Chapter 48: Blasphemy

The Primordial Continent was not a world with a strong religious following.

Even though the Humans, Ravagers, and other races had religious organizations and sects within their culture, none of them were an integral part of society.

Only one race was an exception to this rule: the Harpies.

The Harpies possessed strong faith. They all believed in a single Mother Goddess, the ancestor of all of the Harpies. She was called the Mother of the Boundless Sky, which was why her followers referred to her as the Mother Goddess.

The Harpies also possessed a distinct separation between church and state — the Sky Country and the Feathered Goddess Sect were entirely distinct.

The emperor possessed absolute political power, while the religious leader possessed absolute religious power. The religious leader’s influence was in no way weaker than that of the emperor; in some aspects, in fact, he possessed even greater sway. The Feathered Goddess Sect even had their own army and tax system.

The Harpies revered the Mother Goddess and zealously believed in her. Su Chen knew about all this.

However, he didn’t know that the Harpies would receive divine inspiration from the Mother Goddess.

She wasn’t just a symbolic figure to them?

He sneered disdainfully, “Do you really believe that there...