The study was quiet for a few seconds, Ophelia seemed to be sorting out her thoughts, while Gao Wen was digesting the information provided by the other party. After a moment, he spoke and broke the silence: "Is it just because of these two sentences that you started your plan of disobedience?"

Without waiting for Ophelia to answer, he added: "I thought of a possibility - is it possible that the knowledge and nature of the gods are too beyond human perception and beyond the processing power of the human brain, so any behavior close to the gods itself will lead to madness, which has nothing to do with whether the gods themselves are really malicious. Will the death explorers and half-crazy returners see only the knowledge that leads to madness of humans, not the gods themselves?"

These words sound like excuses for the gods, but Gowen knew that Ophelia would understand what he meant - he was not a believer of God, and he did not have any innate favoritism for God. It was just that for rigorous considerations, he had to express all the possibilities he thought of. As an ancient empire researcher, Ophelia's rigorous spirit should also be her professional ethics.

Ophelia's reaction was indeed not as expected by Gao Wen: "This is a possibility, and we thought about it at the beginning - so we did a series of verifications and more investigations, but the more we studied the knowledge of the gods, the more disturbing the vague truth was.

"In the process of digging out ancient ruins, we discovered some fragments left by the civilization that was lucky enough to withstand the demon tide. Their demise was sudden, unpredictable, and under the most prosperous and very stable conditions, we ruled out almost all possibilities except the "destruction of the gods".

"We have come into contact with some ancient races, including the sirens and dragons as you know them, as well as some ancient lords of the Elemental World - the ancient empires are closely related to the inhabitants of the Elemental World, and the powerful creatures in the Elemental World will not be affected by the demon tide. In the words of those ancient races, we found that the destruction of ancient civilizations usually occurs at a stage of major changes in their belief systems.

"In some of the rarest archaeological harvests, we have also excavated some written records on the eve of the demise of the ancient civilization, which occasionally mention words such as "God does not allow it", "mortals have crossed the boundaries", "God has come, and the end of the world is coming". This seems to be a sentence left by a few people in ancient civilizations who have noticed the abnormal movements of gods in advance, but those "prophets" cannot save the situation."

Listening to Ophelia's story, Gao Wen nodded slightly.

The disobedients started that huge plan not because of impulse - they discovered the increasingly desperate truths little by little in the process of continuous in-depth investigation. The dark future gave these "rebels" no choice and had to secretly start the plan to fight against the gods.

"Maybe we still cannot be completely sure of the truth about the 'destruction of the gods', but the demon tide is approaching and the shadow of God is approaching. Even if the end of the world is only one-percent likely, we must make 100% preparation - perhaps all our efforts will eventually prove to be a joke, but if it really happens, we must always be able to take some means of resistance," Ophelia said in a deep voice. "People living in peaceful and stable environments probably cannot understand this extreme behavior, but as a pioneer, you should understand it."

"Humans are suspicious and timid creatures," Gao Wen sighed, "so we always have to arm ourselves."

"This suspicion and timidity ensures the survival of our ethnic group."

Gao Wen adjusted his sitting posture and looked into Ophelia's eyes: "You mentioned one thing just now, you have discovered that the destruction of those ancient civilizations usually occurs at a stage of major changes in their belief system. What exactly does this mean?"

"In short, their temples are rapidly decreasing, and the size of all churches has shrunk dramatically at almost the same time."

"Borrowing faith, so he angered God?" Gao Wen frowned and suddenly felt his heart moved, "Then the reform of the Holy Light Church now..."

"This is exactly what I want to say," Ophelia spoke. On her face that was always light and gentle, smiling like a mask, Gao Wen saw a rare keenness, which was a sincere expression. "The reforms we carried out in the Church of the Holy Light did not cause the 'revitalization' of the God of the Holy Light."

Activation - Gowen noticed the words Ophelia used at this moment.

Then he asked, "You mean that the preaching of the Southern Doctrine of 'Holy Light comes from the heart', 'Moral and justice take precedence over dogma', 'Everyone has freedom of faith' will not cause any bad reactions to the God of Holy Light?"

Ophelia smiled: "People are still pursuing the Holy Light, taking several core elements of the Holy Light, namely, guardianship, exorcism, justice, and light as their creeds. Our temple has not decreased, and the scale of the church has not shrunk. Although we have replaced many of its things,... the Holy Light Church is still a Holy Light Church, right?"

Gao Wen looked at Ophelia who was smiling, but suddenly remembered the many obvious actions of the Holy Light Church over the past few years, as well as the role of the Saint Princess "Veronica Moen" in the church. Many things that could not be seen in the first place are connected little by little at this moment-

The exclusion of heresy ideas of the Holy Light Church promoted the rapid development of the church, but also led to the emergence of a large number of low-quality and bad-behaving grassroots priests; the reform of divine art lowered the threshold for the use of divine art and expanded the scale of the priest group, but also allowed those clergy with varying quality to use the same divine art, which shook the beliefs of a large number of originally devout ascetic monks; the dispute over the interpretation power of classics and morality led to the division of the lower-level priests in the church, and progressive priests like Wright and Severn were born in this context...

These seem to be natural changes caused by the decay and decay of the church after it reached its peak and its internal power division. However... what if there are a pair of eyes full of scrutiny from researchers behind these "natural changes"?

What if all this is to test something, such as... testing the "law of movement" of the gods and testing the "personal boundaries" of the gods?

No wonder Ophelia cooperated so actively with Wright's reforms and supported Cecil's new policy - without sufficient experimental data, how could a researcher make a decision easily?!

Ophelia just smiled calmly and looked at Gao Wen: "What are you thinking?"

“These are the ‘research results’ you have obtained in the Church of Holy Light?”

"If there is no gain, why would a disobedient person lurk in the enemy's church for so long?"

Gao Wen's eyes turned around and involuntarily landed on the platinum scepter in Ophelia's hand. This platinum scepter has been in her hands since the death of the former pope. Even though Patriarch Wright, the great Patriarch, took over the Northern Church, she did not hand over the scepter.

This scepter was originally a possession of the Pope. It is said that it has the function of communicating with the kingdom of God and listening to the oracles, and represents a bridge between God and man. However, due to the reform of the church and the reorganization of all the upper priests, the problem of this scepter has been intentionally or unintentionally thrown behind people's minds. But looking at it at this moment, recalling Ophelia's words that the Holy Light God had not "revitalized", Gauwen vaguely guessed something.

"Are you monitoring the state of the God of Light? Through this scepter?"

"Any experimental project requires strict monitoring and recording," Ophelia raised the scepter in her hand slightly, "This is an attitude that researchers must have."

Looking at the platinum scepter in the other party's hand, Gao Wen couldn't help but have an idea - do you want to try it too?

This thing seems to have a certain connection with the Kingdom of God. It can be used properly and even used to monitor the gods. If an ordinary person touches it, he will probably be directly brainwashed into a devout believer, but he himself is a satellite spirit that has become a spirit of spirit for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, and is very resistant to similar brainwashing. This is proven by the experience of touching the eternal stone slab. Now, touching the Platinum Scepter... should be fine?

Will it be like touching the eternal stone slab, that others hear an oracle, but they hear another message from the Super Fleet, or even... something more unexpected?

At this moment, Gao Wen's curiosity was suddenly ignited and the burning was uncontrollable.

He even prepared to die suddenly on the spot if he was not properly operated.

But at the last moment, he still stopped his curiosity because he realized a huge hidden danger - the eternal stone slab is dead, but the current God of Holy Light is alive...

Although the god seemed to have been killed once in ancient times, he is now mostly resurrected.

Will the God of Holy Light be stimulated by touching the Platinum Scepter? What Ophelia and Wright are doing now can be said to be "stealing the God's power". The most important thing is not to stimulate the god. If the God of Holy Light be awakened by this slap, the other party opened his eyes and looked at the world - what about my church? What about me?

The one who disobeys has been working for a thousand years and his achievements so far will be finished.

After forcibly controlling the impulse, Gao Wen coughed twice to cover up his embarrassment, and looked at Ophelia and said, "If the reform of the Holy Light Church is successful and we successfully block the 'worldly bridge' without attracting the attention of the gods, what are you going to do next?"

Ophelia calmly faced Gao Wen's gaze: "Use this as an experience to transform all faiths in the world."

As an ancient soul who has lived for a thousand years, she seems to have patience and time.

"The gods will really wait obediently to be blocked by us? Although our transformation of the Holy Light Church has not yet led to the activation of the Holy Light God, it is true that the gods will not be able to react when the connection between all the gods and the mortal world is cut off?"

Ophelia nodded slightly: "The operation of the gods is regular. Although the "responder" conjecture proposed by a few scholars in the Gondor era is not completely correct, it is indeed close to some of the facts. Therefore, as long as we grasp this law, we can bypass the gods' sight in a relatively safe situation and complete the replacement and transformation of faith.

"Secondly, according to our research results, although the power of gods does not come entirely from the faith of mortals, the transfer of faith of mortals will indeed greatly weaken them. Moreover, if the 'belief of faith' of the mortal world is lost, the gods will face huge obstacles and losses if they want to come to the world. On the other hand, mortals will become powerful because they regain the power of the divine art, and they will grow and fall. By that day, the gods will not be inconsistent with us..."

She didn't say anything later, but the subtext was already obvious:

On that day, the gods who came to the world... were evil demons and beasts that invaded the mortal world from another world.

The church in the world will fight back bravely and eliminate demons and protect the way in the name of faith.

This is the plan of the disobedient, but it is still not their entire plan, but only one part of it.

Just this corner is already shocking.

But Gao Wen still believes that there are inappropriate aspects of this plan and there are too many variables that cannot be controlled. Even if everything is implemented smoothly, it will not be the best result.

But at least at this stage, this plan is still necessary to be implemented - the transformation of the Holy Light Church is inevitable. Whether for social stability or for the development of the new empire, he must ensure that this sect with the greatest influence in China and the widest believers complies with the laws and regulations of "the power of the divine power" granted.

After talking about some details about the disobedient plan and the transformation of the church, Gao Wen slowly exhaled.

"That's it today, and that's all about the disobedience plan," he leaned on his chair. "I'm going to sort out the information carefully. If I think of any questions, or if you think there is something else that needs to be told, we'll continue to talk about it."

"As you wish," Ophelia smiled, "but I have something to do before I leave."

"Oh? You said."
Chapter completed!