This misty green light then transformed into endless red light, then emitted endless black light, then transformed into endless blue light, and finally dazzling golden light.
"boom!"
Everything calmed down.
Lin Yan looked up and saw a leaf among the white jade pages of the Book of Living Beings. The leaf looked ancient and green, with distinct veins, like a jade carving, surrounded by layers of apertures and five layers of apertures.
, dazzling.
The five-color radiance burst out, surrounded by a large amount of air currents. The leaves of the green ancient tree slowly rose, and the five-layer aperture gradually converged.
"It's a bit interesting." Lin Yan's eyes were focused.
He stretched out his hand and picked up the leaves of the ancient tree.
"The Ancestral Tree..." Lin Yan looked at it carefully, "Through it, can we achieve the world lord level to carry the power of faith?"
This leaf that exists like a "bookmark" actually has a very special origin, because it comes from a special kind of plant life - the ancestor tree.
According to the information conveyed in "The Book of All Living Beings", in extremely ancient times, the Ancestral Tree was the first being to follow the path of faith.
Its innate secret method "Endless Divine Realm" is somewhat similar to the function of the Kingdom of God, and has a strong strengthening and stabilizing effect on the Kingdom of God.
The Endless God Realm can carry the power of faith, make the Kingdom of God stronger and more stable, and... can transform the endless power of faith into the divine power of life. This divine power is very special and can help other people's injured and damaged divine bodies to completely heal in an instant.
recover.
If we say that the former plays a role in stabilizing the Kingdom of God, and that special beings such as the World Tree have similar abilities, the latter can be said to be completely unheard of.
The strong men in the universe will consume a huge amount of divine power when they fight, burn their divine power, or once certain powerful secrets are cast. If you want to restore it, or you need a lot of cosmic treasures to restore your divine power, they are extremely precious and rare. For the overlord of the universe, the master of the universe
I can't use it at all.
If the Lord of Chaos City loses a clone, then the cost will even make the human race heartache.
It is also for this reason that the value of origin treasures is so precious, second only to flying palace treasures, domain treasures and soul treasures.
If it is a clone, like a certain Lord of the Universe who has a plant life clone, the divine body is huge, and all the consumed divine power can be replenished from the plant life clone.
Even the Ancestral Tree Master, with such a huge divine body of the World Tree, can only restore himself. It is impossible to say that he can use the divine power of the World Tree to help other Universe Masters restore their divine power.
but!
The Ancestral Tree has this extremely special ability, which can transform the endless power of faith into the divine power of life and restore the injured bodies of others.
"According to legend, the origin of the power of faith comes from this ancestral tree."
Lin Yan frowned slightly: "It seems that all my system rewards have a very special integrity. This Ancestral Tree is extremely suitable to be my third clone."
Whether it is the "Thing Hall" and the "Book of All Living Beings", or the innate secret technique "Clone" and the Ancestral Tree, there is a special connection between them.
Lin Yan has now broken through to the realm lord level. When he evolves to the realm lord peak through the nutrient solution, he will naturally start working on the third clone!
"The third avatar plays an extremely important role in my future development and the path I want to take."
As for the choice of the third clone, Lin Yan has always been very cautious. Naturally, he has already collected a lot of information about special life forms, conducted continuous screening and research, and set some candidate targets.
Just wait until you reach the peak of the world master, and then make the final choice based on your various needs.
The universe is vast and mysterious, and there are many powerful and mysterious special beings.
Such as Cold Whale, Tuo Mountain Shock, World Tree, etc.
"I already have the Green Thread Devouring Insect and the Blood Demon, plus myself, with the "Golden Frame", I will be able to reach the level of perfect genes sooner or later, and there will be no shortage of combat power." Lin Yan secretly said, "So I am very interested in the third party.
The main requirement of the clone is volume!"
Volume represents the amount of divine power.
The bigger the better!
"Although according to what the Chaos City Lord and teacher said, when I break the shackles of the original core, the original treasure will be completely integrated into the divine body and the clone, allowing me to have an amazing recovery speed, but the speed of absorbing divine power is also related to the size of the divine body. If there is no super large divine body
The clone is simply a waste of natural resources!"
The larger the volume, the faster it absorbs divine power.
A two-meter-tall human being and a world tree hundreds of millions of kilometers high usually absorb divine power at a speed hundreds of millions of times different. The reason is very simple. Can an ant eat as fast as a giant dragon? If a giant dragon takes a bite, the ant
Eating it in a lifetime will never compare.
There is another main battle clone, which is of little value, but if you choose a super large divine body clone, it basically means that Lin Yan has "freedom of divine power".
It doesn't matter if you blow yourself up and play when you have nothing to do.
The size of the divine body is related to the type of life. Energy-type life forms are usually not large in size, while flesh-and-blood life forms are also limited in size.
The only exception that Lin Yan knew was the Nine Nether Sea of Blood.
Rocks, plants, and others mainly fall into these two categories, such as the rock-type "Li Volcano" and the plant-type "World Tree", which are all special life forms with huge sizes.
"Before, my candidates were mainly the flesh-and-blood Nine Nether Blood Sea and the plant-based World Tree. The others were obviously inferior." Lin Yan secretly said, "But now, I have the Ancestral Tree as a candidate."
According to information, the ancestral leaves in the "Book of All Living Beings" originated from the first ancestral tree in the world before it broke through immortality. It was also the ancestral tree that discovered the existence of the power of faith. It is in the category of world master and can be nurtured into
The third clone.
Lin Yan began to analyze.
"The advantages of the World Tree are, firstly, to bless the Kingdom of God, secondly, the World Tree itself is powerful, and thirdly, it is the innate secret method of 'mastering time and space'. The level of life genes of the World Lord-level World Tree is thousands of times higher."
"The advantage of the Nine Nether Blood Sea is that the divine body is extremely large, larger than the other two tree types of special life forms, and the innate secret method of 'creation' can assist the divine power route, and the life gene level is 300 times higher."
"The advantage of the Ancestral Tree, the innate secret method 'Endless God Realm', the life gene level is the most terrifying, up to 9600 times!" Lin Yan secretly said, "There is another point that cannot be ignored, that is the Ancestral Tree's law talent, including the space system
All original laws."
Metal, wood, water, fire, earth, space!
The main problem lies in the trade-offs.
"No, it actually doesn't lie in the choice." Lin Yan looked at the book of sentient beings, "My real choice first lies in whether to follow this path of faith."
If you are really ready to practice, it is inevitable to choose the Ancestral Tree. If nothing else, the value of the ability to transform the power of faith to restore the injured body of others is self-evident.
If you don't follow the path of faith, your innate secret skills will be basically half useless, and even if your life gene level is strong, it will no longer be of that great significance.
"The power of faith, the way of faith..." Lin Yan pondered.
"According to the records of the 'Book of All Living Beings', the main cultivation methods of faith are divided into two types."
"The first type is absolute faith!"
This is an extreme way to directly cast a mark into the soul of every believer, and be absolutely loyal!
For the sake of the gods they believe in, believers can sacrifice their own lives, their loved ones, relatives and friends, and they no longer have any self.
Under the influence of the soul imprint, their consciousness is still clear, and this has been true for generations. The strangest thing is that they truly surrender to the gods like puppets from the heart.
Lin Yan's eyes were cold: "Instead of calling this belief in all living beings, it is better to call it enslaving all living beings. It is the most advanced method of soul enslavement!"
Soul slavery is similar to this situation.
Normally, there are limits to the number of soul enslavement methods.
Like Hu Yanbo's "Soul Seal", it is extremely rare and has an impact on one's own soul.
The innate secrets such as "Heavenly Demon Gu" or Green Thread Devouring Insects, or other soul-enslaving secrets in the virtual universe company's treasure house, will basically not exceed "10,000".
But this absolutely domineering way of enslaving all living beings can even feed the entire universe, allowing all intelligent beings to devote themselves to providing the power of faith, which is simply chilling.
Lin Yan frowned: "However, according to the records in the Book of All Living Beings, this is an absolutely wrong path. Spreading faith can hope to control the will of the world and even the supreme rules, but the method of enslaving all living beings... itself violates some deeper taboos.
The supreme rules will all stand in the way!”
Countless souls are the foundation of the world.
The will of all living beings can affect the will of the world.
But... the universe and the world operate under the supreme rules. Everything in heaven, earth, and everything has balance. "Balance" is one of the core essences of the supreme rules.
The practice of enslaving all sentient beings is a manifestation of the absolute destruction of the core essence of "balance" and will not be accepted by the supreme rules. You may have the convenience of all the power of faith and reach extremely high realms, but you will never be able to master it.
The will of the world, the supreme rule.
"This method is really cheap and ridiculous!" Lin Yan's eyes were slightly cold.
Even if the "Book of Living Beings" didn't say that this was the wrong path, it would have been impossible for him to embark on this path.
Lin Yan had faced an assassination attempt by a foreign race before, and he might have thoughts of revenge in the future, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with it, because we were enemies, two sides of the natural opposite. If the foreign race could kill him, they would be able to avoid Lin Yan.
As they grow up, it causes huge losses to them.
The human race will do the same thing in the territory of other races.
That's fair.
Ethnic wars have different interests and different positions. They fight each other, enslave each other, and hate each other. This kind of assassination method is very hateful, but it cannot be said to be inferior.
However, in Lin Yan's eyes, this method of spreading faith and enslaving all living beings was extremely despicable and ridiculous!
What are the charges against those believers? Do they need to be forcibly dedicated to their faith and are like puppets from generation to generation without freedom?
If the cultivation methods in the "Book of Living Beings" were like this, Lin Yan didn't even bother to take a second look at them. It was simply a pollution to the soul.
But secondly, the content of the explanation is worthy of Lin Yan's deep thought.
"The so-called faith, in the final analysis, is just a kind of reverence and worship for people, things, ideas, and principles."
Lin Yan secretly sighed: "Instead of blindly indulging in belief and worship in favor of a certain figure or a heretical theory, this is simply putting the cart before the horse!"
Faith and superstition are two completely different concepts.
Thousands of billions of sentient beings who are motes of dust in the infinite future must all worship my truth. This so-called "serve my truth" does not mean "serve me as the truth", but "serve my truth".
This first needs to be a truth worthy of belief, and secondly, "I" need to firmly practice the truth. This is the basis. Then they follow my truth, chant my name, and praise my true name. This is faith.
Lin Yan learned a story from "The Book of All Living Beings", the story of the "Ancestral Tree" discovering the power of faith.
The original universe and even the larger source world will experience destruction again and again and be reborn, gradually multiplying countless creatures. In the initial period of birth, natural disasters, chaos, ignorance of wisdom, and fragility of strength are all catastrophes.
So the wise man sought the protection of the Ancestral Tree.
The Ancestral Tree responded to him.
As a result, the creatures gradually grew up under the protection of the Ancestral Tree. Natural disasters, catastrophes, and alien invasions could no longer pose any threat to them under the powerful power of the Ancestral Tree.
For these creatures, the powerful power and benevolent majesty of the Ancestral Tree are naturally worthy of their belief, respect, and love. As a result, the pure power of faith is born, which is discovered by the special innate secret method of the Ancestral Tree.
This is the normal way of faith.
Gods and believers actually have an equal relationship. Gods protect believers, which is the cause, and believers give back to the gods, which is the effect.
If, under such circumstances, the Ancestral Tree turns its back on these living beings and no longer provides protection, the living beings will naturally no longer continue to believe and may even become resentful.
Once the people who contribute their faith have endless resentment, it will have a counterproductive effect on the gods who accept the faith and pay a heavy price.
"This is the second kind, free faith!"
Lin Yandao: "Building an empire, protecting one's own citizens, or spreading doctrines and gaining the belief of others may lead to the belief of others. However, after accepting the belief, once one betrays the people and violates the doctrine, the gods will be knocked down from the clouds."
This is "balance".
The soul is the foundation of life and the foundation of the world. Using unbalanced slavery to gain power is naturally a taboo in the world.
The power of faith is not the exploitation of believers, but an instinct of the soul.
Having faith and conviction is a kind of upward power possessed by intelligent beings and a quality that pursues beauty.
Take ethnic war as an example. Why does such a war occur?
It's for the territory, and the fight for the territory is to make the ethnic group stronger. Those strong people are willing to sacrifice their lives and fight in bloody battlefields. If their natures were selfish, they wouldn't be there at all.
This is the mysterious and unique place of "soul".
Lin Yan secretly said: "However, the key to the path of 'enslaving all living beings' is that faith must be a fundamental faith that truly comes from the soul. If it is not pure enough, it is useless, and the faith of freedom is the easiest to be shaken.
.”
There is still a second half to the story of the Ancestral Tree.
After passing the most difficult period, those creatures gradually gained power and naturally sought wider territory. The Ancestral Tree could no longer provide them with protection, so they chose to leave and no longer continue to believe.
Practitioners are born free!
Born to pursue freedom, freedom, and freedom!
With such a simple dependence relationship, how can one continue to be a believer in God when dependence is no longer needed?
Lin Yan shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It seems like it's really troublesome."
Trouble, of course trouble, any path to ultimate growth is full of hardships.
But from another perspective, it is extremely simple.
If you find a truth worth believing in, a truth that countless intelligent beings pursue together, and always abide by it, gradually affecting more intelligent beings and gaining their belief and admiration, you will have power beyond imagination.
The will of all living beings is the will of the world!
"The will of the world is too far away and is not worth considering for the time being. But apart from that, there is another reason that is difficult to give up." Lin Yan's eyes brightened slightly.
Soul potential!
What shocked him was that once you practice the way of faith, you can compensate for the soul potential of believers through the power of faith!
The human race, according to their living environment, is divided into humans in the kingdom of God, humans in the secret realm of the universe, and humans in the kingdom of the universe!
To nurture and grow life, it is necessary to absorb the essence of the universe. It is almost impossible for humans in the Kingdom of God to become immortal. Humans on land in the secret realm of the universe can cultivate immortal gods, but if they want to have a cosmic lord, the probability is extremely low!
Territory is like fertile soil. The larger the territory, the greater the potential of this ethnic group, and the higher the probability of giving birth to a super strong person.
And if Lin Yan practices the way of faith, and there is a certain human from the Kingdom of God who believes in Lin Yan and his teachings, but due to insufficient soul potential, is stuck at the peak of the world master and cannot become immortal, he can make up for this soul potential through the power of faith.
Make it break through.
"If this is really the case, wouldn't it mean that we no longer have to be restricted by territory?" Lin Yan thought to himself.
have to say.
This way of faith has indeed shown a strong appeal.
Whether it is the "Lord of Zhou Tian" or the "Ancestral Tree", or even this strange effect of being able to avoid territorial restrictions, these are unheard of and unseen.
"So, if I really plan to practice cultivation, the most important thing is... to find the most appropriate thoughts, the thoughts that are most likely to be deeply rooted in people's hearts, and are also worthy of me to abide by for life."
This must not be fallacy!
But the truth that can make the world a better place!
Lin Yan thought: "The rise of the human race? This proposition is too big and too small, which is not good."
What is his current status?
What qualifications do you have to protect the human race?
He must wait until he grows to the level of the Lord of Chaos City and the Founder of the Great Axe, and then he can occupy more territories in the universe, and there may be room for him to make a difference.
But this so-called rise is difficult for people to empathize with.
No matter how much territory we occupy, for countless mortal humans, their lives will not change. What's the point of saying this, especially after losing the pressure of foreign races, the number of original believers will also decrease.
Lin Yan thought for a moment and couldn't help but laugh.
He smiled and said: "Think about me back then, I was really young."
"But... it's interesting."
He thought about many possibilities, but in the end Lin Yan felt that it was feasible and that there was only one truth that the world needed and had always needed.
And it is not limited to the human race, but billions of races in the universe will need it.
"Without Babata and the legacy of the Fallen Ink Star, the Earth might have been destroyed by the Golden-Horned Behemoth, or it might have been turned into a new slave planet by the adventurers of the Nuolanshan Family Fleet."
"Even without the golden-horned giant beast and those bandit-like adventurers, Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God still have a very low chance of growing to the cosmic level."
Lin Yan's eyes gradually brightened: "On an indigenous planet, without cultivation knowledge, they can't even build a spaceship. What are the possibilities?"
"What future do those slave planets have if they accept inhumane rule under high-tech surveillance equipment?"
"Those domain lords, world lords, and families of immortal powerful men have rotted and fallen in their long lifespans without any competition or pressure. What goals do they have?"
"This world is used to hearing the voices of the strong, so what about the wails of the weak?" Lin Yan murmured, "The population reproduces quickly, but the territory is small. Their lives are weak and short. Even if they die, there will be new lives quickly.
grow.”
"The starry sky in this universe is really dark and cold."
He never lacks enthusiasm.
There is also never a lack of respect and understanding for others. It is difficult to put oneself above others and look at the joys and sorrows of the world indifferently.
When he was young, he would say: "I don't like this world."
But he is still young.
If the earth at that time only had some sprouts, the universe now is full of rotten flesh and sores, but the backbone always stands tall and erect.
Corresponding to the advanced "Virtual Universe Network", it is an extremely primitive system, and the path to ascend is even more ridiculously narrow!
Without money, I can't leave the planet, I don't have space citizenship, I can't even open an account on the "Virtual Universe Network".
Take Qianwu Universe Kingdom as an example. Within the vast territory of hundreds of millions of galaxies in the entire star region, teaching in any other "martial arts hall" or "dojo" is prohibited. The only important channel to attract a large number of martial artists and spiritual masters is "Qianwu".
"Witch Dojo".
The registration fee is 800 black dragon coins, which is enough to purchase 80 ninth-level apprentice slaves.
Life is so bright, why not give them the chance and possibility to burn?
But the reality is... countless human beings can barely survive, let alone shine and realize their own value.
"Order and respect are virtues that will never be rejected, giving countless weak people the opportunity to receive education, improve themselves, and transform the universe from the root."
"However... one move can affect the whole body. If you want to achieve this, it will inevitably touch the interests of the existing class." Lin Yan secretly said, "I must have more common interests, and I will not be afraid even if I am the enemy of the whole world.
the power of."
He understood very well that class contradictions are the most difficult to reconcile.
If he really takes this path, even those who believe in him when he is weak may give up this belief when he becomes strong.
The bustle in the world is all for the benefit of coming, and the hustle and bustle of the world is all for the benefit of the going.
But in this universe, no matter how it changes, the one thing that cannot be changed is... the vast majority will always be mortal creatures and weak ones!
The strong may exist forever, but they are only a handful after all. The ordinary life span is short, but they grow from generation to generation.
It takes billions of galaxies to create a universe level, and it takes countless epochs of accumulation for the entire Qianwu Universe Kingdom to produce tens of thousands of immortal gods!
From the perspective of the original power of the universe, it is actually these ordinary creatures that no one cares about that consume the most of the original power. If you really want to influence the will of the world, the most important thing is to influence the will of countless ordinary people.
Although the power of faith contributed is weak, it is not worth the endless amount.
This matter is closely related to everyone, even not just humans, but others will not do it and cannot do it.
"The most important thing is... humans have a virtual universe, and the entire original universe is within the coverage of the virtual universe. This is an essential condition."
Lin Yan smiled: "The rest is to continue to increase your chips and make yourself stronger."
"My current strength is far from enough, but when I can talk to the masters of the universe on an equal footing, the world will change because of me."
His eyes are like lamps, like candles, like the sun.
Lin Yan breathed a long sigh of relief and sighed softly: "It's really interesting and challenging."
He always believed that it was people, not slaves, who created value.
He always believed that the civilized world would eventually prevail over the barbaric world.
He always believed that the universe was dark and cold, but the light of human beings could illuminate the universe.
Although he is not actually very interested in the so-called way of faith, if it is in this way, he is very interested.
Carry the world on your shoulders, hold your original intention in your fists.