Chapter 486: History of the Myriad Gods Realm

In order to stabilize the rule of his vast divine kingdom, he selected disciples from the royal families, great noble families, and other powerful clans of the former kingdoms.

He accepted three thousand disciples and taught them the path of becoming a god.

They used the divine wood to create divine personas.

The larger the divine persona, the more divine power it could contain, and the stronger its connection with the divine wood would be.

Afterward, many of his disciples also became gods.

His disciples then taught their relatives and friends, and people began taking pieces of the divine wood to become gods.

It was an era when gods were numerous and the divine path flourished.

It was also during that era that the realm was renamed the Myriad Gods Realm.

Before that, this realm had been called the Divine Wood Realm.

After countless years passed, the number of gods gradually increased, while the status of ordinary humans became lower and lower.

Humans who were born with weak divine aura did not even have the qualifications to become divine citizens.

At the same time, the divine wood, which was constantly being harvested, gradually weakened and withered.

As the divine wood became weaker, the earth and rivers also began to dry up, while the area of the world itself started shrinking rapidly.

The gods had grown stronger, and their horizons had broadened.

They learned that besides the Myriad Gods Realm, there were other worlds outside.

They also learned that the Myriad Gods Realm had originally been a small, fragile, powerless world.

Its land had been barren, and its people had struggled to survive.

It was the power of the divine wood that had made the land fertile, allowed its mountains and rivers to flourish endlessly, and caused the continent to continue growing until it became a larger and better world.

However, the divine wood had now become extremely weak because they had continuously cut into its body and absorbed its power for cultivation, leaving it in its current state.

In order to give the divine wood enough time to recover, the gods decided to stop harvesting its body to create divine personas and prevent new gods from being born.

However, their decision met with fierce opposition from many divine citizens.

After all, everyone wanted to become a god, achieve immortality, and enjoy the divine wood’s power.

They could not see the future in which the withering of the divine wood would eventually destroy the world.

All they knew was that the gods who prevented them from becoming gods and obtaining immortality were mortal enemies who had robbed them of their chance at eternal life.

Thus, the first divine war erupted in the Myriad Gods Realm.

It was an extremely brutal war.

Not only were countless ordinary people and mortals caught in the divine war and killed, but a large number of gods also perished in the conflict.

The blood of countless mortals dyed the earth red, while the divine personas shattered by the fallen gods were absorbed back into the divine wood.

In the end, the faction led by the Wood God King emerged victorious.

However, it was a devastating victory.

Only a handful of gods remained.

Yet immediately after the divine war ended, the divine wood, which had been weak for so long, absorbed a tremendous amount of mortal flesh and blood, divine energy, shattered divine personas, and other forms of energy.

Not only did it completely recover from its weakened state, but it became more than ten times stronger than it had been at its peak.

It even bore a golden-green fruit on its main branch.

At that time, the fruit was only the size of a palm. It was obviously not yet mature.

Moreover, whenever any human or god attempted to approach the fruit, the divine wood would instinctively launch an attack.

Anyone who failed to retreat from the fruit would be attacked relentlessly until they died.

The surviving gods had no way to deal with it. They also had to clean up the aftermath of the divine war, so they temporarily put the matter of the fruit aside.

Afterward, in order to maintain his ability to absorb enough divine power from the divine wood for cultivation while also preserving its vitality, the Wood God King decided to implement several plans.

He needed to restrict the growth of the number of gods without provoking opposition from the various factions, while also allowing the divine wood to grow increasingly powerful.

Thus, he established new rules for the Myriad Gods Continent.

From then on, the Myriad Gods Continent encouraged its people to have more children. The more the population increased, the greater the rewards granted by the gods.

At the same time, every year on Divine Descent Day, the sacrifices using humans as offerings would be held throughout the continent.

Each sacrificial ceremony consumed nearly a hundred million people.

Then, every hundred years, a Divine Path Grand Competition would be held in Divine Wood City, located at the center of the land where the divine wood had taken root.

The top three winners of the competition would receive divine personas of three different sizes. ℯℯ𝑙.

Those who failed but still wished to become gods would have to wait for the next Divine Path Grand Competition.

In this way, the number of gods could be restricted, the divine wood’s power could be preserved, and the dissatisfaction of the various factions could also be appeased.

Thus, the sacrifices that was held on Divine Descent Day and the Divine Path Grand Competition gradually became established traditions.

After an unknown number of years, divine conflicts broke out among the gods many times.

Through these conflicts, the gods gained a deeper understanding of the divine wood’s power.

They discovered that, under normal circumstances, the divine wood absorbed various forms of energy from the void and transformed them into divine power, which it used to nourish itself and its fruits.

The tiny amount of energy that overflowed from it as it grew actually nourished the earth, all living things, and the entire world.