Gold Soul Clan! Buddha Lord!

After gaining a preliminary understanding of their situation, the three men experimented to see if they could revert to their original forms, and as it turned out, they could.

Qi Tian watched them freely switch between their human forms and their Golden Buddha Forms, feeling increasingly curious about everything within his sea of consciousness.

After all, he was not a believer in Buddhism, yet the Lotus Throne Golden Body and the Sanskrit Phantom within his sea of consciousness, combined with the golden liquid that had now transformed three individuals into beings capable of turning into Buddhas, were all linked to the "Buddha" he knew from his past life.

Unknowingly, time slipped by until the next morning, when the warriors who usually rose early to hunt gathered before Qi Tian to offer their prayers.

Jin Shi and the other two did not join them; instead, they prepared to find a place far from the village to spar and see exactly what level their strength had reached.

Qi Tian's consciousness now covered a range of over a hundred miles, keeping the trio's battle well within his perception, and this contest, which lasted from day until night, completely reorganized Qi Tian's understanding.

At first, when Jin Shi and Iron Hand began their bout, the two were quite restrained, using only their human forms.

Yet, even in their ordinary state, every punch and kick they threw could destroy the mountain forests within a radius of several hundred meters.

The terrifying power radiating outward caused tremors for kilometers, leading to rocks tumbling down the mountainside.

However, as they fought on, perhaps enjoying the thrill, they began to use their full strength in every attack, eventually shifting into their Golden Body forms.

When the two engaged in their Golden Body forms, a single full-power strike shattered a mountain peak two or three kilometers high, and the shockwaves raged wildly, causing what felt like a violent earthquake within a range of over ten kilometers.

The shockwaves churned up mud and stone over ten meters high, and towering trees dozens of meters tall were shattered by the vibrations, sending debris mixed with dirt and dust flying dozens of meters into the air.

The two golden figures, standing over five meters tall, looked like apocalyptic deities under the sun, fighting all the way to the edge of Qi Tian's consciousness, and eventually even beyond it.

Once they left the range of his consciousness, Qi Tian could no longer see the three, but he could still sense the aftermath of their battle, which continued until nightfall.

Thanks to this great battle, the five hundred or so people in the tribal village witnessed with their own eyes how, under the blessing of the "Giant Stone God" they worshipped, the three strongest hunters of their tribe transformed into beings akin to gods.

From then on, everyone's faith in Qi Tian reached a state of near-fanaticism, and this change significantly accelerated the speed at which the golden light in Qi Tian's sea of consciousness filled the Sanskrit Phantom.

In the time that followed, Qi Tian had Jin Shi and the others explore the world in three different directions to see if there were any other civilizations beyond this primeval forest.

Having received Qi Tian's power, the three had completed the transition from "human" to "god" in almost a single day, and they had no objections whatsoever to Qi Tian's instructions.

Although it was a bit arrogant to call them "gods," in the eyes of the other tribesmen, the ability to fly, move through the earth, shatter a mountain peak with a single punch, and transform into a five-meter-tall golden Buddha was no different from being a "god."

And Qi Tian, the being who created these "gods," was supreme in their hearts.

After receiving Qi Tian's orders, Jin Shi and the others first ascended rapidly into space, discovered that this was a planet, and returned to tell Qi Tian this information.

Then, following his instructions, they flew rapidly in one direction at high altitude within the range of his consciousness.

Jin Shi was the fastest, reaching nearly three kilometers per second in his Golden Body state, and 1.5 kilometers per second in his normal human form.

Maintaining his normal speed, it took him forty hours to circle the planet, and upon receiving this information, Qi Tian realized that this planet was several times larger than the Earth of his past life, and the entire planet consisted of only one continent.

In the following time, the three used the tribal village as a starting point to carefully explore the entire planet.

As the three continuously sent back information, he learned the general situation of the planet; although there was no more prosperous civilization here, there were many tribes of varying sizes.

The planet was home to many ferocious beasts of immense size and considerable strength, whose forms were somewhat similar to the animals of his past life on Earth.

But it was as if they had evolved, appearing more ferocious and somewhat like the magical beasts found in web novels.

If Qi Tian had not arrived, the humans on this planet would likely have struggled to survive under these powerful beasts.

But now, with three super-humans transformed by the golden liquid, the top of the food chain on this planet had become Jin Shi and his companions, and in the future, it might become the entire human race.

To control the entire planet more quickly and gain the faith of all its humans, Qi Tian used a few more drops of the golden liquid, diluted them, and used them to transform everyone in the original Jin Shi tribe.

Due to physical limitations, the five hundred or so people in the tribe, apart from Jin Shi and the other two, could not fly even after absorbing the energy from the golden liquid, and their strength was much lower.

However, even the weakest among them could easily defeat a beast at the level of a Silver Wolf King, just as Jin Shi had done in the beginning.

Most importantly, everyone transformed by the energy of the golden liquid could shift into a Golden Body form.

But as long as they were adults, whether they were young and strong or elderly, their height could only reach a little over five meters; it seemed this was the physical limit of the Golden Body form.

What surprised Qi Tian was that the offspring born from the union of a man and a woman who had been transformed by the golden liquid also possessed the ability to shift into the Golden Body form.

This reminded Qi Tian of a web novel he had read in his past life called Coiling Dragon; he was just like Beirut, who created the Four Divine Beast Clans of the Yulan Continent, creating a new race on this strange planet.

Qi Tian intended to give this newly created race a name. He had originally thought of calling them the "Gold Buddha Clan," but he did not believe in Buddhism, and these tribesmen, apart from their appearance, did not have a single characteristic of the "Buddha" he knew from his past life.

Therefore, he simply called them the "Gold Soul Clan," though he still named the Golden Body form the "Golden Buddha Form," since its appearance was indeed that of a "Buddha."

At the same time, he had the Gold Soul Clan members call him "Buddha Lord," because he had a premonition that when the Sanskrit Phantom was completely filled and he shed his stone body to emerge, he would also take the form of a "Buddha."

Under Qi Tian's guidance, the Gold Soul Clan obtained information about other tribes brought back by Jin Shi and the others, and they began to expand in all directions.

Those that were close by were directly absorbed into the tribe of Jin Shi and the others, expanding their territory.

At the same time, the newly joined people were made to worship Qi Tian, the "Buddha Lord," thereby accelerating the filling of the Sanskrit Phantom in Qi Tian's sea of consciousness.

As for the tribes far away from the Gold Soul Clan's territory, they arranged for tribesmen to head out in different directions, first using force to subdue these tribes, then providing them with protection so they could better survive the beasts, and finally instilling in them the existence of Qi Tian, the "Buddha Lord."