Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2076 The Vatican splits into Protestantism, and China rises to its limit through fire.
The external threats to Dawu have finally begun to ease.

Although in the last two years, the Qin Dynasty has been in a state of full-fledged recuperation and recovery.

However, whether it was the Mongols in the northwest or the Gallic Kingdom, there were constant conflicts and border incursions between them and Great Wu.

Moreover, the situation is clearly escalating.

However, due to changes in their internal and external situations, Mongolia and Gaul are clearly beginning to shift their focus away from the Great Wu.

Prior to this, after the Mongol and Gallic kingdoms united, they each learned from each other's strengths and made up for each other's weaknesses, so much so that the Great Wu, which had been waging war for years, was now overwhelmed.

As a result, even though the Han Dynasty to the east of Dawu has been rising in power, Dawu can only intervene by supporting forces such as Zhongcang, and is powerless to intervene directly.

The current Great Wu is entirely relying on the foundation it has accumulated in the past to sustain itself.

Under these circumstances, although Dou Jiande's forces were generally insignificant to Da Wu, they were unable to spare enough power to quell the internal troubles amidst increasingly serious external threats.

However, having such an internal problem lingering there is not a good thing for Da Wu.

With internal troubles lingering, they were never able to fully address external threats.

Lacking sufficient strength, Da Wu could only rely on strategy to win over Dou Jiande's forces by dividing and winning them over.

It was precisely Wang Qing's betrayal within Dou Jiande's forces that enabled Da Wu to ultimately quell Dou Jiande's power despite its insufficient strength.

In an effort to win over Wang Qing, Da Wu offered him the title of Marquis.

It's important to understand that even if Dou Jiande succeeded, it's questionable whether Wang Qing would even obtain the title of Marquis. Furthermore, given Dou Jiande's limited power, what are the chances of him actually succeeding?

However, now Da Wu has directly offered Wang Qing the title of Marquis. How could Wang Qing refuse?

With Wang Qing's help, Tianwu Academy successfully poisoned Dou Jiande and his son.

With the deaths of Dou Jiande and his son, the leader and successor were gone, and Dou Jiande's power naturally fell apart.

At this time, both Wang Fubao and Fang La wanted to become the leader, and under Da Wu's suggestion, Wang Qing also joined the struggle for the throne, causing Dou Jiande's power to fall into complete disarray.

From then on, Dou Jiande's forces were plagued by internal strife and ultimately perished.

Wang Qing and Fang La successfully eliminated their rival, Wang Fubao. Just as they finished off Wang Fubao, both armies were exhausted. Suddenly, the Da Wu army, which had been hiding in the flank, attacked. In addition, Wang Qing's army defected, and in one fell swoop, they wiped out Fang La's main force and killed Fang La on the spot.

Fang Hou, Fang Mao, and many others died in battle alongside Fang La.

Only a few people, including Fang Tianding, managed to break through the encirclement with a small number of troops. Furthermore, for various reasons, they later allied themselves with Ling Jing and other remaining loyalists of Dou Jiande.

They entered the southeastern mountainous area of ​​Dawu and managed to survive by relying on the Tianshan Mountains.

The Great Wu did not deploy many troops in this battle, only a few thousand men, but they were the extremely elite Flying Dragon Cavalry.

Therefore, although there were only a few thousand people, with Wang Qing's defection and assistance, Fang La's tens of thousands of men were powerless to fight back.

From then on, Dou Jiande's forces, which had once been a major threat to the Great Wu, were basically wiped out, leaving only a few remaining.

Moreover, the remaining few and far between were not taken seriously by Da Wu, who left them to be dealt with by Da Wu's local forces.

For Da Wu, external threats are still more important.

Therefore, even Wang Qing's troops were directly incorporated into Da Wu and brought to the northwest border.

However, compared to the seven great dynasties of the Central Plains, the changes in the Western Rong were truly earth-shattering.

The Western Catholic Church, which has existed for over a thousand years, has already begun to split up in such a short time since the death of the previous pope in the great war.

The split within the Western Catholic Church did not originate from the Temple of Judgment or the Temple of Oracle, but rather from the most powerful Temple of Light, or more precisely, from Jehovah, who was the most likely candidate to become the next Pope.

Jehovah once spent more than a decade, like an ascetic, traveling throughout the Western Regions like an ordinary person.

It was during that time that he gained a new understanding of the Vatican's doctrines.

When the Pope died in battle, and when Jehovah's teacher, Mukadir, the Lord of the Temple of Light, formally handed over the position of Lord of the Temple of Light to Jehovah, Jehovah also began to preach his understanding of the doctrine on a small scale.

However, nothing stays hidden forever. Although Jehovah's teachings and those of the original Western Catholic Church are consistent, they differ greatly in certain aspects.

Therefore, a group of Protestants, represented by Jehovah, engaged in fierce disputes with the Papal Palace and the conservative faction within the Temple of Light.

However, these ideological differences and contradictions are not so easily resolved through mere words.

However, this kind of ideological dispute can sometimes be even more brutal, almost a life-or-death struggle.

The sectarian conflicts in history have been notoriously brutal, with the victors almost wiping out the losers completely, leaving no one alive.

However, the Protestant faction represented by Jehovah appeared extremely weak in this conflict; of the seven cardinals of the Temple of Light, only two supported Jehovah.

Moreover, this doesn't even include the powerful Papal Palace, or the Temple of Judgment and the Temple of Oracle, which haven't yet been involved in this conflict.

The Protestants were weak and powerless within the Papacy, and gradually lost ground in the struggle for power. In the end, these Protestants were completely labeled as heretics.

Jehovah himself was captured by several cardinals of the Temple of Light and experts from the Papacy during a dispute between the two major sects, in order to cover the escape of Jesus and some members of the Protestant sect.

Furthermore, the papacy was personally tried by several archbishops, who ultimately decided to sentence him to burning at the stake, which was officially carried out on the Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox.

Prior to this, the Vatican had widely publicized the news of Jehovah's impending execution, spreading it throughout the world.

Firstly, it would once again establish the authority of the Papacy and demonstrate to the world the consequences of heresy.

Secondly, although the Protestant movement ultimately suffered a crushing defeat, a large number of its members fled abroad. The Vatican's public execution of Jehovah was a blatant scheme to lure these people into its trap.

Even at their peak, the Protestant sects were no match for them, let alone after a brutal battle, now utterly defeated and scattered, with many fleeing abroad.

Therefore, both the Papal Palace and the Temple of Light were confident that once these heretics emerged, they could immediately add them to the list and send them to be burned at the stake with Jehovah.

What made the Papal Palace and the Temple of Light want to curse was that the Temple of Judgment and the Temple of Oracle were also extremely restless at this time.

However, their priority now is to deal with these heretics, such as Jehovah. As for the affairs of the two major temples, they will handle them internally for now. If they cannot resolve the issues internally, then the Papal Palace will intervene.

Although the three major temples are under the unified command of the Pope, the current Pope has not yet been elected. Therefore, the three temple masters, who are second only to the Pope in the status of the Papacy, have considerable autonomy.

In the absence of a pope, the three major temples each handle their own affairs.

The Papal Palace's interference in the Temple of Light stems from the fact that the vast majority of popes are heads of the Temple of Light, and many of the Papal Palace's members also come from the Temple of Light.

Compared to the three major temples, the Papal Temple, as the direct power of the Pope, possesses a slightly more transcendent aura, but it is practically in cahoots with the Temple of Light. The Temple of Light's acceptance of the Papal Temple's interference in their affairs does not mean that the other two of the three major temples, the Temple of Judgment and the Temple of Oracle, will accept it as well.

On the day of the burning, Jesus, the son of Jehovah, the two cardinals of the Temple of Light who supported Jehovah, and the rest who supported Jehovah, indeed jumped out one by one.

However, facing the powerful Temple of Light and the Papal Palace, it was destined to be outnumbered and outmatched.

Jehovah himself truly watched these people fall at the hands of the Papal army, either riddled with arrows or killed by the experts of the Papal Palace and the Temple of Light, but he was powerless to do anything about it.

His main meridians have been destroyed by the experts of the Papal Palace. Now, although he has the peak of the Celestial Realm, his actual combat strength is not as good as that of an ordinary person.

These martial arts masters, after having their martial arts skills crippled, are physically weaker than even an ordinary person.

Despite possessing the peak realm of the Celestial Beings, he was like a cripple, unable to even break free from the iron chains binding him, let alone the followers who helped him.

Even he himself was dragged to the execution platform.

But at the very moment the flames ignited, Jehovah finally attained enlightenment, ascended to heaven in one step, and reached the pinnacle of divine power.

At the same time, he became the youngest person in the world to reach the pinnacle of the Celestial Realm. In fact, among all the Celestial Realm experts in the world, he was the youngest to reach this level.

Compared to the age at which Confucius reached the pinnacle of understanding between Heaven and Man, he was a full twenty or thirty years younger.

Of course, there is no comparison between them.

After all, Confucius, a Confucian scholar, aspired to a career in government in his early years to realize his political ambitions. Only after this path proved unsuccessful did he begin teaching and educating people. It was also from that time, by chance, that he embarked on the path of martial arts, and from then on, he was unstoppable.

Confucius was older than Jehovah is now when he began practicing martial arts.

At this moment, with the help of the power of heaven and earth, Jehovah began to rebuild his meridians. A celestial-level aura burst forth, shattering the iron chain that bound him. Under the overwhelming power, the wood that had been burning fiercely was also blasted away in all directions.

No one expected that Jehovah would break through to this point at this time.

After all, Jehovah, although he had already reached the peak of the Celestial Realm, had not yet reached the end of this stage, nor had he reached a level similar to that of Donghuang Taiyi or Huangfu Yue.

Celestials are different from gods. The most important thing on the path of celestials is the understanding of their realm, not the accumulation of power. As long as their realm is raised, power is a trivial matter for celestials.

The most fundamental aspect of the path to becoming a Celestial being is the unity of Heaven and Man. Under the unity of Heaven and Man, one's power is inexhaustible. Therefore, once a certain level is reached, accumulating power becomes effortless for a Celestial being.

Donghuang Taiyi, Fuyue, Huangtian, Mengke, and even the former Huangfu Yue, all seemed to be only half a step away from the limit of the celestial beings.

However, there are still gaps.

Some of them are one step closer, truly just one spot away.

However, some people have been given a position, but they haven't yet been able to break through to that level of mindset and understanding.

Both are equally important when it comes to the limits of human and celestial beings.

The elevation of one's realm requires a breakthrough in mindset and enlightenment.

All things in this world are interconnected. Just as Yuqing Yuanshi's Chan Sect Dao is also a manifestation of his own martial arts path, Shangqing Tongtian's Jie Sect Dao is also a manifestation of his own martial arts path.

The same principle applies to Shakyamuni, Amitabha, and Cundi. It is no coincidence that they each had their own doctrines.

Their doctrines are their most direct interpretation of what they believe to be the Way of Heaven and Earth. And their martial arts are also a reflection of their understanding in these aspects.

If Yuqing Yuanshi cut off the lifeline of heaven and earth like Tongtian, instead of following the will of heaven, then he was essentially denying himself and cutting off his own path of martial arts. This was the case with Shakyamuni, Jieyin, Zhunti, and even the other few celestial beings of his time.

They each have their own path, their own beliefs, which will not change even in death. Or rather, if they could be easily changed, how could they have reached the pinnacle of martial arts? Those who can reach the limits of the celestial realm possess a willpower that far surpasses the imagination of ordinary people.

Jehovah's Protestant doctrines are not only his own understanding of the Vatican's doctrines, but also a manifestation of his own path in martial arts.

After Jehovah developed his own understanding of the papacy's doctrines, the threshold of the divine limit could no longer stop him. And once he realized this, he naturally entered the path, ascended to heaven in one step, and stepped into this realm.

From then on, Jehovah became the tenth person in the world to reach the pinnacle of the Celestial Realm. He also became the third person among the four barbarian tribes to reach the Celestial Realm.

In fact, Donghuang Taiyi's initial research was correct. Among the four barbarian tribes, they could indeed only support three to four Celestial-level experts. The Central Plains should have supported six to seven, but since seven had already emerged in the Central Plains at that time, Donghuang Taiyi directly determined the number to be seven.

A few years ago, the Four Barbarian Tribes might not have been able to support the emergence of a fourth expert at the Celestial Realm Limit. It was possible, but it was also possible that they were still slightly insufficient.

However, even though the Dongyi have become increasingly weak in recent years, the expansion of the Beidi in Dawu and the Nanman in Dawu, as well as the Tuoba tribe's role in Zhenbei, have made progress.

At this point, if someone else also reaches this qualification, the probability of this fourth person appearing in the future becomes even more likely.

Correspondingly, the proportion of fortune held by the barbarians in the world has increased, and the proportion of fortune held by the major dynasties in the Central Plains has naturally decreased. The original six or seven positions may now lean towards six.

However, there were already seven people who had taken this position before it was lost.

It is precisely because of this that, even if Donghuang Taiyi and his companions succeed in their journey to the Great Qian Dynasty, and even if they do succeed and actually kill Tongtian, whether they can free up a place for him remains an unknown.

It's possible, but it's also possible that it's not. Nobody knows until the result is in.

Even if there really is a seventh one, and Tongtian has indeed made room for him, whether Donghuang Taiyi can get his hands on it is still an unknown.

This thing isn't like a divine general, where you can inherit it by killing the corresponding one.

Even if the position of the ultimate Celestial Realm becomes vacant, whoever gets it truly depends on their individual abilities.

Whether Huang Tian or Fu Yue, Donghuang Taiyi can defeat these two is an unknown! Not to mention, with the involvement of the system, the other hidden talents in the world may not necessarily be inferior to these few.

However, it is clear that Donghuang Taiyi has enough confidence in himself, believing that what he lacks is only a position, and that he has no rivals.

However, even if Jehovah stepped through this doorway and ascended to heaven in one step, reaching the ultimate realm of heaven and man.

However, with his own strength, it was impossible for him to fight against the entire Papal Palace and the Temple of Light.

Within the headquarters of the Temple of Light, there are not only experts from the Temple of Light, but also the army of the Holy See.

Even if the main force of the Holy See is located in the Temple of Judgment, other temples cannot be rampaged by just a few experts.

If it really comes to the point where these people are forced to call upon the Judgment Army of the Judgment Temple, even the limits of the Celestial Realm will be filled with despair.

Therefore, even if he broke through, he could still only escape.

In an effort to cover Jehovah and Jesus' departure, Protestant supporters suffered heavy losses.

Even the two original cardinals of the Temple of Light who had supported Jehovah, spared no effort to use the Temple of Light's secret magic and died in battle within the Temple of Light in an extremely tragic manner.

As for other supporters of Protestantism, the number of those who died in the war was even more countless.