Based on Chen Heng's past experience, he immediately realized many things at this moment.
For example, the gods in this world, and the church power left by those gods.
In this world, almost every god has its own church and its own power base.
Even, in many countries in this world, there are basically all kinds of beliefs.
In this world, most people have gods they believe in.
Even Hedoxili and Lamu are the same.
As members of the nobles of the Markdo Kingdom, the two used to be believers of the Moonlight Goddess. Although they were not very devout, they were indeed believers.
Even Chen Heng's predecessor was the same.
It's just that the one who believes in is not the goddess of moonlight, but the original ancestor of the Hatim family, the God of Last Fire who is said to have disappeared.
One can imagine the atmosphere of this world.
In this world, it is a very terrible thing to have no faith.
Whether willing or not, sincere or not, but at least on the surface, everyone has a corresponding belief, and this kind of thing exists.
Before that, Chen Heng didn't think too much about this situation.
After all, this is a world with the existence of real gods. In the mortal world, such a flourishing of faith seems to be a very normal thing, and there is nothing strange about it.
But now it seems that the reason why the belief in this world is so prosperous is probably not only the real existence of the gods, but also the fact that the gods need the belief of mortals.
If the power of belief of mortals is not needed, then with the power and status of gods, there is no need to care about mortals' thoughts, let alone to work hard to lower one's own power to build one's own church.
Standing in place, various thoughts flashed through Chen Heng's mind. By this time, he had a deeper understanding of this world.
Walking through the street, in order to test some things, Chen Heng deliberately slowed down a little, and took out some belongings for charity.
After some tricks, a distinct change occurred.
In Chen Heng's body, the power of faith that was flowing before is growing rapidly, and it is growing rapidly every moment, and the speed is several times faster than before.
After receiving these powers of faith, bursts of excited thoughts emanated from several gods in Chen Heng's body, and he seemed very satisfied and eager for it.
It's just that with the passage of time, not too long ago, the power of faith that had grown rapidly in Chen Heng's body before, and which was continuously passed on, quickly shrunk, and it seemed that it was much less at once.
It wasn't obvious at the beginning, but as the time progressed, the power of faith that Chen Heng obtained became less and less.
"Sure enough, momentary gratitude is still not reliable"
Standing where he was, feeling the situation on his body, Chen Heng was thoughtful.
From the message sent from the divinity, we can know that the so-called power of faith is actually the boarding of the power of the soul.
As long as a creature puts its own spiritual power on you, it can be counted as the power of faith.
In other words, it does not need to be true belief, fear, gratitude, these emotions can be counted as a kind of power of belief, and can be used by divinity.
However, compared with true belief, simple gratitude is still not very reliable.
After all, the emotion of gratitude comes and goes quickly, and cannot develop sustainably.
When it comes to efficiency, not only is it not as good as gaining faith directly, but it is even worse than fear.
After all, it is very difficult to make a creature grateful to you for a long time.
A momentary kindness may make a certain creature grateful to you, but as time goes by, after the other person gets used to it, it will no longer be like this.
At this point, if you want to let him continue to express his gratitude to you, then you need to pay more.
And this means greater costs.
If it reaches a certain level, you can't meet the other party's expectations, maybe the other party will not only continue to be grateful, but also develop resentment towards you.
One or two is fine, but if there are too many, even the gods may not be able to bear it.
Therefore, the efficiency of this means of obtaining the power of faith is bound to be low.
On the contrary, the emotion of fear is much easier.
At least, it is far easier to make a living being fear you than to make him feel grateful to you.
Fear just needs to be constantly exerted, which is easy for many people.
Using this method to obtain the power of belief is undoubtedly lower cost, to some extent, even lower than the serious development of faith.
After all, the development of faith requires a lot of initial investment. Whether it is the establishment of the church or the cultivation of priests, a lot of divine power is required.
In the end, it is necessary to compete with other gods for believers, continue to perform miracles, and increase investment.
A lot of investment, but not necessarily successful.
But it's much easier to scare people. It's good to scare people from time to time, and it doesn't require any investment at all.
The cost is the lowest among many methods.
Standing where he was, Chen Heng couldn't help thinking about some of the groups that existed among the gods.
Among the group of gods in this world, many gods seem to be in this regard.
All of them are hung with the name of a god of pain, fear, etc., so that people can't help but change color just by hearing the name of this god.
According to Chen Heng's understanding, these gods are probably the gods who used fear to obtain the power of faith.
In addition to these ways, there may be other ways, but these should be the main ones.
Thinking of this, Chen Heng is not surprised that his power of faith has dropped sharply.
Very normal thing.
However, what puzzled Chen Heng was that although the power of faith supplied by many people began to decrease rapidly, there were two sources of power of faith that had not been reduced, and had maintained a stable output. efficiency.
Not only that, but in terms of pure quality, the supply of these two powers of faith is also the most among many powers of faith.
"Could it be."
At the same place, a thought flashed in Chen Heng's mind, and then he couldn't help but subconsciously tried it out.
In his body, along with the turmoil of one of his thoughts, on top of the two divinities, tiny threads emerged, showing different appearances.
In Chen Heng's body, most of the silk threads are very weak, and they look extraordinarily illusory, as if they might disappear at any time.
There are only two silk threads, which appear very solid, giving people a sense of solidity.
And as Chen Heng's thoughts flashed, two auras emerged from the two silk threads.
The figures of Hedoxili and Lamu instantly appeared in Chen Heng's mind.
"really."
Sensing the existence of Hedoxili and Lamu, a flash of clarity flashed in Chen Heng's mind, and he no longer had any doubts at this moment.
Looking at it this way, not only the gratitude of the beggars on the roadside to him can be regarded as a kind of power of faith, but also the relationship between the two of Hedoxili and him.
This made Chen Heng refresh his understanding of the power of faith.
Standing in place, many thoughts flashed through his mind, then Chen Heng turned around and walked towards another place silently.
He did not continue to give alms in this place, because he knew that no matter how much alms was given, it would be useless.
Just distributing the property in exchange for a little gratitude from those people is too inefficient.
It was just for testing before, so it didn't matter, but now it doesn't matter.
Walking past this place, Chen Heng walked to the other side and returned to his residence.
In the residence, the two of Heduosili are no longer here, and it seems that they should be busy with other things.
Chen Heng was not surprised by this either, he just sat silently by the bedside and fell into deep meditation.
With the beginning of meditation, elemental particles from all over flooded into his body, and he transformed them into unique mana.
With the spread of mental power, Chen Heng seemed to be able to vaguely see an invisible big net.
This is a huge network completely interwoven by spiritual power, which is very unique, and its structure is also very special.
Only when Chen Heng fell into meditation and his mental power expanded independently could he perceive the existence of this huge network.
This huge network stands in the world, and it seems to have existed since ancient times, which is very unique.
And at this moment, it seems that Chen Heng's existence has been sensed. This huge network is opened, and it seems to be an invitation to Chen Heng, as if inviting him to enter this huge network.
"This is the magic net?"
Sensing this huge network, Chen Heng frowned subconsciously, as if he had thought of something at this moment.
Previously, Hedoxili and Chen Heng had popularized some common sense in this world.
Some relevant information about the mage is one of them.
In this world, the mage system is closely related to the existence of the magic net.
A mage not only senses the magic net in this world when meditating, but even casts spells with the help of the magic net.
Chen Heng was a little curious about this unique existence before.
Before that, he thought that he was not from the mage system of this world, so he should not be able to sense the magic net of this world.
But now it seems that this is not the case.
"The magic net in this world seems to be felt as long as the mental power is strong to a certain extent."
Sensing the huge network that exists everywhere, this idea flashed in Chen Heng's mind, and he was thinking like this at this moment.
Sitting upright on the head of the bed, he hesitated for a moment, then began to manipulate his spirit, and began to spread upwards, touching the huge magic net.
The magic net of this world is something that mages must touch.
Chen Heng is also planning to get in touch with the mage system of this world, and is going to study it carefully.
If this is the case, then the unique existence of the magic net is something he cannot avoid.
That being the case, it doesn't matter if you get in touch earlier or later.
This thought flashed in Chen Heng's mind, and then his spiritual power spread upwards, and began to link with the ubiquitous magic net.
An invisible ripple runs through nothingness.
In Chen Heng's induction, although the magic net in front of him exists, it does not seem to be located on the material plane of this world, but on a higher level of this world.
On the surface of the magic net, there are layers of tentacles, which can actively link with it when there is spiritual power in the outside world to complete contact.
In just an instant, Chen Heng broke through the invisible barrier and connected with the magic net in front of him.
An invisible fluctuation emerges.
Along with connecting with the magic net, an invisible feeling emerges.
Inside the magic net, there seems to be a lot of information.
These messages are nothing but messages for constructing spell templates one by one.
When Chen Heng took the initiative to touch the magic net, he seemed to feel his huge spiritual power, and the messages from all over the place emerged from all around and spontaneously condensed.
These messages were spontaneously condensed and combined, and finally, under Chen Heng's induction, they seemed to be spontaneously combined into spell templates.
Of course, in Chen Heng's view, these spell templates are all semi-finished products, and they don't seem to be complicated in terms of structure.
But that alone is already surprising enough.
"This is."
Sitting on the head of the bed, feeling the situation in front of him, Chen Heng stopped immediately, with a little shock on his face at this moment.
"It turned out to be so?"
Feeling the situation inside the magic net, many thoughts flashed in his mind.
For Chen Heng, who has traveled many worlds and has rich experience, he can see some mechanisms of the magic net at a glance, and has many guesses about the effect of this magic net.
In order to verify his idea, the next moment, he started to make a direct move.
A large amount of mental power surged out, rushed out directly, and emerged within the magic net.
And with all this happening, in Chen Heng's induction, a change began to take place.
Inside the magic net, as Chen Heng's mental power passed through it, the surrounding messages spontaneously condensed and turned into temporary spell templates.
And as Chen Heng's spiritual power poured into it, these temporary spell templates suddenly condensed and turned into real spell templates.
These formed spell templates have been formed so far, and they just exist in the magic net, and have a certain connection with Chen Heng.
Feeling all this, Chen Heng frowned secretly.
He could feel that with the formation of the spell template in the magic net, the mental power he had sent in before was also swallowed by the magic net, directly intercepted by the magic net, and became the nourishment of the magic net.
"I see."
Feeling all this, he suddenly understood the magic net's routine.
This so-called magic net can actually be regarded as a service provider, operated by the goddess of magic behind it.
Using the magic net, the mage can quickly use the power hidden in the magic net to condense spell templates one by one, so as to cast spells.
In a way, this can be described as extremely convenient stuff.
It's just that this use is by no means free.
Every time you use the power of the magic net and use spells through the magic net, you will consume a lot of mental power.
This part of mental power is equivalent to the cost of using the magic net to a certain extent.
This is paid for use.
Of course, this magic net is not without benefits.
To a certain extent, using the magic net can reduce the difficulty of casting spells to a certain extent.
According to the system of the wizarding world, if a wizard wants to cast a spell, unless he solidifies the spell on himself, it will take a long process.
From constructing the spell template to casting the spell, it takes quite a long time. If it is not a powerful wizard, there is even a chance of casting the spell, and it is not small.
When he was in the wizarding world in the past, Chen Heng heard of many such cases. Many wizards did not die at the hands of the enemy, but died in the failure of casting spells.
But if the magic net is used to cast spells, then this risk disappears to some extent.
Constructing spell templates in the magic net, to some extent, you can use the power of the magic net to build the spell templates you need to use in the magic net in advance, and then store them in it with the help of the magic net .
In this way, when you really need to cast a spell, you can directly call the spell stored in the magic net and cast it directly.
Very convenient.
The magic net itself is filled with a lot of information about building spell templates, which naturally can quickly provide help for building spell templates.
Of course, it will be extremely convenient and easy for a mage to build a spell template in it.
With such a powerful convenience, it is no wonder that the mage system in this world is so dependent on the magic net.
Standing where he was, this thought flashed through Chen Heng's mind, and then he shook his head involuntarily.
The magic net can indeed bring a lot of benefits, but with his eyesight, one can see the hidden disadvantages in it at a glance.
The most obvious disadvantage is that it is prone to dependence.
In the world of wizards, it is extremely difficult for wizards to cast spells, and it takes a long time of tempering and training to do so.
But in this world, with such a convenient magic net to use, the mages in this world would probably not meditate on spell templates by themselves, but would all choose to rely on the magic net to do so.
After all, after working hard to meditate on the spell template, not only does the spell cast have the risk of failure, but also the power of the spell cast is no different from that cast through the magic net.
Except for a few people, it is very clear how most people will choose.
Most mages will inevitably choose to rely on the magic net to cast spells for a long time, and if they do so, over time, the mage's ability to cast spells will rapidly weaken, which will have many impacts.
Once the magic net ceases to function one day, the combat power of this group of mages will collapse immediately, and they may not even be as good as the lowest-level fighters.
On the other hand, relying on the magic net to cast spells is not free, and requires one's own spiritual power.
A little mental power may not be a big deal for a mage, but the problem is that there are too many spell templates to build.
Just now, Chen Heng has already tested it.
After the spell template is constructed through the magic net, the spell template will be stored in the magic net.
But this storage is not permanent, but temporary.
Once a certain period has passed and is not used, these constructed spell templates will collapse on their own and disappear directly.
(end of this chapter)