Chapter 335: Heavenly Lord Of Demon Subjugation, Emperor Zhenwu, The True Lord? Starting Off With The Ultimate Move!
Mahadra posted a video. He had already built the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Daoist Temple.
After watching the video, Chen Han realized he had fallen into a misconception.
He had thought that building a Daoist Temple, from choosing the location to construction, would take at least several months.
But in the video, Mahadra directly chose an existing building and sprayed Daoist Sect-related symbols on the exterior walls.
Such as the Eight Trigrams diagram and so on.
In addition, flags bearing the emblem of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation were erected outside.
Inside the hall of this building stood the Statue of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation that Mahadra had brought over, and there was no shortage of items like the altar, offering table, offering cloth, and incense burner.
After watching this video, Chen Han knew he had become attached to form.
Special regions need special methods.
How fast and effective was this approach?
In the video, besides setting up the Statue of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation, Mahadra also began leading the 100,000 believers of the Heavenly Lord to distribute leaflets around them, promoting the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation.
He openly told the people of the Demon Realm that the Heavenly Lord could save the Demon Realm, and that if they went to worship the Heavenly Lord, they would receive blessings.
Mahadra clearly had considerable reputation in this Demon Realm.
Many people of the Demon Realm, after taking the leaflet, all said they wanted to go.
Under his speech, many people of the Demon Realm even began to show a faint light in their eyes, no longer as numb as before.
He was clearly a qualified preacher.
What surprised Chen Han even more was that Mahadra had even announced a live stream, scheduled for this afternoon.
Naturally, because of the time difference, more time had actually passed when he posted this video.
When Chen Han heard about the live stream, he wanted to watch it.
It seemed that Douyin did not allow this kind of live stream, right?
But this matter involved the authorities, so even if Douyin did not allow it, they could not refuse the authorities.
Mahadra’s video naturally attracted a lot of online attention at once.
After all, previously when he went to Eastern Greatness, his pilgrimage-like journey of constant worship along the way had drawn a lot of attention and hit trending news.
Later, when he talked online about the predicament of the Demon Realm, it again aroused much attention and also made the trending news.
After that, his daily worship of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation at the Chen Clan likewise drew countless people’s attention.
So Mahadra’s popularity in the country was very high.
Now seeing that he had joined the Daoist Sect, brought the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation to the Demon Realm, built the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Daoist Temple there, and was going to draw so many people to worship the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation,
one could imagine how attractive this was to netizens.
Many people could not help but feel a sense of pride. Look how awesome their own inherited Daoist Sect was.
This made many people mark the time; they were definitely going to watch this live stream.
Time passed.
In the Demon Realm, Mahadra had long been busy in the Heavenly Lord’s Daoist Temple, meeting with representatives of the people. He had no choice; after he took people out to promote, too many had responded.
The entire Demon Realm had suffered too many disasters. Most houses had become ruins, and there seemed to be no hope of life left, devastation everywhere, with only despair.
In such circumstances, even faith that a deity would save them became a sliver of hope, a form of comfort.
So too many people came, almost in the hundreds of thousands.
The Heavenly Lord’s Daoist Temple could not let everyone in, so they could only receive some representatives.
Outside the Heavenly Lord’s Daoist Temple, a platform had already been built.
Many loudspeakers were installed around it.
Mainly because the crowd was too large; without this, his voice would surely be drowned out and no one would hear what he said.
At that time, Mahadra would stand on this platform, take out the Manifestation Scroll bestowed by the Heavenly Lord, and use it to let everyone receive the Heavenly Lord’s blessings.
He firmly believed the words of the Chen Family Head, for that was the family that served the Heavenly Lord, and he had witnessed too many miraculous things there.
Mahadra’s major activity here naturally also attracted the attention of the nearby Divine Might Country.
After all, the reason this land had become the Demon Realm was that Divine Might Country had destroyed this region with round after round of shells, turning countless buildings into ruins, causing countless civilian casualties and rivers of blood. Only then had the Demonic Path seized the chance to turn this place into the Demon Realm.
If not for that, this would still be a thriving city with beautiful scenery.
Blood, death, fear, despair… for some of the Demonic Path, these were simply excellent nourishment for cultivation.
Moreover, due to the influence of various factions, Divine Might Country had never been able to completely eradicate the remaining forces in this Demon Realm, and it had always been a thorn in its side.
Now, seeing Mahadra stir up such a big commotion, people of Divine Might Country had already taken notice.
At any other time, seeing such a situation, if they felt threatened, they would simply fire a single long-range shell to destroy this place without the slightest hesitation.
As for how many people around the Daoist Temple might be killed in the blast, that was absolutely not their concern.
But Mahadra had come from Eastern Greatness, bringing with him religious figures from Eastern Greatness, and that building had now become a religious site of Eastern Greatness.
This had nothing to do with war, so they could not use such shelling.
Most crucially, they feared Eastern Greatness.
From their investigation, Mahadra had gone to Eastern Greatness to contact a religious family, and then that religious group had sent people over.
Now the people here were placing their hope in the protection of deities, not guns and cannons.
Guns and cannons have their own methods of resolution, and culture has its own methods of resolution.
If they dared to bomb now, Eastern Greatness would have an excuse to act, which was exactly what they did not want to see.
Teisi, as the person in charge in Divine Might Country for handling the Demon Realm issue, knew clearly that once Eastern Greatness was given an excuse, the ones in trouble would be Divine Might Country.
However, he was not without solutions. After all, this land also had native religious sects that believed in local deities.
For example, the Is religion, whose believers worshipped the True Lord.
Even within this Demon Realm, many people in despair had begun to pray for the protection of the True Lord, and their numbers were considerable, truly frightening.
Crucially, the Is religion was very exclusionary.
He could easily have people incite those who believed in the True Lord to confront this foreign sect.
At that time, things would surely become very lively.
Letting people in this Demon Realm area bite each other like dogs would definitely be quite a show.
Thinking of this, Teisi did not hesitate. He summoned someone and instructed him to take people out to incite those in the Demon Realm who believed in the Is religion.
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Mahadra watched as more and more people gathered, all the while keeping an eye on the time. When it was almost time, he walked to the platform outside and stood at the center.
At the same time, he saw a Daoist priest nearby holding a mobile phone, who had already opened a Douyin live stream. The number of online viewers was rapidly increasing.
After his earlier video was posted, many people had already clicked the live reminder.
So as soon as Mahadra started the live stream, many people immediately opened it and saw Mahadra on the platform.
Moments later, the lens turned, and the live video showed a densely packed crowd. Many of them wore tattered clothes with dusty faces, clearly having gone through many hardships.
The key point was that there were so many people that wherever you looked was a sea of heads. The scene was truly shocking.
The Chen Clan.
Xiao Yu, Chen Lin, Chen Dagou, and the others all entered Chen Han’s courtyard.
Seeing her senior brother, Xiao Yu said, “Senior brother, that Mahadra has started the live stream. Over there he has built the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Daoist Temple and gathered an enormous number of people.”
As she spoke, she handed the mobile phone with the live stream to Chen Han.
When Chen Han saw the vast crowd that stretched out of sight, his eyes lit up.
If all these people could increase their wish power, how much wish power could they provide him in one go?
Moreover, Mahadra held a special Manifestation Scroll. Once the Heavenly Sweet Dew appeared, that miraculous feeling would most likely give many of these people pious hearts.
At that time, many would surely worship the Heavenly Lord, generating wish power.
He seemed to see countless streams of wish power converging toward him.
Crucially, this absolutely counted as helping the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation spread his might. The Heavenly Lord should at least give him some good reward for that.
While people of the Chen Clan were watching the live stream, in the capital city, Minister Ma （chapter 323） was also watching it.
In the intelligence they had gathered, there was information related to this. At first it was Feng Shui, now there was also the evolution of Bagua Zhouyi.
These two things had already been verified as miraculous by the Chen Family Head.
What they needed to do now was grasp this miraculous power and make use of it.
This matter involving Mahadra had of course been arranged by the leader of another department. He was only responsible for cooperation.
So now he was simply accompanying that leader to watch the live stream.
“Leader, this Mahadra can actually call so many people together at once. It seems the situation over there is really terrible, if belief in a deity as spiritual support can have this kind of effect.” Minister Ma looked at the dense crowd, full of emotion.
The leader remained silent, lost in thought about something, but his slightly furrowed brow showed he was somewhat worried about this situation.
Because of their position, they had no way to directly intervene in the Demon Realm region.
This pretext of spreading Daoist Sect culture was a new attempt.
It was just that Mahadra making such a huge commotion was beyond his expectations. The people stretching out of sight numbered at least in the hundreds of thousands; surpassing two hundred thousand was even possible.
One could imagine how frightening such a number was.
Leaving aside that this would draw the attention of Divine Might Country and the rejection of local religions like the Is religion, simply with such a number, if they failed to persuade these people to believe in the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation and unrest broke out, they could tear down this Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Daoist Temple and endanger the personnel they had sent.
Under normal circumstances, their approach would be gradual. Even if they wanted people to worship the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation, they would convert them one by one, not stir up something this big.
There was no buffer, no chance to develop cautiously. They had gone straight to the ultimate move.
Of course, this also showed they had underestimated Mahadra’s influence in this Demon Realm.
Now they could only hope nothing major would happen.
With such a big commotion in the Demon Realm, it was naturally not only them watching. Every country in the world had spies here. It was impossible for them not to pay attention to such a massive move by Mahadra.
Teisi was watching most closely. After all, handling the Demon Realm problem was his responsibility. Divine Might Country’s failure to deal with this place had always been like a bone stuck in its throat.
Today he had put on a disguise and snuck in with his men to watch. Seeing the gathering of more than two hundred thousand people, he also turned his gaze into the distance.
He could see a huge mass of people surging from there as well, dense and countless, and crucially, they were holding flags bearing the emblem of the Is religion.
The exclusionary nature of this local religion had, with just a bit of incitement from his agents, driven them to come tear down this religion from Eastern Greatness.
And if the two sides started fighting, so much the better. The more chaos, the more deaths, and they would not even need to send troops. A great many people would die on their own.
This was all simply too perfect.
Sometimes he really felt the people in the Demon Realm were foolish. Even after ending up like this, they could still be provoked over such matters and start internal conflict.
The believers of the True Lord of the Is religion surging this way naturally caught Mahadra’s eye. The symbol on their flags was obvious.
He also knew about the exclusionary nature of the Is religion, but he had not expected that with the Demon Realm already in such a state, with everyone barely surviving, these people would still come looking for trouble.
Was this not making trouble out of nothing?
Should they not first think about how to survive?
Crucially, these people had no idea how miraculous the Heavenly Lord was, simply incomparable to that so-called True Lord.
He felt even more that the True Lord did not exist at all. Otherwise, after all the suffering they had endured, why had the True Lord still not appeared to save them?
But now he also understood that with the people of the Is religion surging over like this, they were certainly not coming to talk peacefully.
So he had to solve this problem before it erupted.
He took out that scroll bestowed by the Heavenly Lord. Only the Heavenly Lord’s power could resolve everything now.
Holding the scroll, he knelt in the direction of the Statue of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation and respectfully placed the scroll on his knees, then took out a dagger.
This scene stunned many of those watching the live stream.
Netizens did not understand. Why had he suddenly taken out a dagger?
Minister Ma and the leader instinctively turned their eyes to that scroll. From their arrangements, they naturally knew this scroll was something given by the Chen Family Head.
At the Chen Clan, Xiao Yu, Chen Lin, Chen Dagou, and the others also saw the scroll and instinctively glanced at Chen Han.
Only Chen Han knew the reason, because to use this special Manifestation Scroll required a pious believer’s blood as the medium, as well as devout faith.
In that instant, in the live feed, Mahadra directly used the dagger to cut open his own palm.
Normally, in such a bloody scene, Douyin would issue a warning and shut down the live room.
But now the live stream had been arranged by the authorities, and Douyin also had to obey them, so even though broadcasting such bloody scenes was a complete violation, Douyin did not dare say a thing.
Blood gushed from Mahadra’s palm. He gripped the Manifestation Scroll, and his blood seemed to be guided, rushing onto the scroll and being absorbed.
He even saw the lines on the scroll begin to glow faintly. This filled him with piety, and he cried out excitedly, “Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation, Emperor Zhenwu, True Lord, please display your power and bring blessings to the believers in despair!”
He shouted this twice: once in his clumsy Chinese and once in the local language.
His voice spread in all directions through the loudspeakers around the platform and could be heard from far away.
In that instant, many people froze.
Those surging believers of the Is religion heard the words “True Lord” and instinctively stopped.
Faces full of confusion, they wondered whether they had misheard. Was this foreign sect also worshipping the True Lord?
Seeing the people of the Is religion all stop, Teisi was also baffled. “What is going on?”
In the country, the live audience was similarly stunned.
It was understandable for Mahadra to call upon deities. It was understandable to call upon the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation and Emperor Zhenwu, since they were the same deity.
But what was with the True Lord?
Even though Emperor Zhenwu also had “zhen” (true) in his name, how could they be lumped together?
At the Chen Clan, Xiao Yu, Chen Lin, and Chen Dagou were all dumbfounded.
Xiao Yu subconsciously asked, “Senior brother, what is going on with him?”
“…” Chen Han remained silent. He did not know either.
In the capital city, Minister Ma and the leader were also bewildered. They too could not see what connection there was between the True Lord and the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation and Emperor Zhenwu.
Mahadra’s sudden cry had made everyone metaphorically pull a muscle.
But in the next moment, while they were still confused, they suddenly saw the live picture seem to be affected by something, starting to flicker before finally turning into a snowflake pattern.
“What happened?” the leader asked instinctively.
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