Transcending Godhood: I Extract Keywords and Crush the Gods

Weekend morning.

Lin Yuan pushed open the door to the second-floor bedroom and walked down the stairs.

Old Lin didn't sit on his usual sofa; instead, he stood upright beside the coffee table.

He pressed his hands tightly against the seams of his trousers, stood ramrod straight, and looked reserved.

He looked exactly like a new recruit meeting the supreme commander.

A person was sitting on the sofa.

Xiao Lie.

The supreme commander of the Starfire Legion was wearing a set of dark armor.

The armor surface was covered with crisscrossing cracks, and dark purple blood remained at the edges.

The blood was not completely dry, emanating an extremely terrifying aura and destructive energy.

Xiao Lie suppressed this fluctuation within a three-inch radius around his body; if it were to leak out, the entire villa would be reduced to dust in an instant.

Xiao Lie has not been in Tianhai Province at all in the past few days.

The unusual activity in the abyss at the front line was just a smokescreen.

On the outer perimeter of the starry sky, several alien gods took advantage of the gap in humanity's internal test to attempt to tear apart the defensive line.

Xiao Lie charged into the starry sky alone, slaying three mid-level alien gods in succession.

They also crushed several projections of Abyss Lords, pushing the defensive line back to its original position.

The murderous aura emanating from him was the residual mark of rules left after the slaughter of the god.

"Commander Xiao, please have some tea." Old Lin handed over a cup of hot tea with both hands, his wrists trembling slightly.

Xiao Lie looked up at Old Lin and suppressed his murderous aura.

The temperature in the living room rose rapidly.

"Old Lin, no need to be so polite." Xiao Lie took the teacup and smiled. "I remember you from that battle in the Changping Starfield back then."

"The platoon leader of the 7th Assault Battalion led his platoon to withstand three waves of attacks from the main force of the Abyss Beasts. He's a tough guy."

Upon hearing this, Old Lin's eyes instantly reddened, and his chest puffed out even higher: "The 7th Assault Battalion fought to the death! They didn't disgrace the legion!"

Lin Yuan walked to the center of the living room and stopped.

"Commander Xiao," Lin Yuan greeted him.

"You've recovered well; your energy and spirit have returned." Xiao Lie put down his teacup and stood up.

"Things at the front are all taken care of." Xiao Lie looked at Lin Yuan. "Let's go, I'll take you to get the reward for getting first place in the big exam."

Lin Yuan nodded.

He thought Xiao Lie would take him to the military region's starport and board a high-class warship to go to the command headquarters.

But Xiao Lie didn't walk out the door at all.

Xiao Lie raised his right hand, joined his index and middle fingers together, and casually drew a line in the air in front of him.

A three-meter-high black crack appeared directly in the space.

There was no light inside the crevice, only countless colorful, regular lines flowing within.

"Follow me." Xiao Lie stepped into the crevice and disappeared.

Lin Yuan stared at the spatial rift before him, his heart trembling.

This is a display of power at the level of a true god.

The demigods are still struggling to decipher the laws and borrow the power of the elements.

True gods, on the other hand, are capable of directly tearing through space, ignoring the physical barriers and distances of planets, and forcibly performing spatial jumps.

Without any hesitation, Lin Yuan stepped into the crevice.

There was no feeling of weightlessness, nor the pain of being torn apart by space.

The light and shadows before my eyes changed rapidly, and just a second later, my feet were back on solid ground.

Vision has returned to clear.

Lin Yuan found himself standing in an extremely spacious and enclosed space.

The walls were all made of silver-white alloy, and were covered with intricate arrays of divine runes.

Ahead lay rows upon rows of alloy shelves that seemed to stretch endlessly.

Each shelf is enveloped by an independent divine shield.

"This is the Starfire Legion's No. 1 strategic reserve." Xiao Lie walked ahead, his voice echoing through the treasure vault.

Lin Yuan followed behind, scanning the nearest shelf.

He stopped in his tracks.

Inside the shield of the first shelf on the left, a fist-sized piece of dark gold metal floats.

The metal surface is covered with natural star patterns, and the surrounding space is slightly deformed under its gravity.

【Meteorite Mother Gold】.

This is the core material for forging the main gun of a true god-class flagship.

A piece the size of a fingernail has a starting bid of two billion faith points, and it's a rare find, completely monopolized by conglomerates and the military.

Lin Yuan turned to look at the second shelf.

Inside was a transparent glass bottle, half-filled with a bright green liquid.

The faint silhouette of a towering tree floated in the liquid.

[Seventh-Order Life-Giving Divine Water].

It can ignore the backlash of the laws and repair the origin of a demigod. As long as the divine fire is not completely extinguished, a sip can bring him back to life.

On the third shelf was a crystal the size of an adult's head.

[Complete Dragon Crystal of the Void Dragon].

Lin Yuan took a deep breath.

He worked incredibly hard on the exam, and he also received a bonus from the Department of Education.

Holding 700 million faith points, he thought he was a rich man.

But now it seems I can't even afford one item on the outermost shelf here.

He was just about to take a closer look at the texture of the dragon crystal.

Xiao Lie reached out and pressed down on his shoulder.

"Alright, stop looking." Xiao Lie said calmly, "These outside are all low-grade goods, unworthy of your status as the top scorer in the final exam. Go inside and choose one."

Lin Yuan's lips twitched slightly.

Low-grade goods?

Resources starting at 2 billion faith points are considered low-grade goods.

He suddenly realized that the gifts those aristocratic families had sent a few days ago were just for sending off beggars.

The two continued deeper into the treasure vault.

The further in you go, the fewer shelves there are, but the level of the shield increases exponentially.

"What the school teaches you during your three years of high school is the very basics," Xiao Lie said as he walked.

"I will teach you how to manage the divine realm, how to cultivate your clan, and how to ignite the divine fire. The division of realms will at most only go up to the ninth level of demigod."

Lin Yuan nodded.

That's true in high school textbooks; there's absolutely no knowledge about anything beyond the level of gods.

"You'll only encounter the true ecology of the starry sky when you get to university," Xiao Lie said, pointing to several crystals emitting a strange light in front of him.

"Fragments of divinity are the keys for demigods to cross the barrier of true godhood."

"But even deities are divided into different ranks. More importantly, they come from different sources."

Xiao Lie stopped and turned to look at Lin Yuan.

"The divine essence left behind by the fallen true gods of humanity is the gentlest and easiest to absorb."

"The core fragment of the Abyss Demon God contains a violent law of destruction. It is extremely difficult to absorb, and the slightest carelessness will lead to the distortion of the divine realm, or even the backlash of the divine fire."

Xiao Lie paused, his eyes sharpening: "Besides humans and the Abyss, there are countless other races under this starry sky."

"Mechanoids, Zerg, Protoss, Titans..." Xiao Lie rattled off a string of names.

"After their gods fell, the rules governing their divine nature were completely different."

Upon hearing the word "alien race," a hint of curiosity flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes.

In high school textbooks, more than 90% of the content is about the Abyss Beast.

Records about foreign tribes are extremely scarce, and they are usually only mentioned briefly.

Many students even believe that humanity's only enemy is the abyss.

After pondering for a moment, Lin Yuan roughly guessed the reason.

Knowing too much about the existence of alien races and the cruelty of the interstellar battlefield before reaching that level will only crush the confidence of ordinary students.

Universities are the true place to select space warriors.

"The Machine Race forges its divine kingdom using stars, the Zerg reproduces by devouring planes, and the Protoss are naturally attuned to the laws of the universe," Xiao Lie continued.

"Absorbing fragments of divine essence from other races can grant your divine realm special rules that transcend the conventional system. However, the risks are equally enormous."

The two passed through the last gate.

We have arrived at the very heart of the treasure vault.

There are no shelves here.

Within the entire circular space, there are only twelve transparent force field spheres suspended in mid-air.

Inside each force field sphere, a fragment of divine essence is sealed.

Lin Yuan stopped and examined the twelve force field spheres.

He found that he couldn't understand it at all.

The fluctuations emanating from these fragments exceeded all the knowledge he currently possessed.

There are no textual labels, only the pure manifestation of laws.

Xiao Lie walked to the first force field ball on the left.

A dark red piece of meat floated inside.

The surface of the meat was covered with blood vessels, which were pulsating rhythmically, exuding a strong sense of life.

"A fragment of the [Flesh and Blood Divine Duty]," Xiao Lie introduced. "It comes from a foreign god, the Blood God. I personally slew it on the front lines."

"Your clan possesses strong mutation and flesh-and-blood reproduction characteristics. This fragment will grant your clan the rudimentary form of the rule of rebirth through blood. As long as the divine realm remains, your clan will be virtually unkillable on the battlefield."

Xiao Lie walked to the right and pointed to another grayish crystal.

"Fragment of the [Desolate Divine Authority]. From a fallen lord of the abyss. Extremely well-suited to your wasteland divine realm environment."

"Absorbing it will elevate the desolation of the wasteland to the level of laws. Any enemy that enters your divine realm will lose its life force and divine power tenfold."