Golden Wheel Strikes
Heavenly King Panpiao.
The world-opening great god revered by the ancient Witch Sect.
Its origins stretched back even before antiquity, to not long after the birth of humankind. It could be called a god of faith born from the witches' reverence for heaven and earth, or a kind of phantom god, a false god.
Yet gods formed from the gathered power of faith and incense offerings could not compare with the Divine Lords of later generations. Since they absorbed the incense and thought-power of all living beings, they had to bear the karma of all living beings. This doomed the achievements of the vast majority of false gods to be limited.
Still, in that distant age, humanity was weak and cultivators had yet to rise. People created gods on one hand and worshipped them on the other.
However, once the phantom gods and false gods had grown strong, they in turn began to enslave mortals. People gradually came under the gods' commands and exploitation, able only to act according to the will of the pantheon.
In the primordial era before antiquity, that age was also known as the "Age of the Gods." At least according to the records and ancient texts of the ancient Daoist sects, the false pantheon ruled humanity for thousands of years.
The various Daoist sects that rose in later antiquity also opposed this practice of the Witch Sect—of placing faith in men. They believed that living beings had condensed their thoughts of faith and Incense and Fire Prayer Power into gods;
while the gods of the Witch Sect treated the faith and thoughts of the people as gifts bestowed upon them. People created gods, only to have those gods loom over their heads. What sorrow, what a cocoon spun around themselves.
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