MMORPG: War God, You are Invincible Again

"Actually, establishing an inheritance is quite simple," Lu Hong explained. "All it takes is to set up your own Holy Temple and organize your understanding of the profession into a strict system, and imprint it inside. But there's still a slight sacrifice involved—you must sever a strand of your Divine Soul to ensure that the inheritance isn't casually dispersed, which guarantees the faith and loyalty of those who receive your inheritance."

As he spoke, Song Quan took out an anti-magic stone and said, "I've used this thing to build you a temple, thirty miles outside the main city in that area, which others have tacitly allocated to you. It's not appropriate to build a temple of the Human Race inside the main city because of the mixed races, so I took the lead. The remaining gods of our Human Race will build their own temples near yours to spread the inheritance of our race. Otherwise, a hundred years later, my descendants will surely fall to the bottom level of the various races. Even if it's not intentional, they won't escape being expelled from the alliance in the end."

Lu Hong understood Song Quan's implication. The warrior profession was a major weapon on the battlefield, created specifically for combat. Since the War God ascended to another world at the end of the Era of the Gods, a large gap in the transmission of the warrior profession's inheritance had occurred, eventually leading to the collapse of the sacred temple and the cessation of its transmission.

Although it seemed that the Human Race hadn't become weaker, in actuality, they were weaker than the other races by a notch in wars. So, it was crucial to continue this important transmission of the Human Race, and the key was Lu Hong's approval, since he was the War God, the origin of the warrior profession.

"Okay, I can go now."

Seeing Lu Hong set to leave, Song Quan hurriedly stopped him. "Hold on a moment."

Taking a thin sheet of paper from his spatial storage, he said, "This is the method for severing the Divine Soul. Learn this first before you go. Although it's just splitting a strand of Divine Soul, it's not easy. This strand can't have complete autonomy, but it also can't lack the ability to identify; you must set all its behaviors when you sever it, or it's easy to cause trouble."

Song Quan's words were not without reason. There were many Heavenly Gods of the Human Race, but ultimately only a handful were spoken of. The constraints of soul severing prevented some gods from imprinting their profession and passing it on.

The piece of paper Song Quan held looked like it had only one page, but damn, it wasn't ordinary text, but a golden sea constructed by Divine Power.

When Lu Hong's consciousness landed on it, it felt as if he had fallen into a vast ocean.

Was this the legendary sea of knowledge?

Lu Hong was deeply fascinated by these secrets about the Divine Soul.

After a long while, he regained his sense and asked Song Quan, "What realm are you in now?"

"Come on, I'm damn well in the Heavenly God realm. What other realm could I be?"

"The Earth realm?"

As soon as Lu Hong spoke, Song Quan's expression twisted unnaturally. "You know about the Earth realm?"

"Mortal, Earth, Heaven—the three realms, I know them."

Hearing this, Song Quan quickly covered Lu Hong's mouth. "Lower your voice, lower your voice!"

Then, he harnessed his Divine Power to pull Lu Hong into his divine nation.

"What the heck are you doing?" Lu Hong was puzzled by his cautious behavior. "Is this really that important?"

"Duh!" Song Quan glanced at Lu Hong. "How do you know about the three Heavenly God realms?"

Lu Hong pondered for a moment, "… the Netherworld God told me."

"The Netherworld God? Told you secretly?"

"No." Shaking his head, Lu Hong said, "Ancestor Dragon and Lionheart God also heard it."

"Damn it, that bitch!"

With Song Quan's curse, a black thunderbolt struck above his divine nation. Instantly, the divine nation shattered, as if it were the apocalypse.

"What the fuck?!" Shocked by this, Song Quan hurriedly mobilized his Divine Power to repair the damaged divine nation and lamented, "Netherworld God, please... please be generous. I just misspoke in a rush; forgive me, forgive me. Next time I see you, I will kowtow to you. Grandma, do you think it's easy for me to establish a divine nation? Please, have mercy!"

Amid Song Quan's continued apologies and pleas, the black thunder finally receded.

After a good while spent repairing the Divine Kingdom, Song Quan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and then pulled Lu Hong aside, "The Netherworld God is regaining more and more strength. The Star Sea will eventually be hers. Why don't we seek her out now?"

For this question, Lu Hong was not very concerned, "Why must the three realms be kept secret?"

Hearing Lu Hong's question, Song Quan paused for a moment, then said, "It's not really a secret; it's just that too many Heavenly Gods have reached a bottleneck with this level and have since been forgotten. Don't overthink it."

"If it's not a big problem, then I'll tell the other Heavenly Gods."

"Hey, hey, hey, are you forcing my hand?"

"Because you won't tell the truth."

Song Quan retorted earnestly, "I'm not telling lies!"

"I can swear on my own name!"

Looking at Song Quan's serious face, Lu Hong sneered, "Not lies, but not the whole truth either, right?"

With no other choice, Song Quan sighed heavily, "Ah! Do you really need to know? Knowing this won't benefit you."

"The realm is related to improving the strength of Heavenly Gods. You say knowing it would be bad for me? That's laughable!"

"Nah, nah, nah, you just don't believe it, right? Fine, I'll tell you, but you'd better not regret it!"

"I won't regret it!"

"Alright." Song Quan led Lu Hong again to the superior enjoyment large bathhouse, "Let's soak and talk."

"Alright!"

Soon, the two stripped off their clothes and waded in. This time they didn't call for any girls to accompany them. Song Quan also gathered his thoughts and slowly said, "About the realm, it came from a curse. Initially, the World Will despised the Heavenly Gods, releasing a malicious curse that could rot the Heavenly Gods and cut off their path to advancement. However, it was the beasts who first proposed the three-tier division of realms. No one knows why the beast race suddenly revealed the post-divine realm subdivisions. At first, all the Heavenly Gods didn't take it seriously, and there were no methods for cultivating the Divine Soul, but as time went by, they began to appreciate the importance of the Divine Soul. Led by the God of Thunder, our Human Race started to research methods to cultivate the Divine Soul and finally made some progress. Within the following two hundred years, the strength of our Human Race's Heavenly Gods drastically increased, and our people flourished, almost crushing the hundred tribes under divine grace of that time. It was also why we were victorious in our conflicts with the Endless Forest and Abyssal Hell."

"What was the cost?" Lu Hong felt the negative consequences of the realm subdivisions from Song Quan's mouth.

"Cost? Hah, the cost was being locked by the World Will, gradually destroyed!" Song Quan's face rarely showed such deep hatred, "If I hadn't severed my own realm, I wouldn't have lived till today!"

"What about the Thunder God?"

"He suddenly died mysteriously. Fortunately, his thunder pathway vocational system was inherited by a lower-level Heavenly God, or else there wouldn't be any Lightning Mages in the Human Race."

"Besides the Thunder God, many Heavenly Gods died tragically, and these three realms hunted down everyone who touched the boundary like a nightmare."

Although Song Quan spoke calmly, Lu Hong still shuddered, "Why is the Netherworld God fine?"

"Because she is primordial, even older than the birth of the World Will. The Star Sea's Will can't affect her."

Saying this, Song Quan took out a bottle of red wine and gulped it down, then continued, "A Heavenly God, if destined to die under the World Will's curse, still needs a bit of time, but if you touch the realm's bottleneck, even if not in the Star Sea, you will be sought and completely wiped out. When you see your friend, a grand god of the realm, suddenly foaming at the mouth and rotting away for no reason, can you understand that panic? No matter how you try to save them, you cannot delay their agony for even a moment, watching them die before your eyes, can you understand that feeling?!"

Saying this, tears were about to flow from Song Quan's eyes. No wonder none of the Heavenly Gods from the Era of the Gods were to be seen except him. They were either killed by the realm's curse or had fled to a higher plane.

"Alright, alright, stop crying." Lu Hong didn't know how to comfort him, so he just said, "Let's drink!"

"Yes, let's drink!"