Original God, but the real world

Chapter 200 199- News
There is a very interesting fact.

The desert people actually care more about the grass god than the forest people.

In the eyes of the desert people, the so-called grass gods of Sumeru, whether they are the Great Kindness Tree King or the Small Auspicious Grass King, are actually gods of the rainforest.

They do not bear the future of the desert people.

This is also why there are still people who believe in the Red King after his death.

Because Sumeru contains rainforests and deserts, but everyone knows that the God of Grass is the god of the forest people.

This does not mean that the desert people are stupid.

The Great Compassion Tree King probably did not want to expel the Red King's faith, so he used many gentle methods. As a result, he himself was destroyed five hundred years ago, and these methods were buried in the dust.

No one knows that His Majesty the Tree King loves every Sumeru person equally.

In His eyes, there is no distinction between desert and rainforest; all people are His people.

It was only because he had a close relationship with the Red King that he retained the Red King's faith - as a result, the Great Compassion Tree King himself fell, and the Little Auspicious Grass King who inherited his authority was imprisoned in the Jingshan Palace. The Council of Religions, which exercised power, was indifferent to the desert and did not care about the decrees left behind by the Great Compassion Tree King.

The times have changed.

Just looking at the results, the Great Compassion Tree King did something but it was not publicized, and the project was almost finished, but the Ministry of Education said we don’t want it anymore.

And the little auspicious grass king...he couldn't even get out of the prison device, let alone help the desert people.

Then everyone saw the truth: the grass god of Xumi was actually just the god of the forest people.

Both generations of Grass Gods did not care about the desert, so it was natural that the desert people had no faith in the Grass God, only vigilance.

Rahman was vigilant and kept an eye on the little auspicious grass king.

Rahman said that the Great Ci Tree King assassinated the Red King, which put the desert people into their current predicament.

And everyone knows that the Great Kindness Tree King has left, and now the god of Mount Sumeru is the Small Auspicious Grass King.

Out of vigilance against the "fact" that [the Great Kindness Tree King assassinated the Red King], the desert people are actually very wary of the Little Auspicious Grass King.

Everyone knows that the God of Grass is the god of the forest, not the god of the desert.

Since he is the enemy's god, of course we need to be vigilant and alert.

On the contrary, in the Ministry of Education, no one, including scholars in the Ministry of Education and even in the entire rain forest, believes in the Little Auspicious Grass King.

The sages even thought that the little auspicious grass king was not worthy of inheriting the seat of the God of Grass and wanted to create a Sumeru god themselves.

Those who have gods do not pay attention to them, while those who do not have gods are always paying attention to the movements of gods.

Candice rubbed her eyebrows.

"Little Lucky Grass King... I haven't heard this name for a long time."

“It seems that no one among the Xumi people who travel in the desert has ever mentioned the God of Grass.”

Rahman organized his words and had a strange expression on his face.

"Of course you won't hear it. As far as I know, the Ordinance House still uses the statue of the Great Kind Tree King in the ceremony to celebrate the God of Grass."

"And the celebration of Little Auspicious Grass King has not been held for nearly a hundred years."

To be honest, Rahman even suspected that there was no God of Grass in the House of Worship. The so-called Little Auspicious Grass King was actually a lie made up by the House of Worship.

Any god with a bit of temper would not tolerate people using someone else's statue when celebrating their own god, right?
How the new Grass God respects the previous Grass God and even does not want the Great Compassionate Tree King to lose his faith is his own business.

But the Teaching Court just doesn’t understand that respecting gods is their business, and you just need to please the current god.

At worst, can't Xumi afford two statues?
At present, all the faith in the Little Auspicious Grass King actually comes from Nashida's own efforts.

He often opens his consciousness to patrol the land of Sumeru, and then does what he thinks a god should do.

Including playing with children, soothing the magic scale disease on Dina Zedai, and even being able to interfere with Aru Village in Xumi City, soothing the spirit of the mad scholar, using the mad scholar's body to release the power of the grass god, and protecting the houses of the desert people during the earthquake.

The source of Nilu's faith is unknown, but it is sincere enough, and she has probably heard Nashida's voice.

Dina Zedai is the eldest daughter of the Humayi family. She was born into a wealthy family, but she has been lying in bed for many years due to the magic scale disease. She has never even been exposed to any books or knowledge.

Nashida suppressed the demonic scale disease in her body, allowing this young lady, who could not even leave her bed, to walk in the sun for the first time.

From then on, she became a loyal believer of the Little Lucky Grass King.

Her parents probably also noticed that a little girl who had never touched the [Void Terminal], had never received a normal education, and was just lying on a hospital bed, suddenly recovered a little bit of health. She even knew the knowledge of the outside world and the honorific name of [Little Auspicious Grass King].

There is no need to mention what she knew about the outside world. If she had addressed him as the Great Compassionate Tree King, it could be explained as something that was mentioned by the doctor she was dealing with.

But the Little Auspicious Grass King... Ordinary Sumeru people cannot use this title even when praying.

So they tried their best to stop Dinazedai from organizing followers to celebrate the ceremony for the little auspicious grass king.

Judging from the performance of the Ministry of Education, anyone should know the conflict between them and the Little Auspicious Grass King.

And the little King of Auspicious Grass was actually unable to stop the actions of the Church of the Lords.

This shows that the condition of Little Lucky Grass King is very bad, very bad.

The Decree House did not say it explicitly, but to put it bluntly, who would dare not praise the name of a god who rules a kingdom and spread his faith for five hundred years?
Barbatos of Mondstadt only appears three times in recorded history.

The first time was the founding of Old Mondstadt, the second time was when Vanessa crushed the West Wind nobles, and the third time was the Age of Disaster five hundred years ago.

But even though it only appeared these three times, the Knights of Favonius and the people of Mond chanted "May the Wind God protect you" day and night, and their faith was extremely devout.

A god who has only been clearly recorded three times in thousands of years. If you still can't praise the God of Wind, you can't even enter the gate of Mondstadt.

And a god who has been staying in the Temple for five hundred years hasn't had a single formal sacrificial ceremony. To celebrate the God of Grass, you are still using the statue of the Great Kindness Tree King... Really, why don't you just say clearly that the Little Auspicious Grass King is not okay?

In this case, if you say that you have received the grace of the Little Auspicious Grass King and want to organize believers for Him, isn't this just forcing the Church of the Lord to come and kill you?
Of course they were grateful to the Little King of Grass for saving their daughter, but if they were asked to give up everything in the Humayi family and go against the Council of Ordinances, they would politely decline the offer.

Nashida's faith actually came from this method.

He constantly jumps between dreams and other people's consciousness, doing what he can.

The Little Grass King does not advertise his existence, but is actually protecting these children.

"Last time we guessed that the Little Auspicious Grass King did not have the power of a god." Rahman had a complicated expression, "It seems that we guessed wrong."

Only in this way could Asfad compromise so easily.

Because the gods stood beside the House of the Decrees again.

Candice thought.

Can the actions of the Ordinance House actually get help from the gods?

Is it that the great sages have already paid some kind of price, such as some sages being killed, and the one who is now in charge of Jingshan Palace is actually the little auspicious grass king?

"If the gods are on the side of the House of Ecclesiastical Orders, then maybe this time they really have good intentions." Candice suddenly felt that this was not as bad as she had thought.

"The past behavior of the House of Lords is obviously completely different from the etiquette of worshipping gods in other countries."

It’s not that these scholars are stubborn and think there is no need to worship gods or please gods.

"According to the records of the desert, when the Great Compassion Tree King was still alive, they would also hold regular ceremonies to celebrate the God of Grass."

The Great Compassion Tree King is still there and the rituals are held regularly.

When the Little Auspicious Grass King was in power, they still worshipped the Great Kindness Tree King.

"This kind of behavior should be unacceptable to the gods."

Candice had not paid attention to the House of the Decrees and the Little King of Lucky Grass before.

Their existence has no significant impact on the desert and [Aru Village], nor is it of any help.

The Ministry of Education only prohibits scholars who study in Xumi from imparting knowledge in the desert, but it does have a disgusting element to it.

But since they couldn't defeat the Ministry of Rites, they just pretended not to see it.

Naturally, Candice wouldn't pay too much attention to what was happening in the House of the Decree.

However, this time, there were obviously huge changes in the House of Lords.

"In this case, if Little Auspicious Grass King chooses to help the Order House to recapture the [Thirty-Man Group], then the Order House should no longer be the Order House of the Sages, but the Order House of the God of Grass."

This should be a normal development.

Candice did not make any further guesses, she chose to believe in common sense, but the facts were actually much stranger.

For example... the fact that the Ministry of Education wants to create a god is something that no normal person can imagine.

"The Great Tree King assassinated the Red King, and his successor wants to help the desert?" Rahman had a complicated expression.

"If the Little Auspicious Grass King really recovers his divine power and becomes a god like the Great Compassion Tree King, I advise you to change your mind about revenge against the Order Institute now." Candice looked much calmer.

She and Rahman had many speculations, but due to the lack of intelligence, both of them chose the one that was more in line with normal development.

Asfard and the top leaders of the Thirty-Man Group compromised because the House of Lords offered an irresistible bargaining chip.

For this chip, Candice chose the power of the God of Grass.

She believed that it was the Little Grass King who restored the power of the gods, which led to the subsequent changes.

Now that the God of Grass has recovered his power, He obviously should not be able to tolerate the past actions of the Order House - unless this little King of Auspicious Grass can be kind to the point of being almost cowardly.

If He cannot tolerate this, He will take action against the wise men who run the House of Decrees.

When the gods want to kill someone, the best option for the sages is to accept death respectfully to avoid dragging down their family and friends.

The master of the House of Ordinances has obviously changed.

From an "ordinary" sage, he became a true god.

Under such circumstances, Asfard and the top leaders of the Thirty would naturally not resist the efforts of the House of the Decrees to consolidate power.

The desert people did nothing, at most they spread the faith of the Red King.

This level of damage should not be enough to provoke revenge from the Little Auspicious Grass King. He sent us to the desert to build an academy, and that should be true.

After all, there is no reason for gods to tease mortals.

Whether you want to kill or reward God, God can make the decision with just a word. There is no need to tease you deliberately.

This is too cheap.

This is a regular chain of logic, based on limited intelligence but normal guesswork based on the knowledge available from all parties.

The guessed answer is that the decision to support the desert was the idea of ​​the Little Auspicious Grass King, not the Sage.

Rahman and Candice resisted the Sage, knowing that they had no good will for the desert.

But in theory, the god whose top leadership of the Council of Decrees had just been revised had no reason to be dissatisfied with the desert.

After all, it is impossible for them to interfere with the actions of the Council of Lords. If King Xiaocao has any hatred, he should vent it on the sages of the Council of Lords.

Could the desert people possibly offend the little auspicious grass king?
"Don't mention assassination," Candice finally advised, "In a war between gods, there is no such thing as assassination."

And if the Grass King really intended to help the desert, he should not bring up this idea.

It is better to accept the kindness of the gods respectfully.

Rahman certainly knew this, but this understanding was completely different from his past insistence, which made him a little confused.

The two people pieced together a possible answer through their conversation.

The only variable in this answer is that it would be impossible for the Ministry of Education to not be on guard against the Little Auspicious Grass King gaining power.

How their actions are explained to the outside world, they themselves know very well whether they respect the gods.

So they should be wary of the Little Grass King gaining supernatural powers.

But considering that powerful life forms like demons are completely different from humans, Candice can also accept the unreasonable setting that they will automatically become stronger as soon as they reach a certain age.

"It's time for us to embrace the hope of the desert."

Candice showed a rare bit of anticipation.

Part of her understanding and concern about the little lucky grass king came from a friend.

That friend was also a mercenary from the desert, and was currently working as a security guard for the eldest daughter of a family.

According to her, the eldest lady often promoted the beliefs of the Little Grass King to her.

According to Candice's understanding, these people who preached faith either used faith as a tool for deception, or they truly believed in God wholeheartedly, so they wanted to spread the greatness of their own God to others.

Dixia is indeed worth being deceived, and her fighting power is also a precious asset.

But Dixia herself has described the kindness of that young lady many times, and Candice believes in Dixia's judgment of people.

Candice felt that this was not groundless. After all, if the eldest daughter of this family had not really experienced the training and education she received, there would be no need for her to preach the belief in the God of Grass to a mercenary who was temporarily hired for security work.

This doesn't make any sense.

And now, this speculation seems to have come true.

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"The House of the Order is going to spread education and knowledge to the desert."

Setale was pleasantly surprised.

For a long time, this scholar born in the desert always had some hesitation in his heart.

As a desert dweller, she walked to the position of assistant to the Great Sage.

The position of an assistant depends entirely on who she works for, and Setale follows the Great Sage. Even though she is born a desert dweller and is just an assistant, she can enjoy the real resources of the House of the Decree.

As a desert dweller, she has reached a very high position.

But there are still many things she can't do.

The House of the Order rarely recruits scholars of desert origin, and even if it does, it will restrict their applications for the [Void].

In this case, Setale's ability to become the Great Sage's assistant is actually an extraordinary manifestation of her personal ability.

To treat her as an ordinary person is really contrary to this person's outstanding talents.

It just wasn't enough.

Her talent was so much better than that of ordinary scholars that she was able to attract the attention of the sages and become the assistant of the great sage.

But after all, she is not a background genius like Dottore and Rhinedort who can change the rules of the world and make the world obey their will.

This results in Setale always having to face a hurdle that she cannot avoid.

Sometimes a person studies hard to lead his hometown out of poverty, while others do it simply to get their hometown out of poverty.

For most people, the latter is enough; no one forces the former.

And Setale wants to do the former.

Most of the entanglements in her life were caused by this.

As an individual of Setare, she can ask the sage to change the rules and grant more academic resources.

But as a desert dweller, her talent is not high enough to change the overall environment of the Order House.

She wanted to do the latter, but she could only do the former.

At this time, she has to face a choice. She has to stick to her own ideas, then be discovered by the sages, and finally be expelled from the House of the Order, and even give up all her existing resources and status.

It is better to simply give up your impossible ideal, regard yourself as a forest dweller, and forget your past as a desert dweller.

Setale has this talent, and the sages are willing for her to become a forest dweller.

In the plot, she personally prefers to obey reality.

To be more precise, before being stimulated by Nashida, she was not even prepared to achieve her goal. She just went with the flow and accepted the arrangement of fate.

This is the beginning of a normal person's life.

I realized that what I wanted to do and what I could do were not exactly the same, and then I began to accept the reality, forgot my ideals, and started to set new achievable goals.

This is not excessive.

Setale also began to accept reality.

She had worked so hard to get what she had now.

Now she is asked to give up everything she has because of something impossible, and she is reluctant to do so.

But a turning point suddenly came.

The Fatwa suddenly summoned scholars from the desert and gave them a mission.

Teach knowledge and build colleges in the desert.

According to the sages, this is only the first round of construction.

The House of Religious Orders also prepared more supplies to be poured into the new desert academy.

Once they have chosen the site for building the academy, these materials and new scholars will arrive after the academy is completed.

In other words, education can be developed in the desert, and scholars of desert origin can continue their research without worrying about restrictions on academic resources.

Setale was pleasantly surprised.

Of course she wanted to do something, which was why she was persuaded to surrender and became Nashida and Ying's helper.

Unfortunately, she was caught by Dotore and her plan failed before it even began. Ying and Nashida fled in a hurry, and she herself went straight into prison.

Judging from the fact that she was imprisoned, Setare was obviously a gifted scholar.

Judging from the actions of the sages, only useful people are qualified to enter the cage.

Those who didn't have any were sent away on the spot, and there was no need to imprison them.

If she really accepted the current situation completely, Narcida would not be able to convince her.

And now, an opportunity has come that does not require her to give up everything she has, but allows her to realize her childhood dream.

Hazard actually didn't want Setale to come.

He tried to persuade her implicitly, including the method of teachers assigning tasks to students like "I have an important research project that needs your help", but in the end, Setale said, "I am familiar with the desert and I can do it."

Just like what Tinari said, “Sumeru City is too noisy and bad for the ears”, there is no way to keep him.

In the end, Hazard had no choice but to agree.

It’s not that I can’t force him to stay, but it’s not worth it.

Setale is a scholar whose heart is in the desert. Although he has abilities, he does not possess unique value.

As for Tinari's situation at the time, his teacher rejected the deification project, and even though he wanted to refuse, the sages couldn't really force him.

After all, imprisoning teachers to win over disciples is an act that is risky in itself.

It is not a good idea to force the other party into the deification project and cause trouble.

Same with Tinari and El Haisen.

The sages certainly have high hopes for their abilities, but it would not be the case that they are completely reluctant to part with them.

The desire to fight for it was certain, and Tinari was invited again and again, the last time a sage came in person.

But after Tinari refused again, the sages gave up.

To put it bluntly, it's just not worth it.

It has limited value and is not worth the wise men's repeated expressions of respect and humility.

There are too many Xumi scholars. If these two cannot be used, others can serve as substitutes.

"I always feel that this matter doesn't seem to be that simple."

Unlike Setare's joy, several scholars who were traveling with her found something wrong when they met each other.

The identities of fellow scholars are almost undisclosed. Except for a few scholars who come from the desert, the rest are forest scholars engaged in marginal research.

Their research goes against the mainstream and has little chance of success.

Every year there are scholars like this in the House of the Lords. They either think they can succeed and walk a path that others cannot walk, or simply because of special reasons such as friends or relatives, they would rather persist on this path.

For the House of Representatives, this is actually just a waste of resources and has no value at all.

In the beginning, the House of Ordinances was willing to provide them with some resources out of support for scholars and a casual attitude of casting a wide net.

But often, their research progress would quickly be judged as a failure by the Council of Eminent Persons.

Plus, there were no results to begin with.

Xumi City is friendly to scholars, but there are two kinds of friendliness: unconditional support and limited help.

You must first recognize your own value.

Or you can enjoy the most basic friendliness of Xumi City and be a mediocre scholar.

Either you become an outstanding scholar sought after by Xumi City and enjoy the highest preferential treatment in Xumi City.

You have no research results to show for it, and do you have an impressive enough resume to make the House of Representatives wait patiently? At the same time, you still want to draw on the academic resources of the House of Representatives?
The Citadel is friendly to scholars, but does not force support on them.

For ordinary scholars, half of the investment in research comes from the friendly support of the House of Representatives, and the other half depends on their own abilities.

Scholars must either be wealthy themselves or be able to impress their teachers, who are their first investors.

However, generally no teachers are willing to support these marginal research.

This is not a problem with the students, but rather that too many people have tried in the past and failed.

They knew very well the level of their students and did not expect them to complete the experiment on a sudden burst of inspiration.

Take a break from research on things like emotional mechanisms.

If you can handle this, you should be my mentor. I am not qualified to teach you.

So the question is, this group of ordinary desert scholars, a group of marginal scholars whose marginal research has no practical value, is actually quite good at teaching and educating people.

After all, they don't have any outstanding academic achievements, and there is actually no possibility of any breakthrough if they continue to waste time on research.

They can only use knowledge itself as a bargaining chip, and being a teacher is the best way to make use of it.

In fact, teacher is also a profession that requires sufficient skills to support it, but there is no basic education in the desert, so it is good to have teachers here.

But could you at least send two reputable scholars?

The combination of such a group of people, coupled with the blockade of the desert by the House of the Decrees in the past, always makes these desert scholars' eyelids twitch.

Only after they joined the Council of Faith did they realize that their previous views on the desert were too one-sided.

What's so targeted about that? It's just... complete indifference.

But why are these forest scholars willing to come to the desert?

Because the House of Representatives promised to give them more support so that they can continue their research.

This is a commission.

Work for the sudden kindness of the House of Religious Affairs, which in turn pays for academic resources.

For scholars, this is equivalent to taking a part-time job for their research.

Although it is annoying not being able to devote my full attention to research, at least with the funding, the research can continue.

So these scholars are not very resistant.

And for the desert, suddenly giving money back to people sounds like a good thing.

Fortunately, there is Setale.

The Great Sage's assistant is leading the team personally. Maybe the Great Sage has really changed his mind.

Or maybe some new large ruins were discovered in the desert, and the House of the Holy Orders planned to excavate the ruins, and it is also possible that they could use the education system to exchange for the help of the desert people.

In short, Setale made this matter much safer, and more scholars believed that this was a transaction with desert resources.

If it is an equal deal, then it is normal to select these marginal scholars.

The House of the Faith will certainly not bring out talented scholars who are involved in core research to teach this group of desert people. These marginal scholars have limited value to the House of the Faith, so it is reasonable to let them come.

Thinking of this, everyone felt much more at ease.

In Aru Village and Kawanyi, the two groups gained the same peace of mind through different speculations.

But the result was not affected by their speculation, and the "accident" came as expected.

Jiang Qing got the news from Tinari.

(End of this chapter)