Don’t Bother the Dark Arts Scholar When He’s Doing Research
Chapter 465

How to Sever Divine Authority from Gods

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After realizing that the existence of divine sparks—and the mismatch between an intelligent entity's subjective judgment and the scope of its Divine Authority—was the primary cause of faith turbulence and interplanar storms, Jia Xiu recognized a problem.

That was, the problem had come full circle again.

They still had to remove gods as the intermediary.

Without gods serving as intermediaries, there would be no need for divine sparks to host intelligent entities in most circumstances.

A believer's invocation of the Divine Authority within their faith would depend entirely on that ability's logical function, without any element of subjective judgment mixed in.

Naturally, there would be no contradictions, and therefore no faith turbulence born from contradictions, nor any interplanar storms triggered by it.

The logic was clear, and the line of thought was straightforward.

At its core, it was still because individuals who possessed overly powerful abilities were not rational enough.

All gods—not just the gods of the Mainland Plane—needed to relinquish control over their Divine Authorities.

It was uncertain whether this would ease the interplanar storm phenomenon, but one thing was certain: the situation would not worsen any further.

Besides, compared with slaughtering believers until only a few remained and ruining planes until they became uninhabitable, having gods give up their Divine Authorities was clearly less damaging and more reasonable.

The greatest difficulty was whether those gods could accept the same outlook as Justina.

If they insisted on struggling before annihilation, dying madly as gods, the trouble would likely be considerable.

No one knew how much combat strength those chief gods still retained, whether they would join forces, or whether believers, upon learning the truth, could stand on the anti-god side.

From a rational perspective, they should of course stand on the anti-god side.

But the problem was that reason

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