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Chapter 229: The Holy Spring Cult's Scriptures, the Dark Old Calendar Era

Lin Feng nodded, his face calm:
"The Bishop thinks so highly of me. I will have dealings with the church when I go to the Holy City in the future. It is very necessary for me to learn about the glorious past of the Holy Spring Church in advance."

At this time, Shen Yue had been promoted to the late first stage and became an elite assistant priest of the seventeenth level of evolution, and his strength increased again.

The main thing was that I followed Lin Feng last night, uncovered and arrested the traitors in Shangminli, captured a total of nine members, and successfully prevented them from destroying the giant lens.

After Lin Feng finished speaking, he glanced at the other person.

Shen Yue was in a very good mood at this time. She didn't expect that she could continuously improve her evolution level by four levels in less than a week. This was something she had not dared to think about in the past few years.

I guess it didn’t go by so fast even in my dreams.

Although this achievement is indeed great, it can actually be recorded as an achievement and cannot directly allow Shen Yue to advance to the late stage of the first stage...

The main reason is that the current Oasis Church is extremely short of high-end combat power. They need to protect the safety of the Oasis battleship while also sending top combat power to participate in the arena competition.

Although the Oasis is now guarded by Lin Feng himself, his main responsibility is to protect the safety of the secret key. For example, if Lin Feng was not very interested in the secret weapon of the Oasis battleship, he would not have bothered to deal with these unarmed civilians.

Therefore, the church now needs to improve the strength of its monks who are capable of fighting as soon as possible.

Needless to say, the original combat priests, like Zheng Yanying, have become late-stage first-order evolvers, and those with practical experience like Shen Yue can also be promoted to enhance the church's power in the oasis.

The late first-stage evolvers, whether they are elite deacons or combat priests, belong to the middle level of the church.

It has already left the bottom level.

Even in a holy city with a population of one million, it still has a certain power and status.

Therefore, when Shen Yue is promoted to the late first stage and becomes an elite assistant priest, he can also apply on his own to be transferred from Oasis Town and return to the Holy City for development.

However, after returning, the power and status will not be as high as in the oasis, but the living conditions and development prospects will definitely be much better.

Therefore, Shen Yue was in a very happy mood at the moment. Her original worry that the Li family and other rebels would not cause trouble was swept away at this moment.

The purpose of my previous desperate attempt was to advance to the late First Stage by suppressing the Li family's rebellion. Now, my goal has been achieved...

Instead, she now hopes that both sides will compromise with each other as planned until this farce ends.

After the Holy Spring Day in four days, the Oasis warship will enter the Zhuma Temple area and follow the pilgrim caravan back to the holy city thousands of kilometers away.

What made Shen Yue even happier was that Lin Feng would go to the Holy City to continue his development after this matter was over.

This also means that as his lucky star, he will be able to continue cooperating with Lin Feng in the Holy City in the future.

At this point, Shen Yue also discovered that the man in front of her was her destined benefactor.

From the first time they met and became friends, all the help Lin Feng provided to Shen Yue could be said to be an opportunity that she might only encounter in the next hundred years.

"Okay then. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. This book should be after the fifth edition, right? It looks like no one has read it in years."

Shen Yue picked up a copy of the Holy Spring Church's "Holy Scripture" and "Required Course for Elite Acolytes" from the bookshelf nearby, then sat down next to Lin Feng and spoke while flipping through the books.

Lin Feng's mouth twitched:
"This is already the seventh edition. It looks like no one has touched it in a hundred or two hundred years."

Shen Yue nodded, as if it was a matter of course:

"Almost. We've been studying the Holy Spring Sutra since we were little in church school. It's like a primary textbook, and we're tested on it every year..."

"But starting with the First-Level Evolver exam, which is also the missionary graduation exam, this book isn't often tested. The main reason is that using the old-fashioned terms isn't popular anymore. Whether it's missionary credibility or organizational management, the Holy Spring Scripture is outdated."

“Only some old fogeys in the temple would keep nagging about it.”

"What we are studying now is the Holy Code, which was later compiled and published by the Immortal Saint and became one of the guidelines for the church's action plan."

Lin Feng nodded in agreement. After all, times are constantly changing, and the situation and circumstances faced by humans and the church today are definitely different from those thousands of years ago.

As the messenger of the Lord of the Holy Spring and the spokesperson walking on earth, the Immortal Saint naturally needs to judge the situation and issue a new code that is more in line with the times.

But there are definitely other factors involved.

Could it be true, as Zong Shiyue said, that the gods who were born by following the way of shepherds, while they were in a deep sleep, would have a king with the same path and origin who would take over their bodies and usurp the throne?

Could it be that the Immortal Saint wanted to seek godhood, so the Lord of the Holy Spring let out this helpless sigh.

While thinking, Lin Feng continued to check the revised version of the Holy Spring Sutra.

Shen Yue glanced at the required book for elite assistant priests for a few minutes. After a few minutes, the knowledge was spinning around in her mind and she began to feel drowsy.

As the eyelids twitched, the entire head began to sway up and down.

Lin Feng took a glance and had the illusion of being in the morning self-study class during his school days, and then ignored the other person.

In fact, for someone with Shen Yue's eccentric personality, asking her to read quietly and seriously is probably more difficult than asking her to go to the ruins.

The reason why she appeared in the library was naturally because she wanted to find Lin Feng.

In other words, he was here to accompany and monitor Lin Feng, to ensure that he would not wander around and that the Oasis key on him would not be "accidentally lost."

This is probably one of the conditions for Shen Yue to be promoted to the late first stage and become an elite assistant priest.

At the same time, one also needs to have the strength of at least an elite assistant priest to be competent in monitoring Lin Feng.

Otherwise, like before, with the mid-level strength of a formal assistant priest at level 16, he would not even be qualified to be an assistant and could only become a follower behind Lin Feng.

However, the person who issued the order obviously did not expect that Shen Yue seemed unable to complete this task very well. She was not as vigilant and alert to Lin Feng as she had imagined.

After confirming that this guy was already in a trance, Lin Feng began to carefully study the Holy Spring Scripture in his hand.

This book containing scriptures is twelve centimeters thick, and each sheet of paper is very thin. It is estimated that there are more than two hundred pages to one centimeter, for a total of two thousand five hundred pages.

One page is equivalent to the size of A4 paper. Apart from some illustrations, most of it is dense text.

Lin Feng was worrying whether he could finish reading it within a few hours. When he flipped through the pages, he found that it was a complete set of scriptures recorded in three languages.

At the front are familiar simplified Chinese characters, in the middle are Western English letters, and at the end are some words that Lin Feng doesn’t quite understand, probably Spanish.

But none of this matters. What matters is that it can reduce reading time by two-thirds.

Now only one third of the content is available, which is about 800 pages.

With the attention span and brain capacity of a second-level evolver, Lin Feng only needs one minute to read the text content of a page of A4 paper.

And it is all remembered and understood.

While not as fast as the legendary quantum reading, it was already more than ten times faster than an average human. And eight hundred pages would take at least eight hundred minutes, or thirteen and a half hours.

I probably won’t be able to finish watching it today.

Books in the library are not allowed to be borrowed, especially by outsiders like Lin Feng. Moreover, as a non-church member, in principle, he is definitely prohibited from entering the library.

Only official members of the church are qualified to enter this secret room to study doctrine.

Lin Feng is here purely because of his current special identity.

He carries the secret key to Oasis, so in principle, Lin Feng is the principle.

The bishop had previously said that when he had nothing to do, he should stay in the church area more and browse around here, and try to avoid going to other places.

Although Lin Feng's own combat power can rival even the level 26 Li family patriarch Li Hao,

But that was built on the vast terrain of the wilderness.

Now that they are in the cramped and narrow Oasis battleship, let alone the speed advantage, even a speed of twenty meters per second can cause great damage.

And it is not suitable for wearing power armor.

They are all wearing light armor. Whoever can withstand more attacks and has higher endurance will have the advantage in close combat.

Lin Feng's proud artillery advantage could not be fully utilized on the Oasis battleship unless he was determined to fight to the death.

The current situation is favorable to the Oasis Church, so the bishop is worried that the Li family and other rebels will take the initiative to force Lin Feng to hand over the Oasis key.

After all, if the rebels feel that it is difficult to win, they will definitely think of destroying it if they cannot get it, and paralyze the Oasis battleship directly when it approaches the Fiery Sun restricted area.

In order to ensure the safety of the oasis, the church will most likely agree to this temporarily, first allowing the warship to escape the risk of being swallowed by the restricted area, and then regain control.

Therefore, even if Lin Feng wanted to go out, he had to patrol the oasis under the "escort" of Shen Yue and other church members.

At this moment, Lin Feng had just finished reading the first chapter, which tells the story of the Lord of the Holy Spring, who was born in the sewer kingdom in Zhuma City after the arrival of the Fiery Sun Wasteland in Sanri Lingkong, and his initial growth and struggle.

These are the old calendars before the birthday of the God, which was about six thousand years ago, or one thousand wasteland years.

Lin Feng only then realized that the wasteland millennium mentioned by Chen Shanshan and other wasteland dwellers, hunters, and evolvers was actually counted from the year when the Lord of the Holy Spring transformed into a god.

The past was a barbaric era, with countless survivors waking up from underground shelters of all sizes, facing this strange, dangerous and cruel doomsday.

The previous desolate and dark history was actually intentionally hidden.

Only the top powers under the throne of the gods would record these secret and unknown pasts.

When Lin Feng saw the contents engraved on the stone at the top of Laoshan Mountain, he estimated that they had been passed down from the dark ages to the present day.

I'm afraid it has been tens of thousands of years.

Lin Feng frowned slightly and looked carefully.

After the background introduction in the first chapter, the subsequent chapters begin to record the experiences and observations of the Lord of the Holy Spring in a chronological manner.

You can find a lot of useful information here.

For example, six thousand years before the birth of the god, the era of barbaric turmoil had existed for at least four or five thousand years. The survivors who first woke up from the underground shelter lived a difficult life in the harsh wasteland.

Including humans and other evolved beasts hiding in the shelter. For a period of time, the latter even became the rulers of the Fiery Sun Wasteland with their faster and stronger adaptability.

They feed on humans and begin to wantonly destroy the shelters, devouring the dormant human evolutionaries within.

During this period, many human evolutionists in the shelter, especially the third-order kings, have actually explored feasible paths to becoming gods and embarked on different paths to becoming gods.

The reason they didn't leave the shelter and lead their people to break out and rule the wasteland was actually the harsh surface environment...

As long as the shelter can maintain normal operation and provide them with the resources to evolve and become stronger, why should they run to the surface to live a hard life?

But as the higher-ups in the Evolution Alliance gradually realized that the resources in the shelter were becoming increasingly insufficient...

A melee that affects the entire wasteland world is also quietly brewing.

It was at this time that the Lord of the Holy Spring, relying solely on his own first-level evolutionary strength, changed his fate and grew into a third-level king who ruled a region.

That era was not like today. Although there was no order, resources were not scarce because new shelters would constantly appear or join the conflict.

What is contributed is not only human lives that are as worthless as grass, but also a large amount of evolutionary resources, such as the pure source material that was extracted and preserved during the technological explosion of the old era.

The Lord of the Holy Spring at that time was just an inconspicuous member among many kings.

Even though his supernatural power has undergone a third-level transformation, his actual combat capability is not outstanding, but it can give him an endless supply of vitality, and he can recover quickly as long as there is water.

His abilities tend towards healing and control, belonging to the auxiliary category of superpowers, a bit like the Saviors' White Night.

With his special abilities, the Lord of the Holy Spring experienced dozens of battles between kings, large and small, and still survived to the end.

Thus, the legendary title of the Undead King came into being.

In that chaotic and turbulent era, as long as you didn't die and survived to the end, you could develop.

The Lord of the Holy Spring can also rely on his special properties to collect a large amount of water, win over and recruit a large number of remaining forces after the defeat, and gradually strengthen himself.

So much so that in the later stages, the Lord of the Holy Spring, who only had the strength of the early third stage, had forces under his command comparable to other mid-third stage beings, and even formed an alliance with several early stage kings.

As expected, he was soon promoted to the middle stage of the third level and became the dominant force.

In the following hundreds of years, the Lord of the Holy Spring showed amazing talents in operation and development. His winning rate in launching wars continued to rise, and he became more and more powerful.

Until a thousand years before the birth of the God, he was promoted to the late third-order Heavenly King and became the leader of the wasteland order.

It was also during this period that many mid-to-late stage third-level kings of the old era broke out of the ground and came to the surface because of the depletion of resources in the shelter.

In order to take the first step towards becoming a god, they began to plunder the major settlements indiscriminately, and a war between the old and the new broke out in the millennium of the old calendar.

It is known in history as the Battle of Shenli.

The major late-stage third-order Heavenly Kings officially embarked on their respective journeys to becoming gods.

The gods rise up and open the chapter of the Dawn of Gods.

(End of this chapter)