Except for a few countries with exceptionally firm and devout beliefs, most of the remaining nations shared a similar attitude to the Alliance of Andra States, favoring Ding Yun, a deity who had genuinely awakened.
They also looked forward to spreading their faith in other worlds later on.
To acquire resources, expand territory, and so on.
Previously, to expand their territory, they could only hope for world wars to fish in troubled waters, or hope that the major powers would embark on a great cosmic voyage and discover new inhabited planets that would leave them with some scraps.
Beyond that, there was almost no other way.
Now that a new possibility had emerged, which nation would not be willing to give it a try? Moreover, with devout faith, cultivating divine arts could lead to longevity, and even the hope of becoming a god. It was only natural for all countries to be tempted.
Even some countries that had never believed in gods before.
Or countries that wished to engage in equal trade with deities.
They too began to fall, one after another.
The faith of the Sun God thus began its third wave of comprehensive coverage and expansion. The first wave was when Ding Yun descended with divine miracles, the second wave was when she bestowed cultivation techniques upon devout believers, and now was the third wave.
Across the land, other non-Sun God cults completely collapsed.
The faith in numerous deities crumbled.
One by one, the former temples of the Goddess of Harvest, the Temples of Light, the Temples of Darkness, the Dragon King Temples, the Phoenix Temples, the Buddhist temples, and so on, were either torn down or directly transformed on the spot, becoming places of worship for the Sun God.
As for the resistance from former powers like the Church of Light.
In the face of a group of Level 3, and even Level 4, clerical staff of the Sun God cult, as long as they could not use weapons of mass destruction like artillery shells, they were basically easily annihilated by the priests of the Sun God cult with overwhelming force, utterly incapable of resistance.
Within a month, the total number of Sun Goddess believers worldwide had exceeded seventy-nine billion.
Only less than a hundred million people.
Still clung to their original beliefs, or remained non-believers.
Most importantly, the majority of these newly converted believers were true believers or above. The number of shallow believers, on the other hand, was a minority, less than a hundred million.
A rather miraculous and interesting point was that most of the shallow believers and non-believers were considered intellectuals, the elites of the past technological era.
Perhaps due to their extensive knowledge reserves, it was difficult for them to wholeheartedly and sincerely believe in a deity. Many, even if they tried to believe and have faith, still had lingering doubts deep down, still feeling that the Sun Goddess merely possessed technology far beyond theirs, a being beyond their comprehension.
Rather than a so-called god, they believed that with enough time to develop and progress, they too could achieve godhood through technology.
This subconscious lack of certainty and disbelief in gods deep down made it difficult for them to transform from shallow believers into true believers, let alone devout believers.
Within the Sun Temple at the heart of the sun, Ding Yun, who was sorting believers through the lines of faith, compiling personal records and life histories for each believer, inscribing them into the Sun God Kingdom for future reception and judgment, soon discovered this special group and did not grow to dislike them because of it.
Instead, she found them quite interesting.
"As elite individuals from the technological era, even if their level of faith is slightly lower, their abilities and wisdom are certainly not. If utilized well, their impact might be even greater than that of hundreds of millions of devout believers.
However, for the sake of fairness.
They could not be directly given overly preferential treatment, nor could they be bestowed the cultivation techniques currently only given to devout believers. A thousand years is a long time, enough for cultivators to improve their cultivation, and also enough for technological civilizations to develop.
There's no need to insist on creating only a cultivation civilization; a coexistence of cultivation and technological civilizations would also be good.
Looking at it this way, they could be fully nurtured towards scientific research. Let those shallow believers who dedicate themselves to science continue to contribute their light and heat to the development of technological civilization.
Hmm, I have an idea…
Then, let's open the Sun Temple's archive to all shallow believers and above. As long as they are believers, they can use contribution points to exchange for books in the archive. Half of the space will be reserved for extraordinary cultivation knowledge, and the other half for technological knowledge.
As for the source of the technological knowledge, fortunately, I had the Sun Saintess mention some time ago that I have experienced many epochs. Explaining it with remnants from past epochs would be quite reasonable and could also indirectly prove that I, this Sun God, have existed since ancient times, over four billion years old.
Excellent, excellent, killing two birds with one stone, very good.
In this way, for those who have no interest in technology, or who generally dislike studying, they would likely not even bother looking at the technological knowledge even if it were free, let alone having to pay contribution points.
But for those researchers who have been unable to become devout believers and are engaged in cultivation, technological knowledge would be incredibly valuable. We could then prioritize displaying technologies that can extend lifespan, or break gene chains, and achieve transcendence through technology."
As the ruler of a vast power, Ding Yun knew very well that when facing her subordinates, she should not only consider their current utility but also their future utility, and even consider what to do if they are neither useful now nor in the future.
Striving to make the best use of everything, rather than disregarding or abandoning someone just because they are not useful at the moment.
Therefore, upon discovering this group of elites, who were numerous but temporarily unable to provide much faith power, Ding Yun quickly found a way to handle them and enable them to leverage their strengths through appropriate analysis and consideration.
Following that, of course, was the refinement of an information exchange artifact capable of infinite differentiation by absorbing faith power, based on the power of the sun and mental power, with faith branches as auxiliary. This artifact, the Sun Archive Wisdom Token, was born.
To facilitate its use by believers, Ding Yun specifically crafted it to resemble a mobile phone. However, the Sun Archive Wisdom Token did not have as many functions as a mobile phone; it contained only a simple archive and a personal account section.
Through a personal account, one could log into the archive and purchase knowledge within it using contribution points from their personal account. Whether it was extraordinary knowledge or technological knowledge, it could be purchased directly with contribution points.
This was the initial version.
Ding Yun was too lazy to add more functions, but she granted her clone, the Sun Saintess, the authority to add new software and features to the Sun Wisdom Archive Token. The Sun Saintess could further grant permissions to others, and they could negotiate among themselves for any functions they needed, and then add them.
Ding Yun herself did not plan to use this item; it was primarily for believers. Therefore, there was naturally no need to worry too much about it. Let them modify it as they pleased, as long as the core functions were not lost.