In the center of the city there is a large, flat circular square, all paved with white marble, and there are few people near the square, but it does not seem to be forbidden to approach. ◢ With * dream * small ◢.1a

In the center of the square is a huge fountain, and there is also a statue of the lord of Imagawa, carved entirely from white and delicate white jade. Lifelike, dressed in costume, with an indifferent expression, with an awe-inspiring and inviolable majesty.

At the end of the square is the magnificent temple, the main part of which has been completed, but the side part of the temple is still under construction, and the golems and the crowd are busy going back and forth.

They were working hard to build the final part of the building with all sorts of clumsy steam machines and crane gates, trying to meet the deadline in three days.

However, the main hall is already open, and pedestrians come in and out of it, I don't know if they came to pray or because they happened to pass near the square, so they came to worship the gods.

It is estimated that the latter is the majority, after all, this is a new belief and myth, no matter who it is, it will not be so easy to accept it all and change its course.

It's just that now within the entire Imagawa clan's sphere of influence, there is no longer the soil for the existence of Shinto and Buddhism.

That's right, those religious organizations that are illegal in this world, whether they are spreading or believing, are illegal. Unless the worshiped deity is allowed to prove his innocence as the legal representative, it will be sealed up and will not be tolerated.

Although there are still many priests and monks who are stubbornly resisting, whether in the past, present, or future, the power of the state apparatus cannot be resisted by individual will.

It's just that Imagawa Yoshimoto doesn't have a thirst for killing, she just ordered to arrest all those guys, and if she caught enough of them, she sent a group to the temple to receive the "education" of the gods-

Let them listen to the "universal voice" well, and in this way, let those lost lambs re-establish "correct values, outlook on life and world view......

Well, well, to put it bluntly, it's actually about letting them be brainwashed and jump directly into a new religion to shine. After all, they are clergy themselves, and if they are killed directly, they will eventually have to promote clergy from other places, which is too wasteful of manpower.

The real rulers know that killing people will not solve the problem, although if they are killed, the idea is indeed clear. But the chain reaction that will be triggered next will make your mind incomprehensible, what should you do at that time, continue to kill?

Don't be stupid, you must know that there is only one Emiya Kiritsugu for that kind of example.

So, in fact, it is also because most of the people in this country are not religious. It's just that human beings need faith, not necessarily religious belief in the narrow sense, but just a process in which a person keeps searching for answers.

Human power is too small in the face of fate, and reason and emotion are too easily shaken, so we must find a firm support and a stable reference in order to have a cognition of our own behavior and thinking scale in life.

Because there are many phenomena in the world that do not have definite solutions, human beings need to have an answer that can convince themselves. The existence of religious beliefs only provides a ready-made way of understanding them, so they can be widely accepted.

But faith is basically born in the human heart and dies in human nature. So it's not surprising that most people are pan-believers, and the general public falls into this category.

For such people, religion is only a spice in life, and they believe in gods and Buddhas, just because there is no harm in it, and it can also give their souls sustenance and comfort.

But this belief is very weak, they can change at any time, and they often only pray to the gods and Buddhas when they need it.

Basically, it can be said that he worships God when he sees him, and he is the kind of person who believes in religion, so it is normal to go in and worship and pray when he walks by.

It's just a pity that they don't provide much power of faith.

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"No wonder pan-believers are more abominable than unbelievers...... I can't provide much power of faith, but I don't want to give up the opportunity to pray for blessings, am I really a waiter? ”

Mu Xiu tugged at the corners of his mouth, sat on the altar of the temple highly, looked down at the people below who were kneeling down to worship him, and a trace of rather wonderful feelings welled up in his heart.

It's not that he looks down on all beings from above, but he suddenly feels that he is a living person and now has a god, and he inexplicably feels a kind of absurdity and funny, almost making him feel the urge to laugh out loud.

It's just that at this time, in the eyes of ordinary people, he is just a majestic statue, not a living thing.

Because at this moment, he only possessed one of his thoughts and descended on his idol, and the main body had already followed the lord to the nearest port city to inspect the steamship.

Anyway, the distance between each other is not far, and the opening of the faith channel also allows the divine power to be transmitted over long distances without loss, so it will not have any impact on the "miracle" display after three days.

Moreover, Mu Xiu was only worried about faith and believers now, and in the horizon that ordinary people could not see with the naked eye, the dome of the temple seemed to have turned into a vast starry sky, in which a lake of faint light converged, ups and downs.

And from time to time, there were speckled lights that emerged from the heads of those who walked into the temple to pray, like dots of fluorescent light, swaying upwards and eventually merging into the lake of light.

These are the forces of faith, but the situation is not very pleasant, because the accumulation of too little quantity is also mixed with too many impurities.

Human selfishness, greed, fanaticism, persistence, confusion, fearlessness, fear, destructiveness, and so on can be said to be the residue of polluting the power of faith.

- Believers who truly and completely worship and worship the gods, simply not giving for anything in return or for the sake of purpose, is the purest power of faith.

It is no wonder that believers in God go to great lengths to increase the piety of their believers, because only by doing so can they improve their lives by feeding on the power of faith.

The best way to deal with it is to discard this part of the residue, and the second best way is to spend more effort to transform the divine power and remove all the impurities. The most unwise thing to do is for those who come to refuse to convert it all into divine power, hastening their own demise.

Of course Muxiu is...... Choose the latter.

Anyway, the transformed divine power was not used for himself, and of course he didn't care about such a thing.

What he was really worried about was that the power of faith was still too little, and the accumulation rate was still too slow. Because when people come in and pray, they have a little bit of faith power, and of course this situation can't be any better.

A truly qualified believer should be the one who has established a stable connection of faith.

For example, there are water pipes that are connected to each other, slowly but surely transporting water, and the "flow" may be small, but the process will not be easily stopped.

Instead of now, the faucet twisted on, and only occasionally a few droplets of water dripped out every once in a while.

If it was just that, Mu Xiu would not be a little irritated, after all, he knew very well that a religion forced by the power could not be accepted by people from the beginning.

The attitude of people now is the most normal, just holding the idea of "no money anyway" and "there is no harm in worshipping" to treat him as a god.

Mu Xiu, who has always been able to correctly handle the relationship between other people's position and distance from himself, naturally does not get angry because of such things, but only feels normal.

What really irritated him a little was the prayers of those guys—

Countless voices sounded in their heads, and although those guys didn't care much about believing in themselves, they were completely casually fooled.

But when he prayed for something, he was so serious that he was afraid that he would not be able to understand what he meant, and he would tell the same thing over and over again countless times.

As a result, until Mu Xiu was not used to the state and pattern of believing in God, he could only endure such harassment.

The disproportionate gain to the effort naturally made him feel annoyed, although he didn't intend to give, but the obvious contrast between the attitude of the group of pan-believers when they believed and the attitude when they asked for it was really annoying to the extreme.

It's just that he didn't make any radical moves because of this.

That's to be expected, isn't it? You just have to wait until three days later, and then you can perform the miracle, and that's when you really get on track.

At this time-

"Huh? Have you finally made up your mind to come over? I thought I was going to make an accident. ”

Mu Xiu seemed to suddenly notice something, first raised his eyebrows, and then narrowed his eyes slightly.

Of course, he already knew that people from other forces would come to investigate the information, after all, this kind of thing is not the key to involving the mysteries of the universe and interfering with the world's fortunes, and it is very easy to get a glimpse of the relevant future fragments.

In fact, the current situation was deliberately created by him and the Lord of the Kingdom, otherwise, how could the Lord of the Kingdom happen to leave Junfu City at such a critical juncture?

This is actually taking the initiative to create opportunities for some people with ulterior motives -

Because if they don't, they won't obediently help themselves to preach, so they need to let the other party discover some so-called truths "by themselves", so that they will be convinced to carry it out.

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I don't know that my thoughts have already been grasped by some higher being, and I don't know that my choice is only the impetus of some great will.

Niwa Nagahide and Tsuda Nobusumi stood outside the temple, took a deep breath, and then stepped into the temple in front of them as if nothing had happened.

Human beings are creatures who firmly believe in their own cognition and existence, and will not easily accept things they do not understand.

Even if you subconsciously know the answer to the question you are looking for, and understand how amazing it is. However, as long as it has not been reconfirmed on the surface, she will still treat it as if she does not know, and the so-called self-deception is exactly that.

"That, Manchiyo...... Why are we here? ”

Tsuda Nobusumi looked around cautiously, and although he confirmed that there were no guards around the temple, he subconsciously lowered his voice.

"Lord Nobusumi, it seems that the Imagawa family's transformation revolves around this new religion, so there must be some secret in it that we don't know. Imagawa Yoshimoto is not a purposeless character, and there must be reasons why she deserves so much attention. ”

Niwa Nagahide, who was dressed as a maid, did not squint and whispered in a low voice.

"If we want to find out what she's for, we'll have to come here...... Besides, the temple doesn't seem to prohibit outsiders from approaching, and even other merchants can come over, whether it's to inquire about the news or to ask the gods to worship—"

The words came to an abrupt and abrupt end.

The temple was empty and quiet, and Niwa Nagahide's keen perception made him shiver slightly.

The handsome young man next to him didn't notice her strangeness, but just complained with a wry smile-

"I always felt a little weird here, as if something terrible was watching us secretly......"