True God

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Power Progression

The following breakthroughs trace Chen Ao’s advancement through True God and its successor realms.

Cultivation and Advancement

Law Path and Divine Power Path

• Law Path: Wu Qi Tower’s instruction states that this path is weaker than the Divine Power Path early on, but becomes equally effective at Eternal True God. At Chaos Master, the Divine Power Path no longer has an advantage 144.
• Divine Power Path: Gene development can provide substantial early advantages in divine-body size and power reserves. Breakthroughs to True God through this path are rare on Origin Continent because suitable inheritances are scarce 149.
• Long-term limitation: Concentrating on genes while neglecting laws can leave a cultivator unable to advance toward Eternal True God 144.
• Breakthrough resources: Divine Power Crystals release power too slowly to meet the demands of a True God breakthrough; rapidly absorbed, ownerless liquid divine power is much more valuable for that purpose 156 163.

Advancing Beyond True God

• Void True God: Requires comprehension of the origins of laws. A ninth-order secret technique generally marks the minimum threshold for attempting the breakthrough, rather than guaranteeing it 136 148.
• Origin Fruits: Can help peak True Gods advance to Void True God. However, the externally obtained understanding weakens their comprehension of origin laws and makes further advancement more difficult 141 143.
• Eternal True God: Requires full comprehension of either life or destruction. Life is described as harder because its space branch contains six laws, whereas destruction’s time branch contains four 149.
• Chaos Master: Requires more than understanding life and destruction alone. Chen Ao initially possessed both insights but still could not transform his True God Heart into a Heart of Chaos 161.

Physiology and Survival

True God Heart

• A True God’s soul or life imprint is housed in the True God Heart, rather than integrated throughout the divine body as it is for a Universe Master 122.
• Divine-body depletion does not proportionally weaken combat strength. A True God can retain full fighting ability with only one percent of the body remaining, and continue fighting down to the last shred of divine power 122 142.
• Shattering the True God Heart is fatal regardless of how much divine body remains. In Chen Ao’s case, it would also annihilate the souls of his later clones 159.
• The heart remains relevant in higher realms: an Eternal True God draws power through it, while advancement to Chaos Master transforms it into a much faster-transfer Heart of Chaos 161 164.

Miniature Universe

• True Gods possess miniature universes; cultivators below the Universe Strongest One realm do not 124.
• A miniature universe continuously replenishes divine power during battle without requiring its owner to remain stationary 124.
• Larger miniature universes absorb chaos currents faster, contain more origin, and store and supply more divine power 148.
• A True God’s death causes the miniature universe to decay. Void True Demon God’s ruined universe directly confirmed his death and released his stored treasures 124.
• At higher realms, the True God Heart’s transfer rate can become a bottleneck: even a well-stocked miniature universe may not replace power as quickly as an Eternal True God loses it against powerful opponents 161.

Divine-Body Size

• Ordinary True Gods encountered in Chen Ao’s comparison had bodies only a little over a hundred thousand kilometers tall; Chen Ao’s body reached twenty light-years when he became a True God 147 163.
• Origin Continent offers resources that enlarge divine bodies without requiring genes beyond the perfect level. A True God with ten-thousand-times genes can reach a million or ten million kilometers through such methods 149.
• Earth-origin crystals enlarge the divine bodies of True Gods and higher beings. Their efficiency depends on gene level: 10,081-times genes use seventy percent of a crystal, while ninety-thousand-times genes use all of it 154.

Power Rankings

Secret-Technique Grades

True Gods are divided into four stages. Jin World uses beginner or elementary, intermediate, high or advanced, and peak terminology; Origin Continent uses early, middle, late, and peak 140 141 148.

Realm Versus Combat Strength

• Sixth- through ninth-order secret techniques fall within the True God level. A ninth-order technique combined with a suitable treasure can produce tenth-order combat power 128.
• Numbered combat rankings do not directly identify cultivation realm. Exceptional True Gods can rival Void True Gods, and Masters of Laws can possess True God-level strength 141.
• Universe Ocean rankings are heavily influenced by treasures. An eighth-order secret technique paired with a Supreme Peak Supreme Treasure can produce ninth-order combat strength 124 140.
• Jin World’s grades describe a foundation of divine power and corresponding secret techniques; inheritances, equipment, and combat skill further affect actual performance 140.

Abilities and Limitations

Making Reality Follow Their Words

• A True God’s ability to make reality obey spoken commands depends on the universe yielding to them 136.
• If the universe refuses to yield, that ability is lost 136.
• Void True Gods surpass this dependence by comprehending law origins and creating a One Thought Void, a domain of their own 136.

Divine-Power Recovery

• Rapid miniature-universe replenishment makes battles of attrition against True Gods difficult 122 124.
• A one-order advantage is generally insufficient to kill a Universe Strongest One. A gap of two or more orders, or a substantial numerical advantage, makes a kill possible 124.
• Recovery is not unlimited: concentrated attacks can consume divine power faster than the miniature universe restores it, as Chen Ao and Giant Axe demonstrated against Void True Demon God 124.

Environmental Restrictions

Equipment

• True God-level treasures: Correspond to the Supreme Peak Supreme Treasures prized in the Universe Ocean. Even Jin World’s lowest-tier standard-issue True God armor qualifies as one 141.
• Common combat loadout: Many Jin World True Gods carry a weapon, armor, and a soul treasure, relying on secret techniques and combat skill for the rest 141.
• Mechanical Flow Treasures: Can elevate combat strength beyond the wielder’s basic foundation; some mid-level True Gods use them to reach high-level strength 141.
• Armor limits: Ordinary True God-level armor may withstand attacks up to the tenth order, but its damage reduction deteriorates against eleventh-order, Void-level attacks 131.
• Domain treasures: Ordinary domain treasures are rarely used after reaching True God because their suppression is too weak to meaningfully affect combat 150.

Notable True Gods

• Giant Axe — Humanity’s leading Strongest One during its confrontation with the Divine Eye Clan. His Fifteenth Axe overwhelmed Void True Demon God and shattered the Third and Sixth True Masters’ combined attack 124.
• Demon-Shaking Ancestor — Demonstrates the realm’s resilience: Chen Ao’s attacks depleted his own body while causing virtually no lasting loss to the ancestor, whose miniature universe rapidly replaced divine power 122.
• Chaos City Lord — Had advanced to True God by his reunion with Chen Ao outside Jin World, but remained among that world’s weakest True Gods 143.
• Chen Ao — Killed more than fifty thousand high and peak True Gods while still a Master of Laws, before later entering the realm himself 143 146.

Terminology

• The Divine Eye Clan’s “Eternal True God” in the Giant Axe battle is a combined-attack construct formed from three Supreme Peak Supreme Treasures—not an individual cultivator of the Eternal True God realm 124.
• True God-level will, True God-level secret techniques, and True God cultivation are separate measures. Wu Qi Tower tests will independently, and Chen Ao creates high True God secret techniques while still a Master of Laws 143 144.