All Gods: Starting with Two Families

Chapter 79 Using a Chicken to Lay EggsHell Flower stretched her body, and several broken porcelain shards collided gently, emitting a faint sound.

”To promote from a Grade 1 Godhead to Grade 2, the basic conditions are nothing to speak of: accumulate one billion faith points, have your kin count exceed one hundred thousand, and fully comprehend a new Law. You are well aware of these hard requirements.”

She extended her slender fingers and, as if playing an instrument, gently plucked at the Death Law.

”The most critical step is to deeply fuse the two Laws you have already mastered, and use their combined power to reshape your Divine Domain.”

”Of course, a suitable blueprint for the Grade 2 Godhead divine runes is also indispensable.”

She narrowed her eyes, ”However, to be honest, those guys who spend their days burying their heads in farming are better at this kind of meticulous work.”

Hell Flower chuckled, paused, and flicked a wisp of dark flowing light from her fingertip, which flew gracefully toward Zhou Zheng.

”Here, consider this a welcome gift for joining our ’Hell’. Use it well, don’t waste it.”

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Several months later, inside the crystal wall of the Myriad Spirits Divine System, in the ’Ten Thousand Weapons Resonating’ Plane.

A deity with a figure as towering as a mountain stood in the center of the square; he merely nodded slightly in acknowledgement, yet his massive physique brought a heavy sense of oppression.

”Thank you all for signing up and coming to participate in the assessment for my ’Weapon Spirit Pool’.” His voice was like rolling boulders, deep and powerful.

”The conditions for joining, I presume you are all aware. The Weapon Spirit Pool values one thing—using the power of forging to communicate with the spirits of weapons. I am the chief examiner for this session, Titan.”

”The assessment content is very simple.” With a movement of Titan’s Divine Thought, dozens of cards shimmering with metallic luster flew precisely toward every deity present.

”I will provide a complete forging blueprint for a standard weapon—the ’flame burst arrow’, and give each examinee three thousand sets of standard Materials.”

”Your task is to submit at least one thousand finished products of standard quality within ten days. If you complete it, you pass.”

As soon as his voice fell, an irrepressible commotion of Divine Thought erupted in the Plane.

”flame burst arrow? Have the recruitment thresholds for major guilds been raised this high now?”

”This kind of highly unstable explosive-attribute arrow has a terrifyingly low success rate! Only giving three thousand sets of Materials and requiring one thousand finished products? This is too harsh!”

”Silence!”

Titan roared impatiently, ”Those who think they cannot do it can leave now. The ’Weapon Spirit Pool’ never forces anyone.”

The venue instantly fell silent.

Titan snorted coldly and waved his hand to summon a huge sundial; the shadow of the pointer began to slide across the dial.

”Since no one is withdrawing, the assessment—starts now!”

The divine thought projections of the deities immediately dissipated, and they returned to their own Divine Domains, urgently mobilizing their kin to begin working.

A deity projection with a figure like mountain rock also silently dissipated, but as soon as he stepped into his own Divine Domain, his Divine Thought body suddenly twisted, and in the blink of an eye, it transformed into a black snake with wings.

When the snake body coiled up, it looked like a constantly rotating black vortex.

It was Zhou Zheng!

He was able to perfectly change his appearance entirely thanks to the wonder item gifted by Hell Flower called ”Death’s Deception”.

Its effect was similar to the ”Elemental Veil” he had used before, but it contained a higher-tier Nature God System Law, and both its duration and disguise ability far exceeded the past.

The plan they were banking on was for Zhou Zheng to change his identity, join a large ”guild” within the Myriad Spirits Divine System, and obtain the resources and System knowledge needed for a normal deity’s Breakthrough.

After several months of screening and inquiring, he finally locked onto this ”Weapon Spirit Pool” guild, which was famous for forging and war machines.

At this moment, in his Divine Domain, the area beneath the lava region on the left had been completely hollowed out.

The Nether Ant Clan had built a huge underground kingdom with an extremely complex and interconnected structure here—the ”Underground City”.

Zhou Zheng issued a divine oracle: ”Analyze this forging blueprint, learn and master the ’flame burst arrow’ production process. The minimum output is two thousand pieces.”

The Nether Ant Queen respectfully lowered her huge head, light circulating in her compound eyes.

After sensing that the deity’s attention had left, the antennae on her head began to vibrate at high speed, and commands in the form of pheromones and specific vibrations instantly spread throughout the entire underground network.

The entire Underground City seemed like a precise and massive machine, instantly activated, and entered a state of high-speed operation.

Inside the component analysis workshop, a Worker Ant used its mandibles to take the sample Materials that were sent over—thousands of flame burst fruits containing volatile fire energy, dozens of cubic meters of uniform-textured parasol wood, and tens of thousands of flamingo feathers shimmering with red light.

It quickly classified them and began to analyze the characteristics and optimal processing methods for each material.

In the blueprint analysis room, a Worker Ant ”Engineer” with an abnormally enlarged head and complex compound eye structure was rapidly tracing the energy-formed blueprint with its forelimbs, while multiple appendages coordinated to perform intensive calculations and step optimizations on the auxiliary stone slab nearby.

And in the core forging pool, scorching lava flowed slowly in the trenches, providing a constant stream of heat.

Hundreds of the strongest Worker Ant ”Forgers” were already in position, their mandibles and forelimbs shimmering with a metallic cold light, already poised and ready to go.