Chapter 67: The Nature of Faith
The material that broke out of Solol has excellent research value.
Especially for the chaos in the mouths of the aborigines of this world, Jiang Feng has a further understanding.
First of all, he guessed correctly, this "Soul Fragment of Solore" is indeed the power core of Sololl's clone, similar to something like the antimatter battery on the power armor of the Federal Marine Corps. Not only that, but this fragment of the soul that exudes negative spiritual energy has a spiritual resonance effect with the spiritual ripples from the depths of the universe.
It is precisely with this spiritual resonance effect that the faint spiritual ripples across the galaxy are amplified, and the gods of chaos whose bodies are not in this star system are able to spread evil beliefs among these aborigines and plunder the stardust energy of this planet through this way of descending on their own clones.
There are many uncertainties in the development process of idealistic civilization, so there are also many changes in the form of existence that eventually develops.
Just as there are many branches in the materialist civilization, such as the Federation, the Empire, the Industrial Collective, and the AI Hive, the Idealistic Civilization has both witchcraft associations that delve into idealistic technology in the spirit of scholars, feudal empires ruled by strong people like the Arcane Empire, and "theocratic states" that spread the net of faith and expansion.
It's like the old days. Just like the natural diplomatic subtraction brought about by the conflict of knowledge and form, materialist civilization and idealistic civilization naturally have negative effects in diplomacy, and they are often in a tense situation when they meet, especially for the latter.
Jiang Feng speculated that this so-called chaos should have reached the peak of a first-level civilization, and was forming a prototype similar to a "theocratic state". That is, a group of strong people who have been able to physically cross galaxies, because of a variety of factors, gathered together, after realizing the essence of becoming stronger, began to consciously expand their influence through special means and plunder cultivation resources from other planets.
There are many ways to do this, and all of them have something to do with religion. After all, for these strong people who can manipulate the origin power of the universe with their consciousness, it will not be much more difficult to send down "miracles" to the weak indigenous civilization than the materialist civilization.
According to the Earth Federation's definition of the division of idealistic civilizations such as "theocracy", the standard for crossing the threshold from a first-level civilization to a second-level civilization is not based on the degree of star field development and energy consumption like most materialist civilizations, but on the degree of influence expansion.
That is, if the power of "Chaos" has completely eroded a planet, turning all the consciousness of the entire planet into devout Chaos believers, and making the belief above all regimes, then this planet can be counted as the territory of the "Theocracy", and the huge stardust energy will be exclusively enjoyed by the main god of the Theocracy.
After most of the "theocracies" enter the second level, they will generally sweep away the predicament of early development, and the expansion rate will grow like a snowball. This is the reason why these idealists are regarded as flood beasts by the Earth Federation in the galaxy.
And before the second level, it is difficult to say whether they can be called civilization or not.
This is one of the reasons why in the Milky Way, the Earth Federation rarely allows those idealists to develop to the second level.
At this time, Jiang Feng suddenly remembered that in addition to chaos in this world, there seemed to be a religion that spread more widely. As an orthodox religion, its adherents are spread throughout almost the entire kingdom of mankind, and are ruled by other churches. Devout believers offer prayers to Julian the Father on weekends, while priests, messengers of the Father, can draw on the power of the gods to drive the light to their service.
As a result, the ultimate goal of both sides is the same, except that Julian's faith spreads more modestly, while Chaos, as an outsider, takes more extreme measures.
And more evil.
Putting Solore's soul fragment aside, Jiang Feng picked up another equally interesting sampleβthe fragment of the bone shield.
The spiritual energy on the bone shield fragment was similar to the spiritual energy on the soul fragment of Solol, Jiang Feng tried to restore its energy model, and used the principle of witchcraft to design a witchcraft model that summoned the bone shield.
But unfortunately, his "MP value" doesn't seem to be enough to use this sorcery, even if he pinches the low-level magic stone to urge the spiritual resonance effect, he has no response.
However, although he was unable to successfully release the witchcraft, this experiment also made Jiang Feng understand another thing. For witchcraft that is slightly beyond the control of mental power, it can barely be released in the form of overdrawing mental power, while for witchcraft that is far beyond the ability of mental power to bear, the magical elements that are free in the air will not converge and form under the interference of spiritual power at all.
"Is it possible to use props to replace the side effects of mental resonance with foreign objects, so as to bear the cost of mental resonance at a smaller cost?"
Just as Jiang Feng was about to conduct further experiments, a pop-up window of Zhi Brain suddenly appeared on the retina.
[There is someone at the door]
"Who is it?"
Stopping what he was doing, Jiang Feng asked casually.
Zhi Brain didn't speak, but just called up the permission of the camera at the door and presented the door picture directly in front of him.
When he saw the person standing at the door, Jiang Feng was stunned.
I saw Yi Ran, who was sent by him to burn cement, standing at the door with a disgraced face at the moment. The white shirt and jeans he had given her had turned into strips of rags that barely covered the vital points, not much better than a beggar.
As for her right hand, she was carrying a half-elf girl who looked even petite than her and was tied with hemp rope, her young pointed ears drooping, her sapphire eyes filled with tears, and her expression was as aggrieved as she could.
Jiang Feng didn't react to what was happening for a while, so Yi Ran threw the half-elf girl in his hand to the ground, stretched out his right hand with a big grin, and smashed it on the door of the shelter a few times.
"I, I, Iran, open the door and get me some more clothes."
The hologram appeared at the door, and the sudden appearance of the face startled Yi Ran, who was slamming the door, to the half-elf girl lying on the ground with an aggrieved face next to her, with a curious look on her face. It's just that this curious expression didn't last for two seconds, and thinking of the previous encounter of being chased by the fireball, he suddenly collapsed again.
ββ¦β¦ Didn't I tell you to burn a cement? How did it come to be like this? Jiang Feng said stunned, glancing at the half-elf girl on the ground who was writhing like a foot worm, "Who is this?" β
Holding her arms, Yi Ran glanced at the half-elf girl on the ground, the corners of her lips slowly moved, and she deliberately used half-elf language.
"Thief."
"What, what a thief! People just ate a few of your fruits, as for being so stingy! β
Hearing that she was slandered as a thief, the half-elf girl suddenly exploded, and was about to argue angrily. But after meeting Yi Ran's cold gaze, thinking back to the previous encounter of being chased by the fireball, the originally hard neck suddenly shrank timidly, and then looked at Jiang Feng aggrievedly, and begged in a weak tone, "Let go of me, can't I just compensate you?" β
"Compensate me?" Through the holographic screen at the door, Jiang Feng stared at the half-elf girl with interest, "Are you sure?" β
With her eyes rolling, the half-elf girl nodded vigorously and said with a swear.
"Of course, my Emily counts! Never lie! β
Hmph, the ghost will pay you!
With a grimace in her heart, Emily had already made up her mind that when she returned to the village, she would settle down a little and hide in it.
She still didn't believe it, these guys could still run to her father to ask for debts.
However, just when Emily was thinking about it in her heart, Jiang Feng's next sentence made her good mood fall to the bottom in an instant.
"Well, Emily, since you've said so, I'm going to believe you." Looking at the half-elf girl's sworn appearance, Jiang Feng smiled, then looked at Yi Ran, who was standing next to him, and said, "Yi Ran." β
"What?"
"Go and take that necklace off her neck."
Hearing this, Emily's face changed instantly, and she looked nervously at Yi Ran, who was walking towards her reluctantly, and then looked at Jiang Feng, who was looking at her with a smile, and her body was tied into a dumpling with hemp rope, and she writhed back uneasily, and said nervously.
"You, what are you doing with my necklace?"
"You have to leave something as collateral," looking at Emily with a panicked face, Jiang Feng smiled slightly, and said softly, "Otherwise, if you regret it, where will I find you." β
"Isn't it okay to change things and mortgage them?" Emily panicked, "That thing is important to me. β
"No," Jiang Feng said seriously, "I probably glanced at it, and there is only this good thing on you." β