Chapter 1116: 316: The Fall of He Weidao
Chapter 1116: Chapter 316: The Fall of He Weidao
Think about the essence of a True God and a Venerable: to gather the fortune of a race, making billions trust in themselves, becoming the savior in the hearts of billions!
Simply put, isn’t it about making an entire race worship you blindly!
So here’s the question: why would someone at the Absolute Pinnacle of being a demigod, with roughly equal strength and the highest status in their race, get trusted as “Venerable” while others do not?
Isn’t it because the “Venerable” knows how to show off and promote themselves?
If an Absolute Pinnacle demigod silently kills enemies on the domain battlefield without promoting themselves, would the common populace know them, or even believe in them?
Common people might not even know who they are…
Therefore, while strength and achievements are important, so is the art of showing off and self-promotion.
That’s why Fang Ze decided, upon realizing all this, to step up publicly by toppling He Weidao and establish himself as the savior of the entire Eastern Administrative Region! To make every person in the Eastern Administrative Region believe he is the hope for the Human Race’s salvation!
Fang Ze thought he should learn a thing or two from Venerable Yuan Gu on how to nonchalantly kill two demigods and a military base, then arrogantly strike a pose to taunt the enemy.
It would be best to make a promotional video in his spare time and broadcast it in the cities of the Administrative Region, so everyone would know how handsome and powerful he is. Coupled with some benevolent governance, wouldn’t the Power of Faith just come rolling in?
Aside from showing off, Fang Ze wasn’t too surprised by Yuan Gu’s power. He even felt a little disappointed.
According to the intelligence he received from Old Mr. Bai and He Weidao.
After becoming a Venerable of a race, a demigod would receive a significant enhancement. The most straightforward aspect is that the Power of Faith from tens of billions of creatures would converge upon that person.
Even if these tens of billions have a shallow faith, it would still be enough for the Venerable to form a sea of divine power within them. Therefore, unless there are continuous battles, the Venerable does not need to worry about running out of divine power or lifespan.
This is also why none of the Venerables have fallen and become a Divine Fiend till date.
Besides having virtually unlimited divine power, since Venerables are born out of domain wars, where their race was once the principal race of the world, as a king of their species, a Venerable would also gain the greatest authority over creatures in this world.
Though, as of now, the Human Race still doesn’t know what this supreme authority does. However, there are some hypotheses.
For instance, they might not need believers to provide Power of Faith (as they have stored too much within), instead directly drawing Power of Laws and converting it to divine power for their use.
Or, because they understand the operating mechanism of the World Origin, they could temporarily lift the suppression of the World Origin when descending into other worlds, exerting their full power.
Or by spending an enormous amount of divine power, they could create their domain, receiving substantial enhancement within it: akin to carrying a portable, terrain-ignoring, weaker version of a demigod’s secret realm.
Just now, although Venerable Yuan Gu demonstrated the ability to transform Power of Laws into divine power and to form his domain, it did not give Fang Ze an overwhelming sense of invincibility.
Fang Ze speculated that this might be because Yuan Gu is not a Martial Combat demigod: judging by his mass-scale offensive techniques, he’s likely a demigod specializing in group attacks, much like the Si Family’s ancestor.
This explains why Yuan Gu dared to descend into the Real World so early: being alone, he is equivalent to an entire army, capable of sweeping the world with some initial resources.
This made Fang Ze feel slightly at ease: if that’s the case, then today, he stands a much greater chance of taking down Venerable Yuan Gu!
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Meanwhile, as Fang Ze was analyzing Venerable Yuan Gu’s strength.
On the battlefield, Emperor Li and the Si Family’s ancestor, hovering in midair, watched their three comrades being slain by Yuan Gu in one blow, and unlike Fang Ze, they were not calm at all.
Their eyes were wide with fury as they glared at Venerable Yuan Gu, no longer bothering with He Weidao’s strategy of attrition, but instead unleashing their full strength, roaring as they charged straight up!
As the strongest in the Eastern Administrative Region, Emperor Li’s power is formidable.
With full force, Dragon Qi surged everywhere, a vortex of Power of Laws was forcibly drawn by him, forming a new small vortex linking above his head from the Nine Heavens!
Nine lifelike golden dragons appeared on the battlefield filled with high concentration of Power of Laws, entangled together, forming a resplendent Treasure Seal of gold and jade intertwined.
At this moment, Emperor Li also roared, “By the mandate of heaven, longevity and prosperity!” Then he propelled the Treasure Seal towards Venerable Yuan Gu!
The Treasure Seal is clearly Emperor Li’s exclusive Divine Skill, and upon its use, the whole battlefield’s space began to tremble slightly under the unbearable terrifying pressure, emitting a “cracking” sound as if it could not withstand it!
The Law Rain all across the sky could not move under the suppression of the Treasure Seal. Time and space seemed like they might solidify at that moment!
And for the first time since the beginning of the battle, the ever-composed Venerable Yuan Gu’s expression turned much more serious.
He remained seated high on his throne, waved his hand, and from the Skeleton Jungle spanning dozens of square kilometers, numerous giant skeletal hands extended towards the divine seal!
But it was futile! Against those giant skeletal hands, the divine seal appeared as an unstoppable Divine Artifact, smashing through them effortlessly, continuing its relentless descent towards Venerable Yuan Gu with hardly any resistance!