Great Zhou struck first, guiding and seizing public opinion, branding the Heaven Temple as consorting with devils.
In truth, it struck the Heaven Temple right at its vital spot.
This was also why Prince Xun Ji Mao had said in Qiankun Hall that Grand Priest Bai Xiang's plan—to publicly proclaim the Heaven Temple's collusion with devils to the world—was a poisonously brilliant open scheme. This was precisely what he meant.
Why did the Heaven Temple disregard the interests of Great Zhou's human race and repeatedly aid the Devil Race on the Human-Demon Battlefield?
In order to breach the Blood River Forbidden Zone defended to the death by the Great Zhou Ancestral God Hall, the Heaven Temple had even shamelessly used Sun Fire Talismans that could only be refined by Creation Realm Divine Beings.
At its root, it was all for believers, for the Power of All Beings!
The gods of the Heaven Temple had an enormous need for the Power of All Beings.
Yet this Power of All Beings could only be gathered from vast numbers of unwavering believers.
After countless years of research, the Heaven Temple had discovered that the more chaotic the wars, the more believers there were—and the higher the proportion of fanatics among them.
For in times of war, the peace and full bellies ordinary people could no longer obtain through their own strength and their own hands could only be entrusted to illusory deities!
In peaceful times, when the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, safe and happy, who among them would have nothing better to do than pray to gods and worship Buddhas?
This was the fundamental reason the Heaven Temple stirred up wars.
And the fundamental reason it stirred up wars was to gather believers on a massive scale in a