"Do you know where the Pope of the Star Sky Church is?" Lin Yue asked.

"Currently in the Eastern Continent." The Witch God couldn't help but glance at him and said, "He's in Beijing at the moment, Mr. Lin Yue, are you confident?"

"I can give it a try."

Lin Yue nodded slightly and pondered to himself, "I just don't know if killing the Divine Contractor will cause the Church to collapse. How much more will Black Moon turn red..."

"If Mr. Lin Yue is truly confident, you might as well try." The Witch God said, "The other Nine Churches are not as much of a concern. The main issue is the Star Sky Church. If the Star Sky Church is weakened and can't summon the True Body of the Sky Mother Deity, it will be much easier to replace the faith. The Eastern Continent has far more divines than the Western Continent."

Lin Yue nodded slightly and said, "I'll try."

...

Several days later.

A fully loaded caravan arrived at State City, passing through the latest Beijing-State line train without any disturbance and smoothly entered Beijing.

Of course, this didn't stop the stationed warlords in Beijing from exploiting them, and the goods were thoroughly inspected.

The largest warlord who established the East Continent Democratic Republic nearly unified the Eastern Continent, and even after a rebellion and division, the warlord occupying Beijing remained the largest force in the entire Eastern Continent today.

In addition to holding significant forces and geographical advantages, they also had the planes and cannons brought by the Western Continent, and one crucial element—

The support of the Star Sky Church.

The two other powerful warlord factions that broke away were respectively supported by the White Lotus Sect and the Heavenly Demon Sect.

To this day, the leading figure of the Beijing warlord faction still considered himself as the President.

"Newspaper! Newspaper! The latest Beijing-Lu Evening News!"

"The new issue is out. The female students from Beijing University are causing trouble again!"

"Come and see, the eldest daughter of the Qi family ran away with someone!"

In the early morning, the cries of the newspaper boys floated through the streets, as a caravan of dozens of horse-drawn carts slowly moved along the chilly streets.

At this moment, the curtain of the cart at the front of the caravan suddenly lifted. A young man leaned out, waved to the newspaper boy not far away, and said with a smile, "Hey kid, bring me one."

The newspaper boy quickly jogged over and handed a newspaper to the young man beside the cart.

Lin Yue took the newspaper, pulled out a five yuan note from the East People's Bank, and casually said, "Keep the change."

The newspaper boy happily thanked him.

Sitting back inside the carriage, Lin Yue casually browsed through the newspaper, just to get a sense of the situation in Beijing.

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However, the newspaper mostly contained gossip. There was very little information about the Star Sky Church, and it was mostly positive news that was widely spread.

This time, he used the caravan to sneak into Beijing to launch a surprise attack on the Star Sky Church.

According to the Witch God, popes from these Western Continent churches always had Divine Thoughts awareness around them. Once extraordinary power is detected, they become wary; normally, even if a Divine Descent is summoned in advance, it's impossible to launch a sneak attack.

The killing intent of ordinary people couldn't escape the perception of Divine Thoughts.

Therefore, he chose to disguise himself as a mortal. With his Dao Heart Realm, he could easily conceal his killing intent. As long as he could get close to the Pope, he could achieve an Instant Kill.

The question was whether his 'Formless' Dao, derived from the Ultimate Path, could elude the perception of the Sky Mother Deity of the Star Sky Church.

Theoretically, Formless could perfectly mimic and transform into anyone, including changing the Divine Soul Aura, without any flaws. In theory, it wouldn't be detected.

But if viewed on a higher level, there could be a flaw.

Such as... causality.

If a method involving causality is used, it would be possible to confirm authenticity through causal lines.

However, there were very few in the Proving Dao Realm that involved causal methods.

From Xiahou Shou's past life memories, he hadn't heard that the Sky Mother Deity had such methods, so he dared to attempt the assassination.

"Hmm?"

Lin Yue suddenly found a piece of news in the newspaper, "The Pope of the Star Sky Church is preparing to hold the first Holy Ceremony of the Star Sky Church in the Eastern Continent on the first of next month?"

He had heard that the Holy Ceremony in the Western Continent was a large religious festival hosted by the Star Sky Church, mainly to increase the number of its followers and also to strengthen the devotion and sincerity of the believers.

In the Western Continent, only the Star Sky Church was qualified to host the Holy Ceremony, which made it the first church in the Western Continent.

The other Nine Churches were actually all implicitly considered subordinate to the Star Sky Church, even the canonical books of the Star Sky Church would note that the Nine Gods worshipped by the other churches were all vassals under the seat of the Sky Mother Deity, who had the authority to punish.

The Holy Ceremony involved not only the followers of the Sky Mother Deity but also the followers of the Nine Churches.

"Normally, approaching the Pope of the Star Sky Church is not too difficult."

Lin Yue narrowed his eyes slightly, "However, on the day of the Holy Ceremony, it would obviously be easier. Plus... In front of many believers, it would be easier to destroy faith. If I kill the Pope of the Star Sky Church, the other churches might even summon their True Divine forms to descend, and I might be able to kill more..."

In an instant, he made his decision.

"Just wait for half a month."

...

Time passed day by day.

During this period, Lin Yue never released a large-scale Divine Thought to avoid accidentally sweeping over the Pope of the Star Sky Church and being sensed by the Sky Mother Deity, which would cause them to be alert.

As the Holy Ceremony approached, Beijing became especially lively.

Various churches from the Western Continent all rushed over.

Compared to the many sects in the Eastern Continent, Western churches were all under the integration of the Star Sky Church, so naturally, they would all be present at the Holy Ceremony.

However, news from Yihai City also gradually spread.