He looked into the puppet's blank eyes, pondered for a moment, and seemed to remember something. Then, recalling what [Time] had said, Cheng Shi suddenly froze and blurted out:
"Belief?
You used the container in your hand to borrow the power of faith!
"!"
The puppet froze. This was the first time Wei Mu had lost his composure in front of others, because his magic trick had been exposed!
Yes, he drew upon the power of faith.
Remember that meeting on the terrace of Dorgod? Wei Mu once said that he had obtained the container of [Foolishness], but that container was used to collect the divine essence dripping from faith. Wei Mu was not the "god" of [Foolishness], and [Foolishness] did not have a god to lend him an identity, so he could not use the container at first.
But he came up with a plan: to become the first on the path to godhood, so that people would believe in and pursue his wisdom!
In this way, as Wei Mu's superior intelligence and understanding of the game spread, he collected his first drop of divinity.
These divine powers can be pieced together, but the power of [Foolishness] is missing, leaving Wei Mu without any instructions to refer to. He can only try to piece it together himself.
Unfortunately, the experiment to seize the power of "foolishness" failed, but it did not completely fail. During the experiment, he discovered that the final result of the process of condensing faith into divinity was not only divinity. The special connection between faith and the carrier of faith formed during the process of faith condensation was also a topic worthy of study.
He turned his attention to this field, mastering the art of combining divinity while also learning the trick of using faith to temporarily borrow wisdom from the medium of faith.
To put it simply, when Wei Mu was thinking, he no longer relied solely on his own brainpower, but borrowed some computing power from all his "followers" who "believed" in his wisdom!
These mental resources were negligible, or even just dormant parts of individual consciousness, yet they were passively lent to Wei Mu because of their "unwavering faith" in him.
In this way, although the amount of brainpower lent by an individual is small, the sheer number of people involved provides Wei Mu with considerable assistance in his thinking, which is why he has been getting closer and closer to the "truth" recently.
He figured out the rudiments of faith transforming into authority through his own exploration, and was even about to find the explanation for piecing together the authority of "foolishness"...
This is why the gods value faith, because authority and faith are never two independent things.
In a sense, Wei Mu's actions are very much in line with the literal meaning of the path to godhood; he is getting closer to the divine step by step in his own way.
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