All-Heavens Game, the Strongest Player

Chapter 45 The Conflict Between the Northern and Southern Religions
Both sides are waiting for the next round of elimination, but they are not idle either: Chu Xiu's side has made a lot of arrangements for Tiangong City, ready to launch a secret mission at any time to take over the city.

Meanwhile, Shen Tianci, after extricating himself, turned his attention to missionary work.

"I haven't been paying attention for a few days, and you've actually managed to build up a 'Southern Heavenly Cult' in Xuzhou. You're quite something! But if a peasant like you can do it, I can do it too, and I can do it even better!"

Having said that, he waved his hand and ordered the release of the group of missionaries he had trained for nearly three months.

Shen Tianci had big ambitions; from the very beginning, he was aiming for the ultimate reward.

Therefore, before coming here, he studied a lot about missionary work, and after cooperating with Yuan Shu, he trained a group of missionaries with a systematic approach.

From the lowest-ranking priest to the highest-ranking bishop, from ordinary guards to the Knights of the Church.

It incorporated almost every large-scale religious system.

He considered himself far superior to Chu Xiu!

"Watch closely, and see what true missionary work really is!"

On this day, thousands of specially trained missionaries rode on ponies to various states, launching the vigorous missionary activities of the "Northern Heavenly God Cult".

It has to be said that Shen Tianci was truly well-prepared.

They sent eggs, rice, and flour as gifts, and even combined the "talisman water" and "holy water" that are recognized by the world's public to create holy talisman water.

The saying goes, "If you have an egg, you're a god." Faced with the promise of eggs, the number of followers of the Northern Heavenly God Cult has expanded rapidly.

The day after the missionary arrived in the area, he gathered a large number of followers and built numerous temples in places like Qingzhou and Sizhou, where there were no powerful warlords.

Even Yanzhou and Xuzhou are showing signs of emerging.

This is also somewhat related to Chu Xiu.

Because he, the "Southern Heavenly King," has deeply resonated with the people, it's natural that people would pay attention to the appearance of a "Northern Heavenly King" who is equally famous as him.

I thought they were brothers!

Just like God's firstborn son and God's second son.

But Shen Tianci's "professional missionary work" brought not only eggs and rice, but also "religious taxes" and the judgment of heretics.

In particular, when those missionaries of noble birth who considered themselves extraordinary labeled the "Southern Heavenly Cult" as heresy.

The conflict between the Northern and Southern religious sects has completely erupted!
Initially, it was the land of Xuzhou.

When the missionary Liu Ma was handing out eggs, many of Chu Xiu's followers went to collect them, thinking it was free money. But when they labeled Chu Xiu a "false god" and the Southern Heavenly Cult a "heretic," the many followers instantly erupted in anger.

They immediately labeled the missionaries of Liuma as "powerful and wealthy."

They were arrested, paraded through the streets as a warning, and then executed one by one.

They were all completely baffled.

Until his death, he never understood why the people who had been smiling as they accepted the eggs turned on him so quickly. To the "Central Plains people" who believed whoever was useful to them, did you really think you could get them to risk their lives for just a few eggs?

How can it be!

Not just Xuzhou.

After the Northern Heavenly God Sect officially declared the Southern Heavenly God Sect a heresy, believers in Qingzhou and Sizhou also launched an attack on the Northern Heavenly God Sect.

Unlike Xuzhou, these two states are not each other's territory, and the two major religions are basically evenly matched.

When they fought, the feudal lords watched in amazement.

"Tsk tsk, just for their 'god' they believe in, hundreds of people come to the gates of the imperial city to duel, and they are determined to fight to the death until the last person is left. That's really crazy!"

Empress Dowager Wu Tian sighed with emotion within the imperial city.

It must be said that with Shen Tianci's willingness to invest heavily, the Northern Heavenly Cult has gathered a considerable number of followers, some of whom are even willing to sacrifice themselves for the cult.

For example, at this moment, Wang Ergou, who was leading the team to fight the Southern Heavenly Cult.

He was a fanatical follower of the Northern Heavenly Cult. Two days earlier, as a refugee who had almost starved to death, he lay by the roadside with his father, staring at the official road where the grass roots and tree bark had been eaten away, silently waiting to die.

But just then, a wandering missionary arrived.

They brought eggs and noodles.

The life-saving grace made him join the religion without hesitation, and he worshipped Shen Tianci as the only god. Together with his father and other believers, he fought a "North-South showdown" with the Southern Heavenly Cult at the gate of the imperial city.

The battle was fierce. Half of the Southern Heavenly Cult members died, while the Northern Heavenly Cult, except for Wang Ergou, was completely wiped out.

Including his father.

But Wang Ergou was not sad. For the sake of his faith, he quickly organized a second wave of people with the help of missionaries, wanting to fight the Southern Heavenly Cult again.

But just then, he saw the heretic he had killed with his own hands the day before.

"Aren't you all dead?"

The followers of the Northern Heavenly God Cult were puzzled.

The members of the Southern Heavenly Cult were also puzzled: "What about the cultists who died yesterday? They were quite capable fighters. Call them all over, and let's have another battle!"

The members of the Northern Heavenly Cult: "???"

No, do you want to listen to what you're saying?

Are you going to call over the fallen cultists and continue beating them, to desecrate their corpses?

"Wait, you guys died too!" Wang Ergou suddenly realized, his eyes widening as he asked, "Could it be that the members of your Southern Heavenly Cult can be resurrected after they die?"

The members of the Southern Heavenly Cult were also somewhat bewildered by this.

"What? Your Northern Heavenly God Sect can't do it?"

"Should that be?"

"Shouldn't that be the case?"

Both sides had low levels of education and, based on their own understanding, assumed that the "Southern Heavenly God King" and the "Northern Heavenly God King" were of the same level and that their followers should be the same.

But as they talked, they discovered: We are different, so different!
The followers of the Northern Heavenly Cult were truly risking their lives; if they died, they would lose everything. Meanwhile, those in the Southern Heavenly Cult who believed in Chu Xiu were resurrected on the spot.

Even if you die, you can be reborn.

"Why? Why can you do it, but we can't?" Wang Ergou said.

He thought of his father who had died in battle.

Although he and his father were willing to sacrifice themselves for His Majesty the God-King, if he could return, he would certainly want his father to live.

"I don't know, you can ask His Majesty the God-King!"

"Ask?"

“Yes! If you call upon the God-King in your heart, he will hear you and respond!” said a member of the Southern Heavenly Cult. Then, the others chimed in, “The God-King is omnipresent.”

"Sing His true name and receive His blessings!"

“Anytime, anywhere!”

"We'll grant your every request!"

The words of the Southern Heavenly Cult members left the Northern Heavenly Cult members completely dumbfounded.

"how is this possible?"

"Why not?"

As the saying goes, there is no harm without comparison. Faced with the followers of the Southern Heavenly Cult who could be resurrected and whose prayers could be answered, Wang Ergou and his companions suddenly felt a strange sense of panic.

Our own God-King doesn't seem to be very powerful!
Meanwhile, the members of the Southern Heavenly Cult discovered that their own God King seemed to be much more powerful than the opposing side!

In particular, when the two sides are vying for believers: those who believe in Chu Xiu will receive a response to their first prayer. Since Wu Hou passively granted Chu Xiu the ability to control multiple people at the same time, he can naturally issue different commands at the same time and respond to the prayers of multiple people simultaneously.

As for Shen Tianci, he simply had no way to respond!

"You call yourselves God-Kings?"

Chen Lin, who originally intended to join the Northern Heavenly Cult and was known as the number one critic of the Three Kingdoms period, having insulted Cao Cao and his family for three generations in the original novel, was instead valued by Cao Cao and became a "penman" in Cao Cao's camp. In the end, he chose to join the Southern Heavenly Cult.

And then, with a shout of "Keyboard, come here!"—no, it was "Pen, come here!"—he wanted to write a short essay for Shen Tianci.

"A mere false god dares to deceive me! Just wait, I, Chen Lin, will show you what it means for a scholar's pen to be sharper than a butcher's knife!"

(End of this chapter)