A journey of survival starting from Zhetian

Chapter 610 Thick Earth God
A divine radiance shone between heaven and earth, and strands of laws carrying the mighty power of the central earth element descended from the void. In an instant, the authority of the faith of all spirits covered this land that had been created for over a million years.

In the depths of the hearts of all beings living here who have never attained the rank of God-King, a divine figure surrounded by countless stars was constructed, and countless ethereal chants echoed across the land, almost assimilating the earth element laws of this land and evolving it into a divine kingdom on earth.

A profound and indescribable phantom eye appeared above the core of this sacred mountain range that stretches for tens of millions of miles. It carried an indifferent air of ruling over heaven and earth, like an emperor examining his own "kingdom," gazing upon his subjects.

The creatures lingering outside the sacred mountain range almost prostrated themselves on the ground, raising their heads to gaze at the indescribably heavy reflection of the eye within the sacred mountain. Their minds were nearly blank, like a vast and endless ocean of laws, within which flowed the supreme intent of suppressing the center, bearing all things, and remaining eternally constant.

Now, the only beings whose minds can still function when they turn their gaze to this place are, apart from a few god-kings who are "near" this newly opened continent hundreds of millions of miles away, a few true gods of faith who already possess some foundation for breaking through to the next realm, located outside the range of the Divine Mountain Range.

The Lord of the Long River Kingdom, a deity nearing the pinnacle of true godhood, sensed the terrifying laws emanating from the core of the divine mountain. His face showed disbelief. "This true god, who has been in seclusion since his birth, has, after millions of years of uninterrupted arduous cultivation, stepped into the rank of God-King. When he manifests himself to the world, he is the God-King who governs the faith of all spirits."

"Moreover, the law he cultivates is actually the Earth Element Law, an extremely basic law that is already quite ordinary once you reach the early stage of True God!"

"How could a simple Central Earth element be elevated to such a level?!"

"Completely shatters the common sense of cultivation!"

The Lord of Changhe Kingdom fell silent. He recalled the ancient history he knew, and it seemed that from ancient times to the present, there had never been a true god who had successfully ascended to the rank of God-King. The God-King rank was forged solely by the central Earth element, one of the Five Elements.

The God-King himself represents a realm, a pantheon, and a collection of beliefs.

How can a single law support such a vast hierarchy?
To successfully forge the God-King rank, possessing sufficient faith and divine power is only one of the conditions for advancement. In addition, one needs to master more laws from the Heavenly Law Network, using these as "framework materials" to construct a unique God-King Law after shattering the True God rank.

Looking into the depths of this sacred mountain range, the eyes of the Lord of the Long River Kingdom shone with a brilliant light, and a ray of expectation, a ray of longing, and a ray of prayer rose within him.

He cultivates the Northern Water element, one of the Five Elements.

As the founding ruler who struggled from the mortal realm to the rank of true god, he was undoubtedly among the most talented in this world. Otherwise, he could not have gathered the faith of all beings and condensed into a true god through his own efforts, thus achieving an immortal divine heart and eternal life.

However, when he rapidly constructed a divine position with the faith of all spirits, ascended to the throne, and launched an attack on the God-King, he suddenly discovered that apart from his decent comprehension of the Northern Water element in order to build a divine position, his comprehension in other areas was only slightly better than nothing.

Reading through the collected divine chapters on time and space, which were merely mortal texts, felt like studying celestial scriptures. Even just finding a basic understanding of some of the simple laws of time and space consumed a vast amount of his divine faith power, let alone cultivating them.

Life, death, reincarnation, creation, and destruction are all governed by the same principles of time and space. Even with a superior perspective, using the rank of a true god to cultivate mortal cultivation methods, one still needs to consume a vast amount of divine power of faith just to find the starting point.

As for the more abstract principles such as "ship," "book," "dream," "divination," and "fortune," he couldn't even find a starting point, even with a large amount of faith power as an aid.

Although he was reluctant to admit it, among all beings at the True God level, his talent as the Lord of the Long River Kingdom was only at a lower-middle level. To shatter the True God level and, on the ruins of the True God level, to forge a God-King level solely through his own power was utterly hopeless.

Therefore, the ruler of the Long River Kingdom wanted to attach himself to a "simple" person who was inexperienced in the ways of the world, who was born near the limit of the True God rank, and who could soon attempt to break through the True God rank and forge the God King rank, or rather, the future God King.

Only by becoming an elder of a pantheon can he accumulate enough faith power over the long years before his own divine heart collapses, comprehend the second law, and then attempt to advance with the faith of all spirits.

But the situation is different now.

The common sense of spiritual practice has been broken.

This deity, born a little over a million years ago, ascended to the God-King rank solely through the single law of the Central Earth element. This means that by cultivating only one law, one also has the potential to ascend to the God-King rank. If only this newly ascended God-King would be willing to spread his cultivation methods so that beings of the True God rank could learn from them.

The several god-kings who used the law net to cast their gaze upon this place were even more shocked than beings of the true god level when they saw the laws possessed by this newly promoted god-king.

Within this central earth element law, they see more, see further, and see a wider scope than beings of the true god level.

A god-king standing in the void, surrounded by fireflies, slowly widened his eyes, as if trying to see more clearly, and murmured, "The Earth Element Law. I really didn't see wrong. The law he used to forge his own god-king rank is indeed only the central Earth element, one of the five elements."

"Moreover, his method of forging the God-King rank involves refining the central Earth element to its extreme, and then using the 'Earth element' to 'simulate' other laws, thereby giving rise to myriad paths."

“Throughout history, the process of forging a God-King rank has always involved unifying myriad laws into a single, unique God-King Law, using hundreds or thousands of different laws. His method of forging a God-King rank, however, involves cultivating a single law to its highest level of refinement and purity, and then using that one law to derive myriad laws.”

"This can already be considered the prototype of opening up one's own path to divinity."

The god-king, surrounded by the glow of fireflies, had a profound and mysterious expression. Having just attained god-kinghood, he had already begun to develop the rudiments of his own divine path. Even the most powerful of the twenty-six ancient gods, the Heavenly Boat God who controls the "direction" of the world today, had never achieved such a brilliant and dazzling accomplishment in the records of ancient history.

This newly crowned God-King is either someone with an extraordinary secret or a being whose talent surpasses even that of the ancient god of the Heavenly Boat.

Perhaps a new branch of divine veins could be truly opened up, and the twenty-seventh ancient god could be proclaimed. On the other side of the net of laws, on the other side of this land, a god-king composed entirely of mirrors looked at the illusory eye above the core of the divine mountain range that stretched for tens of millions of miles, and remained silent for a while.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of countless mirrors sliding emanated from her body as she pushed her own mirror-like laws to their limit, attempting to reflect that indifferent gaze onto her mirror body, thereby using the secret techniques of her sorcerer lineage to further analyze the laws contained within it.

Strands of the central earth element divine power emanating from the central sacred mountain were gradually imprinted on her mirror body, manifesting an incomparably hazy reflection. Tens of millions of special laws used for divination converged from the net of heaven and earth, empowering her mirror body for her to command.

However, when this reflection solidified completely and was fully reflected from within the mirror, something happened that even this god-king with a special divine body was terrified of.

The god-king's consciousness stared at the eye that had materialized within his body and exclaimed in shock, "How is this possible? This is merely a reflection of the laws I copied; there's not a trace of his own consciousness whatsoever! Why?"

The next instant, the eyes imprinted within the mirror came to life. With an indifferent gaze that seemed to rule over all living beings, they looked into the depths of the God-King's consciousness, staring at her immortal spirit.

The overwhelming and almost irresistible central earth element essence descended from the True Spirit, evolving into a dazzling bright yellow divine light. It suppressed the True Spirit of the God-King who attempted to spy on and deduce the "Ordination Method," forcibly reducing his cultivation by more than half. This caused the God-King's rank within the mirror body to plummet, almost completely shattering and falling into the mortal realm.

Suddenly, a majestic Daoist voice resounded throughout the heavens and earth, proclaiming to all living beings:
"I am the earth, the god of the land, in charge of mountains and rivers, the Yellow Court of Earth, and the balance of all things. My position is the center of heaven and earth."

The resounding Daoist chant echoed throughout the entire "Foam World," resounding in all the lands containing the elements of heaven and earth, penetrating the "boundary membrane," penetrating deep into the chaotic "ocean," and even spreading to other "Foam Worlds" through the omnipresent "earth," being engraved in the ancient history of time, imprinted on the ever-flowing river of time, and becoming part of the myths and legends of various "Foam Worlds."

Beyond the "boundary membrane," rules and logic are in disarray. When the sound of the Dao echoes to other realms, it is already faint, leaving only a lingering resonance.

However, within the "boundary membrane," something truly earth-shattering happened. Beings who had already achieved the rank of gods could clearly observe the terrifying changes taking place in the "earth element" between heaven and earth. These changes were constantly in sync with the spreading announcements, causing the "position" of heaven and earth to shift and countless laws to rearrange themselves, all moving towards the place where the newly ascended god-king resided, to protect it.

Countless mortals, witnessing this astonishing phenomenon and hearing this divine voice, prostrated themselves, chanting "Great Earth God." Countless beings of the true god trembled, filled with awe and horror. The vast majority of god-kings were also astonished, their expressions filled with disbelief, and the numerous pantheons were shaken.

A deity with exceptionally deep foundation, already somewhat confident in shattering the God-King rank and rebuilding his rank on the ruins, thus ascending to the status of an ancient god, looked at the rearranged laws of heaven and earth, the almost completely changed network of laws, his face darkened, and he roared in anger.

Some god-kings, whose minds had been clouded by rage, had even stepped into the Heavenly Law Net in their true forms. Using this incredibly strict net, they unleashed killing spells towards the location of the Earth God-King, aiming to obliterate him, restore the operation of the Heavenly Law Net to its previous state, and regain control of most of the power over Heaven and Earth.

"The Earth God King dares to so arrogantly control the laws of heaven and earth by using the words of the mortal world!"

"Damn it, the divine path that I forged over countless millennia by compiling the laws of heaven and earth has been rendered useless in an instant!"

"A mere newly ascended God-King who has been around for less than a million years dares to interfere in the game between us ancient God-Kings! You're courting death!"

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In an instant, nearly tens of thousands of different divine king laws roared along with the killing divine arts, causing the newly opened land of the "Time Sky Boat" to tremble slightly, and causing the earth element laws to tremble and almost tear apart, which was bound to completely obliterate the Thick Earth God King and the divine mountain range that he was in, which stretched for tens of millions of miles.

Faced with an attack launched by nearly ten thousand god-kings, the reflection of the eyes manifested above the divine mountain range remained indifferent.

In an instant, all the divine attacks that were launched along the net of heaven and earth towards this sacred mountain range, and all the god-kings who were hostile to him and used their methods, were reflected in this illusory pupil that held the power over heaven and earth and all living beings.

A deep yet indifferent Daoist voice echoed through the Heaven and Earth Law Network: "I control mountains and rivers, the Earthly Branches and the Yellow Court, and the balance of all things. All divine arts and attacks in this world are based on the central Earth element, and should be controlled and balanced by me."

As soon as the words were spoken, the billions of different laws of heaven and earth, which were carried by the Central Earth Element, began to operate. Countless rules and logics all conformed to them. The faith of all spirits and the divine power of faith belonging to the Central Earth Element took the initiative to appear in the world in response to the words of the Thick Earth God King, turning this meaning into reality.

The Heavenly Law Network solidified, and the divine attacks extending from it all transformed into the most basic Earth Qi, sinking into the central earth and becoming the accumulated foundation of the divine mountain beneath the feet of the Thick Earth God King.

All living beings who could glimpse the divine king's attacks above the net of heaven and earth paled in comparison.

They had seen the power of words to become law before. In fact, among the twenty-six divine lineages with ancient gods in charge, there was one lineage that was proficient in "speech," "words," and "rhetoric." But something so terrifying that even the God King's attacks were controlled by it was something they had never seen or heard of before.

The profound yet indifferent Daoist voice echoed once more through the Heavenly Laws: "I control the mountains and rivers, the Yellow Court of Earth and Earth, and the balance of all things. All living beings born on the mountains and rivers, all legends circulating on the vast land, and all the power of faith and divine power flowing on the central Earth and Earth should be balanced and controlled by me."

“Those who deviate from the central Wuji will be abandoned by Heaven and Earth, and will naturally transform into the cycle of all things.”

An immense will revived from all things in heaven and earth, as if it were the gathering of all sentient beings in this "Time Ship," resounding the voice of heaven and earth in the ears of all those who had turned away from the Central Earth.

Under the horrified gaze of numerous god-kings, all those beings who had launched divine attacks against the Earth God-King, plotted against him, and used underhanded methods behind the scenes, were all transformed into handfuls of dust, merging into the yin and yang of heaven and earth, becoming part of the cycle of all things.

(End of this chapter)