Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 21:

"I never understood why so many wise and wise people could not get around the ideological struggle. Obviously everyone can seek common ground while reserving differences and develop together, but why do most of them end up using force in the end?"

Sui Xiong looked at the sea where he was playing ping-pong, shells and sparks flying together, and fighters were all black and smoky. He said thoughtfully: "Now, I understand a little bit."

Crick smiled and said: "These truths have been understood a long time ago, but understanding and ‘knowing’ are two different things. Without personal experience, knowledge cannot be truly transformed into cognition after all."

"Yes! From knowledge to understanding, how difficult it is!" Sui Xiong sighed, waved his tentacles, turned and flew away.

After a while, he came to the meeting room of the Kingdom of God.

The Void Gods and all of your allies have avatars permanently here. Seeing him come in, Vie, the **** of pleasure, hurriedly asked: "Oscar, why did you suddenly drop such an oracle?"

Sui Xiong was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "Is there anything wrong with that oracle?"

"Of course there is a problem!" Vier took a deep breath and said, "Do you know when, in general, a deity will issue an oracle like this?"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh? Others will do this too?" Sui Xiong asked in surprise.

"Of course! This is a level that many gods have to pass. Only if you can pass this level, you can be regarded as Zhengerbajing stepping into the world of the'True God' and truly qualifying for'eternity'. "

Sui Xiong's eyes widened--the jellyfish's eyes were already big, and at this moment, his body was almost completely occupied by his eyes. It seemed that he really interprets the word "shocked" vividly.

"You haven't told me why!"

"Who would have started doing this kind of thing so early!" Viyer sighed, "Generally speaking, after the official canonization, about the first 100 years or so, the gods need to reflect on their own church. Is there a deviation between the policy and my own doctrine? I began to think about whether to adjust the doctrine according to the actual situation, or to rectify the church? But look at you, you have not formally ordained God, and you are actually busy with this... …"

"This is the gap!" Almost the big boss of half-orcs and wild beasts, Morani, the steel lion who has recently subdued several half-gods, sighed, "It took me almost three hundred years. , I realized this problem. Then I rectified the church and pulled up the team of the wild gods... You only used a short fifty years!"

"He didn't even use it for fifty years." The **** of justice Joel Gadman said, "The Church of Void Mask really developed about forty years ago. Before that, this'church' It’s just a mess of mercenary-like organizations."

"The main reason is that you have developed too fast!" Morani said, "In just a few decades, your church has become a very influential organization on the main plane. I am afraid that there are hundreds of thousands of believers. , And even the entire Northwestern Republic as the foundation-now you have indeed reached the stage of being'inversely influenced by faith'."

Speaking, they couldn't help shaking their heads one after another, not seeing things carefully for themselves, they could only realize and feel depressed in hindsight.

But Sui Xiong didn't think they had any mistakes, but was even more puzzled.

Different from ordinary gods, he does not absorb the power of faith, but transforms them into divine powers for feedback to the believers, as priests, priests, and paladins. In the kingdom of God, there is a special divine power altar to take charge of this work. The huge divine power accumulated in it has even turned into a dazzling spar. If Sui Xiong hadn't specially shielded its light, it would probably be like a The sun is so dazzling on the ground.

Since I have never absorbed the power of faith, why would I be affected by the power of faith?

This is like a person who believes in a Buddha and eats a fast. His neighbor eats meat. What does it have to do with him?

Unless he believes in those cults in the style of "I'm going to die if I don't believe me, I'm going to die for work", otherwise he should have no influence whatsoever.

He hesitated for a while, and then explained his situation.

The gods were also astonished-since they don't absorb the power of faith, naturally they shouldn't be influenced by the power of faith. But Sui Xiong's previous situation clearly showed signs of being affected by the power of faith. Why is this happening?

They discussed for a long time, and finally Wenner, the lord of the war, made a convincing guess.

He believes that although Sui Xiong does not absorb the power of faith, he still accepts the prayers of believers and responds to them. In this process, Sui Xiong kept in touch with the will of the believers, feeling the joys, anger, sorrow, and joy of the believers, unconsciously, he was affected.

This influence is not to distort his will like being contaminated by the power of faith, but to reduce the sacredness of his soul, making him gradually move closer to the "human" perspective, and slowly lose the detachment that the gods should have. Attitude.

Fortunately, because Sui Xiong is not actually contaminated by the power of faith, once he realizes that he has made a mistake, he can immediately correct it without even a little entanglement and hesitation.

"In general, your approach is indeed very good. The only drawback is that the cost is too high." Wenner concluded in the end, "The power of faith is one of the main sources of the power of our gods, but you But you don’t absorb it at all. This will make your usual divine power accumulation much slower than other deities."

"Looking at what he looks like, I really don't see where it's'slow'..." Vie murmured, "If he is'slow', wouldn't I be like a dog..."

"How can a genius be treated by mortal standards!" Wenner snorted, and said, "Leader is a rare genius in ancient and modern times. If it weren't for his refusal to absorb the power of faith, he would definitely be stronger than now. More!"

"Okay, okay, I'm already strong enough, I don't need to be'much stronger' anymore." Seeing that they were about to fight, Sui Xiong hurriedly persuaded, "Since the matter has been determined, then consider the follow-up... You said, should I use this incident as an opportunity to rectify the atmosphere in the church and unify my thinking?"

The gods, look at me, and I will look at you. In the end, it was Wenner, the warlord who has the largest church among them, said: "What you are talking about...is it too far away?"

"Remote?"

"In a church~IndoMTL.com~ there are all kinds of people, with all kinds of thoughts, and different factions." Wenner said, "Maybe you think, This hinders the efficiency of the church, may result in meaningless internal friction, and may even have a bad influence when doing things. But have you ever thought that there may be some value in various thoughts and tendencies. Some things; maybe the wrong ideas now will be right at some point in the future... If you veto them all, although you can make your church more pure and strong now, it will also reduce its overall development Possibility, and the ability to resist risks and transform in the future."

After Sui Xiong listened, he was silent.

Wenner's remarks are regarded as the bottom of the heart, if the friendship is not enough, don't expect him to mention these to others. This is the life experience of the predecessors, and it is a treasure that is more precious than any treasure.

But...Is he really going to follow Wenner's suggestion to get a church that is "inclusive of all rivers and a hundred flowers blooming"?

He thought about it for a long time, and finally shook his head.

"That might be great, but it's not what I want."