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Are he and Lily talking about the same topic?
Didn't I say I sympathize? There's no reasonable way to do it without intervening.
So now the question is, what does he think of those who joined the clan later?
Su Mo held his expressionless face, which had hardly changed in hundreds of millions of years in the heaven, and said calmly: "It's a pure transaction. I provide God's grace, and they just join the clan."
Su Mo thought, besides, he was not the one who made this transaction.
In the transaction, he is just an intermediary tool that provides God's grace.
For those who joined the Soma clan later, the trading partner was the current leader of the Soma clan. He had never met those people beforehand, and afterwards he only followed the transaction requirements to complete the grace updates and upgrades for those who joined the Soma clan, and at best he just gave a stamp.
He did not put any subjective will into this transaction.
He kept all his promises. He would not withhold his favor from anyone just because he disliked them, nor would he give special instructions to others just because he liked them.
——What do these people who joined the clan later have to do with him?
Su Mo thought to himself, could it be that according to the requirements of the lower world, he needs to be responsible for all this?
Some moon gods have the power of contract. Soma does not have this ability, but his duties include sacrifice.
Su Mo felt that there shouldn't be much difference.
Isn't sacrifice just a ritual of exchange that both parties feel is equivalent?
I have provided you with what I promised, and I have accepted the price you paid. Do you still want me to be responsible afterwards?
That doesn’t make sense, right?
You offered sacrifices to the gods, provided offerings and prayed for divine power. The gods bestowed the divine power upon you, but you couldn't withstand the divine power and your body exploded. Can you blame the gods for this?
Su Mo was a little confused. Could it be that the rules of the underworld were really like this?
In the heavenly realm, there were indeed some lives sacrificed to the gods.
A slightly evil god would actively lure other people into offering sacrifices to him, and then misinterpret the other party's wishes.
A very small number of benevolent gods will deliberately remind the worshiper of things to pay attention to when they are being worshipped.
...But as a rule, according to the most widespread standards in the heavens, it is the common sense procedure of sacrifice that the person presiding over the sacrifice knows the consequences of what he is asking for, right?
Su Mo was a little confused and wondered why he was asking this?
You can't figure out how to perform sacrifices on me, so don't you follow this procedure in the underworld?
Indeed, not many people in Orario worship gods. There are many who worship gods, but almost no one offers precious sacrifices to gods, prepares rituals, and prays for gods' blessings.
In today's Orario, most people who want the blessing of gods will directly contact some fallen gods and get a taste of the gods' aura.
——Although the gods have repeatedly clarified that it is a rumor that one will receive blessings from the gods by contacting them, the gods have sealed their own divine powers and no longer have the ability to bless their believers.
Su Mo was puzzled. He had secretly paid attention to the underworld, but had not paid much attention to matters concerning sacrifices or contracts.
In terms of the importance of the gods' divine powers, he values wine and the moon the most, and he only has some involvement in other divine powers. He doesn't really hang out with the circle of the gods of contracts.
Could it be that after the God of Contract descended to the lower world, he was not doing well and had become so inward-looking that he had to provide a series of follow-up services for his contract? It was common sense in the lower world today that even the aftermath of sacrifices was taken care of?
Su Mo was completely confused and had no idea what was going on.
Lily felt very disappointed in her heart, as her own Lord God had bluntly stated that she and her clan only had a trading relationship.
Lily bit her lip and glanced at Artemis obliquely.
Blame me for being too naive and believing your lies.
Artemis: “…”
Artemis took a deep breath and said coldly: "I say...Suma, can you please speak properly?"
Su Mo thought to himself, who are you? Why didn’t I speak properly?
But he changed his mind and thought about the current situation of his family. In addition, most of the dark factions had been destroyed, so Orario stabilized.
Such chaos among one's own family should not be used by the union as an example to scare the monkeys.
It seems like he could ask someone about how to deal with the clan?
Soma still believed in the wisdom of gods...the wisdom of other gods.
Thinking of this, Su Mo thought, does it seem necessary to communicate with this goddess who has come to him?
Then ignoring Artemis wouldn't be a good idea.
After thinking about it, Su Mo nodded slightly.
Su Mo kept a poker face and responded: "Yeah"
Chapter 73 Misunderstanding
Looking at Su Mo, Su Qing felt that he was like a god.
He is indeed a peerless otaku who has spent hundreds of millions of years in heaven and hasn’t even recognized all the hundreds of gods.
If you are not such a homebody, you probably can't say such words. This train of thought really amazed Su Qing.
Perhaps it is because he is a god that he is so ignorant of worldly affairs.
Su Mo’s problem…is really not a small problem.
People who are inexperienced in the world should be able to sort out the world after getting along with others for a few years. For example, if someone has been living in the countryside and comes to a big city, he or she will feel uncomfortable for a short time, but will adapt after a period of time.
But Su Mo couldn't adapt.
In Soma's case, it's probably because he is a god and his personal abilities are too outstanding.
It's not that he can't see it, but that he is too wise to recognize it, and because he is too inexperienced in the ways of the world, he doesn't know the boundary between what he can see clearly and what he can't see clearly.
Su Qing couldn't help but sigh.
He could roughly guess Su Mo's situation.
For example, Su Mo accidentally became a student of a college. When he was asked on the test paper what the value of pi was, he answered three.
Naturally there will be mistakes on the test paper.
Because he couldn't answer this question, Soma devoted himself to studying pi... and that was it.
This thing is infinite and non-looping.
When asked about the value of pi, he looked at the result, which he had no idea how many decimal places it had reached, and shook his head, saying that he had no idea what pi was.
Human nature is like an infinite cycle. The more you study it, the less you understand it.
If you really want Su Qing to talk about what human nature is and the level of human spirituality and consciousness, Su Qing can say a few words, but if you really want to get to the bottom of it, Su Qing can only say that he doesn't know.
But the problem is, to get along with normal people, you don’t need to understand human nature to that extent. It’s enough to barely understand most people’s views.
But Su Mo was too serious about this. He couldn't figure out the mental state of the children in the lower world and was not sure how to correctly interfere with the operation of the clan.
Considering the tiny possibility that his interference might make the situation worse, he really didn't take action.
Su Qing thought to himself, after all, in his opinion, if Su Mo was responsible and managed the clan a little bit, the clan would get better.
We are already at the bottom, and no matter how far we go, we are heading upwards.
But in Su Mo's opinion, this may not be the case.
If Soma observes the spirits of people in the lower world, he will naturally find a target nearby to observe, that is, his clan.
——It would be easy to draw wrong conclusions if we observe a group of people who are already immersed in the divine wine.
If Su Mo wanted to rescue his own family, then choosing his own family as the target of observation was theoretically correct.
But there is a prerequisite, Su Mo must know what a normal person is, and then based on the normal person as a reference, observe his own family members as problem patients.
If he used the people in his clan who were immersed in the divine wine as the conventional standard for judging the mental state of the people in the lower world, then he had chosen the wrong target from the very beginning, and it would naturally be difficult to get the correct answer.
Su Qing sighed inwardly.
The favor this world has for the gods is so strong and terrifying.
It is precisely because they do not need to think about how to survive, do not need to practice various survival skills, and do not have to face pressure and difficulties that the gods can grow into the bear-like appearance they are today.
We have top-quality products like Soma.
Whenever the gods have the possibility of death, the first group to die are those who have lived enough, and the second group are people like Soma.
The weaker gods will probably have to wait until the third batch to get their turn.
The situation of the Soma clan...
Su Qing looked at the dwarf girl in front of him and patted her shoulder.
"Thanks a lot."
How could a normal person possibly guess what level of coincidence was involved for this situation to occur?
A god who wanted to make his clan better, but had to watch for various reasons.
A dwarf who wanted to break away from his clan, but for various reasons, he chose not to escape directly.
In between the two, there is a clan leader who uses the Soma clan to demonstrate his own ambitions.
But the leader of this clan is also a completely incompetent type. He controls the golden signboard of the divine wine and can obviously expand the clan, but he only wants to live comfortably in his own clan.
In this series of events, the leader of this clan didn't actually do much.
Forbid the people below to contact Soma and thus change Soma?
No, more than no, the current Soma clan is not strong, but it is large in scale.
From any perspective, this is unnecessary. Most of the operating funds of the Soma clan come from the divine wine. What the Soma clan really lacks are management talents and high-level combat power.
Obtain money, use the money to buy precious materials for brewing wine, and look for opportunities to bribe reliable high-level adventurers as the fighting force of the clan.
But the Soma clan is expanding in size, not by purchasing precious items, entering dungeons to adventure, and increasing the strength of the clan.
Instead, it is a complete horizontal expansion, pursuing only scale, and the strongest one is only level 2.