The night in Gensokyo is silent and deep, but it exudes a different smell.

Even though it was midnight, the full moon hanging in the sky did not seem to be resting, and was still spreading its own glory faithfully.

It was a soft light that was completely different from the sun, with a hint of haze, and a little temptation that was not like the world.

Pity......

In the entire Hakurei Shrine, Claude is now the only one who is enjoying this beautiful scenery, and as for Reimu, Lindy and others, he caught up with the bed early on the grounds that "children, especially girls, should not go to bed late".

"It's a lonely night, isn't it?"

Shaking the contents of his glass, Claude suddenly looked to his side.

"Allah, if you're not afraid of so-and-so, I don't mind rolling the sheets with you."

The gap was opened silently, and then the two beautiful legs wrapped in white stockings were a beautiful sight that no number of words could describe, just thinking of the age of the owner of the beautiful legs......

"Claude, do you want to taste what it's like to be killed by the Sin Bag Tyrant?"

The old woman, whose scientific name is "Yakumo Purple", was so angry that even crow's feet came out of her heart that she gritted her teeth and said.

If it's replaced by a true one. The protagonist, hearing the threat of Yakumo Purple, naturally withered at this time, but Claude ......

"At least it's better than having sex with some old woman."

Without even hesitating, Claude just said this, dodging the hand that suddenly stretched out from the back of his head.

"I have an impression of this kind of attack."

“…… I won't say anything until I fulfill my mandate. ”

Yakumo turned her head like a tsundere girl and snorted.

"I didn't want to get an explanation from you."

Claude shrugged. It looks like it doesn't matter.

"Yo-heh. I've grown up. I thought you were going to chase after you. ”

Yakumo Purple, who continued to use his previous tone, didn't seem to plan to stop selling cuteness. But in the next second, as Claude's words sounded, the smile on her face could no longer be disguised.

"In Marisa's gossip furnace, I felt a drop of my blood."

Claude's blood, an elixir that is almost comparable to the legendary grail, cannot make the flesh and bones of the living dead, but it also has the effect of greatly increasing strength, increasing potential, and even curing diseases.

No one knows the power of blood in the body better than Claude. It can be said that Claude is strong precisely because of the preservation of these bloods.

Of course, because blood can be regenerated, Claude has not used it to strengthen others in the past. However, most of these people, with the passage of time, have turned into white bones, and their descendants, even if all the concentrations contained in their bodies are combined, will not reach a drop.

Can...... That drop of blood in Marisa's gossip furnace. What's going on?

"......" Yakumo Murasaki was rarely silent.

Looking at the other party who lowered his head and said nothing, Claude seemed to have guessed this result a long time ago. After shrugging his shoulders, he changed the subject.

"The connection between the underworld, hell, and the demon world has been completed?"

"Well, several of them are my friends, I didn't go to them because I wasn't sure, but now I ......"

"It's not too big now."

Claude interrupted Yakumo's words, and he looked at the other party with a more serious look in his eyes than ever.

"Counting these three realms, you've only just recovered to the middle level of gold. With such strength, there is no way to make any waves here. Not to mention...... The 'thief' who usurped your power and the world will not be able to watch you get it back. ”

"Isn't there still you?" Yakumo Zi hooked Claude's neck and smiled easily, "Even if I was in my heyday, I couldn't be your opponent, let alone anyone else." ”

"But at that time, you were successfully attacked by the other party." Claude said expressionlessly, "I don't even know who the other party is." ”

"......" Yakumo Zi was silent again for a long time, "Well, the other party may be in the same realm as you, or even stronger than you, I already know this." ”

"Not a possibility, but a certainty."

Claude's tone became more and more strange, looking at him like this, Yakumo Murasaki, who was still a little slack, couldn't help but sit upright at this time, and his eyes revealed a little thoughtful light.

"What do you mean?"

"I remember you called my current strength realm a 'demigod', right?"

Claude did not give a direct answer, but instead led the topic to cultivation.

"That's right, the limit that ordinary immortals can reach is called the 'Void Apex', but because the void has been replaced by the starry sky, this realm has lost its meaning, in other words, the golden limit is the limit that the immortals can reach, and above this, there are 'demigods' who have surpassed the starry sky and the void!"

Yakumo Purple repeated the words he had said at the beginning, and Claude on the side, after groaning slightly, suddenly put forward a hypothesis.

"Beyond the realm of the immortals, even the limits of the starry sky and the void have been completely crossed, such a being is completely equivalent to the legendary gods. But! But you call such a cultivator a demigod! Since there is such a realm as a demigod, then there must be people who have reached the realm of gods......"

With every word Claude said, the expression on Yakumo's face stiffened a little, and by the time the other party deduced the concept of gods, all that remained on her face was helplessness and a wry smile.

"Can't I hide it from you?" Yakumo Zi sighed, then raised his head, and an endless divine light erupted in his eyes, "That's right, the gods do exist!" Not those false gods usurped by the immortals, but the real ...... A god who controls the law and has a priesthood! ”

"Where are they?"

Claude was not surprised, he had already guessed the answer a few days ago, and now he just followed Yakumo's finger to the sky.

"Right there!"

I don't know if it's Claude's delusion, as Yakumo's words fell. The night sky, which was originally pitch black. In an instant, it was lit up by countless stars.

The most common white. Changing reds, blues, dazzling golds, silvers, devouring a qiē black, and countless indescribable lights......

Each light exudes a different power, the most basic earth, water, wind and fire, the holy light and the darkness of the abyss. Represents the life of the earth, destroying the death of a qiē......

It was the light of the law that the Immortals could not obtain even with all their might, and it was the supreme power that truly surpassed a qiē!

Claude's eyes had been covered with a silver light at some point, and he raised his head, trying to capture some information about the law, but the next thing he saw made him take a step back.

Half-ringing......

"Original...... That's what it's all about. ”

Claude took a deep breath and then spit it out. What he saw before could be said to be the truth of Gensokyo, or even the entire starry sky. Those starlights that constantly release light at night are not beautiful things at all. On the contrary, every flicker of light represents a countdown to the destruction of the starry sky.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The thing called the law constantly hits the outer wall of the starry sky, and then, countless vast energy enters it through the cracks, these energies are vast and violent, emitting heat and light that is not lost to the sun, but due to the distance, people in the plane often can only observe a few spots of light, and these spots of light are called 'stars'.

Even the closest plane has a distance of nearly hundreds of billions of light-years, but it is this distance that constitutes an illusion of peace in the plane.

The magical storm affected the entire starry sky again and again, and the time between them was also shrinking, but not to mention those scholars, even many immortals had never thought that these ordinary storms would actually come from the law!

This world, like its predecessors, is slowly falling into the abyss!

Except for a few ancient cunzài, no one knows this fact at all!

"It's not the same as what you told me before." Claude's voice was hoarse, stunned that whoever discovered such a truth would not be calm, "You said that the crisis of the void has been lifted. ”

"The crisis has indeed been lifted, but it is only the void of the past, not the starry sky of the present." Yakumo raised her eyebrows, and her tone was soft, "This is an accident that we wouldn't have thought of, because of the liberation of the void, thus ignoring the inevitable result of some people. ”

Somebody?

"They are...... God? ”

This is a conclusion that can be reached with a little thought, and Yakumo's answer also confirms Claude's guess.

"You know what? The greatness of the gods lies not in their strength, but in their help in delaying the catastrophe. ”

"The Godhead system, that is, the system that forcibly suppresses the law with the power of the individual, so that it cannot be endangered to the void."

Although it was only the first time he had heard of it, Claude could sense the horror of the system and the madness of the people who proposed it.

"With the strength of the golden seed, it is simply wishful thinking to suppress the law."

It's not that Claude is talking nonsense, the weakest of those law lights that he just observed, also have the power of a golden limit blow, and the so-called law light is only one ten-millionth of the power of the law.

One can imagine how powerful the real law is, and what an impossible thing it would be to suppress such a law.

"That's why Godhead was born."

Yakumo Zi suddenly smiled, his smile was full of helplessness and bitterness, "A person who has obtained a godhead, even if he originally only has a golden primary level, will gain supreme power in the next second. ”

That is to say...... Pretending to be a foreign object? ”

Claude remembered Marisa's prop gossip furnace and was enlightened.

"That's right, although it can be integrated into the body, the essence of the godhead is indeed a prop of the ascension class, once it is stripped away, then even if it is an invincible god, it will be knocked to the dust."

"But who else but the gods themselves would have such strength?" Claude frowned.

Everyone is in pursuit of power, mortals are in pursuit of power and profit, scholars are in pursuit of knowledge and wisdom, and cultivators are in pursuit of pure power, and among them, the most powerful group are those gods who have been integrated into the Godhead.

Claude couldn't think of anyone other than a vendetta between the gods. It can be stripped of the godhead that the gods value so much.

Such a person does have zài. But he died a long, long time ago. Yakumo sneered. At the same time, a smile called mockery flashed on his face, "It's true that outsiders can't strip off their godheads, and they can't do this if they can't reach the seat of law, but ...... Who told you that the gods wanted the Godhead? ”

"What...... Meaning? ”

Claude was stunned, he didn't understand what Yakumo Purple meant.

"Being a god is never something to be happy about."

Yakumo Zi saw Claude's doubts, and did not hide them, and directly confided in the secret of the Starry Sky Age, which only a few people knew.

"Everything follows an equivalent exchange. As much as you give, you can get as much, and relatively, how much you gain means how much you lose. ”

"Mortals are like this, cultivators are like this, gods are ...... And so it is! ”

"The essence of the Godhead system is the law of suppression, and great power is only a by-product of this system."

In other words, merge with the Godhead. After becoming a god, you need to take on the mission of suppressing the law! ”

- Boom!

As Yakumo's words fell. Claude's mind exploded, and all sorts of thoughts came flooding through him.

"The gods need to suppress the law, and the law is in the void, no! If I were the creator of the Godhead system, in order to prevent this group of cultivators who had obtained supreme power from disturbing the void, I would definitely set a rule that I could not leave the law, at least not for a long time, and among them, the more powerful the law gods, the more so! ”

"In this way, the calamity of the Void can be postponed as long as possible, and the influence of the gods on the Void will be minimized."

"I see...... So that's ......"

Claude muttered to himself, his eyes had already been filled with countless silver rays, and he was thinking with all his might, but he didn't even realize that he had unconsciously turned on the state of law simulation.

A blue light fell in the sky, it was the light of infinite knowledge, the light of wisdom that could make the dull become prophets!

In the blink of an eye, the light fell on Claude's body and was ready to merge into it.

But......

"I'd love to help you, but it's definitely not like that."

Claude, who blocked the blue light from his body, looked at the starry sky again at this moment, and the confusion in his eyes had disappeared, replaced by a clear understanding called understanding.

"The wrath of the Forsaken, I have indeed received."

After Claude finished speaking, he raised his hand and touched it lightly, and then, the blue light flew back into the sky as it had landed.

"The Godhead of the Law of Wisdom...... Those guys are really anxious. ”

Yakumo's folding fan had already been opened, and the corners of her mouth were raised high behind the fan, as if she was mocking the gods in the sky.

"Don't talk about them like that, if you and I were in the same position, we wouldn't be much better than them."

Claude glanced at Yakumo Zi helplessly, and now he already understood.

"Although the void has been saved, the gods in the law have become uncaring, it may be fine at first, but with the passage of thousands of years, they who are trapped in the law can no longer bear it."

"So, they abdicated their duty to suppress the law, and allowed the nascent starry sky to be wantonly destroyed."

"To put it more simply, the fish is dead and the net is broken!"

Yakumo Zi picked a very clever word, as she said, if the current situation continues, then the starry sky will definitely become the next void, and the disaster of ruining the qiē will once again below everyone's head.

"Since you've already guessed, let's not explain much."

Yakumo Murasaki, who covered her mouth and yawned, casually opened a gap, but in the next second, the crack full of eyeballs was shattered by Claude's punch.

"Meow! What do you want? ”

Startled, Yakumo Purple turned his head to see Claude's brighter and brighter eyes.

"I'm not done with my questions yet."

Claude smiled lightly, and without saying a word, he broke a gap between Yakumo Zichuang zào, and in the end, he even sealed off this space.

"Or are you going to run away?"

"Well, we don't know what you're talking about."

Yakumo Purple pretended to be afraid, and hugged her chest with both hands, as if Claude was about to send something. Birds of love. Beastly general.

I have to say that Yakumo purple is very similar. Tens of millions of years. Let her be even more old than the old witch. But no matter how much you pretend to be like, it's just pretending to be like.

"Deliberately led the topic to the gods, although it also answered some of my doubts, but the real question, you didn't answer a word." Claude smiled a little helplessly, and with a gentle face, he suddenly asked a question, "Gensokyo." Is it on the outer side of the void? ”

“……”

In the face of Claude's inquiry, Yakumo Murasaki was rarely silent, and she quietly took a step back.

"Answer me!"

Claude's voice grew louder, and as he took a step forward, the fierceness in his eyes seemed to be able to turn into a thousand blades.

“……”

Yakumo was silent, and took another step back. After all, she is a monster who controls the realm, even if she is a big realm behind Claude, she is not crushed by his momentum.

"Please answer me......"

Different from the first inquiry, and different from the momentum of the second time, this time. Claude just sighed, and continued. After hesitating for about a minute, he finally shouted out a word like a mosquito that surprised Yakumo Murasaki.

“…… Sister. ”

Claude's voice is really soft, but even so, listening to Yakumo's ears is like a slap in the head!

“…… Even in the old days, you wouldn't have called me that. ”

A helpless wry smile appeared on his face, and Yakumo Zi understood that there seemed to be no way to hide some things anymore.

"Man grows up."

"Yes, everyone will be changed by this long time."

Yakumo Zi said, closing the gap she had prepared again, and with a doting smile on her face, she finally made up her mind.

"You guessed it right, Gensokyo, although it has countless connections with the Void and the starry sky, its location is in the endless sea of chaos."

It was obviously a word that should be surprising, but the expressions on their faces did not change, whether it was Yakumo Murasaki as the teller or Claude as the listener.

Long......

"So, Gensokyo is actually the last ark of the Void Inner Creatures?"

"You can say that, of course, you can also call it the product of the failure of the Salvation Plan."

Yakumo shrugged her shoulders, and she decided to hold out all of them. However, at this time, Claude stopped her.

"Explaining this step is enough." The bones behind him spread out, and he easily flew into the air, and for the first time he seriously observed Gensokyo, "Not bad, isn't it?" ”

Next to him was Yakumo Murasaki, who sat on the gap and dangled her calves with an umbrella.

"It's a pity that it failed in the end."

"No, you actually succeeded." Claude said and suddenly pointed to the sky, "At least, you have given some of the law gods hope to escape!" ”

"What?!"

Yakumo was shocked, she looked at the 'stars' in the sky, but her brain was running at high speed.

Although she doesn't have the amazing computing power of Claude, Yakumo Zi, who controls the realm, also has her own thinking mode, plus Gensokyo is originally the world she created Zào, and many places have been designed by her for several years, so in just over ten minutes, Yakumo Zi came up with an answer.

One...... An answer she had never thought of before.

"Because it's located on the outer side of the Void, you don't need to follow the rules of the Void, and the rule I set for Gensokyo was that as long as you are a creature in the Void, you will have a chance to enter Gensokyo." Yakumo Purple, who came up with this answer, suddenly sighed, "So that's the case, it wasn't the residents of Gensokyo who attacked me at the beginning, but ...... Oh God. ”

――Gensokyo, who is loved by the gods.

This is a phrase that is often on the lips of Gensokyo residents, but who would have thought that this sentence, which I don't know where it came from, is the essence of Gensokyo.

The land of the gods, and at the same time, the last place of hope for all the gods!

"But...... If that's the case, Gensokyo should have been occupied by the gods a long time ago. ”

Even though she had come to a conclusion, Yakumo Purple still didn't choose to believe it, she was not a stubborn person, it was her past experience that made her unable to believe that the rules set by 'him' would be broken by herself.

"That's why I say it's a part of the gods...... No, there may only be one or two people who really have the ability to get out. ”

Claude, who lacks memories of the past, does not know the power of 'him', and because of this, he can analyze and think from an absolutely calm perspective.

"In fact, if I'm guessing correctly, it's the gods that come out that have something to do with rules or balance. Only those who know the rules very well can find the loopholes in the rules between the two worlds and thus gain true freedom. (To be continued......)