CHAPTER 779: 195, TRUE BODY

That divine hand, as blinding as the proud sun, was simply too dazzling. When it appeared, half of the people in Yihai City took notice of its existence.

The evaporated water vapor gathered into boundless clouds in the sky, swiftly veiling the real proud sun.

For a moment, the sky seemed to have only one sun left, and that was the Divine Hand!

"What is that?"

"Why is there another sun appearing?"

"It looks like... a hand?"

"It seems... to be falling!"

In just an instant, the temperature in Yihai City soared as if being in the hottest of summers, and the surging heat waves began to expand violently, instilling a primal fear of the falling proud sun in countless people.

Far outside Yihai City, atop a mountain, hundreds of fervent believers from the Sun Church were devoutly watching this miraculous scene.

"Great Lord of the Blazing Flame, let the ignorant heretics feel Your greatness!"

At this moment, every believer was shouting fervently in their hearts, eagerly awaiting the scene where all would turn to cinders and ashes.

For the followers of the Sun Lord, this was both purification and redemption.

Burn everything to the ground!

Archbishop Gulis’s eyes mirrored the luminous divine hand, yet his heart was as cold as ice: "Turn to ashes, heathens."

The colossal divine hand descended with a crash, as if to erase everything.

And then—

"Boom!!"

A hazy sword light suddenly emerged, and the unassuming streak of light caused everything from the Essence to the Void itself to begin collapsing, while faint hints of the primal elements Water and Fire emerged, unleashing a terrible might.

Where the sword light passed, everything returned to nothingness.

An endless will descended, and the eye-scorching divine hand, bright as the proud sun, fiercely grasped, capturing the streak of sword light in its grip.

The unbearably intense radiance instantly covered the sword light, as an endless outburst of light and heat attempted to melt the sword light.

However, in merely a moment of deadlock, the seemingly dazzling divine hand suddenly collapsed and disintegrated, reverting to various Essences of heaven and earth, vanishing without a trace.

The sword light too soared into the sky, with the terrifying Sword Intent even slicing a huge crack through the clouds that had just gathered in the Heavenly Dome.

At this moment, the sky appeared to be split into two halves!

"This..."

"Impossible..."

"How could the great Sun Lord..."

"What is... that..."

Atop the mountain, the followers of the Sun Church, witnessing this sight, were utterly stunned.

Archbishop Gulis’s pupils shrank, as he stared at the sword scar that seemed to cleave the sky, muttering, "What kind of sharpness is this? Does the East Continent have such a Contractor? Who is the deity they worship?"

He had led many believers and five Bishops to pray to the Sun Lord, and under the spiritual resonance, not only was the connection with the Sun Lord deepened, but also the spiritual power became much more immense!

And the opponent?

The people sent by Governor Chi had been lurking in Yihai City for some time and had found that the heretic named Lin Yue had not spread any faith, being merely alone.

Even His Holiness the Pope of the Sun Church could only, by himself, invoke the Sun Lord to manifest a mere eye in this world, and it wouldn’t stand against the Divine Hand he had summoned with hundreds of believers.

Who was His Holiness the Pope?

He was the spokesperson of the Sun Lord in this world, possessing not only immense spiritual power but also unparalleled communion with the Divinity of the Sun Lord as the absolute leader!

Could it be...

That this Contractor from the East Continent named Lin Yue was stronger than His Holiness the Pope?

Or was it that... the deity he worshiped was more powerful than the Sun Lord?

With the same spiritual power, Divinity, the strength of the power bestowed by the deity depended on the deity’s own might.

"His Holiness the Pope is the pinnacle of humanity; his Divinity has reached an unimaginable level, and his spiritual power is equally incredible..."

Archbishop Gulis muttered, "He couldn’t be stronger than His Holiness the Pope, yet he wielded such frightening power without even revealing the True Body of the deity. It seems... the deity he worships is much more powerful than the Sun Lord?"

There was nothing to deny about this.

In the West Continent, among the ten Churches, the deities of the seven major Churches including the Sun Church were visibly on one level, but the deities of the School of Life and the Death Sect were significantly stronger, superior to the seven major Churches.

Not to mention, the Star Sky Church was absolutely the foremost Church in the West Continent, and the brilliance of the Star Sky Mother Goddess they revered outshone the nine deities.

It was rumored that the Star Sky Church once had a clash with the Thunder Church.

The Pope of the Star Sky Church merely summoned the Star Sky Scepter of the Mother Goddess and overwhelmed the True Body of the Thunder ruler that the Thunder Church called forth with all their might!

Such was the vast disparity between the powers of deities.

Now, it seems...

The deity worshiped by this East Continent man named Lin Yue, was it also more terrifying than the Sun Lord?

"Retreat."

Archbishop Gulis suddenly said in a deep voice: "Return to State City, wait for His Holiness the Pope to arrive. At that time, we will pray for our Lord’s True Body to descend and turn this heretic entirely to ashes!"

"We’re retreating now?" A White-robed Bishop couldn’t help but be startled, impulsively asking, "That East Continent man alone summoned such power and crushed the Divine Hand, but he didn’t take the opportunity to slay us. He probably has exhausted his strength, maybe at the end of his tether already. Why not continue..."

Archbishop Gulis slowly said: "The will of the Sun Lord has already locked onto that East Continent man. Once His Holiness the Pope arrives with another three Archbishops and seven Bishops, we will be absolutely certain."