Chapter 319: Return, Loss of Faith?
The North Pole, the long dark night is full of wind and snow.
In a sheltered col, a tent stood there, and the light from it showed that someone was there, not a relic left by some expedition team. Dozens of meters away from the tent, a young girl stood on the ice and stared at the sky like a drowsy sky. The girl only wore a tight-fitting leather jacket, and there were still leather shorts underneath, and her slender legs seemed to be not afraid of the cold at all when exposed to the wind and snow.
The roar of the wind did not frighten the girl at all, and there was only a look of anticipation in her golden eyes.
Suddenly, a glimmer of colored light appeared in the air of the hill not far away, and it quickly expanded into a crack. When it cracked open like a giant beast's mouth, three people fell out of it, as if the bones had been spit out by the giant beast.
Seeing this, the girl's face immediately showed a look of surprise and shouted, "Yang Shen is back!" It must be that Yang Shen is back! β
The girl galloped to the tent, and before she could reach it, a beautiful woman with white hair appeared in the tent and asked, "Eve, has the Master returned?" β
"Yes, High Priest, the temporary spatial passage of the God's Domain just appeared over there. However, it seems that there are three people who have returned. β
The beautiful woman and the golden-eyed girl were naturally waiting for Yang Jian's Irina and Isoeve in the North Pole, and in order to avoid missing anything, the two of them waited here yesterday.
"Three?" Irina looked puzzled, and then said, "Let's go over and have a look." β
When the two of them arrived at the place where the colored light appeared before, they heard Yang Jian's voice.
"I'll go, it's completely different from bringing two people in this temporary passage and not bringing anyone, so I can't come back. You can't do anything risky like this next time, hey, Ruhl, you're not dead, are you? β
"My lord. I'm not dead. β
"It's good to have a breath, just try the effect of the 'Ice of Protection' spell I learned."
When Irina and Isoeve saw Yang Jianren, they saw him standing in the wind and snow in disarray, with mysterious handprints, chanting two incantations, as if pointing to the left and right. Two white clouds of mist appeared. The fog condensed, and it opened into two hazy pieces of ice.
"Yang Shen!" Isoleve pounced directly on Yang Jian.
After leaving Yang Jian for more than a week, the girl realized how much she needed Yang Jian in her heart. In Chinese, a day is not seen as if it were every three autumns, and it is not an exaggeration to describe her longing.
"Eve!" Seeing the beautiful girl with golden eyes and white hair, Yang Jian was also in a happy mood, hugged the girl who flew over, turned around, and put it down - although now the ban of the system has been lifted. But Yang Jian didn't mean to mess around. What's more, there is a beautiful woman next to her.
Irina was looking at the two people in the ice, and when she saw the two of them, she couldn't help but cover her mouth in surprise. I saw that the clothes of the two people in the ice were in strips, and the places where their bodies were exposed were blood marks, densely packed, as if they had been cut by countless knives. Such an injury, if not in such a cold place as the Arctic. I'm afraid I'll bleed too much and die in a while.
"Sect Master, who are these two people?"
"They are the archmages I brought back from the Divine Domain. The body can't withstand the turbulence in the spatial passage, so it's what it is now. Yang Jian said and glanced at the orange heart in the ice cube, and saw that the wounds on the orange heart's face were slowly healing, so he relieved his heart. In any case, it is always bad for a big beauty to be disfigured.
Yang Jian didn't think too much about it when he jumped into the space passage with the two of them, because it was very smooth when he came. But when I brought two more people. The temporary space passage seemed to be unbearable, and there were many spatial cracks, although they were not big, they were all fleeting, but the damage to people was not small. Yang Jian pulled the two of them to dodge left and right. did his best to prevent the two of them from being injured by the spatial crack and dying.
After saying a few words to the high priest Irina, Yang Jian suddenly noticed that Irina and Isoeve looked at him very strangely, as if they were staring at somewhere below him, intentionally or unintentionally.
Below?
Yang Jian looked down and saw the two brothers swaying in the wisps of cloth, as if they were not at all afraid of the wind and snow that were whistling in. Suddenly, a handsome face turned red.
"It's too dangerous, but fortunately, the two brothers didn't suffer any harm in the space passage." Yang Jian muttered in his heart, and quickly pulled off the only thing in his upper body, and covered the two brothers around his waist.
"Ahem." Yang Jian coughed lightly to relieve the embarrassment, and said, "High Priest, it is estimated that it will take a while for these two people to recover, take advantage of this time, I will tell you about the situation over there in the Ice and Snow God Domain." β
"Sect Master, please speak."
"The situation of the Ice and Snow Temple over there in the Divine Domain is very bad" Although there was a violent storm and snow around, Yang Jian's body was even more extraordinary, standing in the wind and snow with his bare upper body, he couldn't even get goosebumps, just like Aesop Eve.
When the matter over there was almost the matter of the Ice and Snow God Domain, Irina looked at Yang Jian with an incredible gaze and wondered, "Are you really the allied god of the Ice and Snow Goddess?" β
"So to speak." Yang Jian replied to Irina with a smile, and then looked at Isol-Eve.
Aesop Eve immediately said, "High Priest, God Yang can indeed send a message to my mind. β
Hearing this, Irina's face changed for a while, and she immediately applied a temple etiquette to Yang Jian to treat the most distinguished guests, and said, "Irina offended you before, and I ask Lord Yang Shen to forgive her sins." β
"He who does not know is not guilty." Yang Jian waved his hand generously, and then asked, "How are you preparing for the 'borrowing of soldiers'?" β
Irina frowned slightly, sighed and said: "The status of the Ice and Snow Temple in the Su Kingdom is even more unstable than I expected before, don't say 'borrowing troops', I'm afraid it will be difficult to even protect the position of the state religion in a few years." β
Shengyunxiu Fort, the capital of the Soviet Union, is located near the Wusu Snow Mountain in the western part of the Soviet Union.
This is the political and cultural center of the Soviet Union, and it is also the religious center of the Soviet Union, because the Ice and Snow Temple is located in the Great Snow Mountain of Wusu. As the state religion of the Soviet Union, the Ice and Snow Temple has believers all over the country, among which there are many real devout believers, not only the Ice and Snow Temples around the country have believers to visit every day, but even the Ice and Snow Temple in the Wusu Snow Mountain also has many people to pray and pray every day.
The Ice and Snow Temple, which is halfway up the main peak of the Wusu Mountains, is magnificent, and the clouds are faint between the snow, but there are many trees that are not afraid of the cold on the snow, and they are lush and green. When the snow melts, there are still small streams flowing downstream, and there are also many birds, beasts, insects and fish in the streams. Such a scene makes the temple worthy of its name.
"In modern times, it is difficult for a true theocratic state to exist, so since the reform decades ago, the High Priest of the Ice Temple has not been the head of state, but has controlled the selection of the head of state. Under the FΓΌhrer there was the Senate and the House of Representatives, and under the control of the Temple, the number of Temple believers in both houses remained at least two-thirds. In this way, the control of the Soviet State is actually still in the hands of the temple. β
On the Ice Cloud Platform, the tallest building of the Ice and Snow Temple, Yang Jian and the High Priest Irina stood side by side, looking at the believers who pious and bowed up on the mountain road, talking about the affairs between the temple of the Su Kingdom and the regime.
Hearing what Irina said above, Yang Jian asked, "In that case, why do you still say that it will be difficult to even protect the position of the state religion in a few years?" β
Irina smiled bitterly and said, "Since the goddess of ice and snow sent down the omen 20 years ago, the number of fanatical believers and saints in the Su Kingdom has greatly decreased, and now there are only two saints. Regardless of the fanatics, the decrease in the number of saints has greatly reduced the number of blessing ceremonies that can be held in the temple. As a result, there are fewer and fewer people among the younger generation who truly support the Temple. β
On the contrary, according to the secret visit of the temple, many young Zhuang factions want to reduce the influence of the temple on the military and politics, and even want to directly prohibit the believers of the Ice and Snow Temple from participating in military and political affairs. When this group of young Zhuang factions was promoted to the two courts, the status of the temple in the Su country was naturally in danger. β
Yang Jian listened to Irina's words, was silent for a while, and then said, "What the high priest means is that the younger generation of the Su Kingdom is now losing faith in the Ice and Snow Goddess, right?" As long as we re-establish their faith in the goddess of ice, that won't be fine. β
Irina smiled and said, "With Yang Shen here, this problem can indeed be solved." β
"Alright, let's go in and figure it out. The high priest knows that I am engaged in entertainment business in China, and I think that this religious propaganda actually has a lot in common with entertainment business."
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