What Is a God?
"Qing Ge, do you think God really exists in this world?"
Faced with that incomprehensible phenomenon, Tang San's eyes were glazed over.
"To give a hypothetical example, if everyone in the world had no Martial Soul or Soul Power, and only we possessed them, then we could define ourselves as gods."
Zhou Qing brought up the idea that he had mentioned before.
Tang San also came to his senses and calmed down, nodding slightly. "Indeed, if the legend of Ascend to Godhood at Level 100 is true, then the so-called god is probably just a Soul Master who is more powerful than level 99, whose strength, or rather, ability, surpasses the imagination of Soul Master below Level 100."
Listening to the two kids' discussion, Mu Bing was speechless. "You two are really bold. It's one thing to compare yourselves to Titled Douluo in private, but you even dare to talk about gods? Even if gods are just legends, you should still have some respect in your hearts!"
I don't think it's necessary.
God?
What contributions did they make to the world?
What high-yield crops have been cultivated that will free humanity from the suffering of hunger?
What efficient inventions have been invented that make human life more convenient, including clothing, food, shelter, and transportation?
Or perhaps, what effective system has been formulated, considered, and created that enables humanity to achieve peaceful reunification and common development as a whole?
None!
Even Poseidon, the only one Zhou Qing knows with a relatively specific process of becoming a god, only achieved his godhood by conquering the Great Sea and making all the Sea Soul Beast believe in him, thereby condensing the divine personality of the Sea God and achieving his own Deity position.
As a god, he merely ruled Sea God Island, restricting the minds of the island's inhabitants, and made no contribution whatsoever to anything related to navigation.
Admittedly, Zhou Qing wouldn't necessarily despise the Deity because of this, after all, they possess power that surpasses everything, yet they established the rule that gods cannot interfere with the Human Realm.
In a sense, it's already quite good, after all, they essentially relinquished the mortal realm to humanity itself.
If we were to define the sin of the Deity in the Divine Realm with one word, it would be: inaction.
With great power comes great responsibility.
If someone is a human being, it doesn't matter if they have great abilities but don't do anything; after all, they are just a human being. As long as they don't do anything that will anger the public, it's fine.
But since they define themselves as gods, especially Sea God, who gather the world's faith to become gods, yet after becoming gods they do nothing, do not benefit Human Realm, but instead bind the minds of the inhabitants of Sea God Island, and even punish their loyal followers by expelling them from the island if they fail to complete the tests, can this be considered merciful? How can they be worthy of being called gods? How can they be worthy of human faith?
Is it simply because his power and abilities are beyond the imagination of ordinary people?
Aren't they still human?
Why define oneself as a god?
Zhou Qing bluntly stated:
It is normal to have reverence for God's power.
But this should lead to genuine respect for God from the bottom of one's heart—
This is utterly ridiculous!
"Cultivating crops? Creating things that make people's lives easier? Guiding humanity toward peace?" Mu Bing was stunned by Zhou Qing's definition of God.
This idea...
That's really quite novel.
"If they are gods, shouldn't they guide humanity towards happiness? Otherwise, how can they be called 'gods'?"
Zhou Qing countered, "If you can assume the legend of Ascend to Godhood at Level 100 is true, then it's easy to imagine that the so-called gods are human Soul Master who have broken through to Level 100. Because their power level suddenly becomes much higher than that of ordinary Peerless Douluo, they define themselves as gods."
"Just like my previous hypothesis, if we are the only humans in the world who still possess Martial Soul and Soul Power, and can continue to grow stronger, then as long as we are a little arrogant, we can define ourselves as gods, because our power surpasses that of everyone in the world. They cannot resist us, and even if they do, we can repeatedly demonstrate so-called 'Divine Miracle' so that most humans can convince themselves in their hearts that we are gods."
"Therefore, a god is essentially just an existence with exaggerated power."
"If they make no contribution to humanity, what kind of god are they?"
Tang San was now fully awake. After summarizing, he said, "In essence, it's still the strong oppressing the weak."
"That's why this world is so boring." Zhou Qing smiled slightly and extended his left fist toward Tang San.
Tang San smiled and clenched his right fist, clashing it against the other's. "It is indeed a bit boring."
Romantina clenched her fist and pressed it against hers. "Let's change the world together!"
Bu Yi also bumped fists and said, "What ambitious little guys."
Mu Bing sighed.
There was a time when she was just as spirited and ambitious, with ideas to change the world, but those ideas were quickly replaced by the desire to become Soul Master and a powerful Soul Master.
Soul Master are individuals who pursue power and crave battle.
So how can we change this?
At least in the Soul Master World, power is everything; those who possess power can gain respect.
But--
Honestly, when Mu Bing recalled that when she was still Soul Master or Soul Grandmaster, did she truly feel genuine respect when she saw Soul Ancestor and Soul King whose Soul Power Level were several realms higher than hers?
No!
Mu Bing already had the answer. At that time, she felt nothing more than awe, because the Soul Ancestor and Soul King were stronger than her.
The Soul Master he truly respected were his father, the diligent and tireless ministers who handled the affairs of the Heavenly Soul Kingdom, the generals who trained day and night, and the soldiers.
Even now, though she has reached the Soul Saint, she still respects the soldiers in the army whose Soul Power Level is still at the Soul Scholar or Soul Master stage.
There's no other reason than their admirable perseverance.
Thump!
Just then, a thousand-year-old Dancing Winter Rabbit leaped past Zhou Qing and slammed its head hard into the trunk of a cypress tree behind him with a thud.
The Dancing Winter Rabbit slid down onto the snow, twitched its limbs a couple of times, then breathed its last and fell silent.
"Waiting for a rabbit to run into a tree stump?"
Tang San was surprised.
"It seems that it was knocked out of the 'ball court' by other thousand-year-old Dancing Winter Rabbit, but the ice surface was too slippery, and its limbs were covered with the Elemental Power, so it could not stop and continued to accelerate, sliding on the sloping ice surface and flying over here."
As Zhou Qing spoke, he stepped forward to examine the animal and found that the Dancing Winter Rabbit was indeed dead. However, the direct cause was not because its head hit the cypress trunk, but because its ribs had already been broken by other Dancing Winter Rabbit, and the broken ribs had pierced its internal organs.
The impact on the cypress tree was merely the final straw that broke the camel's back.
"What a pity."
Mu Bing shook her head, "This Dancing Winter Rabbit was killed by other Dancing Winter Rabbit, so it couldn't drop Soul Ring."
If Soul Beast is killed by Soul Beast, will Soul Ring appear?
This was the first time Zhou Qing had heard of this phenomenon, but after carefully recalling the original series, he realized that it seemed there had never been a description of whether Soul Ring would appear in battles between Soul Beast.
Conversely, during the Douluo 2 Era Beast Tide, the soul Soul Ring of Soul Beast killed by Soul Master using Soul Tool during the beast tide could be processed by the Soul Tool to erase the Soul Master's aura, thus making them unowned Soul Ring that could be absorbed by any Soul Master.
However, according to the original text, it seems that Soul Beast that die of natural causes will have unclaimed Soul Ring.
For example, the Six-Winged Demonic Tiger that was Destruction by the Focused Piercing Ion Ray during the Beast Tide was described as dying naturally, and the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring that emerged was unclaimed and could be absorbed by any Soul Master.
The key lies in—
Breath?