Chapter 143. Reversing Devouring, Slaying Greed...
Before Lin Xiaoxiao could speak, Quan Zhi continued, "I've thought of a way to find the core of the God of Greed. It's very dangerous. Do you want to give it a try?"
Upon hearing Quan Zhi's words, Lin Xiaoxiao recalled a forbidden technique she had seen in that magnificent library while following Terrote.
Quan Zhi's voice synchronized with Lin Xiaoxiao's thoughts: "Through energy transformation, reverse the devouring..."
'By converting energy into its own, one can devour the enemy's energy and use it for their own benefit. If successful, one can obtain most of the enemy's divine power; if unsuccessful, one will be devoured by the enemy and become their energy.'
This method originated from the first God of Greed. Through this dark divine technique, He forcefully devoured everything, rising directly from the lowest-ranking god to the highest-ranking god in just sixty years.
However, due to absorbing too much and too mixed energy, the divine power within His body became turbid, His mind was often prone to confusion, and His divine power carried a pollution that even gods could not expel.
Whenever his mind becomes confused, he loses his senses and devours everything that carries energy.
Because of the severe aftereffects of this divine skill, the first God of Greed, when he lost his mind for the first time, devoured half of the God Alliance and thousands of gods... In the end, it was Kalia, the leader of the gods in the alliance at the time, who sacrificed himself to take them all down with him.
Only then could they forcibly bring this irrational madman under control.
The price was that Kalia, the leader of the gods, perished and his soul vanished, leaving behind no divine position; while the god of greed at the time was severely wounded and dying, and was sealed in the abyss.
Every subsequent successor to the god of greed would cause bloodshed and chaos.
The God Alliance has tried many times to annihilate the God of Greed and his divine position, but every ten thousand years a new successor appears, just like weeds that revive with the wind.
Lin Xiaoxiao's eyes were firm, and she replied in a hoarse voice, enunciating each word clearly: "Try, try!"
Besides this method, no other method is suitable for her current situation.
After all, she didn't have much time left to find the divine core.
She slowly closed her eyes, channeling the energy within her body according to the operating method of the divine technique, and soon transformed into a ball of seven-colored energy.
As Lin Xiaoxiao's energy materialized, Quan Zhi was expelled from her body. The words that drove its skill stuck in its throat, and its mouth was slightly open, not closed, looking quite bewildered.
A thoughtful look flashed in its eyes. It seemed that she had a strange encounter during the ten minutes she was unconscious. It was just unknown how much information she had obtained or whether it was useful.
The energized Lin Xiaoxiao stretched out her finger and pointed it in the direction of Quan Zhi. A protective shield that shimmered with seven-colored light firmly protected it inside.
Her voice was hoarse: "Jeon Ji, be good, stay put."
Then, she transformed into a seven-colored cloud and flew directly onto the black mist, actively devouring it.
When the first wisp of black mist was swallowed into her body, Lin Xiaoxiao first felt a pain that felt like her soul was being shattered; then came the nausea of the turbid energy entering her body; and finally the feeling of being filled with energy and expanding.
The colorful clouds and black mist intertwined, each swallowing the other, neither giving way to the other.
After a period of absorption, the black mist first gained the upper hand, followed by the seven-colored clouds...
As the black mist was absorbed, Lin Xiaoxiao's consciousness gradually slumped, and she could only rely on her initial thoughts to drive her instincts to devour it.
After the last wisp of black mist was completely devoured, the seven-colored cloud that Lin Xiaoxiao had transformed into instinctively began to spread. After touching the boundary of the heart, it quickly climbed upwards and devoured it.
Before long, it swallowed the entire heart into the clouds and refined it into divine energy, and also found the divine core hidden at the very bottom of the heart.
The god of greed, Terrote, that madman, refined the entire divine core into a heart, leaving only a tiny piece the size of a little fingernail, hidden at the very bottom of the heart.
The advantage of doing this is that even if He is defeated in battle against other gods, as long as a little bit of flesh and blood remains in His heart, He can survive again with that little bit of flesh and blood.
But He never expected that Lin Xiaoxiao would also possess this forbidden divine skill—[Devouring All Things]—leaving Him with not even a trace, effectively cutting off the God of Greed's escape route from the very root.
The greedy god, who was tearing at the fallen god crawling on his body, couldn't help but let out a huge scream after Lin Xiaoxiao devoured his heart: "Ah, ah, ah..."
His imposing aura quickly faded, his powerful fists began to weaken, and his body, which was over a hundred meters tall, rapidly shrank to a little over 40 meters before stopping.
Lin Xiaoxiao, still in a misty state within the God of Greed, paused briefly as she passed by the two heads, which only had bits of skull remaining.
She shook her dizzy head, took out two 30*30*30 wooden boxes from her spatial storage, put the two skull fragments into the boxes, stored them in her spatial storage, and then rushed back to the spot where she had landed when she entered this space.
Four hours later, Lin Xiaoxiao, along with Quan Zhi, successfully teleported out of the dark alternate dimension using the energy positioning system they had left behind before entering it.
It ripped open the esophagus of the god of greed, blasted a hole more than 2 meters high in His stomach, flew more than ten meters, and then condensed back into human form.
The god of greed, clutching the hole in his stomach in astonishment, laughed maniacally: "You can do it, I never thought you could do it too, hahahahaha... They've miscalculated, hahahahahaha..."
Lin Xiaoxiao shook her head vigorously, hoping to clear her confused thoughts.
She raised the God-Slaying Sword in her hand, pointing the tip at the God of Greed: "Enough talk, it's time to settle this."
After saying that, she summoned the other four guardians, including Xiao Weizhi, and quickly instructed them through the contract: "Don't hold back, attack with all your might."
A few seconds later, tens of thousands of skills, mixed with sword light, attacked the God of Greed.
But even without its divine core, the God of Greed was no pushover. It reacted swiftly and engaged Lin Xiaoxiao and the others in a fierce battle, gaining the upper hand.
Just as they were fighting, the core of the planet beneath the throne of the goddess of fortune—Raphael—exploded several more cracks, flickering with uneven light, clearly a prelude to its destruction.
This caused increasingly noticeable ground tremors, and the terrain changed dramatically as a result of these vibrations.
Some plains have turned into basins; some basins have cracked and collided to form mountain ranges; some high mountains have broken into large rift valleys... The most terrifying thing is that hot, red-hot magma has begun to overflow from some of the fissures.
At the center of the suspended platform above Mona City, Xingyan and Kagome sat slumped in their chairs, their faces ashen. Even so, they still sensed the ground disturbance and tacitly raised the platform more than a thousand meters.
The other gods did not contact them, but they all tacitly chose to take to the air.
Xingyan, in a vain whisper, teased with a laugh, "Gao Wei, do you think we might not even last until Crazy Xiao comes back before we're worn out and die?"
Kagome, unusually, didn't sit upright. Instead, she slumped back in her chair, her head tilted back, her eyes closed, and her lips so pale they were almost bloodless: "Shut up, conserve your strength, hold on a little longer, trust her."
Xingyan's lips curled slightly as she leaned back in her chair, her expression remarkably calm—the kind of composure that comes from having mentally prepared for both the best and worst.
It transformed into a black cat the size of a horse, carrying two large baskets of energy stones. It skillfully and evenly poured the stones around Xingyan and Kagome, watching calmly as the energy stones turned into strands of energy and were absorbed into their bodies.
A moment later, the black cat left silently and continued to repeat its previous work of moving energy stones, spreading them out around Kagome and Xingyan.
Lau Evan, Xiao's father... these people also did the same moving work as the black cat.
This was solely to ensure that each of the Shindai piloting the hovercraft had enough energy to absorb.
Most of the people still alive on the platform pray every day, hoping for a special miracle.
With a 'peng—' Lin Xiaoxiao was punched by the God of Greed and sent flying into the energy lake not far away, the lake water splashing up more than ten meters.
Xiao Weizhi immediately filled in for her, manipulating the surrounding dark elements to condense them into basketball-sized energy balls, which were then used to attack the God of Greed's joints, neck, internal organs, and other areas, causing explosions to engulf His body.
Of the other four guardians, three have been reduced to energy specks and returned to the summoning space.
Only one assassin guardian, who uses dark energy, remains, lurking in the shadows behind the God of Greed, occasionally jumping out to attack and harass him.
The god of greed was covered in wounds of varying sizes, and black blood covered his entire body, with much of it dripping directly onto the ground, forming corroded pits.
He stared at Xiao Weizhi and gave a smile that wasn't quite a smile: "I originally intended to groom you as my successor, but unfortunately, you didn't agree."
Xiao Weizhi did not respond to the God of Greed's words and continued to manipulate the surrounding energy spheres to attack Him.
Lin Xiaoxiao quietly climbed up from the other side of the energy lake, circled around, and fiercely swung more than a dozen swords at the back of the God of Greed's head, repeatedly slashing the same spot.
The final sword strike cleaved the God of Greed's head in two, leaving a massive 4-meter-long gash.
Xiao Weizhi seized the opportunity and threw thousands of dark energy balls into the wound Lin Xiaoxiao had slashed, using the explosion to prevent the God of Greed from healing.
Lin Xiaoxiao seized the opportunity, channeling all the divine power within her body into the God-Slaying Sword. Following Xiao Weizhi's attack, she launched a follow-up attack, directly cleaving the 40-meter-tall God of Greed in two from top to bottom.
Following Lin Xiaoxiao's attack, Xiao Weizhi immediately followed up with several forbidden spells, blasting them towards the God of Greed, who had been split in two and fallen one in front of the other.
The left eye of the God of Greed was fixed on Lin Xiaoxiao, a slight smile playing on his lips, silently saying, "We'll meet again."
His right eye was fixed on the direction of the energy lake, as if he would die with regrets if he didn't see Lady Luck.
Shortly after the God of Greed fell, Lin Xiaoxiao received a notification that the mission was complete. Her body began to radiate a dazzling light, and she slowly floated into the air.
【Mandatory Quest for Divine Inheritance 1: Slay a God [1/1] (Completed)】
[Godhood succession begins: 1%...2%...]
The divine enlightenment threads, which were carefully placed within Lin Xiaoxiao's space, began to float out automatically from the moment she began to inherit the divine position.
It hovered around her, and every few seconds, one of them would merge into her body.
Soon, all the divine threads merged into Lin Xiaoxiao's body, and her inheritance progress was stuck at 68%.
It seemed that the succession to the divine throne was about to fail due to insufficient understanding.
Lin Xiaoxiao suffered a backlash and suddenly spat out a mouthful of red and gold blood.
As the blood dripped onto the ground, an invisible wave spread rapidly outwards, sweeping across the entire planet at a speed faster than light.
It was this mouthful of blood she spat out that awakened several special divine souls, and then:
Within the energy pool of the Fallen God Land, a golden pillar of light rapidly rose;
In a mountain range tens of thousands of miles away, echoing from afar, a light blue pillar of light also rose.
A seemingly ordinary piece of land was followed by a light pink pillar of light rising up.
A beam of orange-yellow light rose between Mona City and Blackcoil City;
...
Not far away, Quan Zhi sensed the seven pillars of light rising, slowly closed his eyes, and also activated the little energy left in his body, just as the sacrificial pillars of light were about to unfold.
A beam of light from the energy pool in the Land of Fallen Gods split off a very shallow wisp of energy, which lashed out and sent Quan Zhi's small body flying, directly interrupting its final sacrifice.
Quan Zhi was sent flying dozens of meters, tumbling more than twenty times before finally stopping, dizzy and disoriented. His eyes were bloodshot, his hands clenched into fists, and he roared furiously, "Xiao Mingzhao, you bastard! You're a dictator! You've been so autocratic for thousands of years! What right do you have to stop me?"
The wisp of energy gently brushed across Quan Zhi's little face, lightly touching the corner of its eye as if kissing it, carrying a hint of lingering affection, before finally dissipating into the air, as if writing a final farewell in this way.
Quan Zhi stopped cursing and tears uncontrollably streamed down her face. She stubbornly raised her hand to wipe away the tears.
As if sulking, she choked back tears and muttered, "That unreasonable, wicked woman, she even left me to clean up the mess in the end, she's inhuman. She won't even give me a chance to see her one last time, you damned liar, talking about the afterlife, I sacrificed my last shred of my soul, what kind of afterlife is that..."
As if in response to Quan Zhi's words, the pillar of light in the energy pool of the Fallen God Land flickered.
Finally, it transformed into a golden energy sphere the size of an olive, heading straight for Lin Xiaoxiao in mid-air. At the same time, six other spheres of different colors flew in together:
[Xiao Mingzhao, the God of Rules (a native deity), sacrifices his last wisp of divine soul to his successor, Lin Xiaoxiao. Succession progress: 73%]
[Robert, the God of Prayer (a first-level local deity), sacrifices his last wisp of divine soul to his successor, Lin Xiaoxiao. Succession progress: 79%]
...
Seven consecutive sacrificial notification sounds rang out, rapidly pushing Lin Xiaoxiao's divine succession progress to 100%.
[Godhood succession in progress...]
Immediately afterwards, Lin Xiaoxiao's personal attribute panel popped up and appeared in front of her:
[Name: Lin Xiaoxiao
Age: 30
Occupations: Treasure Chest Merchant [Hidden Occupation], [Successor to the God of Rules], [Protector of the Dragon Kingdom]
Level: [Upgrading]
Job Skills: Daily Treasure Chest [0/10], Luck Treasure Chest [1 per day], Experience Treasure Chest [0/3], Treasure Chest Crafting (God-level), Endless Treasure Vault (God-level), Faith Summoning (God-level), Nurturing Your Own Spirit (God-level)
Other skills: Wisdom Spirit (Legendary [Upgrading↑]), Divine Eye (God-level), All-Encompassing Extraction Technique (God-level), All-Encompassing Hearing, Sealing Technique (God-level), Special Perception Technique (God-level), Gold Coin Critical Strike (God-level), Gold Enhancement (God-level)
Talents: Extra-large storage space, lucky Libra, divine power
Special Contacts Module: Currently recorded contacts: 12/302] (List is collapsed)
Task module: —
A moment later, the panel seemed to be shattered into blue energy specks by a pair of merciless hands. These specks squeezed into Lin Xiaoxiao's brow and wandered freely throughout her body, gradually completing their transformation from blue to gold.
Lin Xiaoxiao floated in mid-air, clenching her teeth tightly, enduring the pain of broken bones and reversed blood flow. The remaining half of the red blood in her body slowly turned golden.
When the last drop of red blood turns gold.
A special divine energy emanated from her body, sweeping rapidly across the planet. Much of the superficial pollution vanished instantly in the sweep of this divine energy.
At the same time, all the gods received a notification:
[***Successfully ascended to the God of Rules, a new god was born in the land] (PS: Mortals cannot look directly at the true name of a god)
[In the X23-B432-L1321 star system, the intelligent planet S21-L92 has successfully completed its civilization advancement.]
The galactic seal is about to be broken, the genetic lock is about to be broken, and the civilization blockade is about to be broken.
Human professionals outside of the Age of Gods did not receive any notification, but it was as if a special lock within their bodies had been opened, and they inexplicably felt much more relaxed.
Lin Xiaoxiao, who successfully inherited the God of Rules, slowly fell from the sky, but when her feet were about 5 centimeters from the ground, she landed on an invisible air surface, and her feet could not directly touch the ground.
These are the rules after becoming a god: one must not touch the mortal world, and ordinary mortals are not allowed to see the true face of a god.
The air in front of Lin Xiaoxiao swirled, and a magnificent white-gold portal materialized before her, its doors slowly opening.
Through the doorway, large swaths of white clouds and mist could be clearly seen.
The voice of the goddess of fortune, Raphael, came from inside. Her voice was very soft: "Come in and let's talk. The newly enthroned Goddess of Rules—Lin Xiaoxiao."
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