Reigning Supreme in countless worlds With Beast taming

Chapter 315: Generation 3, Chapter 12: Light God System VS Nature God System

After the encounter with the Nine-Headed Snake, the team set off once again.

This time, the journey was safe and uneventful as they travelled.

After all, the further forward they went, the stronger the control of the Light Church became, and level-nine demon beasts were not common. They generally lived in the deep mountains, vast marshes or ocean depths, or even dominated a region creating forbidden zones, where people dared not build cities where these beasts roamed.

As they advanced, the team grew larger.

It wasn’t that the teams from different countries had converged, but rather, many followers heading for the Holy Mountain to pay homage consciously trailed behind the team from the Light Church.

These people left Qin Feng often at a loss for words; he had seen many devoted followers bid farewell to their families and embark on pilgrimages of thousands of miles to witness the miracles at the Holy Mountain, an act he found indescribable.

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The followers behind them were only a part of the picture. It was said that there were many more devotees travelling alone to the Holy Mountain, and how these people managed to reach the mountain was a mystery.

After all, along the way, not only were there bandits to contend with, but there were also places overrun by demon beasts.

Even without these dangers, one might die from disease, exhaustion, or hunger.

Ultimately, these were just ordinary people. They did not practice cultivation, possessed no transcendent powers, and leaving their hometowns so far behind, they were bound to face numerous difficulties. Moreover, the vast majority of them had not even prepared proper supplies.

Of course, the Light God Church provided significant help during this time. Whether it was the churches or the priests, upon encountering these people, they offered food and various forms of assistance. If they met followers who had fallen ill, they would even perform healing techniques free of charge.

Such things were rarely seen normally, as priests’ healing services were expensive, and many commoners could not afford it.

The presence of these followers slowed the team’s progress, but since they were nearing the heart of the Light Church’s territory, they still arrived at the Holy Mountain in a timely manner after a dozen days or so.

The so-called Holy Mountain wasn’t particularly tall, and somewhere else it might even seem unremarkable. Sёarᴄh the ηovёlFire .net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

However, being the only mountain within hundreds of miles made it rather special. Additionally, nearly ten thousand years of development by the Light Church had left the whole mountain pristine white and exceedingly holy.

Qin Feng and the other priests who were preparing to participate in the selection of the Saint Heir were received by a Red Robed Bishop in charge of such affairs and specially housed in a structure on the Holy Mountain.

These young priests were the future of the Church Court. Although it was unlikely for a Saint Heir to emerge among them, they were all talents carefully cultivated by various churches. In the future, once they had grown, most of them would become important figures in their respective churches, so their accommodation could not be arranged carelessly.

Qin Feng surveyed their living quarters.

They were in a building made entirely of white stone, which, in keeping with the image of the Holy Mountain in people’s minds, looked very holy from a distance. However, living in a stone house wasn’t that comfortable.

It was only because the Church was wealthy that they had furnished the interiors with fine furniture and decorations, much to the satisfaction of the young priests, who felt valued by the Church.

Moreover, all these priests were the most devout followers of the Light God. In their eyes, the Holy Mountain was holy, perfect, and sacred. Even if they were asked to sleep on the muddy ground outside the building, they would probably feel honored rather than harbor the multitude of thoughts Qin Feng did.

During this period, Qin Feng had already extracted the Demon Core of the Silver Winged Pegasus from his body, refined the natural magic power he had cultivated into his Azure Dragon Daoist Body, and then siphoned off some of the aura of light from his dantian, ensuring his body constantly maintained an aura of holy light. He believed no one who saw him would harbor suspicions.

What was more important, he was no longer afraid of being probed by others.

His body no longer possessed any trace of Druidism; he could not transform, nor did he possess natural magic power.

As for the Golden Core, hidden within the dantian, unless he exposed it himself, it was hardly easy for others to detect.

The dantian was also a special acupoint within the human body, visible through introspection, but impossible for a mage, who had never touched upon the knowledge of acupoints, to locate.

Even if he spoke of it, others would probably not believe that an acupoint as small as the tip of a needle could contain a Golden Core larger than a baby’s fist by two sizes.

To better disguise himself, one night on the road, Qin Feng covertly ventured hundreds of miles to steal several books documenting various light magic from a small church in another city.

With some study over this period, as long as he converted True Yuan into light magic power, casting these light magic spells was a breeze.

Magic, frankly, was not inherently different from spells; it just required chanting special incantations when casting, wasting more time, unlike the more direct and convenient spells of a cultivator.

However, the most powerful light magic spell he could cast was the Light Holy Flame.

Other priests cast the Holy Flame as magic, whereas he cast it as a Divine Skill – there was a big difference between the two, not just in power, but also in the speed of casting. Others needed to chant incantations, but for him, it came with a wave of his hand, ready to release instantly.

With several days to go before the grand ceremony for the selection of the Saint Heir, Qin Feng was in no hurry; he even took the time to visit the Holy City at the foot of the Holy Mountain.

The Holy City was built around the Holy Mountain, existing solely to serve the Mountain, after all, the countless clergy members and numerous Guardian Knights and warriors on the mountain also need various supplies for daily life.

Therefore, the Holy City was quite prosperous.

Of course, the city was also incredibly large; otherwise, it wouldn’t have been possible to supply the tens of thousands living on the mountain with what they needed.

Qin Feng just took a simple stroll around before returning, although it’s true that the Light Church had many patriarchal and long-established noble families, and indeed there were instances where scions had corrupted the social morals and some had become prodigals with bad habits, but what did that have to do with him?

Besides, no one had provoked him directly, and even if they had, he wasn’t necessarily going to start a conflict with those noble heirs at this time, otherwise, it would all be in vain after such a long period of staying undercover.

He didn’t come here to provoke noble heirs for the sake of starting trouble, but to blend into the Holy Mountain to seek advantages. If he offended those major families now, even if he performed extraordinarily during the selection of the Saint Heir, he might still not be allowed to stay on the Holy Mountain, which would go against his interests.

So, to avoid unnecessary trouble, Qin Feng just walked around a few times more, deliberately avoiding certain nuisances before returning directly to the Holy Mountain and his dwelling, and did not go out again.

Several days later, it finally came time for the selection of the Saint Heir.

This day also marked a major festival for the Light God Church, the Nativity Day.

It is said that ten thousand years ago on this day, the great Light God descended from the Light God Realm and led a powerful Angel Army to defeat the Demon Clan’s invasion. They eradicated enemies from all sides and established the dominant position of the Human Clan, which is why the Light Church called this day the Nativity Day.

However, Qin Feng sneered at this story.

Based solely on the information he understood, the Light God was at least an incredibly powerful Divine being, and it wouldn’t have been easy for Him to come down to such a medium world. The stronger the Divine being, the harder it would be to enter the medium and small worlds.

He felt that it must have been just an ordinary Divine being from the Light God System who came here.

As for the claims of the Light God defeating the Demon Clan and sweeping away enemies in all directions, he paid even less attention to those.

This was nothing but a ruse the Light God Church used to fool the common people. If the Light God System had truly been able to sweep away all adversaries back then, they would have directly occupied this world. Why then would they have allowed other Divine Sects to exist?

Compared to the claims of the Light God Church, he was more inclined to trust the information circulating within Druidism because druids were rather fair in this regard. Although they did amplify the role of the Forest Goddess, they did not diminish the role other Divine beings played in that great war.

At that time, the Nature God System and the Light God System joined forces, deploying many Divine beings and armies, and thus repelled the Abyss Demon Clan which tried to occupy this world and subsequently propped up the Human Clan to be the masters of the road, or in other words, their believers.

After all, the Human Clan was weak and more susceptible to worshipping Divine beings.

Otherwise, how could they expect the inherently strong Giant Clan or the Giant Dragon Clan to worship them?

The Giant Dragon Clan had its own Dragon God, and the Giant Clan, too, had the backing of Titan Giants which is a powerful existence. Even the All Gods did not dare to casually oppress and deceive these formidable races. To spread belief among them would provoke the enmity of the Dragon God and Titans and could even potentially lead to a war between gods.

In contrast, the Human Clan was weak and could only rely on the protection of the All Gods. Then, these gods would use the Human Clan to occupy more territory, reduce the living space of other races, and thereby indirectly control this world to gain more belief.

This was the game rules among Divine beings, who rarely personally intervened unless it was necessary.

Of course, the wars with the Dark Divine System were another matter.

After all, there were irreconcilable conflicts between the two, with the Demon Gods and the Demon Clan of the Dark Divine System being too aggressive, inevitably becoming mortal enemies with other Divine Systems.

To be honest, when Qin Feng first received this information, it was like reading a mythical tome.

So many Divine Systems represented such immense strength!

A Divine System signified many Divine beings forming a system, much like how cultivators formed the Immortal Dao cultivation system. Without truly touching or integrating into it, one would hardly grasp the specific strengths and weaknesses.

Qin Feng was contemplating whether to persuade the Gui Ling Ancestor to temporarily give up the attempts at occupying this world when he returned because offending so many Divine Systems at once could potentially spark great chaos.

However, there was also room for manipulation, as every Divine System was an independent entity and could not possibly have too good a relationship with other Divine Systems.

Although the Light God System had once cooperated with the Nature God System, it was clear from the purely refined Light Power of the Light God System that they must be a particularly exclusionary system, not willing to admit other powers into their structure.

Given how the Light God Church had suppressed other major churches over the years, striving for more territory and more believers by fair means or foul – even resorting to assassination of other churches’ Holy Daughters – it was clear there were significant rifts between them.

Perhaps, there could be a way to leverage these divisions.