Chapter 368 [He Ping's Uneasiness]
It is undeniable that many religions have great advantages in academics, especially in philosophy, religion is from the top of the world, but religion is not a charity, and even a charity cannot only pay without gain, the vast majority of religions are profitable, maybe money, or power, even if the original founder of the religion did not have such an idea, religion will become like this in the process of development.
He Ping has seen a lot of religions in the main world, and in the military world, there are also some relatively rudimentary religious prototypes, and it is the same in the Giant Beast Paradise, there are also several religions in the Langton Empire in the past, even now, some cities still retain religion, and there are not a few cities like Jialan City that are similar to religion, so He Ping is no stranger to religion, after a few days of contact with the Flame Demon Tribe and the Demon God Sect, He Ping discovered the abnormality of the Demon God Sect.
First of all, the Demon God Cult has brought the favor to the orcs in terms of life, advanced living habits, high-quality living resources, these things are not so simple to appear, with the civilization level of the orcs, it is impossible to develop to this point in a short period of time, the development of civilization is based on years, even centuries, other orc tribes are still in a semi-primitive state, why did it reach this level here?
Next, there is the issue of the income of the Demon God Sect, on the surface, the Demon God Sect does not have no benefits, whether it is the harvest of the Yan Demon Tribe or the power of the Yan Demon Tribe, it seems that it is in the hands of the Demon God Sect, but He Ping can see that in fact, most of the harvest of the orcs is consumed by themselves, and they do not contribute much to the Demon God Sect, and the things that the Demon God Sect gets are also obtained by those clergy themselves, and they do not get much substantial material support from the believers.
In addition, the power is the same, other orc tribes, the ideology and social situation are basically still in the stage of slavery, the upper echelons of the tribe have a certain amount of power, but there is no decisive power, although they have a lot of warriors, a lot of troops, but these warriors may obey the orders of the higher level when fighting, but in peacetime, except for the chieftain and some warriors directly under the war lord, the rest of the warriors are basically free, and the tribe does not have much binding force on them.
The Flame Demon Tribe is also in a similar situation, the Demon God Sect usually formulates some rules, and there is not much for the management of the tribe, warriors and clergy have a lot of freedom, at least compared to the religion He Ping has seen before, the Demon God Sect is very relaxed, and in this way, the Demon God Sect does not get much power and money, but if the religion wants to spread and maintain, it also needs to be low-cost, where did they get these costs?
And the most critical thing is that the clergy are there, before this, He Ping had a question, how did the Fire Demon Tribe defeat the surrounding tribes and reach the current scale, and why can the three big tribes of Blood Axe, Black Falcon and Fury Hammer not interfere with their annexation behavior, and can also occupy the treasure land of the Charon Forest, there are not many warriors in the Fire Demon Tribe, even if their shamans, that is, there are many clergy, but shamans do not have much direct combat power, It's hard to do these things with shamans alone.
And He Ping understood a little after coming here, because he also saw several shamans in this settlement, that is, the clergy of the Demon God Sect, and he felt extraordinary power in these shamans, their magic was more powerful than ordinary shamans, and he had also seen these shamans perform witchcraft in the settlement, such as helping orcs heal their wounds and diseases, or using freshly captured demonic beasts to extract beast souls to make horcruxes and so on.
Generally speaking, witchcraft is not such a convenient thing, because it produces unnatural phenomena, which is considered to be against the sky, so all witchcraft is difficult to carry out instantaneous, requires a certain amount of preparation time, and some witchcraft also needs some special props, such as oil lamps, blood and skulls of demonic beasts, special herbs, masks, etc., and after witchcraft is performed, whether it is the caster or the caster, there will be certain side effects, therefore, a shaman generally does not use witchcraft frequently.
But the shamans of the Flame Demon Tribe are different, the process of using witchcraft is very simple, some simple witchcraft, such as healing, can even be directly instantaneous, without any preparation time, it can be solved with a wave of the hand, even if it is some complex witchcraft, it is also very easy, and it does not need the complicated procedures that He Ping knows, it just takes a little time, and the side effects are even more minimal, if you don't experience it carefully, you can't feel it at all.
The most important thing is the production process of the Horcruxes, He Ping did not see the special way of extracting the beast soul he imagined in this settlement, these shamans extracted the beast soul when they were the same as before, directly using their hands to contact the beast, and then extracting the beast soul from it to make the Horcrux, but this was not beyond He Ping's expectations, these monsters are not demon-devouring beasts, and they can extract the beast soul without the help of other things.
However, He Ping found that these shamans were very smooth and fast when they extracted the beast souls, and the extracted beast souls seemed to have changed a little, although because there was no close observation, so He Ping couldn't see what kind of changes there were, but there were changes that were certain, after all, he was also a shaman who had made Horcruxes, especially when he found that the beast souls extracted by these shamans were very active, he confirmed his guess.
This Demon God Cult is not simple, whether it is the improvement of the life of the orcs, or the improvement of shamans and witchcraft, or the abnormality of giving more than benefits, it can show that this religion has a great plan, but it is not just as simple as occupying a half-orc tribe, and most importantly, He Ping guessed that the reason why several tribes were able to unite when they attacked the Meliane Forest before was because this Demon God Cult was coordinating from it, otherwise, It is absolutely impossible for the two tribes of the Black Falcon and the Hammer to fight side by side.
What the Demon God Sect did reminded He Ping of what he had done in the military world, to put it simply, it was to integrate the achievements of high-level civilization into low-level civilization, but what he did was relatively small, just some weapons and equipment, and the Demon God Sect did more obviously, on a larger scale, directly raising the civilization level of a half-orc tribe a lot.
Then the question arises, He Ping himself was able to do this because he was able to travel between several worlds, so he could bring the products of high-level civilizations to people of low-level civilizations, so how did the Demon God Sect do this? Where did the Demon God Cult learn about those higher-level lifestyles? Even if there are amazing talents among the orcs, it will take a long time to take many detours to develop these things, and it is impossible to go so smoothly.
Could it be that behind the Demon God Cult is also a member of a higher-level civilized world, and he can also travel between different worlds like He Ping, so it has developed to this extent? This thought made He Ping a little uneasy, and now, his system level was only level two, not yet three. level, the world that can be connected, the highest civilization level is only level four, and the main world and the elven world are only level four, so how many levels will this high-level civilization world that may exist?
If it's only level four, He Ping doesn't have to worry too much, the main world is also level four, and his own strength is also top for level four, but the problem is that if there is really a civilization above level four eyeing here, it will be a bit troublesome, and at this time, He Ping also thought of the mirror that got a few pieces of fragments in the military world, the mirror that can move in space, that mirror is just a fragment, and the level is not low, if the mirror is completely put together, the level will definitely be higher, that mirror, How did you get to the military world?