Chapter 1157: Ownerless Order, Missing Elements

Therefore, the 【New Natural Philosophy Doctrine】 actually also has a corresponding Order Force.

Xia Duo cannot yet directly observe Faith Power, but through Order Force, he can also indirectly obtain partial information about this homologous Faith Power.

Very quickly, Xia Duo distinguished the 【New Natural Philosophy Doctrine Order Force】 from the vast multitude of subdivided Order Forces.

This Order Force born from the New Natural Philosophy Doctrine is different from the 【Field Allotment System Order Force】 or the 【Pioneering Department Order Force】, which are Order Forces completely led by Xia Duo.

Its relationship with Xia Duo is not one of dominance, but rather one of detachment; there is influence, but the influence is not obvious.

The most important point is that this kind of Order Force cannot construct an Order Cycle!

Xia Duo found the reason after a moment of thought: generally, doctrines or decrees have a subject or a source, but this New Natural Philosophy Doctrine is more like a moral code, having neither a subject nor a source.

Or rather, this is an ownerless order created out of thin air, merely a consensus initiated by Yatewude and temporarily acknowledged by the residents.

The residents can acknowledge it or not; Xia Duo does not have much binding power over this. If he were to mandate and enforce it, it would then be a decree.

And if the subject and source of the doctrine were attributed to "Nature," although it is advertised that Xia Duo is the spokesperson for Nature, he is not actually Nature, and thus cannot lead this kind of order.

At the same time, doing so carries the risk of creating a god through faith, which Xia Duo naturally cannot do.

In fact, all propaganda for the New Natural Philosophy has never mentioned any "God of Nature," and even if there are discussions about gods, they are only to support the viewpoint that "everything is Nature."

In the New Natural Philosophy, Nature is greater than gods, higher than gods, and contains gods, not the other way around.

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Carefully perceiving this detached 【New Natural Philosophy Doctrine Order Force】, Xia Duo soon discovered the same existence within Yatewude.

Since he cannot directly control this Order Force, Xia Duo can only attempt to aggregate it with other Order Forces that both he and Yatewude possess, thereby indirectly interfering with it.

The first, naturally, is the 【Field Allotment System Order Force】, which is already completely controlled by Xia Duo.

Under Xia Duo's intentional control, his perspective of Perception gradually "lifted," and the boundaries between different Order Forces began to blur, no longer having clear distinctions between 【Field Allotment System】 or 【Pioneering Department】.

In this process, the 【New Natural Philosophy Doctrine Order Force】 inevitably merged with other Order Forces, barely being categorized into the "Great Xia Order System."

Subsequently, Xia Duo began to continuously cast spells to push such a relatively macroscopic Order Force cycle. This vision was beautiful, but reality was cruel.

First of all, such a macroscopic or even grand Order Force is not easy to form into a cycle. If it were not for the fact that Xia Duo's Territory is still relatively small and currently "politically stable and harmonious," he might not even be able to complete the first step.

But now, the first step of the cycle was indeed successful, but subsequently, when subdividing the Order Force, the 【New Natural Philosophy Doctrine Order Force】 had not changed at all compared to before!

"Sigh—"

Xia Duo let out a long sigh of disappointment, then stopped the spell and re-observed the state of the Order Force.

However, there is not much previous data available for reference regarding the study of Order Force; there is only one Ascension Ritual Book, and it only contains specific methods, without detailed Principles or demonstration processes.

"I'm afraid I still have to incorporate the Natural Doctrine into the system first!"

However, this kind of thing cannot be completed just by standing here. For the time being, the path of indirectly obtaining Faith Power information through Order Force is a dead end!

He must return to the path of facing the "Natural Will" directly!

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A moment later, Yatewude woke up. This time he still failed to perceive Holy Power, and after waking up, he asked Xia Duo immediately:

"Lord Territory Owner, I still failed to perceive Holy Power this time. Do you have any findings?"

"The time was too short, no findings. Let's try again!"

Regarding this, Yatewude did not feel anything was wrong. In the past, when he was in the Golden Oak Branch Order, a single prayer would often last half a day, and some Elf Druids could even remain immersed in the spiritual world for several days.

Soon, the two began again.

Having had the experience once, Xia Duo did not choose to completely adopt Yatewude's perspective this time, but instead hid "behind" him to observe the "Natural Will's" Projection onto "Yatewude."

The effect this time was much better; it lost neither real-time capability nor the risk of a large amount of information impacting his mind. The only shortcoming was probably the alienation problem after the "Natural Will" was filtered through "Yatewude," as well as the issue of missing information.

But under limited conditions, having reached this point is already good enough, and there is no need to have too many extravagant hopes.

And in this state of Perception, Xia Duo soon discovered a situation completely different from the past.

In the past, he had no problem facing the so-called "Natural Will" directly, and Yatewude naturally would not have any novel changes, but now—

Yatewude's consciousness seemed to be incorporated into some kind of specially changing system, in which the exchange of information was very frequent. As an existence "coexisting yet independent" with him, Xia Duo could see this extremely clearly!

Xia Duo tried to access more Perception shared by Yatewude, which exceeded the scope of a "shadow," but was still a considerable distance away from a complete first-person perspective.

At the same time, a large amount of information flooded into Xia Duo's consciousness again, but compared to the previous complete adoption of the first-person perspective, it had been reduced countless times.

Xia Duo tried to analyze this information, but gained nothing at all.

It is not that this information could not be analyzed, but that this information was merely a part of Yatewude's cognition of the world and Nature, as well as some corrective information fed back by the so-called "Natural Will."

Xia Duo had already obtained this information in his previous several shared Perception experiments; although not as much as this time, essentially nothing new had appeared.

Next, Xia Duo did not continue to increase the Perception ratio, but maintained this state, yet he did not continue to analyze this new information that was constantly pouring in.

Instead, in a relatively detached manner, from a more macroscopic perspective, he perceived the macroscopic trend above the details of this special changing system.

Gradually, Xia Duo seemed to have an epiphany; he discovered that the exchange between Yatewude and this system itself did not have any major problems, which perhaps corresponded to the fact that the Nature Response was always normal.

But at the same time, he also discovered that this exchange was not complete, giving one a feeling of stuttering.

It was similar to a program where the user had clearly issued a new request and the program had responded, but the result was constant resetting and constant looping.

It seemed that some necessary factor was missing.

Is it insufficient Faith Power? Or is there some defect in the Holy Power conversion mechanism?

At this step, Xia Duo still could not reach an accurate conclusion.

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