The more one learned, the harder it became to keep one's beliefs pure.
Just like spiritual sight, the higher it was raised, the more one could discover the problems within the world of the past.
At the same time, it became harder to return one's understanding of the world to its former state.
Xinuo was in that very state now.
He had even discovered that Slumber Town contained several Saints of the gods.
And the existence of these people all pointed to one fact: gods were powerful, but not necessarily great.
Several of the divine Saints had even provided ample evidence for this.
To a great extent, gods were merely beings who occupied an enormous quantity of the world through the rule of numbers and special privileges.
They possessed the greatest amount of resources, yet still required the support of "believers."
And the promise given to believers—that they would ascend to the divine kingdom after death—had long since rotted away.
One divine Saint had even written a book titled The Believer's Dilemma.
"The ultimate reward believers receive is a promise that can only be redeemed after death."
"And to obtain that promise, believers generally needed thirty years of devout faith before they could become devout believers."
"During those thirty years, The Church would in turn exploit those believers' resources as much as possible. Most of everything they produced would be taken by The Church."
"A small portion would be returned to them after being taken away, transformed from something they had produced into a Bestowal from above."
"And the poorer they were, the more they could only place their hopes in the promise of the divine kingdom..."
Xinuo fell silent when he read this.
"The early divine kingdoms truly could guarantee the peace of believers' souls. Then the gods discovered