Under the gaze of the Great Void Pavilion members, Wei Yu finally said, "Out of curiosity, I did investigate as well, but the information I obtained was incomplete, and I can't guarantee its accuracy."
Jiang Wang neither affirmed nor denied it. "Let's hear it."
There was not a soul to be seen across the boundless snowfield; every step sank deep or shallow into the snow.
Wei Yu had the dazed feeling that he and Jiang Wang were old friends traveling together, but when he raised his eyes and saw the sword-glow spreading all the way to the horizon, that illusion shattered.
After organizing his words a little, he said, "First, we must speak of Snow Kingdom's situation. Snow Kingdom is a state where government and religion are one, with the Winter Church as its state religion. The State Monarch is simultaneously the pontiff. But they have no god. Not only do they lack a Worldly Deity like the Cangtu God or the Original Heavenly God, they do not even possess a god of rank as purely selfless as the 'True Form of the Five Directions and Five Elements Dharma Edict of the Heavens and Myriad Realms.' The Winter Church worships winter itself."
"Nearly everyone in Snow Kingdom believes in the faith, but there are few fanatical believers. Nor is the Winter Church keen on expansion. Since ancient times, the Winter Church has never spread beyond the snowlands. It is unlike the Cangtu Divine Church, always seeking to scatter divine light elsewhere. Personally, I am more inclined to see the Winter Church as a fusion of lifestyle and philosophy of survival. People summarized the ways to survive amid bitter cold and, in the form of faith, carried civilization onward across the snowfields."
"The nominal highest authority here is, naturally, Snow Kingdom's