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Chapter 114: The Burned Earl Witch (End)

"Alas, I've truly become a lonely man. Now I don't even have anyone to talk to! Suddenly I feel like I can understand the feelings of some founding emperors. People's hearts are fickle, and there are very few who can stick to their original intentions."

Ding Shui was floating invisibly above the temple, looking at the people below with a somewhat lonely look on his face.

People change. Sometimes, when adults find it difficult to empathize with their childhood selves, for example, when they were little, they took a toad to play with their aunt, and were beaten by her. They felt very wronged. Now when they think about it, they can't stand it and want to beat up their childhood self.

Not to mention suddenly becoming a superior person.

No more sympathy for ordinary civilians.

This is the case with eyebrow pencils that have always been sold at this price.

The same thing happened to Zhu Yuanzhang when he was asked why the people rebelled and did not report to the authorities. When he was asked in return why he did not report to the authorities, he was also asked why he did not report to the authorities.

Even Ding Shui herself, if she was not sure that she was here to complete a mission, this place would be a mission world for her, and she would not dare to guarantee that she would not change, so sometimes it was really difficult.

I can understand that they will change.

But if it goes too far, there will still be punishment.

At this time, Ding Shui did not dare to expect that any saints would emerge from her subordinates. In her opinion, as long as they could always be compassionate and kind-hearted, it would be great.

Among them, the value of good and evil is the best measurement standard.

There is no need to talk about the sin value, it has been explained quite clearly before. As for the goodwill value, those pseudo-saints who are generous to others will definitely not get any goodwill value. If you want to get goodwill value, you must do good deeds yourself, or do something that contributes to society and the world as a whole.

Matters such as saving people, punishing evil, and improving the environment.

It’s okay.

In the future, Ding Shui was indeed planning to choose the one with the highest goodwill to succeed her as Pope, just as the rumors said. Because someone with a high goodwill score was, at the very least, a good person. Even if it was just a disguise, it would become a habit after so many years.

They are even more unwilling to do evil and affect their image.

The price a wicked person pays for doing evil is different from the price a good person pays for doing evil. When a wicked person does evil, people think it's normal, that they're not good people, and that doing bad things is quite reasonable. When a good person does evil, people wonder if it was all just a pretense, or if they've done other bad things, and all their good deeds will be wasted.

Therefore, the latter will inevitably restrain themselves more.

Of course, let’s not talk about breaking down and going crazy, or being slandered, because nothing and no one is perfect and will never go wrong.

Ding Shui can only choose the most suitable heir under normal circumstances, and she cannot predict or interfere with the others.

Many great emperors throughout history ended up failing in this regard.

She could only do her best.

……

Every year since then, the year-end summary meeting of the Elemental Church will be held as scheduled, summarizing the previous year and settling the good and evil values of everyone in the previous year.

It can ensure that those who do good things are rewarded in a timely manner.

It can also ensure that those who do evil are punished in a timely manner. There will not be a situation where someone secretly does evil for decades and is discovered when he is about to die, and then a lot of victims are found upon investigation.

As time went by, everyone basically knew what the review standards were, and they all understood that the gate of the Ancestral Witch Temple was the core of weighing the values of good and evil, so it was generally called the Gate of Good and Evil, and privately called it the Gate of Life and Death. Some people even secretly called the year-end summary meeting the Judgment Meeting.

But I have to say, the effect is very good.

Although there are still bad people born every year, generally speaking, the number is actually decreasing year by year. On the contrary, the number of people with higher kindness values is increasing year by year. Correspondingly, the precepts of the Holy See are becoming more and more.

It's almost turned from a book of commandments into a book of law.

In the fifteenth year of the Elemental Calendar, the fifteenth year since the founding of the Elemental Church, Ding Shui smiled for the first time at the year-end summary meeting. "Yes, this is the first time I haven't seen anyone with a sin value below ten at the year-end summary meeting, and no one has fled the scene out of fear of guilt."

Most people have a clear idea of whether their actions are good or evil, so some people are well aware that they won't be able to successfully pass the Good and Evil Gate by the end of the year. Therefore, starting in the third year, there have been cases of people absconding from their crimes, meaning they don't attend the year-end summary meeting. However, if this situation doesn't occur, everyone knows that they are definitely guilty and will conduct a thorough investigation.

At first, they didn't come. Later, some came because they were sick, some hid secretly, and some simply fled the Western Continent.

In the end, there were even some people who faked their deaths.

I thought that I couldn't continue to pursue the matter even after he died.

Dante Shui was undoubtedly the legendary stubborn creature. No matter the circumstances, she had to confirm its authenticity. If the other witches were unable to investigate further, she would investigate it herself. If there was a soul aura, she would trace it; if there was no soul aura, she would search for bloodlines, as long as they had not left this world and traveled through time.

At the same time, the person is still alive, or the soul is still there.

Then Ding Shui will have a way to find it!

After several years of fighting wits and courage, they found that there were really no loopholes. Anyone who did evil would inevitably be caught. This is how we have this clean and prosperous era today.

At this time, the witches and non-witch leaders below naturally expressed their gratitude to the Pope for his wisdom. Afterwards, a formal meeting was held to summarize the work of the previous year and propose plans for the next year.

To sum up, everything is going well for the Elemental Church this year. They provided relief to those who needed it and helped those who needed it, and no civilians starved to death.

Logically speaking, we should say a few more words of praise.

The meeting can then be officially declared over.

But at this time, Lilith stood up and said:

“Your Holiness, although our Elemental Church is doing well now, and many people are able to survive with our help, I still feel that this is not enough.

The nobles and local officials have become a cancer.

It is far more powerful than the cancer that was the Church of Light back then!"

Then, Lilith methodically recounted numerous real-life cases of nobles committing numerous evil deeds and killing many civilians, as well as cases of officials colluding with wealthy businessmen, exploiting child laborers, and using children for pharmacological experiments.

There is no doubt that her standing up at this time not only represents her ideas, but also represents Ding Shui's ideas.

Most importantly, everyone else present understood this instantly, knowing that the Pope wanted to add a supervisory and punitive authority to the existing charitable organization of the Elemental Church to ensure fairness for the majority of people.

And don't forget, when Ding Shui initially sent those witches to take over the legacy of the former Holy See of Light, they had a mission to record the crimes of the noble officials.

Most witches implement this.

Therefore, they had already accumulated countless evidences of their crimes.

At this time, everyone naturally spoke enthusiastically.

Ding Shui took it for granted and said that kindness alone could not save those believers who were still suffering. Justice must be made known to the world:

"Very good. In recent years, I have successfully created 100,000 Gates of Good and Evil. After this meeting, you will share these 100,000 Gates in proportion. I won't need to teach you anything else. Let the victims come to you to file a complaint. Then, you can use the Gates of Good and Evil to punish the nobles and bureaucrats, publicly judge them, and expose all their crimes to the world.

This is to demonstrate the fairness of our Holy See.

I have never done this before. Firstly, we did not have enough manpower, and secondly, we ourselves are not clean, so how can we be qualified to judge others? It was not until today that I felt that maybe the time has come, but I still hope you will keep it in mind.

"It doesn't mean that just because we start trying nobles and bureaucrats, we'll relax our scrutiny of you. Making mistakes during the trial or deliberately fabricating false cases is also a crime. Do you understand?"

"Without the Gate of Good and Evil, and unable to access memories, errors in the trial are understandable, but if errors were made now, the only possibility is deliberate. Whether it's deliberate revenge, or emotions overriding reason, or a feeling that the law is unfair and the other party's actions deserve a stricter punishment, these are not excuses.

For now, we will judge according to the laws of each country.

But if you feel that a certain noble's crime is too serious and the law is somewhat biased, or there is no law covering the relevant crime, you can temporarily not arrest that noble, let them go for a while, and then we will seize the time to revise the law and arrest them.

In the past, we could do some things as we pleased, but now that we have intervened in the judicial and supervisory powers, we must try our best to establish a complete system of rules.

This system is not only intended to constrain aristocratic bureaucrats.

We must also be able to restrain ourselves.

Otherwise, how can we convince the public?"

For the past decade or so, the entire Elemental Church had, to be honest, grown wild, and many aspects of the Church were actually unruly. For example, Lilith had directly killed numerous nobles who had not obeyed the teachings and returned the inheritance of the Church of Light. This was barely legal during the time of the Church of Light, as the Church of Light stipulated that disobeying the teachings was blasphemy against the God of Light and punishable by death. However, the Elemental Church did not actually have such a rule.

In the early days of its establishment, Ding Shui was the one who had the final say.

After punishing those who made mistakes, the new rules were not actually particularly appropriate. It was just because those people did make mistakes, and Ding Shui's prestige was high enough that no one dared to point it out.

But these were all necessary measures in the early stages.

In order to get back on track in the future, we must definitely establish good rules to put power in a cage and also have very legitimate reasons to judge and supervise the nobles and bureaucrats.

After explaining the situation, Ding Shui mainly negotiated with them in detail on what to do.

"Your Holiness, I think that in order to be more legitimate, we should negotiate with the kings of various countries and obtain the power of trial and supervision directly from them, and then you can issue an edict.

Give us this right.

During the process, we can organize hundreds of thousands or millions of people to write letters of support, hoping that we can get involved.

In this way, we can naturally intervene in secular society. I think those kings should not dare to refuse, or it doesn’t matter if they refuse. If they refuse, we can first try the king in the name of the Holy See.

Then we can replace him with someone with a clean background."

"Yes, no problem. After all, every king who succeeds to the throne needs to be crowned by our Church, so our Church is naturally qualified to judge the king."

Ding Shui quickly gave his affirmation.

Afterwards, they discussed many details, including, but not limited to, whether to amend the laws first or to try some of the more egregious and incompetent nobles. Should the laws of nearly fifty countries be unified to avoid the hassle of retroactive trials? Which crimes warranted immediate death by hanging, which warranted exile, and where specifically should the offenders be exiled, and whether their entire clans should be implicated.

After the discussion, most people were satisfied with the results, and the meeting officially ended. Then all the witches went back and began to plan how to gain the power of trial and supervision.

Some nobles were actually aware of the relevant situation. After all, it was impossible for them not to have tried to join the Elemental Church for more than ten years. Even if some of them were eliminated, there was no reason to eliminate the remaining Dingshui who had not done anything bad, so they could only be left alone.

At this time, it is useless for them to know.

Before the Elemental Church grew stronger, they were powerless to resist. Now that it had grown stronger and possessed a vast civilian base, some, aware of their grave sins, had begun fleeing, not from their own countries, but with their entire families, fleeing the Western Continent.

As for why you should bring the whole family.

It’s not that they care about their relatives that much, but mainly because they know that Ding Shui has the blood traction technique and can find their location through the blood of their relatives. It is unrealistic to kill all their relatives directly, so they can only take them away.

I can't win the fight, and I can't resist either.

Can't we just let them escape?

But don't say that this is indeed a way for them to deal with the situation, because the only Pope Ding Shui who knows the blood traction technique. In the past, because of the strict management of the Holy See, even if there were some bad elements, their number was not large.

It is impossible to say tens of thousands.

Only about a dozen or twenty.

Therefore, Ding Shui was able to handle the situation and was able to hunt them down one by one, but if there were tens of thousands of scum fleeing around the world at that time, Ding Shui would have been too busy to handle it.

But there are really thousands of scum among the nobles.

In addition, another point is that the scum of the Church are basically witches, and witches are created by Ding Shui himself. Even if they are not witches, their circumstances will be thoroughly investigated, so finding them will be easier. However, the nobles are obviously different.

The Vatican doesn't know them that well.

Therefore, after they did this, Ding Shui had no choice but to ask his witches to speed up the progress.

In the end, only 80% were successfully intercepted.

The rest will probably take time to find.

Regardless, the Elemental Church took the opportunity to liquidate the entire aristocratic bureaucracy and successfully seized the power of judicial supervision over the entire Western Continent. However, this was not exclusive, and normal judicial supervision was still controlled by the aristocratic officials. However, if someone was dissatisfied with the trial results or sued the aristocratic bureaucracy,

Only then will the Elemental Church take action.

More like a high-level corrective oversight body.

In addition, they also intervene in legislation in order to strive for legislative fairness. After all, if the legislation is not fair, the subsequent trial supervision will be even more of a joke.

After doing all this, Ding Shui stopped. After all, it was impossible for her to finish all the things that needed to be done in the future by herself. Moreover, the easy things are not easy. Change is the only constant in this world. What she did could only take effect for a while, not for a lifetime.

Continuous changes are still needed to maintain it.

Sticking to her rules would only lead to your own destruction.

So in the eighteenth year of the Elemental Calendar, at the end-of-year summary meeting, Ding Shui officially announced that he would abdicate the throne of Pope to Lilith, because she had the highest goodwill value at the time, and was far ahead of the second place by more than a thousand points.

In recent years, she has been known for her decisiveness in killing people. The reason for her skyrocketing points is that in the past three years, she has recaptured over 2,000 escaped nobles and prevented more than a dozen incidents where nobles intended to drag large numbers of civilians to their deaths. She has also uncovered numerous loopholes in her internal purges, as well as witches who exploited them.

All in all, scores have their reasons.

I have to say that after breaking up with that prince, she became incredibly strong and devoted herself to her work. At the same time, she also has the highest level of cultivation except for Ding Shui.

After all, if you don’t have strong enough cultivation.

I can't handle such intense work.

Whether judging by her goodwill, her cultivation, or her personality, Ding Shui felt she was a qualified successor. If she was truly a pure saint, she would have accumulated so much goodwill by being kind enough and saving enough people.

Ding Shui would be a little hesitant.

Because a person who is too kind may not be able to be a leader, but someone like Lilith who is decisive in killing and punishing evil to gain goodwill points.

It is undoubtedly quite appropriate.

In order to avoid any problems in the future, Ding Shui, who had not originally planned to abdicate this year, immediately and decisively expressed his intention to abdicate and began to formulate various rules for abdication.

For example, if the term of office is ten years, one can be re-elected once if there are clear achievements and merits, but must abdicate after a maximum of twenty years.

For example, the Pope also needs to measure the value of good and evil,
If the annual decline exceeds three hundred, that is, the goodwill value is reduced by three hundred, the person must step down immediately. If it exceeds two hundred, he needs to be investigated. If it exceeds one hundred, he needs to be impeached and explain himself!

The successor may not be a relative within the fifth degree of mourning.

In short, before Ding Shuilin abdicated, he formulated a series of clauses to restrict the Pope. Before that, it could be said that except for the Pope, even the king had rules and constraints. The Pope was the only exception, because Ding Shui was very sure that he would not change, and if he imposed too many restrictions on himself, it would be inconvenient to make many plans.

Now the overall framework has been built.

Naturally, the final closed loop must be completed.

That is to say, to impose constraints on the Pope.

After establishing these constraints, Ding Shui asked her men to begin preparing for the abdication ceremony, while she herself took Lilith into seclusion, teaching her some inheritance and knowledge that had never been passed down before, such as how to help an ordinary person transform into a witch.

How to create a gate of good and evil and modify some of the rules within the gate to facilitate real-time updates of the standards of good and evil.

The standards of good and evil change with the times.

So it naturally needs to be updated in time.

In short, Ding Shui taught Lilith all the knowledge that only she knew originally. By the time Lilith had completely accepted and learned it, the day of her formal abdication had arrived.

There were no problems with the process.

At the same time, just after the abdication ceremony was over, Ding Shui adhered to the principle that a good emperor must be a dead emperor, and he spontaneously combusted on the spot, which can also be called as rainbow ascension, leaving only five five-element gems in the place.

And her soul, of course, left this world.

Went back and submitted the task.