Mu Hanyan's heart skipped a beat when she thought of the Wind Control Technique. It was possible for a Soul Priest above that level to be able to do it. However, she quickly dismissed her suspicions. A Soul Priest's status was equivalent to that of a Sword Master from the Holy Court Continent. There was no need to massacre innocent civilians; it was completely pointless.
After much thought, Zhan Yuan is the most likely person. He has the magic dragon Bafeng as his mount, so it is easier for him to do these things than the Soul Priest.
This guy is really crazy, he is so cruel and cruel. Mu Hanyan secretly made up her mind that if she meets Zhan Yuan again, she will never let him leave alive.
"Have you reported these things to the Temple of Life?" Mu Hanyan asked Chu Yanghe.
Although she now had the confidence to fight Zhan Yuan, the Divine Continent was so vast that finding him was no easy task. Chu Yanghe and the others would likely search for another hundred years without any leads. Even if they did find Zhan Yuan, they would be doomed. Unless the Temple of Life intervened, they could pose a threat to Zhan Yuan, at least preventing him from killing innocent people.
"I've already reported it and requested the Temple of Life to send someone to investigate the matter. However, the officials above didn't seem to take it seriously. They just reprimanded us for our poor governance and strictly ordered us to manage our jurisdiction well and bring the criminals to justice as soon as possible." Chu Yanghe smiled bitterly and said helplessly.
"How could they do this? Nearly a hundred villages were massacred, and they didn't even take it seriously?" Jiang Qiling exclaimed in shock. Nearly a hundred villages, with a population of at least a hundred thousand, would have been slaughtered like this. If it were the Holy Court Continent, there would have been an uproar. Yet, the Temple of Life didn't take it seriously.
Obviously, Jiang Qiling only saw the prosperity of Huayu City, but had not seen the hardships of the refugees. She also did not know that in the Continent of Gods, human life was not as valuable as she imagined.
The others were much calmer. To those high-ranking priests, the deaths were just a few untouchables, so why would anyone take it seriously?
"Then what are you going to do?" Mu Hanyan asked. Since the Temple of Life is sitting idly by and not taking it seriously, they can only rely on themselves.
"This time we came to Huayu City, not only to congratulate you on your safe return, but also to ask for your help.
In order to find the murderer, we have sent out all the available personnel, and even left only a few people to guard the main temple city. But even so, we are still seriously short of manpower, so I would like to borrow some people from you, sir." Chu Yanghe and others looked at Mu Hanyan with a mixture of anticipation and trepidation.
For any temple, priests are their most precious treasure. Becoming a priest requires extremely high qualifications, and training a priest requires a significant expenditure of resources and financial resources. Therefore, few temples are willing to lend their priests to outsiders. Unless they have no other choice, they are simply too embarrassed to ask for it.
But at this point, there is no one available in the major temples, and even the main temple city does not have enough people to guard it, so they can only borrow people from the Huayu Temple.
"How many people do you plan to borrow?" Fortunately, Mu Hanyan did not reject their request, but asked directly.
"I think each temple should borrow twenty priests." Chu Yanghe said hesitantly.
A dozen or twenty people might not sound like a lot, but if each temple lent out a dozen or twenty, it would be a lot, adding up to several hundred. You have to know that each temple only has about five or six hundred priests at most. Although the Flower Rain Temple has been developing well recently, it has declined for so many years, and its situation is definitely not much better than theirs. They borrowed most of the people this time, and the Flower Rain Temple didn't even have that many priests.
"Twenty priests." Mu Hanyan frowned.
"If it really doesn't work, you can borrow ten first." Chu Yanghe changed his words.
"Yes, yes, yes, it's okay to borrow ten first." The other priests also echoed.
It seems that they are really forced into a corner and have to take whatever comes.
"No, no, no, you misunderstood. I meant that with such a small number of people, what use would they have?" Mu Hanyan shook her head and said to An Xiaxin, "Gather two thousand priests tomorrow and accompany you to the major temples."
"What?" Chu Yanghe and others were stunned.
You should know that among their ten temples, the most powerful Fengcheng Temple has only nearly 600 priests, and the weakest has only more than 400 priests. Mu Hanyan actually sent out 2,000 priests at once, and it was impossible for her to send out all the priests without leaving a single one. In other words, the number of priests in Huayu Temple is far more than this.
"Isn't it enough? Then I'll send some more people, another 500. If there are more, I'll be in trouble." Then, Mu Hanyan threw out another sentence that made everyone dizzy.
Five hundred priests, that was almost equivalent to the total number of priests in a lower-level human temple. Mu Hanyan threw it out lightly. From the sound of it, she was just a little embarrassed. If she begged, she could send out some more people.
"Enough, enough, enough." Chu Yanghe and the others said repeatedly. If they were not satisfied with half the extra manpower, they would be too ungrateful.
"That's good, Xia Xin, you should make arrangements as early as possible tomorrow. Don't send out those who are too weak. If there is any danger, they will have trouble protecting themselves." Mu Hanyan ordered.
"Well, those below the fifth-level Divine Heart Priest will stay." An Xiaxin nodded.
Chu Yang and the others were about to faint after hearing their words. Originally, they just wanted to borrow a dozen priests, their strength didn't matter at all, just to deal with the urgent need. They couldn't be in the main city of the temple without even a guard priest, right? At least there had to be a few priests in robes to support the scene.
Who knew that Mu Hanyan would just wave her hand and more than two hundred priests would be sent out, and all of them were masters above the fifth-level Divine Heart Priest. This result completely exceeded their expectations.
"Chief Priest Mu, I would like to ask, how many priests are there in the Huayu Temple?" A chief priest couldn't help but ask curiously.
"As of today, there are more than 2,970 people in total." Mu Hanyan said calmly.
As Huayu City became more and more prosperous, especially as the reputation of the Huayu Chamber of Commerce's elixirs grew, priests from all over the country flocked to it, just like Wen Gaoren in the past. Many of them had the status of priests, but they did not hold divine office, nor did they work for any priest family. Having personally experienced the benefits of the elixirs, a large number of them stayed in Huayu City and joined the Huayu Temple.
After all, the pills crafted by Wu Yazi and Zhou Jilin were incredibly valuable. While buying a few occasionally was fine, not everyone could afford to consume them regularly. Joining the Flower Rain Temple was different; not only could one purchase pills at rock-bottom prices, but they were also given out monthly. Where else could one find such a good deal?
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