An Su and Luojia ascended to the second floor, pushed open the heavy door, and as they gazed down from the balcony, they could see the dense crowd below.
The conferring of knighthood by the Celestial Church was unlike the secular notion of knighthood.
As the molders of the Nether World, one has the right to pioneer the fragments of that world for a year, along with the responsibility and obligation to establish new churches there. To some extent, it's like being a temporary appointed district bishop.
Though there were no believers, no church, and no resources, everything had to be built from scratch—it was, after all, a glorious privilege, hence the ceremony.
Such bishops, unlike the real bishops, were uniformly known as 'Nether Bishops.'
Their rank was actually not that high.
Not even as high as a real-world priest.
A real-world bishop could even serve as a Nether Bishop for a dozen or more fragmented worlds.
