The Era of Gods

Chapter 556: Chapter 556 I am both the Creator and the God of Truth II

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God Country, Sects, Priest Camp also do not need explanation; those who understand, understand.

After the ascension to a True God, the most relevant to True God strength is the possession of Extraordinary godhood abilities, which are directly related to the True God’s concrete strength.

A normal True God possesses a number of common Extraordinary godhood abilities, plus one or two exclusive Extraordinary godhood abilities related to their own powers.

As for the Ancient God Extraordinary Godhood Ability, only those with Ancient God’s Divinity can possess it, and the vast majority of True Gods naturally cannot have Ancient God’s Divinity.

There are many types of common Extraordinary godhood abilities, which generally increase with the Deity’s Divinity and Godhood Level.

Change Form: Deities can freely change their form, such as when Deity Incarnations often transform into Humans, Elves, or Beastmen to walk the earth.

Change Reality: Deities can use Divine Power to change reality, creating everything, be it temporary or permanent.

Change Size: Deities can change their own size, becoming as small as an ant or assuming the form of a Giant.

Power of Truth: Deities can see through all lies, forcing mortals to speak the truth.

Communication with All Things: Deities naturally comprehend all languages of the world and can communicate with any creature.

The Descent of the Gods: That is to say, the Incarnation of God.

Life and Death: Gods can grant mortals life or take it away.

Summon Creatures: Deities can summon all elements, as well as creatures they have created themselves.

The exclusive Extraordinary godhood abilities related to Lin Xiao’s own powers were four and included—

Judgment Technique: An enhanced version of the Minor Judgment Skill, not only amplifying the range of judgment but also capable of affecting True Gods.

Prophetic Technique: Generally, only very powerful True Gods and Ancient gods possess this, covering Extraordinary Predictive Art and having miraculous effects.

Controlling Creatures: Gods can absolutely control the creatures they create.

Creator: Only a True God who has truly created a race can obtain this ability, receiving a massive boost in creating races.

Ancient God Extraordinary Godhood abilities can only be possessed by Ancient gods and are absolutely unattainable for non-Ancient gods. Lin Xiao had three, specifically—

Titan: A kind of Innate Ancient God, possessing terrifying power unavailable to later New Gods.

God-sealing Art: An enhanced version of the Minor Deification Technique, where, in exchange for enough Divinity and Divine Power combined with any Godhood, can deify a mortal instantly.

Black Hole: An unknown essence.

In total, eight common Extraordinary godhood abilities, four exclusive Extraordinary godhood abilities, and three Ancient God Extraordinary godhood abilities made up Lin Xiao as he is now.

As for God’s Immunity, it is a characteristic that any True God has. If the common Extraordinary godhood abilities may vary depending on the Deity’s Godhood, God’s Immunity is a trait all True Gods have, whether they are Indigenous True Gods or sons of the True God Level Divine Realm. The characteristic is the same.

If we must speak of a difference, it is just that the immunity’s strength increases as the God Level rises.

Upon promotion to a True God, the Sons of God realm cannot easily split off an avatar to descend everywhere as before; now they cannot. A newly deified True God can only split off different numbers of Incarnations based on Godhood Level, with Weak Divine Power only able to split off one.

Lin Xiao, now at Godhood Level Zero of the New God, can only split off an Incarnation of level zero of any Divine Position.

Besides this, one can only send down a projection, and the strength of the projection must be below that of a Demigod, and can never reach True God level, even if it’s the projection of a Powerful Divine Power.

Of course, those with Divine Power greater than the Powerful might have an understanding of the rules so strong that even a mere Demigod projection could easily kill some of the weaker ones with Weak Divine Power.

“I have been enthroned as a god!”

Lin Xiao took a deep breath, carefully feeling the surging Divine Power and the body of the Ancient god, sensing an unprecedented strength.

After advancing to True God, the utilization of the Power of Faith took on another level. Previously, during his Demigod period, the absorption of the Power of Faith into Divine Power was extremely costly, especially after followers from a Different Domain crossed boundaries, the loss was even greater. Now, after deification, his grasp on Divine Power is stronger, and the loss is naturally much smaller.

At the same time, after deification, the use of Divine Power has become more refined. If during the Demigod period, a bit of Divine Power could only be used as a bit of Strength, now with his extremely high rule mastery plus the Ancient god powers, a bit of Divine Power could be used as dozens of points of Strength. It’s as if the attack power blew up dozens of times in an instant, granting a crushing gap over those below Demigod.

After ascending to True God, the Sons of the God realm enter another level, they can no longer make small, petty troubles as before, nor can they do so since they only have one Incarnation now.

At this moment, some of his old thoughts and plans seemed no longer suitable with the growth of his strength. Lin Xiao pondered for a moment and decided to create a plan for himself.

But before that…

He slowly raised his head, seeing two beautiful figures standing in the Void before him, Sister Xie Yufei and Jin Sisi.

He took a step and his form slowly shrank, and by the time he stood before them he had transformed into a three-meter tall divine being, covered in golden divine patterns, formidable and strong, with the dark gold black hole slowly disappearing behind his head.

His pupils, radiating divine light, gazed at their incarnations, and at this moment, Lin Xiao could see through the strength of their two incarnations.

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The two women looked up at his overwhelmingly mighty divine form, and Xie Yufei bit her red lips softly as she said in a crisp voice:

“Congratulations, little brother, on your ascension to godhood today!”

Jin Sisi’s eyes held a complicated look, but more than that, they expressed her relief as she said:

“Congratulations!”

It had been only a few years since that student they remembered had successfully ascended to godhood, becoming one of the rulers of this world; such a rate of growth was rare even in history.

Moreover, the aura emanating from him at this moment was so powerful that his strength, having just ascended, surely ranked him among the strongest of true gods.

Facing the two beautiful women waiting there, Lin Xiao smiled:

“Thank you, Sister and Teacher, for protecting me!”

Years of countless opportunities had accumulated, transforming into today’s surging Divine Power.

At this moment, Lin Xiao no longer needed to look up to them. Although their God Levels were still much higher than his, they were essentially at the same tier, all true gods.

When reaching this same tier, the way they looked at things and their perspectives were different. Lin Xiao reached out and took each of their hands; they both clearly trembled at his touch and, surprised, looked up at him, but Lin Xiao met their gazes without showing weakness.

Jin Sisi’s delicate hand trembled slightly, and an expression of astonishment appeared on her beautiful face, yet she did not pull away. Meanwhile, Xie Yufei smiled and grasped his large hand with her own, saying:

“Little brother, you really are greedy. Aren’t you afraid that your future father-in-law will be furious?”

Lin Xiao, unafraid, replied:

“Joy between man and woman, with mutual consent, what is there to fear?”

The words seemed verbose, but the message was straightforward — we like each other, and neither of us minds, so the adults should not interfere.

Although this act of his was somewhat audacious and bordered on seeking death, generally neither his future father-in-law nor Commander Xie would agree. Perhaps they wouldn’t kill him because of past affections, but they definitely wouldn’t look at him favorably, and most likely would give him a beating.

But as long as they didn’t find out now, once he becomes powerful enough in the future, and the deed is done beyond reversion, it won’t matter anymore.

Just like how, now, being only a freshman in college, he had condensed the body of an ancient god and ascended to godhood. If he could build a tremendous enterprise with incredible speed and then make it a fait accompli, their parents and families would simply have to accept it.

A tremendous enterprise meant at least reaching God Level 10 or above, breaking through to become a deity of medium Divine Power, and becoming renowned in the Main World.

Seeming like a simple matter in speech, in reality, its difficulty was comparable to an ordinary true god ascending to Powerful Divine Power.

After all, general medium Divine Power was not worthy of their daughters.

But Lin Xiao had enough confidence and certainty, and only he himself knew his current strength and potential, whether his own, his Divine Realm, or his Clan.

His ascension to godhood was not solely due to his personal strength, but the Divine Realm intimately linked to him also underwent earth-shattering, huge changes.

When he ascended, the source energy from the Main World’s Source Sea flowed into the Divine Realm, taking him as the nucleus and causing revolutionary changes in his Divine Realm.

Firstly, the size of the Divine Realm exploded in that instant.

The area of the Main Divine Realm, originally one thousand kilometers by one thousand kilometers, now directly increased to three thousand kilometers by three thousand kilometers, and the six main subsidiary Divine Realms also expanded from one hundred kilometers by one hundred kilometers to three hundred kilometers by three hundred kilometers.

That was just the growth in size; the main change was the overall strength and density of energy in the Divine Realm.

With the feedback from the Main World’s Source Sea at the moment of his ascension, Lin Xiao’s Divine Realm crossed the barrier known as the chasm to ordinary true gods, a barrier that obstructed many as they aimed for Rank 10. He moved onto a higher level.

The current Divine Realm was now capable of harboring and sustaining the birth and existence of true god-level Clan members.

Although several hero-level demigods in the Divine Realm had not yet ascended, their path forward was clear. As soon as they accumulated enough, they could immediately ascend.

Especially for the Saint Slarda, whose body had surpassed a thousand meters, Slarda’s physical strength alone was already stronger than the average true god. Previously, while residing in the Divine Realm, Slarda had to constantly suppress its strength, but now there was no need. The upgraded Divine Realm could allow Slarda to fully unleash its strength without damaging the Divine Realm.

A comprehensive upgrade to the Divine Realm allowed it to accommodate more Clan members to live within. Such a vast area could support tens of millions of Clan members to subsist and cultivate the land for self-sufficiency.

In the center of the Divine Realm, in the City of Truth where Mage Towers stood tall, the Supreme Naga and Star Spirits were conducting their monthly routine prayer ceremony.

Within the city, there were more than a dozen assembly points where a multitude of Supreme Naga, Star Spirits, and Lesser Naga gathered. Without needing a Priest’s guidance, they were all able to find their respective places accurately, proceeding in complete silence.

Lin Xiao, invisibly hovering in mid-air with his left hand holding Sister Xie Yufei and his right hand holding Jin Sisi’s, slowly closed his eyes. Numerous but exceedingly tenacious threads of the Power of Faith shot out from each of the believers, connecting to his Sea of Gods and providing him with an uninterrupted supply of the Power of Faith.

“Such devout believers!”

Miss Xie Yufei scanned the entire city with her gaze. Although she could not determine the exact degree of the believers’ devotion, she could feel the piety of the faith throughout the Divine Realm.