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Chapter 227 Only Then Did I Realize My True Level
Liu Hen didn't even know how to complain anymore.

But it’s right to think about it.

Even in Earth's past history, which powerful figure didn't rise to power by stepping over the corpses of countless people?
The saying "One general's success is built on the bones of ten thousand" perfectly describes this kind of situation.

Becoming the master of the world is not an easy task.
At this moment, Liu Hen suddenly thought of something—

Chang Xin once said that she had received a nightmare in a dream.

Because of a nightmare, Chang Xin saw countless displaced people on the earth, and an unimaginable number of them starved to death.

Those who control the resources have plenty of food, and they would rather let it rot and stink than trade it to the desolate people at a low price.

It seems that this is why Chang Xin had the idea of ​​unifying the world; she wanted to distribute the extra resources to the wasteland people.

'These old monsters are all dead but not stiff, they just won't die completely...'

Liu Hen crossed his arms, his eyes narrowed slightly: 'Is it possible that the Lord of the Earth didn't die, but was reincarnated?'

A strange feeling rose in his heart: 'Could Chang Xin be the reincarnation of the Lord of the Earth? Did I sleep with the reincarnation of the Lord of the Earth?'

The moment the thought crossed his mind, he felt inexplicably strange and somewhat awkward.

"By the way, is the Lord of the Earth male or female?" he asked the Snow Woman.

"The Lord of the Earth is born holy and has no gender distinction. In the past, although He was in human form, He was a giant god with a body tens of thousands of kilometers high."

The Snow Woman said calmly, "The Lord of the Earth wields the power of the earth and is also the embodiment of the earth. Some call her the Mother of the Earth. If we consider gender based on the characteristics of the earth, then she should be considered female."

Liu Hen breathed a sigh of relief, then asked again, "Do you think it's possible for the Lord of the Earth to be resurrected? Or... reincarnated?"

"Absolutely impossible," the Snow Woman replied with absolute certainty.

Liu Hen immediately raised an eyebrow: "Why? What's your basis for this?"

"Although the Lord of the Earth is born holy, being born holy is actually an embodiment of rules. It's just that He is a complete rule from birth, unlike us mountain gods who are only fragments of rules."

The Snow Woman explained, "If He revives, the entire earth will revive with Him. Even the endless winter will not be able to suppress it, and the endless darkness will be dispelled. Even if He cannot drive out the Lord of Eternal Darkness, He can definitely contend with Him to some extent, because He once... almost transcended."

Liu Hen suddenly realized: "Then why do you say that He cannot be reincarnated?"

"The Lord of the Earth, in essence, is not really death..."

A complex look flashed in the Snow Woman's beautiful eyes: "He was merely forced to change his form, becoming an unkillable nightmare; he is omnipresent."

At this point, He looked at Liu Hen and said, "From this perspective, He has actually succeeded in transcending. He has transcended the scope of ordinary life and become an existence that we cannot understand. Even the Lord of Eternal Darkness cannot do anything to Him. He has no need to reincarnate."

Well, that makes sense.

Just as Liu Hen was about to speak, he suddenly shuddered and closed his eyes slightly.

When he opened his eyes again, a smile flashed in them, and he silently appeared beside the Snow Woman.

The snow woman was startled and instinctively took a step back.

Liu Hen crossed his arms, circled the Snow Woman, and said meaningfully, "You were lying to me before?"

"What?" Xue Nu was a little confused about what Liu Hen was referring to.

"You don't even have a gender. You're just trying to fool me with your talk of being a wife or concubine, aren't you?" Liu Hen said coldly. "..."

The Snow Woman remained silent: "It is very impolite to spy on others like this. Besides, I am currently using the Body of Rules, a body specially forged to deal with the Lord of Yin. In a sense, it is a divine artifact. My true form is the Snow Woman, and I have a gender."

Although she remained calm on the surface, she was somewhat shocked inside. Liu Hen was able to see through her at this moment.

"You've successfully advanced?" He looked at Liu Hen.

"So that's how it is, the vessel for the divine artifact..."

Liu Hen breathed a sigh of relief and smiled again: "I, the town mayor, am very tolerant of women, so I won't hold your concealment against you. But what you said about being a wife or a concubine, is that true?"

"..."

The Snow Woman paused for a moment: "As long as you help me truly break free from the shackles of the world's will, I will submit to your command without complaint."

"Isn't this enough?" Liu Hen asked.

"The current state only shields me from the surveillance and influence of the world's will, but I am still bound by the shackles of the world's will and unable to build a divine kingdom."

The Snow Woman said, "I must truly break free from the will of the world in order to become an independent life."

Liu Hen understood: "If you break away from the world's will, you should also completely lose the ability to regain control of the world, right? After becoming independent, if you want to regain control of this world, the difficulty will rise to the level of the Lord of Eternal Darkness, where you need to completely imprint your mark on every part of this world again."

But the Lord of Eternal Darkness comes from beyond the heavens; he is either originally on par with the Lord of the World or a transcendent being. The Snow Maiden is absolutely no match for him.

"What realm are you at now? How do you know so much?" the Snow Maiden asked in surprise.

“The Fifth Realm, don’t you already know that?” Liu Hen said.

"What is your fifth realm?" Xue Nu looked at Liu Hen with surprise and uncertainty.

Before answering that question, why don't you tell me the specific names of the realms in this world?

Liu Hen said, "To be honest, this town mayor only knows which realm it is, but doesn't know what the specific level of each realm is."

"..."

The Snow Maiden was somewhat speechless, thinking that Liu Hen might be the first person who had already surpassed the God level but still didn't know the title of his realm.

“Under normal circumstances, even rule-based ability users are only in the first to third realms, which are considered to be in the mortal realm. There are three major realms, and each major realm has three stages: the beginning, middle and end. The fourth to sixth realms are considered to be at the saint level, and the seventh to ninth realms are considered to be at the demigod level.”

The Snow Woman said, "It's just that ordinary ability users need to reach the ninth realm to be considered demigods, while rule-based ability users are already demigods at the seventh realm. The tenth to twelfth realms are god-level, namely lower god, middle god, and upper god."

He looked at Liu Hen with a complicated expression: "At first glance, I could tell that your first realm was Transcendent Mortal, your second realm was Saint-level, your third realm was Demigod, and your fourth realm was God-level. I originally thought that your fifth realm would be God-King, but now it seems that it is not God-King?"

"What realm is the God King?" Liu Hen asked in return.

"The God-King, in this world, is a special realm sandwiched between the Lord of the World and the High God. He is an existence that has truly and completely mastered a complete set of rules."

The Snow Woman explained, "The former Lord of the Earth, even if he was a born god-king, possessed a complete set of rules from the moment he was born."

"I see."

Liu Hen smiled and looked at the campfire, which had grown to a diameter of three meters.

(End of this chapter)