Chapter 5: The Origin of the Gods I
"Minister, this is the case, the man named Yu is now being treated at the Ministry of Rain. Qin Lan respectfully said to the man standing by the window, the man who was about forty years old was the minister of the Ministry of Thunder, called Lei Ming!
Qin Lan's organization is called Fengshen Division, and it is composed of five parts, fire, thunder, rain, wind, and wood!
This organization has been hidden in human civilization for thousands of years, and its founder is a mysterious being, who calls himself: Divine Tribulation!
It is said that he has existed since the beginning of human civilization, of course, only a few ministers and those who are well-informed in the Ministry of Wind can know about this, and the Divine Tribulation has not appeared since the Tang Dynasty, but every hundred years or so, the acting minister of the Ministry of Fire will elect the next agent of the Ministry of Fire.
The people of the Fire Department are very low-key, and they don't participate in anything other than some major events, after all, every hundred years, there are only three people in the Fire Department who bring the mysterious divine tribulation, and there is usually only one acting minister.
The purpose of the existence of the Divine Division is different from that of the Holy See, the Dark Council, and the like, and those who worship the gods are to worship the so-called gods to seek refuge. There is only one word in the attitude of the Fengshen Division towards those gods: Kill! Its existence is like the name of the founder, it is the calamity of the gods!
The existence of the gods has a long history, and the worship of gods has arisen in all corners of the world during the obscurantist period. At that time, human beings were very weak and had little resistance to the treacherous living environment of nature.
It was at that time that God appeared in the field of vision of mankind, they were powerful, they could do anything, and most importantly, they could give people what they wanted. So in order to express their gratitude, people give their most precious things to the gods through worship, and they express their gratitude in this way, and they ask for more!
What is the most precious thing for people? In that thorny living environment, they thought it was food, but the food was still there after the worship, so they themselves ate the gift to the gods, thinking that it was a gift from the gods.
It's ridiculous why human beings, who don't give at all, are favored by the gods. Because the gods take away so much more than people think!
Yin and yang are not distinguished, the five elements are not visible, and everything in the world is chaotic. The scene at the beginning of the formation of the universe can only be restored through some clues and imagination, and the stars are embedded in the invisible rules of the universe and rotate constantly. The earth, the ultimate perception of the land in which human beings live.
As everyone knows, there is a huge energy life sleeping deep underground, which is called the source.
At the beginning of the formation of the universe, many energy life forms were born, but few of them had the ability to grow independently like the source, and when the source grew to a certain extent, it fell into a long sleep.
There are relatively weak energy beings that were formed at the same time as the source, and they cannot survive alone in the treacherous cosmic environment, so they cling to the realm that the source can cover.
Plundering and devouring are the instincts of all intelligent beings!
Energy beings have their own consciousness, and they can strengthen themselves through the absorption and transformation of energy over the years.
However, despite the fact that the source is asleep, it instinctively absorbs the free energy within its own realm. People have to bow their heads under the low eaves, and they have to face the fate of being permanently unable to grow if they choose to depend on the source, but the emergence of a phenomenon breaks this deadlock!
In the vast expanse of the earth, a creature called a human being, who thinks like an energy being, very different from the mountains, rivers and lakes that the basic rules of the source incarnate are. The origin of each human being is the same, but each has its own characteristics, and the key is that their origin is actually transformed by the energy of the source! Although the energy in each person is very small, it is more refined than those free energy!
An energy life that devours a tribe discovers that the energy of humans can be absorbed by them, and its origin is increased by a little!
All the energy beings have gone crazy! They have found a way to grow stronger, and so the catastrophe of humanity has come!
The sudden appearance of human beings has sprung up all over the world like mushrooms after a rain, but it is also quickly harvested like autumn wheat.
Soon some of the energy beings realized the problem, and they banded together to stop the predation of the remnants of humanity. Because the rate of human consumption has not been replenished at all, they have not appeared out of thin air again, and can only rely on the reproduction of humans themselves to maintain the existence of the race.
In the course of the investigation, some energy beings have discovered a way to solve the uneven distribution of human resources, and when it prevents other energy beings from destroying a tribe, the people of that tribe kneels on its knees and looks reverent.
At this moment, a trace of energy emanating from those respectful human beings converged towards this energy life, although this energy was very small, but human beings did not need to die. And the energy consumed by human beings will also be replenished by the source, although the amount consumed is more than the amount replenished, but if a person can live for decades, it will probably produce two people's energy!
This energy being was silent, and it told the people of that tribe that if they worshiped it sincerely, they would be given food and shelter, and they could call it a god!
The relationship between human beings and the source has finally been discovered by the gods! The source divides part of his consciousness into countless parts and projects them on the surface, and uses the source energy as the carrier of this consciousness, the specific use of the gods does not know, but when these consciousnesses leave the source body, they are completely cut off from the source, and they become independent individuals!
One proposal was quickly adopted by most of the energy beings, and that was to nurture humanity, who would appear to humanity as a new god, and who would be approved by them after addressing some of humanity's needs. The power of faith formed by the surrender of human beings to the gods has become a sustainable way to compete with the source for energy, and the more human beings, the stronger the gods will be!
So what damage will be done to the body when the energy in the human body is lost through faith sacrifice?
The essence of the human soul is the differentiation of the consciousness of the source, and a consciousness corresponds to a source energy. The loss and replenishment of the source energy will pull this consciousness, and the harm of this will not be seen for a short time, but the sequelae is that when a person dies, it is difficult for this injured consciousness to return to the source, and the unique and precious things that belong to this independent consciousness will eventually disappear!
The gods are parasites, and humans are the countless tiny notches in the source. If human beings were nurtured by the gods for countless billions of years, the source would eventually be divided and wiped out!
The relationship between the gods and humans has been eased, and to some extent a deformed symbiosis has even been formed! The gods have become stronger by absorbing the power of faith, while humans have lived a short life without worry under the protection of the gods, and then died completely!
This balance has been maintained for many years, until the weak become strong, until greed becomes irrepressible, until a powerful god wants to take the place!
In human mythology, the god is called Pangu, and he believes that the heavens and the earth were opened by him, the foundation of the world was incarnated by him, and even the human beings were fabricated by her sister out of clay.
The fact is that after a long period of growth, Pangu felt that he could rely on his own strength to directly divide the energy of the source without going through human beings, so this feat of "opening the heavens" began.
Pangu failed, not because he wasn't strong enough, but because he was attacked and fallen by other gods when he was in a stalemate with Yuan. The aftermath of destruction covered the entire planet, and all the gods near the source were wiped out by the aftermath of destruction, and the place became a forbidden place for the gods, but only humans were immune from it.
The aftermath of destruction wiped out nine out of ten of the human population, and even the gods fell to an unknown number.
Fuxi, the human who survived. He went to the place where Pangu fell, and saw with his own eyes that the awakened source absorbed the energy source left behind by Pangu's death, until it was more than a hundred percent left.
For the first time, humans communicate with the "source" who created themselves, and the source is now in a strange state of slumber that cannot be awakened, and even now this consciousness is only similar to that of humans, only more powerful.
This consciousness will not be maintained for too long and will return to the source of the essence, it tells Fu Xi that the existence of human beings is more like the source is "breathing", the human soul will become more condensed after experiencing the world, when it returns to the source of the essence, the source will continue to be stronger, as a reward, after the human soul returns to the source, those unique experiences will be preserved, and there will be a chance to return to the world!
It's just that, as mentioned above, the gods not only disturbed the cultivation of the source, but also caused many people to disappear. It's just that it is impossible for Yuan to kill all the gods, and it can't do it while sleeping, and if it weren't for Pangu's behavior that made it extremely painful, it wouldn't have awakened this consciousness.
But if it weren't for Pangu, it might have been eaten up by the gods after hundreds of millions of years, and it had learned from the pain, and it gave Fuxi and humans a task to defeat the gods, and if the humans failed, the source and the humans would eventually perish!