Chapter 118 Nezha and the Secret of Conferred Gods (2/2)
”Nezha! Nezha! ” Seeing that Long Fei and Zhou Yuan did not react, Hao Ning repeated a few more times, ”Nezha who stirred up troubles in the ocean!”
After Hao Ning finished speaking, he was looking forward to seeing the three of them looking at him in surprise, then asking all sorts of questions. Unexpectedly, the three of them seemed to be frozen and looked at him as if they were looking at a fool, for a full minute, causing Hao Ning to feel uncomfortable. He felt strange in his heart, anyway, the three of them were already people or gods with mana power, what's so weird about meeting a person of the same profession, and especially such a famous one?
”Oh.” A minute later, Long Fei was the first to ”unfreeze.” He held back his laughter and looked at his own phone, ignoring Hao Ning.
Liu Shuai and Zhou Yuan were holding back their laughter as they pointed towards the hall, ”Look at this hall, it was just beaten to the point that the ceiling couldn't be seen just a moment ago, and now it's actually completely unharmed. I wonder what means that Mr. Fei has? High technologies nowadays are really...”
Hao Ning raised his head and realized that the ceiling had indeed been somehow ”fixed.” Just as he was about to praise them, he realized that these people were simply trying to change the topic.
Hao Ning rubbed his forehead, angry at being looked down upon. Why didn't they believe what he said, that the person was Nezha? For a moment, he even started to doubt himself. He quickly asked, ”You don't believe me?”
”Hohoho…” Liu Shuai looked at Hao Ning with some sympathy, as if he wanted to say something, ”About this, how do I explain it to you …”
”Just explain, however you think you should, just stop beating about the bush and putting on an act.” Hao Ning saw that new customers were coming in one after another, the waiters and the restaurant manager acted as if nothing had happened and continued to receive them. He didn't waste his time exclaiming anything more and asked Liu Shuai rudely, ”What's the problem?”
”Well...” Liu Shuai looked at Long Fei and said, ”Long Fei, you might as well explain it, if I were to explain it to him, he would probably not believe me.”
”Me?” Long Fei was looking at his phone, hearing Liu Shuai's words, he immediately waved his hand, ”No way, I can't explain, you should do it.”
”Stop kicking the ball,” Hao Ning saw that these people all acted mysteriously, and even started to behave modestly, and immediately interjected, ”If you continue to stutter, be careful of my Single Solar Finger.” As he said that, he pointed at Liu Shuai. Of course, it was not the Single Solar Finger.
”Hey — Bro, don't!” Liu Shuai immediately covered his ”wound” and explained with a smile, ”Um, I suppose you understand the basic principles of becoming a god, right?”
”Becoming a god, basic principles … Are you going to write the theory system of becoming a god and its correlative deductions? ” Hao Ning didn't waste his time retorting at Liu Shuai's words, and said impatiently: ”What principles?”
”A Formless Incense that came from the faith of the people and thus becoming a god.” Liu Shuai said with a smile, pointing at Long Fei, and Zhou Yuan, ”Aren't they all like that?”
”Yeah, what's wrong?” Hao Ning was a little confused, ”What does this have to do with Nezha?”
”You must have seen Temples of the Dragon King, the Guanyin Temple, but have you ever seen a Temple of Nezha?” Long Fei laughed and winked at Hao Ning, ”Without a temple, how would he have incense? Without incense, how could there be formless incense? ”
”This …” Hao Ning thought about it carefully, and it seemed that he really had never heard of a Nezha Temple, ”So, what you mean is, because there is no Nezha's temple, the incense cannot accumulate, so there will naturally not be a god-like Nezha appearing in reality?”
”Smart boy, haha,” Long Fei felt proud when he saw that Hao Ning understood his description and nodded his head, ”That's what I mean.”
”Heh, heh, heh,” Hao Ning laughed noncommittally as he looked at Long Fei, making him feel creepy.
”What, what's wrong? What are you doing? ” Long Fei immediately used both hands to protect himself, but the place he protected was a little strange, he was protecting his chest, ”What do you want to do with me?”
”Damn it, my impression of you just changed a bit. Turns out you're a drama dragon,” Hao Ning wiped his sweat and asked with a cold smile. ”Let me ask you, have we ever seen a Temple of Yunzhongzi before?”
”No, that old fogey — Ouch!” Just as Long Fei was feeling proud of himself, he was suddenly hit by Liu Shuai. He suddenly realized that he said the wrong thing and immediately corrected honestly, ”That God, no we haven't.”
”Then how did he appear?” Hao Ning looked at Long Fei, ”Avalokitesvara, you the dragon both gathered because of the incense of your temples. But what about the Temple of Yunzhongzi? How did he get here without a temple? A gift came with the phone bill? ”
”Well...” Long Fei thought about it, and for a moment, he felt a little confused. He bit his finger and muttered to himself, ”That makes sense, I actually never asked Great God Zhang Quan this question before …”
”Go to hell, you smattered god,” Liu Shuai looked at Long Fei with contempt. ”Doctor, you must have become an idiot studying too hard the nuclear physics.” After saying that, he looked at Hao Ning, ”There's another special situation with incense, and that is people's belief in some books and the like.”
”I know about this, Zhang Quan mentioned it before in the copycat deification,” Hao Ning nodded, ”This is also a way for incense to be gathered. So, what's so strange about Nezha becoming a god?”
”It's not strange. But even if Nie Xiaoqian became a god, Nezha still wouldn't have become one.” Liu Shuai looked at Hao Ning and said with certainty.
”Why?” Hao Ning asked curiously, ”if even a ghost can become a god, how come a conferred god can't? Are you kidding? ”
”I'm really not joking,” Liu Shuai said seriously. ”It's exactly because they were conferred by the God Conferring Decree that they are unable to become gods in the Modern World.”
”I — don't understand.” Hao Ning looked at Liu Shuai in confusion, and then looked at Long Fei and Zhou Yuan, ”Do you two understand?”
As expected, Zhou Yuan and Long Fei shook their heads at the same time, even the amplitude was the same.
”I had even thought that you two knew quite a bit about the theory of becoming a god.” Hao Ning looked at the two of them with disdain, and mocked them, ”So you were also smattered. It seems that the theories of the two of you gods are not even as good as Liu Shuai, a mortal who has no mana power at all. ”
”That's right, shame on you two. No, shame on you two gods —” Liu Shuai blushed a little, but he still looked at Zhou Yuan and Long Fei proudly. ”You have already become gods, and you don't even understand your own basic theories …”
”Don't talk nonsense, just because you know a little bit, look how proudly you are acting,” Zhou Yuan couldn't bear to see Liu Shuai feeling good about himself, so he continued to ask, ”Since you know so much, explain to me, why can't one become a god after being conferred by the God Conferring Decree?”
”Uh, because the title of the God Conferring Decree doesn't only mean to confer a position,” Liu Shuai said as he looked at Hao Ning seriously, ”It also means to seal.”
”To seal?” Hao Ning mulled over Liu Shuai's words, and subconsciously asked, ”What do you mean?”
”After the God Conferring Decree conferred one's position as a god, one would never be destroyed, but one would be unable to cultivate anymore,” Liu Shuai carefully recalled, and Hao Ning guessed that this was probably something that Zhang Quan had taught him years ago, ”you know about these common senses, don't you?”
”Uh, I know, I know,” Long Fei and Zhou Yuan awkwardly looked at each other, and immediately nodded, pretending that they understood.
”You know my ass, ”Liu Shuai muttered in his heart, but he didn't want to waste his time expose it. He continued to give the two gods ”science ”principles,” The reason why they couldn't cultivate any more is that all the incense of people's faith in these gods had been absorbed by the God Conferring Decree to maintain the immortality of these gods' true spirits — this is called taking from the ordinary people, and using on the gods. But the gods could not use it, that's it. ”
”So what you mean is —” Hao Ning carefully thought about it, ”No matter how much faith we have in the gods of the God Conferring Decree in the Modern World, it will only be absorbed by the God Conferring Decree to maintain the immortality of their true spirits. So they would not have extra incense to become gods in this world?”
”Smart!” Liu Shuai slapped his thigh, ”That's exactly the explanation. That's why I said that even if Nie Xiaoqian became a god, it's impossible for Nezha, the Three Altar Sea God, to become a god now.”