Born Many, Died Without Fear

When Chen Changhe returned to the Divine Domain, the petitioners within the Divine Kingdom immediately sensed the arrival of their master.

One after another, they began singing hymns at the top of their voices.

A Divine Domain was a deity's territory and consisted of two parts.

The ordinary Divine Domain represented the material plane, while the Divine Kingdom above it represented the spiritual plane.

This was the dwelling place of petitioners and saints.

It was also where Chen Changhe usually stayed, and where he kept his Divine Domain Core.

Not every deity's Divine Domain was like this.

In the Outer Domain, the Divine Domains of most wild deities had no distinction between Divine Domain and Divine Kingdom.

Their followers and petitioners could only live together.

Without the protection of a Divine Kingdom, their Divine Domain Cores were much easier to destroy.

Even among the divine civilizations of the Inner Domain, fewer than one-third possessed Divine Kingdoms.

This was where the Blue Star Divine Civilization held its advantage.

Compared to the former type of Divine Domain, this was an advancement.

Of course, for most high school students, their Divine Kingdoms were little more than decoration.

That was because they lacked petitioners and saints.

There were only three paths for a deity's followers after death. The first was complete annihilation of the soul.

Most unbelievers and shallow believers ended up this way.

After true believers and devout believers died, their souls would temporarily be stored by the Divine Domain.

Once the Divine Domain produced new life, those souls would be reborn.

Although these reborn souls lost the memories of their past lives, they retained most of their faith.

Only fanatics and saints could enter the Divine Kingdom and pray to the deity day and night.

The souls of fanatics were petitioners.

They were the final line of defense protecting the Divine Kingdom.

Raising one's faith level was no easy task. Most students could only slowly accumulate petitioners bit by bit.

It was a massive undertaking, and they could only hope to complete it after entering university.

Nor would they keep large numbers of petitioners in their Divine Kingdoms.

By comparison, having petitioners reincarnate and find ways to produce higher-quality followers was the better option.

Therefore, most of Chen Changhe's classmates had no more than thirty petitioners in their Divine Kingdoms.

Yet Chen Changhe had a full hundred thousand petitioners.

"Quantity creates miracles!"

"If they breed a lot, they can afford to die."

The Orks had a population base of tens of millions, and they were constantly fighting one another.

Every so often, an Ork died in battle, its soul guided into the Divine Kingdom to become a petitioner.

Chen Changhe looked at the petitioners standing in neat rows.

They looked no different from when they were alive, except that they were all souls now.

Every face held nothing but fanaticism.

"For the God of War! For Waaagh!"

"Thank the deity for His protection!"

"The deity leads us ever onward to victory! Waaagh!"

"God of War, supreme Creator, creator of the Orks! Praise be to You!"

It was hard to imagine that the restless Orks could have such a quiet day.

They stood hand in hand, praying silently.

It formed a stark contrast with the Orks in the Divine Domain below, who were always rolling up their sleeves and throwing down at the slightest provocation.

A constant stream of faith power rose from them and was absorbed by Chen Changhe.

These petitioners retained all the memories from their lives, but aside from loyalty, they possessed no other emotions.

Yet once foreign enemies entered the Divine Kingdom, they would become the fiercest warriors.

In truth, Chen Changhe's Divine Domain should not have had so few petitioners.

Over this period, the number of petitioners produced had long surpassed three hundred thousand.

However, most of them had already been absorbed by the Divine Domain.

Petitioners were not saints.

They could not exist in the Divine Kingdom forever.

They could only live for a lifespan equal to the one they had before death.

Once their lifespan reached its limit, they would be absorbed by the Divine Domain and become part of it.

A thin protective layer, like an eggshell, now surrounded Chen Changhe's Divine Domain.

It was formed from the shattered souls of petitioners.

It could suppress foreign deities entering the Divine Domain.

In the private Divine Domains of some veteran Divine Beings, this protective layer could even suppress demigods until they were evenly matched with them.

"A hundred thousand petitioners... that's equivalent to a million ordinary followers."

"And with the combat bonuses petitioners receive in the Divine Kingdom, their fighting strength rivals three or four million ordinary Ork followers."

There was also the suppression the Divine Domain now imposed on deities.

If it was merely an invasion by followers, that was no big deal.

But if the enemy sent a true god or an avatar into Chen Changhe's Divine Domain—

Chen Changhe would show them what hell difficulty meant.

"The suppressive power of the Divine Domain's protective layer is still insufficient."

"I have enough fanatics to convert into petitioners."

"I can have them voluntarily merge into the Divine Domain's protective layer."

Numbers were not a problem.

Nor was raising the faith of fanatics.

Chen Changhe's gaze pierced through the clouds and fell upon the Divine Domain continent below.

Countless Orks were locked in bloody combat.

They shouted the same name as they fought each other madly without end.

Blood flowed into rivers. The battle was unimaginably brutal.

The ground was dyed red with blood, yet not a single Ork retreated.

But amid the endless war, the faith levels of these Orks continued to rise.

New fanatics were born every so often.

Naturally, there were also scenes where two fanatics dueled each other, then entered the Divine Kingdom hand in hand to become petitioners together.

"Madness..."

"Utter madness..."

Even Chen Changhe felt a chill run down his spine.

He had to admit it.

His followers were all battle-crazed lunatics.

At that moment, Chen Changhe completely abandoned any plans to cultivate other followers.

Other than the Orks, what race could possibly survive in such an environment?

As for making Chen Changhe stop the Orks' custom of civil war—

"One can't throw the baby out with the bathwater."

It had to be said that this was the cultivation model best suited to Chen Changhe's followers.

He did not need to do anything.

He did not need to think about anything.

Simply letting his followers fight on their own allowed him to gain massive amounts of faith power and fanatics.

Where else could he find such outrageous fortune?

Still, Chen Changhe felt rather stifled.

Everything he had studied over the years was useless. He had originally planned to establish a religion among his followers to increase the efficiency of gathering faith.

But judging by the Divine Domain's current development—

Why would he need to?

Many Orks had already grasped the techniques for using Waaagh Power.

Chen Changhe discovered quite a few promising talents among them.

Waaagh Power was a psychic force field, also known as Ork Believe-It Power.

To a certain degree, this power could ignore the laws of physics. In other words, whatever Orks believed in could possibly become real, and the more Orks believed it, the greater the chance of it becoming real.

For example, an Ork might see a broken tank and think, I reckon it can run! Then the tank could be used.

For another example, there might be a broken gun. An Ork saw it and thought, I reckon it works! Then it worked!

For yet another example, an Ork might think, I reckon painting this gun blue will make it more accurate! And it really would become more accurate!

But those were advanced applications of Waaagh Power.

The current Orks could not yet achieve that.

They could only use Waaagh Power to grant themselves certain supernatural abilities to a limited degree.

Different Orks, driven by different desires deep in their hearts, manifested Ork Believe-It Power in different ways.

Chen Changhe left behind a trace of his willpower on the Orks he had taken notice of, creating markers.