Chapter 186: Godhead
With Dugu Feng officially becoming a god and holding the authority to kill, the killing force that originally wrapped the killing throne and protected the nascent gods gradually faded. The eyes of the gods were able to cut through the obstacles, observing the newborn Throne of Slaughter and the Lord of Slaughter.
The gaze of one god after another was projected, ranging from friendliness to hostility, curiosity, indifference, and caution. However, the arrival of the new Lord of Slaughter did not usher in the kindness and welcome of the gods of the evil camp, and Dugu Feng's actions when she was a mortal, and the blows against evil organizations such as the Iron Throne and the Satarin Society, all made people wonder if her position would still be on the side of the evil camp like the past Lord of Killing, Baal. Of course, for a god, everything about being a mortal is nothing compared to the god itself, but seeing the obvious change in the environment of the Killing Throne, like a pure killing divinity without any evil and blood, clearly makes the gods of the evil camp understand that this new generation of the Lord of Slaughter, like the Lord of Death, Cranvo, is not a god who tends to be evil.
The gods of the evil camp were hostile to the nascent Lord of Slaughter, and the good camp did not have any kindness in the eyes cast on Dugu Feng. Because the priesthood of killing naturally arouses the hostility of those good gods, although the gods are powerful, they rarely can overcome the limitations of the camp and calmly deal with the gods who are hostile to the priesthood.
Therefore, on Dugu Feng's ascendancy, except for the Lord of Death, Cranvo, who cautiously welcomed her because he saw the obvious change in the Killing Throne, there were few other gods who showed kindness to her.
Although Dugu Feng became a god in one step, she still has a lot of homework to make up in the politics of the kingdom of God.
However, these don't matter to Dugu Feng, she doesn't care about the eyes of the gods, compared with the boring politics of the kingdom of God, she puts more energy into studying the relationship between faith and gods.
Dugu Feng's mind sank into her godhead, and she clearly "saw" that millions of threads of faith, following the rules of the underworld, directly crossed through the void, crossed over from the planes, and threw themselves into her godhead.
These "lines of faith" are lines, but in fact they are just a description, and the connection between the faith of mortals and gods is actually a kind of transition that directly ignores space and time, just like the electron jumps between different energy level tracks, and the power of faith is generated from the faith of mortals, and then directly jumps into the godhead of the godhead, and there is no actual distance that needs to be crossed in between.
This kind of teleportation is theoretically impossible to intercept, but in practice there are many ways to cut off the senses of gods and mortals. For example, in the astral plane, in the Pantheon, or with multiple powerful divine powers joining forces to create a sealed space, it can temporarily or permanently block the connection between mortals and their gods.
The reason for this involves the essence of faith, and the so-called faith is actually a kind of identity, a kind of sustenance, and a kind of prayer. Just as any existence must have its place in the world, any thinking must also have a basis for its existence, and for most mortals, the basis of this cognition generally comes from the concept of "I", and all other cognitions, all thinking and all positions, are based on the concept of "I".
Believers, on the other hand, are to identify with the gods or the concepts represented by the gods, and gradually replace the core of their thinking from "I" to the rules and concepts of the gods or the representatives of the gods.
The connection between the power of mortal faith and the gods lies in this reference point of "identity", and the believer worships the existence of the god above himself, so the power of faith generated by it will spontaneously jump to the god with whom he identries. And this connection is strong but fragile, the astral plane is the gathering place of all the thoughts and memories of the multiverse, a little bit of faith power is transmitted to the astral plane, just like a drop of water into the sea, it is instantly assimilated and absorbed, and there is no object of faith at all, so the astral realm can isolate the faith connection between believers and gods.
In the same way, the seals created by the Pantheon and many powerful divine forces are similar, both of which use a special space or world to create a situation similar to that of the astral plane, isolating the gods and believers from their faith to achieve the effect of similar seals.
Born from the Truth and the faith of all beings, the gods are born with supreme authority and glory, but there is a price to be paid for that authority and glory. Not to mention anything else, it is the prayers from millions of believers at this moment, as well as the divine magic of all priests and holy warriors and other clergy, as well as the identification and grading of the beliefs of various believers, the responses required by various rituals and sacrifices held by believers, and even for some believers who focus on it, the gods still answer some of their questions from time to time, and so on, every second and every minute, there is a huge amount of information pouring in, and these information must be read and understood by the gods one by one and make decisions and responses.
Therefore, the belief in gods is very busy, and every second affects the fate of hundreds of thousands of living beings. It can be said that the thinking speed of each god is comparable to the super brain of technological civilization, and the belief of mortals has been dealt with for a long time, and even the sense of time of gods and mortals is not at the same level at all.
For the gods, if they want, they can stretch out a second in their minds as long as a day, and in the same way, if they want, he can also spend a month and a year as a mortal hour.
The instincts and duties of these gods are very familiar to Dugu Feng, who is already a high-level existence. The only thing that I don't get used to is the restriction or increase of the power of faith on the power of the gods themselves.
The believer's belief in the gods is both a help and a constraint. As far as Dugu Feng feels, after carrying the beliefs of millions of believers, she is like a line connecting millions of fulcrums around her body, on the bright side, the faith and identity that these believers continue to transmit, like the booster of an airplane engine and rocket, she can push her to travel at the current level without her effort, and even when her strength falls, she will quickly return to her original level under this driving force.
Moreover, millions of believers are millions of fulcrums that interact with this world, Dugufeng can use believers as fulcrums to exert force in this world, although each fulcrum is insignificant relative to this world, but millions of believers united, it is the effect of accumulating soil into mounds and gathering armpits into fur, which can directly play the effect of deceiving the world and making fake reality. This is of great help to her to engrave the laws she understands into the world and into the minds of all beings.
But in the same way, the thread of millions of beliefs is also a kind of bondage, a kind of drag, when the power of the gods is lower than the level of faith, the gods will be quickly pushed to the corresponding level by the power of faith, and in the same way, when the realm of the gods exceeds the current level of faith, the power of faith will become a huge obstacle, dragging down the promotion of the level of the gods.
The so-called holding Mount Tai to surpass the North Sea is Dugu Feng's current feeling, millions of believers have different minds, even the most devout fanatics, in fact, they also have their own personal thoughts, and these personal thoughts are always diluting and confusing the order and concepts established by the gods, and even polluting the will of the gods through faith. The nature of this belief is unavoidable, so in the eyes of many gods, the believer's personal thoughts are the greatest original sin.
This is actually a very contradictory proposition, and the believer's personal thoughts pollute the gods, which is the greatest original sin for the gods. But the personal mind is also the source of the power of faith, once a believer completely loses his personal thought, then he is essentially one with the gods, and becomes a special incarnation or saint of the gods, and he will no longer have any power of faith. This is also the reason why the invokers in the kingdom of God are far inferior to the believers in other planes in the generation of the power of faith, because in essence, the invokers have merged with the kingdom of the gods, and the degree of freedom of personal thought has been weakened to a very low level, so it is difficult to generate much power of faith.
However, the power of faith, for all its shortcomings, does not detract from the fact that it is the easiest path to the gods. Although many people despise believing in gods, believing that they are only puppets of faith, false gods bound by faith, they are not as free as the gods of nature, primordial gods, law gods, or even philosophical gods.
But actually, it's a lofty idea. In the infinite world of the multiverse, true geniuses and children of the plane are very rare, and it is almost impossible to ascend to the sky in one step, and directly upgrade from mortals to powerful gods such as nature gods, force gods, and law gods.
A high-martial world as strong as the Divine Soldier Xuanqi World, a strong person who really relies on his own hard work to cultivate, break through the Divine Domain, and become a Divine Domain martial artist Even in the history of the Divine Soldier Xuanqi, it is only a few people such as Fu Xi and Chi You. A genius like the Xuantian Evil Emperor has been trapped in his heart for a hundred years before he can touch the threshold of the divine domain. As for Nangong Wentian's father and son, it is the son of the plane that is directly opened, and it can be ignored for the time being.
And in the same way, although the Shushan world seems to be scattered immortals everywhere, and the earth immortals are not as good as dogs, but in fact, these immortals can become immortals, and each of them does not know how many times they have been reincarnated in their previous lives, and they don't know how strong the foundation they have accumulated before they have later achievements. The most typical of these is Shenggu Jiayin, who was the first person to be a female fairy in the side door during the Wei and Jin dynasties, but until the reincarnation of the ninth generation, she still almost couldn't fly. It can be seen that it is almost impossible for the Oriental Xianxia World to reach the sky in one step.