Over the past thousand years, Meng Chuan had studied the Source Substance and the Faith Demon God's Divine Core given to him by The Ancient One. He had gained a great deal.
Before his seclusion, Faith had gathered around Meng Chuan like a river of stars. Now, not a single drop remained at his side.
Meng Chuan looked at his Divine Kingdom. It was one of the two greatest gains from this seclusion.
The system of gods within the Source Substance differed greatly from the system represented by The Ancient One's Divine Core.
The former emphasized symbolism and authority, while the latter focused on four things: Divine Flame, Divine Cores, Divinity, and Divine Offices.
Meng Chuan had raised a Divine Kingdom akin to the former, but he had not rejected the latter wholesale. Instead, he had incorporated it into his Divine Kingdom.
Meng Chuan was already the Great Emperor of this age, his Dao joined with the Heavenly Heart. His Divine Kingdom was special: it embodied the Myriad Daos of the Great Universe. It was the embryonic form of a world—a very unusual Prototype of a world!
In later generations, the Azure Emperor had evolved a small world inside the Desolate Pagoda, hoping to create a miniature Immortal Domain. But he had faced obstacle after obstacle, and in the end, no one knew whether he lived or died.
Meng Chuan's Divine Kingdom World did not need to grow the way the Azure Emperor's had.
A Divine Kingdom World naturally needed Gods to be appointed! The world would empower its Gods, and the Gods would nourish the world in return. It was a cycle. If a powerful cultivator was willing to enter Meng Chuan's Divine Kingdom and accept an appointment from him, that cultivator's Dao and techniques would become nourishment for