Transcending Godhood: I Extract Keywords and Crush the Gods

Lin Yuan smiled and patted his best friend on the shoulder, thanking him: "Thanks, Fatty. Don't worry, I can handle it."

The moment he turned around, the desolation on his face vanished.

An initial area of ​​300,000 square kilometers, plus the SSS-level talent "Creation Extraction".

Given time, reaching the pinnacle of divinity is not a pipe dream.

Not only that, but he also had to figure out how to restore his divine status.

After the awakening ceremony, Lin Yuan politely declined the insincere invitations to a dinner party from several classmates.

After leaving the college, he swiped his card to board a maglev train, which headed towards the slums on the outskirts of Jiangcheng.

Lin Yuan leaned against the car window, watching the scenery rushing past outside.

Jiangcheng is a fortified city.

At the edge of the horizon, a pale blue energy shield, like an inverted bowl, enveloped the entire city.

Outside the shield, the gray abyssal mist churned endlessly.

When the train passes the outer city wall.

Lin Yuan could see from afar that the alloy city wall, which was hundreds of meters high, was covered with dark brown claw marks that were dozens of meters long.

Dried black bloodstains remained in the crevices.

Humanity does not live in peace in this world; gods fall every day, and defenses are torn apart every day.

Without power, one can only be fish on the chopping block.

Forty minutes later.

In the seventh outer district of Jiangcheng, there is an old apartment building with peeling paint.

Lin Yuan pushed open the creaking iron gate.

A strong smell of cheap, low-quality alcohol hit me.

In the living room, a middle-aged man with gray hair and wearing a worn-out vest was sitting in a wheelchair.

His right leg was severed from the top of his thigh and connected to a metal prosthesis.

The man was staring at the news on the holographic television screen in front of him.

On the television screen, a Star Domain God was giving a speech at the front line of the Abyss Defense, radiating brilliance.

The man only came to his senses when he heard the door open.

With astonishing speed, Old Lin stuffed the bottle into a hidden compartment under his wheelchair, rubbed his cheeks vigorously, and pretended to be in high spirits.

"You're back?" Old Lin turned his wheelchair, his gaze settling on Lin Yuan, his eyes revealing obvious anticipation and nervousness. "How's the awakening going? How large is it?"

Lin Yuan put down his schoolbag and went to the water dispenser to get a glass of water.

He did not hide anything.

"Its area is 300,000 square kilometers."

Old Lin's eyes widened instantly, and he gripped the wheelchair armrests tightly: "Three hundred thousand?! Genius! What about the initial environment? Was it a plain or a forest?"

"The initial environment is scorched earth." Lin Yuan took a sip of water and continued, "Talent rating is F-, wasteland descends. Overall rating is F-, extremely dangerous."

Silence fell over the living room.

Only the news broadcast from the holographic television continued to echo.

Old Lin's fingers, gripping the handrail, froze, and his straight back gradually bent down.

Three hundred thousand square kilometers should have been a perfect start, a land of opportunity, but instead it was paired with a wasteland environment with hellish difficulty.

He remained silent for a full half minute, his eyes reddening slightly.

Then, Old Lin suddenly raised his head, grinned, and burst into laughter.

He slapped his metal prosthetic leg hard, making a dull thud.

"Great! Excellent! It's good to be an ordinary person!"

Old Lin wheeled himself to Lin Yuan, stretched out his rough hand, and pressed down hard on Lin Yuan's shoulder.

"Look at how glorious I was back then! I ignited the divine fire, and what happened?"

"His divine core was bitten off by a monster at the Abyss Defense Line, and all his followers were killed, leaving him in this horrible state."

Old Lin's voice was loud, but it carried a hint of bitterness.

"Being an ordinary person means you don't have to go to the front lines to face those monsters. You can stay in the rear, find a job, and get married peacefully."

"The pension and welfare benefits that Dad saved up over his life are enough for you to live comfortably for the rest of your life."

After saying that, Old Lin turned his wheelchair around and moved towards the kitchen.

"Today is a good day; not having to go to the battlefield is a good day. Dad will heat up two hearty dishes for you, and we'll have a drink!"

Looking at Old Lin's somewhat hunched back and listening to the sound of his mechanical prosthetic limbs dragging on the floor, Lin Yuan felt a lump in his throat.

In this era of universal deities.

To be a mortal means to be forever relegated to the bottom, possibly turning to dust in some invasion of the abyss.

Old Lin was simply protecting his adopted son's last shred of dignity in his own way.

"I will not be a mortal," Lin Yuan silently vowed to himself.

After dinner, Lin Yuan returned to his bedroom.

Draw the curtains and lock the door.

He sat on the bed, turned on the divine terminal on his wrist, and logged into the alliance's government network.

Ding.

[Note: Your initial awakening resource pack has been issued. Based on your F- overall rating, the allocation is as follows:]

[Faith Points: 1000]

[Initial Familia Card: Gray Goblin (Quantity: 100, Black Iron 1-Star)]

[Random Resource Card: Damaged Building Card *1]

Looking at these meager resources, Lin Yuan couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

The alliance was indeed realistic in its resource allocation.

Starting in this wasteland, I was given only the lowest-level junk.

Gray Goblin.

The lowest level of a low-ranking race.

Timid, cowardly, and with almost zero fighting ability, its only advantage is that it eats everything.

As for the building card, Lin Yuan clicked on the details.

[Broken Building Card (Scrap): A broken gargoyle wing salvaged from the outskirts of the Abyss Battlefield. It has no divine power fluctuations and no building attributes; it is recommended to crush it and use it as paving stone.]

Hopeless.

If Lin Yuan had seen this kind of rationing before today, he would have thought the same thing.

But things are different now.

Lin Yuan closed his eyes and concentrated.

Consciousness was drawn from the body by some force, traversing the boundless starry sky, and falling into its own divine realm.

Dark and oppressive.

Lin Yuan's consciousness was suspended in mid-air.

Below lies a vast expanse of land spanning 300,000 square kilometers.

Not a drop of water, not a trace of green.

All I could see was dry, cracked, and scorched soil.

Grayish-black embers drifted down from the sky, and a faint, ghastly green toxic gas filled the air.

This is not just wasteland, it's a dead zone.

Here, let alone procreate, even bacteria would have a hard time surviving.

Lin Yuan pulled out the [Initial Familia Card] from the terminal.

Hold the card between two fingers and gently toss it downwards.

"Arrival".

The card shattered in mid-air, turning into a hundred gray streaks of light that crashed onto the scorched, cracked earth.

The light dissipated.

One hundred creatures, each less than a meter tall, with grayish-green skin and emaciated, appeared on the wasteland.

They have sharp ears, hold old wooden sticks in their hands, and are only wrapped in a few tattered pieces of cloth.

The moment they landed, before they could even pray to the majestic being above them, a sudden change occurred.

The ghastly green toxic mist rushed into their lungs through their respiratory tracts.

The intense heat of the scorched earth beneath their feet burned their fragile skin.

"Chirp—quack!"

A rather thin gray goblin let out a scream, dropped the wooden club in its hand, grabbed its own neck with both hands, and rolled around on the scorched earth.

Then, the second one, and the third one.

In just over ten seconds, all one hundred gray goblins collapsed to the ground, convulsing.

It foamed at the mouth, and black spots of poison appeared on its exposed skin.

[Warning! Your Grey Goblin clan is suffering from extreme environmental degradation!]

[Warning! The gray goblins' vital signs are rapidly declining; mass deaths are expected in 3 minutes and 20 seconds!]

Lin Yuan looked at the struggling members of his clan below without the slightest panic.

With a flick of his wrist, he materialized the [Damaged Building Card].

boom--

A huge, five-meter-long, weathered, grayish-brown rock crashed onto the scorched earth, kicking up a cloud of dust.

The outline of half a bat wing can be vaguely seen on this stone.

Lifeless, a dead object.

Lin Yuan took a deep breath.

Success or failure hinges on this moment.

He raised his hand, palm facing the broken gargoyle wing below.

The dormant power deep within the soul is awakened.

"extract."

hum!

A distant bell seemed to ring out in the void.

Lin Yuan's consciousness erupted with a dark golden light.

This light disregarded the laws of the divine realm and the distance of space, transforming into a dark golden chain that wrapped around the gargoyle's wings.

An incredible scene unfolded.

An incredibly hard boulder that has been ravaged by the battlefield of the abyss.

Under the strangulation of the dark gold chains, it began to melt like ice and snow meeting the blazing sun.

Matter was pulverized, and concepts were forcibly stripped away.

The boulder turned into ashes that scattered across the sky.

In its original position, a ball of light, no bigger than a thumb, floated in mid-air.

Lin Yuan made a grabbing motion in the air, and the ball of light flew into his palm.

A profound and seamless understanding welled up within me.

[Hint: Ignoring the rules, extraction successful!]

[You have obtained the Iron-tier concept term: Stone Skin.]

[Affix Effect: Grants the target (believer/building) petrification, permanently increasing its defense by 300% and granting it immunity to weak toxins.]