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Athena's sense of identification with Qin Heng increased again, but she was also vaguely worried.

"When human beings have mastered the power of knowledge, even without the help of us gods, they can get everything they want from nature. Then, will they still believe in us gods?"

Athena's wisdom allowed her to see the power of science and technology through the contents of various books that Qin Heng selected and placed in the pyramid called the Temple of Knowledge, and also saw the human beings who possessed this power in the future , to what extent.

The sky that originally belonged to the gods will also be conquered by humans. The deep sea, which is a forbidden area for humans, will also be filled with waves made by giant ships made by humans, and even the starry sky that only gods can set foot in. Able to travel freely.

So, what is the meaning of the existence of gods?

In other words, what help can gods give to humans?

It cannot be extraordinary power and eternal life, because these gods cannot achieve eternal life in the true sense. This is also the difference between these natural gods and the gods and Buddhas who have reached the realm of Da Luo through practice in the mythical world. .

Moreover, human beings who are endowed with extraordinary power will no longer need the help of gods.

This also leads to a very serious problem, that is, why do humans believe in gods when they don't need gods?

Seeing through the barrier between the heaven and the human world from the heaven, Athena stared at the 365 Qin Heng who was bestowing the knowledge of 'words and language' to those humans. She had begun to really identify with the god-king in her heart, and began to think.

"The king of gods can use this method of imparting knowledge to gain everyone's faith in a short period of time, and make almost all humans in this world become his believers. However, this kind of faith will definitely not last, because human beings have always been greedy."

Athena knew humans well.

"When they were illiterate, they were willing to pay a lot for literacy. The beliefs and prayers that were not important to them could be dedicated to the gods who gave them these. However, when they were literate, they began to learn from the temple of knowledge. When learning real knowledge, they hope that the gods can give them that knowledge directly, but what they are willing to pay is still only their belief and prayer, which is the wealth that has been voluntarily traded to the gods in their hearts '."

Athena not only saw those who were learning characters, but also saw someone in the Temple of Knowledge in Argos City, who was praying to the gods to let him learn all medical skills directly.

There are also knowledge of fighting skills, cooking, textile technology, mathematics and so on.

"When the gods are unwilling to use this method to give them knowledge other than the basic text, they will think that the gods are unwilling to help them, and they are not worthy of their belief and daily prayers, so they will take back what they were before' Trade 'wealth' to the gods, and get it back unilaterally."

What Athena is thinking at this moment is also what happened in this world.

After the gods created humans, they guided humans from primitive society to civilized society, from slash-and-burn farming to being able to build cities, and created a civilization inheritance that belongs to humans.

But in the eyes of later humans, these were obtained by humans through their own efforts. What does the promise made by their ancestors when they prayed to the gods have anything to do with them?

As the goddess of war and wisdom in this world, Athena once had many believers, and she thought of a believer she had helped.

When help was needed, the believer promised to help Athena build a temple, just for the victory of a war.But when Athena helped him and allowed him to win, he didn't build a temple for Athena as agreed.

Because in the process of building the temple, he started a new war with others. When he couldn't win the opponent, he thought that Athena didn't help him, so he stopped the construction of the temple.

That was a promise that had already been 'traded' to the gods, but he unilaterally tore it up.

So Athena is very clear that the promise and gratitude of human beings cannot last. To use an idiom she just learned to describe it, that is, the vast majority of human beings will betray their promises because of changes in their interests.

"The king of gods said that he is a human being with the power of a god, so it is impossible for him not to know what kind of intelligent creature a human being is, but why does he still do this? Could it be that he can only see what is in front of him?" Faith, but faith that can’t see the future? No, my god king can’t be that kind of god king.”

Athena felt that Qin Heng's wisdom was higher than hers, which can be seen from Qin Heng's way of mastering the world.

To describe it in the Chinese language she has only learned, it is to subdue others without fighting.

The initial 'battle' was just to gain equal power and show strength so that the gods would agree that everyone would develop peacefully first.

While thinking, Athena saw the twelve core principles that emerged from the 364 all-metal pyramids, plus the pyramid of Argos, and the outer walls of the 365 temples of knowledge, all engraved with the inscriptions There are 24 characters destroyed by any force.

With a flash of inspiration, Athena suddenly understood how Qin Heng maintained his faith.

"Even if every country in the human world has laws, those born nobles will never allow commoners to be equal to them, nor will they abide by the twelve core principles, but the number of commoners is much greater than that of nobles. , they are the cornerstone of maintaining human civilization."

"Where there is oppression, there is resistance. If the common people want to live in a world that abides by these twelve core principles, they need the guidance and help of the gods. This is not only the way the god king maintains his faith, it will also become The way we gain faith is to help our god-king maintain the twelve core principles."

Athena's eyes brightened.

"Not only now, but also in the future. When the original nobles are overthrown by the common people, the benefits will be redistributed. There will be no nobles in name, but there will be nobles in the actual sense, so a cycle begins..."

"The greed of human beings will make this kind of struggle repeated in their world. Even if they enter a truly civilized society, there will always be a small number of human beings who ignore the twelve core principles for their own benefit. .”

After Athena figured it out, she directly summoned the new gods who were practicing.

As the goddess of war and wisdom, Athena had such authority before, and after becoming a new god, Qin Heng did not deprive her of her godhead authority.The authority of the rules of war she possesses does not conflict with the authority of the rules of the God of War Diana.

Moreover, because Athena was the first old god to become the new god, plus Zeus was 'old', Hades, Poseidon, and Ares died, and the godhead authority of Apollo, the god of light, was stripped of the most important bright.

Athena can shout loudly: I am only under God King Qin Heng.

The gods also saw what Qin Heng did, and many of them had the same worries as Athena.

Before they asked, Athena said directly: "When human freedom is imprisoned, when human democracy is deprived, when human equality is oppressed, when human countries do not abide by the rule of law, when When the integrity between human beings is desecrated by lies...we will respond to the prayers of human beings to us in the name of God, in the name of God-King and in the name of our God, and let the human world abide by God-King's established laws forever. Twelve core principles, whether they are here on Earth or when they travel across the stars in the future."

Athena's words brightened the eyes of the gods, and they all understood what Athena meant, because, as natural gods, they had witnessed the development of human beings from primitive society to the present, and they knew human beings very well.

"Now..." Athena looked at the gods and said, "Read with me the twelve core values ​​in 24 characters: prosperity, democracy, civilization, harmony, freedom, equality, justice, rule of law, patriotism, dedication, integrity, and friendliness. .”

The gods followed suit.

Athena finally emphasized: "We should also obey."

The gods responded.

……

When 365 of Qin Heng's bodies were preaching to hundreds of millions of humans in this world, Qin Heng also saw what happened in the heavens.

He couldn't see Athena's thought fluctuations, but he could clearly see Athena's actions and the reactions of the gods.

"Good, really good."

A satisfied smile appeared on Qin Heng's face. He actually didn't mind the gods taking away his power of faith, but since all the gods are named after the god king, there is no problem.

Moreover, even if he can create [-] selves with external physical methods, it is impossible for him to stay in this world to preach, receive karma, and maintain core values.

Hundreds of millions of people are barely enough, but with knowledge and the real help of the gods, the speed of human development will become faster and faster, and the population will usher in an explosive growth as productivity increases. increase.

In a maximum of 100 years, in this world with gods and the temple of knowledge left by Qin Heng, the total population will surely reach at least 70 billion.

Because there are too many places in this world that have not been opened up, to open up new lands and create new countries, what is most needed is population.

And the new Power of Faith feature, even without the prayers of these people, can increase the Power of Faith by 1 point every day, 70 billion people a year is 2.5 trillion, and the fastest-evolving Superman basking in the sun can't keep up.

This is just the earth in one world, and there are many habitable planets in this world.

What if we add the prayers of these people?

That is an astronomical number, and it is also a number that saint-level existences will be envious of.

The Tathagata Buddha in "Journey to the West" devoted himself to increasing the influence of Western religion, not only to make Western religion have one more saint, but also for the power of faith in that world, which is called the power of will.