The Era of Gods

After over two hundred years of development, Lin Xiao’s faith had completely covered the entire underground world of the Main World. Not only the second layer, but cave-dwellers also existed in the first, third, and even the fourth layer of the Dark Territory. According to the Church’s current statistics, the Dark Territory after more than two hundred years of reproduction, has a total population of over thirteen billion fifth-generation cave-dwellers, including two and a half million Cave Giants.

On average, each devout believer from the fourth-generation cave-dwellers could provide twenty points of Power of Faith per day. After adjustments to the fifth generation, this number greatly increased. Each devout believer could provide as much as fifty points of Power of Faith daily. As the God of the cave-dwellers, who had changed the fate and overall structure of the race—essentially recreating the cave-dwellers—Lin Xiao naturally received the Power of Faith from even the lowest true believer of the species.

With over thirteen billion fifth-generation cave-dwellers currently in the Dark Territory, this meant that they could provide him with approximately six hundred fifty-six billion points of Power of Faith daily, which equates to more than six hundred sixty-five thousand points of Divine Power.

What did this mean?

Just consider that even the maintenance cost of a Godhood with Powerful Divine Power, including the Divine Realm, is only about one hundred thousand Divine Power. Six hundred sixty-six thousand Divine Power would be enough to maintain the Divine Power upkeep of almost a Level 19 Godhood, with plenty to spare.

This doesn’t even include the immense Power of Faith provided by the powerful Cave Giants, who are second only to the Dragon race in this regard. In fact, the two and a half million Cave Giants alone could sustain an existence with Powerful Divine Power.

The reason Lin Xiao still has only reached Level 14 in terms of God Level is not due to the lack of Divine Power, but because his control over the rules represented by the Godhood is still insufficient. As soon as he masters this aspect, he will be able to immediately step into the realm of Powerful Divine Power.

Over these two hundred years, he has been managing the Dark Territory, preparing for the conquest of the Surface World. Now the preparations are almost complete.

The only step remaining is to select a main Divine Position to step into the realm of Powerful Divine Power.

Atop the throne, Lin Xiao opened his eyes, dazzling divine light spewing from his pupils as powerful yet mysterious rule fluctuations slowly spread out from him.

To this day, he is about to step into the realm of Powerful Divine Power as well. Although he will only be one of the not-so-powerful beings with Powerful Divine Power in a relatively weak Crystal Wall Universe, and his real combat strength doesn’t compare to any Powerful Divine Power in the Main Worlds—possibly even some talented beings with Medium Divine Power could defeat him—the status of Powerful Divine Power comes with its inherent majesty and power.

With a thought, a light screen opened in front of him, and an even more luxurious attribute panel than two hundred years ago appeared before him.

Divine Name: God of Cave-dwellers and Darkness.

Alignment: Lawful Neutral.

Godhood: Supreme, Cave-dweller, Darkness, Magic, Shadow Magic Net, Matter (Ancient God’s Divinity)

God Level: Level 14 Medium Divine Power/Ancient Level 14 Medium Divine Power.

Field: Supreme, Darkness, Shadow, Magic, Matter.

Universal Extraordinary Godhood Abilities: Change Reality, Change Form, Change Size, Power of Truth, Divine Power Recall, Divine Power Inspiration, Communication with All Things, Teleportation, Godsend, The Descent of the Gods, Divine Power Spellcaster, Arcane Proficiency, Magic Conversion, Spontaneous Arcane, Divine Shield, Group Divine Power Shield, Life and Death, Group Life and Death, Divine Power Impact, Group Divine Power Impact, The Descent of the Gods.

Exclusive Extraordinary Godhood Abilities: Summon Creatures (Elements, Created Creatures), Controlling Creatures (Created Race), The Descent of Gods Possession, Shadow Magic Control.

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

God’s Immunity: Elemental Damage, Elemental Absorption, Acid, Cold, Electricity, Poison, Disease, Disintegration, Energy Absorption, Paralysis, Sleep, Stunning, Transformation, Imprisonment, Banish, Instant Death Effects, Mental Influences, etc.

He now possesses four regular Powerful Divine Positions, one special Supreme Divine Position, and one Ancient Divinity.

The Supreme Divine Position, a title pertaining to the head of a Divine System gained after ascending to the level of Medium Divine Power, is a Godhood that in the Main World requires multiple conditions to possess, and it is only with the Supreme Divine Position that one can establish a Divine System. However, in some Crystal Wall Universes with different rules, every Main God in a Divine System automatically attains it upon advancing to Medium Divine Power.

The primary use of the Supreme Divine Position is to rule over the Divine System, giving the Main God considerable suppression over their subordinate deities. Even if a subordinate deity possesses a God Level equal to that of the Divine System’s Main God, they are no match for the Main God under the pressure of the Supreme Divine Position.

However, the Supreme Divine Position cannot be used to ascend to Powerful Divine Power; he can only select from his other Divine Positions.

Eliminating Cave-dweller and Shadow Magic Net, which are unsuitable for the main Godhood, leaves him with the choices of Darkness, Magic, and Matter.

Regarding Matter, if Lin Xiao wishes to advance to Powerful Divine Power by choosing either Darkness or Magic, he must first accomplish one thing—to kill all deities in this Crystal Wall System that have Darkness or Magic Divine Positions and seize their Divine Positions.

Because this Crystal Wall Universe isn’t very powerful, unable to even give birth to gods of great divine power, and with a very limited number of Powerful Divine Power beings possible, if one wishes to ascend to Powerful Divine Power, they must become the only deity of the chosen Godhood, thus unifying the Divine Position to themselves before taking that step.

For instance, in this Crystal Wall Universe, the three most powerful divine forces are the God of the Sun, the Chaos God, and the Justice God. Aside from these three with powerful divine forces, the tens of thousands of other True Gods do not hold these divine positions of sun, chaos, and justice.

Whenever a New God with any of these three divine positions is born, they would share in the divine power held by the three powerful deities, and those three would be the first ones to know, thereby seizing back the divine positions to ensure the uniqueness of their own divinities.

In this Crystal Wall Universe, there is a Magic God with medium divine power, a God of Darkness with medium divine power, and a bunch of True Gods who hold these two positions but are not the Main Deity. If he wishes to ascend to powerful divine power, he must eliminate these True Gods and seize their divinities.

Clearly, this is very troublesome, but also necessary.

Even if he chooses the Ancient Material Godhood as his Main Deity Position, he must still choose one.

That’s because the Ancient Deity isn’t outwardly visible, and it is independent of the divinity associated with the Power of Faith.

Over the past two hundred years, Lin Xiao would occasionally observe other deities through the Hall of All Gods and found that, relatively speaking, choosing the Magic Divine Position as the Main Deity Position is somewhat easier than choosing the Darkness Divine Position.

That’s because the total number of True Gods with the Darkness Divine Position has exceeded a hundred, most of them being Evil Gods, including two with medium divine power.

However, the difficulty of consolidating the Magic Divine Position is significantly greater than that of the Darkness Divine Position, with only about a dozen successful in consolidating this position, including only one with medium divine power, a Level 14 Magic God, who besides the three mighty deities is one of the most powerful in both divine status and divine system.

The Magic God is also the Main God of a divine system, which is even more robust than the Dark God System, boasting fifty to sixty True Gods.

The good news is that besides the Magic God, there is no second deity with medium divine power. This is also typical for native divine systems, where the Main God in the divine system has absolute authority and profit. To minimize competitors, it’s rare for a divine system to have subordinate gods whose strength rivals the Main God.

So, Lin Xiao has just one target moving forward, to defeat the Magic God and the numerous deities with the Magic Divine Position and seize all the Magic Divine Positions.

Ah, and incidentally, to capture the Magic Net controlled by the Magic God, combine it with his own Shadow Demon Web, and extend his power to every corner of the Crystal Wall Universe.

Once achieved, his divine power could, in a short amount of time, catch up with the other three senior deities with great divine power, thereby having the capital to defeat them.

This is destined to be extremely difficult, not to mention that the Magic God, who controls the Magic Net, is very powerful in their own right. The three high-and-mighty deities with powerful power would not sit idly by as he grows this threat. Furthermore, in this world, there are descendants from two other Divine Realm civilizations, and they would definitely not want to see a mighty power emerging from humans. They will obstruct in every way possible, and it wouldn’t be surprising if they would attack his divine system when he is at war with the Magic God’s divine system.

This is also why Lin Xiao, despite having sufficient divine power, has always been hesitant to make his move as he has been preparing.

WWhen the decision is made, the whole divine system begins to prepare for the defeat of the Magic God. Lin Xiao announced this decision in the form of a Divine-mandate to all subordinate gods within the allied God Country.

There’s no need to hide, nor can it be hidden. Just as he intends to seize the Magic God’s divine position to ascend to powerful divine power, the Magic God too seeks to ascend to powerful divine power and would target him as well.

Indeed, as his God Level has been continually promoted over the years, his divine throne in the Hall of All Gods has steadily risen in rank. Now, it has reached the highest row just beneath the thrones of the three lofty deities with powerful divine power, ranking fifth among the medium divine powers.

This means that in the evaluation of the Crystal Wall Will, his strength ranks fifth among the medium divine powers, while the Magic God ranks second.

It’s worth mentioning that this evaluation of strength does not take into account the Ancient Material Godhood he holds, which is one reason he dares to challenge them.@@novelbin@@

Being so close, of course, they are aware of each other’s existence and know what divine positions the other holds. Since his promotion to medium divine power, he has sensed the unmistakable enmity from the Magic God.

But his main Faith Area is in the Dark Territory, which is far too distant from the surface world. The Magic God’s followers would see their strength severely reduced when entering the Dark Territory. Plus, Lin Xiao’s God Country is not located in the Starworld, but hidden in the dark region, making divine expedition by the system quite troublesome, so they have always been at peace.

But all the True Gods in the Hall of All Gods know that there must be a colossal divine battle between them, it’s just a matter of who will be ready to initiate it first.

Following that, the gods of the entire divine system began issuing Divine-mandates to their followers, ordering them to prepare for the divine war.

Before long, an Incarnation of God, Lin Xiao, tore open a silver Door of Space without a moment’s hesitation and stepped through it, leading directly to the Divine Tomb Star Realm.

He planned to scout the Starworld, seeking materials left by fallen deities, in preparation for forging a Divine Artifact that would resonate with his Magic Divine Position as his Main Divine Artifact.

In a full-scale war against a senior deity, no amount of preparation can be too much, so a powerful Divine Artifact that fits well with his Main Divine Position is essential.