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Chapter 4513 [Fight of Faith]

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 one percent of the pure soul from Calibuso.

Although the spiritual world has no concept of time, the mortal world does. Therefore, Kolibuso and Chakbaba naturally know the passage of time through communication with the mortal world.

There are more than 10,000 of this 1% of pure souls. When gathered in a bottle, they appear quite dazzling and bright, just like a light bulb of hundreds of watts.

A person's soul is as tiny as a firefly. If more than 10,000 "fireflies" gathered together, you can imagine how bright they would be.

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

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

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

Some of these memories were good, while others were boring and meaningless trivialities, and now they all flooded into Xiang Nan's mind.

Fortunately, Xiang Nan's spirituality was strong enough, so he was not too seriously impacted.

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

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

He remembered them all, just like a library after an earthquake, with all the books mixed together, it was such a mess.

"Most of the memories are useless, so I might as well forge them all out." Xiang Nan thought.

The forging meditation method is to use a hammer to hit the soul and remove the impurities in the soul. These boring memories are impurities. There is no point in keeping them and they should all be removed.

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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 he could perform the forging meditation method more freely.

But the stronger the soul, the stronger the striking force of the hammer produced by meditation. It is a kind of “the higher the Tao, the higher the devil”. Of course, the forging effect will be better.

In just a few days, Xiang Nan had completely refined those boring memories. But some memories were very good, so Xiang Nan chose to keep them.

For example, there is an old man who is a very good fisherman and once caught a tuna weighing 100 kilograms. His fishing skills are very good;
There was a young man who was a bard. He was good at playing the oud (known as the king of musical instruments in the Middle East and the ancestor of the guitar) and chanting. He was very good at playing and chanting.

There is a lady who is good at cooking all kinds of fish. She has more than 100 ways to cook shrimp. She is a very famous local cook. Her cooking skills are very good...

These memories are all useful to Xiang Nan. Although he is already multi-talented, as the saying goes, "more skills are better than less", there is no harm in having more memories.

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Over the following 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 different skills, including music, dance, cooking, fishing, hunting, car building, 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 and held some activities regularly, it had no constraints on believers. People could believe if they wanted to, or leave if they didn’t want to, so the organization was very loose and had no appeal.

In ancient China, many people believed in Guan Gong, and even the Hongmen and Qingbang worshipped Guan Erye, and held activities to celebrate Guan Erye's birthday. However, there was almost no organization that rebelled under the banner of Guan Erye.

But after Xiang Nan's reforms, the cohesion of the Goddess Church was greatly strengthened. As long as believers joined the church, they basically had no need to think about apostasy, so they could only be pious.

In this way, the organizational and appeal power of the Goddess Church has been greatly enhanced, and it has the momentum of making a call and everyone will respond.

It is 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 a lesson from the East India Company and did not dare to openly destroy temples or arrest priests and believers. However, their covert 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 world's population is only about 800 million.

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

For example, the state religion of most European countries is Christianity, which is divided into Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism; the state religion of the Middle East is basically Islam; and Indians basically believe in Hinduism.

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Taoism and Buddhism in China also have a very 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 grasp secular power. If it wants to compete with other religions for power, conflicts are bound to break out.

Because those who hold power will not give it up easily. No one will share the power they have obtained with others without fierce resistance.

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But before the conflict started, Xiang Nan asked Colibuso, "What if there is a dispute between the Goddess Church and other religions?"

"What kind of dispute?" asked Colibuso puzzledly.

"It's a battle of faiths. It's similar to the Crusades back then." Xiang Nan explained, and recounted the suppression of the Goddess Church today. "Now the believers have basically been divided up. If we want to increase the number of believers, we can only compete with other religions. And in this way, it is difficult not to cause conflict."

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

In order to fight for faith, the Crusaders fought fiercely for nine times, but they were defeated in the end. This also caused the faith of Christianity to waver in people's hearts.

If their "Lord" is really omniscient and omnipotent and the only true God, why did the Crusaders who believed in Him suffer defeat after defeat and eventually even lose the holy city?
After people's minds changed, the Renaissance began, thoughts were liberated, followed by the Reformation, the Age of Exploration, and the Enlightenment...

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

He is now invincible in the world, but he is definitely no match for God. Especially gods like God, Allah, Buddha, and Brahma, who are so powerful that he can hardly imagine.

If they personally went out, he would definitely not win. Even if they didn't go out, as long as they were looking for trouble with him alone, he would not be able to withstand it, and he believed that Colibuso would not be able to withstand it either, so he tried to test the waters first.

If it's too dangerous, forget it.