Mu Yuan stroked his chin, deep in thought.
In the old era, under the divine system, the Divine Soul Realm could be called demigodhood, while the Law Realm was regarded as true godhood.
Moreover, thanks to "divine offices" and "divine positions," those Law Realm gods also possessed nearly infinite lifespans. This was where the divine system—or rather, the faith cultivation system—far surpassed the current system.
However, the faith cultivation system was regarded as an outdated method because it naturally had many drawbacks.
One of them was that the faith system was unstable.
When faith became turbulent, the god themselves would also suffer a tremendous shock.
Not only that, gods benefited from their divine offices, but were also shackled by them. It was difficult for gods to grasp, or even learn, powers outside the scope of their divine offices. Those powers would conflict with their own fundamental strength.
Gods could even be coerced by their believers, becoming something that was neither themselves nor not themselves.
For example, a god who controlled the divine office of bloodlust would become uncontrollably bloodthirsty even if he had originally been a gentle powerhouse, developing a fondness for eating all kinds of dripping, bloody meat raw.
Gods comparable to the Saint Realm in rank, however, were not so easily influenced or coerced.
Even so, turmoil in their faith would still cause their own ranks to fall.
Furthermore, the farther one advanced along the path of faith cultivation, the narrower the road became. Compared with the cultivation speed of the new methods in the new era, it was left hopelessly behind.
One should not think that there seemed to be few Saints, Great Lords, and True Kings in this era. Compared with the powerful gods accumulated one by one over the past tens of thousands of years,