leonardwarren Chapter 456 Goddess's Authority, Stepping into Quasi-Godhood
Chapter 456 Goddess's Authority, Stepping into Quasi-Godhood
After the ascension ceremony of Hyptis, the blue and white stars that were originally so vast that they stretched across the entire sky and resembled real stars have now shrunk considerably.
That sense of vastness that covers the heavens and the earth still exists.
However, its size has been reduced from almost obscuring the sky to a huge island suspended in the air.
From a distance, it looks like a divine continent floating in the sky.
Countless auras of rules intertwined and flowed along the edge of the island, and azure light occasionally rose from the ground.
Mysterious and magnificent, filled with a feeling that lies between reality and illusion.
Clearly, Hyptis's ascension to godhood had already consumed a large amount of the Blue and White Stars' primordial power.
However, Lynn didn't seem to care about this.
Because the Lord of Life is ultimately only attempting to break through to the fourth level from the third level.
Strictly speaking, this can only be considered the most basic ascension to godhood.
Therefore, even though the blue and white stars have shrunk to the size of sky islands, it is more than enough for the Lord of Life, and can even be said to be more than sufficient!
At this moment, three regions have begun to form on the entire sky island formed by the blue and white stars.
First, naturally, were Lynn and his companions, shrouded in a green canopy.
The pale green barrier, like an inverted giant bowl, sheltered everyone within.
Lynn, Sean the wizard, the Soul of the Flame wizard, and a group of Morning Star wizards were all trapped in place.
The rules of heaven and earth acted as invisible shackles, suppressing them.
Even a being of the Morning Star Wizard level is unable to break free at this moment.
On the other side was Hypti, the god of water, surrounded by endless seawater.
Layer upon layer of deep blue waves rolled and churned, like an ocean suspended in the sky.
That divine pressure was still terrifying.
Even though it is now suppressed by the rules of heaven and earth, Hyptis still gives people a strong sense of oppression just by standing there, like a giant deep-sea beast that has been forcibly restrained.
Moreover, at this moment, his face was extremely gloomy, and his deep blue eyes were fixed on the Lord of Life in mid-air, the killing intent in them almost solidified.
Clearly, he still can't accept that he was outmaneuvered by a "heretic"!
However, neither Lynn's side nor Hyptis's side are the real protagonists at this moment.
Now, there is only one core in the entire world, and that is the Lord of Life located in mid-air!
At this moment, the Lord of Life floated silently in the void, his long turquoise robe fluttering in the gale.
That face, which bore a 70% resemblance to Lynn's, was now completely covered by divinity.
Aloof and distant, as if gradually detached from the concept of "life".
The Azure Sky Spirit, on the other hand, seemed like a little sprite that had truly gained sentience, constantly circling and dancing around the Lord of Life.
Sometimes it transforms into a stream of light, and sometimes it trails a large turquoise tail flame, making it look incredibly agile.
At the same time, the Lord of Life's eyes slowly closed, and in that instant...
boom!!!
A completely different aura suddenly erupted from him!
That was no longer the fluctuation of an ordinary extraordinary life form, but a divine aura that was transforming towards a higher level!
The next moment, a faint green flame slowly emerged behind the Lord of Life.
The flames were initially extremely small, like candles flickering in the wind, as if they could be extinguished at any moment.
But the moment it appeared.
boom!
The flames suddenly flared up!
Vast swaths of turquoise divine fire spread wildly.
In the blink of an eye, it transformed into a burning domain of divine fire behind the Lord of Life!
The flames were not scorching hot; in fact, they carried a gentle, life-giving energy.
However, the social status it implies is frighteningly high.
Because this is divine fire!
The most important step in the ascension ceremony: igniting the divine fire!
Only when the divine fire is ignited can the rules be forged, a divine personality be created, and ultimately, one's own divine kingdom be established!
The most essential fuel for the burning of the divine fire is the power of faith!
Fortunately, this is precisely what the Lord of Life has in abundance.
Over the years, the Church of Life in Dimension 002 has accumulated a massive amount of faith.
Countless believers prayed day and night, and countless lives were offered in devotion. All this power of faith was stored within the Spirit of the Azure Sky.
Now, it has finally come in handy!
Rumble!
As the divine fire burned, a large amount of golden-green faith power continuously surged out from within the Azure Sky Spirit.
Those beliefs poured into the divine fire like a torrent.
In an instant, the divine fire burned even more fiercely!
The turquoise sea of fire illuminated almost the entire world, and even the surrounding space began to distort slightly under that divine power.
And then comes the truly dangerous step in the ascension ceremony.
Divine fire forges authority and condenses divine essence!
Normally, to complete this step, one must possess the authority of the corresponding deity.
For example, the ocean, thunder, storm, death, life, etc., can only truly condense their own divine nature by relying on the corresponding authority.
The problem is that the Lord of Life does not actually have complete authority in the true sense!
Lynn was also unfamiliar with the authority system of the gods.
This should have been the Lord of Life's biggest weakness, and a single misstep could have directly led to the failure of his ascension to godhood.
However, the Lord of Life has another, more special, and more brutal method!
That is to directly absorb the power of those fragmented divine sparks within the Azure Sky Spirit!
Previously, the water god Hyptis had used his authority to resonate with the divine fragments within the Azure Sky Spirit in an attempt to achieve a second ascension to godhood.
But the Lord of Life is different, because the compatibility between him and the Spirit of the Azure Sky is simply too high!
He has reached such a high level that he no longer needs authority as a medium; he can directly absorb the power of those divine fragments!
The difference is like one person still needs a key to open the door, while another person is already assumed to be the owner of the house!
Therefore, the next moment, the cyan-green spirit of the sky began to flash wildly, and one after another, brilliant divine light burst forth.
Immediately afterwards, a magnificent, ancient, and supreme aura slowly awakened from within!
That is the power of a fragment of divinity, and also a part of the divinity left behind by the great goddess of life and nature, Changtiya!
That aura was unimaginably vast; even a fragmented part of it still carried a sense of grandeur that transcended all living beings.
It seems that any one of the rules could evolve into a complete world.
At the same time, those divine powers also appeared extremely complex.
Because the goddess of life and nature, Sangtiya, is one of the oldest and greatest chief gods in the civilization of gods.
The amount of authority He wields is immeasurable.
Life, nature, seasons, harvest, forests, reproduction, spring breeze, rain and dew, the vitality of the earth...
These are only a part of its power.
The Azure Sky Spirit carries only a part of its shattered divine essence.
Therefore, some of these divine elements are relatively well preserved, while others have long been shattered, with only some vague imprints of rules remaining.
At this moment, as the Lord of Life and the Spirit of the Azure Sky resonated continuously, those incomplete divinity finally began to gradually manifest!
hum!
One after another, illusory lights and shadows appeared in mid-air.
The images were blurry and ancient, as if they came from countless years ago. Even just a glance at them gave one the feeling that their soul was being washed away by the rules.
call out!
call out! !
call out! ! !
Numerous divine phantoms appeared one after another.
Among them is a colossal ancient sacred tree that stretches across the sky and earth.
It is rooted deep in the world, its branches and leaves covering the sky, with countless vines hanging down. On each leaf, it seems to bear the birth and withering of a life, and as it sways gently, endless vitality is sprinkled on the earth and nourishes all things.
A phantom image of a goddess slowly descended.
He walked barefoot in the air, his long hair flowing down, and behind him, the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter constantly rotated and alternated. Sometimes flowers bloomed, sometimes the sun blazed high, sometimes wheat fields rippled, and sometimes ice and snow covered the world. With just a phantom image, he seemed to embody the entire cycle of the four seasons of the world. In addition, large swathes of green light surged and rolled, filled with an extremely rich life force, as if just a touch of it could bring withered trees back to life and revive the dead.
And all of these... are the insights that the Goddess of Life and Nature once had about authority, the most fundamental manifestation of the rules of the gods!
At this moment, everyone, including Lynn and the others, as well as Hyptis who was being suppressed on the other side, were all staring intently at this scene, and no one wanted to miss a single moment.
Because this is no longer just a ritual of ascension to godhood, but more like an ancient chief god revealing to the world the fragments of rules he once mastered!
However, as time went by, those phantoms began to flicker and disintegrate, as if the Lord of Life was selecting from them.
Even if one possesses a fragment of a godhood, to truly complete the fusion, one must choose the authority that best suits oneself!
Thus, after countless illusory figures intertwined and flickered.
Finally, a not particularly magnificent phantom slowly froze in mid-air.
It was neither the goddess who controlled the four seasons, nor the ancient divine tree that supported heaven and earth. In fact, compared to the magnificent phenomena before, this phantom seemed quite ordinary.
It was a figure working in the fields.
Spring sowing, summer watering, autumn harvesting, winter storage and food preparation—the four seasons cycle, year after year.
The figure kept repeating the same actions, without any lofty divine power or earth-shattering strength.
What exists is only the purest and simplest "survival" and "continuation," like the most basic cycle of all life.
Clearly, this is not the most central authority of the goddess of life and nature.
It could even be said that it is only a tiny part of His countless powers, seemingly related to farming, planting, harvesting, and farmers.
But ironically, this authority resonated perfectly with the Lord of Life!
"Um?!"
After seeing this scene.
Lynn's gaze sharpened slightly, while Hyptis's expression also changed drastically.
Because they all noticed it.
This authority actually chose the Lord of Life!
The next moment, the phantom of the farmer tilling the land began to slowly shrink, and a large amount of rule-based radiance continuously condensed, eventually transforming into a stream of azure light, which then flew straight toward the Lord of Life!
hum!
The moment the two came into contact, there was no earth-shattering collision, nor any violent tremor as in the case of conflicting rules. Instead, it was incredibly calm, as if autumn waters were merging into a river, or as if seeds were returning to the earth. The entire fusion process was perfectly natural, without the slightest repulsion.
And at the very moment the fusion was completed.
boom!!!
The aura emanating from the Lord of Life suddenly surged, and his life essence, which was originally only at the third level, began to undergo a frenzied transformation.
Divinity is enhanced, rules are elevated, and the level of life continues to rise!
Without the Spirit of Azure Sky, the Lord of Life alone would ultimately only reach the third level.
Even with faith, one still lacks the core support to truly enter the fourth level.
But now, with the fusion of the divine fragments, the life level of the Lord of Life has been forcibly raised, and he has begun to truly move towards the fourth level.
As his aura continued to rise, a blurry scene gradually appeared behind him.
It was a vast field where countless farmers were cultivating the land.
Some people sowed seeds, some bent over weeding, some carried water to irrigate, and others wielded sickles in the golden wheat fields. The rich atmosphere of daily life and the vitality of living intertwined, forming a unique and distinctive realm of rules.
At the same time, the enormous blue-white star below also began to shrink further. The sky island that had originally covered the sky was now collapsing at a visible rate.
Vast amounts of primordial energy were extracted, transforming into a torrent that frantically converged into the body of life!
Because these energies are building a true divine kingdom for the Lord of Life!
The appearance of these strange phenomena means that the Lord of Life has truly crossed the most difficult threshold!
He traversed the sacred realm, but the path he embarked on was not the path of legend, but the path of the gods!
At this moment, the Lord of Life has truly begun to transform into a "god".
The cultivation system of the gods' civilization is completely different from that of the wizarding civilization.
Beyond the Sanctuary, becoming a legend is just one of many paths.
The other path is to ignite the divine fire, unite the divine kingdom, and accept faith, thereby completely transforming into a deity!
Within the pantheon, above the Saintly Realm lies the "Quasi-God" realm.
That was an existence that had just completed the initial ascension to godhood. Although it could still only be considered the weakest of the gods, its level of life had completely transcended the mortal realm.
This level is basically equivalent to a fourth-level Morning Star Wizard in a wizarding civilization!
Going further up, if one can strengthen the divine fire, stabilize the divine kingdom, and completely grasp one's own divine authority.
That is a demigod!
Equivalent to a Level 5 Morning Star Wizard in a wizarding civilization!
Above demigods are gods in the true sense, or lower gods!
At this level, the gods possess a complete divine kingdom and mature authority, and can shake the heavens and earth with the power of the rules in the blink of an eye.
This level also corresponds to the sixth-level Morning Star Wizard in the Wizarding Civilization!
The two civilizations have completely different cultivation methods.
The wizarding civilization is more like a group of ascetics. They rely on their own gradual understanding of the rules, analysis of the elements, and research into the essence of the world, and then accumulate knowledge over a long period of time to climb to a higher level.
Every step felt like groping alone in the dark.
But the civilization of gods is a completely different style.
Even the weakest quasi-god is still, in essence, a "god".
They possess a divine kingdom, divine fire, believers, and the power of faith that can continuously strengthen their divinity.
The only difference is the size.
Therefore, the core of cultivation in the civilization of gods is actually quite simple.
That is authority and believers!
There are only two ways for gods to become stronger.
The first method involves comprehending the corresponding authority on one's own, and then, with the help of the vast amount of faith power provided by believers, continuously engaging with, strengthening, and refining the rules, ultimately gaining complete mastery of that authority.
The second method is even simpler and more direct!
That is, to find the unclaimed divine essence or fragments of divine essence left behind by the ancient gods!
As long as one can absorb the divinity and understanding of the rules within, one can directly inherit the corresponding authority!
This is why there is no shortage of legends of "ascending to heaven in one step" in the civilization of gods.
A previously unknown boy accidentally obtains a fragmented divine essence.
As a result, in a very short time, he rose to prominence and became a supreme deity!
Such a thing seems almost unbelievable to the wizarding civilization, but it is not uncommon within the civilization of gods.
After all, divinity is the condensation of a god's lifelong understanding of the rules!
As for Lynn, or rather the Lord of Life, the second path is obviously more suitable, because the Spirit of the Azure Sky has no shortage of divinity and fragments of authority!
Those remaining rules that originally belonged to the goddess of life and nature, Shangtiya, were like an untapped treasure trove for the Lord of Life.
As long as he continues to absorb nutrients, his strength will increase rapidly!
Of course, these are all things to be discussed later.
Because the most important question at this moment has never been how far the Lord of Life can grow in the future.
Rather, the question is how to confront Hyptis, the water god who has become utterly enraged!
Because just as the Lord of Life gradually completed the ascension ceremony, the entire world began to change.
The Lord of Life has successfully ascended to godhood, although it is only at the initial quasi-god level, but his divine aura has completely stabilized.
Even his divine office and title began to subtly take shape.
God of farmers? God of harvest? Or perhaps god of cultivation? No one knows what he will ultimately become.
But without a doubt, from this moment on, the Lord of Life has truly possessed his own divine status!
Meanwhile, the blue and white stars below are also continuing to shrink.
A large amount of stellar essence was continuously extracted and transformed into energy for building the divine kingdom, which was constantly integrated into the body of life.
Correspondingly, as the ascension ceremony gradually came to an end, the power of the rules that originally covered the heavens and earth and suppressed everything also began to decline rapidly!
Click...
Click...
It was as if some invisible constraint was breaking down, and the rule suppression that even the Morning Star Realm could not break free from was now beginning to weaken little by little.
The first to realize this was naturally Hyptis, the god of water!
Rumble!!!
The next moment, the ocean, which had been suppressed and remained dead, suddenly erupted!
The boundless seawater surged wildly, and countless rudimentary forms of water element laws continuously emerged.
One after another, densely packed, almost covering the entire world, even space itself began to be constantly squeezed and distorted by that terrifying divine power.
And this scene.
This is enough to prove just how furious Hyptis was at that moment!
Because Lynn's actions not only disrupted his plans, but also abruptly cut off his "path to godhood"!
The Spirit of the Azure Sky was the most crucial core element for him to achieve his second ascension to godhood!
But now, the Lord of Life has snatched it away right in front of him!
This kind of hatred is equivalent to a life-or-death feud, an irreconcilable enmity that blocks one's path!
At this moment, Hyptis's eyes were bloodshot, and a hint of madness even appeared in his eyes.
He now had only one thought: to kill everyone here!!! (End of Chapter)