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Chapter 260 - 217: Holy Mountain (Please Subscribe)

Chapter 260: Chapter 217: Holy Mountain (Please Subscribe)

The Primordial Church.

If the Holy Mountain is considered the birthplace of the Radiance, then this place is the very first church of the Radiant Church, holding an unimaginable status within the church hierarchy.

Compared to other grand structures, even after expansions, the Primordial Church still appeared quite cramped.

It could only accommodate a few hundred people praying together, at most.

Naturally, it wasn’t much compared to those cathedrals where easily a thousand could listen to a priest preach.

Click-clack!

The heavy church gate slowly closed, and Sofia, dressed in the white robe of the Holy Daughter, looked at the candles burning one by one and suddenly felt a chill on her skin. She couldn’t help but come before the statue of the Lord of Radiance and kneel to pray.

She was a devout believer, prepared to pray all night in hopes of letting her soul get closer to the Radiance.

"However... I didn’t expect the statue of the Lord of Radiance here to actually exist."

Even though the faith of the Radiant Church spread across the land, most of its churches did not have statues.

The only representations were engravings of the sun and the moon on stone tablets, symbols of light.

This was what Fang Xing saw during his first visit to the church, trampled underfoot by a wizard of the Sado Sect...

In other words, the Lord of Radiance was just a symbol, a mark.

But here, inside the Primordial Church, He had become an ’anthropomorphic god’!

Sofia looked up and saw an extremely handsome young man who seemed to stand within a giant shell, his upper body bare, with something wrapped around his waist.

It seemed to be... a broken umbilical cord!

’No... How could such filth and an unformed thing be wrapped around a god? I must be mistaken, that is a special belt...’

Sofia quickly bowed her head, silently scolding herself.

"God... please forgive my sins."

She couldn’t help but murmur a prayer.

It seemed as if her prayer was heard when suddenly, the ground of the Primordial Church sank, revealing a downward underground passage.

"This..."

Sofia looked up in astonishment, speechless as she gazed upon the incredibly handsome face of the Lord of Radiance.

The Lord of Radiance’s youthful eyes seemed to carry a hint of pity and perhaps a faint smile.

From that underground passage, there seemed to be a mysterious voice calling out to something...

"Just taking a look shouldn’t be a problem, right?"

In the end, Sofia couldn’t suppress her desire. Holding a golden candlestick, she entered the underground passage.

The passage was short; just a few steps led to its end.

Sofia saw an ’underground church’ that was almost a one-to-one replica of the church above ground.

However, there were no benches for believers to pray and sit rigidly, nor the statue of the Lord of Radiance.

Instead, there were terrifying instruments of torture.

She saw the rack, saws stained with blood and rust...

She saw a towering iron maiden, seemingly filled with sharp spikes...

She saw a chair full of nails, with a burning brazier underneath, from which seemed to emanate the screams of countless witches...

She even saw a bizarrely shaped wooden horse with a bloody spike on its back...

"We are all sinners bearing the seven deadly sins..."

"Only by enduring the many torments of hell to cleanse ourselves of our sins can we truly see the Radiance..."

Sofia’s eyes became lifeless as she muttered to herself.

She walked past one horrific instrument of torture after another, coming to the cellar’s end.

She saw statues of saints, all once prominent figures in the Radiant Church, whose great deeds would be praised even after their deaths.

It was even rumored that after being canonized, their souls had returned to the side of the Lord of Radiance, accompanying Him forever...

She saw an old crone, a blacksmith, a knight...

"Saint Maria, Saint Lavion, Saint Longinus..."

The statues, carved from white marble, were so lifelike that Sofia easily recognized the names of these ’saints’.

Suddenly, the sound of marble cracking came from the statue of Saint Longinus.

Sofia looked up in shock to see the lower jaw of Saint Longinus’s statue crack open, revealing a fleshy interior and a mouth full of sharp teeth...

The same transformation occurred on the other statues.

Sofia’s tears involuntarily started to flow as she glimpsed blood-stained white robes in a corner.

Those were the garments of other Holy Daughters!

"Radiance..."

Sofia cried in silence.

She had thought that only evil spirits in various places would harm humans.

Little did she expect that it was the saints of the Radiant Church, the institution of human faith, who needed countless ’Holy Daughters’ to feed... monsters!!!

...

At the same time, atop the Holy Mountain.

"Oh?"

In the Forbidden Book Library, Fang Xing, who was reading a Secret Scripture, looked up: "Have you revealed your true face?"

After having a drink with Wal, he was too lazy to watch the other fray with the middle-aged proprietress, so he left a message and returned to the Holy Mountain.

With his martial prowess, sneaking into the library was hardly a problem.

After all, according to the information he had received before, the Original Spirit could no longer descend to the world in its true form.

With the ’Great Sun Tathagata Divine Palm’ at his side, he worried about nothing.

’And... since when was the Original Spirit not consuming humans? They have completely turned into Evil Gods...’

’It’s precisely for that reason I am not willing to become an Original Spirit, even if that would bestow the power of the Martial Saint or even Martial God fastest... and besides, the restrictions are too great.’

Fang Xing shook his head and looked again towards the depths of the Forbidden Book Area.

What he wanted to see most was the ’Creation Tablet,’ which was said to have emerged alongside the Lord of Radiance.

But he could sense that deep within the library, there was a strictly guarded seal.

Although it wouldn’t be a problem to force his way in, it would certainly alarm the entire Holy Mountain!

"Counting on you, Wal, don’t let me down."

Fang Xing looked down the mountain, his eyes brimming with expectation.

...

At the foot of Holy Mountain.

Wal, who was flirting with the landlady, had somehow set foot on the sanctified soil of Holy Mountain once again.

"Exile Wal... you dare to defy the edicts of the Cardinals?!"

Andrew’s expression changed upon seeing Wal.

"I swear, I will defy the powerful!"

"I swear, I will protect the weak!"

...

With every step, Wal’s face showed an indescribable determination.

Thinking of Starr’s last hint before departing without saying goodbye, his heart was deeply unsettled.

"Stop!"

Andrew’s fighting spirit blazed bright, "If you take one more step, I will exercise the power of a Church Knight and kill you right here!"

"Get lost!"

With crimson scales covering his palms, Wal waved his hand dismissively.

It seemed as if there were dragon roars in the void, and the burning fighting spirit transformed into a giant hand, sending Andrew flying with a slap.

"Ugh!"

Andrew crashed into a pile of rubble, covered in stones, his face registering shock: "How... how can he be so strong? But it’s useless, this is Holy Mountain!"

While he pondered, Wal had already launched a Holy Knight squad through the air and reached halfway up Holy Mountain.

"Wal!"

A black-robed Cardinal stood amid the night, seeming to have a powerful spirit standing behind him.

After so many years of Radiance, even the Church Court had gradually become corrupt.

What it showed was a sense of entitlement from those higher to those below.

Even the weaker had to obey the commands of the powerful.

"You have defied the will of God, and by the name of the Judging Cardinal, I declare... cough cough... cough cough..."

The voice of the black-robed Archbishop was solemn, but before he could finish, an unbearable severe cough assaulted him.

"Is this... a spirit? You’re also burdened with a spirit?"

He looked at Wal in surprise.

"Since when does the Radiant Church seal spirits within people?"

Wal’s face was crawling with patches of red scales, apparently transforming into a ’half-dragon.’

Dragon Spirit is classified among the great spirits and is even more bloodthirsty than ordinary spirits!

Moreover, last time Fang Xing seemed to have added something special while sealing, like powers belonging to the Cat-Eating God!

"Cough cough!"

The persistent coughs spread around, whether knights, Divine Servants, Divine Shepherds, bishops... even the black-robed Archbishop, were all coughing violently, struggling to breathe, let alone speak.

Some were even coughing up fresh blood and pieces of internal organs...

This was ’Dragon Cough,’ a lethal method of killing apart from ’Dragon Flame.’

Everyone within a certain range of Wal would contract ’Dragon Cough,’ becoming breathless, and ultimately die a miserable death.

"How dare you!"

A Radiance rose from the top of Holy Mountain, effectively suppressing the symptoms of the Dragon Cough.

Numerous black-robed Archbishops were rushing over, and even the Pope cast his gaze down.

No matter how much it had declined, the Radiant Church was still a hegemon that had ruled a world for countless years and possessed immense depth.

Merely a great spirit could ultimately be suppressed.

"I... am here to fulfill my Knight’s Way!"

Wal roared to the sky, a terrifying flame erupting behind him, with a Red Dragon visibly roaring in the background!

...

"Well done!"

Fang Xing put down the Secret Scripture in his hand, sensing the intense commotion outside, and stretched out his five fingers.

A huge palm imprint appeared, striking deep within the Forbidden Book Area.

—Sky-covering Hand!

"Who?"

Countless objects around came to life, transforming into weapons and aiming at Fang Xing.

Out of the darkness, a skinny old man with glasses appeared.

He was garbed in black robes, evidently a Cardinal in charge of the Forbidden Books!

"Such chaos below, and yet you still run up here to read? You deserve a spanking!"

Fang Xing chuckled softly, and with that, Five-Finger Mountain emerged.

The power of the Five Elements converged from heaven and earth, turning into a massive mountain, suppressing the old man beneath it.

Even though a great spirit emerged from the elder, struggling, it was futile.

"Oh? So a great spirit has been sealed, eh?"

"Among these black-robed wretches, you’re a relatively strong one..."

Fang Xing walked past the immobile elder, casually commenting, and moved deeper into the Forbidden Book Area.

Here, there were no other books, just a gray-white stone tablet.

On the tablet, dark brown bloodstains formed lines of forbidden text...

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