Becoming a God

"Fortunately, it didn't exceed a hundred years!"

After calculating the time it would take for his equipment slot to refine this godhead, Aier felt a sense of relief.

After all, Olga had only given him a hundred-year vacation.

If the refinement of the godhead took longer than a hundred years, Aier would have no choice but to "equip" the godhead to pose as a god-level powerhouse and fulfill the guard duty after the century mark.

It seemed the equipment slot had not let him down.

With a hundred-year vacation, Aier could easily slip away from the Crimson Blood Tribe just before he finished refining the godhead and mastered the Earth Walking Profound Mystery, allowing him to find a secluded place to make his breakthrough.

Once he achieved the Saint Realm, he would have far more options.

With a plan in mind, Aier didn't dawdle. He hung a "cultivating" sign outside his door and closed it.

"Refine!"

He silently commanded the space to switch the godhead from "equipped" to "refining," and the buffs provided by the godhead in the equipment slot vanished instantly.

The cliff-like drop in his strength filled Aier with anxiety and unease, but he knew this was a necessary process.

Fortunately, Aier was lucky; the Crimson Blood Tribe did not encounter any crises while the equipment slot was refining the godhead.

In the blink of an eye, sixty-three years passed.

"It's about time!"

Aier sensed the progress of the godhead refining within his soul space; it was time to find a location for his breakthrough.

Leaving his room, Aier blended into a team of Saint Realm miners and entered the mines. Relying on his familiarity with the tunnels from over a million years of work, he quickly arrived at an abandoned mining pit.

"This will do!"

After a rough estimation of the distance, this abandoned pit was at least fifty miles away from where Olga and the other god-level powerhouses of the Crimson Blood Tribe resided. No other Saint Realm miners came here, making it relatively safe.

After setting up a barrier to conceal his aura, Aier sat cross-legged to adjust his state.

Half a year later—

The godhead within the equipment slot in Aier's mind was completely refined, and all its properties were absorbed by the equipment slot.

At this moment, the godhead in the equipment slot had vanished entirely, leaving only two spheres of light—one large and one small—in Aier's soul space.

The large yellow sphere contained the complete Earth Walking Profound Mystery.

The smaller black sphere was the essence of the godhead.

Without a moment's hesitation, Aier focused his mind, and the yellow sphere instantly merged into his soul.

"Hum—"

In that instant, the laws of heaven and earth descended, condensing an earth-element godhead that hovered above Aier's head.

"Become a god outside the body?"

"Become a god inside the body?"

As the laws of heaven and earth descended, a will emerged within Aier's soul.

"Become a god outside the body!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Aier chose to become a god outside the body!

With the equipment slot at his disposal, Aier could, if he wished, use its power to possess seven elemental god clones and four law god clones!

To choose to become a god inside the body would be to slash his greatest ability in half.

Following Aier's intent, his soul was brutally torn in two by the laws of heaven and earth.

"Ah—"

Amidst his agonizing scream, the half of his soul torn away by the laws of heaven and earth flew out of his soul space, merged into the godhead in the sky, and connected to the elemental ocean plane through the laws of heaven and earth.

Without hesitation, Aier's soul power reached deep into the elemental ocean he could now access, rapidly absorbing the divine power from the ocean of energy.

Once the laws of heaven and earth dissipated, he drew the godhead into his soul space. Aier's divine sense radiated outward, and he could perceive several powerful auras rapidly approaching his location.

Without delay, Aier quickly suppressed his divine aura, sank into the ground, and vanished from the abandoned mining area.

"Over 1.4 million years, and I, Aier, have finally begun to step onto the stage of Hell!"

Standing on a mountain peak above the mines, Aier stood with his hands behind his back, his heart filled with soaring ambition.

Over a million years of forbearance had finally paid off.

With an ability like the equipment slot, all he had lacked was the most primitive accumulation.

And now, he had successfully crossed the threshold.

Beyond the breakthrough in his profound mysteries, absorbing that trace of godhead essence had also pushed his physical strength to a new level, advancing from a hardness comparable to a low-level divine artifact to being completely on par with one.

It could be said that even though Aier was still in a stage of soul weakness, his strength was no longer insignificant among low-level gods.

Watching the guard patrol flying through the sky, the arrogant look on Aier's face faded away.

As he was now, he was still quite far from looking down on Hell.

At the very least, he still needed the Crimson Blood Tribe as a platform for the time being.

Forget it, he would just endure it for a while longer; once he obtained a second Earth-style Demigod Divine Spark and became a Highgod, he would consider running away!

A lone Demigod was simply too dangerous in Hell.

Setting everything else aside, he was essentially a walking one hundred Inkstones!

He might as well go back and continue his cultivation!

Before comprehending the Profound Mysteries of the Laws, Aier had been unable to understand what the so-called "Laws" were due to the barrier of his own perception.

Having comprehended the Profound Mysteries of the Laws with the assistance of his equipment slots, Aier had naturally broken through that barrier, allowing him to perceive and utilize the Profound Mysteries of the Laws.

However, compared to comprehending the Profound Mysteries of the Laws himself, Aier felt that refining a Divine Spark and directly absorbing the Profound Mysteries within it was more suitable for him.

There were still over thirty years left before Aier's leave ended.

In the conjectures of others, Aier, having refined a Divine Spark, should be spending these thirty-plus years accumulating divine power.

But in reality, Aier was actually developing the capabilities of his Earth Walking Profound Mystery.

When it came to comprehending the Laws, with the help of his equipment slots, Aier did not need to waste any time.

Creating combat techniques suitable for himself as soon as possible was the top priority.

The countless techniques from the novels, anime, and films he had seen in his past life became the fodder for Aier to create his own combat moves.

Often, research only lacks a direction.

What Aier was doing now was simply using the Earth Walking Profound Mystery to replicate those abilities from his memories.

Thirty-plus years of time was enough for Aier to initially create a few combat-oriented moves based on the characteristics of the Earth Walking Profound Mystery.

"It's Aier!"

"Shut up, you guy, can't you feel the aura on him? From now on, you must call him Lord Aier!"

Thirty-plus years later, Aier's reappearance caused quite a stir among the many Saint Realm experts in the mining area.

Because he was a newly ascended deity, Olga did not have Aier participate in the more dangerous escort missions, but instead had Aier guard the Crimson Blood Mine area.

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