Chapter 1740
Chapter 1740 - 1736: Gestate in the Land of God
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"...Let’s get straight to the conclusion: strength can break skill. Faced with an absolute power disparity, even the most intricate designs become meaningless. To truly make an impact, we must... create a god!"
It makes sense, an eleventh-tier fragment is likely still an eleventh-tier.
Even if it’s repeatedly degraded and watered down, the gap in specifications is too huge for you, an eighth-tier life form, to make any difference.
You’re not even close to the four ounces needed to leverage against a thousand pounds.
And to nurture a "Deity," we have to proceed step by step.
"First of all, the cradle for nurturing the Deity must be high-grade... your cauldron is too weak."
This is the blunt reality, pointed out directly by the big shots.
As Lu Ping’an’s bound rule-associated item, the strength of "Lu Ping’an’s Life Cauldron" is actually linked to Lu Ping’an himself, representing a manifestation of his world’s reason.
However, Lu Ping’an is only an eighth-tier, so naturally, the cauldron is also eighth-tier... even a ninth-tier cauldron would still be insufficient to nurture a Deity.
Forcefully upgrading? If you add in the power and materials from other big shots, it can indeed be promoted, but the core ability of "creating life" is Lu Ping’an’s world’s reason, and if that remains unchanged, swapping out the shell... an ornate dragon-engraved cauldron with automatic defensive cannons may have a higher level than before, but it’s actually meaningless.
"...There is a clever way. Your courtyard is essentially at the tenth-tier."
The courtyard is the Divine Boat, the immigrant ship Chris inherited from a race god and brought to this planet... although the captain eventually didn’t bring any clansmen over.
This is actually the Big Cat’s forbidden zone. When Lu Ping’an occasionally talked about it, she would become very upset, sometimes even outright cursing, so over time, Lu Ping’an stopped asking.
Although she doesn’t want to talk about it, it isn’t hard to guess.
Back then, Chris couldn’t have been at the tenth-tier... after inheriting the Divine Boat, she certainly had a stripped-down version, much like the empty floating island Lu Ping’an originally obtained.
Even if her power was greatly superior to Lu Ping’an’s, she only barely kept the Divine Boat afloat, probably as a leaky vessel on all sides.
Perhaps the boat reached the other shore, but its passengers perished midway.
𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
In some sense, this is Chris’s causality and the root of her warped nature.
Longing for family and kin yet fearing them, bearing deep guilt towards her past race, all transforming into a powerful self-destructive impulse with a "why should I live well" disposition.
A life form possessing such wisdom, taking an extreme path is almost inevitably, and her rationality couldn’t bear her memory’s scour, each piece of happiness belonging to her would fearfully remind her of her race’s misfortune.
So, no matter how good her life should have been, it’s destined to be tormented until her family’s good and home is gone.
The "Mother Goddess" who swallowed all life into herself was also perhaps the resentment of not bringing all her clansmen along in the past.
If back then she had possessed that rule, or could have saved her clan in another way, if within the Mother Goddess, countless lives devoured each other, those who survived didn’t necessarily have to be herself... this self-destruction-maxed doctrine ultimately formed into a tenet, inherently dooming her as an Evil God.
Lu Ping’an does not sympathize with her, to be exact, he has no interest in why a villain twisted into such a shape today.
Black is black, white is white... Lu Ping’an merely "uses" as straightforward as that.
To comprehend the world’s reason of the "Mother Goddess," it’s necessary to reconstruct the ancient Calamity Beast, and the courtyard being used now indeed was the legacy gifted from her clansmen, hence fragments of the ancient god’s Divine Kingdom.
".....Look at the rule buildings within your courtyard; when confined to the courtyard’s little world, their authority nearly approaches that of a tenth-order True God..."
This is Lu Ping’an’s own little Divine Kingdom, and the rule buildings within naturally are manifestations of the self-made rules of his little world’s world’s reason.
Within the Divine Kingdom, they are "Divine Right."
In reality, a true Deity also needs connection to the world to turn their Divine Kingdom’s authority into genuine world’s reason, fundamentally no different from Lu Ping’an.
In essence, the focal point is merely the scope... Lu Ping’an is still young, confined to fulfilling limited divine rights within his domain.
"Are you suggesting to merge the cauldron into the courtyard? Make it a rule building?"
"In actuality, your courtyard has always been waiting, waiting for a life hatching pool... but just that alone isn’t enough."
After some calculations, the big shots provided Lu Ping’an with a new plan.
Only making it a rule building might strengthen it, but cannot cause a qualitative change. More important is initiating new rules, letting multiple Rule Powers construct a new world’s reason.
"Magic Potion, you need power in this realm. Essentially, Magic Potion itself is a ritual of nurturing and transforming life. You need knowledge and power relevant to this area, making sure your Life Cauldron does not become overly chaotic....."
Simply heightening the limit, akin to forcibly elevating the ladder a segment, is basically improbable, but what professionals excel at is stacking multiple ladders on a stable foundation, stepping up a level... weaving a more upper layer world’s reason with numerous rules and professions, this is essentially a common approach.
Two Magic Alchemists above the Quasi-God stepped up as Lu Ping’an’s temporary masters, their "teaching" method simple and crude.
Directly selling prescribed Magic Potion knowledge at the library, Lu Ping’an bought them, and then they taught the usage techniques forcibly, thus Lu Ping’an quickly caught up with this coursework.
Gardener and Magic Potion have a twin-like relationship, not just limited to production, after a vast number of dual-cultivating high-end talents emerged, they’ve naturally developed the method of fused professions.
In the past, these were untold secrets of each Church and God Series, but now, these big shots threw them at Lu Ping’an like added extras.
And "Library" and "Time acceleration" made this learning process quite swift.
Only then did Lu Ping’an realize the Magic Potions actually contained numerous deathly matters related to Gardener... Life creation.
Western Magic Potion, Eastern Alchemy, in essence, are the same, transforming "dead matter" into "living matter" to alter destiny, compensating for congenital deficiencies... this knowledge about the material’s properties is exceedingly helpful for "creating life."
Taking the "Life-points" harvesting route, so this aspect was lacking but now to further advance the Life Cauldron it might be the best choice to patch this knowledge gap.
Previously, Lu Ping’an "created life," only needed considering brain, bone, blood, not because those were all, but because his rules and knowledge could only offer those options.
Before, he could use the omnipotent Life-points to supplement congenital deficiencies... this might have bypassed the hardship of other life systems researching material properties, but also limited them severely.
At this moment, over a dozen ninth-order or higher big shots surged into the courtyard, and after candid knowledge exchanges, Lu Ping’an’s retake proceeded with considerable speed.
He burnt points to increase his Occupation Level, and within less than a day, he produced a seventh-tier Magic Alchemist..... of course, its quality was critically watered down, proceeding with "Prove the Tao with strength" and life-points force-buying tactic.
During this process, the cauldron gradually completed its absorption.
A new Life Hatching Pool emerged in the courtyard’s center, the extra feed ports further exhibiting its nature of qualitative change.
However, currently, each feed port was filled with Dragon-Snake flesh and material.
Not simply because it’s adequate, but since the big shots were still continuously testing Lu Ping’an’s abilities, and concurrently, disputing endlessly over the "materials" for the upcoming new life.
With merely one big shot in that area, the materials list would have long been finalized, and effectiveness would certainly not have fallen short.
Presently with a lot of big shots, theirs talk rationale, causing the final list to remain undefined.
On the other hand, even if the big shots have their own channels to obtain materials, coordinating such logistics requires time.
Consecutively, a problematic issue emerged.
"Life-points, really aren’t enough..."
— End of Chapter 1740 —