Evil Spirit Consultant

Chapter 122 Man-Made Gods
Yang Liu and Yuga Zhaoji described their previous experiences in detail, and then stared into Yuga Zhaoji's eyes and asked seriously:
"Master Yuga, are there really gods in this world?"

It seemed that Yang Liu's words reminded Uga Shoji of some memories, and he stared silently at the teacup in his hand.

It was not until Yang Liu began to wonder whether he had fallen asleep that Uga Shoji let out a long sigh.

"So you have already encountered this kind of thing..."

Yang Liu raised her eyebrows and said, "Oh? From what Host Yuhe said, it seems that there are gods in this world?"

"Yes and no."

Uga Shoji nodded, then shook his head, and then looked a little distressed, as if he was thinking about how to explain it clearly to Yang Liu.

"Mr. Yang often deals with matters related to evil spirits. He should have seen a demon-level demon, right?"

Yang Liu nodded when he heard this: "I have seen some, and even fought with a few."

"Then Mr. Yang should know the hard conditions for an evil ghost to transform into a demon, right?"

“…We want to make our existence known to humans on a large scale?”

"That's not bad, but it's not specific enough." Uga Shoji shook his head. "To put it simply, it requires a sufficient amount of negative emotions."

Yang Liu nodded silently. He had already figured out the conditions for the birth of a third-stage demon.

"Evil ghosts can evolve by accumulating ghost power, but if they want to cross the boundary between life and death, individual power alone is no longer enough. They need to accumulate negative emotions that far exceed their individual limits in order to surpass their original limits.

Therefore, in the process of transformation, the evil ghost needs to constantly spread its existence and collect the fear of all people who know its existence. This is the necessary condition for transformation, and it can be considered that negative emotions are the cornerstone of the birth of demons.

Then the question comes..."

Uga Shoji looked at Yang Liu seriously: "If the negative emotions of humans can give birth to monsters, then what can the positive emotions of humans give birth to?"

"So... this is the origin of gods?" Yang Liu was not too surprised, because he had thought about this question since he knew the conditions for the formation of three-stage ghosts.

"So-called gods are ghosts that have absorbed positive human emotions?"

"Although the 'raw materials' are similar, there is still a certain gap between the two in essence." Uga Shoji organized his words carefully.

"Simply put, all gods so far are man-made."

"Oh? This is really amazing news." Yang Liu became interested. "Can you explain it in detail?"

"of course."

When discussing the existence of gods, we must first start with the generation of human emotions.

Not everyone in this world can give birth to a soul. Only those with strong will and mental strength can give birth to a soul by chance. This is also the reason why the proportion of ghosts is quite low - only those who have a soul have the probability of forming a ghost after death.

But even ordinary people without souls will unintentionally emit spiritual power. This is an important reason why human negative emotions and positive emotions can be used as "energy".

Ghosts are born with the ability to exploit negative emotions because the birth of ghosts is based on obsession.

However, in this world, no one has been found to be born with the ability to use positive emotions. However, the strength of human beings is that they can transform nature through wisdom, so artificial beings that can use positive emotions were born - gods.

“The birth of the first god can be traced back to six hundred years ago. It was created by an onmyoji based on the evil method of raising ghosts introduced from China.

However, people at that time did not regard it as a god, but used it as a new type of shikigami. It was only because of the natural fit that after continuous development, the gods became an essential existence in the shrine system. "

Yang Liu noticed the blind spot: "Huh? So, there has been no place for gods in the shrine system before? Then how did they gain a foothold?"

"Although there are no gods, the shrine system has had the ability to use positive emotions as a backup energy source to cast spells since its inception. In fact, other countries in the world basically use this method to utilize positive emotions." Uga Shoji said sincerely.

"I see."

Uga Shoji coughed and continued to explain: "In the beginning, gods actually had no advantages. In fact, because positive emotions are more difficult to obtain than negative emotions, the shikigami cultivated in this way are much weaker than the shikigami transformed from normal demons.

The reason why the gods have transformed into the form you have seen, Mr. Yang, is mainly due to the rise of another technology. "

"what?"

"National-level magic array."

Under normal circumstances, if something is simply enlarged or reduced proportionally, then although it will be a bit troublesome to manufacture, it will not be difficult.

But when the "volume" of enlargement or reduction exceeds a certain scale, the required level of technology will increase rapidly.

Just like in shipbuilding, a small sampan that can only wander in the river is considered a ship, and an aircraft carrier that can travel around the oceans is also considered a ship.

Although they are both ships, the technical content of the two is completely incomparable.

The former only requires a few bamboo rafts, or even simply hollowing out a tree trunk to make it, while the latter requires a country to have a complete industrial system and spend countless time and manpower and material resources to research it.

The so-called "national-level magic circle" is something similar.

Magic professions such as Onmyoji or Warlock have had the habit of using magic circles to enhance themselves since ancient times.

If you make enough preparations ahead of time, you can even kill an enemy that is much stronger than you without taking any damage.

“…Based on this concept, the earliest batch of magic professions began to think: What is the limit of magic array?

We don't know what people were thinking in the distant past, but when magic professions compiled the knowledge related to magic arrays into books and gradually studied and understood the principles of each pattern, warlocks began to declare that as long as they had enough manpower, material resources and land, they could set up an infinitely magnified super magic array.

Some kings believed them and asked the sorcerers to build a magic circle as big as the country. In this way, no matter what kind of enemy came, as long as they dared to invade the border, they could be annihilated. "

Yang Liu subconsciously recalled basic geographical knowledge: "But I'm afraid it's not as simple as they think. After all, the earth is a sphere."

“Yes, this is the first problem that warlocks encounter when creating a large enough magic circle: the base of the array is not flat.

The essence of the magic circle is a technology developed to imitate the realm of earthbound spirits or demons. The most basic element is that they must be in the same space, but the curved earth cannot meet this basic condition. "

(End of this chapter)