The police were a bit helpless with Sofia’s answer; they weren’t priests and couldn’t handle mysterious incidents.
However, they still tried to catch the culprit, "Do you think this was done by the sect’s followers?"
"Could humans really do such a thing?" Sofia scoffed at the question. "God awakened him, but he didn’t revere God. What God gives, He can also take back... I knew this day would co, but unfortunately, he didn’t listen."
Faced with such a fanatic, the police had nothing more to say, so they asked one final question, "Do you think what God did was right?"
"Right or wrong, it’s all written in the Bible," Sofia answered irritably. "In fact, that fool even tried to buy divine grace with 50,000 Aussie dollars, but the great Lord won’t accept offerings from blasphers!"
Jack was planning to donate 50,000 Aussie dollars to the Daoist Temple because he was indeed awakened, and he couldn’t prove his awakening had nothing to do with the temple—he admitted this point; if he didn’t, the temple’s punishnt would be troubleso.
However, he didn’t want to fulfill the vow alone, or perhaps he felt so uncertainty within and wanted to bring Sofia along—even after divorce, they could still be friends.
Sofia did say, "You don’t have to go if you don’t believe in it. You set the price for such divine grace at just 50,000; I never thought you were this cheap!"
Anyway, she was still upset, and only at the last mont did she say, "I’ll accompany you in a few days."
The police didn’t get any useful information, and the case was a bit bizarre, so after returning, they treated it as a paranormal event and started gossiping with their colleagues.
Then, reporters caught wind of it, and everyone continued to dig into the topic, with so even reporting it as a scoop, "50,000 Aussie dollars to awaken a vegetative patient asleep for five years; how much would it cost for ten years of sleep?"
These misrepresented and out-of-context reports made Sofia increasingly angry, and she issued a lawyer’s letter again.
This ti, her boss called her in for a talk, explicitly telling her: "I don’t intend to interfere with your beliefs, and I respect your choice, but I also ask you to appropriately control your words and actions because there’s still the company’s image to consider."
With a rather stubborn attitude, Sofia replied, "Can I understand this as discrimination against my sect belief?"
"Well, Sofia," the boss responded helplessly, "you need to know we’re living in Australia, not Huaxia... Have I not done my best to accommodate you during the years you cared for Jack? Don’t be so willful, okay?"
Sofia was stubborn but also valued past relationships, so hearing this, she relented.
But the next day, another influential newspaper published a different article, "Amstan’s Huaxia Daoist Temple—not just for morning drizzles, but also mysterious legends."
The second-generation heir had found his father’s will, spent a few days proving its authenticity and legality, followed by a series of share transfers, and then finally had ti to release the first article to clear the temple’s na.
He didn’t directly praise the Huaxia sect; hailing from a dia family, he knew well the art of publicity, focusing the praise on Sofia, describing things like "angelic appearance" and "an imposing noble aura"...
Clearly this was soone used to playing tactical gas, hitting the edges with finesse, leaving people speechless.
If it were just a promotional article, it would be fine, but coincidentally, Jack and Sofia’s case had beco quite the hot topic. Although the dia tried to minimize reporting on the temple, eventually the "50,000 Aussie dollars" issue erged.
Finally, soone connected these two incidents, and the Daoist Temple beca utterly popular. Previously, it spread only by word of mouth; now it was finally in the mainstream dia’s spotlight.
Especially with Sofia, the Temple Master, revealed to have "beauty" attributes, she turned out to be even more popular than the temple itself.
News reached Huaxia, and social dia exploded with topics like "Most Beautiful Daoist Temple Master," which climbed the trending lists.
Australian dia also conducted interviews, but hardly any were well-intentioned. Being of a high-cold persona, Sofia naturally wouldn’t receive them, yet soone surprisingly discovered this was the gathering place for those who repaid wishes after salvaging the Fernando.
At this point, news couldn’t be contained; ideology is fundantally a rather abstract concept, and when it involved huge sums of money, especially with salvaging a sunken ship as a bonus, nobody would care about Huaxia or sect matters.
dia has to consider political alignnt, but in the face of interests, alliances can only be temporarily set aside. A sensational headline like this, who wouldn’t follow through with digging up? It’s practically against sales.
The dia heir also sensitively noticed this, and simply published a series of reports, still focusing on Sofia, but recapping the Fernando salvage, Australian wildfires, plague...
Initially, it was only his efforts in digging it up, but within a few days, even Britain’s newspapers joined in and exposed Sofia’s true identity—directly from the Jansen Family in Mai Nation—breaking through FBI’s obstructions and leaving Mai Nation’s customs, settling in Australia.
Don’t be surprised, the People of Britain really dare to do this. Speaking of their relationship with the Mai Nation, it far surpasses other countries in Europa, but they are also ruthless when it cos to betrayal - the nickna "troublemaker" proves that you can choose the wrong na, but never the wrong nickna.
They dare to be so bold, and of course, Australia will not hold back either. So even hinted that when Sofia first applied for citizenship, the immigration office, under the instructions of the Central Intelligence Agency, tried to block it.
The director of the immigration office had already smoothed things over with Sofia but didn’t want to openly provoke the Mai Nation. When reporters interviewed him, he directly avoided them, saying, "I am not aware of this matter."
Within two days, two reporters who received a lawyer’s letter from Sophie either t with a car accident or committed suicide.
The immigration director imdiately ca forward to state, "Miss Jansen’s citizenship application was delayed for a few days, I believe it was due to technical reasons... you know, as a director, I can’t know every detail of the applicants."
He was vague in his words, but Sophie was very straightforward, "So believe a lawyer’s letter is not frightening, and it seems indeed so... there will always be so unknown entities that inspire more awe in us."
Sympathizing with the weak is politically correct in Australia as well, but Sophie’s comnts were a response to people insulting the religion she believed in, it was fine as long as she wasn’t applauding and making sarcastic comnts.
Outside, things were in turmoil, yet as the eye of the storm, Sofia continued to keep a low profile, though her popularity didn’t diminish but increased, not only rising in Europe and Arica but also gaining countless fans on Huaxia soil.
The Huaxia Daoist Association sent an invitation, hoping she could visit Huaxia Country.
However, Sofia declined, emphasizing that she preferred cultivation and freedom and didn’t want to affiliate with any organization.
In fact, the truth is, she is very clear that even Luohua and Mount Taibai do not take the Daoist Association seriously, and as the overseas head of Luohua Manor, how could she possibly lower her status?
Feng Jun, after dealing with two annoying guys for her, noticed her progress was good, with hopes of breaking through Qi Refinent by the end of the year or early next year, so he greeted her, stating he was going back to Huaxia and wouldn’t be coming over in the short term, if anything ca up, she should go over to find him.
Sofia was puzzled, saying you co over casually daily, it doesn’t take much ti.
Feng Jun solemnly replied, "During this ti, I realized I’d neglected a matter, I’ve helped many Australians fulfill their wishes, but have not done so in Huaxia, I feel guilty."
"Haven’t you done enough for Huaxia?" Sofia widened her eyes, "Just talking about that Cancer Care Center, how many people can it save in a month? Isn’t that Stroke Rehabilitation Center also yours? And there’s that Three-Life Liquor..."
This still showed her limited understanding of Feng Jun, not knowing about petroleum, graphene; nor about iron ore, platinum group tals; and certainly not about the Lexington or submarines...
But Feng Jun shook his head, "It’s different, what I’ve done dostically doesn’t necessarily need to be done abroad, but what I’ve done abroad, if I haven’t done it dostically, I wouldn’t forgive myself."
He never had such a high level of awareness before, but this ti, the matter with Jack sowhat affected his mood, regarding these foreigners, there’s really no need to be too generous, being moderately nice should suffice, keeping so good things for compatriots is better.
Sofia still wanted to persuade him to change his mind, "Your help is for my cultivation, it has nothing to do with other foreigners, the Incense Fire Ascension can’t be done in Huaxia either."
"Not necessarily about Incense Fire Ascension," Feng Jun casually answered, "helping fellow compatriots doesn’t need to achieve a certain goal, when made poor, one keeps their integrity to oneself, when successful, they help the world."
Sofia, however, sensed that perhaps it was Jack’s betrayal that infuriated him, so she added, "Jack might have gone too far, but ungrateful people exist in every country, doesn’t Huaxia have them too?"
Feng Jun laughed, simply replying, "That’s just like the at rotting in our own pot."
After returning to Luohua, Feng Jun really did take so ti to consider how to help those in need.
Previously, he focused solely on his cultivation, fearing that helping others might delay his own practice - after all, a cultivator should be far removed from the Mortal World, but after helping Australians, he realized that so people really aren’t worth aiding.
For those not of our kin, their hearts are bound to be different.
Helping outsiders does not necessarily make the Daoist Sects thrive abroad. Flowers blooming within but fragrant outside have no real aning; rather, cultivating inner strength dostically and gradually spreading influence is more favorable.
Before, he worried about what trouble revealing his divine skills would bring, but now... those capable of causing him trouble already know he’s not to be trifled with, so he doesn’t need to worry about it anymore.
However, in order to truly accumulate so rit, there’s still one issue: he doesn’t have a Daoist Temple for the public!
(Update here, asking for monthly votes to keep the base, three more updates will continue tomorrow.)
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