Work Prophet
Chapter 269 - 27 Time Will Prove Everything

Chapter 269: Chapter 27 Time Will Prove Everything

Li Yu was determined to improve the preaching abilities of all the Sabbath members of the Double Rest Sect, and that wasn’t the only measure he took.

Afterward, he also announced that the first Green Field Open Mic Preaching Event would be held in twenty days, with rewards for the top ten, and even more generous rewards for the top three.

Moreover, this event wasn’t just open to current Sabbaths but also to all Double Rest Sect followers who aspired to become Sabbaths.

No matter their background, if they performed excellently and passed the subsequent assessments, they could truly become a Sabbath.

As soon as this news went out, the Silver Moon Church naturally cursed Li Yu as a heretic in unison, claiming he was just blindly mucking about every day, and that if this continued, the Double Rest Sect would soon bring about its own destruction.

In particular, after a Hua Meiniao actually came to his district and sang a self-composed missionary song, only to go completely off-tune due to nerves, causing much laughter, the Quintus Priest was not pleased but rather vexed to the point of pain.

He had never liked the Double Rest Sect, considering it a rival, but deep down he had a degree of respect for Li Yu.

After all, ever since Li Yu had appeared in the Western Territory, he had manifested numerous miracles.

And the Double Rest Sect he led was flourishing, even posing a threat to the Silver Moon Church.

Otherwise, Quintus and other Priests wouldn’t have to come to Green Field and struggle against the Double Rest Sect. Quintus had never seen Li Yu up to now, but he imagined that Prophet Merlin must be a towering figure, no less remarkable than any of the seven High Priests.

But now, Li Yu’s actions deeply disappointed him.

First by using money to attract villagers to listen to the Double Rest Sect’s sermons, and then encouraging the Sabbaths to make fools of themselves, he could say they had lost all shame in their eagerness for an audience.

This also filled Quintus, a fellow Missionary, with anger.

People shouldn’t, at least they shouldn’t be so unprincipled!

Preaching isn’t about performing acrobatics or putting on a farce; how could they be so flippant? This wouldn’t only damage the reputation of the Double Rest Sect itself but also tarnish the name of all Missionaries.

If he could find someone, Quintus would want to challenge Li Yu to a duel, even if he couldn’t beat him, he wanted to spit in Li Yu’s face, showering him with his blood, dyeing his black clothes red.

And this time, it wasn’t only Quintus who didn’t understand; even Ireya couldn’t make sense of what Li Yu was doing.

The Double Rest Sect was clearly developing well, and Li Yu had casually helped her through many crises; they had even jointly defeated that terrifying giant dragon.

So why did he now degrade himself, using a method that was somewhat embarrassing to spread the faith in Saturday?

The Lady had even tactfully reminded Li Yu of this.

Yet Li Yu calmly replied, "Time will prove everything."

Li Yu wasn’t being deliberately mysterious; it was just hard for him to explain to natives of the Bratis Continent like Ireya that localization is a necessary step for any religion, not to mention the power of market penetration.

Even in the universe he came from, Pinduoduo faced a barrage of criticism when it first emerged, and people struggled to understand how a shopping platform with varying product quality, with endless price-slashing gimmicks, could survive.

But the truth proved that for many people, saving money was a more pressing need than quality.

Thus, in just three years, Pinduoduo soared to a market value that took JD ten years to achieve; of course, later, when the economy slumped, with big brother and second brother hand in hand, the stock prices plummeted as well, but that’s another story.

And now, Li Yu planned to adopt Pinduoduo’s tactics since they couldn’t match the quality of the Silver Moon Church’s missionaries, they would lower their posture and get closer to the people of this land.

After all, Saturday has always been the god of rest and entertainment, which matched the religious characteristics.

Although Ireya didn’t know where Li Yu’s confidence came from, based on past experience, she still had an inert blind faith in him.

Besides, she had her own matters to attend to and couldn’t really focus on how Li Yu was conducting his missionary work.

In another two days, it would be the day she officially joined the Double Rest Sect.

This was a big deal for both her and the Arias family.

Moreover, she was the first Lord from the Western Territory to leave the Silver Moon Church for another sect in a millennium, an influence that couldn’t be overstated.

It could be said that her every move now was affecting the nerves of many people.

Everyone wanted to know what the Silver Moon Church would do next.

Miss Rabbit knew very well that the Silver Moon Church would not let things slide so easily and give up without a fight; in fact, she had seen the stirring undercurrents in her domain these days.

And when the day of her actual initiation ceremony came, who knew what kind of stormy waves she would have to face.

But things had come to this point, and Ireya had no way back, nor did she plan to turn back.

The Lady had already announced her decision to the entire Western Territory. Miss Rabbit didn’t intentionally leave half a month for the Silver Moon Church to prepare; if she could choose, she would prefer to settle the matter as soon as she and Li Yu had returned to Green Field, preferably on the first day, to cut the Gordian knot and make the initiation ceremony happen, turning the raw rice into cooked rice.

Unfortunately, according to the traditions of the Bratis Continent, such a significant change of faith had to be publicly declared and, moreover, involved inviting envoys from major families to the ceremony.

On her end, Miss Rabbit not only had to prepare the various materials needed for hosting the guests but also had to dispatch messengers to deliver the invitations and allow time for the guests to travel.

Setting the date for half a month later was already the limit – it couldn’t be moved any earlier.

However, this also gave the enemy an opportunity to exploit.

The Lady couldn’t help but feel a headache coming on, but the anxiety and unease in her heart eased somewhat when she thought of Li Yu, spurring her on to continue entertaining the noble guests who were arriving one after another.

Time swiftly moved on, and two days later came the day Ireya officially became a follower of Saturday.

Now the Arias family was different from what it had been half a year ago, with almost all the families from the Western Territory sending significant representatives this time, though whether they were here to attend the ceremony or just to watch the excitement was another matter.

Especially since Ireya, standing among the crowd, always felt something was off.

It was only moments later that she had an epiphany and figured out what felt strange, realizing that among the many nobles present today, all were followers of Pisya except for her, a believer in Saturday, which practically tattooed the label of ’odd one out’ on her forehead.

But there was no choice; there always had to be someone who went first.

Ireya could only console herself by thinking that once the Double Rest Sect spread beyond Green Field, there might, no, there would definitely be other lords who would convert to Saturday.

Because the spokesperson for Saturday in the mortal world was right there.