"Lord Sean, no one knows how long the Radiant Church has existed. But according to records in some ancient texts, it was already around at least ten million years ago," Huoqi continued. "Actually, the church has faced situations like Patrick's sudden rise several times before. It was even wiped out once.
"But the Radiant Church was rebuilt each time. The fundamental reason is that we can offer pure souls to the Lord of Radiance, and afterward, the Radiant Divine Realm rewards us.
"These rewards greatly benefit us, whether we're deities or merely powerful mortals. They also help the church gather more and more experts. On top of that, we can summon Angels to descend. Although they aren't as powerful as deities, we can still summon large numbers of Saint-level and ninth-rank experts.
"There are many other benefits like these. It's thanks to all of them that the Radiant Church has endured throughout the ages. Other churches, once destroyed, are usually gone for good. Even if they're rebuilt, they never grow very large. The only exception is the Darkness Church, which also competes for pure souls. But they're clearly no match for us—at least, not until Patrick appeared."
"Then why aren't there many Angels now?" Sean asked. Although he didn't know why, the Darkness Divine Realm clearly had far less influence on the Material Plane than the Radiant Divine Realm.
Not only on Yulan and the Zhongyuan Continent, but even in the original story's tenth great battle between the Celestial Realm and Hell, the Radiant Twelve-Winged Divine Angels took part, but there were no Dark Angels.
Logically, all the Overgods—especially the three Sovereigns of the Laws—would want to stop Orloff from growing stronger. If there were Dark Angels, they should have appeared too.
He had noticed before that the church on