Chapter 1387

One of the Lords of Law suddenly thought.

He himself had not yet made up his mind to end his concealment and act personally.

But he could certainly enhance the power of the Holy Spirits and let the Holy Spirits act!

As a Lord of Law, raising a Holy Spirit to the strength equivalent to a First-Tier Deity is not difficult!

Many Lords of Law held this same thought.

Even that incredibly ancient Lord of Law was preparing to secretly send powerful Holy Spirits to join the battle.

The Lords of Law understood more about matters of the Supreme Deity level and deduced vast amounts of information from Lin Yan's words.

But for ordinary Deities, they had not even considered so much.

When the Lords of Law were stunned by Lin Yan's words,

within the Stone Fortress, the ordinary Deities had erupted in chaos because of Lin Yan's words!

A massive uproar swept through the entire Stone Fortress!

Every Deity found it hard to believe their own ears.

After confirmation, these Deities fell into ecstatic joy!

"My god, can we borrow power from the Flame Lord?"

One Deity said in a voice filled with disbelief.

Borrowing power from a Supreme Deity!

This was something this Deity had never dared to imagine before!

Why would a Supreme Deity be willing to lend power to ordinary Deities?

Moreover, from the Flame Lord's tone, it wasn't about lending power to one or two Deities—it was about lending power to all Deities in the Stone Fortress!

For these Deities facing an imminent great war, this was like a gift from heaven!

Immediately, some Deities closed their eyes and silently chanted "Flame Lord."

With this Deity's action, a special thread was connected.

Then, a flame of unimaginable heat appeared in this Deity's hand!

"It really works!"

Seeing this Deity's action, the Deities beside him wore expressions of joy.

And without knowing what this Deity did, that blazing flame suddenly "boom—" grew larger!

The other Deities, seeing this, also began to try.

Soon, these Deities all learned how to borrow power from the Flame Lord.

This borrowing was not without cost.

Silently chanting Lin Yan's divine name was already equivalent to praying to Lin Yan.

A Deity praying to another Deity would contribute a vast amount of their faith power to the other Deity.

But this time, this contribution was controllable.

That is, these Deities could freely choose how much power to borrow from Lin Yan at critical moments.

Borrowing power of the First-Tier, Second-Tier, Third-Tier, Fourth-Tier, and even… Lord of Law tier!

Each type of power borrowed carried a different cost.

These costs must be paid in faith power!

It was like fixed pricing!

And if these Deities lacked sufficient faith power, they could choose to sign a temporary contract with Lin Yan to prepay a portion of their faith power.

This temporary contract would entrust the faith power of their realms to Lin Yan's management, after which Lin Yan would take 90%, and they would keep only 10%, until Lin Yan stopped purchasing!

If a First-Tier Deity borrowed Fourth-Tier power from Lin Yan, that First-Tier Deity might need tens of thousands of years to repay the debt.

Of course, under normal circumstances, a First-Tier Deity's opponents would be at most Second-Tier, and even if they were caught in the crossfire of Third- or Fourth-Tier Deities, as long as they were careful in battle, borrowing Second- or Third-Tier power would already solve the problem.

And due to Lin Yan's divine nature, even if they could only keep 10%, it wouldn't be much different from before—perhaps even more!

Because of the temporary contract, these Deities could not freely speak about changes in their faith power.

A contract with a Supreme Deity—even a temporary one—carried severe backlash if broken, and ordinary Deities could not withstand such retribution.

"You can prepay? Wonderful!"

After understanding how to borrow power from Lin Yan, not a single Deity in the Heavenly Realm thought the cost was unjustified.

A Supreme Deity would never lend power without reason.

In fact, a Supreme Deity might not care at all about your life or death.

The war between the Abyss and the Heavenly Realm had lasted countless years, recurring every ten thousand years, yet no other Heavenly Realm Supreme Deities had ever done this!

"The Flame Lord is so benevolent, so great!"

Some Deities even praised Lin Yan.

These Deities, preparing for battle, had already converted vast amounts of faith power into their own strength and had little faith power left.

Lin Yan's prepayment scheme provided these Deities with a temporary means to enhance their power!

For these Deities, it was simply another way to survive!

After all, many of these Deities felt they might not survive this war!

Immediately, throughout the Stone Fortress, countless Deities began trying to borrow power from Lin Yan.

And in the endless heavens above, Lin Yan sat upon the Wang Zuo, motionless.

All the handling was controlled by the Supreme Deity Core.

For the Supreme Deity Core, managing these matters was incredibly simple.

The power he lent to ordinary Deities was not divine power—it was flame.

In short, through this method, Lin Yan can convert his nearly infinite energy points entirely into faith power, then into divine power.

This war is extremely dangerous for ordinary gods.

It's easy to imagine that, by then, a great number of gods in the Stone Fortress will pre-empt their realms' faith power, sign temporary pacts with Lin Yan, and borrow strength from him.

Probably 90% of the gods will do this.

That means, after this war ends, Lin Yan can take control of 90% of the faith power from nearly half the realms across the Continent of Gods.

In this way, Lin Yan effectively claims half the Continent of Gods for himself.

This will quickly solve Lin Yan's problem of insufficient accumulation!

This is also why Lin Yan intends to retain his realm—his divine core differs from those of other major gods; the faith power his divine core draws from his realm is terrifying.

And the Continent of Gods is immensely vast; even though the Flame Empire is now quite large, it still occupies less than one percent of the entire Continent of Gods.

With Lin Yan's divine core, once this war ends, his daily influx of faith power will be astonishingly immense.

At that point, it won't be one day equaling one year—it'll be one day equaling many years for other major gods.

However, once other gods borrow strength from Lin Yan, casualties among the Heavenly Realm gods during this war will drop dramatically.

This would contradict the beliefs of other Heavenly Realm gods.

But…

This is itself Lin Yan's test!

Although Lin Yan has become a major god-level being, his calculation of time does not, like other major gods', routinely span ten thousand years.

The current Heavenly Realm is already quite prosperous.

The overall prosperity of the Heavenly Realm has strengthened all laws.

But once this war ends, if half the gods of the Heavenly Realm die and half the people of the Continent of Gods perish, the Heavenly Realm will weaken by at least one-third in a short time.

For the same reason, the Abyss will also weaken.

This outcome is precisely what the Light Major God, Lei Ting, and the other three major gods desire.

To suppress the Heavenly Realm's prosperity and avoid its collapse after peak glory!

But this outcome is not what Lin Yan wants.

Nor is it what the Goddess of Life or the Goddess of the Ocean wants.

The Goddess of Life and the Goddess of the Ocean merely oppose large-scale wars among Heavenly Realm gods that would cause true decline of the Heavenly Realm, which is why they have not escalated tensions.

But Lin Yan cannot tolerate the Heavenly Realm weakening and then requiring ten thousand years to recover its prosperity.

Once the Heavenly Realm weakens, even if the Dark Starry Sky is fully illuminated, the Flame Law will struggle to complete its transformation in a short time.

Even though his flame form can upgrade infinitely, transformation of his divine body is also critically important.

After all, what if burning the entire world still isn't enough to gather sufficient evolution points to reach the Next Rank?

Moreover, unless absolutely desperate, Lin Yan will not choose such an extreme method.