Longevity starts from having a daughter in old age - Chapter 494 - Chapter 494: Chapter 461: Crazy Expansion_1

Chapter 494: Chapter 461: Crazy Expansion_1

“What do you think caused the power of faith to become so scarce?” Lu Jingkong asked.

“On the one hand, it is definitely due to the lack of steadfast faith. On the other hand, it is very likely related to the environment,” Xu Mu replied.

“Could it be due to the limitations of this world’s laws?”

“Probably not!”

Xu Mu shook his head.

“If it had anything to do with the laws, the power of faith would not have been able to be conceived.”

“So what should we do now?”

Lu Jingkong has abandoned the Divine Path and now helps Xu Mu wholeheartedly. As for crossing the river and dismantling the bridge in the future, she can only leave it to fate.

Fortunately, according to the information she gathered, Xu Mu treated his family members quite well. As the two of them have already invested so deeply, it should not be the case where they would turn against each other as soon as they go out.

So she feels quite at ease now.

“Let’s make a comparison,” Xu Mu thought for a moment and said.

“Compare? How?”

The power of faith is intangible and indistinctive. Although Xu Mu could sense it, it was also very vague.

Investigating the causes was extremely difficult.

Unlike in the Cultivation Realm, where a simple release of Divine Intent could reveal everything.

“Let’s build more temples, change their layouts, and see what has influenced their conception.”

“That’s a good idea!” Lu Jingkong’s eyes lit up.

They immediately put it into action.

The two of them made various contrasting groups based on the geographical location of the temples, their architectural styles, and the placement of the idols.

In the end, they let the believers worship in each one.

This method proved to be quite useful, and the two quickly discovered the problem.

“It has to do with the martial artist!”

In one of the temples, Xu Mu had an idea and allowed ordinary people to hold all positions inside.

As a result, this temple gained dozens of times more power of faith than the others.

This result was something Xu Mu never expected at the beginning.

He originally thought that the stronger his forces were, the more power of faith he would gain. This was how it worked in the Cultivation Realm.

But it is now the opposite.

No, not the opposite. The presence of a martial artist and the Divine Path are completely antagonistic.

A martial artist can negate the power of faith!

Xu Mu suddenly realized that the reason Lu Jingkong couldn’t cultivate the Divine Path was not due to the influence of her Immortal cultivation in her body, but due to her Martial cultivation.

In other words, martial artists cannot cultivate the Divine Path.

This conclusion is greatly unexpected to both of them.

There seems to be some kind of correlation hidden within this, which feels like a well-kept secret.

However, the two of them seem to have no way to investigate it for now.

As for the Immortal Path, perhaps it can coexist with the Divine Path. This made Lu Jingkong consider giving up her Martial cultivation multiple times. However, she was reluctant to give up her Kun Peng’s true blood, and she wasn’t very certain, so she eventually gave up.

Although they didn’t understand the principle behind this, having found the problem, the next steps were easy.

So all the positions in the Divine Church were taken over by ordinary people without any cultivation.

Compared to managing martial artists, handling ordinary people is actually easier.

The only downside was that ordinary people were very fragile and not as swift as martial artists. Their energy levels were also very limited.

Despite these shortcomings, Xu Mu still wanted to implement ordinary people as leaders in order to harvest the power of faith.

With Xu Mu’s backing, the status of ordinary people began to rise significantly, while the previously revered martial artists were relegated to secondary roles.

In this world where the strong prevail, ordinary people rarely reach high positions. The upper echelons consist only of martial artists.

Unlike in the Cultivation Realm, everyone here can become a martial artist.

However, because resources are monopolized, the group of martial artists is very fixed, and it is very hard for ordinary people to squeeze in.

Xu Mu, however, has given them another way.

This has caused an extremely rapid development of the sect.

In the end, this world is just a backward feudal society, with ordinary people still making up the vast majority.

The ladder of ascension was firmly controlled by those at the top, making it extremely difficult to stand out.

In the past, fighting against oppression was mostly fruitless due to martial suppression.

However, Xu Mu is running the Divine Church, which takes full advantage of the structures of modern society. Not only does this effectively unearth talent, but it also gives them opportunities to showcase themselves.

To this world, it was simply a blow from a different dimension.

In the early stages, Xu Mu needed to preside over it. In the later stages, Xu Mu didn’t need to interfere at all, yet the development of the Divine Church was ten times faster than when he was in control.

The common people, once denied any opportunity, began to fiercely compete.

Because Xu Mu said, whoever develops the followers will manage them, and whoever expands the territory will take responsibility for it. To these people, it was like staking their claims – how could they not go crazy?

A farmer yesterday may apply once and become a patriarch, an archbishop, or even a cardinal, the most powerful person under only one other.

And all they needed to do was to bring in more people.

Xu Mu fully employed the previous methods, and the pace was dizzyingly fast.

Of course, the reason why this expansion could proceed so quickly and continuously, besides the advanced policies and systems he carried out, was even more importantly due to his supportive martial force.

Yue was made a Saint by him and the Divine Church Knights were established to maintain the security of the entire sect.

With a Martial God presiding over them, they had to cooperate nicely, or else who would dare to resist?

Otherwise, such rampant power expansion would have been annihilated by the combined forces of the world.

In the past, the emergence of a Martial God often resulted in the subjugation of the entire continent through martial force.

This mode of establishing a sect, however, is a novelty that has not been seen in tens of thousands of years.

At first, the forces on the continent were quite tense due to the rapid expansion of the sect.

But soon they realized that this sect didn’t seem to have any influence on them.

Because their influence only extended among ordinary people.

And for the countries of this world, the most fundamental power lies with the martial artists.

The number of martial artists determines the strength or weakness of a country. Ordinary people can only exist as slaves.

No amount of ordinary people can stand against a martial artist.

When they saw that the sect was only developing among ordinary people, these countries and powerhouses exhaled in relief.

At the same time, they also couldn’t understand what the opponent was trying to do.

But there are always smart people.

Seeing Xu Mu invest a huge amount of resources, and all he did was to let these ordinary people go to the temple and worship.

This led some people to speculate, does it have anything to do with the worship of the idols?

Is the opponent planning to use this method to achieve a breakthrough?

In the eyes of everyone in the world, the Martial God is already the highest realm.

Since the birth of martial arts, no one has ever broken through to a higher realm.

Now, Xu Mu’s actions seem to harbor the ambition to break the iron law of millions of years.

Although they had guessed this, the martial artists on the continent didn’t mean to stop it because they too wanted to see what realm follows after the Martial God.

Of course, even if they wanted to resist, they couldn’t.

With three Martial Gods sitting on top, even if all the martial artists combined their power, they were still not enough.

With the support of a huge amount of faith power, Xu Mu’s cultivation in the Divine Path began to progress rapidly.

In the blink of an eye, twenty years passed!