The Era of Gods

Chapter 573 - 573 Incarnation Divine Enthronement

Chapter 573: Chapter 573 Incarnation Divine Enthronement

Compared to the substantial threat of the Ground Dwellers, the True Heart-Stealing Demon God hidden in the fourth layer of the Dark Territory poses an even greater threat to the Lord of Darkness.

It must be noted that the underground Kingdom of the Lord of Darkness is located in the fifth layer of the Dark Territory, while His main worshippers, the Zorel Elves, inhabit the third layer. The presence of an Other Race Deity secretly nestled in the fourth layer, wedged right at His vulnerable spot, is intolerable to anyone, and this deity must be eliminated first.

The exposed Heart-stealing Demon God had no choice but to seek help from the Alliance of Gods in the first layer of the Dark Territory, and after careful consideration, the gods agreed to let the Heart-stealing Demon God join the alliance.

After all, for the alliance that has always been at a disadvantage against the Lord of Darkness, one more True God means an addition of strength. Even Lin Xiao cast a vote in favor in this regard.

Of course, it wasn’t just for an additional strength, but also because with the Heart-stealing Demon God joining the alliance, the focus of all True Gods in the entire alliance would shift to the fourth layer of the Dark Territory. Whether it be the Zorel or other major powers, their attention would be concentrated there, naturally reducing the focus on the Ground Dwellers. He could take this time to develop rapidly and best to achieve Divine Enthronement during this period. After all, he was still an incarnation of the Son of the Divine Realm and couldn’t openly appear before the gods.

As Lin Xiao had anticipated, gods from the first layer of the underground began to send down their incarnations to support the Kingdom of Heart-devouring Demons, clashing fiercely with several incarnations of the Lord of Darkness in the fourth layer of the Dark Territory.

The Lord of Darkness, with merely three incarnations, managed to suppress eight incarnations of True Gods from the first layer together with the true body of the Heart-stealing Demon God—none could overpower Him even when combined.

Although at a disadvantage, defeat was still a long way off. The Lord of Darkness, alone and without support, was temporarily unable to kill the Heart-stealing Demon God, leading to a stalemate in the battle.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao quickly expanded the power of the Ground Dwellers, especially issuing a Divine-mandate to Onard, King of the Dicavians, for rapid expansion, significantly increasing the number of missions to other places in the Dark Territory to find Subterranean Tribes.

Godly conflicts tend to last a very long time, easily spanning decades or even centuries. With the Heart-stealing Demon God caught in the vortex of the divine war, Lin Xiao was rapidly expanding his power. The contrast made the Heart-stealing Demon God extremely unwilling, and soon rumors emerged in the Dark Territory that the God of Underworlders was an invader from a Different Domain.

Lin Xiao received the news promptly and after a short silence, made a decision — to undertake Divine Enthronement immediately.

Although his previous plan was to establish a Kingdom before beginning the Divine Enthronement, the situation now necessitated a change of plans.

Half a month later, the Heart-stealing Demon God, hidden deep in the fourth layer of the Dark Territory, suddenly looked up in a certain direction. His gaze pierced through layers of Earth and the Void, seeing a twisted sun-like shape distorting space, slowly rising. A tremendously powerful will slowly stretched forth, arrogantly showing off its existence to all beings capable of sensing it.

“The Ground Dweller and the Guardian God!”

The will of the Heart-stealing Demon God, facing the powerful presence radiating Divine Power from afar, spoke expressionlessly to itself:

“Forced into Divine Enthronement, is it?”

“If that’s the case, your death will come after I’ve dealt with the Lord of Darkness.”

At that very moment, Lin Xiao’s consciousness entered the Source Sea of the Crystal Wall Universe during the split second of his Divine Enthronement.

Any True God during their Divine Enthronement would enter the Source Sea of their respective universes, receiving a boon from the Source Sea.

In a blink, the foundation of the Crystal Wall Universe’s underlying rule grid was revealed before the newly enthroned, causing a rapid advancement in understanding one’s God’s Law. Simultaneously, the infusion of Source from the Source Sea would break the boundary between Demigod and True God, causing an explosive increase in Divine Power.

So, in the instant of touching the Source Sea, Lin Xiao’s grasp of the Guardian God’s Law rapidly grew, quickly advancing from just over one percent to three percent, saving him millions in Divine Power for analysis.

The moment passed in an instant, but just as it was about to fade away, the Creation Rubik’s Cube within Lin Xiao’s Divinity began to rotate lightly. An indescribable attraction emerged from nowhere, and the next second, the Source Sea trembled slightly. The four major frameworks of the Crystal Wall Universe’s rule grid shook violently, and from one of the frazzled lines of framework, a shadow flew out and into his Divinity.

As the Source Sea vanished, Lin Xiao’s will returned to his being, his eyes slowly opening, revealing a hint of shock.

God Name: God of the Underworlders and Guardian/ God of Matter.

Alignment: Lawful Neutral.

Divinity: Underworlders, Protection, Matter (Ancient God’s Divinity)

God Level: Worship God 0 Level Weak Divine Power/Ancient gods 1 Level Weak Divine Power

Field: Protection, Matter.

Transcendent Divinity Abilities: Change Form, Alter Reality, Change Size, The Descent of the Gods, Power of Truth, Communication with All Things, Life and Death,

Exclusive Transcendent Divinity Abilities: Summon Creatures (Elements, Created Creatures), Controlling Creatures (Created Race), God’s Granting, Body of a Heavenly God.

“`

Ancient God Extraordinary Godhood Ability: True Knowledge, Control of Matter, God’s Immunity to Physics.

Divinity Immunity: Attribute damage, attribute absorption, acid, cold, electricity, poison, disease, disintegration, energy drain, paralysis, sleep, petrification, transformation, imprisonment, banishment, instant death effects, mental influence, and so on.

“Ancient God’s Divinity of Matter!”

In the moment when he was about to break away from the Source Sea, the Creation Rubik’s Cube forcibly extracted one of the four fundamental laws from the Source Sea and bestowed it upon him.

The so-called four fundamental laws are the basic foundation of the entire world, namely—time, space, energy, and matter, and not the so-called earth, fire, wind, and water.

The earth, fire, wind, and water of Eastern mythology are but four fundamental energies that constitute the material and energy of the world, which also require the inclusion of time and space.

In mastering the fundamental law of matter, he directly obtained three incredibly strong Ancient God-specific extraordinary godhood abilities: True Knowledge, Control of Matter, and God’s Immunity to Physics.

Control of Matter and God’s Immunity to Physics are easy to understand; True Knowledge means omniscience and omnipotence, an ability of divinity that can only be possessed by mastering the four fundamental laws.

Of course, this True Knowledge is not literally omniscient and omnipotent; it can only know everything below the level of a True God and is limited to everything within this Crystal Wall Universe, and it must either come in contact or be related to oneself to be truly known. Without encountering or seeing an object, one cannot know it out of thin air.

For example, when he picks up a weapon, he would instantly know the material and forging process of the weapon, and if he is willing, he could trace its source further to know where the ore for the weapon’s material was extracted from, who has held this weapon, and even who had been killed with it, and the background of the slain, as long as he wishes, he can keep tracing back to its origin.

Although the farther back one goes, the more divine power it consumes, theoretically, it could be traced back to the very source.

If he hadn’t picked up this weapon, he wouldn’t be able to do these things.

When Lin Xiao was officially enthroned as a god, the many prying eyes quickly vanished. No matter how the Heart-devouring Demon had vilified him before, once he became a god, all rumors and slander crumbled on their own.

At the same time, when Lin Xiao became a god, in a grand temple within an unknown faraway depth of the void, countless beings seated upon thrones turned their gaze toward an empty throne that had just appeared on the outermost edge of the Hall of All Gods.

Filled with curiosity, the consciousness that was Lin Xiao surveyed this vast Hall of All Gods. The three colossal thrones at the center shone brilliantly, each occupied by a towering figure radiating an awe-inspiring divine presence, clearly the three Strong Divine Powers of this Crystal Wall Universe.

Below these three divine thrones were dozens of thrones a step down in rank, undoubtedly belonging to the Medium Divine Powers of this world. Among them, he spotted the throne representing The Lord of Darkness, ranking quite high among the many Medium Divine Powers.

Within the Hall of All Gods, the position of a throne largely represents the strength of a deity, with stronger deities positioned more prominently.

The reason it’s said that it’s “largely” representative is due to the existence of Ancient God’s Divinities, which are not detected by the Hall of All Gods.

Below the Medium Divine Powers are seven to eight hundred Weak Divine Powers, followed by more than nine thousand Weak Divine Powers. Lin Xiao, positioned on the outermost edge at the very back, ranked at the bottom.

At this time, the Godhood Lin Xiao displayed externally was that of the Ground Dwellers and Protection, most deities glanced at him once before redirecting their attention, but a few continued to look at him with eyes filled with malice or kindness.

Sensing their gaze, he looked up to see that nearly thirty True Deities were watching him, including The Lord of Darkness, the Heart-stealing Demon God, and a dozen True Deities of other Races opposed to The Lord of Darkness within the dark domain.

Among them were not only those True Deities he had previously met but also another dozen he had never seen, casting malicious gazes upon him.

These were strangers to him, yet filled with malice for a simple reason: their Godhood overlapped. These dozen or so True Deities all possessed the Protection domain.

There are only so many godly domains in the world, yet there are over ten thousand True Deities, ensuring that domains will be shared.

Godly domains possess an inherent magnetism; when two True Deities share the same domain, it’s like opposing magnetic poles drawing together, aiming to merge into one. This causes mutual hostility between deities who share the same domain.

The majority of disputes among gods occur over shared domains. After all, absorbing and merging the godly domain of a rival and thereby directly devouring their understanding and mastery of it can significantly enhance one’s own domain, thus directly raising one’s God Level. How incredibly enticing that is.

There is a saying, when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

As these True Deities looked upon Lin Xiao, the New God, with covetous eyes, little did they know that the New God was also looking back at them with the same covetous gaze.

Defeating all these True Deities with the Protection domain and seizing it for himself could likely sustain him through several God Level advancements, based solely on the domain of Protection. If he were to add the racial domain of the Ground Dwellers, it’s highly probable that he would ascend to Medium Divine Power just with these two domains.

And in fact, should he manage to kill so many True Deities, he would undoubtedly plunder a vast array of other domains, thus becoming even more powerful.

“`