# 1115
Chapter 1116: Divine System Origins and Human Deification
In the enclosed seawater, a massive shadow glided slowly through the dark waters, its ghostly green eyes gazing at the floating ship above, ascending silently like a specter.
BANG—!!
The giant figure broke through the sea surface, waves churning. A hundred-meter-tall half-bull, half-fish monster emerged from the mist.
It gazed down at the exploration vessel rocking in the waves, its emerald eyes flickering with brutality and killing intent. That palm, like a fan, rose up and came crashing down!
CLANG—!
The light hum of a blade leaving its sheath echoed from the ship. A blade's light instantly pierced through space and landed on the monster's neck!
Fetid blood sprayed forth, pouring like a spring into the dark sea. The monster's head was hurled high into the air as its heavy body slowly sank beneath the water, vanishing without a trace.
On the exploration ship, Lin Qiye sat atop the cabin, his expression unchanged as he sheathed the White Slash.
The scattered fetid blood mixed with seawater fell across the sky, but all of it was blocked by a layer of night, unable to touch his body. His gaze calmly swept across the surroundings, confirming no other "Mysticals" had appeared, then he gracefully jumped down from the cabin roof and walked inside.
"Qingyu, how much longer until we arrive?"
"Not far." An Qingyu piloted the vessel while speaking. "Based on our route, we've already entered the stretch that coincides with Sword Saint Senior's course. From here to the mission marker on the map, we have less than half a day's journey left."
"We've already reached Sword Saint Senior's route?" Lin Qiye's eyebrows rose.
"Does your spiritual sense detect anything?" Shen Qingzhu, who had been standing by the window watching the surroundings, looked at him helplessly. "The mist already reduces visibility significantly. With the naked eye, it's impossible to distinguish the surrounding environment. In a place like this, perhaps only your spiritual perception can be useful."
"Nothing." Lin Qiye shook his head. "Besides a few 'Mysticals' that have been circling around us, there are no other findings."
Lin Qiye furrowed his brows, his gaze falling briefly on the blonde man sitting quietly at the table. After a moment's hesitation, he walked over and sat across from him:
"Seraph Senior, have you detected anything?"
Lin Qiye's spiritual perception originally came from the Mortal Divine Realm, and the master of this God's Ruins was sitting right in front of him. Lin Qiye had no idea how extensive Michael's spiritual perception range was, but it was definitely far beyond his own limits.
Remembering that Michael hadn't met Zhou Ping, Lin Qiye quickly added, "We're looking for someone. He usually wears a black shirt and carries a sword case on his back. He's a Great Xia person who has stepped into the divine realm…"
"I know who you're talking about. I saw the moment he ascended to godhood on the Moon." Michael shook his head calmly. "He's not nearby."
Lin Qiye was stunned. "You witnessed his ascension?"
"A sword mark was etched on the Great Dao. Any powerful deity possessing Laws would have noticed it. Besides, a mortal creating his own Laws to ascend to godhood had never occurred before, so of course I paid attention." Michael paused for a moment. "To some extent, this event itself is a 'miracle.' As long as it's a 'miracle,' none can escape my sight."
Michael's words instantly drew everyone's attention in the cabin.
Lin Qiye couldn't help but ask:
"Is it really that difficult for mortals to ascend to godhood?"
Michael glanced at him and said slowly, "Do you know why gods can become gods?"
"Because they possess Laws."
"That's only part of the reason." Michael continued, "Besides that, there's another important factor—faith."
"Faith?"
Lin Qiye and Merlin had visited Takamagahara before, so of course they understood the importance of faith power to deities. But for the others, this was their first time hearing about it.
"All gods existing in this world exist in the form of divine systems. Only by forming a self-contained mythological system can they spread faith and draw power from sentient beings to amplify themselves. Every divine system has a source of power used to collect faith and distribute it among different deities—in other words, a 'Divine System Origin.'"
"Although the 'Divine System Origin' bears the name 'Origin,' it differs from naturally-born primordial origins of heaven and earth. This type of origin is co-created by the deities of a divine system. It belongs to the category of god-created origins. Only deities belonging to that system can draw faith power from the origin to amplify themselves."
"Do you know how the divine realm's levels are divided?"
Lin Qiye and the others shook their heads in unison.
"The divine realm actually has no level divisions. As long as one doesn't ascend to the Supreme, theoretically speaking, all deities in the world exist at the same level. However, for these deities, because the mythological stories circulating about them in the world differ, the amount of faith power they collect from the 'Divine System Origin' also varies.
Deities with wider-spreading stories and more faith power are stronger, while those with almost no faith power are weak. Among the various divine systems, the former are called Chief Gods, and the latter are called Lesser Gods.
Chief Gods and Lesser Gods, although at the same realm, see their actual power differ drastically due to the varying amplification from faith power."
Hearing this, Lin Qiye suddenly understood.
If that were the case, then Egypt's Nine Pillars, Asgard's Thunder God, the Trickster God, and Great Xia's Golden Immortal, Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Erlang Shen… all these figures whose stories spread widely should belong to the Chief God tier.
"The 'Divine System Origin' is crucial to the deities of a system. Once the origin shatters, the various deities within that system will see their power rapidly decline. Especially the Chief Gods among them—for them, true strength accounts for only fifty percent of their total power, with the other fifty percent almost entirely derived from faith power amplification."
"The reason humans cannot ascend to godhood is, first, the lack of corresponding Laws. Beyond that, it's because there's no Divine System Origin providing faith."
"Without faith, they must break through limits through sheer willpower, having faith in themselves, forming their own divine system… Among humans, those possessing this level of willpower are already extremely rare. Those capable of having the qualifications to ascend to godhood are even rarer. For Great Xia to produce a sword immortal truly deserves to be called a miracle.
But the benefit of mortals ascending to godhood is that their Divine System Origin is themselves. With no one else to share the faith, once they step into the divine realm, they are inevitably at the Chief God level—and among the most powerful tiers of Chief Gods."
No wonder Zhou Ping could kill a Nine Pillar god with a single sword strike the moment he became a Great Xia sword immortal… Lin Qiye thought to himself.
Just as Lin Qiye opened his mouth to ask more, his eyes narrowed. He quickly turned to look outside the porthole.
"What's wrong?" Seeing Lin Qiye's unusual expression, An Qingyu asked.
Lin Qiye's eyes narrowed slightly as he rushed out of the cabin, arriving at the left edge of the bow. He gazed intently into the distance, and the others followed closely behind.
In the蒙蒙 mist, an Island gradually took shape. On the eastern side of that Island, a sword mark lay like a natural chasm carved into the earth, nearly slicing more than half the island in two.