can be used by them, but it is not fundamental. Even if they rely too much on it, their divinity will be tilted towards the god of faith. , like a wonderful poison that is useful even to the gods."

After pondering for a while, Mu Xiu understood.

The so-called true "clergy" is actually the authority of the law, because the world will open certain authority to you if the conditions are met.Belief in God itself can be said to have no attribute concept, and its power mainly comes from the additional effect of "clergy".

For example, a deity who became a mountain god because of being worshiped, the power he possesses is naturally the power of the mountains and the earth. This is because he is a mountain god, so he has such power.

The so-called real "power" is the power of the gods themselves, which probably involves the origin of existence, and finally abstracts the concept from the root of divinity and condenses the absolute authority.

This kind of god does not have priesthood, but it does not have corresponding power because of having priesthood, but because it has absolute power, it is attached with corresponding priesthood.

——Just because of the difference in order, there are two existences that are completely opposite in nature and only have the same name.

"The ancient gods are actually becoming less and less. It's like many monsters are born from rumors and grotesque fears. Purely inhuman aliens have become extremely rare."

At this time, Her Royal Highness seemed to think of something, and said something regretfully.

"For example, let's talk about the mountain we are on. If it can accumulate spirituality naturally, and finally the whole mountain comes alive in the true sense, it will be the purest god or inhuman. But as long as it is contaminated before A little faith, and there is no hope..."

Mu Xiu looked at the snow under his feet, looking thoughtful again.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this. Hey, didn't you say that the nearby border is the border you are going to, why don't you continue on your way and stop here?" Penglai Shan Huiye opened another car with great interest. a topic.

"It's an uninhabited border area of ​​the Eastern Kingdom, a sparsely populated area where monsters appear, or should be said to be an area where a large number of monsters are concentrated. For example, tengu and ghosts live there in groups, and there is a direct link to hell. The road..." Mu Xiu explained.

"As far as I know, the top big monsters are the big tengu of the tengu clan, and the ghost clan is now gathering four heavenly kings—that is to say, there are five big monsters on the surface. It’s too unwise to just do it.”

After finishing speaking, Mu Xiu couldn't help but sighed again.

Another reason is that he does not know the specific area, because Gensokyo is not Gensokyo at this moment, and it is 300 years behind the later generations, and the geography and landforms are estimated to be completely different.

He also just remembered the setting that "Yokai Mountain retains the original appearance of Yazhiyue before it was destroyed by Konohana Saki Yeji - the God of Mount Fuji - out of jealousy", so he was able to roughly narrow the scope to the the current neighborhood.

Because if you regard the "Yattake Remains" as the "Yattake Mountains" in the Yachino-Dake Chushin Kogen National Park between Nagano Prefecture and Yamanashi Prefecture, then you can initially determine the approximate orientation.

In addition, at the foot of the mountain is Suwa Lake, which is the origin of the name of Shiya Suwako, which is located nearby, so the mutual proof of clues will naturally be more powerful.

Therefore, it can be concluded that the predecessor of Gensokyo, that area should be around here.Anyway, the deviation is definitely not big, maybe they are on the edge now.

But in this way, when Moriya Shrine moved back to Gensokyo later, it was actually equivalent to revisiting the old place?
Mu Xiu couldn't help but diverge his thoughts.

"Then what is your purpose?"

But at this time, Penglai Shanhuiye finally couldn't help being curious. She has been watching this guy do this for half a month, but she didn't explain the reason. She always felt that things should not be so simple.

Mu Xiu gave her a strange look, blinked and replied: "Didn't I say that, I have found meaning for my existence, but it is too difficult to understand that meaning, so I Now it’s time to do what I can do first.”

"—Anyway, this matter will definitely be inseparable from me in the end, wouldn't it be more beneficial for me to take the initiative in advance?"

(End of this chapter)