Chapter 1066: Usurping Another’s Throne

Chapter 1066: Chapter 1066: Usurping Another’s Throne

The Long Eared God is not as powerful as the Martial Might God, and Shen Mo is even stronger than he was two or three hundred years ago when he killed the Martial Might God. After a few rounds, he successfully subdued it.

Clang...

Iron chains engraved with divine runes firmly bound the limbs and neck of the Long Eared God, rendering it immobile.

Each time the Long Eared God attempted to use its divine power, the divine runes on the chains would light up, siphoning off that portion of divine power like parasitic vines, converting it into restraining energy, causing the chains to tighten until they dug into the flesh and blood of the Long Eared God.

However, this chain is crafted from immortal material, highly compatible with mana and True Yuan but unable to withstand the constant wash of God power, likely to completely break after three or four days.

Shen Mo used a sharp blade to cut his finger, pressing the fingertip onto the forehead of the Long Eared God.

It was as if a red-hot iron dropped onto ice and snow. Instantly, amidst a sizzle, Shen Mo’s blood etched a bloody mark on the Long Eared God’s forehead.

The Long Eared God struggled painfully, but Shen Mo ignored it, and his fingertip began to slide downward, causing the bloody traces to spread.

Before long, every inch of the Long Eared God’s skin was covered with crooked, mysterious bloody patterns.

Chen Mengze and Jiang Yingying, who were observing from the side, took out paper booklets recording the divine runes. Upon comparison, they found that Shen Mo had inscribed a total of three Fivefold God Runes, eleven Layer IV God Runes, and dozens of Layer III God Runes on the Long Eared God’s body;

There were runes for suppressing and extracting divine power, runes for maintaining blood activity, runes for communicating with all things, runes for strengthening the connection between inanimate objects and oneself... He seemed to be aiming to achieve some effect by combining multiple divine runes, but Chen and Jiang, having just begun studying divine runes, did not know the final result!

Shen Mo completed the last stroke of the bloody rune within a few breaths before the self god’s divine power within him completely dissipated, immediately injecting all remaining divine power into the series of divine runes.

"Buzz!"

"Buzz buzz!"

All the divine runes lit up, and as the light flowed, a trace of a blood-colored phantom slowly emerged, covering the body of the Long Eared God like armor.

"Seems it’s not enough yet..."

Shen Mo murmured, directly cutting his wrist with a sword blade. Instantly, blood gushed forth, writhing like a living thing toward the blood-colored phantom under the guidance of mysterious power.

Due to the lack of manifestation of the Immortal Path in this world, he could not directly utilize the primal Essence and Qi origin power, and his bodily blood was a part of the Essence and Qi, the best vessel embodying his mind and will; after losing ten percent of his blood, the blood-colored phantom covering the Long Eared God gradually solidified, initially forming a human shape. A closer look would reveal that this blood shadow was identical to the self god’s shadow within Shen Mo’s Mind Sea!

As Shen Mo completed this series of bloody and complex rituals, the severed connection between him and the Long Eared God was reestablished in the unseen, and the god shadow that had dissipated and collapsed in his Mind Sea once again manifested, but unlike before, the manifested god shadow was no longer in the shape of the Long Eared God, it was completely the self god... He had, at the root, accomplished a usurpation.

At the same time, numerous profound insights arose in his heart, as if he had transformed into the Long Eared God at this moment, able to listen to the prayers of disciples and worshipers, able to accept their sacrifices of primal Essence and Qi and bestow divine power, able to sense the presence of other fake gods, and even perform all the extraordinary methods originally belonging to the Long Eared God with divine power!

"Under the Long Eared God’s throne, including myself, there are a total of one thousand five hundred and twenty-seven worshipers. More than twelve hundred live in fourteen villages in the Wild Forest, and the rest are scattered throughout Qing Country." Shen Mo closed his eyes and sensed silently. Now, he was able to control the dispensation of divine power to disciples, but it seemed the rules of the God Path limited the range within which divine power could be bestowed.

For example, when an ordinary disciple sacrifices ten units of their primal Essence and Qi, half of a unit is converted into divine power, which is returned to them, the lower limit for the bestowal of divine power, a rule that even fake gods cannot break; when that disciple’s status advances to an elite disciple, the Long Eared God would increase the divine power bestowal to one unit, while the highest-ranked elder receives two and a half units.

And the upper limit of bestowed divine power was nine units.

That is to say, even if the Long Eared God gave everything without reservation, transforming ten units of primal Essence and Qi sacrificed by disciples into divine power and bestowing it all, there would still be one unit of Essence and Qi flowing to an unknown place!

"Is it flowing to the corpse of the Empyrean Fairy in the Nine Heavens, or..."

"Junior Brother?" Chen Mengze’s voice interrupted Shen Mo’s thoughts.

Shen Mo opened his eyes, smiling as he nodded to the worried-looking Chen and Jiang: "I have successfully gained control of the Long Eared God. This God Realm is undisturbed, perfect for conducting your offering ceremony!"

Upon hearing this, both Chen Mengze and Jiang Yingying breathed a sigh of relief, then under Shen Mo’s guidance, they completely released their mind and spirit.

Now that Shen Mo has replaced the Long Eared God with the self god, there’s no need for flowery actions like those of Village Chief Wang Tie, just a gentle tap on their foreheads to establish an unseen connection between the self god and them, taking a portion of their primal Essence and Qi.

However, when he fulfilled duties in place of the Long Eared God, he bestowed upon them ninety percent of the divine power according to the abundance of their Essence and Qi!

In an instant, Chen Mengze possessed the divine power of a senior disciple, while the divine power within Jiang Yingying reached the standard of an elite disciple... On one hand, they are cultivators, their Essence and Qi naturally hundreds of times thicker than those of the fake god’s disciples of this realm, resulting in significant conversion of divine power; on the other hand, within the rules of the God Path, Shen Mo returned as much divine power as possible to them, with not a trace flowing to the Long Eared God or the self god.

Both Chen and Jiang quickly comprehended the Long Eared God Praying Scripture, and just as they were about to sacrifice more Essence and Qi to gain divine power, they were stopped by Shen Mo.

"Once the Long Eared God is killed, this divine power will vanish in an instant. Even if it continues to exist, when we return to the Immortal Realm, we won’t be able to continue using God power, much less convert it back to primal Essence and Qi; it will need to be regained bit by bit through cultivation. Losing too much origin power would also affect cultivation and lifespan, so it’s essential to act within one’s means!"

In the Divinity Era, God power is of little use outside this world, even the old era remnants like Lord Blue Venerable have turned to the Immortal Path, trading vast quantities of Essence and Qi for divine power is unwise, not to mention this is divine power obtained through reliance on the Long Eared God, which is as impermanent as moonlit dew.

Hearing Shen Mo’s advice, Chen Mengze stopped her practice of the Praying Scripture obediently; with her bodily vitality and the effect of activating divine runes after acquiring divine power, she was already at the pinnacle of existence in the cultivation world, and there was no need to seek more God power.

But after contemplating for a while, Jiang Yingying said, "My abilities are too weak, more so than the Sect Master and Junior Sister Chen, I need stronger God Path techniques!"