Since there is no gain in seclusion, there is no point in just sitting in the mountains.
"Hey~"
After putting away the barrier, Lu Xiao teleported to Yong Zhen in the next second.
At this time, Nagama was still visiting the Fushimi Inari Grand Shrine and was walking past the famous Senbon Torii Gate.
Lu Xiao suddenly appeared next to him, which surprised Yongzhen: "So soon? What was the result of the retreat?"
"Totally fruitless."
Lu Xiao helplessly spread his hands and shook his head: "Consolidating the realm is going very smoothly, but I can't find any inspiration for a breakthrough."
"how so?"
Yongzhen was a little stunned: "Don't you mean that after acquiring S-level skills, you can speed up the progress of entering the divine realm?"
Lu Xiao smiled bitterly and said: "I don't know, maybe I was too hasty and didn't understand the power of time and space enough."
"Ha~"
Fenrir yawned and rubbed against Lu Xiao's leg, greeting him in this way.
Squatting down and scratching Fenrir's chin, Lu Xiao sighed: "Forget it, just like Consus said, just relax in this world."
"That's fine."
Yongzhen took Lu Xiao's hand and moved forward: "Fushimi Inari Grand Shrine is the highlight of my visit to Kyoto. After that, let's go back to Tokyo to find Xiaoyu. I don't know if she has encountered anything interesting there.
"
Lu Xiao rolled his eyes: "What other interesting things can there be in the virtual world? Does it count if you are trapped in a game and can't get out?"
…
Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine is an ancient shrine dedicated to the god Inari.
Inari God is the god in charge of agriculture and commerce in Japanese myths and legends. Every year, a large number of pilgrims come to pray for a good harvest, prosperous business, and abundant financial resources. It is one of the most popular shrines in Japan.
After accompanying Nagazhen through the Senbon Torii Gate, the two of them and one wolf have arrived at the top of Inari Mountain. From the height, they can overlook the main building of the shrine below.
Lu Xiao looked at the shrine below and closed his eyes to feel it.
'Sure enough, there is no breath of the existence of any gods.'
"Well~satisfied!"
Yongzhen stretched his body comfortably: "Okay, don't think so much, let's go back to Tokyo."
"Maybe Xiaoyu can give you some advice on your situation."
The corner of Lu Xiao's mouth twitched: "I hope she doesn't become addicted to virtual games and become a useless fox."
To Lu Xiao's expectation, when he teleported to the target location based on Tamamo-mae's coordinates, Xiaoyu did not enter the game, but sat on the sofa, frowning in a daze.
"Can the virtual world... also be considered an independent world?"
Lu Xiao was stunned for a moment by the fragmentary thoughts in Tamamo Mae's mouth, and the inspiration he had been so hard to find before finally came to him.
Yongzhen didn't notice Lu Xiao's situation, she stretched out her hand and waved it in front of Tamamo.
"Xiaoyu? What are you doing?"
"Um?"
After regaining consciousness, Tamamo Mae realized that Yongzhen and Lu Xiao had returned at some point.
"Eh? Why are you back so soon? Isn't Lu Xiao going to retreat?"
Yongzhen shook his head and said: "He said there was no inspiration, so we just..."
Yongzhen turned around and found Lu Xiao standing there in a daze.
"...Inspiration has come?"
Tamamo nods: "Maybe, inspiration is hard to say, and I have never grasped the key to breaking through the Nine-Tails."
Just after returning to the villa he bought in Tamamo, Fenrir fell asleep on the ground again.
"here we go again."
Yongzhen shook his head helplessly, ignoring Lu Xiao who was in trance for the time being, and squatted beside Fenrir with Tamamo Mae, carefully absorbing the divine power from its body.
About a quarter of an hour later, Lu Xiao finally woke up from his meditation.
"I have an idea!"
Walking around the room minding his own business, Lu Xiao muttered: "Assuming that the virtual world is also a special space that exists independently, if I can physically enter it and understand its special rules, maybe..."
"……ha?"
Tamamo Mae looked at Lu Xiao in astonishment: "You want to enter the virtual world in a physical body? Your brain doesn't have... wait."
Tamamo Mae had been thinking about this issue before. She had a hunch that came from nowhere, and her opportunity lay in the virtual world.
But not the virtual world of sao.
"Hmm~"
Tamamo-mae squinted her eyes and thought for a while, and when Lu Xiao came back to her senses, she asked: "Can you allow us to jump in time directly in this world?"
"Okay." Lu Xiao looked at Tamamo Mae in confusion: "When do you want to go?"
"Three years later."
A glimmer of light flashed in Tamamo Mae's eyes: "The time when the Underworld was secretly built."
"Under World..."
Lu Xiao suddenly showed a look of astonishment after hearing Tamamo Mae's request: "I see, in a world where artificial souls truly exist, where is your chance?"
Under World is a world secretly established by the Japanese government in order to develop highly intelligent unmanned weapons. They want to cultivate artificial intelligence with human-like thinking in this virtual world.
That is the Alicization plan.
Lu Xiao has been a member of Sword Art Online before and has a relatively in-depth understanding of the Alicization plan.
To put it simply, the quantum calculation core left by Kayaba Akihiko can capture a strange existence called quantum light.
After secret research by scientists, it is generally believed that quantum light has a very similar structure to the human soul.
This discovery inspired Japanese high-level officials who did not have military power. They wanted to circumvent the World War II defeat treaty by manufacturing highly intelligent unmanned weapons.
The NPCs in the Under World (uw for short) world are completely different from sao, ggo and alo.
They copy the souls of newborn babies, convert them into quantum light (fluctuating light) and put them into the UW world, and then use the time proportional acceleration technology of Soul Transtor (stl) to speed up the time flow in the UW virtual world, allowing these babies to fluctuate in the UW world.
It grew rapidly under the guidance of officially dispatched employees.
But just when they were about to reap the results, Kikuoka Seijiro and Higa Takeru, who were leading the experiment, discovered a problem.
When the residents of the uw world learn that they are copies of other people's souls, they will without exception fall into self-doubt and confusion. Eventually, their fluctuating lights, that is, artificial souls, will collapse.
Again, human beings are selfish and everyone wants to be unique.
It's natural for them to feel shaken and self-doubt when one day they learn that they are just a copy of someone else.
This is one of the reasons why human cloning is officially prohibited by various countries.
Tamamo Mae's opportunity may be related to human souls. Even she herself can't explain the reason for the time being. She can only have a rough premonition that her opportunity comes from the UW world.
It is not easy to send the physical body into the virtual world through space teleportation. There is a dimensional wall blocking the two worlds. If a person who is equivalent to the third dimension wants to enter the second dimension, he can only succeed by humanizing himself on paper.
Breaking through the dimensional wall, Lu Xiao believed that this was his last task before entering the divine realm.
Being able to freely enter and exit the second-dimensional world from the third dimension means that Lu Xiao can also step from the third dimension into the higher fourth dimension or even the fifth dimension. This will lead to a qualitative leap in the degree of control over the power of time and space.
Lu Xiao had no way of knowing what the fourth dimension was like, and it would be impossible to understand what he didn't understand.
The virtual world like uw is different. At least Lu Xiao can understand the principle of its existence and has the opportunity to directly touch and experience it without being completely clueless.
After clearing her thoughts, Lu Xiao regained her motivation.
"Just tell me when you're ready, I'll always..."
"etc."
Yongzhen suddenly raised her hand to stop. She pointed at Fenrir, who was still in a bad condition: "Before setting off, we'd better solve Fenrir's problem first."