More than a hundred religions? More than a thousand gods?
Lu An frowned. He had thought that there would be many religions here, but he didn't expect there to be so many!
"But so many religions will make the lives of the people unstable, just like the two people who were fighting just now. Won't the government do anything about it?" Lu An asked in a low voice.
The two people who were fighting just now were Level One Celestial Masters. Although they were very weak, if even Celestial Masters could be brainwashed into killing others to protect their religion, wouldn't the ordinary people be in even more danger?
"Sir, you're right, but you have to keep your voice down!" Upon hearing that, the waiter quickly made a 'hush' gesture to Lu An and whispered, "Fortunately, you're asking me questions. I'm not a religious person. Otherwise, if it were any other waiter in this tavern, just based on what you said just now, they would've beaten you up!"
Lu An's heart tightened when he heard that. He asked, "What do you mean?"
"In our place, you can't say that being religious is wrong, and you can't say that being religious will make the lives of the people unstable!" The waiter whispered, "The people here are all religious. You can say that other religions are bad, but you can't say that religion is bad. Otherwise, they will really kill you!"
The waiter lowered his voice even more and whispered to Lu An, "The people here have all gone crazy!"
"…"
Lu An took a deep breath and asked, "Won't the government do anything about it?"
"Do something about it? How? " The waiter shrugged and asked, "More than 90% of the people here are religious. They can sacrifice their lives for their religion. Will the government kill everyone? Can they kill all of them? Also, there are so many religious Celestial Masters. If they really fight, they might not be able to defeat them! "
"Don't say that the government can't do anything about it. In fact, the government doesn't even want to do anything about it!" The waiter shook his head and said, "I don't know about other cities, but even the City Lord of Chaoming City is religious. How can they do anything about it? This place is completely hopeless. Even a sober person like me doesn't dare to say anything. Anyway, I just want to earn enough money to leave this damn place and live in a country that doesn't believe in religion! "
Hearing the waiter's words, Lu An was silent for a few breaths. He asked again, "Is there a religious stronghold here?"
"Of course! If we don't have a stronghold, we won't have a place to carry out sacrifices and ceremonies, and we won't have a place to advertise. How can we win people's hearts? " Little Fool nodded and said, "But the real core figures of those religions are very smart. They hide themselves and let their subordinates take charge. As for the strongholds of these core figures, they are either in the Endless Desert or hidden in the cities. No one knows about them at all. "
After thinking for a while, the waiter added, "Basically, religions have to hold rituals regularly to gather all the believers together to win over and strengthen the hearts of the people. The longest interval is seven days. Some are even held once a day. Most of the ceremonies are held at night. After all, everyone has to work during the day. "
Upon hearing this, Lu An frowned. He didn't expect religions to have such intensive activities. After thinking for a while, he asked, "What are the bigger religions in Chaoming City?"
"Right now, the biggest religion in the city is called the Gate God Religion. This is the religion that the city lord believes in. With the City Lord's support and good publicity, more and more people will naturally believe it. " Little Fool said, "But other than the Gate God Religion, there's another religion that is very popular. It's called the Heaven God Religion. This religion is very popular in the nearby cities, and it's said that it has believers in many countries. It's very powerful."
Lu An noted down the two names and asked, "What about these two religions? Are they good or bad? "
"How many religions are good?" Little Fool snorted and said with disdain, "I'm not saying that there aren't any, but I've seen more than 200 religions in my life. None of them are good. All of them are scourges!"
"The Gate God Religion not only uses livestock as sacrifices, but they also use living humans as sacrifices. They make slaves and servants into something like dishes. They glorify it as' humans sacrifice to the heavens, and the heavens bestow humans'. This means that they use human lives as sacrifices to the heavens. This way, the heavens will be moved and reward them with better 'lives'! However, they never use their own lives as sacrifices to the heavens. They always use other people's lives! "
"The Heaven God Religion isn't good either. They respect men and preach that men are supreme. They brainwash women and make them slaves of the religion. Those who aren't brainwashed will continue to be tortured until they give up their dignity and become numb. At the same time, they use these women to rope in the nobles and other people. Those who benefit from it will really believe that 'men are supreme' and support this religion to the death! "
"…"
Under the veil hat, Lu An's facial muscles had already completely stiffened. His eyes were filled with terrifying killing intent!
"Is there no one who goes against them?" Lu An's voice seemed to freeze as he asked.
"There is!" Little Fool nodded vigorously and said, "There are a few Heavenly Masters who took the initiative to go against the Heaven God Religion. There are both men and women. However, there aren't enough of them and they aren't strong enough. Most of the people who went against the Heaven God Religion did so because their wives or family members were captured by the Heaven God Religion. However, in the end, they all failed and even lost their lives. There's no other way. The Heaven God Religion's influence is too huge and powerful. It's not something that ordinary Heavenly Masters can deal with. "
Thinking for a while, Little Fool added, "For example, the two most popular religions, the Gate God Religion and the Heaven God Religion, would hold a ceremony every night."
Lu An's eyes turned cold as he asked, "Where is it?"
"The Gate God Religion is in the south of the city. It's not far from the city's south gate. After all, with the support of the city lord, the Gate God Religion is the only religion that can openly hold a large scale ceremony in Chaoming City. " Little Fool explained, "As for the Heaven God Religion, they have a fixed gathering point. It's an extremely large mansion six li east of the city. Every night, they would hold an event there. The Gate God Religion's ceremony is in the evening. The Heaven God Religion's event will only start later. "
Lu An took a deep breath and said to Little Fool, "Many thanks for the information."
With that, Lu An turned and left.
Little Fool was stunned and hurriedly stood up and said, "Sir, you haven't eaten a single bite of the food!"
Lu An didn't reply and directly walked out of the restaurant. The sun and sky reappeared, but Lu An felt incomparably dark and oppressive.
He really didn't expect that the surroundings of the Infinite Desert would be so rotten. It could be said that it was rotten to the core!
Lu An had reason to believe that a religious city lord like Chaoming City wasn't the only one. Most likely, every city lord would be religious. Even the royal family was the same! Before Lu An arrived, he thought that it would be fine as long as he eliminated all religions. He only needed to kill people and wouldn't encounter too many obstacles. He also didn't expect that more than 90% of the people here were religious! Now, it seemed that this place was completely hopeless!
Lu An wasn't a religious person. He didn't believe in fate or gods, not to mention religious beliefs. From Lu An's point of view, religions were nothing more than making use of the weaknesses and desires of human nature. The so-called 'suffering in this life, blessings in the next life' and so on were just nonsense in Lu An's eyes!
If there really was a good god, why didn't he bless the world in this life and eliminate all evil? They were all liars!
In the past, Lu An didn't discriminate against religions. This was because most of the religions he encountered led people to do good. These religions could indeed teach their followers good living habits. Although Lu An didn't believe in them, he definitely wouldn't make irresponsible remarks. But this time, facing the Gate Divine Sect and the Monarch Sky Divine Sect, he really couldn't tolerate it.
Originally, Lu An thought that he would have to expend a lot of effort to find something to do. But now, he felt that there was an endless amount of things to do. Especially the Monarch Sky Divine Sect. No matter how strong this evil cult was, he had to eliminate it completely!
Lu An looked at the bustling people on the long street. When he carefully listened to what everyone was saying, even in the daytime, more than half of the people were discussing matters related to religion. This made him clench his fists tighter and tighter!
Following that, Lu An turned his head and looked towards the south of the city.
There was only an hour left before evening. Since that was the case, he would start with the Gate Divine Sect!
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