Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton

Chapter 704: Chapter 401: The Undying Plant Goddess_1
 

Several thousand kilometers away, a cave was extremely dark, except for a beam of light entering from the narrow entrance above, illuminating the outlines of a few statues of gods around.

If there were a scholar of theology present, they could recognize the identities of these statues — they were the God of Light, the God of Arbitration, the God of Balance, and the Goddess of Redemption.

Beyond these, there were no Supreme God, Creator God, or Gods of Light and Darkness, Shadow God, because when the Church of Light first born, the God System was not so complex.

As time developed and the scale grew, there were more and more believers and beliefs, more deities were born, forming a vast God System.

Sometimes, even scholars studying theology might confuse the identities of the gods. For example, who could guess that the God of Light and Darkness is a dual-faced deity?

One of them even has a separate godhood — the God of Shadows, but this Shadow God does not have an independent status but exists dependent on Lord Light.

The complexity of the Gods of Light’s lineage during their heyday was even greater, after all, the desires of creatures are too complex.

However, this chaos abruptly ceased one day over a thousand years ago. According to Guliani, among the Gods of Light, only the God of Arbitration survived.

The current God of Light and Darkness, Goddess of Redemption, were all reborn later, the group’s convictions once again gave birth to the same status, but the memories and experiences of the past no longer exist.

If you are lucky, like the Goddess of Redemption who inherited the legacy, it’s fine. But if you are as unlucky as the God of Lights and Darkness, who is penniless, then you have to start from scratch.

However, to start from scratch requires devout believers, which is the reason Guliani angrily came. Of course, another reason is that the God of Arbitration had been injured.

Unable to maintain his own form, the God of Arbitration shrank into a ball of flame, slowly burning on his own statue.

Guliani, standing on the ground, was spouting at him: “Believers are our essence, are you mad? Launching the doomsday trial? With all the believers starved to death by you, what do you need these gods for?”

The angry voice of the God of Arbitration rang out: “Impudent, are you criticizing me?”

“I’m merely stating a fact, Lord Arbitration, you’ve ruined the reputation of the gods and hurt the devout hearts of the believers. This is an irreparable damage, the entire church may fall apart under your destruction, the seeds of abandonment have been sown, the fruit of disgust will be reaped,” Guliani loudly rebuked.

“Foolish shepherd, you lack reverence for the Divine Spirit,” returned the God of Arbitration, regaining its majesty.

Guliani frowned, this is wrong, the response from the God of Arbitration exceeded his expectations, because he was inhuman, could he control his emotions so quickly? How can he not anger him?

However, the God of Arbitration did get one thing right, Guliani lacked reverence for the Divine Spirit.

What is there to be revered? Since becoming the founder of the Fire Stealers, Guliani had controlled the existence of too many Divine Fires.

A Faith Storm over a thousand years ago destroyed the vast majority of gods, but the foundation of the Church of Light remained, the organizational structure remained, and the faith system remained. As long as these existed, the birth of new gods was just a matter of time.

Even Negris had said that it wasn’t the god that created the believers, but the believers that created the god.

From time to time, Faith Fires would rekindle, and what Guliani needed to do was control them and prevent them from reigniting. A church without gods is much easier to control than one with gods.

Guliani had even retired behind the scenes and handed control of the secret organization of Fire Stealers to others, controlling things from behind the scenes.

For many years, the system of gods has not been rebuilt, thanks to Guliani’s dousing of the flame. He extinguished so many Faith Fires, how could he possibly have any reverence for the gods?

“I, revere the light that protects the believers, not the evil god who destroys the world. You, has fallen, the evil God of Arbitration, sacrifice your godhood to those disappointed believers,” Guliani said righteously.

“By what right?” the God of Arbitration spoke with a hint of curiosity: “Is it because I’m injured that you dared to come? What are you relying on?”

“By these!” Guliani waved his sleeve, and one after another, crystal monoliths flew out and stuck to the ground in a row, a full sixteen of them.

In each crystal tablet, there was a vague human figure, each figure had thick chains tightly binding them.

“Demon-suppressing Art? This heresy still hasn’t been cleaned up? Where did you get it from? Demon-suppressing Art, God Slaying Art, Shining Art, are all ancient heresies. The priority for removal is even above that of heretics, is this your trump card?” The God of Arbitration said a large chunk of words for once.

When the gods were born into the world, the old natural worship system naturally collapsed. In order to secure their own safety, the gods were also very eager to eradicate any power that threatened them.

Of course, Demon-suppressing and God Slaying Art go without saying, but Shining Art teaches how to ignite Divine Fire with weak faith.

They are all wicked spells, at least to the gods, whether it’s the Gods of Light, the War God, the Thunder God, the God of Forging, or other divine spirits of various sects, they will tirelessly eliminate these ‘wicked spells’, including the Shining Art.

Once they board the ship, they don’t want others to follow, how many faiths can they distribute?

Guliani raises his hand and clenches it forcefully. The shadowy figures in those crystal steles, their chains begin to detach, the shadows one by one drift out of the crystal steles.

Guliani smiles and says, “The lives of ancients could invent the wheel, the lives of today can naturally do it too, just reinventing the wheel.”

“Hehe, foolish humans.” The tone of the God of Arbitration is full of mockery, “When the storm is about to arrive, you reinvent the wheel. Do you think, why would I launch the doomsday judgment disregarding everything? Did you see the red star in the sky?”

Guliani’s heart skipped a beat, but his face remained calm, “I saw, but the red star disappeared, is the storm you spoke of referring to it?”

“I also saw the red star back then, the storm will arrive after it disappears, the only thing that can resist the storm is the Master God’s avatar, the Doomsday Judgment was launched to tear apart a rift in the Master God’s avatar, allowing my consciousness to invade the avatar, replacing it, and becoming the God of Light.”

Guliani was utterly shocked, this was something he had never considered. The God of Arbitration’s plot was so grand? What shocked him more was that God of Arbitration actually told him his plot? What does this mean?

The God of Arbitration has him cornered?

As if seeing through his inner thoughts, the God of Arbitration said, “I just wanted to let you know how foolish your choices are. The faith storm will only affect those who possess the avatar of a God. It’s said that you recently ignited the Divine Fire, it’s really lucky that you can catch this storm.”

What?! The faith storm only affects those who possess the avatar of a God? Guliani was dumbfounded, he had the ability to become a God long ago, but he never ignited the Divine Fire. Being the Pope was more convenient than being a newborn God.

It wasn’t until the Lord Light was awakened and brought the news of the storm that he quietly found a small plane to ignite the Divine Fire, to have more self-preservation capabilities when the storm arrived.

This…this…he would have been fine if it weren’t for the Divine Fire, igniting the Divine Fire would cause trouble? I…

He thought it was a storm of faith, but it turned out to be a storm of Gods.

The God of Arbitration’s words were not certain to be true, Guliani calmed his mind and asked, “What about you? Have you invaded the Master God’s avatar?”

The God of Arbitration said, “No, and you would never imagine, what interesting things happened inside the Master God’s Consciousness Space. Humans, your understanding of the world limits your choices. You have been immersed in power and status for the past few hundred years, if you had ignited the Divine Fire a few hundred years earlier, perhaps your fate would have been different.”

The God of Arbitration rarely has such a sentimental moment, his tone full of mockery.

Guliani felt a bit uncomfortable, as if his pain points had been struck, he said angrily, “You cannot possess the Master God’s avatar, and when the storm comes, you will die too.”

“Hehe, do you know how I survived back then? Possessing the Master God’s avatar was just a better choice. If I can’t do that, I can still seek the next best option. I also have to thank you for the gift you gave me. These incomplete divine souls will be the best supplement after the storm, now, the time is just about right…”

With the words of the God of Arbitration, the Divine Fire on the statue surged into the sky, burning furiously in the most violent manner possible, regardless of consequences.

Guliani’s heart was pounding, is this a sacrifice? Sacrificing his own God’s avatar? Is time up? He said so much to himself, was it just to buy time?

Guliani looked up at the sky, he could see nothing, but a terrifying feeling had already enveloped him.

Boom! An invisible force slammed into him, and those divine souls released from the crystal steles, thumping continuously, Divine Fire ignited on everyone.

Guliani was horrified to find his body was quickly turning to ash.

At this moment, all the gods of every plane were affected by this invisible force. Their Divine Power spiraled out of control and burned, their bodies turned into flying ash.

In the Temple of Rest, Hemel, Mattis who had turned into a giant snake deep in the sea, Lisa in the City of the Goddess of Beauty, silver coin, Goddess of Redemption by Ange’s side, Shamara and Anthony…

However, not long after the ashing process began, the entire ashing process stopped. The Goddess of Redemption poked at her own ashing arm and pulled her sleeve to cover it up.

The only one not affected was Negris, the Faith Storm seemed to have no effect on the Bronze Book, nor could it reach him in his seal.

However, he didn’t have the leisure to care about these now, he was dumbfoundedly watching the most violently burning Divine Fire in the field, belonging to Ange, only this cluster of Divine Fire had a bit more flame.

The Ange, who had transformed into the Primordial Dragon God, had several shadowy figures emerging from his body, a straw owl, a ‘Gailard’ with rolled-up trousers, and an imposing shadow behind the Dragon God. Ange manifested the imagery from the Consciousness Space of the God of Light.

“Pr, Primordial Dragon God, time stop, Trinity, Undying, Goddess of Planting…” Negris muttered in a daze.