The Western Continent.
The Belia Kingdom.
The Year of Green Dew and Autumn Frost.
In the bustling Royal Capital, a clergyman carrying luggage walked out of a crowded steam train station.
As he stood on the street amid the passing crowds, clamor and noise spread ceaselessly around him.
He squeezed through the crowd and bought a map of the city. After lowering his head to glance at it, he headed toward the magnificent Divine Temple in the north of the city.
He wore golden priestly robes, with an emblem engraved with a platinum longsword and wings pinned to his chest. This was the insignia of the priests serving Haotian Shangdi, the greatest deity of the East.
Under his own deity's influence, and having successfully prayed for his deity's divine power several times in recent years, he looked bright and upright, his expression full of vigor.
Feng Xiu's purpose in coming to the Western Continent this time was to visit one of its most flourishing churches, the Moon God Church, the state religion of the Belia Kingdom.
He was to conduct an exchange between the churches of the eastern and western continents on how to better borrow the power of the gods.
Of course, it was an exchange, but also a contest.
It was also an opportunity to demonstrate his own side's strength.
As for why the exchange was with the Moon God Church, a Chief God Church, rather than the Western Continent's God King Church-
Feng Xiu privately believed it was because countless versions of the tangled love and hatred between the God King of Kunlun and the Moon God of Olympus circulated quietly among the people of the eastern and western continents.
This had kept relations between the two churches quite good all along.
In fact, that was not