The Era of Gods-Chapter 577 - Refining Divinity
Chapter 577 -577 Refining Divinity
The dark gold Divine Power Ball vanished into thin air, and Lin Xiao’s figure disappeared at the same moment that the space he occupied exploded with a thunderous roar. The space was horrifically compressed by Divine Power, distorting and sinking. A loud booming sound awakened the nearby hidden Divine Aberrations, and in an instant, dozens of evil and crazed gazes were cast upon this space.
“Boom, boom, boom…”
After seven consecutive explosions, Lin Xiao finally failed to dodge the combo and, like a meteor, crashed into the Earth, creating a huge pit. Immediately after, The Lord of Darkness transformed into a dark gold sun and viciously plummeted down.
Just at that moment, scattered subordinates finally rushed back and blocked Him. Lin Xiao shot up into the sky and shouted,
“Attack!”
One subordinate’s incarnation rapidly disintegrated, turning into a silver sun that spanned the sky, propping up the dark gold sun of The Lord of Darkness’s incarnation. Accompanied by The Lord of Darkness’s roar of rage, the silver sun quickly melted away.
Another subordinate’s incarnation also crumbled, turning into an immense golden chain that rapidly wrapped around in the void. An invisible Divine Power locked down the space, and naturally, it temporarily trapped The Lord of Darkness as well.
Next, several subordinates’ incarnations burst forth one after another, their Divine Powers stacking up to forcefully suppress The Lord of Darkness.
During this time, Lin Xiao flew above the figure shrouded in dark gold divine light, his hand reaching into the void to grasp and slowly pull out a…
“Crack!”
The moment the Titan Sword was drawn from the Creation Rubik’s Cube, an indescribable power erupted, the void immediately collapsed, and intangible waves exploded like lightning, spreading to unknown depths of distant worlds.
In this instant, countless hidden Divine Aberrations and Ancient Evil Objects throughout the sixth layer of the Dark Territory were startled awake by this inexplicable power, and countless gazes looked uncertainly in this direction.
Ignoring everything, Lin Xiao raised his sword and bellowed,
“Authority, Balance!”
Suddenly, an invisible set of Rules descended, drastically weakening The Lord of Darkness’s Divine Power while Lin Xiao’s Divine Power rose. Amidst the shocked and furiously roaring Lord of Darkness, Lin Xiao plunged the sword into the dark gold sphere…
“Boom!”
Endless Divine Power went out of control, forming a supremely powerful shockwave that swept across the sixth layer of the Dark Territory like a tsunami, rumbling on for hundreds of kilometers, with the greatest impact felt over a thousand kilometers away.
When the shockwave disappeared, many eyes filled with wonder looked again. At the center of the Divine Power shockwave, a void had formed, and the fundamental space laws of the world were automatically repairing the collapsed space, with all traces vanishing alongside it.
The very moment the Titan Sword appeared, chaos ensued in the Hall of All Gods. Countless True God wills looked uncertainly towards the depths of the Primary Material Plane, even the three enormous Thrones at the center of the Hall of All Gods brimmed with Divine Light as three overwhelmingly powerful wills slowly awoke.
Many Son of Divine Realms belonging to various races looked on in astonishment. Many were aware the strongest of the Insect Race were up to some minor antics in the Dark Territory recently. Their gazes were drawn to a certain seat on the second rank of stairs at the center of the Hall of All Gods, where they saw that being was also surprised and enraged.
“Who killed The Lord of Darkness?”
Vedas, a Son of the Divine Realm titled God of Fear of the Insect Tribe, awoke from his slumber. When he received the last message from his incarnation from the Dark Territory, surprise rather than anger was his first reaction.
Though the incarnation did not witness it firsthand, it sensed a sharpness capable of delivering a fatal threat to Vedas in the Dark Territory for a brief moment before it vanished quickly. When the incarnation reached the battlefield, it saw the remnants of The Lord of Darkness’s Divine Power fluctuations and the residual Divine Powers of several self-destructed True Deity Incarnations, but did not see what it hoped to, and so remained unaware of who had killed The Lord of Darkness.
He speculated whether it was the newly risen Ground Dweller and Guardian God from the Human Race in the Dark Territory, since he knew of just this one Son of Divine Realm from the Human Race in the region.
But after careful consideration, he dismissed the hypothesis because the unknown existence that defeated The Lord of Darkness erupted with Divine Power far exceeding Weak Divine Power, approaching Medium Divine Power at that moment, and the residual Rule fluctuations did not match either.
After the surprise, came the wrath. He had lost four Divine Incarnations in a mutually detrimental battle, sustaining huge losses among his subordinate gods’ incarnations while besieging The Lord of Darkness’s Divine Nation. Taking such a huge risk and paying such a price only to end up with a broken Divine Nation and failing to acquire the most valuable Divinity of The Lord of Darkness.
If The Lord of Darkness had escaped, he wouldn’t be so furious since getting outplayed was unavoidable. However, he was cut out by an outsider, which was infuriating indeed.
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At this time, the Dark Territory was in turmoil, and gods were furiously searching the world for the killer of The Lord of Darkness, their True Deity Incarnations wandering everywhere from the upper layers to the sixth layer of the Dark Territory.
This naturally incited strong dissatisfaction among the powerful Divine Aberrations and Ancient Evil Objects living on the sixth layer of the Dark Territory, leading to violent conflicts and chaos.
However, there were a few more pragmatic True Gods who, upon confirming the fall of The Lord of Darkness, did not search the world for the killer. Instead, they sent followers to attack the third layer of the Dark Territory, and their Divinity incarnations arrived frequently to perform miracles, vying for the faith of the Zorel Elves.
With the death of the Lord of Darkness, these Zorel Elves lost their protective deity and instantly fell from their position as the most powerful race in the Dark Territories’ First Level. Now, any of the major races on this layer of the Dark Territories could easily defeat the clan of Zorel Elves without a True God’s protection and without Priests.
As time went on, more True Gods began to react to this situation, and the chaos only increased. To vie for more Zorel Elves, the Alliance of Gods fought over them bitterly. Even the Heart-Stealing Demon God couldn’t resist joining the fray after some time.
All except for Lin Xiao.
Aside from not having the time, the main reason was that he no longer needed the race of Zorel Elves.
It wasn’t that he looked down on their beliefs—after all, they were a strong race capable of supporting a Medium Divine Power, and even the three Supreme beings with Powerful Divine Power in this Crystal Wall Universe would covet that. After all, no one thinks they have too much Divine Power.
The main issue was the inherent cruelty of the Zorel Elves and their indecent habits. If one had a large number of Zorel followers, the habits of the followers could influence the True God’s character.
If a naturally kind-hearted holy warrior became enlightened as the God of the Zorel, and all his followers were Zorel Elves, over time his character would be influenced by his followers and become a cruel God of the Zorel.
The difference between True Gods and Evil Gods isn’t determined by the True God’s character but by their Godhood.
Strength is not inherently good or evil, but Godhood is.
A True God with Godhood that includes evil, cruelty, slaughter, and fear, will never be a good deity.
Outside, the situation was turbulent. The gods of the Dark Territories fought over the vacant spot of faith left by the Lord of Darkness, employing all kinds of methods. Initially, they were restrained, but after two True Gods sparked a conflict over a large Zorel city, a fight broke out, leading to a battle between the God of Ogres and the God of Grey Dwarfs.
Once a god initiated the conflict, others followed for their interests, fighting each other with their minions, and the fragile alliance lost its significance with the fall of the Lord of Darkness. The alliance officially fell apart after two incarnations of True Gods personally entered the fray.
Although the Heart-Stealing Demon God remained wary of Lin Xiao’s absence, the current situation was exactly what he had planned after the fall of the Lord of Darkness. It saved him the trouble of fostering discord. In such chaos, it was the perfect opportunity to fish in troubled waters.
So, despite his vigilance, he was too busy to intervene and had to set aside this issue for now and take advantage of the chaos to complete his own plans.
Within the miniature Divine Nation, numerous Cave Man Pray-ers circled the towering pillar that reached to the heavens at the center of the Divine Nation. Lin Xiao’s Divine Core Palace was within this pillar of light.
At that moment, his True Body had awakened and was seated on the divine throne, exhaling a thick, white flame that formed a lotus of fire in front of him. Atop it, a thirty-six faced rhombic crystal hovered, encircled by dense dark gold divine light. Each of the thirty-six faces of the crystal displayed the visage of the Lord of Darkness, who was angrily roaring and threatening him.
This was the Divinity of the Lord of Darkness that he had stripped from the Lord’s body. At the moment, he was using Divine Power to forge out the remaining Divine Fire and branding of Divinity within it.
This process was like grinding a millstone; after all, it was a Medium Divine Power. The Divine Fire and Divinity were certainly very powerful. His own power was far inferior to the Lord of Darkness. If he hadn’t created a miniature Divine Nation and used its strength to suppress the enemy, he wouldn’t even be able to manage suppression, let alone refining.
But as the saying goes, this was a matter of perseverance; slowly does it.
Moreover, in the process of wearing down the Divinity, he was also strengthening himself. There was no rush.
As time passed, six years flew by without notice. The Divinity of the Lord of Darkness, deprived of its source of divine power, ultimately couldn’t withstand his relentless efforts. One day, after six years, it was entirely eroded, leaving behind a blank Divinity with a God Level as high as eleven, endowed with eight Godhoods: Dark Elves, evil, darkness, cruelty, plunder, rogue, assassination, and the Shadow Demon Web.
He took the Divinity in his hand, pressed it against his forehead, and the next second, flames gushed from his pupils as his eyes emitted profound fluctuations with each burst of light. He was refining the various Godhood Rules contained within the Divinity.
Divinity is the concretized understanding of a True God’s grasp of the laws pertaining to their Godhood, something that exists between the real and the illusory.
Mortals cannot touch it.
With each thread of Divinity he refined, Lin Xiao’s understanding and mastery of his own Guardian Godhood strengthened. At the same time, his Divinity began to nurture new Godhoods—eight in total, exactly the same as those held by the Divinity of the Lord of Darkness.
However, Lin Xiao interrupted the refining process after discovery and, after some deliberation, scattered six of the newly nurtured Godhoods, retaining only two: darkness and the Shadow Demon Web.
The Godhoods of Dark Elves, evil, cruelty, plunder, rogue, and assassination were not needed by Lin Xiao. After scattering them, he would use them to strengthen his existing Godhoods.
Having more Godhoods is not always better, nor is it a matter of wanting them just because they appear strong. They must suit oneself.
Of course, newly enthroned gods like New Gods generally don’t have a choice and must accept any Godhood that comes their way, but a New God with great potential like Lin Xiao had the luxury of being selective.
As he continued to refine the Divinity, the Divine Fire and Divinity left within it were refined, and Lin Xiao’s own Divine Fire grew increasingly stronger.
