Deep in the Forsaken Lands, at the top of a mountain, stands a huge cross between the real and the unreal.

There hung a vague figure upside down, ancient stakes piercing through his body, stained with blood still flowing but not dripping, nailed to the shelf.

At the base of the cross, Ulorius, the 'Angel of Destiny' with silver waist-length hair, dressed in a simple linen robe, slumped down and prayed with her eyes closed with a soft and reverent expression.

I don't know how long later, the hanging figure on the huge cross suddenly faded, and spread into a shadow curtain that connected the sky and the earth below, and behind the curtain seemed to hide a pair of indifferent eyes looking at the whole world.

If anyone could see this, they would be frightened by the indifferent gaze of those eyes, and they would lose sight of what really mattered—in that curtain of shadows there was a strange stone, its vaguely mottled surface, inscribed with some kind of text that a private person had never learned but could understand at a glance.

This script appears to be the source of all current languages, including but not limited to Giant, Hermes, Guphosak, and Southern Continent Dutan.

That's the first blasphemous slate!

Under the shadows, a viscous but illusory black liquid rushed out, and an endless sea that seemed to contain all colors and possibilities emerged, seemingly within reach, faintly echoing the illusory sound of the tide.

This means that the 'True Creator' has completed his initial control of the first Blasphemous Stone Tablet and the Sea of Chaos.

Although it is still far from fully containing the Chaos Sea, it is still enough for the 'True Creator' to have the strength to surpass the True God of the Dual Paths, with the blessing of the first blasphemous tablet.

This strength was enough for him to compete with Adam.

Coupled with the fact that he has the natural advantage of essentia, he can stabilize Adam in the process of competition.

And if they wanted to be united, both Him and Adam would have to make sacrifices:

Either the ego of one of the parties dies out completely, or both give up some of their ego.

So all along, both Adam and the true Creator have been competing over who will be able to achieve the 'merging' dominance.

Adam hopes to use the 'Sea of Chaos' as the source and himself as the pillar to 'imagine' the three uniquenesses and incorporate them into this system!

Under this premise, the newborn Ones will transcend the limits of the sequence and become half of the old days. At that point, they will be able to crush the gods such as the Storm Lord on their own, and take back their authority one by one.

The bread is well drawn, but the 'true Creator' does not eat it.

Because He doesn't need to be a pillar of fantasy at all, he can do the same with the Hanged Man as a pillar.

Rather, using the 'upside-down hangman' as the 'pillar' is the optimal solution.

Because the old days corresponding to the 'Sea of Chaos' are God, the Creator, the Creator, the All-Knowing and Almighty, and the Lord of the Astral Plane.

And the point of this is 'omniscient and omnipotent', only the omniscient and omnipotent is God, the Creator, the Creator and the Lord of the Astral Plane!

In other words, from the very beginning, it was destined that 'omniscient omnipotence' was the best cornerstone – the 'White Tower' corresponds to omniscience, and the 'Hanged Man' corresponds to omnipotence. And there is a certain correspondence between these two paths, omniscient and omniscient because of omniscience, and omniscient because of omnipotence.

Whether it's the sun, the tyrant or the dreamer, they are only a complement to omniscience!

Like the 'God' of the past, He is based on 'omniscience' and supplemented by 'omnipotence'.

So when the Ancient Sun God fell, his plan was to use the Dark Angel Sasriel as a cornerstone to rehouse other paths. In contrast, although the 'fantasy angel' Adam is also part of the resurrection plan, he is only a trick arranged by the 'ancient sun god' in the world.

For thousands of years, the focus of the contention between the 'True Creator' and Adam has always been on the first 'Blasphemy Slate', and whoever can obtain the first 'Profanity Slate' will be able to grasp the 'Sea of Chaos' and gain the initiative.

In other words, when the 'True Creator' obtains the first Blasphemous Slate, the competition is actually over.

Since the initiative is already in the hands of the 'true Creator', it is undoubtedly fitting that He should take the lead in the integration.

But Adam didn't want to admit defeat so easily, so after he became a 'dreamer', he did not immediately come to the 'true creator' to merge, but went to hunt the 'eternal sun' privately, and seized his authority to become a two-way true god.

In this way, Adam will have enough strength to continue to fight against the true Creator, rather than actively sending him to the door to 'merge'.

Because Adam represents the pure divinity of the 'ancient sun god', and the 'true creator' is the embodiment of a negative personality and extreme emotions. Although this also allowed the 'True Creator' to inherit human nature, in Adam's eyes, this is exactly the fact that the 'True Creator' has gone mad.

Divinity often implies absolute rationality, and in this rational thinking, Adam did not really care about his own survival. So He doesn't care who will be in charge after the fusion, even if the 'Adam' of the fusion dies as a result.

However, Adam's reason kept telling him that the true Creator was mad, and that it was never a good thing to have a mad 'True Creator' in charge. In terms of the integration of the two sides, only the absolute rational Him is the most perfect choice.

That's why he insisted that 'omniscient, omnipotent' was the best solution on the premise that 'omniscient omnipotence' was the best cornerstone. Because 'omniscience' is not in their hands, and 'omnipotence' has gone mad, only the absolutely rational 'utopian' is qualified to inherit everything.

From the perspective of the true Creator, Adam's actions were somewhat unyielding, and he was unwilling to admit his failure.

But in Adam's eyes, he had not failed, and the way to the 'sun' was the best proof of this—he was still competitive enough.

But the more He did that, the more the true Creator felt that He could not afford to lose.

The former 'ancient sun god' has long studied and understood one thing-

That is to become the old days without rituals, because no ritual can change the awakening of the original will.

But accommodating the order can improve self-awareness to some extent and enhance the success rate of things!

The sequence 0 that first becomes a pathway, then controls and fuses essentia, and finally accommodates another uniqueness, which is the optimal order.

Becoming a dual-path true god, controlling the fusion essentia, and then accommodating the remaining uniqueness is neither good nor bad.

Fusion essentia until the last step is the worst option.

And the 'true creator' is the optimal solution, he is the sequence 0 of the 'hanged man' pathway, and at the same time completes the control of essentia. Under this premise, He can easily merge with the 'visionary' and other ways to return to the 'old days'.

And 'Adam' is already a two-way true God, and he can only go the second way.

Even since neither He nor the true Creator is willing to back down, He is likely to choose the third way—first to find a way to accommodate the 'tyrant', and then to use the power of the true God to force the true Creator to compromise.

However, the real Creator represents human nature, even the 'depraved' and 'crazy' human form in Adam's eyes. Therefore, he could not think rationally like Adam, nor could he give up his self on the premise of dominating and take the initiative to make a wedding dress for Adam.

Therefore, the more 'rational' Adam is, the more he angers the true Creator and the more he cannot accept that Adam is dominant.

That's why he ignored the 'original' erosion and strengthened his control over essentia again and again, so as to completely overwhelm Adam in the future.

It's an endless loop with no solution.

And Adam, of course, knew that.

And he knew very well that he could get away with the 'sun' path, but it was because the 'eternal sun' was so stupid that he didn't even know which side he should be on - the god of war and the lord of steam were on the same side because Adam was the matchmaker.

Adam promised to help the 'God of War' hunt the 'Goddess of the Night' and the 'Lord of Steam' hunt the 'Hidden Sage'.

It didn't matter if he did it or not, but at least he kept his promise, and both the god of war and the lord of steam believed in his promise.

The only exception to this is the Eternal Sun, who naively believes that he has the power to fight the gods, and that the Lord of Steam will help him hunt the God of Knowledge and Wisdom. But it never occurred to Him that what He thought was his ally was actually His enemy, and that was why He had fallen to Adam.

And compared to the 'Eternal Sun', whether it is the 'God of Knowledge and Wisdom' or the 'Lord of the Storm', they all have a common backer. And this backer is too strong, even if Adam and the true creator merge, there is no complete certainty that they will be able to kill the 'Storm Lords' under the protection of that backer, even if they have corresponding allies.

So, now it's almost the limit.

Adam's own limit was the two-way true God, and there was no way to go any further.

Therefore, if He wants to gain an edge in the future competition with the True Creator, he must start in other directions.

For example—

Flame.

Under the huge cross, Ulorius suddenly raised his head and looked into the distance.

Due to the outbreak of the Divine War, the Godforsaken Land has almost turned into a scorched earth, and the night is shrouded all day long, and only the occasional lightning that streaks across the sky can bring some light to this world. And the time period when lightning is frequent is also considered by the people of Godforsaken to be daytime.

Such a situation, let alone Ulorius, even the real creator has no way to solve it.

It's not that I don't want to, but I can't.

For the true Creator, who is rejected by the Seven Gods, the number of believers is crucial.

The vast area of Godforsaken Land is undoubtedly a blue ocean for the development of believers, but the premise is to first transform Godforsaken Land back into the 'Eastern Continent'.

However, the current situation in Godforsaken Lands is entirely the result of the combined efforts of six of the seven gods. Therefore, if you want to solve the dilemma here, you must also take action by the six of them themselves.

But since the Seven Gods have joined forces to seal the True Creator in the Godforsaken Land, how can they possibly leave him a prosperous Eastern Continent?

And such a continent shrouded in the pollution of the divine power of the six gods, no matter how vast the area is, has no value for development. Among them, there are even fewer living people, and the combined number of Silver City and Moon City is only tens of thousands.

The real creator doesn't look down on such a small number of people, and instead of developing a pitiful number of believers in the land of Kanzaki, it is better to let organizations such as the 'Aurora Society' secretly preach in the Northern Continent. And if he encounters an opportunity, he can also make a big demographic dividend through the 'painting world' - for example, during the war, he used various unknown means to increase the painting world by more than 100,000 permanent residents.

But now, things have changed.

Because Ulorius saw the sun!

A 'sun' rises over the Godforsaken Land, and its blazing light illuminates almost the entire magical land.

The darkness that was so thick and colorful that it could not be blended was also invisibly burned and evaporated, and countless monsters that were bred in the darkness died miserably under the light of the 'sun'!

"Lord!"

Ulorius's expression was indifferent, but his eyes were solemn.

The 'sun' path has been obtained by Adam, is it He who has struck?

"That's not the sun, it's the flame."

The same indifferent voice sounded in Elolius' mind, and the tall phantom staring at the cross also looked up at the sky. But He saw more than Ulorius, and the 'sun' was actually a 'flame' that radiated light.

It wasn't an ember, it was the 'first fire' in collaboration with Adam.

The question is, what did He do when he came to God's forsaken land?

It couldn't have been specifically for him to cleanse the contamination of God's forsaken land, could it?

Of course, this is of great benefit to the true Creator, as long as the pollution of the Eastern Continent is removed, He can use it to develop hundreds of millions of believers, and the state will be further stabilized.

However, the true Creator did not think that Adam would have such good intentions.

The 'First Fire' must have come here for some other purpose......

Suddenly, the eyes under the shadow curtain seemed to think of something, and their eyes drooped slightly:

"Western Continent!"

The direction of the 'First Fire' is the easternmost part of the continent, where there is an area shrouded in gray fog. Both in the heavens and on the ground, he was shrouded in a gray mist that was so thick that it could not be dissolved, and even if he was at his peak, he could not break through the obstacles of that gray mist.

Just as the barrier outside the world was set up for his resurrection in the beginning, the gray fog that shrouded the 'Western Continent' was also set up by the 'Heavenly Venerable' for his resurrection.

'Initially', the nine essentia were attracted to the earth, and with the help of these nine essentia they wanted to return to oneness.

In order to exclude the influence, He excluded the other old days from the earth.

In order to ensure that his resurrection would not be affected, the 'Heavenly Venerable' sealed the other essentia in the Western Continent, leaving only the 'Source Castle' and the 'Chaos Sea'. The former is the cornerstone of the resurrection of the 'Heavenly Venerable', while the latter is because the 'Chaos Sea' is also one of the symbols of the 'Pillar', and the Celestial Venerable cannot seal it.

And the purpose of the First Flame is clear – to release the sealed essentia!

(End of chapter)