Life Becomes Divine

For the next stretch of time, Richard remained in the Coiling Dragon World, digesting the gains he had made in the Hokage world.

On a whim, he even found a large Magic Crystal Mine and planted the God Tree there, leaving the Water Element Divine Clone to guard it.

Later, he could see how the God Tree Fruit borne in the Coiling Dragon World differed from those of the Hokage world.

He was busy. Even with two Divine Clones, he still could not keep up. At times like this, the Shadow Clone Technique was truly a godsend. He did not need Shadow Clones for battle; he only needed them to work.

He needed to study the Ninjutsu, Sealing Techniques, Barrier Techniques, Yin-Yang Release, Sage Arts, and more that he had brought back from the Ninja World.

There was also a great deal of research to carry out: the treasures obtained from the Ninja World, the Rinnegan, and the Divine Artifact conversion of the Kamui Eye.

He needed to comprehend the Laws of Time and Space, Life Law, Laws of Fate, Laws of Wind, Law of Water, Laws of Earth, Laws of Fire, and Laws of Thunder.

Several Divine Artifacts had not been used for long before they needed to be upgraded and modified again. He also needed to forge an exclusive Divine Artifact for his main body. Furthermore, he had felt in the Ninja World that lacking Divine Artifacts for sealing and confinement made things troublesome whenever he encountered enemies who needed to be captured alive, so he also needed to forge such Divine Artifacts.

He needed to construct his own Dojutsu Small World, and the Small World within the Kamui Eye also needed to be modified.

In addition, he needed to fuse Dragon Race Alchemy, Divine Machine Refinement, the Ninja World's Yin-Yang Release and Sealing Techniques, and the Coiling Dragon World's native Magic Arrays and forging methods into an artifact-refining method exclusively suited to himself.

There was simply too much to do. Richard worked on and off for decades before barely sorting everything out, and that was only thanks to the help of a large number of Shadow Clones.

Over those decades, thanks to the gains from the Ninja World, he made tremendous progress in Life Law, the Laws of Time and Space, and the laws of wind, fire, water, earth, and thunder.

Life Law even surpassed the Laws of Fate, allowing him to become divine one step earlier.

Richard still followed his usual practice, quietly going overseas to become divine before quietly returning. Stability was the priority.

He once again experienced the pain of having his soul split in two. Although the Soul Gold Bead could heal his injuries, the thought of having to endure such pain several more times made the road ahead seem hopeless.

With Life Law becoming divine, Richard cast off another burden from his main body. From now on, matters concerning Life Law and Yin-Yang Release could be handed over to the Life Divine Clone.

As for the Laws of Fire, he had previously received the memory legacy of the King of Bronze and Fire, so his comprehension was fairly swift.

As for the Laws of Earth, Richard made another trip to the Dragon World and exchanged insights into the Laws of Earth with Xia Mi. His comprehension had even surpassed that of the Laws of Fire. At present, he had entered the Mysteries of Earth Element, the Gravity Space Profound Mystery, and the Mysteries of Life Force, and he was progressing rapidly. It was foreseeable that he might surpass the Law of Water in the near future.

The Laws of Thunder were average. He could only be said to have gotten started, and his comprehension was not particularly fast.

The result of making extensive use of Shadow Clones was that every time he dispelled them, his head throbbed painfully, and he always felt that one day he would be unable to bear it and his head would explode.

Especially since he used Shadow Clones to comprehend profound laws and mysteries.

At this moment, within the secluded Nibelungen, the Life Divine Clone in green robes had taken the place of the Wind Element Divine Clone.

The Wind Element Divine Clone had been sent by Richard to take over the small continent where they had seized the Soul Gold Bead last time.

Previously, they had lacked manpower and could only abandon that small continent. Now that he had spare Divine Clones to send over, he naturally intended to take it.

If nothing else, he could at least plunder plenty of valuable resources.

Richard's consumption of resources was now enormous.

This time, merely constructing his own Dojutsu Small World had nearly bankrupted Richard.

If he merely wanted to build an ordinary Small World, it naturally would not cost much. But if he wanted to build one sturdy enough to withstand Richard fighting enemies within it, the resources required would be astronomical.

Even so, Richard had only barely established a Small World spanning a thousand li. It could barely be called a Grotto-Heaven Small World.

Although this world was fairly sturdy, it still could not withstand Richard attacking at full strength and would collapse under the impact. There was no helping it; he lacked resources.

It was primarily meant to serve as a rear base, not for use against enemies.

The Kamui Eye, which Richard had strengthened and modified, was the special Divine Artifact meant to seal and confine enemies.

Richard forged a mirror, then fused the Kamui Eye into it.

Out of mischief, Richard named this mirror the Void Mirror. He only hoped that one day it would truly live up to that name and become a genuine Extreme Emperor Weapon.

Richard divided the Kamui Space into several regions, allowing it to suppress multiple targets.

After creating only these two spaces, Richard had barely any resources left. One had to know that this was after plundering the wealth of several Low-level Gods.

If it had been Richard just after he first became divine, he would not even have had enough to create half a space.

With his resources nearly exhausted, Richard had to replenish them as quickly as possible.

Furthermore, in the Coiling Dragon World, faith could also be used as a resource by God Level powerhouses. Thus, Richard was even less likely to let such a small continent slip away.

Since Richard only closed the Chat Group intermittently and often came online to chat with the group members,

half a year had passed in the Chat Group since he returned from the Ninja World.

Before he realized it, more than a year had passed in the Chat Group since he joined it.

From several group members who had joined in the first batch, he learned that less than a year had actually passed in the Chat Group's time between their joining and Richard's group's second batch joining.

Perhaps a third batch of group members would join at any moment.

The Chat Group happened to be discussing this very matter, and everyone was guessing what sort of worlds the next batch would come from.

Ye Zhen: Hopefully, more experts will join.

Lin Feng: Let there be one where it is easy to achieve immortality. Save this kid. I'm almost thirty, and immortality is already beyond hope.

Wan Wan: You're already a Grandmaster, and you still say immortality is beyond hope?

Lin Feng: You still haven't said what realm you're in. You're often offline, so you must be in seclusion. Have you also become a Grandmaster already?

Wan Wan: Guess.

Lin Feng: Definitely. You went to Yangzhou City early on, found Shi Long, and snatched the Longevity Formula. By the way, since you stole the Longevity Formula, what will happen to the Twin Dragons?

Wan Wan: What the hell does that have to do with me? Whether those two pathetic simps rise to prominence or not, Li Tang will win in the end anyway. What difference does it make whether they exist?

Lin Feng: I think you just dislike Xu Ziling. He met you first, yet he ran off to simp for Shi Feixuan.

Wan Wan: Neither of them is any good. One simped for Shi Feixuan, and the other simped for Li Xiuning. They even gave up the realm for women. Choosing beauty over the realm—how devoted. Yet neither of them got the woman in the end. They deserved it!

Sister Bao: Xu Si said this was love.

Ever since Xu Si learned that there were major figures watching over his world, he had completely let himself go and no longer interfered with Feng Baobao's messages in the group.

Feng Baobao was no longer penniless either. Richard had copied Divine Machine Refinement for her. Combined with her own Old Farmer Art and the miscellaneous cultivation methods and skills she had picked up from Na Dou Tong, although they were all low-grade stuff, she still gained quite a lot after uploading them to the group.