Here, the Lord said this is a good thing

"You were eaten? And what was the effect on you..."

Bartley's story only goes up to the point where it and Jeppard were devoured, so Ye He doesn't know the truth yet.

What they didn't know was that a certain Duke Moyuan had been taken away by a cat with bad intentions.

Bartley himself didn't know this either. He combed his hair and explained to Ye He:

“I woke up after being devoured, but… from that day on, I felt that my mood became unstable and I became irritable and angry. It’s only now that I feel better.

I never had the same dream again. To be more precise, I never had the same dream again."

"Ok?"

Ye He didn't quite understand:
"Isn't it a good thing to no longer have nightmares?"

"No, no, no, don't think it's too simple."

Bartley made a serious gesture to Ye Hebi:
“You also know that this world has monsters, and monsters are born from negative emotions, right?

In fact, the ratio of change from negative emotions to monsters... is much higher than you think!
With the amount of negative emotions that humans and all kinds of intelligent creatures generate every day, this world should have been overrun by monsters long ago.

The reason why it has not reached that level is precisely because of the existence of dreams.

Intelligent creatures' ability to self-regulate negative emotions is actually vented in dreams. Whether it is a nightmare or a sweet dream, it can vent a large part of the negative emotions.

If we no longer dream and our negative emotions cannot be vented, a monster explosion is foreseeable. Do you understand how serious the consequences are now?"

"..."

Ye He tilted his head. He couldn't accept Bartley's "dream catharsis theory".

According to his own understanding, negative emotions are all very short-lived, and time is the real weapon to dissipate negative emotions, and dreams are just what they are.

But Bartley spoke so convincingly, and Ye He believed in its wisdom, so he asked Bartley tentatively:

"Does your statement...have any basis?"

"No, but this is the result of my discussion with Fei'er. Believe it or not."

Bartley glared at Ye He unhappily. Although he did not have Ye He's cognition, he had the ability to infer the cause from the actual result.

Especially when thinking about it with Fei'er, once it said this, Ye He had to believe it even if he didn't want to.

"Okay... So, the apparent war between the two churches is actually to eliminate the monsters that are showing explosive growth trends?"

Ye He made his own inference based on the known information. Although he didn't mind having more monsters, he didn't want to live in a world with only a large number of monsters left.

"...No, they were just arguing, and even neglected their duty to destroy the monsters.

The explosive growth of monsters...is temporarily controlled by those who left something for you."

"what?"

The facts stated by Bartley made Ye He feel unbelievable.

The church, which is supposed to be in charge of controlling monsters, is busy quarreling, while those guys with bad intentions... are actually in charge of maintaining peace?

Reality has always been so magical that Ye He doesn't recognize it, and it is difficult for Ye He to make any comments on this reality.

"Irritable and irritable...lack of concentration...are there any other effects? It doesn't look like this is the only thing that has affected Yulia."

Back to the topic, Ye He is more concerned about what this "influence" is and how to eliminate it.

Just now, Yulia looked more like someone was controlling her.

"Who said Yulia was affected by a dream?"

As a result, Bartley's words stunned Ye He.

"Didn't you just say..."

"I was just talking about the impact I had. Oh, I barely managed to take one Jeppard with me, but the girl recovered quickly."

Bartley tilted his head towards Ye He. Wasn’t it Ye He who was asking about the impact on him at the beginning?
Oh, this guy got it mixed up.

"Yulia was controlled by someone after she came back from a trip. It might have been done by one of those people. What was the purpose? To assassinate you, right?
Well, the impact on Jeppard's owner is different. She is not being manipulated by anyone, she is just in a bad state recently.

Also, the influence on Krent is another kind, and the influence on the natives of Cedarville is another kind!"

"..."

Ye He understood that in Bartley's eyes, everyone's changes seemed to be affected in different ways.

This statement is not wrong, but it is obvious that Ye He himself misunderstood it.

"As for the specific situation, you can go around and see for yourself tomorrow. I'm going back to rest. I don't know if I can dream tonight..."

Bartlett stood up and began to move toward the door.

But before leaving, it turned back and said to the back of Ye He's head:
"I almost forgot. Fei'er asked me to tell you that it's best not to go to her recently. She's a little busy."

"Ah."

Ye He's mind was still filled with all kinds of confusing information. He could only solve these troubles by himself and it was difficult to trouble Fei'er.

After Bartley left, the bathroom became quiet again, and this time Ye He was the only one left.

...if the gods don't count.

The moonlight outside the window turned into a translucent figure. This was the goddess Yingyue.

The clear water in the bath surged up and condensed into a girl sitting there at the side of the bath. This was Puninor.

There was also Atlak who came out from the darkness in the corner. Although she looked busy and had been concentrating on recording something, she still hurried back to meet Sedavel and Ye He.

"It seems that hell is really not a problem for you."

Puninoer smiled at Yehe. Now she had "grown up" to about eighteen years old. Her perfect face had lost its youthfulness and became more beautiful and charming.

Ye Heduo took a closer look at the clergyman's attire with a white background and gold lines on it. There was light flowing in the patterns drawn with the gold lines. It seemed that her divine power had recovered well after the revival of the Church of Poseidon.

"That's nothing. The current Sedaver is hell. What's the situation over there in Lieyang?"

The last sentence Ye He asked was directed at Goddess Yingyue. He didn't believe that Goddess Yingyue would not be affected by Lieyang's madness.

Sure enough, even though the incarnation of the goddess Yingyue could not see her specific appearance, she still exuded an aura of helplessness:

“Don’t mention it… He seemed to be seeking liberation in the void, so he set his sights on that girl. How ridiculous! If the void was trustworthy and there was really a chance of liberation, how could the righteous gods of all generations give up exploring the void?”

Goddess Yingyue put all the blame on God Lieyang, and based on the facts stated by Bartley, what He said was not wrong.

From this side's point of view, whether it is the Goddess Yingyue, the Church of Moonlight, Klent and the girls of Klent, or even Ye He, they are actually the ones being "picked on" and can barely be considered victims.

Krent is the most innocent. He and his girlfriend are kissing and living a good life. Why should the girl become a saint to Lieyang just because of an oracle?

The girl hasn’t even received her “salary”, and the people from Lieyang who smashed the door of Krent’s house haven’t even paid for the repairs!
Who can bear this?
Even if Lieyang is used to being domineering, that is Lieyang's business!
Krent has a position in Yue Zhihui, and even Anna supports him in this matter.

And now Krent is no longer an insignificant little character. Goddess Yingyue must know that he is already the savior. It is impossible for her not to support Krent.

"Okay, I'll go check on Lieyang tomorrow. By the way, has Lux come back?"

Ye He expressed his understanding of the anger and helplessness of the Goddess Yingyue. It would be fine if Lieyang poached Krent, but the savior was indeed a good thing and no church would give up fighting for him.

But Lieyang is disgusting and wants to steal Krent’s wife. There is nothing to say about that.

However, Ye He still asked about Lux's whereabouts first. Considering his personal friendship with the Saint of Dawn, Ye He still wanted to resolve the matter peacefully.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he asked the question, the three goddesses looked at Ye He with complicated eyes.

"If you are talking about the 'former' Saint of Dawn...she should be on her way back to the Holy City of Blazing Sun."

Atlak answered Yehhe's questions and also revealed some additional information.

"She was fired? Why?"

Ye He was surprised that the saint would be dismissed.

"She provided guidance to my Saint, and Lieyang was very unhappy with this behavior."

Puninoer explained the reason, which made Ye He feel a little embarrassed.

Or was it Lacus who he paid to guide the Saint of the Poseidon Church? It turns out that this kind of thing is not allowed in the church circle?
But... since Lux accepted the commission, she couldn't be unaware that this kind of thing is not allowed. Why doesn't she do it quietly?
"There are human factors involved. It was the judgment made by the Blazing Sun Church on her. I think... someone must be trying to lure you to the Blazing Sun Holy City."

Atlak, who was best at conspiracy theories, smelled a familiar smell from this information, so he told Ye He directly.

"Okay, let's ignore him for now. You seem to be doing well over there. How much good news can you give me?"

Ye He finally looked at Puninoer. He had been troubled by many things since he came back, and he wanted to hear some good news that would not require him to worry too much.

"Well……"

Puninor deliberately "thought" for a while before smiling at Ye He:
"The best news is... this!"

She raised a finger towards Ye He, and a little light green light condensed at her fingertips and then flew into Ye He's body.

These rays of light full of vitality dispelled Ye He's fatigue, and his physical condition quickly became very good.

Punenor can already control the [Life] priesthood? This is indeed good news.

"That's all we can do for now, but I can feel the establishment of the priesthood. You succeeded!"

Although Punenor quickly put down her finger, the excitement on her face still made the Moon Goddess and Atlach keep looking at her.

The Moon Goddess envied Puninor for actually obtaining another priesthood, while Atlach envied Puninor for obtaining the priesthood of life.

Atlach had tampered with the belief in the Mother Goddess of Nature in the last era, and had also wanted to obtain the relevant priesthood in this era.

But the result was a complete failure. She just made those nuns gradually believe that she was the Mother Goddess of Nature. That was all. There was no sign of the birth of the true [Natural] priesthood.

"Well, it's really good."

Ye He nodded to Puninoer, it seemed that his experiment was successful.

Yes, his boasted "plan" to allow the gods to have other priesthoods was actually just an experiment.

After learning that the "gods" of this era all became gods passively and became gods after "waking up" in the holy fire, Ye He came up with the idea of ​​"doing an experiment."

Now it seems...there is actually no real "true god" born in this era. Yingyue, Lieyang, Puninoer...these "gods" are all temporary substitutes!
The reason why believers believe in their priesthood is because they already have this priesthood, not because of faith.

Ye He's experiment was to verify the latter. By having the mermaids cooperate with the new Poseidon cult's propaganda, he instilled the idea that "Poseidon is also the God of Life" into the entire material world from bottom to top, thus allowing Puneol to truly obtain the priesthood of [Life].

Public opinion...belief...belief...subconscious...

God... is nothing more than that.

Ye He showed a smile on his face that made the three goddesses a little frightened.

This was the first time that Ye He surpassed these so-called gods at the cognitive level. From then on, these gods were no longer mysterious to him.

[Ding! You have activated "Creation Mythology", please browse on the Fate Poems Collection page! ]

A prompt popped up in the personal panel. Ye He opened it and opened the page where the record books, that is, the poems of destiny, were stored.

A pure golden record book that looked like it was made of gold had appeared here, with the words "Creation Myth" printed on the cover.

Ye He used his mind to open it, wanting to see what was inside, and it turned out that this record book... was really made of gold.

There is only one page in it, opened from the middle, and only this sentence is engraved on it:

"God created man? No, man created God!"

"what!"

Ye He suddenly laughed out loud as if he had gone crazy, and the three goddesses couldn't help but look at him strangely.

Ye He ignored them and continued laughing at the "Creation Myth" that the goddesses could not see.

This sentence really sums it up!
How can there be such a thing as innate greatness? The animal gods of the last era were extremely powerful animals! The "gods" of this era are just a group of lucky people randomly selected by some will!
Only the throne that is held up by mankind with concentrated faith and devotion is the true god.

As for the name of the god on the throne...it never matters!

So conversely, as long as you grasp the direction of public opinion and find a way to control the direction of faith of ignorant believers, everyone can create a god!

Just like Yehe allowed Puninoor to obtain the priesthood of [Life], what did he actually do to give Puninoor the concrete [Life] core?

No!

He simply changed the name of the new Poseidon Religion, added more guidance related to the priesthood of [Life] to the doctrine, and then asked the "saints" he had carefully cultivated to promote Poninoel!
Then he succeeded!
If Ye He wanted now, he could get himself a priesthood for fun.

(End of this chapter)