Chapter 218: 218. Chapter 218: Shengshan (Seeking Subscriptions)

218. Chapter 218: Shengshan (Seeking Subscriptions)

Original Church.

If the Shengshan is the birthplace of the Lord of Radiance, then this place is the first church of the Radiance Church, possessing an unimaginable status within the church system.

Compared to other churches with magnificent structures, the Original Church, even after later expansion, appeared very small.

It could only accommodate a few hundred people to pray together.

Compared to those large churches that could easily let a thousand people listen to a priest's sermon, it naturally didn't count for much.

Click!

The heavy church door closed slowly, Sophia wore the white robe of a Saintess, looked at the burning candle stands, suddenly felt a bit cold, and couldn't help but come to the statue of the Lord of Radiance and knelt down to pray.

She was originally a devout believer, and was prepared to pray like this all night, letting her soul get closer to the radiance.

"However... didn't expect the Lord of Radiance here to actually have a statue."

Although the faith of the Radiance Church spread across the earth, in most Radiance Churches, there were no statues.

The only ones were stone slabs depicting the sun and moon, representing light.

It was the thing that was stepped on the ground by the Sadu Sect wizard when Fang Xing first went to the church...

In other words, the Lord of Radiance was just a mark, a symbol.

And in the Original Church, He had turned into a 'Personal God'!

Sophia looked up and saw a youth with an extremely handsome face; he seemed to be standing in a huge shell, his upper body bare, with something wrapped around his waist.

That seemed... to be a broken umbilical cord!

'No... how could such filthy and unclean things be wrapped around a god? I must have seen it wrong, that is a special belt...'

Sophia lowered her head quickly, secretly reprimanding her own thoughts.

"God... please forgive my sins."

Sophia couldn't help but pray in a whisper.

It seemed that her prayer was heard, and a piece of ground in the Original Church suddenly sank, revealing a downward underground passage.

"This..."

Sophia looked up in astonishment, looking at the handsome face of the Lord of Radiance, somewhat unable to speak.

The eyes of the Lord of Radiance, like a youth, seemed to carry a trace of pity, and seemed to flash a trace of a smile.

From within that underground passage, there seemed to be an inexplicable voice, calling out something...

"Just taking a look, it shouldn't matter, right?"

Sophia ultimately couldn't suppress the longing in her heart, held a golden candle stand, and walked into the underground passage.

The underground passage was very short, and she reached the end in just a few steps.

Sophia saw an 'underground church', which was almost a one-to-one replica of the church above ground.

Only, there were no long benches for believers to pray and sit, and no statue of the Lord of Radiance.

Replacing them were pieces of gloomy and terrifying torture instruments.

She saw torture racks, saws stained with blood and rust...

She saw standing iron coffins, which seemed to be full of sharp iron nails...

She saw a chair full of nails, with a burning fire basin underneath, from which seemed to come the screams of countless witches...

She also saw a strangely shaped wooden donkey, and on the donkey's back was a bloody cone-shaped body...

"We are all sinners bearing the seven deadly sins..."

"Only by experiencing many hellish sufferings and washing away the sins on our bodies can we truly see the radiance..."

Sophia's eyes were unfocused, muttering as she prayed.

She walked past one hideous torture instrument after another and came to the end of the cellar.

She saw statues of saints, all of whom were big figures who had once held top positions in the Radiance Church, having done countless great deeds, and even after death were sung about by the world.

Even, it was rumored that after being canonized, their souls had returned to the side of the Lord of Radiance, accompanying the god for a long time...

She saw an old woman, a blacksmith, a knight...

"Saint Maria, Saint Lavion, Saint Longinus..."

The gray-white stone statues carved from marble were lifelike, making it easy for Sophia to identify these 'saints'.

Suddenly, the sound of marble cracking came from the statue of Saint Longinus.

Sophia looked up in astonishment, and saw the chin of Saint Longinus's statue crack, revealing the contents of flesh and blood, and a big mouth full of sharp teeth...

The same change appeared on the other statues.

Sophia's eyes couldn't help but shed tears, and she saw a few pieces of blood-stained white robes in the corner.

Those were the clothes of other Saintesses!

"Radiance..."

Sophia cried silently.

Originally, she thought that only evil spirits in various places would harm humans.

Didn't expect that the Radiance Church, which was the faith of humanity, and that group of saints, were the ones who needed countless 'Saintesses' to feed... monsters!!!

At the same time, on the Shengshan.

"Oh?"

In the Forbidden Book Library, Fang Xing, who was reading a secret code, looked up: "Revealed your true colors, have you?"

After having a drink with Vol, he was too lazy to watch him flirt with that middle-aged landlady, left a message, and returned to the Shengshan.

With his martial force, sneaking into the library naturally wasn't much of a problem.

After all, according to the information obtained before, the Source Spirit could no longer descend into the mortal world in its true body.

With the 'Great Sun Tathagata Divine Palm' to rely on, he was naturally uninhibited.

'Furthermore... which Source Spirit doesn't eat people, they have already completely turned into evil gods...'

'Precisely because of this, I don't want to achieve Source Spirit, even if this can obtain Martial Saint or even Martial God combat power the fastest... and the restrictions are too great.'

Fang Xing shook his head and looked toward the depths of the forbidden book area.

What he most wanted to see was the 'Creation Stone Slab' that was rumored to have been born together with the Lord of Radiance.

But he could sense that in the depths of the library, there was a tight seal.

Although breaking in wouldn't be much of a problem, it would inevitably alarm the entire Shengshan!

"Counting on you, Vol, don't let me down."

Fang Xing looked down the mountain, his eyes revealing a look of expectation.

At the foot of the Shengshan.

Vol, who was flirting with the landlady, stepped onto the land of the Shengshan again at some point.

"Exiled Vol... you actually dare to violate the laws of the Cardinals?!"

Andrew saw Vol, and his expression changed.

"I swear, I will not fear power!"

"I swear, I will protect the weak!"

Vol took a step with every footprint, his face filled with indescribable determination.

Thinking of the hint finally left by Stahl, who left without saying goodbye, his heart was ultimately restless.

"Stop!"

Andrew's fighting qi burned fiercely: "If you take another step forward, I will exercise the power of the Church Knight and kill you here!"

"Get lost!"

Scarlet scales covered his palms, and Vol waved his hand casually.

In the void, there seemed to be a dragon roar, and the burning fighting qi turned into a big hand, directly slapping Andrew away.

"Puff!"

Andrew crashed into a ruin, covered in stones, a look of surprise on his face: "He... how could he be so strong? But it's useless, this is the Shengshan!"

Just as he was thinking, Vol had already slapped away a Holy Knight squad and reached the halfway point of the Shengshan.

"Vol!"

A Cardinal wearing a black robe stood in the night, behind him seemingly standing a powerful spirit.

After countless years of radiance, even the Church had gradually decayed.

What was expressed was a kind of taken-for-granted attitude of the superior toward the inferior.

Even if the strength was weak, those powerful people had to listen to the instructions.

"You violated God's will, I, in the name of the Judgment Cardinal, declare... cough... cough..."

The Black-Robed Cardinal's voice was solemn, but before he could finish, he found a violent cough that was unbearable, attacking him.

"This is... spirit? You also bear a spirit?"

He looked at Vol in surprise.

"Since when did the Radiance Church also seal spirits in the human body?"

Vol's face was covered with pieces of scarlet scales, seemingly having turned into a 'half-dragon man'.

The Dragon Spirit ranked among the Great Spirits, and would only be more bloodthirsty than ordinary spirits!

Furthermore, the last time Fang Xing seemed to have added some special things when sealing, such as the ability belonging to the God of Cat-Eating!

"Cough!"

The sound of coughing one after another spread throughout the surroundings, whether it was knights, servants, priests, bishops... even the Black-Robed Cardinal, all were coughing violently, breathing with difficulty, and even harder to speak.

Even more so, some had already coughed up blood and internal organ fragments...

This was the killing rule of the 'Dragon Spirit' besides 'Dragon Flame'—'Dragon Cough'!

As long as people within a certain range of Vol would suffer from 'Dragon Cough Syndrome', unable to breathe, and ultimately die miserably.

"Audacious!"

A beam of radiance fell from the top of the Shengshan, effectively suppressing the symptoms of Dragon Cough.

One Black-Robed Cardinal after another was rushing over, and even the Pope cast his gaze down.

Even if it decayed again, the Radiance Church was still a hegemon that had ruled a world for countless years, possessing countless foundations.

Just one Great Spirit, it would ultimately be suppressed.

"I... come to carry out my knightly way!"

Vol roared at the sky, terrifying flames erupted from behind him, vaguely able to see a red dragon roaring!

"Well done!"

Fang Xing put down the secret code in his hand, felt the violent disturbance outside, and extended his five fingers.

A huge palm print emerged, slapping into the depths of the forbidden book area.

—Heaven-Covering Hand!

"Who?"

Countless items in the surroundings came to life, turning into weapons and killing toward Fang Xing.

In the darkness, an old man with a thin face and glasses walked out.

He wore a black robe and was none other than the Cardinal in charge of forbidden books!

"It's so chaotic down there, you actually ran over to read? Deserve a beating!"

Fang Xing gave a light laugh, and Five Fingers Mountain followed.

The Five Elements power between heaven and earth gathered, seemingly turning into a heavy mountain, pressing the old man under the mountain.

Even if a Great Spirit emerged from this old man and was struggling, it was of no avail.

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"Oh? Actually sealed a Great Spirit?"

"Among these black-robed trash, you count as a relatively strong one..."

Fang Xing walked past the old man who was unable to move, commented leisurely, and walked into the depths of the forbidden book area.

Here, there were no other books, only a gray-white stone tablet.

On the stone tablet, there were dark brown bloodstains, written into lines of taboo text...