Divine authority. According to those two words, one could understand its meaning: it was the qualification to become a god.
This was truly an illusory and ethereal thing, invisible, intangible, and without physical form. In terms of divine authority alone, it would not grant the possessor any power, attributes, or longevity, nor would it grant various divine powers.
It was merely a form of recognition, representing that this world recognized your qualification as a god, acknowledged the validity of the living beings' faith in you in this world, and opened the doors of the rules to you.
It was also equivalent to acknowledging that you possessed attributes similar to the will of the world—the aggregated will of the living beings in the world.
Thus, you possessed abilities similar to the will of the world, able to hear the thoughts of the living beings in the world, growing stronger with the prosperity of worldly ecology and weaker with its decline. In the eyes of the will of the world, you could replace it in certain aspects and to a certain degree, or it regarded you as an important part of itself, allowing you to touch the rules and exercise "administrative duties" on its behalf.
This recognition was exclusive and non-transferable, because you were you, and the will of the world recognized only you. However, it could be lost due to the collapse of faith, which was also not hard to understand.
With this recognition, the operating rules of the world presented themselves before your eyes in a special way, and you could sense them by calming your mind and concentrating. Those were the profound mysteries of heaven and earth that practitioners explored for a lifetime. As long as your brain capacity and processing speed were sufficient, you could instantly see through