Translator: CinderTL
Great World of the Gods.
A world steeped in religious fervor.
Here, the most magnificent and towering structures were of a single kind: divine temples.
Temples dedicated to various divine beings.
Each temple's design varied, densely populating every settlement across the Great World of the Gods.
The inhabitants of these settlements needed neither work nor toil for survival.
Technology far surpassing that of the Azure Star Minor Realm ensured that every city was teeming with drones and robots performing all labor, providing all necessities from food and clothing to housing and transportation.
The Believers were required only to pray, contemplate, and create.
Through prayer, they expressed gratitude to their divine beings. Through contemplation, they sought to align their spirits more closely with their deities, achieving sufficient spiritual resonance. They then created poems, paintings, biographies, and films to extol the greatness of their divine beings.
Every individual lived solely for this purpose.
Having shed the burdens of physical labor, they found profound spiritual fulfillment.
Although this contentment stemmed from their faith in divine beings—essentially a form of divine brainwashing—every face radiated happiness and joy.
The atmosphere reached fever pitch, especially during rare "divine descents," which triggered unprecedented levels of excitement.
This spectacle...
left Li Chunjun, who was traversing the Great World of the Gods, utterly astonished.
The entire Great World of the Gods felt profoundly strange to him.
He couldn't fathom why these believers were so fanatical about their deities.
However, when he imagined the creation gods as A-list celebrities, the Divine Emperors as top-tier stars, the God Emperors as mid-tier stars, and the God-Kings as rising stars—and viewed all the believers as their devoted fans—he began to grasp their fervor.
Worshipping a divine being was akin to obsessive celebrity worship.
Just as fans spontaneously promote their idols, praising and glorifying them, the power of deities stemmed from their believers, much like a star's income derives from their fans.
Therefore, each "divine descent" likely represented a fan interaction or a commercial performance—perhaps a concert?
Naturally, such events would ignite deafening cheers.
In the eyes of these Believers, the Great World of the Gods was akin to a grand entertainment hub where celebrities gathered, and every Believer considered it the highest honor to reach this place.
Compared to that...
Li Chunjun felt a sudden sense of relief.
"No wonder the Great World of the Gods has been so aggressively developing technology and automation. Once labor is completely liberated and people no longer need to worry about basic necessities like food, clothing, shelter, and transportation, they naturally turn to pursuing spiritual fulfillment. This is simply a matter of market demand."
Li Chunjun understood.
Just like the Azure Star Minor Realm. If a technology emerged in the future that allowed one to gain power and immortality by absorbing faith, it would trigger a technological explosion, solving all the survival-level problems of life in one fell swoop.
At that point, sentient beings would become the most precious wealth.
No!
In the Azure Star Minor Realm, the number of living beings had always been the wealth of the high-tier rulers, not money or material possessions.
"In a sense, the essence of all worlds is the same."
At that moment, Li Chunjun seemed to grasp the truth of the world: "The wealthy control living beings for wealth, divine beings control them for faith, high-tier rulers control them for power, and I... for strength, I refine all living beings..."
Everything was a matter of one class exploiting another.
At best, the difference lay in whether this exploitation was sustainable or unsustainable.
Li Chunjun's thoughts flowed, his gaze shifting from the divine temple-filled cities below to a mountain almost entirely enveloped in a soft, radiant glow.
Besides the myriad exotic flowers and herbs, the mountain was adorned with numerous jade-white stones.
On this peak resided not only two Quasi-Tenth-Tier Lifeforms, but also over a hundred Ninth-Tier Lifeforms.
At the summit stood a towering spire, a heaven-supporting pillar stretching 500,000 kilometers into the sky.
The spire, with a diameter exceeding 1,000 kilometers, featured living areas at regular intervals, adorned with artificial palaces, gardens, lakes, and forests.
Beyond these structures, Li Chunjun could clearly sense a unique resonance between the spire and the entire Great World of the Gods.
This was evidently a crucial component allowing the Great World of the Gods to easily invoke the World Will—the formation base of a World-Tier Array Formation.
While destroying a formation base might not completely dismantle the Array Formation...
The battle was about to begin.
Li Chunjun took a single step forward, summoning a surging void torrent that roared toward the heaven-supporting pillar.
Before the Quasi-Tenth-Tier and Ninth-Tier cultivators atop the mountain could react, the colossal void torrent crashed violently against the towering pillar, which stretched thousands of miles into the sky.
With an earth-shattering roar that reverberated across the heavens and a tremor that warped the surrounding void, countless Array Formation-like restrictions on the hundred-thousand-mile-tall tower shattered in an instant.
With the restrictions gone, the full force of the void torrent slammed into the heaven-supporting pillar, causing the colossal pillar, which seemed to prop up the entire Heavenly Vault, to crumble into fragments.
Due to the pillar's immense size, countless witnesses across the Great World of the Gods saw its destruction with their own eyes.
The moment the Believers witnessed the collapse of the divine pillar, they felt as if the sky itself was collapsing, sending a profound spiritual shock through their hearts.
"Impudence!"
As the divine pillar shattered, waves of powerful Divine Sense erupted from its remains.
Led by two Creation Gods, hundreds of Divine Emperors unleashed their divine might, merging their power with the very fabric of the Great World of the Gods.
This fusion not only amplified their strength exponentially but also granted them boundless confidence.
"Li Chunjun, you chose the path to hell when heaven offered you a way out! Today, I'll see what gives you the audacity to wage war against our Divine Race alone!"
As the Creation God's Divine Sense reverberated, a colossal luminous phantom materialized above the collapsing divine pillar.
This radiant figure stood tens of thousands of miles tall, fully armed with three heads, six arms, and six pairs of wings sprouting from its back.
One hand supported the crumbling divine tower, while the other five formed mystical hand seals, unleashed Divine Arts, and wielded Top-Tier Dao Artifacts and Quasi-Immortal Artifacts. With all its might, it rapidly channeled world-shattering energy.
But before these attacks could fully unleash, the void torrent that had shattered the divine pillar abruptly shifted, transforming into a human-shaped phantom composed entirely of Sword Qi.
Or rather...
The Sovereign Dharma Manifestation!
Bathed in divine radiance, the Sovereign Dharma Manifestation wielded the Quasi-Immortal Artifact-level Heaven-Opening Divine Sword. With a single strike, Void and destruction power surged forth, carrying the force of a collapsing world as it slashed viciously at the three-headed, six-armed Giant of Light.
Under that single sword strike, the Giant of Light's hand seals, Divine Arts, Dao Artifacts, and Quasi-Immortal Artifacts shattered and disintegrated.
Within the Giant of Light, the ninth-tier divine emperors trembled. The two weakest among them were instantly vaporized by the shockwave.
"This?!"
A single strike from Li Chunjun's sword shattered the overwhelming disparity that had nearly crushed them moments ago, sending shockwaves through the minds of the two Creation Gods leading the charge.
"How is this possible? We've practiced this scenario countless times. Even if a god above gods descended an Avatar within the six extremes divine domain, we could trap it, preventing its escape... This Human Race member has achieved dao unification, yet how could his sword strike possess such overwhelming power?!"
"An Immortal Artifact?! No, the weapon he wields isn't an Immortal Artifact! It's a Quasi-Immortal Artifact, just like ours! If they're the same, why does this Human Race member with dao unification possess such devastating combat power?! His display of strength surpasses even the descent of an Avatar from a god above gods!"
The two Quasi-Tenth-Tier beings were utterly incredulous.
At that moment, they felt that even if the God Above Gods descended an Avatar, it would only meet the fate of being shattered by Li Chunjun's sword.
Before they could dwell further on this, Li Chunjun's second strike descended relentlessly.
At their level, Mystical Powers and dao techniques had become largely ineffective.
Relying on their boundless Qi and Quasi-Immortal Artifacts capable of resonating with the laws and even the Great Dao, each strike they unleashed carried the force of a cataclysmic disaster.
Li Chunjun, in his Great Dao Sovereign form, channeled the Grand Dao Power to unleash cosmic-level calamities.
Had he fully unleashed his power across the Cosmos, triggering a massive Starquake capable of annihilating an entire Realm Region would have been effortless.
This terrifying attack, unleashed by the second strike, shattered vast swathes of flowing light from the Giant of Light, transforming them into a catastrophic storm that surged outward in all directions.
Even the aftershocks alone devastated the towns and divine temples surrounding the divine tower.
Countless Believers were crushed into dust by the cataclysmic forces unleashed by the collision.
Countless God-Kings and even God Emperors who were too close were hurled away, some torn apart mid-air.
Even the Pure World Divine Lord, whose earlier actions had triggered a Starquake in the Azure Sea Domain, causing countless deaths and injuries, lacked the qualifications to even approach the battlefield.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
As the second sword fell, three more Divine Emperors succumbed to the storm of destruction power.
Amidst scattering light, their dao form divine bodies were violently torn apart by the penetrating sword qi storm.
Yet...
Despite having slain five Divine Emperors in quick succession, no joy flickered across Li Chunjun's brow.
He glanced at the Human Emperor Banner...
["Killed a Level 38 creature, experience +11,621!"]
[Life Level: 44 (463,211/4,000,000)]
Among the Divine Race, when a divine being reaches the Divine Emperor level, the God Above Gods returns their soul power to aid in achieving Heart's Perfection.
The God Above Gods hopes that these beings will one day become Creation Gods, or even Gods Above Gods like themselves, further strengthening the Divine Race.
Yet even without needing to contribute his own soul power, Li Chunyun's Life Level of 44 prevented him from gaining any experience from the Level 37 Divine Emperor.
Only Level 38 and 39 Divine Emperors, along with Level 40 Creation Gods, could provide sufficient experience to advance his Life Level.
Thus, despite remotely annihilating five Divine Emperors, only one truly contributed experience.
However...
["One Divine Race member? I refuse to believe I can't push my Life Level to 45!"]
The Great Dao Sovereign Dharma Manifestation Divine Sword rose high, and a Void storm, accompanied by Heaven-Opening, Earth-Splitting destruction sword light, once again swept toward the Giant of Light formed by two Quasi-Tenth-Tier beings and hundreds of Divine Emperors.
(End of the Chapter)
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