Ten days had passed. This speed was quite decent. His own improvement could cheat a bit through the commandments and other means, so naturally, progressing a little faster wasn’t a problem.

However, this unfamiliar domain still required careful refinement.

“Next, you need to further mobilize the power of the deep well water within your body, then continuously strengthen your own base numerical values.”

“When the base numerical values reach a certain level, entering the Steel Seed stage, that is when Whale Transformation truly erupts.” Latest content published on novelFirｅ.net

Naimes collected some of Pur’s flesh and blood as specimens.

The reason he could complete this further transformation so quickly within ten days was largely due to the old priest’s help.

The new feature of the Oath Rope, Bloodline Connection, was extremely powerful.

His Oath Rope was originally a state of strands slightly thicker than a thumb.

But as more special effects were added on top, and more contracts were bound to himself, the length and changes of the Oath Rope rapidly increased.

For example, it had previously evolved into fine strands almost invisible to the naked eye that severed Benjamin’s head during a rapid sprint.

Now it was further refined. After the Oath Rope split into fine strands, the tips of these strands extended into even more microscopic “threads.”

These threads could affect the bloodline of a living being to a certain degree.

“Unfortunately, this requires extremely strong microscopic vision and exceptionally sharp control ability.”

“If this ability could improve several levels, I might be able to directly edit the bloodline genes.” Naimes had not fully brought everything from his past life into this world.

People in this world might have something like bloodlines or genes, but many things couldn’t be exactly the same as in his previous life.

The mere existence of the Floating Whale alone was enough to make the biology from his past life explode.

Science also needed to respect objective laws;

it was merely a method to observe, summarize, and generalize the objective universe.

Naimes’ current problem was that his observation ability and precision were insufficient.

He couldn’t fully utilize this special tool.

“What I need now is a true opportunity, a chance to explosively combine my power.” Naimes could sense that this time, after seizing the identity and entering the material plane, he had reached a critical period.

As long as he could complete the condensation, he could unleash his full power without covering his body with the demon form or forming a physical medium.

Naimes had roughly completed the utilization model for faith power. Once activated, the newly born traits would become a bridge connecting all of Naimes’ power.

“The only problem now is—there isn’t enough faith power!”

“The Divine Nails formed by twenty-one years of faith power, according to estimates, are fundamentally unable to support the formation of the trait I desire.”

“Moreover, because I need to mobilize both the power of the demon form and the holy knight identity, I need two different types of faith.”

“The faith in the Oath God for about one hundred and fifty years is enough, but for my own faith, about twenty years is sufficient.”

“The faith in the Oath God is easy to obtain;

the faith from the church’s statues has never been called upon.”

“The difficulty lies with the old priest. He has always guarded the church and rarely goes out. I need to find a way to get him away.”

“And the twenty years of personal faith power is even more troublesome. The output of this faith is too small.” Naimes currently had only three and a half followers.

Tangs, Pur, the village guard, and the broader villagers.

Tangs was considered a standard shallow believer, able to produce one year’s worth of faith power in one year.

Pur was a devout believer;

his faith power output was extremely high in quality. Trading quality for quantity, he produced faith power equivalent to about five to six years in one year, and as Pur’s strength increased, his faith output steadily rose.

The village guard was a broad believer. Due to his unease toward evil, he chose to be embraced by Naimes, generating a fearful faith power against evil. This faith power was explosive.

On ordinary days, the village guard produced basically no faith power, but when he committed evil deeds or witnessed evil’s existence, his faith power would explosively grow for half a month to even a month’s worth.

The remaining half was the entire village’s villagers.

When they occasionally saw Naimes and greeted him, they would also project some admiration and envy toward Naimes’ holy knight identity.

These things could also be counted as broad faith power, but refining them was too troublesome.

“At the current pace, twenty years’ worth of faith power will probably take seven or eight more years to accumulate.”

“To speed things up, I can only increase both the quantity and quality of followers.”

In recent days, Naimes had not been idle;

he had already begun preparations to establish a secret church group.

There were more than five hundred people in the village, most of whom were simple villagers.

They lived their whole lives in this small village and basically never left. Their thinking and faith had long since solidified.

They only cared about their own small patch of land and the daily necessities of life.

Such individuals would rarely change their mindset unless major upheaval occurred.

Then there were others, mainly teenagers.

“They still harbored thoughts of leaving the village and going out into the world. They didn’t want to stay here their whole lives, either gathering herbs on the mountain or working in the fields.”

“Recently, some people thought I was approachable and wanted to join the church through me.”

“After some persuasion, I’m confident I can trick some of them over to my side.”

“Although this greatly increases the risk of exposure.” Naimes knew that Jacques and Isabella were still watching them.

Those two seemed silent but were actually waiting for an opportunity.

They had worked hard to integrate into the village and were observing any abnormalities in daily life.

Including Tangs, Isabella had also tested him.

Fortunately, although Tangs was full of hedonistic desires, he hadn’t been completely blinded by them.

His fear of Naimes kept him restrained from expressing ‘lust’ for Isabella, and he hadn’t revealed more intelligence.

On the other side, Op was also waiting, waiting for fewer obstacles.

Sure enough, today the order came down to reprimand Jacques for acting on his own and conflicting with Naimes, demanding that he quickly return to Wavetail Town.

Jacques had no choice but to take leave and planned to leave Beiqi Village in the next few days.

Although he was unwilling, Jacques knew he had no other options.

After receiving the order, Jacques left early the next morning, carrying his belongings alone.

Op’s caravan was still preparing, usually organized once every one to two months, bringing enough herbs, animal pelts, and other goods to Wavetail Town or Longbei Town.

They exchanged them for enough daily supplies and then brought them back to the village.

It was actually quite soon. After learning about Jacques’ situation, Op even told him to wait two days and leave together.

But Jacques insisted on leaving, so Op didn’t stop him.

Jacques glanced back at the village after leaving. Seeing no one watching, he resolutely left the main road and slipped into the nearby forest.