At the sight of this, Nerull could no longer sit still.
He abruptly raised the Deathbringer Staff in his hand, sending a stream of utterly pure death power into the River Styx.
It blocked the Red Lotus Karma Fire that surged forth like a life-reaping flood.
That utterly pure malicious intent—the power of death that did not regard evil as evil—could ward off the burning of the Red Lotus Karma Fire.
Seeing this, Liaofan stopped after expanding the Buddhist Kingdom until it faced Nerull across the River Styx.
With a beckoning gesture, the Karma Fire Red Lotus fell into his hand. At a flick of his finger, countless motes of light drifted down from it.
They took root and sprouted along the banks of the River Styx, transforming into blooms of red spider lilies that resisted death's invasion.
At the same time, those scattered sparks of karma fire filled the beings of Carceri on the other side of the River Styx with dread.
After Zhang Yuanbai, David, John, Liaofan, and Jie became gods in succession, Cheli, Orochimaru, and the others could no longer sit still either.
They had already fallen a step behind from the start, and now they had fallen another step behind in becoming gods.
As the saying went: one step slow, and every step thereafter slow.
If they continued waiting, then in the end, everyone feared they would draw water with a bamboo basket and come up empty-handed—year after year they would toil at embroidering wedding gowns, only for others to wear them.
Thus, looking at the pantheons that had already taken shape, they began one after another to ascend to godhood with the power of faith.
During this time, after Thor presided over several trials—and with the Wondrous Splendor Emperor personally presiding over several more—the world's