Chapter 269 Underworld Establishment

Eventually, all the nobles were convinced, and the senators sided with the emperor and declared faith in God the Lord as the state religion.

All persecutions against Christians in the past were cancelled, and missionaries were vigorously supported.

The Roman imperial machine was put into operation and the edicts were transmitted to all parts of the empire.

This is an ancient belief that has been in the empire for a long time and has long been highly sought after by the people at the bottom.

Because of this belief, anyone can believe it, as long as they are pious in their hearts and baptize themselves with clean water. There is no need to offer any precious sacrifices to God.

There is no miscellaneous divine authority, it is the one and supreme Lord. All other civilized religions are false gods and are only messengers of the Lord.

Simple, straightforward, low cost...and happy after death.

The last one is the most attractive, there is nothing to cross the river or bridge.

Therefore, many slaves who could not get a response from the Roman gods in the past, and poor people who lacked sacrifices, had secretly believed in this church.

For hundreds of years, the Roman Empire was repeatedly suppressed and could not be completely eliminated.

Now he simply accepted it and turned it into the state religion. Suddenly the whole empire was happy, and for a while there were scenes of public baptisms everywhere.

The impact of Ragnarok has been minimized, and the political situation of the empire has been stabilized, and even more cohesive.

However, because of the loss of the city of Rome, the center of the empire shifted eastward.

Constantine moved the capital to Byzantium and ordered the construction of a new capital.

"Your Majesty, Christians may not enslave Christians."

"Please change your national policy, pious Constantine I."

After the center of gravity of the empire shifted to Byzantium in the east, Athanasius petitioned the emperor.

However, despite the rapid expansion of the church's power, the emperor still held real power and sternly refused.

"Now is not the time. The empire can lose its gods, but it cannot lose its slaves."

"Our population is too small. Two million Romans will be lost among the forty million new citizens..."

"Abolish slavery, and my civilization will die in an instant. Even if it continues, it will fail to recover, and the empire will lose its glory."

Constantine didn't know the crux of the empire, but his civilization relied too much on slaves.

The conquered huge country had a population of 40 million. It seemed powerful, but there were only two million citizens. These were the Romans.

If the system is liberalized and 40 million foreigners are citizens, even if the empire is still called Rome, the real Rome can be declared dead.

Because those 40 million people come from all ethnic groups, including ancient civilizations, and they have their own culture.

Although slavery had many symptoms, the reason why the Romans had not been assimilated was purely because of slavery.

In response, Athanasius simply said solemnly: "Your Majesty, this is a requirement of the Bible."

Constantine's face lost the piety he had shown in front of the nobles before, and he looked at Athanasius playfully: "My archbishop, slaves are the source of Rome's strength."

"Our civilization has developed from a village to today's empire. This is the national policy. It is the foundation of civilization, not the Bible."

When Athanasius saw this, he frowned slightly and said, "The Lord loves the world..."

Constantine said coldly: "Don't tell me this. I have accepted you as the state religion as you wished. This is to replace the lost gods."

“Render to God what is God’s, and to Caesar what is Caesar’s!”

Athanasius' eyes widened: "What!"

"You...you are not religious at all, you will go to hell!"

Constantine narrowed his eyes and said: "Just do it. I am not very religious about Jupiter. Do you expect me to believe in your Lord?"

"Religion is part of civilization, not the other way around. I don't care how you fight in heaven, if your Lord loses, I will believe in Satan without hesitation." "Glory to Rome!"

Athanasius was shocked and said: "How can you say that! Did Satan influence you?"

Constantine said: "Please, your Lord, give me a solution before issuing a decree. I will not allow my civilization to disappear."

Athanasius shook his head and sneered: "Haha, Satan wants to destroy the world. Do you think you can survive by believing in him?"

Constantine gritted his teeth: "If Rome perishes, what will the world do?"

Athanasius was speechless. After his face changed repeatedly, he said, "So in your eyes, two million Romans are everything?"

"That's a pity. Your population will continue to decline. In the near future, you will be unable to have children and disappear from the forest of all races."

"What!" Constantine suddenly stood up and put his hand on his sword; "Are you threatening me?"

Athanasius said calmly: "I am just making a prophecy. The demise of the Romans is the will of the Lord. This has been determined for a long time and cannot be disobeyed."

Say it, he turned and left, the linen fluttering.

As an archbishop, in addition to mastering some magical arts, he can also glimpse general trends and make prophecies.

The rise and fall of all countries and nations has a certain destiny. As the saying goes, the general trend cannot be changed.

In the east it is called destiny, but here it is called the will of the Lord.

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The underworld, or the underworld, after ten days of rectification, has been basically completed and is on the right track.

There is no complicated crossing of bridges and rivers, even the gate to the underworld is called Guimen Pass.

The deceased came in and went all the way to the central city to be judged.

The judgment work was temporarily handled by the gods of the underworld, but they were overwhelmed because there were too many poor ghosts backlogged in the past.

According to the behavior during life, there are three main results. Needless to say, if the crime is extremely heinous, you can be thrown directly into a nearby terrifying environment and be punished.

The prison term can be as short as one year, with no upper limit.

But most mortal sinners only live within ten years.

After all, the intensity of punishment in the underworld is extraordinary, and the pain of the soul is a hundred times greater than that of the body, so you still have to be punished every day. When the soul collapses, the filth has to be repaired.

Therefore, if a mortal soul is punished, let alone ten years, it will be extremely regretful ten times, and it will be completely washed away in one or two years.

After ten years, the soul will even become stronger due to training, the mind will be tough and the ordinary will be loved...reborn.

The second destination is the paradise.

In fact, it is to stay in the underworld and live in peace. This system existed in the underworld before. The authority of Hades can mold various things out of dirty soil in the underworld for the souls to eat and drink. However, the quality of the treatment originally came down to the number of burial objects.

Luo Yan improved it a bit and distributed it according to his virtues during his lifetime.

The entire central area of ​​the underworld is a place of tranquility and elegance, with pavilions, pavilions, and landscapes.

People who were kind during their lifetimes can continue to live here, enjoy the things they were unable to enjoy during their lifetimes, and even live with their deceased relatives.

Even if they are cultivators, dirt and materials are of no use to them, it doesn't matter. Miaohan has specially designated an area, and both the environment and materials are the same as those in the human world.

There are a lot of normal human substances, exotic flowers and plants, geniuses and treasures, and Yan Slave.

There are countless harvests from the Lushan Cave Heaven, coupled with the conquest of the Roman Gods, it can be said that there are all kinds of cultivation materials from the East and the West.

As long as it's not too high-end, he can take care of it. Even if it consumes a lot of money in the future, he still has the Shennong Cauldron.

Therefore, practitioners can continue to practice here after death. Regardless of whether they are cultivating immortals in the East or cultivating gods in the West, this is considered a top blessed place.

The third destination is to keep it.

Either as a ghost, or simply resurrected and joined the Xingtian camp.

The underworld needs a lot of manpower, such as maintaining order, guarding the punished, and regularly imposing punishments.

Now they have no shortage of combatants at all. The original undead army only retains a hundred thousand highly qualified ones.

Others either live in the Paradise area or become ghost missionaries to manage sinners.

So far, Yan Nu has resurrected the nearly 100,000 monks who were killed in the cave and became undead in the filthy earth for trial.

Not to mention, some people were killed by mistake, and there were quite a few of them.

Not all monks participated in the persecution of the people of Shanhai. They were well-read in poetry and books, had a high sense of morality, and had done many good deeds. However, they were in such an environment and could not change anything.

As for fighting Yan Nu, this cannot be regarded as a fault. In their three views, obeying the sky and obeying the master's orders are the right ones.

After telling them all the known truths and the current situation between the Nitian forces and Shuntian forces, Yan Nu gave them two ways, to stay or to leave.

Most of the immortal cultivators still chose to leave, not because they still regarded Yan Nu as an evil spirit and insisted on confronting him.

After all, after experiencing the catastrophe of the cave and confirming that the people of Shanhai were really human beings, no matter how stubborn they were, they would not dare to be enemies with Yan Nu.

They chose to leave mainly because of the bond.

There are also teachers, family members, and close friends in various sects, especially close friends. Immortal cultivators are not ruthless, and most of their feelings are invested in Taoist friends.

Taoist friends who have similar interests, similar qualifications, and the same cultivation level are truly lifelong friends.

"You...you really let us go?" Hundreds of true cultivators stood on the clouds, looking at Yan Nu in disbelief.

Yan Nu carried the gun and waved his hand: "Let's go, let's come back next time."

"..." These monks were speechless. Come again next time? How dare you? When they go back this time, they will pull their close friends and relatives out of this muddy water no matter what.

With their little cultivation, it is difficult to obey nature, and even harder to go against nature... They just want to survive in this catastrophe.

Not to mention, Xingtian still upholds the ancient righteousness, why should he be mixed into this flesh and blood millstone for the sake of heaven?

No matter how much Heaven gave them, they wouldn't do it anymore, and could Yan Slave give less?

They have seen that Yan Nu is now extremely rich!

If you think about it this way, 'Come again next time' doesn't seem to be a bad thing. As long as they don't make any big mistakes, they won't die when they die in this underworld, and they will still have the opportunity to get a glimpse of the great road in the future.

"Whoosh!" The Youdao cultivators scattered and went back to their homes.

Soon, the latest news about Yan Slave spread throughout all the sects.

The various sects who had moved overseas were all dumbfounded.

After learning that Xing Tian's army had gone overseas and they were running circles in the opposite direction, they could be said to be on tenterhooks.

Even the newly occupied mountain gate was abandoned, hiding everywhere, looking forward to the return of the immortals.

Who would have thought that in just one month, Yan Nu would do great things.

Ragnarok, the underworld is born!

Either of these two major events shocked the spiritual world.

The Xingtian camp has become a force!

Although the Roman pantheon is incomparable to that of the Central Plains, it is the strongest pantheon overseas. Even they are being blamed, which shows that Yan Nu has the power to ascend to the level of immortality.

At least Sanxian, that is, Sansianxian, is absolutely impossible to threaten him.

I’m afraid it’s also difficult for a serious Taoist true immortal!

This is still hard power, coupled with the strange and terrifying characteristics of Yan Nu, even an Earth Immortal may not be able to do anything to Yan Nu if he does not have two brushes and the ability to press the bottom of the box.

If you can't do anything about him, it will make him stronger.

This growth rate is so outrageous. While the immortals are still on their way back, most of them are already disqualified from fighting?

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p.s: Sorry. My grandma is in the ICU and she said she might not be able to survive tonight. I am over 80 years old and have COVID-19, and I can no longer breathe. I reluctantly updated one chapter. I'll read it tomorrow. There should be an update. But if she leaves, take time off.