Chapter 307: Ascension!

South of the Sun Staircase Mountains, on the edge of a dense forest, the ruins of Assam City stood silently in the center of the tranquil Holy Lake.

This was once the heart of the Holy Armor Dragon Kingdom, but now only broken walls and ruins remained.

I saw that in the center of the ruins, a newly built granite temple rose from the ground, and players who accepted tasks shuttled through the square in front of the gate.

Seeing the Demon King who suddenly appeared at the gate of the temple, the players showed surprised expressions, whispering and discussing one after another.

"Why is this guy here?"

"Is he going to release a new expansion pack again?"

Some players began to try their best.

As everyone knows, there is never anything good where the Demon King appears, but this is what they are waiting for!

And unlike the players, the acolytes and guards standing at the gate of the temple nodded slightly, their faces full of piety.

Luo Yan nodded to them to signal that there was no need for courtesy, and then cast his gaze toward the simple yet majestic temple in front of him.

The entire building was pieced together from the remains of the temple dedicated to the Dragon God Gutafu, and the construction took a total of half a month. Although it looked very sloppy from any angle, it was more than enough as a place of worship to gather faith.

"Wait for me here."

Luo Yan whispered a word, signaling Sarah, who was holding Tafu, to wait in place, and then stepped into the temple that belonged to him.

The main hall of the temple sat with a statue of a ferocious dragon, which seemed to be dedicated to the Dragon God, but in fact, this guy was just a mount for guarding the gate.

In the secret room directly below the main hall, the real statue was enshrined!

The stone statue had distinct edges and corners, and its expression was majestic without anger. Its facial features were 90% similar to Luo Yan's appearance, only missing the 10% of handsome, elegant, and easygoing charm.

Although it didn't open its mouth, it exuded an invisible pressure—

That is the weight of faith!

In the process of shattering the great barrier and making the Jiana Continent reappear in the main world, countless Lizardmen poured their faith into the name of "Demon King" because of fear, admiration, and submission.

Those powers of faith were not wasted. They gathered over Assam City, were absorbed by this statue in the prayers of the acolytes, and resided in this new sanctuary surrounded by ruins—waiting for the return of its master.

Now.

He is here.

"Go." Luo Yan said in a low voice.

The white mist in his body slowly emerged, and Hearing You You's body turned into a milky white stream of light, like a divine soul leaving the shell, piercing through the air, and pouncing on the statue.

At that moment, the statue vibrated.

Invisible ripples swayed, and the power of faith, which was almost condensed, poured out like a tide and was crazily absorbed by Hearing You You. Its body expanded rapidly, its outline blurred but became brighter and brighter, as if it were about to turn into a new moon that was rising.

—Until everything returned to calm.

Luo Yan's gaze focused on Hearing You You.

He found.

He could finally see it.

Even without the help of a mirror!

The full and satisfied Hearing You You returned to Luo Yan's side, gently wrapping around his arm, and burped contentedly like a full little beast.

"Hoo... it's really delicious," it said lazily, "Heh heh heh, the taste of the Demon King is really good."

Luo Yan: "..."

The composition of this sentence was too complicated, so he didn't know who this guy learned it from.

But for now, Luo Yan had no time to talk nonsense with it, and was busy confirming his gains.

Closing his eyes, his consciousness sank rapidly, and soon entered the sea of consciousness.

And just at this moment, a surprising scene happened to him.

His sea of consciousness was originally a pitch-black and silent void, but now this deep darkness was dotted with countless light spots.

Just like a universe with stars shining!

Those light spots floated quietly, each containing a familiar aura: Qianqian, Sarah, Okdu, Alakdu, Bond, Lumier... including those souls he had elevated with the power of faith, and those souls who had offered faith to him from the heart!

Among them were players, humans, Lizardmen, little demons, dark elves, and even stone men, mole men, undead, etc.!

Luo Yan's eyes were full of surprise, and even astonishment, and for a time he was shocked by this star-shining sea of consciousness to the point of almost losing his words.

After a long time, he squeezed a sentence from his lips.

"Incredible..."

These... are all my believers?

But why would they appear here?

Luo Yan reached out, trying to touch those light spots, but found that his hand passed through them, and he didn't touch anything.

But even if his consciousness couldn't touch them, he could still feel that they truly existed in this sea of void consciousness, and the bond connecting him and them!

Luo Yan was shocked.

"Hee hee... Demon King, is it very surprising?" The milky white mist appeared beside Luo Yan, and Hearing You You's voice drifted from it.

Luo Yan nodded and cast his gaze toward his godhead.

"What happened? That... where did the stele go?"

He noticed that it wasn't just the light spots that lit up in the depths of the sea of consciousness that changed, but the stele that originally stood in the sea of consciousness also disappeared.

Although the stele itself was given to him by Isaac's relic, and there was no such thing in his sea of consciousness originally, it was strange that it disappeared just like that, making him reluctant to part with it.

"Its historical mission has been completed, you no longer need it! Regarding the specific changes, you should open the Catastrophe System to confirm it first!" Hearing You You's body radiated ripples of expectation, and the voice was like instigating oneself to open a gift tied with a red rope.

Luo Yan called the system with a skeptical mood, and just at the moment his mind moved, the light blue interface appeared in front of him.

The 【Personal Attributes】 column remained unchanged, the same as before, but the column that originally recorded the faith value had quietly disappeared.

Replacing it was a brand new and more detailed interface—

【

Godhead: Luo Yan

Legend Factor: Demon King of Thunder County, Flame King south of the Ten Thousand Swords Mountains, Prince Kexi from a distant continent, civilian councilor born in the Demon God Temple...

Influence Share: 0.01%

Overdraft Limit: 0%

Domination Efficiency: 100%

Seed of Myth (Demigod): 0

Seed of Legend (Grandmaster): 0

Seed of Amethyst (Amethyst): 0

Seed of Diamond (Diamond): 0

】

"This is... what happened?!" Surprised by the incredible changes in the system interface, Luo Yan couldn't help but blurt out.

Hearing You You's voice sounded in his ears at the right time.

"Congratulations, Demon King! You have finally conceived your own godhead!"

Its voice seemed to really have a bit more divine radiance, and both the sound and the appearance were significantly different from before.

Looking at his godhead, Luo Yan asked suspiciously.

"Wasn't it before?"

"Before—of course it was!"

Hearing You You coughed solemnly, and the milky white mist swelled slightly, as if it had puffed out its chest.

"But that was inherited from the Machine God Lin Te Isaac after all, and the composition of the God-Chosen is also a little bit... Hearing You You should have told you this!"

"But now, because your total faith value has reached 100 million, and the daily faith value increase has exceeded 1 million, it has officially exceeded the statistical upper limit of the Catastrophe System! Therefore, the Catastrophe System judges that you have left a sufficiently deep mark on this world in the form of a miracle, and formed an independent pantheon!"

"The original faith value statistical standard only applies to niche faith, and you are obviously no longer niche now—"

"In other words, from today on, you have officially changed from a newcomer who works for others to one of the shareholders of this world!"

When talking about this, Hearing You You also proudly clicked its abstract head.

"It's really gratifying... Hearing You You originally thought you would reach this stage later, but I didn't expect you to be unbelievably fast!"

100 million... faith value?!

Luo Yan was shocked by this number.

This power of faith can elevate a full 1 million Black Iron-level transcendent beings!

Or—

Elevate a Platinum-level soul to Diamond-level!

If the subsequent ranks are also decimal increments...

After a long time, he digested the shock in his heart, Luo Yan calmed down, looked at the proud-looking milky white mist and continued.

"Can you explain it to me simply?"

Hearing You You said proudly.

"Simply put, it's graduation from the novice village!"

Graduation from the novice village is fine.

Luo Yan also didn't know whether it was fast or slow to leave the novice village in a year.

But referring to Gutafu's log, that guy spent nearly a century to understand the secret of the godhead, so he should be considered to have relatively high comprehension?

But this explanation is too simple, right?!

Looking at Hearing You You who was still complacent, Luo Yan took a deep breath and continued.

"'Legend Factor' I can understand, that is the legend I have left in this world, right? But what does that influence share mean? And what is the overdraft limit, domination efficiency, and those seeds."

"Hmm hmm! I was just about to explain this to you!"

Hearing Luo Yan ask the key question, Hearing You You immediately restrained its lively aura and put on a serious attitude to continue.

"The so-called influence share is the faith condensed by your godhead, which occupies the total share of the faith map of the entire planet!"

Luo Yan: "... So it's only 0.01%?"

Hearing You You: "It's already a lot! Both Saint Xisi and the Demon God have accumulated thousands of years of history! Not to mention the old gods like the Dragon God Gutafu, the Tree of Yiged, the God of Elements, etc... Even today, they have not been completely forgotten and still occupy a very small share. You can't expect to surpass them in one day, right?"

Actually, the Demon God Bayeli only has 500 years.

However, Luo Yan didn't want to interrupt on this irrelevant question, but stared at Hearing You You and continued to ask the key question.

"My influence share occupies 0.01%, which means... the influence share of Saint Xisi and the Demon God will decrease accordingly?"

"That's for sure! But you don't have to worry about attracting their attention immediately. After all, even without you, their shares are constantly fluctuating! Including chaos, including suddenly born faith... these will shake the authority in their hands! If you want to make them realize the problem, you have to reach at least 10%!"

Is that so...

Luo Yan's hanging heart was temporarily put down, waiting for Hearing You You to continue explaining.

The latter cleared his throat and continued at a fast speed.

"In short, influence share is such a thing. I will put overdraft limit and domination efficiency at the end... As for the four seeds you see, they are the high-level transcendent beings under your domination!"

"High-level transcendent beings?"

"That's right! This is Lin Te Isaac's own definition. According to his observations, the transcendent power that a Diamond-level powerhouse can dominate is equivalent to 0.01% of the influence share! And 0.01% is almost the smallest scale to measure the proportion of the faith map. If it is smaller, various statistical errors will appear, and only another set of simpler standards can be used—that is, the faith power calculation method you used before!"

That is to say... 0.01% of the influence share corresponds to 100 million faith value?

Perhaps the daily increase of 1 million faith value must also be counted.

Luo Yan thought for a moment and said.

"I probably understand. As the influence share of my faith in this world increases, the more high-level transcendent beings I can dominate? And each seed corresponds to a different level of high-level transcendent beings?"

Hearing You You approvingly clicked its abstract head.

"Correct!"

"What about below Platinum-level?"

"Of course they still need to consume your faith power, but compared to the order of magnitude of 100 million, haven't you noticed that the faith power occupied by Black Iron-level transcendent beings is already negligible? Unless you suddenly elevate 100 Gold-level souls, and they simultaneously possess Gold-level strength, otherwise it will not suddenly exceed the scope that '0.01% influence share' can dominate!"

The influence share occupied by 100 Gold-level powerhouses is close to that of a Diamond-level powerhouse, and using the faith power calculation rule to convert it is also about a 100:1 ratio.

Luo Yan tried to understand the concept Hearing You You expounded.

The previous faith value and daily faith value increase were equivalent to a measuring scale, and the two intersecting coordinate axes together constituted the scale line on the beaker.

But now, his faith pool has expanded from a beaker to a water tank on the roof. The amount of one or two beakers can already be ignored for him, and the statistical scale corresponding to it naturally loses its value.

And from Hearing You You's words, he also extracted a key piece of information—

That is, the simple soul level elevation will not occupy the influence share, but the price will be cashed out when the other party truly masters the corresponding transcendent power!

It is like a monarch promising a vassal territory that cannot be cashed out, and the monarch's authority will naturally be impacted accordingly.

In this way—

And the "domination efficiency" in the godhead panel is probably used to reflect the "excess effect" produced by excessive elevation.

As the roundworm in Luo Yan's stomach, Hearing You You guessed what he was thinking at once, and an expression of "as expected of me" appeared on its face.

"That's right! Domination efficiency means exactly this! Although you can elevate the soul level of your believers at will from now on, Hearing You You still doesn't recommend you elevate all players to Diamond! In case they all brush to level 100+, both you and them will be very troubled!"

"I know, there will be debuffs, right?"

"Correct!"

In fact, Luo Yan had suspected it a long time ago.

The elevation of the soul has a limit.

After all, a thousand years have passed, and this world has not become a situation where Grandmasters are not as good as dogs and Demigods are all over the place.

And whether it is the Netherworld or the Empire, the number of top combat powers is close to fixed, and the higher the transcendent being, the more so!

Taking the Netherworld as an example, Platinum-level powerhouses may not be easy to count, but at the Diamond level, they can basically be counted with two hands.

And Amethyst-level and Grandmaster-level are basically names that can be called out, and the list is unchanged for hundreds of years, knowing each other well.

At the Demigod level, it is even more unique. Six are in the cabinet as faction leaders, and two are teaching and educating people in the Demon King Academy and the Higher Demon Academy respectively.

And then it's gone!

The heads and elders of various families are Grandmaster-level and Amethyst-level powerhouses, and some families have set up an "exit mechanism" on this basis.

For example, the Kexi family.

After the new head inherits the position, the title of the old head will pass to the new head, and along with the transfer is the opportunity to advance to Demigod.

In other words, if Caesar Kexi passes the position to Luo Ke Kexi, then Caesar's strength will gradually decay to the Grandmaster level.

And in contrast, Luo Ke's strength will gradually reach his own peak in the next 100 years, becoming a new generation of Demigod-level powerhouses, and completing the generational replacement with the old Demigod powerhouses.

In short, in the past 1,000 years, the list of Demigod-level powerhouses has changed, but the number has not fluctuated much.

Luo Yan has always believed that he is not an existence outside the rules, and it is not only him in this world who can upgrade believers.

Even Gutafu, that silly guy, unconsciously upgraded the dragons to fantasy species, let alone the local gods who have thousands of years of foundation and inheritance in this world?

They don't upgrade believers absolutely not because they don't want to, but because they can't do it fundamentally.

It can't be explained by the power of faith, but it makes sense to explain it with influence share!

And in this way—

"The sum of transcendent power in this world is fixed!" Hearing You You stared at Luo Yan with those abstract eyes, and said what the latter was thinking.

They were one body, so naturally, they understood it at once.

"But why?" Luo Yan fell into deep thought, and after a while, he said, "I am not surprised by this rule, but I want to know how Lin Te Isaac determined this? His 'Machine God Sect' should not have occupied a very high 'influence share', right?"

The share of faith power occupied by that guy at his peak probably couldn't compare to Gutafu, who had "descendants everywhere."

And the time of existence was not long. An old farmer with a slightly longer life could witness the madness and decline of the late Isaac Dynasty.

Hearing You You did not deny this point and frankly admitted it.

"Indeed! Lin Te Isaac clearly mentioned in the information He left behind that His research was not the final conclusion, but just the tip of the iceberg about this universe that He saw standing on the shoulders of many giants... But unfortunately, He no longer had the chance to see the more distant other shore, and could only leave this opportunity to you who came later."

Perhaps while inheriting Lin Te Isaac's research, he also inherited part of His memory about this research, and Hearing You You's voice carried a bit of melancholy.

Luo Yan was silent for a while and spoke slowly.

"Okay, regardless of the source of his knowledge... continue."

Hearing You You continued.

"In order to quantitatively study the relationship between transcendent power and faith power, He called the sum of transcendent power on the entire planet the 'Seed of Creation'!"

"Simply put—it is the code the Creator wrote for Himself, the console used to create the world, or the backdoor left for Himself!"

"In the conclusion He reached, there is only one Seed of Creation! As for whether it is one per planet, one per galaxy, and which planets have it and which don't, and whether your common home Earth has it, He didn't know... But what is certain is that on a sufficiently long time scale, the Seed of Creation that the creatures on this planet can touch is constant!"

"As for the weight and quantity of the soul, what can be influenced is only the share of the 'Seed of Creation' occupied by each, and it cannot make one seed become two!"

Luo Yan frowned slightly, thought for a moment and said.

"That is to say, no matter if 100 million humans or 100 billion goblins live on this planet, the sum of transcendent power will not change?"

Hearing You You: "Correct!"

Luo Yan continued to ask.

"So if only the last person is left on this planet, will he become a god directly?"

Hearing You You hesitated, quietly clicked its abstract head, and said cautiously.

"This is the most extreme situation, theoretically it should be as you said... But Demon King, Hearing You You doesn't recommend you try it, not to mention that this process may attract chaos, your believers may have doubts themselves."

"I'm not that bottomless." Luo Yan glanced at Hearing You You, feeling that this guy actually still had some misunderstandings about him.

Everything he did was with the consent of his believers, and he almost never pushed an agenda that everyone opposed without a word.

Hearing You You continued.

"Lin Te Isaac divided the 'Seed of Creation' into 10,000 parts. According to multi-sample tests and imprecise calculations, the conclusion He initially reached was—10% influence share is enough to create a 'Seed of Myth'! That is, the corresponding Demigod-level powerhouse!"

Hearing this data, Luo Yan couldn't help but frown.

"Wait, 10% influence share can create a Demigod-level powerhouse? But the Netherworld alone already has 8!"

The share of the Netherworld shouldn't reach 80%, right?!

Seeming to guess that Luo Yan would ask this, Hearing You You continued.

"This involves the variable of 'overdraft limit' in the godhead panel. Although in a strict sense, Demigod-level powerhouses need to occupy 10% influence share, Lin Te Isaac also found in actual tests that influence share can actually be overdrawn!"

"However, there is a price for overdrawing the use of faith power. The data of domination efficiency is used to measure the interest—or debuff—imposed on the entire faith system!"

"Based on this theory, whether it is the Netherworld or Saint Xisi, the use of faith power is in a state of overspending! It's just that because the proportion of their overspending is not much, it belongs to benign overspending. And this can explain why the power levels exhibited by transcendent beings of different ranks in different periods in the literature are different... Actually, you also feel it, right? Netherworld demons of the same rank are difficult to defeat Imperial God-Chosen of the same rank, not only because of attribute restraint, but to a large extent because the overdraft proportions of the two sides are different!"

That is to say—

As long as there is no overdraft at all, and domination efficiency is always maintained at 100%, can you achieve crushing of the same rank?

However, Luo Yan also knows that it is not very realistic to maintain 100% domination efficiency.

After all, as long as he sets the promotion rules for lower-level transcendent beings, no matter how strict the rules are set, even if they are linked to reincarnation, there will definitely be a large number of transcendent beings climbing from Black Iron to Bronze, and then from Bronze to Bai Yin...

As time goes by, there are more and more lower-level transcendent beings. Even if he pinches the number of high-level transcendent beings, he can't stand "ants biting an elephant to death."

After all, 1 million Black Iron-level transcendent beings can occupy the quota of a Diamond-level powerhouse, and how many Black Iron-level adventurers are there in the Empire?

Bronze is not just this number!

And this is just the lowest-level transcendent being.

Bai Yin and Steel are the backbone of various kingdoms!

Perhaps letting some people not enter reincarnation is also a way, even if it is undoubtedly cruel to the vast majority of abandoned lonely ghosts.

As for those nobles who have wasted their soul levels and are lazy.

From the perspective of Saint Xisi, it is not necessarily a bad thing.

He doesn't need his believers to always be so capable of fighting, as long as those guys can fight in difficult historical cycles.

Anyway, they never thought about really destroying the Netherworld and then moving their families to the underground.

Combining all the expositions of Hearing You You, Luo Yan thought for a moment and said.

"I have basically understood the situation. For us... the current goal is to expand influence as much as possible to obtain more faith power shares."

"As for the four seeds in the godhead panel, they correspond to the number of top combat powers I can dominate. Creating a Seed of Myth will occupy 10% share, a Seed of Legend needs 1%, Seed of Amethyst needs 0.1%, Seed of Diamond needs 0.01%, Platinum needs one-tenth of a Seed of Diamond, and below that can be ignored, just regulate macroscopically... is that what it means?"

"That's right! As expected of the Demon King! Understood in an instant." Hearing You You nodded approvingly and continued, "In addition, the last thing to add is that the seeds condensed by faith power shares can not only be used to nurture souls, but also to make artifacts! For example, the 'Light of Praise' you have seen is actually a Seed of Legend that occupies 1% influence share. They even have very similar names, don't they?"

Luo Yan: "So that's it..."

Hearing You You continued.

"Artifacts without souls are actually more reliable than souls themselves, but relatively speaking, they also have their inconveniences, such as a lack of subjective initiative. Although choosing a holder for it can make up for it, the holder themselves has the risk of being corrupted. For example, Her Highness Erin Campbell, who has been writing letters to you, has almost become your shape—"

"I recommend you change to a more elegant way of saying it, she and I are innocent..." Luo Yan coughed and interrupted Hearing You You's speech, changed the subject and continued, "What about players, which situation do they belong to?"

Hearing You You continued excitedly.

"In Lin Te Isaac's design, players are a compromise product! This is definitely a genius design! The soul mirror itself can be regarded as an artifact, but the object it is given is not a person in this world, but your and Lin Te Isaac's common hometown!"

Hearing this, Luo Yan understood many things he didn't understand before in an instant.

It turns out that the essence of players is the holder of artifacts!

They make up for the lack of subjective initiative of the artifact itself.

However, they also have corresponding defects—

After all, they don't belong to this world.

And this world is very different from Earth, so it is difficult for them to have recognition of people or things here other than the game.

This also means that he needs to pay more guidance.

But these are all small things.

After grinding for so long, Luo Yan had long figured out their character and the best mode of getting along with them...

Just like now.

"I have one last question, what will happen if the faith share reaches 100%? Completely become the Creator?"

Hearing You You hesitated and whispered.

"It is not mentioned in the materials left by Lin Te Isaac, but according to His deduction... getting the code the Creator wrote for Himself should mean mastering the ability comparable to the Creator, right? Of course, this is almost impossible, after all, it is logically unlikely for the influence share to reach 100%, and there will always be fish that slip through the net."

"After all, even a god who has established a spiritual link with believers cannot know what every believer is thinking in their heart... not to mention the influence of chaos, even without chaos, there will be differences within the same faith, and these will have an impact."

Is that so?

After listening to Hearing You You's words, Luo Yan couldn't help but raise a meaningful smile at the corner of his mouth.

He fully agreed with the second half of Hearing You You's words. Even he couldn't completely dissect a person's heart and observe every corner of their spiritual world.

He could only roughly judge who was trustworthy, specifically what things were trustworthy, and what things were not.

However, having said that, he didn't just hold one planet in his hand, there was still a door left on the Ka'ao planet.

The influence share here can't reach 100%, but counting the one there, he can always make up a whole number, right?

Although there is no theory to prove that this is feasible, he is obviously already standing on the shoulders of giants higher than those under Lin Te Isaac's feet.

In Lin Te Isaac's era, there was no precedent for reverse invasion of chaos—

But a thousand years after subspace technology has matured, he still has the road of "external conquest" to go!

Even if the "Seed of Creation" there is smaller.

Of course, it is too far away to talk about this now.

The Ka'ao planet is currently just a place for leveling up. What he needs to do first is to consolidate his faith in the Jiana Continent.

Looking at the influence share of only 0.01%, Luo Yan did not hesitate to condense it into a Seed of Diamond and bestowed it upon himself.

He was not in a hurry to improve his strength before, but now he has a reason to speed up the progress—

Not just because of Goli Gao's vigilant eyes.

It is also because his influence is no longer an insignificant ant, and he can walk between the Netherworld and the surface without worrying about being targeted.

Following this trend, he will sooner or later encounter the problems Lin Te Isaac once encountered!

This crowded planet cannot accommodate a third god!

A gentle warm current brushed over Luo Yan's soul, making his brow slightly sting, and also making him feel that the spiritual entity he stood in the sea of consciousness became clearer and more solid!

That is the ascension beyond the five-dimensional attributes—

Although the leap in soul level did not cause any changes in the attribute panel, Luo Yan could still clearly feel the difference between himself and before.

His sense of presence in this universe—

Has never been so strong!

The updated godhead panel soon appeared in front of him.

【

Godhead: Luo Yan

Legend Factor: Demon King of Thunder County, Flame King south of the Ten Thousand Swords Mountains, Prince Kexi from a distant continent, civilian councilor born in the Demon God Temple...

Influence Share: 0.01%

Overdraft Limit: 0%

Domination Efficiency: 100%

Seed of Myth (Demigod): 0

Seed of Legend (Grandmaster): 0

Seed of Amethyst (Amethyst): 0

Seed of Diamond (Diamond): 1

】

Thus—

The "Luo Yan Sect" that controls the Great Cemetery has given birth to the first powerhouse with a Diamond-level soul!

Quietly feeling the comfort that reached the depths of his soul for a while, Luo Yan closed the godhead panel presented in front of him.

"Hearing You You."

"Hmm?" Looking at the Demon King who suddenly became serious, Hearing You You tilted its abstract head.

Luo Yan didn't explain, threw down a sentence and exited the sea of consciousness.

"Time to start leveling up!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 308 =====