The Era of Gods - Chapter 554

Chapter 554: 554

Another beam of gold light descended and transformed into another luminous figure who, from a superior vantage point, declared loudly:

“What Phoenix Excellency said is exactly what I wanted to express. If we start fighting over this, we will definitely not hold back, and the outcome will undoubtedly be the complete demise of one party. I have long heard of Lin Xiao’s Radiance; even without this opportunity, your future achievements wouldn’t be poor. Don’t take unnecessary risks because of this.”

Lin Xiao frowned and remained silent.

Although they were speaking the truth, it was still frustrating. The inheritance of the Myriad Images God System was too tempting. If he succeeded, he could instantly become one of the major forces in the Main World. The lure was too powerful.

At this moment, Shadow Wind spoke again:

“Of course, we don’t need your decision right now. After you go back, you can ask around about the names of Phoenix and Shadow Wind, then you’ll know the gap between us. After that, consider whether to withdraw.”

Lin Xiao kept silent, nodded slightly, and turned to leave.

Both watched his lonely retreating figure. Phoenix spoke:

“He’s still unwilling to let go.”

“So what if he is? He’s simply born at the wrong time.”

The two fell silent for a while, their divine light gradually fading, revealing two young men brimming with vitality. Staring at each other with piercing eyes, Shadow Wind declared:

“I’ve long heard of Phoenix’s name. I heard that you once surrounded and killed a Powerful Divine Power?”

“It was just a Powerful Divine Power that had been seriously injured!”

“That’s still an impressive feat.”

“Not as impressive as Excellency Shadow Wind single-handedly killing the Incarnation of a Powerful Divine Power face to face.”

“It was an Incarnation that had nearly exhausted its Divine Power, nothing to boast about.”

…

Shadow Wind/Phoenix Excellency jests!

Both were taken aback, then they burst into laughter together:

“Mutual! Mutual!”

After a moment of silent eye contact, they bowed to each other and, without looking back, turned and left.

Phoenix returned to the Floating City, where a woman came forward to greet him. He ordered in a deep voice:

“Establish an independent intelligence group immediately, dedicated to collecting information on Shadow Wind. From now on, all information about him should be reported directly to me.”

His subordinate immediately complied, and he lay back in his chair to rest with his eyes closed. The woman behind him extended her slender fingers to gently press on his forehead.

Elsewhere, near the Floating City, Shadow Wind arrived where the empty Void now rippled slightly. A Star Realm Battleship, identical to Lin Xiao’s but several times larger, materialized out of nowhere. He entered the battleship and quickly issued the same order as Phoenix had done.

At this moment, they had already considered each other their greatest rival.

And Lin Xiao was overlooked by them.

It’s no wonder they overlooked him, as they were both already Medium Divine Powers, just one step away from becoming Powerful Divine Powers and possessing their own vast forces.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao had yet to achieve Divine Enthronement, creating a gap too vast for them to even consider him.

After returning to the Main World, Lin Xiao left a verbal message for Xie Yufei and then headed straight back to the Moon Cloud Realm.

The Star Realm Battleship traversed the Array and the Moon Cloud Realm was nowhere to be seen, replaced by a pitch-black Black Hole. Its formidable gravitational pull was shaking the immense Array; it was estimated that before long, the gravity would destroy the Array.

After the Incarnation entered the gravitational range of the Black Hole, it disintegrated and merged into the Black Hole. Lin Hong, who had been on guard outside the Moon Cloud Realm, maneuvered the Star Realm Battleship to wait in the Void far from the Moon Cloud Realm.

After an indeterminate amount of time, an Incarnation of Xie Yufei hastened over.

Soon, Jin Sisi also had an Incarnation arrive; both women noticed each other but did not communicate.

By merging with this Incarnation, his True Body became more complete, leaving fewer flaws in the future.

It was a pity that the last Incarnation scattered outside could not be contacted now, and it was unknown which corner of the Chaotic Void Sea it had been banished to, let alone its current condition.

The only consolation was that since the distance was too vast for even him to make contact, the enemy couldn’t exploit this to harm him. As long as he grew stronger and reclaimed it later, the problem wouldn’t be too serious.

By now, the Moon Cloud Realm had completely collapsed, both the Main Plane and its subsidiary planes. About two-thirds of his followers had been evacuated, nearly twenty million followers had been moved to various spaces within the six-colored Magic Cube, with enough food secured to sustain them for decades.

Of course, they wouldn’t be expected to live within the Magic Cube Space for decades. After all, the elemental energy there was insufficient, and staying too long would lead to a decline in strength.

Lin Bao now heads to a large plane he rented from Xie Yufei with the six-colored Magic Cube, moving them to this plane for the time being.

As for the followers or non-believers who did not leave, they naturally die with the collapse of the Main World; this is unavoidable.

From the outside, the Moon Cloud Realm has turned into a black hole, and in fact, its internal space has already collapsed, distorting and throwing into chaos the underlying rules of the entire world, some of which have already broken down.

According to Lin Xiao’s previous idea, he intended to devour the origin and underlying rule forces of the Moon Cloud Realm, not the entire Crystal Wall System.

But as his Innate Ancient God Source has been replaced with the Nature of Black Holes, it is well known that black holes can devour everything, naturally including the energy and matter of the entire Crystal Wall Universe. By devouring a whole world and absorbing it, the condensed Innate Ancient God Body would undoubtedly be extremely powerful.

“Boom…”

As the world completely collapses, the underlying rule grid breaks down, merging with the berserk energies into the centralmost point of the black hole.

The energy and matter are transformed into what condenses the Innate Ancient God Body, while the collapsing underlying rule network merges with the Soul origin at the Crystal Wall System’s Core, blending into the underlying rule network branded within the Core.

Time merges into time, space into space, destiny into destiny, balance into balance.

It’s as if two sets of fundamental rule networks overlap, thereby becoming even stronger.

The most direct manifestation is that, as the underlying rule grid strengthens, the strength of the many heroes in the Divine Realm who have merged Ancient God powers is rapidly increasing, and for Lin Xiao, who has full control over all the underlying rule networks, his strength is naturally growing even more formidable.

Especially his control over several Godhoods, all have seen different degrees of growth, visible to the naked eye.

Everyone knows that the higher the control of Godhood, the more difficult it is to advance, especially the extremely powerful Godhoods like Truth and Creation. Currently at a high of twenty percent in Creation and twelve percent in Truth, advancing even slightly is extremely difficult, yet now there’s a slow growth, and though it’s as slow as a snail, it’s still a visibly discernible increase.

Meanwhile, on an unseen level, his Divine Fire blazes like fuel has been added, the flames growing ever more vigorous, radiating a stronger power back to itself, and hence causing a revolutionary change in the nature of his life essence

In an Alien World, Indigenous Gods must ignite the Divine Fire and elevate their God Country into the Starworld, branding their existence within the Starworld and thus be recognized by the world as an Eternal and Immortal True God.

While the Divine Realm civilization does follow a path of faith for Divine Enthronement, it slightly differs from the Indigenous one, as they already ignite the Divine Fire when becoming Demigods.

They are more powerful than Indigenous Gods, and accordingly, the difficulty of Divine Enthronement is greater.

Not only do they require stronger Divinity, a more powerful Divine Fire, a more substantial Divine Realm than the Aboriginal Gods Nation, and a higher mastery of rules, but only by combining all four can they ignite the Divine Fire a second time, elevating themselves again and branding their existence in the Main World’s Starworld; hence advancing to a True God of the Divine Realm civilization.

They face higher requirements than the Indigenous Gods and possess more formidable strength through their distinguishably tougher ascension process.

Yet Lin Xiao’s current state as a Son of the Divine Realm undergoing Divine Enthronement is different still, for he is on the path of Innate Ancient Gods, directly achieving the status of an Innate Ancient God from a later stage. Whether it’s his Divinity or god body, both are reversing to innate nature, something which if not unprecedented, is extremely rare.

The Core of the Crystal Wall Origin transforms, thus driving another transformation in his Divinity.

Originally, he held as high as one hundred seventy-seven points of Divinity, with a Divinity Level of Rank 7, but now, after swallowing the entire Moon Cloud Realm, his hard-to-increase Divinity began to surge, soon crossing the threshold of two hundred, thus ascending to Rank 8 Divinity, and this was not the limit, there was still room to grow, even more than he had expected.

After all, there has never been a case in the history of the Main World where a will of the Crystal Wall Origin has undergone Divine Enthronement, nor has anyone ever devoured an entire Crystal Wall Universe to nurture themselves during their ascension.

Add the remarkable Creation Rubik’s Cube to the equation, and these inconceivable factors combine to create his unprecedented scenario.

In such a state, Lin Xiao’s consciousness gradually slips into a peculiar condition.

In a haze, he feels as if he has become an Origin Will of a Crystal Wall System, not of the Moon Cloud Realm, but another… very powerful Crystal Wall Universe – several illustrious existences stand at the edges of the Crystal Wall in the Void, with infinite Deities revolving around them. Beyond the distant Crystal Wall in the Void, eight illustrious existences shrouded in infinite radiance stand within the Chaos Sea of Void; behind them is a dense array of Alien Gods.

A vast voice echoes across the heavens and earth, followed by a tearing roar as the Crystal Wall of the universe is ripped open. A towering Existence breaks through the Crystal Wall and enters the world, and war immediately erupts.

The end result of the war, just as Lin Xiao had come to understand, was that this Crystal Wall System was defeated; three great beings of powerful divine power either fell or vanished, endless Deities dropping like raindrops, and the Origin of the Crystal Wall was torn apart, the Origin Core lost, eventually falling into the hands of a lost human deity, until….

It revived in Lin Xiao’s hands!

In the depths of his being, Lin Xiao feels a premonition that by completing this Divine Enthronement, he will automatically accept a share of karma.

He cannot yet discern what this karma entails, but it will definitely be troublesome.

Yet he has no choice now, and this trouble is not for the present.

Moreover, with any undertaking, there are always intertwined risks and rewards; this may well be troublesome, but once his Strength is sufficient, trouble can turn into opportunity.

“Just hope it won’t be too troublesome!”

He still has slight apprehensions, but the arrow is already on the string; he can only release and ease his mind.

Besides, he’s already beset with enough troubles; compared to another issue, this one is actually more bearable.

The other issue is….

Enigma has awakened.

Yes, that great living entity Enigma, the one whose resting place in the Chaos Sea of Void is unknown, has woken up just as he is on the brink of Divine Enthronement.