"Are there mortals like me among the ancestors?" Looking at a table full of fruits and vegetables, the young Ah Cheng couldn't believe his eyes, even if he was hungry, he didn't want to stretch out his hand at will.

"That's nature, the royal court is supported by mortals. "Wu Ju is by his side, he is a powerful divine power, it doesn't matter if he eats or not, but he is extremely interested in the young man.

"But, why don't you save the mortals of the continent?"

"Is this ......" I was speechless for a while, the young man's question was really difficult to answer, before in the main hall, everyone was noisy and shouting, could it be that the young man didn't understand?

"If so many mortals are rescued, won't they be able to work and support the imperial court?"

"What about that......" Wu Ju's eyes widened, and his brown-red hair was also rooted, he was a big old man, and the question of the young man was also his insistence, but this problem was too complicated, and the partners wasted a lot of effort to make him no longer entangled in this matter, but he didn't expect to be bypassed by the young man's words, and immediately became angry again.

"This bird world, you have also seen it, it is actually very small, and it can only be maintained by the support of aura and energy, but now the spiritual power is not enough, one more person, there will be one more burden, and no matter how small the consumption of mortals is, it is also consumption, so, do you know, those pretentious guys are very desperate, how can they let mortals come in at will?"

The problem is like this, the young man understands, he has been asking for food since he was a child, and he has seen too many situations where monks have more meat and less meat, so much territory, in the case of not being able to fight for it and not grabbing it, one more flower child, and everyone will have one less bite of food in their mouths, and naturally no one wants to.

However, there are too few people to eat, and they can't maintain their due territory, and their power is too weak, and sooner or later they will be driven away and replaced by other beggar gangs.

But the latter situation does not exist in the free world, the imperial court is the world of gods to put it bluntly, and the forces under its jurisdiction, the vast majority of those in power and errands are also composed of gods and divine powers, and they can go without eating or drinking for a long time, without any problems, rice and food are no longer their main needs, and even if they do, they are limited, mainly to meet the habits of the tongue when they were mortals before.

But the boy still doesn't understand the true meaning of 'offering', I have to spend another time, the real offering is a kind of faith power, even the power of foolishness, the imperial court needs believers, not casual mortals, just like the continent where the boy is located, the people believe in the gods, priests and ancestors, will make the gods, the gods and gods strong, so that the ancestors have always had the power to protect future generations.

Losing these beliefs, the soul of the divine power will be weakened or even gradually weakened, a god with a large number of believers, its divine power will be unusually powerful, the divine power is similar, and the situation of the god with few believers is the opposite, therefore, any divine ability, mana is inseparable from the support of the majority of believers, if the believers are completely lost, the divine power will be fully degraded, and the pure gods will be even worse, will lose their godhead, fall off the altar.

Although the gods and gods both have divine power, they both rely on faith and continue to be strong, but there is also the essential difference, the former is a mortal who has cultivated to a very high realm and advanced, not only has the martial arts and spells on the cultivation, but also has the divine power after becoming a god, a god's combat power often exceeds the gods of the same level, but the status in the imperial court is not high; the gods are born, they are the descendants of the ancient gods, as for where the ancient gods came from, it has always been vague and unclear, and it can even be traced back to the ancient period a long time ago.

Nowadays, the inherent relationship between believers and gods is difficult to maintain in the free world, in the words of my torch, this dilapidated world is a closed refuge, the number of mortals has decreased dramatically, resulting in the rapid weakening of the power of faith, the current gods and gods have long been much worse than before, to put it irreverently, these so-called gods are just hiding in their comfort nest to survive and wait for death.

If you do a closer calculation, it will become clearer that there are a total of 80,000 gods and supernatural beings hiding in the free world, and there are less than 50,000 mortals, and they are all descendants of the surviving ancestors, and the number of believers is not increasing, but decreasing.

With a mere 50,000 people to support the power of faith? That's really a joke, when the imperial court was at its peak, there were more than 500,000 believers in a true god, and now this pitiful number is difficult for even an ordinary divine powerhouse to support.

Nowadays, mortals can only meet the other needs of powerful gods, such as servants and craftsmen with special skills, but now such needs are very rare.

To put it bluntly, the balance between spiritual power consumption and regeneration in the free world has been broken, forming an irreversible decline, and in the case of limited spiritual power, of course, it is necessary to ensure the needs of the gods first, mortals are dispensable, or even not one.

However, if you want to restore the divine power, you must increase the number of believers on a large scale and increase the number of mortals, which is a contradiction, the more the population, the greater the consumption of energy and spiritual power, if you want to have a certain number of believers in the 80,000 gods and divine powers, then the mortal population needs to be maintained at the scale of billions, and the spiritual power stored in the world cannot be satisfied with even one percent, this contradiction has long been difficult to reconcile, and it also explains the reason why there are fewer and fewer mortals from the side.

It took a lot of effort for the boy to figure out that what Wu Ju said was a dead end, and then it took a very short time to wipe out the food on the table.

Wu Ju looked dumbfounded, these foods can support a cow, he couldn't see that the young man's small belly was like a bottomless pit, disappointed, originally thought that the young man would be as indignant as him, impassioned, no matter how bad it is, he has to care about the free world, or the future of the Five Elements Palace, even if he asks how he should practice, the little guy yawned, and even called out to sleep.

"It turned out to be a mallet. "After I called someone to arrange a place for the teenager, he immediately lost interest in accompanying him any longer, and the teenager didn't know what it was like to be sad, maybe he was a heartless guy at all?

I left listlessly, and the young man Ah Cheng after the meal was so difficult that he didn't even have the heart to look at his new residence, so he lay on the bed and fell asleep.

After three years of sleeping in the open air, the boy barely slept well, his body and mind were already exhausted, and he suddenly achieved his goal, not only worshipping the teacher, but also finding a relatively safe place, like a small boat that had gone through a storm and was about to collapse and finally found a peaceful harbor, all his tense nerves were relaxed, and this sleep was a full three days.

When the boy woke up, it was already the morning of the fourth day, looking at the sun outside, he jumped up from the bed in shock, his first reaction was that he didn't know how long he had been sleeping, and then he remembered the explanation of his master Huo Tianzun, and went to the Holy Fire Palace to find him after eating and drinking.

There was a stack of very neat new clothes next to the bed, and the young man didn't care about anything else, so he hurriedly dressed and rushed out of the door, and saw an old man in the courtyard carrying water and watering the flowers, and it was the person who had called me to help him arrange a place to live, so he asked, "Old man, how long have I been sleeping?" ”

"Three days. ”

"Three days?" the young man slapped his head, turned his head and rushed towards the courtyard gate, but he only ran two or three steps and had to stop and ask, "Dare to ask how to get to the Holy Fire Temple?"

This Marble Island is very large, and the northeast of the circular mountain range is lined with mountain peaks, and there are many buildings located on the halfway of these peaks.

The old man seemed to be very confused, looked at the crater mountain range, stretched out his hand and said, "It should be in this mountain." ”

The young man rolled his eyes, it seemed that the old man was also confused, it was better not to ask, time was pressing, the young man rushed out of the courtyard door, and then jumped into the air in one step, this is the only body he will use after coming to the free world, or under the persecution of the master to realize.

The crater seems to be in front of him, but in fact there is still a distance, the boy used the wind control technique, although it is still very clumsy, but the speed is not slow, and soon he looked for two peaks, but did not find the Holy Fire Temple, and no one seemed to exist in the two buildings.

The scenery along the way is beautiful, but there are no clouds, and it is difficult to see people, the huge island is quiet, and the young man can't find anyone to ask, so he can't help but be anxious.

Then to the third peak, the building here is much grander than the first two, and it brings hope to the young man, he can see the plaque of the three gilded characters of the "Golden Wind Palace" from afar, he seems to have passed by here when he left the main hall with my torch, the text on the plaque at that time was like a tadpole, the young man could not recognize it at all, although he still did not recognize it now, but it was much more familiar, it was the common square font of the mainland.

I can't figure out the reason, but presumably the Holy Fire Hall is very close to the main peak like this, and once the scope is reduced, it will be solid, and the young man simply broke into the building in front of him, and he didn't believe that he couldn't find a big living person.

There are really people in the 'Golden Wind Palace', more than one, the blonde and golden-faced fat man who met three days ago is in the courtyard outside the hall, the young man is overjoyed, and waves at him in mid-air, "I'm lost, dare to ask the fat brother, how to get to the Holy Fire Temple?"

"Holy Fire Temple?" the fat man looked confused, "The Holy Fire Temple has long been destroyed. ”

"Huh?!" The young man was shocked, thinking that he had misheard, and hurriedly jumped down from mid-air, "Fat brother, I'm talking about the Holy Fire Temple." ”

"Yes, the Temple of the Holy Fire has been destroyed. ”

"What happened?"

"It's been many years. ”

"But before in the main hall, my master told me to go to the Holy Fire Temple to find him after I had eaten and drunk, and you were there at the time, right?"

"That's right. ”

"The temple of the Holy Fire is destroyed...... Where can I find this?"

"So I don't know. ”

The young man was completely stunned, his eyes widened and he looked at the fat man in front of him, he didn't know what to say for a while, looking at the fat face full of innocent expressions, the young man suspected that the other party was playing tricks on him.

"Huo Tianzun has always behaved grotesquely, we are all used to it, maybe he just said it, why don't you go to him again and ask him in person?"

The young man smiled bitterly, and said in his heart, if I can find the master, what else can I find in the Holy Fire Temple?