It is said that people's hearts are unpredictable, even if they are well-read, they can't see through it.

And power and wealth are the ultimate interpretation.

Why?

Because humans have given them value!

At this moment, in the mysterious dark space, Ye Ming quietly looked at the Earl and Lance through the screen, and couldn't help but recall a sentence: "If you want to be a pure person, then you must not be a nobleman." ”

Aristocrats are ambitious people.

Their position in the social class constituted the source of their respective desires.

Just like Lance, Ye Ming knew his pursuit from the beginning, and Lance wanted to use him as a springboard to accumulate strength to achieve his grand goals and dreams.

What about the Earl?

His unwillingness to be unwilling, and his contempt for the king, who was able to bow his knees to the king, had already surrendered to the power that had been whitewashed by honor and power.

Therefore, in Ye Ming's view, the dispute between the two has nothing to do with right or wrong, it is just their own pursuit of desire, and the ultimate power in this matter about the planning of the Temple of Order has always been in their hands.

He is the master.

But mortals do need leaders.

Although in terms of personal emotion, Ye Ming is indeed more inclined to Lance, but he can't completely rule out the Earl's motivation to move forward, right?

After all, not all mortals are qualified to join the temple, and every follower should have a value worth exploiting, so what is the burner that makes them burst out with the best posture?

Power and status!

Considering that emotions are the main source of the power of his faith, and that answering prayer is the only way to generate it, he has already set a class in his heart for all beings.

Mortal-Believer-Follower (Knights and Priests)

Only followers are eligible to receive the Crest and use their power to use magic, a term defined by ancient legends.

He's testing another conjecture.

When believers are fearful and pray to God, what happens if the knights or priests of the temple do it?

This is not known for the time being.

Whenever the light of faith condensed and formed in the hearts of these mortals, the gradually increasing value of the spiritual channel made Ye Ming feel extremely happy, but then those chaotic and noisy prayers made him feel irritated and unbearable.

Should I respond?

Ye Ming couldn't help but ask himself.

After all, one person's power is limited, and he does not have the patience to listen carefully to the chatter of hundreds or thousands of people. Besides, gifts that are too cheap are not cherished, and only jugglers and singers need applause.

He is not the Virgin.

But they will not completely ignore the prayers of believers, after all, it is about their own growth.

So Ye Ming needs a helper.

As for the position of the temple and the corresponding powers, he already had a plan, and it was slightly different from the idea that Lance had arranged for the Templars to be subordinate to the Chief, the Priest of the Temple to be subordinate to the Archbishop, and the Knights and Archbishop to be subordinate to the sole leader of Lance at the same time.

Ye Ming could not accept this kind of system that attributed all the power of the mortal world to one person, and the historical process of the earth also proved that the democratic republic was far more advanced than the system of monarchical dictatorship.

In order to better dominate these mortals, harvest faith.

He borrowed the level setting from the virtual reality game:

Templar - Punishment Knights - Knight Chiefs - Apostles

Temple Priest - Cardinal - Archbishop - Apostle

In Ye Ming's conception, the leaders of the Temple of Order would have twelve, and they would be called the Twelve Apostles.

Their powers will control the two systems of knights and priests respectively, and collect beliefs for Ye Ming according to the power they have formed, and he will give different degrees of divine grace depending on the situation.

Competition is the driving force and the source of motivation.

The vast space for promotion also brings goals and pursuits to these followers, and everything will run rationally under a reasonable class system.

How wonderful?

After thinking about this, Ye Ming opened the link channel between the Earl and Lance, and pulled their spiritual will into the illusory space constructed by him.

"Praise be to you, great Nidaya God, the root of all things, the Supreme Lord!" the two of them looked a little hasty at the moment, and saluted unnaturally towards the huge sun above their heads.

Anyone who is still enjoying food at the table one second, but suddenly comes to a boundless grassland the next moment, it is estimated that it will be like this.

Ye Ming didn't show up, he didn't feel that he had anything to show after becoming a ball of light, his body was still stationed outside, and the invisible consciousness entered, communicating with the two people who were pulled into the point of light.

"Lance, Carrollus!" his majestic voice resounded from all directions, "I feel that evil thoughts are growing in your hearts, why?"

Lance's face turned pale, as did the Count's.

"I'm sorry, great Nidaya, we—" The two tried to explain something, but they didn't know how to say it, we all want to be the sole leader of the Temple of Order, so do we need to lose face?

But Nadamyeh's question had to be answered.

What to do?

The two stared at each other with wide eyes, both expecting the other to provoke the conversation.

The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

Ye Ming didn't care about this, he made up his mind to give them some time to reflect on themselves, so he took care of transforming this space on his own.

This place is one of the illusions that has been used for testing before, and it is also his latest research. The principle of operation is to borrow the memories of others themselves, and then weave a real illusion to experience the plot set by Ye Ming.

This is thanks to the energy ball that absorbs the life force and condenses, and the world full of flames it contains brings him a lot of inspiration, and those souls also provide a lot of help for the setting of the plot.

That's right, the characters in the fantasy world are played by these souls, whether it is the boy rescued by the Count or the group of neat dead soldiers.

The Buddha said: One flower is one world, one tree is one floating life, one grass is one heaven, one leaf is the same, one sand is bliss, one side is a pure land, one smile is a dust, one thought is quiet.

The original meaning of this passage was: If the heart is empty, the heart is pure, a flower and a grass is the whole world, and the whole world is empty like flowers and plants, and people's minds can also accommodate all rivers and people.

But Ye Ming had another experience.

If he could re-separate the balls of energy that had converged into one, then he guessed that there was a world in that single point of light.

After all, the world is controllable!

After the analysis and research of the chip, Ye Ming made a major discovery, and also analyzed the operation mode of the energy ball.

Although it could not dispel its body, only its function and form, his will was unimpeded in the world contained in the energy ball.

Flames scorching souls to generate energy supplies are not the only way it can be used. With Ye Ming's mind, it can also conjure up a paradise of birds and flowers or a doomsday that destroys the world.

Everything was in his thoughts.

And by taking advantage of this property, after successfully entering the world contained in the light points separated by himself, one phantom after another was born that was temporarily used for testing.

Thankfully, those souls can be extracted!

Although after being injected by the soul, it seems that the attributes of the light point of one's own body will also be assimilated, and it will not be able to return to the original body again, but it can be fused with the light point formed by the flame.

But it's all worth it.

Just like a switch, the point of light injected by the soul lacks the supply of energy, so it cannot last forever, and can only rely on the continuous output of the energy of its own body to maintain the normal operation of the illusion, which can be withdrawn at any time.

And once the soul is injected, it is like the switch is turned on, this point of light will no longer belong to itself, it will become a self-sufficient individual, a new existence!

Whenever this new individual floated in this darkness like a planet, and kept rotating around the body with his thoughts, Ye Ming felt a strong sense of satisfaction, and it felt like a universe was being born in his hands.

Yes, the universe!

Think about it, when this boundless darkness is like a canvas, and he can freely sway, creating independent beings to fill it.

That feeling had to intoxicate Ye Ming.

Moreover, unlike at the beginning, he no longer feels depressed and lonely.

After all, there is a world in every point of light, a world that can be smeared or modified at will, and in which spirits operate.

Although the memories of those souls have all disappeared, their consciousness has not been extinguished, which is why Ye Ming can use them as NPCs in the game. All you need to do is use the chip to enter the pre-programmed memories when building the spirit link, and they will run according to the script.

Of course, that doesn't mean they don't have emotions, and even though he no longer resists harvesting and using souls, he still feels a strong sense of guilt about how energy is supplied.

However, there is light and darkness in the world, and if there is hell, there must also be heaven.

When Ye Ming found that he could control the world in the light point to transform, he made a small experiment.

He threw a soul into a world of woven heavenly beauty, and came to the conclusion that the power of happiness that came from emotions could also sustain the functioning of the world.

This made him inexplicably excited.

He can torment the souls of those who are evil and offend him with fire, or he can surround the souls of believing in him with dreams that he weaves.

He is God and Lord!

Ye Ming firmly believes in this, there is no doubt about it.

It's just a pity that the number of souls is still too small, how much energy can support how much space, the volume of the light point depends on the amount of energy input when separated, and the energy supply of the world that runs in it depends on the number of souls.

If you want to fill this space one day, it can only be said that there is a long way to go...