txolops Chapter 631 The Flaws of the Main God
Chapter 631 The Flaws of the Main God
"Similar to achieving oneness with the Dao, truly unique."
Jiang Hao carefully sensed the auras of those main gods; they were indeed not purely living beings.
They are a combination of the strong and the laws of the Great Dao, merging the will of cultivators and the authority of heaven and earth, becoming a special existence between living beings and rules.
"Unfortunately, the price of becoming stronger is too high; one completely loses oneself."
The gods are very powerful, possessing the strength of celestial kings, but they lack emotions, change, and the vitality that only living beings have.
They are more like precisely functioning machines, constantly collecting faith to strengthen themselves.
"There are thirteen main gods in Heaven and thirteen main gods in the Demon Realm, making a total of twenty-six main gods."
Jiang Hao sighed softly, "With so many gods guarding the world, it is indeed extremely difficult for ordinary beings to rise against the tide and ascend to the position of a god. It almost cuts off all paths forward."
Jiang Hao had already seen through the tragic fate of the human race throughout the ages.
The earliest beings born in this world were the gods and demons, born with noble bloodlines and powerful bodies, standing at the pinnacle from birth.
In this world, the human race was born later than the gods and demons, and compared to the gods and demons, the human race is physically weak and has no innate bloodline.
Initially, they were like ants, so insignificant that they couldn't even catch the eye of powerful races like gods and demons. That's how they managed to survive and quietly multiply in the cracks.
Humans are the most resilient and adept at rising from adversity. Generation after generation, they have cultivated diligently and struggled, forging their own path of cultivation amidst dire circumstances. Powerful individuals have continuously emerged within the race, until, for the first time in human history, one supreme being after another has appeared.
The rise of the human race's supreme ruler has completely shaken the fundamental interests of both the gods and demons, and has also made the twenty-six supreme gods wary.
The catastrophe of annihilation descended suddenly.
That battle stained the land with blood, mountains of corpses piled up, and rivers of blood flowed. The human race, which had barely survived, was shattered and brought to the brink of extinction.
Human powerhouses fell like rain, supreme beings were surrounded and slaughtered, and ordinary cultivators fell in droves like mowing grass.
Human cities were reduced to ruins by the combined offensive of gods and demons, and the lineages of human civilization were completely severed in the flames of war.
That great war was a bloodbath, with fires burning and blood flowing everywhere. Humanity's once most glorious civilization was shattered in the purge, and was reduced to the lowest rung of society.
However, neither the gods nor the demons exterminated the human race. The reason is simple: the supreme god needs faith. Yes, the supreme god of this world actually needs faith to strengthen himself.
"He has the power of a Celestial King, but he lacks the foundation of a Celestial King." Jiang Hao shook his head.
These twenty-six Dao-Merging Gods, seemingly in control of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth and wielding immense power, actually possess extremely laughable shortcomings.
They merged with the Dao, possessing the power of heaven and earth, and should have been born of the Dao itself, eternally indestructible.
However, the Dao-integration system of this world is incomplete. These main gods cannot rely on the original source of the Great Dao to sublimate themselves. Instead, they must rely on the power of faith of all living beings to temper themselves, elevate their status, and solidify their Dao foundation.
To merge oneself with the Dao is already an extreme path, integrating oneself with the laws of heaven and earth, and becoming a part of the rules.
The problem is that even though these gods have already merged with the Great Dao, they still need external faith to maintain and strengthen themselves.
If it is the true Dao, why would it need external supplementation? The Dao itself operates eternally and does not require any external means to maintain it.
The fact that the supreme deity needs faith indicates that their shared principles are incomplete and flawed.
They need to fill their own gaps through the power of faith, which makes the idea of "merging with the Tao" seem somewhat unrealistic.
In Jiang Hao's view, cultivation depends on oneself, on the Great Dao, and on enlightenment; there is no reason to rely on the worship and incense offerings of sentient beings to grow stronger.
The truly supreme being walks alone through the heavens, transcends cause and effect, does not rely on anything, and does not seek anything from any living being.
Relying on the strength and fluctuations of worldly incense offerings is itself the behavior of the weak.
"The path to strength in this world has gone astray. Those who maintain themselves through faith are ultimately controlled by their faith. The more believers they have, the stronger they are; the fewer believers they have, the weaker they are. This method of strengthening oneself by relying on external means has deviated from the original intention of merging with the Dao."
"But that makes sense. After all, this is a quick way to become a Celestial King, and it's not so easy to become a Celestial King. It's normal for it to have major flaws."
Immortal Kings are undoubtedly among the strongest beings in all the myriad realms. If a world possesses a complete and flawless Immortal King, it would be truly extraordinary.
Humans, with their large population and extensive faith, are an indispensable source of nourishment for the supreme god.
So the human race was not wiped out, but was instead domesticated, restricted, and harvested like livestock.
This is not because the main god is merciful, nor because the gods and demons are soft-hearted; it is simply because the human race is useful.
From then on, the remaining humans completely lost their freedom and were completely kept, divided, and restricted by the gods and demons, as well as the major gods.
They demarcated a small and barren territory, locked the upper limit of cultivation, suppressed human prodigies, and prohibited the large-scale reproduction and expansion of the human race.
Generation after generation, like livestock in a pen, they live only to cultivate faith, so that the major gods may harvest and nourish them.
"To be kept in captivity, huh? Very good. Then let the so-called main god, as well as the god and demon races, experience what it's like to be kept in captivity."
Jiang Hao slowly withdrew his divine sense that had spread throughout the world, his gaze calm as still water, but his heart was already filled with killing intent.
"However, this world is indeed much more difficult to deal with than the Tomb Realm. There are more than twenty main gods, each of whom possesses the power of a Celestial King."
"They are integrated with the Great Dao and wield the laws. They monitor all ages and overlook the past and future. Every move, every blade of grass and tree in the entire ascended universe is under their watchful eyes. There is almost no room for them to develop in secret or rise against the odds."
"But thankfully, I'm not the same person I used to be."
Jiang Hao's strength is now much greater than before.
"Let's contact the legendary figure of this world first."
Jiang Hao closed his eyes and began to connect with the legendary body in this world.
In an instant, at the top of the distant Nine Heavens, deep within the realm of the Supreme Paradise, amidst a boundless and dazzling sea of light, a figure trembled slightly.
Heaven is a boundless ocean of light, with endless white light converging from all directions toward the center.
This is the core of the forbidden area, the most sacred place in Heaven, where the laws are most concentrated and the pressure is most terrifying.
The laws of order, judgment, and light intertwined densely, forming a lock. Inside the cocoon of light, threads of law were tightly wrapped, like countless chains, binding the figure sitting cross-legged within.
Those threads of law connect to twenty-six coordinates outside the Sea of Light, each coordinate being a supreme god—thirteen from Heaven and thirteen from the Demon Realm.
The twenty-six main gods joined forces, using the laws of the entire world as chains, to suppress that legendary body in the center of the sea of light.
Jiang Hao's legendary body sat cross-legged within a cocoon of light, surrounded by dense chains of laws.
At that moment, Legend felt a slight stirring in his body and mind, sensing that special information.
"Hmm? So the real me is here too...."
Jiang Hao's legendary body has reached the peak of the Supreme Realm in this world, and has even surpassed the Supreme Realm, which is also the highest realm below the main god of this world.
Jiang Hao's various legendary bodies are not cultivation methods based on the body as a seed or the Dao fruit method, but rather cultivation methods based on the world itself.
The reason Jiang Hao split into countless legendary bodies to enter various worlds was to experience the conditions of different worlds and absorb the advantages of the cultivation methods of different worlds. Naturally, he needed to cultivate the cultivation methods of various worlds.
However, Jiang Hao's legendary body did not choose to break through to the level of a main god because he did not want to merge with the Dao and become an existence that was like a puppet of the Great Dao.
However, in this world, the only way to break through to the Supreme Realm and ascend to the status of a God is to merge with the Dao, so he is at the peak of the Supreme Realm.