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Chapter 491 Oh wow~
Whether it's the Primordial Heavenly Court, the Journey to the West Heavenly Court, or the Church of Light, a perennial villain, Feng Xue can understand them all because they all have settings such as faith, incense, and sacrifice.

But the Cthulhu Mythos is different. Although it also has elements like the Teeth Cult and sacrifices, those are spontaneous behaviors of lower beings like humans. Great beings like the Outer Gods, the Great Old Ones, and the Ancient Gods do not care whether anyone believes in them, nor do they have any concept of becoming stronger the more people believe in them.

Fortunately, Delis had enough knowledge, and after a brief inquiry, Feng Xue received the answer.

The system of wish power also has many different branches. The conventional incense and wish power is just a relatively common type. This is because, in most worldviews, the primitive worship of intelligent life leads to the accumulation of wish power, forming illusory gods. This makes this approach relatively common in the multiverse.

But that doesn't mean there's only one way to go.

For example, Feng Xue herself understands that the self-sufficiency of willpower, including the Heart Candle system, is an exception.

According to Delis, the self-sufficient system of willpower is relatively common in the multiverse, but it is rare in the pantheon of gods. This is because the threshold for this self-sufficient cultivation method is very high. Compared to the zero threshold, as long as there are enough people, one or two top experts can be created, thus coming into contact with the incense system of the celestial realm. It is obviously very difficult to transcend the world on one's own.

The few who actually ascend to heaven will quickly switch to or concurrently cultivate the divine system, because in the heavenly realm, the cultivation speed of a purely wish-based self-sufficient system is far inferior to that of a divine system supported by incense offerings from multiple universes.

However, the self-sufficient wish power system also has a characteristic: the average combat power is very strong. The combat power of the world in the incense system is pyramid-shaped, with a massive amount of bottom-level resources supporting a small number of top-level resources. However, the self-sufficient wish power system is not limited by incense resources, so the mid-to-high-end power can even be described as abundant.

Therefore, the divine realm finds it difficult to transform such a world through methods such as cultivating heroes and spreading the church. It is a waste of money with low returns. Even if it is found, most civilizations simply put it aside and are too lazy to develop it. It is a low-quality asset that each civilization has a few of, but no one cares about.

The Cthulhu pantheon belongs to the third type, namely the wish-power technology pantheon.

It sounds a bit strange, but it is actually a civilization that treats willpower as a natural energy source on par with electricity, light, and nuclear energy, and studies and manipulates it. It is essentially a technological civilization, but the energy source it uses is willpower, and it has come into contact with the celestial realm, thus meeting the criteria for joining the celestial realm.

Such civilizations are relatively rare in the Celestial Realm, but compared to their large scale, each pantheon generally has one or two members. For example, the Asgardian pantheon has a technological branch.

Listening to Delis's explanation, Feng Xue still didn't know how to sever the cause and effect, but she gained a deeper understanding of the Heavenly Realm.

After thinking for a moment, he asked again:

"Among those civil servants and heroes who can descend to the mortal realm to carry out missions, what level would your combat strength be?"

"Because the descent of celestial beings to the mortal realm has an impact on the world, it is a different system from that of heroes. However, in terms of combat power alone, we should be about the same as B-rank heroes when we were in the celestial realm. But after descending to the mortal realm, we accidentally underwent an incomplete armor-wearing process, and now we can barely be considered to be at the level of A-rank heroes. As for career workers... normally speaking, the combat power of career workers is about my level, because if it were higher, they would not be able to descend in their true form."

Delis's words made Feng Xue frown, and she asked with some suspicion:

"Then why can heroes of rank A or higher fight in the lower realm? According to you, they should be stronger than the gods of the divine realm, right?"

“Because they haven’t severed their causal connection with the multiverse.” Delis answered without hesitation this time, clearly knowing the standard answer all along— “All heroes are ordinary people drawn from the everyday world. As long as they don’t sever their causal connection with the multiverse, the impact of their actions will be far less than that of the celestial beings in the lower realms, thus allowing them to unleash greater power.”

"I see..." Feng Xue nodded thoughtfully, but something still felt off. Suddenly, a thought struck him, and he said:

"Wait, in my original world, there was a person in a vegetative state whose soul was chosen to be a hero and transmigrated, but his body is still lying in a hospital in that world, and he has a very long lifespan. Why is that?"

Although Feng Xue's question was somewhat incoherent, Delis still understood what he meant and pondered:
"There are probably two possibilities: one is that he is destined never to return to that world, and the other is that he became a god."

"Become a god?" Feng Xue repeated the word, and Delis nodded.

"That's right. After outstanding heroes complete their missions, defeat the Demon King, and correct the timeline, the Celestial Realm often grants them considerable preferential treatment. They can choose to return to their original world or stay in the world they've traveled to. Alternatively, they can choose to continue their missions in other worlds. In a sense, this mission is also a process of writing a legend. Once successful, the Celestial Realm will accept them as one of the gods and help them sever their karmic ties."

"This is interesting."

Feng Xue's lips curled up slightly, and she vaguely had an idea in her mind.

But that's still a long way off. The most urgent task right now is to clean up this mess in the underworld.

……

"Boss! Boss! The Underworld is lost! The Underworld is lost!"

Inside the office building of the Lingxiao Palace in the Eastern Division of the Celestial Realm, the voice of "Thousand-Mile Eyes" rang out loudly.

The leader of the Heavenly Court today is named Zhang Wang, who is currently performing the armor-donning ceremony for the Jade Emperor's divine position.

Generally speaking, top-tier powerhouses in the divine system don't need to work. Let alone the top-tier, even those in the middle and upper ranks don't do any serious work. Even in the lower ranks, slacking off at work is the norm. However, the Heavenly Court's armor-wearing ceremony has strict requirements for "administrative experience."

Therefore, even a top-tier second-generation heir like Zhang Wang, whose father held the Jade Emperor's divine position and whose mother held the Taiyin Star Lord's position, could only sit obediently in the office.

This has earned the Heavenly Court system a reputation for having the highest administrative efficiency in the entire celestial realm.

Zhang Wang was already getting impatient with the endless official duties. Upon hearing Qianliyan's voice, he immediately sat up straight, reached out and grabbed Qianliyan, pulling him in front of him. He said slowly and deliberately:
"What's the rush? What underworld is lost? Which underworld is lost?"

(End of this chapter)