The Holy City of Vatican, St. Peter's Cathedral on the west side of St. Peter's Square!

During the day, the entire St. Peter's Square is bustling with people from all over the world who come here for the pilgrimage.

The whole church has five doors to enter, four of which are now open, and visitors enter St. Peter's Cathedral through the main four doors and pray devoutly.

However, the "Holy Door" on the right side of the cathedral is closed as tightly as ever at the moment, people are used to it, this so-called Holy Door, which is usually closed almost all the time, will only be opened once every twenty-five years on Christmas Night, revealing a mysterious and strange feeling!

In fact, although this holy door also enters St. Peter's Cathedral, the place where it enters is not the area open to the public, and the area after entering through this holy door and the area that can be reached after entering through the other four portals is not connected at all.

After entering this holy door, although there is also a piece of buildings on the ground, but these are all hidden from the people, in the corner of the building on this ground, there is a side hall, which is actually an entrance, leading to the underground.

After going down the stairs, when you reach more than ten meters underground, an open underground hall suddenly appears in front of you, and the second underground floor below this underground hall is completely connected to the prison cells, and all the people imprisoned in it are recognized as heretics by the Vatican.

And the upper floor of these cells, that is, the open hall on the first underground floor, is surrounded by some houses carved along the underground walls, and this is the "Inquisition" that belongs to the legendary existence of the European religion even in the global martial arts world, and this place, this institution, ordinary people in the world, including those believers, have never heard of it at all.

The large underground square, surrounded by rooms around the open hall on the first basement floor, is called the Place of Judgment, where some of the major events of the "Inquisition", such as the so-called "public trial" of a certain heinous heretic, are usually held.

But at this moment, although there is no kind of judgment in this huge judgment square, there are far more religious clergy gathered here than at any time in the past! As far as the eye can see, the huge square is full of heads, and at least hundreds of people are densely packed here, all sitting cross-legged on the ground, their eyes closed, and their mouths full of words.

Some of these hundreds of figures were wearing Jiaoyan's divine robes, while others were dressed in crude linen clothes, with unkempt hair and unshaven beards.

These people wearing divine robes are all clergy of the Jiaoyan, and those who look like beggars are all ascetics who are secretive in the teachings.

These ascetics have a very high status in the teaching, faith is everything in their lives, in the teaching, their status is equivalent to the elders in the ancient martial arts sect in China, they do not have a superficial glamorous identity like the clergy in the teaching, because they have disdain for those, everything they have is just for faith, and faith is all they have in life.

These ascetics don't even have family and friendship, and they don't even integrate into society, they generally just choose a place to meditate, and the daily homework they do is to pray to God.

Therefore, every ascetic is very respected in the teaching, and there are even many clergy who are inferior to them in terms of devotion to God.

It is precisely for this reason that the power of faith and divine power that these ascetics receive from their gods is even more refined and immense.

Some of the so-called "divine arts" inherited in the European religion cannot be performed by some cardinals, because the faith is not enough, and the divine power cannot be supported, but some ascetics can easily perform it.

Some of the older ascetics, even the Pope, respected him.

At this moment, in the Judgment Square on the basement level, among the hundreds of figures sitting cross-legged in prayer, there are more than half of these devout ascetics.

These people are almost invisible in normal times, not only can ordinary believers outside not see them, but even the clergy in the church are difficult to see them.

They were just in retreat at the place where they were cultivating, and they didn't even bother to take care of their hair, and they didn't even bother to pay attention to the unshaven beard.

At this moment, nearly two hundred ascetics had gathered in the Judgment Square on the first basement floor, and there was no doubt that from this alone, it could be seen that some extremely important ritual or judgment was going on here!

In fact, these clergy and ascetics have been sitting upright for more than ten days in the square on the basement floor of St. Peter's Church, and they have been sitting here since Song Yuxin and Chen Wanning were sent here by the Birdman God with some kind of spatial magic power.

And the purpose of them sitting here is to gather the power of everyone's faith, peel off the cocoon, and deprive Song Yuxin and Chen Wanning of the godhead in their bodies.

Song Yuxin's body is settled in the "Nordic Eros" Friga!

And what Chen Wanning is living in the body of this girl is the "goddess of war and wisdom" Athena!

These two ancient European goddesses are both "pseudo-god" level existences, although Song Yuxin and Chen Wanning are just the bodies chosen by this generation of goddesses, but the godheads in their bodies have been passed down from generation to generation.

According to legend, as long as the seven "pseudo-god" godheads of the seven goddesses of ancient Europe are aggregated, then after devouring and fusing them, the true god fruit can be achieved.

The reason why the servants of hell kidnapped Li Bingshuang was for this purpose, of course, he also had an idea about Song Yuxin and Chen Wanning at that time, but before he could get down, these two girls were captured by the European Pope, that is, the demigod-level god of the Birdman God who was summoned by the old god stick who pretended to be a cardinal at that time with the "Great Summoning Technique".

And the reason why the Birdman God captured these two guys is that the nature of the Birdman is not their flesh and skin, and the Birdman God is also interested in the two girls Song Yuxin and Chen Wanning, who belong to the two godheads of the "Nordic Goddess of Love" and the "Goddess of War and Wisdom" respectively.

Even if the Birdman is already a true god, such a godhead is of great benefit to him.

Therefore, after the two girls were captured, the Birdman God immediately secretly made a secret request to the old god stick of Jiaoyan......