Gates of light flickered around the great hall. One exalted god after another stepped out of the passages, each wearing a more remarkable expression than the last.
The gods: ...
Tang San: ...
The two sides stared at each other across the empty hall, and the atmosphere fell into an indescribably strange stalemate.
Every chief god who had reached this point had pride and plans of their own.
Across the long ages of the Divine Realm, Godhood Inheritance had followed two very different sets of rules.
The first method was to cast a wide net through the God Realm Center.
Any god intending to retire would leave a seal of their origin in the Center's system ahead of time. If a living being in one of the countless subordinate worlds below met the minimum threshold they had set, the Center would automatically send an alert.
Someone selected this way only barely met the god's requirements. Whether they could truly inherit the Godhead remained unknown.
But there was a second mechanism, far more forceful and far rarer.
It bypassed the Center's judgment entirely. A god's Godhood and Godhead would resonate across worlds on their own.
This mechanism had no regard for reason.
Only when someone in a lower world achieved absolute perfection in talent, comprehension, and affinity with a particular law would the god's origin Godhead send out a powerful call and hum of its own accord.
An inheritor of that caliber was a priceless treasure, perfectly matched to the Godhood.
As it happened, everyone crowding into the hall today had come under the double bombardment of both mechanisms.
Just before they entered, the origins of their Godheads had all resonated with unprecedented intensity.
These chief gods had held their ground in the Divine Realm for thousands, even tens of thousands