Divine Emperor of Death

Chapter 4431: Godskull’s Terrifying Hold

“Stella…” Mingzhi sighed.

This young tree never listened, simply going around and teasing people, even in the cities. Considering it was her mini-realm, who would dare to say anything to her?

But Mingzhi understood her well.

As a tree, Stella didn’t need to cultivate much, especially now since she was stuck at the layer limit.

Because of that, she couldn’t even cross her first cycle, which was problematic.

She needed to go to the Upper Realms or a more stable space to cross through the cycles. But considering how strong she was, the resources required were surely going to be astronomical, so everyone just kept quiet instead of berating her for not cultivating.

However, Mingzhi didn’t blame her.

Stella needed Davis. Without him around, she wouldn’t bother to listen to anyone, cheerfully shrugging them like she would do if she was bored.

However, talking about these matters would cause karmic burden, so they really didn’t want the young ones to be exposed too much.

Even Fiora, who was still an Immortal Emperor, was here because she was an Anarchic Divergent.

The rest of the group was also aware of the most burdening matters of the family, so they waited until all left before starting their discussion about the Divine Exalt Stage, and here she was, using the mini-realm to conceal herself in plain sight and listen to them.

“Let me stay~” Stella grinned, “I host the entirety of the Divergents in my realms, so the karmic burden on me is already high. I wouldn’t be spared by the heavens.”

“…” Mingzhi turned speechless. But she had no choice but to agree that Stella was right.

“Fine, you win.”

She dropped her hands and gestured at Myria to continue.

“Everyone here already knows.” Myria started while gazing at Stella softly, “But I’ll start by saying that every Divine Exalt Cultivation Manual has a specific rate of saturation where past a certain limit, the amount of faith energy gathered wouldn’t make a difference anymore until the Godskull itself is improved, like building a better and expansive container.”

“From mortals, it requires nearly a trillion of them to increase one’s prowess by one level.”

“Trillion? Woah~ So high~”

Stella looked above, her eyes darting with confusion as she tried to imagine the zeros.

“From immortals, I specifically mean Immortal Foundation Stage experts. It requires nearly a million of them to increase prowess by another level.”

“I see. A million is understandable. I think a million immortals are entirely gatherable and have them worship than a trillion mortals. There’s no way so many mortals exist in the Upper Realms.”

“Precisely, but the Divine Exalts of that time had their own regions where they nurtured mortals and controlled them from above, receiving intense adoration. That’s one of the reasons the Celestial Transcendent made a move to ban them, to free them from the oppression.”

“Oh…” Stella nodded, looking impressed, “No wonder the Celestial Transcendent is so well received.”

“You greatly underestimate the savior of the human race in terms of the karmic virtue. You’ll know how many mortals he had saved from the clutches of the Divine Exalts as you continue to listen to my words.”

Myria said, a faint sense of pride carrying in her voice.

“Faith energy from a hundred Empyrean-level characters that accommodates another level of prowess. Together, a Divine Exalt had already gathered three levels of prowess when it’s supposed to be immensely difficult to cross levels in that stage. This is on top of their prowess, so you could see how powerful they were back then.”

“…” Stella nodded, her expression finally turning solemn.

“Then again, it doesn’t end there.” Myria heaved a breath, “If that Divine Exalt managed to gather adoration from three other Divine Exalt level characters, then their prowess would increase by one level again.”

“…”

Everyone’s heart shook. Although Evelynn and the others had already read through the jade slip, this was something that terrified them, and it hadn’t even started yet.

Stella’s expression was blank as she continued to listen.

“But there’s more- because this is the only for the initial type of Godskull. For the second and advanced type of Godskull, which I have no idea what it’s called, they can gain four more or maybe more levels of prowess as long as they can gather faith energy from a quadrillion mortals, billion immortals, thousand empyreans, and nine Divine Exalts!”

“…”

There was pin-drop silence throughout the room. Only their heartbeats could be heard, and their soft breaths filled with an air of tension.

“Is there… more?” Stella asked, her voice shaky.

She ever wondered if she would be able to match these monsters who gathered energy from others.

“There could be…” Myria pursed her lips, “The records in the jade slip of the Forsaken Yin Lotus Manual don’t have any more information. The method for the second type of Godskull isn’t there. Perhaps even the priestess may not have it since Natalya said that her trial still continues.”

Stella blinked, finally understanding.

This went to stay that the Celestial Transcendent had saved quadrillions of people from divine oppression. It was a feat that she couldn’t wrap her head around. How many people was that? Would she have finished counting in a day even if she used her soul sense?

She turned to look at Natalya.

“Elder sister, you’re going to become so powerful, but I don’t think my mini-realm can handle such a large population. We might need to improve the size of this mini-realm to the size of a Lower Realm.”

She looked pale, causing Natalya to giggle.

“Silly, the Forsaken Yin Lotus Manual doesn’t want so many people.”

“Indeed.” Myria nodded, “The Forsaken Yin Lotus Manual has taken a closer and more restrictive approach to how they gather their faith energy from their enclosed circle who practice the same cultivation manual, making the faith energy gathered condensed and denser, so even among Divine Exalt Grade Manuals, it should be a tier higher above all.”

“Really? How does it work then?” Stella instantly became cheerful, “What kind of prowess can it produce by gathering faith energy from fellow sect members?”

She liked seeing the lives of people. It was her habit, or could even said to be her hobby, but to witness the lives of trillions would be too stressful, in her opinion. Now that the numbers had dropped, she was okay with it and could even encourage Natalya to accept disciples to her school of thought.

But suddenly, she inclined her head, wondering what kind of sect that would be.

‘Could they all be obsessed with big brother…?’ She thought for a moment before suddenly throwing her hands up and waving.

“No, no, no~ You should not start a sect. Never start a sect!~”

“…” Natalya turned speechless.

She hadn’t even said anything.

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