He finished reviewing the explanation of the Sky Lord in the game materials from his previous life.
Then he thought of the Path of the Gods.
By the Fifth Chapter, the Path of the Gods had long since ceased to be a secret.
Demigods condensed a heart of law and established an Earthly Divine Kingdom, then connected to the authority of heaven and earth, gathered faith, and ignited their Divine Fire. Once their divine spark formed, they raised their divine kingdom into the heavens and forged a Divine Throne on high!
Those who wielded the authority of heaven and earth through a divine spark, holding a Godly Seat and Divine Office, were true gods!
They shepherded the people on heaven's behalf, becoming part of the world's order.
But Sky Lords were different. Though they likewise wielded authority, they needed to rule heaven and earth.
Thus, establishing a Sky Throne was a necessary step. Before truly becoming a master of the world, they needed a throne to subdue its myriad laws!
In Jiang You's eyes, laws were the great paths!
He would suppress the world with his own being and subdue all paths with his own!
One path to subdue them all!
Thus, a Sky Lord was singular and absolute. Calling one the Sole God was perfectly fitting!
To Jiang You, this path of his could not be any of the myriad known laws of the world, any of its three thousand great paths. He had to create a path of his own and subdue all three thousand!
But how would he do it?
Jiang You glanced at the longsword at his waist. His thoughts soared freely, and the vast wealth of knowledge he had acquired in his previous life flowed through his mind.
Knowledge from two worlds became sparks of inspiration, colliding within the sea of his mind. It was as though he stood on a giant's shoulders, looking down over countless ages.
He continued without sleep or rest, draining his mental strength day and night!
Like a prolonged epiphany, such intense contemplation took an enormous toll on his mind.
Even as a Legendary, he gradually grew haggard!
At last.
A year later!
All those extraordinary circumstances gave rise to something unlike anything else!
It was another day of thunder and torrential rain.
As though daylight had suddenly broken through, inspiration blazed!
His inspiration illuminated an illusory path of advancement!
It was a road forward unlike any that had come before!
Incredibly difficult, yet incomparably glorious!
At the mountain's summit, the rain fell harder still!
Amid the lightning and thunder, Jiang You abruptly opened his violet eyes, as fathomless as a sea of stars!
The wings behind him unfurled like clouds hanging from the heavens!
Rain streamed down his face and between his feathers, as though a tiny piece of the world had left its mark upon him.
His spine was like divine iron!
He rose, gripped the longsword at his waist with his right hand, and whipped it from its sheath. Slashing at the empty sky, he laughed long and boldly.
"I once heard that a sufficiently powerful will could even distort laws!"
"Then I shall replace law with my own will and forge a law of my own!"
"This path has no name, but my will shall pass judgment upon heaven and earth. Let its name be simple and clear: 'Judgment'!"
"From this moment onward, I shall forge a Throne of Judgment high in the heavens and establish the path of judgment as the first step toward subduing all paths!"
"With this judgment law, I shall forge three thousand Swords of Judgment, tempering them with the myriad laws as nourishment!"
"And ultimately attain immortality!"
Now that he understood the road ahead, his heart finally felt at ease!
"But first, I must truly master a law! It shall be the first path subdued by my judgment law!"
"At last, my road ahead is clear!"
His heart and body were as pure and clear as jade!
His thoughts seemed to turn from illusion into reality!
The instant he understood his own path, his champion's will surged explosively, like a keen sword raised toward the heavens!
Within his mind, the phantom of a sword appeared, formed from his formidable will piercing through his consciousness. Then came countless illusory longswords, representing the suppression of innumerable laws. Those myriad swords intertwined and fused within his mind.
Finally, an illusory throne composed of countless "Swords of Judgment" appeared in the depths of his mind!
The instant this Sky Throne appeared, a violent thunderclap suddenly rang out between heaven and earth!
The entire world shuddered!
It was as though this vast world had sensed a threat.
Pitch-black clouds immediately spread across the sky, shrouding the entire horizon.
Throughout the world, every living being felt an unease well up within them, as though something precious was about to be stolen!
In Proadas.
As the Goblin King stroked his still-unfinished Emperor's Throne, a sudden, inexplicable loathing rose within him, yet he had no idea whom it was directed toward.
"A great enemy? Who?"
Upon the boundless sea.
On a hidden Abundant Treasure Island, several Primordial Dragons were startled awake from their slumber!
"Who has angered the world?"
Across the world.
Regardless of race, every Legendary powerhouse felt bewildered. A sensation arose within them that seemed to herald both a tremendous opportunity and an immense crisis.
"What's going on? I'm already a Legendary. Why do I still feel such dread?"
At the summit of Paradise Mountain!
Standing in the pouring rain, Jiang You suddenly felt a terrible dread rising within him!
It was as though the world's malice had manifested somewhere beyond his perception!
It jolted him awake, and cold sweat poured down him from head to toe!
It was as though someone were murmuring in his ear!
"Blasphemy!"
"Blasphemy!"
He hastily dispersed the phantom Throne of Judgment in his mind.
The strange phenomena between heaven and earth instantly vanished.
Yet his heart still trembled with lingering fear.
His path was merely a rough outline, and already the world's malice had descended!
No wonder no one had ever attained immortality as a Sky Lord!
No, they were simply exceedingly rare!
This was a path of transcendence that the world refused to acknowledge!
It truly was difficult!
But Jiang You had not been frightened into submission by the world's malice!
Instead, his fighting spirit blazed!
Like a raging fire, his ambition burned high!
"This road is precisely the treacherous path I wish to brave as a champion!"
"This is the beginning of attaining ultimate strength!"
He spoke softly, smiling.
"Then my first step shall be to perfect my mastery of the power of laws I currently wield!"
"I've only grasped the faintest surface of the laws. I'd best avoid touching any sensitive nerves of the world's consciousness for now!"
"Actually, on closer inspection, the early stages of this difficult path aren't much different from the Demigod path!"
"Then I'll first condense a heart of law, become a Demigod, and wait for the right moment to act!"
"Thunder! Light!"
"I shall begin by mastering these two laws!"
"Under the guise of walking the Path to Godhood, I shall do the work of the Lord of Heaven and Earth!"
"As for the throne, I'll forge it later!"
He lifted his head and gazed at the bright moon above and the gleaming stars!
"There really ought to be a little more up in the sky!"
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