We made you practice martial arts, and you've mastered the Great Golden Body?

"distribute?"

"The matter hasn't even been settled yet, and you're already talking about allocation? Isn't that a bit premature? Old man Bai, there's an old saying in your Eastern Continent: 'Haste makes waste.'" The blond, blue-eyed man's lips curled up slightly, and he gave a sneer.

"If that's the case, then there's an old saying in the Eastern Continent." The old man squinted and smiled, "Even between brothers, accounts should be settled clearly."

"Moreover, we are just a makeshift team. If we don't agree on things beforehand, and disputes arise later, it's a small matter if we lose more than we gain, but if we waste a lot of divine resources and divine favor and delay the tasks of the gods, then that would be a big problem."

"Brother Thor, what do you say?" As he spoke, the old man smiled and turned his gaze to a burly man beside him.

The burly man was three meters tall, with a resolute face and eyes that shone with a deep, abyss-like gaze. His short hair stood up like steel needles, and his arms were as thick as ancient trees with bulging veins. His body was covered in explosive, muscular muscles that looked like armor.

It fully demonstrates its true power.

Thor, belonging to the Norse mythology system, is the son of Odin, the king of the gods. He controls lightning and power, and also governs storms, war, and agriculture.

The burly man before the old man was Thor's strongest living divine favorite, and was naturally given the title of Thor.

In the name of God, I walk in the world.

Furthermore, most of the strongest divine followers under the gods in this world do this, claiming that they are acting on behalf of the gods, so that the names of the gods will be forever engraved in the hearts of all living beings.

However, only these divine favorites know what they truly think.

After all, there's an old saying in the Eastern Continent: "They can be replaced!"
"Heh~" Thor let out a disdainful sneer and said in a gruff voice, "I don't care about all your convoluted explanations. I will carry out the plan, but I will not be left out of everything that comes with it."

"Otherwise, hmph..."

As he finished speaking, a glint of light flashed in Thor's eyes. He was slow to think, but he was neither stupid nor foolish.

"It seems the Thor brothers agree with my opinion." The old man completely ignored the sneer on Thor's face, as if he hadn't heard it, and continued to look at the other high-ranking divine followers with different appearances: "And you?"

“We have no objections.” The other high-ranking divine favorites exchanged glances. They had already discussed this beforehand, so naturally they wouldn’t raise any objections.

They all nodded in unison.

"Very well, since that's the case, then Asher, shouldn't you share the information you know?" The old man narrowed his eyes and looked with a smile at a high-ranking divine favorite who was standing behind the various high-ranking divine favorites, a dog-headed human-bodied figure with a ferocious face, leaning against a moon tree with one leg on the ground.

"intelligence?"

"What? Is there something else you're hiding, Asel?"

"..."

All of a sudden.

All the high-ranking divine followers turned their gazes to the dog-headed, human-bodied high-ranking divine follower, revealing their dissatisfaction. Some of the high-ranking divine followers even exchanged divine thoughts, rubbing their hands together and showing their fierce expressions.

Why are these high-ranking deities risking their lives to gather in Baiyujing today?
The reason is simple: they saw hope for transcendence.

The hope of breaking free from the shackles of the gods!
Although the Great Xia Kingdom is protected by the Zhou Tian Star Array, most of the gods' favored ones are more skilled in the mystical realm and are content to help the gods govern their divine kingdoms.

Therefore, almost all the martial arts prodigies on Earth Star are under the surveillance of these divine favored ones, especially the top martial arts prodigies who possess holy bodies and battle bodies.

Be ready to eliminate it at any time.

However, among this group of martial arts prodigies and top martial arts prodigies, some of the gods discovered an anomaly: Shen Bailian.

His cultivation speed was incredibly fast. In less than a year, he had grown from a martial arts apprentice with only two or three levels of physical fitness to a martial artist at the Opening Sea Realm.

Moreover, he's not just a pretty face; he was able to defeat a martial artist who was close to the mid-stage of the Sea Opening Realm as soon as he entered the Sea Opening Realm.

After being reported through multiple levels, Shen Bailian caught the eye of these high-ranking divine favored ones. If that were all, these high-ranking divine favored ones would not have so easily mobilized so many divine favored ones and consumed so much divine matter.

Because Old Man Bai had nothing better to do, he decided on a whim to do a simple investigation into Shen Bailian's information.

His unusual cultivation speed and strange resurrection ability were once mistaken for an accomplice by a mid-level divine favored one. His foundation was incredibly solid... and he didn't even have a battle body or a holy body. He was just an ordinary human, only with much higher comprehension.

None of this seems like an ordinary event.

Therefore, in order to gain a deeper understanding of Shen Bailian and examine his weaknesses, Old Man Bai used his time travel ability to try to explore Shen Bailian's past.

It was a surprise when I went to investigate.

Old Man Bai was shocked to discover that there was no trace of this person in the long river of time of Earth Origin Star, as if Shen Bailian had suddenly appeared in this world.

He initially thought it was due to his own lack of skill, so he summoned Kronos, the embodiment of a fragment of the time rules, but to no avail.

As for the future timeline?

This is beyond the scope of divine favor; it is the exclusive domain of the gods.

But for Old Man Bai and Kronos, the lack of a result was the best result, because it meant that Shen Bailian had a shocking secret.

The long wait of hundreds of years, and the fact that the gods who fell silent on the day of their fall have not sent out a single message so far, has long since caused some of their followers to harbor wicked thoughts.

They just don't dare to show it.

The alliance formed within the Divine Favor has become defunct in recent decades, and has been subtly divided into several factions.

Among them are the Holy Mother faction, which believes that humans are also one of all living beings and should have the right to live on Earth. Most of these divine favored beings are from the last few hundred thousand years.

However, the divine favored of this faction has always been suppressed, and some of the divine favored who had already shown signs of emerging have been absorbed internally.

As high-ranking divine beings, once they made up their minds, and with the help of the almost omnipotent divine matter, they only needed a few seconds to gather some crucial information.

First: Shen Bailian has the ability to come back to life, but there are limitations, though not significant ones.

Second: Shen Bailian possesses various special characteristics, which make his physical strength several times higher than that of martial artists of the same level, giving him an extremely strong ability to fight beyond his level.

Third: It can absorb divine matter, but the process is relatively slow and is likely to have negative effects.

The last point is crucial because, to date, even those with a fully developed battle body or a holy body can only be immune to unpurified divine matter, but cannot absorb it. Furthermore, Old Man Bai and Kronos speculate that Shen Bailian's various unique characteristics, as well as his ability to merge past timelines, are most likely related to divine matter.

Due to the limitations of divine matter, Shen Bailian cannot fully utilize his various special characteristics, and the two high-level divine favored individuals speculate that there is even greater potential for development within him.

However, for high-ranking divine beings like the old man and Chronos, divine matter, though non-renewable, is not a scarce commodity.

It can be said that the divine matter on Earth Star is now in the hands of a group of high-level divine favored beings, the remaining 20% ​​is in the bodies of all living beings except humans, and the remaining 10% is in the hands of a group of low-level and mid-level divine favored beings.

Divine matter is also one of the means by which high-ranking divine followers use it to control low-ranking and mid-ranking divine followers.

After all, the essence of 99% of the divine favored ones is also one of the myriad living beings. Without the blessing of divine power, the divine favored ones can only fight to a draw with the top martial arts prodigies of the same level as humans.

However, Old Man Bai was cautious by nature. In order to get rid of some unnecessary trouble and to use other divine followers as shields, he recruited several high-ranking divine followers as his accomplices.

As for the other low- and mid-level divine favored ones, they are merely pawns in this grand plan.

"Hmm?" Upon hearing this, Asel's lips curled up, revealing gleaming canine teeth, and he said disdainfully, "Old man Bai, you can eat whatever you want, but don't say whatever you want."

"Furthermore, to use an old saying from your Eastern Continent, we're all in the same boat now. Why would I need to hide information at this time?"

"Old man Bai, have you misunderstood Arthur?" The high-ranking divine favorite with golden hair and blue eyes looked at Arthur's expression and sensed his emotional fluctuations. He didn't seem to be lying at all.

Upon hearing this, Thor's eyes flashed with a cold light as he glared at the old man, looking eager and ready to cause trouble.

It seemed that once Asher set the fuse, he would follow suit.

"Have I ever said anything wrong all these years?" the old man said with a smile. "Asher, didn't you once send a divine incarnation to Sanqing Mountain near Bozhou City?"

"Sanqing Mountain?"

"Yes, there must have been a treacherous person who summoned you, and then your divine incarnation came into close contact with you. I want to know, how did you fail?"

"After all, Shen Bailian at that time was merely a martial arts apprentice."

"Hmm? So that's how it happened." Thor loosened his grip, then looked at Asher with a cold smile and said in a muffled voice, "You were the first divine favorite to come into contact with Shen Bailian."

"You dare to spy on me?!" Upon hearing this, Asel's eyes widened in fury. With a slight thought, a golden liquid, like molten lava, instantly covered every inch of his body.

"Clang! Clang!"

With a crisp sound, a long-handled scythe appeared in Asher's hand.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"Alright, since we're going to fight, I'll join in too!" Thor looked at the already armed Asher, a bloodthirsty glint flashing in his eyes, before he immediately let out a ferocious, unrestrained laugh, raising his right hand high.

In an instant.

"boom!"

In the vast and boundless starry sky, a rootless, towering silver serpent suddenly appeared, roaring with terrifying currents of over a billion volts, and slashed straight down towards Thor's right hand.

What's surprising is that, even though this is the vast universe with almost no medium to transmit sound, you can still hear deafening thunder.

Furthermore, Old Man Bai and the other high-ranking divine followers seemed to take this for granted.

This is divine power, almost omnipotent divine power.

The only drawback is that it is divine power.

Amidst the swirling thunder and lightning, Thor instantly grasped a giant axe woven from lightning bolts.

In just a millisecond, the atmosphere in Baiyujing underwent a dramatic change. The other high-ranking divine favored ones moved backward and revealed their true forms.

Be ready for battle at any time.

But at this moment.

"I said, have you all had enough of this?" Seeing this, Chronos stepped forward with a face full of anger. Looking at Thor, who was laughing wildly, his almost pure white eyes were like a clock, sometimes fast and sometimes slow.

One millisecond, two milliseconds... ten milliseconds, the laughter in Baiyujing gradually dissipated, and the atmosphere seemed to freeze.

"Damn, this is so boring." Thor curled his lip, and with a slight thought, the giant thunder axe in his hand vanished in an instant. He stood aside and closed his eyes.

"Tell me, why did the divine avatar you sent down lose to Shen Bailian?" Kronos composed himself and then looked at Asel, who had already disarmed himself.

Generally speaking, when the gods make their move, they don't engage in one-on-one duels with humans.

Instead, they would make the most of the divine substances within the ferocious beasts to strengthen their own divine avatars, adjusting their life level to the peak of their current rank, and then using hundreds or thousands of ferocious beasts to form a ferocious beast tide.

In this way, there is almost no possibility of failure.

But the truth is, Asher was defeated, defeated by a group of martial arts apprentices.
"I wasn't defeated by that ant Shen Bailian, but rather I was surrounded..."

"A defeat is a defeat, why make so many excuses? Heh... If I were you, I'd smash my head against a block of tofu and die." Thor leaned against a moon tree with his eyes closed, speaking with a faint, mocking tone.

He seemed to be afraid of divine favor and thus became calm.

"If you can die from hitting a tofu block, then I'll truly have seen something new." Asel was already used to this and retorted indifferently, then continued, "Actually, there's not much to say, I just want to correct one point."

"Although that guy absorbs divine matter slowly, he can absorb it while fighting."

"And as far as I know, once you have a conceptual wound, when you fight Shen Bailian, the divine power and divine substances in your body will be absorbed by him without any negative effects."

“So,” Asher looked at Chronos and said calmly, “if possible, I suggest you take action yourself, or send an avatar of divine power.”

"Bring him back without contacting him." (End of Chapter)