Chapter 540: Chapter 373: Manipulating the World, Battle of Old and New Gods! (Part 3)
[And so, the Northern Cold Pantheon was thrown into chaos, the Godslaying Alliance grew increasingly powerful, and other pantheons fanned the flames. Most deities did not realize that the ironclad rule that deities were untouchable, could not be gazed upon, and could not be enemies had been broken over the millennia.]
[People of the world then knew that gods could indeed be killed.]
[As the Gods Continent fell into disarray, the Celestial Rainbow Alliance was simultaneously studying the system of the Gods Continent.]
[The Gods Continent had also separated from the Jiuzhou Cultivation Realm, and after twenty thousand years of development, many unusual things had emerged.]
[For instance, Divine Fire, Divine Format, and Divine Authority.]
[Igniting Divine Fire could make one a Level 3 God, condensing Divine Format could make one a Level 2 God, and mastering authority could make one a Level 1 God and a Main God.]
[Both Divine Fire and Divine Format were modifications of the Incense Dao deity’s body.]
[Only Divine Authority piqued your interest; it seemed that the Incense Dao of this world’s practices involved a Unity of Heaven and Man, thus making some sort of transaction with the Secret Realm World? Or perhaps these powerful deities discovered a way to master World Power.]
[These authorities weren’t considered unrivaled, but they could achieve effects similar to an Array borrowing the Power of Heaven and Earth.]
[They also compared to some top-tier cultivation techniques’ ability to borrow the Power of Heaven and Earth.]
[You suspected there might be some more secrets on the Gods Continent.]
[You were not in a hurry; according to the Celestial Rainbow Alliance’s plan, the entire Gods Continent would fall into the Celestial Rainbow Alliance’s grasp sooner or later.]
[Capturing Secret Realms was not urgent, especially such large ones, as several small Cultivation Realms around had been counter-attacked by the Secret Realm, with the Secret Realm World replacing small Cultivation Realms to become the new small Cultivation Realms.]
[It wasn’t easy to find a vast yet noticeably weak super-large Secret Realm World.]
[The two systems of Extraordinary Creatures, warriors and mages, were studied by professionals in the Alliance, and the final assessment was there was little to be gained, with only the Mage’s Meditation Technique being considered a cost-effective method for cultivating Divine Sense.]
[Meanwhile, the Alliance had also hit a bottleneck in researching Divine Authority; cultivators did not know how Level 1 Gods and Main Gods manipulated authority.]
[In the year 5238 of the New Source Era, news came from the Qiuxu Cultivation Realm that people from other large-scale Cultivation Realms came to investigate. Yunmiao Master showed up, and other large-scale Cultivation Realms should no longer focus too much on this place.]
[You learned more through the Qiuxu Cultivation Realm.]
[The Qiuxu Cultivation Realm was a part of the southeastern defense line of Central State, with many Spiritless Lands around, and it had no direct borders with other large-scale Cultivation Realms.]
[One piece of information particularly caught your attention: further southeast from the Qiuxu Cultivation Realm, across dozens of large-scale Cultivation Realms, was another state, Changzhou.]
[The surrounding medium-sized Cultivation Realms mostly regarded the Celestial Rainbow Cultivation Realm as supreme.]
[The core inheritors of its major sects would come to study in the Celestial Rainbow Cultivation Realm, spreading its influence to other Cultivation Realms.]
[There was a sect in the Qiuxu Cultivation Realm that reported to the Guangyun Celestial Sect, hoping to weaken the Celestial Rainbow Cultivation Realm’s power, lest it eventually usurp control.]
[There were also voices within the Guangyun Celestial Sect suggesting the Celestial Rainbow Cultivation Realm itself had had meritorious services, attracting much attention, with its rapid progress over the years being visible to all Cultivation Realms.]
[The Guangyun Celestial Sect proposed a strategy to directly subordinate the Celestial Rainbow Alliance to the Qiuxu Cultivation Realm to cut off the Celestial Rainbow Cultivation Realm’s ’ambitions.’]
[The proposal was flatly rejected by Yunmiao Master, who hung the proposing elder on the Repentance Cliff for a month.]
[As a result, the Celestial Rainbow Alliance became increasingly low-key.]
[More power was invested into the Gods Continent, and the Celestial Rainbow Alliance’s surface power was no longer attention-grabbing.]
[In the year 5240 of the New Source Era, the first Level 1 God was captured, and after taking him out of the Gods Continent, cultivators discovered that his authority still existed, still capable of invoking the Power of Heaven and Earth, but much of the power was lost.]
[A genius Artifact Refiner collaborated with other strong ones to separate this authority and refine it into an Artifact. Once formed, the Artifact had a trace of spiritual nature, with the potential to become a Nascent Soul Spiritual Treasure.]
[The news sent the Alliance into a frenzy once again.]
[Unfortunately, there were only just over ten Level 1 Gods and Main Gods combined.]
[Unlike previous captures of deities, the disappearance of the Level 1 God caught the entire Northern Cold Pantheon’s attention.]
[The Northern Cold Main God grew unprecedentedly anxious, mobilizing the entire Northern Cold Pantheon’s power to search for the existence of this Level 1 God.]
[Other pantheons were also drawn to the commotion.]
[The disappearance of authority seemed to have caught the attention of all deities.]
[In the year 5241 of the New Source Era, the Alliance’s Golden Core Master, Dragon-slaying Master, unexpectedly fell on the Gods Continent.]
[The Dragon-Slaying Sword slashed at the Haoyang Main God, yet despite the faith enduring, the deity did not perish; the Dragon-Slaying Sword only cut off one of his divine bodies.]
[The existence of outsiders was discovered by the gods.]
[The gods deemed them outer realm demons and called upon the world to first defend against the outer realm demons.]
[The Alliance took the initiative.]
[Years of arrangements were instantly triggered by the Alliance.]
[Countless Level 3 Gods disappeared, a massive number of believers were left leaderless, countless deities were driven to frenzy, and the Godslaying Alliance reached its peak.]
[One by one, Level 3 Gods were killed, the Power of Faith scattered, and new gods within the Godslaying Alliance rose rapidly by absorbing these powers, quickly becoming newborn Level 3 Gods.]
[The Alliance seized the opportunity to control the entire Godslaying Alliance, producing one new god after another, and the greed of countless living beings was ignited, making them forget the outer realm demons. The Alliance, in the shadows, controlled the new war.]
[This was known as: The War of New and Old Gods, also referred to as: The Second War of the Gods.]
