The People's God: Sacrificing Trillions to Ascend

It took Jiang Ming three full days to successfully refine the heart and eyeballs into three Sacred Objects.

[Rank 7 Sacred Object: Flame Giant’s Heart – When equipped to the Core, it imbues a core race’s Fire Energy to 100 of their baseline attribute and grants the Skill: Flame Cloak. The durability of Flame Cloak depends on their fire attribute.]

[Rank 6 Sacred Object: Flame Giant’s Eye (Left) – When equipped to the Core, it multiplies a core race’s Fire Energy by ten and grants the Skill: Flame Giant Fist.]

[Rank 6 Sacred Object: Flame Giant’s Eye (Right) – When equipped to the Core, it multiplies a core race’s Fire Energy by ten and grants the Skill: Flame Giant Stomp.]

Equipping both of the Flame Giant’s Eyes also activated a hidden mechanic. It would grant them the hidden Skill: Flame Giant’s Revenge, which consumed Fire Energy to summon a visage of the Flame Giant to aid them in battle. The Skill’s duration was proportional to the user’s Fire Energy.

Han Wu’s heart pounded as he studied the three powerful Sacred Objects. Anyone with a fire-attribute core race would receive an overwhelming increase in combat strength after equipping them.

Unfortunately, Han Wu’s locusts were insects and weren’t compatible with the three Sacred Objects. As such, he stored them in his vault temporarily until they returned to the Divine Civilization.

Jing Jing had also succeeded in her endeavors. She used the Flame Giant’s skeleton and a vast supply of bone fragments to form a towering behemoth of bone and flame.

The Ignis Colossus stood 10,000 meters tall. Its frame was formed from bone fragments imbued with Fire Energy. Even without lifting a hand, the intense heat pouring off its body could vaporize Heroic life forms on the spot. It relied on close-quarters combat, and every blow would cause an explosive surge of fire.

Han Wu could already imagine how the landscape would change after the Ignis Colossus entered a battle. He wouldn’t mind if it fought in someone else’s divine realm, even if that meant fewer spoils for him. Naturally, he was unwilling to let it fight in his own divine realm. The last thing he wanted to see was his divine realm reduced to ruins.

Thankfully, Jing Jing’s divine realm was a barren wasteland filled with nothing but death. She wouldn’t mind having it fight in her divine realm.

The Origin of Mutation also used the Flame Giant’s blood as a catalyst and uncovered a new result. It created a reagent that altered a life form’s genes and awakened a fire-attribute mutation.

This reagent worked like a miracle drug for people like Han Wu with a weak core race. It could raise a core race’s potential by awakening an attribute affinity.

At present, however, it wasn’t useful to Han Wu. He had too many locusts and would’ve needed several metric tons of the reagent. The cost made that impossible for Han Wu, even with all of his riches. Thus, he temporarily stored the reagent and three Sacred Objects safely for later.

After dealing with the Flame Giant, they didn’t run into any other beasts that had evolved thirty times or more, so Han Wu got bored. He wasn’t sure how long their journey through the vast Desolate Civilization would take. With nothing to occupy him, he felt as if he were trapped in a kind of purgatory.

His boredom faded when Jiang Ming pulled out a map and cried out, “Boss, guess what I’ve found?”

Since swearing allegiance to Han Wu, Jiang Ming had always addressed him as Boss. Meanwhile, Han Wu showed respect to him by calling him Uncle Jiang.

Han Wu perked up. “Uncle Jiang, did you find a treasure regarding the Desolate Civilization?”

After spending so much time together, Han Wu knew that Jiang Ming would never bother him unless it concerned something urgent or significant.

Jiang Ming shook his head and pointed at the map. “We finally entered a region where this map works. I can tell where we are now.”

They had charted the Desolate Civilization as they traveled. Jiang Ming had checked the map as he usually did and noticed they had entered a region that had been explored in the past. They finally had a point of reference.

“Really? That’s great news!” Han Wu exclaimed.

They had entered the Desolate Civilization through the spatial crack to escape the White Mane God King. They had been searching for a way out ever since. Jiang Ming’s discovery counted as real progress.

“The nearest exit to this place is only three months away, but...” He hesitated as he broke the news.

“But what? Uncle Jiang, please explain,” Han Wu urged.

“As far as I know, a tyrant here in the Desolate Civilization controls that exit. It has evolved more than forty times, and a thin strand of the Desolate Civilization’s Will inhabits its body,” Jiang Ming explained.

Han Wu frowned. They had spent almost all their trump cards just to defeat the Flame Giant, which had evolved thirty-five times. The tyrant that had evolved forty times had Life Energy thirty-two times higher than the Flame Giant.

Even without considering its Skills, Life Energy still offered a reliable way to approximate a life form’s overall strength, even though it wasn’t a direct measure of combat ability.

Han Wu took his time to consider his options. “Are there any safer exits?”

“There are, but the closest one to us is twenty-three years away,” Jiang Ming replied.

Han Wu let the information sink in and dropped the idea of searching for another exit. He couldn’t travel for another twenty-three years.

“Uncle Jiang, it seems that we have to find more powerful life forms to hunt before we face it,” Han Wu said.

They needed to hunt down powerful Desolate Beasts to obtain rare resources. They could then use the time to nurture powerful units to defeat the tyrant occupying the exit.

That was the basic plan, but Jiang Ming had his doubts. “There are plenty of Desolate Beasts nearby but most are weak. Few have evolved more than ten times. We have already hunted the stronger ones. If we want to hunt more powerful targets, we will have to travel farther and that will cost us time.”

Han Wu was stuck until a better idea came to him. “Since there are no powerful life forms here, we can create them ourselves. We can feed or merge them. That should trigger Random Evolution’s condition.”

His proposal stunned Jiang Ming because he had never considered such a possibility. He carefully thought it through and realized that it was feasible. Still, no one had ever tried it.

Still, the fact that no one had tried it before didn’t mean it couldn’t be done. He was looking forward to it now. “Then we will follow your lead, Boss. I will command the units to surround any Desolate Beasts they find.”