I was a charlatan in India

Shenhe felt his consciousness melting.

Divinity did not attack him directly; on the contrary, it welcomed Shenhe and awaited his willingness to merge into that higher consciousness and return to his rightful place.

Even Shenhe himself felt that his past memories, preferences, emotions, concerns... were all insignificant.

He is only one aspect of the divine.

Like a drop of ink falling into the ocean, it is instantly diluted and swallowed up.

Without a doubt, Shenhe had absolutely no desire to resist.

Just as a fetus seeks its mother's heartbeat, this is the natural destination.

That so-called humanity, that insignificant life, is merely a link in the chain of the gods, important only to Shenhe, who will die in a few decades.

As for divinity, it exists in the past, present, and future; it has been omnipresent since its inception.

Now, it's time to reclaim its own distracting thoughts.

Shenhe felt his will rising, just like when he first entered Varanasi, embracing the sky.

His perspective changed; it was no longer the one-sided perspective of humans, but rather, like that of a true god, he perceived everything from all directions, from thousands upon thousands, or even more, of believers.

Every street in Varanasi, every hermitage, every believer's heartbeat and breath are as clear as the lines on one's own palm.

Arti skipped and hopped around, looking around without any regard for the teacher's slow legs.

Mina sat in the sedan chair, laboriously lifting the curtain, and silently worshipped the statue that symbolized her.

Surrey, Dana, the Black Doctor, and all the other people caught up in this farce—each of them is clear, yet none of them matter.

Compared to the total number of believers in the Great Heaven, these people are insignificant.

These scenes and emotions that Shenhe once cared about no longer cause any ripples.

God and Shenhe were plotting together how to use the believers.

For example, Artemis could use her existing blessings and Surya's influence to elevate her to the position of saint and manipulate believers using her trust.

For example, if the factory is undergoing ascetic practices, it should schedule a ball game as soon as possible and use its inherent popularity to better spread the faith.

Dana should not be wasted either.

Divinity cast its will upon Dana and Haiti.

Wherever they go, the place is corrupted by divinity and begins to quietly change into what it will look like hundreds of years later.

For example... the modern Shenhe River.

Together with Shenhe, they made a ruthless decision, easily severing their ties with the modern world.

This memory, called Shenhe, is an unstable element, prone to making foolish decisions.

Undoubtedly, it will affect one's perfection.

And the newly added believers...

Without emotion, likes, or dislikes, every path is the best choice, the most conducive to accumulating divinity.

Believers are not people we need to care about; they are merely resources.

While alive, it is worth three hundred square meters of ascetic effort; after death, it can be transformed into a lingam.

These thoughts, which should have filled Shenhe with dread, now arose quite naturally and quickly gained his approval.

The only good news is that divinity seems to approve of the idea of ​​optimizing believers.

However, his methods were not as gentle as Shenhe's.

"Sulliya, expand the penitential factory. Once it's finished, arrest everyone on this list."

This list refers to believers who have polluted divinity, only knew how to complain, but hardly practiced asceticism.

"Those who can practice asceticism should be kept as pets, and those who cannot should be slaughtered. Don't waste Varanasi's land on these useless animals."

Surya was also taken aback when she heard this.

After all, the heavens had just instructed him to implement benevolent governance.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. These damned lower classes, they didn't believe me when I said I wanted to reduce taxes!

Moreover, they would rather neglect the full moon festival and let the goods rot outside the city than cooperate; living is truly a waste of air.

Heaven has a temper; it should kill them all and then have a new batch of people born!

I love this swift and decisive approach!

Shenhe's humanity tries to stop something, but doesn't know what it can stop.

Human lifespan is so short, less than a hundred years, and their reproduction is so efficient that even if they are slaughtered, they can quickly recover their numbers.

Next, a second, even more terrifying order was issued.

A whole set of commands, incorporating modern management principles, immediately came to mind for Surrey.

The logic is clear: if the disobedient population is healthy, they are taken out for breeding.

The children are raised in a unified manner and subjected to a form of indoctrination that reduces their ability to think independently and diminishes their sense of shame, making them believe from the bottom of their hearts that procreation is their natural duty.

Those who obeyed were further instructed to become ascetic machines, undergoing ascetic training from a young age.

Don't waste the ones that are disobedient or in poor health.

Humans contain large amounts of calcium and protein, which can be made into a nutritional paste for believers to sustain themselves.

As long as the per capita production capacity exceeds 300 square meters, expansion can be gradually implemented...

This divinity is originally the will born from believers; its purpose is to be more perfect and powerful, capable of bearing the greed and ambition of believers.

After being infused with the modern knowledge in Shenhe's mind, it became even more terrifying than before!

It is foreseeable that under his rule, humanity will inevitably be reduced to livestock, becoming a resource unit for the gods to dedicate everything to!

But God doesn't care.

Shenhe didn't care anymore.

He felt his sense of self becoming increasingly faint and thin.

His mind was filled with nothing but the desire for the power of asceticism.

Rather than letting these creatures fight each other and waste their lives, I'd rather they become part of my power and merge into their yearning for divinity...

You lowly people, you chose this path yourselves!

Varanasi lies prostrate at our feet, its inhabitants reduced to firewood.

What a sublime future that is, what a...

suddenly!

A faint, inconspicuous streak of light flew in from afar.

This is the righteous Dharma that was triggered by the coarse cloth roll earlier!

After circling the human nature of Shenhe, it flew straight towards divinity, struggling to reach the gradually solidifying divine eye with a hissing sound of electricity!

"Sizzle..."

After searching for so long, it has finally found its target!

"Shenhe, as a deity, you judge the wishes of believers based on your own selfish desires, which violates the law. Therefore, I curse you..."

Before Zhengfa could finish reading the judgment, the divine eye hanging high in the sky moved!

Divinity has recognized the threat.

In its eyes, there is no right or wrong; anyone who dares to offend the positive should be punished.

An immense and unparalleled power of faith, like enraged magma, surged from every corner of Varanasi and from every believer, crashing fiercely against the faint light of the true Dharma!

"boom--!!!"

The deafening roar exploded on the level of the soul.

The believers felt a sudden heaviness in their hearts, as if the sky were pressing down on them. Many of the weaker ones vomited blood and fainted!

The gasps from Varanasi, the heartbeats of countless believers, and their soul-stirring anguish all surged into Shenhe's mind at the same time.

Clear, and irrelevant.

But the light of righteous law is utterly powerless before divinity!

It turns out that believers can use it in this way: they can directly extract everything from them—reason, emotion, and even life—and brutally transform it into the power of asceticism!

One life, 300 square meters, price clearly stated!

Of course, the divine did not take their lives directly, because taking a portion from each person was enough to suppress this mere two thousand one hundred square meters of righteous law.

Fall!

In less than a second, the righteous law suddenly darkened and almost disappeared!

However, in that brief moment, Shenhe's self-awareness suddenly awakened!

This divinity must not be allowed to awaken...

Absolutely not!