Chapter 581 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Satan coming out of seclusion was indeed because he’d already cultivated himself to the peak of the Legendary Realm.

In theory, the Legendary Realm was without limits; even if there was no way to become a demigod, you could still grow stronger at an unceasing pace, continuously becoming more and more powerful.

Such Legendary Masters had existed back in relatively more savage, ancient times. Their formidable level was such that it was even enough to shock the gods—forget weak Divine Power, even if you had low-level Divine Powers, it wouldn’t necessarily be enough to compete with them.

But legendary was still legendary. If you hadn’t truly completed your life’s transformation, that meant you hadn’t escaped the river of time and had ignored the ability available to you as it passed you by. Following the passage of time, these impossibly powerful Legendary Masters were ultimately unable to defeat time itself, each of them growing older and dying instead.

As far as Sui Xiong knew, there were no longer any Legendary Masters of this sort existing on this earth.

This wasn’t to say that the ancients surpassed modern people. In today’s world, once Legendary Masters reached the legendary peak, they’d generally begin pursuit of the demigod realm, thus attempting to defeat time by obtaining immortality.

Satan was no different.

Him coming out of seclusion this time came with the intention of beginning his large-scale purification of the Ashes Woods. He would use this accomplishment to validate “purification,” and get himself approval from the World’s Origin. This would allow his soul to ascend and get that much closer to becoming a demigod.

In certain schools of thought, this was called “igniting the holy flame” because at the moment your soul ascended, your entire body would be covered in bright flames as if you’d been set aflame.

Originally, Sui Xiong had expressed that he had some knowledge of Purification and was willing to share a little divinity with him. By directly swallowing this piece of divinity, he would be able to start his soul’s ascension. But Satan insisted that he wished to rely on his own ability to receive the world’s response and obtain that ascension on his own.

This would obviously be much more difficult than ascending through Sui Xiong’s Purification divinity, but you get what you pay for. Relying on the world’s response to activate your spirit’s ascension would give birth to the best-suited divinity for that person. There would be no need to slowly meditate and revise the divinity you had received, and achieving godhood would also be much easier in the future.

Because the world had responded to you, this signified that the Origin had already prepared a share for you. Afterwards, you simply needed to accumulate enough belief or reach an appropriate level of strength. Once you decided to put this share to use, turning it into a chair within the Pantheon temple wouldn’t be too difficult to do.

By comparison, if one were to ascend through someone else’s divinity, that person would not have received the world’s response or approval, and they would have to put in effort to acquire a share. When pursuing godhood, the difficulty would also be much higher than it was for those who had already received their own share. It was to a point where you could say that they were on entirely different levels.

So Sui Xiong never brought up giving Leon divinity because he wanted him to be able to find his own path to obtaining a share from the origin, therefore giving him hope towards obtaining godhood.

But Satan normally didn’t require such prudence. No one to date had obtained the Purification clergy, so even if there wasn’t just the one portion, the origin of this particular aspect should have quite a lot to spare. Even if he didn’t obtain it when his soul ascended, it wouldn’t be difficult to do so in the future.

Sui Xiong and Satan had discussed this in detail before. Satan stressed that since he had the chance to monopolize an entire clergy for himself, why wouldn’t he try to do just that? If he could obtain the world’s response and have his soul ascend through igniting the spiritual flame. In that moment, he would be able to know whether or not he had any rivals. It was best if he didn’t, of course, and if he did… hehe, well some things were better off left unsaid.

Sui Xiong was convinced by his words. A god with an entire clergy to himself was certainly nothing an average god could compare to. Wall, for example, had gained full control over the clergy of Knowledge. Even though gods from many god systems gained enlightenment, concentrating all their efforts on this domain, they were unable to take even a sliver of that clergy. If they reached a crucial moment, he even had the ability to temporarily seal off the entire Knowledge domain from others.

Similarly, Arcaian dominated the clergy of Medicine and had the same power.

But another one of Sui Xiong’s followers, the God of Healing, named Three Nothingness, was a different matter. Although the God of Healing had once had full control over the Healing clergy, he was unluckily harmed by the previous era’s Sun God and got turned into a Love Angel. In the endless years following that, although the Love Angel’s existence prevented anyone from being able to take his place over the Healing clergy, many of the gods cut corners and divided up a portion of it. Now, pretty much all the bigger god systems included gods who possessed the Healing clergy. He’d managed to regain a new life with Sui Xiong’s help, and he obtained a large portion of the Healing origin all at once. But even still, after all was said and done, he still didn’t have the sort of imperiousness one could get from total domination over a clergy.