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Chapter 4533 Chapter 4535 [The soul leaves the body]

The First World War lasted for seven years, and the WTF led by Britain, the United States, and Prussia finally won the war and monopolized the markets in Africa, India, and the Middle East. Although there was no military colonization, economic colonization was achieved.

This kind of colonization is more dangerous and more difficult to get rid of than military colonization.

Prussia also took the opportunity to dismember Austria, annex Holstein, Nassau, Hesse, Frankfurt and other regions, and established the German Confederation.

Although Italy was defeated, it annexed Sicily and Sardinia during the war and became a unified republic.

After Russia's defeat, some of its regions were divided up by Poland, and many domestic monopoly companies were divided up by the victorious countries such as Britain and the United States due to war reparations.

It is worth mentioning that because the main battlefield was in Europe, North and South America and Asia were not affected. Instead, they took advantage of the near stagnation of Europe's industrial economy during the war to develop their own economies, so they can be considered to have benefited indirectly.

It’s just that the victorious countries such as Britain, the United States and Germany received a large amount of war reparations and divided up a large market due to their victory in the war.

The United States, in particular, had its homeland not originally affected by the war and had received a large amount of war reparations, which enabled it to become a top power and greatly increased its national strength.

As a result, Central and South America and Asia will face stronger opponents, and the outlook is not very optimistic.

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Xiang Nan himself also benefited greatly.

More than 40 million people died in the seven-year war, and if you add in the believers who died of old age, disease, or natural causes, the total number is more than 300 million. One tenth of that is 30 million.

Adding the souls from the entire nineteenth century and a hundred years, Xiang Nan has absorbed more than 100 million souls.

This allowed his soul strength to reach an extremely high level. Once it covered an area of ​​three thousand miles, he could clearly sense it.

Moreover, Xiang Nan has even been able to achieve the state of leaving his body.

The soul leaving the body may sound simple, but it is actually an extremely high state.

Because the human soul is originally invisible and colorless, and extremely fragile, it can only be placed in the flesh. Once the soul leaves the body, death is certain.

However, after more than a hundred years of practice, Xiang Nan was able to turn the virtual into the real, making his soul tangible and colorful, and he could also let his soul leave his body and stay outside alone for a period of time.

This is already a very remarkable realm, and it can even be said that one step out of this realm means the farewell between immortality and mortals forever.

Taoism emphasizes "refining essence into qi", "refining qi into spirit", "refining spirit into emptiness", and "refining emptiness into harmony with Taoism".

The out-of-body experience of the primordial spirit is the highest realm of refining qi and transforming into a spirit. In ancient times, it was at least the level of a ghost fairy. Therefore, since ancient times, Taoism has called the out-of-body experience of the primordial spirit "ascending to the immortal world."

After Xiang Nan cultivated to the point where his soul left his body, he discovered that the real world was very different from what he saw with his naked eyes.

The mountains we see with our naked eyes are mountains, the water is water, and the people we see are people. But when we use our spirit to "see" the world, the feeling is very different.

It's like a blind man touching an elephant and suddenly regains his sight. The elephant he sees is completely different from what he felt just now.

Xiang Nan is now the blind man touching an elephant, and in his eyes, the mountains are no longer mountains, the water is no longer water, and people are no longer people. Everything seems chaotic, disordered and strange.

Xiang Nan couldn't help but think of the scene in "The Matrix" where the protagonist Neo, after awakening his talent as a savior, saw everything in the matrix, such as corridors, pedestrians, buildings, mountains, rivers... all turned into green turbulence.

Xiang Nan felt the same as he did, so he didn't dare to look at it any longer and quickly returned to his body.

After many attempts, although he still saw mountains as not mountains, water as not water, and people as not people, at least he was no longer panicked. Moreover, there are many benefits to having the soul leave the body.

For example, the soul is both real and virtual, and is not bound by the physical body, so it is not hindered wherever it goes; the soul is not bound by the physical body, so it moves faster; the soul can change into a thousand forms, not to mention men, women, old and young, even flies and mice can change at will...

However, it is also very dangerous for his soul to leave his body, because his soul is still very fragile.

If it was just windy and rainy, it would be fine, but the key thing he was afraid of was the thunder and lightning.

Because lightning contains huge destructive power, which is more powerful than fire and more violent than water. Ordinary people can still breathe when they are burned by fire or drowned by water, but if they are struck by lightning, they will most likely die directly.

The soul is much more fragile than the body. Even though Xiang Nan's soul has been tempered, it is still difficult to resist lightning.

Especially since the 20th century, electricity has been available in many places, and this electricity is also very dangerous for Xiang Nan.

He didn't even have to test it himself, just trying to get close to it, and the alarm bells were ringing in his mind. It can be seen that household electricity is very scary to him.

If it was thunder and lightning from the sky, I'm afraid that even the alarm bell would not have time to sound, and it would be directly reduced to ashes. So Xiang Nan didn't dare to go out on a thunderstorm day.

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Time flies, and another thirty years have passed.

During these thirty years, technology has made great progress.

There has been all-round progress in many fields such as movies, television, radio, refrigerators, air conditioners, jet aircraft, automobile manufacturing, steel smelting, oil extraction... even nuclear energy has been discovered.

And with the advancement of technology, productivity has further increased.

The victorious countries of World War I, such as Britain, the United States, and Germany, have become increasingly powerful, while the defeated countries, such as Russia, Austria, Spain, and Italy, have recovered greatly in strength, but are still suppressed by Britain, the United States, and Germany.

In other regions, such as Africa, Asia, and South America, the economies have been colonized for a long time, which has resulted in the inability to develop factories. The domestic unemployment rate has remained high, and as a result, the people have been living in poverty for a long time, with almost no way out.

It is precisely because of this that the conflicts between countries are becoming increasingly greater.

Finally, World War II broke out.

This time, the priests from various countries did not even ask Xiang Nan for his opinion.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Xiang Nan speaks less and less.

He originally established the Goddess Church to help the ocean goddess Colibuso recruit believers. After the First World War, the proportion of the goddess's believers accounted for nearly 80% of the total population of the earth, which was an absolute advantage.

It can be seen that the Goddess Church has already been on the right track. In this case, even if he no longer manages it, the Goddess Church will continue to grow stronger and stronger.

Xiang Nan naturally didn't bother to waste time on managing matters. After all, less trouble is worse than more, and he was still busy with his own cultivation.

What's more, the believers were just poor, hungry, cold and sick before. He could help them solve their problems by giving them some money, food, clothes and holy water.

But now he has to resolve conflicts between nearly a hundred countries, which is simply not something he can resolve alone, so he is less and less involved in management.

It also led to the churches in various countries gradually becoming out of control and becoming increasingly laissez-faire. Even something as big as the outbreak of war was not even reported to Xiang Nan.