Yesterday's second update: Chapter 2618! 2/4!
After Belial had passively completed the sacrifice of all living beings through Xu Kun's hand, his own accumulation had become sufficient.
It could be said that he had reached the pinnacle of the Demigod Realm.
Yet he was not the only one in the world to have reached this step. Figures such as the Dragon Ancestor and Kun Ancestor had seemingly done the same.
But why were they all trapped within the Demigod Realm?
Because the divine domain had not opened. The many demigods could not condense divine sparks, and naturally could not take this final step.
Even the cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice. No matter how great the power you had accumulated, without the key to open that door, it seemed useless.
But Belial had a solution.
A divine spark, the divine status of a god, symbolized a god's true body and functions. It was formed from the origin produced at the birth of a world.
That world was the one behind the Heavenly Gate—the Eastern Emperor Bell—the playground of the gods.
That explanation might have been too broad, but perhaps it would be easier to understand another way.
A divine spark stored a god's memories and possessed uniqueness and irreproducibility.
Applied to the knowledge Xu Kun had grasped at his level, what was the greatest pain point for reincarnated ancient gods?
Loss!
On the surface, it was the loss of memories.
In essence, it was the loss of their divine sparks!
Loss did not mean having nothing left. Many reincarnated ancient gods retained, more or less, the origin of their past lives.
This proved that a portion of their originally shattered divine sparks had also been preserved.
For these reincarnated ancient gods, there were two conventional ways to return to