The Era of Gods

As the continuous stream of pure Power of Faith descended and burned, the two hundred units or more of his Divinity were one by one ignited and melted, merging with his soul, and ultimately forming a flame.

The moment this Divine Fire took shape, the entire God Country underwent a tremendous change, and his True Body also began to transform. From the large Supreme Naga form, it slowly shifted into that of the Lesser Naga, then to the Wise Goblins, and then to the appearance of the Red Furnace Clan, until all the Clans he created had undergone a change, finally reverting to a human form.

As the Creator, he could freely morph into any of these species he had made.

But these were just minor details. The crux was that his Divine Fire was finally ignited. Divinity and soul vanished, replaced by the core in his Sea of Gods that resembled a flame.

The instant the Divine Fire took shape, a bolt of lightning-like energy swept across the entire Divine Realm. All believers instinctively looked up at the sky, where the sun, radiating heat and light, now differed from before.

In the eyes of devout followers, this sun not only emitted the usual heat and light but also a hint of holiness.

When a player of the Divine Territory ascends to Demigod, some changes occur within the God Country. The sun within, which is an embodiment of the Son of God realm, would extinguish if the Son of God realm died, plunging the world into darkness to gradually perish.

When he ascended to Demigod, the sun, a manifestation of the Son of God realm, naturally possessed even greater might.

Additionally, whenever any Son of God realm ascends to Demigod, a Crystal Wall emerges at the edge of the Divine Realm and rapidly expands, encompassing the Divine Realm and the surrounding areas. At this stage, any Son of God realm could carve out new Divine Domain Spaces around their Main Divine Realm.

However, Lin Xiao’s Divine Realm had long since carved out the Void, so no new Crystal Wall would be birthed upon his ascension to Demigod. Instead, it would greatly extend the Crystal Wall’s range, enhancing the upper limit of reinforcement for his Divine Realm.

Regrettably, ascending to Demigod did not expand the area of the Divine Realm, but it did increase the strength and energy concentration of the Divine Realm. The extent of the enhancement depended on the Demigod’s power—minor for the weak and significant for the mighty, like Lin Xiao…

Let’s put it this way, Lin Xiao’s previous Divine Realm Strength capped at Rank 9, but now it has reached Rank 10, capable of accommodating the birth of Rank 10 life forms.

And within the Divine Realm, there was already the first Rank 10 life form, none other than Slarda who had become a Saint.

As he ascended to Demigod, Slarda naturally progressed to Saint, undergoing a transformation and leapt to become a Rank 10 life form, comparable to a Demigod.

Though among Rank 10 life forms he was just a junior, his power would grow in sync with Lin Xiao’s strength. After all, a Saint can borrow his power at any time.

The general gains and changes from ascending to Demigod were as mentioned. Other minor details had little impact. It can be said that with his ascension to Demigod, the gates to Radiance had flung open to him; there was no need for a college entrance exam to advance directly to the Lustrous University.

This kind of situation had a specific term in the past, referred to as “special recruitment,” similar to how he had previously moved from Dongning No. 3 Middle School straight to the Shining High School Department.

He no longer needed to experience the legendary college entrance exam, and although it was a bit regrettable, there was no difficulty for him with his current power—it would’ve been a mere formality.

With his current rate of growth, the Starworld was his objective.

Ahem, it should be the Foreign Dimensions.

Just like how this descent established the Alphonso Kingdom and its field of worship, after entering the university he would have to descend into the Void of Different Domain, conquering Foreign Dimensions, and establishing stable Faith Areas to offer Power of Faith for his eventual Divine Enthronement, as well as plunder resources and Plane Forces. It shouldn’t be like this time, where the painstakingly built diocese and Incarnation were lost.

He had ascended to Demigod but the work was far from over. He had to keep waiting to see if the Gaia Node could be successfully established.

If it failed, there was no big deal; he would just return to the Main World.

If successful, rewards based on merit would be in order, waiting to reap the benefits.

The feedback from Gaia Will he had just received was not the full reward for penetrating the Totem Crystal Wall Universe, just for the breakthrough. The real highlight would come later if he succeeded in establishing the Gaia Node.

He found Xie Yufei, who had by now switched to a more battle-adapted Incarnation within the Fortress. Jin Sisi had even sent over a War Incarnation, with both Incarnations present here.

As Xie Yufei put it:

“Establishing the Gaia Node is a done deal; you just wait and see.”

Jin Sisi also said,

“When you suddenly displayed power on par with a Totem King during your ascension to Totem Lord, the will of the Totem World was completely unprepared as it hadn’t anticipated this at all, leaving no time to prepare. Most crucially, the void where you chose to locate your domain is far from the main plane within the Totem Universe, and there were no powerful beings nearby. The force that could be mobilized was limited, definitely insufficient to stop the establishment of a Gaia Node.”

Through the connection with his Incarnation, Lin Xiao’s gaze crossed the Crystal Wall and entered the Totem Universe, witnessing that earth-shattering war.

Just as Jin Sisi had mentioned, what he saw earlier was only five Powerful Divine Incarnations battling against fourteen Totem Lords. By the time he ignited his Divine Fire and descended, there were already eight Powerful Divine Incarnations present, and sixteen Totem Lords had rushed over, but two Totem Lord corpses had already fallen nearby.

These powerful corpses were entwined by the roots of The Golden Ancient Tree, occupied by Gaia Will. The sharp golden roots penetrated the colossal demon god bodies, resembling continents, incessantly draining strength.

Upon the lush golden canopy of The Golden Ancient Tree, four massive Golden Fruits were growing, radiating invisible waves of distortion. As the demon gods’ strength waned, the fruits grew increasingly powerful.

“So their Golden Ancient Tree Avatar has become this powerful!”

Lin Xiao felt a hint of awe, for after Gaia Will descended upon this Incarnation of his, it had significantly enhanced the Incarnation in order to support the portal. Now, this Incarnation was even stronger than a typical True God. If measured by the level of Divinity, it had probably surpassed Rank 5, transcending the Weak Divine Power level.

However, precisely because of this, the Incarnation was basically no longer related to him and he probably couldn’t reclaim it later. The current connection was merely a grace granted by Gaia Will; once this ended, he would no longer be able to contact or sense it.

Nevertheless, this was already a great gain, for even those favored children of Gaia throughout history couldn’t always come into direct contact with Gaia Will as he had.

The so-called Gaia Will is, in fact, an aggregate of the thoughts of all living beings in the Main World. It’s a conceptual existence without a specific gender, inherent goodness or evil, or even thought. When Lin Xiao had interacted with it before, aside from receiving a constant stream of Origin Force feedback and the mysteries of the Rules, he hadn’t felt any specific thoughts; it was simply a warm sensation like being embraced by a mother.

Normally, whether it’s Gaia Will, Nightmare’s Will, Spirit Realm Will, or even some Plane Wills, it’s nearly impossible for them to possess conscious thought. But nothing is absolute. In the Chaotic Void Sea, where countless Crystal Wall Universes are born and destroyed every day, chance occurrences can lead to anomalous births.

The Main World Encyclopedia has records of a great traveler who ventured through the Chaotic Void Sea and purportedly witnessed an incomprehensible existence with an entire Crystal Wall Universe as its body.

They say it was a powerful Crystal Wall Universe Will that developed self-awareness. The universe collapsed into a ball radiating terrifying gravity, and this fearsome being, using the collapsed black hole as its body, was extremely dreadful—it could easily tear apart smaller universes, engulfing everything within them, destroying all within its grasp.

Fortunately, such cosmically catastrophic beings are exceedingly rare to emerge, and it’s certainly impossible for Gaia Will to develop its own consciousness.

Even if an unfathomable anomaly with this tendency did occur, the great divine power of the Main World Star would not permit such an event to happen. Deep within the Main World Star, a great divine power is always stationed, not just to sit idly by.

This time, the wait was not long, for as the saying goes ‘the longer the night, the more dreams will occur.’ Right now, their actions were strictly concealed from the Children of Nightmare and Children of Spirit Realm stationed on the other side of the void. Merely several Powerful Divine Powers had mobilized, most concealing their presences. The turmoil they caused was mostly internal to the Totem World, and the oscillations outside the World Crystal Wall had been blocked early on, their reverberations undetected and unacknowledged.

But they certainly couldn’t delay for too long, as lingering might eventually lead to discovery.

Thus, when the portal had opened sufficiently to accommodate a certain level of strength, Commander Xie Tianyan of the Fifth War Zone personally took action, risking his True Body’s descent.

At one moment, the normally slowly moving fortress suddenly sped up, positioning itself above the portal. Then, abruptly, a blinding light burst forth, as if a sun had appeared out of nowhere. The limitless light enveloped all his sight, leaving him unable to see anything.

This light, not even the fortress could keep out; Lin Xiao saw endless white light piercing through the room’s walls, as the enormous fortress became transparent, penetrated by the boundless light.

Within this light, he felt a spine-chilling pain, and Jin Sisi next to him reminded,

“Use Divine Power to block it, don’t face it directly. This is the radiation of Commander Xie’s Divine Power. The difference in strength between you two is too vast. If you expose yourself continuously, you might be assimilated.”

Pointing outside the fortress, she said,

“This force has already been isolated by a field outside the Void Fortress. But even so, it’s not something any life below Demigod can withstand. Long before you prepared to act, the fortress had already started to awaken and evacuate all the adventurers who hadn’t reached Demigod status.”

“Don’t leave my side before it’s confirmed safe,” she instructed.

“Understood!” he replied.

She had created two avatars, one specifically to protect him, while the other, a War Avatar, was on standby, ready to follow the main force into the Totem civilization once the Gaia Node was breached. She might not claim the greatest credit but could certainly seek other commendations.

When Commander Xie Tianyan of the War Zone personally intervened, a Divinity reaching the unrivaled nineteenth rank,