Keqing, it’s just cultivating immortality, is it that difficult?

Little Coal Ball paused, unable to say what was wrong.

[No one wants to be controlled by others. Those immortal cultivators are not necessarily completely loyal to their own sects. I am afraid that your followers will be dissatisfied when they grow up.]

Little Coal Ball is well aware of human greed. Even though the deployment of the divine power network is only in its early stages, she has already imagined the future.

Who wants to be monitored all the time and have their future development restricted? It would probably cause a lot of dissatisfaction.

"Well, I understand your doubts, but you may have forgotten that without the divine power network and without faith in me, they would not have the so-called path to the Tao. They would return to the yellow earth within a hundred years and experience all the sufferings of birth, aging, sickness and death. Strictly speaking, I am not blocking the path to the Tao. I have paved the way for them."

"My original purpose was essentially just to save the world and liberate them from the ordinary constraints of birth, aging, sickness and death."

With divine power, this group of people can display the same abilities as immortal cultivators, prolong their lives, nourish their souls, and achieve the same "immortality" as immortal cultivators.

The price is that the core of their combat power is controlled by oneself, and their abilities will only be inferior to oneself, that's all.

"Why would I be dissatisfied with this? My goal from the beginning to the end was not to train a group of bombs without morals, ethics, and power but instability."

"If I really allow them to act recklessly like those immortal cultivators, then even if they believe in me wholeheartedly, what use would I have for such believers?"

Keqing is unexpectedly cruel in this regard. It is precisely because she knows the bad nature of humans and the lawlessness and willfulness of cultivators that she has such restrictions.

Power itself needs to be monitored and restricted. She doesn't want the divine cultivator she created to exist like immortal cultivators who follow their own hearts.

Only knowing how to destroy and not knowing how to protect, such existence must be eliminated from the root.

After all, destruction is much easier than protection.

Even though she didn't recover most of her memories, Keqing knew some of the reasons for the gods' decline from the stories told to her by Little Coal Ball. One of the reasons was the believers killing the gods. It sounds ridiculous, because those acquired gods, the gods who live on faith, are on the same front as the believers.

As long as you believe, you can gain power.

However, the believers who gained power developed more extreme and greedy ideas.

Why should he be suppressed? Why couldn't he take over? Hence the idea of ​​killing God.

In Keqing's opinion, it is not the fault of those believers, but human beings are just such creatures, never satisfied. When they are hungry, they just pray for food. When they are full, they pray for health and freedom from disaster. When they are really health and freedom from disaster, they pray for immortality. Isn't this how immortal cultivators come from?

The reason why gods were killed was partly due to human nature, and partly because they did not bind their believers to themselves, nor did they have the means to control the power they gave out, so in the end they were defeated by their own power.

The new divine core solves this problem. It does not grant power to the believers directly. The source of power lies within oneself. The divine practitioner only needs to enhance his own life dimension and soul dimension to generate divine power.

It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone. If someone is really too greedy, Keqing will directly deprive the other party of the authority to transform divine arts.

After understanding Keqing's explanation, Little Coal Ball suddenly realized that there was nothing wrong with his master doing this.

It seems that she is too sympathetic to those believers.

I thought to myself that those believers were after all believers of the master, and whether it was a bit too much for the master to treat them like this.

But in fact, all they did was believe, but the master gave them the power of immortality, saved them from the toil of the mortal world, and allowed them to step into a world that only cultivators could enter.

The master does not force them to pray, but only expects them to give back to the world.

Calculated in this way, the so-called believers are nothing more than an exchange of interests, and the ones who pay the most are their masters.

[Master, you are truly a genius. You have foresight into the future so far ahead! ]

"It's not foresight, it's just early prevention. I don't want the world to be in chaos because of my divine power revival."

How could she be like this if the world wasn't about to collapse?

After all, any external intervention will lead to a future, which will produce huge causes and effects.

Why do immortal cultivators not interfere in the mortal world and try not to disturb the fate of mortals? Isn't it because they are worried about being entangled in a lot of cause and effect? ​​The consequences of bad luck are, at the very least, resentment, and at the worst, cause and effect. A mortal's country is destroyed and his family is ruined, and the cause and effect of a country is added to his body.

On the contrary, orthodox cultivators who want to pursue the great way and advance would not want this.

If Little Coal Ball hadn't said that he wasn't afraid of the consequences, would I still have done this?

Keqing didn't know, but she knew that if she had the ability, she would not watch the world collapse.

"Well, it's not over yet. I need to add some more magic."

The rules currently constructed with fragments in the divine core are just rules. The believers do not have the ability to create spells. Keqing can only build a divine magic system in the Glass Seal through her own will.

For example, for rules such as fire, water, ice, wind, earth, metal, and wood, Keqing has reserved many interfaces for them.

Each interface can be used to create some magic. For example, fire can have rockets, fireballs, and fire bombs; wind can have speed, wind control, and object control; while earth can have condensation, shaping, earth and stone, etc.

Transformation is not enough, one also needs the ability to use the power of transformation.

It sounds a bit complicated, but it is easy to understand if you use an analogy.

Believers generate divine power, divine power = spiritual power.

The divine core can transform divine power, divine core = spiritual root.

Then in order to exert the divine power and transform it into various spells with specific functions, it requires the guidance of mental power, model = spell.

However, the soul power of mortals is weak. Even with the nourishment of divine power, they cannot compare to those immortal cultivators who have spiritual roots in their bodies.

So how to let them use simple soul power to perform complex magic requires guidance.

All kinds of magic require formulas and special routes for the circulation of spiritual power, and these all require spiritual power to guide. Keqing's idea is to create a model, that is, the embodiment of magic, to fix some spells into a route, so that believers only need to have enough soul power to mobilize the power and transform it.

For what you need.

Although the power exerted in this way is rather rigid, it is already very good to be able to allow mortals with poor soul power to cast spells.

Moreover, if one's soul power is strong, one can also control the magic spells performed and make them more agile.

As for the model itself, Keqing felt that there was no need to put it in the core, but left it for believers to download into their unopened sea of ​​consciousness.

Oh, I saw the word download from the book given by the system.

"Well, building the model is a problem. I guess I need to learn how to build it."

"Eh? Some rune knowledge popped up in my mind again. Maybe it will work?"

As new knowledge gradually emerged in her mind, Keqing's eyes lit up, and she began to use runes to construct a model.

Since runes can create powerful talismans that store spells through certain energy trajectories, it should be possible to use similar situations to construct a materialized object of the spell model.

[Master, you really are... You don't care about the outside world? ]

Looking at Keqing who was immersed in research, Xiao Meiqiu reminded her, "Have you forgotten something?"

By the way, the master's research nature is still as high as ever.

"What is there to worry about? Geng Hu is in charge of the military, Qizhou is in charge of internal affairs, and Lu Shanshan is in charge of the believers and restraining the divine practitioners. There is nothing to worry about."

Keqing said without turning back:

"We are all my believers. How can there be any trouble if we live in harmony? Since we are believers, we will naturally abide by the rules I set."

[But you said they would change, wouldn't they? Human greed is hard to satisfy...]

Keqing rolled her eyes, feeling quite helpless.

"That will be a long time in the future. Do they have the greedy conditions now?"

"You have forgotten that they are my believers first and divine practitioners second!"

What is the biggest advantage of believers? Of course, they are obedient. As long as you are not an evil god who oppresses them, why would these believers cause trouble for no reason?

Keqing didn't understand why she had such a stupid pet, so she simply plunged directly into the construction of the divine core.

Little Coal Ball naturally saw the disdain in Keqing's eyes and felt very aggrieved.

But at the same time, she couldn't help but reflect on herself. Why did she seem to be getting dumber after following her master? Could it be that she had reached old age and her IQ had deteriorated?!

The little coal ball was terrified, he was still a cub!

No, I need to read more books!

The master said that only by reading more can one become smart. I think I need to improve my business ability, otherwise my position as the boss will be in jeopardy.

So each of them had a ball, one immersed in research, and the other studied hard, completely unaware that the outside world had begun to undergo earth-shaking changes.

Chapter 605: Take Refuge (4500)

"Aunt, you're not lying, are you? Did it really rain here?"

On the road to escape famine, a group of displaced refugees looked at the scorching sun in the sky and couldn't help but feel doubtful.

His mouth was dry and his body was covered in sweat, which wet some of the flying dust.

The person asking the question was a skinny man with lifeless eyes and wet hair all over his temples and cheeks. There were also countless gray dusts painting irregularly on his face.

Except for him, the person who asked the question, and their families, everyone looked very embarrassed. After all, they were fleeing from famine and did not care about these things.

If there is no drinking water, who can use water to take care of the body?

The person he was questioning was a woman in her thirties in front of him. In this era, people in their thirties were considered old.

"Hey, Dazhuzi, you've asked me this several times, and I've told you that this is news from my distant relatives, and it's absolutely reliable. If they hadn't passed by us and brought me the news, why would I have come all the way here!"

"Your relatives are lying to you..."

The woman frowned.

"Impossible. The food they eat is much better than ours. You don't know, my relative has changed a lot. A year ago, she was sold by her unscrupulous parents. I thought she would be tortured by marrying into that family and her life would be like that. But a month ago, she looked as beautiful as those rich girls."

The woman looked envious when she spoke of this.

"If I hadn't seen that kid when he was a child, I would have almost failed to recognize him!"

"My relative said that there is no shortage of food in Hengshan County. The county magistrate there is very good. All refugees who came here were given relief food, and their household registration was registered free of charge. They were also given farmland, and it even rained a month ago!"

Having said this, anticipation reappeared on the woman's face.

"Is it really that good? It hasn't rained in half a year. It hasn't rained in the counties around me. The big lake in the city has evaporated, but God hasn't given me any mercy. I heard that Hengshan County is still a remote county.

, it is just in the corner of Tongzhou Prefecture, how can it rain there? "

"Why are you so whiny! My relative can't possibly deceive me. What does she want? You should know that when she was a child, she was beaten and scolded by her conscienceless parents and I intervened in the middle."

"Are you trying to say that I was deceived!?"

The woman was also a little unsure. Although she did feel sorry for the kid and helped him a little when she was little, her help was limited. She was not sure whether the kid would remember the kindness.

No matter what, there is no reason to deceive yourself.

"Her aunt, my Dazhu can't speak, please forgive me."

"My family must trust you, otherwise we wouldn't follow you, right?"

The young woman next to the man apologized hastily, with a look of sadness common to the working people in her eyes.

When Aunt Ma heard the woman say this, the unhappiness in her eyes gradually dissipated.

"I know your men are worried, but since you believe me, don't let your imagination run wild."

"We are just trying to find a way to survive. If we had no other choice but to stay in the county, you wouldn't have fled with me, right? We are all the same, right?"

Aunt Ma sighed.

"Actually, I feel a little bit uneasy, and I'm worried that my journey was in vain. But how bad can it be?"

"The government doesn't give us relief food, the bandits keep harassing us, and the only well is dry and we can't get a drop of water out. If we don't leave now, we'll be trapped here and die sooner or later, don't you think?"

"Hey... I know you're worried... but I'm worried too, but what can I do now? I can only follow you."

Aunt Ma comforted her:

"It's good that Hengshan County is almost here. No matter how hard we try, if it's true or not, eating tree bark is no better than staying at home."

When they talked about home, they looked at each other in silence.

Yes, at worst I would just die. My hometown has become a den of bandits and they have started to eat people. Will they also eat people if I stay there?

In the end, in order to survive, they first eat strangers, then familiar people, and then they will eat their closest relatives!

They shuddered at the thought of it turning out like that.

Of course, this is secondary. The more fundamental reason that prompted them to flee famine was that when they were terrified, those man-eating demons died for no reason.

It was like they had some kind of plague, which scared them. Then Aunt Ma met a distant relative whom she hadn't seen for a long time and learned about what happened in Hengshan County.

After weighing this, he decided that it would be better to give it a try than to stay here. After making up his mind, he immediately took action, turning things upside down, and using up all his family assets to start fleeing the famine.

But now the group had already finished their food, and even their water supply had been cut off for three days. As they were about to arrive at Hengshan County, which was clearly their destination, the closer they got, the more uneasy they felt, fearing that it was fake.

The few of them stopped talking and just walked forward silently, pushing and carrying their packages.

With more and more uncertainty in their hearts, the group gradually approached Hengshan County.

As they approached the surrounding counties, they found that all the counties they passed by were deserted, which made them even more worried. Since other counties were deserted, how could Hengshan County be any better?