"This is..."
Odin, standing beside Yu Chen, sensed a force descending the instant spiritual energy and matter were exchanged between the inside and outside of the world. His somewhat aged face instantly returned to the appearance of his prime.
Moreover, the power within him rapidly recovered in an exceedingly peculiar manner.
It was a change brought about by forces within the world that resembled Odin's divine authorities, pouring into his body amid the world's rejection process.
In the past, when these powers were rejected by the world's interior, they would all be dumped directly into the outside. Odin had to expend considerable effort to gather them back.
Demigods and false gods required the aid of faith and the power of prayers. Without faith serving as a beacon to attract and purify the chaotic spiritual energy and primal qi, those demigods and false gods would naturally be twisted and corrupted bit by bit by the heterogeneous environment outside, becoming evil gods.
This was also one reason why the deities of many minor pantheons chose to remain within the world when they lacked the protection of true gods.
To them, dying of old age within the world was better than slowly turning into monsters outside it.
Many deities lingering in the cracks between the inside and outside of the world were similar to Odin. As some of the people driving this act forward, they too gained enormous benefits from this ritual.
Powers related to their divine authorities naturally gathered in their hands.
"I am death!"
Accompanied by a furious roar, a towering, burly dog-headed man draped in fur as black as the night sky appeared in the cracks between the inside and outside of the world.
His upper body was bare, with golden ornaments around his hands and neck. A dense aura