He entered the Divine Realm through the Divine Realm Lander.
Following the instructions that came with the divine artifacts, Han Wu expended a small amount of divine power to condense a master-recognition array.
He then placed the divine artifacts within the array and dripped blood onto them one by one.
Han Wu's blood seeped into the divine artifacts, transforming into fine threads of blood that spread across their surfaces.
The first to complete master recognition was the zero-star divine artifact: Eye of Detection.
Its artifact spirit transformed into a firefly, fluttered about, and finally landed on Han Wu's earlobe.
From then on, whenever he wanted to investigate any lifeform's information, he only needed to communicate with it through divine power.
The next to complete master recognition was the two-star divine artifact Gourd Pot.
The Gourd Pot's artifact spirit was a big-bellied toad that croaked, "Ribbit, ribbit."
To test the Gourd Pot's effects, Han Wu ordered one hundred thousand Elite Lifeform locusts to fly into its mouth for refinement.
The results were expected to come out in a day.
The final divine artifact, Greedy Wolf, continued to fail at completing master recognition after absorbing Han Wu's blood. It kept conveying the message that there was not enough blood.
Left with no choice, Han Wu could only increase the amount of blood he fed Greedy Wolf.
Only when Han Wu felt darkness swimming before his eyes did Greedy Wolf finally complete master recognition.
After recognizing him as its master, the divine artifact Greedy Wolf transformed into a little wolf pup and appeared before Han Wu.
The wolf pup had barely been born when it sent Han Wu a thought.
It wanted to eat divine artifacts.
Han Wu frowned.
He was poor as a church mouse. Where was he supposed to find divine artifacts?
After he refused the little wolf pup's request, its unhappiness became visible to the naked eye.
Its nose twitched, then its wolf eyes lit up.
It made another request. It wanted to eat pure Energy Crystals.
There were quite a few Energy Crystals in Han Wu's Divine Realm, so he could let the little wolf pup eat some.
After casually finding it several Energy Crystals, the little wolf pup happily gnawed on them like a puppy.
The Energy Crystals, harder than iron and stone, let out crunching sounds beneath the little wolf pup's teeth.
Han Wu now believed that the little wolf pup really could chew through divine artifacts.
After finishing all that, Han Wu took stock of the Source of Holy Relic obtained from decomposing level-two holy relics.
Forty-eight level-two holy relics had yielded a total of 428 pieces of Source of Holy Relic.
Han Wu packed up 400 of them and sent them to Yuan Zhong for him to continue repairing divine artifacts.
As for the remaining twenty-eight, Han Wu fed them to the level-two holy relic: Law of Gluttony (Damaged).
After being repaired with a large amount of Source of Holy Relic, the level-two holy relic Law of Gluttony underwent considerable changes.
After absorbing twenty-eight pieces of Source of Holy Relic, the level-two holy relic Law of Gluttony suddenly erupted with light.
Han Wu hurriedly checked it and discovered that the Law of Gluttony had automatically upgraded.
Level-3 Holy Relic: Law of Gluttony (Incomplete): After being loaded into the Divine Realm Core, Core Kin gain the Gluttony Ability. When a Normal Lifeform consumes food with total energy exceeding one hundred times its own energy, it can evolve into an Elite Lifeform. When an Elite Lifeform consumes food with total energy exceeding one thousand times its own energy, it can evolve into an Extraordinary Lifeform. (The holy relic itself is incomplete and can only affect Normal Lifeforms and Elite Lifeforms.)
Han Wu was practically dumbstruck.
It was too powerful. The effects of the level-three holy relic Law of Gluttony were simply too powerful.
It could actually establish a path of evolution from Normal Lifeform all the way to Extraordinary Lifeform.
That meant that, with sufficient food, all of his locusts could be promoted to Extraordinary Lifeforms.
At the thought of tens of billions, even hundreds of billions, of Extraordinary Lifeforms, Han Wu felt a surge of excitement.
Although locusts would still be weak as trash even after evolving into Extraordinary Lifeforms,
they would still be Extraordinary Lifeforms, no matter what.
The benefits were simply endless: enhanced Life Energy, extended lifespans, increased faith provided, and more.
When the time came, combined with the Gourd Pot's refinement effects,
Han Wu could foresee that in the not-too-distant future, he would forge a powerful Locust Legion of Heroic Lifeforms.
Just as he was envisioning that wonderful future, a crisp crunch suddenly came from the Divine Realm Core and caught Han Wu's attention.
He hurried over to inspect it.
It turned out that the Law of Gluttony's upgrade had forced the Divine Realm Core, which could only carry level-seven energy, to bear level-eight energy.
This had resulted in an energy overload.
If it was not resolved in time, the Divine Realm Core would eventually be stretched to bursting over the years.
But Han Wu did not dare remove the Law of Gluttony. He was currently only a Divine Being, and by rights, he should not have been able to load a level-three holy relic.
The reason the Law of Gluttony could be loaded was because it had originally been on the Divine Realm Core.
Once removed, he might have to wait until Han Wu advanced to demigod status before he could load it again.
By rounding up, it was equivalent to Han Wu enjoying the effects of a level-three holy relic ahead of time—he had found himself a little bug to exploit.
To remove the hidden danger and make room for the Law of Gluttony, Han Wu removed the level-one holy relic Poison Mist Orb, planning to load it back in once the Divine Realm Core had spare levels.
But unexpectedly, the holy relic Poison Mist Orb shattered the moment it left the Divine Realm Core.
Without understanding why, Han Wu had lost a holy relic for nothing.
Somewhat baffled, he immediately searched online.
The result was that once a Divine Realm Core exceeded level five, holy relics loaded onto it could no longer be removed at will.
Once taken off, the holy relic would be damaged.
Han Wu suddenly understood. At the same time, he secretly rejoiced that he had removed neither the Law of Gluttony nor either of the other two level-two holy relics. Otherwise, the loss would have been even greater.
He casually tossed the fragments of the Poison Mist Orb into the Decomposition Machine and sensed the changes within his Divine Realm.
Affected by the Law of Gluttony, the Locust Retinue was eating like mad. Locusts evolved every moment.
The other four Normal Lifeform retinues were also leading full and busy lives.
Iron Cutting Sword Wind was comprehending skills.
The Ember Dwarves were mining and forging iron.
The Minotaur Race was creating new types of totems.
The Skeleton Race... was wolfing down Bone Crystals.
After being nourished by Bone Crystals for a long time, Little Skeleton, the Skeleton Lord, had seen the three negative statuses above its head become two. Its strength had increased to the level of a Heroic Lifeform, and it had also unlocked an ability: Summon Skeleton Knight.
This meant that Little Skeleton could directly summon Skeleton Knights from the corpses of Extraordinary Lifeforms.
This skill would surely prove quite effective on the battlefield.
Han Wu nodded in satisfaction, then his brows furrowed.
He discovered that a building had appeared somewhere within his Divine Realm.
He immediately sent down a Divine Incarnation to investigate.
He discovered that the building was actually a Bloody Arena!
Compared to the genuine Bloody Arena that occupied an entire ultra-large plane, the Bloody Arena before him had probably not even been weaned yet. It covered only ten square kilometers.
It allowed kin to enter and compete within it.
The victor had a certain chance of evolving.
Extraordinary Lifeforms even had a tiny chance of skipping the guidance of the Hero Template and directly advancing into Heroic Lifeforms.
The effect made Han Wu's eyes light up.
Han Wu immediately issued a Divine Decree, encouraging all Extraordinary Lifeform kin within his Divine Realm to come here and compete.
If even one Heroic Lifeform was born, would that not be a profit?
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