Above The Sky
Chapter 655 - 655 607 Era of Gods and Spirit Disaster Path 5600 Third Release asking for monthly votes!

655: Chapter 607: Era of Gods and Spirit Disaster Path (5600, Third Release, asking for monthly votes!) 655: Chapter 607: Era of Gods and Spirit Disaster Path (5600, Third Release, asking for monthly votes!) Because to join the Supreme Spirit Sect, what is required is a “contract” and the related “transformation.”

Without an artificial soul, without a shared consensus on revenge and protection, and without having experienced painful death and disaster, such ordinary souls could not become a Deceased Monarch, that is, a part of what is known as “Spirit Gods.”

Even so, the number of people wanting to join the Supreme Spirit Sect was countless—almost instantaneously, the Supreme Spirit Sect became the veritable “Fifth Orthodox Church.”

But as a price, and as a matter of course for the exalted status of the “Orthodox Church,” the Supreme Spirit Sect also disseminated the Spirit Gods’ related technology to various major powers.

Just as Ian had guessed, once the technology of the Deceased Monarchs was exposed, it had to be “shared” with other powers.

Reluctant?

What a joke!

Whether it was Inega II or the Duke of Solin, or even Ian himself, they developed the technology specifically for it to be spread!

However, the timing of the dissemination, the identity of the disseminator, and the attitude displayed while spreading it are all far more important than the mere act of “dissemination” itself.

After fourteen years, Ian finally turned the Supreme Spirit Sect into a major force of great significance on the Terra Continent, and then by virtue of this great force’s high prestige, released the technology related to Spirit Gods and told the whole world that this technology was developed to protect and shelter the souls of all beings.

As a result, the Supreme Spirit Sect held firmly the right to interpret the “consensus”…

one might even say, it lingered in the hearts of all beings.

After that, it was no longer possible for anyone to deceive the people with their own concocted consensus to establish another set of “Deceased Monarch Spirit Gods” doctrine.

The Sublimators of Terra had to take ordinary people seriously, and the world situation was bound to undergo a huge change.

This is the world power dynamic Ian wanted to create…

Ordinary people are no longer the unnoticed dust by Sublimators, and those with Sovereign Technology could no longer view the souls of ordinary people as another kind of sustenance and material—because if they do not protect and avenge for them, the deceased souls who already know the doctrines of the Spirit Gods will not acknowledge them.

Moreover, other possessors of Sovereign Technology would hunt down such evildoers and use this as propaganda to attract more people to their side, becoming their “subjects.”

And these latecomers will never be able to surpass the initiator who expanded the Deceased Monarchs.

That is the High Priest of the Supreme Spirit Sect, Ian.

This is the meaning behind the fourteen years Ian spent developing the church previously—he would become the orthodoxy, the true protector of souls.

Anyone who tries to distort this meaning would be shattered by his strike.

Extending too early without the power to maintain order, Ian would only lead to relentless chaos with the technology.

But just right, and with strength, Ian had the confidence to create order.

Suddenly, the whole world became much more peaceful, and many wars, though still ongoing, gradually subsided.

Especially when everyone knew that without a soul one cannot return to the embrace of the Spirit Gods, many who had not undergone artificial soul surgery developed an aversion to war.

—With the eternal life of the soul before us, do you still want us to go and die now?

Would those who want to oppose this, dare to go against this consensus of all beings and be forever rejected by the “Spirit Gods”?

The world achieved peace, in a way that no one had anticipated.

As more than a decade passed, with the passage of time, different “Spirit Gods” of all sizes appeared in this world, ranging in strength from Third Power Level to Fifth Power Level, mostly strong beings from before the Era of the Gods.

Above the “Spirit Gods’ Basic Consensus Protocol” set up by Ian, they added some new consensuses.

For example, the “Warrior Spiritual God” of the Azure Sky Royal Court, also simply referred to as the “War God,” was the younger brother of the new Khan of the Royal Court.

He was already a Fourth Level warrior, and although becoming a Spirit God didn’t break him through to the Fifth Level, it opened up another path for him.

Apart from “protection” and “revenge,” he added a new consensus to the Spirit Gods: “to take glory through battle,” which attracted a large number of the warrior class of the Azure Sky Royal Court—with the protection of souls and Spirit Gods, these people were no longer afraid of death; instead, they longed for battle and death, to seize glory through battle and to coexist with the gods in death.

The War God of the Azure Sky Royal Court had reopened hostilities, while the Khan’s long whip was eager to lash the entire world.

They constantly created friction at the borders, but the response from other nations was rather passive.

It’s not that they didn’t want to fight, but since everyone’s souls would return to the embrace of the Spirit Gods after death, thereby strengthening the Spirit Gods’ power, the matters of life and death, defense and warfare, had become very complex issues.

The Azure Sky Royal Court and Fiery Flame Land possessed a culture and bloodline of combat, but even with the addition of new consensus, the Spirit Gods in other realms were nothing more than ‘The Nature Intimate’ of the Elves or ‘The Order Preserver’ of The Empire—types of Nature and Order Gods.

Even the Huai Guang Church had forged ‘The God of Vigilance’ and ‘The God of Existence and Continuity’.

Compared to waging war with the Azure Sky Royal Court and depleting the population and resources, what they hoped for more was to expand their ‘consensus’ and become a ‘Spirit God’ that could represent more people.

Population had become a resource, and they were the helmsmen, the captains, wanting as many crew members as possible, with hearts of protection that were as sincere as possible—only mad dogs like the War God would consider depleting the population through war to forcibly gain the power of consensus.

The Era of the Gods had come.

Ian single-handedly founded the Supreme Spirit Sect…

and even crafted the gods of Terra!

But just when Ian was about to bring the entire Terra to peace through a method akin to ‘religious triumph’,

suddenly, the state of the entire Terra Planet became extremely abnormal.

The first anomalies appeared in the Domain of Void and the Fairy Homeland.

Following the terrifying upheaval in the Domain of Void that led to the destruction of Falling Star City, turning it into a Subspace Labyrinth, the fleeing Fae brought with them a terrifying piece of news.

—The Domain of Void was shattering, collapsing.

Literally disintegrating.

Without anyone noticing, the previously stable Domain of Void suddenly collapsed completely, creating Silent Abysses and Subspace Labyrinths of all sizes on the surface of Terra.

Countless lives were lost to this sudden catastrophic event, and had it not been for the sheltering domains of the Spirit Gods encompassing every corner of Terra, forcibly resisting this disaster, the outbreak of this Domain of Void disaster could have killed billions.

It was an Apocalypse Level disaster crisis…

an unprecedented Spirit Disaster!

The existence of the Spirit Gods protected all of Terra, which was fortunate, yet some perceptive individuals suspected that the excessively numerous Spirit Gods had affected the continuation of the Domain of Void, causing it to overlap with reality—a possibility indeed, so the Supreme Spirit Sect and other major forces joined hands to investigate the cause of this collapse of the Domain of Void.

Then, following the clues, they found their way to the Earth’s Core.

The initial innovator of Sovereign Technology, perhaps also the earliest Spirit God, the place where Duke of Sorin and his people were slumbering.

But here…

the gods did not find the slumbering Duke of Sorin or his creation of hell—or what may be called the ‘Divine Kingdom’.

Here, there was only an undulating mass of pitch-black, dense Spirit Energy…

pulsating at the center of Terra’s core.

It was an embryo, an unprecedentedly massive and unimaginable monstrous embryo.

Others might not recognize it, but Ian knew.

It was the Galaxy-Level Doomsday Creature, the embryo of the super entity ‘Void Spawn’.

The nightmare that only existed in the dreams of all living beings was now becoming reality—the collapse of the Domain of Void was due to its impending birth cry.

It was about to hatch.

The omens ceased at this point.