Goddess Wanhua Mirror

"My lord, you are too polite."

"That's right, we should be the ones thanking you. If it weren't for your fire spirit expelling evil (cupping), my old waist is still hurting!"

"My lord, let us see what the goddess looks like!"

Hearing the urging voices of the villagers, Lu De deliberately kept his hands off the linen cloth covering the statue, and continued to arouse their curiosity.

He told the villagers that it took him more than three months to make this statue by himself, in order to perfectly restore the true face of the Goddess who had appeared many times in his dreams, so he has been striving for perfection and will not tolerate any sloppy .And precisely because of his earnestness and devotion, when the statue was sent to the kiln for firing, an incredible "miracle" also happened.

Speaking of this "miracle", Lu De looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, his eyes full of pious solemnity.Just at this time, a ray of sunlight leaked into the hall through the gap in the roof, shining on his ravine old face, like a saint listening to the voice of an angel.

All of this is a "stage effect" carefully prepared by Lude. For this reason, he climbed up to the roof of the temple at night to cut a hole in the wall, and then practiced secretly in the afternoon when no one was around, just to receive the holy light accurately at this moment , presenting the most perfect visual effect to believers.

Seeing that the preheating process was almost done, and the emotions of the villagers had reached their peak, Lu De didn't say any more nonsense, and slowly pulled down the cover covering the statue.The moment the Goddess of Medicine showed her true face, everyone in the hall couldn't help but let out a loud exclamation.

Even the village chief Rom, who didn't pay much attention to it at first, was stunned and didn't even notice that the crutch had fallen.At this moment, he had to admit that the statue in front of him was really not comparable to the giant statue of the God of War in Wangcheng, but it was so beautiful that it was hard to look away.

"Oh my god! This goddess is so handsome (zun)!"

Accompanied by the amazement of the villagers, a storm of "faith" was set off in the hall of the temple in Lude's eyes. Everyone was whistling and spraying light balls, and the colorful auspicious cloud directly above the hall doubled in size in a short while , and then all of them poured into the statue.This shows that the goddess image created by Lude has been recognized and loved by the believers!

Regarding this result, while Lu De was secretly proud of it, he was not surprised, because he did not lie in what he said before, that is, a miracle did happen during the firing process of this statue!

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When he first started making statues, Lu De actually did not have too high expectations, because the conditions in the village were limited, and only a carpenter knew how to make pottery.Lu De begged Bai Lai for a long time but failed to ask him to help, so he fooled the two sons over.

Lu De, who did it himself, first built the kiln and then dug the soil.Relying on the memory of his previous life, he initially wanted to burn the idol into bone china, and bone china needs to add more than 40% bone meal to the clay.

Fortunately, Songshu Village is next to the Void Forest, and there are ancient battlefields nearby. The villagers usually dig up the remains of various creatures when they hoe the ground, so the raw materials for bone meal are not in short supply.

However, Lude's identity is a priest after all, and it is easy to cause some unnecessary misunderstandings when people see him collecting bone powder everywhere. Therefore, Lude did not dare to entrust the two sons of the carpenter to be responsible for the collection of bone powder, but himself When I usually went to the outskirts of the forest to collect herbs, I secretly hid some in the bottom of the back basket and brought them back, then crushed them into powder overnight, disguised them as plant ash and mixed them into the clay.

It's a pity that Lu De did not get the bone china he expected for the first trial firing. The temperature of his clay kiln was not up to standard, and even after repeated firings, he could only get a kind of off-white gypsum-like defect. Taste.

So after trying a few times, Lu De gave up the whole body bone china, and planned to make a makeshift one, then polish it later, apply a layer of white paint, and give it away directly.

As a result, a miraculous thing happened. When the finished clay sculpture was sent into the kiln for firing, Lu De was very surprised to find that a lot of power of faith flew out from the direction of the temple, and all of them got into the kiln.With the blessing of these magical energies, Lude, who had been failing before, suddenly had a big success!

The burnt idol was completely different from the previous failed products. The whole body was crystal clear, round and white like cream, shining brightly under the light.

The carpenter's two sons knelt down to the statue on the spot, and Lu De himself grew up with a bewildered expression.Xin said that even the patina effect came out, so it saved me from having to do it myself.

Relying on the stunning appearance of the Goddess of Medicine statue, Lu De successfully created the sensational effect he expected among the villagers, and harvested a large wave of power of faith and more than 70 newly converted believers on the spot.Successfully brought more than half of the villagers in Songshu Village under his command, and even the village head expressed a little awkwardly that there is indeed something about the statue of Lude!

A successful exhibition and a wonderful sermon, the villagers admired the goddess statue like a work of art. Lude has been working hard to maintain order at the scene, so as to prevent some people who can't help but want to reach out and touch .

Everyone strongly praised the beauty of the goddess, but the average illiterate person in the village had no culture. After searching for a long time, thousands of words were finally gathered into two words - awesome!

The crowd finally dispersed until the evening. Lu De closed the door, hummed a little song and sat down in the front row of the hall. Looking at the shining milky white goddess in front of him, the excitement in his heart was still not calm.

Five months of hard work were not in vain. Although the gods had not yet been created, Lude's actions after coming to Pine Tree Village were generally smooth. Seeing that more and more beliefs gathered, he kept watch with the old peasants of the Celestial Dynasty. As the hard-working wheat fields are turning golden day by day, the sense of accomplishment is incomparable!

In Lu De's eyes, the idol has become a new container of faith. The group of colorful auspicious clouds that were entrenched above the hall before, and the wave that was collected this afternoon are all stored in the statue. Light that flows.

In an instant, Lude felt a kind of throbbing in his heart. It wasn't the flustered feeling of being hungry before dinner, but an emotional impulse that kept forcing him to get close to the statue and touch the jade body of the goddess.

In a daze, Lu De stood up from his seat, walked towards the goddess step by step, and raised his right hand unconsciously.And at his fingertips, there seemed to be dots of flames flickering and jumping, and at the moment of touching, something was instantly ignited.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Like a heartbeat but even more powerful, it emanated from the inside of the statue, a stream of light suddenly appeared, and the rainbow burst out from the inside of the statue. Lu De felt that he was engulfed by a soft white light, and then part of it was "gentlely" peeled off. Immediately afterwards, some kind of magical existence was born in front of him out of thin air.

In the soft halo, a slender figure gradually appeared, and the illusion from the beginning quickly became very real.

Lu De was shocked to find that his goddess was alive, no longer a rough sketch on a wooden board, no longer a hard statue, but a beautiful girl with flesh and blood and a bright smile... the kind with big breasts !

This is the first time that Lude witnessed the supernatural power of another world after traveling for nearly a year. Before that, he had only heard stories about magicians and priests from the mouths of some villagers or travelers.

But now, a beautiful goddess in fluttering white clothes was standing in front of him alive, at a position that he could easily touch with his hand.The face of the other party is exquisite and not like ordinary people, the red eyes are as crystal clear as rubies, the skin is fair and ruddy, and the curves are high and deep.A head of milky white long hair was tied into a double ponytail by a black lace headband, and was casually draped over the other's chest and shoulders, slightly provocative.

"You, you are..."

"I am Evelina, your goddess."

The goddess spoke in front of Lude, her voice was gentle and sweet, and Lude couldn't help feeling that just listening to the other party speak was a kind of enjoyment.And the name Evelina is a name Luther made up for the Goddess of Medicine. The fact that the other party can accurately introduce herself as soon as she opens her mouth, "My name is Evelina, and I am a goddess", is enough to show that He was indeed born Since then, he has already possessed a fairly complete self-awareness, not a pure white paper that is ignorant like a human baby.

In this holy atmosphere surrounded by white light, even an atheist like Lu De, who grew up under the red flag, couldn't help but have a slight urge to worship the goddess, and the goddess has been watching with loving eyes He seemed to be waiting for him to bow down in front of him.

However, just when Lu De was about to fall to his knees uncontrollably, a gust of cold evening wind blowing in from the window instantly broke the atmosphere.

"Ah chirp!"

In front of Lude, the goddess sneezed, shivered for a while, and rubbed the back of her hands subconsciously, and the goddess temperament that had been pinched before was also sprayed out at the moment... …and nothing remains.

"Are you... a little cold?"

"Well, the clothes are too thin."

"..."

The white light gradually dissipated, and the hall of the temple returned to its former appearance. The goddess's playful sneeze instantly woke up the confused Lude, and the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became a little awkward.

At this time, Lu De noticed that the goddess was already shivering from the cold. It is the end of October, and the autumn night wind is already very cool, and Miss Goddess is wearing a thin white gauze dress + white silk suspenders. Stockings, bare shoulders and legs, a big deep V in the middle.

The same style, worn on a prostitute is called fun, worn on an operator doll is called tactics, and worn on a goddess, naturally it should be called holy.Anyone who dares to think otherwise is devout to the goddess!A blasphemous heresy to be baked at the stake until seventeen years old!

Lu De shook his head, took off his linen robe and handed it over.

"Put it on first, it's cold at night."

After taking the clothes from Lude, Miss Goddess just hesitated for a moment, then put them on her body directly, and after feeling the temperature of her body rising, she couldn't help showing a very satisfied expression, with a delicate and naive look. It's like a little girl who doesn't have much experience in the world... the kind that is easy to deceive.

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After several months, Lude finally succeeded in creating a brand new goddess from scratch. However, when the living God of Medicine, Miss Evelina, really stood in front of him.However, Lu De was disappointed to find that the goddess in front of him was just like the priest himself, both of them were ostentatious Xibei products!

As the old astrologer mentioned in his research notes, the gods created by his method belong to the "fast-growing species" with quick results, but their strength is far inferior to those natural gods that took hundreds or thousands of years to be born. Need to go through further acquired training to become stronger.

However, how weak the fast-growing new god can be, Lu De really never expected before meeting Evelina, that he could be so weak that he was almost the same as a mortal like him!

The first time the two sides met, Miss Yaoshen was handsome and shivering in less than three seconds.Lude gave her his robe to the other party, and took her to the kitchen in the back room to warm up for a while before he recovered.If this really gave her a medicine god to catch a cold, it would be a lot of fun.

While Evelina was squatting in front of the stove to keep warm, Lu De, who hadn't eaten dinner, was busy in front of the stove, and then chatted with her while cooking, and the two of them had a preliminary understanding of each other.

Through the conversation, Lude first confirmed Evelina's mental status. Although she was a bit silly, at least she was not mentally retarded.What makes Lude very interesting is that although the other party has been born for less than 10 minutes, he can speak very fluently, and at the same time has mastered a certain degree of basic common sense.

Lude roughly speculated that the knowledge she was born with should be incidental information in the beliefs she absorbed.However, since these beliefs all come from the hundreds of villagers in Songshu Village, the knowledge reserve she currently has is extremely limited, and she can't even write the words of this world.

But the goddess is so stupid that it doesn't matter. What makes Lude most depressed is that this guy is really useless.In the final analysis, the main reason is not enough faith!The beliefs that Lude collected in the past few months were all used up just to awaken Evelina's consciousness and shape her physical body for walking in the world, and now there is no extra power to perform any divine spells.

So for Lu De, the Long March has just completed the first step, and it is still far away from the true end of all hardships!

You must know that belief is the source of power for the gods, and it is also the foundation for every sect to settle down in this world. The operation and expansion of the entire religious system must rely on this divine power.The reason why the status of priests is detached, and some powerful sects can even override the secular regime, is all because of the deterrent power of divine arts!

Unlike magic, which mortals can practice on their own but requires certain personal qualifications, divine magic belongs to the power that mortals borrow from the gods. As long as they are approved by the gods of their sect, they can get the corresponding use authority. High-level personnel even have channels to use it. Communicate with the gods.

Therefore, compared with magic, the advantage of magic is that it is convenient to cast and does not consume any cost, but the number of daily uses is limited, while magicians can take drugs to return to mana and continue a wave, provided that you have the financial resources.Therefore, most of the time, when priests and magicians of the same level fight, the priests win, because these guys have a high probability of picking up the scepter made of fine iron in his hand and rushing up to close Hand to hand.

However, although priests do not need to have magical aptitude, it is true that not everyone can be a priest. You need to stand out from the crowd of believers first, join the sect to become an official priest, and then step by step improve your level within the sect in order to obtain The right to use magic.

According to Lude's understanding, the organizational structure of most sects in this world is actually similar. After the battle of the gods 300 years ago, in order to avoid disputes, most of the surviving sects no longer forced believers to believe in only one god, but used other means to fight for it. Therefore, the evolved sects have become It's more like a media company with extremely high power.

The lowest-level clergy of the sect are generally monks, who are initially stationed trainee employees. Their main job is to do odd jobs in the temple, and occasionally perform missions, go out as missionaries, and spread the gospel to remote areas.

And in some shady cults, these low-level cultivators may even be reduced to miserable D-level personnel and become the material for sacrificial ceremonies.

Normally, after five to seven years of advanced study, monks will promote some plastic talents to advance to priests according to their respective qualifications and achievements, and become official employees of the sect, and begin to be able to use divine arts.Priests generally serve as grassroots cadres in certain large temples, or are dispatched to serve as leaders in small churches in certain towns.

However, they are the same priests, and different denominations are treated differently. It is better like the Guangming Sacred Cult or the Four Seasons Goddess Cult that has a festival with Lude. This large sect has many believers, the temples are generally rich in financial resources, and the gods enshrined are also more powerful. There are more divine powers that can be distributed to the younger brothers under his command.

Official priests of the Illumination Cult can choose to use three low-level magic spells or one mid-level and high-level magic spell a day, and they can even pay in advance in an emergency. At the cost of not being able to use magic spells for the next three days, they can use three more magic spells.

So there is an allusion in this world about the Holy Cult of Light, you can't fight with their priests in the few minutes before midnight, because they are so fierce that they can smash you nine magic spells in one go!

Above the priests, the higher-level priests are the bishops, who are already middle- and senior-level leaders, usually in charge of a large temple in a certain town, and their status in the local area can be completely equal to that of the city lord.

From monks to priests to bishops, most sects in this world have adopted this hierarchical model, and the differences between different sects are mainly reflected in the higher-ups.

For some small and medium-sized sects, the sphere of influence of the entire diocese may be a city, so the bishop is the highest leader of the sect, and there is no need to make the organization too redundant and get a bunch of clergy to consume their own gods. Hard-won divine power.

But those big sects that control one country or even many countries are different. They have larger territories and more believers. Therefore, they need to set up higher-level clergy above the bishops to divide their spheres of influence into parishes.According to different denominations, the job titles of the diocesan directors are also different, such as archbishop, cardinal, and red and purple.

A large sect at this level seems to have become a religious regime. The secular monarchy either cooperates with it or simply becomes a vassal of the sect. Even the change of the throne must be approved by the sect.

But religious people are human beings after all, and even gods have emotions, let alone them.Therefore, in order to balance the internal power disputes among the dioceses, these large sects often have to conduct regular elections, electing a supreme leader from the directors of each diocese!

This system is not difficult for Lude to understand. Applying the company system on the other side of the earth, believers are product users, monks are employees, priests are section chiefs, bishops are managers, archbishops are department heads, and the Pope is the CEO.As for the god believed in by people, it is naturally the chairman who holds the shares!

So Lu De's current dilemma is that the leather bag company finally got a chairman, but the chairman has no money and can't pay wages, and the employees under him need to continue to use love to generate electricity, work overtime to make money to support this guy who is useless except for his face and body A good-for-nothing female boss.

Soon, Lu De's dinner was ready, two bean flour cakes and a pot of vegetable and egg drop soup.The native egg in the soup was a gift from an aunt in the village to thank Lu De for helping her cure her old cold legs. It turned out to be so useless, the original joy suddenly lost more than half.

At this moment, Lu De suddenly noticed that the lady goddess on the side was staring eagerly at the egg drop soup he had just poured into the bowl.Although it is not sure whether the god needs to eat or not, but being stared at by a little girl so straightly, Lude, who couldn't stand it, could only pass the soup.

"Want to try it?"

"Uh-huh!"

She took the soup bowl with joyful hands, and the goddess Evelina, like a cat afraid of getting hot, first blew the hot air carefully, and then sipped the soup, with a very happy smile on her face unconsciously. .

Looking at her naive appearance, Lu De couldn't help laughing. Putting aside the excessive expectations of her at the beginning, Lu De found that it was actually very difficult for him to have any ill feeling towards this innocent and lovely little girl.

"Drink slowly, there is still in the pot."

He filled another bowl for himself, and Lude sat aside to prepare to eat, when he suddenly remembered that he hadn't taken off his mask yet.Although carrying this artifact of disguise does not affect eating and drinking, it is not his own face after all, so when Lude is around no one else, he tries to show his true colors as much as possible.

As for the Evelina in front of her, she is a goddess created by herself, and there seems to be a special bond and fetter between the two of them, as the old astrologer said, so they felt like friends at first sight when they first met.

So Lude reached out and took off the mask without hesitation, but the scene of him "tearing his face" shocked Evelina who was sitting opposite, and almost threw the soup bowl in his hand out.

"You, you, how did you change!?"

"Did I say that I was an old man before... Absolutely! You really didn't find out?"

He lowered his head and looked at the mask in his hand that had turned back to stone, as well as the astonished expression on Evelina's face that didn't seem fake at all.Due to the lack of more reference objects, Lude couldn't figure out for a while whether his parallel goddess was really too useless, or the disguise artifact "Hume's Smile" was too stupid, and even the eyes of the gods could be hidden. .

Just when Lude was about to explain to the astonished Evelina the reason for the artifact in his hand and his disguise, a small spot of light suddenly flew in from the outside through the wall, and slowly walked one by one from the room. Gone before God...

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The faith that flew in was very small, only the size of a soybean. If you didn't look carefully, you could easily mistake it for a lost firefly.

Lu De is not surprised to see this thing. In the past few months, although more than [-]% of the beliefs he collected were obtained by organizing believers to engage in "Zong (jian) religion (shen) activities" on the spot, there are also some on weekdays. Some bits and pieces of small income come in.

The source of this kind of belief, according to Lu De's observation, is mostly inadvertently generated by believers in the village. Maybe some happy and good things happened in daily life, and they subconsciously praised the goddess casually.

The faith generated in this way may be small, but as the number of believers gradually increases in the future, gathering sand and forming a tower can also become a considerable income.

This also made Lu De realize that in addition to organizing more group activities, he had to find a way to properly integrate some religious concepts into the daily life of the villagers, so that they could always think of the God of Medicine in their minds, and then Generate a steady stream of belief.

Thinking of the important development direction in the future, Lu De held this little light of faith casually.With the original fire in his body, he can not only see the power of faith that ordinary people cannot perceive with his naked eyes, but also actively touch it with his body.When there is nothing to do on weekdays, Lu De will grab some in his hand.This thing has a very subtle touch when you pinch it, and it is very addictive to play.

But when Lu De was playing with Faith as a stress-relief toy, Evelina on the side suddenly became excited.She put down the half-drunk soup bowl in her hand, yelled and jumped towards Lude.

"Hey! What are you doing?"

"Give it to me, give it to me quickly!"

Staggered by Miss Goddess, who suddenly went mad, Lude realized that what she wanted was this little piece of faith in his hand.The way the other party looked at this thing was like a hungry... big orange!

"You want this?"

"Ah."

Seeing Evelina nodded, Lude handed over the mass of faith.The other party, like him, could touch Faith with his bare hands, grabbed it and stuffed it into his mouth without saying a word, and then made an obvious swallowing movement.

"Absolutely! It's really delicious!"

Just like a child chewing jelly beans, Evelina smacked her lips a couple of times after she finished eating Faith.At this time, another ball of faith flew in, and Lu De quickly grabbed it with his sharp eyes and hands. Evelina saw that this stinky and shameless man was always grabbing her food, and immediately jumped on it again.

Lu De blocked the furious Miss Goddess with one hand, and held up the faith he had just grasped with the other. Some physical contact inevitably occurred between one person and one god.Although the touch of the goddess dribbling into someone is really good, but the endless nonsense of the other party is really annoying.

"Wait, wait! I'll study it before you eat!"

Lude had tried to study the power of faith before, but the goddess had not yet been born at that time, so he was relatively restrained and lacked reference objects.Just now seeing Evelina devouring her faith raw, he couldn't help but aroused his research interest again.