Chapter 474: Chapter 473 Assimilation
The God of Light had lived for thousands of years, his combat experience was obviously more plentiful than Lans, a young man in his twenties. Not to mention his proficiency in all skills.
Experience and skills – these were key to winning against the strong.
But still, the God of Light was being defeated by Lans, step by step.
“How can your combat experience be more plentiful than mine?!”
Lans was controlled by the Crown of the Hero and was unable to speak, so Jiang Li on the sidelines kindly answered for him.
“Because the Crown of the Hero stores the combat experience of an Immortal. In terms of experience and perspective, you can’t surpass an Immortal.”
“You seven are not familiar with formations, let me enlighten you. Each piece of the hero’s equipment contains a small formation. When the Hero wears the complete set, it forms a formation that weakens faith.”
“Do you still think the Honghu Messenger who gave you these equipments is a good person now?”
Jiang Li talked as if he was an expert in formations, but in actuality, these were all explained by Bai Hongtu. He was just regurgitating the information.
Li Er and the Ruyi Gourd pretended not to know, not exposing him.
The God of Light had to admit that they couldn’t defeat Lans.
Just when Lans was about to win, he stopped his attack.
The God of Light thought that Lans was being kind to not make him lose too badly.
“We admit defeat.” The God of Light conceded, unable to understand why the Honghu Messenger deceived them.
Jiang Li stepped forward, restrained Lans with claws and fangs, removed the crown. Lans sobered up in an instant and looked at the crown, trembling.
The Crown of the Hero was too frightening.
“Obviously, in order to destroy Eira World, the Honghu Messenger had a backup plan. First, he went to the Demon King side, using ascension as the bait, persuading the Demon King not to act, utilizing the dungeon’s formation, enhancing the innate abilities of the three tribes, ultimately letting children be born with world-shattering strength.”
“Perhaps the Honghu Messenger felt his plan was unreliable, hence he set another plan in place with the Seven Gods.”
“When someone collects all the Hero’s equipment, they would want to slaughter the three tribes. The God of Light, controlled by faith, had to fight.”
“The Hero is slightly stronger than the God of Light – not by too much. Fierce battles between the two will result in heavy casualties.”
“Lans stopped attacking not to spare you, but to take a few months off, choose another location and continue fighting with you. This way, death can be brought to other places. This cycle would repeat until the world is completely annihilated.”
The Honghu Messenger did not design the Crown of the Hero to be always in combat mode, probably to avoid the creation of the Heavenly Dao embryo amidst the despair of the people when the God of Light is defeated.
Therefore, the Honghu Messenger controlled the Hero well – a sense of despair, but not complete despair.
Actually, both the Demon King and the Seven Gods knew that the Honghu Messenger was an opportunistic man, but the Demon King was deceived by the Honghu Messenger. To sever the causality, he couldn’t leave the Demon King City.
The Seven Gods were confined by the force of faith, unable to leave the coverage of faith. The Demon Tribe here had no church, the Seven Gods couldn’t come here from the Demon’s side.
As a result, the Demon King and the Seven Gods, the eight most ancient beings, never conversed.
Jiang Li felt that the plan arranged by the Honghu Messenger for the Seven Gods was somewhat crude. There were many uncertainties and it seemed like it had been slapped together in a hurry. Its importance was placed on the Demon King and the dungeon.
“So does that mean we will never be able to exist independently from the power of faith?” The Seven Gods were in despair. They always thought that as long as the power of faith was abundant, it would transform and they could break free from the constrains of faith.
To implement this, they composed the “Light God Manual”, erased the disgraceful history of the God Tribe, highlighted the status of the Seven Gods, and required all believers to praise them whenever they used magic, thereby promoting faith.
Their efforts for over a thousand years ended up being useless.
“No, separating your soul from faith is easy. If you’re willing, I can do it now.” Jiang Li mastered the power of faith but he never used it. That being said, it did not mean that he did not study it.
“Thank you, River God!” The Seven Gods were ecstatic, never expecting the joy would be so sudden.
“Stop calling me River God, I’m just rolling with it for a couple of days. My name is Jiang Li, and my real identity is Human Emperor of Jiuzhou.”
“Jiuzhou? Human Emperor?”
“Sect Master Li Er, you should give them a general knowledge lesson.” Jiang Li didn’t want to explain Ten Thousand Realms over and over, so he asked Li Er to.
After the soul separates from faith, it must find a body. Finding a suitable body is not easy, so Jiang Li took the liberty to create seven bodies for them.
The process was similar to the one when creating a body for Dream Pure. The only difference was that the materials used this time weren’t as good as for Dream Pure.
Dream Pure had the soul of a Body Integration Realm peak cultivator and demanded a better body. But the Seven Gods had just reached the Body Integration Realm, so the bodies they sculpted had the strength of early stage Body Integration Realm.
If better materials were used and the body is made too strong, it might make the Seven Gods feel uncomfortable.
The Seven Gods, now with their real bodies, they were thrilled beyond words.
On one hand, they had broken free from the power of faith. On the other hand, they had learned just how vast the world outside of Eira World truly was. They came to understand the division of ranks in cultivation and learned of Li Er’s immense strength, and even Jiang Li who was more powerful than Li Er.
“Even after you’ve reclaimed your independence, you are still the Seven Gods of the Three Tribes’ faith. You can still use the power of faith and bestow skills upon the three tribes.”
The God of Light scratched his head, “That’s great. I’ve just gotten a new body and it feels weird. I keep wanting to return to the previous state and grant skills to my believers.”
The other six Gods nodded in agreement, sharing the same feelings as the God of Light.
Jiang Li held his laughter.
In fact, the Seven Gods had already been assimilated by faith. The gods they are now are the perfect divine spirits nurtured by the three tribes’ faith – definitely different from when they were part of the God Tribe.
Whether they parasitize faith or reclaim their independence from it, there’s no fundamental difference.
They thought they wanted to grant their believers skills out of goodwill, but in reality, it was the influence of faith. They were just not aware of it.
Jiang Li had no intentions of telling them the truth.
“If you wish to communicate with Jiuzhou, I will assign someone to handle it. If you don’t wish to, that’s fine too. Jiuzhou doesn’t demand it. After all, worlds need to maintain independence. It’s up to individual choice.”
After Jiang Li finished speaking, he left the Seven Gods who looked at each other helplessly and went to solve the problem of the dungeon’s formation.
The dungeon’s formation was easy to solve. Destroying formations does not require technique, and Jiang Li was able to destroy it easily.
With the Hero’s equipment taken away, Lans became the hero. The adventurers no longer harbored illusions of being the future hero, and there would be fewer who rushed in mindlessly.
However, in essence, this was an issue of education. To thoroughly solve it, one would need to start with education, which is a long process.
In the Demon Tribe, Ruyi Gourd resigned and Li Er quit. The Unicorn, as the strongest of the Demon Tribe, became the new Demon King.
Ruyi Gourd and Li Er wanted to stay in the Beast Kingdom for a while longer, but Jiang Li rejected them mercilessly. Both the man and the gourd had to follow Jiang Li back to Jiuzhou.