Sweeping both worlds: Starting from idealistic martial arts

Chapter 459 The Most Ancient God! Genesis!
[God Idol Project!!!]

In his private office atop the capital building of the Great Zhou Empire, Fang Can presented this proposal to the assembled officials.

This unfamiliar proposal left many officials present completely bewildered, feeling that Fang Can's actions had touched upon areas where their knowledge was lacking.

They know each word, whether it's about gods or idol projects, but what does it mean when put together?
"No need to answer yet. Just browse through my proposal and then answer me!" Fang Can said calmly, waving his hand to signal them to study it.

After receiving approval, everyone present immediately picked up the project proposal and began reading it.

But the more they read, the more shocked they became, feeling that it was utterly absurd.

The so-called God Idol Project is to create a series of IPs with Fang Can as the core, turn the gods into traffic idols and turn them into an industry chain, so that the entire Great Zhou Empire will deviate from reality and move towards idol culture.

The Writers Association compiles legends of gods, and the manufacturing industry produces related merchandise such as merchandise, character illustrations, figurines, and posters...

The news industry engages in marketing by buying trending topics and hyping up the popularity of deities.

Simply put, it means getting everyone on all 60,000 life-resource planets of the Great Zhou Empire involved in this god-making movement, spreading Fang Can's image to all the star-sea nations.

"No, this is absolutely not allowed, Your Majesty!"

After the Minister of Education read through the entire document, he immediately stood up and protested vehemently, saying, "How can gods be traffic stars?"

"What the gods need is the devout faith of all beings, not the fleeting faith formed by the momentary pleasure of popular idols. Such fleeting popularity comes and goes quickly, and the image of the gods should never be personified."

Following the words of the Minister of Education of the Great Zhou Dynasty, everyone else nodded in agreement, even their own gods could not accept this proposal.

Unless it's a turbulent divine kingdom, the worship of those people for their own people will never change.

Furthermore, a person can only contribute one faith, and unless they convert, they can never change their faith.

The faith in a deity is as solid as gold and iron, while the adoration for fame is merely a bubble. A person may like many celebrities, but they can only have one true deity.

In this situation, people can simultaneously dedicate their faith to their own country's gods and admire popular celebrities from other countries.

More importantly, as fanatical believers in the gods, they simply cannot accept the commodification of the gods.

Adaptation is not random editing, drama is not nonsense.

Even two hostile nations tacitly agree not to ridicule each other's deities.

Because after a war of national destiny, your identity can change immediately. If you can vilify the gods of other countries, then don't be too hasty in retaliating by vilifying the gods of your country.

Throughout history, countless holy wars have been waged because of such things.

After years of war, all countries have tacitly agreed that laws that vilify the gods of other countries cannot be enacted; at most, they may verbally criticize them.

Fang Can's current project directly turns the image of a deity into a traffic-driven phenomenon, which crosses some red lines.

Today, Fang Can can become a popular figure, but what if countries really entertain the image of Fang Can as a god to death? What if tomorrow a doujinshi titled "The Miserable God" comes out?
Previously, there was a goddess named Luo Tianyi in the Sakura Starfield who wanted to hold a concert, but it was met with nationwide protests.

The belief that deities should be sacred and not confused with actors ultimately led to the matter being left unresolved.

Therefore, in the face of Fang Can's plan, various high-ranking officials stepped forward to strongly protest.

Faced with these people's protests, Fang Can, as a deity, directly vetoed and rejected their protests.

“What you all say makes a lot of sense, and I can see your beliefs, but I have my own considerations.”

Fang Can crossed his arms and smiled as he looked at the people in front of him, saying:

"The purpose of issuing this proposal is to gather your collective wisdom so that, while establishing my sacred image, my brilliance can be spread to the stars in the shortest possible time."

"Beidou Star Region, Sakura Star Region, Owen Star Region, Eagle Beauty Star Region, in the next few months, I need you to work yourselves out to make my name known throughout the entire starry sea."

"I want you to persist in cultural export, even if it means taking out loans to buy me trending topics and traffic."

Ignoring everyone's objections, Fang Can made the final decision: "This matter will be treated as a national policy of the Great Zhou Dynasty. You must do your utmost to handle it."

"Moreover, it's not just about promoting me; Great Zhou also needs to promote itself to the outside world, making Great Zhou a beacon of the stars."

"How...how is this even possible?"

"It's very simple. Just give them empty promises. We don't need to fool them forever, just fool them for a while and get those people to come to us."

Upon hearing this, the Minister of Culture, unable to contain his frustration, pointed out the problem:

“Our Great Zhou currently only has 60,000 resource stars. There are countless countries like ours in the star sea. No matter how much we promote ourselves, they can easily find out about us by connecting our historical records and looking at our local customs and culture.”

"It's simple, we'll disconnect from the internet!" Fang Can said with a grin.

"Internet disconnected?"

"That's right. As long as we cut off the internet and don't give the outside world a chance to understand us, no matter how much we exaggerate and promote our beauty, the outside world will have no opportunity to verify what we've done."

When they can only hear praise but can't see the actual product, they will naturally be deceived by our lies and fill in the blanks in their minds.

The entire network of the star system is directly provided by the Book of Time as a relay, allowing for real-time connections even across billions of light-years.

In this situation, Fang Can planned to use a scarcity marketing strategy in the early stages, building a wall to prevent outsiders from seeing the truth.

All they need to do is create a Ponzi scheme that deceives everyone for a period of time and keep it from being exposed.

Then gather all the faith power of the entire world and digest all the faith before the scam ends and everything is left in a mess.

Even if those people eventually change their faith, it won't matter to Fang Can.

Because the only source of faith power that was beneficial to him had already been completely harvested and digested.

Looking at Fang Can's expression, many officials present began to have doubts, feeling that this matter was completely unreliable.

However, due to their absolute fanaticism for the gods, and with Fang Can vetoing their protests, the officials present had no choice but to obey and leave, and begin to study Fang Can's plan.

There's no need to study the so-called feasibility, because in this country where the gods reside, since Fang Can has already forced it, he will do his best to carry it out even if it's impossible.

Watching the officials leave silently, Fang Can grinned. In his opinion, this world was far too easy to fool.

In terms of technology, since the Seventh Rank History Book is directly in charge, all military research has been completely halted, except for the National Fortune Arena where people rely on faith in gods to fight.

On an individual level, because all the inheritances of these people directly formed the historical record of all living beings, and due to the historical gaps in between, all methods of cultivation disappeared, and everyone became an ordinary person. In this world, the only precious thing left is the population; the larger the population of a country, the stronger its gods.

Fang Can had previously traversed the history of this world and discovered that it wasn't that no one had considered creating clones, but those cloned humans simply couldn't provide faith.

Fang Can was also aware of the reason.

Because all those who can provide faith power can be seen as seventh-level fragments that have become sentient, and how could ordinary cloning technology possibly clone a seventh-level human?
……

In the following days, a piece of news spread throughout Xinghai and became a top trending topic on Xinghai's hot search list.

[Shocking! A small country that destroyed a great power! A god that defies common sense!]

[The Truth You Don't Know! The Oldest Kingdom in the History of the Star Sea! The Original Origins]

[Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river; the revived divine kingdom!]

The truth you don't know: the power of faith hidden in the oil-paper package inside the drainpipe.

[A citywide power outage was ordered for one day in an effort to retrieve a statue of a deity]

……

Such news spread across major trending platforms, attracting countless people eager to learn more.

In the Beidou Starfield, during the working hours of the Huanyuan Divine Kingdom's Hengji Star Moon Sun, Li Yan, as usual, slacked off during his working hours.

Although we now have abundant material resources and most jobs are done by machines, humans still need to work in accordance with the law.

As he lay back in his chair, the chatter of his colleagues next to him immediately caught his attention.

"Hey, have you heard? That Great Zhou next door, with the power of faith from just one resource star, directly annexed a federal nation with hundreds of thousands of resource stars."

"Nonsense, it feels like they're cheating. I heard that the Great Zhou is a primordial planet in the Golden Age. Due to its extreme development, every Great Zhou person has light in their eyes. The faith of one Great Zhou person is equivalent to the faith of hundreds of thousands of people in our country."

"We're in the age of interstellar AI now, how can there still be people spreading rumors! They actually believe such outrageous rumors." Listening to his colleagues' comments, Li Yan shook his head with a wry smile.

After all, any news on the internet can now be traced directly to its source using AI, and most rumors can be debunked on their own.

Although he didn't believe it, Li Yan still spoke up since he had nothing better to do: "Xiao Du, help me check the recent national fortune arena battles of the Great Zhou Dynasty and list the ratio of the number of people from each country in each battle."

As soon as Li Yan spoke, the AI ​​immediately generated the relevant data in front of him.

But after just one glance, Li Yan's gaze immediately fixed on it, because the content was exactly the same as what his colleague had said.

On the first day, the god worshipped by one planet defeated Daqing, who worshipped 500 planets.

On the second day, the faith of 101 planets defeated the meteorite that possessed 30 planets.

"This isn't scientific?" Li Yan subconsciously retorted as he looked at the content on the AI.

However, the data presented by AI is real. We are no longer in the era of AI being artificially stupid. With multiple pieces of information cross-verified, AI will not give out messages or make up lies to deceive people.

With a desire to verify his claims, he continued, "Keep giving me information about the Great Zhou, the reasons why the Great Zhou was able to win despite being outnumbered, and whether the Great Zhou was the original planet of the Golden Age."

Xiao Du: "The existing data is insufficient to deduce the factors of victory, but according to existing historical documents, there is a certain probability that the Great Zhou was a primitive planet."

'Hiss... It really isn't a rumor?'

Li Yan rubbed his chin, looking at the AI's reply, his curiosity piqued.

With a sense of inquiry, he immediately clicked on various websites, only to find that all the webpages were flooded with this news, including all sorts of analytical documents, battle videos, and the history of gods.

While browsing through the various video covers, he stumbled upon a blogger he usually followed who was also talking about this issue.

Trusting his own people, he clicked on the video and saw the blogger, dressed formally, standing in front of a podium, speaking righteously and sternly:
"In this episode, we'll be talking about the legendary national war that recently went viral, with over 100,000 players breaking the 100,000 mark in a single week!"

"First ask if it's true, then ask why!"

"Before recounting the battle, we need to understand the deeds of Fang Can, this god."

"Fang Can! Who is he?!"

"Based on the video of his first battle against Gojou Satoru in the National Fortune Battlefield, he may be the founder of the Golden Age!"

“I know you don’t believe it, but that’s exactly what the summoner Li Longyun said in the video.”

"As we all know, videos cannot be photoshopped, and what we all know is that the summoner's incantation must correspond to the life story of the deity."

"In conclusion, as Sherlock Holmes, the god of the neighboring British Star System, once said, 'Eliminate all the impossible factors, and what remains, however unwilling you may be to believe it, is the truth!'"

"In other words, it's highly likely that Fang Can is the first among all the gods! The most ancient god!"

"If we accept this premise, then all the illogicalities can be explained!"

……

As Li Yan watched the video, his eyes widened in disbelief at its contents.

"Xiao Du, is what he said correct?" Li Yan asked.

Xiao Du: "According to the analysis, the logic is clear and the reasoning is complete, but some reasoning is based on the god setting set released by the official Zhou Dynasty, and it is impossible to distinguish between true and false."

Listening to the AI's analysis, Li Yan fell into deep thought.

In this information age, if even AI cannot immediately disprove an event and can only give an unknowable conclusion, then there is indeed a possibility that something is true.

Immediately, Li Yan was filled with curiosity about the event and directly clicked on the relevant link to access the deity setting collection provided on the official website of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The very first prologue: "Genesis!"

With a sense of curiosity, Li Yan immediately began reading. The first chapter described the birth of the entire world.

Contrary to other mythologies, this world was not created by gods.

Rather, this world was born around a god. It exists because Fang Can needed a world, and the entire worldview revolves around Fang Can, this god.

(It seems that this is indeed true; this part wasn't made up.)
(The entire book "This Martial Arts Master is Too Crazy" revolves around Fang Can to build its worldview. The premise of the book is that Fang Can needs to exist in this world to turn things around, which is why this multiverse has become what it is.)
(End of this chapter)