What was the big deal about having one’s house demolished and relocated[1]?
What was the big deal about having a villa in 2nd Ring Road[2]?
Compared to the divine tree, they didn’t amount to anything at all!
However, Ol’ Amos’ countenance was grave, and there was a complex look in his eyes as he said, ‘We’ll have to look for it for sure, but I’m afraid we can’t hold ourselves against it.”
“Can’t hold ourselves against it?”
Meng Lei was rather puzzled.
Ol’ Amos asked slowly, “Do you remember a certain sentence that the Uni-Horned Rose Python said just now?”
“Which?”
Ol’ Amos replied slowly, “That all living things on this continent, whether plants or animals, worship and believe deeply in the Tree of Life.”
“Yes, I know that. What about it?”
Meng Lei was even more puzzled now.
“You once asked me in the past how one can become a deity, right?” Ol’ Amos didn’t answer his question. Instead, he asked, “My answer was that laws of nature maketh the deity, right?”
“Yes!” Meng Lei nodded. “You once said that deities were also known as the controllers of the laws of nature. If one can fully comprehend a type of laws of nature, they’ll be able to become a deity.”
“Deification by comprehending the laws of nature is only one of the methods available.” Ol’ Amos said slowly, “In truth, that’s not the only route to deification. There’s also another very common method that’s the easiest to achieve, yet also the hardest.”
Meng Lei was taken aback. A very common method that was the easiest to achieve, yet also the hardest? What kind of method was that? Why was it so self-contradictory?
“Ol’ President, the method you speak of is?” Meng Lei was terribly curious.
“Deification by religious faith,” Ol’ Amos answered.
“Deification by religious faith?” Meng Lei perked up.
“As long as you have enough believers worshipping and devoutly believing in you, you don’t even need to do anything, and you can become a deity. Even if you’re just lazing about and doing nothing every day, you can still become one nonetheless!”
A smiling Ol’ Amos explained, “That’s what deification by religious faith is! What do you think? Isn’t it simple?”
Meng Lei was rendered speechless. “One can become a deity without even doing anything? Isn’t that taking the matter a little too lightly?”
“Thus, deification by religious faith is very simple to achieve. Compared to comprehending the laws of nature, it’s practically cheating.”
Then, Ol’ Amos changed the course of the conversation and lamented, “It’s just a pity that it’s not easy to gain enough believers. In fact... It’s extremely difficult!
“Take Heaven’s Vault Continent, for example.
“There’s the Beast People Empire in the north, the Dragon God Empire in the east, the Fairy Empire in the south, and the Titan Empire in the west.
“Yet all four great empires have their own gods that they believe in. Even though there are trillions of living things in Heaven’s Vault Continent, do you think it’s possible to snatch believers from the four great empires?”
Meng Lei gave a wry smile in response—that was something totally impossible, alright? Or at least, that was currently the case.
“Therefore, deification by religious faith is also a method as difficult as nailing jelly to the wall—because it’s totally impossible for you to find a sufficient number of believers to provide enough religious faith for you to become a deity.”
Ol’ Amos shook his head lightly and went on. “As a result, the only thing all living things in Heaven’s Vault Continent can do is to properly comprehend the laws of nature and go down the route of deification by comprehending laws of nature.”
Meng Lei asked, “Ol’ President, you’ve mentioned just now that deification by religious faith is also a very common method. What do you mean by that?”
“In Heaven’s Vault Continent, deification by religious faith is indeed very tough, but this may not be the case for other existential planes.” Ol’ Amos explained with a smile, “You probably don’t know this yet, but in the vast and boundless universe exist countless planes of existence. The Heaven’s Vault Continent is only a very ordinary material plane among them all!”
“Huh?” Meng Lei pretended to be astonished.
“...”
Ol’ Amos explained at great length before he finally said, “Existential planes are much like bubbles. New planes are constantly being born, and old planes are constantly dying out every moment.
“In those newly-born planes, neither deities nor experts exist. The living things there live the life of savages and are primitive and backward.
“The living things that those planes birth are innocent and ignorant. They harbor great respect for the heavens and are fearful of nature. Therefore, they easily hold religious faith toward certain supernatural phenomena or inexplicable things and incidents.
“For example, they may worship a powerful person, a snake, a ball of fire, a rock, and so on.
“That’s the earliest form of religious faith—primitive worship!”
Meng Lei murmured to himself, “Primitive worship?”
“To primeval lifeforms, the act of primitive worship doesn’t mean much. It’s nothing more than just pure faith. However, to the subjects of worship, it’s something incredibly extraordinary!
“Because... Primitive worship can allow them to... Become deities!”
[1] Referring to the huge compensation payment from the relocation
[2] A district located in the heart of Beijing, where land is very expensive
Chapter 166: The Threat of A Half-Deity, The Multi-Armed Behemoth
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“Primitive worship produces religious faith, while faith itself creates a god. That’s exactly what deification by religious faith is.”
With a sigh, Ol’ Amos went on. “In the vast and boundless universe, new planes are constantly being born, and old planes are dying out every moment.
“As a result, primitive worship is taking place every moment. In fact, Heaven’s Vault Continent has also experienced something similar during its early stages. It has also created
