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Chapter 231: The Eight Sages, the Divinely Inspired, and the Immortal Saint

As soon as the monk who came to notify her finished speaking, Shen Yue was suddenly awakened and turned around to stare at the man beside her.

Obviously he wanted to know Lin Feng's choice.

I hope he will refuse to meet with Li Mingquan of the Li family, and instead follow the bishop's advice and go to the church.

After all, the purpose of her being arranged here was to prevent Lin Feng from making mistakes, especially the Oasis key on him, which must not be lost.

After thinking for a few seconds, Lin Feng nodded and said:

"Okay, I'll go to the church right away. Remember to notify the Li family members outside. I'm busy at noon. If you want to meet, we can talk this afternoon."

After saying this, Lin Feng, who was already overloaded with thoughts and exhausted from the massive amount of information and knowledge he had acquired, as well as the speculation and thinking during the brainstorming session, closed the heavy Holy Spring Book, stood up, and prepared to leave.

The books in the library are secret books of the church and cannot be borrowed or taken out. Borrowers can only read them in the library.

So Lin Feng stuffed the Holy Spring Sutra back to the bottom of the bookshelf, in a corner where no one cared about it.

Then he followed the monk who came to inform him and left the library where he had stayed for three hours.

Shen Yue rubbed her eyes and immediately stood up to follow.

The three of them left the secret underground library, came to the church area on the top floor, and walked into the cathedral.

Outside the hall, the monk stopped and looked back:
"The main hall is now closed. No one except the bishop, the priest, and you are allowed to enter without permission."

Lin Feng nodded and looked at the two first-stage combat priests guarding the gate. They had the strength of level thirteen evolution, which was enough to stop ordinary mid-stage evolvers.

Today, this is also an important checkpoint.

After all, the command and control room leading to the center of the oasis is through a secret passage under the pulpit of the cathedral.

This extremely hidden secret passage is only known to the top management of the Oasis battleship.

For example, Li Hao, the head of the Li family, and Xu Wanfeng, the president of the Hunting Guild.

They live in the oasis all year round and probably also have the responsibility of guarding these secret passages.

Lin Feng looked back at Shen Yue, nodded at her, then pushed open the door and entered.

The empty hall was silent.

Behind the podium, beautiful glass carvings reflect beams of light.

Looking at the religious emblem on the glass pattern again, it has a round manhole cover as the base, with a vague image of the Lord of the Holy Spring engraved in the middle, and the Eight Sages on the side, who were also the eight beings who originally followed the Lord of the Holy Spring and became third-level kings.

The Lord of the Holy Spring is in the middle of the well, and the Eight Sages are distributed in the eight surrounding grids.

This is also the main structure of the Holy Spring Church emblem, and the rest are decorations or modifications, each of which is different.

For example, the holy wall that Lin Feng saw in the small church in Shengquan Village was relatively simple, with only a circle of thorn flowers of different colors and the emblem of the Shengquan Church organization.

But now in the cathedral, it is even more exquisite.

Even including the growth experience of the Lord of the Holy Spring.

All the important events recorded in the Holy Spring Sutra are shown above, including the first time the Lord of the Holy Spring set foot on land, and how he was supported by a large number of survivors and barbarians and became the Lord of Zhuma City.

The outermost part is decorated with gold leaves. The leaves and vines are made of pure gold and embedded in the glass, reflecting the sunlight and shining brightly.

In the past, Lin Feng was just an outsider who could not understand the ins and outs of the religious emblem. Now, after reading half of the Holy Spring Sutra, he can understand the deep meaning of it.

For example, after the Lord of the Holy Spring became a god, his portrait no longer appeared in the world. Even if there was a portrait, his face was deliberately blurred.

Lin Feng guessed that it was to maintain the mystery of the gods.

One cannot reveal one’s true self to sentient beings.

So although everyone is thanking the Lord of the Holy Spring, the only people who truly know or understand the Lord are probably third-level bishops or some gifted second-level priests.

Lin Feng had heard Father Su An mention this before. During the second-level qualitative evolution, if one is in close harmony with the power of the Holy Spring during the second awakening trial of superpowers, one will be able to see the existence of the Lord of the Holy Spring in the spiritual world.

Worship and pay homage to the true Lord of the Holy Spring.

It is equivalent to the two meeting across time and space through genetic arrangement information.

In the Holy Spring Religion, this person is called a person of divine revelation.

After paying homage to the Lord, the divinely inspired people will be able to stimulate the Holy Spring genes fused into their bodies and will display the supernatural powers of a second characteristic, which come from the special abilities of the Lord of the Holy Spring.

This is very important, not only because of the powerful strength brought by the dual abilities, but also because of the significance of affinity with the power of the Holy Spring.

This means that there is a greater chance of breaking through the third stage to become a bishop, and growing into a late third-stage Holy See Saint in the future.

In the church, the Heavenly Kings in the late third stage are called the saints closest to the Lord, and the leader among them is the Immortal Saint who is now the messenger of God.

God's agent and the actual manager of the church.

However, although there are many people who have received divine enlightenment, the number of third-level bishops and saints in the church is growing slowly.

Even though the Holy Spring Sect recruits talented people from all over the world, there are at least eighty or ninety people with divine inspiration who have the talent and aptitude to advance to the third level, if not hundreds...

But the competition among them is equally fierce.

After all, the times are changing, and the once mysterious and powerful evolution has been completely analyzed, and it is even possible to mass-produce evolvers on an industrial scale.

The arrogant third-order existence may be well-known in the wasteland, but within the top large forces, although it is not as numerous as dogs, it is not rare.

In the Holy City directly under the jurisdiction of Oasis Town, there are seven third-level bishops of different levels.

In fact, what limits the number of third-order beings is not the difficulty of evolution, but the limited resources.

This has been a dead end that has troubled all major forces as early as the Dark Ages of the Old Calendar 6,000 years ago.

The War of the Gods in the old calendar finally ended because the expansion of each party had reached its limit, and they could only plunder each other to continue to improve the strength of the gods behind them and transform into true gods.

In today's God's Birthday Era, the problem of limited resources still plagues all parties.

It is only because the gods have fallen into a long slumber and do not need to continuously absorb more resources that the major top forces can have a chance to breathe.

But that's all it is. It can only prevent large-scale wars from breaking out between top forces. Frictions in small regions and battles between ordinary first-class forces are still fierce.

Therefore, within the church, a position of a third-level bishop often attracts competition from multiple parties.

For example, Zhang Hui, the current acting bishop of Oasis, also participated in the election for the seventh bishop of the Holy City. After failing, he was exiled to the border with a harsh environment.

He could only spend the rest of his life in the tiny Oasis Town, dying in depression.

Fortunately, Bishop Zhang Hui did not give up on himself. Instead, he tried his best to attract investment and recruited the Li family and others to garrison there, which enabled Oasis Town to develop to its current level in just a few hundred years.

Although the scale and quality of Oasis Town were not as good as those medium-sized settlements mentioned above due to environmental conditions, as long as they advanced a thousand kilometers, away from the Fiery Sun Forbidden Zone and the direct sunlight...

Then its current industrial scale and overall size will grow rapidly and form a top medium-sized settlement of 100,000 people.

In this way, it would be possible to barely support a third-rank bishop.

This was also the real purpose behind the current struggle for Oasis Town. The one who felt the most pain was Bishop Zhang Hui.

He built Oasis Town with his own hands, and just when he was about to enjoy the fruits, a group of people came to pick the fruits.

The bishop, who had no ability to resist, could only choose the method with the least loss, and return the oasis town that had been developed for eight or nine hundred years to the holy city.

It was in the hands of his opponent who defeated him and took him away.

Fortunately, Zhang Hui has had some backup plans over the years.

Father Suan is the successor of his will.

Father Suan is also a man of divine inspiration. He was enlightened by the Lord of the Holy Spring during his second-level evolution and possesses two supernatural powers.

This is why he can travel through the wilderness with his priestly position. Although his combat ability cannot be compared with that of the Knights Templar of the same level, ordinary second-level evolvers cannot be his opponents.

The Lord of the Holy Spring had already demonstrated an astonishing talent for survival during the Dark Ages of the Old Calendar, and after he became a god, the capabilities of his physical genes were further enhanced.

How can an ordinary evolver compare to someone who has seen the true form of the Lord of the Holy Spring and inherited his divine power?

Even Lin Feng didn't have the chance to meet God.

Zong Shiyue, the outlier, does not count.

In this case, Chen Shanshan, Lin Feng's subordinate, is actually someone with extremely high evolutionary potential.

After all, she has a strong blood relationship with the Night Emperor, the supreme ruler of the Eternal Night Empire in the northern polar region.

As the Son of God, he awakened an extremely rare dark domain ability. Even Lin Feng was not sure that he could survive Chen Shanshan's unpredictable assassination.

In the church, as long as those who are inspired by God provide sufficient resources, they can basically be promoted to the third stage.

Unfortunately, resources are limited and places are precious.

Those who unfortunately fail to be selected can only spend a thousand years in agony in regret.

But after successfully running for the position of bishop, there will be a third trial challenge during the third-level evolution.

And this time, if one could see the Holy Spring Lord's true form, communicate with Him, and gain His approval...

They will become the focus of training at the highest level of the church and be granted the status of the Son of God.

Its own strength can withstand one thousandth of the divine power from the Lord, and there is a chance that it can evolve and grow to the late third stage and become one of the saints of the Holy See.

Lin Feng had not seen these contents yet, but he had a rough understanding of them from the annotations introducing the first eight sages in the old calendar chapter.

The strengths of the Eight Sages are not the same, and not all of them are late third-order saints.

However, as the first people to follow the Lord, receive His enlightenment, and embark on the path of Holy Spring evolution, they are equivalent to the first generation founders of the Holy Spring Religion and have a lofty status.

Among them is the current Immortal Saint.

Thousands of years ago, before the gods fell asleep, he had already been promoted to a late-stage third-order saint for his merit in destroying a country.

In the wasteland millennium today, it is rumored that the power of this immortal saint is close to that of a god.

Only in this way can the Holy Spring Cult, which has relatively backward technology, unite with the giant enterprise in the north that has completely inherited the technology of the old era and compete with each other in the wasteland.

Become one of the two strongest forces.

However, there is a large force next to the two major forces, so both sides are still relatively tolerant and have not completely torn their faces apart.

After all, the King's Alliance and the Eternal Night Empire are also eyeing the two top forces that now occupy the most fertile and favorable territories between 30 and 50 degrees north latitude.

Once both families are defeated, they will pounce and tear off a large piece of meat.

Relatively speaking, the pressure on the giant companies to unite is obviously greater. After all, the Eternal Night Empire has a new god, and although its power is not large, it is a whole.

Unlike the Kings' Alliance in the South, it is just a loose alliance of kings.

Both the Holy Spring Cult and the giant corporate alliance were worried that they would be ambushed by the other side while cleaning up their own backyards, and would be attacked from all sides.

So this delicate balance has continued to this day, thousands of years later.

But through his understanding of history, Lin Feng believes that this delicate balance will not last long.

Because the basis of balance is the slumber of the gods, and the power of the third-level beings on both sides is equal, no factors that can break the balance have appeared.

When Lin Feng fulfills his promise to Zong Shiyue and releases this once half-transcendent being, now a distorted evil god...

It is bound to disrupt the current balance between the parties...

Triggering the second round of dark turmoil that swept across the entire wasteland era!

Thinking of this, Lin Feng suddenly felt that the current struggle in Oasis Town was not a big deal.

Then he withdrew his gaze from the glass carving, the portrait of the Immortal Saint above the Lord of the Holy Spring, turned around and pressed the mechanism in the podium to open the secret passage.

Enter the passage, close the secret door, and walk towards the command and control room located deep inside.

Soon, Lin Feng arrived at his destination.

At this moment, only one of the two combat priests originally stationed outside the titanium-tungsten alloy gate was left.

He was wearing a well-made suit of power armor.

It is very different from the general model. The white paint job highlights the identity of the Holy Spring Cult, and the structure is more slender, without the feeling of being bulky and heavy.

But in his hand was a tungsten alloy spear with an extremely sharp tip, enough to penetrate the defense of the second-stage early stage Rock Horse Armor.

The aura exuded by it made even Lin Feng feel a little frightened, indicating that the amplification provided by the armor could allow the high priest to threaten him.

Fortunately, the two sides are not in a hostile relationship.

Lin Feng showed the Oasis key in his arms, and the high priest turned around and began to turn the valve.

This time, he alone turned the valve, which required twenty tons of force.

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly. It seemed that the technology of the Holy Spring Sect was not as backward as it appeared.

How did a giant corporate alliance with technology more powerful than that of the church come into being?

Maybe we can already build a space rocket or a spacecraft that can escape into space?

When Bai Ye, the leader of the Salvation Army, evolves into a third-level king, he may have to head north to seek rocket-related technology.

This guy was determined to escape from the harsh wasteland where Sanri was hanging in the sky, but he didn't know if he could succeed.

If it succeeds, I will have multiple ways out.

Upgrade your chariots into aircraft, and run away when you encounter a world-destroying disaster.

While thinking, the gate in front of Lin Feng slowly opened. The great spiritual aide stationed there had been standing behind the door, waiting for a long time.

(End of this chapter)