Closed-Door Cultivation

"Believers, holy spirits, divine beings, gods."

Gu Jinlai recalled the number of gods he had slain over the past century, as well as the holy spirits behind them that had been erased by Void Projection. He understood all too deeply why cultivators had to exterminate the gods to the last.

When one general achieves success, ten thousand bones lie dry.

Only those who possessed devout faith in a god could be called believers.

Depending on their degree of faith and the extent of their control, the ratio was at least ten to one. Under normal circumstances, it could reach a hundred to one.

And every holy spirit required at least tens of thousands of believers to be nurtured into existence.

Yet the holy spirits within a god's divine kingdom often numbered over a hundred thousand.

Some powerful Divine Emperors and Divine Sovereigns could possess tens of millions of holy spirits.

That was equivalent to all living beings across dozens of worlds becoming believers who had lost their sense of self, in order to bring one god into being.

Furthermore, because gods could use their divine kingdoms to evade the Dao Ancestors' purge, if they were not stopped, all Immortal Golden Immortals would eventually embark on the path of godhood. By then, every god would inevitably transform every living being in the universe into a believer.

Once someone became a believer, it would be exceedingly difficult for them to form their own will. Their path of cultivation would end then and there. As time went on...

The entire universe would become a universe of gods and believers, and cultivators would have no soil left in which to survive.

A struggle between orthodoxies could only end when one side completely exterminated the other.

Gu Jinlai took a step into the void.

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