The Closest You

Ye Tai's extremely unorthodox Shattered Path had been forcibly carved out during his long years of exile. Its advantage was obvious, and it had only one: it excelled immensely at offense. If there had to be another, then his ability to flee also relied on Shattered Divine Power, which possessed the immense advantage of breaking through every obstruction and escaping through the void.

But it had far too many flaws. It could be said that he possessed none of the versatility other gods had. His ability to scheme was even more lacking; compared to gods of the same rank, he was like an elementary school student doing arithmetic, easily seen through at a glance.

So he could only keep walking this dark path to the end, dabbling in heresy and refusing—unable, even—to take the conventional road. Only by stirring the situation into such chaos that even he could not see through it could he seek a way out in muddy waters.

This was not Ye Tai's fault either. Throughout his years of constantly being plotted against, his realm had been like rowing against the current: if he did not advance, he would fall back. He could only lower his head and charge forward, forcing himself onward to glimpse a sliver of hope.

When he repeatedly encountered calculations backed by overwhelming power and was always forced into certain-death situations, how could he spare any attention for a god's all-round development? The fact that he had made it this far without croaking was already a miracle. That miracle had forcibly carved out a twisted path of his own, one born from coercion.

Given the Omnipotent God's omniscient and omnipotent nature, if Ye Tai wanted to follow the map and reach that stage, he would have to completely overturn and alter his divine