Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 700: The Path to True God, Beyond the World

After the divine war that took place in the southern continent in early Silver Age 1474, the First Empire on which the Sun Never Sets had essentially ruled over four continents.

Directly or indirectly, all human powers control the entire material world:

"The North Sea Empire, the Iris Kingdom, the Netherlands Kingdom, the Holy Silver Empire, the Pyrenees Empire, the Star-Moon Empire, the Zoroastrian Empire, the Holy Gold Empire, the Sun Empire, the Desert Empire, the Lighthouse Federation, and the entire Ancient Pillar."

Dozens or hundreds of years ago, the old gods' followers who had managed to come ashore when the source tides became gradually active had their sphere of influence on the shore naturally compressed to the limit.

The activity of various weird and evil spirits in most places has dropped significantly.

Only the Solomon Empire on the east coast of the Beast Paradise and dozens of clan kingdoms on the west coast of the Corridor of Truth are still holding on. They are all extensions of the maritime power of the Sea of ​​Monsters in the hands of the old gods.

This dangerous sea area is blocked by the [Bound Creator]. There are no level zero world cracks inside, but there are countless level one, two, and three cracks.

At first, most of the followers of false gods, who were no higher than fifth-level, crawled into the material world through these world cracks.

Afterwards, either by spreading knowledge and pollution or by reproducing bloodlines, large and small old god churches were eventually formed.

Only by destroying these bridgeheads built on the shore will the many clan forces be forced to retreat back to the depths of the Sea of ​​Monsters.

It will be impossible to make a comeback until the great flood of the Luoyan period.

Winning this battle can buy humanity at least ten to twenty years of stable development.

In the past, the material world consisted of only a backward feudal agricultural country, and even after thousands of years, there have been few changes.

No one except Byron, Catherine, and Violet knew how radically industrialized nations could change in a single generation.

The "Saint Byron Code", which integrates the "Silver Law", "Golden Law" and "Bronze Law", will be strengthened to a terrifying degree.

In addition to the military fortress composed of guns and warships, this is the most unbreakable deep-sea defense line!
Byron did not forget that the core forces of the old gods have always been the direct descendants on those mirror islands outside the world. For thousands of years, they have always guarded the kingdom of the gods and waited for the revival of their own main god.

In addition to having to face the world-destroying flood and the old gods, humans also have to face these clans, most of which have low intelligence but are more fearless and daring, and are powerful enemies that cannot be ignored.

Therefore, the main force of the war cannot be the Taiwanese people alone. Byron also drew elite troops from various human countries and trained them into new troops according to the modern military model of the Taiwanese people.

The future will be a disaster for all mankind. It obviously does not make sense to let only the Taiwanese people, a minority group, take the lead.

Only when people help themselves, God will help them.

In the past, when the world was not unified, the top leaders of each family could discuss whether to fight or flee, but now there can only be one will in the entire human race.

Anyone who dares to talk about escaping and disrupt the morale of the army will be killed on the spot!

Every human being must contribute his or her own strength and do his or her own job well. Those who have military power should join the army, and the elderly and the weak should assist in agricultural and industrial production. Even if they can only provide a little bit of thought and will, it is also good.

The major arsenals in the country are working at full capacity to produce the most advanced military equipment for the new armies.

Bolt-action rifles, shotguns, dreadnoughts, and the secret weapons just developed for the Army all rolled off the production line at a rapid pace.

With the current productivity, it is not difficult to support five million full-time "guardian troops".

Of course, at this stage, the counterattack against the Solomon Empire and its many clan kingdoms is the responsibility of the empire's generals, ministers, and members of the Demonic Banquet Council.

The war machine of the entire empire began to gear up, but the Byron family, who served as the backbone, suddenly became idle.

It’s not that they have nothing to do, but they are shouldering a more important task than anyone else.

It is also a top priority that concerns whether the Lancaster royal family and even the entire human pantheon can make further progress.

That is to find the way to break through to become a seventh-level True God!
In the paradise of Flower Mountain where flowers bloom all year round.

As two of the four basic elements, water and fire appear to be particularly abundant than usual. The two nourish and blend with each other, and ultimately you are in me and I am in you.

In the huge palace on the top of the mountain, red and blue colors visible to the naked eye gradually appeared, and then it rose into the air and turned into an illusory giant tree that seemed to reach straight into the sky.

Just like Violet's [Gate of Truth], the "Triple Point" gate, and the giant tree in the center of the kingdom of the God of the Wild Hunt and the Mother of Monsters, they are all trees of life.

The subject matter is similar, with only slight differences in details.

Emerald green leaves fell one by one, turning into secret knowledge that could be understood by gods, and sprinkled into their hearts, piecing together into a forbidden book that belonged only to demigods.

A circle of gold in Byron's blue eyes expanded and shrank, then scattered into countless tiny runes and rearranged themselves. His expression changed from time to time, and finally he smiled and let out a long breath:

"Before, I only knew that the 'upside-down tree' contained the secret of achieving true godhood. It was not until today that I saw the true face of this path.

Fortunately, we have obtained the priesthoods of [Water] and [Fire] that can touch the origin of the world's mysticism.

Otherwise, without the guidance of our predecessors, we would probably have to spend thousands of years interacting with the origin of the world bit by bit to gather the complete knowledge to become a true God.

It was even harder than the clergy who slowly put together the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven. By then, the opportunity was gone.”

After a pause, he revealed the core rules for promotion:
“It says that one needs to partially or fully satisfy the three pillars, ten essences, four worlds, and twenty-two paths to piece together the Tree of Life in order to ascend to the highest [Crown] and create a world that belongs exclusively to one.

With this calculation, if you want to touch the Supreme, in addition to the Trinity and the four basic elemental priesthoods, it would be best to have 22 children.

It’s a bit difficult.”

He raised his hand and patted Violet's butt in front of him, asking her to change her position.

The beautiful and charming Queen shook her shining silver hair, and the crystal sweat on her white back flowed all the way to the sunken waist. She turned back and stuck out her pink tongue at Byron and said angrily:

"I'm almost dying of exhaustion. I can't handle the twelfth incarnation in a row. You beast, quickly ask them to replace me.

Catherine and Patra are both waiting impatiently."

After breaking through to become a demigod and completely mastering the Golden Mist Palace, Violet successfully differentiated into all twelve incarnations:
Words, kindness, giving, advice, love, approval, oath, truth, objection, protection, wisdom, messenger, they are all gorgeous and each has its own beauty.

When they accidentally discovered that the duties of the [Water] and [Fire] priests were in line with certain rules and could leverage the origin of the world, they were naturally excited and tried their best to absorb new knowledge.

Byron had almost unlimited physical strength thanks to the Lighthouse of Pharos, but Violet was exhausted even with her twelve incarnations.

Byron leaned over and kissed the sweat off the snowy back of his wife, the incarnation of Wisdom, and smiled apologetically:
"Haha, I'm fascinated and can't help myself."

At this time, the palace gate opened, and another Violet in a white gauze nightgown, and Catherine and the Queen, who were dressed similarly, one in red and the other in black, walked in together.

They were all demigods who had just bathed in a hot spring and had moisture still on their bodies, making them as mouth-watering as peaches covered in dew.

"Are the children asleep?"

Byron opened his arms to the two queens and his royal lover, and the three of them kicked off their slippers and crawled into his arms.

Violet’s incarnation of “Wisdom” also turned around and merged with her original body again.

“The little ones were so excited to see their other brothers and sisters, and they played until very late today. After we fed them, they finally fell asleep.

If it weren't for Catherine's [Time·Fourth Transition] divine power to adjust time, we wouldn't have been able to come here tonight."

After the war in the South Continent, Cleopatra did not leave in a hurry, but took her third and fourth sons to live temporarily in the Old Continent.

This wasn't their first time sleeping together.

In fact, there are more than three original bodies. Cleopatra has nine incarnations, Violet has twelve, and Catherine has five at least, which makes a total of 29.

Fortunately, the house is big enough, otherwise it would be completely uninhabitable.

So even though His Majesty Saint Byron may not have a large harem or any gossip on the surface, he is really good at playing around!

Byron waved his hand, and the scene in the baby's room appeared in front of the four people.

Lying here are not only the third child, the Sun God Amon, who was born first, and the fourth child, the Night Goddess Nut, who was born last, but also three other children who are about the same age as them and look like they are over one year old.

They were Catherine’s eldest daughter, Victoria, the [Storm Dragon King], the fifth daughter, George, the [Five-Colored Dragon King], and Violet’s daughter, Vivian, the [Changeable Witch].

Like Byron, Victoria has black hair and blue eyes. She has a cute little dragon horn on her forehead and blue-green scales on her cheeks and shoulders.

There was a tail behind her little butt, swinging back and forth, and unconsciously wrapped around the neck of another little dragon in the crib. The fifth child, George, who had the same father and mother as her, the Five-Colored Dragon King, looked similar to her eldest sister, but his scales were colorful, which made him look a bit... well, showy.

Finally, there is Violet’s second daughter, Vivian, the [Witch of Change], who looks most like a normal baby and inherited her mother’s shiny silver hair.

While she was sleeping soundly, a snot bubble grew bigger and bigger, slowly carrying her up into the air. After it burst with a "pop", it fell back into the crib, scratched her butt and continued to sleep.

After a while it floated up again.

All the [Versatile] and [Dark Fairy Tale] acquired from the Joker were given to her, but she was obviously not very skilled in using them.

The common feature of these five children is that they have their own divine names at birth, and can grow into fifth-level pseudo-gods without waiting to reach adulthood.

After all, with Byron, the symbolic father god, even if these children were conceived when they were pseudo-gods, they can still reshape their life essence from the source of their blood and keep up with their parents' pace.

Even in the mythological era, this is considered the top descendant of gods. Only a very small number of children of the King of Gods can be born as demigods.

Byron waved away the projection in front of him and placed a large hand on the belly of Violet’s real body in his arms.

There was another fetal movement in her belly. It was Sebastian, the sixth child of the Lancaster royal family. He had been pregnant for less than two days, and even with the help of the fertility priests, it was not yet time for him to be born.

“Three sons and three daughters may seem like a lot, but they are still too few for us to embark on the path to becoming a seventh-level True God.

It would be about the same if it doubled again.”

Byron glanced at the "upside-down tree" left by the Mother of Monsters on his arm. After being promoted to a demigod, the emblem that was originally a little crooked has been completely straightened.

The closer to the pinnacle of the extraordinary system, the more frequently the inverted tree appears. Byron has seen this emblem in too many places.

In mysticism, the abstract "Tree of Life" is also called the inverted tree. It is the embodiment of man's transformation from mortal to true God, the perfection of himself, from disorder to order, and from animality to divinity.

The inverted tree symbolizes "order" and "anti-entropy". By walking backwards along the Tree of Life, one can reach the seventh-level divine realm of the [Crown] of the Ten Great Sources.

The [Sea of ​​Element] is the embodiment of the transition from order to disorder, manifested in the form of a Shunsheng Tree.

It symbolizes "chaos" and "entropy". If you follow the Tree of Life, you will fall into the abyss below the Kingdom of the Ten Source Elements.

Since the rudder of human beings belongs to themselves, and the underlying color is the humanity that anchors the self, the tree of life of the human gods appears to be an upside-down tree.

The [Rudder] of the old gods belongs to the deep sea. The underlying color is no longer the humanity anchoring the self, but the animality and madness anchoring the deep sea. The Tree of Life appears upright.

Byron once again murmured the mystical knowledge he had accidentally heard in his previous life:

"A tree without roots, a flower that is straight or crooked, is incomplete without the yin and yang. Following the way is mortal, going against the way is immortal, it's just upside down in the middle.

Although the world is different, the principles behind it are the same. Even if the details are different, the overall idea should be correct.

If you follow the will, you will be an ordinary person; if you go against the will, you will be a god.

With this common truth as a foundation, if I go to another world, I should not lose the extraordinary abilities I have now, right?"

They have just learned the ultimate secret hidden in the "Inverted Tree" from the collected forbidden knowledge.

The Tree of Life is located in the center of the Garden of Eden above the sky. It is the path from mortals to the true God, and it is also the way God created the world from nothing.

Human beings themselves symbolize the microcosm, and the tree of life symbolizes the entire universe.

The structure of this tree can be roughly divided into three pillars, ten prakriti, four worlds, and twenty-two paths.

If a demigod wants to become a true god, he needs to plant a tree of life in the center of the kingdom of God, and provide the corresponding elements according to the composition of the "inverted tree" to make the tree turn from virtual to real.

The core is the ten essences:
"One, the crown; two, wisdom; three, understanding; four, mercy; five, severity; six, beauty; seven, victory; eight, glory; nine, foundation; ten, the kingdom."

From the kingdom where humans live, we reach the crown that symbolizes the original source "one" and the divine power, which is the [Crown]!
This path ultimately comes down to "all things return to oneness."

Theoretically, if you gather all ten source elements, you can become the weakest true god.

The simplest and most direct way is to form a pantheon.

Most of the gods in the Age of Mythology cobbled together their priesthoods, recruited subordinate gods, built their own pantheon, and were lifted to the throne of true god by a group of gods.

The more parts that are put together, the more complete the Tree of Life will be, and the more powerful it will be when it reaches the [Crown].

Catherine also looked at the corresponding promotion requirements, and frowned while holding Byron's arm:

"Our golden triangle can serve as three pillars. If we find the remaining four basic elements, [Earth] and [Wind], we can complete the four worlds.

But there are only four demigods in our family, and with Amita there are only five, which is still half the distance.

Moreover, the paths of gods are different. If we piece them together randomly, it will probably seriously affect our strength after the breakthrough, right?"

Cleopatra and Violet also nodded in agreement. This matter really cannot be taken lightly.

Byron had already made plans, and said with a smile:
"If we can't gather enough by ourselves, don't we have the old gods already there?
Everything is three, and every seven will change. These two together are exactly ten!
As long as I can use the seven incarnations to devour the Seven Deadly Sins, I can take into account the stability of the three and the changes of the seven, and make up the most perfect ten essences.

After the great counterattack is over, I plan to go outside the world to hunt down those old gods whose bodies have not yet fully recovered!"

Without waiting for them to show any worry, he continued:
“In fact, I’m more worried about the last condition: the twenty-two paths than the origin.

Each path is an interaction between the Sephiroth and the Sephiroth, and a spiritual transformation.

Most other true gods are filled with fifth-order subordinate gods, but the best way is to use blood descendants with strong mystical connections."

What he didn't say was that from then on, he would fight in the front with peace of mind, while his children would look after the house in the rear, and experience the joy of being a general on an expedition.

After hearing Byron's plan, Cleopatra, Catherine, and Violet all opened their mouths slightly:

"We want to have twenty-two children?"

But after being surprised, they all became eager to try again, stood up again, and looked down at Byron as if he were a fish belly.

There are twenty-nine of them, but only twenty-two blood descendants, so one is not enough for each person.

Catherine smiled:
"Who are you looking down on?
At least two per person!"

The queen nodded vigorously:

"I'll give you a number. Twenty-two per person!"

As she spoke, Catherine transformed from one into six: the original body, the gold dragon, the silver dragon, the bronze dragon, the brass dragon, and the copper dragon.

Cleopatra is transformed from one into ten, the original queen plus nine exotic clones of the nine pillars of creation;

Violet transformed from one into thirteen, and one of them took the "ball" away and closed the door again with a smile.

The others giggled and rushed forward to attack Byron.

The latter laughed and shouted calmly:
"Certainly!"

Byron clapped his hands and began to "pick peaches" diligently.

The warm wind outside the window is mixed with the fragrance of flowers. The spring of the Silver Age 1474 has arrived. All things are reviving, and it is time for the animals to cough.

On the other hand, other Byrons who had set out along the Styx to the outside world long before returning from their circumnavigation of the world also reaped rewards.

There are nine Byrons that carry the core power. One is stationed in the base camp Kingston, one is in the Three Religions Holy City on the West Coast, one is on the front line of the Sun Empire, one is in the Desert Empire, one is in the Lighthouse Federation, and one is in the Ancient Pillar.

The remaining one was responsible for maneuvering, and the last two all entered the edge of the world.

A river Styx runs across the edge of the world. One Byron went upstream and the other went downstream.

Even though the distance between the two material worlds is extremely far, he can travel 40 kilometers in one step with the authority of the World Serpent.

We set out last year, and today we finally discovered the souls of other worlds in the lifeless River Styx.

(End of this chapter)