Chapter 496: Going out and digging some soil together
"The power of faith is still too little!"
God-level experts consume not the aura of heaven and earth in their cultivation, but the rules. If they want to understand the rules, master the rules, change or even create the rules, all of this requires the power of faith.
Let’s take the most direct example – the Scarlet Eyes and the Blade of Judgment in the world of Zhan Chi Tong.
These two things are the physical manifestation of the rules of the world. As for why they are these two things, they are the beliefs of the creatures in this world.
The creatures in this world firmly believe in the existence of these two things, so they exist, continue to improve, and eventually become facts.
Such as "I think, therefore I am", or "I believe, therefore I am".
Gods can be the evolution of ordinary living beings, or they can be created out of thin air. The nutrients that generate them are rules or beliefs.
With enough faith, Xi Tong's understanding of the rules of the Five Elements will become more profound, and he will even master more advanced rules based on the Rules of the Five Elements, change existing rules, and even create his own rules.
Therefore, he cares very much about the world of the Qing Empire and treats it as the top priority at present, and everything must serve this world.
However, due to the power of the world, Xi Tong did not dare to enter it rashly. If anything happened, he would come forward through Ma Bian as an agent, or control the humanoid Teigu.
Xi Tong needs a piece of land, a land that is not bound by the power of the world. The temple in Huacheng is a nail that Xi Tong wedges into this world.
Just like what the birdmen did in Zhan Chitong's world - recruit believers, develop religion, then build churches and erect statues of gods.
Centered on the statue of the god, a certain range is the influence of the Kingdom of Light. Within this range, the bird people can move freely to a certain extent. Although they are suppressed and eroded, they will not be obliterated.
Although he had no dealings with the Birdman, Xi Tong still stole many unique skills from the Birdman, such as the construction of temples and the production of statues.
With these, Xi Tong can also carve out a lawless land similar to a concession in the world of the Qing Empire, and then use it as a springboard to continuously input manpower to speed up the development.
"Luo Tianyi, calculate how long it will take to complete the decoration of the temple based on the current progress of the construction period."
As long as the general framework of the temple is built and the statues of the gods are put in, it will not be too late to elaborate on the details later.
Luo Tianyi is in charge of the construction site and can handle every brick carefully. She knows everything here very well.
After a few seconds of calculation, Luo Tianyi replied: "Your Excellency, the Supreme Executive Officer, with the current human resources of 460,000 people, working an average of 16 hours a day, assuming the intensity remains unchanged, it will take 3 years."
3 years?
It does take a long time, but in this day and age, what can three years be enough for? You can't even prepare building materials.
Many emperors started building their own mausoleums from the day they ascended the throne, but decades later they still haven't lived in them.
"What about doubling the manpower?"
"Your Excellency, the Chief Executive Officer, can shorten the construction period to two and a half years."
It doesn't look like there's a shortage of manpower.
Xi Tong inquired and found out that it was a problem with the transportation of some large and heavy wood and stone building materials.
Some wood and stone are sourced locally, but most are transported from thousands or even thousands of miles away, making only one or two trips a year.
This is due to the popularity of the Holy See and the face given by the building materials merchants. For ordinary people, even if they have money, they may not be able to buy the goods, and even if they do, they will have to wait for how many years.
"Your Excellency the Supreme Executive, the planet Terra has heavy construction equipment, and the tank factory can produce it."
Xi Tong shook his head.
This is the temple, the place where the eyes of the gods are focused, and where hundreds of millions of believers worship.
This temple was destined to be the greatest miracle in the world from the day it was built. This miracle is not only its size and the speed of its reduction, but also its construction process.
Not only the local craftsmen of the Qing Empire participated in the construction, but craftsmen, architects, painters, etc. from Western countries also worked for this purpose.
This building is destined to become a legend and be praised and praised by future generations.
Temples built with excavators and cranes are soulless.
For example, in later generations, three floors were built in one day and a hotel was built in two days. This speed is exaggerated, but who will praise it and who will praise it?
However, two or three years is too long.
Xi Tong couldn't help but think of Yu Gong moving the mountains. Yu Gong's plan was to have descendants and grandchildren, and he would never see the ending of the series in his lifetime, but the gods came down to earth and carried the mountains away for him.
However, this kind of thing did not affect the fact that Foolish Old Man Moved Mountains became a legend and was sung by future generations.
When Dayu controlled the floods, he also had the help of Yinglong.
Xuanyuan's battle with Chi You and King Wu's defeat of Zhou were basically two groups of gods fighting each other.
However, this does not affect their story becoming a legend.
It's okay to lend a helping hand, but not an excavator.
Xi Tong thought about it for a moment, then waved his hand to summon a ball of soil. Under the control of the rules of earth, the ball of soil quickly turned into a human form.
He has a golden body proportion, sharp facial features, and smooth muscle lines, full of masculine beauty.
Xi Tong originally received the inheritance from Nuwa and had the ability to mold earth to create humans. Now that he has mastered the rules of earth, this ability has also been strengthened.
At least the figure looks like a human being, and the details are more perfectly controlled, rather than an ugly monster with a human form.
Enlightenment!
The rules of earth were integrated into it, and Xi Tong felt that the power of his faith had also lost an insignificant trace.
Immediately, the clay figurine twisted its body, opened its eyes, and looked at Xi Tong with pure and flawless eyes. There were gradually fluctuations of emotion in the cold eyes.
Xi Tong opened the space passage leading to the Qing Empire and sent it into it. As a result, the clay figurine screamed, cracked all over, revealing its prototype, and quickly cracked and weathered.
"I see……"
It can only be said that Xi Tong was so successful in creating man-made clay figures that even the newly born clay figures were locked and obliterated by the will of the world.
As a result, Ma Bian got a strange system task.
"Ding! Got a new mission [Collect soil]."
this……
Ma Bian slapped his head, thinking he heard it wrong. However, the description of the system task was indeed to dig soil, any soil, as long as there was enough.
Immediately, Ma Bian saw the mission reward: the QR code sealing function.
Moreover, the rewards for this task are distributed in advance.
Without saying a word, Ma Bian picked up the shovel and rushed outside.
By chance, Uncle Jiu and a few people next door saw it.
"Master Ma, is this what you want?"
With his identity as Ma Bian, he would naturally not work in the fields. If he went out with a shovel like this, he would most likely be digging a grave. Could it be that a new grave had been discovered somewhere, or a corpse had transformed?
Master Ma is going to catch zombies. This kind of thing is rare, so don't miss it.
Ma Bian said without looking back: "I have nothing to do. I'm going to dig some soil. Are you going to join me?"
Uncle Jiu and the others did not want it, so they all turned around and picked up shovels.
Not to mention, Uncle Jiu and the others all use folding shovels. I really don’t know if they are Taoist priests catching zombies or dirt rats digging graves.