Imprisoned for a Trillion Years, I Was Worshipped by All Gods!

Daniel landed on the ground, looking down at the four god kings.

He asked,

"I will ask, and you will answer. If your answers satisfy me…"

Daniel glanced over the hundred disciples of the Court of Divine King.

In that instant, these disciples all lowered their heads, not daring to meet Daniel's gaze.

Daniel's eyes carried an overwhelming sense of intimidation.

No one could look him in the eye.

After scanning the disciples, Daniel continued,

"I might spare the lives of these disciples of the Court of Divine King."

The four god kings remained silent.

Daniel wasn't keen on a massacre.

From the very beginning, his only goal was to make them leave.

But if they insisted on fighting, he was unafraid to oblige.

"This ruin, you must have discovered it long ago. What do you know about it?"

"We've uncovered some clues about this ruin,"

the god king skilled in magic arrays responded.

The Court of Divine King had indeed discovered this ruin a long time ago.

However, they initially deemed it worthless due to the presence of chaotic rules within it.

Exploring the ruin offered no proportional rewards.

It wasn't until recently that they uncovered evidence of a once-hidden, powerful faction in the Eastern Wastes—

a faction called the Life Temple.

At its peak, the Life Temple housed several races,

each with members at the god king rank.

Yet, despite this diversity, they coexisted harmoniously within the faction.

These fragments of information left the Court of Divine King astonished.

After all, the Court of Divine King itself, while boasting dozens of god kings, consisted entirely of humans.

Though their members bore no deep grudges against one another,

frictions among the disciples of various god kings had begun to emerge over the millennia.

Thus, the concept of a multi-racial faction of god kings living in harmony deeply intrigued the Court of Divine King.

They began to search for more information about the Life Temple.

Eventually, they discovered, to their surprise,

that the ruins of the Life Temple were located here—

in the same ruin they had previously deemed worthless.

The Court of Divine King promptly decided to send four god kings to the site. Explore more at empire

Their mission was to extract everything the ruins had to offer.

As for the destruction of the Life Temple, only fragments of records remained.

From these fragments, it was inferred that the Life Temple had suffered a catastrophic calamity that led to its complete annihilation in the God Realm.

Before that disaster, the Life Temple had been conducting some sort of terrifying experiment.

It was this experiment that ultimately caused its downfall.

In their preliminary investigations, the Court of Divine King confirmed that the destruction of the Life Temple was likely linked to world ascension.

This was why the god kings had been seen earlier, carefully probing the spatial turbulence with their mana as Daniel's group arrived.

World ascension!

Once again, world ascension!

Daniel realized that these god kings—especially those from older factions—seemed particularly fascinated by world ascension.

Could there be some hidden benefit to it?

Daniel couldn't understand.

His desire for ascension stemmed from his connection with Big White,

who was the Will of World for Crossbridge World.

Could it be that they also had a Will of World's child?

Daniel turned to the god king and asked,

"Why are you so focused on world ascension?"

"Because… in the God Realm, or among us god kings, there has always been a belief—

that within world ascension lies the method to surpass the god king rank!"

Hidden within the process of world ascension was a secret to transcend the god king rank and reach an even higher realm!

This was why the older god king factions were so obsessed with world ascension.

Every god king aspired to break through and become the true master of the God Realm!n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Where did you hear this from?"

"The Divine Dynasty! This idea originally came from the Divine Dynasty!"

Daniel was surprised—it was the Divine Dynasty again!

It seemed that everything in the God Realm was somehow tied to the Divine Dynasty.

Previously, the prophecy about the God Realm's calamity had also come from the Divine Dynasty.

Now, the secret to surpassing the god king rank was also from the Divine Dynasty.

From what Daniel had gathered, the Divine Dynasty had been destroyed tens of millions of years ago.

Yet its influence lingered everywhere.

It almost felt like…

everything happening in the God Realm now had been orchestrated by the Divine Dynasty long ago.

Or perhaps…

the Divine Dynasty was still secretly pulling the strings behind all these events.

"Aren't you conducting world ascension experiments yourselves? Why search the ruins for clues?"

"No, because not every Mortal Realm is eligible for ascension.

Only certain special Mortal Realms have the qualifications for it."

The god king elaborated,

"Among the Mortal Realms governed by the Court of Divine King,

not a single one possesses the qualifications for ascension.

That's why we've come to the ruins of the Life Temple to search for information about world ascension—

to see if there's a way to turn an ordinary world into a special one."

Hearing this, Daniel nodded.

From the Primordial Divine Spells he had obtained in the book vault,

it was clear that the Life Temple had indeed been working on such experiments.

They had simply mishandled it,

causing a miniature world to collide with theirs,

and a once-great faction vanished entirely as a result.

The Crossbridge World, on the other hand, was already a special world eligible for ascension.

Daniel had learned this from the giant serpent,

which had repeatedly emphasized the fact.

Originally, Daniel thought such worlds would be fairly common.

After all, the Five-Element God King, who had been a god king for less than ten thousand years,

was already in charge of a Mortal Realm with the Crossbridge World in it.

But now it seemed that forces possessing such special Mortal Realms were rare.

Even the Court of Divine King, a dominant power in the Eastern Wastes,

didn't have a single special Mortal Realm under its control.

Or perhaps…

the Crossbridge World's problems were why it ended up under the Five-Element God King's jurisdiction?

After pondering for a while, Daniel dismissed the thought.

After all, it was all in the past now.

The Crossbridge World was flourishing.

As for the secret of world ascension...

he'd deal with it later.

For now, Big White hadn't reached that stage yet.

Daniel's current focus was simple:

to protect the people around him and safeguard the Crossbridge World.

Everything else…

could wait.

The god king, realizing he was no match for Daniel, answered every question without hiding anything.

As promised, Daniel let them go.

The four god kings took pills to heal themselves,

then departed, taking the disciples of the Court of Divine King with them.

By now, the god kings fully understood that they were no match for Daniel.

If Daniel hadn't wanted to observe their attacks,

they wouldn't even have had the chance to strike.

At this point, they had no intention of contesting the ruins with Daniel.

After all, it was just a ruin.

There was no need to provoke Daniel over it.

The Court of Divine King members departed quickly.

As the last god king turned to leave,

he looked at Daniel and said,

"Master, your strength is overwhelming, and we are no match for you.

But soon, the God Realm will face a calamity.

In that calamity, a powerful being like you will be like a candle in the dark."

"Your blinding light will attract certain entities… If you're willing,

our Court of Divine King would like to form an alliance with you

to weather the calamity together!"