Chapter 716: The God of Medicine
The success of the Hunt against Divine Abominations far exceeded what most true gods could imagine. They couldn’t understand why the natural gods would open up their resource domains to others. If it were them, obtaining such a valuable and abundant resource realm would surely be kept secret and tightly controlled, with extreme caution taken to avoid exposure—how could they possibly share it?
After some true gods roughly calculated the results of this hunt, they found it was at least equivalent to all the lower gods in the Pantheon sending their avatars to hunt in the star realms for a hundred years to achieve the same outcome. This was still an optimistic estimate by the gods, as risks and luck were not taken into account.
The environment in the star realms posed too many variables even for true gods. If unlucky, they might even be threatened by powerful void creatures, and it was common for a true god to wander for a long time without finding the target they sought.
This greatly promoted the development of the gods’ forces. Even though the hunting realms were only opened once every hundred years and the number of participants was limited, it still provided a vast source of divine resources for the multiverse.
In comparison, the Forgotten Ruins, a resource sanctuary held by the totem gods of the New Continent, became less important. The gods also postponed discussions with the totem gods, as there was no need to agree to harsh conditions like before just to gain access to the Forgotten Ruins.
Donald, the instigator of it all, was now observing the progress of his earlier experiments in breeding divine abominations at the center of the hunting realm.
As the heart of the realm, the area where Anim’s nest lay was sealed off to prevent outsiders from discovering its secrets and developing greedy intentions. Even if Donald hadn’t sealed the space, those external hunters wouldn’t be able to reach here in time to uncover the nest’s secrets. But Donald preferred to be thorough, thus ensuring preparedness.
Today, the tentacled creature Anim had become the “mother” of many divine abominations. The number of abominations born from her had exceeded three hundred. However, this was due to Donald overusing her divine power to accelerate the process for testing purposes. At a natural pace, it would be impossible to create new divine abominations in just a few days.
After Donald stopped accelerating the process, the abominable god, functioning as a breeding machine, finally got a chance to breathe. Yet it no longer dared to insult Donald. After this change, it couldn’t articulate its feelings, but it undoubtedly harbored a deep-seated fear of Donald, the true god. It feared speaking disrespectfully and angering Donald, who might then subject it to even more unbearable experiments. Even an abominable god like Anim, who fed on the brains of intelligent beings and enslaved others through psychic power, couldn’t withstand another strike. Given Anim’s cooperation, Donald decided not to torment it further and instead had it act as a mere breeder for his abominations. According to Donald’s calculations, with Anim as this abominable god, under normal circumstances, a new batch of abominations would be born every ten years, numbering around five hundred. “This is still far from sufficient to supplement the hunting campaign that takes place once every hundred years.” “Even if we include the offspring produced by hundreds of thousands of abominations breeding among themselves, it’s still not enough. After all, although the number of abominations in this realm is large, their reproduction rate is far inferior to that of professionals like Anim; it takes at least a hundred years for just a small number of offspring to be born.” After realizing this flaw, Donald thought for a moment before quickly finding a new solution. He then cast a pitying glance at Anim, the abominable god. Even Anim’s immortal body shuddered at that look, and its heart grew dark with dread about its future. Acting on impulse, Donald made the central nest accessible only to abominations and made slight adjustments to the mechanisms that encouraged their mating. He emitted an aura that attracted all abominations of semi-god level or above in the realm, forcing them to gather there every year to mate with Anim. In the process, he forced Anim to give up a bit of its own power each time, thereby greatly addressing the issue of Anim’s insufficient divine strength to produce more abominations. This essentially fixed the biggest flaw in the abomination breeding plan. As a result of these changes, Anim became a true mother of abominations. Every year, new abominations were born in the central nest, and after a hundred years, tens of thousands of new abominations would emerge, just enough to meet the needs of the next hunting campaign.
Meanwhile, those lower-tier abominations also waged wars against each other and devoured one another; the victors evolved into more powerful abominations, progressing layer by layer like the steps of a pyramid, thus forming a systematic biological chain among the abominations in this plane. Several months had passed since the affairs in the Hunting Grounds plane were settled, and the turmoil caused by the hunting activities had not yet subsided when the ninth true god of the Nature pantheon was born. After joining the Nature pantheon, the God of Poison, Haquet, did not make a big fuss about it. However, when Haquet’s avatar controlled his divine kingdom and moved toward the region where Azeroth lay, it caught the attention of some true gods. The location of the Poison Divine Kingdom plane was at the border between the Neutral Zone and the Evil Zone in the Celestial Realm. Azeroth, on the other side of the Neutral Zone near the Celestial Realm boundary, was separated by an entire Neutral Zone, so the migration took quite some time. Moreover, Haquet’s true form was still in Azeroth, contemplating his new divine role, leaving only his avatar to control the movement, which further slowed down the relocation. Of course, this was because the Poison Divine Kingdom was a self-created divine kingdom plane with a relatively small space, allowing it to incur a smaller cost for migration. Natural upper-plane realms like MountHeaven and the Wilds could hardly be moved, even for higher gods. Yet primitive planes had their own advantages—their innate rules were extremely strong, making it difficult for enemies to invade such kingdoms. Shortly after Haquet’s avatar spent months of effort finally establishing the Poison Divine Kingdom beside Azeroth, the God of Poison successfully manifested his divine role as the God of Healing. From then on, he shed his title as the God of Poison and became the great God of Healing. Within a radiant glow of holiness, Haquet’s true form seemed reborn—all traces of illness and hunchbacking vanished, transforming him into a tall, upright, and serene male true god. “Congratulations, His Majesty Haquet!” All the true gods of the Nature pantheon immediately offered their congratulations to this new God of Healing. Feeling his vibrant new body and his gentle yet powerful new strength, Haquet was filled with excitement. “As a member of our pantheon, His Majesty Haquet, have you integrated your divine kingdom or chosen to remain independent?” Hearing Donald’s question, Haquet bowed deeply and said, “Please allow me to clean up my divine kingdom before merging it!”
With that said, seeing the Lord of the Divine Pantheon nod in agreement, Haquet left the Kingdom of Azeroth on her own and returned directly to her own divine realm. As Donald had said, even after becoming the God of Medicine, Haquet still mastered the realm of toxins, allowing her to use poison more effectively than ordinary experts in that field. The first thing Haquet did upon returning to her divine realm was to recall her original poisonous avatar, then began purifying the entire realm. As the God of Poison, her realm was originally filled with various toxic substances—ranging from poisonous lava and toxic swamps to poisonous insects and toxic plants; nothing there was free from toxicity. This was not Haquet’s choice but an inevitable result of possessing the realm of toxins. Even normal divine materials would gradually turn into toxic ones in her hands. However, this situation no longer constrained her. Thanks to her powers in medicine, pharmacology, and purification, most of the toxic landscapes in her realm were transformed into ordinary land. She didn’t want her merged realm to contaminate Azeroth’s fertile lands and cause dissatisfaction among other members of the divine pantheon. As for the poisonous creatures such as insects and plants, they were kept and concentrated in a separate area within the realm, isolated from the outside world. After all, these creatures could also be used as medicinal materials or alchemical ingredients, serving positive purposes. After purifying her own realm, Haquet sent a signal to the other gods. “Let’s begin!” Upon receiving the signal, Donald led the other gods to float in the void outside the realm, ready to assist Haquet in merging the realms. As the Lord of the Divine Pantheon, Donald had the highest authority over Azeroth, followed by the other gods. Normally, their powers were concentrated in their respective regions, but in the event of war, they would all gain the full power of the entire realm. With Donald and the other gods’ assistance, Haquet’s realm merged with Azeroth smoothly. What remained was the establishment of rules, a task that would take considerable time to complete. For this reason, Donald asked every member of the Natural Divinity Pantheon, including himself, to send an avatar to help Haquet. This was because the situation in the multiverse was currently unpredictable, with major changes potentially occurring at any moment.
If it cannot be completed in a shorter time, the divine realm belonging to Haequett will become the biggest weakness in the entire pantheon of natural gods. Once war breaks out, it will be easy for the enemy to identify this weakness. Moreover, this process of establishing divine realm rules is also highly beneficial for true gods, as it allows them to master and understand more laws and their applications. As a result, even several demigods took time to participate, and for a while, the pantheon of natural gods seemed isolated from the outside world, thus receiving less attention from the outside.