Creation of Path

On Desolate World, Lin Dao's main body sank deep into his world, observing the changes.

His world had gotten stronger becoming a Middle World; he knew however that Desolate World was incomplete as he still hadn't decided on what path to take. This isn't something he can just randomly decide on, it must be looked over multiple times before a decision could be made. This is also something that sets him apart from worlds who decide upon their path by using the collective consciousness of its inhabitant and instincts. it can't be helped after all, for a world conscious to be formed, many inhabitants must be present in said world. That's also why Mother Earth was born even though she should technically be born when the world reaches Middle World level but she skips this process and was born early.

Deciding on a path would be a deciding factor to his creations and plan to make the world stronger than others of the same level. Mother Earth had decided on the Technology Path, which has not reached its limit yet, and from what he knew, it was possible that Mother Earth Technology Path could rival the Cultivation Path when it reaches perfection. Lin Dao didn't want to go down the technology path as it didn't match his ambitions, he wanted to be the ruler of the strongest world, and to do that he needed to be careful with his choices. If he plans to rule something he would rather rule something he was proud of.

Lin Dao had been in this universe for a long time, so long that he forgot his age, in that time he had seen many realms and many of them had been too powerful for him to enter, as he feared suffering injuries towards his core, his life basically.

Of the worlds he had visited, two of them that stood out the most as they were worlds that didn't discriminate against outsiders. As long as one was powerful enough, one could rule a part of the world and be accepted by the world consciousness. Of the two worlds, one of them was Divine Realm of Gods and the other was 'Supreme' Immortal Realm; both these worlds are peak Great Worlds on the crisp of ascending to Supreme World level but halted by the existence of the Cultivation World. The Cultivation World was like an invisible blade above their heads telling them not to ascend and say in their place.

Lin Dao had actually entered the Divine Realm of Gods by accident as he was being chased by a Chaos Beast of the Great God level and got sucked into a chaotic storm that brought him into the world. Inside the Divine Realm of Gods, Lin Dao was shocked beyond belief, as the world no longer had Laws, it had something far more powerful and orderly, Great Daos. In this world, for the first time Lin Dao truly felt the vastness of the heavens!! In this world, he was but a mortal as he couldn't face most of the gods in this world; they were too powerful!!

It was later that he came upon the corpse of a Middle God of War, Mason, and learned that this world practices the path of divinity. By having lots of followers one would be able to gain immense power but will also be chained down by these followers as well. One would be nigh unlikable and eternal, as long as followers worship them but once they no longer do, the gods will fall from their pedestal in heaven to the mortal world. Another thing that Lin Dao learn was that once one become a god, unless one becomes a Great God one will be weakened once they leave the Divine Realm of Gods, falling from an almighty figure to a bug that they disdain to look at.

This might seem like a broken path as it had many weaknesses but was it actually so? By doing this, the world will always have powerful guards on watch to protect it, with the ones able to leave the world to conquer Low Worlds to be devoured by it, upgrading constantly until it's current level of Peak Great World.

The 'Supreme' immortal was different, it actually followed the cultivation path, so one could see it's ambition was high, it planned to replace the Cultivation World as the Supreme World! It basically wants to replace the heavens!!

These two worlds will be destined to battle until one emerges victorious, of course, it's highly likely that the 'Supreme' Immortal World will be destroyed, after all it's going up against the strongest force in the universe, the Cultivation World. The cultivation world had been in it's position since the dawn of time, one must have a link to how powerful it was!!

As Lin Dao thought, a dark orb of chaos began to form in front of him, changing as his mind wandered. The pressure emitted from this orb was not lesser than the might of the heavens!! This orb is the path in its nascent form, once it's completed and merged into the world, it will be a True Middle World making the universe bell echo because of its advancement.

In the universe there where three acknowledgements, a World Acknowledgement, Treasure Acknowledgement and Strength Acknowledgment. When one of these accomplishments are met, a bell will echo across the universe, announcing it to those capable of hearing it, which are usually beings on the level of gods and above.

'My world must be like the Divine Realm of Gods and the 'Supreme' Immortal Realm, it should be able to accept people from different worlds growing in the process. It should have the system of faith but differ from that of the gods, making it so that the Divine Realm of Gods cannot influence it. This will make it so that those who are worship will directly ascend to become gods but won't be truly gods. They will be force to rely on the world which make them want to protect it, I will call these gods, Faith Gods. The only difference between them on the gods of the Divine Realm of Gods is that they rely more on the concept of faith and followers making them not have a true divinity that they themselves comprehend; meaning that they could lose it just as soon as they get it.' As he spoke in his mind the black orb in front of him, expand growing bigger and turning golden in color. As he finish speaking in his mind, the now golden in color orb was about to shatter, but was forcibly halted as Lin Dao continued, ' 'Supreme' Immortal World has the same path as the Cultivation World so I have a general idea of how to make my second path. In my world there will be 108000 totems that have a connection to my world. These totems will be spilt into three levels, Mortal, Earth, and Heavenly. They will grow along with their owners and make the world stronger, these totems will not be like the path of faith as it has no limit, which means, there could eventually be 108000 Chaos Gods living on Desolate World. I will also allow them to leave my world, not being restricted as much. With these two paths together, I will call my path 'All Encompasing Totem Path', nothing is exculded everything can become it's strength.' Lin Dao opened his eyes, emitting a heavy pressure as his eyes look at the dual color orb before him. He could immediately tell the golden glow represent the Path of Faith, while the dull white color should be the Totem Path. He could also see that the orb was struggling to stay in place meaning he cannot add a third path or it will be destroyed, having all his success disappear. It was already a miracle for him to have succeed in getting a second path as each world before him had only one. This confirm his theory, the limit of a world isn't one path, it could be more, meaning that the Cultivation World had been scheming for a long time, each world that exist beside his belong to the Cultivation World, meaning when they all become powerful enough, they could be absorb and it could ascend to become a even more powerful world with all paths under its control.

Lin Dao had notice this for many years as he gain information while traveling. Each clan and sects of the 'Supreme' Immortal World and kingdoms and empires of the Divine Realm of Gods have a creation story each pointing to this fact. They don't however know what this means as they weren't World Gods or worlds. Lin Dao knew that by letting his world hit the World Acknowledgement Bell, he would be destined to battle against the Cultivation World and the Universe had begun.

Smiling, he release his control over the orb letting it break apart and merge into the surroundings before fusing completely with the world core. The world shudder as strings invisible to the naked eye enterwined with everything, from the goblins to the trees and dirt, it even fuse with the laws of the world.

Everything had become under the control of the All Encompassing Path, but nothing had change, everything was the same, the plants, water, dirt, goblins, everything was the same, however Lin Dao eyes cannot be fool as he saw something different. Because he had created the path of faith, the skies had become golden and condense into a nascent form of the divine realm where gods will reside, however since no one worship anyone yet, it didn't have enough faith energy to completely form. The Path of Totem was still dull and lifeless, covering the entire world, showing which path was the stronger of the two.

The path of Totem had never existed before, so it means that the path of Totem was the main path of this world and it will not change. The reason the Path of Totem was lifeless was because a totem had not been created yet, it was not his job to create it, it was the people and the situation that will. Finishing everything, ambition akin to fire erupe from his body as he stood up, it might be the last time he sat down as he was about to commence his grand struggle and usurpation of power. This will be a battle to the death between him and this universe, only one 'will' need to exist, his, the World God!!!