Zhang Yu was greatly interested in the methods those Rogue Cultivators employed. If the methods truly proved useful, Celestial Xia could undoubtedly learn from them as well. He therefore instructed all parties to investigate carefully and get to the bottom of the matter.
He had thought this would require considerable effort, yet results came within a few days. These Rogue Cultivators had no notion of keeping such things secret. One group was even spreading methods for connecting with one another.
He read through the entire report before finally understanding. These true cultivators had put quite a bit of thought into this.
Using the knowledge and Dao techniques they possessed, these people had gathered certain natives across the Desolate Domain and taken the initiative to help those native tribes cultivate tribal Faith Gods.
These Faith Gods were in truth merely tools of the Rogue Cultivators. Through these foreign gods, they absorbed the natives' worship and united entire tribes. They themselves took on part of the role of "priests," serving as intermediaries to communicate with and guide the tribes in their survival and development, while also steering the Faith Gods to change in the directions they desired.
Thus, the Rogue Cultivators organized the natives to offer devotion and belief, allowing the Faith Gods to endure. Since those Faith Gods had been deliberately cultivated, most divine revelations had to be passed down through cultivators acting as "priests," thereby achieving control over entire tribes and even over the Faith Gods themselves.
Though they were a group of Rogue Cultivators, Celestial Xia cultivators understood not only Dao techniques, but also all manner of methods for governing states and regions. Managing a tribe was more than within their grasp, and the benefits they brought far exceeded those of the native priests.
Once the native tribes grew