Nobody could have imagined that on this day, among all the students attending this survival training, there would be 64 fanatics who were as close as brothers, abiding by their vows and secret agreements, and wholeheartedly wanting to join the Ancient Gods Church.
This was the aftereffect of Zhang Tie's tricks. Other than Zhang Tie, the mysterious and sacred Big Blessing Skill inheritance ceremony had captured everyone's heart. For Zhang Tie, although this Big Blessing Skill was purely fictitious, it was not completely unreasonable. Just like the Duanhua incantation that Zhang Tie had recited in the ceremony, how could one see the rainbow without experiencing hardships? More importantly, the biggest reason why Zhang Tie dared to fabricate such a fictitious secret "Big Blessing Skill" in front of so many people was his personal experience of being a human flesh bag in the fighting club. It was painful to be beaten by others without being able to fight back. However, at the same time, when you changed your perspective, changed your feelings, and changed your way of thinking to accept, understand, and find benefits from things that were the least beneficial, Zhang Tie found that the feeling of happiness and enlightenment in his heart was really great.
What happened wasn't the most important. What was important was how you felt and understood what was happening. Everything was neither good nor bad. It all depended on how you felt. If you felt that it was good, then it was good and could make you feel happy. If you felt that it was bad, then it was bad and could make you feel terrible. When you opened your heart, threw away the burden of traditional perspectives, and focused on the aspects of things that made you feel good, Zhang Tie found that his heart was like a tap that had been opened. Zhang Tie found that his heart was like a faucet that had been opened. After the gate of his mind was opened, a great feeling started to flow all over his body from the gate of his mind. This was the ultimate meaning of the Big Blessing Skill that Zhang Tie had concluded from his personal experience. No matter when and no matter what you were facing, as long as you focused your feelings in a positive direction, in a direction that made you happy, that would be the greatest blessing you could give yourself!
As for the Ancient Gods Church … To Zhang Tie, that was just nonsense. Zhang Tie felt that as long as the survival training was over, those guys would go their separate ways, and no one would think about such an illusory thing anymore. Even Zhang Tie didn't believe that it could arouse people's reverence and devotion.
Everything that happened in the cave could be considered a white lie and a blessing that he had given to those guys. Zhang Tie told himself.
After that day, the cave, which used to only have a dozen people, became lively with the addition of fifty to sixty miners. Even in the tunnel where Zhang Tie was digging, there were some more people.
Unlike those guys who had resigned themselves to their fate and were always sullen, these guys had been successfully brainwashed by Zhang Tie. They had claimed that they had learned from Zhang Tie's mining experience, and their performance in the mine. Others would definitely think that they were a bunch of lunatics and lunatics.
Others would carry their mining baskets on their backs and start digging with their pickaxes. However, these guys were different. Every time before digging, they would kneel down in front of the hard, ice-cold ore deposits and stones, put their palms together, and pray devoutly and gratefully.
"Thank the Heavens for bringing you to me. I know that you're not an ice-cold ore, but the greatest blessing that the Heavens have bestowed upon me. Every time I devoutly swing the pickaxe, every time I gratefully carry you through the long tunnel, it's all because I'm receiving this great blessing and gift. You make my muscles and bones feel tired and sore, it's because you've bestowed upon me extraordinary strength and willpower. You are as hard as iron and hard to break. That is because you have bestowed upon me the determination and courage to crush all difficulties. Because of you, I can obtain food. Because of you, I can obtain strength. Because of you, I can become firm. Because of you, I have the determination to crush all difficulties. I know that, just like the best wine, it tastes bitter in the mouth. Similarly, I also know that the appearance of the greatest blessing is suffering and difficulties. From today onwards, all complaints will leave me. I will see through the appearance of all suffering and will no longer be deceived by its appearance. Like a good wine, I will open my heart and accept this blessing. Suffering is the blessing that God has bestowed upon me. I accept this blessing in my piety and gratefulness, and I will definitely absorb great strength from this blessing! May the ancient god be with me! "
After silently reciting this prayer, those guys gently stroked and even kissed the ice-cold stones. Only then did they raise their pickaxes. With a satisfied and pious expression, they focused on digging as if they were digging for gold.
At first, Potter was the only one who did this. Then, slowly, starting from a few "fire-bearers", everyone followed Potter's lead and began to silently pray for the blessing of the Great Blessing Spell in their hearts before every mining session. Even Wood and the other "sacrifices", although they had not experienced that "sacred" ritual, also began to pray in the same way. Through this prayer, Wood and the others also vaguely felt a trace of the essence of the Great Blessing Spell, and their hearts became firmer and more devout.
It took Potter one night to come up with this prayer. The next day, he nervously asked Zhang Tie, the "Enlightener", for guidance. This prayer immediately made Zhang Tie dizzy.
"Did you come up with this prayer by yourself?" Zhang Tie curiously stared at Potter. He could not understand how this guy, who had accepted his fate to dig for ores yesterday, could suddenly become so passionate after only one day. He could even come up with such a prayer, especially the phrase "good wine". It was simply too f * cking meaningful.
"Yes!" Potter became slightly excited as he recited the prayers. His face began to glow. "I don't know why, but I was so excited last night that I couldn't sleep. Then, these things started to come to my mind one by one!"
"It seems that the Big Blessing Skill has already started to take effect on you..." Zhang Tie solemnly said to Potter. "This prayer of yours is very good. It is completely formed by the Big Blessing Skill and your inner heart. However, there is still one problem. If you add one more line, this prayer will be perfect!"
"Which part needs to be modified?" Potter nervously asked.
"If you add 'may the ancient gods be with me' to the end of this prayer, it will be more powerful and effective!" Zhang Tie pretentiously "guided" Zhang Tie.
Therefore, in the afternoon of the second day, when someone discovered that Potter, the "fire-bearer", had started to kneel on the ground and pray piously before mining, it only took one morning for this prayer to spread among the 64 people. Everyone treated it as a treasure, especially the line "May the Ancient God be with me" at the end of this prayer. This made everyone firmly believe that the Ancient God Society believed in this mysterious deity called "Ancient God".
In the Age of Black Iron, human beliefs had exploded. Nobody had ever seen a real deity in this world. However, the worship of various deities was widespread wherever people lived. Zhang Tie didn't know about the situation in other places, but in the Andaman Alliance, although the Sun Dynasty was always covetously watching them, there were no less than seven or eight sects and groups within the Alliance that took the sun as their totem and source of belief. There were even more sects and groups of various kinds. Each group and sect claimed that they believed in the real deity, but many of them eventually became the tools of cheats to amass wealth and sex. They went bankrupt and closed down even more frequently than those registered business groups and companies. These deities also came and went with the rise and fall of these sects and groups. There were so many of them that no one could remember them all. In this case, Zhang Tie felt that it was not a big deal to casually fabricate a deity's spiritual root such as that of an ancient deity.
In the Andaman Alliance, it was much less of a crime to fabricate a deity's spiritual root than to fabricate a legal person of a company. The latter might even cause trouble for the tax office, while the former would be ignored.
After three days of digging with these guys who had received the blessing of the "Big Blessing Skill", Zhang Tie almost collapsed. The Leakless Fruit had already been ripe for three days, but Zhang Tie still hadn't found a chance to enter the Castle of Black Iron to complete his plan to promote to a LV 2 warrior. During these three days, as long as Zhang Tie appeared in the mining cave, he would always become the most eye-catching guy. Compared to before, the number of miners in the mining cave had increased by four or five times. The mining cave could no longer provide any cover for Zhang Tie to enter the Castle of Black Iron, nor could he increase any basic energy storage in the Castle of Black Iron.
Almost half of the survival training had passed. Zhang Tie knew that if he continued to stay in the mining cave, he might really have to dig with these guys for another month. Of course, this was not what Zhang Tie wanted.
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