Ji Le opened his eyes and found himself standing in a vast golden ocean.

Raising his arms flat, Ji Le saw the golden silk dragon pattern crown on his body.

The gorgeous pale gold silk thread is woven into the crown robe, the sun and moon cloud patterns are vivid, and the nine five-clawed dragons are constantly shuttling between the clouds and mist, vivid.

Behind Ji Le, there is a dense and flourishing flower fire god tree.

Flowers and leaves are formed by the golden light of the trees, and each spark gives birth to a priesthood, and each leaf records a civilization skill.

This is the Tree of Civilization helmed by Ji Le, and it is also one of the most powerful weapons in Ji Le's hands.

"Are there already so many flowers?" Ji Le looked at the sparks behind him, there were dozens of sparks blooming on this big tree of civilization.

Beekeeping, pottery, tea, medicine, smelting, carpentry, textiles, farming......

As the saying goes, "Three hundred and sixty lines, the line is the champion". The skills of each profession and profession will condense the corresponding humane priesthood.

"How long have I been sleeping, and Great Xia has actually given birth to so many gods?"

Ji Le turned his head to look elsewhere, the waves churning on the water, and the loud national anthem faintly echoed in the ocean.

He slowly looked down at the golden waves beneath his feet.

"Is this faith?"

That's right, the waves rolling under your feet are the ocean where the national beliefs of Great Xia converge. And this ocean is also Ji Le's spiritual realm, the source of divine power.

Closing his eyes to sense the territory of this ocean, Ji Le's consciousness extended with the ocean, covering several lakes around the Great Xia Faith Sea.

It was the sea of faith of the vassal state of Great Xia, because Ji Le, as the suzerain, could come unscrupulously.

In these lakes of faith, their own masters were likewise born.

In the former Punk country, the national spirit sat quietly in the lake of his faith, looking at the civilization tree bred by his country with a sad face.

Compared with Ji Le's towering tree, the civilization tree inherited by the Punk Kingdom is much shorter, which can be called the difference between trees and shrubs.

"When will my civilization really develop? ”

Not only him, but other subjects of Great Xia also faced this problem.

Under the suppression of Great Xia and the dumping of civilization, the civilizations of all their countries were affected by Great Xia, and the technology of all walks of life was grafted by Great Xia, causing the figures of those gods to appear in various countries.

And as civilization erodes, the lake of their faith swells with a golden undercurrent, slowly injecting the power of their faith into Great Xia.

In the face of the source of faith in their own country, they are no longer able to take their own initiative.

"This is the prestige of the civilization circle and the suzerain. ”

At this time, a divine wave swept across the lake from the Great Xia Faith Sea, causing his heart to suddenly froze.

"The Sect Master has woken up?"

......

After Ji Le woke up, after understanding his situation, he walked directly to the boundary of the Great Xia Faith Sea.

It was not the sea of those vassals, but another sea of faith isolated from the Great Xia civilization.

Standing on the border of the Great Xia Sea, in front of me is a rising red wall of fire. On the other side is another sea with a very different civilization.

Standing here, Ji Le's heart suddenly rose to enlightenment.

"If, in the non-war phase, I step into the sea of the other side's faith. In an instant, it will lead to the simultaneous destruction of both sides, right?"

The king does not see the king, this is one of the rules of the god of the nation in the new world.

The region where Ji Le is located is a convergence of the people's belief in the Great Xia civilization. On the other side is the faith of the people of another country.

Ji Le's past is like fire and water intersecting, and each other will be hurt.

"It seems that I and the other gods will only meet in the Court of Nations. ”

Ji Le didn't stop here, and turned back to the tree of civilization.

There was a young man standing under the tree, and when he saw Ji Le, he immediately ran over: "Ji Le, you are awake, come with me!"

Huo Qubing pulled Ji Le, left from the sea of faith, and re-descended to the summer capital.

It's been a year since the New World was replaced.

It is worth mentioning that as Yang Ke turned into the sun and re-ran the summer calendar, that day happened to be the first day of the first month of the Yin month according to the deduction of the summer calendar.

Therefore, Xia Guo redefined this day as the New Year. The day at the beginning of the year was moved from the winter solstice to the first day of the Yin month, that is, the Spring Festival that has truly restored the homeland for 2,000 years.

Huo Quzhi took Ji Le to Taizhen Tower, just in time to see the army marching in Luoyang City.

One by one, the orderly phalanx, under the leadership of Deng Kai, Meng Tian and other generals, slowly walked around Jiugong Luocheng.

"Today is the New Year, the day of Yang Mao's accession to the throne for one year. So the army marched to celebrate. ”

Ji Le looked at the jubilant people below.

"During the year, the people have had a good life?"

Huo Quzhi sighed, his expression was a little complicated: "This is all the credit of Yang Ke." He incarnated as Haori and became the new main god, opening the door of the gods to Great Xia, forcing the gods to stop offending our country at will. ”

"Really?"

Ji Le looked up at the sun in the sky.

The warm glow of the sun spreads over the earth, silently running the sun's star track.

Yang Ke incarnated as the sun, really gave up his mortal body, and even because of the incarnation of the sun, he ended up with the Lord of Glory in the past, and his soul lingered in the depths of the star core and it was difficult to go out.

This sun itself is Yang Ke's divine body.

"So, is he going to be trapped in the Golden Palace forever?"

"Not really. During this year, it was still someone who presided over Shinto on your behalf and canonized the gods. Huo Quzhi said with a smile: "Yang Keyu turned into a god, Yang Mao ascended the throne as the emperor, and inherited the Great Xia Emperor, just like the story of King Yu of the Xia Dynasty in the past." ”

Yang Mao redefined Kyushu with the gods, and set up a temple to worship the ancestor Yang Ke as the ancestral god. With the power of Daxia's faith, let Yang Ke incarnate as a god king, and preside over Pluto with the attitude of believing in ancestral spirits. ”

"Pluto?"

Before he could catch up, Ji Le heard a familiar term.

"That's right, Hades Karp and the gods of Hades have reopened Hades and turned Hades into a star. Look, there it is. ”

Huo Quzhi pointed to the corner of the sky, although it was daylight at the moment, with the eyesight of the two, they could still see the big stars suspended in the sky.

"In addition to Pluto, there are Jupiter where the gods of thunder live, Uranus ruled by the gods of wind, Neptune ruled by the gods of water, Saturn controlled by the celestial concubines, Mars controlled by the gods of war and craftsmen, and Mercury ruled by the lord of the elves. ”

Hearing this, Ji Le couldn't help asking, "What about Venus?"

Speaking of Venus, Huo Quzhi's expression was a little strange: "When the time comes, you can ask her yourself." ”

She?

Ji Le was about to ask, when he suddenly saw Yang Mao's Emperor and Nangong Qingyan's Feng Yuan walking by Suzaku Avenue.

His expression moved: "What, Nangong chose to stay in the world?"

It stands to reason that Yang Ke is incarnated as the sun god, and Nangong Qingyan, as the imperial concubine, should go to the Sun Golden Palace to help Yang Ke, right?

Well, she didn't accept Yang Ke's canonization, she didn't want to accept the power of the sun god shared by Yang Ke, and planned to stay with her children and stay in the world. ”

Huo Qu was at the end of his illness, and commented again: "Yang Ke and his wife really have a bit of a taste of forgetting each other in the rivers and lakes." ”

From the beginning, the couple did not come together because of feelings. It's more about the identity of the collaborator than the affection.

Especially after those bad things, it is rare to be able to maintain a superficial relationship between husband and wife and respect each other like guests.

But in the old world, the relationship between the two husband and wife was already in name only. The two of them went their own way, fighting for Great Xia in their own way.

With Yang Ke incarnating as Haori and running in the sky, Nangong Qingyan chose to help her son manage Great Xia and stay in the world, instead of following Yang Ke to the divine realm to live forever.

Listening to Huo Quzhi's description of the situation of Yang Ke and his wife, Ji Le Youyou said: "I once heard a friend say that in the end, love and lovers will be transformed into family members, and they will support each other for a lifetime. There was no love between Yang Ke and the two, maybe there was, but it has disappeared after that incident. But the two of them have supported each other for half their lives, and they are already considered family, right?"

"It's better to stay on earth. In the world, Nangong can also be her queen mother with peace of mind. ”

"By the way, what about Yu Yuan?"

"Yu Yu takes care of the Spirit Palace, and has been guarding the Yongle Palace waiting for you to come back. ”

"Really?"

Ji Le continued to look at the army below, as the army gathered in the square in front of the royal court. According to the rehearsal in advance, those soldiers raised their flags and used the army to form four big golden characters: "Long live the motherland."

For a time, the people cheered and shouted long live, and the strong power of faith poured into the sea of belief in Great Xia, strengthening Ji Le's own divine power.

"Speaking of which, you're already the Lord God now, aren't you?"

"Well, if Great Xia is truly upgraded to an empire, I will automatically have the power of the main god. ”

Ji Le raised his left hand and squinted to cover the dazzling sunlight: "A country that is enough to give birth to the main god is enough to provide me with great luck." ”

"So, thanks to Yang Ke too?"

"Sort of. ”

Yang Ke burned his body and incarnated, truly laying a strong foundation for Great Xia, and became an earthly divine kingdom that the gods did not dare to invade.

After staying in the mortal world for a while, Ji Le returned to the Sea of Faith.

After a year, Ji Le always feels a little unfamiliar with this new world.

While he loved the celebrations, he cared more about the sea of faith that suddenly appeared.

Seeing this, Huo Qubing had no choice but to follow him into the sea of faith. This sea area is incarnated by the national faith, but all the gods of the national faith can enter. Huo Qubing has a place in the martial arts temple, and in the new world, Yang Mao rearranged the ranking of the martial temple, and Huo Quzhi's status has risen, and he has become one of the military gods worshiped by the people (there are more than a dozen similar military gods)

Back under the Civilization Tree, Ji Le looked around at the figures that appeared above the Sea of Faith.

The sea of faith comes from the people's belief in the country. The people are the sea, under the surface of the sea. And above the sea are all kinds of gods that the people worship.

The god of the nation, the embodiment of the nation, is tantamount to the head of the gods. The tree of civilization behind Ji Le is the pillar of the entire sea of faith.

The second is the Chinese gods derived from the tree of civilization, as the descendants of the gods of Great Xia, with Yang Ke as the main god, to build their own god system in China.

And the third category is the reflection of the formation of celestial gods like Yuanxi in the sea of faith.

"The world has entered the age of humanity. Huo Quzhi clasped his hands to his chest and looked at this golden ocean.

"The torrent of humanity has rolled down, and has bound the gods, forcing them to serve mortals. ”

This is also the order that Yang Ke wants to guide.

Compared with the bloodline gods of the old world, Yang Ke started from a mortal, and naturally cared more about his people.

He was different from the nature gods of the Lord of the Sky and the Goddess of the Nether. Those gods have survived for eternity, unaffected by the world, and unbound by faith.

But Yang Ke prefers that the gods and mortals will merge and make progress together.

During this year, Yang Ke advocated that the gods sign a contract with the mortal kingdom. When mortals worship the gods, the gods can descend on the country to incarnate the faith. And when the incarnation is formed, the gods appear in the sea of belief in various countries. ”

In the sea of belief in Great Xia, the tallest figure of the Heavenly God is undoubtedly the Western Sage Yuanxi. The deity she symbolizes is a hurricane on the surface of the sea, forming a huge tornado.

"But these gods are different from the gods we have cultivated ourselves, they are not limited to one country, right?"

The gods could not only make contracts with one nation, they could even make contracts with several countries at the same time.

For example, the Lord of the Divine Heavens, he has his own sacrifices in various countries at the same time, and he can condense the incense belief into dozens of incarnations.

When nations wage war with nations, these avatars can fight each other, fighting with their left hand and their right hand.

Ji Le: "The advantage of this is that human faith can influence them, but it cannot dominate them. I have to say that the gods who came up with this method are quite smart. ”

The essence of the bloodline gods lies in the stars, and the incarnation of the gods that exist on the earth and stars is only the reflection of the stars in the sea of faith of the nations.

Even if an avatar dies, it does not damage their essence.

"That's right, this is what the Lord of the Elves came up with. When Yang Ke advocated the merging of humans and gods and used the power of faith to help the low-level gods grow, their main gods, His Majesty, immediately came up with the method of starlight projection to ensure the cleanliness of their own bodies. ”

The ontology is not tainted by faith, and it will not be distorted by the beliefs of mortals, let alone cause the stars to fall.

"So, the gods I can control are still my own little gods?"

Compared to the gods, the gods who are born naturally from the sea of faith are different.

Ji Le observed those glorious and hazy appearances, and suddenly said: "Water can carry a boat and also capsize a boat, this sentence not only breaks the way of the monarch and the people, but also speaks of the truth of people and gods." ”

The gods of humanity born from the tree of civilization, the gods of faith who manage the industry of the Xia Kingdom. They are bound to the Xia Kingdom and the Chinese civilization in this life.

Even if a god falls, as long as this industry exists, and the god's name and deeds circulate in Xia, then he will be reborn from the sea of faith.

This is another path of immortality. Even if it is destroyed, even if it dies, as long as faith exists, it will never die.

They are tied to the soul of the people, and they are entangled from generation to generation.

"This is the age of the humane gods. Ji Le looked at the sea of faith and said softly: "I believe that those ancient gods in the past saw this scene, right?"

Once in the Old World, the Protoss spent thousands of years preparing, intending to seize the foundation of belief in the gods and ensure the status of the Bloodline Protoss.

Nowadays, the new god system advocated by Yang Ke, although it blends with the old gods, does not completely replace the ancient gods with faith, but the ancient gods take a step back and appear in the world as incarnations.

Even the goddess Yuanxi did not really give up her bloodline divine power, and completely transformed into a god of faith attached to the Xia Kingdom.

Huo Quzhi: "But in this new world, their former creation grace has disappeared, and unless they become the main gods, it is difficult to get rid of the shackles of faith." I believe that in the near future, they will choose the path of confluence of man and god. ”

"But those gods not only have Shinto, but also a new path. ”

Thinking of the Taixu Divine Venerable, Ji Le shook his head. If that one is still there, I'm afraid that the wind gods have been reincarnated and turned into immortals, and they have already begun to lay out, right?