Countless Chen Regulations poured from Bai Feiyu's mouth, turning into golden runes that flew into the Mountain-River Veins Map of this Mortal World.
These were the restraints on gods that Bai Feiyu had devised over the years, revising them constantly and weighing them over and over.
So-called gods were cultivators bound by rules. Compared with free and unfettered cultivators, becoming a god naturally meant accepting restraints!
This was also Bai Feiyu's original intention in sealing gods: all cultivators under heaven must obey the rules of Heaven and Earth!
This was a safeguard for all living beings, and reverence for Heaven and Earth!
Above the tattered clouds, countless divine souls sat cross-legged after being sealed as gods, contemplating the various benefits of their new divinity.
Some knitted their brows, some beamed with joy, and some looked bereft...
Seated around the raised platform, the gods once again displayed the myriad faces of living beings. They, too, had their own understandings of becoming gods.
Becoming gods had given them abilities unlike those they once possessed. One day, they could even use Wish Power to reshape their bodies, standing above others and receiving their reverence!
They truly had not expected so many benefits.
But as Bai Feiyu continued updating the rules for gods, they also understood that receiving the benefits of divinity naturally required paying an equal price.
First came freedom!
After becoming gods, they could cultivate only within their own divine fiefs and had a duty to care for them. Thus, they lost their freedom.
Cultivation was meant to grant eternal life, to leap beyond the Three Realms and escape the Five Elements, roaming freely between Heaven and Earth.
But after becoming gods, they would forever lose their chance at immortality. They could only submit to the limitations of their divine cores, trapped