A man among dragons, building a mysterious ancient church.

Chapter 130 The More the Merrier? You mean Han Xin?
Nuwa's words were tantamount to spending money to settle the matter peacefully, providing funds to help the old sect rebuild its old temples in Xiangyang, or even beyond Xiangyang, in an attempt to turn enemies into friends.

We could even go further and strive for cooperation.

It's not that Nuwa became afraid of the Old Church and started to back down after testing Xu Lie and Lao Tang's lower limits of strength.

Nuwa made this choice solely out of cold, self-serving considerations.

Strictly speaking, the Zhou family did not suffer any substantial losses in the Three Gorges Dragon Shadow incident. At most, member Zhou Minlan was injured, but she was able to recover.

Since that's the case, there's absolutely no need to start a war with the old church. Although Zhou Minlan is an outstanding member of the Min generation, why would such a large family start a full-scale war with an unknown enemy just because of one elite member?
The disadvantages far outweigh the advantages. How could Nuwa, the goddess of the world, act so impulsively when she is in charge?

Nuwa tends to turn enemies into friends; it would be too much trouble to provoke two beings comparable to high-level dragons for no reason.

Not to mention the mysterious Old Days Church, Huang Tao is only a bishop, so what about the other bishops, or even the higher-ranking archbishops?

Will their strength become even more terrifying? Will this bring even greater disaster to the Zhou family?
Even though the Zhou family's underground grounds are similar to those of Kassel College, they also hide some ancient relics that have been frozen for a long time, serving as the family's heritage.

But is it really worth putting all your strength into fighting the old church to the death over such a trivial matter? What is the Zhou family after?

Just for the sake of saving face?
That's incredibly foolish. For the sake of the greater good of their homeland and the technological interests of Europe and America, these ancient families have long since abandoned all pretense of shame and allowed Kassel to come and go as they pleased. Why would they suddenly care about saving face now?

As the head of the family, Nuwa had many things to consider and couldn't just take out her family heirloom sword, the Dragon-Slaying Platform, and start fighting.

Nuwa is no longer the little girl who loved playing with weapons.

"Then thank you for your kindness, Nuwa." Xu Lie's clone looked Nuwa up and down meaningfully before finally accepting the proposal.

In fact, as one of the clones who wanted a vacation, Xu Lie's clone wanted to parasitize Nuwa in order to indirectly control the Zhou family and help expand the Old Church.

However, unlike the previous two stewards, Nuwa, through the Thief path, will possess a passive skill after reaching Sequence 6, the Fire Thief.

It can detect and sense valuable items within a 50-meter radius. The higher the value and the rarer the item, the easier it is for thieves to detect it.

Xu Lie's clone sensed the aura of nine treasures from Nuwa. Whether it was the heavy headdress, the hair ornament, or the thumb ring on her hand, they all exuded a strong aura of precious treasures.

Having recently been protected from dream-stealing by Mai Shude's earrings, Xu Lie's clone naturally wouldn't underestimate these alchemical tools again.

Perhaps Nuwa possesses some kind of alchemical tool that can provide early warning and prevent parasitic abilities; if it is blocked, it would be a waste of time.

Even if one could steal the alchemical tools afterward and forcibly parasitize them, it would create even more trouble.

The clone didn't want to work overtime voluntarily. Instead of wasting that effort, it might as well agree to Nuwa's request. After all, even if it didn't parasitize Nuwa, it could parasitize other members of the Zhou family.

In short, if we can successfully expand the church's influence by following the original body's orders, then everything will be fine.

"Gulp!" Seeing that the two had successfully reached an agreement, Old Tang was truly relieved and began to eat and drink heartily.

Nuwa raised her wine cup, as if to offer a toast: "I have heard about what happened. It was my junior who was ignorant and offended your sect."

“Bishop Huang Tao was able to set aside past grievances and forgive these naughty and ignorant children. I should toast you.”

“There’s no rush.” Xu Lie didn’t mince words, gently covering the wine cup in front of him with his left hand: “Since Nuwa knows about this matter, she should understand how blasphemous it is to impersonate a god.”

"The Heavenly Venerable of Blessing and Forgiving is merciful and forgiving, but once the vast number of believers learn of this, they will surely be in uproar."

"In my opinion, if you really want to resolve this matter, you probably need to build more old temples and pray devoutly to atone for your sins."

Don't think you can resolve the conflict with a toast; you'll have to pay extra!
Nuwa smiled broadly, secretly marveling at the old church's enormous appetite: "Then I wonder how many temples Bishop Huang Tao thinks are needed to atone for Minlan's sins?"

"The more the better." How could a clone know how many would be enough? Too lazy to think, he made a vague condition.

"Are you fucking Han Xin?" Nuwa gritted her teeth inwardly, thinking, "The more the merrier."

The money spent on repairing the temple was nothing to Nuwa, and for the Zhou family, it was just a drop in the ocean.

What truly worried Nuwa was the ambition revealed by the old church.

According to the intentions of this 'Huang Tao' bishop, he would love nothing more than to fill the local area with old temples and seize the entire territory. What will become of the major ancient families then?

"One hundred, how about that?" After learning about the negotiations, Nuwa could not simply back down. She appropriately turned cold and showed the strength befitting the head of the household.

Xu Lie was not intimidated and was inclined to agree.

It's true that the more the better, but we don't have enough manpower.

If the main body can advance to Sequence 3 and create more clones, then that's fine.

Currently, the main body is at sequence 4, and the number of clones is limited, so there aren't enough people to manage the Old Temple.

They could only temporarily borrow experienced believers familiar with Chinese from Makoto Aso's Tokyo parish, such as Tomoo Kitamura from Xiajiawan.

In the Tokyo parish, most of the believers are former members of the Oni Clan, and they are constantly maintaining their rationality to avoid falling into depravity. Where would they find the extra time to learn Chinese?
We might not even be able to gather 100.

With that thought, Xu Lie's clone stopped worrying. He raised his cup with his left hand, and across the round table, he virtually clinked glasses with Nuwa, and they drank the wine together.

The preliminary agreement on cooperation finally put Zhou Minyan, who had been on edge and hadn't even taken her seat, at ease.

The banquet atmosphere was pleasant afterward. Nuwa didn't try to probe for more information. She ate a few bites of meat and felt a little satisfied before casually bringing up the selection of sites for the Hundred Temples: "So many temples."

"Does Bishop Huang Tao have a preferred candidate? Or should I instruct my family to make their own choice?"

Xu Lie's clone was too lazy to think: "How about this, build a temple in every district of every city in every place that your Zhou family can influence."

"The remaining temples are mostly spread out around provincial capitals and the capital city."

Nuwa almost choked on a piece of braised pork. No, you ancient religions are so casual?
Generally speaking, when hybrid factions choose a location, they should at least consider feng shui, right?
The feng shui here is not feudal, but a genuine ability to observe qi. A very small number of hybrids possess the ability to witness the flow of elements.

Therefore, they selected some places that were suitable for family members and corresponded to the spirit elements of the word, as the family's residence.

For example, the Gattuso family, whose members all possess the Word of Power of the Sky and Wind Kings, would be well-suited to choose a family residence abundant with wind elements.

Seeing that Xu Lie didn't care about feng shui at all, Nuwa naturally didn't mention it, which saved her some effort.

So we switched to a more important topic: "There is no difficulty in rebuilding old temples in big cities."

"But these big cities have huge populations, and if something happens, it can easily cause chaos."

It is a kind of explicit statement.

This time, the Three Gorges Dragon Shadow incident, regardless of whether a second-generation species has truly appeared or if the Old Church is orchestrating it behind the scenes.

In short, the local people near the Three Gorges have been absorbed into the faith of the Old Japanese Church, and the Old Japanese Church is the biggest beneficiary.

This approach works well in rural towns, as it limits the scope of influence and prevents major disruptions.

If such a stunt were to be staged in some major cities, allowing Samson to appear in those places, the consequences would be extremely serious and absolutely impossible to suppress.

It could even trigger condemnation and danger from mixed-race groups around the world.

"Please rest assured, Nuwa, our church has a low-key plan." Xu Lie's clone subtly revealed the issue, indicating that he had no intention of making a big fuss.

He valued the hundreds of old temples that were about to spring up like mushrooms after rain, and naturally would not adopt such a short-sighted approach.

At worst, we can just make things harder for Aso Makoto's followers.

Let them learn divination rituals that don't require much spiritual energy on their own, and then come to the old temple to give free fortune telling to the people. Such divination won't be very accurate; at least they might guess a few right in a day.

This will increase user engagement and gradually gain the trust of the people.

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