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Chapter 218 To Break the Church Spiritually
Xi Lan looked at the altar in front of him. He led the crowd to kneel in front of the altar, facing the three stone tablets engraved with sacred scriptures.

Outside the church, with a cock crowing, Daniel rang the church bell, and the melodious and solemn bell rang through the New Law Garden.

All the people lowered their heads in unison, clasped their hands together, closed their eyes one by one, and followed Xi Lan to pray in unison.

"God, don't glorify me, please clothe me with sackcloth and give me thorns."

Sealand prayed aloud, and behind him, countless preachers recited the same prayer.

"Praise you, Lord, thank you and praise you, for you are our God, and because your kingdom will come at last, and bring us endless peace and joy.

One day, you will take off my sackcloth and remove the thorns, and from then on, the dry well will turn into a spring, and you can be happy overnight in the Leprosy Valley. "

In the unanimous prayer, the thin bodies of the people were bathed in the morning breeze. At this moment, they were united in faith, praying for the sackcloth on their bodies, and praying for the coming of the kingdom of heaven.

After morning prayer, Zealand came to the wheat field in the New Law Garden, and Daniel walked over slowly.

"The one named Naya appeared again."

Daniel stepped forward and whispered,

"Disciples of the Prophet, what shall we do?"

Xi Lan tensed up, her pointed ears swaying in the wind, and asked:

"Did he do anything?"

Daniel's eyes were serious,

"He made a bet with the two preachers that if they refuted him, then he would convert to the church, and if they were refuted, he would be his disciple and serve Cargauth devoutly."

"There is such a thing... and then?"

"The two preachers lost... in front of everyone, they were refuted by Naya, and finally they had to fulfill their bet and became his disciples."

After hearing this, Xi Lan gasped.

The two preachers were refuted by Naia and became his disciples.

Naya's behavior is undoubtedly provoking the church and trampling on the dignity of the church.

Coupled with his previous behavior of bewitching Ankagau.

Xi Lan clenched her fists and murmured:

"He is destroying the foundation we have built with great difficulty step by step."

Daniel nodded slightly, frowning.

"Preacher Zeeland, what shall we do?
We can't tolerate him going on like this.

I heard that the priests of those great temples were bound by their previous oaths and dared not destroy us physically, so they found such a hermit to destroy us spiritually. "

Xi Lan heard it, and he paced in the wheat field, thinking like a Logos priest in ancient times.

The light green wheat with many ears flutters with the wind, and when the harvest comes in autumn, the golden color will show that this is the law garden of God and a place where beliefs gather.

After pacing for an unknown amount of time, Xi Lan slowly stopped.

"Daniel, find him, let me argue with him, let me refute him."

"But...Xilan, this..."

Daniel was very surprised by this, he looked at Zealand worriedly,

"It's too impulsive, this is too impulsive, you should let others, such as me, let me refute heresy."

Let the leader of the entire New Law Garden debate the scriptures with the hermit. Daniel can't imagine what it will be like if he loses the debate.

If the classic debate ushers in a fiasco, countless believers will leave, and the spirit of the entire New Law Garden will collapse...

"Daniel, I know what you're worried about, but... this is my mission, I can't shirk it, and I can't let you do it."

Zealand looked directly at Daniel,
"because…

I am a disciple of a prophet, I am a minister of God. "

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Early the next morning, a guest who should not have come was ushered in front of the Great Temple.

Daniel was sitting on the back of a camel, and the priest of the Great Temple led the camel and led him step by step into the Great Temple.

Stone slaves were not allowed to set foot on the Great Temple of Cargauth, and for this reason, Daniel went there on a camel.

The reason why the priests could think of this method is because more than 20 years ago, Casas, the son of Prime Minister Ibia, used this method to bring a stone slave into the temple.

The hermit Naya held his wooden stick and watched Daniel who was slowly approaching on the camel without saying a word.

"Honorable Hermit Naya."

But Daniel on the camel saluted first, showing enough respect,

"I came here because of Sealand, a follower of the Prophet."

Speaking of Zealand, the hermit Naya narrowed his eyes and looked directly at Daniel.

"I've heard of him. He is your leader and rules your church."

Naya said, her voice was old and hoarse.

"He is indeed our leader, but he does not dominate our church."

Daniel corrected politely:
"Only God is in charge of our church."

Naya said:

"It is interesting."

Daniel did not answer, he took out a piece of papyrus from his arms, and handed it to Naya from the camel.

The hermit didn't read the above content immediately, but asked first:

"What's written in it?"

"Our preacher invites you to the Garden of New Laws, where he will answer all your doubts about us and our God, and refute all your prejudices against us."

"It is interesting."

The Hermit Naya repeated.

Daniel didn't answer, he saluted and was about to say goodbye.

Hermit Naya looked at Daniel on the camel, and looked at his whole body's clothes.

Immediately afterwards, Naya said suddenly:

"Your lives are far more like those who serve God than the priests here."

As soon as the voice fell, the priests beside the hermit suddenly looked embarrassed, with their hands folded in front of or behind their backs, not knowing what to say for a while.

High Priest Ola turned pale.

Daniel grabbed the camel and stopped. He turned his head and said softly:
"Thank you for your compliment, I know, that is one of your few compliments."

"Let your leaders wait,
I will go to your law garden. "

After finishing speaking, the hermit Naya turned around, without even looking to see him off, and walked slowly towards the temple of Kagaus.

High Priest Ola hurriedly followed, the paleness on his face hadn't been wiped off.

That the believer Daniel, and those of the church, were praised by the hermit, which would have been mere admiration, is rare, but not surprising.

But the high priest Ola knew very well that the priests of the great temple had never been praised by the hermit Naya.

Even, Ola heard his contempt for the priests from the praise of the hermit Naya.

The other priests also hurried forward, not daring to neglect, their faces, which had been bathed in incense for many years, were filled with awe and reverence for the hermit Naya.

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Xi Lan sat in the study of the New Law Garden, and he was constantly flipping through the classics to prepare for the upcoming debate.

And Daniel knocked on the door and came in at this time, and said:

"I have delivered your letter to the Hermit Naia."

Xi Lan nodded, took a deep breath, and said slowly:

"Honestly, I don't know how to win this debate, I'm not sure."

"Who else is perfect but God?"

Daniel reassured him.

"Yes, Daniel, we just have to keep the faith."

Xi Lan said, then prayed in a low voice.

"The time is in the early morning after seven days, in the square in front of the king's city, isn't it?"

Daniel asked.

"Yes, you know, debates are often difficult to convince the other side. Only by leaving everything to public witness can we know who wins and who loses."

Xi Lan explained, clenching her hands involuntarily.

That one hermit, who easily swayed the faith of other preachers, should not be underestimated.

No matter how relieved, I am still afraid of failure.

And once you fail, what awaits you may be the decline of the New Law Garden, or the collapse of your beliefs.

At that time, I couldn't walk the difficult road, and I couldn't keep the original way.

"Daniel, you go out for a while, I will continue to prepare."

Xi Lan sighed and said softly.

Daniel nodded and walked out of the study, leaving Xilan alone in it.

The day of the debate was seven days later, and Xi Lan didn't dare to waste any time, he was preparing every day.

He not only read the three sacred classics again and again, but also kept refining and summarizing them on papyrus, and even debated with himself.

And Zealand did all this for one thing only, to defend the way of the prophet and the faith of the people.

Xi Lan did not have the confidence of the prophet. All he could do, apart from praying sincerely, was to make every effort to prepare.

Time passes day by day.

The night before the debate day, it was raining heavily outside the New Law Park.

At this moment, all the believers had gone home, and there were only a few people including Xi Lan in the entire New Law Garden.

Xi Lan sat kneeling in front of the altar, the sound of the rain outside the house was crackling, the rain fell into the soil, and the smell of mud was everywhere, and the flying leaves fluttered in the wind, as if heralding that a storm was coming.

Xi Lan silently recited prayers, begging God to take care of this new law garden of believing in Him, and at the same time assuring God that she will do her best to defend her faith.

"Lord, may you bless me."

As Xi Lan said, she was about to stand up from the altar and go back to recharge her batteries.

A series of hurried footsteps stepped on the New Law Garden, and Xi Lan turned her head to see Daniel rushing out of the heavy rain, his clothes were soaked, and his face was dripping with rain.

"Zeeland! Zealand!"

"what happened?"

Xi Lan stood up from the ground, stepped forward and asked.

"The hermit, the hermit Naya is here!"

Daniel said eagerly:
"He's coming to debate tonight!
He said he was going to refute us tonight and spiritually destroy our church! "

A thunderbolt exploded in Zealand's heart. The disciple of the prophet did not expect that the hermit would visit at night and show his sharpness, so that he wanted to abolish the church spiritually.

"Tell him it's tomorrow."

Xi Lan gritted her teeth and said.

Daniel shook his head instead, and continued:

"He will have no debate with us except tonight.

If we win,

He watched us preach, and brought the two preachers back and set them free.

But if he wins,

We shall destroy our altars, and erect the gods of Cargauth! "

(End of this chapter)