Power of Faith, Lord of All Things

Lin Yan held his breath.

His gaze narrowed slightly. The book's cover resembled a tortoise shell, ancient and mottled, with clear patterns on the flat areas, depicting two mysterious designs.

A picture resembling a flowing, dazzling galaxy, revolving around the central point, appearing in the sky and taking shape on the ground, simple and easy, yet profound and infinite.

The other image is a pattern depicting the changing patterns of the universe.

They are cleverly combined and integrated into one, thus constructing a unified spacetime universe and a mode of generation, evolution and operation of all things.

"Hmm?" Lin Yan looked at it and vaguely felt his consciousness being drawn to the two patterns. In a daze, he seemed to see an infinite starry sky, with countless Meteor Light Ray intertwining and naturally forming a beautiful picture.

Every line depicted was extremely simple, even more complex than the simplest Law Secret Patterns Lin Yan had ever seen, yet it seemed breathtakingly beautiful, containing endless mysteries.

"This is incredible. What ultimate mystery does it contain?" Lin Yan murmured.

At first glance, it seems as if only a veil is separating us, but after looking at it for a while, one feels as if one is just a speck of dust on the ground, unable to see the vastness of the sky.

"The Book of All Beings?" Lin Yan stared at the book, a tiny Mars seemingly igniting within him before quickly igniting. "What kind of power does this book intend to convey to me?"

He composed himself and gently opened the cover.

Unlike the dilapidated and worn-out appearance on the outside, the pages inside are made of white jade, flawless and immaculate, with red jade characters. The entire book has three thousand pages, but the content is sparse.

"What!"

Lin Yan looked surprised.

Every single character recorded there was dazzling and brilliant, each one seemingly an extremely complex Law Patterns, surpassing yet containing every single law.

The power that transcends the laws.

A force that is fundamentally incomprehensible.

The structure of those words was constantly changing and never repeated. Lin Yan felt a strong burden on his soul even just by looking at them, and it was extremely difficult to even remember a fixed image of a word at a certain moment.

"This is something I simply cannot understand." Lin Yan frowned slightly.

After a moment's thought, he realized this situation was unusual. "Let's try using telekinesis."

Whoosh!

An invisible World Power extended out and quickly touched the Book of All Beings. The moment it touched the book, ancient and complex patterns appeared on the surface of the tortoise shell. Immediately afterwards, a surge of information rushed directly into Lin Yan's mind.

A massive amount of information!

At that moment, the information flooded his mind, and even at his pace, it took more than three months to complete the transmission.

When Lin Yan opened his eyes again, he was filled with shock and disbelief.

"The Book of All Beings..."

"It can't be like this..."

"It can even be compared to the Golden Framework; this is also a path to heaven!" Lin Yan held his breath, his mind buzzing uncontrollably.

As he sorted through the information in his mind, he suddenly realized that the true core and essence of the "Book of All Beings" was actually about a special power: "the Power of Faith"!

The Power of Faith is one of the most mysterious and vast forces in the universe.

This is mainly related to the source of this power.

Take the Primordial Universe as an example. The Primordial Universe represents the Life Origin. Given a suitable environment, any kind of life could be born. The universe is vast, and ultimately, it gave birth to Myriad Races.

There are Six Great Peak Races, numerous powerful races, and countless ordinary and weak races.

Population growth is phenomenal. Except for a very few ethnic groups, they all have an astonishing ability to reproduce. As time goes by, their numbers naturally become enormous. In any star system, there are hundreds of billions of intelligent beings living in it.

The only limitation is territory, and it is in this kind of cosmic environment that Clan War exist.

Of course, the vast majority are ordinary people who are at the Apprentice Level or even below that Apprentice Level.

But--

For the Primordial Universe, the true convergence of the essence of heaven and earth was not merely the Innate Beast God, Special Lifeform, Immortal God, Universe Venerable, or even the lords of the universe, nor was it the extremely rare and precious Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

Rather... intelligent beings!

The countless intelligent beings that were born from them are the true essence of the Primordial Universe!

In this vast world, everything operates under the Supreme Rule: flowers and grasses grow, ants and insects reproduce, and intelligent beings are born. However, the "soul" is the most unique, being the foundation of life and even the foundation of the world.

Let alone cultivators in the Primordial Universe, even in more distant and unknowable realms, the most essential trace of power contained within the soul is beneficial to the soul.

Thus... the existence of "the Power of Faith" came into being.

To gather faith, one needs to preach, establish an empire, or spread doctrines to make others believe in oneself.

While these beliefs may not be powerful on their own, or even extremely weak, when combined among billions of beings, across all time and space, three thousand universes, and the infinite future, those endless beliefs can possess the power to change the world!

Belief...

It greatly helps in spiritual practice! With the blessing of the Power of Faith of all beings, the speed of spiritual practice will increase dramatically, and the understanding of the laws will naturally advance by leaps and bounds.

The Power of Faith can bring about a qualitative transformation in spiritual practice.

Not only that—

The Primordial Universe created countless intelligent beings, and if the vast majority of these beings worship a powerful being, then the will of all beings... becomes the will of the world!

When all living beings worship a strong person, the world's will will also worship a strong person, thus naturally and easily seizing control of the Primordial Universe Will and becoming the master of the Primordial Universe!

But even this path is difficult.

First, there needs to be a sufficient number of living beings to reproduce. In the early stages of life, when living beings are few, their will has a weak influence on the world.

Only in extremely prosperous times, with countless living beings, even reaching the limits of what the universe can bear, wills of these countless beings have the power to influence the will of the world.

Secondly, faith! It must be a genuine, fundamental faith that comes from the soul. If the faith is not pure enough, it is useless.

This only refers to the Primordial Universe... The same may be true for the more mysterious and unknowable Supreme Rule.

But--

It was faith that brought them success, and it was faith that brought them down!

Faith is also a bondage of Karma. The more faith one absorbs, the more entangled one becomes in Karma, and the less able one is to transcend it. The divine kingdom cannot escape the Primordial Universe and become a "Small Universe".

The Lord of the Universe is the limit; there is no possibility of going any further.

"With my accumulated knowledge and the system's assistance, my potential is limitless. Naturally, I cannot cut off my path for the sake of a so-called shortcut. Stopping at the level of the Lord of the Universe is absolutely unacceptable," Lin Yan said in a low voice. "But this is the normal situation when absorbing the Power of Faith. However Book of All Beings has given me another possibility!"

Although he has not yet reached that stage, Lin Yan, based on his understanding of the original work, knows that the realm after the Lord of the Universe is "True God".

Of course, this is the official name originating from the Ancient Civilization (the Origin Continent). In the Primordial Universe and even the Cosmic Sea, it is called the "Universe's Strongest"!

If this method of cultivating faith were to spread in the Primordial Universe, naturally many people would be willing to absorb faith, thus becoming true gods.

Who cares?

Even after billions of epochs of time, the most powerful race, "humanity," has only produced two true gods. The Primordial Ancestor of these two gods Permanently Suppressed by the Universe Origin for violating the "Supreme Rule."

Too difficult.

However, for Lin Yan, who has immense potential, it would be ridiculous to cut off the possibility of becoming a true god in order to save cultivation time.

But his System Reward, this incredibly mysterious "Book of All Beings," is naturally not just that simple.

Immortal God can establish a divine kingdom!

As his strength increased, his divine kingdom gradually became perfect. After becoming the master of the universe, the Time Law within his divine kingdom were perfected. When he took the final step to become the Universe's Strongest, the entire divine kingdom underwent a final transformation—becoming the initial Small Universe, and then gradually evolving.

The "Initial Universe" where Chaos City is located is Small Universe of the "Primordial Ancestor," the Universe's Strongest. The Primordial Ancestor was suppressed, so the evolution of the Initial Universe stagnated and remained in the "initial" state.

This divine kingdom has many wonderful uses.

The message Lin Yan conveyed from "The Book of All Beings" was that he wanted to spread faith and that it had a great deal to do with God's Kingdom.

Because the Power of Faith must rely on the Kingdom of God to bear it, and then gather towards the core of the Kingdom of God—the Temple—to be absorbed by the gods.

Even if an ordinary Immortal God were to Super Existence like the Chaos City Lord personally help him gather faith and have countless intelligent beings worship him, he still wouldn't be able to ascend to heaven in one step, because his divine kingdom simply couldn't support him.

In Lin Yan's view, the path of faith may have flourished in some era before the Great Destruction of the Primordial Universe.

It's easy to imagine that the Universe's Strongest who survived the Great Destruction of the Primordial Universe would not want to pass on this cultivation method in the new Reincarnation Era of the Primordial Universe, so as to accumulate even stronger strength in the new Reincarnation Era. The extinction of the inheritance became inevitable.

To this day, there is almost no talk of the Power of Faith.

"But the true path described in the Book of All Beings is not like that!"

Lin Yan was shocked. "Instead, he opened up Second Sea of Consciousness, combined the Universe Origin with the Power of Faith to condense Eight Divine Spirits, and finally achieved the 'Immortal Primordial Spirit'!"

The sea of consciousness is a specific term used by martial artists to refer to the mind.

Before reaching the Domain Lord level, whether human or animal, the soul resides in the Sea of Consciousness, which is located in the head.

The path described in "The Book of All Beings" is not about absorbing the Power of Faith, but about opening up Second Sea of Consciousness... using the eight basic laws of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder and lightning, and light to combine with the endless Power of Faith to condense Eight Divine Spirits!

These Eight Divine Spirits are conceived from the "Second Sea of Consciousness" and will form an extremely mysterious connection with one's own soul. There are two major requirements for successful gestation.

The first point is that you must thoroughly understand the eight Lower Origin Law!

Secondly, it requires a large amount of Power of Faith.

The most crucial step is for the Eight Divine Spirits to merge into Gui Yi, which will then lead to the creation of the "Immortal Primordial Spirit"!

This "Immortal Primordial Spirit" is not a living being, but a convergence of countless Origin Power, the core of faith, and a true "deity"!

The "Immortal Primordial Spirit" has no combat power, but with its blessing, it can absorb the Power of Faith of all living beings, causing a qualitative change in the speed of cultivation and enlightenment, and there is no entanglement of Karma, thus eliminating the drawbacks of the Power of Faith.

Lin Yan took a deep breath. "The highest realm of the Book of All Beings is to comprehend the two great laws of space and time, completely transform Immortal Primordial Spirit, and cultivate the supreme incarnation 'Lord of All Things'!"

Lord of All Things!

This is the supreme incarnation that one ultimately achieves after taking the final step in cultivating the Immortal Primordial Spirit!

It can be said that if Lin Yan really cultivates to this level, the Lord of All Things he becomes will be a separate entity, both me and not me. The mystery within is too profound to explain in a few words.

Once one has mastered the "Lord of All Things," one will unlock profound supernatural powers, enabling one to observe the heavens and earth through the roots of countless faiths, to understand the universe, to deduce secret methods, and to calculate all changes in time and space. As long as there is a continuous source of faith as motivation, one can calculate and deduce tirelessly forever.

It can be understood as a Mechanical race's universe master. The Mechanical race is originally Intelligent life form, and after becoming the universe master, its computing speed is extremely terrifying.

Take the "Virtual Universe" as an example. This is the Primordial Ancestor's heaven-defying secret technique, which covers all parts of the universe and can handle countless programs every day. It is so complex that even a powerful universe master would be unable to withstand it and would collapse.

The Intelligent Core of the "Virtual Universe" is a servant of the Primordial Ancestor Mechanical race's universe master, which can easily maintain all of this.

However, this "Lord of All Things" is even more mysterious.

Moreover, as faith increases, the abilities of this avatar will continuously strengthen, and it can transform countless faiths into the World Origin Power, which is the most fundamental power of the Primordial Universe, a divine power that surpasses the Universe's Strongest.

Countless faiths are constantly being transformed, continuously strengthening that incarnation. Once the Origin Power contained within is used, it can unleash extremely strong combat power. However, this Origin Power requires endless years to accumulate, making it a consumable resource.

"According to the Operation Rule, once you become the Universe's Strongest, your divine kingdom will evolve into Small Universe. You will lose your Talent Secret Method, and your many clones will become your main body. When you truly reach that level, the Green Line Devouring Worm, the Blood Hound, and the future Third Clone will all return to their original form, leaving only the single divine body!"

Lin Yan thought to himself, "However, the supreme incarnation of the 'Lord of All Things' is mysterious and unpredictable. It cannot be considered an avatar at all, nor does it have any distinction of realm, so it is naturally not subject to this restriction."

He greatly benefits from having clones, and it would be ideal to possess such a wondrous incarnation, as it would bring endless advantages in comprehending laws, deducing secret techniques, and understanding the mysteries of the universe.

"But this Second Sea of Consciousness, haha... I see, I see."

Lin Yan couldn't help but laugh, and suddenly realized what was going on.

This so-called Second Sea of Consciousness is the key to creating the "Immortal Primordial Spirit".

When he was just an ordinary soldier, the system back then seemed like a beginner's bonus period, and even had the function of granting skills.

This is of course nothing to Lin Yan now.

The common sword and knife fighting techniques on Earth in the past were far too rudimentary. In fact, it could be said that... with just a thought, he could easily make an ordinary person who had never practiced martial arts master those techniques.

There was only one skill that baffled him, and that was the "Mind Palace"!

It looks like a "virtual world single-player version", but Lin Yan, who is in the "Mind Palace", has a highly active mind and a greatly enhanced ability to process information.

In addition, it also reveals some aspects that are difficult to understand.

For example, it can easily construct countless substances according to Lin Yan's consciousness, even if Lin Yan himself has only glanced at them and does not understand their specific components, it seems to be able to perfectly replicate them.

The most prominent example of this phenomenon is that, even before he had awakened his Mental Power, he was able to find the only chance of survival among hundreds of seemingly chaotic wires, despite not understanding any of the bomb's components.

Or, when faced with illusionary attacks from high-level Lord-level monster, they are able to easily manipulate and counter the illusions created by the opponent.

Furthermore, after dismantling the Secret Item No. 118 (the Damaged Laser Cannon), the Mind Palace faintly sensed and, almost like "past vision," saw some fragments of the past that had occurred to one of Huyan Bo's Immortal Servant.

Similarly, during his two-year journey of self-cultivation, while crossing the Great Snow Mountain amidst wind and snow, he saw the figures of the warriors who had once traversed the mountain. Their images, like a mirage, vividly appeared in Lin Yan's mind, separated by hundreds of years.

These were the functions he tested. At that time, Lin Yan didn't know much about cultivation, so he was naturally confused.

Later, as Lin Yan's understanding of cultivation deepened, he even studied the special skills granted by the system. He could indeed achieve these things with some ordinary materials, but he was powerless when it came to anything slightly more complex.

Not only that...

The effect of this special skill on the speed of consciousness processing also became worse as Lin Yan became stronger. The most frustrating thing was that... when his consciousness was immersed in the "Mind Palace", he could not even sense the fluctuations of the Origin Law!

This is similar to the difference between an ordinary virtual world and a "Virtual Universe." However, long before Lin Yan, he did not have any cultivation practices unrelated to the Origin Law.

Clearly, this special skill did not show much potential, so he completely abandoned it.

Only now, having obtained the "Book of All Beings," has he learned the truth... This so-called "Mind Palace" is actually the prototype of his Second Sea of Consciousness!

Even if it possessed only a fraction of its power, it would have been incredible to him in the past. However, as Lin Yan's strength increased later, it became utterly useless.

"Once you master the 'Lord of All Things' technique, you will be able to influence the world's will through the roots of faith, and even achieve a thorough understanding of heaven and earth, observing all changes in space and time!"

"If it can be associated with such an unheard-of supreme secret technique, then the extraordinary aspects of the 'Mind Palace' can be understood."

Lin Yan pondered to himself.

"However, the most basic requirement for bearing the Power of Faith is to establish a divine kingdom. This is something that cannot be done by other life forms, and the 'Parasitism' talent of the Green Line Devouring Worm is useless."

"But this 'Book of All Beings' wasn't an Immortal level System Reward; it came into my hands at the World Lord level." Lin Yan pursed his lips, his eyes slightly brightening. "There's a very important reason for this!"

Splash...

The Book of All Beings began to turn.

On one of the pages, it suddenly stopped, revealing an endless, hazy blue light that shone brightly and soared straight into the sky.

The wind whispers softly within the Inner World.

"Roar! Bang! Woo! Hum! Hush! Here!"

At that moment, a series of mesmerizing sounds suddenly rang out, and these strange melodies spread in all directions.

The concept of the Power of Faith originates from the game * Swallowed Star *.