Faith was a two-way process, for its essence was an abstract, pure emotional attachment.
It was not simply a matter of a deity choosing believers. Believers produced through outside coercion were false; all such believers could provide a deity with was emotion.
Only genuine, heartfelt acceptance constituted true faith.
For believers were also choosing their own god.
As far as Tang Wutong was concerned, if asked whom she hated most in the Divine Realm, the answer was undoubtedly Rong Nianbing.
The world in which Rong Nianbing had risen to prominence was a very open one. Its civilizations could follow either the path of cultivation or the path of technology, and neither imposed many barriers to entry.
Even Rong Nianbing's Divine Seat as the God of Emotion contained a measure of technology.
That meant the era of the masses would arrive very quickly in Rong Nianbing's world.
Once the Douluo God Realm saw that technology did not necessarily lead to the destruction of human civilization, planets, and planes, it began, to varying degrees, to encourage-or at least tacitly permit-the emergence of technological civilizations among those of its 108 subordinate planes that were unsuited to cultivation or had the potential to develop technology.
For Tang Wutong, who was intoxicated with her role as a "princess," this was the worst possible news. Whatever Tang San's values were, hers were the same!
"This is agony! This princess wants to be a princess, an imperial princess! This princess is 'this princess,' not 'I'!" Tang Wutong complained endlessly as, under the guidance of the "Little Dong'er Assistant" Tang San had given her, she read books he had copied from the Earth Plane, such as A Girl's Diary and The Scrolls for Girls, and imitated the speech and behavior of girls in the era of the masses