119: The Power of Faith

God Lin Chen was in a stalemate. Encountering a Star Envoy was a manifestation of bad luck, but each battle with a Star Envoy consumed some of that bad luck, which was a good thing.

Neither side could defeat the other, but as the battle time increased, the combat power of both sides improved.

The Star Envoy became more proficient in using his own power, and his cultivation also slowly increased, seemingly possessing a physique that grew stronger the more he fought.

The same was true for God Lin Chen; his cultivation was limited by his main body and could not increase, but his combat power was unrestricted and grew rapidly. He became more adept at applying Causality Power, and relying on his own Void Incarnation, he gradually became able to manipulate a bit of Void Power.

Void Power is also a Dao, a transcendent-level Dao, but this Dao is relatively dangerous, and no strong cultivator has opened up a path that can be smoothly traversed.

Cultivators walking on this Dao face the risk of being corrupted and lost every time they cross a small hurdle.

If one is qualified to step onto the Void Dao, then one is also qualified to step onto other levels of transcendent Dao. Therefore, most people do not choose the Void Dao, as its cost-effectiveness is too low.

In the short term, the battle between the two will not end.

Lin Chen would also not let the battle end; after all, a stable opponent for consuming bad luck was extremely rare.

Rather than using unknown calamities to consume bad luck, it was better to keep fighting the Star Envoy; as long as he fought, bad luck would be consumed.

According to the bad luck judgment, Lin Chen encountering a Star Envoy was inherently extremely unlucky. To some extent, a Star Envoy is immortal and indestructible; once he anchors onto a person, he truly will not stop until death.

Lin Chen no longer paid much attention to the situation of his clones, only leaving a trace of his mind to observe the clones that had entered a dormant period.

Lin Chen Dao Domain, Enlightenment Peak.

Lin Chen's life was very leisurely. Every day, he was either cultivating, tending to flowers and plants, or monitoring Xi Ling's cultivation progress, fine-tuning the cultivation strategy according to the actual situation.

Possessing his own blessed land, Lin Chen's farming genes awakened. With large tracts of idle land, he felt it would be a waste not to plant something.

So, he opened up a large amount of farmland on the outskirts of Enlightenment Peak. Most of the land was planted with perennial medicinal herbs, and a small portion was planted with energy-rich grains.

These things were not necessary for him.

He only experienced the joy of farming; the output was not important.

Although cultivation was very enjoyable, there were also times when it became frustrating.

During periods of frustration, Lin Chen would temporarily put aside cultivation and use farming to calm his agitated mind and alleviate the fatigue from cultivation.

At this time, less than half a year had passed since the garrison period, leaving Lin Chen with more than five years to cultivate, so there was no need to rush.

Time flowed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, a month passed.

Another day, Lin Chen was immersed in cultivation. His San Bao of essence, qi, and spirit grew rapidly with abundant resource supply. The divinity extracted from the San Bao continuously permeated his physical body, promoting the divinization of his physical body.

His current cultivation was somewhat monotonous.

Consuming resources, refining resources, extracting divinity, and using divinity to permeate himself to promote his divinization process required no thought; he only needed to repeat this process.

Precisely because cultivation required no thought, it could make one feel frustrated. A monotonous life was always unpleasant.

Suddenly, he felt an unfamiliar power breaking through the void and wrapping around his soul. This unexpected situation actually brought him some pleasant surprise.

His monotonous life finally stirred up some ripples.

Amidst his surprise, he dared not let down his guard against the invasion of the unfamiliar power, standing ready, not allowing it to entangle his soul.

Carefully sensing the unfamiliar power, and after probing its essence through the causality line, Lin Chen understood what had happened.

“Oh, it’s actually Faith Power!”

This unfamiliar power was precisely Faith Power, one of the widely existing spiritual powers in the universe, a power with an extremely low lower limit and an extremely high upper limit.

The sources of Faith Power are diverse; as long as a large number of living beings generate positive or negative emotions towards an individual, corresponding Faith Power will be born.

The Faith Power Lin Chen received came from the Beast-Ear Clan on Ur Star. The Tiger-man Emperor of the Beast-Ear Clan had already erected his magnificent statue and worshipped it like an ancestor, which is why Faith Power was born.

Mentioning Faith Power naturally points to becoming a god through faith.

The method of becoming a god through faith is also one of the widely existing paths to godhood.

Among the myriad gods in the world, at least three-quarters can be classified as Faith Gods. Faith Gods have many aliases, such as Race Gods, Ancestors, Totems, Destined Ones, and so on.

Becoming a god through faith has a relatively low difficulty.

Compared to relying on one's own comprehension of the Dao to cross the threshold of godhood and achieve divinity, the difficulty is not just a little lower.

Faith Gods only need to develop sects and followers to obtain Faith Power, then rely on Faith Power to advance their cultivation, anchor their Dao with Faith Power, and once Faith Power is abundant, ignite the divine fire, and naturally condense their divinity and divine authority.

Faith Gods are completely a 'skip class' playstyle.

The advantage is that the difficulty of becoming a god is low; as long as the followers do not perish and faith does not disappear, the god will not die, and the cultivation speed at the god stage will not be too slow.

However, there are also many disadvantages. Their own Dao path relies on the group that provides faith, and the binding is very deep, leading to a lack of freedom and obvious weaknesses. Compared to a Rule God of the same level, their strength will be weaker.

Not only that, but faith is toxic; the god's character will be influenced by the followers, gradually evolving in the direction expected by the followers. Righteous gods will become more righteous, and evil gods will become more evil.

Once a god attempts to resist this follower-induced alteration, at best their own Dao path will be damaged, and at worst, a consciousness conforming to the standard will be born from the faith, replacing their own existence.

Although becoming a god through faith has many disadvantages, most living beings still choose this method to become a god, because comprehending rules to become a god is truly too difficult, and only a few living beings are qualified to tread the path of becoming a god through rules.

Countless living beings aim to become gods, but they don't have many thoughts on how to cultivate after becoming a god.

It is this kind of thinking that has led to the proliferation of the faith-based god-making method, as it is the simplest method to become a god.

There are so many living beings that countless Faith Gods have been spawned. Beings are ignorant, and Faith Power is too easy to acquire.

With various factors superimposed, the faith-based god-making method has become rampant. Throughout the universe, in too many nooks and crannies, there exist piles upon piles of Faith Gods. They are not strong in power, but they are numerous and influential.

Lin Chen has a clear plan for his future, so he is naturally not interested in Faith Power and will not choose this 'skip class' method to become a god.

Faith Power can provide him with a lot of help in the short term, but in the long run, it would greatly restrict him, so he would not be so shortsighted as to use Faith Power to become a god.

He could become a god even by lying flat, let alone with how hard he worked, so he had no reason to choose to use Faith Power to become a god. However, Faith Power was not entirely useless.

The Faith Power currently directly pointing to him, he would not use for himself, but he would also not leave it idle, as Faith Power also had its uses.

The Federal Human Race does not advocate becoming a god through faith, but the birth of Faith Power is too simple, and a large amount of Faith Power still fills the Human Race Territory. Most Federal Gods, more or less, face situations where Faith Power clings to them.

Therefore, targeting Faith Power, the Federation has also developed many new uses for it.

Condensing faith clones to receive the faith of all beings.

This is the most basic application of Faith Power.

Further applications include using Faith Power to condense concrete objects. These faith treasures can transfer karma and take on various attacks from enemies on behalf of the main body, blocking malevolence in the cosmic starry sky.

There are even more advanced applications, such as refining Faith Power and, through a reversal ritual, reversing Faith Power into Fortune Power, artificially creating a state of fortune favor for a period of time.

Similarly, Faith Power can also be reversed into pure Origin Power. The application of Origin Power is even more widespread; it is a versatile power.

Moreover, Origin Coins are condensed from Origin Power; Origin Power is the currency used for transactions between gods. The more Origin Power one possesses, the more wealth one represents.

Lin Chen currently had too little Faith Power, so he could only condense the sparse Faith Power into a faith clone, transferring all Faith Power to the faith clone, ensuring his main body did not touch any Faith Power.

The more advanced the application of Faith Power, the more Faith Power is required. Whether it's reversing it into Fortune Power or Origin Power, the conversion rate is very low, and the consumption of Faith Power is enormous.

The unexpected acquisition of Faith Power did not provide much help to Lin Chen at the moment, but he saw a path to enhance his Causality Dao by borrowing Faith Power.

The core of the Causality Dao lies in causing events and establishing connections with all beings. Nothing can establish a connection with all beings better than Faith Power.

Therefore, developing faith sects and harvesting Faith Power, for Lin Chen, was equivalent to comprehending the Causality Dao.

This was truly killing two birds with one stone.

“Heh, I really found a shortcut to cultivation!”