Chapter 165: Fruit of The Divine Tree, Deification By Religious Faith
“Sir, you’re simply too impressive! My feelings of admiration toward you are endless and eternal, like the gushing rivers. They are like the overflowing Yellow River, beyond control once the floodgates open—”
“Cut the crap. Just drive properly.”
“Drive?”
“...”
ng Lei was rendered speechless. Then, he asked, “Judging from what that old crocodile said just now, prior to becoming a Saint Domain, you were just a Sixth-Grade Magical Beast?”
“Yes, sir!”
The Uni-Horned Rose Python didn’t dare to keep any secrets from him. It explained, “Ten years ago, I was indeed a Sixth-Grade Rose Python. But because I was lucky enough to get a Tree of Life fruit, I was able to beco a Saint Domain Magical Beast.
“I had initially thought that after I beca a Saint Domain Magical Beast, I’d be able to beco buddies with those old-tir Saint Domain Magical Beasts high up above. Who’d have thought that those guys would still look down on —”
ng Lei interrupted Clara’s unceasing torrent of words and asked, “Are you saying that you used only a short ten years to advance from a tiny little Sixth-Grade Magical Beast into a Saint Domain?”
“Yes, sir!” The Uni-Horned Rose Python didn’t quite understand. It asked, “Is there an issue with that?”
Ten years!
It had taken only ten years for a Sixth-Grade Magical Beast to beco a Saint Domain!
Wasn’t that totally an issue?
It wasn’t just ng Lei who was shocked; even Ol’ Amos was astonished by its words. At once, he erged from the spatial ring and urged him. “Hurry! ng Lei, ask the python what the Tree of Life is!”
ng Lei took a deep breath, and then he posed the question to the Uni-Horned Rose Python.
A look of idolization surfaced in Clara’s eyes at once. An expression akin to those of fanatics in relation to the deity they worshiped and believed in also ca over its countenance.
“The Tree of Life is the divine tree on this continent. It’s also the spiritual belief of all living things on this continent. Be it plants or animals, everyone and everything worships and believes deeply in the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life protects us eternally!”
“Is the Tree of Life that great?” ng Lei’s eyes flashed as he asked, “What’s the Tree of Life fruit?”
“The Tree of Life bears fruits once every hundred years. Each ti it does, it only bears a total of nine fruits. When the fruits ripen, the Tree of Life will send these nine fruits to various corners of the continent for the living things here to consu.”
With much gratitude, the Uni-Horned Rose Python said, “If you’re lucky enough, you’ll be able to get one. After consuming the fruit, one will gain great power within an extrely short amount of ti—just like .”
“A single fruit has allowed you to take only ten years to beco a Saint Domain Magical Beast. That fruit’s effect...”
ng Lei found this incredible. He asked, “Ol’ President, have you heard of a fruit like that before?”
“Not at all!”
Ol’ Amos took a breath and said, “In Heaven’s Vault Continent, there are also many treasures that can help people to break through their limits and boost their strength, but none of them can compare to an amazing fruit like that.
“That thing is practically even crazier than a Laws of Nature Origin Crystal!”
“Indeed it is!”
ng Lei nodded heavily. Laws of Nature Origin Crystals contained nature laws within them and could aid a ninth-grade expert in opening the door to laws of nature and helping them attain the Saint Domain realm. However, this was limited to only ninth-grade experts and was ineffective for those below.
However, this was evidently not the case for the fruit.
A Sixth-Grade Magical Beast had beco a Saint Domain in ten years.
What was that?
A huge tonic supplent for mass-manufacturing Saint Domains, that’s what it was!
How could Laws of Nature Origin Crystal match up to it?
“I must find it! I must find that divine tree!”
ng Lei’s eyes were blazing bright with a spectacular outburst of light. “If we can take it for ourselves and sit and wait for the divine tree fruits to co rolling in, we’ll strike gold!”
One divine tree fruit = One Saint Domain!
Just how much was the divine tree worth?
What was the big deal about having a mine?
What was the big deal about having one’s house demolished and relocated[1]?
What was the big deal about having a villa in 2nd Ring Road[2]?
Compared to the divine tree, they didn’t amount to anything at all!
However, Ol’ Amos’ countenance was grave, and there was a complex look in his eyes as he said, ‘We’ll have to look for it for sure, but I’m afraid we can’t hold ourselves against it.”
“Can’t hold ourselves against it?”
ng Lei was rather puzzled.
Ol’ Amos asked slowly, “Do you rember a certain sentence that the Uni-Horned Rose Python said just now?”
“Which?”
Ol’ Amos replied slowly, “That all living things on this continent, whether plants or animals, worship and believe deeply in the Tree of Life.”
“Yes, I know that. What about it?”
ng Lei was even more puzzled now.
“You once asked in the past how one can beco a deity, right?” Ol’ Amos didn’t answer his question. Instead, he asked, “My answer was that laws of nature maketh the deity, right?”
“Yes!” ng Lei nodded. “You once said that deities were also known as the controllers of the laws of nature. If one can fully comprehend a type of laws of nature, they’ll be able to beco a deity.”
“Deification by comprehending the laws of nature is only one of the thods available.” Ol’ Amos said slowly, “In truth, that’s not the only route to deification. There’s also another very common thod that’s the easiest to achieve, yet also the hardest.”
ng Lei was taken aback. A very common thod that was the easiest to achieve, yet also the hardest? What kind of thod was that? Why was it so self-contradictory?
“Ol’ President, the thod you speak of is?” ng Lei was terribly curious.
“Deification by religious faith,” Ol’ Amos answered.
“Deification by religious faith?” ng Lei perked up.
“As long as you have enough believers worshipping and devoutly believing in you, you don’t even need to do anything, and you can beco a deity. Even if you’re just lazing about and doing nothing every day, you can still beco one nonetheless!”
A smiling Ol’ Amos explained, “That’s what deification by religious faith is! What do you think? Isn’t it simple?”
ng Lei was rendered speechless. “One can beco a deity without even doing anything? Isn’t that taking the matter a little too lightly?”
“Thus, deification by religious faith is very simple to achieve. Compared to comprehending the laws of nature, it’s practically cheating.”
Then, Ol’ Amos changed the course of the conversation and lanted, “It’s just a pity that it’s not easy to gain enough believers. In fact... It’s extrely difficult!
“Take Heaven’s Vault Continent, for example.
“There’s the Beast People Empire in the north, the Dragon God Empire in the east, the Fairy Empire in the south, and the Titan Empire in the west.
“Yet all four great empires have their own gods that they believe in. Even though there are trillions of living things in Heaven’s Vault Continent, do you think it’s possible to snatch believers from the four great empires?”
ng Lei gave a wry smile in response—that was sothing totally impossible, alright? Or at least, that was currently the case.
“Therefore, deification by religious faith is also a thod as difficult as nailing jelly to the wall—because it’s totally impossible for you to find a sufficient number of believers to provide enough religious faith for you to beco a deity.”
Ol’ Amos shook his head lightly and went on. “As a result, the only thing all living things in Heaven’s Vault Continent can do is to properly comprehend the laws of nature and go down the route of deification by comprehending laws of nature.”
ng Lei asked, “Ol’ President, you’ve ntioned just now that deification by religious faith is also a very common thod. What do you an by that?”
“In Heaven’s Vault Continent, deification by religious faith is indeed very tough, but this may not be the case for other existential planes.” Ol’ Amos explained with a smile, “You probably don’t know this yet, but in the vast and boundless universe exist countless planes of existence. The Heaven’s Vault Continent is only a very ordinary material plane among them all!”
“Huh?” ng Lei pretended to be astonished.
“...”
Ol’ Amos explained at great length before he finally said, “Existential planes are much like bubbles. New planes are constantly being born, and old planes are constantly dying out every mont.
“In those newly-born planes, neither deities nor experts exist. The living things there live the life of savages and are primitive and backward.
“The living things that those planes birth are innocent and ignorant. They harbor great respect for the heavens and are fearful of nature. Therefore, they easily hold religious faith toward certain supernatural phenona or inexplicable things and incidents.
“For example, they may worship a powerful person, a snake, a ball of fire, a rock, and so on.
“That’s the earliest form of religious faith—primitive worship!”
ng Lei murmured to himself, “Primitive worship?”
“To prival lifeforms, the act of primitive worship doesn’t an much. It’s nothing more than just pure faith. However, to the subjects of worship, it’s sothing incredibly extraordinary!
“Because... Primitive worship can allow them to... Beco deities!”
[1] Referring to the huge compensation paynt from the relocation
[2] A district located in the heart of Beijing, where land is very expensive
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