He shouldn't have mentioned the word "traffic police." He had to spend extra effort explaining what traffic police were to the four ascetics. By the time he had explained everything clearly, both he and Becky felt a little parched. The eldest of the four ascetics, the robust man with a full beard and graying hair, pondered for a moment after listening. Just as Hao Ren thought he hadn't understood anything and was about to explain again, he suddenly raised his head: "I understand everything. Two worlds, one surface and one lining, a fragile connection, and the teleportation process you mentioned. Yes, and the 'traffic police' you mentioned, I understand everything."

Hao Ren immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good..."

"You mean, we come from a space you call the Dream Plane," another ascetic with a short beard said, looking deeply at Hao Ren, "and you call your world the Surface World. The two worlds shouldn't be connected, but due to a crack in a barrier called the 'Wall of Reality,' a spatial channel was created, and we were 'thrown' out of our world and ended up here. And you are responsible for regulating this channel?"

Hao Ren had just nodded when he heard the other party ask in an unusually solemn tone: "Then in your system, where is the Goddess positioned?"

Hao Ren was immediately stunned, and then a feeling of "holy crap" slowly surged in his heart. He thought to himself that he had finally encountered the situation most likely to occur when communicating with a religious fanatic: how to explain the belonging of a god who was only slightly bigger than a village chief from the perspective of the universe, and without stimulating the other person's hot and fragile heart of faith!

He had already considered the sensitivity of this aspect earlier, so he didn't mention the fact that there was a true god standing behind him at all. He mentioned Raven 12345, but didn't turn the topic to the troublesome realm of "true god" and "false god," because he knew that Raven 12345 didn't care about this at all, but the ascetic in front of him might fight anyone to the death over a "true god certification." He had carefully avoided the sensitive points in religious issues, but he didn't expect to run head-on into this kind of trouble in the end: when the worldview suddenly expanded from a planet to two universes, where should the originally supreme goddess on the planet go?

Seeing the somewhat stiff expression on Hao Ren's face, the four ascetics in front of him surprisingly didn't show any reaction. Hao Ren thought he was about to usher in a religious debate, but he didn't expect the bearded man to just nod calmly: "It seems this is a complex issue. The Goddess's glory stops at our land."

Then he stood up very simply: "When are we leaving?"

This time, not to mention Hao Ren, even Vivian next to him couldn't react: "You're not going to pursue this topic? Isn't your goddess supreme?"

The bearded man shrugged: "That's our supreme goddess, not necessarily yours. It's enough for the goddess's glory to shine on her people. In places where the glory doesn't shine, it's a test of our pious faith."

As the bearded man's voice fell, the other three ascetics put their hands on their chests and whispered: "Hold fast to the light in the darkness, do not talk glibly in the light."

Hao Ren half understood the other party's statement, and just scratched his head and said "Oh" before saying, "Since you have no objections, let's go. I'll take you to my house first, and then pick up a group of people to go to the Blood Lake."

"Blood Lake?" The bearded man frowned immediately. He was very sensitive to this: "What are you taking people to the Holy Land for?"

Hao Ren spread his hands: "You were teleported to this world, and in exchange, a group of people from this world fell to your side. This is a disaster. You few are lucky, you survived, but the people who were teleported over there are all dead. We have to bring their bodies home at least, right?"

Ascetics are pious believers, but the Radiance Sect's belief in the goddess doesn't seem as extreme as imagined. After hearing Hao Ren's words, the bearded man immediately stopped stubbornly pursuing the Holy Land issue, and once again pressed his hand to his chest: "May the goddess have mercy! We are here to accept the test, but we have implicated foreigners! May their souls be comforted by the goddess in the Holy Land."

"I feel like I can't keep up with their thinking," Lily suddenly poked Hao Ren's arm and whispered, "Landlord, you're amazing, you can actually communicate with them!"

Hao Ren rolled his eyes: Usually it was others who couldn't keep up with Lily's thinking, but today this erratic husky finally couldn't keep up with others.

At this time, the slightly older female ascetic curiously looked at Becky: "Wait a minute, I wanted to ask just now, this little girl... you are from Holleta, right? Why are you here? And with this... traffic police?"

Becky was immersed in the excitement of seeing a fellow countryman. At this moment, she was stunned and reacted: "Oh, that's right, I haven't said my situation yet. I was also teleported to this world, but you guys were because of a natural disaster, I was because of someone with clumsy hands casting a spell plus a natural disaster..."

Hao Ren muttered beside her: "My hands aren't clumsy, yours was a natural disaster."

"It seems we're not the only ones in a predicament?" The older female ascetic said thoughtfully, "This is truly a mysterious realm that no one has ever set foot in. I didn't expect there to be such mysteries in the world... and this human has the ability to control this channel spanning two worlds." Saying that, she took a deep look at Hao Ren, her expression slightly subtle: "It seems we should have respect for you. You are a person who has mastered mysteries we don't understand. Although I don't quite understand your work yet, it's clear that you stand 'higher' than us."

These words immediately made Hao Ren feel embarrassed. He didn't expect these ascetics to be as rigid and wooden as he had imagined. On the contrary, they had a strong understanding ability and could quickly accept new things. Although they always used the goddess's dogma to help explain everything, there was no doubt that they were open-minded and敏锐: This was very different from the ascetic images in many stories.

In fact, this was the characteristic that Radiance Sect ascetics should have: they were not only pious and fanatical believers, but also thinkers who were good at contemplation and erudite scholars who mastered various secrets. Ascetics dedicated their lives to their faith, not marrying, not having children, not owning fields and any form of private property, not participating in any worldly power struggles, and not even managing human justice. All their energy, in addition to improving their combat skills and sacred magic, was used to study knowledge. The Radiance Sect believed that all knowledge in the world was created by the goddess, so ascetics also regarded the process of learning knowledge as a form of worship.

Therefore, Radiance Sect ascetics possessed the qualities of scholars – which was very rare in other sects.

Of course, those completely stubborn and fanatical ascetics also existed, but most of them were on the front lines of crusades against heretics, belonging to pure combat personnel, and would not appear in the selection of those guarding the treasure orb, so naturally they would not appear here.

This saved Hao Ren a lot of trouble.

But Hao Ren suddenly remembered something when he saw Becky talking to the ascetics, and he realized that he hadn't had any less trouble in other aspects: "Wait! Almost forgot! You can't go back!"

The four ascetics immediately looked over at the same time, and Hao Ren spread his hands with a bitter face: "Forgot to tell you... The teleportation between the Dream Plane and the Surface World is one-way. Currently, two-way can only teleport objects, not people. You... can probably only go back for ten days."

Then he watched Becky's face also turn bitter. She and Hao Ren had explained the terrible state of the Wall of Reality clearly, and she cried and sighed: "Wuwu... I was still counting on being ennobled and granted land to glorify my ancestors!"

The four ascetics looked at each other. They realized that Hao Ren and Becky were not lying. The bearded man pondered and looked at Hao Ren: "You mean we can't stay in the Dream Plane for a long time, but it's okay to go back for a short time, right?"

Hao Ren nodded, and the bearded man revealed a calm look: "That's enough. As long as the orb returns to the place protected by the goddess, it doesn't matter whether we go back or not. These are difficult times, and we gladly accept this test."

Lily poked Hao Ren's arm: "Landlord, I'm a little out of touch with their thinking again..."

Hao Ren grinned: "Don't bother, it's a good thing anyway."

Then he looked up at the bearded man again, trying to make his expression more sincere: "By the way, that Sacred Hall Orb... can I take a look at it?"

The bearded man immediately looked nervous: "Why?"

As expected, this was a sensitive topic.