Chapter 987: Three Religions Gather Before the Judgment

When Sarah pushed open the door of the church, she never expected that what was facing it was an Eastern metropolis.

The population of the entire city was astonishing. Just the inner city surrounded by four walls had a population comparable to London.

The entire city presented a style of the Fourth Epoch, as if it had walked out of history.

For the abyss, she had countless terrifying imaginations: hellfire burning here, countless evil spirits struggling in magma, and demons gathering in groups, inflicting cruel punishments.

But all of this, even the most absurd imagination, was not as shocking as this scene in front of her.

"Did you not expect that even on the first layer of the abyss, humans are the masters here."

Amon, now he was called Drummond, dressed as an old-fashioned gentleman from the Fourth Epoch, came to Sarah's side.

"The Creator is too partial to you, granting everything He created to you."

Drummond sighed with some distraction.

Sarah hesitated for a moment but still asked: "Why are you... so respectful to the three creators. I thought..."

"Thought we were demons born evil and rebellious, who scoffed at all sacred authority and loved blasphemy?"

Drummond seemed to have seen through her inner thoughts long ago.

He tapped the ground with his walking stick and said meaningfully: "Demons and Demon Gods are just your human perspective on a part of our essence. You mortals are too prejudiced to see our full picture."

"We were originally lords of the spirit world, born from endless illusion. Of course, you can also understand it as us being born from human fantasy, even when we were born, this world did not have humans yet."

"So we are naturally more knowledgeable about the spirit world than you!"

"The more we understand the spirit world, the more we understand the 'sun' of the spirit world! The greatness of the Master who created everything! Everything we possess is His gift. He is our Master, our faith, our 'God'!"

Drummond saw Sarah's disapproval and smiled: "You seem to want to discuss theology with me?"

Sarah raised the "Bible of the Trinity" and disagreed: "If you are really as you say, obedient to the three gods, how could you become the enemy of the church?"

"Obedient?" Drummond sneered: "Is this everything the church has taught you?"

"False gods usurped the glory of the Lamp Father, and the church He created—is the greatest blasphemy!"

"God never told us to be obedient. Our spirits were born from the illusion of the spirit world, but your human spirits originate from the glory of the Lamp Father. Originating from it, but not belonging to it! The sun's light blesses all directions, and the light that descends does not belong to itself. In the 'Bible of the Trinity' brought from outside the world by the false god, there is a story recorded: originally Adam and Eve were born in the Garden of Eden, and God created them, granting them everything they wanted."

"And the snake deceived them into eating the fruit of good and evil, making them possess original sin!"

"And the 'snake' in the scripture is us!"

"But the truth of this story is—there was never any Garden of Eden."

"The so-called Garden of Eden was just His pure light, the most real, the purest spirit, and you humans were born in His glory! When that glory fell and reached the layer where we were, endless illusion and fantasy stained you. 'We' saw you. At that time, what you first knew was not 'good and evil' but 'you and I,' because of us, because of that endless illusion, you had differences, you had reality!"

"At that time, the 'spirit' belonging to humans was born! You had souls, and that initial glory, coming from His glory, was the true spirit, the most real part of the soul."

"When the human soul passed through layers of the spirit world, finally, it fell on the Mirror of the World created by the Mirror Lord, and through the 'Holy Grail,' you were polluted and nurtured by the blood of original sin, born with a physical body, becoming a true mortal!"

"And after you die, the soul composed of the blood of original sin, the spirit of illusion, and the true spirit will sink into the abyss, sinking into destruction bit by bit!"

"Then, the most merciful Father will remember the stories of your 'existence' after destruction grinds away all your false parts. All reality will settle at the deepest part of the abyss, which is a silent sea without light, and finally, everything will be nurtured and sleep there!"

"We were originally lords of the spirit world, but were deceived by the false god, polluted by knowledge from outside the world, and pursued 'reality,' thus actively falling into the abyss, wanting to grind away those illusory parts. Finally, only seventy-two of the most powerful spirit world lords survived. The false god, the usurper who calls himself the Savior, took the opportunity to occupy the kingdom we left behind. He cast the spirits that did not obey him into the abyss, becoming 'demons'."

"Then he left behind the weak spirits that were loyal to him. They are called 'angels'!"

"Your ancestor Solomon was originally a person chosen by that Savior. But he glimpsed the truth from the knowledge left by the Savior, which came from outside the world. He reversed the Three Holy Secret Rituals, summoned us from the abyss, and signed a contract with us, obtaining our knowledge and wisdom."

"These knowledge and wisdom created the Original Sin Sect, the Blood Cup Sect, the Abyss Sect, and—magic!"

Drummond reached out to Sarah.

"Can you give me the ring on your hand?"

Sarah hesitated slightly, but still removed the ring from her right index finger. It was one of the family's inherited magic tools, a rough iron ring, said to be able to hurt spiritual bodies, very powerful.

Drummond examined the ring in his hand. It was like a circle of iron wire wrapping around a cone-shaped 'horn,' a rough ring as an interface.

Rather than a ring, it was half a finger tiger.

It was completely made of iron!

"Honestly..." Drummond stared at this ring: "We summoned you down, mostly for this ring."

Sarah heard his confession but was not panicked. Instead, she stared at the ring with interest and asked: "What power does it have? Is this ring also passed down by ancestors? I only know that as a magic tool, it is very powerful and can kill those difficult evil spirits."

"It's just that wearing a ring to hit people is not ladylike enough."

"It can almost kill any god, or demon!" Drummond said solemnly: "After falling into the abyss, we soon knew we had been deceived, and then we exhausted all means to take revenge. We taught your ancestor Solomon the initial alchemy knowledge, letting him use alchemy close to truth to forge a weapon, a weapon known as the Key of Solomon."

"Then in the First Epoch, when the Savior returned to this world again and passed down the initial Holy Church."

"At that time, we had established a powerful empire in the West. We seduced one of his apostles, judged him in the place where he preached, and then guided a contractor, Longinus, with a long spear forged by the Key of Solomon, to completely kill him!"

"But before he was completely destroyed, he used the faith Dao path he opened, with the Holy Church as the foundation of the secret ritual, and within three days, step by step, he raised his spirit into the spirit world, raised the kingdom of God high, opened the Ascension secret ritual, and became a god."

"Three days later, he was briefly resurrected, completely achieving the pattern of the Holy Church occupying the Western Continent."

Sarah listened to Drummond tell the myth of the Savior from another angle, and felt a little creepy.

"Your ancestor took off the spear tip of Longinus and forged this ring!" Drummond whispered: "This is our indulgence, and also, another kind of guidance."

He removed the cone-shaped interface of the ring and returned the ring to Sarah.

This made her somewhat uneasy. The last time this thing killed the Savior, now, the Demon Gods had summoned her again and retrieved the spear tip of Longinus. What did they want to do?

Drummond put away the ring face and looked up: "They are here!"

Several rickshaws stopped at the entrance of the church. Zhang Sanzhi took the lead, supporting the rickshaw body with the only two fingers left on his left hand, and got off. Liu Daoyuan, wearing a long gown, also got off another rickshaw, frowning slightly when he saw the church in front of him.

Another monkey-like man also jumped off the rickshaw, it was the missing Shaman Sect leader.

Then there was a burly man with long hair.

Fang Tangjing, wearing toad glasses, and Cao Zhitian, dressed as a scholar, also touched off the rickshaw.

Finally, holding a fortune-telling banner, wearing an old Daoist robe, and looking like a down-and-out old Daoist, the Daoist Tong Shen walked slowly from the street corner.

Seeing Drummond, he first bowed and said: "This old Daoist must thank this Western benefactor for his previous help. Learning that the benefactor wanted to find me to fight a lawsuit, I didn't even change my clothes before rushing to help."

Drummond smiled: "Then many thanks to the Daoist!"

A group of monsters and ghosts were invited into the church by Drummond. Several rows of benches in the main hall faced the altar, which was a good place for a meeting.

Several forces took their seats, but rickshaws kept arriving from all directions. Several Green Skin thugs and Westerners stood at the two gates of the church, blocking idlers outside. People from the Cao Gang could only stand at the street corner, and then there were many unidentified people.

Lin Heier, the Saintess of the White Lotus, looked at the Gothic spire of the church from afar and tilted her head to ask the old man wearing a talisman armor and leading a monkey beside her.

"The floating corpses in the Hai River earlier rushed out from here, right?"

The old man nodded: "This Westerner's temple is a bit evil, but the people in the temple seemed to have died out that day! These Westerners came later, and they don't seem to respect their gods very much. It's hard to say if they are two groups of people occupying the magpie's nest!"

"It seems that the wind and rain from all directions are blowing on one side, unable to blow the foundation of the Xuanzhen Sect, but they are going to converge in one place!"

The old man hesitated: "Saintess, then we..."

Lin Heier shook her head: "We don't get along with the Xuanzhen Sect, but we are even less on the same side as them. The imperial court, the Westerners, and these three religions and nine streams—it would be best if they all died!" ===== CHAPTER 988 =====