Holy Shit! Gods Really Do Exist!
Su Luo cast a glance at her.
The System Panel suddenly started making a clanging noise:
[Hidden achievement achieved: Humans and Others]
[In your civilization, someone has come to understand the relationship between civilization and the world, and has grasped one of the ways for the race to survive. Civilization Points +500]
[Hidden Achievement Completed: Human Absolutism]
[All things in nature, alien races, diseases, and other beings... shall be burned to ashes, leaving no remnants, in the name of humanity! Civilization Points +500]
[Achievement Completed: The Beginning of Faith]
[Faith has begun to emerge in your civilization, but... something is amiss. Civilization Points +200]
[Achievement Completed: Surviving the Calamity]
[Successfully survived a disaster that wiped out more than 90% of the population. Civilization Points +1000]
[Your Child of Civilization gains your skill: [Power of All Beings (Blue)]]
Su Luo retrieved the records from her Subconscious and sorted out what had just happened.
Death, choices, development, sorrow, enlightenment...
There is no more fertile ground for the emergence of the Power of Faith than this; suffering has always been one of the fertile grounds for faith.
As mentioned before, different worlds have different rules, which limit the generation of the Power of Faith.
The temporary plane where Origin Star is located is clearly capable of generating Power of Faith.
Cataclysmic disasters are excellent fertilizer.
The survivors need an explanation, a place to belong, and a reason to keep living.
As long as there is a story passed down by word of mouth, a shared object of faith, and guidance step by step—
The door to the Age of Faith was opened.
"Hiss, something's not right. How did this 'Child of Civilization' suddenly become Human Absolutism?"
Su Luo originally didn't want to cultivate this kind of civilization; he only wanted to cultivate a civilization that could help him develop technology.
Su Luo suspected that Mu Ri had seen something.
Something... that even Su Luo herself couldn't see.
"That's interesting," Su Luo said softly. "But there's no problem... Let's use the information panel to explore the gameplay of [Power of All Beings]. But why are the skills inherited by the Child of Civilization being nerfed...?"
Su Luo intervened again, consuming a large amount of Civilization Points.
The information panel in Mu Ri mind began to change.
Originally, it was just a plain blue Plane, floating deep within consciousness, only able to display information. But now, its background is slowly transforming into a different scene—
That was a book.
A book woven from countless fine, silvery-white metal wires. The pages gleam with a faint light, and are occasionally opened and closed.
This is the "belief entity" that Su Luo created for Mu Ri, based on the image of the [Genli Zhi Mo].
A few minutes later.
[Achievement Completed: The Establishment of Faith]
[A saying began to circulate among the dilapidated Suguang Civilization of the Past: The world is a book of unimaginable vastness. From this book were born all things in heaven and earth, and humankind was granted supreme rights... Civilization Points +200]
"God walked upon the earth, saw all living beings, and descended to guide them..."
A Nun dressed in a white robe knelt on the ground, her hands clasped in front of her chest, her forehead resting on the back of her hands.
Her voice was devout and trembling, echoing in the empty council chamber. Sunlight streamed in through the window, falling on her and gilding her with a faint golden edge.
That was Nora, the high priestess of the Pingyun Civilization —and their leader.
She was praying to a god in the unseen realm.
Beside her was a large stone table with a smooth, polished surface covered with several animal hides. Two groups of people sat on either side of the table, their demeanor quite different.
On the left was a group dressed in silk garments. The silk was delicate and the colors were elegant, appearing quite intricate. They sat upright, their eyes sharp, staring at the kneeling Nun with strange expressions.
The group on the right, dressed in exquisite clothing made of various animal hides, seemed unfazed by the woman kneeling on the ground. Some whispered among themselves, while others scrutinized the silk garments opposite them, their eyes filled with an Immutable perceptible envy.
Time seems to fly by at an unimaginable speed.
Today marks nearly fifteen years since the last global catastrophe— Meteor Shower.
Fifteen years is enough for an infant to grow into a teenager, and enough for several surviving tribes to evolve into a systematic civilization.
The world is completely different now.
Various civilizations moved beyond the primitive era and the Bronze Age, arriving at what the system calls the "second stage," the Iron Age.
Iron plows, iron axes, and iron swords began to replace stone and bronze tools, grain production doubled, combat efficiency improved, and the tentacles of civilization began to extend outward.
The Suguang Civilization and the Pingyun Civilization are very close to each other—one is in the western part of a continent, and the other is in the central part.
At the current speed, a cavalry caravan could arrive in half a month by express courier, and the waterway would take less than two months. Given such a short distance, some strategies are naturally needed to maintain relations between the two civilizations.
Today marks the day of the official establishment of diplomatic relations.
"What does your behavior mean?"
The man at the head of the group on the left, dressed in a dark gray silk robe, spoke. He looked to be under thirty, with strong features and a calm gaze.
He was the Boss of the Mu Ri, the Suguang Civilization.
Just now, everyone was discussing things properly Mu Ri curiously asked about the "tools of faith" used by the other country. Suddenly, the other country's Boss stood up, then knelt down with a thud and chanted a lot of unintelligible prayers.
Mu Ri was completely stunned.
"It's nothing, nothing. This is our high priest performing a ritual to the Gods; it's normal and has no other meaning."
Behind Nora, a middle-aged man quickly stepped forward, smiling apologetically as he explained.
He was dressed in a half-leather, half-cloth outfit, clearly someone in charge of related matters within the Pingyun Civilization. He had a sincere smile and spoke very politely.
Mu Ri nodded thoughtfully.
He glanced at Nora, who was still praying on the ground, then at the smiling man, and suddenly spoke:
"For a ruler, faith and Gods are merely tools. Why should one personally worship them?"
His tone was flat, as if he were stating a fact.
For the past fifteen years, Mu Ri has kept the "Book of Creation" hanging high—it's the embodiment of the information panel in his mind, a book woven from silver-white metal wires.
He wove the Meteor Shower disaster into Mythic, telling his people that the world is a book without boundaries, from which all things in heaven and earth were born, and that humankind is the Protagonist of the book and has the right to rule everything.
This set of doctrines, along with the accompanying beliefs and sects, greatly reduced the costs of governance.
Using the knowledge provided by the panel, he led the more than three hundred survivors on a difficult climb up the technological ladder.
They smelted metals, made tools, reclaimed wasteland, and built houses. At the same time, they expanded their territory, searching for other primitive humans who had survived the disaster, and then incorporating them after teaching and training them.
In fifteen years, three hundred people became one hundred thousand.
One hundred thousand people sounds like a lot. But when spread across the vast land of the Long River Delta and above, it's sparse, like the first bout of diarrhea.
Therefore, Mu Ri only regards faith as a tool and does not believe in the idea that "the world is a book without boundaries."
Because he made that sentence up himself.
The man who had just answered "Mu Ri" fell silent for a moment, unsure of what to say.
Damn it! Because God really exists! Didn't you know that?!