The Era of Gods-Chapter 580 -
Chapter 580: 580
“I decree, rules that are out-of-place shall cease, suppressed by law!”
Lin Xiao extended his hand, crafted as if of pure gold, and gently pressed down. An invisible wave of divine power radiated from the palm of his hand, freezing the sanctuary rules belonging to the Tauren’s Holy Place within its reach, rendering them ineffective. Then he spoke again:
“I decree, that which falls shall decay, I say, change the rules!”
Another wave of divine aura burst forth rapidly, and an invisible force forcibly altered the sanctuary rules established by the God of the Tauren.
In that moment, countless Tauren prayers who were flying by the grace of the sanctuary rules and benefiting from numerous buffs plummeted to the ground, while the Ground Dwellers who were previously slow and weakened by the sanctuary rules shook off their oppressive power and instantly received all the beneficial buffs that the Tauren prayers had.
Even the God of the Tauren was affected by the reversed rules, although its own divine power dispersed the effect in an instant, the brief change still shocked the Tauren God.
This was unprecedented for It.
The God of the Tauren was not inexperienced; even The Lord of Darkness had once sent an avatar to attack Its sanctuary. But even The Lord of Darkness couldn’t forcibly change the rules of Its holy sanctuary. While suppression could be achieved through a powerful burst of divine power, rules of an enemy’s sanctuary or Divine Realm couldn’t be altered by force alone. It required a deep understanding and mastery of the rules, combined with the use of divine power.
At the very least, the understanding and mastery of the rules had to be far superior to that of the sanctuary’s owner, marginally stronger would not suffice.
Now, the sanctuary that was meant to protect the Tauren God had become a prison that hampered Its timely escape.
Empowered by the authority granted by the matter from the four fundamental sources of godhood, Lin Xiao took the full force of the Tauren God’s accumulated divine strike with his avatar, and with one finger, burst the head of the Tauren God.
At this time, the disparity between Lin Xiao and the God of the Tauren was akin to that of a level 70 boss and a level 60 elite monster simultaneously unleashing their charged attacks, and the outcome was predictable—one was instantly killed on the spot.
It wasn’t just within the God of the Tauren’s sanctuary; although the other four avatars took different times and efforts, the result was the same—falling by his hand.
In less than two hours, four True Gods had fallen, not one escaped.
The speed was so fast that nobody had time to react, even the Heart-stealing Demon God, who was attacking the sanctuary of the God of Ogres, was taken aback by the sudden collapse of the four divine avatars.
Once It had regained composure, Its first reaction was to withdraw from the sanctuary of the God of Ogres. Two other avatars immediately abandoned their subordinates and rushed back to the fifth layer of the Dark Territory, to the original God Country of The Lord of Darkness, which had by then been occupied by Itself. Yet, at this time, It did not feel safe at all.
It did not associate the downfall of the divine entities with Lin Xiao. In the Heart-stealing Demon God’s mind, the simultaneous killing of the four True Bodies could only mean that either a powerful god system led by a medium divine power from the surface had acted, or that a strong being from another divine realm civilization had descended—neither was good news for It.
But once Its two avatars had returned to their God Country and saw no enemies, while relieved, questions arose:
“Who exactly is it?”
An avatar left the God Country to head towards the nearest sanctuary of the Slime Monster God, whose weak divinity also resided in a huge underground marsh within the fifth layer of the Dark Territory.
As It quietly approached the underground marsh, It felt a powerful presence swiftly approaching before even getting close—a dazzling golden meteor streaked across the sky.
Narrowing Its eyes, It stared fixedly at the swiftly approaching golden meteor, horror slowly rising in Its pupils. The next second, It turned and fled.
However, the golden meteor simply flashed into the Aether Plane and in a leap spanned a hundred kilometers, materializing in front of the Heart-stealing Demon God’s avatar, who was shadow-jumping. A shockwave of divine power exploded, interrupting Its second leap.
Elsa slowly looked up, the golden meteor that had interrupted her leap fading away to reveal a handsome human man.
Lin Xiao looked at the Heart-stealing Demon God’s seductive face, the obstructive mounds on Its chest, and the exquisite curves, with a hint of surprise in his eyes—It was unexpected that this Son of the Insect Race’s divine realm turned out to be a female…
But it did not alter his intention to kill It.
Elsa fell silent for a while before speaking:
“You have ascended to the medium divine power, it was you who intercepted The Lord of Darkness,” Elsa stated.
It seemed like a question, but her tone was one of certainty. Only in this way could the quick ascent of Lin Xiao to the medium divine power be explained. Normally, even with billions of Dwarf believers and sufficient Power of Faith, one would ascend level by level, and it wouldn’t be possible to advance to medium divine power so swiftly.
Elsa was well aware that the chances did not favor her, and that her opponent catching her likely meant more than just a heart-to-heart talk—it was surely to assassinate this incarnation of hers. After assessing the strength of both sides, she…..
“Boom!”
She directly self-destructed this incarnation, and the Divine Power shockwave created by the eruption of Divine Power was something even Lin Xiao dared not face head-on; the entire incarnation was instantly propelled kilometers away.
By the time the self-destruction had ended and he returned, the incarnation of the Heart-stealing Demon God had already vanished. But he knew that a sliver of consciousness within the avatar had not perished, having already fled; he estimated that it wouldn’t be long before the true body of the Heart-stealing Demon God would be aware of everything.
However, this had no substantial impact on the overall situation. Having ascended to Medium Divine Power and ambushed by continuously chopping down five True Gods, few True Gods remained in the Dark Territory, and even if they all joined forces, they would not be his match.
The current level of the Heart-stealing Demon God’s Divinity was only at the Sixth Level, far from the Tenth Level needed for the ascension to Medium Divine Power.
But once he had refined the five Sanctuaries into his God Country, and after disassembling and refining the five God Levels, he found out that the Heart-stealing Demon God had disappeared. The deity had given up on the Zoel Elves altogether, taking the Heart-stealing Demons and leaving the Dark Territory, even abandoning its God Country.
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He sent an incarnation to the former Kingdom of the Lord of Darkness on the fifth layer of the Dark Territory, only to find it utterly empty, with every Prayer already taken away.
“To willingly abandon a God Country with Medium Divine Power, impressive!”
He quite admired the resoluteness of the Heart-stealing Demon God; not every True God could part with their God Country so willingly, most likely they would rather rely on it to withstand opposing forces.
Given the God Country the Lord of Darkness had nourished for thousands of years, even Lin Xiao would have to rely on a war of attrition lasting decades, if not longer, to take it down while the Heart-stealing Demon God sat entrenched within its borders—unless the enemy made a mistake, it was unlikely to be directly conquered in a short period.
Now that the deity had given up everything and left, Lin Xiao naturally wouldn’t waste time pursuing, when he could rapidly integrate this massive God Country into his own, making the unification of the entire Dark Territory even more appealing.
It should be noted that he had now defeated all the deities of the Dark Territory, and the only two who survived, the God of Ogres and the Wilderness God, had steadily sent their incarnations to him after learning of the situation, expressing their willingness to submit to him.
Considering the vastness of the Dark Territory, along with his intention to establish a Divine System to counter the surface gods, he agreed to their allegiance.
Next, Lin Xiao summoned many of his subordinates, including several High-Level Demigods, instructing them to send their incarnations. He then distributed the previously divided God Levels among them, and under the name of the Hall of All Gods, they swore oaths and formally established the Dark God System.
Although there were only three True Gods including himself, with the rest being Demigods, it still constituted a God System.
His God Country, after merging with many Sanctuaries and the vast Kingdom of the Lord of Darkness, expanded its area by hundreds of times. Seated in the center of his God Country, he divided the entire realm into various parts. The God of Ogres and the Wilderness God also relocated their Sanctuaries there, integrating them within the God Country, while their True Bodies also entered.
Though this meant the loss of their freedom and their lives being subject to the Main God of the God System, for True Gods without their own God Country like the God of Ogres and the Wilderness God, this was actually a blessing.
With the protection of the Main God and the God Country, they no longer feared enemies intruding into their Sanctuaries and ambushing their True Bodies.
To unify the entire Dark Territory, Lin Xiao established massive castles on the first layer of the Dark Territory, gathered the scattered small tribes to form large tribal cities, both as protection and for better spreading of faith.
Especially for the Zoel Elves on the third layer of the Dark Territory, after realizing their habits were too chaotic, Lin Xiao established new faith-based regulations to constrain the behaviors of the Zoel Priests. Using these priests as a model, he forcefully changed their habits.
While not changing too much else, he was determined to change the lasciviousness, cruelty, and treachery—those despicable Zoel traits.
At the same time, the adjustment for the fifth generation of Dwarf believers was completed and began to slowly cover the existing followers.
This would be the last alteration; there would be no sixth generation of Dwarves.
The fifth generation of Dwarves had integrated recessive genes from the Giants of the Earth and a latent Mental talent, with individual physical qualities slightly stronger than the fourth generation, but not by much.
The main changes were the latent Giant of the Earth bloodline and latent Mental talent. After experiencing intense life-and-death struggles, any Dwarf had the chance to awaken their Giant of the Earth lineage or Mental talent.
Upon awakening the Giant of the Earth lineage, as the bloodline gradually awoke, their physical stature would slowly increase until reaching a certain limit, they would transform into Giants more than ten meters tall and possess great strength.
Meanwhile, the Mental talent was similar to the Heart-stealing Demons; incredibly powerful mental forces could easily control lower intelligence creatures, shock enemies’ spirits with formidable mental power, and even directly destroy targets’ souls with intense mental forces.
Each Dwarf who awakened their Mental talent could spread their powerful mental forces to form a Mental field, connecting mentally with all creatures within the field’s range.
After defeating all enemies and unifying the Dark Territory, formally establishing a Divine System, the Dark Territory, which had been embroiled in chaos for decades, finally began to find peace. At the same time, more races under one vast Church began to dissolve millennia of enmity and started to communicate and interact with each other.
As the faith of all species in the entire Dark Territory amalgamated and unified, the power of the Dark God System began to rapidly increase. One by one, the Demigods, upon mastering sufficient Divine Power in their designated domains, would attempt Divine Enthronement.
