Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1693 The So-Called Power of Faith
Amidst the hustle and bustle, summer has quietly arrived...

At this time last year, Ma Guotao's breeding work on the Pegasus of the female warrior tribe was progressing very smoothly.

At this point in time, the Pegasus horses bred last year should be starting to produce offspring.

Zhou Xu had mentioned it briefly when chatting with Yarvet before, and now Yarvet has also taken the initiative to suggest that she go to the grassland horse farm to check on the situation.

Zhou Xu's answer to this was...

"From now until the next period of time, it will be the busiest time at the horse farm. If you go there, you will only cause them trouble."

Zhou Xu paused at this point.

"By early autumn, all of these foals should have been born safely and survived. I'll go with you then."

Jarvitt readily agreed.

During this time, Zhou Xu's work, which had been piling up for half a year, was finally all completed.

Stretching lazily, Zhou Xu finally returned to his daily routine of working in the Diligent Government Hall in the morning and studying mantras in his palace in the afternoon.

However, what he was going to study next was not the mantra, but his statue of King Zhou!

From the perspective of equipment, the sooner the stone statue is manufactured and deployed, the better. However, considering the work that has been piling up for half a year, Zhou Xu decided to postpone this research for the time being.

After all, if he doesn't approve some documents, a lot of follow-up work simply cannot be carried out, which delays the development of an entire country.

However, he didn't sit idle during his overtime work. After get off work, he would digest the knowledge in his mind every day.

As of today, it has been almost completely digested.

Zhou Xu believed he had made significant progress, and with his current abilities, he would be able to study the statue of King Zhou much more efficiently.

As it turns out, this is indeed the case.

The Zhou King Statue is ultimately just a high-quality piece of equipment. Although it uses some advanced enchantments, the equipment itself has a simple and singular function, which means that its enchantments will not be too complicated.

Especially given that he has already achieved sufficient growth in the relevant field.

This time, he's finally getting his work done – sharpening his axe before chopping wood is the best way to go.

Zhou Xu immediately arranged the specific production project for the stone statue and demanded that it be carried out as quickly as possible, and that any projects that relevant departments had on hand should be put on hold for the time being.

Under these circumstances, Zhou Xu didn't need to worry about the placement of the stone statue at all.

Thanks to the flourishing development of the state religion, apart from the Saint Laurent region which has been newly occupied in recent years, there are churches of the state religion in every city, town and village of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Because the cathedral itself was inherently linked to the 'civic center' of their time.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, this was an important unit, not just a simple religious site.

In fact, over the past few years, even within the Saint Laurent region, many important cities now have state cathedrals.

Under this premise, there are statues of Zhou Xu inside these state cathedrals.

Now all that's needed is to replace these statues, which is a very simple task.

After these tasks were assigned, the overall execution efficiency was extremely high.

Needless to say, the creation of the statue itself is not particularly difficult. Furthermore, aside from the Saint Laurent region, railways have now been opened in all parts of the continent, maximizing transportation efficiency.

In just one summer, a rapid coverage was achieved!
It's worth mentioning that he specifically consulted Yarvit about this issue of faith power. The 'Wisdom of Inheritance' also mentions martial artists at the Transcendent Realm.

After all, strictly speaking, once a battle breaks out, warriors at the Transcendent Realm are the targets he needs to be most wary of.

This naturally needs to be analyzed in detail.

To state the result first, even martial artists at the Transcendent Realm can absorb faith power.

In fact, in the 'wisdom of inheritance', terms like 'mage' or 'martial artist' are rarely used specifically; they are all referred to as 'cultivators'.

Furthermore, based on what I learned earlier from Bam, in the early days of the old civilization, there was actually no such thing as a mage, a warrior, or even a realm.

Everyone just started cultivating, each with their own methods. In the end, they would fight and see who was stronger.

Later, Zhou Hongxu specifically proposed this system of professions and realms to facilitate differentiation and comparison.

Initially, it was only used within their Great Zhou Dynasty, because Zhou Hongxu was a ruler, and the emergence of this system was also to facilitate his differentiation and management of cultivators.

However, as the influence of the Great Zhou Dynasty grew, it eventually became a kind of tacit understanding within the cultivation world.

While cultivators who have reached a certain level can absorb faith power, it is not important for every cultivator.

The most affected group is undoubtedly the mages.

For mages, magical power is their lifeline, of utmost importance; once their magical power is exhausted, they are useless.

In contrast, martial artists use true qi to temper their bodies, constantly increasing their physical strength. They also rely on true qi to condense protective shields or release attacks, and even use some mantra combat techniques.

But these are not their core methods. Their core method is still their body, which has been tempered and refined over thousands of years.

In this situation, even without true energy, their physical strength alone would still make them formidable warriors on the battlefield, unlike mages who would be rendered useless on the spot.

For a Nascent Soul Realm mage, faith power is a lifeline, while for a Martial Artist in the Transcendent Realm, it's at most an added bonus.

At the same time, faith power is not something you can just have whenever you want. You need to make a lot of investment in the early stages, such as building temples, setting up statues, and increasing your popularity. You also need to keep managing it afterward, and you might even lose it all by accident.

In the old civilization era, many martial artists found this thing too troublesome and it didn't have much of an impact on them. They figured they might as well continue cultivating instead of wasting time and energy, so they simply gave up.

Even many sorcerers at the time did it out of desperation, since they genuinely lacked sufficient magical power, but in the end, it didn't make much of a difference.

People like Zhou Xu, who directly serve as the ruler of a country, possess outstanding popular support, can quickly achieve full coverage, and have a dedicated 'state religion' to help him manage and maintain it, are ultimately a very small minority.

Under this premise, Yarvit's thinking is similar to that of warriors in the old civilization, with an overall attitude of indifference, as it doesn't affect her much anyway.

However, given Zhou Xu's personality, he would definitely let Yarvit do something about it.

But not now. Right now, within the Great Zhou Dynasty, Yarvit doesn't have much prestige.

To put it bluntly, if Li Ce and Shi Lei had that level of strength, the public's faith in them would definitely be higher than that in Yarvit.

Considering this situation, instead of going through all that trouble now, it would be better to wait until Yarvit has built up a certain reputation within their Great Zhou before making any moves.

It's also worth mentioning here that faith power isn't limited to producing power for only one target.

This is similar to modern people following celebrities. There's no rule that you can only follow one person. In fact, as long as you have enough time and energy, you can follow a whole group of celebrities.

However, comparatively speaking, believing in only one faith can provide a higher level of faith power.

(End of this chapter)