Chapter 1156: Holy Power Conversion Mechanism, Facing the Natural Will

Through the Mind Link, Xia Duo completely immersed himself in Yatewude's perspective, which to a certain extent bypassed the alienation of information that occurs from Yatewude to the Mind Link and then from the Mind Link to him, allowing him to obtain first-hand information directly.

Xia Duo had already conducted experiments sharing perception like this several times before, and he was long since familiar with this strange yet familiar feeling.

However, this was the first time sharing perception after Yatewude perceived the New Natural Holy Power; although Yatewude currently possessed no Holy Power, the "Natural Will" was still responding to him, just not with Holy Power.

Regarding this, Xia Duo remained relatively cautious.

As far as the present is concerned, Holy Power is always related to gods, but Xia Duo had personally participated in the birth and development of the New Natural Philosophy, and he did not believe that any divine factors existed within it.

It could only be attributed to the fact that his and Yatewude's various actions had created a conceptual entity of "Nature" as described in the New Natural Philosophy.

After all, a power as real and undeniable as Holy Power had already appeared; to say it was illusory or virtual was somewhat unrealistic.

As for why the Holy Power was insufficient, or even why it had completely disappeared now, Xia Duo speculated that it might be because this conceptual entity was not yet mature enough to provide Holy Power to believers continuously and stably.

However, this was merely his own speculation; it was also possible that it was influenced by the Territory's Land Grant System ritual. Power would never come from nothing; there must be some reason behind it.

That faith can be converted into Holy Power was no secret to Xia Duo; the Ascension Ritual Book explicitly mentioned that the greatest function of Divine Fire is to convert Holy Power.

Of course, Holy Power certainly does not have only Divine Fire as a source, otherwise, where would Yatewude's New Natural Holy Power have come from?

But the mechanism of Holy Power conversion should be similar to that of Divine Fire, both being converted from faith.

Then, at a time when the entire Daxia Territory is preoccupied with pioneering and production, how much faith would be provided to the "Nature" conceptual entity for this special Holy Power conversion mechanism?

Both reasons were possible, but if Xia Duo had to choose, he hoped it was the latter.

If it were the former, it would mean that "Nature" has multiple stages; it might be in an incomplete stage now, so it could potentially become complete, perfect, or even develop a Personality in the future.

This was not impossible. A new ideology he had personally participated in creating suddenly gave birth to Holy Power, similar to the birth of a god; it was truly hard not to let one's imagination run wild.

As for the latter, it was more akin to discovering a new type of Holy Power conversion mechanism, similar to a machine: you put in as much material (faith) as you want to produce (Holy Power), and the relationship is relatively pure.

For example, the "Holy Light" in a certain game Xia Duo played before he transmigrated was a kind of ideology, a kind of faith; as long as one conformed to this ideology or faith, one could obtain the power of Holy Light.

This power had nothing to do with the actual morality of one's actions, but rather with the user's true inner thoughts, which led to instances of the undead using Holy Light or using Holy Light to carry out massacres.

This was a more stable way of obtaining power (Holy Power conversion mechanism) that better matched Xia Duo's psychological expectations.

If the source were a god, a transcendent existence with self-awareness, although Xia Duo trusted gods like the Lord of Radiance, the ascension of mortals to godhood had now become an unstoppable trend.

In the future, the Lord of Radiance might not be immune to influence, leading to unpredictable actions.

Or rather, Xia Duo trusted relatively stable rules and mechanisms more than "people" or "gods" who could change at any moment.

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As Yatewude's perception deepened, Xia Duo gradually put away the thoughts spreading in his mind, emptying his consciousness to welcome Nature's response in a relatively pure state, maximizing the exclusion of human interference.

Soon, Xia Duo followed Yatewude's perception to make contact with a magnificent, vast, and all-encompassing strange existence.

The reason it is called an "existence" is that it felt so real, just like the sky one sees when looking up, the earth one treads upon, and all things one can touch with one's hands.

Just from that momentary intuitive perception, Xia Duo's mind felt as if it had received a massive impact, and he instantly withdrew from Yatewude's first-person perspective.

At the same time, more information surged from Yatewude's side through the Mind Link, but Xia Duo was in no state to analyze these things at the moment.

At this moment, his entire intellect was occupied by the massive amount of information that had suddenly flooded his mind.

Unlike the previous few times sharing perception, when Xia Duo could fully buffer this information or even temporarily suppress it to continue contact with the so-called "Natural Will."

But now, in just this instant, the information that flooded in was countless times greater than what he had obtained in previous shared perceptions.

At this moment, he envied Yatewude immensely, envying that he was still unable to parse various Subconscious Information, as if he hadn't received the impact of this massive amount of information at all.

If Xia Duo had completely integrated his subconscious and Conscious Mind, then these impacts would not matter; a powerful consciousness could naturally handle them with ease.

What he feared most was this current situation of being neither here nor there, stuck in the middle.

A large amount of information flooded in; he could neither process it completely (thoroughly integrating subconscious and Conscious Mind) nor block it completely (totally unable to control the subconscious). The result of partial processing was a massive accumulation, leading to a mental standstill.

However, in just this instant, Xia Duo also gained a "panoptic" effect and had a brand-new understanding of the so-called "Natural Will"—though, of course, only of the state of the Natural Will at that instant.

After severing the Mind Link, Yatewude continued to perceive, and Xia Duo did not call a halt; instead, he deployed Arcane Fire beside him and then cast a spell to perceive the circulation state of the Order Force.

Xia Duo now had complete control over the 【Field Allotment System Order Force】 and had already formed an automatic circulation of this Order Force.

Other Order Forces were, in fact, the same as the 【Field Allotment System Order Force】, all being components of the "Xia Duo Order System."

In the two days since the Land Grant ritual, Xia Duo had been busy with experiments in the Semi-plane and had limited energy, so he had not cast spells to drive the circulation of the Order Force.

But now, driven by the 【Field Allotment System Order Force】, those Order Forces capable of completing an Order Cycle gradually became active.

However, Xia Duo was not trying to build an Order Cycle this time, but rather to find the Order Force of the special order known as 【New Natural Philosophy Doctrine】.

The New Natural Philosophy that Xia Duo spread in the Territory was called an ideology, but for ordinary residents, ideologies are difficult to understand; only Doctrines are easier to accept.

Of course, the 【New Natural Philosophy Doctrine】 was different from the Doctrines of the gods in the general sense; it had no "God said" or "God did" type of language, and its form of expression was more akin to "moral codes for residents."

The New Natural Philosophy was actually derived from the "Daoist" ideology of Xia Duo's hometown; this ideology has nothing to do with good or evil and is unfavorable to governance.

Therefore, ideology and philosophy are one thing, while the actual implemented Doctrines and Proverbs are another.

It is similar to the difference between Daoism as a philosophy and Daoism as a religion!