Chapter 308: Initial Results! Princess Luoying

"Huh? Where did this faith energy come from?"

One week after the Path of Hope was opened, Lin Yan let out a soft murmur in a demonic abyss underground.

Because Lin Yan had detected new faith energy.

This faith energy did not come from the two million people of Yan Country.

Through his virtual divine avatar, Lin Yan quickly learned the source of this faith energy.

It came from some people in the Hilin Kingdom!

During this past week, potatoes had become wildly popular in the Hilin Kingdom.

The ones contributing this faith energy were none other than commoners who had made money selling potatoes!

Faith is something that sounds mystical but is very practical.

These commoners had previously followed the gods of the Hilin Kingdom.

This faith granted them certain benefits: when sick, church doctors and mages would treat them; if they truly had nothing to eat, they could still get one meal a day at the church.

Some commoners who received noble land grants could even apply for church mages to help with crop growth and pest control—for free.

Yet even so, their lives remained hard and impoverished.

Until now, Yan Country under the Flame Lord had given them a chance to utterly change their fate!

These commoners, if they worked just a little harder, could earn plenty of gold coins selling potatoes—daily income even rivaling what they used to make in a month!

Their fates had been completely transformed!

Before Yan Country had taken any other action, many of these commoners had already begun worshipping the Flame Lord.

Commoners' faith is simple and practical.

More faith energy is always better; even the highest-grade divine power gains unique effects if it contains faith energy.

Moreover, the operation of the virtual divine avatar requires faith energy as its driving force.

If Lin Yan ever faces a divine war, having more faith energy will be a hidden trump card.

For example, if he converts his burning energy points into divine power, the effect would be astonishing.

In other words, in just this short week, Lin Yan's strategy revealed through revelation had already begun to show results.

The Hilin Kingdom had essentially picked up a stone only to drop it on its own foot.

Of course, the Hilin Kingdom had no real choice.

To the left lay the Hutton Kingdom; to the right, Yan Country. To the Hilin Kingdom, the Hutton Kingdom was the greater threat.

Stabilizing Yan Country while using Yan Country's divine potatoes to secure domestic food supplies—even with some side effects—was, in their view, more beneficial than harmful.

Of course, only in their view.

As potato sales surged, Princess Luoying's mood in the Hilin Kingdom's cities was far from good.

Princess Luoying had her own residence and usually did not live in Wang Gong, but she had come to Wang Gong every day to attend lessons with her teacher.

She had returned from the City of Miracles several days ago.

Yet she had not seen her father.

Many church members had arrived at Wang Gong.

Her father's guards told her the King was negotiating important matters with the church and refused outright to let her in.

What kind of important matter could take so long to discuss?

The arrival of these church members made Princess Luoying's mood grow worse and worse.

Because she suspected her guess was mostly correct.

Her father had been possessed by the Hilin Kingdom's god.

This possession might be only a sliver of consciousness.

Her father was a Sixth-Rank warrior—extremely powerful!

But in the City of Miracles, she had heard that the Lion Clan's Grand Priest was also Sixth-Rank, yet still had been possessed by a sliver of the Abyss Demon God's consciousness.

Of course, at that time, the Lion Clan's Grand Priest had offered no resistance.

But if her father had been tricked by church members, then a god descended a sliver of consciousness to possess him—it was not impossible.

Yet Princess Luoying could not understand why.

Why had her father recently broken ties with the church?

The church did not seem to have done anything to provoke him.

Why had the god descended a consciousness to possess him?

Was some major event about to happen that she did not know about?

Princess Luoying, unlike Lord Slo, did not have a full grasp of the entire country's or neighboring states' situations, so she had not yet pinpointed the key turning point of this change.

But this did not prevent her from judging the current situation.

She had already assumed the worst possible scenario.

Yet she did not panic; she still intended to test her father.