The Rank Church was the church of the Prime God. Before regaining the Ninth Rank, Lin Yuan was not keen on interacting with existences of the Prime God’s level.

Now that Lin Yuan had the strength to resolve it, he naturally took the opportunity to erase the Lust Church.

“Clear away those bodies.”

At the thought from Lin Yuan, all traces of corpses and blood within the palace disappeared,

If it weren’t for the fact that the city of Anpu lay above this underground palace, any disturbance would have affected this prosperous city.

Lin Yuan even considered making the entire palace disappear.

“That should do it.”

“Even if someone were to investigate this place later, at most they would think that the Lust Church has relocated again.”

Lin Yuan finally stood at the palace entrance and looked back one last time.

The Lust Church in Anpu City was secretive, but not entirely without trace. By erasing their presence, Lin Yuan knew it would certainly be investigated later.

However, that was all they would be able to investigate. Lin Yuan had already forged the scene, and outsiders would not suspect that the entire Lust Church and their Mother Goddess of Lust had been erased from the world.

“Magic Web…”

Lin Yuan faintly sensed that sliver of power enveloping the heavens and the earth, which belonged to one of the twenty-four Prime Gods, the Goddess of the Magic Web’s ‘authority’.

Building a Magic Web that covered all of humanity, the more lives that used the Magic Web, the more colossal the belief power it provided the Goddess of the Magic Web.

In Lin Yuan’s view, the Magic Web was not just for communication; it was also the ‘eyes’ of the Goddess of the Magic Web.

If it weren’t for the fear of detection by the Magic Web, preventing the use of enormous power, Lin Yuan wouldn’t have needed to enter the underground palace personally.

He could have erased the entire Lust Church from outside.

…

Longshan City.

Lin Yuan was chatting with his parents.

A hundred years had passed, and the Longshan Fang couple was still living well without any signs of aging, naturally thanks to Lin Yuan nurturing them secretly with the power of the world.

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The suppressive nature of this land on lifespan was harsh, but with the power of the world, Lin Yuan was confident in extending the Longshan Fang couple’s lifespan to its maximum limit.

That is, the millennia only a Sixth Rank legendary knight was expected to reach.

As for more? According to the rules of this world, one would need to ignite a divine fire and change the form of life.

However, given the capabilities of the Longshan Fang couple, that clearly wasn’t feasible, or else they would have to achieve what Lin Yuan did—ascending to the Seventh or Eighth Layer of Martial Tao, which could also significantly extend lifespan.

But that was clearly more difficult.

Just then,

the Taiyang Divine Spirit transformed into strands of the Power of Taiyang and returned to Lin Yuan’s body.

Lin Yuan then glanced in the direction of Anpu City.

“Son, what’s wrong?” Longshan Fang asked, looking at Lin Yuan.

“It’s nothing, just took care of a small matter.”

Lin Yuan said casually, having erased the Lust Church, ensuring that Longshan Ling would unlikely be the cause of any issues in the future, saving him some worries.

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Lin Yuan then returned to his cultivation chamber.

Whoosh.

The Taiyin Primordial Spirit and Taiyang Divine Spirit appeared simultaneously across from him.

And faced Lin Yuan as they sat down.

Since he hadn’t regained his peak strength, Lin Yuan hadn’t brought the Mysterious Gourd; the two great spirits remained in their soul state, not having used the secret technique “Illusory Reality” to transform into physical bodies of flesh.

“The current pace of cultivation is still too slow; I need to restore myself to the Ninth Rank as soon as possible, then create more Spatial Layers…”

Lin Yuan felt considerable pressure, especially since he and Xilan were still being pursued by Hunyi in the Xuanhuang Secret Realm. Though the special environment of the Secret Realm assured short-term safety,

who knew what variables or accidents might occur?

If possible, Lin Yuan did not wish for his Taiyang Divine Spirit to be annihilated; the sense of the call from the Xuanhuang Secret Realm was quite appealing.

“From the Eighth to the Ninth Rank, for me, is just an accumulation of energy. As long as I have sufficient energy, I can quickly return to the Ninth Rank.”

Lin Yuan glanced at the eternal stars above the sky, which were the Divine Kingdoms of the true gods, theoretically harboring infinite energy.

But now, Lin Yuan was not suited to stand directly against the gods.

“It seems I can only rely on those churches…” Lin Yuan thought silently to himself.

The churches, as the spokesforces of the gods on earth, also promote the faith of the gods.

Although those of the Seventh Rank demigods were also establishing churches, compared to the authentic True God Church, they were simply not up to par.

The True God Church indeed had methods to contact the true gods and could, if necessary, summon the divine incarnation of a god’s power.

Though this divine incarnation could not utilize the power of the gods’ Divine Kingdom, it far surpassed the Seventh Rank demigods and was enough to traverse the human world unhindered.

However, to support the divine incarnation’s intervention, a large amount of energy was naturally required, so each True God Church would store a large amount of ‘Divine Crystals’ to summon the divine incarnation of a god’s power at any time.

In the battle for faith, conflicts would occasionally arise among the gods, even leading to clashes between divine incarnations.

And Lin Yuan’s target was the ‘Divine Crystals’ stored by the various churches, which were extremely pure energy sources, even more flawless than the ‘Tai Micro Clear Crystal’ of the Main World.

“Next, you will go look for the ‘Divine Crystals’.”

No sooner had Lin Yuan thought this than his two Primordial Spirit Incarnations understood his intentions, sharing one consciousness as three-in-one, communication was simply unnecessary.

The two Primordial Spirit Incarnations, being embodiments of the soul, could disperse and gather at will, most suited for this kind of mission.

…

Underground Palace in Anpu City.

At this moment, several adherents of the Rank Church stood at the entrance.

“This palace should be one of the strongholds of the Lust Cult, but for some reason, it’s been abandoned…”

A bishop of the Rank Church frowned deeply. The Lust Cult had once made a name for itself in the capital of the Empire, with many royals and nobles indulging in the cult’s hedonistic pleasures.

Later, the Rank Church discovered that a demigod was covertly gathering faith behind the Lust Cult and decisively eradicated them.

The remnants of the Lust Cult had withdrawn from the capital, and over the years, the Rank Church had been searching for traces of the Lust Cult. Recently, the movements in Anpu City caught the attention of the Rank Church.

By the time the Rank Church arrived to investigate, they finally confirmed that the Lust Cult had stayed in Anpu City.

“Bishop, it’s all clear now; there’s no trace inside the palace, it must have been deliberately cleaned by the cult,” a church follower approached and whispered.

“It seems.”

“The Lust Cult indeed withdrew voluntarily.”

The bishop of the Rank Church nodded slightly. The palace was too clean, and he could tell from the murals on the walls and some residual rituals that this place was a stronghold of the Lust Cult.

“Just…”

Bishop Laine’s brow furrowed slightly.

All the clues pointed to the Lust Cult’s voluntary withdrawal.

But Bishop Laine realized something was amiss—why would the Lust Cult withdraw?

Given that the Rank Church had not yet discovered them, the Lust Cult could have safely hidden here and developed gradually. Why then did they suddenly withdraw?

Bishop Laine had dealt with the Lust Church many times, even leading the onslaught against the Lust Cult years ago.

Therefore, Bishop Laine knew the Lust Cult well—an influential cult that controlled beings by manipulating their lust, thereby controlling the beings themselves.

Throughout the process, it was incredibly subtle; even those with firm wills found it hard to resist the ‘corruption’ of the Lust Church.

As long as one was ‘assimilated’ by ‘lust,’ they could provide faith to the Mother Goddess of Lust behind the cult.

If the Lust Cult and the Mother Goddess of Lust were allowed to develop, the dark abyss would surely gain a powerful true god.

“Just what?”

‘Why would the Lust Cult, akin to a rat crossing the street, not run? Would they wait for us to encircle them?”

Another bishop nearby shook his head slightly.

“Perhaps.”

Bishop Laine considered, although he didn’t understand why the Lust Cult had retreated so cleanly, their cult minds were always crazed, defying ordinary reasoning.

“However, since the Lust Cult has given up Anpu City, they must be hiding somewhere else. Next, we need to investigate every region of the Empire, striving to find the new stronghold of the cult.”

Bishop Laine instructed.

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