Chapter 353
The essence of divination is to find a mapping of results through the Faith Path; the more sufficient the conditions, the more accurate the mapping result.
The more skilled a diviner travels along the path, the more likely they are to obtain the desired result.
So it sounds mysterious, but once you understand the underlying principles, it's really not that complicated.
At this time.
Through the connection between his mind and the staff, a phantom image appeared before Ryan.
The image shows an elderly man in a gray robe squatting in a corner, muttering something to himself.
At the same time, Ryan also saw that the old man's body was shrouded in chaos, and within the chaos he sensed a familiar aura.
Swish!
Ryan immediately waved his hand to stop the divination.
"It seems that woman left her power on Sheldus. If the conditions aren't right, forcing a divination would easily be discovered."
All Ryan knew was that Sheldus was in the Western Continent, and that he would need to use even stronger divination methods, which would easily attract the other party's attention. Therefore, Ryan planned to go to the Western Continent first.
He exited the divination state and called Sylvia to join him.
Having learned her lesson, the woman has become exceptionally well-behaved.
There was nothing they could do; Ryan had become a god after all. No matter how arrogant Sylvia was, she couldn't be haughty in front of a god.
And she was even hoping that Ryan would give her special treatment so she could get an audience with the Creator.
Fifteen minutes later.
On the summit of a giant mountain in the Western Continent.
Ryan stood on the mountain peak, looking around with great curiosity at everything around him.
"I never imagined the interior of the Western Continent was like this. No wonder no one has been able to get in all these years."
Looking into the distance, a hazy, fluffy substance settled in the air, rising and falling with the wind and waves, as if an endless snowfall was about to begin.
However, these fluffy substances are not snow. They are formed from the combination of countless corpses and divine power, and mutated over many years by the erosion of Chaos Power. Even Supernatural Being would suffer irreversible damage if they inhaled them.
The existence of these things has led to the near extinction of life on the Western Continent.
However, recently, the amount of fluffy substances in the air has decreased significantly, but this is not a good thing, because the reason for their reduction is the erosion of Chaos Power.
"How can there be such powerful chaotic energy?" Sylvia exclaimed in surprise. "This place is almost exactly the same as the Chaos Space."
"It seems the invasion of chaos began here."
Ryan understood. No one had entered the Western Continent for years, causing it to remain closed off, but this had created an opportunity for Chaos to invade.
Elsewhere, the Gate of Janus and various nations are working hard to suppress it, but this place has become the cradle of chaotic forces. If it weren't for the Chaos Power going out of control and weakening the power sealing off the Western Continent, no one would set foot on this land.
Ryan spread his Mental Power outwards, searching for the witch's whereabouts.
At the limit of his divine level, he 'saw' a desolate wasteland, destroyed cities, and strange creatures that could live on this land, creatures that did not exist on other continents.
There's nobody here.
There was no one to be seen anywhere.
Ryan wasn't in a hurry. Finding even one human in this place was equivalent to finding their target.
An hour later, Ryan withdrew his Mental Power.
"How about it?"
Sylvia asked.
"Not found."
As he spoke, Ryan once again took out the Scepter of the Bizarre to perform divination.
This time, instead of directly divining Sheldus, he set the question as 'the location of the witch' and then released the scepter.
After a while, the Scepter of the Bizarre slowly tilted in one direction.
A slight smile played on his lips, "Sometimes the simplest method is the best method."
To avoid alerting the enemy, Ryan chose the safest approach for the time being.
He gripped the scepter and hurried in the direction he had just determined. After traveling some distance, he performed another divination to ensure that he was heading in the right direction.
The Western Continent is a plateau, no smaller than other places. If Ryan hadn't now reached the level of a god, finding people using this method would have been quite troublesome.
But now, he could search the entire Western Continent in less than a day.
However, the search is greatly increased due to the obscuring effect of Chaos Power, but fortunately, the divination ability of the Path of Wisdom is indeed useful.
About half an hour later, he found the witch's whereabouts on the outskirts of the Western Continent.
"It's here."
Sylvia was somewhat surprised. This place was located at the southernmost part of the Western Continent, where the Chaos Power was sparse and it belonged to the outer area, making it inconspicuous.
She had initially thought that the other party would hide deeper inside, but unexpectedly, they did the opposite and came to the outermost area.
If we search using conventional thinking, even if we find the person, it will probably be months later.
"What's the next step? Should I go in and investigate?"
"Sylvia asked."
"There's no need for such trouble."
Ryan didn't care about all that, spread his hands to gather divine power, and then slapped down directly.
Rumble rumble rumble~~~
The violent divine power shattered space, causing a series of explosions, and the mountains where the witch organization was hiding were instantly crushed into dust.
Boom!
A deafening explosion shook the earth and mountains.
Seeing this scene, Sylvia's lips twitched slightly. This method was indeed simple and crude, but it was effective.
At that moment, as a palm struck down, dust billowed into the sky, obscuring the view.
Of all the core members of Sylvia's witch team, perhaps only Sheldus could withstand this attack.
Whoosh!
A surge of Magic Power flashed by.
Sylvia frowned slightly, milky white Magic Power swirling around her, and her figure materialized under the enhancement of the power of spacetime passage.
Ryan looked up. Although the fleeing person was fast, there was no way they could outrun him. However, Ryan did not rush to act. He summoned the Sword of Order to search for the mysterious woman's whereabouts.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A rumbling sound came from afar.
"My master, give up, you can't escape."
"Sylvia! I have found the way to become a god, and I am about to become a god! Don't you want to? I am willing to share this method with you!"
Call out!
A figure flew out from the dust and mist.
Sheldus wore a gray robe, his hair was disheveled, and he looked excited and frenzied, holding a jet-black bottle in his hand.
Seeing Sylvia rushing towards him, he didn't hesitate to reach out and open the bottle, and a cloud of dark smoke immediately floated out.
Upon seeing the smoke, Sylvia's expression changed slightly, and she immediately retreated.
Sheldus opened his mouth and inhaled the smoke into his body, and as the process continued, an expression of ecstasy appeared on his face.
Suddenly, Sheldus' absorption stopped abruptly, and the ecstasy turned into pain, making it hard to breathe as if someone were choking him.
Swish~
Ryan appeared before him, his gaze calmly fixed on him.
"You actually dared to suck into the bottle that sealed away chaos? Aren't you afraid of sucking yourself to death?"
With a wave of his hand, the bottle was sealed and fell into Ryan's hands.
He examined the bottle for a moment, then glanced around with some confusion.
"Just you? That shouldn't be the case."
"You... you are... a god?!"
Sheldus' pupils widened as he stared at Ryan in shock.
You can call me that if you want.
"How is that possible?! How could there possibly be a god wandering around in this world?!"
Sheldus screamed in terror, as if he had been startled by something.
"Oh? If there was no God involved, then how did you get this bottle? Tell me, where is He?"
Ryan discovered that he could not sense any chaotic power from Sheldus, only her own Magic Power, which was completely contrary to the results of the previous divination.
Could it be that the woman has already escaped?
"I don't know what you're talking about! The bottle! Give me back the bottle!!"
Sheldus continued to scream.
Ryan frowned slightly, clenched his fists, and used terrifying divine power to compress and twist Sheldus little by little.
Sylvia flew over and looked at Sheldus, who was screaming in agony as he twisted in pain. A look of pity appeared on her face, but in the end, she did not speak to stop him.
There is no other path to godhood: success or death. She respected Sheldus' choice.
Bang~
Sheldus' body exploded on the spot, turning into a cloud of blood mist.
Ryan unleashed the Power of Death, seizing Sheldus' soul and extracting his memories from it.
Instantly, countless unfamiliar images flashed before Ryan's eyes. Sheldus had lived for hundreds of years, and his memories were like dust to ordinary people, but with Ryan's current mental strength, he could freely select useful information from this dust.
Unfortunately, I didn't find any.
Brushing aside the information in his memory, Ryan raised an eyebrow. "Strange, that woman really didn't have any contact with Sheldus? It seems she must have been here, but Sheldus didn't know, and this bottle was only obtained by chance."
Sheldus had no memory of that woman.
That being said, the bottle ending up in his hands and the core members of the witchcraft group migrating to the Western Continent were certainly not coincidences.
"What are you looking for?" Sylvia couldn't help but ask.
"Looking for someone... no, maybe not even a person."
Ryan looked down at the bottle in his hand. He could sense the authority of the Chaos Path inside. As long as he refined it and merged all the paths together, he would be able to reach the peak of his past life and retrieve the sealed memories.
With this in mind, Ryan decided not to return to the Southern Continent. Instead, he found a nearby place, set up a barrier, and began refining the authority.
The Spirit of Chaos had fallen, and the authority was ownerless, so Ryan refined it very smoothly.
After refining the authority, he immediately entered the Misty Space and projected the Chaos Path onto the starry sky.
Swish!
Countless stars Milky Way across the night sky, and nine Faith Path stretched overhead, each radiating its own unique color.
Ryan discovered that when the Chaos Faith was mapped onto the mist, the energy of the entire Misty Space became extremely unstable.
The sea fog surged, layer upon layer, above the Milky Way they passed through, where divine powers began to collide violently, emanating a terrifying aura capable of destroying heaven and earth.
Ryan was not surprised by this. He hurled the Sword of Order —whoosh! Doro flew to the starry sky. Her appearance immediately drew the power of the nine Faith Path. When these powers, enough to destroy the continent, surrounded Doro, they miraculously did not explode. Instead, they merged together!
"Just as I thought, order exists for the sake of balance."
Ryan seized this opportunity to accelerate the fusion of the nine Faith Path, Doro as the vessel, the entire fusion process became exceptionally smooth.
Buzz!~~~
Surrounded by nine-colored light, the space around him trembled. Ryan felt the fused divine power rapidly transforming within his body, helping him break through the shackles of the divine level!
Boom!