After explaining Xiong Hanzi's secret diffusion of the extract, Lin An first chose to go to the library where the entire history of the empire was stored.
With his status, he was able to forcibly browse through the entire empire's collection of books in just two days.
"Master Ascetic, what other books do you need?"
"The official can help you... look for it."
The official in charge of book collection management wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and followed Lin An cautiously.
It's really scary.
In two days, he watched Lin An read hundreds of books at once.
The loud sound of turning books never stopped for a moment.
In the entire library, more than 170,000 books were read through.
Although he knew that ascetics had special abilities, he really doubted that Lin An could remember so much?
What a strange ascetic.
Like the ascetics of the Great Xia Dynasty, they also read books, but more often than not they read the various experience records left by the ascetics who preceded them hundreds of years ago.
Few ascetics care about history and various classics.
No food, no drink, no sleep.
With a will level of 35 points, Lin An engraved all the information into his memory within forty-eight hours.
The official in charge of the library may not know.
With his current terrifying memory ability, he can even recite it backwards and forwards.
"No need."
After replying lightly, Lin An frowned slightly and looked at the sky above the royal city with half-squinted eyes.
The foggy white sky shrouded the sky, like a lamp covered with white paper.
With his military exploits, he just shortened the three-month restriction on entering the initial land to 28 days.
Including the previous month, he has officially entered the secret realm for two full months.
After looking through the collection of seventy-seven thousand three thousand nine hundred and twenty-one books, I found very little.
The human history of this secret world is very similar to the ancient empire.
Apart from the invasion of blood corpses, he found almost no abnormal clues.
In his original guess, he thought that this world had experienced a technological war, which led to the current situation.
For example:
A series of man-made disasters such as genetic pollution, biochemical disasters, and AI intelligence rebellion have destroyed the original technological system.
In order to fight against these disasters, human beings have evolved a developed [pituitary gland] in the face of life and death.
Just like biological evolution.
There is a gap in science and technology, and a new power system has replaced the science and technology side.
This situation was caused by the strange rules of this secret world.
but.
No.
I didn’t see any traces that were beyond the current era or had any technological legacy.
The human beings in this world still only have a limited understanding of nature, and there is no evidence or clue that they have ever created a glorious technological empire.
The bloody corpse is not a disaster left over from the previous human civilization.
It's like it appeared out of nowhere an unknown age ago.
The only useful clue was that he found some of the original descriptions of ascetics in the historical records of the empire.
It appeared very early, and once it appeared, it had great power.
And according to the description, the more Lin An looked at it, the more he felt that it was similar to Buddhism in the real world.
Eight Shuras...
Is it a coincidence or the inevitable result of natural selection?
Somewhat irritable.
After determining that there was no way to get more clues from here, Lin An went straight to the starting point without hesitation.
Today is his entry day.
The initial place is extremely restrictive, and only one person can enter at a time.
According to the words of many ascetics, those who enter may gain insight into the information about the power of faith and thus go one step further.
Even worse, some believe that the "transcendence" method left by the first ascetic is left in the original place.
Transcendence is the only supreme pursuit in the hearts of all ascetics.
.....
In the imperial court of Daxia, on the throne.
"Your Majesty, this is the latest information sent back by the Military Aircraft Department."
"Currently, the cultivation methods of new ascetics have become mainstream."
"After our contact, they are all willing to "serve" His Majesty."
"Fifteen more of the original ascetics from the old age refused to participate in the battle."
...
"This is the latest battle situation. The frequency of blood zombie invasions has more than doubled compared to the past ten years."
"In addition, the population of the empire continues to decline. Even the childbirth order you issued before will..."
Looks ugly.
Xia Xuan, the Emperor of Great Xia, felt depressed as he watched the messages that the Minister of Military and Aircraft continued to report.
Except when I heard the news about the new ascetics, I felt a little better.
Everything else is bad news.
As the supreme ruler of an empire, he often felt that he was just a puppet.
The real power of the empire lies in the hands of the 33 top-numbered ascetics.
If these people had not participated in the rule of the empire, he would have to obtain the consent of the other party even to issue decrees.
"The Seventh Fortress Guards, Ascetic No. 21, are you ready to give up guarding?"
"In their eyes, in their hearts! Is there still Daxia?"
"In such a critical moment, he actually "escaped from the battlefield"!"
Xia Xuan stood up suddenly, wearing a bright yellow imperial uniform, his chest rose and fell rapidly.
As the powerful ascetics of the old era participated in fewer and fewer battles, the Imperial Legion's losses became increasingly heavy.
If this continues, he may even think that the country will be destroyed!
The people below didn't think anything was wrong, and thought that Daxia was still peacefully fighting against the blood corpses as it had been for hundreds of years.
But he knows.
Ascetics do not give birth, do not get married, and do not have children. In fact, they are a cancer to the entire empire structure.
Throughout the Great Xia Dynasty, those who could endure "hardship" became ascetics.
Those who cannot endure hardship will find ways to become vassals of ascetics.
There is no way to select talents and no way to increase the population.
If it weren't for the fact that the highest force needs the support of ascetics, he would not let these people spread ascetics at all!
The army needs manpower to replenish it, and the empire needs talent management.
However, under the negative influence of the ascetics, the empire's population declined year by year.
Coupled with the large number of soldiers who died in battle, even if he promulgated laws to encourage childbirth every year, and even forced childbirth in the end, it could not save the empire from the trend of population collapse.
And now.
"Bang!"
There is no longer the calmness and majesty of the emperor in the past.
Xia Xuan gritted his teeth and tightly grasped the dragon head statue on the chair.
"These worms!!"
"I have given them supreme privileges! They don't have to produce, they don't have to worship the emperor, they have imperial power and military power, and I will give them whatever they want!"
"Do they think that practicing penance does not consume resources!?"
"In order to set up the scene of penance in their hearts, and to go further in what they say!"
"The money Daxia spends on building the ascetic scenes every year occupies half of the national treasury!"
"Say not to occupy resources, not to be greedy for pleasure..."
"But where did they spend less? Those 100-meter statues! Those temples, which one should not waste manpower and material resources!?"
"Whatever they want, I will cooperate with them!"
As he spoke, Xia Xuan was angry and looked helplessly at the kneeling civil and military officials with a cold expression:
"What I'm asking for! I just want them to protect Daxia! I beg them to take action so that fewer of my people in Daxia die!"
"But what now!? They are disobeying orders one after another in pursuit of so-called detachment!"
