If the undead are accidentally released and turn traitor, the divine power could be dismembered and stolen by more compatible deities. Worse still, it might directly transfer to high-level undead lords like the Giant Bone King or the Skeletal Dragon King, creating new gods from them.

The reason Gaven now controls such a vast amount of divine power and is developing swiftly like a snowball rolling downhill isn’t just because of the assistance of the high-level divine artifact, War Plunderer, with the Undead Territory as a medium.

The main reason is that his actions here are exceedingly compatible with the divine power he currently wields; he has been incessantly killing, plundering, building roads — all in the name of undeath.

Gaven was able to extensively steal undead divine power from Weizemay Manor due to this situation.

Since he gained control over undead divine power, his efforts to develop it have never ceased, as can be seen from the increasing number of prisoners at Weizemay Manor.

He has also never given up on the development and utilization of undead divine power—creating the Shadow Legion, advancing skeletal technology, establishing the Shadow Weaving Factory as the head of the shadow industry, and so on.

Although his application of undead power seems somewhat unconventional, differing from ordinary undead gods, his utilization of undead power has never ceased.

All in all, to walk far on the path of deities, one must ensure not to neglect their duties.

This is why powerful deities are very careful and selective in expanding their divine positions.

Mindless expansion not only won’t make them stronger but can lead to their decline and even be the source of their divine fall.

The Lady Strategy is evidence of this; God of War Tempus indeed has the power to directly integrate planning, strategy, and tactics into his divine positions, but he chose not to in order to share the risk of negligence.

Even if there were problems on the Lady Strategy’s side, it wouldn’t affect him.

Moreover, the glory the Lady Strategy creates must be shared with the Lord of War.

This situation is not an accidental incident in the Felen Pantheon; there are two more famous instances.

The divine war between Moon God Sulun and Night Goddess Shar resulted in the great division of divine positions, laying the fundamental framework for the entire Felen Pantheon.

Despite countless ages passing and the rise and fall of various races, the core part has never changed, such as these two goddesses themselves, and for instance, Mother Earth Shantiya.

The other instance is Ancient God of Death Yego; without mentioning how powerful he was at his peak, after relinquishing most of his divine positions, he created two great and one intermediate divine powers — the well-known Three Gods of Death, Tyrant God Bane, Lord of the Dead Milkau, and God of Murder Bal.

The Year of Upheaval was caused by these three, and other gods suffered as well.

Even so, Yego himself still retained feeble divine power.

In fact, he had begun to neglect his duties, but he had enough wisdom to give up powerful divine power to land softly, still retaining some divine positions, becoming a constant in the Death Pantheon as various death gods came and went, but he remained unshakable.

Overall, Gaven is currently qualified.

The undead created from Soul Purification Essence, whether Corpse Giants or Shadow Flyers, don’t have this concern; they are like machines, devoid of any sense of good or evil, they are neutral, and everything depends on who controls them.

Relatively speaking, they are more prone to being corrupted by evil power, which is due to their nature tending negative energy, beyond human control, and Gaven can’t control this either.

The second aspect is their ownership.

The Corpse Corpses shaped by soul energy belong to a part of the Plains of Bone, with the Soul Totem naturally engraved here.

If in the Bottomless Abyss, there’s not much difference.

However, when they want to venture outside the Bottomless Abyss, they must endure the same treatment as demons, making entry into the Material Plane extremely difficult.

Even if they do enter, it’s usually for a short period.

When time runs out, they are sent back.

The advantage is that if destroyed in the Material Plane, they won’t truly die but return to the Bottomless Abyss and be reborn in the corresponding soul pool.

Manufactured using Soul Purification Essence, there are no such restrictions.

The connection between them has been severed by Destroy Evil.

Gaven could previously send Soul Purification Essence to the Material Plane because of this reason.

This does not mean Gaven can unrestrainedly send Soul Purification Essence to the Material Plane.

The total amount of soul purification within his territory is fixed, about 1.2 billion.

It sounds like an astronomical number.

In reality, after calculating, it’s not as terrifying as imagined.

This unit is measured by Life Dice, with one Life Dice being one unit of soul energy, capable of summoning a humanoid skeleton soldier with one Life Dice.

Not to mention the Undying Slaughter Territory, even in other undead territories, skeleton soldiers with one Life Dice are as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns, unable to survive even three days before being reforged.

Due to Godhood Enhancement, the undead level in the Undying Slaughter Territory starts at the fifth level, combined with various special troop types, the average Life Dice across the territory can reach the eighth level.

And Life Dice is just one of many factors; size must also be considered. Large size consumes double the Life Dice of medium size, and gigantic size consumes four times, and so on.

Besides this, some more specific factors must be added.

For instance, super troops like six-armed semi-giant skeleton soldiers, which undergo slaughter devouring evolution, consume four times the soul energy of ordinary undead — they use a large amount of soul energy to enhance themselves during the evolution process.

And for entities like Corpse Hounds, Death Stalkers, Shadow Flyers, and Corpse Giants, these special undead aren’t simply summoned — each corpse they possess must be calculated individually, requiring thousands or even tens of thousands of soul energy usage, which is considered normal.

The total force of the Undying Slaughter Territory now stands at 1.6 million, which alone accounts for nearly 70 million.

And a cluster of soul purification essence doesn’t merely contain a small amount of soul energy but rather is measured in tens of thousands.

To create a Shadow Flyer with thirty Life Dice, at least thirty thousand units of purified soul energy are needed.

Even when manufactured domestically within the Plains of Bone, excluding losses in the process, creating a Shadow Flyer requires over ten thousand soul energy at least.

Even if Gaven were to completely drain the soul energy from his two territories, scarcely more than four thousand clusters of Soul Purification Essence could be produced.

Doing so would undoubtedly be digging his own grave.