Qingzhou.
At one side of a county city breached by the Devil Race army, the Heaven Temple had set up porridge stalls, spreading goodwill far and wide. Batch after batch of disaster victims fleeing the war came here and were first given a bowl of hot porridge.
Once their minds had settled somewhat, Heaven Temple Spirit Masters would step forward and employ various Secret Arts, either slightly easing their exhaustion or restoring a little of their injuries.
Having lost all sense of direction, these disaster victims were naturally immensely grateful for such treatment.
Then someone would guide them into a newly built small altar in the area, where Spirit Masters would expound upon the Heaven Temple's myriad wondrous doctrines, bringing these disaster victims into the Heaven Temple and having them devoutly worship and pray to the gods of the Heaven Temple.
At the same time, quite a few Heaven Temple Grand Divine Masters in the sky were performing rituals. They would select several more sincere disaster victims and perform rituals on the spot, bringing down divine miracles to utterly win over their hearts and turn them into Heaven Temple believers.
After several days like this, the Heaven Temple would bestow Divine Statue dharma incarnations for these disaster victims to take back and worship daily. Then they could provide the Heaven Temple with an oceanic amount of Power of All Beings.
Naturally, these disaster victims could not see the Dao Realm Grand Divine Masters concealed in the sky.
Each of them believed that their sincerity had caused the gods of the Heaven Temple to bestow blessings. Some became utterly devoted Heaven Temple believers through this process.
However, just as another group of over a thousand disaster victims was being led into this branch altar, the shrill sound of arrows tearing through