Speaking of which, another important reason why the Earth God Temple was able to establish and develop so quickly in the Eastern Desert was that they wanted to break away from the control of the Thirteen Cities Alliance.
The reason why the original cities in the eastern part of the desert were so heavily influenced by the Thirteen Cities Alliance was that, in addition to being relatively close, a bigger reason was that most of their water sources came from the Thirteen Cities Alliance.
If they want to survive, they have to obey the arrangements of the Thirteen Cities Alliance.
Now this biggest problem has been solved. After the establishment of the Earth Temple in the eastern city, they have resumed communication with cities in other regions.
As believers of the Earth God, they can now trade water sources from other cities at extremely low prices.
What delights the eastern sand people the most is that the eastern desert, which was originally relatively barren and had scarce water sources, suddenly had hundreds of new water sources overnight.
These new water sources are oasis water sources formed by Chu Ci's expansion of the Xinghe Waterfall. The amount of rain that fell was so large that it could not penetrate into the ground for a while.
Of course, these oasis water sources are only temporary, and only a few can form real water sources, but their existence solves the urgent needs of many cities. Some cities even have two or three oasis water sources around them at the same time, which greatly relieves water pressure.
Whether it is trading or new water sources, they all benefit from the existence of the Earth God. For various reasons, the eastern sand people have a very strong and pious belief in the Earth God.
Seeing the growing power of faith on the panel, Chu Ci had a strange expression.
Who would have thought that their original purpose of coming to the Spitting Fire Desert was just to find the reason for the increase in power of Luo Jiuyou.
As a result, enemies appeared one after another in the desert war, the Thirteen Cities Alliance, the Temple of Life, the Fire Dragon Sandstorm, and Chu Ci unknowingly left many footprints, making the Earth God's reputation more and more popular.
Now it looks like this.
Today's Spitting Fire Desert is no longer a desert of gods. All the sand people in the desert know that gods are real, and they have also sent gifts to rescue them from the chaotic war and give them new life.
The gods and legends that once spread throughout the Yanhuangzhou desert were replaced by earth gods, which invisibly added a lot of prestige and deeds to Chu Ci.
This prestige continues to spread to other deserts with every pilgrim who comes to the Spitting Fire Desert.
Gradually, the name of the Earth God is no longer limited to the spitting fire desert.
The power of the Earth Temple also began to appear outside the Fire-Spitting Desert.
But now Chu Ci doesn't know that his Earth God Temple has begun to leave the spitting fire desert. He is now looking at the growing power of faith and considering whether to condense a faith clone.
During the period of the lower gods, the power of faith plays a great role in the gods. It can not only replace the divine power and become the power of the gods, but also accelerate the cultivation of the gods and provide key support for breaking through the middle gods.
But when you reach the middle god, the role of the power of faith begins to weaken.
Although the bonuses of cultivation and enlightenment are still there, the power of faith can no longer provide assistance to the middle god to break through the upper god like the lower gods.
When you reach the realm of higher gods, the role of the power of faith becomes even smaller. It cannot provide cultivation blessings to the higher gods and can only be used as a reserve power of the upper gods.
Because of this, many gods will gradually lose their pursuit of the power of faith and instead pursue their own bodies after becoming superior gods.
Some higher gods even neglect the management of the human world because they are so obsessed with self-cultivation.
When they came out of seclusion hundreds of years later, they were shocked to find that their temple power had perished due to hundreds of years of changes.
But this does not mean that the higher gods do not care about the power of faith. They still need the power of faith to maintain their own avatars of faith.
Belief in clones is a clone refining method that all gods can master.
As the name suggests, the belief avatar is to use the power of belief as a material to refine a god avatar.
Like other god clones, the faith clone has one characteristic, that is, the more power of faith is refined, the stronger the clone will be.
As long as the power of faith is enough, the gods can even refine a heaven-level faith avatar!
But there is also a problem with the belief avatar, that is, the maintenance of the belief avatar requires the power of belief.
After the clones of other gods are refined, they will continue to exist with the gods unless destroyed in battle.
The avatar of faith is different. It needs to consume the power of faith every day to maintain its existence.
Once the power of faith is lost, the level and strength of the faith clone will gradually decrease until it finally disappears.
This is also one of the reasons why camps appear among upper-level gods. They need some lower-level gods and middle-level gods to help them, maintain the power of the temple, and ensure that they have sufficient power of faith to maintain their faith clones.
Although all gods can refine faith clones, there are not many gods who have faith clones. Basically, only high-level gods and some middle-level gods can have them.
The reason for this is that the lower gods and middle gods still have a greater demand for the power of faith. They don't think it is enough for cultivation, so naturally they will not use a large amount of the power of faith to refine their clones.
After all, one's own strength is the foundation of everything.
The same goes for Chu Ci, but the difference is that he has too much power of faith.
A normal middle god only has believers in one or two prefectures at most. Some middle gods who are not good at this only have believers in a few cities.
However, the number of believers in Chuci is several times that of the normal median god, and these believers are powerful and devout.
This means that with the same number of believers, Chu Ci can obtain more and purer power of faith, not to mention that the number of his followers is already more than that of gods of the same level, and even exceeds that of some higher gods.
Now Chu Ci's power of faith is enough for him to practice in the middle god stage, so he considers refining a clone of faith.
But once refined, the power of his faith will be greatly reduced, which will affect the speed of his cultivation to a certain extent.
However, the benefits brought by the clone are also obvious.
After having the avatar of faith, some matters do not need to be dealt with personally, and the avatar can solve them.
More importantly, the avatar of Faith can sit in the desert. If the Temple of Life sends people over in the future, Chu Ci will be able to know about it in time and stop it.
Thinking of this, Chu Ci made a decision.
Refining!
Anyway, with the support of the entire Spitting Fire Desert, the power of faith will only increase, and it will grow back later.
As for things like clones, the earlier they are refined, the better.
The earlier it is refined and the longer it takes to be cultivated, the stronger the clone will be.
Besides, Chu Ci also had an idea and needed a clone to verify it.
Although Chu Ci decided to refine the avatar of faith, he was not ready to do it immediately.
Refining a clone is not easy and requires an environment with abundant spiritual energy and safety. The Fire-Spitting Desert obviously does not meet this condition.
Chu Ci planned to refine it in the virtual world after returning to Jiuge City.
It just so happened that I had been out for such a long time, so it was time to go back and take a look.
After Chu Ci and Luo Jiuyou finished dealing with the matters in the Spitting Fire Desert and Thirteen Cities, Xinghuo Shen and others also finished dealing with the matters in the Temple of Life.
I have to say that during this extensive search, Star Vulcan really discovered something.
The headquarters of the Temple of Life is in a virtual world.
According to the confession of one of the researchers at Temple Zero, they obtained the body of the previous Flame God from the headquarters.
At that time, Dulong personally took a dozen of his men to retrieve it, but when he came back, only three of his men were left.
One of these three men was a good friend of the researcher. After he came back, he told some information about the trip while drunk and asked the researcher to write it down.
Originally, Xinghuo Shen wanted to focus on searching for these three people, but after learning about the situation of these three people, he immediately gave up.
Among these three people, one of them is Shadow Mist, who has already scattered his soul and died under the pursuit of Burning Sun.
The other person, named Fourth Brother, is a die-hard loyalist of the Temple of Life and has been stationed in Centenary City.
It is a pity that this man named Fourth Brother decisively committed suicide after learning that Dulong was dead, and even brought many senior officials of the temple to be buried with him to avoid being discovered by Zhuoyang and others.
As for the remaining researcher friends, they disappeared during an outing mission. Also missing were his two younger brothers.
Later, someone traced it and found that they might have died in the fire dragon sandstorm, so the matter was dropped.
After hearing this, Chu Ci had a strange expression.
"Is this person you are talking about called Bage?"
Xinghuo Shen was startled: "Do you know him?"
"I haven't met him in person, but I think I know him."
Xinghuo Shen was confused. What does it mean that we have never met but we know each other?
Chu Ci was actually right. He had never met this myna, but he knew this person.
In the human experience given by the laws of the world, Bago's younger brother is also one of them.
Chu Ci experienced the first half of Bage's life through Bage's younger brother's perspective, and naturally got to know Bage as a person.
It's just that Bago himself didn't know that he was known by a god, otherwise he would have been flattered.
Seeing that Xinghuo Shen was a little confused, Chu Ci explained the matter.
Through the memory of Bage's younger brother, we learned that Bage and his team did not die in the fire dragon sandstorm during the mission, but took the opportunity to fake their death. Their purpose was to escape from the Temple of Life.
The process went very smoothly. They deceived the temple personnel who later investigated, successfully escaped from the Temple of Life, and became the "dead people" of the Temple of Life.
After leaving the Temple of Life, the three began to cheat and use their own advantages to continuously defraud other cities of their property.
After knowing the whole story, Xinghuo God was overjoyed: "Then do you know where Myna is now?"
"I know." Chu Ci's expression became even weirder: "He is a priest in one of my temples."
As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned.
In the northern part of the desert, in a small city.
Brother Bago led his two younger brothers and walked majestically on the street.
When pedestrians on both sides of the street saw the clothes on myna's body, they all looked envious and said respectfully: "Hello, Lord Priest."
Some sand people even came forward with some food or gifts to give to the mynahs.
Whenever this happens, Myna will always raise his chin and nod slightly.
The two younger brothers behind him would consciously step forward and accept the food and gifts.
Not only were the sand people not dissatisfied when their things were accepted, but they were happy, as if it was a great honor to have their things accepted.
A person who had just arrived in this city asked curiously: "Is that the priest of your city?"
"That's right!" The small town sand people said proudly: "He is also the only priest in our city!"
"What's there to be proud of?" The people from the outer city were speechless: "There are three priests in the Earth Temple in our city!"
"Hmph! What's the use of having more? Can the priests in your city pray for rain?"
"What?! Could this priest know how to pray for rain?"
"That's what many of us saw with our own eyes. The priest just waved his hand and it started to rain."
"Wow! I'm so envious of you. You actually have a priest who can pray for rain. I only see priests who can pray for rain in temples in big cities." People from outside the city said with envy.
"With the rain-praying priest, you won't have to worry about the water source in your city in the future." Another outsider also said with envy.
"Not only do I not have to worry about it, I can even trade the abundant water. It seems that I came to the right place this time. From now on when walking in the desert, this city is a must-visit destination."
"Congratulations to you. You don't have to worry about the development of your city in the future. I don't know when our temple will have a rain-praying priest."
"Hahaha, it's just luck, just luck." The sand people in the small town looked embarrassed. It seemed that it was not the priest who could pray for rain, but him.
While these people were discussing, the three brothers also walked around the city and returned home with a full load.
Looking at his hands full of things, the bald boy said happily: "There are more people giving gifts today, and I can hardly take them anymore."
"That's because as Bago's fame has spread, now not only people from this city, but also people from other cities are coming to send things, hoping that Bago can go to their city to pray for rain." Another boy also had a look on his face.
Happy.
"It doesn't matter what they say. Whether you want to go or not depends on myna's mood."
"That is, what is Bage's status now? He is a figure that the whole city has no doubts about. How can he go as soon as others tell him?"
Ba Ge felt extremely grateful, but said calmly: "Let's take a look. If the value of the gift is not low, you can consider giving it a try."
"Sure enough, Bage is Bage, and he can get along no matter where he is." The bald boy flattered, "I am truly blessed to have a boss like Bage."
"Come on, who didn't agree to it even to the death, and now he knows how to flatter me?" Another boy sneered.
"Aren't I dead? If I'm not dead, of course I agree." The bald boy said shamelessly.
"You..." Another boy laughed angrily. Just as he was about to say something, he found someone appearing in front of them.
This was a young man in white with a handsome face, standing in the middle of their path, with his hands behind his back, looking at them with a smile.
Just as the bald boy was about to step forward and scold him, he heard the young man in white laugh.