True God
High Martial EraBiodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | True God (真神) |
| Species/Race | Cultivation realm; attained by cultivators of various races |
| Occupation/Role | Sixth-rank deity; ruler or protector of civilizations, Divine Kingdoms, and planes |
| Status | Above Void God; below Celestial God |
| First Appearance | Mentioned in Chapter 3 |
Realm & Requirements
True Gods are sixth-rank deities. They stand above Void Gods and below seventh-rank Celestial Gods; only an immense number of gods produce even a single Celestial God 325 471.
To become a True God, a cultivator must meet several conditions:
- Comprehend at least one basic Law Dao to eighth-stage perfection.
- Possess a degree of comprehension of the Mysteries of Space.
- Use divine fire to form an Embryonic Law World and condense a Divine Heart recognized by heaven and earth 394.
- True Gods have a natural lifespan of approximately 30,000 years 372 394.
Divine Heart & Plane Authority
The Divine Heart is the defining foundation of a True God. It grants divine abilities recognized by heaven and earth and makes the physical body comparatively nonessential to survival and combat 394 494.
- A True God can merge with a plane’s origin and promote that plane’s evolution 394.
- A successful plane evolution can produce roughly 10 to 100 additional Life Stars, though the plane origin then requires 10,000 to 100,000 years to recover before another evolution 394.
- Civilizations that have produced multiple True Gods commonly possess far more Life Stars and deeper long-term foundations than ordinary civilizations 394.
- Foreign deities are ordinarily unable to descend into dimensional planes; one exception is entering a plane as a Demigod and breaking through to godhood within it 391.
Divine Body & Star Pulses
A True God’s divine body is stabilized through Star Pulses rather than conventional level-by-level Source Power cultivation 521.
| Star Pulse | Divine-body benchmark | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Six Star Pulse | Minimum threshold for True Godhood | A Six Star True God’s divine body is roughly 100 times stronger than that of a level-57 Void God 529 |
| Seven Star Pulse | Ten times stronger than a Six Star True God body | Common among True Gods of greater potential 529 |
| Eight Star Pulse | Ten times stronger than a Seven Star True God body | Eight Star True Gods with limit-level True God techniques are generally regarded as True God-limit experts 529 541 |
| Nine Star Pulse | Ten times stronger than an Eight Star True God body | A Nine Star True God body can rival that of a Seven Star Celestial God 521 |
| Ten Star Pulse | Exceptionally rare | A Ten Star True God body can rival that of an Eight Star Celestial God 521 |
Abilities & Traits
Divine Body
Upon condensing a Divine Heart, a True God’s body undergoes a fundamental transformation.
- True Gods can cultivate seventh-rank Star Arts, whose power is vastly beyond that of lower-realm techniques 494.
- Their Divine Hearts allow their divine bodies to rapidly stabilize at the limit determined by their Star Pulse count 521.
- Their foundational power exceeds that of Demigods and Void Gods by an enormous margin; early-stage True Gods are described as over a thousand times stronger overall than peak Void Gods 490.
Law Comprehension
True Godhood requires exceptionally advanced understanding of the laws.
- Eighth-stage perfection in a basic Law Dao is the core threshold for the realm 394.
- True God-level souls perceive the laws from a fundamentally higher perspective, allowing easier comprehension of Space and other basic laws 492.
- True Gods may create or cultivate formidable secret arts, domains, body-refining arts, and law-based attacks 494.
Divine Domains
Many True Gods wield domains formed by combining law-origin power with vast divine power.
- Domains can suppress enemies, alter the battlefield, and augment the user’s attacks 494.
- A True God skilled in the World direction of Space can seal space and prevent methods such as Void Displacement 503.
Plane Evolution
A True God can influence the future of an entire civilization through a plane’s origin.
- Merging with a plane origin can transform barren or dead planets into places capable of nurturing life 394.
- The Life Stars created through plane evolution provide a civilization with greater capacity to produce martial and divine experts 394.
Relative Strength
| Comparison | Distinction |
|---|---|
| Void God → True God | Condensing a Divine Heart creates a qualitative leap in divine body, law application, and survival ability 394 529 |
| True God → Celestial God | A Celestial God is a seventh-rank existence; their Godhead can evolve an Inner Heaven and Earth after full control of a Great Dao law 471 569 |
| True God-limit | Usually refers to an Eight Star True God supported by limit-level True God techniques; a Seven Star True God with Celestial God techniques may also qualify 541 |
| Peak True God | A highly advanced True God; some peak True Gods can overwhelm ordinary True Gods and possess influence across Divine Kingdoms or star regions 409 435 |
Notable True Gods
- Jiang Yuan True God — A peak True God, Anchi Celestial God’s personal disciple, and Li Yuan’s senior brother. He serves as the Hall Master of Awakening Star Ancient City’s Law Enforcement Divine Temple 409 410.
- True God Chiyan — Leader of the Xianxu Civilization. He participated in the War of the Gods as a Void God, later advanced to True Godhood, and remains based at Yanchi River 351 489.
- True God Lieqing — Leader of the Red Sun Civilization and a Chaos Divine Court member. He describes himself and Chiyan as early-stage True Gods, though he considers himself somewhat stronger 489.
- True God Black Blade — Ruler of Black Blade Divine Kingdom and a peak True God. He was killed by Jiang Yuan True God, whose strength allowed him to withdraw unscathed despite Celestial God intervention 435.
- True God Jiuyin — Founder of the Realm of Nine Sounds, a trial ground used to select Feitian and Demigod disciples 416 423.