Chapter 1351

Top-ranked on the path to godhood

"Lord Envoy Envoy Yu Xi is joking.

Compared to a marionette that can't be brought to the table, your achievements are the true 'cheating'; otherwise, 【Void】 wouldn't have chosen you to become..."

The little wooden puppet didn't dare to say it all; he was waiting for Cheng Shi's response.

Cheng Shi guessed what Wei Mu was going to say; he didn't stop him but smiled and stretched out his hand to signal the other party to continue, letting the wise man perform.

Before asking the top-ranked person on the path to godhood, he had to confirm which version the other party's cheat had reached.

If Wei Mu really had the level, it wouldn't be too late to share the latest version of intelligence to complete the other party's cognition.

Wei Mu, having received the signal, bowed again and continued:

"... the offering of this era.

I think I have guessed the reason why you came here, Lord.

You are seeking a way to get rid of the identity of an offering, right?

Thank you for your generous facial feedback, Lord; it seems I guessed right. So this is a gathering place for a 'rebel' organization, and the flame representing the deviation from 【Fate】 and the lingering glow of civilization, and a successor to 【War】 who 'knows how to survive and fears no bloodshed,' are probably the king and queen here.

Sorry, this is just a metaphor; I have no intention of blaspheming the two of you.

When all the 'rebels' gather together, no one will believe they are discussing how to make the divine power of the current ruler more stable...

In this way, I actually understand a little.

Before, I always thought that the eyes of the two 【Void】 masters, 【Deception】 and 【Fate】, betting on you were slightly twisted; two completely different wills actually completed an inexplicable intersection.

But when I learned that you were resistant to the identity of an offering, I figured it out. 【Fate】 is probably the one who truly took a fancy to you; the identity of Envoy Envoy Yu Xi concerns the answer of 【Void】, right?

And it is very likely that this answer is not friendly to you, which is why you resisted, and the resistance gave 【Deception】 an opportunity; it kidnapped you with this will.

It seems I guessed right; what 【Deception】 seeks is not untraceable, at least the evidence is right here:

It supported a 【Fate】 Messenger to protect these 'rebels,' undoubtedly indicating that it likes rebellion, and the result brought by this rebellion is that the two wills of 【Void】 intersect on you, and the eyes of the gods are also attracted by the answer of 【Void】.

Speaking of which, I should thank you.

The day I became the top-ranked on the path to godhood, I realized that the path to godhood might not be approaching the gods, but approaching the 'choice' of the gods.

I once hesitated whether to give up, but I was unwilling to lose this rare opportunity to get close to the gods just like that.

But when I stayed in that position for a long time without ever getting any 'feedback' from the gods, I realized that perhaps someone had already 'stolen' the gaze of the path to godhood, making the gods no longer care who was closest to them, because they had already found that 'choice'... the choice made by 【Void】.

It was you who 'saved' me; Wei Mu sincerely thanks you."

"..."

Although the words didn't sound bad, how did this thanks sound like "contempt"...

Is this a wise man?

Is this Wei Mu?

He hadn't even seen him in any 【Void】 game, yet he could calculate the wills of those two 【Void】 masters without the slightest error through the clues between this universe.

Although Cheng Shi didn't know what exactly made 【Void】 choose him, based on everything he had experienced, Wei Mu's perspective was completely consistent with his.

Cheng Shi applauded this brilliant deduction, but he knew this was definitely not the full understanding of this world by the first wise man before him, so he reached out again, letting Wei Mu continue to perform.

Wei Mu was stunned for a moment, understood the meaning of Envoy Envoy Yu Xi, nodded, and brewed his words:

"Is it a brick to knock on the door again...

Since you have given Wei Mu a chance, Wei Mu will throw out a brick to attract jade, and boldly ask for your true knowledge and insight with my humble opinion.

After parting with you last time, I guessed that you should be collecting some special things, such as the eyes hidden in the statues of the Fool-Hunters?

That should be a mask?

I'm not sure if this mask is related to 【Memory】 or the authority my master lost, but looking at it now, it must be related to the answer of 【Void】, right, Lord?

You haven't collected them all, lost in where the answer lies, and the bewilderment on the faces of the other two also tells me that at least here, you can't find the answer you want.

So you didn't come here for that mask that might exist, but for other things."

Hearing this, Qin Xin had completely lost his expression; he just stood there silently listening. If it weren't for the fake curtain call just now that gave him a foundation, perhaps his face would have been full of shock by now.

The Hope Fire was different; it looked at the little wooden puppet with extreme curiosity, hanging upside down in front of the little wooden puppet several times, clearly wanting to take apart the puppet's skull to see what was hidden inside.

Only Cheng Shi was calm enough, but in fact, he was pretending.

He was more shocked than anyone because he knew everything Wei Mu said was right.

He had experienced countless fears, bewilderment, and despair to get to this step and know these things, but how could the wise man?

Just by a brain that believes in 【Dementia】?

If this doesn't count as cheating, the word "cheat" should be deleted from the dictionary!

Of course, these miscellaneous thoughts could only be considered self-mockery; if there really were cheats in this universe, perhaps the Fear Sect and the God of Fun wouldn't have been forced into this state.

He looked at the puppet's dull eyes, pondered slightly, and seemed to remember something. Linking it to what 【Time】 had said, Cheng Shi was suddenly stunned and blurted out:

"Faith?"

After saying only one sentence, the will of the clear-headed collapsed with a roar, and the wails of the lost sang out once again. All the yellow fog in the void boiled, and distortion and abstraction re-polluted the entire space.

"!"

The puppet froze; this was the first time Wei Mu had lost his composure in front of others because his magic trick had been exposed!

That's right, he borrowed the power of faith.

Remember the meeting on the terrace of Doer-Gede; Wei Mu once said he had obtained the container of 【Dementia】, but that container was used to collect the divinity dripped by faith. Wei Mu was not the "god" of 【Dementia】, and 【Dementia】 didn't have a subordinate god to lend him an identity, so he couldn't use the container at first.

But he thought of a way, which was to become the top-ranked on the path to godhood and let the world believe in and pursue his wisdom!

In this way, after the cognition that Wei Mu's intelligence was the best in the game spread, he collected the first drop of divinity that belonged to him.

These divinities could piece together authority, but the 【Dementia】 authority was missing, making Wei Mu unable to find an instruction manual he could refer to; he could only try to piece it together himself.

Unfortunately, the experiment to seize 【Dementia】 authority this way failed, but it didn't completely fail, because during the experiment, he discovered that the final output of collecting faith to drip divinity didn't seem to be just divinity. During the process of faith condensation, the special connection generated with the faith carrier due to faith intersection was also a subject worth studying.

He turned to deeply cultivate this field, and while mastering the piecing together of divinity, he also mastered the little trick of using faith gathering to temporarily borrow the wisdom of the faith carrier.

Simply put, when Wei Mu is thinking, he no longer relies only on his own brainpower, but borrows a bit of computing power from all the "followers" who "firmly believe" in his wisdom!

These brainpowers are negligible, and are even fundamentally the parts of individual consciousness that are sleeping and unused, but because of the "firm belief" in Wei Mu, they are passively lent to him.

In this way, although the brainpower lent by individuals is very small, under the superposition of a huge base, Wei Mu can still get a lot of help when thinking, which is also the reason why he has been getting closer to the "truth" recently.

He self-explored the prototype of faith turning into authority, and was even about to find the piecing instructions for 【Dementia】 authority...

And this is also where the gods value faith, because authority and faith have never been two independent things.

In a sense, Wei Mu's actions already very much fit the literal meaning of the path to godhood; he is approaching the gods step by step in his own way.