Chapter 157: The God of Fireworks
"The power of faith is the power that ordinary people offer to the gods!" Regarding Zhou Sen's question, the underground prison director did not shy away from it.
"Your answer is too crude." Zhou Sen shrugged.
"The power of faith has different names in interstellar civilizations, for example, in ancient earth China, it is called incense, that is, if ordinary people burn incense and kowtow to the gods, the gods will receive power, which is actually the same as chanting and singing hymns in the West, and now it is called the power of faith."
"In other words, as long as you burn incense and kowtow and chant sutras, it will make the gods receive power?"
"Theoretically, yes, but not exactly, some people's hearts are not sincere, the gods will reject them, or they are too weak to accept them, of course, many of these things are my own speculation, because I am not a god, and I can't know the feelings of the gods." The underground warden smiled wryly.
"If you don't burn incense and kowtow, but you are pious in your heart, will you dedicate the power of faith to the gods?" Zhou Sen is not in a hurry, he is idle anyway, and he is close to his purpose little by little, so as not to be exposed. When dealing with the old fox of the underground prison warden, you must be doubly careful.
"Yes. However, faith also requires a sense of ritual, and under normal circumstances, faith with rituals is more condensed and refined than faith without rituals. To put it simply, with the same degree of piety, if a person expresses it through solemn rituals, he has more power than a person who is merely pious in heart. ”
"Oh...... No wonder some people go to the temple to offer incense and kowtow. Zhou Sen's face suddenly realized.
"Probably this is the case, otherwise, why would those believers desperately build temples and shape statues of gods." The Underground Prison Warden said.
"Is there any power other than the power of piety?" After some foreshadowing, Zhou Sen finally asked his own question.
"That's a lot."
"More?" Zhou Sen was stunned, he thought that the underground prison warden would think about it, but he answered him directly.
"There are many kinds of gods, and their needs are naturally different, for example, there are some evil gods, they need evil power, and their believers are also very evil when they perform rituals, and it is normal for them to kill and sacrifice, and even some are more evil, and they need to sacrifice virgins and girls, and there are ......countless such evil gods."
"That'...... Could there be gods who have both good and evil? ”
"Of course, there are many gods who are both good and evil, and some of the gods enshrined in the five star fields now are mostly good and evil in the early days. Of course, they are more of a good and evil in the development period, and in the end, they are all in pursuit of justice and light, but no matter what, they will also have a dark side, and if you open those legends, you will find that many gods who date back to the ancient earth period will basically have a dark and evil side......"
"Will there be any gods who absorb all sorts of things?"
"What do you mean by miscellaneous?" The underground prison warden was stunned.
"As long as you think of the gods in your mind, such as admiration, fear, fear, and any mess, you will contribute the power of faith to the gods."
"Hahaha...... This is a novel statement, but I have never heard of such a god in my more than 700 years of life, and if there is, this god must be very, very powerful, because whether he does good or bad deeds, he will gain a lot of faith power...... But ......"
"But how?" Zhou Sen looked at the underground prison warden with a blank eye, and he was hung up with an appetite.
"However, if there really is such a god, then this god must be extremely rich and delicate in his heart, and what he is good at is also extremely mixed, and there may be two different values in his spiritual realm...... In human science, it's schizophrenia......"
"Schizophrenia......" Zhou Sen was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.
"Schizophrenia is just a description, not really schizophrenia. If you think about it, if a god accepts all the power of faith as you said, he is not only able to explain both good and evil, he is likely to be outstanding in many fields, this kind of god, and human beings are not even different, not the otherworldly image that everyone imagines, because it has the breath of fireworks, so it can accept the belief of the breath of fireworks, hehe, it is almost the god of fireworks...... I'm not a god either, I just want to cultivate into a god, let's just talk about opening up ideas, so don't take it seriously, I think the kind of god you said doesn't exist in theory, if there really is, it can't be obscure, it's scary to think about, absorb everything......"
"It's scary." Zhou Sen thought so.
"You also want to cultivate gods?" The underground prison warden looked at Zhou Sen.
"I ......"
"Young man, you are still young, cultivating God is a painful thing, for example, Professor Huo Yin, for the sake of faith, he killed his wife and preached the Tao, and this kind of thing was done against the principles of heaven...... Also, you have to endure loneliness in cultivating your minds, and a meditation and thinking is ten days and a half months, you are young, don't waste a lot of time on this. Even if you want to cultivate God, you must only cultivate after you have made meritorious achievements. The underground prison warden began to instigate Zhou Sen again. Like Zhou Sen's foreshadowing, the underground prison warden has been laying the groundwork and luring Zhou Sen into the urn.
Two people, one old and one young, seem to be chatting happily, but in fact, they are intriguing and have their own thoughts.
"Why do you want to cultivate God after you have made a meritorious deed?" Zhou Sen is not interested in cultivating gods, because he thinks that he is a god, just a little hairy god, but the size is also a god.
"If you have your own business, you will have a lot of resources, and if you cultivate your gods at this time, you will get twice the result with half the effort. For example, if you have status, if you have wealth, is it easy for you to get some books? For example, you took the opportunity to seize my book "The Gods" in Mogan Prison. The underground warden said meaningfully.
"Ahem, ahem...... Give it back to you, look at your childish appearance, a broken book is still lingering, you can't be generous. Zhou Sen hurriedly took out the "Deity" and handed it to the underground prison warden, he already remembered it anyway, even the punctuation.
"The children can be taught!" The underground prison warden took the "Deity" and held it in his arms and said: "With power, there will be good books, and there will be some good pills. Let's just talk about yourself, you are a master of refining, you have money, what precious metals can't be obtained? ”
"Seems to make sense." Zhou Sen nodded.
"Of course it makes sense."
"Old man, you started to say, if the gods who can absorb everything must be very strong, can the power of faith be transformed into power?"
"Didn't I start by saying that the power of faith can be transformed into power...... However, the power of faith is poison. ”
"Poison...... What do you mean? ”
"You have to understand that the power of faith is not the power of the gods themselves, they are just borrowed and stored in the body, and once the power of faith is greatly lost, it will lead to a significant decrease in power. True gods, even if they don't have the power of faith, have the ability to turn rivers and seas and turn stars. Do you know why some temple ruins are found on many planets? Because, those gods have no power of faith, and they will disappear into dust and mud with the human beings who believe in them, so the power of faith is poison, and once addicted, the gods will also lose themselves. ”
"What kind of power is your own strength?" Zhou Sen's heart was shocked, he had always been complacent that he was able to gain the power of faith without work. Of course, Zhou Sen didn't understand that the power of his faith was not unearned.
"The strength of your limbs, the superpowers that you have worked so hard to cultivate, all belong to your own power, such as the old villain's telekinesis, such as your smelted metal, they all need to be cultivated slowly to gain power, not for nothing, this is also your own power...... Many gods are cultivated by human beings, and when they become gods, they slack off on cultivation, build temples on a large scale, and rely entirely on the power of faith, and human beliefs will keep changing, and gradually, they will completely disappear from the long river of history with their contemporaries, which is the same as a son of heaven and a courtier......
"Nothing else." Zhou Sen was inexplicably disappointed, at the beginning, he was in the middle of the five star fields, and later became addicted to games, and was soon forgotten by the public, and even became a joke.
"Gods are similar to geniuses, geniuses are forgotten, and gods are naturally forgotten. By the way, I've already arranged the wedding. ”
"So fast?" Zhou Sen's eyes widened, he didn't expect that the underground warden who had been staying on the spaceship and hurrying had already arranged everything, you know, he had been worried about messing things up.