While Lu Mouren focused on developing his territory and making full use of local resources to strengthen himself, this still-unnamed world of three realms did not stand still.
The Surface World—or rather, the traditional material world—welcomed more outsiders.
Unlike other ordinary worlds with heavy defenses, this world imposed no restrictions at all. Once news spread that more and more Earth Gods were arriving here, many of them found possibilities for further advancement.
Perhaps when the Order Ark chose to enter this world, even descend into the Underground World, its very foundation would collapse and its total power would greatly dissipate. But it also gave them a chance to start over.
"You cannot understand how desperately some gods long to regain their humanity."
"After abandoning their humanity to gain immortality, they are willing to cast aside immortality to reclaim that humanity? How ironic."
The price of taking a company public was often the loss of its original absolute control. Considering the hundredfold, thousandfold, or even greater difference in scale between quasi-gods and True Gods, losing control after such excessive, bloated expansion was only to be expected.
Stronger quasi-gods with better organizational structures could preserve more of themselves. But the truth was that most gods had struggled immensely just to ascend, and after becoming gods, they often became executors of the World's Logic. That sounded nice, but more often than not, master and servant had been reversed—they changed from users of power into tools of power.
They appeared to retain their reason, but it was more a kind of "inertia," the product of contracts and the World's Logic restraining them together. Their virtual divine-avatar incarnations were instead more human than they were. Those who had become gods had not completely lost their personalities; rather, their personalities could no longer control their divine