As the purple mist in the underground chamber fully dissipated,
"That was way too close!" Shi Feng gazed at the Eye of the Ancient God in his hand, his eyes filled with relief. "If my mental strength hadn't reached the mid-fifth-tier level, I probably wouldn't have been able to receive a hundred percent of the inheritance memories..."
The Ancient God's inheritance was far too vast and complex. The sheer volume of information involved would have been unbearable for anyone whose soul state hadn't been restored. Had his soul still been in its previous condition, he never would have survived the influx of those inheritance memories.
And with the Ancient God's inheritance memories, even the slightest inability to bear them meant total failure—gaining nothing at all.
"I never would have imagined that the key to advancing to the sixth tier would be Seven-Star Crystals," Shi Feng murmured, reflecting on the memories within the inheritance, a wave of emotion washing over him.
Seven-Star Crystals had always been a scarce resource in the Divine Realm, and that held true even in the ancient Divine Realm.
Though he had long known that sixth-tier divine powers in his previous life had gone to extraordinary lengths to hoard Seven-Star Crystals, he hadn't expected them to serve this kind of purpose beyond exchanging them for Green God Group resources and creating private worlds within the Divine Realm.
In fact, Shi Feng now felt a twinge of regret over having traded away some of his Seven-Star Crystals.
According to the Ancient God's inheritance memories, for a player to advance from the fifth tier to the sixth tier, they needed not only sixth-tier mental strength and mastery of a world law, but also a massive quantity of Seven-Star Crystals to forge a divine body.
Forging a standard divine body required at least fifty thousand units of Seven-Star Crystals!
And that was for the most basic kind. According to the inheritance memories, divine bodies came in two types: ordinary divine bodies and superior divine bodies.
Ordinary divine bodies were the most common in the Divine Realm. More than ninety-nine percent of divine beings and divine-tier players had forged this type of body, and it was the most widely passed-down inheritance from the ancient gods.
As for superior divine bodies, those were exceedingly rare. The three goddesses said to have saved the Divine Realm, the legendary
This was why Sages possessed the power to stand against gods.
Sages, in plain terms, were those who had mastered a world law to its extreme but had never ascended to godhood.
Forging a superior divine body required one hundred thousand units of Seven-Star Crystals. Moreover, failure during the forging process meant the entire hundred thousand units were lost. The difficulty was incomparably greater than an ordinary divine body—the difference in resource consumption between the two was on an entirely different level.
With an ordinary divine body, Seven-Star Crystals were consumed gradually as the divine body slowly took shape. Even in the case of failure, only the crystals already expended were lost, and one could identify where things had gone wrong.
Forging a superior divine body was an all-or-nothing affair. One hundred thousand units of Seven-Star Crystals were consumed in a single push—if the forging succeeded, it succeeded; if it failed, everything was gone.
When it came to that many Seven-Star Crystals, Shi Feng could only think about it in the abstract...
"For the major powers of the present day, Seven-Star Crystals are at most useful for creating private worlds. For the superpowers, they're simply a trading currency with the Green God Group. Acquiring a large quantity now shouldn't be too difficult," Shi Feng thought, sinking into contemplation as he sifted through the various memories from the Ancient God's inheritance. "Achieving an ordinary sixth-tier divine body shouldn't be too hard for me right now, but a superior divine body is an entirely different matter. Setting aside the need for sixth-tier mental strength, mastering a single world law to its absolute extreme is already incredibly difficult—let alone actually constructing the divine body."
Within the Ancient God's inheritance memories, Shi Feng had come to understand what world laws truly were.
World laws were essentially a higher-level application of magical elements—similar to the Aether Combat Technique's Annihilation that Sage Canlan had imparted.
However, only once one truly reached the threshold of that higher-level application could it be considered mastery of a world law. Casual or superficial use did not count.
As things stood, setting aside the fact that his mental strength hadn't yet reached the sixth tier, he actually already possessed the qualifications to advance to the sixth divine tier—provided he had enough Seven-Star Crystals.
Sage Canlan's world law was the Law of Destruction—the annihilation of all things, capable of utterly destroying even the most fundamental magical elements. This was why it could break through both the seal of space-time and the Severed Realm Domain. Had it been any other world law, the mysterious young man would likely have trapped him there until he perished.
After mastering a world law, many demigods found themselves stuck at the stage of forging their divine body. There were numerous methods of doing so, all involving using the mastered world law as the foundation for constructing the body.
Of course, this was extraordinarily difficult for most people. But for Shi Feng, the difficulty had been significantly reduced.
That was because the Ancient God's inheritance contained the Fundamental Rule Diagram for forging divine bodies. As long as one followed the Fundamental Rule Diagram during the forging process, the success rate would increase by at least thirty to forty percent.
The Fundamental Rule Diagram was arguably the most important element of the entire Ancient God's inheritance. Over ninety percent of the inheritance memories consisted of this content—and ninety percent of that ninety percent pertained to the Fundamental Rule Diagram for superior divine bodies.
This was what made the Ancient God's inheritance so extraordinary. No other divine being's inheritance could compare.
"My mental strength currently has no good method of advancement, but I could start with the Annihilation combat technique and try to reach the pinnacle of the Law of Destruction."
When it came to forging a superior divine body, Shi Feng had no particular confidence. But when it came to mastering a single law to its extreme, he felt reasonably assured. After all, the Annihilation combat technique had already been fully grasped at the entry level. As long as he could execute the third sword—Annihilation—to perfection, that should count as reaching the extreme of the Law of Destruction.
Moreover, compared to others, his World