This round of questions had yielded a great deal for Li Wei.
Although the old man said he had been too young to witness many of those events himself and knew them only through hearsay, Li Wei fortunately possessed the trait "Wisdom of Solomon." As soon as the old man described what the priest had done, he found the corresponding information in Solomon's memories.
The Spirit Descent Ritual.
As mentioned before, Solomon had lived in Emperor Arthur's era. Back then, the continent had yet to be fully united, and many regions followed different religions and worshipped different gods. The Spirit Descent Ritual had been practiced in many countries.
The procedure was simple. First, believers built a statue for their god, then offered sacrifices and called upon the god to descend. The god would then inhabit the statue and display its divine power for a very brief period.
Incidentally, this was not a religious ceremony, but a weapon of war. How long the god could remain in the world and how much power it could wield depended on the sturdiness of the statue and the value of the sacrifices offered.
Of course, even Solomon was unsure whether the beings summoned through these Spirit Descent Rituals were actually gods. What was certain was that they were tremendously powerful entities.
Could this be the reason behind the Holy Lord Church's prohibition against creating idols?
Solomon had never taken part in Emperor Arthur's campaigns, after all. Moreover, this knowledge dated all the way back to before the Empire and the Holy Lord Church had even been founded. Even if Li Wei asked King Solomon, he probably would not know the answer, so this remained nothing more than Li Wei's conjecture.
After all, if building a statue and offering sacrifices really could summon a powerful