Chapter 002: The Ring of the Supreme God

“If what you say is true, and I’ve absorbed so many fragments of the Supreme God’s divinity, then shouldn’t I also become the Supreme God?” Du Fan was overjoyed upon hearing Gaia’s words.
“That’s impossible. These fragments contain only the purest, most fundamental energy from this Supreme God’s realm. They don’t contain any ability to create gods at all. So, gathering these fragments to become a Supreme God is impossible,” Gaia said, shattering Du Fan’s illusions with just one sentence.
“Then you’re not telling me that giving me so many fragments of the Supreme God’s divinity is just to slightly increase my divine essence?” Du Fan asked.
“Kid, since you already possess divine essence, you should know its benefits, right?” Gaia asked.
“It seems pretty good,” Du Fan nodded.
“A mere tiny amount of divine essence already brought you so many benefits. Then you should be able to figure out how much benefit the divine essence I give you will bring. Without going into details, with so much divine essence in your body, it won’t take long for all those forces that weren’t originally yours to fully merge with you,” Gaia said seriously.
“One shouldn’t be too greedy,” Gaia suddenly remarked.
These words somehow awakened Du Fan.
Last time, after all that hard work in adventuring, he only got a single grain of divine essence. This time, he got an entire mass of it!
Compared to before, the benefits this time were countless times greater.
“Is that all the benefit?” Du Fan asked unhappily.
As Du Fan spoke, Gaia casually tossed him a ring.
“There’s more in that ring, but your current cultivation level isn’t enough to open it,” Gaia said. “Kid, remember—it’s not that I, Gaia, don’t want to give you benefits. Now that I’ve given you the item, it depends on whether you can open it or not!”
Du Fan touched the ring in his hand. It looked extremely ordinary—so ordinary that it wouldn’t stand out even among a pile of rings.
He dropped a drop of blood on it, and quickly, the drop was absorbed.
But what happened next disappointed Du Fan.
When he tried to use his mental power to probe inside, the ring showed no reaction at all.

“Gaia, the boss, you’re not trying to trick me with some ordinary ring, are you?” Du Fan said, fiddling with the ring while glancing at Gaia sideways.
“Although I’m just a servant, at least I’m a servant of the Supreme God. I’m the number one person in the world—how could I possibly use an ordinary ring to deceive you? It seems I don’t need to do that,” Gaia replied, laughing and crying at the same time.
“Then explain why this ring is so ordinary. Even when I use my mental power to probe it, it still seems extremely ordinary—nothing more than a regular ring,” Du Fan said.
“Haven’t I told you already? Your current cultivation level isn’t enough. Once you reach a level where you can move freely, you’ll naturally be able to open this storage ring. As for what’s inside, I shouldn’t reveal it, but since it was left by the Supreme God, it certainly won’t be that bad,” Gaia explained.
“As for why this ring was made this way, it was also for your sake. Think about it—with your current cultivation level, wearing a storage ring crafted by the Supreme God himself would attract so much envy! Who knows, you might even die without even knowing how!” Gaia said.
Yet Gaia’s reasoning made sense. If those godly strongmen knew they had a storage ring made by the Supreme God, they would surely fight to get their hands on it!
“The key question is, what level do I need to reach to open this storage ring?” Du Fan asked, seeing that Gaia didn’t seem to be lying. “It’s not going to require me to reach godly status first, is it?”
“Haha, you guessed right! Indeed, without godly cultivation, you can’t open this ring. But then again, even if you reach godly status, you still won’t be able to control what’s inside without it,” Gaia said with a laugh.
“Could you reveal in advance what’s inside?” Du Fan smiled at Gaia.
That extremely holy smile left Gaia stunned. Du Fan’s expression gave Gaia a strange sense of familiarity—wasn’t that supremely holy smile exactly the signature smile of the Supreme God?
Although this human kid’s smile didn’t evoke the same urge to worship as the Supreme God’s, it still bore a striking resemblance to His smile!

“Well, little human, may I ask what’s your name?” Gaia suddenly asked seriously.
“My name is Du Fan,” Du Fan replied, surprised by Gaia’s serious question.
Gaia acting so serious all of a sudden—could it be that his name was important?
“Du Fan, remember, once you go out, just do what needs to be done. How should I put it? It’s as if you don’t know anything about the Supreme God’s disappearance, nor that you’re the key to the Supreme God returning to the Supreme God Realm. Just act like none of this exists. Everything still requires you to have the strength to resolve it,” Gaia said.
“That’s definitely no problem,” Du Fan said with a smile. Hearing that he didn’t need to do anything for now, Du Fan naturally wouldn’t go looking for trouble. As long as Gaia didn’t bother him, he could just keep this matter to himself. The Supreme God had disappeared—what did that have to do with him? He wasn’t even a god anymore. Even if the sky collapsed, wouldn’t Gaia and the twelve major gods be there to hold things together? Du Fan thought to himself.
Inspired by this, Du Fan asked again, “What happened during that war among the gods tens of thousands of years ago?”
“Well, it was all caused by those gods themselves. After the Supreme God disappeared for so long, they naturally realized it. Without the Supreme God’s restraint, those guys grew bolder, wanting their own created races to dominate the continent, so they started a chaotic battle that eventually spread to the God Realm as well,” Gaia explained.
“The battle spread to the God Realm? How is that possible?” Du Fan asked.
“Hmph, as more and more of those guys ascended to the God Realm, they began recruiting numerous gods of their own. They even came up with ways to create angels and other gods. Those guys were quite clever—they found loopholes in the rules set by the Supreme God and sent those angels and lower-ranked gods to the human world. That’s how the battle invisibly spread to the God Realm!” Gaia said.
“But the battlefield was still in the human world, right? How can you say the battle spread to the God Realm?” Du Fan asked again.
“Think about those bones you saw outside, and then look at where you are now,” Gaia reminded him.

“Those Archgods, so they could act directly, actually divided the battlefield in front of the Supreme Temple! This is precisely the boundary between the human world and the divine world! Only here, when humans and gods fight, will they not be interfered with! Those bastards actually chose this place as the battlefield for that divine war! If the Supreme Temple hadn’t disappeared, how could they have gotten away with such nonsense!” Gaia said, shouting angrily.
Du Fan was speechless once again.
This Gaia seemed mostly gentle, but when she got angry, she became extremely fierce!
“Did the Archgods also intervene?” Du Fan asked.
“Of course they did!” Gaia suddenly trembled. “If it weren’t for those bastards interfering, how could I let them cause chaos here! Also, those piles of bones? I left them there on purpose. When the Supreme Temple returns, everything will become clear! Hmph, those bastards, I wonder how you’ll explain yourselves then! How will you face the Supreme Temple?” Gaia roared again.
Thinking about it, this servant of the Supreme God, the number one in the world, must surely have a very strong sense of pride! Moreover, during that divine war, she must have also suffered at the hands of those Archgods she mentioned.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t get so angry whenever those Archgods were brought up.
“Alright, young Du Fan, just thinking about those bastards makes me extremely angry. I want to rest now. You’d better go and reunite with your companions quickly,” Gaia said impatiently.
“Wait, I still have questions!” Hearing that Gaia seemed ready to send him away right away, Du Fan hurriedly called out.
Du Fan had tons of questions!
This time, having finally met someone who seemed to know everything and was willing to communicate with him, Du Fan naturally wanted to ask plenty of things.
But Gaia didn’t give him a chance at all.
With a wave of her hand, before Du Fan could finish speaking, he was transported outside.
Everything blurred before Du Fan’s eyes, and by the time he could see clearly again, he was already standing at the entrance to the Divine Ruins. The others had been waiting for him there.
“Let’s go. We can head back now,” Basa said smilingly when he saw Du Fan come out.
This was still dwarf territory, so naturally, Basa, as the local lord, liked to act like the boss.
The group set off again toward the outside.

“Don’t you want to ask me what exactly happened in there just now?” After walking for a few minutes, Du Fan noticed that everyone was walking in silence, so he asked curiously.
“Du Fan, since that old man transported us all out, there must be some very important personal matter he wanted to discuss with you. Since it’s a personal matter, why should we ask?” Nai Xiu said with a smile.
At Nai Xiu’s smile, everyone instinctively smiled at Du Fan as well.
“Haha, actually, it’s nothing that’s that serious. It’s just some details behind the reliefs that you didn’t see. But it’s better if you don’t know about them,” Du Fan said with laughter.
“In that case, I wonder if that old man gave you a lot of benefits secretly. If so, you can’t just keep them all to yourself, right?” Moses said seriously.