Divine Tribulation of the Star Civilization - Chapter 1101

[1101. The Age of Chaos (2)]

These creatures are naturally powerful, have strange and cruel temperaments, and make humans instinctively fear them.

Although the alien races are powerful, they are few in number, and human beings are individually weak. After all, there is strength in numbers. Friction between the two sides occurs from time to time, and weapons are often exchanged. Once it occurs, it is difficult to calm down.

Baring teeth and flashing swords are all small-scale things, and they cannot reach the level of life and death. The empire is large enough to accommodate these frictions. People often come to the conclusion after a conflict that the power of these alien creatures is mostly due to their earlier exposure to soul crystals.

All Quentin people believe that gods have visited their world from heaven and that they have the power to rise suddenly towards the sky at any time.

Various theories emerged from this. Kunting’s ancestors believed that they were descendants of gods and the strongest in the world. Although various schools in the empire later had different academic views, they still unanimously agreed on this point, and they were all trying to prove this point by digging into historical classics to find answers.

Over thousands of years, these ideas have been continuously integrated into new knowledge, thus forming a powerful human civilization.

The ruling theory of the Quentin people has not changed fundamentally. There is only a change of dynasties. You sing and I come on stage, changing the soup without changing the medicine.

With this historical advancement, the Quentin Empire ushered in their last glorious era.

Xanadu, the capital of the Quentin people, symbolized the greatest power in the world at that time. The war to purge the entire continent of enemies has been going on for countless centuries. The Quentin people’s military power is unprecedentedly powerful. After annexing many surrounding primitive tribes, the empire is almost invincible.

The external expansion and conquests made the empire appear peaceful inside.

The palaces and courtyards of the Kunting royal family were filled with white roses. This flower later evolved into the emblem and totem of the Kunting empire. Even in order to protect this kind of glory whose symbolic meaning is greater than its actual meaning, the empire has a knighthood called White Rose, which specializes in fighting against foreign races.

Greed and expropriation coexist – the ruling class pursues the crazy expansion of the empire’s territory, pursues powerful power, and pursues glory. These are all natural. But they also pursue wealth and pleasure, and many people also begin to pursue eternal life.

That era was full of fantasy, peace and prosperity, and material and spiritual energy continued to inject vitality into the rapid development of the empire.

It was as controversial as the empire was first founded.

The royal family, which represents the interests of the upper class, even pedantically believes that running such a large empire does not require any means, only strong force, and one lie after another can be maintained. Then shout a few slogans at will, and all the subjects will obey their mercy.

There are also those slave-like people who can work to death for the huge imperial machine day after day in order to get a little charity, and so on.

The upper class believes that if things continue to develop at this rate, sooner or later they will be able to dominate the entire world. In reality, these people were as ignorant as beasts compared to their great ancestors.

Because while humans are progressing, other races are also progressing.

The operation of the empire’s huge social system is like a chariot. Once the machine starts, it cannot be stopped, which also makes their ability to drive the chariot very difficult.

For a long time, the Quentin people’s brutal management and rule model came from tradition.

Although they almost turned the Mu continent into their own backyard, after one hundred sixty-four generations and one hundred and thirty thousand years of rule, their ruling ideas gradually turned into decayed dregs.

The new king’s regime has existed for nearly six hundred years – still in its youth. The ruling class became unprogressive, extravagant and greedy, and did as many absurd things as they could.

The elite within the empire is very important. They are usually maintained by ancient families. These families are intertwined with other forces and influence the structure of the entire empire. However, it is more ordinary people who promote the development and growth of these families.

The ruling class realized early on that serving only the privileged classes or only ordinary people would not propel the imperial chariot forward. But unfortunately, awareness without action is not enough.

Bloody internal fights and conquests between families continue. There is no justice at all, only greed and competition for power.

After one family declines and another family becomes stronger, they will also introduce easing measures in a timely manner to win over people’s hearts and capture the power of the declining family. This is not because they have found out their consciences, nor have they become good people, but because they have conquered each other and need to take a break.

The human class structure is complex and huge, including not only the bottom and top of the pyramid, but also more middle layers – including many fallen nobles, the middle class who want to climb up, and the largest population at the bottom.

Their positions have been changing in the class structure. Whenever a war breaks out, people at the bottom and middle levels also need to adjust their room for promotion at any time.

Then, if the empire wants to continue to develop and advance, it needs to balance the interests of several parties. Therefore, it needs a more powerful driving force to maintain the balance of the pyramid.

What is this motivation?

Quentin people have a very long lifespan, with an average age of nearly a thousand years. The empire’s hundreds of thousands of years of glory have accumulated countless methods, tools, and ideas.

Soon, someone came up with the idea of establishing a more complex system—maintained by spiritual ties, forged by powerful military power, and based on a mutually restrained interest structure to strengthen the stability of the social system.

That is the highest form of consciousness dominance – faith.

Only by controlling the mind and making all strata, including everyone in the empire, consciously abide by the rules of the game can the eternal prosperity of the pyramid be maintained.

Then, they thought of the soul crystal again.

The Quentin people discovered the function of the soul crystal very early. It can absorb the power of human souls and is a good transmission and storage medium for soul energy. People believe that the power of the soul is the source of life, and only the absolutely strong deserve to possess it.

Soul crystals possess supernatural power, and a complex process allows humans to forge their souls and give birth to powerful beings. These powerful men possess power that ordinary people cannot match, which has promoted the martial culture of the empire since ancient times. They have also become tools of the rulers.

It didn’t take long for someone to improve the system of ideological and religious control and begin to shift the goals to more practical aspects.

In order to maintain the force, he constantly injects the power of his soul to create a stronger person. By instilling a sense of dominance into them, developing and controlling religion becomes a new “god-making movement.”

In other words, the “god-making movement” is the most powerful tool to maintain the stability of the Quentin Empire, which is the true meaning of faith.

Thousands of years have passed, and the unity of force and faith has never been placed at such a dazzling height.

Due to the fueling of the rulers, the god-making movement became uncontrolled, and a series of “human gods” were created, forming hundreds of different belief centers on the continent.

They used the prophecies of ancient gods, primitive witchcraft worship, and even alien beliefs in the original gods to create various weird “stitch monsters” of faith.

What occupies the core of belief is the worship system of “human gods”.