Chen Ye finished speaking without paying any attention to Wei Xiaofeng, who remained standing there, and went back to the dormitory alone.
He had been lying on his bed for only a few minutes when the door opened and Wei Xiaofeng came in as well.
He glanced over at Chen Ye, then quietly climbed into bed.
On the lower bunk, Chen Ye lay there with his eyes closed the whole time, his mind immersed in the Kingdom of God.
At that moment, though his mind stood here, his soul had already flown away.
An ordinary-looking book lay on the ground in front of him.
The book was dark brown all over, with a string of characters Chen Ye didn't recognize written on it.
But he didn't need to recognize them, because the book contained something he knew very well.
Four mighty forces, each possessing a terrifying power on the same level as his own core authority.
The only difference was that the power within him was gradually awakening, while the four forces inside the book were already in their complete forms.
So when Chen Ye looked at the book, he didn't even need to think to know what it was.
"Seriously, what the hell is this Travels of Groselle? I have the Dragon of Imagination Martial Soul, not God's Martial Soul."
"How is anyone supposed to deal with this?" Chen Ye muttered, a rare trace of helplessness on his face.
After awakening the Dragon of Imagination Martial Soul, he had suspected that as his strength gradually increased, he might be contaminated.
But damn, instead of contamination, he got Travels of Groselle first.
And the worst part was, it would have been one thing if the book were empty. Instead, it contained four kinds of Origin.
That meant he had five Origins in total, counting the Visionary Origin within him.
These five Origins corresponded to the Chaos Sea—or, one could say, God.
With these five Origins appearing here, there was no need to ask: God's contamination was definitely among them.
Although it wasn't affecting him at all right now, and he couldn't even sense any contamination, Chen Ye already understood that once he reached the level of a Titled Douluo and became a god, he might be hit directly with God's contamination.
When the five great Origins fused, he wouldn't be able to withstand it.
In fact, "withstand" wasn't even the issue. Once he was contaminated and became God's vessel, the whole world would be finished along with him.
By then, neither the Divine Realm nor the God Star would be of any use.
When faced with the awakened God, death was the only outcome.
At the thought, Chen Ye's expression darkened to the extreme, but he didn't feel despair.
After all, ever since awakening the Dragon of Imagination Martial Soul, he had already considered ways to resist the contamination.
Besides establishing an organization like a church or the Spirit Hall to preach and spread his faith,
he could also pull off a move no one had ever tried before.
Find four people to become his avatars, then have each of them bear one of the powers.
In other words, those four people would be him, yet also independent individuals with no connection to him at all.
He would have each of them occupy a different Pathway, then merge with them at the most critical moment.
Or, after they became gods, he could strip away all their personalities, along with God's consciousness.
"If God's consciousness awakens inside me alone, I definitely can't beat it. But what if it awakens separately inside five people?"
"This isn't the world of Lord of the Mysteries. There's only so much of God's consciousness—it isn't infinite."
"Then I'll strip away the wills of the other four. I refuse to believe I can't beat one-fifth of God."
Chen Ye's eyes flickered as he looked at Travels of Groselle before him.
He calmly walked over and picked up the brown book bound in sheepskin.
As Chen Ye looked at the book, it seemed like an ocean as deep as an endless abyss.
With his current strength, he couldn't open it at all, but extracting the corresponding authorities from within wasn't difficult.
The authorities he could extract with his current Three-Ring strength were the first three core authorities.
After extracting them, all he had to do was find someone and have them fuse with that power.
That person would have a complete personality and complete emotions. They would be a living, breathing person in their own right.
Only the deepest layer of their consciousness would become Chen Ye.
Of course, they would still remain themselves. Otherwise, if they were all avatars under his control, God would most likely awaken inside Chen Ye in the end.
It was a rather audacious move, one that might only be possible in this completely different universe.
At the thought, Chen Ye looked at Travels of Groselle in his hand, and his eyes turned pale gold.
Gray-white scales appeared on his face and arms.
As he placed his hand on Travels of Groselle, the four powers began to whirl madly, even tugging at the Dragon of Imagination Martial Soul behind him.
Chen Ye's gaze gradually turned hazy, but his face remained expressionless.
As he reached in, four entirely different powers began to appear in his mind.
These were four complete powers, not merely at Sequence One—all of them were the Origin powers of Sequence 0.
Once Chen Ye became a god and his own power reached its peak, these four powers, these four essences, would be unsealed at the same time. Then the five would become one, and God would fully awaken.
After seeing Travels of Groselle, Chen Ye had already understood this—or rather, God hadn't even bothered to hide it.
"Goddamn God, thinking you can use my body to come back to life. Fine, let's see which of us knows how to play this game." Chen Ye muttered, his eyes flickering.
The scales on his hand began to melt, and his hand had already closed around the Sun.
A terrifying, sunlike searing sensation washed over him. Chen Ye ignored the other three powers and suddenly reached for the Sun.
He seized the specks of starlight on its surface and raised his arm.
His arm, charred to a crisp, was abruptly shattered by his own hand. Then he imagined a new, intact arm into existence.
Watching his arm become reality, Chen Ye looked down at the points of light in his hand.
This was the power of the Sun—or, to put it another way, three of the great authorities wielded by Sequence 0 Sun.
When Chen Ye infused this power into someone else, they would immediately gain the Sun Martial Soul.
And they would form an essential connection with the Sun Origin inside the Travels of Groselle in Chen Ye's hands.
"What a treasure. It's the most terrifying curse, but also the greatest opportunity."
As Chen Ye spoke, he shook his head. All kinds of different perspectives appeared before his eyes: those of the five people under his control.
Looking through these perspectives, Chen Ye easily singled out one of them.
It was a boy lying on the upper bunk. He turned his head slightly to look at Xie Xie in the opposite bed, then glanced at Tang Wulin on the lower bunk.
His fear flowed easily into Chen Ye's mind.
And as Chen Ye felt the boy's emotions, a faint smile appeared on his face.
He raised his hand, and the specks of red power in his palm flowed straight into the boy's Island of Subconscious.
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