Chapter 966: Original Sin Conception, Holy Child Birth

The rows of long benches in the church were filled with believers.

These believers, dressed in different clothes, some were nobles in brocade and rich clothes, some were sailors working at the pier, and some were poor people in Zhigu City. These believers, called 'sect people' by the Zhigu common people, were attracted by the doctrines of the Holy Church, some were interested in Western machinery and alchemy, and some were simply hooligans looking for a backer.

But at this moment, they were all bowing their heads to the sacred triangle above the Holy Hall.

The light of the silver lamp at the very top was dim. Lao Guangming didn't know that this was a symbol of blasphemy in the Holy Church.

The priest wearing the red robe of the Archbishop stood under the Holy Triangle, his right hand pinching the inverted triangle silver ornament on his nose. He raised his head slightly when he heard the sound of the church door being pushed open, revealing a face without blood.

Seeing Lao Guangming step into the church, the big-nosed priest opened his arms and said to the visitor: "Welcome, my brothers and sisters!"

"Welcome to step into the embrace of the Holy Mother, welcome to integrate into our flesh and blood..."

Lao Guangming frowned slightly: "Brothers and sisters? You are a foreigner, our hair and skin are different!"

"Do you believe that the Holy Mother created humans and all things?"

The foreigner's attitude was amiable, as if he wanted to make people forget the believers on the long benches who bowed their heads like the dead.

Lao Guangming carefully observed the believers on the long benches while responding to the priest casually. They bowed their heads, quiet as if they were dead.

Although he knew the church had ghosts, this scene still scared Lao Guangming. He really didn't expect the foreigners to be able to take action against their own people. They usually treasured this group of believers!

On the other side, he responded to the priest: "The Holy Mother you speak of should be the Ding Mother among the Three Creation Venerables! Among the Three Creation Venerables, the Bright Venerable descends spiritual light, turning into the souls of all living things in heaven and earth; the Mirror Master opens up the world and operates time and space; the Ding Mother creates humans and shapes all things. If the Ding Mother is the Holy Mother in your mouth, I will certainly believe it without doubt!"

"Don't be nervous!" The foreigner's official language was excellent, and he laughed: "I am not one of those stubborn people in the church. They deny that the Ding Mother of the East is the Holy Mother, in essence, just to monopolize the power of interpreting the doctrine. And I, have no such thoughts at all. In front of the great sacred, we, as humble as we are, can only obey, and have no way to violate or lead."

"Therefore, the Holy Church worships the Lamp Father, who grants humans free will, as the main god, demoting the Holy Mother and the Mirror Lord to incarnations of the Lamp Father, creating the lie of the Trinity."

"But the higher the level, the more they know that the Trinity of the Holy Church is just

"And they obey the Lamp Father only to usurp the gods! The Holy Church is a group of usurpers. Ever since the Savior discovered the secret of the Lamp Father, discovered the will of this supreme god who descended his spiritual light to become all the souls of all things in the world, it is to keep us away from him. Our essence is one, coming from him, yet we cannot understand each other, cannot unite our hearts. The Holy Church discovered this long ago and called that barrier the Barrier of the Heart."

"They concocted a myth, saying that we in the paradise of the spirit world were originally part of the Father's glory, and it was the Fallen Mother who made us drink the blood of original sin, causing us to be separated from the Father and fall into humanity!"

"This is the theory of original sin!"

"It represents the source of human physical desire, the barrier of the light of the heart, and the impurities that bind our true spirits; we are born with sin."

"So they say..."

"But they knew long ago that the Barrier of the Heart was not the defilement of the Holy Mother's blood of original sin, but the Lamp Father's own will. His will distinguishes us from him. What a stern, loving father, driving his children out of the house!"

"And the Holy Mother, her maternal nature makes her embrace us without distinction."

"Therefore, mystics believe that our self comes from the dominance of the soul, and the Lamp Father granted us free will, allowing us to become 'I'. So throughout the Western Continent, people worship the spirit."

"Supernatural power is spiritual; free will is spiritual; noble virtue is spiritual."

"What about our flesh? It is merely the source of fall, the foundation of desire, and the embodiment of original sin!"

Lao Guangming frowned slightly and pressed his hand on the gunpowder at his waist: "Why are you telling me all this?"

The foreign bishop remained polite and smiled: "As expected of the nation most beloved by the Lamp Father, you never care about the myths of creation and the secrets of the three creators. You respect them but do not believe in them, as if it were only natural that they created you. You view them as ancestors, integrating them into the bloodline of your civilization. In your civilization, the three creators are more like your ancestors than gods."

There was a trace of faint envy in the bishop's tone, and he changed the subject: "But our civilization, influenced by the Savior's preaching and the Holy Mother school, has too much curiosity and exploration about our origins."

"Depicting the three creators, approaching them—this behavior itself is our civilization."

"But the closer one gets to the Lamp Father, the clearer it becomes that He is rejecting us. Those scholars who worship free will will never understand that the will that grants free will must itself be free! The closer one is to Him, the further one is from Him."

The bishop lowered his head: "So, what truly shapes us? Does simple free will really have meaning?"

"The Lamp Father has never guided or directed us, and everything we have on this earth—our love, desires, and demands—comes from that original sin. To explore where we come from, to obtain true 'love'—if there is anything worth singing about, it must be our 'Mother'. Who granted us the initial 'original sin'!"

The sound of the pipe organ suddenly rang out, and the copper pipes winding around the church emitted a sacred resonance.

A grand and melodious hymn rose from behind the bishop. A choir clad in black robes appeared; the person in the center held a silver cup, followed by people on both sides holding blood-red candles, and then mirrors, reflecting their figures within.

On the altar, they projected onto each other in the mirrors, as if a world were unfolding.

"Noble, supreme goodness, love and gestation, our Mother."

"Pouring blood into the cup..."

"Let us be born!"

"Sinning for the sake of love..."

"Falling into the light of the stern Father."

In the church, enshrined on the altar, one corner of the huge silver triangle suddenly fell off, turned around, and hung upside down on the altar. The silver lamp fell from the highest point to the very bottom, and the silver cup and mirror supported the triangle.

Thus, an inverted triangle hung on the altar, like a cup, like a womb!

"Original sin! Original sin! Original sin!"

"The desire and sin flowing in our blood, the Mother's call, our blood will merge again, we will return to your womb!"

Facing Lao Guangming, the bishop opened his arms.

"Let our blood merge into one, return to the Mother's embrace! Let everyone become brothers and sisters, and all sin will melt in the blood."

"We become sacred descendants again..."

All the believers on the benches on both sides stood up and reached out toward Lao Guangming.

Only then did Lao Guangming see clearly that they had all become corpses, and their flesh and blood were melting.

"Death, only death can expel the Lamp Father's will."

"Original sin, only original sin can make us merge into one."

"Mother, Mother gave us life; Father, Father, tortures us... Original sin, original sin, the supreme and noble original sin!"

The bishop picked up the silver cup, inside which red blood flowed. Amidst the high-pitched hymn, he drank the blood in the cup.

The red robe behind him split open bit by bit, and his skin also split into bloody gashes. Pairs of hands drilled out from the flesh and blood, connected by muscles; countless arms extended from behind the bishop, lifting him high.

Those arms circled his head like a sacred halo.

At that moment, he was like a sacred being, having become the "Holy Son"!

"I have become a complete being!"

The bishop declared loudly: "I have completed the conception ritual and become the true son of the Holy Mother!"

The Bishop of Original Sin stood tall above the sanctuary.

"You have merely fallen into original sin and usurped the light of the Lamp Father!"

An angry rebuke came from outside the church. Another priest wearing a black cassock held high a crystal pendant in his hand and stepped into the church.

He held the sacred object toward the Bishop of Original Sin: "Menor! You have finally fallen! You voluntarily resigned from your position as Cardinal of the Holy See and came to the Eastern Continent, which had just forcibly excluded the church. At that time, I knew this day would come."

"But you have ultimately blasphemed the Holy Mother. Perhaps from the moment you proposed revising the Holy Mother's doctrine at the religious conference, this day was destined."

The bishop's expression was gentle: "It is not I who have fallen, but you!"

"The Lamp Father has rejected us, so we only have the Holy Mother. The Holy Son will eventually descend, but that will be all of us. We are all descendants of the Holy Mother; only the Savior is not!"

"Inquisitor Sinocel, I am already a complete being!"

The Bishop of Original Sin raised his right hand, and countless hands behind him raised up together, extending their index fingers to point at Lao Guangming and the others: "Under the Heavenly Empress Palace, I will eventually retrieve the Holy Mother's relics and melt everyone's blood into one. Even though you rejected me, I still love you, my brothers and sisters!"

"All wars, sins, and atrocities will disappear, and all desires will be satisfied."

"We will eventually become one, and the Holy Son will eventually descend!"

At his fingertips, a trace of darkness emerged, and then the darkness pierced through everything, enveloping the two of them.

Lao Guangming felt his blood boiling; all his flesh and blood seemed to have its own will, bowing toward the Bishop of Original Sin. At that moment, all his flesh and blood should have merged into the bishop's will, but in the end, the Black Tai Sui he had swallowed rejected the bishop.

Lao Guangming roared and turned to flee.

Face a Great Cultivator of the Fifth Realm, someone who was only one step away from becoming a Saint of Longevity?

He was not crazy!

Before the darkness swallowed him, the crystal pendant in the hand of the black-robed priest behind him suddenly emitted a blinding light, tearing through the darkness. But at that moment, a hand had already pierced his chest. In just an instant, the black-robed priest lost the ability to resist.

Facing the Holy Son who accommodated all original sin, even if he was also a complete being.

But the "complete being" of the Inquisition refers to a "sinless person."

And the "complete being" of the Original Sin sect refers to someone who has been reborn from the Holy Mother's body and accommodated the blood of original sin.

From the level of mystery, the difference is too great!

Instant kill.

If it weren't for Lao Guangming, who, before fleeing, pulled him along based on the philosophy that the enemy of an enemy is a friend, the black-robed priest would have been accommodated into the river of blood in a single encounter.

Watching the two flee, the bishop's expression was calm. The only thing he could not predict was the existence behind Lao Guangming.

"Sacred flesh and blood?"

"The brothers and sisters of the Eastern Continent are indeed the most favored by the Mother and Father. Not only the supreme bone cup, but even the initial flesh and blood of humans are here. Sure enough, the initial flesh and blood of humans accommodates the seven original sins, and is not the sinless body described by the church!"

"Here are the initial flesh and blood and the Holy Mother's bone cup, and I will also be here to accommodate all the brothers and sisters on this land and complete the ritual of the Holy Son's birth!"

"The era has reached its end, and the long ladder to godhood is about to descend. I will surely stand upon it and return to the Holy Mother with all my brothers and sisters!"

The bishop came to the basement of the church, where countless coffins were placed. Behind him were dense crowds of believers who had already become corpses.

Since the preaching in the East, every believer's communion has included a silver cup and wine.

No one knew that the wine they drank contained trace amounts of blood medicine. Over the years, believers who died of hunger and those who had not yet died had all come here.

Secret Ritual of Conception: Get rid of the Lamp Father's light, abandon free will, sink the soul into the abyss, use flesh and blood to merge at least ten thousand people into a whole, and accommodate the perfect blood of original sin.

Requirement: Use ten thousand people, whether living or dead, to carry original sin.

During the ritual, drink the perfect blood of original sin, step into death, sink the soul into the abyss, and then resurrect with the body of the Holy Son of Original Sin!

Announcement of Conception: Inform others that I have become a complete being, and announce the news of the Holy Son's birth!

The Original Sin sect does not believe in free will; they believe that free will is merely the Lamp Father's negation of everyone. They believe that sin does not originate from the temptation of physical desire, but from the "distinction" that the soul makes between people.

All suffering originates from the heart of distinction.

Therefore, only if everyone abandons their soul, merges their flesh into one, and is reborn by the Holy Mother.

Then everyone will no longer have the distinction between others and themselves, love will no longer be blocked, and sin will disappear.

The bishop recalled the various sins, wars, and sufferings he had seen in the world, and tears finally flowed down.

Everyone's memories and everyone's souls were sacrificed by his own hands.

Their physical desires and original sins all melted into his blood and merged with him.

At this moment, the bishop finally confirmed.

"Without a soul, we still exist. Everyone is a child of the Holy Mother, and everyone can love others as they love themselves."

"I felt it! I finally felt 'love'!"

He looked back at the dense crowd of believers behind him, and countless hands behind him reached out toward them.

He held the hands of the believers, and his hands also held the hands behind him. At that moment, they merged into one!

"I will bring this love to everyone..."

The bishop vowed.

He looked lovingly at the dense corpses behind him; they were all part of him.

Immediately, the bishop looked up at the water channel in the basement, which connected to the Haihe and was also where the church drew its water.

The bishop opened the sluice gate, and the dense corpses behind him stepped into the river one by one.

Going against the Haihe, heading toward the water-network-dense Zhigu mouth...

In the coffins, in the church, excluding the nine hundred and ninety-nine people who merged into the bishop.

Nine thousand corpses followed the water network in all directions, carrying a part of the bishop, extending his existence, and guiding the birth of the true Holy Son who would lead all of humanity to merge into one!