Chapter 49: Creating a God, Destroying a God!

The First of All Ages?

The First of All Ages!!!

Seeing the final evaluation on the Rising Dragon List, Ye Qingshi stood stunned, unable to utter a word.

Suddenly, she recalled the words spoken just now, teasing Fang Can for his audacious attempt to climb the Heavenly Secrets List.

And now, as if legend had stepped into reality, a youth evaluated as the First of All Ages had silently and madly overturned the lake of her heart.

"This... is you, isn't it?" Ye Qingshi asked.

In her heart, various doubts and questions surged, such as the possibility that the so-called Heavenly Secrets List was forged by Yan Zhi in an attempt to play an excessive joke on her.

But as she looked up, Yan Zhi, who had delivered the list, wore an expression of utter shock; upon seeing the roster, the skin on his face had crinkled tightly from the shock.

Thus, the young girl sought confirmation, wanting to verify the authenticity of this current list with Fang Can.

"... Hmm, it's not me." Fang Can snapped the book shut and stopped browsing further.

"You're lying." Almost instantly, Ye Qingshi voiced her disbelief, believing without reason that Fang Can was lying.

"If Miss Ye believes it is, then so be it." Fang Can rose from his wheelchair and, with a wave of his hand, crumpled the entire booklet into a tightly bound paper ball.

He raised his eyes to the sky; the clear, gentle sunlight reflected in his pupils, scattering the irritability in his heart.

In the brief moment of turning around, he saw a burly man with two small mustaches standing behind him.

Sighing softly in his heart, Fang Can clasped his hands and said, "Ye Ye Guanzhu Ye, have you come to stop me on this journey?"

Ye Yonglie looked at the youth before him with a complex gaze; he had somewhat guessed that Fang Can's identity might be a bit suspicious, but he never imagined the hidden secret was so terrifying.

The simultaneous occurrence of the First Realm of the Profound Gate and the Awakening of the Heart-Image on a single person, coupled with less than a month of martial arts practice, indeed merited the title of the First of All Ages.

"I merely wish to ask Young Friend Fang to continue guiding us with his Heart-Image," Ye Yonglie smiled.

"Oh?" Fang Can retorted, "Ye Ye Guanzhu must have seen the Heavenly Secrets List as well; even so, you will not expel me? Are you not afraid of making enemies with the Tiger Fiery Gate?"

"Why would we expel Young Friend Fang?" Ye Yonglie said, "As long as we do not speak, besides the Heavenly Secrets Tower, who else would know you are here?"

"It is like darkness under the lamp; everyone will assume Young Friend Fang, the abandoned disciple of the Tiger Fiery Gate, will leave as soon as possible, but if we act against this expectation, who could possibly know?"

Fang Can's eyebrows furrowed slightly as he stared at Ye Yonglie before him, no longer silent.

"Yesterday, only the dozens of disciples within the martial arts hall heard of Young Friend Fang's name; as long as we agree among ourselves to keep the secret, Young Friend Fang will naturally have no worries."

With Ye Yonglie's words, Fang Can's original thought of taking action dissipated; he looked at Ye Yonglie and said:

"Is this your decision? Even at the risk of your entire sect being wiped out, you still choose to shield me? What do you hope to gain?"

"Because I am willing to believe that Young Friend Fang can become the strongest." A fierce smile stretched across Ye Yonglie's lips as he said, "I intend to bet my entire life's martial arts on Young Friend!"

"I intend to worship Young Friend Fang as a God!" Ye Yonglie's eyes fixed tightly on Fang Can as he spoke with firm conviction.

"Worship me as a God?"

Fang Can tilted his head, not understanding the other's meaning, but in the moment he turned his head, he saw the shocked expressions on Yan Zhi's and Ye Qingshi's faces.

"I have practiced martial arts for not long; what is there to this 'worshipping a God'?" Fang Can asked in confusion.

"Of course. The so-called worshipping of a God means treating a person as a deity to be enshrined, regarding oneself as the most fervent believer of the deity, dedicating everything to the God, and viewing the God as the supreme."

Ye Qingshi volunteered the explanation, simultaneously looking at her father with worry, having not expected the other to be willing to pay such a huge price.

"Then what use is there in worshipping a God this way?" Fang Can asked, puzzled; if it were as Ye Qingshi said, the price paid was far too great.

"Of course it is useful. Sincere worship of a God allows one to cultivate by relying on faith in the deity; the closer one is to the God, the more divine miracles one witnesses, and the firmer the faith, the greater the benefit to cultivation."

"Believers need to worship the God sincerely, while the God only needs to do one thing: keep winning."

"Creating a God is easy; destroying a God is naturally easy as well."

"Believers construct a perfect God in their hearts to worship; what if the served God is defeated and acquires a blemish? Under the shattering of the believers' conviction, they may even fall into madness."

Ye Qingshi spoke seriously; this was both an explanation for Fang Can and a reminder to her father, urging him to think thrice before acting.

After all, there is no such thing as an unbroken winning streak; every failure of the believed God is a huge blow to the believers, until the God's golden body turns to clay, and the believers naturally meet no good end.

'What kind of fan-circle cultivation method is this?' Fang Can thought wordlessly, then asked:

"Then since real-world Gods can fail, why not build a statue of a God in one's mind and worship a virtual God instead?"

'For instance, a future Buddha like Luo Tianyi; such an image could never collapse, right?' Fang Can thought, letting his mind wander.

"Because a virtual God has no divine miracles; it is like a flower in water or the moon in the mirror, a rootless duckweed." Ye Yonglie said seriously:

"What is a divine miracle? The very act of a God walking among humans is a divine miracle; a false God, though undefeated, is built upon lies and can be shattered with a single poke."

"Only a true God, through repeatedly defeating enemies with martial force, using the most powerful strength and the most domineering words to destroy foes, can bring growth to the believers' minds," Ye Yonglie said.

'Understood. Virtual idols won't work, but idols building a persona can.' Fang Can realized.

"So... I wish to worship Young Friend Fang as a God, dedicating everything I have to Young Friend."

Ye Yonglie spoke with earnest words, and after finishing, he knelt directly on the ground, saying, "Please, O God, grant my wish."

"This..." Looking at Ye Ye Guanzhu Fang kneeling on the ground, Fang Can was momentarily confused, unsure whether to agree.

"Young Master Fang, please agree to the Ye Ye Guanzhu's request," Yan Zhi advised from the side, "All gains and losses will only affect the believers, while the God only needs to accept and enjoy the offerings of the believers."

"Every skilled expert with a bit of fame will have a group of fervent believers following them; in the future, the number of people wishing to worship you as a God will only grow."

"This..." Fang Can hesitated slightly, then slowly nodded, saying, "Very well."

As the words fell, Ye Yonglie's tightly furrowed brows relaxed; with an attitude of utmost piety, he kowtowed three times to Fang Can, then raised his head, saying, "May we welcome the God's title?"

"Then call me Fang... Fang Tian Di." Fang Can said somewhat guiltily, lacking confidence even in his own words.

As the words fell, Ye Yonglie kowtowed three loud times again with utmost respect; as he kowtowed, he silently recited the divine miracles in his heart.

What is a divine miracle? What is written on the Heavenly Secrets List is a divine miracle!

Merely the evaluations on the Heavenly Secrets List; which one could a person of the past ever achieve?

Only a God could truly deserve the title of the First of All Ages.

With this thought, a sense of emotion arose spontaneously from the depths of the heart, followed immediately by a calm aura surrounding the hearts of the few present.

With merely a few light kowtows, within Ye Yonglie's sea of consciousness, the Heart-Image was born spontaneously.

(Chapter End)