Crystals and Godhood

Li Qing stopped at a tavern for a while, listening to a storyteller's tale. He listened for the entire afternoon.

To him, this was not something worth hurrying over.

The Lower Realm's flow of time was simply too fast—one day equaled five thousand years. He had all the time he needed to slowly observe and study which way the tide of this new era was flowing.

Li Qing wandered along, looking around as he went.

He discovered that this Age of Dharma's End might not necessarily be a regression of the times, or a shutdown.

On the contrary, because Li Qing had forcibly shut them down, those who had been advancing by leaps and bounds were given a breather. They could reexamine their various technologies and accumulated foundations, rebuild a solid base, and had even erupted with an entirely new godhood system.

The gods of this Age of Dharma's End were still widely promoting churches, faith, and worship of the new godhoods throughout world after world, causing them to split apart.

"I keep feeling like history is a cycle."

Li Qing tilted his head toward the sky and muttered to himself.

The previous demigod era had likewise seen religious sects of every kind springing up one after another.

Li Qing continued forward, observing everything around him. He passed through a transparent Cosmic Membrane and arrived in another system-world next door.

He spent seven or eight years traveling and touring like this, crossing more than a hundred worlds and observing the natives of various systems and civilizations.

Under such deep observation, he also gained a thorough understanding of this era.

The prehistoric giants had been intercepted and sealed into amber. The various secret realms and divine realms formed from their corpses were still emerging in endless succession.

Every so often, some