175 Sacrifice for the Faith

"O son of sin! I am convinced and assert that you are not only a true heretic, but also a reappearance of the devil on earth, and I will judge and judge you. ”

After listening to Yi Tiancheng's wild words, the old ascetic took one last look at him, then closed his eyes, straightened his back, fell to his knees on the ground, and began his so-called judgment.

The holy scriptures hovered above him, and began to turn the pages of their own, and the old priest crossed his arms in the form of a cross and placed them on his chest, and recited in a reverent and fervent voice:

"O Lord! Thy pious Lamb, I entrust you with this body, and show thy supreme majesty to judge the sinners before you. ”

Dazzling light emanated from him, no longer the soft fluorescence that people yearned for before, but a blazing white, brilliant, and inviolable holy light.

At the same time, the reverse cross pendant worn by the old priest on his chest emitted a black light that was diametrically opposed to it, and began to enlarge violently, standing on the ground.

And the old priest was also pulled by some invisible force, hanging upside down on this black cross.

This is martyrdom.

In the common sense of ordinary people, the positive cross represents the mercy of God, while the reverse cross represents the wrath of Satan.

But in fact this is not the case.

The reverse cross also originated in the Roman Empire, when St. Peter, one of the Twelve Saints, decided to sacrifice himself in Rome in the context of Emperor Nero's persecution and murder of the church.

At the time of his martyrdom, St. Peter asked the executioner, "Please turn me upside down and crucify, my Lord laid me on the cross, and I am not worthy to die like him," and he hanged himself upside down.

The old priest in front of him also made the same move, but the purpose of his sacrifice was to drag Yi Tiancheng, a heretic in his eyes, to die together.

"So, I'm most annoyed by fanatics like you." Yi Tiancheng said helplessly.

After guessing that the old priest might be an ascetic, he had already expected this situation.

The other party's practice is not so much a sacrifice as a sacrifice of oneself.

For people like the old priests, physical death represents the immortality of the soul, and if it is necessary, they will not resist at all, but will take the initiative to die.

It is precisely for this reason that in the future some people will joke that "between the most devout martyrs and the most fanatical terrorists, there is only one motive".

After all, this kind of way of choosing to die together if you don't agree is really powerless to complain.

"Since you have chosen this path of no return, then don't blame me for being unkind."

Yi Tiancheng squinted his eyes and did not interrupt the other party's ceremony, but looked up at the air and muttered to himself.

With the old priest crucified upside down, the whole ceremony was prepared and began to resonate with the divine arts.

The spirit child in the atmosphere began to change qualitatively, and was assimilated into a dazzling holy light, which gathered in the sky above the museum, turning into a huge white light and shadow.

The halo on his head, his wings spread on his back, was suddenly the image of an angel depicted in the canon of the Church.

"The unrighteous may remain unjust; and he that which is filthy, let him remain unclean; He who is righteous may remain righteous; and he that which is holy, that he may remain holy. ”

"In the near future the Lord will return, and he will come again into the world with thousands of His saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to repay every man according to his works."

"Only by believing in the Lord can we all be saved."

The old priest did not speak, the voice came from the void, from the mouth of an angel.

The vision could be seen throughout the fog and even in Britain, and the sound could be heard in the ancient Hebrew language.

These words are tantamount to a confirmation of the foreshadowing of the Church's holy scriptures that the Lord will come again in the near future.

"Hehe~!" The proverbs that seem to be righteous words are essentially equivalent to intimidation, so that Yi Tiancheng couldn't help but sneer.

Anyone who knows anything about it will know that, unlike God's first incarnation, which will bear the sins of the world and show the mercy of the Lord, the second return will be for the final judgment of the world.

If it weren't for the experience of being reborn, Yi Tiancheng would probably have been bluffed by the appearance that happened right under his nose and looked like a huge momentum.

But if after all, it is only if, as a reborn person, Yi Tiancheng knows very well that the underlying real intention and purpose behind this manifestation is to induce and even intimidate more people to believe in God.

In the future, the biggest puzzle facing mankind will be between "gods are born from human beliefs" and "human beings are born from the creation of gods", who is the beginning and who is the end.

This paradox, which sounds no different from "whether there is a chicken or an egg first", has become a mystery that no one can solve, and everyone has their own unwavering choices because of their own positions, camps and demands.

And Yi Tiancheng, no doubt agrees with the former view, that gods exist only on the basis of human beliefs, but only a species with a higher degree of evolution than humans, and according to their different natures, they are divided into two types:

One is the natural god that exists innate and is embodied by natural phenomena.

The other is a personality god born from the belief of human beings.

And the God who is believed in by the believers of the Church is undoubtedly a second type of being.

With the awakening of the will of the planet and the revival of the magic power of the Great Origin, not only those mythical creatures who are hiding outside the world will return to the present world, but even those gods will be born and manifested by condensing faith.

Perhaps, when the Moon Spirit Crystal originally built the Lingzi space, the reason why the otaku and the two-dimensional enthusiasts were chosen was because this group of people did not have a specific god to believe in, but they had pious beliefs, so the final formation was all anime, games, and the world in China.

"Is it over? Then let me see how a cricket can judge me if he is a fake! I gave you so much time to put on a show, but don't let me down and make your followers despair! ”

Yi Tiancheng looked at the Holy Spirit that descended on the surface and attached to the old priest, and said indifferently.

Although he subjectively had no intention of mocking, these words, combined with his mask of fake smile, had a full-level taunting effect.

The old priest, who had hung the cross upside down, was now suspended in the sky like an angel, his whole body was shrouded in holy light, and a pair of angelic wings stretched out from his back.

As the angelic wings crystallized into the spirit son energy crystallized, a large amount of holy light gathered in front of him, constantly compressing and condensing.

And Yi Tiancheng also held high the knight's sword that had been snatched from the grave keeper not long ago, and began to mobilize the surging and fiery magic power of his whole body, converging on the blade.

In the next second, the two light cannons of blazing white and crimson directly bombarded the other party out of thin air......

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PS: It's really not flooding! From the very beginning, this book is advanced on two fronts of the earth and the spiritual space, and these chapters are mainly to pave the way for the later plot, and explain the future world pattern, the orthodox power system, and the source of contradictions and conflicts.

I think the main reason why people think water is that I update too little...... Well, it's still my pot, laugh and cry ing8)