"He actually gave money again, to those humans."

In front of Athena's sight of the 364 pyramids growing out of the earth, Qin Heng was just like he had in Argos before, but whenever the ruler of the nearby city asked him to leave, he would choose to buy the land with money.

Looking at those human beings as treasures of the gold that Qin Heng could make at will, Athena did not feel that those humans were ignorant.

From different angles, the benefits are naturally different, and those gold are all real and can be circulated and used in the human world. And this seemingly 'ignorant' behavior will also bring earth-shaking changes to the people in those cities.

Knowledge is power, and human beings will obtain the foundation of this power from Qin Heng's hands, and in the future, they will be able to use these foundations to burst out with incredible energy.

"What he showed before is not false, after he has begun to take charge of the rules and authority of our world, he will still use this benevolent way to bestow precious knowledge on mankind, so he is really a human being who has mastered the power of the gods."

Athena's sense of identity with Qin Heng in her heart has improved again, but she is also vaguely worried in her heart.

"When human beings have mastered the power of knowledge, even without the help of our gods, they can get everything they want from the natural world, so will they still believe in our gods?"

Athena's wisdom allowed her to see a power called science and technology through the contents of various books placed in the pyramid called the Temple of Knowledge after Qin Heng had selected, and also saw what kind of extent human beings with this power would reach in the future.

The sky that originally belonged to the gods will also be conquered by humans, and the deep sea, which is forbidden to humans, will also be full of waves rowed by giant ships made by humans, and even the starry sky that only gods can set foot in, and humans in the future will be able to swim freely.

So, what is the meaning of the existence of the gods?

Or rather, what is the help that the gods can give to mankind?

It can't be transcendent power and immortality, because these gods can't achieve immortality in the true sense, which is also the difference between these natural gods and the immortals and Buddhas in the mythical world who have reached the realm of Daluo through cultivation.

Moreover, if the human race is given extraordinary power, then the human race will not need the help of the gods.

This also leads to a very serious question of why we should believe in gods when humans don't need them

Looking through the barriers between the heavenly realm and the human world from the heavenly realm, Athena stared at the 365 Qin Heng who were giving those human beings the knowledge of 'words and language', and the god king in her heart who had begun to truly identify with her, began to think.

"The god-king can use this way of imparting knowledge to harvest the faith of all people in a short period of time, so that almost all humans in this world will become his followers, but this belief will definitely not last, because humans have always been greedy."

Athena knows humans well.

"When they are illiterate, they are willing to pay a lot for literacy, and the beliefs and prayers that are not important to them can be dedicated to the gods who gave them these. However, when they become literate and begin to learn true knowledge from the temple of knowledge, they will hope that the gods can directly give them that knowledge, but all they are willing to give is their faith and prayers, which are the 'wealth' that has been voluntarily traded to the gods in their hearts. ”

Athena saw not only those who were learning the written word, but also the temple of knowledge in the city of Argos, where people were saying words asking the gods to teach him all the healing arts.

There are also knowledge of combat skills, cooking, textile technology, mathematics, and so on.

"When the gods are unwilling to give them knowledge beyond the basic words in this way, they will think that the gods are not willing to help them, and that they are not worthy of their faith and daily prayers, so they will take back the 'wealth' they had 'traded' to the gods and take it back unilaterally."

What Athena was thinking about at the moment was what had already happened in this world.

After the gods created human beings, they guided human beings from primitive society to civilized society, from slash-and-burn farming to being able to build cities, creating a civilization inheritance that belongs to human beings.

But in the eyes of later humans, these are all obtained by human beings through their own efforts, and what does their ancestors' promises to the gods have to do with them?

As the goddess of war and wisdom in this world, Athena used to have a very large number of believers, and she thought of the one she had helped.

In need of help, the believer made a prayer to help Athena build the temple, just for the sake of victory in a war. But when Athena helped him and won the victory, he did not build a temple for Athena as promised.

Because in the process of building the temple, he started a new war with others, and when he could not win the battle, he thought that Athena did not help him, so he stopped the construction of the temple.

It was a promise that had been 'traded' to the gods, but he unilaterally tore it up.

So Athena knows very well that human commitment and gratitude do not last, to use an idiom she has just learned, that is, the vast majority of human beings will be treacherous because of changes in interests.

"The god-king said that he is a human being with the power of the gods, so it is impossible for him not to know what kind of intelligent creature a human being is, but why does he still do this, he can only see the faith in front of him, but not the faith in the future, no, my god-king can't be that god-king."

Athena felt that Qin Heng's wisdom was even more advanced than her, which could be seen from Qin Heng's method of mastering this world.

To describe it in the Chinese she just learned, it is a soldier who surrenders without a fight.

At the beginning, the 'battle' was only to gain equal power and show strength, so that the gods agreed that everyone would develop peacefully first.

While thinking, Athena saw the twelve core principles emerging on the 364 all-metal pyramids, plus the pyramid of Argos, and the outer walls of the 365 temples of knowledge, all inscribed with the twenty-four words that no force in the world could destroy.

With a little inspiration, Athena suddenly understood Qin Heng's method of maintaining his faith.

"Even if every country in the human world has laws, those natural nobles will never allow commoners to be equal to them, and they will not abide by the twelve core principles, but the number of commoners is much more than that of nobles, and they are the cornerstone of maintaining human civilization."

"Where there is oppression, there is resistance, and if civilians want to live in a world that abides by these twelve core principles, they need the guidance and help of the gods, which is not only the way for the god-king to maintain faith, but also the way we can obtain faith, which is to help our god-king maintain the twelve core principles."

Athena's eyes lit up.

"Not only now, but also in the future, when the original nobility is overthrown by the commoners, the benefits will be redistributed, there will be no nominal nobility, but there will be nobility in the actual sense, so a cycle begins to ......"

"Human greed will keep repeating this kind of struggle in their world, and even if they enter a truly civilized society, there will always be a small part of humanity that ignores the twelve core principles for their own benefit."

After Athena figured it out, she directly summoned the new gods who were cultivating.

As the goddess of war and wisdom, Athena had such authority before, and after becoming a new god, her godhead authority was not deprived by Qin Heng. The authority she has over the rules of war does not conflict with the authority of the godhead authority of Diana, the god of war.

Moreover, because Athena was the first old god to become a new god, plus Zeus was 'old', Hades, Poseidon, and Ares died, and the godhead authority of Apollo, the god of light, was stripped of the most important light.

Athena could have shouted loudly: I am only under the God King Qin Heng.

The gods also saw what Qin Heng had done, and many of them had the same worries as Athena.

Without waiting for them to ask, Athena said directly: "When human freedom is imprisoned, when human democracy is denied, when human equality is oppressed, when human nations do not abide by the rule of law, when the integrity between human beings and human beings is desecrated by lies...... In the name of God, in the name of God-King, and in the name of our God, we will respond to the prayers of mankind to keep the twelve core principles established by God-King forever, whether they are on Earth or in the future when they are in the starry sky. ”

Athena's words brightened the eyes of the gods, and they all understood what Athena meant, because as natural gods, they had witnessed the development of human beings from primitive society to the present, and they knew human beings very well.

"Now ......," Athena said, looking at the gods, "read with me the twelve core values of the 24 characters: prosperity, democracy, civilization, harmony, freedom, equality, justice, rule of law, patriotism, dedication, integrity, and friendliness." ”

And the gods read along.

Athena concluded: "We should also obey. ”

The gods answered.

……

When the 365 Qin Heng's outer bodies were preaching to the hundreds of millions of humans in this world, Qin Heng also saw what was happening in the Heavenly Realm.

He could not see the fluctuations of Athena's thoughts, but he could clearly see what Athena was doing and how the gods reacted.

"Yes, that's good."

A satisfied smile appeared on Qin Heng's face, he actually minded that the gods would take away the power of his faith, but since the gods were all in the name of the god king, there would be no problem.

Moreover, even if he could create 84,000 of himself with the method of external body, it would be impossible for him to remain in this world forever to preach, receive karma, and maintain his core values.

Hundreds of millions of people are barely enough, but with knowledge, with the real help of the gods, the speed of human development will become faster and faster, and the population will also usher in explosive growth with the increase of productivity.

In a hundred years at most, in this world with gods and Qin Heng leaving a temple of knowledge, the total population will inevitably reach the order of at least 7 billion.

Because there are too many places in this world that have not yet been opened, and what is most needed to open up new land and create new countries is population.

And the new power of faith trait, even if you don't need the prayers of these people, can increase the power of faith by 1 point every day, 7 billion people are 2.5 trillion a year, and the fastest evolving superman basking in the sun can't catch up.

This is just the Earth of the world, and there are many habitable planets in this world.

And if you add to that the prayers of these people

That's an astronomical number, and it's also a number that saint-level beings will also have hot eyes.

The Buddha in "Journey to the West" is bent on increasing the influence of Western Christianity, not only to make Western Christianity have one more saint, but also to make the power of faith known as Wishing Power in that world.

Intelligent beings absorb the power of the world's origin without knowing it, and they cannot use it, but the gods, immortals, bodhisattvas, and Buddhas need this power, and after the base reaches a certain level, it is much faster than their own cultivation.

Qin Heng could already feel that because the power of faith characteristic had become a complete version, there were hundreds of millions of believers who voluntarily believed, and his total number of believers was also close to 1.5 billion, and the power of faith obtained was more than sixty times that of before.

Because it was useless for his followers to pray before, non-transcendent devout believers were only able to contribute 1 point of faith every two months, but now without praying, it has become 1 point a day.

His Dao Fruit World also grew at a faster rate, and so did the Dao Tree.

Compared to his direct ingestion of the spiritual energy cultivation of the two worlds, the current efficiency is not comparable, but one more way can also increase the total efficiency, which is mutually reinforcing.

Not only Qin Heng's two ways of enhancing his strength promote each other, but also for humans and gods, it is also a mutually beneficial thing.

Similar to the reproduction and growth of human beings, it needs to consume the resources of the earth, and one day, the resources of the earth will be depleted, just like Krypton.

And the power of faith that the gods have obtained from human beings can also be used to help human beings continue to reproduce and develop on a new planet or even a new world when the planet or even the world they are on is depleted and begins to be destroyed.

Looking at the universe, it is not just human beings, but also intelligent life.

Qin Heng, who was still thinking about how to remind the gods, was completely relieved, and then left 365 of his own to continue to be literate, and he returned directly to his world.

Kronos's body, which had lost the power of the origin of the world of the gods, was still very powerful, and Qin Heng still couldn't directly devour it with the gluttonous characteristics, but it couldn't last for many years.

Sitting on the rejuvenated Mars, three corpses appeared in front of Qin Heng, which was more appropriate to describe as a divine body.

Hades, Poseidon, Ares.

When Qin Heng used the Eternal Spear to kill Hades and Poseidon before, their bodies seemed to be dissolved by the power attached to the Eternal Spear, leaving only the godhead, but in fact, it was just a trick used by Qin Heng.

How could he give up two divine bodies

Both of them are sons of Titans, although they did not inherit the real Titan body, but they are not bad, in the world of the gods, originally only three artifacts can really hurt them.

Qin Heng was able to kill them with the Eternal Spear, in addition to the fact that the Eternal Spear was very strong, it was also related to the World Tree devouring many godheads in the world of gods, and because of the divine powers used by Qin Heng, he was able to suppress the godhead rules of the two of them.

Switching to the more powerful Kronos will not work.

The trick is just to keep the gods from danger.

When the god of war Ares died, Qin Heng did not steal the head, in addition to his trust and expectations for Diana, it was also because he knew that the god of war Ares had no characteristics to explode.

As his strength grows stronger and his characteristics become more and more comprehensive, there are fewer and fewer characteristics that can be exploded.

It's just a god of war, and he can't look down on it anymore.

But in line with the principle of not wasting it, he still took back Ares's divine body, and now, it was time to slowly use the outdated gluttonous characteristics to absorb the huge life source energy of the three divine bodies as if dismembering.

It doesn't feel like cannibalism, it's actually similar to Duan Yu's use of the Northern Spiritual Skill, the difference is only ...... Well, this is just Qin Heng's psychological comfort for himself.

Anyway, these few are not people, so there is no need to care so much.

In the world of "Journey to the West" before, he devoured the life source energy in the corpses of several Da Luo-level demons and monsters, and the small tree bud on Qin Heng's Dao Fruit had already grown, counting the harvest of this world, and Qin Heng's cultivation that had never stopped during this time.

The young sapling already has several branches.

This change is not the most obvious, the most obvious is the world inside the Dao Fruit, that is, in the real Dao Fruit World, the space margin is getting bigger and bigger.

It is full of the power of Da Luo generated by the return of three points, and the chaotic energy transformed after entering the Dao Fruit World.

"Hongmeng is just opening, the world is chaotic ......"

Strictly speaking, there is no concept of space in Qin Heng's Dao Fruit, nor does it have the concept of time, everything is chaotic.

"If I open the world with an axe, it will be Pangu"

Qin Heng also thought about it, in terms of the current chaotic energy in his Dao Fruit, forcibly opening the heavens and the earth was just a small world, and even if he was sanctified because of this, he was only a weak person among saint-level existences.

Moreover, the Dao Fruit World that originated from his own body was not a natural world born of endless chaos in the heavens and ten thousand worlds, and there was no need for the Pangu Great God, the God of Chaos, Kaos, and other existences to use axes to open the heavens and the earth.

If he didn't want to, even if the world within the Dao Fruit was opened, it would be impossible for life to be born.

Under normal circumstances, a saint-level existence would not let the Dao Fruit World in his body give birth to life, because he can't say when there will be a fight, and the Dao Fruit World will be shaken, and the life inside will die.

The opening up of the world to give birth to life is to open up outside the body, in the endless chaos where the heavens and all the worlds are located.

As long as you don't fight in the open world, even if the saint of creation dies, the world will not collapse directly, but the power of the origin rules will no longer be in charge.

These are still a little far away from the current Qin Heng, and he is thinking about another question.

"The Ten Innate Spirit Treasure Seven Treasure Wonderful Trees of the Divine World were born before the opening of the world, so, this Great Dao Tree above my Dao Fruit, can it be refined into the Seven Treasure Wonderful Tree with branches, just like I used the branches of the World Tree to refine the Eternal Spear, well, I helped the Dwarf King refine it, and I have contributed to it, so it can be regarded as my refining. If it can be refined, will it only be useful in my Dao Fruit World, or will it be useful in any world?"

Qin Heng thought of the Eternal Spear, although the greatest power he wanted to show must be in Qin Heng's world, but in the world where he got the War of the Gods, and because Qin Heng's world is getting stronger and stronger, there are six infinite gems that can be combined with divine powers to directly kill Hades and Poseidon in seconds.

Then, if you refine the Seven Treasure Wonderful Tree, you don't need to worry about the magic weapon being insufficient and inappropriate in any world.

Because of what is lacking, what is brushed, the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree has nothing to brush.

In "The Romance of the Gods", Kong Xuan, who defeated Nezha and Yang Jian, has a five-color divine light and is known as receiving nothing.

Lu Zhuan Daojun, who claimed to have attained the Tao at the beginning of the mixed yuan, had a flying knife for cutting immortals and a book of seven arrows with a nail head, and he was abducted by the mixed yuan golden bucket in the Romance of the Gods, and he could escape on his own, but when he met Kong Xuan, who had a five-color divine light, he also turned around and turned into a rainbow.

But Kong Xuan, who is so powerful, was also brushed away by the Zhun Ti Daoist who owned the Qibao Miao Tree, and was even collected into a mount and a disciple by Zhun Ti, and later helped Zhun Ti to open the Heavenly Sect Master, and the Qingping Sword of the Tongtian Sect Master was smashed by Zhun Ti with the Qibao Miao Tree.

Of course, Qin Heng's good brother, the Qingping Sword of the Tongtian Sect Master of the Green Snake World is intact, and it can only be said that the period of the gods in different worlds is also different.

For example, in some worlds, Kong Xuan killed Zhun Ti.

"For My Shippo Wonderful Tree......"

After Qin Heng absorbed the life source energy in the three bodies, he found the god of flame and craftsman who honestly cultivated in the heavenly realm, and created the Thunder Spear and Hephaestus in the underworld.

Crackling.

Qin Heng threw out a large number of magic weapons confiscated in the world of "Journey to the West", and hundreds of thousands of demons and monsters were not fought with Qin Heng empty-handed.

There are also the essence of those demons and monsters, what are the feathers of the golden-winged Dapeng, the spine of the black robe of the giant python of the body, and the inverted horse poison pile of the giant scorpion demon......

"I see that your bones are strange, and I have a copy of "Refining Mastery" here." Qin Heng's eyes were full of anticipation and said, "Come, study and study, study and study carefully." ”