Chapter 232 Supernatural Changes
Elena Papadopoulos, an architecture student at the University of Athens, had her surveying instrument malfunction suddenly in front of the pedestal of the statue of Athena, causing the laser beam to condense in mid-air into the shape of a bronze spearhead.

As a volunteer for the Parthenon restoration project, Elena has dreamed countless times of piecing together marble fragments in the ruins.

At that moment, when her fingertips touched the unwritten words of wisdom on the pedestal, the marble of the entire Acropolis suddenly buzzed, and the colossal statue of Athena turned in her consciousness. The drops falling from the spear tip were not bronze rust, but every drop of sweat she had shed for the restoration work.

She looked down and saw her surveying pen transform into a bronze spear, the calluses on her palms turning into the Gorgon emblem on her shield, and the beating of her heart resonating with the ley lines beneath the Acropolis.

Athena's spear slammed heavily into the ground, and before Elena's eyes appeared the entire network of ley lines of the Greek peninsula: Mount Olympus was the star at the top of the scepter, the Oracle of Delphi was the source of wisdom, and the Parthenon was the "logical center" connecting all the ley lines.

The torrential rains in the Guatemalan jungle suddenly stopped at noon on the spring equinox, and 23-year-old Carlos Molina, a descendant of the Maya, climbed to the top of the lost Jaguar Temple in search of the traces of the gods.

The obsidian feathered serpent pendant on his chest suddenly emitted a buzzing sound, resonating with the serpentine relief on the temple steps. The shadow it cast on the ground came to life, climbing up his ankles.

Consciousness was drawn into a vortex of time, and Carlos saw himself standing atop the Castillo Pyramid in Chichen Itza, where the spring equinox sunlight was forming 18 serpentine beams of light and shadow along the steps—the "Path of the Feathered Serpent" that Kukulkan descended upon each year.

Carlos knelt on one knee, the shadow of the feathered serpent coiling around his entire body, forming a feather tattoo on his back that covered his ankles, each feather engraved with a different Mayan calendar symbol: "Let the wings of the feathered serpent guide the torrents of the earth's veins."

As Quetzalcoatl flapped his wings, Carlos saw the entire ley lines of Central America unfold beneath his feet: Teotihuacan in Mexico was the head, Tikal in Guatemala was the heart, and Machu Picchu in Peru was the tail feathers, with all the ley line nodes pulsating in rhythm with the Tzolkin calendar.

In the distance, atop the serpent temple in Tikal, a beam of feathered serpent-shaped light pierced the clouds and landed in the center of the tattoo on the back of Carlos's hand. He stroked the still-warm feather pattern and whispered, "When the feathered serpent god spreads its wings again, the stars of the Maya will be rearranged."

Fatima Said, an archaeology student at Cairo University, pauses her brush on a sandstone relief.

The moonlight gilded the statue of Ramses II with silver edges, while on the Ptolemaic ruins she was cleaning, a set of never-before-seen solar boat runes suddenly trembled like gold leaf, and the lines that should have been blurred seemed to come alive like scarabs, crawling along the calluses on her palms toward her wrists.

At that moment, when her blood droplet accidentally fell into the center of the rune, a beam of light suddenly shot out from the top of the obelisk of Luxor Temple, casting her shadow on the Ram's Passage of Karnak Temple, making her appear as if a giant was walking.

The voice that echoed in Fatima's mind was like the silt and sand of the Nile flooding, yet it carried the warmth of the rising sun: "Unaila Harakati, driver of dawn and dusk."

Her consciousness was pulled into the realm of the underworld, where the twelve sun gates opened one after another. Fatima saw herself standing on the sun ship Mandekhor, with Ra's golden coffin burning at the bow and the shadows of the serpent-headed stern.

She knelt down and pressed her forehead against the relief. The runes seeped into her skin like liquid gold, forming a sun boat tattoo on her forearm.

As the first rays of sunlight swept across the obelisk, Fatima heard the earth's veins resonate throughout the Nile Valley: the sandstone of Luxor, the granite of Giza, the cliffs of Abu Simbel—all the stones of Egypt were in sync, transforming into the keel of the solar boat.

The reflection of the solar boat appeared on the surface of the sacred lake at Karnak Temple. A blurry figure stood at the bow, raising a scepter, the sun disk at the top of the scepter echoing the tattoo on her palm. Fatima stroked the newly appeared golden eye pattern.

The nodes of the seven continents are connected by visible light bands, outlining a "world ley line map" covering the land and sea on the Earth's surface.

The beams of light from the Acropolis of Athens point towards Chichen Itza, where the shadow of Quetzalcoatl and the tip of Athena's spear meet in the Atlantic Ocean; the beams of light from the solar boat in the Nile Valley traverse the Red Sea and connect with the fire of Bahram in Persepolis on the Arabian Peninsula.

The lotus mandala of India resonates on the southern slopes of the Himalayas, while the root system of the World Tree in Scandinavia follows the Arctic shipping route, echoing the unknown ley lines beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. The primordial Prime gods were among the most powerful, and not numerous. Since the Chinese gods did not manifest through the power of faith, only Ymir of Northern Europe, born from the poisonous fog of the Kinlunga chasm, had his body dismembered by Odin and his brothers into worlds, his bones into mountains, his blood into oceans, and his brains into clouds.

In India, Brahma was born from a lotus in Vishnu's navel, creating the cosmic order. His four heads correspond to the four Vedas, and his hands hold ritual implements that symbolize the embodiment of time, space, and elements.

The Egyptian Núnn, the Inca Viracocha, the Jewish Christian God… this doesn’t mean that there are only a few mythological systems in the world with a creator god. Rather, those little-known, niche mythological systems are buried in the long river of history. Without sufficient faith, they naturally cannot give birth to deities.

The Dominus class includes figures such as Zeus in Greece, Odin in Norse mythology, and Ra in Egypt.

The deities represented by Malus are the embodiment of conceptual disasters, such as Loki in Norse mythology, Typhon in Greek mythology, and Kali in Indian mythology.

There are also four other classes. From these classifications of gods, we can see that the main mythological systems widely believed around the world are Greek mythology, Norse mythology, Roman mythology, Inca mythology, Mayan mythology, and Judeo-Christian mythology.

Chinese mythology is difficult for the West to understand, but China itself has a huge population base and is not lacking in faith. It's just that due to national conditions, it is impossible for deities to be born from faith.

Yang Jian, the two Qiaos, and Song Shuhang couldn't form contracts with the native gods, which meant that their country wasn't participating in this war of the gods. Su Yun and the others prepared gods from other countries for Yang Jian and the other two, which was equivalent to using the ley lines in their own lands as a betting pool. If their country didn't participate, they would be in an invincible position.

Meanwhile, after arriving in the world of one person from the supernatural event, the vengeful spirit Yang Jian controlled also reacted. The vengeful spirit is essentially the "basic code" for the operation of the supernatural world, and its existence is irreplaceable.

Su Yun mastered the Gray-White Ghost Eye and used his cheat ability to transform it into "Changing the World - Remnant". This solidification was not a simple transplant, but rather a recompilation of the rule code into a form compatible with the new world.

When a vengeful spirit is transferred to another world in the way Su Yun does, the original world will automatically activate a function similar to a "code repair program" to regenerate the corresponding vengeful spirit through rule reconstruction.

However, things were different after Yang Jian came to this world. His situation was similar to that of the Corpse Immortal of Ten Thousand Causes, who was connected to this world by the causal line. As a ghost and god in the supernatural world, Yang Jian was naturally still connected to the supernatural world. Even though he was in this world, no new ghost eyes would be born in the supernatural world.

This situation was a real pity for Yang Jian, because the other ghost eye in the world of Baishui Town was fake, and it was impossible to replicate the double ghost eye.

However, if he were in another world, a supernatural world, new ghost eyes would be born. Yang Jian would definitely use this mechanism to create true dual ghost eyes for himself. Then, when he becomes an anomaly, he would quickly rise to the level of the strongest warrior below the level of ghost gods. That is, a half-step ghost god level warrior, equivalent to Zhang Dong.

If a vengeful spirit lingers too long in a world outside the supernatural realm, its rules may merge with the local laws, creating a supernatural aura that is difficult to eradicate. In a world without supernatural powers, minor ghosts or spirits might appear.

Furthermore, vengeful spirits can undergo "rule distortion" due to differences in the laws of different worlds. Taking Yang Jian's Crimson Ghost Domain as an example, it manifests as illusion manipulation in its original world, but in the cultivation world, due to interference from spiritual energy, the scope of the ghost domain may shrink, but its materialization may increase, and it may even be able to briefly materialize the illusions within the ghost domain.

There are no special changes in this world, but because the strength limit of the world of one person is weaker than that of the supernatural world, Yang Jian's ghost domain can be spread to a larger and wider area in this world.

Conversely, if it occurs in a world stronger than the Ghost World, the Ghost Domain's range will be compressed. This principle is similar to the collision of different Ghost Domains, where each world can be viewed as a vast "Ghost Domain," and a stronger Ghost Domain will compress a weaker one.

(End of this chapter)

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