Half Spirit Crystal, Half Divine Crystal

When Liang Ji received Wu Shanshan's message, he immediately set aside all his affairs and descended directly into the Netherworld battlefield on Earth Origin Star through a Starlight Projection.

He saw with his own eyes the mountain spirit, born from an underworld mountain, channeling the Netherworld's Origin Laws of Earth Origin Star. It controlled the entire mountain and a thousand-mile radius around it, turning the area into something like a divine domain. As it clashed with the divine power of Wu Shanshan and the other ghosts and gods, it was clearly not at a disadvantage.

"Has this mountain spirit of the Netherworld taken the path of godhood?"

Liang Ji quickly grasped the situation. Earlier, as his Vassals fought across Earth Origin Star's mortal world, killing various Sixth-Tier Earth Elemental Spirits and capturing large numbers of Fourth- and Fifth-Tier Earth Elemental Spirits, they had discovered that some humanoid natives on the star worshiped those Elemental Spirits as gods.

This was a stage that many Life Stars went through as they developed. When a powerful race existed on a star and could suppress and rule over its humanoid alien races, if those races were also intelligent, they would inevitably come to worship it, setting it on the path of godhood.

That was true of Giant Beast Star, and it was true of Earth Origin Star as well.

But when they had fought and slaughtered their way across Giant Beast Star, which was only a Third-Tier Star, the giant beasts that were worshiped and revered had still been able to draw on some divine power, unleashing even greater strength.

Yet on Earth Origin Star, none of the Earth Elemental Spirits worshiped by Liang Ji's Vassals had displayed the slightest divine power or divine-light abilities.

So Liang Ji had assumed that the Earth Elemental