Gods: Civilization Cultivation, Infinite War

Chapter 207 The Soul Puzzle is Completed, Faith is Born
In the year 3628 of the Wanling Calendar, the [Myriad Sufferings Harmonization System] was officially launched.

After several small-scale internal testing and adjustments, the various functions of the [Myriad Pains Harmony System] are now very complete.

The software, developed using a semi-divine artifact built around the incomplete divine essence of the God of Pain as its core, caused a sensation throughout the entire Alliance of All Spirits as soon as it was launched.

It's not just the Spiritforged race that can use this to significantly reduce the negative impact of incomplete souls and bring out their racial essence to a greater extent.

Other civilizations can also enhance their overall strength by utilizing the [System for Harmonizing Thousands of Sufferings].

This software is, after all, related to the incomplete divine nature of the true god, and to a certain extent, it also carries a portion of the true god's authority.

It is not merely limited to visualizing and temporarily storing the suffering of countless individuals.

Under normal circumstances, suffering does not bring any obvious benefits to oneself.

Even before Solus created the Soul Editor system, he was suffering immense pain that ordinary people could not possibly endure.

His soul strength had only increased to the level of a second-tier transcendent being in the soul system.

Moreover, this growth was not brought about by the suffering he endured, but mainly by the extraordinary factors within the vast knowledge he had acquired.

However, any suffering an individual experiences will be transformed into nourishment to improve themselves once they join the [System for Harmonizing All Suffering].

In this context, so-called 'pain' is no longer just a feeling, but has become a fixed resource with certain value.

In addition, after multiple internal testing and adjustments, the [Myriad Pains Harmony System] can now uniformly store the 'pain' produced by different individuals.

The pain doesn't need to be digested by the individuals who produce it; it can be shared by other individuals.

This also turned 'pain' into a clearly tradable commodity, with its own unit of measurement and a hefty price tag.

In addition, the official launch of the [Myriad Sufferings Harmonization System] has brought about an even more significant change.

The original Spiritforged race was unable to develop any faith due to the incompleteness of their souls.

The [System for Harmonizing Myriad Pains] cannot directly repair the defects in their souls, but it is like a final piece of the puzzle, filling in the last flaw of the Spiritforged race.

By joining the [System for Harmonizing Myriad Pains], the Spiritforged race will no longer be troubled by incomplete souls and will be able to develop their own faith.

This is a very important change.

The Alliance of All Spirits is, after all, a force composed of many gods of Earth, and other major civilizations besides the Spiritforged race also have their own beliefs.

The Spiritforged race, unable to develop any faith, could never fully integrate into the Alliance of All Spirits and could only be considered a common subordinate civilization of the major civilizations.

Despite its formidable strength, which earns it recognition from various civilizations, there are still fundamental differences between it and these civilizations.

This difference not only leads to a deviation in their respective identity identification.

More importantly, this also involves the distribution of benefits within the entire All-Spirit Alliance.

The Spiritforged Clan also contributed significantly to the previous conquests of other realms.

However, they can only receive some preferential treatment in terms of resources, but they cannot obtain the qualifications to develop in other realms like other civilizations in the Alliance of All Spirits.

To this day, the Spiritforged race can only develop within the Myriad Spirit Realm, and its population has remained at around one trillion, without much change.

This is because the Spiritforged race has never been able to develop any faith, and is a relatively independent civilization.

Other civilizations do not deliberately restrict the development of the Spiritforged, but the natives of other realms must be converted into believers of their gods.

Those worlds will only be left for the natives to reproduce and survive. They themselves will no longer send their citizens to those worlds to reproduce, and the Spiritforged race naturally has no right to do so.

But once the Spiritforged could also develop faith, things changed completely.

This means that the Spiritforged race and the entire Alliance of All Spirits are no longer just allies in a cooperative relationship, but are truly one of their own.

In this context, the Spiritforged race could naturally venture to other realms to expand their population and enhance the foundation of the entire Soul Editor system.

"Everyone lined up in an orderly manner, and one by one they checked which god they believed in."

Somewhere in the Realm of Spirits, a priest holds a sphere for testing faith, preparing to test the faith of many Spiritforged.

Within major civilizations, there is generally only one belief culture, and the resulting belief is unlikely to belong to any other deity.

However, among the Spiritforged, they had never developed any faith before.

After a belief is formed, it needs to undergo special testing to be confirmed.

This is not intended to create a division within the Spiritforged race, dividing them into different factions based on different beliefs.

Due to the special status of the Spiritforged, the Alliance of All Spirits does not force them to worship a particular god; it is entirely up to their volition.

However, the Alliance of All Spirits must also determine how many Spiritforged will be willing to accept the faith of the major gods once they are able to develop their own beliefs.

This represents the level of recognition the Spiritforged race has of the various gods and the various civilizations of the Alliance of All Spirits.

The Alliance of All Spirits will use this as a standard to gradually improve the status of the Spiritforging Clan within the Alliance.

The moment the Spiritforged race completed their complete conversion of faith, it meant that they had finally and thoroughly integrated into the Alliance of All Spirits.

"Through testing, the deity worshipped is identified as the spirit and nature god."

"Through testing, the deity worshipped is the god of dwarves and blacksmithing."

"Through testing, the deity believed to be the god of time, space and destiny was identified."

The pastor confirmed, word by word, the deity worshipped by the Spiritforged who were participating in the testing.

Looking at these Spiritforged who had already gained faith, the priest's face showed a subtle hint of closeness.

Throughout the entire testing process, the Spiritforged race, who believed in elves and nature gods, were the most numerous.

After all, this place was originally the Spiritforged Land controlled by the World Tree Civilization, and the Spiritforged race here had the most contact with elves and believers of the God of Nature.

The education they receive from childhood is also basically designed specifically for the World Tree Civilization, in order to increase their affinity and recognition of the World Tree Civilization.

Other civilizations are doing the same thing, since they cannot forcibly keep the Spiritforged in a particular Spiritforged land.

If we don't try to appeal to emotions, and following the natural law that people strive for higher positions and water flows downhill, most of the Spiritforged race will gather around the most powerful civilizations.

Instead of staying in the Spiritforged Lands where they grew up, serving the civilization that controlled them. As for the dwarves and the God of Forging, it was because the Federation of Thousand Forges played a crucial role in the development of intelligent chips.

This also led many Spiritforged to develop an extra degree of goodwill towards the Federation of Thousand Forges and the Dwarves and the God of Forging.

Now that faith has come into being, it is not surprising that the Spiritforged race in the Spiritforged Lands, which are controlled by other civilizations, would develop faith in the dwarves and the god of forging.

Needless to say, the God of Time and Fate is highly revered even within the various civilizations themselves.

The Dawn Empire doesn't need to deliberately promote anything; its very existence is already attractive enough to countless Spiritforged.

"The test results indicate that the deity being worshipped is unknown."

After saying this, the pastor frowned slightly, and some murmurs arose around him.

"Is this the third case in this period?"

"Passing the test means that a real and concrete belief has been formed, but why would it be an unknown deity?"

The people around were puzzled. In the Alliance of All Spirits, each god represented a specific civilization, and there were no unknown gods.

However, when the Spiritforged were being tested, it was revealed that they worshipped an unknown god.

Although the number is not large, it can still be considered a minor anomaly.

"Quiet! Continue testing."

The pastor's serious expression silenced the surrounding chatter.

He reported it immediately after he detected the first Spiritforged race who worshipped an unknown entity.

However, the authorities quickly responded, stating that this was a normal phenomenon and there was no need to worry about it.

Although the pastor had some doubts, since that was what was said above, he naturally wouldn't have any other thoughts.

In any case, as long as it is confirmed that they have indeed developed their own faith, that is enough.

By the year 3630 of the All Souls Calendar, more than 60% of the Spiritforged population had developed their own faith.

After all, the Spiritforged race had been receiving relevant education long before this, but due to the incompleteness of their souls, they had never been able to develop any specific faith.

Once the [System for Harmonizing All Suffering] is officially launched, and the final piece of the Spiritforged race's puzzle is complete, the emergence of their respective faiths will only be a natural consequence.

In the year 3635 of the All Spirits Calendar, more than 90% of the Spiritforged people had developed their own faith.

At this point, the entire Spiritforged race had completed a comprehensive conversion of faith and had been completely integrated into the Alliance of All Spirits.

As for the remaining Spiritforged who have not yet developed faith, they are mostly elderly people who are nearing the end of their lives, or young children whose understanding is still relatively vague.

The former's mind was no longer clear, so naturally the conditions for developing faith were no longer present.

The latter is due to a lack of understanding, and major civilizations do not spread specific beliefs to them too early.

The fact that the faith of trillions of people in the entire Spiritforged race was completely divided up did not actually bring much change to the many Blue Star deities of the Alliance of All Spirits.

Compared to the thousands of Blue Star deities in the Alliance of All Spirits, each Blue Star deity has at least tens of billions of followers.

Even if the trillions of Spiritforged Race members were evenly distributed among every Blue Star deity, it would only result in an increase of about one billion believers.

Not to mention true gods like Chen Li and Zheng Jie, as well as the more powerful demigods, who make up the majority of them.

Most of the Blue Star deities did not actually gain many followers.

However, for that unknown being who also gained the faith of many Spiritforged, the sudden acquisition of a large number of believers brought about considerable changes.

"Teacher, our project has reached its final stage. As long as nothing unexpected happens, it should be completed within three years."

At Solaus's research institute, his students are reporting to him on the progress of a research project.

"Okay, I'll hand over this project to you from now on. I have an important matter to attend to and will be leaving the research institute for a while."

"Okay, teacher."

As the most authoritative seventh-level scholar in the entire Realm of All Spirits, Solus has few students, but most of them are fifth-level scholars, and there are quite a few sixth-level scholars as well.

His student was a Level 6 scholar in the field of souls and a legendary soul editor, which is why Solus felt comfortable entrusting some of his work to him.

After making some simple follow-up arrangements, Solus left his research institute and went to a remote, uninhabited area.

Nearly a hundred years have passed since he last entered the spirit world to search for treasure.

Although he later had the opportunity to break through and become a supreme legend.

However, in such a short time, he has not yet had time to fully upgrade his strongest module in order to break through and become a supreme legend.

However, for Solos now, breaking through to become a supreme legend is only a matter of time.

His trip to the no-man's land this time was not for a breakthrough, but for something else entirely.

Not long after the [System for Harmonizing All Suffering] was officially launched, a large number of Spiritforged began to develop their own beliefs.

The major civilizations did not engage in any additional propaganda or resistance regarding the unknown god worshipped by the minority of the Spiritforged.

Some citizens who knew about this phenomenon were merely curious about the identity of this unknown deity.

Little did they know that this unknown being was not a god, but Solous, the one who created the Soul Editor system.

They improved the plight of the original Lightless People and can be considered the greatest contributor to creating the Spiritforged race as it is today.

Under normal circumstances, even if someone has a strong sense of admiration for Solaus, it is difficult for them to develop a specific belief in him.

After all, no matter how much one worships someone, no one would hold any sacrificial rites or similar activities because of it; this does not meet the basic conditions for forming a belief.

However, the fact is that a large number of Spiritforged have indeed developed faith in Thorauth.

With the blessing of faith, Solus also underwent many changes.

Even now, the power of faith within him has reached a certain standard and is about to transform into true divinity.

(End of this chapter)