Door-Opening Password

The Holy See of the Xiluo originated from a religious organization that already existed in the Main World, and it is also the largest religion in the Main World, the Heavenly Father Church. The Main God it worships, and the only god, is Holy Father Dias.

The problem is that the Heavenly Father Church has existed in the Main World for at least several thousand years, while the Otherworld Gate has only appeared for a little over a hundred years. How could information about the Heavenly Father Church appear in this ruin that is at least five thousand years old?

"Could it be a coincidence?" Zhuge Chi asked. "Is it just a matter of similar pronunciation?"

"No..." Ophelia retorted, "It not only mentions names, but also the habits of the 'evil god' followers, which are basically consistent with the doctrines of the Heavenly Father Church."

"That's impossible! How could the Holy Father be an evil god!" Ottos reacted the most strongly. Although he seemed unruly, he was, after all, a student of the Holy See's Central Academy, born and raised in the light of the Holy Father, and his faith was still very firm.

"More importantly, how did information from the Heavenly Father Church end up here?" Zhuge Chi frowned. "Could it be that a hundred years ago wasn't the first time the Otherworld Gate was opened? Thousands of years ago, the Main World and the Different World had already communicated?"

"If it's true, that's a huge discovery!" Jin Fei swallowed hard, and Mu Ning nodded in agreement. "Thousands of years ago, the Heavenly Father Church Cult from the Main World invaded [Utopia], and Holy Father Dias was even regarded as an evil god... This could completely overturn our previous understanding of other worlds."

"What evil god? It's just these heretics from another world slandering the Holy Father!" Ottos looked at the words, clearly very dissatisfied with the title. "This only proves that the Holy Father's light shone on this other world thousands of years ago!"

"I have a question," Luo Jun suddenly spoke up, "Isn't the Deity worshipped by the Holy See in [Utopia] also Dias? Why did you only realize the problem now?"

Prior to this, Luo Jun knew little about the Holy See. During his visit to Utopia, he had met the clergy and believers at the Parami Church and learned that their deity was Dias. He had initially assumed this was a native Utopia deity, but now it seemed to be a religion brought from the Main World.

"Actually, when we first entered this world, the power of the Holy See was very marginalized; it wasn't even considered a religion," Zhuge Chi explained. "Later, due to scientific development and the Industrial Revolution, Utopiya experienced a movement to dismantle religions, and the native religions suffered a severe blow."

"However, the people's dependence on religion for thousands of years is not so easy to change. As a result, while technology has developed, the country has also experienced considerable turmoil, and even almost split apart."

"At this time, Victoria, who is now the Empress of Utopiya and was then Princess, realized that Utopiya could not exist without religion. However, the old religious forces were too powerful and had become hostile to the royal family after a period of change. Restoring their status would be detrimental to the royal family's rule. Therefore, she decided to support a new religion to take the throne."

"At this time, the Holy See seized the opportunity, hit it off with the Empress, and with the support of the royal family and the various 'miracles' performed using the vital energy, it gained a large number of believers and quickly grew in strength. By promoting its faith, it became the state religion of Utopiya."

"Therefore, the faith in Holy Father Dias in [Utopia] is only a little over a decade old, and it was brought from the Main World by the Holy See."

After listening to Zhuge Chi's explanation, Luo Jun nodded. He thought to himself, no wonder the Holy See is so successful in this world. Not only has it gained official recognition, but it can also use supernatural powers to protect... fooling the masses.

This is also thanks to the high level of safety in this world, where the general public has very little understanding of extraordinary powers. If it were a world like [Martial World], where masters are everywhere and Ascended Immortal have established their own sects and become famous throughout the world, the same method would definitely not work.

However, it seems that the connection between the Main World and the Different World may have existed earlier than humans imagined.

As the group studied the pyramid, they walked around it. Ophelia suddenly exclaimed "Hey!" and walked towards one of the inconspicuous bricks.

Although they are called bricks, they are more than two meters high and four or five meters long, with characters the size of human heads carved on them.

"Is there something wrong with this brick?" the others asked curiously.

"The brick itself is fine, but the inscription is problematic." Ophelia looked at the text on it. "The previous and next bricks both record the life of Emperor Menehses, and they connect perfectly. This brick abruptly cuts off the text on both sides, and the content has no connection to the surrounding text."

"What does this record say?" Ottos asked.

"I don't know..." Ophelia raised her hand and stroked the huge characters on the brick. "I recognize every single character, but when put together, it makes no sense at all."

"Is it a riddle or a code?" Zhuge Chi frowned and asked, "Could you translate it for us?"

"It's very difficult," Ophelia said. "The Ancient Parami script is a combination of hieroglyphics and phonetics. Some characters have their own meanings, while others are simply phonetic symbols. In addition, there are many extended meanings and cases where a single character has multiple meanings. Once the order is scrambled, it is very difficult to translate."

"Let's try using the Dust of Replication," Jin Fei suggested. "Old Yuan and the others must have noticed something was wrong here before. Let's use the Dust of Replication to see what they've been doing."

The scope of Dust of Replication is limited, and it's not very useful in the vast city maze, but if used before the block transition confirming the anomaly, it's bound to work.

"The question is, when did they get here?" Ottos produced a bottle of Dust of Replication.

"How much of our Dust of Replication?" Zhuge Chi asked.

"I have two bottles here, each lasting five uses. I used one before, so I have nine uses left," Ottos said. "Rolf had two more bottles with him, but he's disappeared..."

"Nine times, six hours each time, more than fifty hours, more than two days..." Zhuge Chi calculated. "It's been more than seven days since Old Yuan and the others went missing. We have no idea when they arrived at the pyramids..."

"We took about ten hours, they probably can't be faster than us," Jin Fei said. "For the second half, we had Night's Magical Knife, and we didn't encounter any obstacles along the way."

"It's possible they also possess navigational abilities or magical artifacts," Mu Ning said. "Especially Old Yuan; nobody knows exactly how many magical artifacts he has."

"Let's start trying three hours after they arrive..." Ottos said. "I think they should arrive in two days."

Zhuge Chi shook his head. "I think it's best to start from the beginning. If Old Yuan and the others did indeed do something to this brick, there might be some changes. Let's take a look at what the brick originally looked like. If it's different from what it is now, then it will be easier to confirm the specific time."

Anyway, it was only three hours off, so Ottos nodded in agreement and adjusted the Dust of Replication to the time when Old Yuan and the others disappeared.

The illusion of the past overshadowed reality, but nothing changed.

"This is a miscalculation..." Zhuge Chi shook his head. "We can only wait and see."

However, Dust of Replication does not have a fast-forward function; once it's enabled, you either have to disable it or you can only watch the full six hours.

But before Old Yuan and his group arrived, there would be no unusual sights here. They would stare at the stone, unable to do anything.

"We can't just wait like this," Luo Jun said. "Yuan Shouzhen and the others have been missing for a week, their fate unknown. Every hour we delay increases their danger."

Others might not know, but he deduced from the mission information that Old Yuan and his team were in dire straits and needed to enter the pyramid as soon as possible.

"What can we do?" Ottos asked. "Even Ophelia, the only one here who understands the Ancient Parami script, can't decipher the gibberish on this. What's the use of us just worrying?"

Luo Jun stared intently at the characters on the stone; most of these patterns seemed familiar.

As his mental attributes grew, Luo Jun's memory far surpassed that of ordinary people. Although it wasn't enough for him to learn a language in just a few days, with careful memorization, he was able to deduce some of the meanings of the Ancient Parami script he encountered along the way based on Ophelia's interpretation.

Of course, he's far from being able to translate fluently, but he still remembers where he's seen similar texts before.

"I remember you brought a photo of that Bronze Wine Cup artifact, didn't you?"

"Why are you asking this?" Zhuge Chi pulled out a booklet containing high-resolution photos of Amgilla artifacts. This booklet was printed by the Holy See and contained information about the mission. A set was issued to both the Zhendan and Xiluo teams, with annotations in different languages.

Ottos had found a Bronze Wine Cup in the desert before, but he couldn't find it here, so he had to use the reference book.

"Let me see." Luo Jun took it, flipped to the photo page, and carefully compared it with the brick in front of him.

"What are you doing?" Jin Fei over, and Luo Jun looked at it for a while before saying, "The inscription on this Bronze Wine Cup can be found on this stone."

"Is it a one-to-one correspondence?" The others' eyes lit up, and they crowded around as well.

"No..." Luo Jun shook his head and said, "The inscription on the stone is more than twenty characters longer than the one on the wine cup... I was thinking, if we removed the inscription from the stone, would the extra characters form a meaningful sentence?"

"I'll give it a try." Ophelia took out a pen and copied down the text on the stone tablet one by one. Then, comparing it with the inscription on the Bronze Wine Cup in the picture book, she crossed out the duplicate text and copied the remaining text together...

"I can read it now!" Ophelia's usually calm eyes widened slightly, and she then recited the sentence in Ancient Parami Language...

As the Last One syllable was read, the huge stone in front of us suddenly lit up and, accompanied by a rumbling sound, shrank into the interior of the pyramid, revealing a deep path!

(End of this chapter)