There is a spacious and flat circular square in the center of the city, all paved with white marble. There are very few people near the square, but it doesn't seem to be prohibited from approaching.

In the center of the square is a huge fountain, and there is also a statue of the Lord Imakawa, which is completely carved from white and delicate white jade. It is lifelike, dressed in a grand dress, with a calm expression, and an inviolable majesty.

At the end of the square is the magnificent temple. The main part has been completed, but the partial hall part is still under construction, and golem puppets and crowds are busy traveling back and forth.

They are using various heavy and clumsy steam machinery and cranes to build the last part, striving to catch up with the final construction period in three days.

However, the main hall has been opened, and pedestrians in groups of three or three are entering and leaving. I don’t know if they are here to pray or because they happen to pass by near the square, so I come to worship the gods.

It is probably the latter. After all, this is a brand new belief and myth. No matter who it is, it will not be able to accept it so easily and change the course.

However, within the radiation range of the entire Imakawa clan's power, there is no longer the soil for the existence of Shinto and Buddhism in the past.

——Yes, those religious organizations that are illegal in this world, whether they are spread or believe in it are illegal. Unless the gods you believe in are allowed to prove their innocence as legal representatives, they will be sealed and will never be tolerated.

Although there are still many priests and monks who are fighting stubbornly, whether in the past, present or future, the power of the state machine running cannot be resisted by personal will.

However, Imakawa Yoshimoto was not bloodthirsty. She just ordered all those guys to be arrested, and after a group of them were arrested, they would be sent to the temple to receive the "education" of the gods-

Let them listen to the "Voice of the World" well, and in this way, those lost lambs will re-establish "correct values, outlook on life and worldview"...

Well, okay, to put it bluntly, they are actually brainwashing and directly transforming into a new religion to shine. After all, they are clergy personnel themselves, and if they kill directly, they will have to promote clergy personnel from other places, which would be too wasteful of manpower.

The true rulers know that killing cannot solve the problem. Although if you kill directly, your thoughts will be clear. However, the chain reaction that will cause you to lose your thoughts. What should you do at that time? Will you continue to kill?

Don't be stupid, you should know that example is enough to have one Emiya Kiritsugu.

Therefore, it is actually because most people in this country do not have pious intentions. It is just that human beings need faith, not necessarily religious beliefs in a narrow sense, but just a process of a person constantly searching for answers.

Human power is too small in the face of destiny, and reason and emotions are too easily shaken. Therefore, we must find a firm support and a stable reference in order to have a certain understanding of our behavior and thinking standards in life.

It is precisely because there are many things and phenomena in the world that have not been determined, so humans need to have an answer that can convince themselves. The existence of religious beliefs only provides a ready-made way of understanding, so they can be widely accepted by people.

However, faith is basically born from human hearts and perished from human nature. Therefore, it is not surprising that most people are general believers. The general public belongs to this list.

Religion is just a conditioning in life for such people. They believe in gods and Buddhas because it is not harmful, and it can also give their souls sustenance and comfort.

However, this belief is very weak, and they may change at any time, and often only pray to gods and Buddhas when needed.

Basically, it can be said that people worship when they see God, and believe in the religion, so when they pass by, they just go in to worship and pray, which is a very normal thing.

Unfortunately, they don’t provide much power of faith.

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"No wonder pan-believers are more abominable than unbeliever... They don't provide much power of faith, but they refuse to give up the opportunity to pray for blessings. Do you really think I am a waiter?"

Mu Xiu pulled the corner of his mouth and sat high on the altar of the temple, looking down at the people below who were kneeling down and worshiping him, a trace of a very wonderful feeling surged in his heart.

It wasn't that he looked down on all living beings, but he suddenly felt that he had been erected as a living person. He inexplicably felt a ridiculous and funny feeling that he almost had the urge to laugh out loud.

But at this time, in the eyes of ordinary people, he is just a majestic statue of god, not a living thing.

Because at this moment he just possessed his own thought and descended on his statue of god, and his original body had already followed the king to the nearest port city to inspect the steamship.

Anyway, the distance between each other is not far away, and the opening of the faith channel also allows divine power to be transmitted at a long distance without loss, so it will not have any impact on the display of "miracles" three days later.

Besides, Mu Xiu is only worried about the issues of faith and believers now. In the sight that ordinary people cannot see, the dome of the temple seems to have become a vast starry sky, with a faint light lake gathering in it, ups and downs.

And from time to time, there were spots of light, which appeared above the heads of people who walked into the temple to pray, like the fluorescent light, floating upwards, and finally merged into the lake of light.

These are the power of faith, but the situation is not very gratifying, because the accumulation of quantity is too small and there are too many impurities mixed in it.

Human selfishness, greed, fanaticism, persistence, confusion, fearlessness, fear, destruction, etc., can be said to be the residue of polluting the power of faith.

——A true and complete worship of believers who worship Gods simply means not giving for rewards or purposes, which is the purest power of faith.

No wonder the faithful Gods have tried their best to improve the piety of their believers, because they who rely on the power of faith can only improve their lives by doing so.

The best way to deal with it is to abandon this part of the residue. The second thing is to spend more effort to transform divine power and remove all impurities. The most unwise way is to convert all of it into divine power and accelerate your destiny.

Mu Xiu of course... chose the latter.

Anyway, the transformed divine power was not used for him, so he certainly didn't care about such things.

What he really was worried about was that the power of faith was still too little and the accumulation speed was still too slow. Because when people came in and prayed, they would develop a little bit of faith. Of course, this situation would not be possible anywhere.

A truly qualified believer should be the one who has established a stable connection of faith.

For example, water pipes are connected to each other, and water is slowly but firmly transporting water. Perhaps the "flow" is very small, but this process will not stop easily.

Instead of now, the faucet is turned away, and only a few drops of water are occasionally dripping.

If it were just like this, Mu Xiu would not be a little irritable. After all, he knew very well that religions that were forced to believe in under the promotion of power could not be accepted by people from the beginning.

People’s attitudes nowadays are the most normal, they just treat him, the god with the idea of ​​“no money anyway” and “there is no harm in worship.”

Mu Xiu, who has always been able to handle the relationship between other people and their own position and distance, naturally will not get angry because of such a thing, and will only feel that it is normal.

What really made him a little annoyed was the prayers of those guys-

With endless prayers, countless voices rang in my mind. Although those guys didn't care much about believing in themselves, they were just randomly fooling themselves.

However, when praying for something, I was so serious that I was afraid that I would not say it clearly enough and that the gods could not understand their meaning. The same thing was repeated countless times.

The result is that before Mu Xiu was not used to the state and pattern of believing in God, he could only endure such harassment.

The harvest is not proportional to the effort, which naturally makes him feel angry. Although he does not intend to give, the obvious contrast between the attitudes of the group of pan-believers when they believe in and when they ask for it is really annoying.

However, he did not make any extreme actions because of this.

This was originally expected, isn’t it? It only takes three days to perform the miracle. That’s when you really get on the right track.

At this moment—

"Hmm? Have you finally made up your mind to come? I thought I was going to create an "accident"."

Mu Xiu seemed to suddenly notice something, first raised his eyebrows, then narrowed his eyes slightly.

Of course, he had known that people from other forces would come to investigate information. After all, this kind of thing is not a matter of involving the mysteries of the universe and interfering with the fortunes of the world. It is very easy to see related future fragments.

In fact, the current situation was deliberately created by him and the Lord of the Country. Otherwise, how could the Lord of the Country just leave Junfu City at such a critical moment?

This is actually creating opportunities for some people with ulterior motives.

Because if they were not like this, they would not help themselves preach, so they need to let the other party "self" discover some so-called truth, so that they can implement it without doubt.

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I don’t know that my ideas have long been grasped by some high-level existence, nor do I know that my choice is just a driving force of a certain great will.

Ninoha Nagahide and Tsuda Nobusu stood outside the temple, took a deep breath, and then walked into the temple in front of them as if nothing had happened.

Human beings, like humans, will firmly believe in their own cognition and existence, and will not easily accept things that they do not understand.

Even if she subconsciously has learned the answer to the question she is pursuing and understands how amazing it is. However, as long as she has not been confirmed again on the surface, she will still regard it as if she does not know it. This is exactly what the so-called self-deception is.

"That, thousands of generations...why are we here!"

Tsuda Nobusuke looked around carefully. Although he confirmed that there were no guards around the temple, he subconsciously lowered his voice.

"Mr. Nobusuke, the changes in the Imakawa family seem to be surrounding this newly emerging religion, so there must be some secrets that we don't know. Imakawa Yoshimoto is not a targetless personality, there must be a reason why she deserves so much attention."

The maid dressed in a long and long look in her eyes, and she whispered softly.

"If we want to understand what she is for, we must come here... Besides, this temple does not seem to be prohibited from being approached by outsiders. Even other merchants can come here, whether it is inquiring about news or asking God for worship-"

The words came to an abrupt end.

The temple was very empty and quiet, and its keen perception made Ninoha Nagahide shudder slightly.

The pretty boy next to him didn't notice her strangeness, but just smiled bitterly and complained-

"I always feel that there is something weird here, as if something terrible is watching us in the dark..."
Chapter completed!