A race's belief is not about which god or sage they worship, but rather the collective conviction of the race itself.
Take the Human race, for example. In the past, they worshipped many deities, such as Goddess Nuwa, Dao Ancestor Taiqing, Zhenyuanzi, and some even worshipped the Supreme Ancestor of Magic.
Yet during the great tribulation of the Human race, not a single one of those revered deities appeared. The Supreme Ancestor of Magic merely left behind a single sentence:
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