The moment the Divine Son appeared, heaven and earth fell silent.
An inexplicable awe and reverence rose in the hearts of all living beings, filling them with an endless urge to worship and look up to him. They almost wanted to kneel and kowtow.
It was an instinct forged over tens of millions of years.
Had the founding of the Great Tu Dynasty changed that instinct?
No.
At the beginning of the Great Tu Dynasty's uprising, its founding ruler had established the national policy of "Revere the Gods, Love the People." The founding ruler had keenly perceived the immense power of faith and gods, and thus followed that power, uniting even more forces to build a dynasty that swept all beneath heaven.
At that critical moment in those days, there was no shortage of kings who utterly rejected the gods.
Many kings regarded gods as a sin. Everywhere they went, they razed mountains and demolished temples, destroying all faith and establishing the foundations and tendrils of their own dynastic rule.
It was not as though there had been no kings who held such beliefs.
Yet all those radical kings had died.
Some died to internal rebellions, while others died at the hands of kings like Tu Sanyi, whose policies united greater forces. Like ephemera blooming for a single dawn, they never had the chance to grow.
Within the present Great Tu Dynasty, nearly all soldiers and commoners were devout Believers of the gods.
In the eyes of the commoners and soldiers, the status of the gods far surpassed that of kings.
At this moment, that inexplicable sense of familiarity and awe caused many soldiers to hesitate, desperately suppressing the urge to kneel upon the ground.
But in the next instant—
BOOM!
A thunderclap appeared high in the endless sky. An