The shouts and wails resounded throughout the county, and all the peasants poured into the streets, and the streets of the town were overtaken by this terrible procession that had gathered. These crazy people, shirtless and torch-wielding, walked through the muddy city with a uniform pace, and the whole town fell into a deathly silence except for the sound of neat footsteps.

A hideous-looking half-human statue was pushed at the forefront of the procession in a carriage, and this exaggerated statue was the old god that was once believed in by the people of this place and the southeast continent. Originally, the followers of the pillar were also all over the southeast coastal areas, but with the spread of inland civilization to the southeast region, the people in the southeast gradually abandoned the old god they once believed in under the influence of the Central Plains culture.

Because compared to the immortal gods worshiped in the Central Plains, their old gods are too unsightly in terms of appearance and means of worship. The immortal gods of others only need you to build a temple for him, and then worship it from time to time, and you are good at the pillar, and as soon as you make a move, it is a living sacrifice, and the reward you get from the sacrifice still makes people fall into madness. The people of the southeast are not stupid, and after having a more civilized and better choice, they naturally decisively changed their beliefs.

People are pragmatic, especially the people in the land of Shenzhou, they only believe in those immortals who can bring benefits to themselves, and ignore those useless immortals. After the Jedi Tiantong, as the feedback received from the upper realm became weaker and weaker, a large number of people abandoned the immortals they worshipped in the past, some of these people chose the Holy Sect of the Speechless, and some chose atheism, after all, who can take care of these things after years of fighting.

History is always repeating itself, how similar the people of today's small city are to those ancestors of yesterday, they think that the great Lord has abandoned them poor people, and since the Holy Religion cannot save them, then they think of the old god who they abandoned again.

The statue of the pillar in the small city was completely different from the one Xiao Qi had obtained that day, it was a statue carved from agate, and his head was not the same as the one on the previous island, but a toad head with an ugly appearance, and a terrible eye on his forehead. Compared to the previous pillar statue, the one in the small town was even more eerie and evil, with a disgusting long tongue covered in pimples hanging from his chest, holding the corpse of an animal in his left hand and a human skull in his right hand.

These fanatical followers of the Old Gods killed the clergy of the Holy Church in the high ground, opened the door that sealed the Old Gods, and invited the forgotten god out once again, hoping that the Old Gods would see their devotion to him, and that they would be willing to sacrifice everything for the Old Gods if they could be saved.

The procession marched neatly through the streets and toward the high ground, pausing every few steps to shout the name of the pillar to the sky and slash their knives in their arms. Blood from their arms stained the streets they passed, and one after another fainted from the bleeding, but it did not affect the fanatical believers in the slightest, stepping past their fallen companions and continuing the barbaric ritual.

The people on the heights looked with horror at the mad group of believers who were rushing towards them, some of whom they knew, and they could not believe that these once meek people had now become such ghosts, and the fear of the plague had made them degenerate into believers in evil gods.

The Silent One felt deep sympathy for these poor people, and he understood the despair of these people, who saw the priests of the Holy Religion fall before their eyes one after another, and even he, a devout Saint, questioned the unfaithfulness of the Holy Lord, not to mention these already undetermined believers.

The faith of the past was so vulnerable in the face of the plague, and the people completely lost their faith, and the reason why they chose the evil god of the Pillar was not because they believed in him, but because they needed him.

But the Silent One understands that things are far from being as simple as they seem, that the gods need faith to perform their abilities, and that when all hope is lost, only the most devout believers can be redeemed by God. The Lord is testing people, testing people's will and piety, and only those who are determined and pious can withstand the test of the Holy Lord, and only these people are worthy to become his followers.

A chill hit the Silent One, and he shivered all over, causing him to wrap his coat tighter. Suffering may be a test for a benevolent god like the Holy Lord, but for some of the true evil gods, it is a game of torment for them. Whether it is the immortal gods of this world or the holy lord, they have been fighting against these evil gods for thousands of years, and these evil gods have been trying to subvert the human world and then overthrow the rule of the immortal gods.

While the Silent One was still a priest in the Southern Temple, he learned much about the evil gods from the temple's library. The temple decided to place this position on him, an outsider, because the priest before him had been burned to death for heresy, all property was confiscated, and his name was erased from the temple by the archbishop.

He was chosen as a stranger to replace the apostate in order to declare to the world that the sins had been cleared, but the others did not think so, and when they passed by the temple, they would always whisper about the apostate of the past, and some even regarded this traitor as a real hero, but in the end, these absurd things never happened again under the intervention of the Holy Church.

This kind of disloyalty can occur even in the base camp of the Holy Sect in Nanyu, and the betrayer is actually a Holy Priest. Therefore, when the speechless person saw these fanatical cult believers, he was not surprised at all, he never thought how deeply rooted the holy religion was in the hearts of the people, and it was still the most unreliable to believe because of need.

The speechless one, reminiscent of what was in front of him, thought of a long-forgotten past, when he was counting the apostate's legacy, he had found an ancient tomb in the apostate's home, and in the tomb there was a mysterious library, which contained all kinds of ancient books that the Holy Church regarded as heresy, and the number of them was inferior to that of the great library of the Temple.

He had somehow sealed the intersection of the tomb with a spell, and he hadn't mentioned the mysterious library to anyone since. Several times after that action, the Silent Re-entered the hidden tomb in a dream, and for a Cultist, dreams often symbolized divine revelations.

But when he returned to that place, he found that his seal and the entrance to the tomb were long gone, and at that moment he even wondered if he was dreaming or was he in reality, false reality? Real dreams? The Silent Man was daunted by this question for a long time, until he was sent to the town to become bishop, and after having a family, he gradually forgot about these things.

It is precisely because he has an extraordinary understanding of the evil god that he knows that praying to an evil god like the Pillar will not give any salvation, and the Pillar will only give people a desperate path to depravity and destruction, and as more and more people are bewitched, the world will return to that darkest age, the era of the rule of the evil god.

When the speechless noticed the burning hope in the eyes of those fools, he was furious, one can die in the plague, but one must not die in such a filthy life, but there is one thing that the gods cannot save, and that is the folly of man.