"Huh... they all had Heavenly Heart Seeds, so they were actually my believers. No wonder..."
It was like the relationship between a deity and his believers: they offered him devout faith, and he sheltered them after death in return.
But Tang Changsheng had treated the countless believers in the Mirror World like a colony, taking Incense and Fire Prayer Power from them without giving anything back.
Of course, Tang Changsheng had used the Primordial Yang Divine Lamp and the Heavenly Heart Seeds to create a closed system. Vow Power circulated only within that system and played no part in the workings of the Mirror World's Heavenly Secrets.
There was still a vast difference between this and what a deity did. Yet there was no denying that Tang Changsheng received an unending stream of Incense and Fire Prayer Power from the Mirror World's hundreds of millions of believers.
That was why the Mirror World had rejected Tang Changsheng and his Heavenly Dao Church so fiercely in the first place.
If Tang Changsheng had not broken through with sheer strength last time and forcibly subdued the will of the entire world, he might not even have been able to enter the Mirror World now, and the whole Heavenly Dao Church would have been finished!
Tang Changsheng pondered for a moment. Give something and receive something in return—that was how one avoided karmic debt!
Even the Purple Dusk Demons, after receiving the faith and Vow Power of their believers, sheltered those believers' souls within their Divine Kingdoms.
But I've only ever taken from them. That won't do.
Fortunately, the Heavenly Dao Church had only been around for a few years, so not many believers would have died.
Otherwise, with no shelter awaiting them after death, their Grievance Aura alone would have been dreadful.