The Tianzheng Pope is seventy-three this year.
Seventy-three, according to Huaxia, this must be a hurdle, and it is not easy for the old man to pass.
As the saying goes: Seventy-three, eighty-four, the king of Hades will not take him away.
The reason why this saying is widely spread in China is related to the two ancient saints.
Confucius died at the age of seventy-three, and Mencius passed away at the age of eighty-four. The way of Confucius and Mencius has prevailed in China for many years, and this saying has been handed down from generation to generation.
The Tianzheng Pope, in Europe, must be regarded as a saint, with the word "Holy" in front of his name, and his name is St. Louis, which is not in the same system as the Chinese saint.
So St. Louis had never heard of this common saying at all, and he didn't think there was any problem with his eastward trip.
From the perspective of the Tianzheng sect, it is imperative to go eastward to kill the leader of Liemen.
Because if the leader of the hunting gate is not killed, the European Holy See will not be able to intervene in Northern Europe. If the breakthrough in Northern Europe cannot be opened, the Holy See will not be able to carry out its plan to take over the European secular regime.
One chain after another, pushed to the end, the leader of the hunting gate must die.
On the contrary, once the leader of the Hunting Gate died and Northern Europe was acquired by the Holy See, the situation of the Holy See opened up, and things could be done after that.
Of course, the Pope Tianzheng came to Eastern Europe this time. Compared with the Patriarch Patriarch and the New Moon Chief Patriarch, his enthusiasm is actually not that high.
Because Eastern Europe is the territory of the Orthodox Church, the patriarch of the proprietor, in order to ensure the religious strength of the Eastern Episcopal Church here, cannot allow the people in the hunting gate to become famous here.
And Northern Europe is the territory of the Crescent Sect. If things are done in the end, the Crescent Sect will benefit the most. They will first achieve the goal of controlling the secular regime.
The Orthodox sect could not benefit from both sides. The reason why the Pope rushed to Eastern Europe was also due to the strategic considerations of the entire European Holy See.
At the same time, the smallest return means the smallest risk.
The mastermind of this matter is the patriarch of the proprietor, and the chief patriarch of the New Moon who plotted against Northern Europe has little to do with the Tianzheng Pope, so he can advance or retreat.
Anyway, the matter is done, and that is the benefit of the entire Holy See.
If the matter fails, it will mainly weaken the power of the proprietor and the new moon, and the Tianzheng sect will be able to gain an advantage in the situation where the three factions are fully engaged.
So St.Louis had the final say, no matter what happened, he went happily.
Then compared to the other two giants, St. Louis has a very peaceful mind and is careful.
Among the four giants of the Holy See, he was the first to set off, expressing that he was very active, and then the last to enter, procrastinating along the way.
Of course, speaking of this, it can also make others unable to find fault.
After all, it is the Tianzheng Pope, and it is reasonable to say that he will stay in the small southern European country all his life and will not come out, but since he is out this time, he must have a good time, and he must go to the scenic spots along the way.
Of course, speaking to the outside world, it is not a game, but a blessing, praying that these holy places for human beings can be saved from the poison of the Queen Mother of the West in the future.
This trip, St. Louis has a lot of pomp.
The accompanying attendants and guards totaled about 500 people, all of whom were the elite of the Holy See, and half of them were knights.
There are a total of five knights in Europe.
The oldest are the Knights of the Round Table, now affiliated with the Crescent Sect.
The ones with a shorter inheritance history than the Knights of the Round Table are the armored knights of Byzantium, which belong to the Eastern Episcopal faction.
There are three more, which are the three famous European knights: the Temple, the Hospital, and the Teutonic Order.
These three knight orders belonged to the Orthodox sect in terms of religious belief, but in fact they all belonged to the secular regime at the beginning, and were not directly restricted by the Orthodox Pope.
Among them, the Hospitaller Knights are now actually independent.
The Knights Templar was purged jointly by the King of France and the Pope, and the remnants fled to the New World. It is now headquartered in America, and it is also the most powerful practice group in America.
After the fall of the German Empire, the Teutonic Knights took refuge in the Orthodox sect and changed the name of the knight to a monk, but the inheritance is still the inheritance of the Teutonic Knights.
Half of the followers of the Tianzheng Pope this time are descendants of the Teutonic Knights, and the other half are priests of light.
As far as combat power is concerned, the cultivators of the Catholic sect are not very good if they are singled out.
The strongest orthodox pope, St. Louis, is a priest of light.
The priest is good at fighting, and this is an old man in his seventies, his physical strength has weakened, and he is worse than ordinary adults.
The ability of priests is mainly to bless others. In terms of mind power confrontation, they are far less rich than dark warlocks, and they can barely protect themselves by relying on the barrier of spiritual sense.
Leaving aside the priests, the remaining Teutonic knights, although Europe is still divided, but the war is basically gone, and the knights lack battlefield training, which is a common problem.
The ones traveling with St. Louis this time are considered to be the strongest Teutonic Knights, and there are ten strong Nine Realms among them.
The strongest one is the current head of the Teutonic Knights and the head of the Pope's bodyguard, at the level of the Seventh Realm.
With regard to this group of people, if they were singled out one by one, Liemen would not need Lin Shuo to dispatch them. He Yongchang, who is at the peak of the eighth realm, would be sure to win.
But in terms of overall combat power, with the cooperation of Priest Guangming and Teutonic Knights, today's Orthodox sect is still the most powerful among the three major sects.
Knights and priests are highly consistent in their beliefs, and the blessing technique of priests can be accepted by knights without reservation, and the effect is very good.
This team has half the number of knights and half of the priests. This is not a coincidence, but it can ensure that the priests and knights are fully blessed one-on-one.
Coupled with the presence of the Tianzheng Pope, the strongest priest in the world, there will be a group blessing.
So these three hundred knights, if they don't care about the price, all of them can become the ultimate masters with the limit of cultivation in the world.
Facing the enemy head-on, within half an hour of the blessing spell taking effect, this team is almost invincible in the world.
With this configuration, killing a leader of the hunting gate is no problem at all.
It's just that in the eyes of St. Louis, the cost of doing so is too high, and these knights will be overdrawn too much. It is estimated that few of them will survive after the blessing technique ends.
Therefore, the itinerary must be slow, everyone travels first, let the proprietor and Xinyue go with the leader of the hunting gate, and the group of people is here to cover the bottom line.
If it's too bad, let's put this hand of cards up again.
With a peaceful mind and a strong hole card, the Pope Tianzheng is still in a good mood even though he has been bumpy on the road these days.
Especially when passing by a scenic spot, I also made a friend.
This friend is also an old man, about the same age as the Pope, but his status is very different.
They are entertainers in scenic spots, performing acrobatics, and they are as thin as monkeys.
His unique skill is called "Three Immortals Returning to the Cave", which is said to have come from the far east.
But look at this man, he is an old European man with tall brows and deep blue eyes.
His trick, in short, is to use three bowls to dunk three balls, and he can do it faster than his eyes.
It can deceive people's eyes and let the ball go to whichever bowl it wants.
St. Louis hadn't seen this before, so he watched it for a while on a whim, and was caught by this man's words, and then lost an agate ring in his hand.
This ring is of course not a mortal thing, but the Tianzheng Pope didn't care much, and was about to leave, but was stopped by the juggling old man.
The old man returned the agate ring to him, and then taught him a lesson in words. The main content was that gambling should not be done, and gambling is harmful.
St. Louis is naturally dumbfounded, but it feels fresh in his heart.
Since I ascended the throne of the Tianzheng Pope, no one has dared to teach me this in the past 40 years.
The priests and knights around him along the way respected him like a god, and they didn't dare to gossip. St. Louis was actually quite depressed.
Seeing that the old man was very funny, he was able to talk to the heavens, and he didn't find any self-cultivation in this man, so he suggested that this stall business should not be done, and the old man walked with him, chatting with him, one day Give a thousand euros.
Naturally, the old man would not refuse such a good thing, and after a few words of politeness, he followed suit.
To this day, this old man named Tom has been with the army for ten days, and the chat with St. Louis has become more and more speculative, and it is not too late to meet each other.
Old Tom has a wide range of knowledge and extraordinary conversation, and he often sees problems to the point, and then he can quickly come up with a solution to the problem.
St.Louis was secretly heartbroken, thinking that this is a talent, and he had to win over him well. When things here are over, give him the status of a cardinal and keep him by his side as a think tank.
It's a pity that this person is a bit older, only two years younger than himself.
If he was thirty years younger, Helen would step aside, and he would be the next pope behind him.
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Around five o'clock this afternoon, the St. Louis party, and old Tom, came to a ghost town.
In today's Eastern Europe, such empty cities abound, and the citizens have long since fled.
And this empty city is still about 60 kilometers away from the site of the Queen Mother of the West. Anyway, the group of people walked for 20 days and finally reached the place.
The place where everyone is staying is this abandoned hotel, anyway, it can be accommodated after tidying up.
That night, St. Louis invited old Tom to his room again, saying he wanted to discuss things.
Today, old Tom naturally knows the identity of St. Louis.
I was originally a farmer in the Balkans, and later I learned some rough crafts from a Chinese family member. After getting old, I was in a poor world, barely making a living.
What is your identity, and what is the identity of others
It's like a dream for old Tom to be able to chat with me to relieve boredom these days.
Both excited and a little scared at the same time.
The thoughts of the superiors are not something ordinary people can guess. They all say that being with a king is like being with a tiger.
So when knocking on the door now, old Tom was very careful and knocked lightly twice.
"Come in." St. Louis' voice came from inside.
Old Tom lowered his head, walked into the room with a slight slump, and found that there were still two people in the room.
Two orientals, a man and a woman.
"Sit." St. Louis pressed his palm to let Old Tom sit down in front of him, and then said, "Let me introduce you.
This one is one of the nine leaders of Liemen, Yun Xiuer, the head of the Yun family.
And this one is Patriarch Yun's husband, Miao Chengyun. "
St. Louis finished speaking slowly, then pointed to Old Tom, and said to Yun Xiuer and Miao Chengyun: "The one sitting in front of you is the Tianzheng Pope."
Old Tom was stunned after hearing this, and quickly waved his hands and said, "No way, no way!"
"It can't be done." St. Louis laughed, "The means are the means, and the facts are the facts. You are the righteous pope."
"I'm the righteous Pope?" Old Tom stammered, "Then...then...then who are you?"
"My name is Tang Gaojie." "St. Louis" said lightly: "When I was in the casino, I was also called Old Tom.
I told you ten days ago that gambling is harmful, but you didn't listen.
Now you understand, this is the end of the bet with me.
You have lost yourself to me. "
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