God at Last

Days passed. Under Leian's devoted study, he gradually touched upon the threshold of the Death Rule.

That day, he was commanding his undead army to capture a Saint Realm undead creature capable of creating powerful plagues near the Undead Holy Mountain when suddenly—

"Boom!"

A thunderclap-like roar came from the direction of the Undead Holy Mountain. Immediately afterward, two figures flew over the mountain one after the other, racing toward the Undead Realm.

The two were incredibly fast, far beyond what Saint Realm experts could compare to. Especially their emanating pressure—despite the great distance, it made Leian feel utterly stifled.

These were... god-level experts!

Leian hurriedly stopped his undead army and fixed his gaze on the two figures in the sky. Since beginning his cultivation of Necromancy, this was the first time he had seen god-level experts in the Undead Realm.

Under normal circumstances, god-level experts rarely set foot in the Undead Realm.

Just then, a conversation drifted down from the sky:

"Akafu, you cannot escape. Surrender obediently, and I can still grant you a quick death. Otherwise, I will make you regret ever coming to the Underworld!"

"Daoer, stop bragging. Catch up to me first if you can!"

"Fine, fine, fine! I have not fought for over ten thousand years. It seems some people have forgotten what I, Daoer, am capable of!"

The man behind seemed to laugh in extreme anger. After speaking, he shouted:

"Die!"

As the word "die" rang out, the man suddenly slashed with his sword. A black wheel of light shot from its tip, instantly catching up to the figure ahead.

In an instant, darkness erupted. The black wheel hung across the sky like a black sun.

At that moment, everything covered by darkness became empty, as if a chunk of space had been gouged away. Forget the fleeing figure—even the light itself was completely swallowed by the black sun.

"This is..."

Leian's heart trembled, and he unconsciously recalled the move Tyrannosaurus Demos had used to defeat Margaret.

Both attacks primarily used the "Devour" Profundity of the Laws of Darkness, but Daoer's attack before him was countless times more powerful.

At the same time, precisely because it was so powerful, Leian sensed even more clearly the essence of "devouring" everything.

Under the influence of that essence, the Death Profundity regarding soul disintegration that Leian had been researching over these past days became increasingly clear.

Who knew how much time passed? When Leian awoke from his epiphany, his consciousness had already returned to his body.

As he savored the insight into the Death Rule that lingered in his heart, Leian suddenly sensed a slight loosening in the Destruction Rule, which had been stagnant for a long time. He immediately closed his eyes and silently deduced it.

Not long afterward, Leian opened his eyes. A trace of enlightenment emerged in his pitch-black pupils.

"Soul Attack... so that's how it is!"

As the saying went, once one point was understood, a hundred others became clear.

The Soul Disintegration Profundity Leian had comprehended from the Death Rule, when reflected upon the Destruction Rule, naturally allowed him to comprehend a trace of Destruction Profundity concerning Soul Attacks.

The four great rules formed a whole, and this insight happened to bring Leian's accumulation in the Destruction Rule to a boundary—the boundary of becoming a god.

"It's here!"

At that moment, it was as if a blessing had descended upon him. The feeling arising from the depths of his heart made Leian instinctively raise his head.

"Buzzz~~~"

A vast force that shook the soul suddenly descended, completely enveloping Leian. The surrounding space instantly warped, seemingly isolating Leian from all other regions.

Immediately afterward, Leian's entire body rose uncontrollably into the air.

"The laws of heaven and earth truly are terrifying!"

Though he had long been prepared, when he personally experienced this boundless, ancient, and peculiar power of the laws, Leian was still incomparably shaken.

Before the mighty power of these laws of heaven and earth, Leian felt for the first time that he was merely an ant.

At the same time, throughout the entire plane, every god-level expert turned their gaze toward Leian's location.

Once the laws of heaven and earth descended upon a material plane, they would produce a trace of disturbance no matter how far away they were. Saint Realm experts might not notice such faint fluctuations, but they could never escape the senses of god-level experts.

"Has someone become a god again?"

"Judging by the location, it should be on the Youquan Continent. Is it Margaret, Nikesi, or one of the other Saint Realm peak experts?"

"Darknight is quite lucky!"

While the god-level experts of the other four continents were making guesses, a divine sense belonging to a god-level expert extended from a hidden valley in the middle section of the Youquan Mountain Range. When it covered Leian's figure, it suddenly paused.

"It's actually him!"

The owner of the divine sense seemed unable to believe it.

Compared to the calm elsewhere, the southern section of the Youquan Mountain Range had erupted into an uproar. Those weak magical beasts did not understand why all the Saint Realm magical beasts had left their territories and were rushing in one direction.

Elsewhere, Colin, the Undead Saint Archmage, was also approaching the canyon under the protection of the Nine-Headed Serpent Emperor.

No matter how turbulent the outside world became, Leian had reached the critical moment.

Of course, with the laws of heaven and earth present, Leian did not need to do anything at all.

At this moment, a special power entered Leian's mind and enveloped his soul. At that instant... every secret of Leian's soul was laid bare, and the Destruction Rule he had comprehended was naturally also seen through by this special power.

"Sizzle, sizzle~~"

Above Leian's head, a force containing the aura of "rules" began to gather. At the same time, destruction energy surged toward it madly. Massive amounts of elemental energy from heaven and earth poured into the stone cave in the canyon, ultimately converging at a single point.

In only a moment, a jet-black crystal radiating black light floated above Leian's head. It was precisely a Destruction Attribute Lowgod Godhead.

The instant the godhead formed, it naturally established a connection with Leian's soul.

This was because the godhead had formed according to the aura of Leian's soul, making it completely compatible with him.

Even if one successfully refined another person's godhead, it could never compare to a godhead formed by the laws of heaven and earth according to one's own soul.

"A godhead."

Looking up at the floating godhead radiating black light, Leian was incomparably excited. Though he had never doubted that he could become a god, when this moment truly arrived, he still could not remain calm.

"At last, I've become a god!"

Just as Leian could not help sighing with emotion, a message suddenly appeared in his mind. The laws of heaven and earth are asking me to choose between becoming a god outside my body or within it!

Though he understood the agony of splitting his soul, Leian did not hesitate in the slightest and directly chose to become a god outside his body.

The moment Leian made his decision, within his Soul Ocean, his spherical soul began to split evenly under the protection of the laws of heaven and earth.

"Ah—"

Almost the instant it began splitting, Leian could not help releasing a scream of extreme agony. This pain was ten or even a hundred times worse than the suffering he had endured when fusing with a magic crystal core.

Fortunately, protected by the laws of heaven and earth, Leian was not worried about any danger to his life.

Several breaths later, Leian's spherical soul finally split into two, becoming two smaller "round pearls." Immediately afterward, one of the "pearls" flew directly out of Leian's body.

Then, this pearl-like soul effortlessly fused into the Destruction Attribute Lowgod Godhead. Soul and godhead merged into one—this was a sign that refining the godhead had succeeded.

"Whew!" At this moment, Leian regained his ability to think.

However, he clearly felt that he had become much weaker. Splitting his soul in two had caused too much damage to it. Still, one more divine clone meant one more life; no matter how great the pain, it was worth it.

"How strange."

Both his main body and that godhead contained Leian's soul. There was no difference between them; both were Leian. Suddenly—

Rumble, rumble—

The surrounding space trembled. Leian's soul within the godhead strangely sensed a peculiar place. It was located at the very core of boundless space, a vast and limitless plane that only those who had reached the divine realm could sense—the Divine Power Ocean!

"Boom—"

It was a misty space. There was no light in the sky; only the black radiance emitted by the Divine Power Ocean itself barely illuminated this plane.

Endless tides of divine power surged. Waves rose and fell. This was the Destruction Divine Power Ocean!

Through the soul within the godhead, Leian could sense a certain depth beneath the surface of the Divine Power Ocean.

The deeper one went into this ocean, the purer the divine power became. Yet Leian could only barely sense a point ten meters beneath the Divine Power Ocean's surface.

Though the difference was merely ten meters, the purity of the divine power differed by nearly twofold.

Rumble, rumble—

At that moment, a vast amount of divine power ten meters beneath the surface of the Divine Power Ocean suddenly vanished into thin air. Following a special passage formed by the laws of heaven and earth, it directly descended to Leian's location. Then, centered around the Destruction Attribute Lowgod Godhead fused with the pearl-like soul, it began condensing a divine body.

"Sizzle, sizzle—" Clearly, beginning from the head and moving downward, a body identical in appearance to Leian's took shape.

Immediately afterward, with a thought from Leian, he controlled the divine power within the body and condensed it into a set of black robes over its surface.

At that moment, the special force representing the laws of heaven and earth vanished into thin air, as if it had never appeared at all.