Chapter 351: The Laws of Light, Divine Fusion

For true gods, the more divine domains they master, the stronger they become, and these domains play a crucial role in later stages of forming avatars and bestowing divine spells.
Ordinary newly risen true gods usually can only master one divine domain and at most two to three related aspects of power.
However, it’s already very fortunate for ordinary legendary warriors who climb step by step to obtain some divine essence. To gain more, they often have to hunt down divine creatures. Unclaimed divine essences are extremely rare over thousands of years, and no one can guarantee they will be encountered.
This leads to another issue: all divine creatures are at least at the Golden level. Even legendary warriors face great difficulties in hunting them, let alone the fact that Golden-level divine creatures are few. Most divine creatures are above the legendary level and appear in realms outside the main world. In the main world, only beings at the legendary or demi-god level possess divine essence, making it extremely difficult to hunt them for divine essence—sometimes even reversing the roles of hunter and prey.
There might be some weak creatures born with divine bloodlines, but such creatures either live in dangerous areas where legendary warriors easily perish or possess such weak divine essences that they’re of little use and dissipate before the essence can be extracted.
Donald, with the advantage of the Book of Truth, finds most of these difficulties faced by other legends to be no problem at all. So he certainly won’t settle for this. He wants to become a god—the strongest true god. Not only must he be invincible among his peers, but it would be even better if he could challenge those above his level!
Thus, acquiring divine essence isn’t difficult for him now. Even if it increases the difficulty of igniting the divine flame, he doesn’t care, because after achieving demi-god status, he can still become one of the strongest among them just as easily as now.
Hard work always yields rewards—a truth that holds true in any world.
Moreover, after igniting the divine flame, acquiring new divine essence becomes a thousand times harder due to the divine flame’s innate rejection of other attributes.
Compared to igniting the divine flame, shaping a divine persona and divine domain, or even ascending to a throne, is even more difficult and dangerous. A slight mistake can result in being punished by the forces of the laws, turning thousands of years of effort to nothing.

Therefore, Donald needed to acquire more suitable deities before becoming a demi-god, preparing in advance for the formation of a divine identity. Two or more deities from similar domains were easier to combine into a divine role than a deity with a single attribute. Only by mastering divine powers could one truly form a divine identity and become a complete god. Whether for the sake of strength or greater safety, he had to acquire more deities. Of course, there were rules and techniques to mastering these deities—not all deities from different domains could be mixed together; otherwise, conflicts caused by the forces of laws would be overwhelming! Just like the theory of the Five Elements in ancient cultures from his past life, where the elements interacted in cycles of generation and restraint—elements that complemented each other coexisted peacefully and even promoted growth, while those that conflicted with each other led to inefficiency and chaos, even explosions. In this world, the elements were primarily based on earth, water, wind, and fire, along with positive and negative energies of light and darkness, forming the foundation of this world. Metal did not form its own separate system and was generally considered a derivative of the earth element. Thus, Donald had to choose deities according to their attributes. The fragment of the Lord of Dawn’s divinity happened to blend well with his most powerful natural divinity. Under the supervision of his teachers, the construction of the mage tower was progressing rapidly and steadily, allowing Donald to find time to merge these deities. After using the Book of Truth to insert that dazzling divinity into his consciousness, Donald entered a deep state of meditation, his mind delving deep into his soul to subdue and refine this divinity. Even without its master’s will, the divinity of the Lord of Dawn exuded an arrogance befitting a higher god, emitting an endless, scorching, and magnificent light in his consciousness, as if trying to assimilate all matter and energy in this world through its boundless radiance. Yet, since this was Donald’s consciousness world, no matter how much light the sun emitted, its rays and heat could not reach the pillar of light formed by his soul’s essence. What seemed close at hand was actually separated by an immeasurable distance. Now, this pillar of light resembled a paradise, with the lower end serving as the foundation for a miniature world teeming with infinite vitality. Forests, grasslands, rainforests, wetlands—every natural environment Donald knew existed here. Apart from the absence of animals, it was a perfectly harmonious utopia, a natural paradise.

This phenomenon arises as Donald’s divinity grows stronger and his attributes become more apparent. In the future, it will serve as the foundation for igniting the divine fire, consolidating his divine essence, and establishing a divine kingdom—this is also the reason why a true god can create a divine kingdom out of nothing. Although true gods are powerful, they yet lack the infinite might of the supreme gods. Yet, as beings who have transcended ordinary matter and escaped certain constraints of fate and time, they have already achieved a degree of immortality. By fully mastering the laws in a certain realm and understanding many fundamental laws, they can, centered around their domain of divinity with other fundamental laws as support, create a divine kingdom world that is far more complete than a demi-plane! It’s still too far off to think about these things now; we should first resolve the current situation before considering anything else! Donald’s consciousness world is his domain, and since he already understands how fantasy here can become reality, he acted before the “sun” could exert its power. An endless glow was drawn in by a purple-golden, round gourd-shaped whale that suddenly appeared in Donald’s hand, quickly absorbing the sun formed from that glow. This was the magical immortal artifact imagined by Donald—the Alchemy Gourd of Laozi, as seen in TV dramas from his past life as a child. If it were a true innate spiritual treasure, the purple-golden gourd might seem exaggerated for containing the sun and moon of the entire world, but storing a demi-plane or a small plane would be no problem at all. In his consciousness world, all imaginations can become reality. Although it cannot change the essence, it has complete control over divinities, which are also derivatives of illusory laws. Thus, the power of this illusory gourd was just as Donald had imagined. The divine glow, which resembled a true sun, was absorbed by the gourd in just a few breaths’ time, turning into a wisp of light that still tried to find a way to escape. But Donald no longer had the patience to give it a chance. A wooden whip appeared in his hand, and like chasing a snake, he drove that wisp of divinity toward the soul pillar. With the help of natural divinity, it was gradually absorbed and refined, eventually merging completely.