Chapters 1329 to 1330, Miscellaneous Thoughts of Faith
To be honest, when Lao Ma heard about this condition, he couldn't help but be taken aback.
The denominations that can be established as state religions are all traditional denominations that have been preaching in the area for hundreds of years.
Although the Poseidon Church is spread all over the world, its influence in some places is still a little worse.
Of course, in the face of such favorable conditions, Lao Ma will naturally not refuse.
The old horse, which had regained its youth, immediately fell into a state of busyness.
As the first Patriarch of the Poseidon Church, there are too many important matters in the Poseidon Church that he needs to deal with now.
The first is the negotiation of various countries, well, this is easy to say, after all, the Poseidon Church is not pursuing economic interests, as long as the countries open up their missionary rights, the negotiation is very easy.
The second is the appointment of the bishopor of the diocese.
Since the clergy above the archbishop have been personally appointed by Cheng Kong, Lao Ma can only appoint clergy at the level of the presiding priest, while the presiding priest at the regional level is appointed by the two patriarchs who assist Lao Ma, and the presiding pastor of the church who goes down is appointed by the presiding priest of the diocese.
Such an appointment system is enough to ensure that the future Patriarch will not be crony.
Of course, even so, the old horse is very busy.
The current division of the main pastoral area of the Poseidon Church is also in charge of Lao Ma.
In the god of the sea, Reis. In Amberi's time, each diocese or diocese was divided by state.
But this division does not apply to the earth.
In the world of heroes, the countries used to be basically about the same size, with a population of one or two million per country.
It's different on Earth. Small countries have hundreds of thousands, millions of people, while medium countries have tens of millions. Large countries have hundreds of millions, hundreds of millions of people.
In this way, there is no point in dividing dioceses according to countries.
Therefore, during this period of time, while he was busy negotiating with the special envoys of various countries in the world, Lao Ma's daily work was to check the map of the world and the population distribution map of the world, and strive to look at the population number, area and even economic factors. Divide the main pastoral area more reasonably.
The population of each main pastoral area is about 50 million, and depending on economic factors or the area of land, the maximum population may reach 70 or 80 million. It is possible for as little as 20 to 30 million people.
As a result, some countries need to be divided into more than 10 or more primary pastoral areas, while smaller countries have a single primary pastoral area, and smaller countries need to be divided into a single primary pastoral area. It is the merger of several countries into one main pastoral area.
Of course. In this way, there are as many as 200 main pastoral areas in the world.
That is to say, after Lao Ma divides the diocese, he needs to appoint two hundred bishops!
This is a headache for appointments.
First of all, it is necessary to wait for the two patriarchs to select the qualified senior pastors and appoint them as the presiding pastors of the regions below the main dioceses, and then the old horse can select candidates for the presiding pastors from these regions for appointment.
To be honest, just the archives of those pastors made Lao Ma a little headache.
But you can't ignore these materials, so it's impossible to arbitrarily draw a circle to appoint, right?
There are at least hundreds of pastors under each of them. A bad choice can cause a big problem for a parish.
Therefore, it is necessary to check the temperament of the other party from the archives. experience and so on in order to arrange the right person and the main pastoral area.
Not to mention that Lao Ma and the others were busy with the affairs of the Poseidon Church, but Cheng Kong was in the Island Turtle Palace at this time.
At this time, the island turtle palace is completely bathed in a milky white waterfall.
A waterfall of countless faith powers cascaded down from the top of the palace, almost submerging Cheng Kong inside.
The crystals on Cheng Kong's forehead directly absorbed the power of these beliefs.
For Cheng Kong, the number of believers under the Poseidon Church has now exceeded one billion, and the power of faith gathered in this way has been continuously absorbed and transformed by the five godheads.
At this time, Cheng Kong's divine soul was already full of divine power, so the extra divine power was immediately condensed into divine power crystals of different colors according to the different attributes of the godhead, which slowly fell down and hit the ground, making a crisp sound.
At this time, on the ground on the top of the mountain below Cheng Kong's throne, those divine power crystals had already piled up.
These divine power crystals are of great use to Cheng Kong.
In fact, the transformation of the power of faith into divine power by the godhead is a kind of purification, and those faith powers that were originally mixed with various distracting thoughts of believers are greatly purified after being transformed into divine power, and purified into divine power that can be used more easily by the gods.
Well, in essence, there is not much difference between the power of faith and the power of God, and if there is a difference, then it is the distractions of believers mixed with the power of faith.
Those distracting thoughts of believers can affect the consciousness of the gods, and if they are directly absorbed and used without purification, then the impact on the gods is very great.
In the god of the sea, Reis. Amberry's remaining memories contain such records.
In the ancient world of heroes, some strange objects became the objects of worship of the ancient people.
For example, what strangely shaped rocks, what twisted streams, and even some statues shaped by the ancient people themselves.
Under the influence of the power of faith for a long time, these objects gradually gave birth to spiritual intelligence, became divine creatures, and some of the more powerful ontologies even became demigods and other existences.
But such demigods are influenced by the distractions of the believers from the very beginning, so that after they have their own spiritual intelligence, their minds are composed of the more unified distractions of the believers.
For example, a river god usually drives more fish to the shore for the sake of those believers, and a mountain god gives believers more strength within their territory, and so on.
But this is not the demigod's care for the believer, but the influence of the believer to do something.
To be honest, such a thing is still quite scary for the gods.
The gods can be influenced by the believers. Thus something was done spontaneously.
Perhaps this is the so-called camp.
If the believers of such a god are good, then the god is good. If believers are evil, then the gods are evil as well.
However, in Cheng Kong's opinion, this kind of god is completely a puppet of the believers, if someone uses some skills to control the thinking direction of those believers, I am afraid that the demigod will not be far from falling.
It is precisely because of this kind of experience that the demigods in the back continue to explore, and finally discover the way for the godhead to filter out the distractions of faith.
Of course. Those believers' distracting thoughts are not without benefit to the gods, and the right amount of contact with these believers' distracting thoughts. It can refine the soul and make it stronger.
But no matter what, Cheng Kong will not have trouble finding trouble for himself to contact those believers' distracting thoughts at this time.
Well, Cheng Kong tried it once before. But at the moment of contact with the distracting thoughts of those believers. Cheng Kong had a feeling that his mind was exploding.
The more believers there are, the more powerful they become.
With Cheng Kong's massive number of believers, it was enough to burst Cheng Kong's mind.
After all, those so-called distracting thoughts of believers are actually the thoughts that pop up in the minds of believers in ordinary times.
For example, what to eat tonight, there is a beautiful dress in the store, it would be nice if you could buy it, and so on.
The number of thoughts in the minds of a billion believers is conceivable.
In fact, if it weren't for Cheng Kong's divine thoughts retreating quickly, I am afraid that he would have fallen immediately.
Well, that's not what you're going through at the current stage.
And after removing the distractions of faith. The divine power became much purer.
If you don't find it in the process, if you directly condense the excess divine power into the crystallization of divine power. Then after the divine power crystallization is reconverted into divine power, the divine power will be more pure.
This is the benefit of condensing the non-attribute divine power into the crystallization of the attributed divine power.
Although this will consume a little more divine power, in this way, these divine power crystals can be used as a reserve of divine power for use at critical times.
Of course, for now, Cheng Kong's main thing is to spend his energy on this island turtle palace.
After intervening in climate change in North America, Cheng Kong sensed that the whole earth had a slight rejection of him.
This is an inevitable phenomenon, and under normal circumstances, the gods after being canonized will be gradually excluded from the original world realm.
No way, any world realm has its own perfect rule circulation system as long as it is not on the verge of extinction, but the influence of the gods on the world realm is too great.
Especially in the case of the use of divine power, this makes the world realm itself repel the gods like an immune system repels a virus.
This process usually takes five hundred years, but if the gods frequently use their divine powers to interfere with changes in the rules of the worldly realm, then this process of exclusion will be accelerated.
After understanding this, Cheng Kong did not dare to interfere with the operation of the rules of the World Realm easily, but focused on the creation of the Kingdom of God.
The kingdom of God is an extension of the nature of the gods, and the gods can exert their greatest power in the kingdom of the gods, and in terms of defensive power, a well-built kingdom of the gods can defend against enemies that are much stronger than themselves.
For example, the sea god Reis. Ambori blocked the joint attack of several gods in his own kingdom, but he was beaten to pieces in the last move.
In any case, the kingdom of God is the place where the gods settle down after being consecrated, and Cheng Kong can't afford to be sloppy at all.
However, if you want to build a kingdom of God, there is a lot of knowledge in it.
The so-called kingdom of God is a piece of land transformed by the gods using the rules.
There are usually two better ways to build the kingdom of God.
One of them is that the gods go to the void alone, looking for a growing half-plane or a smaller plane to rely on for their own kingdom of God, so as to build the kingdom of God.
The second is to build the kingdom of God in the main material plane, and then take this well-built kingdom of God to the void and settle down, well, this is the so-called high throne.
In fact, both methods have their own advantages and disadvantages.
The first method is relatively simple for the gods, and the initial consumption of divine power is small, which is suitable for the gods with a small number of believers, and can build the kingdom of the gods relatively quickly.
But there is a disadvantage to this method, which is that it is a good kingdom of God. Because of the half-plane, the smaller plane originally had fewer rules, so the defense of the kingdom of God was weaker. And if you want to make up for this disadvantage, then the gods will need to spend a long time and a lot of divine power to constantly build new rules.
The second method is to construct the kingdom of God in the main material plane.
There are a large number of rules in the main material plane, because the construction of the kingdom of God is essentially to distort the original rules to the extent that they need it, or to add new rules to serve themselves.
Therefore, there are a lot of rules that need to be distorted, and the amount of divine power consumed in this way is naturally terrifying, and if you want to build the kingdom of God without distorting the rules. It's not impossible, but the number of loopholes in that kind of kingdom is also outrageous.
Well, it also consumes a lot of divine power when holding up the throne at the end of the year.
In a word. The second method is entirely for the gods who have a great number of believers.
And Cheng Kong naturally chose the second method.
Well, Cheng Kong also noticed that the universe where the earth is located does not have the so-called half-plane, the existence of a plane.
If there is any. So those planets might be?
Is Jupiter an atmospheric plane? Is a white dwarf an earth plane? Is the yellow dwarf a hybrid of the light plane and the fire plane?
And the earth is considered the main plane?
Compared to building the kingdom of God on the half-plane. On the main plane, well, there is a great benefit to building the kingdom of God on earth.
Cheng Kong took the time to break through the atmosphere and go directly to Venus and Mars, two planets that are closer to each other.
The result made Cheng Kong a little disappointed.
These two planets are not very suitable for building the kingdom of God, Mars basically does not have many atmospheric rules and water rules, and Venus is now too strong with atmospheric rules.
A planet like this would be a good idea for some gods with strange origins.
For example, Venus gives the god of the air element, Mars gives the god of drought, and so on.
But Cheng Kong is not one of those gods with strange backgrounds, and Cheng Kong's followers are also human. Not adapted to that extreme environment.
Therefore, Cheng Kong's final plan is to build a kingdom of God based on the Island Turtle Palace.
The island turtle palace was originally the god of the sea. A small part of Amberi's kingdom, but the kingdom of gods was shattered by the gods. That's all that's left for now.
After Cheng Kong ignited the divine fire and took over the remnants of the Divine Kingdom, he had already enjoyed the benefits of the remnants of the Divine Kingdom.
If it weren't for the bonus of the Kingdom of God's Aftermath, Cheng Kong's speed of analyzing the rules would not have been so fast at all.
Another twenty years have passed in Cheng Kong's continuous analysis rules.
In the past 20 years, the Poseidon Church, with the support of the true God, has developed faster than the previous 50 years.
The initial period was the most difficult for the development of the faith.
As I said before, this is similar to doing business, it is not easy to earn 200 yuan from 100 yuan, but if you want to earn 2 million yuan from 1 million, the difficulty is greatly reduced.
When the number of Poseidon believers reached one billion and countries were competing to support Poseidon Church's mission under the deterrence of divine punishment, the number of believers skyrocketed.
There is a saying in China since ancient times: those who are close to ink are black, and those who are close to Zhu are red.
If the people around you believe in the god of the sea, then it will be difficult for non-believers in it to resist the infection of this belief with the passage of time.
After these twenty years, the number of Poseidon Church believers has exploded to nearly seven billion.
You must know that the current population of the world is only about 9 billion, and the number of Poseidon believers accounts for more than half.
With such a proportion of believers, even if the pastors of the Poseidon Church no longer work hard to preach, it will only take a maximum of ten years, and I am afraid that there will not be many humans left in the world who do not believe in Poseidon.
And in the Island Turtle Palace, Cheng Kong has been surrounded by countless storms and lights, and his feet have been covered with colorful divine power crystals, and this carpet made of divine power crystals has even spread out.
With the throne peak as the center, on the seabed of hundreds of square kilometers around it, the crystallization of divine power is fully spread with a thickness of ten meters.
Cheng Kong's eyes have also been closed for twenty years.
Suddenly, the storm surrounding Cheng Kong, the light suddenly dissipated, and at this moment, Cheng Kong slowly opened his eyes.
In the past twenty years, in addition to continuing to analyze the rules, Cheng Kong has also accumulated the crystallization of divine power needed to build the kingdom of God.
Building the kingdom of God is like assembling a computer, you need to combine all kinds of hardware, and these hardware are the rules, and all the rules are either twisted from the existing rules or need to be created by yourself.
But all of this requires a lot of divine power as a consumption base to be able to achieve it.
Therefore, Cheng Kong needs to reserve a large number of divine power crystals for backup before, otherwise when it is time to build the kingdom of God, if it fails because of insufficient divine power, Cheng Kong will vomit blood.
Of course, in terms of Cheng Kong's current number of believers, such a situation should not occur, but just in case, the more divine power crystals the better.
However, by this time, Cheng Kong's reserves of divine power had already crystallized a lot.
Each divine power crystal would take about a hundred believers' share of a year's share of faith power to condense it, and in the seabed under Cheng Kong's feet, the number of divine power crystals would probably be no less than five or six billion.
To be honest, with such a number of divine power crystals, it would probably take tens of thousands of years for ordinary gods to condense successfully.
It can also be seen that Cheng Kong is blessed with a god on the earth.
"Phew!"
Cheng Kong snorted softly, and the water-blue ripples immediately rushed out of his body and spread out towards the surroundings.
In the blink of an eye, the aqua blue ripples covered the entire island turtle palace, and then transformed into a choppy wave.
The waves spread out and caused the sea around the turtle to suddenly rise by one level.
Then a cloud rose from the surface of the sea to cover the elevated sea, and then there was a sound of shaking from the bottom of the sea.
If someone dives to the bottom of the sea at this time, they will be horrified to find that a huge crack has opened in the bottom of the sea under the island turtle palace, and countless magma tumbles out under high pressure, and then solidifies after encountering the seawater, but the sea water continues to boil on top of the hot magma, forming a steam that constantly rises to the ground. (To be continued......)