Chapter 114: Secret Agent of Godhood

Currently, the Indestructible Golden Nature within Zhou Heng has made significant progress.

Although this level of Behemoth bloodline can no longer change Zhou Heng's martial soul, it still provides some improvement to his base attributes, though it is not that obvious.

Furthermore, because Douluo Continent is not very welcoming to Spirit Beasts like the Behemoth, Zhou Heng has no way to continue obtaining Behemoth—well, strictly speaking, the Behemoth is not even a Spirit Beast at all.

Therefore, the power of the Behemoth clan that Zhou Heng can obtain from this soul bone is quite limited.

Honestly speaking, Zhou Heng himself is considering whether his attributes are a little too numerous.

But considering that his future goal is to become a god, Zhou Heng feels that having more attributes is not a problem; perhaps in the future, he could simply condense a "God of Elements" Godhood that governs all elements?

After all, having come into contact with the Divine Power of the three big shots—the Asura God, the Rakshasa God, and the Angel God—Zhou Heng has already realized that the Godhoods of the Douluo World are quite complex and not that pure.

A deity's Godhood contains multiple different attributes.

The Angel God's Godhood is Angel; its surface authority is Light and Fire. Because she led humanity to defeat the Spirit Beasts, she was regarded by humans as a god of holiness and hope, and subsequently gained the authority of holiness and hope.

Because the sun is light and fire, and the Angel God herself possesses the two authorities of holiness and hope, she is also considered by people to be the Sun God.

This whole heap of authorities combined constitutes all of the Angel God's authorities.

The Asura God governs slaughter, and slaughter is divided into righteous slaughter and evil slaughter.

It is only because the God Realm has two God Kings, the God of Evil and the God of Goodness, that the Asura God can only involve himself in a portion, balancing between justice and evil, which is how he gained the authority of judgment.

The Rakshasa God is an evil god, but she does not govern all malice; to be precise, she is the integration of hatred.

She possesses the authorities of evil, hatred, slaughter, and even a faint bit of vengeance and judgment.

Although it is faint and sounds a bit ridiculous, it is indeed there.

However, thinking about it carefully, this is not hard to understand. After all, the Rakshasa God must have killed quite a few people, and these people must have had enemies. In the eyes of these people's enemies, the Rakshasa God is the god of vengeance and the god of judgment who avenged them.

Even if these people are not many, it is easy for those with relatively pure faith to appear, which naturally allows the Rakshasa God to obtain these two attributes to a certain extent.

Because the Rakshasa God's authority overlaps with the Asura God's, and the Asura God is a stronger King of the God Realm than the Rakshasa God, the Asura God is able to use the Rakshasa God's Divine Power to create puppets to a certain extent.

Hmm, as an aside, Zhou Heng feels that the Angel God's Godhood should also contain authority regarding vengeance.

After all, in that era of the Angel God, humans and Spirit Beasts had hatred; the Angel God killing Spirit Beasts was equivalent to hope in the eyes of humans, but in the eyes of some, it was also equivalent to vengeance.

It should not be strange for there to be authority in this aspect. It is just that this part of the authority was likely actively excised by the Angel God later on.

Through the data given to him by Manxing and his own contact with deities, Zhou Heng also understood that there are actually two paths to becoming a god.

The first path: directly strengthen one's own essence, forcibly causing one's essence to leap forward, and then become a god.

In the era when Spirit Beasts could still become gods, Spirit Beasts basically all became gods through this path.

The strength of becoming a god this way is not high and requires a bit of strengthening, but it has the advantage of being free and being able to modify one's bloodline to bless descendants.

Strictly speaking, Zhou Heng can actually be considered to be on this path right now.

After all, although his physical body is weak and his spiritual power has not undergone a qualitative change, his soul's origin is indeed at the god level. After all, with the gift from his home planet, Zhou Heng's soul origin is enough to surpass 99.99% of the people in the Douluo World.

And Zhou Heng's god-level soul origin is also protecting him, ensuring that raising his soul power will not show signs of going into a cultivation deviation, and when comprehending laws, he will not encounter the situation of being stuck in a rank due to insufficient comprehension.

The second path is the path taken by the gods of the Douluo World: first, condense faith by promoting one's own power to create a Godhood, and then strengthen the Godhood.

A Godhood is equivalent to a piece of equipment that can provide extra levels; mortals possessing a Godhood can also improve their life essence.

Deities use the Godhood to first cross the limitations of their level, first possessing the power of a god, and then conversely use the power of the god to improve their own essence, pushing themselves back to the strength of a deity.

In this way, the upper limit of a deity's strength is equivalent to the upper limit of the false level provided by the strength of the Godhood; to go further, one can only continue to strengthen the Godhood to raise the upper limit of the level.

The former is freer, doing whatever one wants. The latter is more powerful, but will be bound by one's own Godhood and faith.

A Godhood is a powerful piece of equipment; it not only raises the level cap but can also provide a large amount of attributes.

A deity with a Godhood is one stage stronger than a deity without a Godhood.

A Level 3 God with a Godhood can rival a Level 2 God without one, a Level 2 God can rival a Level 1 God, and a Level 1 God can rival a Half-step God King.

Even for a God King, a Godhood is still a powerful and effective piece of equipment.

If one loses their Godhood, their combat power will drop by more than one grade.

Furthermore, the most important characteristic of a Godhood is that before it is completely forged, the Godhood can only raise the level cap and cannot directly convert Faith Power into experience points to improve strength.

To quickly use a Godhood to improve strength, one must complete the Godhood.

Before this process is completed, regardless of whether it is a Level 3 God's Godhood or a Level 1 God's Godhood, they do not look that different.

But in other words, after the forging is completed, it will also cause the deity's strength to be stuck at the level of the Godhood, making it very difficult to progress away from the Godhood.

Although a forged Godhood can indeed be gradually strengthened through faith, the efficiency is much worse than before forging, and it is very difficult to continue expanding in terms of authority.

Often, a heaven-gifted genius becomes a god in a few hundred years, but after becoming a god, their strength does not change at all for tens of thousands of years, and it is even possible for their strength to regress due to insufficient faith.

A Godhood is like a high-up step; before stepping on it, one looks up with effort, but after stepping on it, one often doesn't even look back, thinking only of finding a way to leave this sticky step, even if it means throwing away a Divine Artifact; ordinary people would never want to be firmly stuck on the step.

In the God Realm, the Sea God has this thought. After meeting that guy Tang San, even though Tang San's martial soul did not have high compatibility with the Godhood, the Sea God still accepted it.

Why?

Isn't it just to escape the Godhood as soon as possible, leave the God Realm, and gain freedom?