Chapter 606: Levi's Divine Kingdom

Chapter 606: Levi’s Divine Kingdom

On this very day,

Levi ignited a divine war within the subterranean depths.

Single-handedly, he challenged all the deities of the underworld.

The battle raged on for what seemed an eternity.

Relying on the home-field advantage, the underworld gods sought to wage a war of attrition.

Unable to overpower Levi, they had no choice but to exhaust him.

Yet, to their misfortune, Levi's divine power far exceeded their wildest imaginations.

As the radiance of successive miniature supernova explosions illuminated the subterranean world,

the divine war, which had lasted for nearly three months, finally drew to a close.

Every single deity of the underworld had fallen.

Some gods, unwilling to let Levi seize their divine sparks, self-detonated at the final moment.

For Levi, however, whether he laid claim to their divine sparks no longer mattered.

The power of laws he already commanded was vast enough.

Indeed, it could even be described as excessive,

bordering on becoming a veritable burden.

Following the eradication of all the underworld deities,

Levi attempted to assume control over all the legal authorities of the subterranean realm.

A year later, he unexpectedly discovered that these authorities did not exist in isolation;

they were inextricably linked to the sky world above.

The relationship between the two realms was like a mirror image, positive and negative.

Unlike the Abyss or the Death Realm,

the underworld and the sky world were joined far too closely.

Unless he completely dominated all the laws of the sky world, he could not truly control the underworld.

Levi felt a tinge of disappointment, having failed to glimpse the ultimate stratagem of the Gods.

He had slaughtered every god of the underworld;

the higher Gods might very well be pleased by this outcome.

The Gods had always intended to eliminate all native deities of the sky world anyway.

Furthermore, the underworld gods never seemed to hold much weight in the eyes of the higher Gods.

This was largely because the subterranean deities were all lesser gods,

their strength unremarkable, and the authority of their laws held little sway over the world.

More importantly, these underworld gods were not as obstinate as those of the sky world.

They had even harbored hopes of joining the ranks of the higher Gods.

Even knowing they would have to sacrifice both the sky world and the underworld, they were willing.

When the enemy actively sought to surrender,

the higher Gods naturally spared no concern for them.

Levi’s divine sense swept across the entire subterranean world.

Since the total annihilation of its deities, the underworld had fallen into immense chaos.

Factions clashed and waged war against one another relentlessly.

Dark races offered prayers to Levi, proffering their faith.

Yet Levi never responded to a single believer.

Realizing he could not govern the underworld in isolation,

Levi shifted his focus to his secondary plan:

testing the transformation project in the underworld before implementing it in the sky world.

First and foremost, he needed to introduce the Spellweave into the subterranean realm,

ensuring the weave enveloped the entirety of the underworld.

Levi had already secured the full support of the Goddess of Magic;

accomplishing this task proved far from difficult for him.

As the Spellweave expanded through the depths, Ring Mages gradually appeared in the underworld—

Ring Mages belonging to the dark races.

So long as they gained the acknowledgement of the Spellweave, any race could become a Ring Mage.

The Goddess of Magic had never rejected any individual who desired to walk the path of wizardry.

Levi expended his divine power to accelerate the integration of the Spellweave with the underworld.

This process consumed half a year of his time.

During this period of integration, Levi journeyed through every corner of the subterranean world,

gaining a comprehensive understanding of the realm.

Unlike the sky world,

the underworld was vastly smaller.

The vast majority of its regions consisted of an uninhabitable and hostile lithosphere.

Only a few immense, sprawling underground chambers nurtured unique subterranean races—

clans living in darkness, surviving solely on the underworld's natural cycle.

In a narrow sense, the underworld referred to the territories inhabited by these dark races.

In a broader sense, it encompassed the entire spatial dimension of the sky world’s dark side.

Levi’s transformation plan only included the underworld in its narrow sense.

Once the Spellweave completely enshrouded the subterranean realm,

Levi initiated his grand transformation project.

Utilizing the laws of elemental birth and death, the Spellweave, and natural laws, he altered the global rules.

This endeavor would drain a tremendous amount of divine power.

Levi had long since prepared himself for this toll.

In the astral plane, Levi began converting stars near the sky world into his own divine power,

moving at an astonishing velocity of one star per month.

Today, the starlight visible to the naked eye above head all originates from Li Wei's divine suns.

Backed by more than a double-digit number of divine suns, possessing nearly boundless power.

Only then was Li Wei able to carry out such a frantic plan to reshape the world.

The dark races dwelling in the subterranean world found that the world would occasionally convulse, giving rise to incomprehensible occurrences.

The dark races regarded these inexplicable events as miracles wrought by that deity.

There were even dark races who specifically conducted rituals of worship to the god near the venues of these eerie phenomena.

The aesthetic of the subterranean world grew increasingly bizarre.

The dark races began to revere the uncanny.

In this world dominated by gods, the occurrence of such things was hardly a matter of wonder.

Any action of a deity could provoke fanatical worship and adoration.

Even deeds that were difficult, or outright impossible, to understand.

They would still be viewed as divine miracles by the fools who believed in the gods.

Li Wei's remodeling of the subterranean world caused the frequency of these eerie incidents to rise dramatically.

The races of a certain region in the subterranean world suddenly discovered that the dead were returning to life.

Yet they had transformed into mindless corpses.

In some areas, unkillable individuals appeared, whom no manner of means could extinguish.

Even if one completely destroyed their bodies, it would not be long before they manifested once more.

Li Wei focused his mind entirely on reshaping the laws of the world.

He completely failed to notice the changes transpiring within the subterranean world.

By the time he came to his senses, he discovered the various bizarre events that had taken place in the underworld.

The subterranean races had even birthed factions that worshiped the uncanny.

After a world-remodeling project that spanned several long years.

The laws of the subterranean world finally regained their stability.

However, this period of time had also allowed the humans of the Firmament World to discover the eerie things appearing in the subterranean world.

Just as the humans of the Firmament World sought to investigate the causes further.

They found that all the uncanny phenomena had vanished without a trace.

Looking upon the now completely remodeled subterranean world before him, Li Wei let out a smile.

It had consumed a vast amount of his mental energy and a prolonged stretch of time.

Only now were the laws of the subterranean world finally remodeled to completion.

Li Wei sealed the entire subterranean world, forbidding any creature from entering or leaving the underworld by any means.

Then, he activated the remodeled laws of the subterranean world.

Overnight, the dark races of the subterranean world discovered that they possessed immortal bodies.

No matter how severe the injuries they sustained, they needed only a night's sleep to return to normal the following day.

Even if they were slain by an enemy or devoured by magical beasts.

Before long, they would be resurrected anew.

Li Wei sensed that a great number of the dark races were actively courting death.

Upon discovering they possessed immortality, the dark races completely ceased to treat life with any gravity, recklessly seeking their own demise.

This caused a massive consumption of Li Wei's divine power.

Under the world laws he had remodeled, the groups within the scope of the laws would not perish; even after death, their bodies would be reshaped through the laws of elemental creation and destruction, and the laws of nature.

If it were a death of the soul, however, Li Wei would be powerless. If life force was utterly depleted, Li Wei likewise had no way to resurrect them.

His laws of elemental creation and destruction were not yet capable of creating life and souls.

To avoid an excessive and meaningless drain on his divine power.

Li Wei hastily amended the world laws.

Resurrection from death now required a price to be paid.

Instantly, the number of people courting death plummeted rapidly.

"This will not do; if all creatures are unable to die, then food ceases to exist as well."

Li Wei discovered yet another issue after granting the attribute of immortality to all living things in the world.

Some people were beginning to starve to death.

Those who starved to death would then be resurrected.

Entering an insoluble cycle of death.

It was even termed the Curse of the Starved Ghost by the dark races.

Li Wei modified the world laws once more, allowing only designated groups to possess immortal bodies while the remaining creatures stayed as they were.

After countless modifications, the laws of the subterranean world finally reached a degree that satisfied Li Wei.

"Though there are still some flaws, it is close enough."

By reshaping the laws of the subterranean world, Li Wei forged a cohort of immortal warriors within the underworld.

He looked toward the sealed entrance of the subterranean world.

Li Wei opened the long-forbidden gateway of entry and exit.

The subterranean world re-established its connection with the surface Firmament World.

The humans who entered the subterranean world discovered that fighting here would never result in death.

Quite a few professionals took advantage of this opportunity, rushing to the subterranean world to hone their combat skills and accumulate battle experience.

For a time, the subterranean world unexpectedly became the most popular destination in the Firmament World.

In Maple Leaf City, Gu Serwei, sporting a heavily distended belly, said to Li Wei, "Have you heard? Strange things have happened in the subterranean world; no matter how you fight there, you won't die, and even if you do, you'll be resurrected."

"Many professionals have rushed to the subterranean world, wishing to use its bizarre environment to swiftly raise their levels."

Li Wei remarked, "Such an affair that defies common sense must surely have a god working behind the scenes; do not go and experiment lightly."

Gu Serwei nodded, finding his words reasonable.

She glanced at her large belly, caressing it with a touch of helplessness as she said, "It has been several years now, why won't it come out yet?"

Li Wei gently stroked her belly and said, "Soon."

Nurturing an offspring that possessed the bloodline of a deity was by no means an easy task.

Gu Serwei's strength had consequently failed to improve for several years.

It had even declined to a certain extent.

Yet, Levi had always been helping her internalize the insights of the demigod realm beforehand.

Once the child was born and she was free of the burden, Gusevie would soon break through to the demigod level.

Then, with Levi's assistance, she would quickly ignite her divine fire and forge her divine body.

Possessing a lifespan that was nigh infinite.

When one ascends to the Dao, even their dogs and chickens ascend to heaven.

Alas, before the arrival of the day Levi would reshape the world.

Mage Rota had already exhausted his lifespan, dying of old age.

Levi had even personally seen Mage Rota off.

For Mage Rota, not having to live in the coming era was perhaps a blessing instead.

That was bound to be an era with no path of retreat.

Levi sensed the conditions within the magic net, his gaze shifting slightly.

"Found it."

After several years of searching.

Levi had finally found the will of the Firmament World within the magic net.

The will of the Firmament World had hidden itself exceedingly deep.

It was only after Levi spent several years turning the entire magic net upside down.

That he finally found the world will lurking within the rules of the world at the lowest layer of the magic net.

"Will of the Firmament World, the world is about to be destroyed, and this world needs your strength."

The world will: "No, you should not have come looking for me."

The world will: "The authority of the Firmament World has already been seized by the gods, and even as the world will, I cannot reverse it."

The world will: "You fell for the gods' trick; the moment you found me, the gods found me as well."

"The gods have already grasped the authority of the Firmament World, and now the only obstacle to them is the world will."

"You exposed me, the gods have discovered me, and the world is already beyond redemption."

Boom!

Time and space shattered.

A corner of the Firmament World crumbled into pieces.

A swath of golden light appeared in the sky.

Numerous figures emerged within the golden light.

The gods stood aloft in the air, looking down upon the world, gazing at Levi and the will of the Firmament World.

Witnessing this scene, Levi showed not the slightest trace of surprise.

It seemed he had long known this would happen.

Yet he had still come to find the world will.

Because he was already prepared, prepared to wage war against the gods.

On that day when he met with the Goddess of Magic.

The Goddess of Magic had brewed a cup of magical black tea for him.

Levi drank the magical black tea and came to understand one thing.

The authority of the Goddess of Magic had already been stolen away by the gods.

That day, the conversation between the Goddess of Magic and Levi was entirely beneath the ears and eyes of the gods.

There was no privacy to speak of.

The gods were acutely aware of the plan between the Goddess of Magic and Levi.

They knew they intended to use the world will to shatter and redistribute the laws and authority of the Firmament World once more.

To render the laws and authority held by the gods entirely useless.

The gods had simply turned their own trap against them, using Levi to locate the will of the Firmament World.

The world will had hidden deep within the lowest layers of the magic net.

Precisely to continually evade the search of the gods.

The world will possessed the ability to reset the laws and authority of the world.

This was also the gods' greatest dread.

Every single moment, the gods desired to find the world will and obliterate it.

The gods descended.

Levi said, "Reset the world."

The world will: "It is useless; currently there are no deities in the Firmament World, and even if the world's laws and authority are reset, they will ultimately be stolen by the gods again."

Most importantly, resetting the world meant the formatting of the world will.

It would completely vanish from existence.

"I have a way."

Levi said.

The world will gazed into the distance at the descending gods.

In helplessness, it chose to believe Levi and reset the world.

With a thunderous crash, the heavens collapsed and the earth split, while time and space shifted.

The gods vanished.

The world will vanished.

Levi vanished as well.

Everything returned to tranquility.

The collapsed corner of the Firmament World restored itself to its original state.

The laws and authority held by the gods all returned to the world.

Like starving ghosts lunging for food, the gods frantically surged toward the Firmament World, scrambling to fight for the world's authority.

The more world authority they obtained, the more power they would gain from burning the world.

Levi transplanted the rules he had long since implemented in the subterranean world over to the Firmament World.

Utilizing the magic net left behind by the Goddess of Magic that enveloped the entire world.

He reshaped the entire Firmament World into a divine kingdom.

In the starry sky, the stars, one after another, rapidly went dark.

The entire power of the Divine Sun was drained away.

The Celestial Realm was transformed into a divine realm.

A divine realm governed by the laws established by Levi.

Within this divine realm, every warrior belonging to the Celestial Realm’s faction would possess immortality.

The immortal warriors of the Celestial Realm would confront the gods.

The gods would face an endless, indestructible tide of rebels.

(End of this chapter)