Chapter 250: Singing Together
"Is there anything else that needs to be prepared?"
"A million people should be enough," Bai Mo said casually.
"Hmm?" A few hearts skipped a beat, clearly assuming that achieving godhood required sacrificing so many people.
"Find a team to write a hymn for each of you. The lyrics need to clearly praise you individually. Then gather a million people to continuously sing these hymns for twelve hours at the God-Ascension Ceremony a month from now."
"Of course, more people would also be fine; that depends on your arrangements. The main expenditure for the budget will be in this area. Chen Xi will discuss the detailed plan and required materials with your people later."
"See you in a month." With that, Bai Mo's avatar picked up the two remaining Empty Profound Crystals and walked out of the storeroom.
"What are you doing this for?" Cheng Mu asked seriously, not believing that the value of those two crystals could offset the plan Bai Mo had proposed.
"For no particular reason. I relied on your resources to rise back then; this time, I'm simply repaying a favor. It's also an exploration of a new path."
"Our entire nation is practically atheist. To conjure up Faith Power, we can only rely on such inefficient methods of idol worship."
"Our dealings with him have always gone smoothly; I don't think there will be any issues this time either."
"Moreover, the plan that was just delivered already explains most of the principles in considerable detail. It seems highly feasible."
"It's just, why has he only appeared using avatars for the past year or so?" Through their intelligence departments, they had also learned of this matter.
Apart from when he was setting up secret lines, Bai Mo rarely concealed his presence.
"Unclear. That's not a problem we need to concern ourselves with right now."
"According to the situation described in the plan, a million people singing hymns simultaneously will provide initial Faith Power. After achieving godhood with the help of this Faith Power, there will still need to be continuous chanting, or else the Divine Kingdom will collapse before too long."
"The limitations are indeed significant. As long as administrative orders prohibit the dissemination of the hymns, even an ordinary person could easily push such a god into a desperate situation." Everyone present was an old hand, and they immediately realized this.
"That's why he made this compensation." Cheng Mu pulled out a second secret document. "Artificial Sacred Spirits."
"This document states that Bai Mo, during his previous investigation in Maysuo, once witnessed genuine fanatical believers of the One-Wheel Cult. Their souls, after death, would enter a strange space located above the holy city."
"So he secretly abducted two living fanatics, brought them back to the laboratory, and through various studies of them, finally produced something called Sacred Spirits."
"These artificially created Sacred Spirits are expected to exist within the Divine Kingdom for approximately thirty years. During this time, each of them can provide a certain amount of Faith Power and can serve as the most loyal guardians."
"But the only problem is that these Sacred Spirits must be personally created by the god..."
"Even so, it's at least better than having the core of their power circulating externally."
"Souls will transform into another form, existing within the Divine Kingdom and no longer requiring the support of a physical body..." The group continued to read the invaluable document Bai Mo had left behind.
"The physical body, on the other hand, will be stored within the Divine Kingdom, eventually being slowly transformed by Faith Power into a Sacred Body, or rather, a part of the Divine Kingdom itself."
"Finally, to further expand the Divine Kingdom, a large amount of resources will be needed, but this isn't a major problem."
"How did he manage to deduce such a detailed plan in such a short amount of time?"
"No idea. According to the reports submitted by our subordinates, his main body hasn't left the testing ground for two years. The engineering teams responsible for expanding the testing ground have also been strictly forbidden from entering his core area, and satellites are heavily jammed. That place has completely become a misty zone."
"If there are no other issues, then we will begin preparations for the God-Ascension Ceremony."
"I never thought two old men like us could become the first living people to achieve godhood." As traditional Huaxian people, their ideas about gods were mostly similar to those described in ancient myths, like the Jade Emperor or Erlang Shen.
"If we could truly transform into a Celestial Court in the end, governing the entire human realm, how wonderful would that be?" Liu Zhen couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Given their status, they had experienced and enjoyed everything over the past decades. What remained was only that which their deepest hearts still pursued.
With a single word, the massive machinery of Huaxia Federation slowly began to churn. Gathering a million people in one place to sing hymns within a month was by no means an easy task, but under the supreme command from the top, no matter how difficult the mission, those below could only grit their teeth and complete it with all their might.
As it concerned their very foundation, everything was executed according to the highest standards of performance.
First, everyone in the entire arts and culture scene who had even a slight singing foundation was conscripted to participate, as they wouldn't require much training to sing the given songs well.
Next were the ordinary citizens. Grassroots officials were generally assigned quotas, each person required to find a certain number of individuals within a deadline. For a time, karaoke bars in cities big and small suffered.
Most people whose singing didn't sound off-key were "invited" to temporary training centers, with only a small number of individuals with deep backgrounds being exempt from such treatment.
Witnessing the Huaxia Federation being thrown into utter chaos by a single mobilization order, Chen Bo quickly convened an emergency meeting with Bai Mo and Cheng Mu.
"Speaker Cheng, I understand your feelings, but please don't go too far." Chen Bo was quite displeased with this matter, but he didn't stop the other party's actions, as obstructing someone's path to power truly creates an undying hatred.
"I'll handle it properly." Although the young man before him was only half his age, Cheng Mu couldn't put on any airs of an elder.
"It wouldn't be much different if you just paid to invite unemployed vagrants from various places. The key is simply the numbers; quality isn't important, since no one will genuinely believe anyway," Bai Mo said indifferently.
"My words were distorted as they were passed down the hierarchy," Cheng Mu said, a little helpless. The executors had misinterpreted his intentions, making it seem like they were conscripting able-bodied men for the front lines.
To resolve this matter, Cheng Mu personally stepped forward, allowing most of the unwilling, forcibly conscripted individuals to leave. He then widely hired idle and unemployed people from across the country at a salary of three hundred Huaxia Coins a day.
Having the same group of people sing for twelve hours was clearly unrealistic, so their plan was to have three groups rotate.
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