Chapter 189

If they refuse to submit to the Holy Empire and stubbornly resist, sparking war.

Then they will lose the people's support!

The Ice Kingdom is the same, but has been forcibly suppressed by Empress Eisdees.

Eisdees doesn't care about the poor's feelings—she only loves war!

The more chaotic this continent becomes, the happier she is!

Li An completely ignored all this, entrusting all matters of the Holy Empire entirely to Raphael and Saragil, while he himself entered seclusion.

As the Holy Empire expanded, the scale of Jianlishen Sect grew larger.

The number of believers in the One God rose from millions to tens of millions, then to hundreds of millions!

Now Li An has nearly a billion followers, continuously supplying faith every day.

On the day Nadezhda publicly executed Minister Onest, faith surged like a tsunami, wildly flooding toward his divine body.

Li An took no mercy—he fully refined and absorbed all this faith power.

One-third strengthened his divine body, one-third strengthened his divine soul, and one-third enhanced his divine core, the Primordial Star!

Days passed one by one.

The original tripartite balance among the three nations on the continent began to change.

Although Ainits's machine-armor race army numbered only fifty thousand, and each captured city required leaving some machine-armor races to govern.

But the machine-armor races' strength was simply beyond the capability of any mortal in this world to resist.

Not even the combat-type machine-armor races—even a mere observation-type or analysis-type machine-armor race possessed power on a godlike level to the humans of this world!

Any single machine-armor race could crush a Super Dangerous Species of this world as easily as stepping on an ant.

How terrifying is an army of fifty thousand machine-armor races?

The strongest divine race of Baldur's World, the War God, could have his divine core stripped away by merely a thousand machine-armor races.

So, is the combat power of fifty thousand machine-armor races equivalent to fifty War Gods?

Of course, calculating combat power this way is incorrect.

After all, the more machine-armor races there are, the higher their computational capacity, and the stronger their combat power becomes.

Fifty thousand machine-armor races—even the current evil Li An, without relying on the power of the Star Cup in Baldur's World—would find it extremely difficult to defeat.

Though his divine powers are numerous, the collective computational power of fifty thousand machine-armor races could easily replicate them all.

Fortunately, most of these machine-armor races were created by him; as their creator, Li An holds absolute control over them.

Though the machine-armor races possess overwhelming power, Ainits remained rational and chose to strike first at the weakest—the Revolutionary Federation.

On the Ice Kingdom's side, Eisdees also launched her first strike against the Revolutionary Federation.

Clearly, whether the Holy Empire or the Ice Kingdom, both intended to eliminate the weakest third party first, then settle their rivalry.

Under normal circumstances, the Revolutionary Federation should have allied with the Ice Kingdom to jointly resist the Holy Empire.

The Revolutionary Federation repeatedly sent envoys to the Ice Kingdom, attempting to persuade Eisdees.

But who is Eisdees?

Her arrogance is etched into her bones—how could she possibly accept such a request?

Thus, under the joint invasion of the Holy Empire and the Ice Kingdom, the Revolutionary Federation was instantly shattered.

The Holy Empire's territory expanded again, and Li An's number of believers surpassed the one-billion mark.

One month passed quickly.

After eliminating the Revolutionary Federation, the Holy Empire and the Ice Kingdom, as if prearranged, simultaneously ceased hostilities.

The Ice Kingdom was regrouping, awaiting the next great war.

The Holy Empire was digesting its new territories—each newly conquered city required building Jianlishen Sect temples and cultivating believers.

These things take time!

Li An had absorbed a month's worth of faith power, yet still could not push his divine core, the Primordial Star, to ten percent.

Helpless, he flew into the cosmos, activated the Gluttony King at maximum power, and continuously absorbed dark energy from the universe.

Meanwhile, he searched the cosmos for celestial bodies—stars, black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs—to devour.

After all, the Primordial Star's concept is celestial law, representing the Sun and White Night, the geocentric supremacy at the apex of the cosmos!

By devouring these sun-related celestial bodies, Li An could not only gain massive energy, but also extract minute fragments of celestial law.

Thus, under the triple influx of faith power, celestial power, and cosmic dark energy, Li An spent another month, finally pushing his divine body and divine soul to their limits, his divine core

Primordial Star reaching 930 percent of ten percent!

At this moment, his power finally reached the level of a single-universe entity!

Omniscient and omnipotent!

Even outside Baldur's World, without relying on the Star Cup's power, he would be the strongest existence!

As long as he avoided worlds like Dragon Ball, Box Court, Saint Seiya, or the Forbidden Book Catalog, he could do as he pleased!

This feeling could be described by only one word: exhilarating!

Li An teleported back to the temple and immediately summoned Raphael and Saragil.

He had secluded himself for a month, then spent another month in the cosmos.

Two months had passed—unknown what changes had occurred in this world.

Raphael and Saragil sensed Li An's summons and immediately used Heaven Teleportation to appear in the temple.

The two women, upon seeing Li An, both showed expressions of joy.

They knelt on one knee and said: "We pay homage to our master!"

"Rise," Li An said from Wang Zuo, waving his hand. "I've told you many times—when no one's around, no need for such formalities."

The two women smiled sweetly, immediately rising and taking their places—one to his left, one to his right.

"Tell me about these past two months," Li An said to the two women.

"Let me speak first..." Raphael stepped forward and began to recount the details in full.