Just when everyone in the Blue Sword realized that something was wrong, more news about the change flew to the Lateran Palace of the Vatican like pieces of paper.
"The latest experimental evidence shows that there is a kind of 'quantum entanglement state' that spans space between all spiritual polluters." A bishop reported to everyone at the cardinals' meeting.
"For example, there are 10,000 spiritual polluters in the city, and there is one polluter in the suburbs. This polluter just happens to pollute and transform a flame sequence extraordinary person."
"After the transformation is completed, the Flame Sequence enters the collective quantum entanglement space. As a result, all the 10,000 spiritual polluters in the city will simultaneously possess the abilities of the Flame Sequence and the corresponding spiritual superposition."
"That is to say, the birth of each spiritual polluter will contribute its spirituality to the whole, and the spirituality of the whole will be reflected in each individual."
"From this, we can infer that if a demigod-level transcendent is transformed, then all spiritual polluters will immediately possess demigod-level power."
There was an immediate gasp of horror from the conclave of cardinals.
"Can I understand that..." Innocent said in a deep voice, "In fact, what we are really dealing with is just a monster called the 'Ethereal Tree'. This monster will devour spiritual humans and transform them into its own projection clones, and we are just clearing out its clones now?"
"That's about it." The cardinal who spoke agreed, "It hides its body in the entangled space jointly constructed by all polluters. We have observed entangled fluctuations from the experiments of individual polluters."
"There are currently two solutions: one is to eliminate all polluters, which can completely isolate the entangled space where the Spiritual Essence Tree's main body is located from our main plane, which is equivalent to exiling this main body from this world;"
"Another method is as stated in the information: when the polluters have been eliminated to a certain extent and the main body feels the crisis, the main body will try to gather all the clones and use them to descend on the main body."
"That is to say, no matter what the situation is, it is necessary to control and suppress the spread of the pollution as soon as possible." Bishop Varian concluded, "The more extraordinary people the Spiritual Essence Tree infects, the stronger its level and strength will be, and the more difficult it will be to deal with the Spiritual Essence Polluters it releases."
The cardinals nodded.
Those extreme human purists were so cunning that they didn't even mention this characteristic in the data. It seems that the decision of His Majesty the Holy See to "suppress it at all costs" was indeed extremely correct and wise.
After the Council of Cardinals was dissolved, Bishop Varian found Innocent again and handed him the latest report on spiritual pollution.
"At present, it seems that the spread of pollution is inevitable. The six major districts near Solomon City have been completely closed and isolated, and all residents are prohibited from going out. But the problem is that the polluters in the city are beyond our control."
"Once these polluters run out of the city, it will be very difficult to contain them. However, not only do the existing polluters greatly limit the manpower of the Knights Templar, but there are also a steady stream of potential polluters being transformed in the city."