"Great Father God! Your humble children long for your favor once more."
"Now, the Order of the Four Gods faces the challenge of chaotic evil."
"Upon the eternally frozen lands of the north, enormous White Worms watched us; beneath the Black Soil of the east, colonies of Earth-Drilling Demon Worms ran rampant; in the Southern Deep Sea, Evil God's Offspring attacked our allies; and in the west, an evil monster sought to seize the God of Lava's Authority."
"Great Father God! Your children needed your gaze, needed your favor, needed you to once again bring down the power of divine punishment upon the world's chaos and evil!"
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Beneath Kangqiao's enormous head, an elder priest wept as he kowtowed and prayed aloud.
He told his Father God everything that currently existed in this world.
But he had no idea that his Father God had absolutely no clue what he was babbling about.
With his innocent eyes wide open, Kangqiao quietly waited for the little fellows before him to finish their excited clamoring.
In Kangqiao's eyes, these Dinosaur People who worshipped and believed in him were merely flattering him.
So he could only wait until they were done flattering him. Then, beneath the hopeful gazes of the Dinosaur People, who had all fallen silent as though awaiting his command, Kangqiao finally moved.
Kangqiao raised a massive finger and pointed at distant Black Stone City, then pointed at himself.
The meaning was obvious: he wanted to go over there and take a look.
However, Kangqiao's gesture was misunderstood by the elder priest below.
The elder priest watched his Father God's arm pointing back and forth in confusion, then cried out joyfully after only a moment.
"Father God has given us a revelation! He has agreed to it! He has granted the request of his humble children!"
"Father God has bestowed a revelation. He will first travel to the Southern Deep Sea and join the other three Gods of Order! After destroying the strongest Evil God of the deep sea, he will use his most majestic power to punish those feeble evils that seek to threaten Order!"
"The children of the Four Gods of Order no longer need to worry!"
The elder priest's explanation immediately sent the other six Dinosaur People priests nearby into excited celebration.
They no longer needed to worry, for their merciful Father God had awakened and arrived. He had even kindly agreed to the requests of his humble children!
Ah! What a merciful Father God!
Just as the departed elders had said, the Father God of us Children of Lava was the most benevolent deity in the world.
Of course, he was also the most powerful and majestic deity in the world.
Look! How thick and mighty was the shadow cast by our Father God's arm, blotting out the sky and sun! Look! How gentle were our Father God's wise eyes!
And most importantly of all...
These seven priests had all witnessed the elder ascend into the Divine Kingdom.
At the very instant they had fallen into the magma alongside the elder, they had seen with their own eyes how, the moment the elder's body touched the lava, it transformed into a point of light amid the heat waves and rose into the sky, appearing before their Father God.
Then they saw the elder's soul-flame suddenly blaze under Father God's guidance before instantly entering the Star Radiance gateway in Father God's chest, which shone with the brilliance of the Divine Kingdom!
Though it had lasted only an instant, as priests of lava, they had all seen the Divine Kingdom filled with lava beyond the Star Radiance gateway. Hanging high in the sky of that Divine Kingdom was a Blazing Star.
They had seen all of it, and their hearts brimmed with joy.
Yet they showed none of that joy here and now, nor did they discuss it.
They simply feared that discussing the Divine Kingdom might be suspected of blaspheming their Father God.
"Right! We cannot let Father God head into the Near Sea territory alone. At the very least, we should send some children to guide him. And we absolutely cannot let Father God think that we, the newer generation of children, have grown lax in serving him!"
"Quick! Let's go back! Contact the other three races at once and swiftly assemble a force of city guards!"
The elder priest looked solemn, yet unable to conceal his excitement.
Watching the priests respectfully kowtow to him one by one before immediately running toward the city, Kangqiao was fairly satisfied.
Not bad. These fellows were clever enough to grasp what he meant right away.
Unlike before, when Dinosaur Person Kang Qiao had needed to gesture for ages before they understood him.
And those Dinosaur People from before had been especially prone to misunderstanding him.
Thinking about it made him feel both helpless and amused.
Thus, following behind the seven Dinosaur People, Kangqiao melted the earth as he swam toward Black Stone City.
Soon, Kangqiao arrived five li beyond the outer residential district of Black Stone City.
After arriving, Kangqiao drew upon the power of lava and slowly raised his body from beneath the ground, revealing his full form.
With his colossal body, he looked down over all of Black Stone City.
At that moment, Kangqiao found it rather interesting.
Within Black Stone City, huge numbers of Dinosaur People moved back and forth like ants. Many immediately began kowtowing repeatedly toward Kangqiao and praying aloud.
Under the night sky, the thunderous prayers nearly turned all of Black Stone City into an ocean of joy.
In the beliefs of this era, there was no notion that children and believers could not look directly upon their gods.
After all, the gods of this era lived upon the same land as their children, and the distance between them had not become overly remote or obscure from ancient times to the present.
Although Kangqiao was somewhat unusual and had slept for a rather long time, the gods of the Shark People, Serpent People, and even Mosquito People often awakened.
Moreover, whenever the gods of those three races awakened, they would almost always come to Black Stone City to mooch a meal.
In short, it was all for the Dinosaur People's unique craftsmanship, which could roast food far more deliciously than the other three races.
Therefore, most of the newer generation among the Four Races of Black Stone City had been fortunate enough to see gods many times.
Only, compared to the other three gods, Kangqiao was slightly too large.
At the very least, even the Serpent God, who had the longest body among the three and was somewhat larger than the rest, would be like an elephant compared to a giant python over ten meters long if placed before Kangqiao.
Thus, when the Four Races of Black Stone City saw Kangqiao up close, every member of the newer generation was left dumbfounded for a long while, even feeling as though they were dreaming.
Then, regardless of whether Kangqiao was their own god, all of them either lowered their heads or made the gestures of believers filled with reverence for a deity.
Kangqiao was one of the Four Gods of Order. Therefore, as children under the Four Gods of Order, whether or not Kangqiao was their own Father God, they ought to show him respect and awe.
Furthermore, because the newer generations of the Four Races had lived together for so long, a certain sentiment had already emerged in Black Stone City, along with a vague new doctrine.
Believe in Order, believe in the Four Gods. No matter which race one belonged to, one could freely choose to worship any of the Four Gods, or worship them all.
In short, amid the tides of the age, the emergence of this Order-worshipping faith had been inevitable.
The Order Divine Cult officially stepped onto the stage of history in this era!
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