049. Road
With Talos' current state, if he continues to use martial arts and combat expertise to fight the enemy, he will only consume insignificant physical strength and energy, but it should be stated that in this process, the participation of divine power is inevitable, just like an animal needs to breathe, it is an instinct, the instinct of a god.
In fact, for gods, unless they are asleep, almost any other activity involves the participation of divine power, but there is a difference between large amounts and small amounts.
What's not bad is that the birth of divine power is not as simple as mortals imagined. Its birth is extremely slow. It is not that the speed of soul fire calcination and refining faith is too slow, but that the birth of each divine power requires a lot of faith. In a day, Talos only accumulated twenty-four divine powers.
You know, there are now seven material planes that provide faith for Talos!
Now Six-armed Naga finally understood why the Church of Gods cares so much about secular beliefs. He truly empathizes with the seven material planes as a backing. He is still like this. After instilling a few divine powers into the four parallel universe simultaneous bodies, he faces the embarrassing situation of "financial tension". The churches among the gods are small in scale and do not have much faith basis in the main material plane. The weak divine powers are all living hard life.
The divine power of a god is not small, and the divine activities need to be consumed. It takes a lot of divine power to open up and build a kingdom of gods. It takes a lot of divine power to guide the souls of believers to reincarnate them as prayers. It is responsible for the life of the prayers. It takes divine power to maintain the normal operation of the kingdom of gods. It takes divine power to give the priests divine skills...
The worst thing is that the above divine power expenditures are not suitable for reduction, especially to maintain the operation of the kingdom of God and to grant priests divine skills, reduce the gift of divine skills, and weaken the armed power of the church, which is not conducive to maintaining, spreading faith, and spreading faith is not conducive to the spread of faith. The divine power that gods can transform from faith reduces and reduce divine power, so they can only continue to rack their brains to reduce spending. Soon, a vicious cycle formed.
If you unfortunately encounter a god war, your situation will be even worse, and the expenses of divine power are like flowing water.
Wars of gods often start from the material plane. First, public opinion attacks, smears against hostile gods, destroying their images in believers, and the people's minds are similar to "high-end", "truth, goodness, beauty," and "sacred majesty". Then, the church confronts, confronts, starts wars, reduces, destroys and even destroys the belief foundation of hostile gods in the material plane. After this process drags the other party into the quagmire of war or fundamentally eliminates the foundation of faith, the real war between gods will officially begin.
Generally speaking, divine war is a very long process, and even some weak divine power will be directly dragged down during the secular church war stage.
Of course, only the gods themselves can understand the troubles of faith and divine power. No matter how weak divine power is, they are qualified to be immortal. Talos is now a god, so they are qualified to say that their lives are tight, just like a billionaire who can laugh at the poor family of a millionaire. Compared with mortals, the power of the gods is beyond doubt. Otherwise, Talos would not have been captured by an incarnation of the God of Order and the Knights before.
With the simultaneous fusion of other parallel universes through glory, Talos turned his attention to another important issue concerning the future: how should we take the path of the new gods or the path of the gods.
Urban I once warned Talos not to use divine nature as fuel, and sublimate it into divine fire with his soul. That is the path of the gods, a wrong path, and the soul fire will automatically obtain the same functions as the divine fire when the chosen one continues to advance and transform at the fifth level.
This point has just been verified. Now the new soul fire blooming with azure blue light can receive prayers from believers and refine faith into divine power. Not only that, it is also a symbol of Talos's soul immortality from then on, providing the six-armed Naga with a second way to obtain divine power. Through meditation, it converts the surrounding elemental energy into divine power with a not very high efficiency.
This means that Talos' soul fire has the characteristics of both the gods and the new gods and the fundamental reason why Talos stood at an intersection. To the right, it is to further condense the priesthood and become a member of the gods; to the left, it is to try to extract divinity, temper divine blood, and become a new god.
"Urban I warned me not to follow the path of gods because he had already realized part of the essence of the multiverse. It is the laboratory of the ancient giant gods represented by the god of order and knights and the goddess of the moon. Once they become members of the gods, they are equivalent to actively becoming their experimental subjects, especially when it comes to gods [historical], [prophecy], [divination], and [time] priestly, their fate is often very miserable."
"Only by becoming a new god can you be qualified to resist with the power of the Black Star. But... it is true. Urban I deliberately divided the Frost Holy Crown into three, and escaped from the Black Star probably realized that there were also problems within the new gods. The Thor God from Universe 2 to the Black Star is the ancient giant god. He hides behind the scenes to boost the fire and intensifies the conflict between the gods and the new gods. It is estimated that the same is true for Universe 0 where I was originally located."
Because of this, Urban I was surrounded and suppressed by two camps of the new gods and the gods while looking for the answer, and eventually died.
In addition, once you embark on the path of gods, there is an unavoidable problem. When the gods advance to the third level of silver outside the multiverse, the glory begins to radiate to other parallel universes, absorbing the soul imprints of the same body, the remaining belief impurities and desires that have been left before will completely burst out, tearing the gods into a pair of binary opposition special creatures, angels and devils.
Faith is not only a nutrition for the growth of the gods, but also a deadly poison.
Until now, there is no precedent for the gods to enter the golden rank. This is certainly because the ancient giant gods blocked other creatures and promoted to the golden rank, but it is impossible to deny the fact that the path of gods has an end. To a certain extent, the path of gods is indeed "wrong".
"But I am different!" Talos inexplicably felt a sense of pride. "I, who have soul fire, need to face the counterattack of seven original desires, which fundamentally solves the possibility of the divine fire consciousness being torn apart by faith impurities and desires in the future. Those accumulated impurities and desires were peeled off from their bodies in the form of original desires and even the incarnation of original desires a long time ago."
In other words, even if Talos embarks on the path of the gods, he doesn't have to worry about being torn into two parts of angels and devils when he is in the third level of silver (powerful divine power). In fact, there is probably no god in the world who has a higher utilization rate of faith than Talos - both the impurities in faith and the incarnation of faith are absorbed by Talos himself and the incarnation of original desires.
Therefore, for Talos, he personally tends to be more inclined to the gods. The paths of the gods and the paths of the soul and fire are very overlapping to a certain extent, and there is a great demand for faith. There is no need to consider how to temper divine blood and extract divinity.
"To be a member of the gods, I must carefully consider how to gather the priests that suit me best, and not conflict with other gods."
The potential of the clergy determines the upper limit that the gods can reach, so the contradictions caused by clergy conflicts become increasingly irreconcilable. The above cognition comes from the knowledge generated automatically in Talos' mind after the soul fire transforms again.
If there were also the goddess of the ocean who held the clergy of the [Ocean] and the goddess of the spring water who held the clergy of the [Fountain], their relationship would definitely not be too harmonious. The two together divided the authority of the gods in the [Water] realm. Of course, the former is more and the latter is less.
If the goddess of the ocean cannot get rid of the goddess of spring, she will never have the possibility of reaching the great divine power. The limit is powerful divine power. If there are other river goddesses, lake goddesses, ice and snow goddesses, rain gods, deep sea gods, and ocean lords in the same universe, she is not even qualified to touch powerful divine power.
The power of any priesthood is limited, and to a certain extent it follows the principle of conservation. The more gods that divide the priesthood, the less authority and power disperse it to the hands of the gods, the less it is impossible to continue to advance through this.
"What clergy should I choose?" Talos thought seriously, "Marine priesthood? After all, I am a Naga. The most suitable priesthood for marine creatures is the majesty in the ocean field, and the Naga priesthood should also be easily condensed."
Although the priesthood of [Naga] belongs to the racial priesthood and has great potential, the more it is, the easier it is to be combined with the entire race as it goes up, and it becomes closer and closer until it cannot be divided. From then on, it will prosper and lose both. As for the priesthood of [Ocean], if you want to be promoted to the third level of silver and have powerful divine power, there are roughly two roads.
The first is a pure [water] road, which cleans up other gods in the world who also hold the [water] realm and gain as much authority as possible; the second is to introduce the power of other fields to jointly support the capital to advance towards powerful divine power and great divine power. For example, based on the [Ocean] clergy, extend the domain to the [Storm] clergy, and become the Lord of the Ocean and the Storm, both the Emperor of the Sky and the Lord of the Deep Sea.
After thinking about it, Talos finally decided to become a great god who controls the four elements [Water Elements], but not the goddess of the ocean, the goddess of spring, and the goddess of ice and snow. This tradition divides the path of priesthood based on oceans, lakes, rivers, rain, snow, clouds and mists. After becoming the god of the sea, he plans to start from another perspective, re-dividing the authority of the domain of [Water] and redefining the [Water Element], just like the six primitive gods in the multiverse have derived different three sides.
The dragon of light has three sides, namely the dawn, the scorching sun and the dusk. The dragon of water also has three sides, one side symbolizing the ocean of life, calm ripples, the other side symbolizing the madness of the deep sea, the wave of destruction, and the other side symbolizing the bone-bending ice and snow, freezing everything. Talos's first definition of [water] is based on the blood expertise attached to the bloodline of the ancient universe, symbolizing the place where there is blood and water, which is where the sea god can do everything.
This is a kind of authority to command all waters, including setting off tsunamis, separating the oceans, and controlling blood. The real target of the Six-Armed Naga is the God of Water, not a simple God of Sea.
Chapter completed!