Chapter 882: Establishing the Sect at This Moment, Three Disciples

"The Twelfth Hour and the Lamp Father are one?"

Gable sneered: "Even the craziest cultist wouldn't say such things. Sunk in the deepest part of the abyss, the blind and idiotic Twelfth Hour is a corpse. He won't respond to anyone, and the Lamp Father is even less likely to be him!"

Qian Chen shook his head. If Tai Yi knew you said this, he would be very unhappy.

Quinn listened in a daze on the side and raised his hand to ask: "I have heard of the Hours. You have been talking about the Hours. Besides being the twelve gods representing each month, what else are the Hours?"

Elijah answered him timidly: "The Hours are the primordial gods, and also the twelve oldest gods."

"They hold the power of time and order, using anchors to fix all things. So in the East, they represent the hours that divide a day into twelve parts. In the West, they represent the twelve changes of the moon, which is the twelve months."

"Six of the Hours are located in the Spirit Realm!"

"Including the three gods of the orthodox church worshipped by us, as well as three other great existences—the Ouroboros representing alchemy and balance, the Lotus representing flowers, trees, and kindness, and the Oak representing nature and life."

"The other six Hours fell into the abyss... It is incomparably evil and terrifying there. They are the Beast, the Moth, the Winter, the Crow, the Vortex, and the Corpse!"

"Lamp, Mirror, Cup, Snake, Lotus, and Tree are the six Hours of the Spirit Realm. Beast, Moth, Crow, Winter, Vortex, and Corpse are the six Hours of the Abyss... They represent all the months and time orders of the lunar calendar from January to December."

Qian Chen added: "They are also the masters of the twelve earthly branches from Zi to Hai."

"So, in occultism, time is a very important factor; it represents the power of the Hours."

"Now it is August, the Month of the Moth, representing transformation. Now it is the You hour, the time of Winter, and it will soon be 7 PM when the sun sets. That time is the Xu hour, the time of the Vortex Hour!" Qian Chen added: "The second half of the year is the time when the power of reality, that is, the abyss, is rising, most suitable for performing some rituals to explore reality!"

"The philosophy of the Xuanzhen Sect is very simple: Lamp and Corpse are two sides of one body. Therefore, the power of spirituality can only be truly revealed by falling into reality. Climb the Spirit Realm, fall into the abyss! That is all..."

Gable still wanted to retort, but Qian Chen tidied up the cufflinks in a leisurely manner.

"Listening to me won't convince you. As long as I let you see reality, you will believe incomparably that Lamp and Corpse are indeed two sides of one body!"

Qian Chen stood in front of the mirror and said to Quinn: "Get a basin of water!"

Gable said subconsciously: "No, I don't need to wash my face!"

Qian Chen showed Gable a smile that made his hair stand on end: "Fall into the abyss and see reality!"

Gable suddenly said in horror: "Are you from the Abyss Church?"

He struggled hard and trembled: "What Xuanzhen Sect? The abyss is reality. Falling into the abyss and seeking the power of the abyss is clearly the philosophy of that group of lunatics in the Abyss Church. Although there is reality in the abyss, that reality is destruction. Even the craziest demons fear you..."

"No, let me go!"

Gable wanted to resist, but Qian Chen pressed him down firmly with one hand.

Quinn found a copper basin. This teaching building had been abandoned, but there was still water in the washroom. He filled a full basin and carried it to the mirror with difficulty, while Gable struggled as if he had been defiled.

Qian Chen had to give him a hand-blade to the back of his neck, making him fall asleep like a baby, and he quieted down.

Elijah, who was scared to death, had her biggest resistance in grabbing Qian Chen's sleeve and begging him with pitiful eyes.

Qian Chen carried the water basin to Gable, pondered for a moment, and said: "Originally, the Xuanzhen Sect's ritual of entering truth was a bit troublesome, mainly because of the talismans necessary for the Eastern cultivation world, which I haven't drawn..."

"It just so happens that I have read the *Book of the Blood Cup*, heard the philosophy of the Original Sin Sect, and have gained great progress in my understanding of occultism, the Bright Venerable Hour, and the Tripod Mother Hour. The sources of power for all invisible arts and secret rituals are nothing more than four: potions, reality, secrets, and spirituality."

"So perhaps I can make some changes to the ritual of entering truth, adding the philosophy of the Original Sin Sect..."

Quinn was a bit excited when he heard about modifying secret rituals. Creating secret rituals by himself was simply too cool!

Students from the New World had absolutely no resistance to secret religions.

Only Elijah was scared out of her wits. She said nervously: "But, the four elements of mystery are potions, spells, secrets, and spirituality."

"Those are all to deceive you laymen. Insiders all know that spells are the manifestation of secrets, secret words used to prevent bystanders from knowing the secrets while letting the power of the secrets work. And reality, that is, the abyss you speak of, is quite taboo, so it was deliberately concealed."

"After all, this is also a kind of secret!"

Qian Chen grabbed Gable's hair, squeezed the blood in his mouth, and made him spit it into the water basin.

"Blood—the source of sin!"

Elijah looked at her brother with incomparable worry. Modifying secret rituals at will was also the craziest act in the crazy mystery world. No one knew where the modified secret ritual would point. If it didn't work, it would be fine; the most terrifying thing was pointing to the unknown.

Attracting unknown power...

In the occult world, the unknown can be equated with bad luck and death!

Qian Chen pulled Gable's hair and signaled Quinn to search Elijah: "Tear off the black pearl pendant on her neck!"

Elijah didn't need Quinn to do it; she obediently tore off the black pearl pendant herself. She said timidly: "This is a symbol of bad luck, and also a witch's jewelry."

"It seems witches possess the power of the abyss!"

Qian Chen tore off the black pearl and threw it into the water basin. At the same time, he said to Quinn and Elijah: "The black pearl is the symbol of the Twelfth Hour, the Xuan Lord."

As for why, it's very simple.

Both Tai Yi and Qian Chen's true bodies are in the Dao Dust Bead, and the origin of this world is also the Dao Dust Bead, so the bead is the true symbol representing the Lamp Father and the Xuan Lord. It's just that both the East and West were confused by the spiritual light, thinking that light was Qian Chen's true appearance.

This point was wrong from the beginning!

And the Xuan Lord is the Twelfth Hour, sunk at the bottom of the world, the lowest part of the true realm, and its essence is destruction, its appearance is darkness.

So the black pearl, produced in the deep sea and pitch black without light, is the symbol most suitable for him.

Qian Chen threw the black pearl into the water. Accompanied by a mysterious power, the bloody water in the basin slowly rotated. The spiral pattern represents the power of the Eleventh Hour, the Vortex, and is also the attraction and path to the true realm.

The Vortex is the whirlpool, the great millstone of clear and turbid mixture hidden in the dark whirlpool of the true realm.

Gable barely opened his eyes a crack. Before he could moan, Qian Chen pressed the mirror down, shining it on him from top to bottom, and then pressed his head violently into the water basin.

Gable struggled hard. The whirlpool of water he struggled in became more and more intense, and bloody water splashed out from it.

Quinn watched this scene at a loss, but Elijah was stunned. She whispered: "Baptism? Cleansing?"

At this moment, Elijah vaguely believed the statement that the Lamp Father and the Xuan Lord were one, because the third stage of transcendence—Baptism, the baptism performed, is to be held in water. One must be completely immersed in water, symbolizing the washing away of Original Sin.

Qian Chen asked: "Do you still remember the few taboos we entered the Spiritualist Society with?"

"The first taboo: During the ritual, you cannot place the cup in front of the mirror. Similarly, you cannot perform the ritual with a woman!"

"Now we know! Placing the cup in front of the mirror is the Blood Cup ritual that brings out potions from the Spirit Realm, and the woman is the incarnation ritual that lets existences from the Spirit Realm descend."

"Then the fourth taboo: During the ritual, the mirror representing the Mirror Master can only look at you straight or upward. You must never let the mirror face downward!"

"What does that represent again?"

Qian Chen asked Quinn back. Elijah on the side, regardless of her brother still struggling in the bloody water, couldn't help but think.

"Water is also a mirror. Immersing in water is the mirror facing downward, guiding you into another world. The Spirit Realm is above the present world, and the true realm is below the present world. So baptism, immersing in water, is the ritual of entering the true realm and falling into the abyss..."

Qian Chen looked at Elijah: "Not only the Original Sin Sect, but the Abyss Church also represents a part of reality and secret history."

"Of course, the Abyss Church only saw the darkness and destruction of the true realm, so they thought that was the source of reality. They are far inferior to my Xuanzhen Sect, which knows the reality and secrets of the Bright Venerable and Xuan Lord being two sides of one body."

"Secrets are power!"

"Reality is power!"

The struggling Gable under his hand became lighter and lighter, and Qian Chen also chanted: "The Heavenly Dao is finished, the Three Venerables are formed, the sun and moon are together!"

"Out of the brilliant, into the dark, the bead spreads the Dao, the mirror penetrates the gods."

"The majestic Tripod Mother suppresses Yin and Yang!"

"The mirror travels between the two realms, dividing spirit and truth, the spiritual light shines on the world, and ghosts have nowhere to hide."

"Water is the boundary, enter the darkness..."

"Duo! Duo! Duo!"

Qian Chen used ancient Middle Earth language throughout. Except for Quinn, who recognized it as Middle Earth language as a top student of the Miskatonic History Department, Elijah was confused and could only feel the mystery contained in that solemn and sacred language.

At this time, Gable was suffocating and dying. His spirituality followed the bloody water and the whirlpool, followed the path opened by the mirror, the water surface, and the spell, and finally entered the true realm.

That is, in the occult concept of the Western Continent—falling into the abyss!

Quinn watched Gable's body suddenly straighten, and he became anxious, tugging at Qian Chen's sleeve and saying: "He... he won't die, will he?"

Qian Chen said indifferently: "Don't worry, he just entered the true realm, and entered it following the ritual I newly created. Once his spirituality has been tempered by reality, he will naturally know that the Bright Venerable and the Xuan Lord are one."

Quinn looked at Gable, who had sunk into the bloody water and had no breath, and his thoughts slipped, secretly thinking: "Are those people who were bewitched by heretics and blood-sacrificed innocent people all having experienced such a time?"

"Did I kill someone following Ma Wen?"

These thoughts kept surging in his mind. On the one hand, his fanaticism for occultism and the mystery and reliability Qian Chen showed made him believe that the Original Sin Sect and the Xuanzhen Sect had indeed obtained a part of the truth of the transcendent and mystery world, and Qian Chen's behavior of merging the two and creating a new mystery sect fascinated him.

But his rationality told him that he had just drowned a living person with his friend, and it was his senior.

Even if, even if those seniors were cultists and heretics, isn't drowning him with a mystery ritual even more cultist and heretical?

Elijah, on the other hand, was born into a completely occult family, and only had doubts about whether Qian Chen's actions were reliable.

"This is indeed very like baptism!"

Quinn looked at Elijah nervously, only to hear her mutter: "It's different from the baptism that is now changed to symbolically sprinkling some holy water. In the records of the Original Sin Sect, the baptism secret ritual for true transcendents to break through to a higher level indeed requires completely submerging a person in water until they lose consciousness and are dying!"

"Only in this way will the spirit enter the Savior's kingdom and wash away the body of Original Sin."

"If the baptism secret ritual is essentially entering the abyss and experiencing reality... then everything can be explained!"

"The blood of the seven sins gathers into the blood of Original Sin and is injected into the flesh. The noble spirit protects us. Immersing in the abyss and experiencing reality, the spirit and flesh will usher in the final transformation."

"I know, why the Holy Church could drive the Original Sin Sect as a heresy, and why the Holy Church could slaughter all heterodox transcendents at the end of the Third Epoch, because it is the combination of the paths of the three major sects. The spiritual path of the Holy Church, the path of Original Sin of the Original Sin Sect, and the fallen path of the Abyss Church! The Holy Church not only adopted the blood of Original Sin of the Original Sin Church, but also stole the abyss secret ritual of the Abyss Church."

"They must have also discovered that the noble spirituality can only truly sublimate by falling into the abyss!"

Elijah looked at Qian Chen: "The Eastern mystery sect is right. The Lamp Father of the highest spirituality and the abyss of the most dark fall are one!"

"You have uncovered the truth that the Abyss Church and the Original Sin Sect are one, which is also the deepest secret hidden by the Holy Church."

Qian Chen spread his hands: "Look, I will prove to you that what I said is true and not false... You will also agree with my principles..."

"Heh!"

Gable suddenly lifted his head out of the water, emitting a long breath like a dead person gasping for air.

He began to cough up turbid bloody water. The short hair clinging to his forehead stuck to his pale, bloodless face. His eyeballs bulged slightly. If it weren't for the violent heaving of his chest, Quinn would almost have thought he was a dead person!

He gasped for a long time, looked back and saw his sister's worried gaze, then looked at Qian Chen, and suddenly knelt on one knee and said: "You are right!"

"The Xuanzhen Sect, like the Original Sin Sect, has mastered the reality and secrets that the Holy Church will never admit."

Qian Chen helped him up and said: "Let us create a brand new sect together, surpassing the Original Sin Sect, and even more surpassing the Xuanzhen Sect, mastering reality and falsehood. In the name of the Lamp Father and the Xuan Lord being one, following the path of the Cup Mother's blood of Original Sin, we will surely walk widely on the mirror surface."

"The earth was empty and chaotic, the abyss was dark; the spirit of God moved on the face of the waters!"

Gable heard this sentence from Qian Chen, repeating the scripture from the chapter of Genesis in the *Trinity Bible*.

He nodded firmly and said: "Yes, the earth was empty and chaotic, the abyss was dark; the spirit of God moved on the face of the waters! Abyss, Spirit Realm, Present World; Lamp Father, Cup Mother, Mirror Master, Trinity. The path of spiritual sublimation is indeed so. Ascension is not ascending to the highest part of the Spirit Realm, but falling into the abyss."

"The path we approach God is real and true!"

"The path of Original Sin and the path of spirituality, the path of the abyss, the three paths are connected into one, which is the path of sublimation, the path of faith!"

Gable just believed it like this, and then firmly threw himself into the mystery sect Qian Chen had just founded.

Qian Chen turned to look at Elijah. The girl was also trembling, kneeling on one knee toward Qian Chen... Only Quinn was still confused.

Are you cultists so easy to deviate from your faith?

Quinn quickly knelt on one knee...

What a coincidence, we Protestants are too! ===== CHAPTER 883 =====