Additionally, it had also... changed in color!
It was no longer silver but gold in color now! Yes, gold!
The chilly, aloof silver soul flame had turned into a brilliant, dazzling golden one.
Just like the blazing sun spanning across the heavens, the golden soul flame gave off a million golden rays that shone upon the land and ruled the sky.
His soul was no longer a soul now; instead, it had metamorphosed into... A divine spirit!
“This feeling... It’s simply too fascinating!”
Meng Lei laid quietly with his eyes closed as he took in the changes brought about by his soul’s transformation.
Everything felt so natural and simple, yet also so complex at the same time.
The wind was no longer wind—yet still wind!
Trees were no longer trees—yet still trees!
Even the flowing air was no longer air but still air, too!
“Is this what the half-deity realm is like? It’s so fascinating!
“Are these golden chains covering the skies and the lands and forming all that exists in this world the laws of nature?
“Well, comprehending laws of nature isn’t that hard, is it? It feels as if layers of fog have been lifted, and I can now see clearer and have a more thorough view. Hmm, laws of nature...”
A mumbling Meng Lei withdrew his spiritual power, and then, he entered his sea of consciousness.
According to Ol’ Amos, once one attained half-deification, their soul would metamorphose into a divine spirit.
Divine spirits were near-immortal and near-inextinguishable. Even if a deity’s divine spirit were crushed into bits and pieces, they could still use their divine spirit fragments to come back to life.
Thus, Meng Lei wanted very much to take a look and see whether his own soul had metamorphosed or not...
“...My soul flame has actually turned golden! And it’s much stronger than what it was in the past! Is this what a divine spirit is? As expected, it’s something beyond one’s imagination!”
Meng Lei was awfully excited, but right after, he became terribly dejected.
“If I had owned a divine spirit earlier, Ol’ President wouldn’t have... Sigh, never mind! I wonder what these white threads are?”
Dozens, perhaps up to a hundred, milky-white threads had appeared within Meng Lei’s view.
It was not known where they had come from, yet they were attached to his golden divine spirit like innumerable antennas.
Rather curious, Meng Lei controlled his divine spiritual power to touch one of the white threads.
Right away, a voice brimming with gratitude played in his mind.
“Big Brother Meng Lei, you’re my idol! I want to be someone like you in the future!”
“Uh... Isn’t that Monica’s voice?”
Meng Lei was mildly taken aback.
Monica, whose full name was Monica Draper, was a little girl in the village with a twin elder sister named Hester Draper.
Apart from Jonah and himself, the two of them were the only ones in the village who were endowed with magic talent. On top of that, their magic talent was even better than Jonah’s, with both of them having high-grade elemental affinities.
“Why is Monica’s voice suddenly playing in my sea of consciousness?”
Meng Lei found this rather strange. His gaze continued down the white thread, and the sight of Monica currently lying in bed and looking as if she was in deep slumber entered his sight. However, she was also mumbling softly to herself as if she was dreaming...
“This is strange! Too strange!”
Then, Meng Lei picked another white thread.
“Thank you, Meng Lei! Thank you for everything that you’ve given us!”
...It was Captain Hudders’ voice!
“Big Brother Meng Lei...”
And now, it was Jonah’s!
“Why am I hearing everyone’s voices? Never mind about Captain Hudders and Monica, but Jonah’s a long distance away in the capital city right now... Could it be...” Meng Lei’s eyes widened as he exclaimed, “...That this is the power of faith?”
Faith was a very miraculous thing. It could make one strong-willed, as well as make one pure...
But in Heaven’s Vault Continent, it also had another natural order-defying effect—the investiture of gods!
As long as one had sufficient believers and the believers’ faith was pious enough, the one they worshiped could soar right into the heavens with the help of the copious amounts of power of faith, thereby becoming a god and attaining immortality.
“Monica, Captain Hudders, and the others... They believe in me and idolize me?”
Meng Lei was rendered speechless. He hadn’t done much for the village; all he had done was nothing more than just small favors that didn’t even require him to lift a finger. Never would he have ever imagined that the villagers would actually worship him. He honestly didn’t!
“Never mind, there’s no harm in it anyway!”
Meng Lei wasn’t too hung up over it. He continued to check the other white threads—true to his expectations, almost all of them led to the Magical Beast Village villagers.
“Are there so many people who believe in me? I’ve heard that there are many benefits to having the power of faith.
“Not only can it strengthen one’s divine spirit and allow one to comprehend laws of nature more easily, but it can also be converted into the power of divinity used to enhance one’s strength. It’s practically like Tiger Balm1!
“But why is it that I don’t feel these effects that the power of faith is supposed to bring about at all? Is it because I have too few worshipers?
“Forget it. I don’t have the time and leisure to spread my faith around to collect the power of faith. Being able to redeem credit is more than enough!”
Meng Lei exited his sea of consciousness. Then, his gaze landed on his stats interface again.
Wealth: 138 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals
Physical Body Constitution: Half-Deity (Elementary-level)
Spirit: Half-Deity (Elementary-level)
Magic Power: Saint Domain (1,037,108,765/100 billion)
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