Chapter 170: Your Ability Is Very Important!

Bishop Qiao En scanned the priests and nuns before him through his mask.

He felt satisfied with the surprise, fear, and excitement radiating from them.

This was also the reason why he could not wait to drive these two gargoyles out after he had finished refining them, even though they could only be considered semi-finished products.

It was just... why did Teresa, the one chosen by the angels, also exhibit such intense emotional fluctuations of fear, just like those with guilty consciences?

This shouldn't be; shouldn't the one chosen by the angels be a natural saint?

Bishop Qiao En noticed that Teresa's emotional fluctuations were somewhat beyond his expectations.

However, he certainly would not reject the angel's decision because of this minor flaw.

He withdrew his gaze from Teresa and read out the names of the priests and nuns whose emotions had faltered in front of the gargoyles.

Those priests and nuns also realized that their previous deeds had been exposed, and coupled with seeing gargoyles that could truly move, their mental defenses were broken.

Without Bishop Qiao En needing to do anything further, they knelt on the cold floor of the chapel, repenting endlessly before the statue of the Virgin Mary.

"You are merely lost lambs who have failed the test; now, stop crying and return to your rooms to await judgment."

Bishop Qiao En spoke in a low voice, coordinating with the two gargoyles as they flew up to perch on the ceiling, glaring down at the kneeling sinners.

Those people nodded hurriedly and retreated out the door, filled with terror and regret.

In the chapel, only ten people remained.

Among these ten, only two were actually dominated by feelings of joy and excitement.

Teresa, who was held in high hopes, was not among them.

However, in Bishop Qiao En's view, this was already a decent ratio.

In this era of technological development and rampant materialism.

The requirements for the devout must also change accordingly.

Bishops like them actually understood the principle of keeping pace with the times, and they had always been acting accordingly.

As for whether the results were good or not, that was another matter.

"Teresa, come forward!"

After watching the unqualified people leave, Bishop Qiao En looked at Teresa.

"This is your gift; hold it tight, and then wait for the summons!"

Bishop Qiao En watched Teresa, who stood forward with a solemn expression and gritted teeth, and placed a coin with a cross pattern, transformed from an Invitation Letter, into her hand.

Upon touching this coin that seemed to have no thickness or weight.

Teresa immediately felt information appearing in her mind.

And then, not long after.

As the agreed-upon time arrived.

Su Ping sent the invitation.

The next second.

As Teresa heard the invitation in a language she did not know, yet could perfectly understand the meaning of.

She steeled her heart and chose to accept.

Immediately, Teresa vanished from the chapel, disappearing in full view of everyone.

This caused those priests and nuns to exclaim in shock.

Their gazes toward Bishop Qiao En and the statue of the Virgin Mary became even more fervent after witnessing the miracle.

And this was also one of Bishop Qiao En's goals.

If Sheng Cheng wanted to restore its former glory and help the angels fulfill their duties as a Shepherd.

Relying solely on an old man like himself was clearly not enough.

After all, while gathering a group of confidants, it was necessary to reveal a bit of mystery, so as to make outside forces wary and also win the hearts of one's own people.

Pot Heaven.

Teresa did not appear in the black mist.

Instead, she appeared directly on a spacious plot of black soil, with white mist shrouding the outside of the black soil, blocking the view of anything further away.

This black soil was very fertile, with the earth all sourced from the abandoned Spirit Fields of several large, defunct Spirit Vein sites.

After being surprised by the sudden change in her surroundings, Teresa seemed to notice something, looked up, and saw Su Ping using the Memory Illusion of the White Crane Boy.

"An... Angel?"

Seeing the wings of the White Crane Boy, Teresa called out hesitantly.

As a nun who had graduated from the Sheng Cheng school, she had never seen an angel of this appearance.

However, considering that an angel's Avatar in the human world could take any form.

It was reasonable for there to be slight differences from the books.

Su Ping shook his head slightly without speaking, yet his voice resonated from all around.

"I am not an angel, merely the manager of this space."

"Teresa, the chosen one, your ability is very important for protecting the myriad worlds and resisting Evil."

"This is the reason why you were chosen and brought to this place."

"My ability... is important?"

Teresa widened her eyes, having the illusion that she was watching a movie about saving the world, but she was the protagonist.

"Yes, do not doubt it; although I am not an angel, I have never disdained to lie."

Su Ping landed gently in front of the nun.

Then, he began to teach Teresa by example, introducing her to the various knowledge in the Outer Sect planting manual.

Leaving Teresa, who had just been secretly delighted in her heart... suddenly realizing that the plot development seemed a little bit wrong?

Wasn't he supposed to use his abilities to save the world?

Why was this manager, who seemed to have such a high status, teaching him how to clear wasteland and how to raise flowers and grow grass?

The most she had ever come into contact with before was how to raise a cactus!

However... why did these steps feel quite simple?

And these seeds, they didn't seem to need anything so complicated; could she directly judge which ones were good and which ones were average?

Teresa was in the dense Spirit Qi environment of the Pot Heaven.

Even without starting formal cultivation.

Her Spirit Body of natural affinity began to slowly exert its effect.

Just the aspect of distinguishing seed quality alone.

Made Su Ping click his tongue in wonder, secretly thinking that he had indeed found a good farmer this time.

Su Ping was no longer stingy.

After all, by picking up ownerless items left behind by kind people several times.

He could now be considered to have a small fortune.

Naturally, he had extra resources for the cultivation of his tool person.

Su Ping provided Teresa with Zi Ran Chang Qing Gong as her basic cultivation technique.

He also provided planting-related secret manuals.

And after seeing her quickly finish sorting the first batch of Spirit Rice seeds.

Su Ping waved his hand and performed the divine ability of creation from the Void in front of the little nun.

He made a common building obtained from card drawing—a European-style row of small wooden houses—appear out of thin air in the sky, and it landed gently, becoming the little nun's new home.

In addition, a small pond with a fountain that could continuously spout water was provided.

A windmill that kept turning even without wind.

As well as an open-air kitchen that could always be lit, along with tables and chairs, all appeared one by one.

Su Ping let Teresa, whose jaw was almost dropping in surprise, sit down.

He rewarded her with a small cup of Spirit Wine and a small portion of a meal including Spirit Rice and Spirit Plant.

It was enough to let this little nun from Sheng Cheng see what kind of enjoyment only the extraordinary could have.

Afterwards, after Su Ping left behind rice and flour, and also left the team of Xiao Hei Mao and Dahuang who had nothing to do at Zhu Feng to assist this little nun in clearing the wasteland.

After giving her the message that he would let her go back for a visit in a week to put her mind at ease.

He turned and left the mountain peak that had been planned as the Ling Tian Qu.

After Teresa got over her initial nervousness and realized that her lack of faith... seemed not to be cared about by the angel and the manager.

Without the worry of this inner demon, she became lively again.

And she soon discovered that she seemed to be less fast and powerful at working than that pair of cat and dog.

Teresa simply acted as a foreman, starting to rely on the instincts brought by her Spirit Body to direct the extraordinary cat and dog on how to cultivate the land well.

And in Sheng Cheng.

The rumors of Teresa disappearing after being summoned by an angel naturally could not be kept hidden.

Together with the news of a gargoyle appearing beside Bishop Qiao En, once it spread, it immediately caused a huge uproar.

Many big figures had actually learned through information exchange that Bishop Qiao En had once been identified by the Grandmaster Yuan Ci, who was confirmed to be an extraordinary, as not being an extraordinary.

They all became suspicious.

There was even a vice president of the Eastern Ancient Kingdom who went to Daci Dabe Temple overnight to confirm it face-to-face with that Abbot.

However, even if it was proven that the other party was truly an extraordinary, it did not mean that the Grandmaster had lied.

After all, who knew if he had only recently obtained some inheritance through the Sheng Cheng Mi Fa?

Flower Flag Country and the Gaul Chicken Country were the first to start accelerating the progress of reviewing the copied materials of Sheng Cheng's mysterious knowledge.

With a large amount of manpower and material resources poured in.

They also came up with their own occult training.

The set of things that Bishop Qiao En did in the Earth Palace.

They were also organizing people to carry out in their own territory.

Even in order to better imitate the mental state of the believers.

They spared no expense to hire psychologists, hypnotists, and used many drugs.

It was just that the idea was good... but in terms of results, there was no hope of success to be seen.

So much so that in the hands of some people, they had already received applications for laboratory production to restart the code-named Devil Drug.

In their view, only this strongest mental drug in history, which had long since ceased all experimental production and of which everything on the market now was fake, had any hope of breaking through the limitations of the human body and glimpsing the path of the extraordinary...

It was just that the side effects were a little bit strong; at least once, at most twice, it could turn a user without special talent into a super lunatic who looked directly at an Ancient God.

So much so that there was no lack of drugs that used its name because they valued its fame, but in reality, not one was real.

After all, if it were the real thing, this wouldn't be selling medicine, but creating lunatics.

And lunatics... would not make repeat purchases...

Although on the surface, the big figures of Flower Flag Country rejected these proposals.

But that did not prevent generals who had received the reminder from starting to let laboratories produce small quantities for emergencies.

And here in Sheng Cheng.

The benefits were also immediate.

Besides the believers flocking to kiss Bishop Qiao En's feet and even the roads he had walked on.

Churches everywhere also sent good news.

The frequency and duration of the wealthy attending services increased significantly.

Furthermore, they all vied to open their purses generously, greatly alleviating the strained financial situations of churches in various regions.

Additionally, well-known academies associated with Sheng Cheng also welcomed a wave of enrollment.

Many young people who were once favored and recommended by priests, but had been unable to attend school due to family or social circumstances.

Now, all of a sudden, they were able to enroll and become future priests or nuns.