Hao Ren vaguely remembered Raven 12345 explaining something about this to him at some point, but everyone knew how much attention he paid to his Goddess Sister. In short, the last time Raven had lectured him, he had spent most of it spacing out.
So all he could do now was put on an embarrassed face and act surprised. "There was something like that?"
"I remember telling you about this at some point. Did I remember wrong?" Fortunately, Raven 12345's brain was a mess, and she had long since given up on treatment. After a moment of confusion, she stopped thinking about it. "Anyway, true gods don't need believers' prayers to provide them with energy. Whether it's the Star Domain, the Xiling Pantheon, the distant Xiulun Pantheon, or those fellows on the other side of the Void, none of us need any external source of power. As for the reason... true gods are 'sources.' We ourselves can serve as the origin from which all things evolve. All information in the universe is controllable to us, and we can even create things from nothing. You're a money-printing machine yourself—do you still need someone else to pay your salary?"
After a pause, Raven 12345 added, "There's another reason, too. The 'power' we use is vastly different from what ordinary races understand. Take the lesser psionic energy I let you come into contact with. You've seen how unreasonable that energy is. It takes effect simultaneously across every dimension of all things, unconditionally affecting everything in the universe. The power normally used by the divine races is even more advanced than that. No matter how sincere a believer's prayer is, it's still only a change in mental energy. Can that charge this kind of fundamental power?"
Hao Ren stroked his chin. "So that's like