Chapter 539: Chapter 373: Manipulating the World, Battle of Old and New Gods! (Part 2)
[The Five Great Main Gods have survived for a full ten thousand years, with the landscape of the Gods Continent remaining nearly unchanged under their administration.]
[Cultivators were astonished when they heard this news, and couldn’t help but curse these deities.]
[For even a Golden Core Master’s lifespan couldn’t reach a thousand years, and a Nascent Soul Ancestor only had two thousand. In ten thousand years, even a pig could be cultivated into a peerless pig king, yet the cultivation of these five Main Gods has remained unchanged for ten thousand years.]
[Countless cultivators were envious of them, but few had the thought of converting to the Incense Dao, as its shortcomings were too great.]
[The Incense Fire Deities’ flames are eternal, their lifespans endless, but their powers are completely bound to the Power of Faith and cannot cultivate independently; they can only strengthen themselves by expanding their faith, which is too limiting. The reason the Five Great Main Gods couldn’t progress further over ten thousand years is also due to this.]
[It is said that in ancient times, the Gods of the Gods Continent once waged a war of the gods, but after a compromise, the structure of the Five Great Pantheons was maintained for ten thousand years, stagnant like a pond of dead water.]
[The Incense Dao has developed in this world, but it has become all the more twisted.]
[Faith is fully divided, the world’s renewal has halted, and future Celestial Prides can only bow their proud heads to the deities, with no path left to deification.]
[It is due to these flaws that the Celestial Rainbow Alliance, with its informational advantage, could more calmly annex this world of gods, which was actually larger than the Celestial Rainbow Alliance.]
[The Divinity Path promoted by the Ten Thousand Demon Hall on the Gods Continent caught the attention of many, and the secrets the deities kept hidden for ten thousand years were revealed to the world.]
[However, to the surprise of the cultivators, even the Five Great Main Gods were somewhat amazed at the ingenuity of this method, and even gained some insights from it.]
[The Gods Continent was in turmoil, legendary heroes and Celestial Pride mages all set their sights on the Divinity Path, and even the divine creatures who had pledged allegiance to the deities had more ideas of their own.]
[In a short time, countless deities found their faith being partially stolen, and those extraordinary creatures who were stuck in their cultivation began to take action.]
[The entire continent was on the brink of a storm.]
[In the New Source Era, year 5230, the Celestial Rainbow Alliance had captured sixty-one Level 3 Gods, and though the Gods Continent was abundant with deities, the number of Fake Core Cultivators in the Celestial Rainbow Alliance could only replace so many Level 3 Gods.]
[The gods seemed to sense a slight anomaly, but were too busy suppressing the extraordinary creatures who were seizing the faith of the deities, leaving them powerless to quell it.]
[In the New Source Era, year 5235, the Divine Punishment incident occurred, where the Northern Cold Pantheon’s Level 2 God of Cold Wind and Snow inflicted Divine Punishment, almost massacring an entire nation.]
[The news spread, enraging countless living beings, and with the instigation of interested parties and cultivators, the Godslaying Army was formally established.]
[Numerous legendary heroes in seclusion and Great Mages of Truth joined the Godslaying Alliance, either willingly or under compulsion.]
[Meanwhile, the hidden ’Evil God’ also joined the alliance, seizing the chance to gain faith.]
[However, only a deity could kill another deity. Part of the Northern Cold Pantheon’s Level 3 Gods actively resisted, drawing in the Cold Moon Elf Race, Northern Cold Werewolf Clan, North Sea Sebo Fishman Clan, and other races and deities oppressed by the Northern Cold Pantheon to join in.]
[The Level 3 Gods replaced by the alliance from the Northern Cold Pantheon took action, joining forces with the Godslaying Alliance to slay the God of Cold Wind and Snow. The deity fell, its Divine Format sealed.]
[In reality, the God of Cold Wind and Snow had already been captured by the alliance.]
[Taking advantage of the opportunity, Fake Core Cultivators rioted, Golden Core Cultivators acted covertly, killing several Level 2 Gods, and even used the pretense of a deity’s self-detonation to slay the Northern Cold Pantheon’s God of Cold Winter and Ice, one of the five Level 1 Gods.]
[All Fake Core Cultivators took the chance to withdraw, and amid the chaos, several True Masters quietly and forcefully subdued another Level 2 God, the God of Hail and Frost, from the Northern Cold Pantheon.]
[The Northern Cold Pantheon was in great turmoil, and even the Godslaying Alliance hadn’t anticipated causing such a commotion.]
[Those extraordinary creatures and deities who were resolute in their cause were ecstatic, while the extraordinary creatures initially coerced into joining were surprised to find more unaffiliated believers to draw from, which could ignite their Divine Fire.]
[The Godslaying Alliance became even more powerful, with more extraordinary creatures joining and taking the opportunity to divide the faith of the fallen deities.]
[Simultaneously, provoked by the alliance, the deities of the other four pantheons chose to capitalize on the chaos, seizing the chance to divide the faith.]
[Perhaps some clever individuals saw the disadvantages, but in the face of the overwhelming trend, they were powerless to resist.]
[The third part of the alliance’s strategy to conquer the gods was successful.]
First part, lurking and probing, information is king.
Second part, seize the magpie’s nest, steal the sky and change the day.
Third part, turning the heavens and earth, with storms from all directions, provoking internal conflicts in the Gods Continent and diverting the deities’ attention.
[The Northern Cold Main God was forced to awaken from slumber, and despite being a Main God, was somewhat overwhelmed by the situation. When he attempted to address the matter, he unexpectedly found his power of faith diminishing.]
[The Godslaying Alliance was weakening the entire Northern Cold Pantheon according to information obtained from the Ten Thousand Demon Hall, and simultaneously the other four pantheons began to capitalize on the situation.]
[To the other pantheons, the Godslaying Alliance was nothing more than a makeshift group, but if they could take advantage of it to swallow the entire Northern Cold Pantheon, that would be ideal.]
[Thus, with interference from the other pantheons, the Godslaying Alliance managed to survive.]
