This world now had a new name. Sandora felt that since it was the capital of the old Empire's Fifteenth Sky (in fact, it was a fragment of the capital), and also Pandora's hometown, this universe should not be simply numbered. It should have its own name, just like Avalon and the Shadow Dimension. After a brief discussion, we decided to name this one-light-year universe "Xinxiang".
The name was not that rare. In the Empire's database, there were at least hundreds of places with the name Xinxiang in the macro world. But for this lost and regained territory, the word "Xinxiang" had a special meaning. It was the only name we found after eliminating more than a hundred strange characters …
Alright, we shouldn't have let Qian Qian participate in the naming.
Xinxiang would be like Avalon, a "district" of the capital of the Empire, and the mortal world here would be used as an observation station and testing ground for the phenomenon of deification in the Empire. It sounded a little strange, as if the people here would be used as test subjects. But in fact, the situation was not that serious. Everything was inevitable. The Shiring Apostles would give birth to the next individual with divinity. Then, we would need to know the power of this "new god". Whether willing or not, this "new god" would produce information disturbance power, which was the power of faith and divine grace. As long as the "new god" came into contact with the mortal world, religion would inevitably be born. Now that religion had been born, shouldn't we send an observer to check it out? Before we decided to install this world into the Shadow Dimension, we had planned to let the "new god" randomly choose the people in the macro world to establish a belief system if the "new god" appeared. Now, this world that was about to be incorporated into the capital of the Empire as the first priority for religious planning. Rather than calling it a testing ground, it was actually more like a ready-made observation station.
Even Shakina and Sona, after hearing my plan, did not show any signs of discomfort. Of course, another important reason was that they probably did not understand what I was talking about …
For many people in the Mother Continent, many things had happened in the past few days. Perhaps for the rulers of the various regions of this world, it was even more stressful. It was all because of the news of the "return of the Divine Kingdom" that had suddenly spread all over the world.
In the famous barren land of the South, a new religion that claimed to worship the Crow God had suddenly appeared. This news had spread everywhere a few days ago. Unlike most feudal worlds, on the Mother Continent, the transmission of information was not as slow as we thought. This world had a communication network based on magical technology and relatively developed media channels. Even the commoners could know about the recent happenings in the kingdom through a kind of civilian media similar to newspapers and the magic crystal announcement device in the center of the city. People were no strangers to the new religion that suddenly flourished in the barren land. In the barren South, it was difficult for people to obtain any material comfort, which was why it happened to be a place where all kinds of new small religions emerged. It was just that the speed of the Crow God's development and demonstrated power was a little surprising. Now, the religion did something even more surprising: they sent messengers all over the world. These missionaries dressed in black feathered robes appeared as if they had descended from the sky and appeared in every inhabited place in the world, publicizing the news of the "return of the Divine Kingdom". These missionaries came and went without a trace, as if they had mastered the teleportation technology that powerful professional mages could not easily cast. It was common to see a missionary preaching at the border of the kingdom in the morning and appearing in the capital of the kingdom in the afternoon, standing in front of the king's palace and asking for an audience.
Another group of "missionaries" appeared all over the world at the same time. Compared to the Crow God's religion that had appeared for some time and was obviously larger in scale, this second group of missionaries did not seem to make as much of a commotion, but their appearance had a more obvious impact on the commoners of this world. They were the "Dragon God's Religion" that had suddenly formed recently and few people knew about it.
Unlike the complicated Crow God's religion, all the believers of the Dragon God's Religion were of only one race, and that was the Draconians. In some remote places, they were still called the Lizardmen. These werecreatures, which were originally at the bottom of the various intelligent races on the continent and were even confused with those demi-humans, appeared in various parts of the world together with the missionaries of the Crow God's religion, preaching the prophecy about the return of the Divine Kingdom. The "Descent of the Dragon" incident that happened in Sentu had spread across half of the world at this time, but many people were skeptical about the fact that the Draconians really had the blood of the dragon. As soon as the Draconians who claimed to be the people of the Dragon God appeared, they attracted unprecedented attention. Especially when news kept coming from all over the world that some Draconians suddenly roared in the face of doubtful crowds and even transformed into dragons. The turmoil caused even exceeded the news of the "return of the Divine Kingdom" itself.
The sudden movement of the two emerging religions certainly caused a lot of commotion, and the first to bear the brunt were the civilians.
No matter which world it was, the civilian class was always easy to be influenced. The complexity of their numbers and composition determined that this group of people could be quickly influenced by new information that suddenly emerged. As long as there was a group of people who believed, there would be countless groups of people who would blindly follow.
The missionaries of the Crow God Sect were actually not clever "instigators". They might have been farmers who faced the yellow soil with their backs to the sky in the past, or laborers who dug stones in the mines. In terms of using words and the power of public opinion to deceive people, they were definitely not as good as the monks of other religions who specialized in this field, but they had genuine divine power. And in this world where there were many religions and all kinds of divine activities, even a trick on the street could fool a large group of people, not to mention these seemingly omnipotent Crow God priests who could fly and dive into the sky. They would suddenly appear in the sky above the city, wrapped in thunder and storms that came from divine prayers, appearing before the civilians as if the messenger of the gods had really descended, loudly proclaiming that "the Divine Kingdom is coming, the gods will close off part of the 'Lost World', and a new order is about to be established". If that did not produce enough propaganda, then there was no more effective means of propaganda. And the actions of the Dragon God Priests were even simpler. When a dragon suddenly landed on the city wall and loudly ordered everyone to immediately stop exploring the Lost World, no one would dare to ignore such a warning, right?
Of course, there would also be people who ignored such warnings. Some even thought that these missionaries were deliberately mystifying just to expand the influence of their own religion. No matter where one went, there would be such bold and stubborn people. But in fact, at this point, these people's thoughts were meaningless. Alleria had already closed the teleportation channels of the Lost World one by one, and 80% of the channels from the mother continent to the Lost World had now become one-way teleportation. Only people were allowed to evacuate from the other side of the channel, and no new people were allowed to enter the Lost World. At the end of the day, the mission of the missionaries was not to use their own power to stop the exploration of the world, but to warn the world and use preventive measures to prevent the next panic from happening.
Therefore, under the preaching of these "God's Messengers" and the gradual closure of the Lost World, the exploration of the Lost World by the people of the mother continent was almost completely halted, and there was a continuous flow of explorers who stayed in the Lost World returning to the mother continent (the communication between the Lost World and the mother continent was still smooth, and in some of the Lost Worlds that could not be reached, the Dragon God Sect and the Crow God Sect had also sent missionaries to evacuate the people). As mentioned before, explorers were a group of superstitious people. They valued all kinds of omens before they set off. Now that the world was in such a big uproar, most of the explorers were unwilling to stay outside. And even if there were some who were really reluctant to leave … well, well, they could not beat the missionaries who "God's Descent" at the drop of a hat, right?
It was said that on the first day alone, the Crow God Sect's missionaries, who were originally peasants, had knocked out several thousand people and brought them back. The Dragon God Sect was slightly better. After all, their pope was an explorer. The explorers who were forcibly brought back by them were not knocked out. They were only tied up tightly …
And after these missionaries spread the news of the return of the Divine Kingdom and performed miracles everywhere, causing a stir among the people, the rulers of the various dukedoms and orthodox churches on the mother continent finally reacted and began to take a series of countermeasures — the situation was different in different places. In most places, the reaction of the authorities was as expected.
Suppressing social unrest was their top priority, and they began to look for ways to find out where the missionaries came from. The source was easy to find since all the missionaries came from the South. The Crow God Sect had never been a secret religion, and the entire half-dragon race had migrated to the South with great fanfare for about half a month or so. However, after finding out where the missionaries came from, the authorities in various places were confused because they could not think of any motive for these religious people to carry out such a joint activity on a global scale. The missionaries preached about the return of the Divine Kingdom, but they did not mention any gimmicks like this would lead to the end of the world (this was a common tactic used by many illegal religions to gain followers). They also did not intend to use this momentum to expand the influence of the church. All the missionaries acted as if they were really just spreading the news, teleporting from one city to another and leaving after attracting enough attention. They did not even accept the food and donations from the people. There was only one explanation for this: what they said was true.
But even so, many of the operatives still ran into trouble because the commotion was too big, and Liliana had asked them from the beginning to "be high-profile, be as high-profile as you want, God will help you settle any problems." Every time these missionaries carried out an operation, it was as if they were celebrating a festival. Many local authorities could not stand the disturbance and began to try to arrest or at least expel these "mysterious people." Then, many unexpected situations happened.
Be it the Crow God believers or the Dragon God Messengers, they completely ignored the "human justice"!
Completely ignored. Because all the operatives had temporary god-given amulets, these amulets temporarily gave them the status of "Divine Executors." Therefore, all the judgments and actions made by the human justice were directly deleted. They were invulnerable and ignored all physical and non-physical obstacles. They walked directly through the phalanx formed by thousands of city guards like phantoms, loudly announcing the timetable for the return of the Kingdom of God. They smiled under the bombardment of military-level magic, and after the explosions ended, they continued to recite the evacuation plan formulated by God. They even directly projected their own figures into the King's retinas, promoting the world's transformation. Before they set off, Vanilla and Sona had separately briefed their messengers on the key points of the operation: to show the magnanimity of the Servants of God, as long as they did not violate the laws of God, the Servants of God would ignore the human justice. Therefore, they really ignored all the mortal attacks directed at them …
This caused a huge uproar, and the whole world was in an uproar. The rulers of the mortal world and the "orthodox sects" everywhere finally realized that something was wrong. They felt that they might have encountered a real "God." But soon, the "orthodox sects" themselves also joined in the propaganda. This was the third day of the large-scale operation of the missionaries from the South. The established churches all over the world also announced that they had received a revelation. This was because the various ancient spirits and imaginary gods they worshiped had suddenly "manifested" one after another, using a direct way that had never happened before to tell the believers all over the world that what the Crow God believers and the Dragon God believers were preaching was true.
If those messy churches could communicate with each other, they would discover a strange phenomenon: the ancient spirits worshiped by all the churches had recently added a strange catchphrase, which was "For the Empire."
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These ancient spirits are actually gradually under our control.
As mentioned before, this world has a total of two most distinct characteristics. The first is naturally the "Lost World" that is closely related to human life and has become a part of the civilization of the mother continent. The second is the entire mother continent's various sects and the ancient spirits they worship. In this world, about hundreds of religions or sects coexist in a delicate state of balance, and the core of these sects worship or preach is basically the ancient spirits. Ancient spirits are some ancient, powerful, mysterious, but real wise beings with a long history. They may be ancient beasts, or some kind of physical natural phenomenon (the ancient spirit that the Storm Sect of the Northern Mountains follows is a lightning hurricane that never dissipates). Back then, Little Crow was also mistaken for an ancient spirit (Vanilla called her the spirit of nature), so we may have a clearer understanding of the "ancient spirit phenomenon" on the mother continent. These ancient spirits obviously have power on a completely different level from the mortal creatures of the mother continent, so the mortals of the mother continent view them as gods.
At the same time, Alleria also mentioned that among the 301 commanders of the Old Empire, except for herself, the remaining 300 were stored in the form of the lowest level of data in this world, and most of them were hidden in the beliefs of humans and the various religious stories of the mother continent. In other words, these Empire commanders and the "ancient spirits" all over the mother continent have an inexplicable connection. Ancient spirits are not the commanders of the Empire, but the mechanism of their creation is actually various phenomena formed by the overflow of the world's lowest level of data, just like an extension of the latter's second body. Since the sleeping Empire commanders in this world are all mystical, they are the ancient spirits. If the sleeping commander here is a technological one, then the extension should be black technology. If Liliana is knocked out and stuffed into the lowest level of the world, it is estimated that the entire mother continent will become … Umm, a mosaic …
The ancient spirits themselves have no independent consciousness. Their "consciousness" was born from the self-dissociated Imperial Army officers. In the past, because their parent bodies were all in a state of hibernation, all the ancient spirits on the mother continent were in a state of chaos. Mortals thought this was a sign of the gods' mood swings, but in fact, it was because they were unconscious. Now, the Imperial Army officers in the lowest level of the world's data are gradually waking up, and the ancient spirits are slowly waking up from their state of chaos and standing on the side of the Empire.
The Crow God and the Dragon God's Missionaries are running around the world to boost their reputation. This is all Liliana's concern. As for us, we have actually started the activation process of the mother planet when the first batch of Missionaries set off.
The mother planet is a system that has been in hibernation for more than 70,000 years and is still fragmented from the impact. It is very troublesome to completely restart it. It is precisely because this task cannot be completed in a day or two that we have a lot of free time on our hands. That is why we decided to let the Missionaries run around the world to promote the mother planet, instead of simply letting the little crow and Lin do a worldwide miracle. Although the latter seems convenient and fast, it is not as effective as the former, and the momentum does not seem to be big enough. Liliana is a tool of public opinion. She also wants to take this opportunity to expand the influence of the Crow God Sect. There is no need to deliberately recruit believers. As long as the abnormal movements of the various lost worlds are reported back to the mother continent, her propaganda plan will be a great success. As for the Dragon God Sect … Shakina and Sona are obviously not as experienced as Liliana. The two of them only acted after the latter's reminder. These two half-dragon girls still have a long way to go to become qualified spiritual leaders.
Besides Liliana, the busiest one these days is Alleria. Liliana is busy with her religious career, while Alleria is the only one among us who knows how to activate the mother planet. So far, the state of Concept Separation has only been lifted in Xinxiang. Outside Xinxiang, the Concept Separation is still ongoing. Therefore, Alleria feels that she can't do anything about things like the Sky Tower and the Forgotten Garden (even though those things were designed and built by her back then). She can only put the burden on Alleria.
However, Alleria herself doesn't seem to care about the complicated work, or rather, she enjoys it. The floating luminous body never shows any expression, but I do feel that she is brimming with a cheerful mood. This mood is especially obvious after the world's ancient souls responded to our orders for the first time two days ago.
"After being abandoned for 70,000 years, now I can finally serve the Empire again. Isn't it something to be happy about?" Alleria said happily in response to my accidental question. She then mentioned another matter. "Dragon … The City of Angels has been released in the Holy Kingdom. Would you like to go and take a look?"
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