Four Divine Beasts Church

At night, the Hall of Life was brightly lit.

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

"This is a fine wine from the Life Supreme Plane. I only managed to get some from my father with great difficulty."

The two kept raising their cups, and their relationship gradually grew warmer.

After the meal, Jie Ning realized that Stan might seem simple, but he actually had the air of someone wise enough to appear foolish.

On the surface, it was easy to win his favor. He did not seem especially guarded against others and would even speak to them frankly.

Yet in truth, before you knew it, you would have agreed to his requests.

Of course, perhaps it was because he was genuinely generous—so generous that people found it difficult to refuse him.

As for why he was not guarded, perhaps it was because he had the confidence brought by at least two Sovereign Artifacts.

During the banquet...

"Stan, how did you get to the Bana Continent?" Jie Ning probed. "Didn't they say Supreme Planes could not reach Material Planes?"

Stan looked somewhat surprised. "Where did you hear that?"

"Throw a drop of Sovereign's Might into a Teleportation Array, and it will naturally activate."

"A drop?" Jie Ning suspected he had misheard.

"Maybe it does not even take a full drop, but I never cared about such trivial matters." Stan waved a hand grandly.

Once again, Jie Ning felt just how vast the gap between gods could be.

"Stan, did you come to the Bana Continent this time to do something important?" Having more or less understood Stan's temperament, Jie Ning directly asked about his purpose.

"Ah?" Stan let out a weary sigh.

"Isn't it all because of Faith Power?"

"Faith Power?" Jie Ning asked with feigned curiosity.

"Do Overgods need Faith Power too?"

"Jie Ning, with your strength, you should know how much fusing Mysteries can improve one's power, right?" Stan looked at Jie Ning solemnly.

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

Even the Four Rules ultimately followed the path of fusion. It was merely that the Rules did not have such obvious divisions of Mysteries as the elemental laws did.

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

"Then take a guess. How does a Highgod become an Overgod?" Stan asked Jie Ning with a mysterious expression.

Jie Ning 'earnestly' guessed, "By completely fusing all Mysteries?"

"Wrong." Stan immediately denied it. "That is called a Paragon Highgod."

"From the creation of Heaven and Earth until now, across all Supreme Planes combined, the number of people suspected to possess Paragon strength does not exceed the fingers on one hand."

"Yet there are dozens of Overgods now."

Jie Ning immediately revealed an 'astonished' expression. "How is that possible? Then are Paragons stronger than Overgods?"

"Hahaha!" At that moment, Stan seemed amused by Jie Ning and burst out laughing. "When I get back, I have to tell Gaisreisen and the others this joke properly. Paragons stronger than Overgods? Hahaha..."

After quite a while, Stan finally calmed down. Looking at Jie Ning, he explained, "Jie Ning, do you know about Heaven and Earth Curios?"

In a daze, Jie Ning suddenly remembered the bizarre curios he had seen. Resisting the urge to complain, he said, "I have seen some, I suppose."

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

"In truth, Sovereign Sparks are like a type of Heaven and Earth Curio. The difference is that this kind of Heaven and Earth Curio is extraordinarily powerful."

"Every Rule or law has its own set of Sovereign Sparks."

"As long as you are a Highgod who became a god independently, all you need to do is drip a drop of blood onto a Sovereign Spark of the appropriate attribute. Even if you have just become a Highgod, you can directly become an Overgod."

"So, a Paragon can be an Overgod, but an Overgod is not necessarily a Paragon." Stan summarized.

Jie Ning was somewhat startled for a moment. "Is it really alright for you to tell me this?"

"You even told me how to become an Overgod..."

Was Stan really this frank?

Had he really just revealed how to become an Overgod?

"Pfft~" Stan could not hold back his smile. "Jie Ning, you really dare to imagine things."

"This is not really much of a secret. Basically, any Highgod who has lived long enough knows it."

"Yet even now, there are only a few Overgods."

Jie Ning 'embarrassedly' scratched his head.

"So Overgods need Faith Power to increase their strength as well?" Jie Ning voiced the truth he had long known.

"That's right." Stan confirmed it.

"Overgods also need to fuse Mysteries to increase their strength, and Faith Power is of great help in that regard."

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

They had clearly come once already. Why send Stan here again?

Stan's expression suddenly became indignant. "Isn't it because some of the Overgods have resorted to every possible means?"

"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 would not understand, Stan first explained, "Overgods have far more ways of obtaining faith than ordinary God-level beings."

"Unlike ordinary God-level beings, Overgods do not need others to directly believe in them to collect faith."

"Overgods only need people to place their faith in the elements of their respective systems, and they can obtain faith."

"For example, if someone cultivates earth magic, then all Earth Gods can receive feedback in the form of Faith Power."

Jie Ning appeared 'dumbfounded.'

"Just as it was in your Plane before, Father and the others generally only needed to pass down magic."

Stan explained why the names of the Four Divine Beasts had not spread across the Bana Continent.

Jie Ning naturally put on an enlightened expression.

"Originally, each Overgod spread faith in their own system without affecting one another. After all, the number of Material Planes far exceeded imagination."

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

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

"Hmph!" Anger appeared on Stan's face. "Father and the others discovered that the Faith Power they received had begun to decrease."

"So they had their Overgod's Envoys enter the Material Planes where they had once descended to investigate. Only then did they discover these Overgods' despicable methods."

"These people are not merely promoting religions in newly discovered Material Planes."

"They are even targeting the Material Planes Father and the others once descended upon, defining the Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire Systems of magic as evil and forbidding anyone from studying them."

Jie Ning secretly clicked his tongue. He had originally thought the War of Faith was divided into three stages:

The first stage: each Overgod spread their own faith.

The second stage: Sovereign Legions competed for faith in newly discovered Material Planes.

The third stage: they competed with one another for faith.

But from what Stan was saying now, aside from the first stage, the latter two stages seemed to be happening in parallel.

While developing new lands of faith, they were also seizing faith that belonged to others.

Good grief, this is cutting off the firewood from under the cauldron... Jie Ning inwardly complained. Then he remembered the Overgod behind the Blade Army. That Overgod's response is really a little too slow.

They are practically about to start fighting, and you are still taking your sweet time.

"So, Stan, you came to the Bana Continent Plane in order to...?" Jie Ning probed.

Stan stared into Jie Ning's eyes. "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 are friends, right?"

"I need your help."

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

"From now on, no faith in any other Overgod may appear here."

Feeling Stan's serious gaze, Jie Ning suddenly felt the Sovereign's Might inside his Space Ring turn scorching hot. It seemed this jar of Sovereign's Might would not be easy to accept.

So it was a sugar-coated cannonball. Jie Ning sighed inwardly. But I am not qualified to refuse either.

In the end, under Stan's gaze, Jie Ning nodded and agreed.

"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 gaze, he reached a friendly agreement with Fire God Gru.

One month later, the entire Bana Continent announced the establishment of the Four Divine Beasts Church, with Fire God Gru as its pontiff.

Two months later, Stan vanished atop the Plane Teleportation Array of the Bana Continent. Only Stan's voice remained, echoing in the air.

"Jie Ning, I think highly of you. If I get the chance, I will come see you again. I will bring you gifts then."

"May your family flourish on the Bana Continent."

Jie Ning's expression instantly turned somewhat helpless. He lightly clenched his fist, then helplessly loosened it again.

Who made me the weak one?

"As long as I am not an Overgod, I am Stan's 'friend.'"

To be honest, after writing the third chapter, my brain had already started refusing to cooperate.

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