Old days in the box

Chapter 473 The Birth of Buddha and Emperor
After completing all this work, Zhou Xiao once again turned his gaze to the vast overview star map, extending his perception into the boundless void.

In the boundless world of Utklasir, changes are happening all the time.

Shining new stars exploded in the distance, forming new galaxies that expanded the material boundaries of the realm; more restlessness appeared in the void, and the prayers of countless mortals rose through magic in every corner of the void, gradually forming embryos with will.

The influence of the new laws of nature began to officially expand.

Before the Nine Realms were born, the world of Yggdrasil was just a primordial void, with neither matter nor time and space.

The source of the void is called the Kinlunga Chasm, the original place of all things. It is located at the junction of the Fire Kingdom and the Mist Kingdom. Between the alternation of ice and fire, Ymir, the ancestor of the giants, was born, and then, the first god-king Buri appeared.

After that, the first god-king Buli gave birth to the second god-king Baoer, and Baoer gave birth to the three brothers Odin, Willy, and Ve. Then came the legendary first universal war of gods, the War of Creation.

Odin defeated Ymir, the ancestor of the giants, and sacrificed his body to the heaven and earth, opening up the nine realms between the universe.

After that, order began to descend between heaven and earth, and all kinds of creatures began to multiply and appear. According to the wheel of fate, the world should have entered an incomparably glorious golden age, ushering in the heyday of the rise of all things.

But at this time the gods in the sky took action. The Norse gods, led by Odin, established the natural law of "equivalent exchange" deep in the roots of the world tree, encapsulating all the concepts of this world in the authority of God, and using that authority to control the fate of all living beings in the world.

The creatures in all realms have lost their original power, and their souls no longer have the spirituality of the Golden Age; they have degenerated into mortals and ordinary species, and can only crawl under the rule of gods, and their wills no longer have the ability to influence the world.

The rule of the Norse gods interrupted the progress of the world for at least 100,000 years.

But now, due to the emergence of the game changer introduced by the box, new laws of nature have been established, which have begun to push fate to automatically repair itself in its original direction.

The full liberation of magic will allow all living beings to gradually regain their original power. Coupled with the catalyst of war, people's will will inevitably become unprecedentedly united and powerful, and they will begin to gain the ability to play at the table.

Zhou Xiao quietly watched the changes in the void. He saw faith condensing in different star systems. The more war-torn a world was, the faster faith condensed.
These beliefs will condense into an initial embryo, gradually growing on the outside of the void, carrying the most primitive emotions of its believers.

For example, the desire for survival is “I want to live more than anything else”, and the desire for redemption is “No matter who it is, please save me.”

But the most primitive accumulation of emotions alone is not enough.

The large-scale cohesion of the same will is just the unconscious instinct of the power of faith driven by the new laws of nature. Primitive wills like "survival" and "salvation" are almost countless in the entire void. This alone is not enough to give birth to a conceptual god.

In order to stand out from countless embryos, one must find his own unique divinity among so many similar primitive wills, and converge this power of faith into the concept that belongs only to "me".

For example, a prophet who has received divine revelation appears among this crowd, brings God's name and creed to the people, convinces them with miracles and deeds, and makes the majority of people recognize this name and obtain the concept of divinity that belongs only to "me".

Or perhaps some kind of miracle is repeated over a long period of time, becoming a legend passed down from mouth to mouth, passed down from generation to generation, until it gradually gains a secularly recognized divinity through the stories told from generation to generation, becoming a collectively acknowledged existence.

In the final analysis, it is like a person experiencing the process of self-awakening. Before self-awakening, I am just one of the countless people in the world. After self-awakening, I am the real me, the unique me.

There are many saviors in this world, but there is only one "Jehovah", only one "Allah", and only one "Odin". Their divinity is given by believers, and their image is also shaped by believers. Even they themselves cannot violate their own concept of divinity.

The age of belief in God is also the age of man.

Originally according to this characteristic of the new natural law, Zhou Xiao should have been the God of the Atrium created by the people of the old days, the Lord of Terror who was going further and further on the road of destruction.

But fortunately, as the current owner of the box, he is the biggest cheat in this world and the unrestrained fourth disaster.

The existence of the box allows him to continuously collect the power of faith directed at him without being affected by it, and he can decide for himself how to exercise this huge power.

But apart from him, the rest of the believers in God were not so lucky.

All gods of faith who have condensed their own godhood - including Odin, the King of the Cross - will be bound by the concept represented by their godhood and cannot break free.

The more detailed the creed and the more specific the symbol, the greater the efficiency in spreading and gaining faith. But at the same time, the definition of faith will also shape the will of the deity, firmly fixing it on the behavior it symbolizes and making it impossible to defy it.

This is a blessing and also a curse. You will prosper because of it, but you will perish because of it.

It didn't take long before a wave of faith came from deep space, and a light of faith that was neither red nor black burst out on the star map.

In the distant kingdom of Vanir, a native god of faith was born.

This force of faith, displayed in white, stood out from the embryos of many "salvation" wills, slowly awakened in the border galaxies of Vanaheim, and soon began to devour the forces of faith with the same will around it, constantly expanding its territory.

This means that in the material world, its beliefs are spreading at an alarming rate and gaining recognition from a large number of living beings.

Not long after this concept god was born, Zhou Xiao had no time to observe it carefully, and another abnormal movement occurred at the same time from the other end far away:
A golden light of faith burst out from the star system of Helheim, the Land of the Dead, causing another huge wave of fluctuations on the star map and triggering a violent turbulence in the laws.

Zhou Xiao could clearly sense that the power of "death" that originally belonged to the goddess of death Hela was now being cut again by the new laws of nature, and a large amount of divine power was being lost.

This new God of Faith quickly absorbed the lost divine power and grew stronger in the void outside of Helheim.

Zhou Xiao became curious and immediately clicked on the star map of the World Tree Overview to learn the names of the two new gods of faith.

The former is called "Emperor" and the latter is called "Buddha".

(End of this chapter)