Chapter 0387 - Man-Caused Volcanic Eruption
c_t; Unlike the practitioners of the East, although the practitioners of the West also have their martial arts, they do not have the internal strength of the East, and their cultivation growth depends on an extremely wide range of followers. 75。 The update is so fast.
Almost all baptized believers, even those who believe in Christ God alone, can offer the Holy See a large and broad force of faith.
The power of faith is the source of strength for Western practitioners, and it is also the only source of growth in their cultivation.
Once the majority of followers are lost, the practitioners of the West will immediately fall into a state where they will not be able to practice.
A simple distinction is made between the East and the West, where the East relies on absorbing the vital energy of heaven and earth to form its own 'essence' qi, thereby improving one's cultivation. The West, on the other hand, relies on the power of faith of its followers to transform it into holy light, thereby strengthening their own cultivation.
The power of faith in the East is provided to the gods, although no one has ever confirmed that there are really immortals between heaven and earth, and no one can confirm that the gods really need to absorb the power of faith in the world.
Because of the difference in the nature of cultivation, practitioners in the East and the West are also completely different in the presentation of power.
The practice of the Eastern practitioners is accompanied by the growth of absolute power, while the Western practitioners, because of the simplicity of the power of faith, naturally possess the fear of all evil 'nature'. However, compared to personal strength, Western practitioners are often weaker than Eastern practitioners.
The bell that Xu Bansheng possessed was infused with the holy light of Western cultivators, and Xu Bansheng had already used it to fight witchcraft more than once.
Therefore, although the number of the Holy See has never been large, and the number of practitioners in the West is much lower than that in the East, because of their natural suppression of the evil genus, the Holy See has always maintained a relatively transcendent position in the West.
Just as in the East there is a demon 'gate' that tends to be evil, and a complete demonic way, there is also a demonic way in the West, but they are called fallen angels. Moreover, there are vampires and werewolves in the West, and these are the objects that the Holy See has tried to exterminate for thousands of years.
When it comes to individual strength, whether it is a fallen angel, a vampire, or a werewolf, the strength is far superior to that of the cultivators of the Holy See, but due to the anti-heavenly existence of the Holy Light, the Holy See has always maintained an overwhelming victory in the contest with fallen angels, vampires, and werewolves. The only ones who can form a little confrontation with the Holy See are the fallen angels who also split from the Holy See in the first place. [Fast update, refreshing website pages, few ads, I like this kind of website the most, be sure to praise]
But even so, the fallen angels can only operate underground, and do not dare to easily reveal their identities. As for vampires and werewolves, they are even more in a state of fleeing as soon as they hear about the appearance of the people of the Holy See.
And because the practice methods of Western practitioners are very different from those of Eastern practitioners, it is very likely that even if Eastern and Western practitioners stand face to face, they will not be able to know each other's identities. It's not like an oriental cultivator who can easily detect the flow of qi in the other party's body, so as to confirm the identity of the other party's cultivator.
But this man with a European face, what he said at this moment, is undoubtedly suspected of 'revealing' his identity.
From this point of view, these two men with East Asian faces are probably also practitioners of the Holy See.
The Holy See is a blood-oriented organization, and generally people who do not have blood, especially Orientals, will not be allowed to join the Holy See.
Paying attention to the purity of the bloodline seems to be a very lofty thing.
However, whether it is the cultivators in the East, or the cultivators who represent the dark forces such as fallen angels and vampires, they all scoff at the bloodline.
Because it has been empirically proven, people who do not have the bloodline of the Holy See can still absorb the power of faith and practice in the Holy Light. Then there are big doubts about this pedigree theory.
A long time ago, someone said that the so-called purity of blood is only because of the limited power of faith, so that the control of the Holy See must control the limited cultivation resources in their own hands, and find the excuse of the so-called bloodline to eliminate the means of dissenter.
And this was the only reason why the Holy See tried to control the whole of Europe and even to try to conquer Asia.
They just want to control more regimes through war, and regimes are secondary, and the important thing is actually that they can control the beliefs of ordinary people through regimes. The more people who believe in Christianity, the more faith the Holy See can gain so that the Holy See can expand its power.
In modern society, due to the fact that the earth's population has been completely liberated after the mechanization of the productive forces, the limited land resources are enough to feed more people, and the earth's population has shown an explosive trend, and the total population has reached 7 billion so far. Of these seven billion people, Christians are definitely the largest in the world.
Therefore, in addition to maintaining the purity of the bloodline, the Holy See also began to absorb some members who did have geniuses in cultivation.
Not only in East Asia, but in almost any region of the world, of any race, there are practitioners of the Holy See. Of course, the number is very small, and this is always a supplement to the Holy See, the main body of which is still held by the original Europeans.
This is also related to the ambition of the Holy See, who hopes to influence ordinary people in more regions with the same race and face by absorbing practitioners of different races and nationalities to join them, after all, it is no longer possible to expand its influence through war, but only through free faith.
This kind of initiative has indeed expanded the influence of the Holy See for nearly a hundred years.
The direct reason why the American Christian system does not recognize the status of the Vatican as a papacy is that Americans do not want to be controlled by the Holy See. The free attitude of this continent of immigrants, the most powerful country in the world, is not only reflected in their political and economic aspects, but also in their religious beliefs, and even in their spiritual practice.
The Americans have their own system, but due to the limitations of their cultural origins, although they try their best to imitate the Holy See, they have never been able to form a scale that is enough to compete with the Holy See. Therefore, in this world of cultivators, the United States is the weakest region.
These two men with East Asian faces are obviously members of the Holy See in order to influence the religious beliefs of East Asia, at least in the current Holy See, any kind of race and face is not too surprising.
However, these three people obviously belong to the relatively low status of the Holy See, and they are by no means core members of the Holy See who belong to the Vatican, but only marginalized members who accept the management and leadership of the Holy See.
For example, the core members of the Holy See are those around the Martial Arts Alliance Leader, which is a tight organization, both in terms of resource allocation and individual strength, which is far stronger than other 'sect' factions that accept the leadership of the Martial Arts Alliance Leader.
And these three people belong to the members of other 'sect' factions that accept the leadership of the martial arts alliance leader, and they are still relatively small 'sect' factions, and they have to be ordinary members of the small 'sect' faction.
Of course, all the 'sects' that serve the Holy See, which exist mainly in the form of families and organizations in Europe, can receive a certain amount of faith power from the Holy See at regular intervals according to their contribution to the Holy See in order to maintain their own practice.
The reason why large families or organizations are big is because they have always contributed more to the Holy See, while smaller families and organizations, because of their less contributions, naturally have less power of faith allocated. This is originally a competitive environment, but because of the unequal distribution, the competition often forms a vicious 'sexual' circle, with large families and large organizations getting bigger and bigger, and small families and small organizations getting smaller and smaller until they die out. If it weren't for the fact that those big families and big organizations would split up and form new organizations and families at a certain stage, I am afraid that in the Western cultivation system, there would have been no small organizations and small families for a long time.
Small families and small organizations, especially small organizations, in order to enhance their own strength and obtain more resources of faith power, after obtaining the permission of the Holy See, they began to continuously develop geniuses of different races and bloodlines, absorbing these people to lead them into the 'gate' of cultivation, so as to attract more followers for them, in exchange for the Holy See to distribute more faith power.
These three people belong to a small organization reads;
This organization, which has existed in East Asia for decades, has an extremely mysterious founder, who was initially alone, but soon absorbed many members of the organization, and helped the Holy See develop a large number of believers in Asia, turning many ordinary people who believed in Taoism and Buddhism into Christians.
Although it is only a few decades old, the speed at which this organization has grown has made many of Europe's oldest families and organizations feel resistant. At the rate at which this organization is growing, give them another fifty years, and they may develop into a force that can rival any of the millennia-old families and organizations in Europe.
However, the Holy See did not care about this, firstly, because although this organization was developing rapidly, there were no truly powerful cultivators, and most of the members were similar to these three men, and their strength was not outstanding. The second, and more important, is that the number of adherents grown by this organization each year is almost as large as the total number of non-Christian communities on this earth. Europe and the United States have been almost completely ruled by Christianity, and now it is not the regions other than Europe and the United States that need to be vigorously developed.
So, although some families and organizations in Europe have sensed the threat of this organization, which is ostensibly an extreme sports club, the Holy See is faintly protecting them.
The reason why these three men came to Mt. Kirishima today was ostensibly just to go on a mountaineering adventure, but in fact, they were accepting a mission issued by that club.
This extreme sports club is somewhat similar to some killer organizations, and its members need to complete missions if they want to gain the power of faith. Of course, the main task is to develop believers, but the one who can gain a lot of faith power at one time is to perform some dangerous tasks.
These missions are not many, but they are full of dangers.
The mission that these three people accept today has been done before, and the person who did that task died in a volcanic eruption a few years ago. This means that this task has been in existence for several years, but no one has been able to complete it.
What the outside world does not know is that the volcanic eruption of Mt. Kirishima a few years ago was by no means a natural cause of crustal activity, but a man-made result.
On that occasion, two of the people who died in the eruption were from that group. And the volcanic eruption of Mt. Kirishima was also caused by those two people.