Chapter 1212

After burning, Lin Yan gained 10% of the Life Principle.

The Goddess of Life was very generous.

At this point, Lin Yan possessed eight Principles.

Immediately after, Lin Yan took out the light orb given by the Goddess of Life and read the information within.

Soon, Lin Yan learned the steps to ascend to Primordial Godhood.

Ascending to Primordial Godhood consists of several steps.

In the Heavenly Realm, once a god's divine core and divine body reach level 20, they begin to touch the Principles; once they touch the Principles, that god becomes a Master of a Principle.

The combat power of a Master of a Principle depends on the Principle they control.

It is not merely dependent on the degree of mastery.

Different Principles have different strengths.

When used in combat, combat Principles and non-combat Principles are two entirely different concepts.

When a Master of a Principle achieves perfect mastery of one Principle, they are very close to becoming a Primordial God.

Achieving perfect mastery is not the same as controlling the Principle.

Even a Master of a Principle with 100% mastery is still merely borrowing the Principle's power.

A Primordial God, however, fully controls one Principle.

The meaning of "control" is embodied in the specific step: if a Master of a Principle seeks to ascend to Primordial Godhood, they must directly imprint their soul mark onto one Principle!

Through this method, this Primordial God can claim the Principle as their own!

Make this Principle unleash terrifying power under their hand!

Not like ordinary Masters of a Principle, who merely borrow it.

This is control!

Control and mastery are two entirely different things.

On a single Principle, at most only one soul mark can be imprinted.

Perhaps two could be imprinted, but… would any Primordial God be willing to split their controlled Principle in half with another god?

Therefore, the first step to ascending to Primordial Godhood is imprinting the soul mark!

This is an extremely risky process.

Principles represent the most fundamental secrets of the universe's operation.

If one's power is insufficient, tampering with Principles leads to severe consequences.

Even if one's power is sufficient, touching the Principle's power requires extreme caution.

And imprinting a soul mark… even for a Master of a Principle with 100% mastery, infinitely close to Primordial Godhood, is an extremely, extremely dangerous act!

If it fails, one is often severely wounded.

That is why the Goddess of Life gave a kind warning upon hearing Lin Yan say, "I'll give it a try."

Ascending to Primordial Godhood—can it be "tried"?

Even without any opposition, if one's accumulation is insufficient, the failure rate is one hundred percent.

Because imprinting the soul mark requires consuming vast amounts of divine power.

Without divine power to counteract the Principle's backlash, how could success be achieved?

Moreover, this process is not short!

It requires months of continuous effort!

You must constantly use your will to strike against the Principle's power, leaving your mark upon it, then gradually increase and expand these marks until you dare to fully place your soul mark upon it.

This is a process that demands immense patience.

Once you begin this step, ripples from the Principle level will spread throughout the Heavenly Realm.

Even to the Abyss, the Dark Abyssal Prison, and other unknown places.

Then, all powerful beings will be awakened.

Your enemies will ambush you; some evil entities that see you as prey may also arrive.

This is the greatest danger faced by those who seek to ascend to Primordial Godhood!

Imprinting the soul mark is already extremely difficult.

However, completing this step does not mean you have become a Primordial God.

After completing this step, even without ambush, a Master of a Principle's divine power will likely be depleted by more than half.

Their spirit will also be nearly exhausted.

Then, this god must, while fighting their enemies, proceed to the second step.

The second step is to condense the Primordial Divine Core.

Yes, to become a Primordial God, one must upgrade both the divine core and divine body into Primordial Divine Core and Primordial Divine Body in a single, unified act.

It must be completed all at once.

There is no chance for correction afterward.

If it fails, even if the soul mark has been imprinted, one will still perish.

Because after successfully imprinting the soul mark… the Master of a Principle will face the most perilous backlash yet!

This backlash comes from the Balance Principle of the Gods' Continent—an Principle no being can ever master.

A Primordial God, in some sense, is already a force that disrupts balance.

The more powerful the Principle one controls, the greater the disruption to balance.

So why, even now, does the Gods' Continent still lack a Space Primordial God?

The Space Principle is too powerful—so powerful that even without any god to ambush them, the backlash from the Balance Principle alone is enough to severely wound or even kill countless gods who dare attempt to become Space Primordial Gods.

The backlash from the Balance Law did not come immediately.

If it came immediately, it would be easier to handle, since those capable of challenging the Supreme Deity are themselves equivalent to the most powerful Law Lords, their strength nearly matching that of a Supreme Deity.

The Balance Law will brew for a certain period before the backlash occurs.

The longer it brews, the fiercer the backlash.

The backlash of the Balance Law is the most dangerous moment when a Law Lord attempts to ascend to Supreme Deity!

In the past, countless Law Lords attempting to become Supreme Deities failed at this step.

Moreover, the more powerful the Law Lord, the more likely they were to fail.

For example, Law Lords who chose the Space Law or the Killing Law.

Many Law Lords were directly severely wounded or even perished in the backlash of the Balance Law.

Even those who survived the backlash of the Balance Law, barely missing the threshold of becoming a Supreme Deity, still had to face powerful enemies coming to ambush them.

At that moment, these Law Lords had expended enormous energy; even if they survived the backlash, they were injured—how could they possibly fight enemies as terrifying as a Five-Star Ancient God?

Unless someone protected them.

But the Supreme Deities of Heaven did not wish to add another Supreme Deity; if they didn't openly strike, that was already good enough—why would they protect you?

In that case, the Rasoya slain by Lin Yan—if he truly mastered the Killing Law to 100%—would have had a very high chance of becoming the Killing Supreme Deity!

Because the Abyssal Supreme Deities would surely escort Rasoya!

After the Abyssal Supreme Deities blocked the ambush targeting Rasoya, the danger he faced was only the inherent danger of ascending to Supreme Deity.

Without ambushers, the inherent danger of ascending to Supreme Deity—given Rasoya's strength and talent—he might truly have succeeded.

Too bad…

No matter how powerful Rasoya was, or how great his potential to become the new Killing Supreme Deity, he had become Lin Yan's evolution point.

For Lin Yan, if the gods of Heaven had not provoked him, he would not kill them arbitrarily.

But killing the Killing Abyssal Demons required no justification whatsoever.

That was simply the rule of the Abyss—might makes right.

Returning to the earlier topic, the reason one must ascend to Supreme Deity Grade and Supreme Deity Body all at once after successfully imprinting the soul mark upon the Law is that only with a Supreme Deity Grade and Supreme Deity Body can one possibly withstand the backlash of the Balance Law.

And after successfully upgrading the Supreme Deity Grade and Supreme Deity Body, one is already half a Supreme Deity.

As long as one survives the backlash of the Balance Law and then survives the enemy's ambush, completing the final step—that is a formal Supreme Deity!

If one fails, the soul mark will be erased, the Supreme Deity Grade will shatter and downgrade, the unstable Supreme Deity Body will suffer severe injury, and without the most critical element, it cannot be called a Supreme Deity Body.

Even if one barely survives, they must enter a deep slumber for countless years to heal.

"Ascending to Supreme Deity is indeed perilous."

After reading all the information in the light orb given by the Goddess of Life, Lin Yan muttered to himself.

It was understandable.