Four Divine Beasts Church

At night, the Hall of Life was brightly lit.

At the dining table, Stan pulled Jie Ning along. "Come on, Jie Ning, try this."

"This is a fine wine from the Life Supreme Plane. I had a hard time getting some from my father."

The two kept clinking glasses, and their relationship gradually warmed up.

After the meal, Jie Ning found that Stan, though seemingly simple, actually had a kind of wisdom that appeared foolish on the surface.

On the surface, it was easy to gain his goodwill, and he wouldn't put up much guard against you, even baring his heart to you.

In reality, you would always find yourself agreeing to his requests without realizing it.

Of course, perhaps this was because he was truly generous—generous to the point where it was hard to refuse.

As for why he had no guard, maybe it was the confidence brought by at least two Divine Artifacts.

During the banquet...

"Stan, how did you come to the Bana Continent?" Jie Ning probed. "Isn't it said that the Supreme Plane can't reach the Material Plane?"

Stan looked a bit surprised. "Where did you hear that?"

"Just drop a drop of Overgod Power into the Teleportation Array, and it activates naturally."

"A drop?" Jie Ning doubted his ears.

"Maybe not even a full drop, but I never bothered with such trivial details." Stan waved his hand magnanimously.

Jie Ning once again felt the stark disparity between gods.

"Stan, do you have something important to do coming to the Bana Continent this time?" Having roughly grasped Stan's temperament, Jie Ning directly asked about his purpose.

"Ah?" Stan sighed wearily.

"It's all because of Faith Power."

"Faith Power?" Jie Ning feigned curiosity.

"Does an Overgod even need Faith Power?"

"Jie Ning, with your strength, you should know how much fusing Mysteries can boost power, right?" Stan looked at Jie Ning seriously.

"I do know." Jie Ning nodded. This was the only path for all who cultivated the Heaven and Earth Laws to the end.

Even the Four Rules ultimately followed the path of fusion, though the Rules didn't have the clear Mystery distinctions of the Elemental Laws.

"But what does that have to do with Overgods?" Jie Ning played along with Stan.

"Then guess how a High-God becomes an Overgod?" Stan asked Jie Ning with a mysterious expression.

Jie Ning 'tried' to guess. "By fully fusing all Mysteries?"

"Wrong." Stan denied directly. "That's called a Paragon High-God."

"Since the beginning of Heaven and Earth, across all Supreme Planes combined, the number of people suspected of having Paragon strength doesn't exceed the fingers of one hand."

"And there are dozens of Overgods right now."

Jie Ning immediately showed 'astonishment.' "What's going on? Are Paragons stronger than Overgods?"

"Hahaha," Stan was amused by Jie Ning and burst out laughing. "When I get back, I have to tell Gaisreisen and the others this joke—Paragons stronger than Overgods, hahaha..."

It took a while for Stan to calm his laughter. He looked at Jie Ning and explained, "Jie Ning, do you know about Heaven and Earth Curios?"

In a daze, Jie Ning recalled the bizarre curios he had seen and barely suppressed his urge to complain. "I've seen some, I suppose."

Stan nodded in satisfaction. "Then this will be much easier to explain."

"Actually, an Overgod Divine Spark is a kind of Heaven and Earth Curio, except it's an exceptionally powerful one."

"Each Rule or Law has its own set of Overgod Divine Sparks."

"As long as you're a self-deified High-God, just one drop of blood on an Overgod Divine Spark of the matching attribute, and even if you just became a High-God, you can become an Overgod directly."

"So a Paragon can be an Overgod, but an Overgod isn't necessarily a Paragon." Stan concluded.

Jie Ning was momentarily stunned. "Are you sure it's okay to tell me this directly?"

"Even how to become an Overgod..."

Was Stan really this straightforward?

He just blurted out how to become an Overgod?

"Pfft~" Stan couldn't hold back his smile. "Jie Ning, you sure have some imagination."

"This isn't really a secret. Basically, any High-God who's lived long enough knows it."

"But to this day, there are still only a handful of Overgods."

Jie Ning scratched his head with an 'embarrassed' look.

"So the Overgods need Faith Power to increase their strength too?" Jie Ning said, speaking a truth he already knew well.

"That's right," Stan confirmed.

"To improve their own power, Overgods also need to fuse Mysteries, and Faith Power is a great help in that regard."

"But didn't the Overgods already come to the Bana Continent over a hundred thousand years ago?" Jie Ning voiced his doubt.

'If they've already been here once, why send Stan all the way again?'

Stan's expression suddenly turned indignant. "It's because some of those Overgods resort to any means necessary."

"Oh?" Jie Ning's expression shifted slightly. Could it be that the actions of the Overgod behind the Blade Army had already been discovered?

Worried that Jie Ning might not understand, Stan first explained to him, "The ways Overgods harvest faith are far more diverse than those of ordinary God-level beings."

"Unlike ordinary God-level beings, Overgods don't require someone to directly believe in them to collect faith."

"An Overgod only needs people to have faith in the element of their system, and they can gain faith."

"For example, if someone practices Earth magic, then every Earth God can receive feedback from that Faith Power."

Jie Ning was 'dumbfounded.'

"Just like in your plane before, my father and the others generally only needed to pass down magic," Stan explained why the names of the Four Divine Beasts had never spread across the Bana Continent.

Jie Ning put on an expression of understanding.

"Originally, each Overgod spread faith in their own system without interfering with each other, since the number of Material Planes far exceeds imagination."

"But recently, some Overgods have started establishing religions in Material Planes, religions that directly worship the Overgods themselves, rather than the natural elements."

Jie Ning asked curiously, "And how did Progenitor God Xuanwu discover this?"

"Hmph!" Anger appeared on Stan's face. "My father and the others noticed that the Faith Power they were receiving had started to decrease."

"So they sent their Overgod's Envoys into the Material Planes they had once descended upon to investigate, and that's how they discovered these Overgods' despicable methods."

"Those bastards aren't just promoting their religions in newly discovered Material Planes."

"They're even targeting the Material Planes my father and the others descended upon, defining the magic of Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire as evil and forbidding anyone from studying it."

Jie Ning was secretly stunned. He had originally thought the War of Faith was divided into three periods:

The first stage, where each Overgod spread their own faith;

The second stage, where Overgod armies fought over the faith of newly discovered Material Planes;

The third stage, where they fought over each other's faith.

But listening to Stan now, it seemed that aside from the first stage, the latter two were happening simultaneously.

Developing new lands of faith while plundering the faith belonging to others.

'Damn, that's cutting the ground out from under them...' Jie Ning grumbled inwardly. Then he thought of the Overgod behind the Blade Army. 'That Overgod's reaction is really slow.'

'Everyone's about to start fighting, and you're still taking your sweet time.'

"So, Stan, why did you come to the Bana Continent plane?" Jie Ning probed.

Stan fixed his gaze on Jie Ning. "Jie Ning, I hope you can establish a Four Divine Beasts Church on the Bana Continent."

"You should be the strongest person on the Bana Continent, right?"

"We're friends, aren't we?"

"I need your help."

"I want everyone on the Bana Continent to only believe in the Azure Dragon, Xuanwu... the four Overgods."

"From now on, no faith in any other Overgod is allowed to appear here."

Feeling the seriousness in Stan's eyes, Jie Ning suddenly felt the Overgod Power inside his Space Ring grow hot to the touch. It seemed this jar of Overgod Power wouldn't be easy to take.

'So it's a sugar-coated cannonball.' Jie Ning sighed inwardly. 'But I don't have the right to refuse either.'

In the end, under Stan's gaze, Jie Ning nodded in agreement.

"Hahaha, Jie Ning, I knew you were my good friend."

A few days later, Jie Ning appeared in the Hall of the Fire God. Under Stan's watchful eye, he reached a friendly agreement with Gru.

A month later, the entire Bana Continent announced the establishment of the Four Divine Beasts Church, with the original Fire God Gru as the Pope.

Two months later, Stan vanished from the Bana Continent's Plane Teleportation Array, leaving only his voice echoing in the air.

"Jie Ning, I think highly of you. I'll come see you again when I have the chance, and I'll bring you another gift then."

"May your family prosper on the Bana Continent."

Jie Ning's face instantly turned somewhat helpless. He clenched his fist slightly, then reluctantly let it go.

'What can I do when I'm the weaker one?'

"As long as I'm not an Overgod, I'll always be Stan's 'friend'."

To be honest, after writing the third chapter, my brain started to malfunction.

How do those big-shot authors manage ten thousand words a day?

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