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"Sorry, it seems that my movements are still a bit delayed."

Fan Ning slowly walked down the steps on the side of the organ band: "If I had known that you were in a bad state, maybe it would be safer to hold a rough version of "The Poems of Awakening" and use it for the time being, to understand some of the details of the knowledge involved. Misunderstandings can be kept and gradually corrected later.”

"If it gets really bad, I will take the initiative to contact you." Qiong's voice was cool and calm. She stood up from the front of the ceremony platform, turned around and stepped on the wood and saluted slightly, "The recent troubles are basically solved. My The strength should be restored to the second level of Xiao Xiao within a few days, thank you."

Fan Ning said "Hmm" and glanced around with his peripheral vision. Suddenly his eyes focused on the colorful windows surrounding the church.

There are large bloody fingerprints all over the windows!

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"It doesn't matter." Joan seemed to be used to this. "These remaining knowledge contaminations cannot enter. Although this time she followed me close to the barrier of Qiming Church, next time, she will not be able to return to the hidden path of dreams. Think about it again. It’s not that easy to track me down.”

Fan Ning said nothing, frowned and slowly walked over.

Qiong felt a little strange, and she also took steps to get closer to him.

When the two of them got a closer look, their expressions finally changed.

These bloody handprints are on the inside of the window! It's like someone stood inside Qiming Church and pressed it!

The two of them turned their heads almost instantly.

The church was still quiet and empty, filled with light golden mist, and there was nothing unusual about it.

"Is your judgment too optimistic?" Fan Ning's eyes were wary.

"It's not like it's my problem, it might be your problem." Joan turned her head again and looked at the blood stains that had been pressed and dragged on the colored window. "When I saw this situation, my first reaction was like a dream being infected. characteristics, but there is no other movement. I am not sure whether you have met 'Miss Crimson' recently?"

"No, the only connection is the discussion and dismantling of pollution knowledge when creating "Poetry of Awakening", but I am sure that the whole process was carried out with good protection."

"What about playing? Have you played recently?"

"Performance? Yes." Fan Ning hesitated for a moment, "But according to the results of the previous discussion, the risk link is limited to composition, and performance and composition are very different in nature. Once the program of music has been fixed, the materials in it can only follow the established The direction of the music serves what I want to express. In this sense, there is no difference between the knowledge that reflects 'Red Pond' and other knowledge. They are just my musical vocabulary."

Joan gently pressed the keys of her silver flute while wondering.

Yes, speaking of performance, it was also performed just now, and the effect was obviously positive. Fan Ning's purpose in writing this piece was to use art form to "deconstruct and transform" those polluting knowledge.

"If there are any other changes in the near future, does it count to achieve awakening and the arrival of midsummer?" When Fan Ning thought of this, he explained some relevant folklore knowledge of "The Song of Awakening" and listed some confusions with strong hallucination elements. at.

Qiong is the only person who clearly knows that Fan Ning is in the Southern Continent. Because she is very powerful and her whereabouts have completely escaped the reality of the Northern Continent, she will not be threatened by information spying from the Special Patrol Office. Fan Ning has provided her with some forged information before. Preliminary information on the past of the Western Continent.

But she was also unsure about Fan Ning's question about "Awakening Chant".

This discussion has no results yet.

"In your current situation, you can try to be promoted to the Knower. There are too many unknown factors in the external environment, so there is no need to delay."

The girl in the purple skirt held the flute behind her back and looked up at Fan Ning.

"I have here the key to the 'Ashless Door', which has a 'wild' phase climbing path, and a 'shattered key door' key, which has a 'key' phase climbing path. The former can be reserved for Xilan in the future, yours The field of study is suitable for the latter.”

"As a thank you, would you like me to give it to you now?"

Fan Ning thought for a while and said: "I remember discussing the questionable literal meaning of the 'Gate of Broken Keys' before, and if I remember correctly, its key is your spirit body itself. This seems to sound like a weird idea. Isn’t it too safe?”

Qiong raised her right hand, palm upward, and a small drop of purple-black viscous liquid gradually formed and suspended in it.

"In the process of passing through the Huita Gate, there is no correlation between benefits and dangers. The same is true between the different keys chosen and the different results. For some higher doors, once the key is mastered, the process is easy and controllable; and sometimes promotion The climber has spent a lot of money, but what he has traversed is only the first level. There is no pattern to find where is the dead end and where is the way to survive. It may be that one climbing path is easy to walk at low places but difficult to walk at high places. Or it could be the opposite, and these situations have been changing slowly," she explained slowly.

"However, the key is extremely difficult to find. Under normal circumstances, you and I don't have the capital to 'seek advantages and avoid disadvantages' at all. We can only use what we have. The 'key' is the same as the 'door of broken keys', which is a very high level. A door that is relatively cost-effective, the key will be completely broken during the journey, which directly causes the 'self' form of the key to become a paradox and cannot be 'self-used'. "

"There is no feasible way. I can use the 'key embryo' in my hand that is based on my spiritual embodiment to carve out other spiritual bodies that meet certain conditions, such as 'phantom people'."

"If you need it, after I further recover my strength, I will help you go to a certain branch of the Special Patrol Department to get one. The planing process will have a certain failure rate, but now they are in order to contain the gnosis and control the path. I’ve created a lot of ‘phantoms’, so I can try it a few times, it’s not a difficult thing.”

The girl's tone was cold and calm, as if she was discussing a trivial matter.

"Thank you for your kindness, but I just want to inquire about the situation because it is related to you." Fan Ning said.

"Did you find other keys? From 'Zhu'?" The purple-black liquid suspended in Qiong's hand began to smoke and disintegrate.

"Perhaps you can help me check." Fan Ning smiled and looked up at the height directly above the church.

He imagined that there was a non-existent tray under his feet, and the invisible power of the "key" phase exerted a fictitious influence, and his whole body floated in the air.

Although the rising speed was extremely slow, surprise appeared in Qiong's eyes.

"Why can he fly in the Yiyong before he reaches the Deep One?"

She followed Fan Ning into the sky, and their spiritual bodies rose higher and higher. The ceremony table, candles and benches below became smaller in the golden mist.

Next to the lighting pavilion on the dome of the church, in a small space that resembled a lantern and was surrounded by seven-sided colored windows, Fan Ning reached out and unscrewed one of the windows.

"What is this layer outside!?" Qiong couldn't help but exclaimed.

At that time, Fan Ning was conducting a "dream interview" with the Old Symphony Orchestra in the Qiming Church. After the crowd dispersed, he accidentally or destined to discover the key that had been tampered with by "Old Days" into "reproduced music" throughout the whole story. Although the characters in this dream were gone, the huge translucent slime barrier outside the window, which resembled unknown biological tissue, obviously gave Joan a strange and terrifying feeling.

"It seems you don't know either, but it does not affect the observation of the Hui Pagoda above, and at least it shows that the secret realm of migration here is indeed somewhere in the Hui Pagoda."

Qiong followed Fan Ning's gesture and looked upward. The dazzling and violent light penetrated the child's hole. Due to the obstruction of the branches, the intensity of the illumination was somewhat reduced, but it was enough to illuminate the skull in the dream with cracks.

"The observation angle of Qiming Church actually has two climbing paths of 'Candle' and 'Key' at the same time. I always thought that the hidden knowledge that Caroln studied successively came from the 'Unfallen Fire' and the 'Tower Builder'. Now, It seems not! It is impossible for their secrets to appear in the same secret place. Which witness created these words and traces? There are many secrets in Caron, exactly the same as mine before."

Qiong observed a part of the climbing path of the "candle" with a golden halo like an annular solar eclipse, tangled and rippling black shadows, and a torrent of brilliant flames. It was relatively unfamiliar, and she also observed the more familiar shape of the candle. Determine the ascending path of a "key" phase that is sharply defined, sparkling with lightning, or a deeper purple secret.

"No, that's right there"

She suddenly discovered some special "branches" or "tunnels". The key "nodes" or "caves" were still the doors related to "candles", but the texture and light and shadow of the roads they passed were completely different from the existing ones. It has a complex structure and no abnormal tissue that can ulcerate or proliferate.

They are relatively slender and narrow in appearance, and the higher they go, the closer they are to nothingness. The golden light shines in them, and the flowing knowledge is very familiar. It is not close to their own characteristics, but close to Fan Ning's aura.

"This is the key to the 'Gate of Lights and Shadows' that I am currently researching." Fan Ning said, "I plan to use my "Third Symphony" to explore the structure of the metaphorical tower. Do you think this attempt is reliable? If empirical If possible, this 'Light Shadow Door' key is just a starting point, and I will most likely climb up along this path in the future."

Fan Ning sincerely felt that with the completion of his first two movements, it was much more stable than the new state that could collapse at any time when he first saw it. It had also moved up from the state of the cornerstone, and the metaphor of the secret Reached the height of the second door.

Since the form of this key is only "discussion" or "metaphor", as the "Symphony No. 3 in D minor" to realize it, it does not need to go through a formal performance process, as long as you successfully complete the process from the first level to the second level. The creation and metaphor of the sixth door should make it possible to pass through the "Gate of Lights and Shadows" with it.

As for going higher... At that time, he had already felt that the solution to the two-fold door "Gate of Enlightenment" with "candle" may be related to "Gate", and the solution to the three-fold door "Gate of Whirlpool" with "candle" may be related to art. It is related to the breakthrough of theoretical integration, but because the promotion is not high enough and the "distance" is not close enough, the details of this knowledge are not "observed" clearly.

When you are officially promoted to the Knower later, you should be able to rely on this self-constructed and unique climbing path to get a clearer glimpse of the key form of the future door.

"You yourself studied the climbing path?..." Qiong felt that her knowledge was not enough for a while.

"That's right. Is there any similar precedent in history that can be used as a reference?"

"I really don't know..."

Although in the basic common sense of occultism, there are some general statements that are correct, such as "the appearance and will of the world are real and influence each other"... but those are just theories. She has never seen the appearance of the world. Mortal creatures can actually use works of art to change the upper structure of Huita!

"At least, based on your experience, is it a climbing path?" Fan Ning continued to try to confirm.

Promoting to the level of the Adept is accompanied by great danger and essential changes. It would definitely be safer to consult with Qiong, who once reached the level of half-Order Executor.

"In theory, as long as you connect some doors in different upper and lower relationships, it is called an ascending path. The phase of the door involved is the ascending path of that phase, and yours is naturally the same."

"But Huita's original ascending paths were formed under the influence of the Lord of Witness, or in other words, they were the trajectories they had ascended and traveled. Finding the key is to cross the door again with these trajectories. Some people took the main road, some took the small road, and some chose a more unpopular fork in the road. Some people even took a detour to go to doors of other phases because the road ahead was too bad... But for someone like you who forcibly carved out a road where there was no road, I may really have to go back and look for similar examples..."

"I think you can give it a try. Conventional keys are not absolutely safe. The path you have opened up with your own inspiration is tailored to your own needs. My intuition tells me that it may be a good thing and may bring about some different changes in the future. You have always been different..."

After the two landed on the stage, Joan saw that Fanning seemed to be thinking or worried about something, so she stood in front of him and waited for him to speak.

It took Fanning hundreds of breaths to sort out the confusing information and asked again:

"What kind of secret organization or related witness master would have a secret ritual or tribute to drill holes in people's skulls?"

Joan's eyes flashed with surprise:

"Tong Mu, have you come into contact with mysterious factors related to her?"

Fanning frowned and asked: "It seems that you met an existence when you entered the 'cracking field' by mistake in your dream and became a knowledgeable person before your past memories were awakened?"

Then he added some details of the "path reproduction method" found in the ruins of the Grand Court School that day.

He remembered that there were some local red areas on the human skull bones on the schematic diagram at that time.

After listening quietly, Joan asked, "You mean, the so-called 'marking' of the old organist in Vian was the fact that he had a skull trepanation operation performed while carrying the token?"

"The change of the return path and the marking of the ritual legend are already 80% certain." Fanning nodded, "and I often see stalls that do this 'business' in the streets and alleys of the southern continent. It's hard to believe that it's a coincidence, so it's almost certain."

He recalled what Luna said when he asked her, "Since this is another person who is related to Vian I asked the southerner around me about this unexpected discovery. She said that skull drilling is indeed a folk custom that has been passed down since the Principality of Chaos. Its effects include but are not limited to "curing diseases", "relieving pain", "activating thinking", "communicating with spirits", etc., but most of these stall owners today are actually scammers, and they can't tell me more detailed information..."

Qiong searched for what she had seen and what she had learned from studying the "key". After a moment of hesitation, she said:

"The secret organization is called the "Holy Wound Cult", or the "Holy Wound Society". "