Holy crap!!!
A loud cry of alarm echoed through the cave, coming from Archbishop Edward, whose face was filled with shock, even fear.
The source of their shock was the pale, divine corpse hanging high on a bone cross inside the huge, hollowed-out cave.
The bizarre, pure white humanoid creature was nailed to a cross made of bones, with a long, pure white bone nail deeply inserted into its chest. Even from a distance, its tall, slender figure and its strange, terrifying beauty still made Edward's scalp tingle and his ankles feel weak.
People often speak of gods lightly, but when the corpse of a god truly appears before their eyes, all the jokes and thoughts vanish completely, leaving only fear and shock!
Compared to the pale, divine corpse hanging high on the bone cross, the densely packed Holy Knight occupying the cave were utterly insignificant!
Edward's eyes widened in shock and fear as he stared at the pale body bathed in sunlight in the distance, his mouth agape. His heart pounded wildly, his nerves pounding.
After staring at it for a long time, he saw that the chest of the magnificent divine corpse seemed to be rising and falling slightly. He then collapsed to the ground, his face ashen, and he was so frightened that he almost died on the spot.
"God... God... didn't... move!" Edward collapsed to the ground, his face contorted in panic. He pointed his trembling finger at the corpse of the god nailed to the white cross, feeling as if his very soul was leaving his body.
However, no one mocked his cowardice at this moment, because all the researchers in this cave, even those who had been with the divine corpse for a long time, still had an inescapable sense of fear and horror.
It's like a nuclear bomb whose internal structure is undergoing unpredictable fission; no matter how many times you look at it, once you see it, all that's left is endless fear and horror.
Just as Edward felt a heat rising in his pants, almost making him unable to hold it in...
Finally, Yalian III snapped out of his daze at the perfect form of the divine corpse before him and let out a deep sigh.
"God has never died. His Edward Adam said that death has already detached Him from His body, so how could He possibly die? He is merely sealed away now."
Yalian III's words pulled Edward back from the brink of fear. Watching Yalian III's back as he gazed at the corpse of the god, Edward finally regained some strength and got up from the ground again.
Now he finally understood why Adam had been doing seemingly pointless things all these years, and he finally understood why that old good-for-nothing Adam would rather die than move the Holy See.
However, he was even more terrified. First, he was terrified that such a terrifying thing was hidden in the back mountain of the Holy See where he had lived for many years, but he was completely unaware of it. Second, he did not know why His Holiness the Pope had summoned him to see such a terrifying thing.
"God, that's a god! And a god that hasn't died out! Shouldn't something so terrifying be hidden away like the old Pope, afraid of being discovered? Why did they summon me, Edward, to see this terrifying god's corpse?"
Moreover, they didn't just bring him here to see it; there are even more than a dozen scholars studying the corpse in the cave now. Some of them are even occupying the area around the corpse, trying to take the golden blood that is oozing from the bone nail in its chest... Their audacity is unparalleled, making Edward feel his scalp tingle just by looking at them, fearing that his actions might suddenly awaken the pale corpse hanging on the cross.
This made Edward even more incomprehensible... Why wasn't such a terrifying creature properly preserved, but instead allowed to be explored by people? Didn't he, Yalian III, fear the resurrection of this divine corpse?
Seemingly sensing Edward's confusion, before Edward could ask, Yalian III calmly asked, " Edward, now that you see the corpse of a god, do you feel any fear?"
"Utterly horrified!" Edward's face turned deathly pale as he stared blankly at the scholar drawing blood from the corpse in the distance.
"Yes, I am terrified. That's how I feel too... If such a terrifying creature were to be resurrected, everything would face true destruction... And such a terrifying creature is the ultimate form of Vampire."
"What?!" Edward exclaimed, utterly shocked.
Are you kidding me? Vampire can transform into such terrifying creatures?
Yalian III, with his hands behind his back, gazed at the pale, divine corpse illuminated by the sun reflected in the massive crystal in the distance, and spoke with a sense of melancholy:
" Edward, whether it is the Shenyin born from God's mating with a woman, Jonah born from God's mating with a man, or the various monsters born from mating with other animals, they all have one thing in common: the intertwining of God's Divinity and the vitality of creation gives them mortal nature."
Divinity is eternal and unchanging, while living things are constantly changing, so living things can never bear Divinity.
Therefore, of all the creations God produced, only Vampire, a species born from mating with the dead, are able to bear the Divinity that belongs to God and become true... gods.
This is the message Adam told me, and it is also the root cause of the Papal State' ninety-year Demon-Hunting Campaign.
Although the New-Type Vampire has no chance to grow into God... the current Blood Clan Progenitor, His Majesty Norton, is Vampire from the old era and has already entered the final stage of transformation.
Therefore, I brought you here to pay homage to the glorious corpse of the god... and also to have you lead the way in subjugating the Old Faith, so that we can quickly gather strength and nip that Blood Clan Progenitor in the bud...
Yalian III stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the Holy Knight scattered all over the ground, feeling an increasing sense of urgency.
He had seen the Blood Clan Progenitor and received the information from His Majesty Adam.
Therefore, by combining the two, he discovered a truly terrifying fact.
That was Norton, the Vampire Progenitor, an old-time Vampire, commonly known as a copy of God.
Moreover, its body is decaying, seemingly having entered the final stage of the Church's research into the transformation of Vampire from the Third Stage to the Fourth Stage...
Therefore, in terms of time, it can no longer be delayed.
That old-fashioned Vampire Norton must be eliminated, and very quickly!
As for the scholars researching in the cave of the divine corpse, that was due to the ideological problems of Yalian III.
Yalian III was not of Church origin and did not receive Church education from a young age; his ideology was still largely based on the imperial rule and the education he received from the royal family.
Although the Holy Lord Church was established as a state and succeeded the Pope in order to eliminate the God Corpse and Vampire, his main purpose was still to continue the rule of the monarchy.
On this point, the other popes differed completely.
Although the popes of all time were cruel, the Church ideology they embraced was ultimately theological, with God being the most important and the "god's corpse" being the most important. Therefore, the popes of all time were able to take all sorts of crazy actions to prevent the "god's corpse" from rising again. It may seem that they were doing it for the sake of humanity, but in reality, the fundamental reason was that "God is the most important."
For popes throughout history, preventing the resurrection of God was, in effect, putting their theological ideas into practice.
Yalian III, however, started from the perspective of imperial rule.
Hiding the god was detrimental to his imperial rule, as it was a potential threat.
However, if this were exposed, the throne, already blessed by the gods, would undoubtedly be imbued with an additional layer of divine radiance, thus ensuring its longevity.
In addition, if the divine corpse were studied in some way and its secrets were given to the royal family, it would undoubtedly be a means for the royal family to continue indefinitely.
In any case, the divine corpse is a potential threat whether it's hidden or exposed.
Why not expose it, then investigate it? We can gain something from it, and the trouble will be minimal.
The royal family is the only one!