All Gods: Starting with Two Families

Chapter 73 Totems and Spirits”Finally... I’ve reached this step.”

Zhou Zheng’s Divine Thought swept across his Divine Domain, his heart filled with a myriad of emotions.

Although the air was still thick with the lingering metallic scent of blood and the earth was scarred, the faces of the surviving followers were radiant with hope for the future.

With reverence and mourning, they carefully gathered the remains of their fallen kin and held a solemn ceremony.

The bodies were slowly committed to the newly formed ocean to the east, allowing the waves to carry them into a deep undersea slumber.

The followers softly sang an ancient Requiem, praying for their heroic compatriots.

In the perception of Zhou Zheng and the Feathered Serpent Totem Spirit, faint but pure Soul motes could be seen floating up from the bodies sinking into the sea; these were the most fundamental spiritual imprints of the followers.

Zhou Zheng did not yet have the ability to create a Divine Kingdom, but through the Feathered Serpent Totem Spirit closely linked to him, he could temporarily absorb and house these Soul essences.

The massive Feathered Serpent Totem Spirit dove down, opening its great maw to inhale all the flickering Soul motes into its body.

Zhou Zheng could clearly feel that the eyes of the totem spirit, which had previously been more like an energy aggregate, became more agile and profound, as if they carried the weight and memories of countless lives.

He suddenly understood that the fragmented memories carried within these Soul motes would be absorbed and integrated by the totem spirit!

In the future, new generations of followers who shared the same devout faith in him and the totem spirit might naturally inherit these precious experiences and instincts from their ancestors through Bloodline resonance!

”This is Legacy!”

Zhou Zheng was once again shocked by the Orc God System’s ingenious, interlocking system that perfectly combined faith, Bloodline, power, and knowledge.

With such accumulation over generations, new followers would likely be born as experienced warriors!

At this moment, all followers—whether Snake People, Eagle People, Naga, or Giant Merman—spontaneously gathered around the Feathered Serpent Temple, casting aside stray thoughts to pray intently to their god.

The majestic and pure Power Of Faith was like a golden ocean, tightly enveloping Zhou Zheng’s Divine Thought core.

Zhou Zheng responded to every believer with gentle yet majestic Divine Thought fluctuations, feeling this final sense of Perfection.

He took out the two purple-glowing Divine Domain Cards that represented everything belonging to the two defeated deities.

There was an upper limit to the area of a Reserve Deity’s Divine Domain, usually three thousand square kilometers.

When the Bone Wasteland Card from the Necromancy God System was less than halfway loaded, Zhou Zheng clearly felt that the Divine Domain was already ”distended.”

The pressure of the Chaos Void Realm was intangible but very real.

He felt that if he forced further horizontal expansion, the Law structure of the Divine Domain would become overburdened and might even risk collapsing.

”If horizontal won’t work, then I’ll develop vertically!” Zhou Zheng immediately made a decision.

He guided the power of the Bone Wasteland Card, not spreading it across the land, but sinking it into the deepest part of the eastern ocean!

Countless pale skeletons and tombstones quietly formed on the seabed, turning into a silent Abyss of the Undead.

Next, he loaded the Burning Underground Castle Card from the Demon God System into the deep subterranean depths of the vast western desert.

The scent of magma and sulfur was firmly sealed underground, forming a dark and scorching Demon Nest.

As the loading of the two Divine Domain Cards was completed, two brand-new patterns were automatically etched onto the core Law of his Divine Domain.

One was a black [Bone Law] pattern emitting a cold, deathly aura; the other was a purple [Gluttony Law] pattern filled with greed and the desire for destruction.

Although the original followers of these two deities had all died in battle (it was almost impossible for initial follower races to switch faiths), these two Law patterns themselves, and the Divine Domain traits they represented, had already become part of Zhou Zheng’s Divine Domain foundation.

Speaking of followers, Zhou Zheng’s gaze fell upon that A-grade Racial Egg emitting a natural aura.

It floated quietly, showing no signs of hatching. Zhou Zheng understood that even if it hatched, it would still require long-term domestication.

The Nature God System did this simply because they wanted to imprint him with their mark ahead of time during the Reserve Deity stage, paving the way for a deeper binding in the future.

While he was reflecting, the prayers of the tens of thousands of followers within the Divine Domain reached an unprecedented climax, converging into a pure and vast torrent of faith that produced a final resonance with his perfected Divine Thought core!

The time had come!

Zhou Zheng no longer hesitated; within the temple, he condensed all his will, all his insights, and all his power!

He took a deep breath, and then—

Boom!

His entire Divine Thought body, as if thrown into a furnace, suddenly burst from the inside out with a dazzling, blinding fire!

[Divine Fire], ignited!

This was the ultimate fire of transformation, with majestic faith as fuel, Law insights as the framework, and the deity’s will as the core!

Pain, heat, decomposition, reconstruction...

Inexpressible sensations instantly flooded Zhou Zheng’s consciousness.

The final barrier to becoming a Formal Deity was being violently hammered within this raging Divine Fire!