Chapter 8 - Overgod

Huo Shen's disappearance didn't exactly create a wave to the gods.

He was just the nominal leader of the human gods because he was the strongest. Hence, the gods thought he just went into seclusion in a hidden location.

Even after a long time had passed with no news from him, the human gods did not even bother to contact him and they just picked the strongest of them to be the next nominal leader. And as some more time had pass, Huo Shen was slowly forgotten by the gods.

Meanwhile, after Huo Shen went to search for the source of the calling, he didn't go far from his dwelling. He didn't even leave the central region.

That calling came from an area in the central region, just a few mountains away from the area they landed in after ascending to this realm.

After arriving at this place, Huo Shen was confused as to how the calling has now come from everywhere. He had arrived at the supposed source, but he saw nothing. Only a bunch of trees, hills, and mountains in the area.

He was just about to find a place to wait it out when the earth below him splits open, revealing a secret passage with stairs going down.

Thinking something weird must've been happening, Huo Shen hesitates for a moment before he went down the stairs. Of course, he only went down after he feels like there was no problem with the tunnel.

Minutes passed before Huo Shen finally reach the end of the stairs.

There, he emerged into a bright cave with a transparent crystal bigger than the size of his head floating at the center of it, there was also a figure inside the crystal.

Just after Huo Shen looked at the crystal, the flashes of enlightenment that usually came from Heaven appeared inside his mind.

Heaven.

Crystal.

Heaven's Core.

Heaven's Incarnation?

Overgod.

Huo Shen was dumbfounded. The transparent crystal was Heaven's Core. And just when he was dazed, Heaven asked if he wanted to be Heaven's Incarnation!

What's even crazier was he would be able to advance to the next stage directly, becoming an Overgod!

For a moment, Huo Shen was so stunned he didn't know how to answer.

A few moments later he calmed down and agreed to it.

After becoming the Godking of Fire, Huo Shen felt like he had reached the end of his cultivation. That's why he agreed to it without hesitation.

He walks toward the crystal and sat down cross-legged underneath the crystal.

Seeing as Huo Shen's body was still at the Godking stage, Heaven need to transform the body so it would be able to withstand the Laws of Heaven.

Heaven willed a massive amount of the world's energy to refine and slowly transform Huo Shen's body.

Then, transmitted the Laws to Huo Shen. The Overgod's Laws of Fire and its aspects.

After all of it was done, Huo Shen had just opened his eyes when his soul was suddenly pulled out of his body.

His soul was dragged inside the crystal above his head.

Just after his soul got inside, Huo Shen felt a mighty pressure surrounding his soul.

Then he lost consciousness.

Before he lost consciousness, he saw another soul inside the crystal.

• • • • • •

The God Realm.

It's been more than ten thousand years since the first god ascended.

Now, many gods from different races had ascended.

The area in the central region was mostly occupied by factions of human gods. While the demon gods were spread evenly in the realm. They just prefer to go on their separate ways. Meanwhile, the spirit gods build their domains around the western side of the central region. Closer towards the western region. Only the majority of the spirit gods gathered there while the rest were spread out in the other regions.

Together, they have been trying to map out every corner of the god realm.

And they discovered that all other regions, besides the central region, have a concentration of the world's elemental laws. Fire laws in the south, wind laws in the east, earth laws in the west, and water laws in the northern sea area.

Also, four Divine Beasts occupied the center of these regions, The Vermilion Bird, the Azure Dragon, the White Tiger, and the Black Tortoise respectively.

The center of these four regions becomes a forbidden area for the gods. It was too dangerous. They can't handle the divine beasts at the moment since most of them were only at the God stage, while the minority were at the High God Stage. Hence they steer out from the center area of each region.

And as more time passed, the High Gods slowly reached their peak.

One day, one of the peak-stage High God was breaking through. And just moments after he broke through to the Godking stage, he was suddenly attacked and was brought away forcefully.

The attack surprised the other gods. Especially since the one who attacked was someone familiar, it was the first Godking to advance thousands of years ago. And it seems like his strength had improved so much more after disappearing from the masses. The newly advanced Godking was beaten in just a few seconds. In the eyes of the gods, he might as well have advanced to the next stage, becoming the Overgod of Fire.

Though the gods didn't know why he did that, revenge was just a regular occurrence between the gods and even the immortals. Hence they quickly forget about it. Especially since he was way too powerful for them.

Another thousand years passed, and the next Godking that had just advanced was again attacked by another Overgod and was forcefully brought away!

This Overgod was the Godking that was attacked a thousand years earlier.

Somehow, he had become the Overgod of War.

The gods were confused, no one knows how he became an Overgod that quickly and why he attacked the Godking.

More years passed.

This time, only hundreds of years had passed since the last High God had advanced, the previous ones were human gods. Now it was a demon god's turn.

And just like the previous occasions, this demon god was also attacked and brought away by three Overgods. Other than the previous two Overgods, the new one was the Overgod of Water.

After the demon god, it was a spirit god, four Overgods appeared and brought him away. The addition of the three was the demon god who became the Overgod of Strength.

And then they stopped.

When the next High God breaks through, the Overgods didn't appear and bring away the new Godking.

Hence, after many other new Godkings appeared, the Overgods didn't show up again. Not even when the gods had already searched every corner of the world realm. Besides the nest of the Divine Beasts of course.

Soon, the Overgods slowly became something like a legend.