Queen Mother Stone, Firearms Compendium

These days, the shrine had gradually begun to change.

Faint wisps of incense power were actually gathering!

Though exceedingly weak, they still put Li Yan on guard.

There was no other reason—this figure was simply too famous.

From high antiquity to the present, all kinds of legends had been left behind about her. Temples dedicated to her were too numerous to count. She was a true great deity.

Yet this shrine was an ancient relic, perhaps dating back to the era of the ancient tribal ancestors. No one had worshiped it or consecrated it, so why was incense power gathering?

By now, Li Yan had gained some understanding of popular gods.

They were born from incense and died when forgotten.

In terms of the concepts of his previous life, popular gods were projections of the collective consciousness, a kind of virtual existence. For example, when people saw natural phenomena such as wind, frost, rain, and snow, they created gods who controlled the corresponding powers.

This was humanity's exploration of the external world.

Human emotional power was immensely strong. Combined with the circulation of Gangsha Two Qi in this world, joy, anger, worry, thought, sorrow, fear, and alarm would all give rise to something.

Popular gods were the same.

The weaker ones could only inhabit a small idol and were barely stronger than Lonely Souls and Wild Ghosts. At most, they could send dreams to warn people.

The powerful ones, such as the water god General Yang Si, had statues spread throughout the waterways of the south. Their incense connected into a single line, allowing them to manifest miracles and even slay demons.

Erlang Zhenjun, however, stood on another level entirely.

He had reincarnated as a human and then successfully ascended to godhood.

This phenomenon might not be an isolated case.