These are the rules of the Deceitful Painting. No one can change them.

Of course, the prerequisite is that the part of the Deceitful Painting you control must be greater than your opponent’s, and you must live long enough to see it through.]

At this, Wei Fan’s expression flickered, and he ignored the last sentence.

Just as he was about to say something,

footsteps sounded from outside the door.

At the sound, he put away the Bone Luo Token in his hand.

...

Just as Wei Fan was using the Bone Luo Token to inquire about the Sun God Sect,

inside the Sun God within the blood-colored space,

Hu Qi, whose entire body glowed with a faint golden light, opened his eyes.

A trace of doubt flashed through them.

Just a moment ago,

he had sensed an exceptionally faint, special power attempting to probe his information using the Mind Realm as a medium.

However, his own power had blocked it.

’Perhaps it’s some kind of special Dream Eye...’

Hu Qi didn’t dwell on it and closed his eyes again.

He continued to convert the remaining Power of Faith in his body into Divine Power, enhancing the strength of this Divine Avatar.

The Divine System, like any ordinary Extraordinary System, possessed its own unique structure.

However, it was comparatively simpler, with fewer classifications.

After condensing a Foundation of Faith, all one needed to do was ignite the Divine Fire and then continuously strengthen it.

At this moment, a cluster of golden flames had already appeared within his body.

Though it was just a wisp, the flame exuded an ancient and inviolable aura, as if it were the very Fire of the Sun, repelling all evil.

This Sun God Statue was perhaps a result of Hu Qi using the Crimson Sun Flame Fire when he first forged it.

This caused the Sun God’s flame to possess some of the Crimson Sun Flame Fire’s Traits.

Furthermore, gods represented an Extraordinary Path that absorbed the Power of Faith from all living beings.

In some respects, this was also a form of energy related to the mind.

With these two factors combined,

this Divine Avatar possessed a natural restraint over the dark nature of powers like the Dream Eye, one that was no less effective than the Crimson Sun Flame Fire itself.

This also caused the Divine Techniques performed by the believers below to share this same Trait.

...

「Time flew by.」

Another two years passed.

After two years of development,

the followers of the Sun God Sect gradually began to appear before the eyes of ordinary people.

At first, they only appeared in smaller nations; they had not yet entered major countries like the Yu Country.

But slowly, the scale of their following began to expand at a terrifying rate.

This situation didn’t arise because the Sun God Sect employed some sort of mind-bewitching tactics.

Quite the opposite, in fact.

Bewitching the hearts of men was a tactic used only by false churches built upon a foundation of lies.

The Sun God Sect had no need for such methods.

For a true god presided over them.

When people saw that some senior believers could accumulate Holy Power in their bodies through prayer and then perform Divine Techniques,

and even heal their own illnesses,

it directly converted those who previously had no faith into loyal followers of the Sun God.

Of course, not everyone was swayed.

Some people already had firm beliefs and felt an innate resistance to this so-called god.

There were even atheists who perceived the world through reason and science.

Even if they witnessed the existence of Divine Techniques with their own eyes,

they wouldn’t believe it was a god, but would merely think of it as a method they didn’t yet understand.

Much like some form of high technology.

In addition, some chose not to believe due to considerations of power, free will, and various other factors.

After all, there were people in the world who didn’t even fear death, so what was a mere god to them?

However, such individuals were always a very small minority among the common populace.

The majority were normal, ordinary people who, when faced with such incomprehensible methods, chose to join.

However, because these people joined the Sun God Sect with various ulterior motives or a desire for Divine Techniques,

they could at best be considered shallow believers.

They were completely unqualified to perform Divine Techniques.

Moreover, due to the growth in their number of followers,

the Sun God Sect inevitably came to the attention of various nations and organizations.

After learning about the Sun God Sect’s situation,

there was no shortage of people with ulterior motives who infiltrated their ranks, hoping to uncover the secrets of their Divine Techniques.

Unfortunately, not a single one succeeded.

This was because the Sun God Sect had a special method for identifying those with hidden agendas.

Namely, to pray to the great Sun God.

No matter how skilled an agent or an undercover operative was at Disguise, they could not deceive their own hearts.

Of course, perhaps some could get so deep into their roles that they could even deceive themselves.

But once they became a believer of the Sun God, a bond would form between the believer and the god, making betrayal impossible.

Even if they had originally joined for some ulterior motive, they would later become loyal followers of the Sun God.

In addition, there was no shortage of powerful experts within the Sun God Sect.

The other Dream Master organizations and the upper echelons of various nations, even knowing the danger the Sun God Sect posed, had no way to deal with it.

During this time, some other countries even paid a great price,

employing powerful Dream Eyes like the Yama’s Token in an attempt to annihilate the Sun God Sect, but it was all in vain.

Such things seemed to only have some effect on ordinary believers; they were completely useless against the sect’s upper echelons.

As for ordinary believers, the Sun God Sect had a vast and ever-growing number of them, so they were in no short supply. Moreover, even if all the ordinary believers were to be wiped out, it would hardly affect the Sun God Sect itself.

Understanding this point,

these people could only watch helplessly as the Sun God Sect’s influence continued to expand.