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Chapter 4695 [The Past Thousands of Years]

After Xiang Nan succeeded Ansuna and became Pharaoh again, the first thing he did was to dig the Suez Canal to connect the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

He was seen flying in the air, looking down from above, and directly using Taoism and magic. The hard rocks became as soft as tofu, and he easily dug a huge trench that was one thousand meters wide and forty meters deep.

When everyone present saw this scene, they all knelt on the ground and shouted "God is supreme!"

Initially, in order to dig the Suez Canal, France mobilized hundreds of thousands of laborers, spent nearly 20 million pounds, and took eleven years to finally dig the canal.

In comparison, Xiang Nan had it much easier.

It took him only one day to dig the Suez Canal.

From then on, the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea were connected, and European merchant ships could go directly to Asia through the canal without having to unload at Mazarah and then hire a camel caravan to go to the port of Suez to reload.

It saves both time and cost.

Therefore, since the Suez Canal was opened, there has been a constant stream of ships coming and going, and the country has made enough money just by collecting navigation fees.

In order to facilitate the travel between the two sides, Xiang Nan specially built an elevated iron bridge across the river, which runs from east to west, so that it does not hinder ships from going under the bridge, nor does it hinder vehicles from walking on the bridge.

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The second thing Xiang Nan did was to make a large number of rosters and ask believers to write their names and press their fingerprints.

But in fact, the roster is cast under a spell, and any believer who violates the rules will be punished.

This is something he used in the Pirates of the Caribbean world to great effect.

It is said that doing good is easy, while doing evil is difficult.

Everyone has a lazy heart, not to mention believers, even priests can be lazy and violate the rules and regulations. If you don't wake up in time, you are likely to make the same mistake again and again.

Such believers naturally cannot be called devout, and of course they cannot contribute the power of faith.

So Xiang Nan nominally has 180 million believers, but the number of truly devout believers is probably less than one tenth. Therefore, Xiang Nan came up with this method to teach them a lesson.

If you violate traffic rules, you will be punished.

At the mildest, they will suffer from headaches and fever; at the worst, they will suffer from broken bones. Let’s see if they dare to disobey.

Afterwards, Xiang Nan distributed the roster.

He claimed that this list was called "The Record of Reality" and that only believers who signed their names and pressed their fingerprints on it could ascend to his kingdom of God after death and enjoy eternal bliss.

Therefore, the priests and believers could not wait to sign their names and put their fingerprints on them.

After all, even the most impious person hopes to go to the kingdom of God and enjoy happiness after death.

As a result, after the roster was signed, most of the believers began to have headaches and fevers, and some developed scabies and itching. Some even broke bones and tendons, or vomited three liters of blood and died of blood loss.

For a moment, people were frightened and shocked, not understanding what was happening.

Later, Xiang Nancai told the believers through the priests that all those who were sick were not pious to God. If they wanted to get rid of the disease, they must abide by the rules of the church and have a devout faith in God.

After the believers followed the instructions, the disease soon subsided. From then on, no one dared to violate the rules of the church easily, and they became more and more pious to the gods.

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Nearly a thousand years later, the time came to 221 BC. In this year, Xiang Nan finally completely refined the Eye of Destruction through hard training.

All of a sudden, the third eye between his eyebrows was fully opened, possessing incredible power.

One is that one can see everything in the world clearly, even invisible and intangible things, such as people's talents and skills, etc.; the other is that one can release the fire of destruction and burn everything.

Xiang Nan personally tested it and found that the fire of destruction not only has an extremely high temperature, but is also extremely destructive.

Even if his body, which was struck by lightning and was indestructible, was touched by a little bit of destructive fire, it would immediately burn and collapse. It was quite terrifying.

In addition, his golden elixir has reached a new level and is as big as a football.

However, the golden elixir is a tangible and intangible thing, so he doesn't need to be like the birthday star, with a huge monument on his head.

During this millennium, Egypt's population has also increased greatly, reaching nearly 800 million, nearly three times the number a thousand years ago. With so many people, the land has reached its limit.

After all, in ancient times, unlike modern times, there were not so many fertilizers, pesticides, and agricultural machinery and equipment. The output per unit of land was still limited, so those lands could not feed more people.

Therefore, in order to make a living, some people had to go to the cold lands of Scandinavia, the East European Plain, and Western Siberia, or to the barren lands of the Middle East, the steppes of Central Asia, or the wild lands of southern Balat...

Their footprints began to expand to far distances, and they even came into contact with people in Middle-earth.

The governor of Egypt's easternmost Central Asian province wrote to Xiang Nan, hoping to invade China, but was severely stopped by Xiang Nan, who firmly prohibited all aggressive activities. However, he could consider trade and exchange of what they had.

After all, Middle-earth has a special meaning to him, and he doesn't want to lead a group of foreigners to invade Middle-earth. Although he also knows that this Middle-earth is not the same as that Middle-earth, he still feels bad emotionally.

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During this thousand years, the feud between the gods and Xiang Nan has grown increasingly intense.

Because of Xiang Nan's roster, the believers were successfully bound, forcing them to follow the rules of the church, to be pious, and to believe in only him as God.

This resulted in less worship of other gods.

Because in the past, many believers were shallow believers, going to this temple to worship today, and going to that temple to make contributions tomorrow...

Just like people nowadays, they say they don’t believe in God, but when they go out to play, they may burn a stick of incense and kowtow in any Taoist temple or Buddhist temple they enter.

Therefore, although Xiangnan has the most followers, other gods can also get a share. In fact, as the population grows, their incense has increased.

But ever since Xiang Nan implemented the roster and strictly restricted believers, those gods have been in trouble.

Because believers could no longer be fickle, they had to strictly abide by the rules of the religion and could only believe in one god, which resulted in these gods losing a large amount of worship.

Moreover, as Xiang Nan's followers became more purified, the sect's centripetal force and cohesion were greatly strengthened, which brought an invisible pressure to the followers of other gods.

As the saying goes, "If you follow the crowd, you won't be scolded; if you follow the flock, you won't be beaten." Humans are social animals, and no one can survive independently from the collective, so following the crowd has become an instinct.

When more than 90% of the people are loyal believers of Xiang Nan, others who believe in other gods will inevitably be excluded, discriminated against, or even suppressed.

In order to avoid this from happening, people had no choice but to change their beliefs. This led to a large loss of believers in those gods. Originally there were tens of millions of believers, but after thousands of years of development, there are now less than 100,000.

Therefore, all the gods were very dissatisfied with Xiang Nan.