For the next seven days, some watched with envy and jealousy, while others eagerly contacted the lottery winners, hoping to become accompanying personnel.
Nations also began to step forward to contact the winners.
They sought cooperation and offered assistance.
Fortunately, with the Sun Temple and the Sun Goddess serving as a deterrent, no one dared to coerce; at most, they resorted to temptation.
Ding Yun did not interfere with this.
As long as the Sun Temple's authority was not challenged and the final missionary outcome was not affected, the process was of no consequence. It didn't matter who the accompanying personnel were. If capable individuals were sent with the lottery winners to spread the faith, the ultimate result would likely be much better than if the winners brought their entire families along.
This was the first time venturing to an alien world for missionary work.
Ding Yun did not wish for a failure.
A good start was something to be superstitious about.
Seven days passed in a flash. The hundred lottery winners and three hundred accompanying personnel, utilizing storage devices to carry abundant supplies, arrived on time, or rather, mostly ahead of schedule, outside the Sun Temple of Winter Kingdom.
They awaited the Sun Saintess to open the gate to the divine realm.
And send them to the alien world.
Ding Yun, however, did not appear early. She materialized precisely on time, briefly encouraged those present, and then opened the gate to the divine realm. Using the divine realm as a transit point, she teleported them to the designated safe zone on the alien world established during the lottery, and simultaneously launched the live broadcast.
Suddenly, a majority of people worldwide, whether free or busy, chose to slack off at work and surreptitiously opened their Sun Tokens to watch the inter-world missionary live broadcast.
The number of viewers in the live stream once surged to six billion.
However, due to the presence of a hundred main live streams and three hundred secondary ones, the viewership per individual stream was not as substantial. The highest had less than three hundred million viewers, while the lowest had merely tens of thousands, with people tuning in purely out of curiosity.
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Shifting the focus back to the alien world.
Li Wen, who had been cultivating in the divine realm for nearly ten years, was fortunate enough to win a lottery ticket. As he was an official from Cloud Summer Country, and most of his companions in cultivation were also officials, he naturally selected thirty of his fellow cultivators. Along with the supplies prepared by Cloud Summer Country, they descended into a canyon in the southern region of Azure Cloud Star.
The southern region of Azure Cloud Star was the missionary area he had drawn.
It was a place with relatively favorable geographical conditions, featuring plains and hills, a warm environment, and abundant fruit trees. The entire region spanned approximately four million square kilometers, with over a dozen nations coexisting. Their civilization level was still at a stage where foraging and hunting coexisted with agriculture. Witchcraft and curses were prevalent in their beliefs. Overall, it was not considered a difficult region to conquer and convert.
The canyon where they descended was basically located in the central area of the southern region, and served as the junction of three small countries. The surrounding mountains were inhabited by wild beasts, and poisonous insects and miasma were abundant.
It was a place rarely frequented by humans.
While it might be dangerous for ordinary people, for this group of Sun Warriors, whose lowest cultivation level had reached five, there was no danger. Even tigers and leopards would have to consider whether they would be made into cloaks or barbecued.
"Brother Wen, there's no sign of human habitation within a radius of several dozen miles. There are only scattered villages about forty miles away.
The civilization level is relatively low.
Not much better than a tribal society.
What kind of missionary approach should we adopt? Should we directly manifest divine power and deceive them, or should we first conquer a territory, sweep through the surrounding dozen or so countries with absolute advantage, unify the entire southern region, and then preach from top to bottom?"
After scanning the surroundings with his mental power, Xu Fu'an immediately reported the situation and asked.
Before their arrival, they only knew the general civilization level of the planet; they were not aware of the specific details. Therefore, the method of missionary work had not been decided beforehand but was intended to be negotiated on the spot.
"Manifesting divine power for missionary work is relatively gentler, but slower. Later, we will still face many troubles, such as resistance from local beliefs. Moreover, we cannot frequently manifest divine power, and ultimately, we will still have to rely on force to subdue them.
Conquering territories and unifying nations, although relatively crude, is undoubtedly simple and straightforward. Furthermore, we can use the justification of aiding the populace and punishing the wicked to cleanse the local witchcraft and the aristocratic ruling powers.
All those who are guilty will be judged.
This is much better than compromising with the ruling powers of neighboring countries and only gaining faith. After all, if the old ruling powers are not overthrown and eliminated, no matter how much we provide high-yield improved seeds to the common people, they are unlikely to gain much benefit. They will still starve, they will still be poor, and there will be little difference.
And without a healthy body.
They cannot provide much faith power.
Therefore, in order to provide high-quality believers and faith power for Goddess Mian Shang, I believe that conquering territories and unifying the entire southern region is more appropriate.
What do you all think?"
Li Wen had already reached level nine, so his mental power scanning range was far wider than Xu Fu'an's. He could see a village over 170 kilometers away performing human sacrifice, a city over 320 kilometers away offering hundreds of slaves to the heavens.
A witch temple over 400 kilometers away.
Was making magical artifacts with fresh skull spines.
Such a society and such an old religion clearly did not require excessive gentleness. It was better to directly conduct a sweeping clearance with the momentum of a thunderclap.
After speaking, Li Wen also transmitted some of the scenes he had witnessed as information streams to his companions nearby. Subsequently, some paled, some had red eyes, and some were directly frightened and gagged.
Those who have stayed in peaceful times for too long.
Find it difficult to accept those scenes.
However, these situations were common in their own world thousands of years ago, and some things were only completely banned within the last hundred years or so.
Civilization fundamentally germinated from barbarism.
After a while, the accompanying personnel following Li Wen gradually recovered and indicated that they had no problem.
They would all listen to him.
Then, the viewers in his live stream inexplicably watched them retrieve over a thousand combat robots from their storage devices and head straight for the nearest large city with the robots.
Thus began the formal conquest of territories.
As for the scenes Li Wen transmitted to his companions with his mental power, they also appeared intermittently in the live stream during the subsequent conquests, causing many to tremble with fear, even to the point of being terrified. The previously confused viewers expressed understanding while also offering support.
They supported their mission to aid the populace and punish the wicked, and to conquer the southern region.
The term "aid" meant to comfort, while "punish" naturally meant to slay wicked and incompetent rulers and overthrow evil witchcraft cults.
To abolish human sacrifice and re-establish the faith of the Sun Goddess.
Meanwhile, those who were preparing to spread the faith in other regions and on other planets, after surveying the surrounding conditions, mostly chose to advance by force.
Only a few were in the core areas of planetary civilization, meaning areas that were more civilized compared to the barbarous regions, with some moral and ethical values, and the preliminary establishment of the idea that human life is precious. These missionaries were attempting to perform various divine arts of the sun and spread their faith in a relatively gentle manner.
Of course, the areas where they were located could barely be considered to have prosperous citizens. There was genuinely no reason to "aid the populace and punish the wicked." If they were to stir up trouble, they might even violate regulations. This was also an important factor that necessitated their adoption of a more gentle approach.
It could only be said that missionary work also required adapting to local conditions.
If the people were living in dire straits, then pushing forward for missionary work was naturally fine. But if they were living well, and the missionary work brought about war, that would purely be a reckless act.
It was a clear violation of regulations.