I Am Loaded With Passive Skills

Chapter 4230: Chapter 1983: Pope (Part 3)

"Yi... Ji...?!"

This clearly long-dead name had never truly left my mind, merely forgotten, just waiting for an appropriate moment to awaken.

Not only knowing, Zi Chong could also clearly see through the perspective of ancient Holy Demons the passionate and grand pre-life and present life of Dao Ancestor Yi Ji.

After the Holy Ancestor, Demon Cultivation fractured me.

During this Harmonization period, eras shifted, Heaven’s fate evolved, some raised their chests and drew their swords, others bent their backs and tasted the grass.

Yet before this, there was an entire long Religious Era, led by the "Pope," under the banner of "Divine Sect," promoting the doctrine of "Memory Ascension," lauded by the entire world.

"Impossible!"

"How is this possible?"

Zi Chong was aghast, this memory emerged out of nowhere, clearly false, yet so vast.

Logically speaking, such vastness must contain numerous flaws, unable to withstand scrutiny, yet it was exceedingly complete, so complete that regardless of era background, religious belief, or the start of the Path, the culmination of the Path, Zi Chong could find genuine proof.

In the late Holy Demon Era, Heaven and Earth were influenced by Diabolical Force.

"Sword Sutra" records: "In the cold sculpted epoch, scarcity is the martial origin, Life Seed short-lived, ten thousand sounds muted," further suggests "Path Seed grows hindrances, beasts turn feral, vegetation green fades gray, Yi cloud stretches claws," essentially describing the general backdrop of the End of Dharma Era.

Yet not the Sword Ancestor’s "Lin Mountain moves, Waterfall River falls, Dragon hibernates wakes, Mirage Dream forms," rather "Sky bursts five pillars, Earth spews five pearls, living beings self-replicate, we embrace the Path for longevity."

Instead, it was the young Yi Ji sailing across the river, flowing eastward, initially savoring the human realm’s bittersweet taste, then tasting Secular Sword’s myriad phenomena, as the years passed, he could sing a long song: "Fear the vastness of Heaven and Earth, admire the infinity of the Great Path, suffer the frailness of flesh, resent the short-lived Life Seed."

Thus, among a crowd whose lifespan was merely thirty or fifty years, he preached the doctrines of "Command Heaven’s secret, assimilate ten thousand methods, absolve sin and alter fate, seal memories to become Gods," advocating the beliefs of "Born sinful, sin lies in mortal flesh, transform blood and flesh, memories grant longevity."

"Initially create with Heaven and Earth, transform the body, extend life and longevity," "Then cultivate the Memory Path, form a memory network, cover Heaven and Earth," thus space is no longer a restriction, time no longer a prohibition, as long as one enters the network, everyone can equally communicate across spacetime, "Born sinful, Heaven’s secret extraordinary."

Yi Ji, revered as the Pope of Divine Sect.

The Memory Path, rapidly spreading across the world from west to east, south to north, leading an entire era’s trend.

People cultivated Yi, pursued the Path for longevity.

The Pope amassed the power of faith, then desired to seal as Ancestral God, titled the Dao ancestor.

Yet overnight, a sudden mutation arose—during the Pope’s Harmonization period, the memory network briefly lost power control, causing some people’s memories to fall, and once discovered, incited public wrath.

The Pope’s body, found underground in the center of Cross Corner Street at Divine Sect’s headquarters, tied to the Holy Cross, was burned and frozen, his outer garment shattered; tendons and bones pulled and scraped, essence fragmented; flesh cut blood drained, his Path’s splendor leaked out.

The dignified Pope, endured three years of torture from the people, subjected to faith’s backlash, ultimately failed in Harmonization, Form and Godhood annihilated.

"His power residual fades, seeping into the cross, people’s loathing, urged spirits at Cross Corner Street, thus Divine Sect’s heavy apparatus, transformed into amongst Heavy Weapon List, Great Psionic Weapons... Bloody Pope’s Cross?"

Zi Chong read this memory, only feeling cold rising at the back of her head, her heart cried out impossibility.

False!

All false!

This memory was too abrupt, everywhere reeked of unrealness.

But while memory can be fabricated, yet Bloody Pope’s Cross, such heavy weapon, Great Psionic Weapons, how could such be fake?

"My memory has been altered?"

Zi Chong pondered deeply, attempting to trace the genuine origin of Bloody Pope, aiming to break through this false memory, find contradictions in Dao Ancestor Yi Ji, stopping Him from Path completion.

... No result.

Throughout ages, only this extensive religious history corresponds to the origin of Bloody Pope.

That pole, famous alongside Overlord and Shattered Shield on the Heavy Weapon List, Bloody Pope’s Cross, only the body of Dao Ancestor Yi Ji, modified by Heaven’s secret, possessing terrifying power, could wield.

All else are trifles.

And after the Memory Path verified by the world as a minor path, the cultivation method of religious form is also abandoned through generations, how could anyone generate Bloody Pope such heavy weapon afterwards?

"No!"

"There are flaws!"

Zi Chong sharply sensed, the Memory Path clearly completely hidden before, meaning the cultivation method of religious form was also once entirely forgotten.

Thus...

History, could possibly repeat.

Bloody Pope, indeed might have another genuine origin.

However!

Zi Chong could sense it was false, yet truth had long become untraceable.

At the moment Dao Ancestor persisted, even she could not find any substantial evidence in her own memory, to refute this viewpoint of a false memory.

Dao Ancestor claimed this as truth, unable to produce evidence otherwise, then, although essentially false, within memory’s distortion, under the logical consistency of reality’s integration and discord...

False, is also true!

...

"Forward then..."

"Continue forward..."

"Go to the center of Cross Corner Street, retrieve the Bloody Pope, unite the cross, become the ’Master of Holy Sect’..."

External memory unreliable, in a daze, Zi Chong’s mind echoed a truly existent suggestion from Devil Ancestor Power to Dao Xuanji.

Indeed, it was Devil Ancestor who sent Dao Xuanji to Cross Corner Street.

That command, clearly was spiritually perceived, just stepping a few steps further, one could touch upon "Bloody Pope," "Holy Sect" concepts.

Using this as a pivot, perhaps could leverage Dao Ancestor’s Memory Path, prompting Him to restart "Memory hidden, final-stage return to zero" cultivation method, requiring decades, even centuries of effort, completely missing out the Spiritual Cultivation Era.

However...

Just before stepping into Cross Corner Street, Wu Siniang, manifested by Dao Xuanji, coincidentally encountered a delightfully humorous Pure Yang Body Liu Guifen.

Liu Guifen’s grand ambitions fulfilled, with few words, Wu Siniang’s mission changed from heading to Cross Corner Street center to find Bloody Pope, to chasing dragon’s merit, assisting Liu Guifen to rise to position of Northern Realm master.

At that time...

Wu Siniang was unconcerned.

Liu Guifen was unconcerned.

The dignified Devil Ancestor naturally also indifferent to such minutiae changes in small matters.

Then, who cares?