I am just a mortal, why do you all worship me as a saint?

What if I refuse?

Qin Yiyao suddenly asked.

The Burial Grounds were shrouded in deathly silence.

After a moment, the Empress's battle spirit spoke softly, her voice carrying a rare hint of compassion: "Your position is already yours, your karma is already tied. When the storm comes, there is no way to stay out of it. If you refuse power, it means that in the future tidal wave, you may not even have the right to struggle for a moment."

"And we know you won't refuse."

Qin Yiyao closed her eyes.

When she opened her eyes again, there was a resolute calm in those clear, cold eyes.

"what should I do?"

Upon hearing his answer, the auras of the warriors rippled visibly, a thrill born from the anticipation of finally seeing their target after countless years of waiting.

Qin Yiyao seemed to sense something and turned around. She saw that a majestic phantom had appeared behind her at some point. It was shaped like an altar or an imperial throne, formed from dark golden fortune and fighting spirit, and exuded an ancient and enduring aura as if it were alive.

"This is the God Throne of the Battle Formation."

The leading battle spirit instructed, "You only need to sit on it, relax your mind and body, and the battle formation will resonate with you."

Without the slightest hesitation, Qin Yiyao walked straight towards the dark gold throne.

The moment she sat on the divine throne, a vast torrent of power, as boundless as the starry sea and as ancient as the dawn of creation, completely enveloped her.

She cleared her mind of all distractions, focused her inner self, and began to sense the mysterious connection within her body.

Anyway, I did as they said, and if there's a reaction, it will definitely be immediate.

……

At the top of the Guanyun Platform, Gu Ce, who had been concentrating with his eyes closed to protect Qin Yiyao, suddenly opened his eyes.

He sensed an indescribable fluctuation emanating from Qin Yiyao, intertwining with the God Emperor Battle Array floating in front of her!

They seemed to blend together perfectly, like water and milk, fitting together seamlessly!

In a short time, the fluctuation had risen to near its peak, making Gu Ce feel that its true nature was difficult to fathom.

This fluctuation was very strange, and its level was far beyond his previous understanding. Even cultivators at the peak of the Concept Realm or even at the Divine Lord level could not release such pressure. It belonged to a much more distant existence.

Qin Yiyao was resonating with the God Emperor's battle formation in a way that he himself could not understand at all.

Gu Ce recalled words he had heard of but had never thought about for a long time.

Crown position.

The myriad realms are filled with bizarre and wondrous sights, and even the gods of different eras are divided into three types.

Conceptual God, Crowned God, Supreme God of Civilization.

Leaving aside the concept of immortality, the inability to perish under any circumstances, and the coexistence of all heavens and worlds with the divine, let's talk about the crowned gods...

That's where things get interesting.

It is common knowledge that the crowned gods have divine positions that can be inherited.

However, the conditions for inheritance and how to obtain the right to inherit are two crucial matters that remain extremely mysterious...

Unless one is a candidate approved by the gods, there is absolutely no way they could know such secrets, and it would be impossible to forcibly uncover them.

The mysteries of divine power are beyond the complete comprehension of ordinary beings.

Then.

Where is the Divine Emperor of the Dynasty?

It is the supreme god of the Wanchao civilization, but in a sense, it is also a crowned god.

Gu Ce was well aware of this. Those rulers of the dynasty used every means to undermine it and usurp its divine authority, all for the purpose of becoming gods, or rather, to inherit the divine position of the dynasty's god emperor.

to be frank.

This is why Gu Ce looked down on Qing Gu Shen Jun.

The purpose of usurping the authority of the gods is to inherit their divine positions. If the gods were not mindless beings, they would never relinquish their divine positions to these rulers of dynasties.

This will lead to a fight to the death.

In other words, the Divine Emperor of the Dynasty did not resist, otherwise the Myriad Dynasties Civilization would have been destroyed long ago.

"Is this your plan, Mr. Gu?"

Gu Ce muttered to himself, a complex and extremely subtle light flashing deep in his eyes.

He probably already knew what the "deal" between the Divine Emperor of the Dynasty and Gu Heng was.

Before his very eyes, he might be witnessing the next supreme god of the Wanchao civilization!

……

Strange phenomena suddenly occurred within the Burial Grounds!

Countless streams of dark golden energy, like rivers flowing into the sea, surged and converged towards Qin Yiyao on the divine throne!

These were the purest original fortune and luck surrounding Qin Yiyao, then slowly and steadily seeping into her limbs and bones.

at the same time.

The countless phantoms of battle spirits began to solidify, and they all knelt down, facing Qin Yiyao, chanting ancient and obscure prayers.

The invisible fighting spirit and the overwhelming insights transformed into torrents of spiritual energy, imprinting countless fragmented understandings about the governance of dynasties, conquest, and the control of destiny into the depths of her consciousness in the most direct way.

Qin Yiyao also felt unprecedented pain.

Despite the protection of the battle spirit, such a massive power inheritance still exceeded the limits of the Creation Realm's physical body!

It was as if every inch of flesh and blood was being torn apart and reassembled, and every wisp of soul was being forged and tempered.

Qin Yiyao felt as if her meridians were being washed by scorching magma, her bones groaning under the unbearable pressure, and her soul as if it had been thrown into the eye of a storm, with countless shouts, schemes, and battles flashing wildly in fragments.

That was the past of countless emperors' conquests.

Qin Yiyao gritted her teeth, desperately guarding the barrier of her mind. If she didn't let this overwhelming torrent of power overwhelm her and cause her to lose herself, all that would remain for her was to explode and die.

But she could feel that her own realm barrier was being breached at an almost insane speed by these pure, primordial fortunes!

She guided the gradually awakening glimmer of light within her body, striving to integrate it with the surging power.

The faint light was like a bottomless void, greedily absorbing everything.

With each ounce of light she absorbed, the glimmer grew stronger, and her cultivation level began to rise at an astonishing speed!

The first level of the Creation Realm... Peak... Bottleneck loosened!

The second level of the Creation Realm!

The momentum hasn't stopped; it continues its upward surge!

……

At the summit of the Observation Platform, Gu Ce kept looking at the God Emperor Battle Formation that floated in front of Qin Yiyao, its light flowing endlessly.

And Qin Yiyao, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, her aura undergoing a dramatic change.

Her aura became thick and solid at an astonishing speed, and a dark golden halo, the same as that of the God Emperor's battle formation, began to ripple around her body.

Gu Ce calculated the time, his eyes growing increasingly horrified.

Only a month has passed.

Within that month, he watched Qin Yiyao break through from the Creation Realm to the Nirvana Realm. Then, the karma and destiny on her body began to condense on their own. In the blink of an eye for cultivators in the Upper Realm, she went from the first level of the Nirvana Realm to the level of "the only one in all realms"!

This speed made it impossible for Gu Ce to remain calm.

too fast.

Even if one could be like a descendant of the Heavenly Destiny, able to ignore all constraints and directly ascend from the initial Nirvana Realm to the peak of the Nirvana Realm, becoming a candidate for the Conceptual Realm, but...

Even if a true descendant of a divinely ordained god were to go through this process, it would take at least 100,000 years!

At the very least, the most outstanding descendants of the chosen gods recorded in the history of all the heavens and myriad worlds have taken just this much time.

It wasn't until Gu Ce witnessed Qin Yiyao's transformation firsthand.

By now.

All he could say was "awesome."

I've never seen anyone in the world who can take off like that.