Threat

Chapter 673: Threat

After hearing that explanation, Zhao Xu naturally did not believe the other party was a true god.

If he could just casually run into a true god, he would do backflips all the way back to Yanan.

However, faith was ultimately a powerful force in Arthur. If the countless Earthlings who had crossed over could calmly accept the existence of Arthur's gods and their divine power, maintain their original beliefs, and persist in them—

Then after a period of accumulated faith, supplemented by channels that solidified the power of belief, such as building temples and shaping divine statues—

The gods of Earth mythology might truly be "replicated" in the Barbaric Dead Land.

And they would be exactly the same as the former Earth gods imagined by "Earth humans."

Because gods were, by nature, reflections of what lay in people's hearts.

That was the immortality of "faith and aspiration."

Other than the chief gods of an entire Divine System, the divine power of all lesser gods was determined by "faith."

That was also why Arthur's many "racial gods" endlessly endured—cut down one batch, and another would grow back.

Racial gods naturally possessed the largest foundation. For their own sake, they had to maintain that foundation, and naturally, the races received divine protection as well.

It could be said that both sides took what they needed.

And once "Earth faith" emerged, due to its local roots, it would likely sweep through the entire Earthling population in an instant.

It was only during the month before his crossing, when Zhao Xu had continuously stared at the Goddess's statue and pondered, that he understood.

Making all Earthlings descend into the disaster- and death-filled "Barbaric Dead Land" was, in essence, a form of suppression.

Under the trial of life-or-death peril, on one