In Han Chen's eyes, the essence of the power of faith has no escape.
"According to the observer effect, human observation will change the world. Even if there is no observer effect, everyone is constantly changing the world. For example...
Han Chen reaches out and takes a gem from his chair," this is change. "
He wanted to remove the gem, so he did.
"A person's spiritual will, at first, refers to acting on one's own nerves, then affecting his whole body as a lever, and then through his body as a fulcrum, affecting the surrounding environment, and finally affecting the whole world. It may even be like the wings in the butterfly effect. Maybe it is just an idea, but it is not through the external environment If it expands, there will be a tornado. "
"The body of this intelligent life is like a tree, and the soul is like a fruit, a fruit with an attractive fragrance. The so-called power of faith is actually to pick a fruit from this tree and let the nutrition in the fruit be used to strengthen itself."
"It's just that the ability of the gods to seize the fruits is not too strong, so we must let the people volunteer and use rules and deception to induce."
"When the gods grow into towering trees, they can absorb the nutrition of the whole land and seize the nutrition of trees from the root.
That is to say - swallow the beast forever
"It's just... Even if it's a devouring beast, it's still a tree."
"Among the monsters in the holy land, the tree demon is the least threatening, because it is difficult for the tree demon to move its body. If its attack range is larger than that of the tree demon, then the tree demon can only be passively beaten. Therefore, under the same strength, the harm of the tree demon is the least."
Thinking of this, when Han Chen looked at the world again, he found that the 27 gods in his country were like 27 tall trees. Although they could have a stable effect on the world, they were actually so weak.
As for the eight upper gods and the 24 median gods, they are like the eight pillars of the world and some scattered small pillars.
"In fact, it has a positive effect on the stability of human beings in the age of ignorance."
"It's just that human beings want progress and society needs development."
Han Chen is not a stubborn person, even if both sides are in a hostile position, but he does not think that he must die hard to eliminate the other side.
If the other person's existence has a certain positive significance, let them exist.
But if there is a negative side to their existence, try to get rid of the negative side, even if it is just to reduce the impact.
"My task is not to destroy the gods of the way of faith, or to find a way to eliminate them. My task is to eliminate the threat that the gods of the way of faith can pose to us. So if we can eliminate their threat, it doesn't really matter whether they continue to exist."
After figuring out this point, Han Chen only felt more relaxed.
Maybe he didn't have to make himself so tired.
Of course, the present relaxation is also the situation created by the accumulation of so many years in the past. Without the precipitation of past experience, he could not have understood such profound things.
Then another year passed.
In this year, the great Qin state developed steadily, countless adventurers took the road of opening up the territory, and countless heroes fell on the road of opening up the wasteland. But in this process, many outstanding figures were born. In this year, Han Chen conferred six gods.
Now his number of gods has reached 33.
Among the 33 deities, several of them were particularly brilliant. Their troops continued to open up territory, and laid a wilderness area for Han Chen that could accommodate 200 million people.
As a reward, Han Chen gave them a fief of 30 million people each.
When they were granted fiefdoms, it was still the old rule that all those who refused to obey the new gods were expelled to the wild areas and allowed to build new homes on their own.
In this year's time, Han Chen appeared less and less.
As he gradually became more and more reclusive, some gods began to raise some other thoughts. They paid less and less taxes to the country, but their accumulated power was stronger and stronger.
A year later, at the grand assembly, Janet began to read a decision.
"The three deities of Minghuang County, Liwang county and Fengye county have paid the least taxes and made the smallest contribution in the past year. According to your Majesty's will, the fiefdoms of the three gods will be reduced by half. No one is allowed to believe in gods, and all believers who refuse to obey will be allowed to believe in gods Banishment to the wilderness. "Hearing this decision, the faces of the three archbishops representing the gods changed.
"Lord Janet, we are truly loyal to your majesty. The reason why we pay the least taxes is because there are too few believers in our territory, so we can't keep up with our productivity and contribute too much wealth."
"Yes, yes, we are absolutely loyal to your majesty, but we are really poor at this time, and we have no money left."
"Shut up
Jennie drank, "do you think your majesty didn't investigate your territory in advance when you were punished? In the past year, you spent the most energy on publicizing the achievements of gods in the territory, making everyone believe in the gods wholeheartedly, and trying to create more faithful and true believers. Therefore, you ignored the economic development, and even the soldiers in the foreign war could not be sent out.
I know that the piety of believers directly determines the power of faith, which can improve the power of your gods as much as possible, so I can understand you
Then the three archbishops were relieved.
"But what about understanding you? Do you think your majesty is running a charity? Whether the believers in your territory are true believers or shallow believers, I care whether the power of your gods is more or less. Since you can't give enough benefits, let your territory go to those who can give your Majesty's benefits. "
Janet's cold eyes swept over every Archbishop who came to attend the great assembly, and her voice was as cold as the ice.
"Listen to me one by one. Even if your master has become a real God, your life is still in your Majesty's hands. If you want to leave, you can, but before you leave, you'd better be honest with me one by one."