Ocean Lords: Start as a Fisherman

Chapter 230 Spreading Faith
"temple?"

Lord Irving's face was clearly confused.

He had never heard of this kind of dock building, and the name of the so-called "Fishing Saint" was even more unheard of.

"Mr. Su, who is this 'Angling Saint'?"

Upon hearing this, Su Wang did not explain in detail, but instead focused on explaining the function of this "building".

"It doesn't matter who the Fishing Saint is. What matters is the benefits this building can bring you."

Lord Irwin's eyes still showed doubt.

Just from the introduction of the function of this building, it doesn't seem to have many benefits.

Su Wang then explained.

"Just by having dock residents enter the temple and pray once, they can experience the same effects as drinking high-quality purified water."

"The lower the blood purity, the stronger the effect."

Upon hearing this, a hint of surprise flashed in Lord Irving's eyes.

Can praying once in the temple have the same effect as drinking high-quality purified water?

If this is true, it would be a real treasure.

Not everyone is eligible to drink high-quality purified water.

The average dock family can only ensure that its members have access to high-quality purified water.

Ordinary residents at the dock who want to drink low-level source water have to rely on themselves to accumulate fish coins and wait for the Pisces caravan to arrive to buy them.

This is also one of the main factors restricting the expansion of the terminal fleet.

After all, warships can be built with enough resources, but a naval captain cannot be obtained just by wanting one.

The lack of captain awakening potions and the low awakening rate of general captains.

The rulers of the docks will select residents with the purest bloodline as possible before awakening them.

And if this "temple" is really as Mr. Su said,
It can allow anyone who prays to have the same blood-boosting effect as drinking high-quality purified source water, and its effect is self-evident.

"Mr. Su, are you…are you telling the truth?"

Seeing that Lord Irving was still a little unconvinced, Su Wang chuckled.

"Whether it's true or not, we can just build it and try it out to find out."

Lord Irving hesitated for two seconds and then asked.

"I wonder how Mr. Su plans to sell this building core?"

Su Wang shook his head.

"You don't have to buy it, I can just give it to you."

"The prerequisite is that you need to promise me that any resident will be eligible to come to the temple to pray for free."

Lord Irving was surprised to hear that the temple core could be given to him for free.

However, what he didn't know was that free is the most expensive.

Seeing that Lord Irving was still a little hesitant, Su Wang hurriedly added more fuel to the fire.

"Go ahead and build it. I believe the result will not disappoint you."

After learning that he didn't need to pay anything, and considering Mr. Su's reputation, Lord Irving nodded immediately.

"Please wait a moment. I will go build this core."

Su Wang added.

"Remember to build it in a location accessible to all dock residents. This is the condition you promised me."

Lord Irving nodded to show that he understood.

...

After about half an hour,

In the middle area of ​​Bingluo Wharf, a magnificent temple slowly rose on an empty square.

This movement immediately attracted many residents of Bingluo Wharf to watch.

"Fishing...fishing temple? Is this a new facility built by the Lord?"

"That should be the case. I feel a sense of peace of mind when I get close to you."

"Yeah, it feels amazing."

Many residents gathered outside the temple, very curious about this new building.

The temple has a pure white main body and emits a faint white light.

Especially in the darkness of this rainy season, it is particularly conspicuous.

Whenever they get close to the temple, or even look at it, they feel a sense of peace and tranquility in their hearts.

This is also one of the reasons why more and more residents are watching.

After more than twenty minutes, Lord Irving led Su Wang to the square.

Irving pointed at the temple and asked Su Wang who was standing beside him.

"Mr. Su, how about placing it here?"

"If you are not satisfied, I can adjust it."

Su Wang looked around and nodded with satisfaction.

"Okay, let's book it here."

The square, along with several dock alleys and residential blocks, has a considerable flow of people.

Su Wang noticed the onlookers around and immediately spoke to Lord Irving.

"Didn't you just want to know the purpose of the temple?"

"A lot of residents are gathering here right now. How about you organize some people to go in and pray?"

There are currently 7 temple cores.
Su Wang gave one to the Lord of Bingluo Wharf, but he didn't want him to keep it as a collection.

Therefore, he had to watch Lord Irving use the temple.

Lord Irving nodded immediately after hearing this.

He was also curious whether the temple was really as magical as what they had just said.

"Turk, go and gather a few hundred residents to follow me into the temple and pray."

Steward Turk immediately led the guards to gather and organize the residents.

The onlookers heard that they could enter the temple and even get benefits.

People signed up enthusiastically at once, and more than 500 people gathered in less than ten minutes.

After Lord Irving got Su Wang's nod, he immediately led these people towards the interior of the temple.

The closer Lord Irving got to the temple, the more he could feel the peace of mind that the temple brought.

As a dock lord,

The complicated affairs weighed on him, and he was mentally exhausted. However, under the shining light of the temple, this feeling of exhaustion was instantly swept away.

This effect alone made Lord Irving decide to come to the temple whenever he has time to relieve his mental stress.

Since the temple gate was built,

It has remained open, but due to the hazy white light filling the temple gate, the internal structure cannot be seen clearly from the outside.

After Lord Irving passed through the light curtain of the gate, the interior structure of the temple suddenly came into view.

The first thing that comes to mind is a magnificent sculpture in the center of the temple.

The sculpture is a hundred meters tall, and the power of a saint emanates from it.

Although the sculpture's face is blurred,

But when Lord Irwin saw the sculpture for the first time, he couldn't help but turn his head to look at Mr. Su who followed him in.

This... this kind of pressure...

This extremely familiar feeling of oppression, coupled with the feeling the sculpture gave him.

When Lord Irving saw the sculpture for the first time, he felt as if he was facing the "angry" Mr. Su that night.

Coupled with the inexplicable sense of familiarity brought by this sculpture,
A strange thought involuntarily came to Lord Irving's mind.

It seems that this sculpture is the incarnation of Mr. Su.

Could it be that this fishing saint refers to Mr. Su himself? After this thought arose, it lingered in Lord Irwin's mind.

But when I turned around and saw the faint smile on Mr. Su's face,
Irving wanted to ask, but swallowed the words that were about to come out.

Su Wang saw the conflicted look on Lord Irving's face and immediately understood.

"Lord Erwin, as I said before, it doesn't matter who the Fishing Saint is."

"As long as he can bring you benefits, what does it matter who the saint is?"

Irving nodded quickly.

“You’re right…”

Unlike Lord Irving, the other guards and residents who entered the temple were all attracted by the magnificent sculpture and stared at it intently.

It was not until Turk called on everyone to come to the statue, kneel down and pray that they came to their senses.

As the first resident came to the cushion in front of the sculpture and knelt down, he suddenly fell into a special state.

He couldn't help but murmur and sing.

"Merciful Angler, may your holy light shine upon the world."

One by one, residents joined in the prayer.
Following this, a hazy white light also appeared on the praying residents.

Under the cover of white light, some residents with very serious abnormal symptoms suddenly showed obvious changes.

The obvious abnormal signs began to blur, as if they had been cleansed by drinking purifying water.

This whole scene was seen by Lord Irving who was watching from the side.

"Really...it can actually cleanse the blood..."

This reminds me of the large number of blood purifiers that Mr. Su brought back half a month ago.

Lord Irving was even more certain that the saint was "Mr. Su".

Su Wang also reminded at this time.

"It only takes half a minute for one person to pray. Lord Irving should have seen the effect."

"I can promise you that prayer power does not require any payment, and anyone can participate in prayer once a day."

Lord Irving nodded very sensibly.

"Don't worry, Mr. Su. I will vigorously promote the power of the Temple."

This is what I said from the heart.

He could clearly see the changes that occurred after the residents prayed.

At this rate of blood cleansing, it would only take a few prayers to meet the minimum conditions for awakening a captain.

Plus, this opportunity to pray doesn’t just happen once, but every day.

Lord Irving has realized how beneficial owning this temple will be to the dock.

Although he didn't understand what good this would do for "Mr. Su",
But at least the benefits he can get are obvious.

Su Wang felt relieved after receiving Lord Irving's promise.

As long as Irving, as the lord of the dock, can take the initiative to encourage dock residents to participate in temple prayers.

It won’t be long before the vast majority of residents at Bingluo Wharf will become his pan-believers.

Although a pan-believer can only produce 0.1 points of faith fuel every day, it is enough to satisfy your hunger.

Bingluo Wharf has a population of nearly 20. Even if all of them are pan-believers, that would still provide more than 2 faith fuels every day.

After long-term prayer, pan-believers will also transform into formal believers.

This is a belief layout that requires long-term development.

We can't just look at the short-term effects, we have to look at the long-term.

Thinking that he still had 6 temple cores in his hands, Su Wang didn't plan to stay at Bingluo Wharf any longer.

Instead, he asked Irving about the locations of several Alliance-affiliated docks, and then prepared to continue to several other docks to spread the Temple of Faith.

The sooner it is spread out, the sooner more believers can be converted and the chance of creating more temple cores can be gained, just like a snowball.

After bidding farewell to Bingluo Wharf, Su Wang used the quantum turbine to immediately teleport to another local wharf.

Unlike the Ice Snail Wharf, which has more contact, the remaining local wharves must first gain the trust of several lords if they want to successfully layout the temple.

Fortunately, they had met before forming the alliance, and both accepted the favor of the Blood Purifier.

At first, I was a little cautious.
But after seeing the changes in the residents brought about by prayer, the local dock lords all praised the role of the temple.

It took nearly half a day to place all the temple cores on hand at the domestic dock.

A rough estimate shows that the number of pan-believers in several local ports combined could reach about 150 million in the short term.

Once all these people are converted into formal believers, the amount of faith fuel that can be generated will reach tens of millions.

Only after finishing all this did Su Wang return to the Fool's Wharf with satisfaction.

...

Back to the dock,
Su Wang checked the faith fuel he had accumulated so far.

The inhabitants of Fool's Landing itself provide the most Faith Fuel.

More than 8 formal believers, including hundreds of families, have generated more than 760 million faith fuel today.

It cost 80 to condense the core of the temple, and the cumulative cost of washing some followers was only one million.

The remaining faith fuel was enough to burn 6 times, so Su Wang immediately prepared to try burning the faith fuel.

As the mind chose to burn the fuel of faith, millions of fuels of faith suddenly flowed away like water.

At this moment, a pure white fire suddenly burned from Su Wang's body surface and quickly enveloped his entire body.

This pure white fire has only a slight warmth, but lacks the burning sensation that flames should have.

At the same time, a bright white light appeared above the port.

The sudden spontaneous combustion startled Su Wang, and also frightened the residents passing by nearby.

Fortunately, Su Wang reacted quickly enough and calmed and dispersed them in time, so there was no riot.

Looking up,

Not only himself, but the Heart of Death was also enveloped in pure white fire at this moment.

This pure white fire lasted for a full minute before it dissipated.

[After being burned by the Fire of Faith once, Soul Strength increases by 1%, Vehicle Soulification increases by 0.01%, and the maximum number of Saint Followers increases by 100.]

It was not until the flames dissipated that Su Wang carefully felt the changes in himself.

Apart from feeling a little more energetic, I couldn't feel any other significant changes.

"That's it?" Su Wang curled his lips.

It seems that burning faith once can bring very little obvious effect.

Fortunately, based on the current number of believers, tens of millions of faith fuels can be accumulated every day, enough to burn 10 times.

Su Wang burned six times in a row, and only stopped after using up the fuel of faith to reach hundreds of thousands.

The upper limit of the number of saints' followers has also been increased to 1600.

Su Wang immediately gathered more than a thousand sailors, all of whom were believers, and announced the plan to build an aerial battleship fleet in the future.

Since they have already taken the oath, there is no need to worry that these people will choose to leave the dock in the future.

Su Wang selected all these captains as the saint's followers to further increase the daily output of faith fuel.

Every day that follows,

All Su Wang had to do was take some time to process the fish accumulated at the dock.

And the number of times the faith fuel can be burned is more than 20 times.

During this period, Su Wang would take time every day to watch the flow of information in the communication area and collect useful information from it.

It was learned that as many as 6-7 local docks were eroded by polluters during this rainy season alone.

This is only known among fishermen, but there may be even more docks that have been eroded by polluters.

Although Su Wang wanted to take action, not all local ports could provide timely support.

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　Thanks to "Hanqiqiyunmao" for sending a monthly ticket.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)