Deities: Rulers of Nature

Welcome to the Gods Game.

This is a virtual realm where danger and opportunity coexist.

Here, you will merge with divine essence, open up divine realms, cultivate your own race... contend with other gods, and all creatures will vie for freedom under the frosty sky.

The moment a cold void enveloped his consciousness, Ji Xuan abruptly opened his eyes.

There was no sweltering heat of the cemetery, no cicada chirping, no image of the kind man running away, and no eerie black vortex.

All that met my eyes was boundless darkness, with no up, down, left, or right, no passage of time, and not even sound or light.

"Where am I?... Wait, where is my body?"

Ji Xuan was about to launch into a barrage of profanities when he discovered that his body was gone.

Without eyes, limbs, or torso, even breathing and heartbeat had disappeared. The whole person seemed like an invisible, shapeless, transparent mist, slowly floating in nothingness.

Just then, he felt a familiar coolness.

At the center of the transparent mist floated a round, golden acorn. It was exactly the same as the one he had worn for five years, gleaming with a soft, faint light.

At this moment, it was no longer a pendant hanging around his neck, but had completely merged with his consciousness, becoming the core of his existence.

Before he could think it through, a flood of information rushed into his mind.

If he were in his old body on Aquamarine, all this complex information would have been enough to make him faint on the spot, or even cause brain death.

But now it's different; a cool power flows from the golden acorn, organizing all the information into a neat and orderly manner.

He quickly figured it all out.

This is the virtual world.

The burial ground of the gods of the old era is also the testing ground for all the newly born gods and races of the new era.

Good news: the dream he had when he was eighteen was not a daydream.

The bad news is that it truly happened; it's the last memory etched into the golden acorn. It's a warning that the dying ruler of the old era carved into the souls of his descendants.

Ji Xuan was not a time traveler.

He died suddenly from staying up all night, and his soul should have completely dissipated, but it was captured by a golden acorn that was caught in the turbulent flow of time and space.

This acorn is the sole heir formed by the last of the natural rulers of the old era, having exhausted their divine power. It carries the last embers of the oak tree and has drifted through the turbulent currents of time and space for countless years.

The catastrophe of the transition between the old and new eras erased more than 99% of the acorn's mystique.

He descended on Aquamarine Star with Ji Xuan's soul, expended energy, and infused it into an abandoned dead infant, which happened to be found by Ji Sen, who was patrolling the mountain.

Until today, when the rift in the void just happened to open briefly on Aquamarine Star, a fragment of divine essence that had been scattered was actively absorbed by Acorn, finally awakening its vitality.

As for why the War of the Gods broke out in the Old Era, which ultimately led to Ragnarok, even powerful gods like the Lord of Nature perished one after another.

Ji Xuan wasn't quite sure either.

We can only find fragments of information from that blood-red dream.

In my dream, many of the once high and mighty gods eventually lost their minds and began to fight each other in a frenzy.

Especially the five-headed dragon, which kept repeating the same word.

Transcendence!

As for the so-called game of gods, it's not some conspiracy by a mastermind.

This is the general consciousness of the virtual realm itself, a growth platform built for all newly born demigods who are lucky enough to obtain fragments of divine power.

I don't know if it's because the gods of the old era almost destroyed the Void Realm.

As Ji Xuan focused his mind, lines of clear text appeared before his eyes.

[Absorb divine fragments, activate divinity, and advance to demigod]

Name: Ji Xuan

[God's Name: God of Nature]

[Rank: Demigod]

[Cleric: None]

[Field: Plants]

[Divinity Value: 2/10]

Divinity: 5/10

Sect: None

[Family Members: None]

[Divine Power: 10/20]

[Faith Points: 5618]

[Divine Spells: Omniscient Eye (Unique), Level 1 General Divine Spell, Level 1 Plant Divine Spell]

[Divine Realm: None]

This panel presents God's current information in the way that Ji Xuan is most familiar with, using the game's deity system.

Perhaps because he was recording game playthroughs before he died in his previous life, Ji Xuan himself might not have felt anything, but subconsciously the game panel was the thing he was most familiar with.

Ji Xuan quickly scanned the panel.

The divine name is now just a nice-sounding title; it doesn't even have the most basic divine duties, only the plant domain that the golden acorn originally possessed.

However, Ji Xuan's current situation is better than those demigods who have just absorbed the fragments of godhood.

A divine being is the first tier to becoming a god, but at this stage, their essence is simply a human possessing immortal divinity. Even if they absorb fragments of divine essence, they cannot grasp the potential domains within them.

Demigods are the second tier to becoming gods, and it is from this point onward that they possess some of the abilities of gods.

Ji Xuan was able to directly skip the stage of divine beings and become a demigod, all thanks to the divine fragment that the acorn absorbed as a foundation.

This is why Ji Xuan's initial stats are even better than those of a newly born demigod.

His gaze fell upon the all-knowing eye.

This is a divine innate ability that was unexpectedly awakened when the golden acorn fused with a fragment of divine essence.

Unsurprisingly, the source should be one or more unfortunate deities from the old era who held the divine authority of knowledge, and who even had their core fragments of authority stripped away.

The All-Seeing Eye can consume divine power or faith points to query almost all information within the virtual world, as long as it has enough divine power and faith points.

For Ji Xuan, who was completely clueless at the moment, this was a godsend.

This uniqueness also means that no other deity can awaken this innate divine art. Even if a deity later acquires the divine office of knowledge, it will not be possible.

However, Ji Xuan was also unable to bestow the all-knowing eye upon his followers.

Afterwards, He followed the divine spell entries on the panel and recalled the rule information that had just been implanted into his mind.

Beings at the level of divine beings, without the support of divinity, have no ability to activate divine magic, nor can they bestow divine magical power upon believers.

Only by reaching the demigod realm and condensing or absorbing a fragment of divine essence can one unlock the right to learn and bestow divine arts.

Without mastering a domain, a demigod can only master level 1 general divine arts, among which language proficiency is one of the most practical.

In addition, it also has a wide range of abilities such as light magic, purifying food and water, and minor healing.

Demigods who possess a domain will unlock an additional exclusive Level 1 Domain Divine Art.

Ji Xuan's mastery of the plant domain has now unlocked three level 1 plant divine spells: Entanglement, Plant Growth, and Thorn Shield.

After organizing all the information, Ji Xuan knew what he should do now.

Opening up the divine realm.

This is the foundation upon which every deity finds its place and establishes its existence.

Without a divine realm, there is no place to cultivate one's own kind, no place to acquire faith, and no place to hide from attacks by other gods in the void.

The virtual world is never short of ambitious gods, and the rule of the survival of the fittest has been clearly written from the very beginning.

Ji Xuan concentrated his mind and mobilized the last remaining divine power within his body.

The golden acorn responded immediately, and a soft golden light emanated from within it, intertwining with the divine power and faith he had infused into it.

A tiny glimmer of light appeared in the virtual world.

At first it was just a tiny dot, but with the continuous infusion of divine power and faith, the glimmer of light rapidly expanded.

Countless transparent crystalline threads extended from the void, intertwining and entwining to eventually form a huge translucent crystal wall.

The crystal wall continued to expand outward, gradually repelling the surrounding nothingness, and in the boundless darkness, it opened up a unique space belonging to Ji Xuan.