Jia Xiu tried to piece together a reasonably structured system for how gods applied faith.
No matter how exaggerated the divine power produced in the end was, its true source should still be that dimension of faith.
A believer's prayer carried no special effect or energy in itself. It was merely a way of triggering something in the dimension of faith. Whether it was the only way remained uncertain.
Those two should be the necessary components of this system: the triggering end and the effect end. The exact triggering process was still unclear, but it was known that it had to pass through a god.
Generally speaking, though, an intermediate link something passed through would not usually be unique or irreplaceable.
Even if it appeared to be, it was most likely an artificially manufactured uniqueness—a monopoly.
For now, Jia Xiu assumed that gods were merely "intermediaries," channels for wielding the power of faith rather than controllers of that power itself. If so, could this "intermediary" be bypassed and replaced with a new channel—one without human traits, more rational and purer?
Obviously, for an existence capable of wielding immensely powerful force, the less human it was, the better.
By inhuman, he did not mean inhuman in the sense of being twisted or evil. He simply meant human attributes, such as moral concepts and psychological traits.
Only something inhuman would not run the risk of suddenly going haywire—this god turning into an evil god today, those gods starting a war tomorrow. In the end, it was always people who suffered.
The ideal scenario would be for this channel to "treat heaven and earth as heartless, and all things as straw dogs"—caring about nothing, governing nothing, operating on a purely logical system, absolutely stable and reliable.
The more Jia Xiu thought about it,