After losing the temporary divine power, Huo Yuhao felt that his body had grown much stronger, but he also sensed something strange.
He immediately entered the Spirit Sea and asked Electrolux for advice:
"Elder Yi, what's wrong with me? My meridians aren't damaged, but my Soul Power feels unstable when it circulates."
After examining the Soul Power and meridians inside Huo Yuhao's body, Electrolux responded with a grave expression:
"Yuhao, until you reach the Titled Douluo level, you absolutely must not use this kind of power, which resembles faith, again. The Soul Power inside you is already showing signs of turning into divine power too soon."
"The total amount of your Soul Power isn't enough to undergo a qualitative change, but this temporary divine power has prematurely triggered the transformation of some of it."
"If it transforms completely, your divine power in the future will be extremely low in quality because it won't have been compressed in sufficient quantity."
After learning about his condition, Huo Yuhao felt a little regretful that he couldn't use this power repeatedly. Then he noticed Life Watch, which he had just comprehended, and felt tempted to try it out.
But just then, Electrolux interrupted him again.
"Yuhao, I have to make two things clear to you. What you comprehended this time wasn't a force, but a law."
"A law?" Huo Yuhao was slightly stunned. According to what the God of Death had said earlier, wasn't this a power that only gods could comprehend? He immediately listened closely to Electrolux's explanation.
"That's right. Gods possess three kinds of energy within them: divine power, divine consciousness, and laws. They also have divine bodies to bear these energies."
"In your world, five conditions must be met to become a god."
"Your Spiritual Power must turn into divine consciousness, your Soul Power must transform into divine power, your body must become a divine body, you must comprehend at least one law, and finally, faith must link them all together."
"Simply put, a godhood is actually a god-level Soul Tool. Its core is the power of law."
"Once your divine consciousness and divine power are infused into the Soul Tool core, they're released through the Soul Tool casing formed from your body. The part that links the Soul Tool core and casing is faith."
"The reason your body has never been affected by your divine consciousness is that your divine consciousness and body lack faith to link them together."
"Thus, even though your Spiritual Power is far greater than your Soul Power and physical strength, it won't damage your body."
Huo Yuhao thought for a while, then considered what he had learned about godhood. He briefly explained his understanding to Electrolux to check whether he had gotten it right.
"So according to what you're saying, Elder Yi, those so-called Godhood Inheritances involve the original god stripping away their own power of law and attaching it to the inheritor."
"And since laws vary in how much they amplify power—that is, since the Soul Tools have different levels—that's how the classifications of Third-Level God, Second-Level God, First-Level God, and God King came about."
Seeing how quickly Huo Yuhao had understood, Electrolux nodded in approval.
"Yuhao, you're exactly right. For that reason, once you reach godhood, there are two different ways to cultivate."
"One is to keep cultivating laws. As your laws grow stronger, you can use their amplifying effect on divine power cultivation to increase your cultivation speed, strengthening your divine power as you improve your combat strength."
"The other is to cultivate divine power, relying on its own power to improve yourself. The laws are limited by the maximum strength of the laws in the current Divine Realm, but divine power isn't."
Huo Yuhao had more or less grasped the Divine Realm's cultivation system, but he had a different opinion about the methods Electrolux had described.
"But Elder Yi, if increasing your godhood can speed up your divine power cultivation, then prioritizing the improvement of cultivation efficiency should naturally be better than cultivating directly."
"Another thing: if godhood can improve your cultivation, why do so many gods give up their godhood?"
After hearing Huo Yuhao's questions, Electrolux considered how to explain, then spoke again:
"Yuhao, have you ever wondered what would happen if you infused a Level 4 Soul Tool with Soul Power at the Soul Emperor level?"
"That's right. The Soul Tool would break. Godhood works the same way. Once your divine power far exceeds the godhood's limit, your godhood becomes a restriction instead."
"During battle, you have to avoid relying on your godhood's amplification as much as possible, or it might shatter."
"Likewise, the core of godhood is still law. Once your divine power exceeds the law's limit, you naturally can't gain any more amplification from the law."
After hearing Electrolux's explanation, Huo Yuhao understood the reason behind Godhood Inheritance. He also understood why most gods wanted to rid themselves of their godhood as quickly as possible.
The previous generation's Sea God and Asura God, for example, had probably long since exceeded the carrying capacity of their godhood with their divine power. It must have reached the point where it interfered with their fighting.
Finding someone to inherit their godhood was no easy task, either. Not just anyone could inherit laws of a certain level of strength.
If the heir lacked sufficient talent, not only would they struggle to inherit the laws, but their body might not even be able to withstand the power of the godhood.
Only beings like Destruction God King and God King Tang, who were determined to bind themselves to the Divine Realm, would keep clinging to their godhood.
"Elder Yi, my body isn't strong enough yet to fully use my divine consciousness, so I have to limit my use of laws."
"But at the same time, I need to strengthen my laws as much as possible. Ideally, I'd raise them straight to the current limit of the Divine Realm."
Electrolux nodded with a smile. "Yuhao, with your talent, comprehending God King-level laws won't be a problem. Don't rush. Focus on building a solid foundation."
"We also have Little Scorpion and Little Snow Maiden to thank this time. If they hadn't desperately protected your meridians and body, your body wouldn't have withstood the impact."
Only then did Huo Yuhao notice that Ice Empress and Snow Empress were fast asleep nearby. Even his long conversation with Electrolux hadn't woken them.
Looking at Tian Meng, who was also asleep in the corner, Huo Yuhao bowed to all the Soul Spirits in the Spirit Sea.
"Thank you all for helping me. When I become a god, I'll make sure you all obtain godhood."
Afterward, Huo Yuhao shifted his consciousness back to the outside world, preparing to rejoin Xuan Zi and the others.
At that moment, Electrolux sank into thought once more.
"Where did the power that helped Yuhao at the end come from? It instantly perfected a law that was already half-formed."
"But since Yuhao doesn't seem concerned, there shouldn't be any problem. With his divine consciousness, he couldn't have missed something unusual."
Once he had thought it through, Electrolux stopped dwelling on it. After his fierce battle with the Death Phantom, he was exhausted as well. He entered the Second Sea of Consciousness and fell into a temporary slumber to recover the divine consciousness he had expended.
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