Church of Everlasting Dao

## **The Multiversal Faction**

The Church of Everlasting Dao is at least a B-Grade force. **[Chapter 266]**

Supposedly, the Church of Everlasting Dao are lunatics who go to newly integrated planets simply to eradicate all life **[Book1, Chapter 68]**. They are of the belief that while the System is compelled to keep integrating new world, each time it does so it expends important energy and hurts itself. That, in turn, prevents the System from evolving itself and the multi-verse. In order to reach nirvana they try to kill as many people as they can so that more energy will be freed up to the system. The general consensus about this belief is that it either is complete lunacy or that it is a front for the church elite to stuff their pockets with their victim’s wealth. **[Chapter 151]**

It is more correct to call the Church of Everlasting Dao two entwined forces rather than one single unit, with one being the fanatics and the other the body-merchants. Some consider the Church of Everlasting Dao is just a front for a large corporation that collects bodies and sells them to people running out of their lifespan. **[Chapter 272]** **[Chapter 523]** But there are quite a few members who wholeheartedly believe in the Divinity of the System, and the holy spirituality of the Church is real. **[Chapter 523]**

Their concept of divinity is trinitary, the insignia of the Church of Everlasting Dao is the three simple wavy lines that represent The Heavens, The System, and The Dao. **[Chapter 523]**

The cultists have a flair for architecture. *The back of the mountain was lit up with splashes of gold and red, and grand temples and mansions built from the pristine white stones seemed to compete with each other in how elaborate their designs were.* **[Chapter 523]**

### **Church Inheritance**

The church stands out for its use of golden flames and classes like Cardinal, Bishop, Zealot, Battle Monk, Purifiers, Shapeshifters, etc. **[Chapter 151]** They also stand out for the use of the skill **[The Ultimate Sacrifice]. [Chapter 186]** In short, exploding themselves into giants golden fireballs.

* Shapeshifters. *It turned out that while it wasn’t a main heritage of the church, there were quite a few infiltrators in their ranks. One could expect there to be well over a thousand of them in a standard incursion. They were mainly used when the natives were strong and organized, and some planning was required to purify the planet.* **[Chapter 159]**

### **Race of the Church members**

It appears that they are predominantly lizardmen but it isn't known yet if more races are members of the church.

*The camp consisted of reddish aliens who looked mostly human with a bit of reptile thrown into the mix.* **[Chapter 154]**

*Zac didn’t know whether there were only lizardmen in the ranks of the church. There had only been that species on the island apparently, though he hadn’t really seen the Zealots.* **[Chapter 159]**

### **Cultivation**

*"What if the Church of Everlasting Dao had formed some sort of ingenious cultivation system? They turned cultivators into zealots with the holy flames, and the zealots kept empowering the flames with their conviction. It formed a self-perpetuating source of power that could swallow everything in its surroundings."* Zac speculating about the flames of the Church **[Chapter 526]**

* Martyr Array. *Uld himself was tempted to take the treasure and run, but he knew that was impossible with the Martyr Array engraved into his soul. There was no escape, only obedience.* **[Chapter 489]**
* Brainwashing. *The sacrfice was simply a local forcefully injected with The Purity of the Boundless Heavens. He would soon expire in any case.* **[Chapter 186]**

## **The Incursion**

The Church likely snatched their spot by eradicating the forces that originally owned it. **[Chapter 395]**

*The camp consisted of reddish aliens who looked mostly human with a bit of reptile thrown into the mix, and there seemed to be two groups where neither seemed superior to the other. Sap thought it mainly meant they were different squadrons. He also spotted three suspicious tents where leaders might reside.* **[Chapter 154]**

### **Leadership**

Original leader - High Vicar Uld.

Current leader - Inquisitor Arkensau, the Grand Cardinal's own disciple sent to New Earth to take charge of the invasion after the news about the Mystic Realm.

#### **Bishops**

1. **Bishop Orsiccas** - killed by **Ogras.**
2. **Bishop Kyhv-Elerad** - killed by **Zachary Atwood**.
3. **Bishop Trovad**.

### Colors

The final incursion was multicolored in **gold** and **red**. Had it only been the lustrous golden color, Zac would have thought it belonged to a church, as it radiated holiness. However, the blood-red intermixed gave a more sinister feeling, and it infected any purity of the gold luster. **Book 2, Chapter 38**

### **Weaknesses**

*The missive from the Pagoda of Myriad Eyes was a personalized query, where Calrin had asked two specific questions. One was how common it was for the priests of The Church of Everlasting Dao to have the shape-shifting capabilities. The other asked for an identifying method.*

*It turned out that while it wasn’t a main heritage of the church, there were quite a few infiltrators in their ranks. One could expect there to be well over a thousand of them in a standard incursion. They were mainly used when the natives were strong and organized, and some planning was required to purify the planet.*

*The second answer was quite simple. It told them to feed everyone a certain root. It was harmless to most people, but to the lizardmen it was like cyanide, even if they were E-ranked powerhouses.* **[Chapter 159]**