Save the Bachelor of Heaven

After that, Xiang Nan practiced martial arts on his own, helped the Goddess Church and the Monkey God Church to preach, and lived a simple life with Elizabeth.

At the end of one year, he received 1% of pure souls from Kolibuso.

Although there is no concept of time in the spiritual world, there is in the mortal world. Therefore, Kolibuso and Chak Baba naturally know the passage of time through communication with the mortal world.

There are more than 10,000 pure souls of this 1%, which are gathered in a bottle and look quite dazzling, just like a light bulb of more than 100 watts.

A person's soul is as small as a firefly. More than 10,000 "fireflies" gathered together, the brightness can be imagined.

Xiang Nan then opened the bottle, but did not dare to release all the souls at once. He only carefully took out more than 100. After all, it is better to be safe than sorry.

Then, he began to absorb these souls through the magic circle, and suddenly a lot of memories flooded into his mind.

Although these souls have been purified, the purifying fire will not completely clear their memories, but only those evil thoughts and bad thoughts, so there are still a lot of memories left.

Some of these memories are good, and some are boring and meaningless trivialities, and now they all flood into Xiang Nan's mind.

Fortunately, Xiang Nan's spirituality is strong enough, so he was not too shocked.

But so many complicated memories did bring him a lot of pressure.

After all, there are more than a hundred people's memories, men and women, young and old, with various identities, occupations, and cultures, all kinds of strange and endless.

He remembered them all, just like a library after an earthquake, all the books were mixed together, it was really too messy.

"Most of the memories are useless, just forge them all out." Xiang Nan thought.

The forging meditation method is to meditate with a sledgehammer to hit the soul and remove the impurities in the soul. And these boring memories are impurities, and there is no use keeping them, so they should all be removed.

...

Xiang Nan then began to use the forging meditation method.

After absorbing more than a hundred souls, Xiang Nan's soul was slightly strengthened, so the forging meditation method was more comfortable.

But the stronger the soul, the greater the hammer's striking force, which is like "the higher the Tao, the higher the devil", and of course the forging effect is better.

In a few days, Xiang Nan refined all those boring memories. But some memories are very good, and Xiang Nan chose to keep them.

For example, there was an old man who was a very good fisherman and had caught a tuna weighing a hundred kilograms. His fishing skills were very good;

There was a young man who was a bard, good at oud (known as the king of Middle Eastern musical instruments and the ancestor of guitar) and singing, and his playing and singing were very good.

There was a lady who was good at cooking all kinds of fish. There were more than a hundred ways to cook shrimp alone. She was a very famous local cook. Her cooking skills were very good...

These memories were useful to Xiang Nan. Although he was already versatile, as the saying goes, more skills are better than less, and it is not bad to master more memories.

...

After a period of time, Xiang Nan gradually absorbed tens of thousands of souls.

His spirituality increased by about one third. In addition, he also learned thousands of various skills, including music, dance, cooking, fishing, hunting, car manufacturing, house building... It can be said that he gained a lot.

During this period, the power of the Goddess Church was also growing. Not only did the number of believers increase, but more importantly, the cohesion was also strengthened.

Although the Goddess Church had temples and priests before, and would hold some activities regularly, it had no constraints on believers. People believed in it if they wanted to, and they could leave if they didn't, so the organization was very loose and had no appeal.

Just like in ancient China, there were many people who believed in Guan Gong, and even the Hongmen and Qingbang worshiped Guan Erye, and activities were held to celebrate Guan Erye's birthday. But there was almost no organization that rebelled under the banner of Guan Erye.

However, after Xiang Nan's reforms, the cohesion of the Goddess Church was greatly strengthened. As long as believers joined the church, they basically didn't think about apostasy, so they could only be pious.

In this way, the organization and appeal of the Goddess Church were greatly strengthened, and there was a momentum of a call from a high place and a collective response.

It was for this reason that the rulers began to fear the Goddess Church and began to take various measures to suppress, exclude and expel the Goddess Church.

However, they learned from the lessons of the East India Company and did not dare to blatantly destroy the temples and arrest priests and believers, but the secret exclusion, suppression and expulsion still brought a lot of resistance to the development of the Goddess Church.

After Xiang Nan learned about this, he knew that the development of the Goddess Church had reached a bottleneck.

Today, there are nearly 200 million believers in the Goddess Church, while the global population is only about 800 million.

The vast majority of the remaining population are believers of religions such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. And these religions have been highly integrated with power, and many of them have even been designated as state religions by the rulers.

For example, the state religion of most European countries is Christianity, which is nothing more than the difference between Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Protestantism; the state religion of the Middle East is basically Islam; and the Indians basically believe in Hinduism.

Taoism and Buddhism in the Middle Earth also have a wide audience. Although they have not become state religions, they are both loved and supported by the rulers.

Therefore, if the Goddess Church wants to continue to develop, it must also master secular power. And if it wants to compete with other religions for power, conflicts are bound to break out.

Because those who hold power will not easily give up power. Without fierce resistance, no one will share the power they have obtained with others.

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However, before the conflict, Xiang Nan asked Colibuso, "What if the Goddess Church has a dispute with other religions?"

"What kind of dispute?" Colibuso asked in confusion.

"A dispute of faith. Similar to the Crusades of the past." Xiang Nan explained, and told the story of the suppression of the Goddess Church today. "Now the believers have basically been divided up. If you want to increase the number of believers, you can only compete with other religions. And in this way, it is difficult not to cause conflicts."

"I see." Colibuso nodded. He naturally knew about the Crusades.

For the dispute of faith, the Crusaders went on nine expeditions, fought hard, and finally lost. This also caused the faith of Christianity to waver in people's hearts.

If their "Lord" is really so omniscient and omnipotent, and is the only true God, why did the Crusaders who believed in Him fail again and again, and finally lost the Holy City?

After people's minds changed, the Renaissance began, and their thoughts were liberated. Then came the Reformation, the Age of Exploration, and the Enlightenment...

"I'm worried that if there is a dispute of faith, will God, Buddha, Allah, and Brahma personally come out?" Xiang Nan asked.

He is invincible now, but he is definitely not a match for God. Especially gods like God, Allah, Buddha, and Brahma, who are so powerful that he can hardly imagine.

If they personally come out, he will definitely not win. Even if they don't come out, as long as they cause trouble for him alone, he can't stand it, and he believes that Colibuso can't stand it either, so he will test the waters first.

If it's too dangerous, forget it.