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Chapter 489 The Development Model of the Celestial Realm

Delis's series of answers was incredibly informative. Although Feng Xue wanted to ask the hero's question directly, he first noticed another detail—

"What do you mean by severing cause and effect?"

"This is a complicated matter to explain..." Delis pondered for a long time before summarizing her thoughts:
"Brother-in-law, you should know that there are many worlds, right? These worlds are relatively independent of each other. Time is the direction of spatial movement. The moment space becomes independent, time also becomes independent."

"It was precisely for this reason that the wars between the various pantheons before the Celestial Realm was established were extremely fierce, because for an individual, when traversing a world, the original world's timeline was relatively frozen."

"In other words, no matter how long you have been in another world, only a moment has passed when you return to your own world. This means that once a large number of people travel to another world, you cannot go to that world until all the people in the other world have died. The same applies to the other world. Once you send out assassins, you will face the problem that however much time the assassins spend in the other world, that world will have developed much more than your own world."

"Over time, the war developed a brutal balance, which is similar to turn-based combat. I send people to your world to cause destruction, and whether it succeeds or not, I have to withdraw within a certain period of time. Then the enemy world jumps into my world to fight. This means that the longer the battle continues, the more it is a lose-lose situation for both sides."

"Later, both sides gradually realized this and began to wage war on the platform of the resource world. However, they could not solve this turn-based problem of cause and effect. They could not send a new batch of soldiers to participate in the war unless all the people they sent died or all of them withdrew."

"Until the losses far exceeded the gains of the war, the parties finally reached a peace agreement and established the Celestial Realm. However, this method of fighting would cause huge losses no matter how weak the enemy was."

"Therefore, the original major pantheons united to sever the causality of the basic world, ascended to a level parallel to the multiverse, and established the current Celestial Realm. In this way, the relative independence of the lower realms is a state of motion for the Celestial Realm. The lower realms cannot cause huge losses to the Celestial Realm through boarding battles. In contrast, those ascended civilizations that can come into contact with the Celestial Realm do not have to pay a high price."

"When a new ascended civilization is willing to join the Celestial Realm, they need to sever the causal link between their own world and the multiverse. If they sever it themselves, the Celestial Realm will give them enough recognition and acknowledge their independence. But if they ask the Celestial Realm to help them sever it, it means they are not strong enough and can only become a vassal of a system."

"For example, within the Central Plains system, the Star God system, the Heavenly Court system, and the Ancestral system are all branches that independently severed their causal ties and ascended to the present, so their status is equal. However, within the Asgard system, only the Traditional system ascended on its own, while the Science Fiction system, Fairy Tale system, Cognition system, and other branches all had their causal ties severed with the help of the Traditional system, so they can only exist as appendages."

Hearing this, Feng Xue understood the underlying meaning without needing Delis to explain further. Fighting someone with no cause and effect is like a turn-based game against a real-time strategy game. You only get one turn, while the other side has already attacked you for several rounds. Basically, you're just passively taking hits.

Therefore, only those who have the ability to sever cause and effect can be considered to have the power to overturn the table. Compared to our home planet Earth, if your fist is strong enough, you can become one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. If your fist is not strong enough, you can only be a lackey of those who help you.

Having gained a general understanding of the Celestial Realm's operating mechanisms, Feng Xue then turned her attention back to the topic she should have been focusing on—"What are the Church system and the Hero system like?"

"After discovering a world with a relatively low level of combat and a foundation of a belief system, the relevant pantheon is qualified to develop it. If the belief system is incompatible with its own pantheon, it can be sold to the corresponding pantheon. For example, if the Elysium pantheon discovers a world that worships a star god, it would be slow and costly to proselytize it, so it can sell it to the Heavenly Court pantheon or the Star Official pantheon. Of course, there are also worlds with composite civilizations where a portion of the development rights can be sold for joint development. However, in most composite worlds, the developers will choose to monopolize them and let their cultivated forces crush other forces."

At this point, Delis took a breath before continuing:
"The basic development method is to send some staff members down to the mortal realm to carry out missionary work. Because time flows much slower in the heavenly realm than in the mortal realm, the church can be initially established and start generating revenue in just a few days in the heavenly realm."

"Wait a minute, what's the deal with a government-affiliated position?" Feng Xue interrupted Delis. Delis, her mind completely captivated, only hesitated for a moment before summarizing her thoughts:

"Although the Celestial Realm has achieved a civilizational ascension, not every member is a strong person. The Willpower System itself means that the offspring of gods are not gods. We need to learn, acquire knowledge, and pass the exams to obtain divine office. Those with connections and those who are extremely outstanding can directly obtain the opportunity to wear armor after graduation, while the majority of the rest only have three choices: take the civil service exam, get a government job, or write a legend."

"Taking the civil service exam is the most stable option. Successfully passing the civil service exam is equivalent to having a secure job. Moreover, work experience itself is a kind of armor-wearing ceremony for lower-level deities. For example, in the Heavenly Court system, as long as you serve as a gatekeeper for a period of time, you can become a heavenly soldier or general."

"Writing a legend is the most extreme adventure, with only one in ten thousand succeeding. Simply put, it means going down to the mortal realm to experience life on your own, creating your own legend and faith, and becoming a god. Once you succeed, you can even open a god's position or a small faction in your own pantheon. However, this process can hardly get the support of the heavens, and you must truly meet the condition of 'legend,' so the mortality rate is extremely high."

"The risks of having a government job are lower than writing a legend, but the stability is not as good as taking the civil service exam. Simply put, it's like being a civil servant without a formal position. They either go to the lower realm to preach, spending years or decades (only a few days in the upper realm) slowly accumulating seniority and acquiring resources. Of course, the more radical option is to cultivate heroes to fight against unstable factors in worlds that deviate from the celestial plan and correct the world's direction. Although it's dangerous, if you can cultivate top-notch heroes, it's no different from writing a legend."

"So, you... were originally sent down to correct my unstable position as a civil servant?" Feng Xue confirmed several times that [Ghostly Heart] was locked before asking the question.

Upon hearing this, Delis shook her head and said:

"No, we've already passed the civil service exam, but your illegal crossing caused a huge deficit, and we stepped down because we were afraid of taking the blame."

(End of this chapter)