"Since you clearly know that there are "braves", why do you still have to create new beliefs or something? Isn't it better to just take advantage of the death of some god to learn how to be a brave?"
"You can even eat corpse oil to strengthen your body, so you can be a brave man in a daze, right?" Li Yue pulled off the old man's wrist and saw the white liquid flowing inside.
This white liquid continuously nourishes the old man's body and reshapes his bones and muscles.
When the old man saw Li Yue eyeing Bai Jiang, he immediately yelled and tried to break free from the torture rack.
Then Li Yue twisted her even tighter, as if it was fully wound.
"What is this?" Li Yue lit the torch again.
"This is divine blood... It seems to be also called... the source of faith..." The old man lowered his head in fear, "By eating the divine blood... you can get closer to faith and gods..."
"So that's what you learned by trying to get a red oil, right?"
"I also learned it from... other believers..." The old man was once a member of other sects, and he only recently found a new faith inspired by red oil.
"Becoming a brave requires countless accumulation of materials, accumulation of countless experiences, battles and rituals..."
"Although there are indeed brave men born from the source of faith..."
"But with divine blood... we don't need to take this crooked path!" The old man firmly believed in this.
"Okay, I understand, God is dead, you have a shortcut." Li Yue nodded, understanding the relationship between these sects and brave men on the mainland.
Whether you believe it or not, it is just an appearance. The core is still the divine blood, or the "source of faith", which can help humans quickly gain power.
Contagious power.
"Is this the main city of Demon King City?" Li Yue pointed to the city on the map.
"Yes, there are many kinds of demons there..." The old man thought Li Yue was still asking about the specialties.
Li Yue had decided that it was impossible to fully infer the actual meaning of the 11 punctuation points just from the information from the old man's mouth, so he simply gave up and changed the purpose of the conversation to simply understand the information about these destinations.
"What about here? Logically speaking, shouldn't the Demon King's City be the most corner place? Why is there a mountain?" Li Yue's finger continued downward, pointing to a mountain range further south of the Demon King's City.
"This is Jue Shan, the edge of the continent, a limit that cannot be touched or crossed." The old man's understanding of Jue Shan was very clear.
"Why?" Li Yue didn't understand.
It's clear that Demon King's Castle is full of demons, so why is there a further boundary?
Are there more terrifying beings over there?
"I don't know..." The old man shook his head and took the opportunity to collect the divine blood flowing in the broken arm into his body.
"Okay..." Li Yue also realized that the old man's knowledge was limited and motioned for him to continue.
"This is the former holy city, Sindelami, and the place where faith fell..." He repeated five o'clock in the south of Hongyou Town, and the old man changed to the north.
The punctuation point on the north side of the Cracked Gold Mountain is Syndrami, the place where the Sky Ridge fell.
"What now?" Li Yue noticed that on Wendy's map, traces of the Holy City were heavily obliterated.
"Now it is in ruins. It is a place strictly guarded by the Protestant Empire and is being rebuilt." The old man's knowledge of the north avoided the south.
"So other sects don't dare to preach there?" Li Yue tried to understand the origin of the old man's inexplicable awe for Sindelami.
"The Holy City, within the empire... is a place we will never go to." The old man nodded, "Protestantism is taking root, and there is not much time left for other faiths..."
"Protestantism is great?"
"Supported by the empire, they have endless believers and resources..." The old man sighed, "If it weren't for the old religion still spreading in the north, I'm afraid the new religion would have unified the continent..."
"Old religion?" Li Yue realized that the old man's research on sects far exceeded his understanding of other things.
"The remnants of the old Holy See... are taking shelter in the Snow Country... the successor pope is taking a spiritual path and shifting the focus of faith..." The old man began to murmur, saying some words that he himself could not understand.
Li Yue simply attributed this to the dispute between the New Religion and the Old Religion. At present, it seems that it has nothing to do with him. The 11 punctuation points do not exist in the Tas Empire itself. They are mainly concentrated in the old Holy See and Demon King City.
"Fanhuang City, on the edge of the desert, is an important trading city-state between the old Holy See and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is adjacent to the desert..." The old man introduced the last three marked points.
"I heard that the Sand Kingdom, the Empire and the Snow Kingdom are competing for the dominance of Fanhuang City, but it has not yet reached the level of a war..."
"Why? Isn't the empire the strongest?" Li Yue tried to understand the national strength of the three countries.
"But a large amount of the empire's resources and troops have been invested in the war with the Demon King's City, as well as the protection of the Sea of Death. The importance of Fanhuang City is not that high. Maybe it is just a path to spread Protestantism..."
"Before the victory between the Protestant and Old religions is determined, it will be difficult for the empire to have any remaining power to control Fanhuang City..."
Li Yue was silent for a moment and realized that Fanhuang City might be the most complicated of the 11 punctuation points. After all, all three countries had actions here.
"This river... is the Lund River..." The old man continued to talk north, talking about a river leading to the sea.
"I know, I know the words." Li Yue saw the words Lunde River, but he didn't know what the saying was around here.
Obviously, the old man didn't know either, so he just read the manuscript.
"What about the last one? Drizzle Corridor?" This time Li Yue read out the place name first.
The old man seemed to be choked and thought hard for a moment before adding: "This is the territory of the Snow Country. It is possible to quickly break into the empire's territory. Many wars have broken out..."
"There was one time recently, it seemed like... it seemed like..."
After talking for a long time, the old man really couldn't think of anything more.
"Oh! I remembered it!"
The old man noticed the torch in Li Yue's hand out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly realized that the topic could not end just like that - the divine blood was still nourishing the heart, and mixed with corpse oil to fill the chest...
The old man was still preparing his last strength, trying to break away from the torture rack and fight for freedom.
This traveler is an unbeliever. As long as he is infected with divine blood and corpse oil, it is possible to gain his blind faith.
"Don't lie. You are a believer. How can you just open your mouth?" Li Yue threw the torch and lit the gallows where the old man was.
The old man also took action at the same time, vomiting out a large amount of divine blood and corpse oil, and sprayed it towards Li Yue.
But he was avoided by Li Yue for a moment - Li Yue, who was always wary of the old man, certainly would not let him succeed.
The flames ignited the divine blood and source of information, turning into a ring of fire and spraying everywhere. Li Yue stared at the human fountain until the old man no longer made any sound or movement and became a charred corpse on the torture rack.
After summarizing the information of the 11 punctuation points, Li Yue sat in the square filled with corpses, staring blankly at the mountain of corpses, the burning rack and the corpses on the ground. All he could think about was what the use of this map was.
Immediately afterwards, Li Yue discovered that after chatting with the old man for so long, the signs of Hongyou Town seemed to be brighter?
Is it okay to just stay there?
Then the light on the map grew very slowly, as if it had frozen.
So Li Yue took steps and started walking around Hongyou Town.
Soon, Li Yue discovered that the closer the corner was, the faster the red oil town mark lit up; but as long as he stayed there for a long time, the growth of the light would become slower, and he had to find the next place.
As Li Yue walked from day to night, the smell of corpse oil in the square became thicker.
When passing by the hill of burned corpses again, Li Yue suddenly heard a faint moan inside.