Yes, I became a god just by exercising.

Chapter 293 The most important secret of the extraordinary world behind the gate of ancient mithril?
Behind the Gate of Ancient Mithril lies... the Ancient Eternal Sea?

In that instant, Xia Fa felt as if ten thousand bolts of lightning were thundering in his heart, and he was almost petrified, even doubting whether he had misheard.

As the young miner who called himself "Absolute Defense" said, and as the bard just said, there are many, many proofs of eternity in the ancient and eternal sea!

Xia Fa didn't know the exact number, but recalling the shimmering and floating points of light he saw in the ancient and eternal sea every time he went to that mysterious dark space... there must have been hundreds of them.

But as the young miner said before, even the nine great gods couldn't find the location of the Primordial Eternal Sea back then.

Surprisingly, the physical entities actually found it!
“That makes sense… According to what the entities said earlier, it was precisely because they failed to break through the Ancient Mithril Gate the first two times that their strength did not increase, which is why they were having a hard time dealing with the Cleaners… I should have guessed that back then.”

Now that he thinks about it, Xia Fa realizes that besides the "Eternal Proof," what else could possibly allow these entities, whose strength is generally higher than that of the Outer Gods, and even two of them who are close to true gods, to increase their strength?

I should have guessed it was the "Eternal Proof" long ago!

"Break through the Ancient Mithril Gate, and you can freely choose any of the [Eternal Certificates] inside..."

Xia Fa's heart burned with increasing fervor as he thought about it. He knew that in the past ten thousand years, not only had the nine great gods ceased to show themselves easily, but they had also stopped responding to prayers and sacrifices.
Even the appearance of the "Eternal Proof" has become extremely rare.

Including the birth of the "Eternal Proof" in the Ocean of Barron nine days later, it seems that there have only been three recorded births of the "Eternal Proof" in the entire universe in the past ten thousand years.

In this situation, compared to randomly selecting the "Eternal Token" within the Ancient Mithril Gate...

More importantly, only one type of "Eternal Certificate" will appear in the Baron Ocean this time. Considering that each "Eternal Certificate" is unique, this means that only one "Eternal Certificate" will be born.

And I am not even a god yet. To become a god, then an outer god, and finally the tenth true god that no one in the universe has ever achieved in the past 30,000 years... Although this is just wishful thinking, if I want to be prepared, I need at least... three kinds of [Eternal Certificates]!
In other words, if one could truly break through the gate of the Primordial Mithril and freely choose from inside, one could pre-select three types of "Eternal Tokens," and then choose others, and even filter and combine them... Just thinking about that scene is wonderful.

Unlike this time, or in the past when "Eternal Certificates" appeared, people had no choice but to scramble for them whenever they appeared.

"Hmm... I think I understand."

Xia Fa spoke as the disguised entity "Glutton," trying to sound calm so as not to reveal anything.

Seeing that this person, whose rumored strength was no less than his own, was so calm, the bard couldn't help but feel a little uneasy and asked as if to confirm:
"So, Your Excellency the Glutton, you mean..."

Xia Fa spoke in a hoarse, chaotic voice, as if electrified:
"Well, you can try it."

Seeing that Lord Gluttony had agreed, the entities present all breathed a sigh of relief.

A subtle smile also appeared on the face of the person answering the question.

Just then, the cabin suddenly shook, as if the tin-roofed sightseeing boat had fallen from the sky and crashed hard into the ground.

Tables and chairs overturned, wine glasses shattered, and wine spilled all over the floor... but the objects remained unmoved, displaying remarkable composure.

On the contrary, the college students who had gone back to sleep after boarding in the other cabins that were being used as guest rooms seemed to have been awakened. Some were complaining, some were cursing, and some seemed quite excited.

Then, one by one, these entities that looked like college students emerged from their respective cabins.

However, upon seeing Lord Gluttony, they were still somewhat intimidated and hid behind the storyteller.

The storyteller suddenly transformed into a protective mother hen, followed by a large group of college students, making this weathered man chuckle.

"Don't be afraid. Lord Gluttony has joined our Entity Redemption Society. He's one of us now and won't harm you."

He spoke in a reassuring tone, comforting the college students who were trembling with fear in the face of the gluttons.

Seeing this, Xia Fa felt a bit amused and exasperated. Not long ago, it was he and the crew of the Red Porcupine who were trembling with fear when facing these college students in real form, but now the roles were reversed.

Although, this was not due to his true strength, but rather to his disguise.

He realized that even the physical university students on this "inescapable sightseeing boat" combined possessed strength comparable to that of an Outer God.

From conversations with other entities, he learned that these entities resembling college students, along with this metal sightseeing boat, were indeed newly established.

This is similar to the information I received before I first set sail.

Even so, their combined strength actually reached that of an Outer God...

Xia Fa, who had always been curious about the origins of the entities, became genuinely curious once again and decided to find an opportunity to subtly inquire about it when the entities in the Entity Redemption Society gathered again in the future.

"Alright, we've arrived, let's get started."

The bard then spoke, his gentle smile vanishing, replaced by a rare solemnity.

As one of the college students glanced towards the cabin door, the metal sightseeing boat's cabin immediately opened.

The smell of ash and dust immediately rushed in from the hatch, accompanied by the smell of burning and a few black raindrops.

"This is the place..."

Xia Fa murmured to himself, feeling a deep sense of familiarity, as scenes from the past involuntarily surfaced before his eyes.

At that time, he had only signed a high-level secret contract called "Etheric Source," and was merely a low-level fungus-level superhuman. Even with his full strength, he could only fight whale-level beings who were not even demigods.

But somehow, I ended up in this nested, eerie realm, hiding behind a broken wall on the hillside, and watched helplessly as the Golden Cleanser, wielding a golden halberd, destroyed the civilization built by the Giant Jaw Beast.

And, they beheaded the [God of Devouring].

Moreover, if the Golden Axe Cleaner hadn't arrived at the last minute, the Golden Cleaner wielding the Golden Halberd might have cleaned himself up as well.

After all, at the last moment, he had discovered himself.

"So, the Golden Axe Cleaner has been helping me for a long time. The Celestial Compass and the two Kens Fruits were deliberately left behind by it..."

Xia Fa realized this and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

In particular, he felt that the two Kens Fruits were useless at the time, since they were specifically for superhumans who practiced swordsmanship.

Not long after, he obtained the horse-slaying sword. Although it was a sword, it could actually provide some enhancement if he consumed the Kenshi Fruit.

Xiafa didn't know exactly when the Golden Axe Cleaner discovered him and then chose to help him.

However, it should have been after I first started exercising.

After all, both the "burning sensation" in the heart meridian and the "strange electric current" in the spine and tailbone only begin to appear after exercising.

It is estimated that the Golden Giant Axe Cleaner also began to help him because he realized his own special abilities.

After calming himself down and without much thought, Xia Fa was the second to step out of the cabin, after the storyteller had already stepped out first and the bard had politely declined.

As before, with just a thought, "Electric Teleportation" was automatically activated, and his entire body was enveloped in a gray-black, semi-transparent current, instantly appearing in the ruins of the Giant Jaw Beast City.

Under the heavens and earth, black raindrops fell in a pattering sound, as if they would continue to fall for thousands or tens of thousands of years.

The slightly fishy-sweet black raindrops made Xia Fa feel as if he had returned to that time.

He turned his head and saw that in front of the majestic and imposing Ancient Mithril Gate, the Devouring God was still kneeling, his neck still bare, and his dark body bound by chains extending from the Ancient Mithril Gate.

Even seeing this scene for the second time, I was still inexplicably shocked, and even more so.

Because now, Xia Fa can confirm that this deity is indeed an Outer God, and how powerful an Outer God is is self-evident.

But now, the headless corpse of an Outer God stands right in front of him.

Xia Fa looked around again and saw that the city of giant jaw beasts, now in ruins, was filled with their heads, which had dried out over a month.

The black raindrops fell on them, but did nothing to moisten these oval, watermelon-like heads; they simply slid down and flowed into the earth.

"Ok?"

Suddenly, Xia Fa's spiritual intuition kicked in, and he sensed that something was wrong.

The heads of these giant jaw beasts... these heads of giant jaw beasts that were once beheaded by the Golden Cleanser wielding a halberd, now seem to have turned into "eggs," and under the influence of the black raindrops, they are gestating new giant jaw beasts!
Although this gestation process would take at least several decades, he could genuinely sense that there were signs of new giant jaw beasts about to be born in the heads of these giant jaw beasts, and the eerie aura was quite strong.

Just then, the interpreter walked over, and the burly, bearded man smiled and asked:

"Your Excellency Glutton, what's wrong?"

Xia Fa had always had a favorable impression of the commentator, so he spoke up at this moment:

"It seems that..."

After he mentioned it, the commentator sensed it briefly and immediately exclaimed in surprise:
"Hey! That really is interesting." He looked up at the seemingly endless black raindrops in the sky, then turned to look at the heads of the giant-jawed beasts, stroking his thick beard with one hand, and said thoughtfully:

"So that's how it is... The God of Devouring is not dead but still trying to secretly make these giant jaw beasts stronger again, and then resurrect Him through faith..."

So that's how it is? What's the underlying principle?
Xia Fa was a bit confused, because he couldn't figure out why the black raindrops could cause a new giant jaw beast to be reborn in the head of the giant jaw beast.

However, considering his current disguised identity, he couldn't very well ask questions out of humility, so he said calmly:

"That's not okay."

With just that one hint, the commentator understood immediately and burst into laughter:
"Haha, that's true. After all, no matter what, we should kill the weird things whenever we can. I'll do it, Lord Glutton. You don't need to lift a finger."

With a casual wave of his hand, the commentator caused a spotlight to appear above each of the hundreds of millions of giant jaw beast heads in the city of giant jaw beasts with a "bang".

These spotlights were all strangely black, and as soon as they shone on the heads of these giant jawed beasts, they immediately melted and evaporated.

Xia Fa seemed to faintly hear the screams of countless unborn giant jaw beasts, and watched as those heads melted away completely like ice balls in the sunlight under the black spotlights that lit up the ruins of the giant jaw beast city.

He witnessed once again the immense power of a physical entity.

As for the commentators, they've only just made it into the top ten in the real world, not even comparable to the gourmets and the chief of all poisons, let alone the top three story answerers and bards...

"Alright, stop playing around and come here."

The storyteller then spoke up, waving to the narrator.

Immediately afterwards, he added a special note:
“Your Excellency Glutton, please come over here as well, we are ready.”

Xia Fa turned his head and saw that the entities had all gathered below the Ancient Mithril Gate, right next to the beheaded Devouring God.

So, with a thought, he activated his electric teleportation ability again, and in an instant, he arrived beside the physical entities.

At this moment, it was as if Xia Fa was personally standing next to the knees of the Devouring God. Only then did he truly realize just how enormous this Outer God was; it was practically like a mountain.

Even in death, He still possesses an indescribable, supreme pressure and an inviolable, supreme majesty.

A strange electric current suddenly shot out from the coccyx, hundreds of them, forming an electric grid that directly covered the cerebral cortex.

Xia Fa suspected that if he hadn't just signed the fourth overlord-level secret contract, [Miracle Fantasy], and possessed strength comparable to veteran extraordinary monarchs, and could mobilize hundreds of strange currents, he probably wouldn't have been able to withstand the effects of such an outer god's corpse.

In other words, if it were a veteran transcendent monarch who had signed twenty secret contracts, but did not possess such a strange electric current, he would probably lose control on the spot, turning into a terrifying monster, or his body would explode and he would perish instantly.

Soon, as a spotlight fell, the commentator walked out smiling.

But as soon as he made eye contact with the person answering the story, the smile on the face of this bearded man vanished, and he became completely serious.

The storyteller subtly withdrew his accusatory gaze, turned around, and looked at the fanatical tomb raiders again.

Xia Fa hadn't heard many rumors about this entity, but they were all quite bizarre.

Legend has it that if you are walking at night in the wilderness, there is a certain probability that you will encounter a fanatical tomb raider, and then this entity will drag you along to raid the tomb.

If the person is unwilling, he will bury them directly in the tomb, and even a transcendent monarch cannot escape on their own and can only wait for someone to rescue them.

If they wanted to, it would be simple: a fanatical tomb raider would use highly professional methods to rob a nearby tomb, and the stolen artifacts would be split equally among the people he dragged along to rob the tomb.

At times like these, it all comes down to luck. If a fanatical tomb raider is only robbing the tomb of an ordinary person, the burial goods are practically useless. But if he manages to rob the tomb of a transcendent monarch...

Of course, those who are dragged into tomb raiding by fanatical tomb raiders will also have to bear the risk of being hunted down by the tomb owner's descendants. After all, the tomb owner's descendants dare not seek revenge on a physical body, so they can only choose to turn their attention to their accomplices...

At this moment, the fanatical tomb raiders, armed with shovels and hoes, headed straight for the Ancient Mithril Gate.

As Xia Fa wondered how this entity would push open the majestic and imposing Ancient Mithril Gate, he saw it wield an iron shovel in its left hand and a hoe in its right, directly striking the crack in the Ancient Mithril Gate.

"No, leave quickly!"

In that instant, the puppet master let out a low shout, as if he had discovered something, and rushed forward first.

At the same moment, a small hole was knocked into the crack of the Ancient Mithril Gate, and it began to heal rapidly as soon as it was made.

But it was too late. The moment the Puppet Master rushed forward, all the physical beings, including Xia Fa and the fanatical tomb raiders in front of the Ancient Mithril Gate, were transformed into his "puppets."
The puppet master himself transformed into a puppet, shrinking to the size of an atom and instantly passing through the healing hole.

For Xia Fa, this experience was truly bizarre. The moment he was turned into a puppet, he felt his whole body stiffen, and even his thoughts froze for a second or two, as if he had truly become a puppet.

Fortunately, as soon as they passed through that small hole, the puppet master turned all the physical objects back to normal.

This strange-looking man, dressed in a colorful striped tuxedo with a rainbow-colored corsage on his chest, actually turned around and gave Xia Fa a slight bow.

“My apologies, Your Excellency Glutton.”

"It doesn't matter."

Xia Fa responded casually, saying that he hadn't lost anything anyway.

The bard then lamented:
"I didn't expect that the Primordial Mithril Gate itself seems to be comparable to a true divine treasure. After our two breakthroughs, it actually became defensive this time."

The storyteller nodded:

"Fortunately, the three Ancient Mithril Gates combined are only comparable to one True Mystic Treasure. We were only breaking through the first gate, which is the easiest to break through, so we weren't stopped. But it's also thanks to Master Puppet's quick reaction."

Xia Fa had no idea what the entities were saying, but he could only pretend to be thoughtful.

However, he suspects that the first two times, it was probably because fanatical tomb raiders were able to simply knock a large hole in the Ancient Mithril Gate, allowing the entities to pass through easily.

But this time, for some reason, it didn't work, which is why the puppeteer needed to improvise.

After calming down a bit, Xia Fa looked around and discovered that he was actually in a mine.

The mine is extremely vast, stretching as far as the eye can see. The ground is covered with dark golden boulders, scattered irregularly, numbering in the hundreds.

Suddenly, these boulders began to crack and fissure, and then they all stood up.

boom--!
In that instant, an indescribable killing intent and a powerful pressure comparable to that of an outer god erupted from every boulder like a tidal wave, crashing towards Xia Fa like giant waves, almost suffocating him.

Then, these boulders revealed their true forms: they were guards wielding round shields and spiked longswords. But what terrified Xia Fa was that their round shields and longswords were entirely composed of runes!

Indeed, these round shields and longswords seem to have no physical form at all. They are formed entirely by dense black runes that float and deform in their hands, but they still maintain the general shape of the shields and longswords.

As for these ancient undead guardians themselves, they wore heavy, dark gold armor covered with intricate and solemn ancient patterns, exuding an ancient aura.

Their masks didn't reveal a single gap, not even their eyes could be seen, as if their facial features were sealed off, making them appear mysterious and terrifying.

Many of the entities present couldn't help but show a hint of fear, especially those that looked like college students.

Only the storyteller, with a serious expression and a pickaxe in his hand, walked over on his own.

Despite their fear, the college students who appeared to be real people looked at each other and cheered each other on, following behind the storyteller.

The storyteller's steps seemed slow, but in reality, he arrived at the very center of the mine with just one step.

He simply sat down, and a campfire immediately appeared in front of him, emitting a warm glow, with a small chair appearing beneath him.

Om-!
In that instant, an invisible wave expanded, enveloping the hundreds of murderous ancient immortal guards.

The storyteller's lips moved, but the entities present, including Xia Fa, couldn't hear what he was saying at all.

Immediately afterwards, the beings resembling college students walked to the campfire, where tables appeared in front of them. They began to conjure up snacks such as jerky, candy, and cakes out of thin air, and then somehow managed to blend into the ranks of the ancient undead guards, eating and listening as if they were participating in the storytelling of the questioners.

"Let's not delay, let's go first."

The bard spoke, his eyes once again fixed on the puppet master.

The puppet master nodded, gave Xia Fa a "sorry" look, and then deliberately bypassed the invisible fluctuations emanating from the storyteller, rushing towards a certain place in the mine.

Xia Fa felt like he had become a puppet again, his mind and body stiffening, but this time it only took a fraction of a second for him to recover.

But when he looked up, Xia Fa's pupils suddenly contracted, as if he had seen something extremely unbelievable.

"This is……"

(End of this chapter)