Chapter 8: The Judgment of the Sacred Entity_2

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Warding off disasters, healing the sick, improving productivity, avoiding natural catastrophes and life-threatening events, they also help humans combat the Specter Fiends that invade this world.

It is because the Akasha Holy Church really is useful and does no harm or deceit that it has been widely accepted by the people, yet the number of true believers is not many. This is mainly because they are not keen on recruiting followers and, on the contrary, are exceptionally strict about the process of integrating new members, fearful of troublemakers with ulterior motives stirring up chaos after joining.

After the Cocoon Breakers awaken, they, as per tradition, must undergo the testing of the Sacred Entity of the Akasha Holy Church to first determine if their own evolutionary state is suitable for cultivation and then, based on their strengths, they are arranged to start anew and integrate into society.

What the Akasha Holy Church does is also to assist in maintaining the order of the World of Evolvers. As for whether you believe in the faith, that is a matter for you alone, which does not concern them.

In front of the pyramid-like halls stood a priest draped in a white robe, who held up a torch and prayed devoutly, "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done."

Priests and nuns performed religious rites as well, devout and respectful.

Only the Cocoon Breakers wore baffled expressions, numbly passing through the gravel road guarded by the military personnel.

Lu Bu'er keenly noticed that these soldiers generally appeared old; some were bald, some had faces covered in wrinkles, and others were hunched and hobbling.

"Do they conscript only the elderly here?"

He Sai, as a respectful young man from the twenty-first century who valued the elderly and children, was shocked by this.

"Huh."

Qingmu walked ahead, not turning back as he spoke, "They are not old men, some are even the same age as you. Don't gloat over their misfortune, perhaps one day you too will become like them... This is the price to be paid for evolution."

The rest were shocked, not grasping what he meant.

Those soldiers showed no reaction to their arrival.

It was as if they saw their past selves.

The old priest in white opened the grand doors of the hall for them, and a golden radiance rushed forth.

That sense of pilgrimage was just like the sight of The Golden Ancient Tree in the Land of the Departed. Inside the hall stood an immaculate Angel, Its hands cupping a massive golden crystal, its sharply cut facets reflecting a brilliant light, like the rising sun.

"It is an honor to witness the Sacred Entity,"

The old priest made the sign of the cross and prayed devoutly.

Qingmu also set aside his typically amused demeanor for the first time, showing his own devotion and respect.

"The Sacred Entity..."

Lu Bu'er had heard this term more than once. It appeared that what was worshipped within this Saint Hall was not the so-called Angel, but rather the massive golden crystal, which is the Sacred Entity.

About thirty people stood inside the hall, their clothes tattered, stained with blood and dirt, their faces reflecting puzzlement and hesitation, clearly also Cocoon Breakers who had just arrived in the new world.

Lu Bu'er noticed that among these Cocoon Breakers were their classmates.

There was the sports bully from the neighboring class four, the beautiful upperclassman famous for piano and ballet, as well as their class seven's top student class president, including a few very wealthy second-generation rich kids, and even an older schoolmate who had graduated two years ago and moved up to university.

It was unexpected that everyone had awakened at about the same time and had gathered here.

That group of Cocoon Breakers also realized their arrival and looked back, their eyes displaying strange emotions but they forcibly suppressed them.

The Sacred Entity floated in mid-air, turning, and the crystal began to show intricate, detailed patterns resembling the strands of nerves or network fibers, reflecting each person's face.

Lu Bu'er's pupils contracted slightly, for the patterns shown in the Sacred Entity turned out to be the symbol of the once Orola Technology, which made him further believe that his parents' research was no trivial matter.

The way Qingmu and their peers behaved, their reverence for the so-called Sacred Entity was as if they were in the presence of a deity.

"May the great Sacred Entity, the wisdom of the Tree of Kabbalah, guide us in the right direction." The old priest knelt on the ground, gazing at the floating Sacred Entity, his eyes turning an eerie shade of gold.

His body began to convulse as if he were being electrocuted.

However, neither Qingmu nor his subordinates, or the priests present,

showed any concern.

"The wisdom of the Tree of Kabbalah? Sounds a bit like artificial intelligence," Lu Bu'er was skeptical, but it did not seem appropriate to voice his thoughts at that moment.

"I have received divine inspiration and perceived the will of God."

After some time, the old priest's convulsions ceased, and his eyes gradually returned to normal. He spoke with an elderly voice, "Gentlemen, following the guidance of the divine, I will show you the way forward."

The old priest turned and his gaze fell upon a young man, "Gao Li, tentatively categorized with low talent, you were unlearned and bullied your classmates at school, learned nothing but evil. Only your robust physical fitness is your ability. The supply team can realize your self-worth."

The bully was taken aback, "Why should I do the heavy lifting?"

"No! You clearly took my watch!"

He tried to plea for himself, "Can I not go?"

The old priest nodded, "You can, but your parents did not choose to be enclosed in cocoons, they had a son and a daughter five hundred years ago, and lived out their lives peacefully. And as for your venture of being unlearned and failing to achieve anything, going out alone to find work would likely lead to a beating by society."

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