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Sui Xiong felt that for the gods, the church was not only a tool for preaching, but also a manifestation of their ideas.

Perhaps from the perspective of strategy and practical interests, the gods should encourage or at least acquiesce to the various ideas and factions in the church. And the gods with powerful churches, such as the Lord of War, Winner, and the Goddess of Wealth, Mannis, did just that. But Sui Xiong did not want such a church.

What he wanted was a relatively pure church full of vigor and fighting spirit. Although everyone had various ideas, they were basically consistent in their fundamental life philosophy and goals.

He knew that his ideas were a bit too idealistic and unrealistic - it would not be easy to establish such an organization even with the support of the true God. But he felt that if there were not enough conditions, it would be fine. Since he was a powerful god, he could know what the believers were thinking and could grant power to the clergy according to the degree to which they matched his ideas, so there was no reason not to do so.

It is true that this approach will reduce the number of devout believers and the number of clergy, but as the saying goes, quality is more important than quantity. A high-level clergy is more powerful than a hundred low-level clergy. A temple presided over by an excellent priest is more valuable than ten altars of grass-roots teams.

At least, he thought so.

So after careful consideration, a few days later, he issued another oracle, asking believers, especially clergy, to study their doctrines, use doctrines to compare life, and reflect on whether they have a tendency to secularization and vulgarization, so as to purify their thoughts.

For those clergy who "love the world", he did not criticize them, but established a new department in the church to let them do more things that need to deal with society and require more flexibility and flexibility.

In this regard, he received a lot of support and advice from the god of law, Lao Blans.

The God of Law, Lao Brans, is often honored as the "Lord of Justice". Although he is not the main god of a pantheon, so he should not be called "Lord of So-and-So", his deeds, especially the paladins under his command, have earned him such prestige.

The paladins of the God of Law are a group of stubborn old-fashioned people. They respect and uphold the dignity of the law and do everything to maintain the normal order of society. In most cases, they protect the weak, restrict the powerful, and maintain order that is beneficial to the middle and lower classes. But if necessary, they will also strike those who violently resist to help the rulers maintain social order.

If evaluated by the "Nine Camps" system, the paladins of the God of Law probably belong to the two camps of Orderly Good and Orderly Neutral, with more of the former and quite a few of the latter.

Unlike churches such as the Lord of War or the Goddess of Wealth, the church system of the God of Law is much purer. From priests to pastors to paladins, they all strictly follow the teachings of the God of Law, and even the specific operations on a little detail require temporary prayers and special instructions.

This rigid and inflexible approach naturally greatly reduced the efficiency of work, so that the clergy of the God of Law were often ridiculed as "wooden heads" and "stones in their heads". But it is undeniable that it is this stubborn and almost rigid style that has earned them the trust of the whole society. Everyone knows that the clergy of the God of Law are absolutely rule-abiding - even if they do not agree with the rules, they will only choose to leave or persuade the rule makers, and will never fight against the rules.

With such a reputation, the old-fashioned clergy of the God of Law will be welcomed even in those areas with the most chaotic public security. Even those evil lords have shown a friendly attitude towards these powerful people who maintain order and abide by the rules.

The key to all of this lies in the "purity of the organization".

Among the gods, there are some who pay more attention to the purity of the church than the God of Law, but no one can do better than the God of Law to grasp the "moderation" and turn it into a force for the growth of the organization instead of a restriction that hinders the development of the organization.

So when Sui Xiong wanted to promote the internal rectification of the Void Mask Church and improve the purity of the organization, he naturally thought of asking the God of Law for advice.

The God of Law was very happy that he came to ask him, introduced him a lot of experience, and sent several clergy who had made outstanding contributions in the history of the church to help Sui Xiong, two of whom were even his holy spirits.

With the help of this group of experts, Sui Xiong quickly sorted out a series of documents and plans, and launched a large-scale retraining of clergy from all over the Void Mask Church. He listed a long timetable, planning to use two to three years to recall all clergy to the main temple in the Void City once for retraining.

The first to receive training were those clergy who were sent to the Secret Tower Federation to preach. Because of the influence of their missionary work, these clergy were the most friendly to lords and nobles, or in other words, they were most influenced by the upper class. Sui Xiong brought them together, analyzed the development of society, and reviewed the struggle between the upper class and the lower class, so that they were shocked, realized their mistakes, and repositioned their positions.

Of course, there are also some who have changed their minds and no longer think that development and progress should be from the bottom up and based on the middle and lower classes. For these people, Sui Xiong did not severely reprimand them, but decided to teach them a good lesson.

Although he is not a historian, he has seen a lot of arguments on the Internet, and naturally understands that this idea is actually quite popular - it is nothing more than the so-called "reformism".

In the Internet society on Earth, reformism is quite popular, because in any area where Internet access is generally available, the economic conditions are generally not too bad, and social contradictions are relatively less intense. "Reform" is naturally more popular than "struggle".

In this world, most of the clergy who tend to reform are also born in wealthy families. They usually preach and communicate with people with relatively good living conditions, or they are active in places where the lords are relatively enlightened, so they feel that the social contradictions they feel are relatively eased, so that they feel that as long as they promote the enlightenment of the upper class, they can promote the development and progress of the entire society.

The lesson Sui Xiong taught them was to place them in areas where the lords were not open-minded and the Void Mask Church was relatively weak, so that they could experience the naivety and ridiculousness of the idea of ​​"improvement".

Want to make progress through reform? Of course you can. The premise is that you must first force those in power to accept reform.

There is no such a good thing in the world to achieve reform and progress through propaganda and persuasion!