half an hour ago.
In the temple command ship, the high priest Tian Yunming, as usual, finished his prayers, began to meditate, and tempered his spirit.
Tian Yunming is the person with the most respected status in Tianyun City in name, but actually has unknown troubles.
The high priest is a nameless and embarrassing identity. Although he appears to be the head of the three giants of God's Domain, he actually has no direct military and political rights and ruling rights. He is just a leader of spirit and belief. In a sense, his status is In fact, it is the projection of the cloud god who has been sleeping all year round in the temple.
In the past more than a year, Yunshen fell into an unexpected deep sleep. Although this news is a secret among secrets, the top figures at the top of the pyramid in Tianyun City already know it, and the high priest can clearly feel that the authority of the temple It began to be shaken, especially after Xiyun Xingguang monopolized the military and political power, he made important decisions and even started to blatantly avoid the temple.
Everything has to change!
The war of gods and demons is over for too long!
God has not appeared in people's field of vision for too long.
Although faith still has a huge binding force in the minds of people from all walks of life in God's Domain, after all, it is the result of thousands of years of subtle influence, but in the hearts of people like Xingguang at the top, God may no longer be synonymous with authority. After all, Xingguang himself The power they have is enough to defeat most of the lower and middle gods.
People can only be in awe of absolutely powerful things.
If you can defeat the gods with your own strength, is the so-called god still the body? Perhaps in the minds of Starlight and some people in Tianyun City, gods are no longer mysterious. They are nothing more than a new race that is higher than human beings and can crack the secret of eternal life!
Tian Yunming's status and divine right are completely tied together. If someone starts to despise divine right, the high status of the temple will slip. The conflict between Starlight and Tian Yunming can be said to be inevitable, and Tian Yunming doesn't want to sit still , he decided to use this opportunity to find a way to eradicate this powerful existence that even he was afraid of.
The commander of the paladin, Lan Lin, walked in and said in a low voice, "High Priest, the Lord of Starlight City has seen you and said that he has something important to do, and he needs to negotiate with you privately and secretly."
"It's so late now, what's the important thing? Did he come alone?"
"Yes, I didn't bring any attendants with me, I just came alone to ask for an audience."
"Okay, I got it, let the two chief priests come over, and you can watch at the door."
When Master Xingguang walked into the central meeting hall of the command ship in the temple, the high priest Tian Yunming was sitting in front of Xingguang with a book in his hand, and there were two people standing on his left and right.
One is Shui Lan, the priest of order, who is carrying a law code.
The other is the ruling priest, Lei Ting, who holds a long staff.
Ten high-ranking priests stood around the hall, and there were at least twenty paladins outside the hall, led by Lan Lin, the commander of the temple. The High Priest hadn't changed for so many years, he was very cautious no matter what he did, but Master Starlight didn't show any abnormality.
He went straight into the hall and saluted Tian Yunming: "High Priest, the stars are disturbing you."
Tian Yunming slowly put down the book, and looked at him with a puzzled face: "I heard that the Lord of Starlight City has important information to report, but I don't know what is so important that you have to keep it secret so late come here?"
Xingguang nodded and said, "It's about ten years ago."
Tian Yunming was stunned when he heard the words, Xiyun Xingguang came here secretly late at night, and wanted to talk about something that happened ten years ago. All the priests were on guard.
"Thank you, High Priest!" Xing Guang sat on the bench, and a high-ranking priest brought tea. After Xing Guang thanked Tian Yunming, he said to Tian Yunming in a chatty tone: "This matter has nothing to do with my two Brother Xiyun Juechen has something to do with it."
Tian Yunming frowned even more when he heard this.
Juechen is the first and earliest traitor in Tianyun City since modern times.
If you carefully sort out everything that happened in the past ten years, you will find that the source of almost all the turmoil comes from Xiyun Juechen, and this Xiyun Juechen is the father of the current temple envoy Yinyue, who was executed by Xingguang himself, so among them The relationship between him and her is complicated, and Juechen is a very taboo topic now, no matter in the temple or in the upper echelons of Sky Cloud City, and no one likes to talk about this person.
Tian Yunming was one of the few people who knew the inside story completely.
"The secret that Juechen discovered at the beginning is enough to endanger the authority of the temple, and even cause unprecedented turmoil in the domain of the gods." Xingguang didn't say the specific process, because the high priest sitting opposite him was one of the insiders, "At that time For the sake of the stability of the more than 20 million gods and people in God's Domain, I had to make a righteous move to exterminate relatives, but you also know that Juechen is very cautious, he will not give me a chance to get close to him, but for the innocent third brother Langyi, he But not enough defense."
Everyone knows it.
All these things have passed away,
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Xiyun Xingguang seemed to be saying another thing that had nothing to do with him: "That's why I asked my third brother Lang Yi to deal with my second brother Juechen, but Lang Yi was hit too hard, so he later retired under the guise of In the name of the judges, but actually brought his son Fenghui, under the aliases of Hongyi and Viper, to the wilderness to establish the Alliance of Judges, which is the predecessor of the current Judgment Council."
Tian Yunming finally couldn't listen anymore: "You came to me, is it just to talk about these things that everyone already knows?"
Xingguang smiled inscrutablely: "No, no, what I'm going to say next is the key point. I just hope that after the high priest has heard it, he must keep calm and don't act impulsively."
Tian Yunming felt a little uneasiness, and stroked the ring of his left thumb with his right hand to calm down his agitated heart again: "Say it."
Xingguang replied: "Actually, I have never told you that I am also very interested in what Juechen discovered back then. After some research over the years, I have come to a conclusive conclusion about the relationship between gods and demons. Do you want to hear it?" ?”
Tian Yunming's face changed drastically: "You..."
Xingguang said unmoved: "The devil is the god, and the god is the devil. These two seemingly different races are actually born from the same origin. What Zhuyin announced in the sacred fortress back then , In fact, most of them are true, but this is just the tip of the iceberg... The reason why Yunshen fell asleep by himself is nothing more than knowing the truth, or the truth within the truth!"
Tian Yunming stood up angrily, releasing a powerful aura, "Enough! Starlight! Do you know what you are talking about! Just based on your words, you should be punished and die!"
"High Priest, don't deceive yourself. Others may not believe me, but you who have experienced that incident together and served the Cloud God for fifty years, you should believe me more easily than anyone else. In other words, you should also understand the nature of gods and demons better than anyone else."
Starlight still said calmly.
"Of course, I also understand your anger, because once the theocracy really collapses, the temple will have no meaning to exist, and the high priest will have no meaning to exist, but Starlight will come here to have a showdown with you, not for the purpose of fighting with the high priest." The priest is tearing his face, but sincerely hopes to cooperate with the high priest."
Tian Yunming sneered: "Cooperation? You actually want to cooperate with me? Do you think it's possible?"
"Impossible, but I want to try." Xingguang also stood up, his momentum was always very flat, but it gave people a feeling of inscrutability, "The essence of the high priest's maintenance of theocracy is to protect his own. Fame and status, but if you are willing to join forces with me, we can not only perfectly control the domain of the gods and the known wilderness, but can even further control the world and even more. The high priest can maintain his reputation and status, and he can even obtain real rights. "
"The Starlight City Lord is so naive! I don't want to listen to such nonsense anymore!" The high priest sneered, and immediately ordered: "Take down this traitor immediately!"
Master Xingguang knew this would be the result, and sighed softly: "In the end, we still have to come to this point. Since the high priest refuses to cooperate, I have no choice but to resort to the worst possible means."
The high priest Tian Yunming knew that Xingguang was attacking him, "It's so ridiculous, no matter how high your cultivation is, you think you can deal with me in this situation? What's more, once Xiyun Xingguang's assassination of the temple spreads throughout the army , do you think the soldiers will still fight for you?"
His words were not finished yet.
Explosions were heard one after another from outside, and various alarms and warnings sounded one after another. It turned out that the God's Domain Army was attacked by the Judgment Army. Such a method to fish in troubled waters, he would have underestimated the high priest of the temple.
Shui Lan flipped through the Tianyun Codex and was about to activate her power.
Suddenly, a pitch-black long stick suddenly blasted towards Shui Lan, a violent force pierced Shui Lan's clothes, causing Shui Lan to fly tens of meters away, and black lightning entwined all over her body Hit a big hole.
After the priest on the right shot Shui Lan into the air, he immediately swung his staff and threw it at Tian Yunming, but was blocked by a golden mask, and the violent force spread, causing the entire hall to shatter.
"So it was you!" Tian Yunming resisted the attack of the adjudicating priest, "The spy in the temple is actually you!"
Tian Yunming guessed that there was a traitor in the temple, that's why Starlight's news was so well-informed, but what he never imagined was that this traitor was actually one of the two chief priests who followed him all day long.
The fierce battle in the hall is about to start!
Among the dozens of high-ranking priests, 70% of them suddenly jumped up and attacked the other 30% of the priests. Lan Lin, who was waiting outside the hall, was about to draw his sword after learning the situation inside. When rushing in, he was blocked by four or five swords that struck from front, back, left, and right.
Tian Yunming's face changed greatly: "You you you..."
Xingguang was still sitting on the bench, holding a cup of hot tea in his hand, "I'm not the same as my two silly brothers. I prepared it more than twenty years ago. High Priest Tian Yunming, please rest assured, After you die, this Thunder Priest, who is more aware of current affairs, will take over the position of high priest and the temple."