Chapter 401 – The Mysteries of the Power of Faith, Su Xing’s First Apostle!
by spirapiraChapter 401 – The Mysteries of the Power of Faith, Su Xing’s First Apostle!
【Under your planning, the population of the lesser demon race rapidly swelled in a short period of time.】
【Countless streams of faith transformed into crystalline motes of light, continuously nourishing your physical body and steadily expanding your divine power.】
【In the year 1410, one day you felt a stirring in your heart. The vast power of faith allowed you to step into the realm of True God without any surprise!】
【You began to carefully contemplate the differences of ascending to godhood through faith…】
【You could perceive that the power of faith was unlike ordinary power… it was more like a mighty force capable of fulfilling any wish — the power of will!】
【Your divine body was like a massive vessel, continuously absorbing the power of faith, being filled little by little.】
【Your godhood gained a brand-new ability.】
【The construction of a vast faith network linking all believers!】
【Through this faith network, you could easily perceive the status, strength, and even the emotions of every believer who had faith in you!】
【At the same time, you could also expend a certain amount of faith power to fulfill these believers’ dreams, thereby strengthening the faith power they contributed…】
【You carefully experienced this power of faith as time slowly trickled by…】
In the Real World, Su Xing furrowed his brow slightly at what he saw.
“The power of faith, condensing godhood to achieve True God…”
“This is perhaps an entirely new path, one worth exploring!”
With this thought, Su Xing’s heart stirred, and he silently intoned:
“Activate immersive simulation, duration one year…”
【Ding…】
Su Xing’s consciousness immersed into the simulated world.
…
When Su Xing opened his eyes again, he had already become a lesser demon deity.
Closing his eyes slightly, an invisible faith network appeared before Su Xing’s eyes, like the most intricate spider’s web in existence.
And Su Xing was the master of this great web, able to perceive every movement upon this faith network.
Encountering the power of faith for the first time, Su Xing felt a touch of curiosity.
He tried sending his divine sense into it.
Then, selecting a glowing point of light, Su Xing’s vision shifted and transformed as he adopted the perspective of a believer.
In the next instant, Su Xing appeared upon a battlefield.
A small fragment of information surged into Su Xing’s body.
Su Xing now knew the identity of this believer of his.
A Gold-stage lesser demon — the most ordinary cannon fodder on the battlefield.
The lesser demon commander of this legion, a Heavenly King-stage lesser demon, had died a gruesome death, causing all the lesser demons to lose their will to fight and flee as deserters.
On the battlefield, this was perfectly normal.
Lesser demons were cowardly, weak, and lacking in intelligence… yet they were instinctively driven by more powerful lesser demons — it was an innate obedience.
And the more powerful lesser demons possessed slightly higher intelligence.
For precisely this reason, every legion had lesser demon commanders who directed their subordinate lesser demons to charge to their deaths as cannon fodder.
But once the high-ranking lesser demon in a legion perished, the other low-ranking lesser demons would become terrified, scattering in all directions — worse than cannon fodder.
The lesser demon before him was in exactly this situation.
Right now, Su Xing could clearly perceive this lesser demon believer’s emotions.
Panic, fear… and a sliver of hope!
He had placed his last hope in the great “God of Lesser Demons,” praying for a miracle to save him.
Because this lesser demon was about to be executed as a deserter.
Praying for the God of Lesser Demons to bestow a miracle was the best idea his meager brain could conceive.
Su Xing didn’t care about the death of a mere Gold-stage lesser demon.
He had hundreds of billions of believers just like this one…
But encountering the power of faith for the first time, Su Xing tried to put it to use.
Within Su Xing’s body, it was as though a towering tree had grown, its branches laden with countless golden fruits of varying sizes.
This was Su Xing’s — Faith Tree!
It was also Su Xing’s tool for collecting faith.
The fruits upon this tree numbered perhaps in the tens of thousands, or perhaps even more.
Su Xing’s heart stirred, and he tried plucking a fist-sized golden fruit, infusing it into that believer’s body.
…
In an instant, that believer’s strength underwent earth-shattering changes!
Gold-stage… Master-stage… Grandmaster-stage… Heavenly King-stage!
And finally, Martial Sovereign-stage!
In mere moments, Su Xing had elevated this believer’s strength by five entire major realms!
From a mere Gold-stage lesser demon cannon fodder to a Martial Sovereign-stage lesser demon!
One must know that Martial Sovereign-stage lesser demons were extremely rare — beings qualified to serve as commanders!
Sure enough, the lesser demon that had been fleeing for his life on the battlefield suddenly stopped, a trace of bewilderment in his eyes.
What’s happening? Why do I suddenly feel… different?
This was the lesser demon believer’s thought at that moment.
Behind him, the foreign race pursuers also halted, eyes wide as they stared at the transformation occurring in the lesser demon believer.
These foreign races could sense that the lesser demon believer had gone from a mere Gold-stage lesser demon directly to Martial Sovereign-stage!
A lesser demon of this caliber already had the qualifications to become a commander!
Without question, this lesser demon believer had not only saved his life but gained the opportunity for a meteoric rise!
…
Meanwhile, Su Xing observed the changes in the power of faith. That single fist-sized fruit of faith he had just consumed had cost him approximately one ten-thousandth of his total faith power.
“Interesting… how incredibly interesting!”
“The applications of the power of faith truly exceed my imagination!”
Using one’s own mighty power, combined with faith, to fulfill the wishes of one’s believers.
Perhaps, in Su Xing’s understanding, this was what a true deity really was!
While the gods of other foreign races could perhaps only be called “somewhat powerful individuals”!
After expending a small amount of faith power, Su Xing didn’t stop.
With a thought, he plucked several dozen more fist-sized orbs of light from the Faith Tree, infusing them all into the lesser demon believer’s body.
Martial Sovereign-stage… Legendary-stage… Emperor-level… Saint-stage!
In mere moments, Su Xing had elevated this lesser demon believer directly from Martial Sovereign-stage to Saint-stage!
Such mighty power was nothing short of astonishing!
Even a foreign race Divine Sovereign could not easily bestow power upon other foreign races!
This was perhaps the defining difference of faith-based deities!
And countless distances away, that lesser demon also sensed the changes in himself.
The explosive surge in his strength made him feel as though he had stumbled upon some great “fortune”!
But for the moment, he had no clue what was happening.
As a believer, he had prayed countless times for the God of Lesser Demons to manifest a miracle and deliver him from suffering.
But not once had the divine presence ever manifested…
So much so that when Su Xing actually bestowed a miracle, this lesser demon didn’t even know where it came from.
Su Xing also realized that this lesser demon believer seemed rather too stupid…
So Su Xing took the initiative to reach out with his divine sense.
In the next instant, this newly ascended Saint-stage lesser demon began trembling with excitement throughout his entire body.
Then he prostrated himself on the ground, kowtowing ceaselessly in a certain direction.
The other foreign races around him were stunned by this sight, unable to fathom the reason.
As this lesser demon believer continued kowtowing, Su Xing could feel a subtle change in the faith power emanating from him.
A thumb-sized orb of faith light gradually coalesced and regrew upon the Faith Tree.
“Hm? A single believer provided this much faith power?”
Su Xing was somewhat puzzled.
A thumb-sized portion of faith power wasn’t much, naturally.
After all, Su Xing’s current total faith reserves consisted of nearly ten thousand fist-sized fruits hanging upon that divine tree.
Moreover, Su Xing had just spent several dozen fist-sized faith fruits.
Getting back only this tiny amount… it was obviously a huge loss!
But Su Xing’s faith power came from over a hundred billion lesser demons!
On average, it took tens of millions or even more lesser demons to contribute just one small fist-sized fruit of faith power.
Yet this single lesser demon, all by himself, had contributed a thumb-sized orb of faith power.
That was equivalent to the contributions of hundreds of thousands of lesser demons…
“So, different lesser demons contribute varying amounts of faith power?”
Su Xing pondered for a moment, and soon the true understanding from his Bloodline origin surged into his mind.
Waves of information flooded into Su Xing’s consciousness, and he understood the reason behind everything.
As it turned out, faith — or rather, believers — were also divided into levels!
Beginner believers, intermediate believers, advanced believers… and the highest level, divine apostles!
Different believers, due to their varying levels of faith, could differ in the amount of faith power they contributed by millions or even tens of millions of times!
Even though those lesser demons had faith in Su Xing, they were merely the most basic believers.
Or rather… casual believers!
This type of believer contributed an extremely meager amount of faith power — tens of millions of them together produced just a single orb.
But intermediate and advanced believers contributed considerably more!
Right now, this lesser demon upon whom Su Xing had manifested his divine presence was clearly an advanced believer!
This kind of believer was willing to devote everything for Su Xing!
Beyond that, a believer’s strength was also an important factor affecting the amount of faith power contributed.
Holding large-scale sacrificial ceremonies could also allow Su Xing to harvest massive amounts of faith power in a short time!
“So if I want more divine power, I not only need to cultivate large numbers of advanced believers, but also hold regular sacrificial ceremonies!”
Su Xing mused thoughtfully.
“Also, once this advanced believer reaches Saint-stage in strength, it seems he can be converted into an apostle?”
Su Xing’s heart stirred, and he attempted to convert that Saint-stage lesser demon into an apostle!
In an instant, over a thousand faith fruits upon Su Xing’s Faith Tree dissipated, pouring into the lesser demon believer’s body.
…
Before long, the lesser demon believer’s status changed once more.
From an ordinary advanced believer, he became Su Xing’s apostle!
A divine apostle could communicate directly with their god, and could also borrow a portion of their deity’s power. Their strength far surpassed that of ordinary Saints!
In fact, after borrowing Su Xing’s power, this apostle possessed the strength to contend with a deity of Weak Divine Power!
“So that’s how it works… this is how apostles are created?”
Su Xing suddenly recalled Red Moon’s apostle, known as the Slaughter Apostle!
That monster Su Xing had once encountered on the Slaughter Battlefield!
It seemed that creature had wielded Saint-stage power while borrowing a portion of Red Moon’s might!
And now, Su Xing could cultivate his own “Lesser Demon Apostle”!
Su Xing’s mind quickly conceived numerous advantages of a lesser demon apostle.
This lesser demon apostle would serve as Su Xing’s avatar walking the world.
It could help Su Xing continuously spread his faith and cultivate more believers!
It was as if Su Xing, this God of Lesser Demons, was a celebrity, and the ordinary believers were his “fans.”
And this apostle was the “super fan” who maintained the relationship between Su Xing and his fans?
One could say that with enough apostles, Su Xing wouldn’t need to lift a finger.
Those apostles would continuously cultivate new believers for Su Xing on their own.
A business with enormous returns on minimal investment!
Furthermore, apostles were also the most loyal believers, capable of generating tremendous amounts of faith power for Su Xing!
Thinking of this, Su Xing suddenly felt that the thousand-plus faith power orbs he had just spent weren’t so painful to part with after all!
“Tsk tsk… ascending to godhood through faith truly is a unique divine system!”
Su Xing smacked his lips.
Before this, he had always walked the path of personal might.
But now, the faith divine system was more like the deity and believers being one unified whole.
The more believers, the stronger the god!
This potential was undoubtedly terrifying!
If trillions of lesser demons all became advanced believers, how staggering would the resulting faith power be?
The thought made Su Xing’s heart race with even greater excitement.
“Beyond that, can this power of faith… enhance the strength of my true body?”
Su Xing tried using the power of faith for cultivation!
Upon the Faith Tree, nearly ten thousand fist-sized faith fruits radiated an alluring luster and began to flicker.
Then the faith fruits rapidly diminished, merging into a part of Su Xing’s own strength.
Ten thousand… eight thousand… five thousand… three thousand… two thousand!
In mere moments, the vast majority of Su Xing’s faith power had been consumed!
And simultaneously, Su Xing’s strength advanced from early-stage True God directly to mid-stage True God!
In just a breath’s time, Su Xing’s power had effectively doubled!
This terrifying rate of improvement made Su Xing gasp.
“The power of faith… advancing through it is actually this simple?”
“If I had enough faith power, couldn’t I become an existence comparable to a Grand Luo Golden Immortal?”
Su Xing quickly grasped the benefits of the power of faith.
And to harvest faith power sustainably and on a massive scale,
he needed more casual believers, as well as more apostles!
To have the apostles continuously cultivate new advanced believers…
Originally, having just entered True God, Su Xing could cultivate a maximum of three apostles.
But now, having reached mid-stage True God, Su Xing’s divine power was greater, and he could already cultivate five apostles!
Just as Su Xing was feeling pleased and preparing to plan his next step —
Suddenly, Su Xing sensed a small-scale sacrificial ceremony…
“Hm? It seems to be that lesser demon apostle I just converted, conducting a sacrifice?”
Su Xing’s heart stirred, and he quickly saw the scene.
Upon a battlefield, corpses littered the ground.
The lesser demons who had originally been deserters, at the call of this Saint-stage lesser demon apostle, quickly rallied together.
Hundreds of thousands of lesser demons gathered…
And erected a platform resembling a sacrificial altar.
Upon the platform lay countless pieces of flesh — some from foreign races, some from the human race…
As the sacrifice proceeded, more and more faith surged into Su Xing’s body.
In just moments, over a hundred fist-sized faith orbs recongealed upon Su Xing’s Faith Tree.
But Su Xing furrowed his brow slightly and quickly issued a command, transmitting it into the lesser demon apostle’s mind.
“I want only foreign race blood essence. Not the human race’s…”