This explanation was very similar to the advancement ritual for the Bizarro Sorcerer in the original work... It was an imprint, as well as an Anchor Point. Because Beyonders at the Bizarro Sorcerer stage would have their Spirit Bodies split, they needed it.
And in what the lion had just relayed from Roselle, it had also mentioned that the Prophet's Analysis ability would mutate into Multithreading... That was similar to splitting one's mind, so it likewise required an Anchor Point...
However, when I was still an ordinary person, I had already experienced Multithreading when using the Pure White Eye to analyze items or abilities... Would that give me an advantage when I advanced in the future? Or could I simply skip the ritual altogether?
Forget it, I would have to try something like that to know... But if I was wrong, I would be dead for sure. Unless I had no other choice, I'd better not court death.
Mm, back to the point... In other words, the effect required by the Invention or Discovery that Shocks the World ritual was to form an Anchor Point, rather than the discovery or invention itself...
This didn't require faith. After all, faith was chaotic and could easily impact my mind, affecting my humanity... So this ritual probably only briefly concentrated people's instinctive reverence for knowledge, as well as their respect for those who pursued knowledge, onto one person, forming an Anchor.
—Whether it was a discovery or an invention, it was ultimately some form of knowledge, theorem, law, intelligence, Secrecy... or application.
It might not even require many people. As long as they were sufficiently shocked at the moment they recognized the discovery or invention, it should be enough.
The so-called "shocks the world" probably described the degree to which certain knowledge shocked