Chapter 55: Theocracy and Kingship

The breath of death, the power of death, spread rapidly.

One after another, the lightning gathered over, and the world and historical fragments in the lightning began to accept this power, and called out the power of the world, which was combined into a huge world again, attracting the power of the entire world to invade the past towards Sun Dao.

It's just that this time it's no longer a barbaric suppression, but a call that goes straight to the essence of death, this call, ignoring all kinds of obstacles, directly acts on human life, to extract life from Sun Dao's body and drag it directly into the abyss of death.

This kind of extraction, even ignoring the barrier of time and space, also produced a reaction on Sun Dao's body.

"Use the worship of the gods, get in touch with the source of the power of the world, and then directly apply the rules of death? This kind of ability is beyond the scope of high-level authority, it seems that although you have temporarily fallen to the power level because of the eternal night dream realm, you have gained something else in the spiritual realm, or maybe it is the ancient god you fused, the old ruler itself has hidden the power of the rules, and it is a great power in the past! ”

In an instant, Sun Dao had a strong sense of crisis in his heart, but in the next second, countless forces related to money, finance, and economy converged, condensed into one banknote after another, and swung out directly along his swinging arm, blending into the surrounding lightning bolts.

These lightning bolts jumped and gathered, and they also evolved into a world, revealing the scene of primitive human labor, but soon the scene changed rapidly, with the continuous evolution of production tools, the level of productivity increased rapidly, some people were freed from labor, and became the clan leaders responsible for leading the tribe and distributing the harvest, and some of the chiefs' relatives became dignitaries, and then some people stood out in the worship of totems and underworlds. Become a sacrificial class.

These people continued to rise in status and slowly became an independent class.

Then the war between the primitive tribes broke out, victorious, defeated, dead and reborn, after absorbing the resources of the defeated tribes and enslaving the vanquished to work at the same time. That independent class grew and finally became slave owners, and at the same time, the slave class also came into being, and the power to carry the progress of civilization began to shift.

Slave owners began to live longer, and they no longer saw slaves as their own family, but as livestock and tools, and the lives of slaves were no longer important, and the perception of death on both sides was skewed. This gradually tore the race apart!

Zla!

With the continuous evolution and expansion of the world phantom around Sun Dao, the power of the era of objective development has finally completely presented the changes in people's hearts, which has also torn apart the power of the Night King's worship of the underworld!

The world phantom around the Night King suddenly collapsed, his face suddenly turned pale, and the shadow of the gods behind him shook for a moment, and began to show signs of blurring.

"What a historical development! What a crowd difference! What a cognitive tear! But the tearing of cognition also represents religious pluralism. It represents the expansion of the power of the gods! The seeds you have planted will be fertile ground for the great power of the gods! ”

He used a high-pitched voice. Singing the praises of the greatness of the gods, the shadow of the gods behind him suddenly shook, and a burst of terrifying power spread, which no longer attracted the lightning of time and space history, but spread to the world phantom around Sun Dao, and then infiltrated into it!

Followed by. I saw that the illusory world changed violently, one by one, one by one, slaves, slave owners, priests, etc., one social class after another, and their thoughts gradually materialized. The thoughts hidden in the deepest part of the mind are directly channeled and then manifested, becoming a deity.

This is a different deity, with different powers, responding to different groups of people, representing the psychological demands of different classes of people.

Gods!

A turning point in religious worship, in which deities representing different priesthoods and realms appeared, like a social division of labor.

The gods who rule the thunder and lightning are in charge of punishment;

The gods who rule over the earth are responsible for procreation;

The gods who master gold and iron are in charge of war;

……

The power of nature combined with the ideas of the human world to construct the Godhead, and then absorbed the characteristics of different classes and began to anthropomorphize.

The birth of the gods represented a further deepening of primitive man's understanding of the world, and began to attribute various natural phenomena to the manifestation of the power of different gods.

As a result, various forces emerged around Sun Dao and grew rapidly, and a number of gods and spirits stood up in the illusory world constructed by his mind, but instead of obeying his command, they were high up and began to threaten Sun Dao's control and guidance of this illusory world.

Click!

There was a sound of shattering, and a crack appeared in the illusory world, and the first power that was not under Sun Dao's control was born.

"Yes, the systematic belief in the gods, or polytheistic beliefs, is beyond your control, even if you simulate and derive the process of society, but the human heart will not be controlled by you, the gods are different, believers will dedicate all their power to the gods!"

The shadow of the gods behind the Lord of the Night solidified again, and his strength and aura continued to rise.

"When the illusory world around you is swept away by the gods, the moment you lose everything, my victory will come!"

But Sun Dao shook his head and said: "You don't say much, gods can control people's hearts, religion can strengthen spirits, and the development of the times cannot completely change people's hearts, but you should not underestimate human beings' dedication to survival!" ”

The voice fell, and he raised his hand and pointed at it, and a will condensed into light, directly integrating into the illusory world.

Suddenly, the world rolled up, and those people who were shrouded by the gods could not change the current situation of material scarcity because of the sufficiency of the spiritual world, and were restricted by various factors, and they were able to obtain prey and gather less and less fruit, which was very unstable, and finally, the whole society began to change towards farming.

Cultivating the land and harvesting through labor is a relatively stable way that plays a pivotal role in the reproduction of tribes and tribes.

When the focus of the tribe shifted to farming, more and more people participated, many of whom were intelligent, and under the guidance of inexplicable power, began to improve the farming tools and never improve the harvest.

However, this change, after all, is only superficial, and the real change is in the continuous improvement of the irrigation system.

It is natural to use rivers and flowing water, to direct the flow of water, and to establish irrigation systems to enhance farming efficiency and harvesting, and it is also an unavoidable situation when people engage in activities such as production and life.

However, due to the instability of the river, it often floods, so after the establishment of the irrigation system, it needs to be built and repaired, and in order to maintain the operation of the irrigation system, a lot of manpower is required.

To meet these conditions at the same time, what is needed is a relatively perfect institutional system and an authoritative ruling organization, and in order to ensure execution, certain tough measures are also needed.

Thus, the signs of autocracy began to appear.

An autocratic big slave owner, he will not give up the power in his hands because of the interference and spiritual influence of the gods, on the contrary, in order to consolidate the power in his hands, they will even reverse the past and suppress the expansion of theocracy.

This power base, which was originally born out of the irrigation system, showed an exclusive instinct from the day it was born, especially the competing theocracy, which made the tribal nobles, who had been eroded by authoritarian thinking, feel like they were stuck in their throats, and under the deliberate influence and interference of Sun Dao, they regarded theocracy as natural enemies.

"Actually using the irrigation system, derived from authoritarianism! It's a good calculation to use this against theocracy! The Night King's face became more and more ugly, and he naturally saw that in the illusory world, the power belonging to the gods was rapidly declining, and there was a bit of a taste of collapse.

Sun Dao shook his head: "Actually, theocracy and autocratic kingship should complement each other and strengthen each other, and theocratic religion paralyzes people's minds and facilitates the rule of kingship, but your purpose is different, it is to use divine power to completely control people's hearts, which conflicts with kingship, and it is also intolerable to secular kingship, so it will become a natural enemy!" ”

Between the two of them talking, the illusory world has changed the world, the secular royal power continues to increase, and the laws and rules are used to restrain the people of the world, this kind of direct physical rule is much stronger than the simple spiritual influence, because a person is driven by the spirit, maybe he will do something, but when the powerful means fall on the body, then he will immediately be involuntarily.

"The power of the gods, developed to the present, has withdrawn from the stage of history, and has purely become spiritual sustenance, and it is unrealistic for you to use this power to construct the past and interfere with reality!" Sun Dao said again, in the illusory world around him, the gods have been completely suppressed, and although they have not withdrawn from the stage of history, they have also fallen to the edge of society.

However, under the control of the Night Lord's power, the retreating gods soon evolved into well-organized religious groups and began to build a vast kingdom of ******** in order to use this method to confront the secular kingship.

But then countless money trades arose in the illusory world, exchanges, confrontations, wars, and people's desires continued to rise, promoting the development of technology, the progress of the times, dispelling ignorance and confusion, and opening the temple of truth.

Rumble!

The huge brilliance burst out around Sun Dao, and the thunder and lightning in all directions seemed to be crazy, rapidly converging and constantly merging into the light.

A terrifying aura spread, and a special mark was born inside.

This mark is complex and changeable, containing countless huge amounts of information inside, even the King of the Night, at a glance, is dizzy, almost unable to carry the huge information inside, and his face is instantly blue!

"Imprints of the past! He actually condensed the mark of the past! (To be continued.) )

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