Ascending the Heavens as an Evil God
chapter-397

Divine power was the single most important value in the Divine Kingdom gameplay, there was no “one of.”

In the end, the Evil God game wasn’t a base-building game. Although it offered an incredible number of playstyles, the official recommendation was always to strengthen oneself.

So even though the core of the First Round was the Divine Kingdom, the goal of the Divine Kingdom gameplay remained unchanged. It was still to enhance the player's own strength.

Just as all Star Rulers and gods could receive buffs from their own planes, players could do something similar.

And divine power was the numerical standard to measure the effect of the buff.

Gu Nan also had divine power when he first acquired the Divine Kingdom, but it was only in the single digits at that time, while it finally reached one thousand today.

Divine power was a very special value. It wasn’t like points, which could be spent and earned again, nor was it like Evil Value, which never went down.

In fact, divine power was more like the MP bar in players’ understanding. It was consumed during usage, but it would refill naturally over time.

What determined the upper limit of divine power was the Divine Kingdom’s level, as well as the total strength of the Divine Kingdom’s inhabitants.

On the other hand, what determined the speed of divine power usage and recovery was how efficiently Gu Nan could siphon power from the Divine Kingdom’s inhabitants—Gu Nan had done as much as humanly possible on this point.

His Divine Kingdom was the former Immortal Demon World that Zuo Zuo left behind. This particular plane could collect half of the inhabitants’ souls and directly extract their power.

This characteristic was a little too unreasonable… Well, this was also the reason Gu Nan went to all the trouble to take Immortal Demon World for himself back then.

“With around 1,000 divine power, I can suppress Tier 8 enemies outside. If it’s inside the Divine Kingdom… then I can even fight Tier 10 enemies."

After advancing to Tier 7, Gu Nan's judgment of his own strength immediately went up a level.

With the Evil God physique, he could already fight Tier 8 laws head-on, except neither would be able to overpower the other. And with the addition of divine power, it was enough to completely suppress Tier 8 opponents.

If it was inside his own Divine Kingdom, then as long as they weren’t greater god-level existences, Gu Nan welcomed all enemies.

If inside their own astral worlds, it wasn’t uncommon for Tier 7 or 8 Star Rulers to fight Tier 10 enemies on equal ground. Gu Nan wasn’t the only example.

Red was one such example—her own strength barely reached Tier 8, yet a powerful Tier 10 Star Ruler like Zuo Zuo could only manage to suppress her inside her own astral world, unable to kill her.

Another example was the earlier Daoist Monarch Wu Tian, who was a veritable Tier 8 Star Ruler. In the words of the Myriad Heavens, Wu Tian was an experienced powerhouse with the power of a Realm Level plane behind him.

Someone like Wu Tian could completely fight on equal ground with Tier 10 enemies inside his astral world without being at the slightest disadvantage.

Only a freak like Gu Nan could force Daoist Monarch Wu Tian to bow his head in his own astral world, Daoist Sect Realm.

This was because Gu Nan was all too familiar with the buffs astral worlds provided. From the player's point of view, this buff only increased the strength of one’s laws and wasn’t a comprehensive buff.

In other words, when the enemy didn’t engage in fighting your laws with their laws and was hellbent on escaping, an impossible-to-catch enemy might still be impossible to catch.

As the Evil God Temple upgraded to Level 2 and as Gu Nan himself advanced Tier 7, the Divine Kingdom’s essence also received a corresponding upgrade.

Gu Nan knew it was only a matter of time before the Divine Kingdom’s coordinates were exposed. After all, it was impossible for no one to notice a major Tier 7 astral world.

Since this was the case, it was better to make good use of this opportunity… ‘Classmate Rolensia, this is as much as I can help you!’

……

The Tier 10 god Rolensia mysteriously disappeared for two years—this matter already attracted fairly large-scale attention in the World of Gods.

Although it wasn’t unusual for a god of Rolensia’s level to not appear for several years or even decades, the fact that her followers and apostles couldn’t contact her either absolutely wasn’t normal.

But at this time, no one had realized yet what exactly Rolensia planned to do. Even the Goddess of Nature, who blocked Rolensia’s path, had yet to realize Rolensia’s plan.

On the contrary, in the Myriad Heavens Universe, far away from the World of Gods, the Thirteen Heavens big shots had already sensed something.

As Unified Dao powerhouses, they themselves had a certain degree of connection with the laws of heaven and earth, so naturally they could sense when someone was about to merge with a great Dao.

Thus, similar statements continued to ring out in all parts of the Myriad Heavens.

"Someone is about to enter Unified Dao Realm."

"Someone is about to enter Unified Dao Realm,” Yu Lian also said the same thing to Xue Ren and added one more sentence, "Tell me the truth, do you have anything to do with this?”

"How can I have anything to do with it?" Xue Ren denied righteously. "It's not like I'm the one ascending to Unified Dao, and besides, I'm just your average, run-of-the-mill Star Ruler… Okay, fine, I arranged this."

Xue Ren faltered halfway through his lie as Yu Lian’s glare intensified and finally admitted with a face full of helplessness.

In fact, the two had been good friends for tens of thousands of years. No matter how good Xue Ren’s acting was, it was still hard to hide from the Star Ruler of Void Grotto Heaven, so it was better to simply admit it.

Yu Lian made a look of surprise and exclaimed with a little exaggeration, “Look at you! You can even casually arrange the creation of a Unified Dao powerhouse now?"

Xue Ren spread his hands, indicating that he had nothing to say about it.

"So, what did you come here for?" Yu Lian didn't expect to get any straight answers from him. Instead, she asked about Xue Ren's reason for visiting.

"I may or may not create some ruckus in the near future. When that happens, you’ll have to cover for me,” Xue Ren answered seriously.

“You want to help that Unified Dao powerhouse by directing people’s attention elsewhere?" Yu Lian saw through Xue Ren's goal at a glance and thought for a moment. "What do you need me to do?"

"Just act mysterious when the time comes." Xue Ren revealed a bright smile.

……

The Myriad Heavens Universe was very lively these days.

The excitement from Gu Nan's sudden appearance and Zi Luo Elder’s awakening two years ago hadn’t even died down completely when news that someone wanted to ascend to Unified Dao Realm caught everyone off guard.

This was Unified Dao Realm! The supreme existences of the Myriad Heavens Universe!

For a while, everyone tried to guess this person’s identity.

Some guessed it was Xue Ren, who was the "closest to the Thirteen Heavens.” They claimed he’d been sharpening his sword for a thousand years and was finally about to take that step.

Other people guessed that it was the Zi Luo Elder, who’d awakened from a deep slumber and, once recovered, was about to point his sword at the Thirteen Heavens again.

Others guessed that it was Red Candle Heaven’s Green Lantern Fairy, Wang Li of Severing Dao Heaven, the Cult Master of the Holy Luo Cult from Three Corpses Heaven… These were all powerful Tier 10 Star Rulers. No matter who among them ended up being the first to take that step into the ranks of the Thirteen Heavens, no one would be surprised.

However, just when people in the Myriad Heavens were discussing spiritedly, news suddenly came out from Extreme Sword Heaven.

The Sword Sect’s Sect Master, Xue Ren, sent invitations to several fellow Daoists, inviting them to visit Extreme Sword Heaven to test their swords… Among those invited were top-tier Star Rulers like the Holy Luo Cult’s Cult Master and the Green Lantern Fairy.

“To merge with the great Dao, to test my sword against the world!”

Although Xue Ren had no intention of revealing his cultivation realm, the meaning behind Xue Ren sending such a heroic invitation at such a juncture couldn’t be more obvious.