The path of the Divine Lord was one of broad sowing and meager harvests. Gathering believers had always been a technical craft.
For someone like Yu Ci, who scarcely tended his Divine Lord network and let his believers fend for themselves, it was undoubtedly a path to death. Fortunately, most of his believers had been gathered through the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror using the "demon-seeding" method, and he had an expert like You Rui to help him. Otherwise, by now he would have become a bare-bones Divine Lord, all alone.
Gathering believers was by no means easy.
Perhaps at times, a Divine Lord would set out trials, deliberately twisting the process through winding turns, guiding step by step and inviting the target into the urn.
But all of it was meant to make the target's Faith Power purer, never the reverse.
That was an entirely different matter from tormenting and humiliating someone.
Yu Ci believed that if the Rakshasa Ghost King had initially intended to "take Xue Pingzhi as a believer," then she could never have employed such violent, degrading methods beforehand.
Not even orthodox Divine Lord methods would do something so needlessly difficult, much less the art of "demon-seeding."
As far as the Rakshasa Ghost King herself was concerned, with the supreme true-illusion divine abilities under her control, she had ten thousand methods more reasonable and effective than this. So long as she calculated against an unsuspecting opponent and was willing to pay the price, even someone of Xue Pingzhi's stature as a Calamity Law Grandmaster might not have endured through the end of the previous calamity.
Without question, if gathering believers had truly been her goal, the Rakshasa Ghost King had taken a detour.
How could a supreme powerhouse who had stood at the rank of Divine Lord for