His kingdom...
When the bronze door hung high in the distance in the blink of an eye, Chen Yi calmed down and looked at the newly raised bell tower again.
Inscribed on it are the true Awen mottos from the scriptures.
Chen Yi stared at the bell tower. It also had three floors. Compared with the Torment Bell Tower, it had a completely different style.
It has a wide, spherical hollow dome, with mutual inverted sail arches inside, and an ancient bell standing in the center of the ball. The tower body is surrounded by three spiral columns, leading to the bell tower.
"Good deeds will be rewarded with good deeds, not in the next life, and evil deeds will be rewarded with bad deeds, only in this present day... This is the motto of the Zhenjiao scriptures, and also... spoken by the Lord God himself." Chen Yi repeatedly scanned the inscription on the bell tower.
He looked up at the high-hanging bronze door and glanced at the two bell towers.
"Because I used my authority to make good be rewarded with good and evil be punished with evil, so I woke up this bell tower?" Looking back on what he did today, Chen Yi reasoned.
This thousand-column sea of clouds...is inextricably linked to the True Religion.
In the past, it was only a highly probable speculation. But now, after seeing this proverb from the scriptures, Chen Yi was even more sure.
The lights in the newly upgraded bell tower were burning on two levels.
"Punishing evil and promoting good..."
Most religions advise people to do good... In previous lives, they catered to the values of the vast majority of people. Promoting good and punishing evil was mostly just a means of religious propagation, not the purpose.
To be precise, religion is not inherently good, it just needs to cater to the world.
for example,
Sakyamuni once told the shepherdess that men have a body of seven treasures, while women have a body of five outflows.
It was Eve, not Adam, who was bewitched by the serpent.
Zoroastrianism's holy blood marriage is worshiped by fire.
"And here, the gods seem to...exist before everything else. Could it be that...good and evil are defined?" Chen Yi couldn't help but wonder.
According to the records of the True Religion, the gods created the world, and then the only main god was born from a long time ago. Therefore, although there are many gods in the religion, they almost exclusively worship the one main god.
There really is some kind of mysterious power in this world. I am afraid that there really are things that are not born step by step, but are created in advance.
Chen Yi has not read all the scriptures of the Zhen religion. Including before and after the reconstruction of the Zhen scriptures, nearly a hundred scriptures have appeared in various eras.
The most widely circulated ones are the "Second Decline and Fall", which records the time before and after the Lord God's second decline, and "The Trial", which interprets stories of salvation and miracles.
The latter is the most recent scripture written by the saint Ludwig, the deposed emperor of the Deschanel Empire.
However, because it was written so recently, the authenticity of "The Trial" is widely doubted by Bible scholars, and it has even been labeled as a pseudo-canon by traditional religious orders that favor the original doctrine.
It is also one of the few scriptures that clearly describes the origin myth, which is very different from the mere sentences in previous scriptures.
In the mythology of the True Religion, in a time so long ago that even the elves cannot remember it, the gods gathered under the holy tree that was not yet dead. It was the kingdom of the gods in the mortal world. Because that was the day of His birth that defined the world.
He first asked the angels made of fire to tell the gods that they were His incarnations, both His Father and His Son.
He also asked the spirit made of water to tell all things that this was His first birth, that is, He would be born three times and die three times.
In the end, He entrusted all things in chaos and disorder, everything...
"...Go and tell the story of where good people return home and where evil people go," Chen Yi murmured.
According to the records in the book, after the Lord God was born for the third time, all the gods traveled to the world to mourn the coming decline of Him who is the Father and the Son. The sacred tree died, and the Lord God took out the roots to build the Kingdom of Heaven. He asked the craftsman of the gods, the good giant Oda, to write the last scripture of this era. The latter used his hair to weave the characters into characters.
And that scripture has been lost.
Only the last sentence spoken by the Lord God himself has been left in the world:
“Decline and decline are never without one or the other.
Just like wherever life goes,
Everything must come to an end. "
The origin myth of "Trial" ends here. What follows is the coming of the sons of gods to the world, reintegrating the broken and divided true religion, canonizing the first saint in the world, and continuing the epic legend of the scriptures.
"However... if you take into account the myth of the Giant King Cult, differences arose after the third decline of the main god..." Living in Resurrection Town, a place ruled by pagans, and having a bookstall business at home, Chen Chen Of course Yi has also read scriptures from other religions.
The Giant King Sect tells the story of the king who stood on two snakes in the mythical age. He wielded a giant sword and exiled the gods. All the gods cut off their hair to show their obedience, and they traveled far and wide in the world from then on.
The king took back all the authority in the world, ascended to the heaven created by the Lord God, and crossed the holy shield that symbolized divine power.
The sons of the gods are the angels sent down to earth by the king.
Apart from the Giant King Cult, Chen Yi had read many ancient books thanks to his status as a magic apprentice.
In this world, religious beliefs are common and we can learn from each other and communicate with each other.
The true religion that constructs the secular ethics of the northern and central lands;
The home of the runes, the western mountains, where wizards chase ancient and mysterious dragons and giants;
The wandering elves who came from the distant mountains to bless the birch forest scorned the dragon and firmly believed that life is a dual life from one world to another;
The Torment Temple in the Southern Continent was developed from a branch of the True Religion. It worshiped the heretical black-robed main god and widely attracted wizards, goblins and other races that were looked down upon;
As well as many heretical cults such as the dwarf heretic gods, the Abyss Cult, the Witch Cult, etc., thousands of large and small worshipers spread across every inch of the land.
...If...if I became the god of all religions, not just the god of a small resurrection town...
Bridging a world, a god...
Chen Yi couldn't help but daydream.
"Forget it, don't think too much, I don't have the ability to think too much yet."
Chen Yi stopped in time, glanced at Resurrection Town, and suddenly found a figure standing furtively outside the door of his house.
who?
Chen Yi zoomed in and saw the figure in a black linen robe, with his face wrapped in cloth, leaving only his eyes exposed. In the gap that was not covered, his skin could be seen festering.
"This kind of dress, with ulcerated skin...Qasim?" Chen Yi just wanted to get the only leper in town.
Chen Yi frowned and saw Kasim raising his hand to knock on the door, his movements hurried and nervous.
"It's curfew, why is he here?" After thinking for a moment, Chen Yi decided to leave the Kingdom of God.
Returning to the body in a blur of consciousness, the knocking on the door was particularly clear. Chen Yi climbed up from the bed and walked out of the room to see Hedwig who had been woken up. The latter asked him in a daze who was knocking on the door. ?
"I'll go take a look, you go back and stay." Chen Yi said.
Pushing open the door, she met Kasim's panicked expression. Chen Yi pretended to be surprised and said, "Kasim, why...?"
Kasim's temperament was well-known among his apprentices, and he had always been easy to get along with. For books that his father was unwilling to lend to his apprentices, he would often let them come and read them in the name of entrusting them to copy the books.
His relationship with her was definitely not bad. After all, Chen Yi also asked him to borrow the academy's classics.
Qasim hurriedly made a "shh" gesture, the holy painting pendant around his neck swayed, and said in a low voice: "I came here when my father was not paying attention. There is no time, let me in first."
After hesitating for a moment, he turned sideways and let Qasim walk into the house.
"What happened?"
Chen Yi stared at Kasim who hurriedly entered. The latter gathered his robe, pondered for a long time, and said coldly: "Chen Yi, I advise you to leave Resurrection Town as soon as possible. The sooner the better, we will leave tomorrow. You, Idelai, and Roman... should be the only ones left who haven't been corrupted by my father."
Qasim's words were too unclear, so Chen Yi asked: "What do you mean? What kind of erosion?"
The leper raised his face when he heard this. His eyes were bloodshot and he said, "You don't know what I've been through!"
Chen Yi suddenly became nervous and asked hurriedly: "What?"
Qasim tore the robe off one of his arms, and Chen Yi looked at his forearm in surprise. It was not an arm with yellow and ulcerated skin, but an intact forearm that a leper should not have.
And his upper arm was still ulcerated, yellow and black, and the skin was not intact.
Under the contrast between the two, Chen Yi took a breath of air, and there was a strange atmosphere in the air.
Qasim put his arm away, grabbed the forearm as if holding something unknown, and said tremblingly: "Everything starts from that night. Leprosy... has always been an incurable disease. .. I also knew that my life was not long, but... suddenly one day, a very ordinary day, after my wife gave me medicine, I prayed at night as usual, and in the middle of the prayer... I felt too sleepy, I couldn’t hold on and fell asleep.”
Chen Yi's brows were solemn and she listened quietly.
"I prayed every night to the King of Kings to protect my father, my brother and my wife. You know, I had given up hope for my illness."
Kasim's voice was low, and panic shook his Adam's apple: "The next day, I suddenly found that the skin on my hand was intact... I don't know if this is the right description. Maybe for me, it was ulcerated. The scabbed skin was the same as before. Anyway... I spent the whole day thanking God, and my wife looked at me and smiled."
Chen Yi was puzzled, and the doubts in his heart were heavy: "Is it intact as before?"
Kasim took a deep look at Chen Yi and then said: "I thought it was a god appearing. That's what I thought at first. Everyone said that this town is a place favored by gods. I have heard it from time to time. Miracles appear.”
Chen Yi made no expression.
"In the back, my other forearm was also intact. I thanked God more humbly. From morning to night, my wife advised me not to do this. I scolded her at the time. That night... I felt even sleepier. ..." Then, Qasim laughed mockingly, "I thought it was a sign of the gods appearing."
Qasim swallowed his saliva: "I stayed awake because I wanted to see what an angel looks like... The evil one... The evil one is not an angel at all!"
He turned his head and said with red eyes: "I saw that I was tied to the bed. My father cut off his apprentice's skin, chanted a spell, and stuck it to my body piece by piece!"
Chen Yi was shocked and felt a chill on the back of her neck.
"My wife, she was the first to notice that I was awake. She is a magic puppet... She has always been my father's accomplice! She looked at me and smiled." Kasim could not suppress his fear and said in a higher voice: "Then it wasn't just him, the apprentices, my father, they all turned to look at me, and they were all smiling!"
Chen Yi couldn't help but be infected by the fear in Qasim's tone.
"My father confessed everything about me. He said he found a way to save me in the book. He said he just needed to glue all my skin, choose the most spiritual skin, and glue it on! Then..." Qasim After a pause, "Use a blood sacrifice... to get in touch with the terrifying evil god somewhere, and I can regain my life."
"I pretended to agree with my father, and I had a false relationship with my father... He didn't know where to learn this from the blasphemous ancient book, his consciousness was eroded by the forbidden knowledge, and he... I don't know what method, Dominated the will of almost all apprentices." Kasim's tone was extremely desperate, "I can't stop him, he is the only wizard in the town... I can only try my best to find apprentices who have not been corrupted by him... let them leave quickly .”
Kasim turned his head and said sadly: "I'm going to find Idelai... He shouldn't be dominated either... At least I haven't seen him among the apprentices. Let's go quickly, Chen Yi, my father He's crazy, he wants to use spiritual people as blood sacrifices! Tonight, he will make his first sacrifice!"
With this warning, Qasim stood up in a hurry. After simply answering a few questions from Chen Yi, he hurriedly took advantage of the night to go elsewhere.
Chen Yi's face was solemn. Kasim came to warn him despite the curfew. It was definitely not a joke. Although it was unexpected, he could not tolerate his contempt.
As for the last deduction...the witchcraft manuscript of unknown origin fell into Lucius's hands, which also made him believe Kasim's words a little more.
"Go back to the Kingdom of God first, deduce Resurrection Town, and see what happens."
Chen Yi turned around and entered the room, returning to the sea of clouds with thousands of pillars.
Stopping Resurrection Town, Chen Yi raised his hand and called out the shadow of Resurrection Town again.
The Bell Tower of Suffering has one floor, and the newly raised bell tower... let's call it the Bell Tower of Good and Evil, also has two floors.
With a total of three floors of lights, Chen Yi, who was originally feeling embarrassed, found that he suddenly felt rich.
After a few years, he learned that the higher the light on the Bell Tower of Suffering was, the more suffering it would suffer.
"That ancient witchcraft manuscript fell into Lucius's hands."
The same start, this time still fell into the hands of Lucius.
It has fallen into the hands of others before, but the outcome was also destined to be destroyed.
Chen Yi didn't find it strange that the shadow of Resurrection Town continued to move.
Click, click, click.
Within thirty seconds, the shadow of Resurrection Town stopped, as if the pause button had been pressed.
Chen Yi was stunned and waited for a long time, but there was no sign of the shadow moving again.
"What's going on?" Chen Yi was puzzled. He zoomed in on the shadow and looked at every place with doubts.
For a moment, his eyes fell on his own home. Hedwig, dressed in black and with tears on her cheeks, knelt in front of the icon in grief.
Inside the house, the bloodless young man lay quietly, his face irredeemable and hideous!
The phantom appeared truthfully. A big hole with dried blood was opened in the belly of his body. The tear marks were like bites, not from the outside in, but from the inside out!
"I am dead?"
Chen Yi looked at all this in disbelief.
Hastily putting away the shadow, Chen Yi turned to stare at Resurrection Town, the leather shop on the east side of the town, rowed to his home, and looked over the eaves at his own body.
In the kingdom of God, he saw it clearly.
Under the cold moonlight, something was squirming under the belly of the thin body!
Pull it closer, then pull it closer, until Chen Yi can see inside her through her belly.
An ugly, pale illusory worm stuck to the small intestine and crawled around, gnawing at the intestines wantonly.
In total horror, Chen Yi touched the worm, and at that moment he clearly felt the will of the monster, the will of the parasite.
It wants to eat the intestines and then become its own intestines!
