Chapter 1510 - 1075: To Wear the Crown, You Must Bear Its Weight

Chapter 1510: Chapter 1075: To Wear the Crown, You Must Bear Its Weight

Jiang Yuan agreed, but in his heart, he was thinking about the rumors he had heard about the gods before.

Deities consume divine power to ensure peace and tranquility in a region, the people receive grace and repay with incense offerings, providing power of faith to the gods, forming a mutually beneficial cycle.

The fear is that the creatures living in this region only enjoy the protection from the deities but are many ungrateful ones who do not think of repaying.

Deities expend five parts divine power, yet only receive one part power of faith as compensation. Over time, even the strongest god would become increasingly weak as the divine power dissipates. At that point, they would either have to leave this place to find another where mutual benefit is possible to continue surviving, or be gradually exhausted to death.

While casually chatting with Sister Hai Shen, she mentioned that a deity for a given region may not leave casually unless there is a shift in Heaven and Earth.

Even though she was not officially enthroned as a deity, she genuinely received assistance from a fallen divine beast and was born rooted in the undersea world, naturally she cannot abandon her believers and leave on her own.

If not for this opportunity to reconcile with the help of celestial forces, she would have fallen soon after her divine power ran out.

"Having spoken all the good words, but unmoved at all, this so-called Sea God is indeed too heartless!"

"Yeah, and it’s a god, so petty-minded."

"Small-minded, unworthy of being a god!"

"Forget it, let’s not waste words with them. With such a vengeful nature, I doubt it’s even a god, it’s clearly a demon! Just using the name of the Sea God to deceive those fools for incense..."

......

The banished merfolk kept on rambling, and Sea Goddess Lu Ji sighed lightly, saying to Jiang Yuan, "Brother, do not heed their nonsense, gods are without the seven emotions and six desires, naturally they are not petty-minded. However, gods do have rules, must follow the heavenly dao, therefore, these are not my believers, I will not pursue them to extinction but let them go free.

However, what they wish to take away are resources from the undersea world, every bit is under protection. It is not a forcible deprivation by me, but a difference in paths.

The Clan Leader was quite right with one point earlier: displaying divine power yields not faith, but merely a transaction.

Therefore, true gods never show off before people. If they can sense the protection of the god, develop admiration and faith, they are true believers; if they cannot sense it, only believe when witnessing signs and disbelieve otherwise, they are not true believers and cannot provide the power of faith needed by the gods.

The undersea world originally relied on the wilderness to exist, and now it seeks to break away, preparing for a transformation. Only then is there a chance to distinguish true believers from non-believers through the shelter of divine power. Otherwise, the creatures living here do not leave voluntarily, and the gods have no right to expel them."

"I’ve been enlightened," Jiang Yuan felt somewhat heavy-hearted for a moment.

Having received the God Sealing Atlas from a system reward, he previously saw that Lu Ya and Xuanyuan Yangguang could be deified, but once deified, they would need to take on the responsibilities of deities.

If they can get devout faith from believers, that’s good; if not, it means their divine power would run out and completely fall.

"Truly, ’To wear the crown, is to bear its weight’." He sighed silently, looked up at the merfolk reluctant to leave mid-air, the argument between them and the mermaids in the seashell cave mansion was very lively.

Meanwhile, the Sea God was refining elixirs while extending divine power throughout the vast undersea world.

Like flames licking over white paper, an energy unseen by mortals swept across, coating everything under the Sea God’s domain with a layer of the sheltering law.

More and more sea demons without faith value were purged, watching years of hard work vanish, it broke their defenses despite high cultivation and strong willpower of the past.

Millions of frustrated sea demons assaulted the divine power sheltering the undersea world, which was also a severe trial for Sea Goddess Lu Ji.

Fortunately, the Ink Jade Space was quite effective in nurturing the divine soul, coupled with Jiang Yuan’s supply of Immortal Soul Pills; with fewer protectors and reduced unnecessary consumption, her condition was better than before and she could cope.

Time passed by second by second.

Just as Jiang Yuan was about to fall asleep, the entrance to the distant secret realm suddenly opened, and the bloodied Celestial Path stumbled out, "Sir, luckily, I didn’t fail you!"

"Don’t talk, take the elixir, quick!" he hurriedly stood up, seeing the other’s health bar already at the critical state, he hastily reached into the storage bag to retrieve blood replenishing pills.

Luckily, there was enough on hand, and after taking two pills, though Celestial Path was wounded all over, his life was no longer in danger.

He had no established relations, God Sister Hai Shen might not be able to save him if he died.

"My God, what’s the situation inside? It’s so dangerous!" The High Priest cast several healing spells in a row, first healing the deepest and heaviest wounds, then was able to tend to the minor injuries.

Quickly replenishing the health bar, and also healed, Celestial Path’s face was still deathly pale.

"Thank you! Thank you, sir, thank you High Priest..." he panted heavily, waving his hand, "It’s all my carelessness, accidentally triggering a treasure item that led me into a trial space. My own strength being insufficient, I almost died in there, but fortunately, I still managed to break through in the end."

There’s no time to lose, the Mermaid Race retreating from the sea is urgent, Yaoguang and other mermaids supported Celestial Path back to the seashell cave mansion to rest, Jiang Yuan clicked to close. That luxurious and beautiful seashell cave mansion was stored in the storage bag.

Then, he took out the teleportation scroll and directly teleported back to Conch Island.

The tireless cursing merfolk who did not receive the Sea God’s shelter: ...

Where are they? Where did they go?