3: Chapter 3 The Netherworld Ruler

Su Ming then shifted his divine sense to look at his deity panel.

He saw that a clickable evolution plus sign had appeared at the end of Divine Grace.

With a thought from him, evolution paths emerged one after another, and Divine Grace could actually eventually evolve into an SSS-rank talent.

One must know that even an A-rank talent could be called a heaven's pride prodigy, and an S-rank talent was regarded as a monster. Su Ming simply couldn't dare to imagine how terrifying an SSS-rank existence would be.

However, upon seeing the dense, longer-than-a-human-life string of zeros required to evolve Divine Grace to SSS-rank, Su Ming's mouth twitched fiercely.

"Good heavens!"

"Even back in Chengdu in my past life, I had never seen so many zeros!"

Su Ming pulled back his gaze, and when he looked at the consumption required to evolve Divine Grace to E-rank, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Evolving to E-rank only takes ten thousand divine crystals, which I can still accept."

Su Ming evolved Divine Grace without hesitation.

After Su Ming made his choice, he could feel that half of the divine crystals in his divine domain had disappeared.

These divine crystals turned into a streak of spiritual light that directly integrated into Su Ming's body.

Along with the integration of this spiritual light, the effects of Divine Grace also changed.

Divine Grace (E): Attracts and gathers the thoughts and wishes of believers, increasing the power of faith offered by believers by 25%. The power of Divine Grace tempers the body, increasing the physical strength of believers by 10%.

Looking at the effects of Divine Grace, Su Ming's face was filled with joy. A 25% increase in the obtained power of faith already made Su Ming very satisfied, and it could also improve the physical strength of believers by 10%.

This effect was already stronger than most E-rank talents Su Ming knew of.

With the evolution effects being so good, Su Ming looked forward even more to the ability of Divine Revelation.

He used up his only point of divinity without hesitation.

[Divine Revelation!]

The changes Su Ming felt just now during the evolution came from himself, whereas the changes from Divine Revelation came from the divine domain.

Su Ming could feel that the entire Netherworld was undergoing drastic changes.

Between the originally gloomy, cold, and dead heaven and earth, the churning black fog began to slowly flow and reorganize.

Soon, an extra piece of information appeared on the panel.

[Origin Dao Mark · Nether Sovereign]

Effect: Unfolds the Nether domain with oneself as the source, turning wherever one goes into the Nether. All existences within the divine domain can be transformed into the Nether attribute.

"Hiss——"

Looking at the effects of Nether Sovereign, Su Ming sucked in a cold breath, his pupils constricted sharply, turbulent waves rose in his heart, and his face was filled with incredulous shock.

"Alright, with Nether Sovereign, wherever I go, that place will be my divine domain. And does the meaning of that latter sentence mean what I understand it to mean? If so, that would be too terrifying."

Thinking of that thought of his, Su Ming couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

However, Su Ming finally suppressed the palpitation in his heart.

He certainly hadn't forgotten that he was still at the school's awakening altar, and it was time for him to go out.

Su Ming's figure slowly dissipated in the divine domain.

When he opened his eyes again, he had already fallen back onto the awakening altar in the outside world.

At this moment, quite a few students had already returned from the divine domain awakening, and some people looked gloomy and full of loss, obviously having failed to condense a divine domain.

As for the students who successfully condensed their domains, they gathered in twos and threes, excitedly discussing their respective talents and divine domain attributes.

In the void, a looping broadcast voice echoed constantly:

"Students who have awakened, please go before the Awakening Stone to register relevant information!"

Hearing this, a trace of hesitation flashed across the depths of Su Ming's eyes. After a little thought, he still stepped forward.

The rules of this world were just like this; anyone who successfully condensed a divine domain had to register and file records at the Awakening Stone.

Registering information directly determined the Federation's subsequent resource inclination and cultivation support.

Su Ming quickly walked in front of the Awakening Stone. The moment his steps entered, light flowed across the surface of the Awakening Stone, and a line of public information slowly emerged.

"Su Ming, Demigod, Divine Domain Attribute (Nether), Divine Domain Area: 100,000 square kilometers, E-rank Talent, Comprehensive Evaluation E+."

Looking at the public data given by the Awakening Stone, Su Ming was slightly stunned. "It seems that this Awakening Stone cannot detect the existence of the Supreme Evolution. That way, there's no chance to fleece the Federation's rewards."

However, he quickly let it go.

Let alone the human race, even the entire universe probably hadn't produced a talent of this level yet.

Although the human race was a top-tier race among the myriad realms and races, there were still a few races that could compare with it.

Once Supreme Evolution was exposed, even if he could obtain the protection of the Human Federation, the human race might not necessarily be able to protect him.

Thinking of this, Su Ming's brows smoothed out, and a trace of relief arose in his heart instead.

He didn't intentionally want to play the pig to eat the tiger, but this world where myriad races rose together and deities stood in great numbers was simply too dangerous.

If his talent leaked, not only would extraterritorial alien races eye him covetously, but even within the human race, there were quite a few people who coveted, plotted against, or wanted to control him.

Those top powerhouses and ancient deities had plenty of means to manipulate, suppress, or even obliterate him.

Compared to the doom-like crisis of exposing his talent, the Federation's meager resource support was simply not worth mentioning.

Su Ming silently walked down the registration platform.

Subsequently, students came forward to register one after another. Not long after, all the students of this year's awakening trial returned to their places, and the deity awakening ceremony officially came to an end.

Principal Ning Zhengqi appeared on the high platform once again, waved his sleeves, and directly put away the floating Awakening Stone.

"Ahem!"

As his voice sounded, all the discussions instantly vanished, and everyone's gazes looked uniformly towards Principal Ning Zhengqi, filled with awe.

"Everyone, now that you have awakened, regardless of whether you have condensed a divine domain, whether you have a talent, or how good your talent is, it is only a beginning."

Hearing his words, everyone's expressions varied; some were excited, and some were lost.

Having said that, Principal Ning Zhengqi glanced at the students below, and his figure flashed and disappeared from above.

"Shattering the void directly, is this the means of a true god? Too outrageous! When can I reach this level?" many people said with full envy.

"Stop dreaming. Without good talents and resources, we will most likely be demigods in this lifetime. As for lighting the divine fire, walking the divine road, condensing the divine persona, and becoming a true deity, it is simply a fantasy." Someone threw cold water on them dejectedly.

"What route are you planning to take?"

"I don't have any talent, and the attribute of my divine domain is ordinary. Afterwards, I plan to take over my parents' work and engage in the aquaculture industry together, walking the path of a lifestyle deity. Although doing this won't bring great achievements, it should at least keep me from starving to death."

"Sigh, I'm about the same. Although I have a talent, it's an F-rank planting talent. I plan to take the path of the lifestyle deity afterwards as well."

"Good, good, good, flexing here, right? With this planting talent of yours, your income can be increased by at least 10% every day. I'm envious, I'm envious."

"The talent I awakened is F-rank Keenness, which can increase the sharpness of weapons manufactured by my believers by 10%. I plan to take the path of the war divine domain."

"Forget it then. Your talent barely counts as a combat type, but it's too singular and the restrictions are too big. Taking the path of the war divine domain is not easy; you might as well go in the direction of technology or forging."

Listening to the discussions of the people around him, Su Ming had no thought of joining the discussion, but instead turned around and left directly. At this moment, he only wanted to go back early to verify the thoughts in his heart.