Chapter 18: Contents!
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nAfter being left alone in the solitary space by the old man’s disappearance and getting a hellish beating by his apparitions Zhao Luo had nothing else to do except
nIt’s time to flip the page.
nZhao Luo said as he picked the book.
nZhao Luo was ready to open the book again.
nHis master had told him that the book will help him with his journey.
nHe was going to test that. Maybe this will help him in getting his body out of the capsule.
nOr it may lead to something even better.
nZhao Luo eagerly opened the book again.
nThe book with the dark shiny cover was already making the dark surrounding even shadier gave out a golden radiance as soon as it was opened.
nJust like before the first page had two words on it.
nHeaven’s Tomb.
nZhao Luo read the words.
nHe pondered over these words before going to the next page eager to know the content of this Godly book.
n‘Flip’
nZhao Luo flipped the page.
nThe eager Zhao Luo was shocked after seeing the content of the page.
nHe stared as hard as he could but for that time frame after he had turned the page this page was empty just a simple blank golden paper with nothing written on it.
n‘Did the old man scam me?’
nZhao Luo thought.
nAs he couldn’t find anything on the page he was going to close the book but right while he was closing it words started to appear on the page.
nThe words appeared on the whole page at the same time as if they were submerged in the page before and were coming up now.
nZhao Luo started reading from the top.
nA grand title was left on this page.
nKNOWLEDGE
nZhao Luo read the title and an unknowing smile could be seen on his face.
nHe thought about what kind of knowledge he will be getting as the book was a compilation of the experiences of ancient Gods from the old man’s World.
nZhao Luo started reading the page and right from the start he was immersed in it.
nThe book started with the introduction of a God explaining their powers.
nWhat is a God?
nA being who is all powerful and supreme.
nNot just super powerful but also with different abilities.
nAn ability that they had which was unbalanced according to Zhao Luo who had already read it.
nIt was the power to bring a summoned apparition which Zhao Luo was able to do from their mind to life.
nThey could be brought as physical bodies with just a command.
nThat summoned apparition would have a solid form. The shape will be as the God that is summoning it would imagine it to be.
nThe book called this summon a ‘Bandit’.
nZhao Luo stopped at this point as this was the last line of the page.
n‘Interesting’
nZhao Luo thought.
n‘Maybe I will be able to summon a lion bandit.’
nZhao Luo wondered. Then he went on to read the next page.
nBut before he could even turn the page the words on the current page once again disappeared leaving Zhao Luo in shock again.
nHe had never read a book that had words appear on a blank page. And the page turning blank again once he was done reading those words.
nLike why can’t the words stay there from the start and not disappear once he is done reading them?
nThen new words appeared on the same page.
nThis time they appeared faster than before. Zhao Luo was already getting used to this so he didn’t go in a state of shock.
nZhao Luo starting reading again.
nTo his surprise the title was still the same.
nAgain ‘KNOWLEDGE’. This must be a continuation to the ability of Gods.
nZhao Luo guessed and continued.
nIt was as he guessed. This time the writing continued from bandits.
nThe explanation was on the power of bandits.
nEach summoned bandit could have different powers.
nThe power of the created ‘bandit’ completely depended on the quality of the boundary of the God that is summoning it and the rules of the space of that God.
nBoundaries were a measure of God’s power.
nEvery God could set rules in their boundary according to their will.
nA weaker God will have a low-quality boundary. As the strength of a God increase the quality of their boundary would increase.
nThis increase in the quality of boundary of that God affects the summoned ‘bandit’ increasing its power and its abilities as well.
nThe quality of the boundary was divided into nine levels.
nStarting from trash ( black) wood iron bronze silver gold platinum diamond and jadeite.
nDid I read it right?
nZhao Luo was wondering if he saw it wrong after reading the qualities of the boundary.
nHe didn’t think that there was a quality level of boundary named ‘trash’ while its color was mentioned along with it.
n‘How lucky one has to be to have the trash quality boundary?’
nZhao Luo had a thought.
nZhao Luo continued.
nThe summoned ‘bandit’ had nine levels too.
nWhen the quality of the boundary is upgraded to the next level the summoned bandit will be that level too.
nThe lowest of the summoned bandit would be a ‘trash bandit’.
nThe strongest should be a ‘jadeite bandit’
nYet the book mentioned that sometimes a bandit could hold even more power than it is allowed in the jadeite boundary.
nThe bandit would then be a ‘crimson bandit’.
nThe quality of the boundary was easily detected.
nThe name reflected the appearance of the boundary. A gold boundary would have gold shine. A diamond boundary would be giving a brilliant blinding shine of light with fiery color. The same goes for other boundaries.
nOnly the trash quality boundary would have no color yet the presence of that God’s boundary could be easily felt.
nThat is the boundary would be present yet missing out on any outstanding feature.
nThus the book decided to call such a God a trash level God. As God didn’t train himself faithfully in his journey to becoming one.
nSo one can still be trash after becoming a God. The hierarchy is still the same even if one becomes a God.
nZhao Luo chuckled but also felt fearful as he may become the one he is laughing on.
nThe words ended at the explanation of ‘trash’ quality.
nZhao Luo didn’t even try turning the page. This time he was ready for the words to disappear.
nSoon the words disappeared the page was blank once again and then the next set of lines with new words appeared on the page.
nThe title this time was different. It was not knowledge unlike the last two times.
nZhao Luo saw the title and knew that he was finally going to learn something useful.
nWays
nZhao Luo read the title which was written in grey color and the four letters shined with outstanding brightness.
nThe shine from the words calmed the excited Zhao Luo.
nHe went on to read the first line which went something like this.
nThere were many ways to become a God.
nThere were easy ways then there were hard ways then there were ways that were close to impossible to follow through but such ways showed results that were unachievable by other ways.
nNow Zhao Luo thought of himself as he was already on one of the ways.
nHe didn’t know which kind of way was he on. He thought of his journey of mastering the first step of Godhood that the old man had taught him was mastering the Naoli.
nIt may have been frustrating at times but it wasn’t that hard for him.
n‘Maybe my method is one of the weaker ones.’
nZhao Luo thought and compared his method to one of the weaker ways just because he achieved the first step easily.
n‘Well I will know soon.’
nZhao Luo didn’t dwell on his thought about his way for too long and continued reading.
nThe next line was on the weaker ways. It explained in such a way that Zhao Luo knew that he was far from the weaker ways. Too far ahead.
nAs the next line’s explanation was on how the weaker ways focus on getting to Godhood by achieving the requirements for becoming a God through the fastest ways.
nThis would help the guy in becoming the God in the shortest possible time yet after becoming the God his power will be weak. He may even end up with the lowest quality boundary which was a ‘trash boundary’.
nThe example given for this way was that the person will be able to create a single apparition after mastering the Naoli.
nWhereas Zhao Luo was already able to create nine of them.
nThe harder the way was the longer it took to achieve each requirement on the path to Godhood.
nYet the result was opposite to the easy way.
nThe power a person will have once he becomes a God through this way will be immense and their initial boundaries will have one of the superior qualities.
nThe line ended here leaving Zhao Luo eager to know about the difficulty of his way to Godhood.
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