125: Chapter 125 A Theocratic Super Empire!

A massive snake shadow, ten thousand meters long, instantly rose from the bottom of the water.

Xiangliu stuck out its nine heads and swallowed the yasakani no magatama in one gulp.

The Yamata no Orochi was originally just a low-tier overseas version of Xiangliu; the two shared the same bloodline origin.

Therefore, Xiangliu could completely take the enemy nation's national treasure and seamlessly integrate it.

It probably won't take more than a few days for this treasure of the Red Sun Empire to completely change its surname to Lin.

After a simple patrol of the major battle zones.

Lin Feng summoned the system backend and pulled up a detailed internal data report.

The table clearly recorded the daily faith revenue harvested by every divine beast.

He took a rough glance.

The current number one gold-earner was actually Baize!

Yet the Taotie, which slaughtered in all directions, was actually at the bottom year-round.

Upon careful consideration, it was actually quite reasonable.

As a super auspicious beast, Baize liked to stroll through vibrant ancient forests, where countless intelligent species thrived.

Controlling such a massive population base, the amount of leeks it could harvest was naturally absurdly high.

In contrast, Taotie spent the whole year curled up sleeping in the barren abyss where not even a blade of grass grew.

Not even a fly could survive in that godforsaken place, let alone establish a tribe.

Without believers to offer worship, it was perfectly normal for its income to be at the bottom.

At the current stage.

The total combat power of the Chaos Territory was already terrifying enough.

Divine rank and faith purity were the two mountains Lin Feng urgently needed to conquer.

Since Baize had the highest efficiency in attracting believers.

Investing the precious Tier 8 core in it would definitely yield exponential returns!

"Baize, step forward."

The divine order was issued.

Upon receiving the summons, Baize immediately flapped its snow-white wings and hopped out from the depths of the sea of trees into the sky.

"Great Master, what are your orders?"

"Open your mouth, eat."

Lin Feng didn't waste a single word and directly smashed the Tier 8 Extreme Cold Core down from the clouds.

Feeling the heaven-destroying, earth-shattering pure energy inside the core.

Baize trembled with excitement, opened its large mouth, and swallowed the ice-blue boulder in one gulp.

"Many thanks to the Master for this supreme gift!"

After swallowing the core, Baize respectfully lay in the void, its attitude incomparably devout.

"Ding! Baize's potential is overflowing! Preparing to break through to Tier 8! Requires consumption of a large amount of chaos purple qi!"

The system's broadcast sound arrived right on schedule.

Lin Feng, familiar with the process, exhaled a large cloud of purple mist, covering Baize directly to cleanse its marrow and wash its meridians.

Next, he just needed to patiently wait for it to emerge from seclusion.

Once Baize broke through to Tier 8, the energy it fed back would likely be just enough to push Lin Feng's total combat power past the 100 million mark!

Five basic cores were already in place.

Combat power was also about to meet the standard.

The only missing piece was the mysterious "faith purity."

To this day.

The faith rating on the panel still remained at the lowest level of "pan-faith."

However, Lin Feng was confident; he estimated a qualitative change was coming soon.

After all, tens of thousands of indigenous tribes in the Chaos Territory were kowtowing non-stop, twenty-four hours a day.

Plus, the enemy nation's divine artifact he had just swindled would soon be put into use.

It was just one step away from upgrading to "deep faith."

...

After arranging the divine beasts.

Lin Feng focused all his attention on the human cultivators within his territory.

As a species with top-tier intelligence in the universe, once these cultivators were subdued, the efficiency of extracting faith would definitely leave the orcs in the dust.

"System, pull up the development sandbox of the human forces."

The command was issued.

A detailed 3D map immediately appeared before his eyes.

The map was densely marked with the expansion trajectories of human city-states, the distribution of sect forces, and specific values of high-end combat power.

Lin Feng examined it carefully.

After the crazy evolution accelerated by three hundred times.

These mortals actually managed to produce four Tier 5 powerhouses!

In the terminology of the cultivation world, these were genuine Void-Refining stage old monsters!

Among these four human ancestors who had reached the peak, two of them had each gathered their own forces and built massive secular empires.

The third one lived in seclusion, founding the number one cultivation sword sect on the main peak of a spiritual vein.

The last one was the most outrageous.

He directly created a theocratic super empire!

It's just a pity that smart people are always suspicious.

Among these four major human factions.

Only one nation had clearly established a supreme totem faith; the remaining three were all a bunch of atheists, and none of them would submit to the others.

After all, making a bunch of Void-Refining old monsters capable of moving mountains and filling seas believe deeply in some unknown entity was indeed extremely difficult.

Lin Feng followed the data stream.

He locked his gaze on the only human territory that had established a faith.

This nation was called the "Holy Radiance Empire."

It was a theocratic super-nation single-handedly established by a Tier 5 old monster.

It controlled a massive population of tens of millions.

Coincidentally, the birthplace of the Holy Radiance Empire was right on the edge of the ancient forest where Baize resided year-round.

Back in the tribal era of slash-and-burn agriculture, these humans could often witness Baize strolling through the sky, radiating holy light.

Over time, humans naturally revered Baize as their guardian deity, completely branding it as their totem.

Even after their civilization upgraded, evolving from tribes that ate raw meat into steel city-states, this faith had never wavered in the slightest.

At this very moment.

In the center of the Holy Radiance Empire's capital, in front of a magnificent white jade temple.

Thousands of Tier 3 and Tier 4 human cultivators were arranged in neat formations, holding an unprecedented sacrificial ceremony to the heavens!

A river of faith, as tangible as reality, was flowing madly into Baize's body, following the waves of prayer.

Lin Feng found it quite interesting and directly zoomed in his god-like perspective.

...

The camera zoomed in.

This sacrificial ceremony could be described as solemn and respectful to the extreme.

On the temple steps, fully armed cultivator guards stood in armor and held weapons.

In the very center of the square.

The supreme monarch of the Holy Radiance Empire, who was also the supreme leader of the number one cultivation sect in the world.

Was leading the civil and military officials in performing the three-bows-and-nine-kowtows ritual toward a hundred-meter-tall jade statue of Baize in mid-air.

The faith essence, like a tsunami, was emerging from the tops of these people's heads.

As a holy beast representing purity and auspiciousness.

It was a tradition of the Holy Radiance Empire that a pure and chaste exclusive saintess must be responsible for daily sweeping and offerings.

Of course, it was just a formality of offering incense.

In return.

Baize similarly bestowed a touch of powerful destiny protection upon this empire.

The entire nation not only enjoyed favorable weather and bountiful harvests of mineral veins.

There were even cultivators who, by observing Baize's holy light, comprehended a peerlessly powerful sect-protecting cultivation technique that specialized in suppressing all evil spirits!

This technique had long since become the foundation of the Holy Radiance Empire's ability to sweep across the eight wastelands.

It was truly worthy of a high-level race with a complete civilization system.

The faith revenue provided by one empire even exceeded the sum of tens of thousands of beast tribes!

No wonder the gods of the Main World all looked exactly like humans.

Only high-intelligence species full of schemes like humans could provide the richest harvest of leeks.

However.

After looking around carefully, Lin Feng always felt that something was missing on the Holy Radiance Empire's altar to anchor it.

It was missing a divine artifact!

If there could be a divine artifact representing heavenly might hanging overhead.

Baize's speed of extracting faith would definitely skyrocket instantly!

Unfortunately, the attributes of the yasakani no magatama he had just snatched were conflicting; it could only be used by Xiangliu.

Otherwise, Lin Feng really wanted to just smash this damn rock onto the human altar and make do with it.

"Once Baize successfully breaks through to Tier 8, I can hand-craft a custom divine artifact."

Lin Feng calculated inwardly.

Now everything was ready, he could only patiently wait for Baize to break out of its seclusion.