Chapter 1766: Ten Thousand Laws Ancient Sovereign Slays the World

The feasting and revelry of the Wind Elder and Rain Master lasted for several years; they drank who knows how much fine wine, and sampled the most beautiful women of countless races, only parting with great reluctance.

The two agreed to meet again next time in the Wind Elder's Divine Palace, to admire the latest batch of stunning butterfly women who had grown up.

"Brother Rain, let's stop here, no need to see me off further."

"Next time I will definitely let you see my butterfly women — they will surely be no worse than your clam women!"

The Wind Elder staggered drunkenly outward.

"This old man looks forward to it immensely."

The Rain Master burst into laughter.

The two had always shared the same tastes; after so many years of old friendship, they had spent countless joyful years together, closer than blood brothers.

After the Wind Elder left, the Rain Master found a couch, did not even undress, and fell into a deep snoring sleep, his snores thunderous.

The footsteps of the many maids and servants moving about in the Rain Master's Divine Palace involuntarily grew much lighter, not daring to make even the slightest sound.

Within the Rain Master's divine soul, a single intent silently watched over everything.

"Compared to high-level cultivation cultivators, these divine beings are more like humans — mortals."

"…He actually fell asleep?"

Jiang Ding was slightly taken aback.

He had seen countless people and countless things over the years; he was no shut-in cultivator who only read books.

But he had never seen a high-level cultivator sleep every day.

Not to mention Void-Combing Dao-Integration level cultivators, he had never even seen a Jin Dan cultivator sleep every day.

There was simply no need for it!

Sleep is a mortal's physiological instinct, used to repair bodily cell damage and divine soul damage — a necessary physiological activity.

Cultivators at Foundation Establishment and above had absolutely no such physiological need.

Yet the divine beings had actually retained this instinct.

Not just sleep, but also lust for beauty, fondness for fine wine, fondness for fine food — these were relatively normal, as a few high-level cultivators also enjoyed such things.

But the key question was — cultivation?

Of course, divine beings seemed to have no need to cultivate; merely accumulating the power of incense offerings was enough.

But surely one must study the power of incense offerings, study spells, study the divine way, study how to further improve the quality of the power of incense offerings… The divine way is not some perfect, flawless supreme path; with so many things to do, how could you just drop your head and sleep like that?

From the memories in his Sea of Consciousness, Jiang Ding learned that the Rain Master was not occasionally like this, just relaxing a bit.

He had been like this his entire life!

To be precise, he had been like this ever since becoming the Rain Master; before becoming a god he had actually worked quite hard, but after becoming a divine being he spent his whole life indulging in pleasures and enjoyment, with no pursuits at all.

The Rain Master and Wind Elder were not special cases.

In the Rain Master's memories, almost all divine beings were like thi

s — each with their own hobbies, their desires not only undiminished but intensely strong.

"How can such beings dominate a region and become an important force in the endless cosmic starry sky?"

Jiang Ding fell into deep doubt.

Which human cultivator was not busy their whole life — cultivating, Tui Yan Gong Fa and spells, never idle — yet in the end lived worse than these divine beings?

"Is this the corrosive influence of mortal incense power?"

Jiang Ding could only arrive at this answer.

As beings born from the power of incense offerings, divine beings used countless methods to isolate the influence and preserve themselves, taking the advantages of incense power while discarding its flaws, yet they were still affected at the essential level, unconsciously drawing closer to the underlying thought logic of mortals.

What was the underlying thought logic of mortal divine souls?

Sex and reproduction, survival, laziness.

These were human weaknesses rooted in mortal divine souls — weaknesses mortals themselves could not overcome or fully recognize. How could divine beings, who gathered the incense power of countless such mortals, possibly escape them?

The vast majority of divine beings were incapable of creative work — this was their essence.

"No,"

"Not absolutely."

Jiang Ding silently ran a Tui Yan Gong Fa and corrected his judgment: "It should be that for incense divine beings to engage in creative work, they must overcome far more difficulties than ordinary cultivators before they can do so."

"Therefore, creativity may well be the great difference between supreme-level divine beings and ordinary divine beings."

"This is the divine beings' flaw, and at the same time their advantage from another angle."

"Without creativity, there will not be too much wild thinking."

"Everything strictly follows cause and effect; the vast divine way system revolves entirely around the Divine Way Supreme, obeying him alone, executing his commands alone.

"Combined with the tightly designed layered divine way system and supervisory system, the stability of divine way civilization far exceeds that of human cultivator civilization."

"Within divine way civilization, there is almost no internal friction — this is where their competitiveness lies."

Jiang Ding murmured to himself, discovering the characteristics of the divine way system.

"Such a divine way civilization may not have a high ceiling — after all, the height of the entire divine way civilization depends entirely on the Divine Way Supreme and the Divine Child pushing it forward bit by bit — but its floor is terrifyingly high, and the possibility of internal decay is likewise far lower than in human cultivator civilization."

"Therefore, before an unrivaled prodigy who breaks through humanity's ceiling appears, divine way civilization has a considerable chance of being stronger than human cultivator civilization."

"This may well be the key to the current situation in the endless cosmic starry sky."

"The human race is awaiting the birth of a Human Sovereign."

"In terms of possibility, the human race — with its extremely low floor and extremely high ceiling — has a much greater chance of birthing a sovereign than divine way civilization."

"This is the talent of the hegemonic race of the endless starry sky."

"Of course, it is only a much greater chance of becoming sovereign, not a certainty, because divine way civilization does indeed possess the possibility of birthing a sovereign."

Drawing conclusions from a single glimpse, Jiang Ding deduced many possibilities in an instant.

Human Sovereign.

The endless starry sky's human race needs a Human Sovereign.

Otherwise, if the alien race's Sovereign has yet to be born, then so be it.

If an alien Sovereign were to emerge, the entire human race would face extinction.

Because that is exactly what the previous generation's Human Sovereign did.

The previous generation's Myriad Laws Ancient Sovereign, in the later period of his life, slaughtered the Dragon race, the Phoenix race, numerous Divine Dao civilizations, and all races that posed a threat to humanity—killing them all clean.

The entire endless cosmic starry sky is occupied by the human race and numerous weak yet useful races.

The many Immortal races spent countless years and many generations before reviving from the Sovereign's Secret Realm.

"Truly... damn it."

"The Myriad Laws Ancient Sovereign was far too ruthless."

Jiang Ding cursed under his breath: "In this era, absolutely no alien Sovereign must be born, or the entire Immortal Gate will be annihilated. Hiding anywhere would be useless—an alien Sovereign has the power to exterminate every last human in the endless cosmic starry sky, not leaving a single one behind."

The Immortal Gate wants to keep itself out of it, but doesn't even know where to go to do so.

A Sovereign's Secret Realm is even less worth mentioning.

The Immortal Gate has never birthed a Sovereign—where would a Sovereign's Secret Realm come from?

Perhaps the depths of the Spiritless Universe could offer temporary refuge, but only for a time.

An alien Ancient Sovereign could very well delve deep into the Spiritless Universe to root out the Immortal Gate's remnants—he has the manpower and resources of an entire endless cosmic starry sky at his disposal, an inexhaustible force.

Who could possibly obstruct a Sovereign's will?