The Gods had always been lofty existences in the eyes of all living beings.
In the not-too-distant past, the Gods had placed everything in a black box. All the mortals knew was that they believed in the Gods, served the Gods, and found a good place for themselves after death … Of course, this was mostly a lie.
But with the arrival of a new generation, especially the establishment of a new order in Hell, the Gods were pulled down from their pedestals.
The Gods' greatest threat to mortals was that they no longer cared about who they belonged to after death. And with that, all sorts of new Gods rose up, and the Gods' secrets were no longer secrets.
"The Gods, especially the Gods who believed in the Gods, are only a part of the world's system. They're only responsible for a part of the world's functions, absorbing the mortals' belief in the Gods as food for themselves. However, they've never considered serving the mortals. The foundational reason for this is because there's a lack of a Supreme God … To put it in a simpler way, it's just like a feudal dynasty that lost its Supreme God. The way of royalty collapsed, and all rites and music were useless.
The Gods' secrets were known by mortals. From a certain standpoint, this was indeed quite similar to how a God's position as an official was.
A Divine Job was an official position that determined the extent of a God's authority.
A God's Divine Spark was a God's Divine Spark, which indicated what level of official a God was. It also determined the relationship between the Gods. This sounded quite amazing, but when the entire system collapsed, the Gods who weren't directly under the God's Divine Spark wouldn't care about it at all.
Of course, this would only be useless in special circumstances. When a world's system was relatively complete, this was indeed the most important thing. A God's Divine Spark could only be given to a certain Divine Spark. It could be said that it was only a matter of time before a God with a high Divine Spark would be able to obtain a good job. This was just like how it wouldn't be difficult to obtain a good diploma or a good job as a civil servant in a peaceful time. But in a time of war, nobody would care about your diploma or status.
Divine power was the combination of all the organizations, personnel, and wealth that a God controlled. It was similar to the power of action … Forget it, it was probably the most direct way to compare it to financial resources and personnel. Only with divine power would one have everything. Especially in a chaotic world, divine power would be the most persuasive name card.
Due to the different uses (Divine Concepts), every God and God System's Divine Power would be different as well. Otherwise, the two Gods wouldn't have set up a trap to murder the Queen of Storms and steal her Divine Power of the Sea.
Priesthood, Godhood, and Divine Power combined into one to form a God's Divine Throne (Divine Kingdom), and this Divine Throne was the link between the God and the world.
The gods themselves? That was just a divine soul that sat on the divine throne. In essence, it was no different from an ordinary soul.
As times changed, some things would naturally change.
For example, after the Dimensional Door was opened, many new concepts were born as foreign cultures and products were brought in. Then, according to the rules of the Aishi world, there would be "officials" and "organizations" to manage these new concepts. Naturally, many new Divine Concepts were created.
The most obvious example was the priesthood of games.
As the requirements became more concrete, a single Divine Concept could be divided into countless subordinate Divine Concepts. For example, the previous Divine Concept of Ocean Travel could now be divided into the Divine Concepts of Sailors, Divine Concepts of Ocean Transportation, Divine Concepts of Good Weather, Divine Concepts of Fishermen, and so on. This also gave rise to many subordinate Gods.
As the population increased, so did the total number of Gods. The number of Divine Concepts that represented a God's power level also increased. The endless stairs became even more difficult to climb.
But no matter how much the world changed, since the world was still Aishi, the foundational rules of the world wouldn't change.
The ancient Sea Goddess, the Queen of Storms, had perished. Her Divine Power had been stolen for other uses, and her Divine Concept had been replaced by someone else. However, this didn't mean that she had completely perished.
Her divine soul and Divine Concept were still bound together and transformed into the God Equipment Heart of the Sea. This meant that the world still recognized this God's existence and didn't "cancel" her Divine Concept.
This meant that although she had lost her "official position", her salary, and her subordinates, she still had the status of an "official."
Due to some historical reasons, she became the Guardian of the Sea Tribe and the Ancient Sea God in the eyes of the Sea Tribe. Although her original Divine Concept had been inherited and stolen by later generations, the Sea Tribe's many years of faith had given her a new Divine Concept.
This was just like a deposed official suddenly being given a new position and managing a new department … although she was the only person in that new department, and she was still an undead person.
This wasn't a big deal. After all, Evil Gods and False Gods could also get Divine Concepts. Strictly speaking, all the new Gods in Aishi were like this. They chose new Divine Concepts, and some even repeated Divine Concepts. However, unless they reached a certain level of Divine Power and had enough Divine Power to fill their Divine Concepts, they would still be nothing more than empty shells. If they weren't careful, it would be easy for their "capital chain to break" and they would fall into eternal slumber.
This critical capital chain was Divine Power. In normal circumstances, it would be impossible for any mortal to come into contact with the Divine Power of a True God.
However, the Goddess of Fate just happened to favor her once.
Due to certain reasons, an Ocean God suddenly died, and due to a coincidence, much of his Divine Power fell into the mortal plane, into the body of a giant octopus monster.
This was something that the octopus monster couldn't endure. Conceptually speaking, the octopus monster had no Divine Concept or Divine Power. Even though its body was as large as a Demon God's, it was still nothing more than a mortal.
Unable to control its Divine Power, the octopus monster howled in pain and was about to self-destruct at any moment.
The octopus monster's survival instincts might have driven its Divine Power and guided it in the direction of survival. Or perhaps the Divine Power instinctively searched for something it lacked, and found a new God of the Sea.
A strong physical body wasn't really necessary for a true God, but it was the foundation of everything for an incomplete soul. Not to mention, only a body with both soul and body would be able to ignite the Divine Fire and become a Divine Throne, allowing one's physical body to become the Divine Throne that could bear everything.
The Heart of the Sea, who possessed Divine Power, Divine Concept, and an incomplete soul, finally found what she lacked — Divine Power of the Sea and a physical body.
And so, in this physical body, her Divine Power, Divine Power, and Divine Power were finally complete.
Naturally, she evolved and obtained a true divine body.
However, she still wasn't the Queen of Storms.
How could one tell if a soul was a special individual and not something else? The answer was quite obvious — memories.
Memories were the foundational reason why an individual was different from others. Most of this incomplete soul's memories had been lost along with her physical body and life. The memories that remained were all unforgettable.
Over the long years, countless amounts of Divine Power had nourished this incomplete soul, making her more complete. However, she was no longer her original self.
And if everything had gone smoothly, she would have been a newly born God who had inherited part of the Queen of Storms' memories and personality … Actually, how could death come without a price? Most so-called revived Gods were the product of such a price.
Unfortunately, perhaps the God of Fate felt that it wasn't good to care too much about her, which was why something went wrong.
This physical body didn't only contain the incomplete soul. The octopus monster's soul was still alive and well.
One could look down on the octopus monster's low intelligence and how it lacked intelligence and only had instincts. However, one couldn't deny that the octopus monster also had intelligence and a soul.
The two souls within the same physical body fought against each other, fighting for control of the physical body. This caused the newborn soul to become slow and foolish.
Originally, such a battle would have lasted for quite a long time. After all, it would be quite difficult to determine a victor in a battle between souls. In the end, they would only consume each other and merge into one.
However, something unexpected happened yet again.
An external attacker caused both the octopus monster and the divine soul to feel danger. The two of them had been constantly fighting against each other ever since they were born, and now they were forced to form an alliance against an external attacker … Why did this script sound so familiar?
Cough, no matter what, the two of them stopped fighting and naturally stopped devouring each other. After merging with each other for so long, they were no longer pure.
The bestial soul reflexively chose the even more vicious and bestial lower body, while the divine soul naturally chose the remaining upper body.
Finally, the moment arrived. Although there were many problems, this newly born God's physical body reached a balance, and a true divine lifeform descended into the mortal plane.
"Roland …"
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