Chapter 868: Chapter 656: Divinity
The Fishman youth is a God Walker; recently, his understanding of gods, sects, and faith has been advancing by leaps and bounds.
So, when the Magic Array hosted by the Undead Master activated, the aura it formed was immediately sensed by the Fishman youth.
And as time passed, this aura became increasingly intense.
The Fishman youth stared at the Magic Image, his Adam’s apple involuntarily moving, a desire emerging from the depths of his heart.
A moment later, this feeling of desire grew even stronger.
"The Undead Master is manipulating this Magic Array, concentrating something."
"It is closely related to the gods, definitely extraordinary."
"But it’s a bit strange..."
The Fishman youth’s view was broadened through the inspection of the Deep Sea Monster Fish; he not only noticed the changes in the Undead Master and the Magic Array, but also the expressions of others.
What puzzled the Fishman youth was that these people did not have any strong reactions.
They were even indifferent!
Cang Xu was curious and confused, Zhou Zhang was anxious and suspicious, the Undead Master’s face was grave, seemingly under significant mental pressure from controlling the array.
"They seem unable to sense it?"
"But why is my feeling so intense?"
In an instant, a flash of insight crossed the Fishman youth’s mind.
He quickly examined himself, making a new discovery.
"It’s the passive Divine Arts [Perceiving Divinity]!"
This was part of the essence of the Charming Blue Divine Blessing he obtained during a previous prayer. This passive Divine Arts has been effective ever since that divine blessing; the Fishman youth has attempted many divine arts, but has never had any insights on this particular one.
But now, he realizes his perception comes from this passive Divine Arts.
The answer was obvious.
"So..."
"The Undead Master is using the array to gather divinity?!"
"I can feel it so strongly because I have the passive Divine Arts [Perceiving Divinity]."
"They lack this ability to perceive, so they don’t know what is being gathered within the array."
However, as time passed, the brilliance within the array gradually contracted. In front of the Undead Master and others, a giant light sphere as large as a mountain formed.
The aura emitted by the light sphere was even more vigorous and majestic.
At this point, the faces of the Undead Master, Zhou Zhang, and others changed first, followed shortly by Cang Xu and the ship ghost.
Zhou Zhang and others felt extremely suppressed, as if a deadly blade was pressed against their neck, making their scalp tingle and hearts feel cold.
While the Undead Master, Cang Xu, and other Undying Lives felt the vastness, silence, and cruelty, etc.
"Master Undead, what... exactly is it?" Cang Xu couldn’t contain his desire for knowledge, attempting to inquire.
The Undead Master didn’t avoid the question, frankly stating: "This is Death Divinity."
"Death... Divinity?!" Cang Xu and others widened their eyes.
Just this name highlighted its close connection with gods.
However, concerning such advanced knowledge, even Zhou Zhang, an Archbishop, didn’t know much.
"Do you know what divinity is?" the Undead Master asked Cang Xu.
Cang Xu hurriedly shook his head.
The Undead Master’s face was serious, explaining: "Divinity is a part of the god’s power."
"It is a world concept, a rule of nature, and simultaneously contains personality, beliefs, behavioral tendencies, and more."
"For example, the fallen Storm God’s thunder possesses Storm Divinity. This divinity records the rules of wind in the world, whilst containing the Storm God’s impatience, violence, fearsome evangelism, among other personalities."
"If we obtained a bit of Storm Divinity, we could learn knowledge about the wind. Such as how wind forms, how it operates, how it dissipates, and its various impacts on other things."
"Simultaneously, we would also be affected, becoming more irritable, prone to anger, and preferring to solve problems through violence."
The ship ghost’s voice was hoarse: "Could it be that what we are currently concentrating is Charming Blue Divinity?"
"What do you think?" the Undead Master asked Cang Xu, his gaze carrying some anticipation.
Cang Xu thought for a moment, shook his head: "From this divinity, I perceive desolation, murderous intent, and silent tranquility, a boundless vastness..."
"It’s unlikely to be Charming Blue Divinity."
The Undead Master heard the answer and revealed a look of appreciation towards Cang Xu, then asked: "Alright then, what divinity do you think it might be?"
Before answering, Cang Xu already had the answer to the previous question in his heart, he immediately said: "I think it should be Death Divinity."
"Correct, you guessed it right." The Undead Master nodded.
He gazed into the distance, seeming to encompass the entire sea trench in his view, speaking with a sense of antiquity in his voice: "The White Hair Sea Trench is enormous, with a depth of up to 15,000 meters, and a length of about 3100 kilometers. Its widest point is 70 kilometers, and even its narrowest place is over 30 kilometers."
"Here, life thrives, with a tightly-knit ecological system. Eating, hunting, reproducing, dying—these scenes continuously play out here."
"And each Beast Tide collapses the existing ecological system, triggering massive hunts from numerous civilized races."
"In countless past ages, death has always been one of the themes here."
"If this continues to develop, one day, natural Death Divinity will emerge here."
"However, I have merely accelerated this step."
The ship ghost was greatly shocked, rare to stammer: "De-death Divinity can also be created by us?"
The Undead Master corrected, "This is not something we created; it already existed naturally, just dispersed without forming a condensed entity."
"As for this super magic array of divine text and magic, it collected the concept of death scattered in the White Hair Sea Trench, and now it has even accelerated the process of condensation."
The Undead Master looked at Cang Xu, speaking deeply, "To us mages, everything has its logic, and all things operate according to rules."
"The reason gods are great must be supported by great logic and rules."
"And divinity is one of the secrets of the greatness of gods."
Zhou Zhang snorted coldly, with an expression of dissatisfaction.
Cang Xu immediately realized: the Undead Master was once again teaching him, trying to win him over from the Charming Blue Sect.
Cang Xu’s bloodline mutation was still ongoing, and he might have Holy Domain potential in the future. This alone was enough for the Undead Master to do this.
Cang Xu pondered, "Is there any difference between natural death divinity and normal divinity?"
The Undead Master replied, "Overall, there isn’t much difference, but there are some."
"For example, natural death divinity does not have a prominent personality, whereas a god’s death divinity often carries the god’s strong individual characteristics."
"For instance, in the Netherworld, the Death God Ya Zi has a very strong vengeful personality. So, His followers often like to sacrifice the corpses, blood, etc., of their enemies to this Death God after achieving revenge. Such actions often gain the favor of the Death God Ya Zi, greatly increasing the chance of receiving divine blessing."
"I’ll tell you a secret, Ya Zi has quite a good relationship with our Undead Orthodoxy."
"These collected death divinities will be one of our important trading items with Him."
Death divinity.
Trading with the Death God...
The words of the Undead Master deeply shocked both Cang Xu and the ship ghost.
The Undead Orthodoxy, without a doubt, is a legendary level superpower!
"It is only because the Undead Orthodoxy is such a level of power that it can cooperate equally with the Charming Blue Sect."
"I see." Cang Xu realized more hidden truths, "Back then, the Undead Orthodoxy and the Charming Blue Sect joined forces to set up a super magic array here. The Charming Blue Sect wanted to perform a blood sacrifice, while the Undead Orthodoxy wanted to use the blood sacrifice to better condense death divinity!"
Through the magic image, the Fishman youth also learned more from the Undead Master’s words.
"So it was about death divinity."
The Fishman youth was still puzzled, putting his hand on his heart, "Why do I crave this bit of divinity so much?"
At this time, the ship ghost asked for guidance, "Master Undead Master, how much death divinity can we collect this time?"
The Undead Master shook his head slightly, "This is the result of countless ages of accumulation of death concepts in the White Hair Sea Trench; I don’t know exactly how much there will be."
Cang Xu said, "Death divinity is very important to the Death God, and as undead mages, we should also be close to divinity. Can we absorb it?"
Zhou Zhang snorted, "Ridiculous! Even Holy Domain level individuals are regarded as hardly different from mortals in the eyes of the great gods."
"Gods transcend legends, and not all gods regard legendary levels highly."
"We can say that You Can is an exception!"
You Can, who created the Undead Faction’s undying beings, was unique even among legendary levels.
The Undead Master did not refute, "That is indeed the case."
"Divinity is very dangerous for us."
"Weak individuals, getting close slightly, will lose their lives."
"Even someone like me cannot dabble with divinity. Recklessly ingesting it would be suicide!"
"However," at this point, the Undead Master shifted his tone, "there are also transcendents who can carry divinity."
"As long as the bloodline of the transcendent reaches divine level, and the concentration is sufficient, they can carry a certain amount of divinity."
Cang Xu’s heart skipped a beat, and he immediately thought of his own squad leader!
"Divinity..." The Fishman youth’s eyes shone brightly.
"There is divinity here!" Da Han was shocked both physically and mentally.
He widened his eyes, looking at the red wine in his hand in disbelief.
Beside him, Qian Xing immediately frowned, rebutting, "How could there be divinity here? If there was, we would have died long ago."
"Neither you nor I have divine level bloodline."
Da Han shook his head, staring intently at the cup of red wine, "I am certain there is."
"It’s just that the divinity here is incompletely, extremely thin. But it is indeed divinity..."
Da Han looked at the First Officer, "What wine did you just say this is?"
"Worry Relief Red Wine!" the First Officer hurriedly replied, "It’s salvaged by pirates from a drifting barrel. And the name of the wine was known from a message in the barrel."
"All these wines are brewed by the Drunken Sect."
"Recently, the fleet of the Drunken Sect was destroyed by the Divine Wind Pirate Group."
"Now, the Drunken Sect at Drunkard Port has released a substantial bounty, wanting to recover the losses, especially for this Worry Relief Red Wine."
"It is said that this wine is made with the Blood of the Wine God."
Da Han nodded immediately, "That explains it."
"The Blood of the Wine God naturally contains the divinity of the Wine God."
Qian Xing once again examined his cup of red wine, "Even if diluted millions of times, divinity is still divinity. This batch of red wine is priceless!"
"Divinity..." Da Han sighed deeply, suddenly asking, "Where is the Divine Wind Pirate Group now?"
The First Officer opened his mouth, intending to answer, but Da Han directly ordered, "Invite Feng Lian, tell him I’m very interested in the Worry Relief Red Wine in his hands!"