Chapter 362 - Case Closed (2/2)

It could even get to the point that the one absorbing such energies would be compelled to fulfill all of their feverish thoughts contained within just to clear off all of their impure thoughts if they were unable to simply clear them on their own.

Then again, when compared to the myriad of complicated and convoluted wishes by devotees in the east, those from the west were far simpler: all they wished for was to go to heaven.

That was the only thought that all devout ones had in their minds after all.

All of the messy thoughts and will contained within the power nearly broke Lu Xuan’s mind.

However, he quickly went on to chant mantras for clearing and calming the mind right away, suppressing all of those thoughts and will in him.

What he needed to do now was purge all of those unwanted thoughts and will, reducing the power of faith to the purest form of energy.

The power of faith was fundamentally a form of energy after all. The very reason why so many avoided taking in such energies was that it was, unfortunately, one that contained too many impurities.

Conventionally-speaking, the only way to clear those impurities was to use the secret arts of the Roman Curia. Once such a method was employed, however, one would be assimilated by the Roman Curia. The only thought left in their minds afterward was their utter devotion to God.

Even the other factions and sects that splintered from the Roman Curia remained devoted to God after all. The only thing they were against was the rule of the pope in the Vatican City.

One could tell just how fearsome such secret arts were by that fact alone.

However, Lu Xuan had other secret arts in his arsenal for ridding that power of its impurities.

When he took on the stars back in his past life, he encountered many religious sects and factions that were very knowledgeable in the way of faith. From them, he learned several secret arts for ridding the power of faith in such impurities.

Then again, even if he were to have learned no such methods from them, his own profound knowledge of the fundamentals of cultivation would have allowed him to easily create a set of secret arts on his own. That was hardly a concern for him.

The only thing that remained behind after purging all of those messy thoughts and willpower was pure energy, which was even purer than spirit qi.

Even though the current state of the world was unfit for making further progress, Lu Xuan could nonetheless make use of such external resources to grow his power.

There was no end to cultivation, and he needed greater power to face foes of greater power in the future.

Furthermore, he wouldn’t be the only one to benefit from such energy; they would also boost the power of the Lu Clan’s power by a significant margin. As one of the sacred cities of the Roman Curia, the Vatican City had stockpiled massive quantities of power of faith over the ages.

That quantity was so massive that there was no way Lu Xuan could consume all of them on his own. Whatever was left would serve well to fortify the Yunxuan Villa, making the place practically impregnable. Being powered by the power of faith of such magnitude meant that the villa could survive even nuclear bombs being dropped onto it, as long as they were not coming in quick succession.

All that power had no doubt rid Lu Xuan of any worries he had for those he considered his own.

There was a variety of uses for the power of faith.

It was a form of energy that was so ubiquitous that it was considered a superior source of energy to spirit qi.

Then again, that would only be true if one was able to rid the power of all those thoughts and will that it contained.

All that commotion that Lu Xuan caused, however, had yet to cease.

Representatives from various countries were received by the guards of the Special Task Force’s base near the capital city as they entered the base.

Those representatives consisted of top-notch cultivators from all over the world, the brightest of scientists as well as government and military personnel.

One could say that those people came from all walks of life within their respective nations.

They were all gathered there for one specific purpose: to study the two-winged angel’s corpse.

The body of the two-winged angel was brought back to Huaxia by Lu Xuan, to which both the Italian and the Vatican government protested feverishly.

Then again, Huaxia gave only one response to all that protest: take the body from Lu Xuan if you so dare.

Government personnel of both Italy and the Vatican City were dumbfounded by that reply, as none of them would be bold enough to mess with Lu Xuan. If they actually dared to do so in the first place, they would not have just watched Lu Xuan spirit that dead angel’s body away without doing anything.

Lu Xuan did what he always did in such cases when he brought that two-winged angel’s body back; he sold the body to the Special Task Force.