In Pastor Kanazawa's view, some of the world's things can be hierarchical, even the criteria used to divide hierarchies themselves.

Let's use books as an example.

The lowest standard is to judge the quality of the book by its appearance, if the paper is good calf paper, the content must be handwritten in an aristocratic font that cannot be understood without special learning, and the cover must be a painting by a famous artist, and the seams must be painted with gold lacquer to create this ornament called a book.

The better standard is to judge the quality of the book by the content of the book, which is also the most accepted standard, and there are countless subdivisions under the standard, whether the writing is beautiful, whether the content is practical, whether the narrative is bizarre, and even the number of times metaphors are used can become the benchmark, and there is no superiority between each other.

And the highest standard in Kanazawa's eyes is to judge by the soul of a book.

As a dead thing, the book itself does not naturally produce a soul, but the author and the reader can give it a soul.

From this point of view, manuscripts are better than printed copies, and the author's own handwriting is the most valuable, and it is better to consider a draft only from the author's point of view.

But readers can also have a great influence on the soul of a book, and drafts are often in private collections, which is a little less so.

Even if it is a printed version, as long as the reader reads it carefully, resonates with the content of the book, has some feelings, pours out feelings, and repeatedly flips through it but still makes new discoveries, the book can have a good soul.

This situation was most common in religious books, and after the Qin and Han people traveled a long way to this point, he found that there were also very good books in their scriptures, but unfortunately the fact that the true god was the most holy teacher brought too much impact to the Qin and Han people, and their feelings for the classics also deteriorated.

As for the "Ploughing and Leisure Practice" in front of him, in Kanazawa's eyes, it is the highest-grade book with a soul.

The book was written by the author himself, and the purpose of writing the book was to protect the peasants in troubled times, and even hid his autobiography in special means, which is the best in terms of the author.

In terms of readers, it is also the highest level, whether it is the future sword god Joel or his master Rot, they all regard this book as a life-changing opportunity, and the degree of cherishing is self-evident. Although the readers who came to the book after these two people were disappointed, they also read the book with the greatest expectations, which brought a unique flavor to the soul of the book.

Just when Kanazawa was a little intoxicated by this charm, Elder Walesford's voice pulled him back to reality: "Mr. Pastor, how tired it is to stand and read, why don't you sit down and read slowly? If you are thirsty, just shake the bell on the coffee table, and a maid will serve you tea." ”

It's been a long time since anyone has wanted to read this book so seriously, and the elders are now looking at Kanazawa a lot.

Jin Ze thought it was funny in his heart, it seemed that this rattle was something that the elder had only purchased recently, and he even explained the usage to the guests in a serious manner, and the smell of the nouveau riche really couldn't be concealed.

"Thank you, Elder, then I might as well be respectful. Although he thought so in his heart, Kanazawa was still very polite on the surface, after all, if the elder hadn't interrupted him, he didn't know how long he would have been drunk, and maybe he had forgotten about business.

Restraining his mind, Kanazawa refocused on the real goal of the trip—the author's autobiography, which Joel had repeatedly mentioned to Wirth.

According to Joel, you can only see the contents of the autobiography if you practice the Fengkenmen exercises recorded in the book, but Kanazawa was a little unconvinced.

He knew a lot about how to hide words, he had seen the secrets of immersing himself in water, baking fires, and even revealing the contents only in the moonlight, but he had never heard of books that could only be seen by practicing special internal skills.

Kanazawa can read the soul of a book directly, and he will know if Joel's words are true or false as soon as he tries it.

The result was really, not only that, but it also made the soul of the book more mellow and intoxicating, causing him to almost make a mistake.

He pretended to be reading the book carefully to avoid arousing the elders, but in fact he was reading directly from the autobiography.

In this way, he can even obtain more information than what the author actually wrote, because when the author writes his autobiography, even if he does not want to write it, he will inevitably remember in his heart, and these contents are nowhere to hide in front of Kanazawa's divine magic.

【...... My ancestors started with martial arts, I was young and smart, I knew 1,000 words at the age of three, and at the age of seven I wrote a poem "My Father Has a Beautiful Concubine" at the banquet......]

Jin Ze was a little speechless at the beginning of this reading, he had read a lot of books brought by the Qin and Han people, and he still knew a lot about their culture, and it was really ...... to write this kind of poem at the age of seven It's a strange thing.

【...... Confucianism, at the age of fourteen, he was a talent. I will fail to pass two tests, and I don't realize that I have reached the age of the crown, and I actually make fun of children on the road. Unbearable humiliation, he went to Uncle Tangducheng, stayed in the martial arts hall, studied diligently, and still failed to win the ......]

That is, at the age of twenty-three, he has not yet begun to practice martial arts, but since his ancestors started with martial arts, then maybe the foundation has always been there.

【...... My uncle put a bag in front of my door, and the bag was filled with sand and gravel, which was originally used by martial artists to practice boxing, and it was very heavy, and every time you wanted to enter or leave, you had to push open this bag. I was not angry, but I was shameless, but fortunately, I gradually got used to it and no longer felt the inconvenience of the bag. For another three years, he was not hit, running wildly in the mountains, like a wild beast, and returning at dusk. Quarrel with a woodcutter, push for it, and push it in anger and push it in the chest and abdomen, and it pierces it, and the blood gushes like a spring......]

Kanazawa didn't expect this kind of turn, and he couldn't be born with divine power?

【...... I was bound to the court, confessed but no one believed me, and only then did I know that my notoriety had spread all over the city, and everyone knew that I was a useless scholar, so how could I penetrate the woodcutter with one palm? I was sure that I would be coerced by others, and I would be imprisoned for the time being on the grounds of interfering with the handling of the case...... My uncle came to visit the prison, and I knew the truth of the matter. I have martial talents, but my elders dote on me and don't want to see me suffer, and they say that I am a good learner and let me waste my talents. After defecting to my uncle, I ate and lived with Wufu for six years, and I unconsciously learned martial arts in my heart. And put the bag in front of my door, monitor every day, every time I see my strength is long, then replace the heavy bag, the bag in front of my door has long been not filled with sand and gravel, and the brave warriors also feel hard to hit, and I can push it as if there is nothing......]

Elder Walesford was a little surprised to find that Kanazawa was reading a book.

In the past two years, nearly 100 people have read this book, and most of them have returned disappointed, and some people can always see a bit of gloom even if they do not show obvious disappointment.

Even Joel and Roth themselves did not refute the Guardian's abrupt remarks, but rather understood, and the Elder accepted the fact that there was nothing remarkable in the book.

So is this young pastor putting on a show? To please himself?

Thinking of this, Elder Walesford looked left and right, found an excuse to leave the living room, walked around into the guest room, and peeked at Kanazawa through the crack in the door that was not tightly closed.

Kanazawa discovered all of these actions, but he really couldn't understand what the elder was doing, so fortunately he continued to concentrate on reading the contents of his autobiography.

【...... My uncle advised me not to care about the life of the woodcutter, for I had a great future ahead of me, and he would help me out. These words are contrary to the morality of the sages, and I do not want to accept it, but I cannot think of it. However, the situation suddenly reversed, and some people witnessed the scene of my killing of the woodcutter, and some people compared the palms of my hands, and found that they matched the wound on the woodcutter's chest, which was enough to condemn me. The prefect remembered that I didn't know my own strange power, and after accidentally killing someone, I took the initiative to turn myself in, forgiving me for the capital crime, but the living crime is inescapable. Although I am glad that my crime can be punished, I can't help but wonder how my uncle's ability to save me has led to this situation......]

【...... My uncle actually tried to kidnap me from prison! It is so ridiculous that such an act is not a crime on top of a crime, and what future do I have? However, I could not do anything, and in the end I was only trapped in prison and at the mercy of others. On the day of the robbery, a man in black appeared and killed my uncle and the warrior who robbed the prison in front of me! Although I roared in rage, I could only be knocked down by a single blow, and my body was so numb that I could not move. The man in black also killed all the other prisoners in the prison and the officers and soldiers who rushed to hear the news, and the blood in the prison was drifting, and the heads were piled up in front of me......]

Kanazawa didn't rush to read it all in one sitting.

If this autobiography was old-fashioned and uninteresting, then he would have finished it sooner, but this time was obviously different.

After making a lot of speculation about the identity of the man in black and his subsequent development, he continued to read.

【...... The man in black kidnapped me to a cave, the road was extremely narrow, and after walking hundreds of steps, it suddenly opened up, and there was a hole in the mountain! The space was so large that it was suspicious that the whole mountain was a vacuum, and a huge incandescent ball floated in the air, like a false sun. There is a lot of traffic in the cave, and men, women, and children walk in the middle, just like a city. There is a big hall in the center of the cave, the main hall is extremely high, the highest floor can actually look at the incandescent giant ball, and the images of countless demons and monsters are decorated on the hall, which is terrifying and bold. The man in black explained to me all the way, and I knew that this place was actually a cult lair, and everyone in the cave was a believer in an extraterritorial evil god! I was shocked, and my strange power was like a child's ...... in front of the man in black.

Seeing this, Kanazawa was not interested, it would not be a joke if the origin of Joel was related to the extraterritorial evil god!

【...... On the first floor of the main hall, there was a man wearing a black crown and a black robe, and the man in black called him the sect leader. Although he is the leader of the sect, there is no one around him to serve, and his body is lifeless, like a dummy. The man in black brought me to the man, and like a marionette, he suddenly stretched out a hand from his robe and grabbed my head, and I felt a splitting headache and a strange power flowing through my body. Then the sect leader said the word "qualified" in a voice like sawing wood, and the man in black led me up to the second floor of the main hall, leaving the man behind. All this was completely incomprehensible, and I couldn't help but fall into confusion......]

【...... On the second floor of the main hall, there were many people with thin hands and feet, scorched black limbs, and faces covered with skull masks. Without saying a word, they tied me to the bed and took out a terrible thing with the body of a ghost-headed worm and placed it on me, and I immediately lost my senses, but my consciousness was still clear. Seeing this worm burrow into my umbilicus, I couldn't move, I didn't feel pain, and even my heart was calm, and I vaguely felt that great happiness had come to me......]

Kanazawa is also in deep confusion.

He is not a mediocre person who will be deceived by appearances, some books are full of affection at first glance, but in fact, the author hides a knife and axe, just waiting for the curtain to be opened to chop the emotional person into pieces;

If you don't read the autobiography of this book, Kanazawa can read directly from the soul of the book that the author was bent on retreating and caring for the safety of the weak when he wrote the book.

How can a person who is possessed by the dependents of an alien evil god become like this? You must know that the true god has never spread the teachings in the land of the Qin and Han people, and they have no way to do anything but kill the possessed person in such a situation......

【...... I have a plan to steal all the martial arts in the world, to keep the light and keep the obscurity, and on the day of success, to conquer the Central Plains with the force of sweeping the world, and then go west to invade the whole world, and I happen to be the perfect person to carry out this plan. I am a rare martial artist in the world, and my physical fitness has not been wasted, but I have never practiced martial arts at all, just like an uncarved jade is about to fall into the dust, but anyone who wants to inherit martial arts, how can he not save it? Under the arrangement of my teaching, I run a bookstore in Huaicheng, and if an old man came repeatedly within a month, as if he was buying a book, he actually observed my every move, and after three months, he entered my room late at night, intending to take me as a disciple......]

【...... Within half a year, I learned the old man's "Whale Breath Gong" and "Cloud Climbing Palm", and then killed him under the pretext of learning under the palm of his hand and returned to the holy land. On the second floor of the main hall, the great dependents of my god left my body and took away all the internal skills I had practiced in the past six months, returning my body to its original state for the next plan......]

【...... What have I done!? Master he treated me like a son, in order to help me open up the meridians, he even did not hesitate to consume his own internal strength, he did not hide anything from me, and taught me, I actually ......]

【...... A new great family has come upon me, dispelling the great fears in my heart and restoring my joy. I am grateful to my God, and I should devote all my energy to repaying the grace of God......]

Kanazawa felt a bit of a headache, and in order to dig out the truth, he forcibly read something that would not have been possible in his autobiography.

But now he is facing two problems.

One is that the evil god who once controlled the autobiographer really aimed to seize the world, and such an evil god can hardly be found in historical records.

This book may have been written only a few decades before the appearance of filth, and the history of the Qin and Han ethnic groups during this period was still relatively complete, and it was not lost because of long-distance campaigns, so there is no reason why such a cult should not appear in history.

The second is that it's just too easy to read these pasts.

If this is just before the appearance of filth, after the filth appears and pollutes the past, the effect of this past-related magic is greatly reduced, and even if it succeeds, the information obtained is mostly fragmented.

In particular, the place where this book was written, that is, the homeland of the Qin and Han Kingdoms, is still under the control of filth, and Kanazawa thought that he could at most read the author's sporadic mood and thoughts when he wrote this part, but now he almost completely reproduced the author's past in his mind.

His past is not tainted by filth? This is impossible, not even the true God can escape it......

Unless he's still here?

【...... Entered the Danjian Sect and became an outer disciple, and his learning progress was slow. The elders in the sect only teach the most superficial kung fu, and the disciples are also intrigued with each other, forming gangs and factions with each other, and withholding the resources of the isolated disciples. Obviously, the last mission was completed in less than a year, but it took a year to wait for the primary and secondary schools to come. In order to punish them for the sin of making our god wait, I repeatedly struck down the junior colonel, and used the beginner swordsmanship to kill the opponent all the way to win the first place, and I will confess my guilt to those present for every person I kill! I was ready to sacrifice my life for my god, but I never thought that I would be favored by the elders of the Discipline Hall and be accepted as an inner disciple......]

【...... The exercises passed on in the precept hall are the first to kill, and although the killing power is great, it cannot be truly passed on after all. I instructed the envoy to sneak into the door to meet me, and I wanted to discuss with him how to become the head disciple, but the messenger criticized my behavior in the junior colonel, saying that I did not care about the overall situation and only cared about venting my anger, although the result was crooked, I still need to be punished......]

【...... For days, my heart was in turmoil, and I had no value in living without the gaze of my God......]

【...... The head of the sect has discovered my strangeness!How did a mere mortal reach such a realm, I must warn the Holy Sect......]

【...... The head of the sect rescued me from the control of the demons! After that, I kept pretending that I was still under control, and stabilized the demons, and finally the Danjian Gate cooperated with the imperial court to exterminate the nest of those demons! The leader of the demons also died under the sword of the head of the sect! The great revenge was finally avenged, and I swore to the head that I would follow the lord for the rest of my life......]

【...... The means used by the demons to control me are endless, although the head of the sect did not hesitate to grant me the "Heavenly Formula", but it still failed to save my life, great kindness, and retribution in the next life......]

【...... Have a rude awakening. All these things are the counsel of my God. The Danjian Sect is too large, although there are many drawbacks, it is not enough to defeat it in one fell swoop, and the great family attached to me is too reckless to deal with, so the sect leader will exchange a fake body and a holy place for me to be granted the true inheritance. Although the great family members were seriously injured, this is the price of failing the trust of our God, who is indeed far-sighted, far beyond the reach of mere mortals......]

【...... Is it because that bug was seriously injured by the head of the Danjian Sect and faked his death? I seem to be ......]

【...... I got a new great family again, and this time the target is the Crazy Knife Gate......]

Halfway through reading, Kanazawa thought that the head of the Dan Sword Gate had really saved the author of this autobiography, and when he knew that the evil god's lair had been destroyed, he exclaimed with empathy, "Okay!", who knew that it was reversed in the end!

The methods of this evil god are really powerful, and the parties themselves don't know that they are still pawns, so they naturally deceive everyone else.

And after that, the evil god must continue to control him through some means, so that the head of the Danjian Sect can spread all the secrets of this sect.

You must know that even hundreds of years ago, in the era of great exchange before the extinction crisis of human beings, Dan Jianmen's "Towering Heavenly Formula" was still not transmitted, on the grounds that it was not suitable for ordinary people to practice, and it was really passed on to him here.

Reading this, Kanazawa couldn't help but feel a little dry, so he rang the bell and wanted to have a cup of tea and rest.