"Why?"
Li Tianming said, "When you open the Path of the Believer, your consciousness will completely separate from your body, and you won't be able to sense changes in your surroundings. In other words, at the moment of breakthrough, you will have absolutely no ability to fight back. This means that the location you choose to open the Path of the Believer must be hidden enough and safe enough."
Qin Siyang scratched his head, "Old Li, I think you're being a bit overly cautious. Before, Hu Yunsheng almost killed me and I don't even know how long I was unconscious. Didn't you all still save my life? And even last time, when I was attacked by the Nightmare Lantern Tree, Hu Chan woke up before me and didn't lay a hand on me either."
Li Tianming replied calmly, "There's one more thing. If you die while opening the Path of the Believer, all materials you have signed contracts with, as well as any special locks that only you can open, will automatically erase your aura and return to an ownerless state."
"What? Automatically erase my aura?", Qin Siyang's eyes widened, "Isn't that like eating it and then spitting it back out? On what grounds?"
"If you think it's unfair, telling me is useless. Go talk to the gods yourself."
Li Tianming picked up his cup and took a sip of water to wet his throat, "Little Qin, I don't know exactly how many treasures you have."
"Vine Core, Crimson Crystal, the remains of the Corrosive Black Centipede, fragments of the inner leaves of Titan Foxtail Grass. These are the ones you've already revealed."
"Lava Crocodile, Ice Crystal Giant Moth, Titan Foxtail Grass, Bluewater Glazed Star Ore. These are the ones known within our circle."
"You definitely still have some treasures you're keeping at the bottom of your chest, things you haven't told anyone."
"But without a doubt, even if no one knows about the materials you've hidden or not made public, just the few I mentioned at the start are enough to make a faction in the safe zone drool."
"Right now, there are quite a few people who know you're sequence level five. Who knows how many people are watching you openly and in secret. Even Hu Chan, who goes out hunting gods with you, Chu Baxing, who seems to get along well with you, or even Zhao Sifang, who calls you 'Brother Qin' every day, might not be without ill intentions, wanting to make an astronomical fortune off you."
"And me, I'm the same."
Qin Siyang froze slightly and asked Li Tianming in disbelief, "You want me dead too?"
"That's not it," A complicated sorrow flickered in Li Tianming's eyes, "But do you know what my first thought was when I saw you kill the Lava Crocodile and the Ice Crystal Giant Moth, and then acquire the Titan Foxtail Grass?"
Qin Siyang looked at Li Tianming with curiosity, "What was it?"
"I wondered whether there might still be fist-sized Crimson Crystals and large amounts of Yellow Silver Star Ore in your box that you hadn't told me about. If you died while opening the Path of the Believer, I could get all the materials, take revenge on Guo Jiuxiao, and wipe away years of bitter hatred."
Qin Siyang listened to Li Tianming's confession in silence.
A bitter smile surfaced on Li Tianming's face, "When I realized I had that thought, I was extremely shocked. I didn't expect that I would have such a latent idea of wanting you to die in order to gain benefits."
Qin Siyang sighed softly, then smiled slightly at Li Tianming, "Old Li, don't blame yourself too much. When faced with huge profits, human nature is bound to waver."
"The fact that you can tell me this shows that there's no problem with our relationship. And I understand that you're doing this for my sake. That single evil thought must have been strangled by you already, and you would never act on it."
"Hearing you say that really does make me feel a lot better," Li Tianming nodded, "I'm saying all this just so you understand something. Don't test human nature, because human nature can't withstand being tested."
"Don't worry, Old Li. I won't tell anyone when or where I'll open the Path of the Believer."
"Mm!"
Li Tianming took another sip of water, suppressing that sense of guilt so he could continue explaining.
"Once you've found a place to prepare for opening the Path of the Believer, you can get ready for the god-worship ritual."
"When performing the god-worship ritual, first lay out one hundred small-god disc armors on the ground to form a ring. Then place two medium-god disc armors in the center of the small-god disc armors. Finally, strip naked and lie on your back atop those two medium disc armors. After about an hour, you'll see a road appear in front of you. That is the Path of the Believer."
Qin Siyang asked, "An hour? What if I lie there for an hour and fall asleep?"
"Can't you just get enough sleep before opening the Path of the Believer?"
"Oh, that makes sense!"
"After opening the Path of the Believer, you will see a road. This is the Path of the Believer. The Path of the Believer will present different scenes based on the grade of your offerings. To be specific, the stronger the antagonistic relationship between the medium-god disc armors used as the main offering, the brighter the light of your Path of the Believer will be. And the higher the score of the small-god disc armors used as secondary offerings, the more gods you'll be able to see on the Path of the Believer."
"Although there is currently no publicly recognized theory on the grades of the Path of the Believer, there are unwritten sayings circulating privately."
"Based on the brightness of the Path of the Believer, from lowest to highest, they are divided into Dark Grade, Starlight Grade, Moonshadow Grade, and Dawn Grade."
"Dark Grade, as the name implies, means the Path of the Believer has almost no light. This is the kind opened by low-grade offerings that I mentioned to you before. A Dark Grade Path of the Believer can only enhance physical strength and cannot improve your sequence abilities."
"On a Starlight Grade Path of the Believer, there are scattered points of light. This is opened by mid-grade offerings. Besides physical enhancement, it can also randomly enhance one existing sequence skill."
"At Moonshadow Grade, you can see faint silvery light on the Path of the Believer, like a layer of frost. This can only be opened by high-grade offerings. In addition to physical enhancement, you can designate two sequence skills to improve."
"As for the Dawn Grade Path of the Believer, it is bathed in soft golden light. I know people who have opened a Dawn Grade Path of the Believer, but I don't know what kind of enhancements they obtained."
"Little Qin, the offerings of your Lava Crocodile and Ice Crystal Giant Moth are definitely Dawn Grade. After you break through, you can tell me about your experiences and insights."
"Okay!"
"The differences in the Path of the Believer that I just talked about are only the rewards at the moment of opening it. The later improvements are just as different as heaven and earth, so I won't go into detail with you now. In short, the brighter the Path of the Believer's light, the greater your own progress will be after breaking through to sequence level six."
"I see! I see!"
"And after opening the Path of the Believer, when you fight against other sequence ability users who have not opened the Path of the Believer, you will also receive a boost. When facing low-tier sequence ability users, it can be described as complete suppression."
"I see! I see! I see!"
Qin Siyang hadn't felt this relaxed and happy in a long time.
It felt like all the pent-up gloom in his chest had been swept away in one go, and he was so happy he felt like he was about to flip the world upside down.
"Old Li, what kind of suppression are we talking about? Be specific."
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