Chapter 1194

Especially the Goddess of Light—she now also possesses a 15th-level Divine Core, and once her Divine Body fully stabilizes at 15th level and accumulates further, she can attempt to break through to the Fourth Tier!

In the past, the Goddess of Light was the most powerful goddess in the Elven Divine Realm.

But now, Viviela has surpassed her.

Although the Elven goddesses do not compete with one another.

Yet the Goddess of Light still harbors a fierce determination to catch up with Viviela!

Just one day passed, and Lin Yan's Divine Core successfully rose to 19th level.

Immediately after, Lin Yan continued upgrading his 19th-level Divine Body!

The resources provided by Venerable Tianlan already contained much of what was needed for a 19th-level Divine Body upgrade; Lin Yan exchanged for the final two missing items, so this Divine Body upgrade progressed faster than the Divine Core upgrade.

Still, stabilization required some time.

Once the Divine Body reached 19th level, Lin Yan's Divine Form became a true Gao Jie of the Fourth Tier!

Yet even in his Divine Form, his combat power far exceeded that of a standard Gao Jie of the Fourth Tier!

Other Gao Jie of the Fourth Tier hadn't even touched a single thread of Law Force.

Lin Yan had mastered five Laws, plus the Force of Time!

Although many of these five Laws were obtained through Flame Form, his Divine Body could still wield them!

Moreover, using Law Force with a 19th-level Divine Body was now fully manageable.

The 19th-level Divine Body, though inferior to the 20th-level, was already immensely powerful!

Unlike at 16th level, where using Law Force once risked collapsing the Divine Body!

Lin Yan was likely the only deity to have encountered Law Force before reaching the peak of the Fourth Tier at 20th level.

"19th level."

Lin Yan glanced at his panel, paused, then within his Divine Core, spent five drops of 19th-level Divine Power to exchange for one drop of 20th-level Divine Power.

He currently had over forty drops of 19th-level Divine Power, enough to exchange for eight drops of 20th-level Divine Power.

But eight drops of 20th-level Divine Power were insufficient to elevate his Divine Core to 20th level.

The minimum requirement for a 20th-level Divine Core was thirty drops of 20th-level Divine Power.

For Lin Yan, all other requirements for elevating his Divine Core to 20th level had already been met.

Now the greatest obstacle was the quantity of Divine Power.

And the quantity of Divine Power could not be rushed.

Although 20th-level Divine Power only required thirty drops.

Yet under the explosive growth of high-grade Divine Stones he had acquired recently, all his accumulated resources could barely exchange for eight drops of 20th-level Divine Power.

If nothing unexpected occurred, the remaining twenty-two drops of 20th-level Divine Power would require Lin Yan a very long time to accumulate.

And if his Divine Body were to attempt becoming a Supreme Deity, the requirement for 20th-level Divine Power would no longer be thirty drops.

At least a thousand drops of 20th-level Divine Power would be needed to attempt becoming a Supreme Deity.

A thousand drops of 20th-level Divine Power—too terrifying.

Starting from 16th level:

Five drops of 16th-level Divine Power could be exchanged for one drop of 17th-level Divine Power.

Five drops of 17th-level Divine Power could be exchanged for one drop of 18th-level Divine Power.

Five drops of 18th-level Divine Power could be exchanged for one drop of 19th-level Divine Power.

Five drops of 19th-level Divine Power could be exchanged for one drop of 20th-level Divine Power.

Calculating this way:

One drop of 20th-level Divine Power required 625 drops of 16th-level Divine Power.

And one drop of 16th-level Divine Power required ten thousand high-grade Divine Stones.

That meant one drop of 20th-level Divine Power required 6.25 million high-grade Divine Stones!

A thousand drops of 20th-level Divine Power would require 6.2 billion high-grade Divine Stones!

Of course, this converted the required Faith Power into high-grade Divine Stones.

Such an enormous amount of Faith Power—6.2 billion high-grade Divine Stones—was terrifying!

The Night Goddess's previous annual income was only ten thousand stones; she would need to accumulate for over six hundred thousand years.

Of course, the Night Goddess would grow, the Night Empire would become more prosperous, the Night Goddess would master Laws—the time might shorten, but it might also lengthen, as battles consumed power.

Moreover, other deities' exchanges were not as convenient as Lin Yan's, and their ratios were certainly not fixed at fivefold—they could only be higher.

Thus, other deities would require even more Faith Power.

"No wonder becoming a Supreme Deity is so difficult."

Lin Yan murmured.

Becoming a Supreme Deity required an astonishingly vast amount of Faith Power alone.

Even Venerable Tianlan likely did not yet possess sufficient Divine Power.

Moreover, a thousand drops was merely the minimum requirement.

To attempt becoming a Supreme Deity, more Divine Power was always better—the more, the greater the chance of success.

Furthermore, the Divine Power requirement was merely a basic threshold.

Just a gate!

Only with that amount of Divine Power could one qualify to attempt becoming a Supreme Deity.

Otherwise, one lacked the qualification entirely.

After gaining qualification, the real difficulties began.

Otherwise, even if it took hundreds of thousands of years to accumulate Divine Power, the Heavenly Realm had existed for countless eons since the Nine Supreme Deities were born.

The Lord of Laws, who had existed since the birth of the Nine Great Deities, had surely accumulated immense divine power over countless years.

But why had they not attempted to become Deities?

Divine power does not determine everything.

Yet for Lin Yan, divine power was precisely what he needed most.

Because Lin Yan felt that if he attempted to become a Deity, it would be simpler than for other gods.

This simplicity lay in the act of attempting to become a Deity itself.

Not in the resistance he would face.

In terms of resistance, everyone was roughly the same!

Lin Yan sat down upon his Wang Zuo, contemplating his next plan.

His Flame Form had now reached Level 10 of the third stage of Infinite Flame; one more level up would bring him to the next stage.

He would then possess Deity-level combat power.

But this upgrade would not be easy.

His Divine Body Form had already reached Level 19 of the Divine Grid Divine Body, becoming Gao Jie of the fourth tier, yet still fell short of Level 20—mainly due to insufficient divine power.

This was the basic state of Lin Yan's two forms.

After organizing these basic details, Lin Yan's mind began turning rapidly again.

"First, upgrade the Flame Form."

Lin Yan thought.

This had long been decided.

The Flame Form was only one step away from Deity-level combat power.

But that step was not easy to take.

The evolution points required would likely burn the equivalent of more than ten Four-Star Ancient Gods like the Multi-Dragon Great Venerable.

Yet the Ancient Gods had now vanished completely and refused to show themselves.

Expecting a Five-Star Ancient God to appear was even more impossible.

Unless Lin Yan immediately attempted to become a Deity and lured out the Five-Star Ancient Gods.

But his Divine Body Form had not yet reached the level required to attempt becoming a Deity, and the missing divine power was not minor.

Moreover, apart from divine power, Lin Yan had not yet achieved 100% mastery of any single law—his Divine Body Form still could not attempt to become a Deity!

After clarifying these issues, a clear plan slowly formed in Lin Yan's mind.

This plan was the plan to become a Deity.

This plan had, in fact, been set months ago.

At that time, he had completed the first step: entering the Dark Abyss, burning through a wave of Dark Deities, and killing one Dark Fa Zhi Zhi.