#102 - Chapter 102: The Currency of the Gods
Just as Wu Wei's army was redeploying.
As Wu Wei had feared, Su Yingxue was rapidly perfecting her plan.
However, unlike what Wu Wei thought.
Su Yingxue's plan was also accompanied by blood and sacrifice!
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Forty-eight hours after Wu Wei's re-advance....
“Li Sino, have you completed the preparations on your end?”
“Uh.... Uh....”
Li Sino shook her head, just about to answer.
But after thinking for a while, Li Sino gritted her teeth and said.
“No, not completed! I need more time!”
However, on the other side of the Heavenly Dao System, Su Yingxue heard the lack of conviction in Li Sino's voice.
“You're lying, Li Sino.”
“Yes, I'm lying, so what?” Li Sino suddenly exploded, saying furiously. “I think you know the reason I'm lying better than anyone else!”
“Su Yingxue, you were such a kind lord before, you could treat all the people equally, but why do you have to do this?”
Li Sino said, somewhat broken down.
“Why do you have to insist on killing those barbarians? Just because they can't change their faith?”
“Even so, you shouldn't use such a cruel method to kill them all.”
At this moment, on the extreme northern ice plains.
Countless barbarians with their hands bound were being hung behind the Silver Radiance Knights, slowly being led towards the sacrificial altar that Su Yingxue had built long ago.
These barbarians struggled non-stop, trying to escape.
But no barbarian could escape.
Because even on the ice plains, the Silver Radiance Knights had extremely strong mobility.
Even if they could break free from their shackles, they could not escape the knights' pursuit.
An atmosphere of despair spread across the entire ice plain.
“That's right, it's because they can't change their faith that I'm using them.”
Unlike Li Sino, Su Yingxue used the word 'using' instead of 'killing'.
In her opinion, there was a big difference between the two.
“These barbarians may have all been powerful warriors in the past, the kind worthy of praise.”
“But at the same time, they are also the nightmare of my current people.”
“They plunder ordinary people and rob caravans.”
“Under such brutality, the barbarians of the far north, along with their ancient beliefs, have become the nightmare of my people.”
“Those who weren't my people in the past feared them, and also feared their faith symbols.”
“That's why they were chosen by me to be the objects of sacrifice.”
“Only by killing them in the name of religion in front of my people can I obtain the maximum amount of faith points and achieve my goal of saving more people.”
“And don't forget, all the barbarians who are willing to change their faith, and all the barbarian children, are safe.”
“It is precisely I who have saved them from the wrong faith!”
“Now, I am simply exercising necessary evil!”
“The sacrifice of a small group can save more people.”
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Countless barbarians were dragged to the sacrificial altar.
At this time, countless people who had already submitted to Su Yingxue's rule were waiting here near the sacrificial altar.
When they saw the first barbarian appear, their hearts were filled with panic.
The existence of barbarians was the nightmare of these people.
However, when a group of barbarians were bound by the Silver Radiance Knights and dragged towards them, they cheered instead.
Because they knew that their lord had defeated those terrifying barbarians for them.
And at this moment, the chief priest sent by Su Yingxue stood on the sacrificial altar with a sharp blade in his hand.
“Fellow citizens, cheer!”
“The plunderers of the past have been completely reduced to the defeated!”
“They will no longer plunder you, kill you, in the blizzard, and....”
“Harm you with their sinful beliefs!”
Hearing this, countless people who hated the barbarians gnashed their teeth and cheered again.
A female barbarian with a scar on her face was dragged in front of the chief priest.
The chief priest said to the people below the stage.
“My compatriots, look, this is proof of their depravity!”
“Swish!”
The chief priest tore open the barbarian's animal skin clothes on her back, exposing the tattoo symbols carved with scarlet pigments on her back to everyone.
This symbol was the faith symbol of these barbarians, it might be a totem, or it might be an animal, but in short, these things were the beliefs that the barbarians believed in, the embodiment in the world.
And many times, these weak and negligible faith powers can actually provide these barbarians with certain powers that transcend the rules of reality and physics.
But now, they have other uses.
“But our compatriots, do you know what is the real reason for the defeat of this group of barbarians?”
“It's their wrong beliefs!”
“It is precisely their wrong beliefs that led them to do those cruel things.”
“It is precisely their wrong beliefs that led them to the path of defeat!”
“They have been abandoned by the gods of order!”
“It is precisely because they have lost divine grace that they are heading towards destruction!”
The chief priest slashed down with a knife, and the barbarian woman clutched her neck and curled up on the ground.
When the people below the stage saw this scene, they used the temples they had just learned to build, chanting the names of different gods to show their loyalty.
“Lord of Light, Saint Karl...” “Goddess of Knowledge and Life, Liusu...” “Lord of the Ocean, Stuka...”
As countless people chanted the names of the gods they believed in, the color of the tattoo on the barbarian's back began to fade.
There was a reason for all of this.
After this group of barbarians who sealed their faith power on their backs died on the sacrificial altar, the faith power sealed on their backs would be plundered and become part of other faiths.
Therefore, this was the real reason why Su Yingxue asked Li Sino to pull this group of barbarians from the ice plains to here.
In the eyes of the gods, faith power, this invisible and intangible thing, can be materialized!
To put it blasphemously, faith power is the "currency" that can be circulated among the gods.
It's just that behind these divine currencies are living souls.
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As more and more barbarians were judged and plundered of their faith power.
This sacrificial altar, flowing with blood, was also becoming more and more sacred.
This kind of sacredness does not need to be put in quotation marks.
Because the sanctification of the sacrificial altar is not an adjective, but a real phenomenon.
As more and more faith power is plundered, the sacrificial altar itself will become part of the holy site, and it will be easier to gather those faith powers, and finally condense them into [faith fragments] that lords can use.
And these faith fragments will play an extremely terrifying role in the hands of some lords!
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Far away.
Su Yingxue, who was kneeling in the era building, [Cathedral of the Gods], slowly raised her head.
Wearing a gorgeous costume, she slowly raised her hands.
Under the gaze of countless statues of gods, several pieces of faith fragments, like snowflakes, appeared out of thin air in her hands.
“So beautiful.”
Looking at these faith fragments, Su Yingxue couldn't help but sigh.
Then, holding these currencies of the gods, Su Yingxue closed her eyes.
She was about to exchange for the first heroic spirit in this lord trial!
