Chapter 3324: Thoughts bloom

The Emperor Changsheng seeks knowledge and philosophy. He also hopes that all living beings can pursue these. He does not believe in immortality or gods, but all living beings do not have his wisdom. He actually named him the Emperor Changsheng and named him the philosophy and knowledge. It became a religion and belief, and was named "Longsheng Tianjiao".
This is almost inevitable.
In the early days of any civilization, when all beings face the unknown world and cannot understand the causal relationship, they will forcibly add connections, so they will appear. Natural disasters are caused by the angry gods, the floods are caused by the water turning over, and other strange legends, these Legends were gradually enriched, and they became myths.
Mythology has long been faith and religion.
Compared with the unified-minded Longevity Heavenly Sect, the Natural God Sect has begun to blossom. Although the of nature believes in many gods and is very tolerant, it is too tolerant and therefore not rigorous enough. Countries near the water believe in the of water even more, and believe that the of water is the first god, and those near the mountains believe in the forest. Gods or gods of mountains and rivers, so many kinds.
Therefore, the religion of nature is easy to split, and one kingdom will become many kingdoms that believe in different gods.
In the early days of the second permanent era, the mythological period, sentient beings prospered, religions prospered, and art began to flourish.
This state lasted for more than two thousand years. The powerful eternal gods began to unify the many scattered kingdoms of natural religion, and many wars, large and small, broke out successively, which gave birth to more art.
On these two fertile soils, religion and art began to give birth to concepts such as knowledge, philosophy, and ethics.
In the later period of the mythological era, the blooming of ideas reached a peak, and various academic studies were prevalent, but mainly revolved around religion. All art also served religion. However, at this stage, some brand-new ideas also appeared, such as ethnicity. The concept, but this kind of thinking has been difficult to become mainstream. In addition, there has also been a group of thinkers who have almost insight into the nature of everything. They believe that the so-called gods may be another existence, because this existence does not respond to prayers and sacrifices, so this existence may be thoughtless.
This group of thinkers spent two to three hundred years perfecting their own ideas, but they have not been recognized, and their status is very low.
At the end of the mythical period, the Law of Light experienced weak fluctuations.
Compared to the period when the land was turned into a sea of ​​fire, the fluctuations in this period were actually very weak.
However, this fluctuation caused many glaciers to melt, and a major flood occurred.
Mountains and rivers over a hundred meters deep were submerged by the flood.
Countless civilizations and nations have disappeared in the flood.
Meng Fan stood on an island that was once a mountain. He silently watched some boats in the flood.
Even in the mild Heng Era, civilization may disappear overnight.
Those boats vary in size, but the larger ones are almost like an island, capable of carrying thousands of creatures, and there are hundreds of ships connected together.
That is the water empire.
The fluctuation of the Law of Light did not happen instantaneously, but gradually increased over the past few hundred years. Glaciers slowly melted and the water level continued to rise. At first, civilizations and kingdoms did not care. As some coastal cities and ponds were submerged, the kingdom’s The leaders began to realize that something would happen. Before the flood broke out, some kingdoms had begun to build ships.
This is also the reason why various civilizations have begun to develop and their thinking has begun to mature. If in an older age, even if the great flood has erupted, various kingdoms would still not realize that they would perish.
The more powerful kingdoms built thousands of ships, and the small kingdoms realized this and began to follow suit, building dozens or hundreds of ships.
Thus formed many water empires at the end of the myth age.
In this flood, the status of that group has always been low, and the status of thinkers who believe that gods do not exist has been significantly improved.
Before the great flood broke out, they began to observe the law of temperature and the extension of daylight. Ten years before the great flood broke out, they found that the length of daylight was three times longer than that of night, so they declared that the great flood was about to erupt, maybe just one day. Years later, and everywhere persuaded the leaders of civilization to build big ships immediately. Of course, it is not the credit of this group of thinkers that so many water empires can appear. Long before they began to persuade, the leaders of various civilizations had already begun to build big ships. However, their thoughts provided the basis for these leaders, especially their expectations for the outbreak of floods, which became the earliest "calculations."
Although their expectations are never accurate.
After the great flood broke out, the thinkers of this group continued to observe and found that the time of daylight was still prolonged, and from this they inferred that the flood would continue to rise, and only the remaining land would also be submerged. They believed that this was the "great light." The reason is that this is a natural law, that is, the "Law of Light".
Since then, this school of thinkers has become the "Legal School".
They first created the concept of "laws".
Of course, in this era, the words and Meng Fan's era are completely different, so the laws they named have different meanings from the laws of Meng Fan's era, but the general meaning is similar.
The flood predicted by the school of law will continue to rise and come true, and the very few civilizations that lived on the top of the mountain have also disappeared, which makes many kingdoms start to value them and even begin to doubt their previous beliefs.
"Religion and belief are very fragile and easily challenged in the face of natural forces." Meng Fan said lightly. "In the early days of civilization in the Infinite Realm, there were several very powerful countries in their world, all believed in a god, and then a huge plague broke out and many people died, including the most pious believers and gods. The people who served, this caused a great shake in faith, and as a result a movement called the'Renaissance' broke out. Whether it is the natural religion or the longevity religion, in the face of such a chaotic era, disasters are frequent In the era, their beliefs will eventually collapse, and new beliefs will occupy the world of thoughts of sentient beings."
The old man with the cane nodded.
Ninety years after the eruption of the Great Flood, the thinkers of the School of Law had a very mature system and a large number of believers. This is because many outstanding elites appeared in this school of thinkers. The belief of Natural Gods was re-explained to fit his own academics, so it was gradually accepted by sentient beings.
For example, they think that "the sun god" exists, but he has another name, the law of light, and thinkers of this school can feel the law of the law of light, in other words, they can talk to the sun god.
When several prophecies are successful, they will naturally be regarded as being closer to the gods than those sacrifices, and believers will increase.
It is even easier to reinterpret the Changsheng Tianjiao. The Changsheng Emperor left behind countless knowledge and philosophies, many of which are even completely consistent with the ideas of the law school.
Ninety years after the Great Flood, a thinker from the School of Law claimed that the flood would still skyrocket because the hours of daylight were extended.
But this time, the law school was wrong.
The time of daylight did extend again, but it did not soar, but the water level was getting lower and lower.
The flood that flooded the entire continent started to evaporate because the law of light became stronger.
When the water level reached a certain level and some mountains and rivers were exposed again, heavy rain came.
Severe storms, thunder and lightning, tsunamis, hurricanes, and countless disasters destroyed one water empire after another.
The school of law, who thought that they had already figured out the laws of the world, suffered a heavy ideological blow.
They are too small.