Chapter 374

The Rite of Descent of the Uma Sinner

"If there is a record in the history of faith in 【Birth】 regarding the profanation of Him, then the Uma people must be the first group of blasphemers recorded in the books.

But they did not abandon Him; rather, they worshiped Him too much, to the point where their way of worship became extreme and problematic, gradually deviating from the correct path of faith and evolving into an act of blasphemy against the gods.

As everyone knows, His will is reproduction and birth. Since ancient times, all ethnic groups that believed in Him, even for their own development and growth, had to conform to His will.

Until one day when civilization was established, and tribes or ethnic groups no longer had population worries, the fanaticism and worship of faith changed course.

The Ulun people discovered that blind faith in 【Birth】 would only make the ethnic group larger and larger, but the resources they obtained from the earth were limited. The more people there were, the less each person got, so they abandoned 【Birth】 and converted to 【Prosperity】, attempting to let everyone alive enjoy this long life.

The Uda people were more scheming; they directly fabricated the identity of a child of 【Birth】 to monopolize resources. This stupid behavior aroused the hostility of all ethnic groups, so they were hunted down and wiped out. You probably all know about this.

As for the Uma people, their blasphemous thoughts were much earlier than the Ulun people.

As early as the tribal expansion period, they discovered that the population growth rate of the ethnic group could not keep up with the speed of tribal expansion. The gestation time was too long, the infants born were too weak, and the growth process was too slow.

When vast tracts of ownerless land beckoned to them, they couldn't wait for a large number of tribesmen to lose combat effectiveness due to gestation, so they borrowed His divine power and researched the first forbidden art of blasphemy in the history of 【Birth】: the Rite of Descent.

When someone used the Rite of Descent on a tribesman with mature physical conditions, that tribesman could immediately gestate and give birth to a newborn within a few days.

Although they didn't have a way to make newborns grow up quickly, at least compared to other tribes, they shortened the time for the next generation by nearly a year.

This is the magic of the Rite of Descent. With the help of this secret art, the Uma people quickly became the overlords of this land."

Turadin spoke very meticulously, and Cheng Shi listened very carefully, but he was still puzzled.

"It sounds like this Rite of Descent is very normal. Gestation is something He is happy to see. They just accelerated this process. Does this count as blasphemy?"

Cheng Shi thought to himself while speaking, if this counts as blasphemy, then where did those ghost talents on the 【Birth】 players today come from? Aren't they all His gifts?

Turadin hadn't finished yet; she continued to explain:

"Since you all abandoned Him, you should have understood His will. In ancient tribes, there has always been an interpretation of His will.

All devout believers believe that the process of 'Birth' is the process of the newborn approaching Him. They feel that the fetus is closest to Him. Before the fetus develops wisdom, its newborn consciousness is full of His figure, and they can clearly perceive His truest appearance.

Afterward, the fetus will strive to evolve toward His appearance, but due to the limited divine power carried by humans, this evolution is basically a failure. After the newborn is born, it can only restore a very small part of the appearance of 【Birth】.

And it is also because the newborn does not look like Him that He will take back His favor, take away the memories of His appearance in human brains, and bestow upon humans independent wisdom and personality.

Those who worship gods feel that the smarter a person is, the more they evolved to look like Him during the fetal period, and this evolutionary process is also considered by ancient tribes to be the most devout offering to Him.

But the Rite of Descent profaned this offering because it made evolution completely ineffective.

When someone used the Rite of Descent to give birth to a child, that child was indeed born quickly, but he...

will become exactly the same as the user of the Rite of Descent when he grows up!

This art cut off the fetus's chance to approach Him, re-enacting the process of fetal evolution that the practitioner had already determined.

The Uma people attempted to use this method to artificially select the smartest and bravest tribesmen. They kept replicating themselves until they became the strongest ethnic group!

They stole the great power of 【Birth】 but did not use it for offering; instead, they used it for expanding land and occupying ethnic groups, satisfying their own desire for conquest, which ran counter to His will.

Therefore, after conquering the entire North, the Three Uma Tribes split under the punishment of divine retribution."

"..."

Hearing this, Cheng Shi understood immediately. So the Uma people were the first batch of 【Filth】 believers?

Even if not, they had once harbored delusions about 【Filth】 in their hearts. Of course, everyone has desires, which cannot be avoided.

It's just that...

Cheng Shi looked at Gao Ya and asked thoughtfully: "So the reason for the split of the Three Uma Tribes that you said you didn't know was actually because of divine retribution?"

Gao Ya frowned and nodded, then asked Turadin: "What kind of divine retribution?"

"The desires of the human heart.

The Uma people unified the North because of desire, but also suffered a split because they couldn't control the different desires of the ethnic groups.

He used the means by which these people abandoned Him to punish them in return.

This might be terrifying for 【Birth】 believers, but for us, it should be a piece of history worth singing about, isn't it?

It is also because of this that the Uma people, who lost their ruling power, were deeply trapped in panic, begging for His forgiveness for generations.

And inventing the umbilical cord shackles was to make themselves look like they were in the fetal stage, to win His gaze again, because they were still insisting that the fetus is closest to Him."

"..."

Cheng Shi suddenly wanted to laugh. He seemed to have guessed the reason for the split of the Three Uma Tribes in history, but this reason was probably not some divine retribution of 【Birth】, but just simply...

Long divided, it must unite; long united, it must divide.

When the contradictions of rule were gradually exposed due to insufficient ruling power, civilization naturally split. The destruction of the civilization era also followed this old path.

So what's funny is that 【Birth】 believers think 【Birth】 punished the blasphemers, not knowing that He might never have paid attention to them, or might not have cared about them at all.

Because Mouth-Brother said that fetal evolution is not because they know His appearance and attempt to approach Him, but because they are guessing the appearance He likes and trying to become that appearance to please Him.

So if Mouth-Brother wasn't lying at that time, then all interpretations of the will of 【Birth】 in the history of the Life Era are wrong.

It's no wonder that most players' understanding of Him has gone into a misunderstanding, because the history they understand is a history full of fallacies. What everyone passes on by word of mouth is wrong from the root.

Truly... pitiful.

Of course, there are even more pitiful ones, because this legendary forbidden art of blasphemy seems to have been treated as a talent by the benefactor they worship and bestowed upon the players in 【Faith Game】.

The Chieftain's blessing, or various talents of birthing oneself, aren't they just different versions of the Rite of Descent?

So He doesn't think this is blasphemy at all. The people who think these things are acts of blasphemy... are His believers, ignorant and fanatical believers.

Cheng Shi had a complex expression, feeling emotional in his heart.

Faith, it really is something that cannot be explained clearly.

But having said that, if what Turadin said is all true, then whose child is in her belly?

Who stole the Rite of Descent?

And who used the Rite of Descent on her?

It couldn't be that... Avros from the future of the deduction?

Cheng Shi's gaze became a bit strange. He looked at Turadin and said uncertainly:

"Are you satisfied with the title Miss Moon?"

Turadin laughed out loud, not minding his teasing at all.

"Satisfied, extremely satisfied."

Cheng Shi's face stiffened slightly, and he understood immediately.

There's no mistake; the child is Avros's!

Then where is he?

Died in the library? Very likely, because a faint sadness flashed in Turadin's eyes when she mentioned the Rite of Descent.

No, you two just met once and developed feelings?

Or did you know each other long ago? Who exactly is he?

It's really evil. A vagrant from the future of the deduction actually gestated a child labeled 【Filth】 with Turadin in the present!

Good, good, good, so that's how the insider Scorpio mentioned was so informed!

It's truly amazing!

So did this accident of 【Time】 help him find this life that shouldn't have been born, or did it personally create a life that shouldn't have been born?

What exactly did that Avros in the future of the deduction experience, and what did Turadin, the mother of the Holy Infant in that future space-time, experience?

Cheng Shi was too curious. He looked at Turadin with shining eyes and said:

"The child is Avros's, very good. I am very curious about what exactly happened that made you collide and produce the crystallization of life.

Don't tell me you fell for the 'praise of the moon' of a rake. Continue, don't stop, tell your story.

I am truly too curious."