Chapter 880: The Faith of the Gable Family

Hearing Qian Chen's words, Quinn was extremely surprised. He turned his head to look at Gable, only to find that he had opened his eyes.

Meanwhile, Elijah was still evading and denying it. She clutched her messy hair and said, "No, it's not like that!"

"Ah!"

Gable clutched his head and cried out in pain, while Quinn helplessly retracted the hand-blade he had used to strike the back of his head. Qian Chen gave him a surprised look: "You've learned the technique of striking the carotid artery to induce unconsciousness?"

Quinn shook his head hurriedly: "I haven't!"

"You haven't learned it and you hit him like that? Did you really think you could easily knock him out?" Qian Chen gave him a look that said 'you know what I mean', and briefly checked Gable's condition: "You struck his cerebellum, damaging his motor nerves, but it did have an effect..."

Quinn instantly perked up!

Then Qian Chen continued: "It's just that it's easy to paralyze someone. Don't do this for now; he's still a student at Miskatonic University! Someone will come to investigate."

Quinn instantly understood Qian Chen's meaning: "You don't intend to report this to the school?"

"I am very interested in the Original Sin Sect, and Miskatonic University's handling of students who violate school rules is not particularly harsh..." Qian Chen thought for a moment and said: "His invisible art that attacked you was just a curse to induce unconsciousness. If reported to the school, he would at most be placed under supervised research."

Quinn was at a loss, and Elijah was even scared to the point of tears.

"Doesn't the matter end here?"

Qian Chen looked at them suspiciously: "End here? How could there be such a good thing!"

He flipped out the *Book of the Blood Cup*, placed his palm on it, and smiled: "The Original Sin Sect is very ancient. Although it has been fragmented since the Fifth Epoch, like its close relative the Holy Church, it is split among various entities and nations."

"But, this is an ancient heritage after all, and I am very interested in all ancient mystery sects."

Gable crawled up from the ground, staggered toward Qian Chen, and mumbled: "I will... make you pay the price!"

Qian Chen casually swung a fist, smashing it into his face. Accompanied by the intimate contact of the fist with the bridge of his nose, two streams of blood sprayed from his nose. Elijah stepped forward to support him, while Qian Chen turned to examine this abandoned classroom.

He came to a white cloth covered in dust, reached out to lift it, revealing a floor-length mirror with a metal frame as tall as a person.

Quinn was still standing there blankly, watching Gable angrily push Elijah away and rush toward Qian Chen.

Qian Chen swung a stick back, striking Gable's knee heavily. This tall senior instantly knelt down...

Qian Chen said to Quinn: "He is probably just a transcendent who has just crossed the Ouroboros Gate! Such a transcendent who has only mastered a few types of instant invisible arts is not as terrifying as a gun when truly faced. You only need a stick, and then don't let him stay conscious; even a farmer could deal with him!"

Quinn was stunned. He hadn't expected the great transcendent in his mind to be so easy to deal with, and he said blankly: "A farmer?"

"The greatest witch hunter can also die by a pitchfork." Qian Chen didn't look back.

Gable's resilience was truly powerful. He struggled to stand up again. Before he could pull off the cufflink on his right hand, Quinn punched him in the chin. With a stagger, Gable fell again.

Elijah went up and hugged him. She looked up at Quinn, then immediately turned to Qian Chen and begged: "Please, don't hit him anymore!"

At this moment, Qian Chen picked up the cufflink he had dropped. On the rose gold cufflink, a Holy Grail pattern was engraved, with several floral patterns entwining the three-legged Holy Grail. Qian Chen took out the jeweler's eyepiece from his chest to observe the gem and examined it carefully.

Quinn assumed a boxing stance, jumping lightly in front of Gable.

Gable weakly raised his hand and waved it, signaling that he surrendered...

"The Original Sin Sect still left something behind, a vampire cufflink! If you drive the nail behind this into your own body, the greed blood in that ruby will merge into his bloodline, plus the three invisible arts engraved on the cufflink—hmm! It should be the Thorn of the Red Rose, the Fountain of Reason, and the Cloak of Concealment..."

Qian Chen looked at the cufflink for a moment and identified so many things.

Elijah became even more terrified, while Quinn said enviously: "Ma Wen, what level of transcendent are you exactly?"

Qian Chen put away the eyepiece, glanced at Gable lying in his sister's arms, and said indifferently: "A pure newcomer, but in the present world, secret knowledge is more reliable than transcendent power."

"But none of this is as reliable as a fist..."

Qian Chen kicked casually, snapping the three-inch-thick wooden board on the desk next to him. Gable's body trembled slightly, and he said with difficulty: "Are you... a martial artist?"

"Eastern Continent Kung Fu!"

Gable revealed a row of large teeth stained red with nosebleed, and tried his best to make a ferocious expression: "If it weren't for your sneak attack first, the moment the Red Rose cufflink pierced my body, ten top martial artists would have been torn to shreds by me!"

Qian Chen glanced at him indifferently: "You gave that Flower of Purity to your sister?"

He came to Elijah, suddenly raised his hand, and the cufflink in his hand stabbed toward Elijah's neck. Gable struggled to block in front of his sister, but Quinn was quick-witted and raised his hand to punch him again.

Just as the cufflink was about to pierce Elijah's fair and slender neck, a white light erupted.

Hearing a 'ding', the cufflink failed to pierce the skin, bounced back, and was caught by Qian Chen, who was quick-witted enough to catch it.

"Your understanding of occultism and invisible arts is like a child's. Those four tarot cards: Four of Wands, representing prosperity; Two of Cups, purity; Ace of Pentacles, transaction and elasticity; Two of Swords, deception."

"The lotus spirituality of the Four of Wands gave the Flower of Purity the power and reality to come to the present world."

"The purity of the Two of Cups strengthened its power."

"The Ace of Pentacles represents the transaction between us, and also a rebound, reflecting the power back onto your switch and path."

"The deception of the Two of Swords means that the owner of this flower, this invisible art, has been me from beginning to end!"

"From the moment you started carrying these two flowers, you were bound to have no power to fight back. Yes, the spiritual level of this vampire cufflink should be at the Baptized level. That ruby is transformed from the source blood of a true transcendent-level vampire. Piercing it into you would instantly make you a transcendent-level vampire..."

"But... is a transcendent-level vampire anything remarkable?"

"Carrying that flower, a true transcendent-level vampire would also turn to ashes at my single thought!"

Cold sweat dripped down Gable's forehead. He still wanted to struggle in his heart, such as the invisible art named 'Thorn of the Red Rose', which uses the power of the Red Rose potion to fire poisonous thorns containing blood-sucking and life-draining power. As a vampire, one can remotely control those thorns to drain blood.

And the Fountain of Reason is a holy art of the Lamp Father, used to maintain one's rationality and consciousness as a human.

The Cloak of Concealment can make one invisible.

These three invisible arts, combined with the vampire's source blood and the Blood Cup ritual, can instantly give one the combat power of the Baptized level, and they are also the last treasures left by the Original Sin Sect.

But in Qian Chen's mouth, these seemed not worth mentioning.

Qian Chen moved the old chair and sat in front of the two siblings. Quinn stood behind him with a stick, looking aggressive. The two of them looked like bad students used to bullying, forcing the two siblings from a high position.

This time, Quinn also knew that these two had ill intentions, and had no more objections!

Qian Chen said coldly: "Tell me! What is going on with the Original Sin Sect?"

Gable's face changed, and he stiffened his neck, not wanting to speak. But Elijah answered in a low voice: "We don't know too much either. My and Gable's family have been students at Miskatonic for many generations! Father joined the Spiritualist Society twenty years ago. At that time, he was deeply influenced by Grandfather and was very pious to the Holy Church."

"At the same time, he also wanted to find the secret of Grandfather's death thirty years ago."

"Later, he found it! Only then did he discover that Grandfather was not on the side of the Holy Church in that war thirty years ago, but belonged to the branch of the Spiritualist Society related to Original Sin."

"He obtained many secret transmissions and transcendent items left by Grandfather. Originally, he was prepared to hand all this over to the Holy Church, but after reading, after reading that *Book of the Blood Cup* and *The Path to Secret History*, Father changed!"

"He began to study the Path of the Blood Cup and the secret transmissions and invisible arts of the Original Sin Sect."

"Since we were children, he taught us that the Holy Church is hypocritical, the spirit is false, and only Original Sin is real. He said the Holy Church deceived everyone, the Savior is a false god, and the Trinity becoming the Savior is a complete scam!"

Qian Chen nodded and agreed: "That's not wrong!"

Quinn looked back at him in horror...

Gable glared at his sister twice and finally spoke: "The Path of Original Sin is the path of reality! This is beyond doubt."

"According to the teachings of the Holy Church, our spirits are sacred; we must rely on faith and doctrine to ascend step by step, entering the highest realm of the spirit world to arrive at the side of the Savior and enter His kingdom."

"But the sacred spirituality of the Holy Church dares not come to this world at all. They feed believers mandora wine, let them enter hallucinations, and have their consciousness come to the Spirit Realm."

"Then they apply divine arts to heal the believers' pain, but those are all hallucinations and scams. Believers seem to have relieved their physical pain, but in reality, their condition has not improved in the slightest. They deceive believers that they can go to God's kingdom after death, but God's kingdom does not exist at all. The rationality and memory in human spirituality cannot persist in the higher layers of the Spirit Realm."

"I have seen with my own eyes the consciousness of a bishop of the Holy Church wailing in hell in the Spirit Realm, yet they said his essence had returned to the Lamp Father, leaving behind only clothes and residue!"

Qian Chen agreed again: "In that case, that's not wrong either!"

"The true spirit does not carry any emotions or memories. The further one goes up the Spirit Realm, the more consciousness is stripped away, but only pure spirituality can truly sublimate..."

What did the Savior do wrong?

He just wanted to send the pure true spirits of the people of this world back for himself to eat!

Gable's face twitched, and he spread his hands and asked: "But without memories and emotions, are we still us? The path of redemption of the Holy Church is like turning us into a blank, false existence without memories and soul."

"And those memories, emotions, those real things, are rooted in Original Sin. The sacred is false, only Original Sin is real!"

"I have truly seen the change Original Sin has on the human body. That kind of change is real and true. Sick people drink the blood of greed and are immediately healed! Weak people drink the blood of rage and can overturn a car..."

"Why should we pursue a false spirit and abandon the real body?"

"The powerful indulge in the senses and desires of the flesh, yet expect the poor to be pious and believe in the Holy Church." ===== CHAPTER 881 =====