Everyone's playing as a roguelike, starting with an extra Mythical Relic.

A divine essence is the product of the fusion of an awakened being's soul and a certain Heavenly Dao.

It is the endpoint of an awakened person's growth in strength.

Those who possess a divine status are gods.

On a single timeline, each plane and each celestial path can produce only one god.

There are a total of 3612 Heavenly Paths, of which 12 are the Main Heavenly Paths, known as the Twelve Heavenly Paths.

They are:

[The Way of Time]

[Spatial Heavenly Dao]

[Cause and Effect, the Way of Heaven]

[The Way of Energy Flow]

[The Creation and Heavenly Way]

[The Way of Nirvana]

[The Order of Heaven]

[The Unpredictable Heavenly Way]

[Understanding the Way of Heaven]

【The Way of Form and Nature】

[True Knowledge of the Way of Heaven]

[The Void Heavenly Dao]

The remaining 3600 Heavenly Paths evolved from the Twelve Heavenly Paths and are known as the Three Thousand Six Hundred Sub-Heavenly Paths.

For example, the Protoss that Chu Yang fought in the [Extreme Battle Room] possessed the [Death Heavenly Dao], which was one of the secondary Heavenly Daos evolved from the [Annihilation Heavenly Dao].

At this moment, the eleven Chu Yangs in front of Yuan Chu Yang are all beings who have fused with one of the Twelve Heavenly Daos.

(For convenience, they will henceforth be referred to as the Heavenly Dao and Chu Yang, which are fused with their divine essence.)

Furthermore, the reason why Chu Yang could recognize these people as having divine status at a glance was because he had seen gods, and also because none of these 11 people concealed their divine light in front of Chu Yang.

After the initial shock, Chu Yang looked at the eleven people before him and asked, "So it was you eleven who arranged this meeting? What is your purpose?"

[Time Chu Yang] shook his head and said, "No, it's not just the 11 of us, but also you... or rather, your future self. It was the 12 of us who arranged this meeting. As for the purpose... you should tell me."

The "you" mentioned by 【Time Chuyang】 refers to 【True Knowledge Chuyang】.

The ability of [Time Dao] is easy to guess: it is the ability to control the flow of time and manage the past, present, and future.

The ability of "True Knowledge of Heaven" means that one knows everything under heaven, sees through the origin of everything, and dispels all confusion.

[True Knowledge Chu Yang] began, "This matter dates back to 9,440 years ago in the primordial era..."

"Before this, there was no [Gate Domain], no heretical demons in the [Great Void], and awakened beings in various planes could not improve their realm through killing. The myriad races did not know that there were living beings above the sky."

"A being that was later called 'Heaven'."

"Until one day, a crack appeared in the sky, and the gods of the primordial world learned of the existence of the Heaven through this crack."

"Although this opening was quickly closed, apart from gods who possessed divine status, no one else remembered it at all."

"But you should know that most of the myriad beings who can become gods have one thing in common, which is the pursuit of higher realms."

"Originally, gods were the ultimate goal in their eyes, but now they have seen beings beyond gods, and so these gods have the idea of ​​ascending to heaven..."

"The path to heaven requires passing through the Great Void. The god Cang Kong of the Divine Race refined a plane as a vessel and led more than half of the gods of the primordial world onto the path to heaven."

"That ship, named [Cang Kong], traveled through the [Great Void] for eight hundred years, finally approaching the heavens..."

Chu Yang couldn't help but ask, "Did they see the sky?"

[True Knowledge Chu Yang] said, "I saw it... but only for a moment, and then all the more than a thousand gods on the [Azure Sky Boat] disappeared."

"The entire primordial world also vanished along with it."

Chu Yang asked in confusion, "But... isn't the Primordial World doing just fine?"

[True Knowledge Chu Yang] said, "What disappeared was the primordial world of another plane... However, since then, all planes have been greatly affected."

"The most obvious change is that the progress of natural cultivation has dropped significantly, and killing has become the fastest, and almost the only, way to improve one's realm."

"War broke out among the myriad races..."

Chu Yang asked, puzzled, "But what does this have to do with our meeting? Do you also want to ascend to heaven?"

[True Knowledge Chu Yang] countered, "Aren't you curious about [Heaven]? Don't you want to know what [Heaven] really is?"

Chu Yang said, "I'm curious, but it's too dangerous. According to you, [Heaven] could destroy a primordial world and thousands of gods in the blink of an eye. I must be crazy to want to meet [Heaven]!"

[True Knowledge Chu Yang] stared at Chu Yang and said, "But what if I told you... that this [Heaven] is not an intelligent being?"

Chu Yang was shocked: "Huh?!"

[True Knowledge Chu Yang] said, "Although the gods on the [Cang Kong Boat] are all dead, they transmitted a lot of information to other planes before they died."

"One of the most crucial pieces of information is: [Heaven] is not an intelligent being, but was created by other intelligent beings!"

"To use a game as an analogy, which we're all familiar with, this 'sky' is like an artificial intelligence GM, and our world is like a fake world managed by that artificial intelligence!"

"The world above the heavens is the real one!"

Chu Yang: "...Is everything you're saying true?!"

[Order Chu Yang] said from the side, "A god who has merged with [True Knowledge Heavenly Dao] cannot lie, unless everything he knows is false."

[Void Chu Yang] laughed: "If what [True Knowledge Chu Yang] knows is all false, then nothing in this world is real."

[True Knowledge Chu Yang] continued, "Many races knew about this information, and subsequently, gods from various planes embarked on the path of seeking truth and ascending to heaven one after another."

"Although the subsequent attempts to reach the sky all failed, they served as a wake-up call for everyone."

"That means before ascending to heaven, we need to find a way to overcome heaven..."

Chu Yang suddenly asked, "So, the [Gate Domain] is the method our human race is preparing to use to defeat the heavens?"

[True Knowledge Chu Yang] nodded: "Yes, in another vanished plane, there was a human god named Zhou Wen who was accidentally drawn into the [Great Void] on his path to heaven."

"What Zhou Wen comprehended was the [Creation Heavenly Dao]. Relying on the power of creation, he survived for more than 100 days in the [Great Void]."

"Over the past hundred days, through his research on the [Heretical Heavenly Demon], Zhou Wen discovered that the [Heretical Heavenly Demon] is not affected by the Heavenly Dao of this world."

"Furthermore, the appearance of the [Heretical Demon] occurred around the same time as the sky cracking incident, so he speculated that the [Heretical Demon] might be the key to defeating [Heaven]."

"Before his death, Zhou Wen passed this information on to the human race in various planes."

"Several thousand years later, through the secret efforts of dozens of human gods, humanity created the [Gateway] and projected it onto a plane with the lowest energy level, a plane inhabited only by humans. This plane is..."

"Earth!"