How did people’s concept of God come about?
Some say that the concept of 'god' was originally born out of nature worship. The ancient ancestors of mankind, because they did not have effective means to deal with natural disasters, developed a fear of natural forces with powerful destructive power.
Human beings give personality to these natural forces, hoping to gain mercy through their own prayers and survive disasters. Over time, this fear turned into worship, and these natural forces endowed with personalities became the earliest 'gods'.
In the era of the rise of religious beliefs, 'god' has become the highest-level collective term in the religious system. He can be a human being or the personification of natural phenomena. He is not restricted by the laws of nature, but is higher than the laws of nature.
Humanity's exploration of nature will always be limited by the times. All things that are currently incomprehensible and unexplainable can be attributed to God.
As a result, God advanced from the personification of natural forces to an aggregation of power, mystery, and unknown.
No matter which angle you look at it, there are two elements that can never be avoided, that is, the state of "power" and "unknowability".
Those who are powerful and unpredictable are called gods.
At this time, the state shown by Cheng Haige already made Ana Shen feel that he was infinitely close to that concept.
The huge tree man's body, which was more than fifty meters tall, completely melted, and the surrounding fog was so thick that it completely obscured his sight.
And at the location where the tree man melted, an extremely pure spiritual energy suddenly burst out. The spiritual energy that shot straight into the sky formed a powerful tidal force. The thick mist was like a divided ocean tide, unconsciously With that spiritual energy as the center, it spread to both sides, forming a vacuum channel.
A green male body less than three meters tall came out of the passage in the middle of the mist.
At this time, Shen Yan, who received the information about Chen Yun's evacuation, had already arrived at the edge of the realm, more than two thousand meters away from Cheng Haige's body.
But the moment Shen Yan saw this male body, a chaotic will hit his mind arbitrarily.
At this moment, Ana Shen felt as if she was wrapped by countless tree roots, like a corpse buried underground waiting to rot, becoming the nourishment of the towering tree.
The moment this feeling appeared, countless slender roots appeared unconsciously under Shen Yan's skin. They wandered around Shen Yan's body and absorbed all the energy they could.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, the black psychic power in his body automatically vibrated, and then expelled this will.
However, in just this moment, his already thin body suddenly became thinner again, and his cheekbones were already bulging in less than a breath.
Bai Ye, Chen Yun and others outside the realm behaved even more unbearably than Shen Yan. It happened that Chen Yun was still using instruments to detect the spiritual strength of the realm. The moment the male body came out of the fog, Chen Yun The whole person was extremely contaminated.
A large number of roots directly penetrated her white and tender skin and grew out of her body.
By the time Bai Ye relied on her awakened power to suppress the contamination of her will by this will, and turned around to help Chen Yun, the roots growing from her body had already taken root on the ground.
Chen Yun has transformed from an intellectual royal sister directly into a human-shaped tree with the front and back curved!
"Evacuate! Get out of here! Drive forward one kilometer!"
While Bai Ye anxiously directed the convoy to retreat, he transformed into a giant state, pulled out the big tree that Chen Yun had transformed into from the ground, and directly carried her and followed the convoy away from the realm.
Before Bai Ye, most of the convoys had been sent back early to escort the living samples, and there were not many people left here at this time.
Moreover, the tree man's sudden contamination seems to be related to whether he looks directly at him. The few warriors who have not looked at the realm so far have not shown any abnormalities.
Of the three off-road vehicles, only one started its engine and ran wildly into the distance.
The remaining two off-road vehicles had their bodies broken by several suddenly grown trees and were hung up directly.
And Cheng Haige, who had done nothing but caused such serious consequences, walked towards Ana Shen casually.
"Before I started doing genetic research, there was a question that bothered me for a long time."
After transforming from a tree man back to a three-meter-tall man, Cheng Haige's body also regained his former appearance. Tall, thin, and sharp-edged, even if he is not naked now, he is as confident and calm as a professor or lecturer walking in the classroom.
He walked out of the green mist, put a hand on his temple, and said with a rather confused expression: "In all social creatures, there is a clear hierarchy."
"From tiny ants, to majestic lions, and monkeys that are very similar to humans, you will find that the lower the creature, the stricter the hierarchy."
"The higher the individual's level of intelligence, the stronger the resistance to social hierarchy. This is also the fundamental reason for the continuous changes in the human social system over thousands of years."
"I once believed that the weakening of social hierarchy was an inevitable result of the evolution of civilization. For all human beings, individuals who are freer and more equal can better promote the evolution of human civilization."
Ana Shen stood at the edge of the realm, listening to Cheng Haige's talk, while secretly controlling psychic energy to repair the damaged body.
He noticed that Cheng Haige had a distressed expression on his face as he spoke.
Ana Shen asked tentatively: "What now?"
"Now……"
Cheng Haige grinned: "The increasingly free and equal system is just a development that goes against human nature, or that suppresses human nature."
"Because development and evolution are inherently based on comparison. In order to have better food, better clothing, and better living conditions than others, people will work more while ensuring survival."
"When everyone can't afford meat, progress means you pursue eating meat. When everyone is still using old-age phones, you use smart phones..."
"Looking at the evolutionary history of human civilization, it is a history of desires being constantly satisfied and expanding."
"Greed, laziness, vanity...etc., these things rooted deep in human nature are the original driving forces for the development of civilization."
"Liberty and equality are the pursuit of the masses, not the pursuit of high-level people, nor the pursuit of racial civilization."
Ana Shen frowned instinctively: "But civilization itself belongs to the public."
Cheng Haige smiled and shook his head: "In the past, the world did belong to the general public, because they were the most basic unit of labor force in social production."
"Every moment of food and every screw is inseparable from the labor of the masses. The top management needs the support of the people at the bottom. Without the common people, they can't even eat."
"It is precisely because of this that freedom and equality have become the mainstream of spiritual culture in current society."
"But look, wait until intelligent mechanization develops further, people no longer need to sow food, factories no longer need labor, and people at the bottom of the social pyramid have completely lost their value. Then you go and see..."
Before Cheng Haige finished speaking, Ana Shen suddenly retreated quickly.
At the same time, the dark sky suddenly became as bright as day, and a bolt of thunder, which was hundreds of meters thick, suddenly shot out from the clouds and struck directly at Cheng Hai Pavilion.
It was as if he had been struck by lightning from the sky before when he said something treasonous and unethical.
Cheng Haige raised his head, with no trace of panic on his face: "I know that you have been patiently listening to me for so long just to wait for this thing."
"But I've said so much, do you know what I'm waiting for..."
Boom——!
With an explosion, the area dozens of miles around was completely enveloped in a sea of thunder.
