Gods: Civilization Cultivation, Infinite War

Chapter 23 Extermination Order
The reason why Chen Li ordered to spare the life of the divine beast was to preserve its faith.

To be precise, it was to allow the Kingdom of Dawn to learn in advance how to spread Chen Li's faith on the premise that the conquered areas already had faith.

This is an issue that must be paid attention to.

Faith is actually very common.

Whether in the place of origin or in the endless void, faith exists in almost every world.

Under this premise, after defeating and conquering those worlds, the first thing the Kingdom of Dawn needs to consider is the issue of coexistence of faiths.

Of course, the so-called coexistence of faiths does not really mean maintaining multiple faiths.

After all, beliefs are generally exclusive, although as long as there is a certain subordinate relationship between gods, coexistence can be achieved to a certain extent.

But a believer cannot have two beliefs at the same time, and this cannot be changed in any way.

Even if they are gods with a subordinate relationship, both sides only spread their own beliefs in their respective territories and do not disturb each other.

In this situation, no god would be so generous as to allow them to retain their own beliefs after conquering a world.

But this kind of thing cannot be dealt with directly. After all, faith itself is part of the beliefs of believers, and it cannot be changed overnight.

If after conquering a world, one immediately forces everyone to change their beliefs, it will easily cause dissatisfaction, leave many hidden dangers, and in serious cases, even directly lead to rebellion.

In such cases, they are generally allowed to retain their original beliefs first, and then in the years to come, the spread of these indigenous beliefs is suppressed in a more gentle manner.

After these local beliefs become rootless, it won't be long before they completely disappear and are replaced by another completely new belief.

Chen Li wanted the Kingdom of Dawn to learn this operation in advance, so he allowed the Third Legion to spare the life of the divine beast.

Relatively speaking, the belief in that divine beast is just a very primitive faith and worship, and there are almost no detailed doctrines. It is actually very simple to eliminate this belief.

As long as the source of the belief is directly eliminated, most of the influence of this belief can be immediately eliminated.

However, in future foreign wars, we will definitely encounter relatively complete beliefs. The doctrines of these beliefs are very detailed and deeply rooted in people's hearts. It will be more troublesome to eliminate this kind of belief and it will take a long time to manage.

As for now, I'm just learning and practicing in advance.

There was originally a snakeman city-state, whose overall strength was almost the same as that of the lizardman city-state, and it also had a divine giant beast.

But their luck was bad. They encountered the First Legion. The giant python that was over a kilometer long was killed by the legion commander in just one encounter. Chen Li didn't even have time to give his orders.

But it doesn't matter. Having a lizardman city-state is enough to practice.

After conquering all forces on land, the four legions prepared to take action on the ocean.

According to the records of some land forces, this demiplane will experience a tsunami of world-destroying scale every few hundred years. Under the influence of this tsunami, most land races are exterminated.

Not only that, every tsunami will cause the elemental structure of the entire demiplane to shift, and more and more land will be transformed into water, constantly compressing the living space of land races.

Furthermore, the Fourth Legion discovered numerous formation nodes deep within the ocean. These nodes, once activated, could form a massive formation, affecting the water element across the entire demiplane. The world-destroying tsunamis recorded in history were likely caused by this massive formation.

It is not complicated to activate these formation nodes. The only condition is to sacrifice a large number of intelligent lives. Those extinct marine races may have been sacrificed by the deep-sea fishmen.

Not only that, they would also frequently attack those land races just to provide enough sacrifices for those formation nodes.

The sea level has been rising in recent years because the Deep Sea Merman Empire has been constantly activating the formation nodes. This is a sign that the super-large formation is about to be activated.

In addition, the Fourth Legion also discovered a very critical piece of information about the Deep Sea Murloc Empire: the rise of the Deep Sea Murlocs is related to the power of the abyss.

This also explains why all deep-sea murlocs belong to the chaotic evil camp when the camp identification spell is cast.

At this point, the nature of war began to change.

The goal is no longer conquest, but utter destruction.

If they simply sacrificed other intelligent races to gain benefits for their own race, they would not be completely destroyed.

As long as all the high-level ones are killed and the remaining low-level fishmen are guided properly, the deep-sea fishmen in this demiplane can still be brought back to the right path.

After all, those low-level murlocs didn’t enjoy any benefits and were still oppressed by those high-level murlocs.

But being touched by the power of the abyss is a completely different thing.

This is no longer a simple relationship of interests. It can no longer be guided in any gentle way. It is necessary to strike hard and completely eliminate the entire deep-sea fishman race.

Only by completely destroying all traces of the abyss in this demiplane can lasting peace be achieved. Otherwise, the entire demiplane will be under the threat of the abyss and will have no peace.

Only half a year had passed, and the Deep Sea Murloc Empire had suffered unprecedented losses under the full force of the four legions.

A total of 666 formation nodes, most of which have been destroyed.

Hundreds of millions of deep-sea fishmen died under the blades of the winged warriors, and their blood dyed the entire sea a unique crimson.

Every winged warrior has taken the lives of at least tens of thousands of deep-sea fishmen. If they did not have a strong sense of mission and clear cognition, they would have fallen into self-doubt long ago.

After all, there were tens of thousands of intelligent creatures. Even if they were connected to the abyss, their cries before death were real.

The Winged People are a naturally kind race. They will never easily exterminate any race unless it is absolutely necessary.

But when necessary, they will never hesitate.

The existence of the Deep Sea Murloc Empire has seriously threatened all living beings in this demiplane, and even not just this demiplane.

After joint discussion among the four major legions and unanimous approval by the kingdom's top leaders, the order to exterminate the Deep Sea Mermaid Empire was issued half a year ago and was resolutely implemented.

(End of this chapter)