His obsession with this sword ran so deep that the Origin Heaven Tribulation Sword he crafted by hand kept drawing closer to the original work in every respect. The stronger he became, the closer it drew—until even transforming into the death ordained for the cosmos was no distant prospect.
As for his swordsmanship, through unremitting effort and constant point allocation along the way, he had successfully pushed a sword art that originally could only be cultivated to the Seventh Sense to the height of the Ninth Sense.
Yet he had not naturally awakened his own divinity, become an Awakened One, and ignited the embryonic form of a Divine Cosmos.
Though only Athena and Hades, the two chief gods, were active on Earth Star at present, that did not mean the other gods did not exist.
Even if those two chief gods fought until the world was destroyed, the gods would not care too much. The world ending because of prophecy and the world ending for some other reason were entirely different concepts.
The former would draw fate's backlash; even the King of Gods might fall because of it. The latter, however, came with no such price.
For even if the world ended, new humans would naturally be born in the future, and the ending of Ragnarok would not change.
It was merely that, as the Age of Gods receded and heaven and earth gradually changed, Mount Olympus had moved farther from the human world. To preserve their strength, the gods had also fallen into slumber.
And those who could slumber could naturally awaken.
If Zhao Cheng truly comprehended the Ninth Sense as a mortal and grasped the Cosmos, then before he could Ascend to God, a righteous group beating would probably come for him.
Fate could not be defied, but