As Zhang Yuanbai led the entire nation in ascension and became a god on the spot, the faith of the Zhengyi Sect began to expand at a breakneck pace.
Wherever Zhengyi Sect mages went, people greeted them with baskets of food and jugs of drink.
Since the last battle, Christianity and the Zhengyi Sect had tacitly avoided each other while spreading their faiths.
The two sides had remained at peace until now, but Zhang Yuanbai's ascension shattered the present balance.
Even with the support and aid of powerful deities such as Pelor, the god of the sun, Tyr, the god of justice, and Rao, the god of peace—
—it was nowhere near as shocking as Zhang Yuanbai becoming the first true god in a thousand years to ascend in broad daylight.
After all, those three gods were simply too far removed from ordinary people. How could they compare to Zhang Yuanbai, whom people had witnessed with their own eyes?
Seeing this, David and John could no longer sit still.
If this continued, even the people under Christianity's rule would switch to the Zhengyi Sect.
If they did not stop it and allowed things to develop like this, then when facing the Zhengyi Sect, Christianity feared it would never again have a chance to rise.
After the two discussed the matter with Pelor, Tyr, and the others, and offered prayers to their Lord Jehovah—
—they likewise decided to ignite their divine fires and lead their entire nation into godhood.
Compared to Zhang Yuanbai, who had relied solely on his own power to lead the nation into godhood under the witness of all living beings—
—with the aid of three powerful deities and Jehovah's support behind them, David and John had it far easier, and their spectacle was far grander.
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