The Era of Gods-Chapter 731 Changes in the Divine Realm
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Two years later in the Main World, within the Giant God Crystal Wall System, on the Primary Material Plane.
In the Main World, one day equates to one year in a Different Domain. Consequently, over seven hundred years had passed in the Giant Divine Crystal Wall System after two years in the Main World.
At this point, the Giant God Crystal Wall System had been conquered by the Giant God Combat Team over seven hundred years ago. It then took them more than a hundred years to eradicate the remaining indigenous True Gods, after which the Giant God Combat Team invested substantial resources to transform this Crystal Wall System.
First, they dismantled the original Outpost Base, embedding its core within the Crystal Wall of the Giant God Crystal Wall System. Then, using this core as a foundation, they expanded it into a Large Void Fortress and harnessed the power of the Main World to bring the entire Giant God Crystal Wall System under the influence of the Main World fully. From that moment on, teleportation directly to and from the Main World and the Giant God Fortress became possible.
Consequently, a continuous flow of construction materials from the War Zone was transported to develop the Giant God Crystal Wall System, while resources from here were continuously shipped back to the Main World.
Lin Xiao first relocated all beings, intelligent or beast, from every plane except the Primary Material Plane to the Primary Material Plane, vacating all other planes except for the Primary Material Plane, the major Elemental Planes, and the Chaos elemental plane, which naturally included the Abyssal Plane.
The Primary Material Plane was vast enough that after years of development, even the previously desolate areas had been cultivated, providing ample space for the survival of all species within the Crystal Wall System.
The next step was a wide-reaching transformation, where every exploitable plane outside of the Primary Material Plane was developed.
The main plane of the Giant God Crystal Wall System was a colossal plane, extremely vast in area. In addition to the four Elemental Planes, the Chaos elemental plane, and the Abyssal Plane, there were four super-large planes, a total of twenty-two large planes, several hundred medium planes, over a thousand small planes, and a few thousand micro-planes and demi-planes.
Aside from the main plane and those thousands of micro and demi-planes, only about one-quarter of these planes were suitable for living creatures to inhabit; most had harsh environments not fit for life.
Lin Xiao planned these habitable planes as agricultural planes, designed expressly for the cultivation of food and other economic crops.
Planes unsuitable for habitation were transformed if possible; those that could not be altered were utilized as warehouses, barracks, or various training grounds.
After more than seven hundred years, preliminary construction was complete, and the entire Giant God Crystal Wall System had been largely transformed.
The Hall of All Gods, which was once nearly overflowing with True Gods, now stood cold and empty, totaling less than a thousand, most of whom were members of the Giant God Combat Team.
In fact, this was a result of the combat team’s deliberate cultivation of its subordinates, distributing Godhood so that more individuals could first be enthroned within the Giant God Crystal Wall System. Having the experience of Divine Enthronement and becoming a True God, they could truly understand and comprehend the mysteries of godhood. By overcoming this hurdle, it would be easier for them to establish their domains and officially become gods in a Different Domain in the future.
Over these hundreds of years, the members of the Giant God Combat Team directly under Lin Xiao’s command who had become official True Gods had surpassed a hundred, enough to form an entire battalion.
But in reality, the Giant God Combat Team now had three battalions. The first was commanded by Jin Sisi, the second by Hua Xiang, each with fifty subordinates, and the ninth battalion commanded by Fu Haofei, also known as the Grand Arcanist Camp, comprising over one hundred and seventy Grand Arcane Mages and more than four thousand Arcanists.
This point came as a surprise to Lin Xiao, who hadn’t expected to have cultivated so many Great Arcane Mages in just a few hundred years, and even succeeded in building three large Floating Cities, all made of pure alloy in the Main World version, with combat capabilities stronger than those from the Different World version.
Each Floating City, nearing a hundred kilometers in length and width, contained over a thousand Mage Towers, and each Mage Tower was presided over by an Arcanist of at least Rank 6. The Floating City was managed by ten Great Arcane Mages. During combat, more Arcanists could join the battle at any time, so their combat capabilities were even more formidable than the average super large Void Battleship.
The interiors of these Floating Cities contained independent demi-plane spaces, capable of storing vast quantities of matter as well as Golems for combat effectiveness; just one alone could easily take down a True God’s God Country.
Hence, Lin Xiao kept his original promise, and Fu Haofei officially became the commander of the ninth battalion of the combat team.
As for Shen Yuexin and Xie Yufei, they were no longer the commanders of the first and second battalions. They had now become the leaders of the Furious Flame Battalion and the Angel Battle Group, respectively. It was not quite appropriate for them to hold two positions each.
Over seven hundred years, their changes, along with the Split Claw Dragon Battle Team, were not significant, as these battalions were already quite complete when they arrived, unlike the Titan Battle Group, which had been newly established.
With the smooth development of his subordinates, Lin Xiao’s God’s realm also underwent earth-shaking changes.
As the area of the God’s realm increased, its rate of growth accelerated. In two years, he had digested all the gains from the Wizard World, and now the total area of his God’s realm had surpassed that of the Giant Divine Crystal Wall System, a colossal Primary Material Plane.
An Ancestral Remains could enhance a God’s realm by twelve to fifteen billion square kilometers. Previously holding five and a half of these Ancestral Remains, he used more than one, leaving over four. Ultimately, this would increase the area of the God’s realm by at least fifty billion, or at most sixty billion square kilometers, and quite coincidentally, the actual increase was around fifty-five billion square kilometers.
What concept is this? The total area of earth is 510 million square kilometers, including land and Ocean. Fifty-five billion is equivalent to more than ten times the total area of the earth.
Under his conscious control, most of the fifty-five billion square kilometers of God’s realm area were solid territory, with very little of the empty Divine Realm Void.
The Main Divine Realm occupied half of it, around thirty billion square kilometers.
The six major subsidiary Divine Realms divided the remaining majority, each approximately three billion square kilometers. Aside from the voids of the Main Divine Realm and the subsidiary Divine Realms, more than one billion square kilometers were divided among other various sized subsidiary Divine Realms.
What most delighted Lin Xiao was the fact that the increased God’s realm was entirely refined from Ancestral Remains, to some extent inheriting the incredibly powerful essence of life from the Ancients. The energy grade and strength of the world within his God’s realm were very, very high.
This was much like many mythological legends that describe a Creator God transforming into heaven and earth, where worlds newly born were filled with extremely powerful creatures. The initial and most powerful Ancient gods in mythological legends were born in this moment.
Lin Xiao’s God’s realm was the same, in the process of continuous expansion, all the creatures in the God’s realm, whether animals or plants, achieved different degrees of gigantism, and their strength grew increasingly powerful.
Luckily, the kins of the Divine Realm were already very strong, and as members of the God Realm Kin, they too were influenced and strengthened. Moreover, under Lin Xiao’s purposeful control, they received more benefits than the creatures in the wild. The most direct manifestation was that advancing in rank became much easier, reaching the species’ limits effortlessly and having a greater chance of surpassing those limits.
For instance, even though the Lesser Naga were Legendary Beings, they were only Rank 4 upon reaching maturity. But ever since the God’s realm integrated the Ancestral Remains, a Lesser Naga upon maturation would not be Rank 4, but Rank 5.
Moreover, as time went on, this change became more pronounced. Once all the Ancestral Remains were refined, the current Lesser Naga would reach Rank 6 or even Rank 7 upon maturation and would easily advance to Rank 8 or even Rank 9.
After more than seven hundred years of reproduction, the races of Divine Realm’s clans have propagated unfettered within the vast confines of the God’s realm. Among them, the Lesser Naga, with the strongest reproductive capability, now exceed a total population of five hundred million. However, compared to the expanse of Lin Xiao’s God’s realm, which is equivalent to the total area of six Earths, this number is but a drop in the ocean.
Besides, the population of the Red Furnace Clan, mainly residing in the Earth Element Domain, has just barely surpassed twenty million.
The Star Spirits now have a population of approximately twenty-three million.
The strongest in terms of strength, the Titan Naga, who possess Rank 10 combat power upon reaching adulthood, have surprisingly surpassed the Star Spirits, with a total population now standing at thirty-three million five hundred thousand. However, most are still in their juvenile years, and it will be several hundred more years before they each come of age.
By leveraging their bloodline bonds with the Lesser Naga and with an ever-increasing number of Lesser Naga, a continuous stream of them undergo bloodline evolution to become Titan Naga. It is estimated that in a few thousand years, the number of Titan Naga will surpass that of the Red Furnace Clan, becoming the second largest race in terms of population within the God’s realm.
Out of the thirty-three million Titan Naga, except for the juveniles, all have only Rank 10. Currently, no Giant God Class Titan Naga has yet emerged, as there has not been enough time for them to come into being.
But as the saying goes, with enough time to accumulate, there will come a day when the potential is fully unleashed.
When the first batch of Titan Naga undergo a bloodline leap to become Giant God Class Titan Naga, comparable to True Gods, that will be the time when the Titan Naga rise powerfully.
After all, the potential of the Titan Naga race, which has fused the bloodline of many Ancient Gods, is comparable to Powerful Divine Power, making them one of the super races rarely seen in the entire Chaotic Void Sea. Lin Xiao is aware that only the Dragon Clan can stand shoulder to shoulder with them.
When it comes to the Dragon Clan, they are truly formidable. The more one learns about them, the more one realizes how terrifying their potential is.
The current God’s realm is deserted. From the perspective of the Divine Realm Master looking down, the vast expanse of Divine Realm’s land is covered by a wild ancient forest, with mountain ranges that stretch for millions of kilometers, primitive forests that cover a million square kilometers, and ancient trees that tower hundreds of meters tall shrouded in mist, from which the roars of beasts occasionally reverberate, feeling as if one had arrived in the most ancient and untamed era.
Whether it’s the Main Divine Realm or the various subordinate divine realms, even though some other subordinate divine realms were developed later on, all possess vast areas. Scattered across them, the billions of clan members caused barely a ripple.
At present, the Divine Realm’s kin still spread outward from the original City of Truth as their center, having established a massive theocracy united with the Empire, with an unwavering faith that has made the Empire’s rule incredibly strong.
In addition to that, in the vast subterranean world of the Main Divine Realm, Lin Xiao has relocated a large number of Ground Dwellers and Cave Giants.
However, unlike their kin still living in the Dark Territory of the Giant Divine Crystal Wall System’s Primary Material Plane, the fifth generation of Ground Dwellers and Cave Giants that have been moved to the Divine Realm have been adjusted by Lin Xiao to become the ultimate version of Ground Dwellers, which he named Dwellers of the Earth and Giants of the Earth, to differentiate them from the other Ground Dwellers.
The newly adjusted Dwellers of the Earth number only around one hundred million, with features extremely similar to humans, belonging to one of the humanoid subspecies.
The Dwellers of the Earth, standing at around three meters tall, have a thin, scale-like keratinous layer that is actually an extremely tough natural armor. They possess night vision and mental talents, with each being born a natural psychic magician with a talent for spellcasting.
It is worth mentioning that Lin Xiao’s Divine Realm also possesses a Magic Net.
Lin Xiao’s Divine Realm had its own unique magic network initially, but as his divine domain expanded rapidly, the Extraordinary Magic Network was fused with another magic network controlled by one of his incarnations, creating a new network vast enough to cover an entire Crystal Wall System.
Lin Xiao integrated all the spells from the magic network controlled by his incarnation within the Giant Divine Crystal Wall System, combining them with the characteristics of the original Extraordinary Magic Network. It took a great deal of effort to restructure the Extraordinary Magic Network, which he divided into three parts.
One part consisted of the spell system, inclusive of traditional magic trees, shadow magic spell trees, arcane spell trees and more in a combined form.
Another part was made up of the Divine Arts system, including common Divine Arts from Different Domain gods’ systems, plus many unique Divine Arts related to their own godhood from within the divine realm.
The third part was the original Extraordinary Magic Network’s unique extraordinary ability system. He picked up the many extraordinary abilities he had created before and, integrating powerful witchcraft from the Wizard World, he fashioned a complete set of formidable extraordinary abilities.
In addition, the bloodline profession of Magician from the original Extraordinary Magic Network and the system of Rules Magician were still preserved, but as another aspect not included within the three main systems.
All kin within the God Realm could, depending on their level of devotion, access the magic network to cast various spells.
However, the specific spells they could cast still depended on their own strength. Generally, they could cast spells one rank higher. For example, if one was at Sixth Level, they could cast spells of Rank 7, and if one was at Rank 8, they could access the Extraordinary Magic Network to cast spells up to Rank 9, and so on.
The Cave-dwellers were all varying degrees of powerful, with the original Ground Dwellers being even more so.
Lin Xiao specifically purchased a half-god level Cloud Giant and a Mountain Giant, and extracted the powerful bloodlines of these two giant races. He then merged these with the bloodline of the Cave Giant, eliminating unnecessary elements and significantly enhancing what was retained. Using the powerful Creation Law he now possessed, he endowed the new fusion bloodline with a greatly enhanced ability to master the rules of Earth, thus creating a very strong new giant race.
The newly born Dwellers of the Earth had stronger physiques and strength than the Cloud Giants and greater earth manipulation power than the Mountain Giants. Owing to their innate talent to merge with the Earth and mountain ranges, Lin Xiao named the newborn Ground Dwellers as Sons of Earth.
Compared to the new Cave-dwellers who, as adults, are only at Rank 4 with a ceiling of Rank 7 but with great likelihood of breaking through to Rank 8,
Sons of Earth reach Rank 8 as adults, with a ceiling of Rank 10, and they have substantial room for further breakthroughs. The longer they live and the more Power of Earth they absorb, the stronger they become, until they surpass half-gods and rival True Gods.
If a medium-sized plane or larger had only one Son of Earth, it is almost a certainty they would ascend to a level comparable to a True God after a certain period of time.
This is why Sons of Earth are a solitary species, and their numbers will not be many.
Now, Lin Xiao’s Divine Realm is already vast enough, far exceeding those of the senior powers with great divine power. Even leaders of forces such as Xie Tianyan, who are not yet in possession of great divine power, might not compare to him. After all, not even powerful figures like them could integrate so many Ancestral Remains into their own divine realms.
All he lacks now is the accumulation of time. The moment the God Realm’s population grows to hundreds of billions, he will catch up with those powerful beings.
Given the current foundation of his God Realm, this period won’t take too long—a decade or so in the Main World should suffice.
