236: Chapter 236 The War of the Gods, the Birth of the Abyss

【At 1.7 billion years old, the top group of gods in the Astral Realm, after undergoing a long period of accumulation and precipitation, finally achieved a Breakthrough from the shackles of Intermediate Divine Power and stepped into the Domain of Great Divine Power.】

【Every one of these existences wields an authority sufficient to shake the Astral Realm. Their divine fires burn eternally in the starry sky, and their Divine Might is like a purgatory, deterring countless Material Planes.】

【Among the top Pantheons in the Astral Realm today, there are at least two or more gods with Great Divine Power.】

【After their strength reaches the level of Great Divine Power, the Astral Realm gods are already able to perceive the existence of the Myriad Gods Realm.】

【Even many Astral Realm gods have begun to collide with the Law-level Ancient Gods who have entered the Astral Realm.】

【It is worth mentioning that after all these years, those Law-level Ancient Gods have also grown to their Peak, and the strength of each one has reached the so-called Great Divine Power level.】

【At 2.4 billion years old, the God of Mages—this first Acquired god who was once famous in the Astral Realm for his wisdom and knowledge.】

【After countless temperings of his Godhead, he finally broke through the limits of cognition.】

【Witnessed by billions of believers and under the gaze of countless gods, his Godhead radiated an unprecedentedly brilliant light, completing the ultimate transformation from the "God of Mages" to the "God of Truth."】

【When the Divine Might of the God of Truth swept across the entire Astral Realm, all Great Divine Powers felt a tremor from the depths of their Souls; the Astral Realm had given birth to its first Great Divine Power!】

【At 3 billion years old, nearly 600 million years after the God of Truth, the Astral Realm finally gave birth to its second Great Divine Power.】

【This second Great Divine Power was none other than the God of Fear from the evil camp.】

【That's right, the God of Fear was not only not killed by the God of Truth after the latter's Breakthrough to Great Divine Power, but he also became the second Astral Realm god to Breakthrough to Great Divine Power.】

【At 9 billion years old, there are now more than forty gods of the Great Divine Power level in the Astral Realm.】

【Among them, there are more than twenty gods who lean toward the factions of Order and Neutrality.】

【There are nearly twenty Evil Gods who lean toward the side of evil.】

【If it weren't for some Law-level Ancient Gods who also imitated the improvement methods of the Astral Realm gods and condensed some rule-grade Godheads to raise their strength to the level of Great Divine Power...】

【...the number of Great Divine Power level gods in the Astral Realm would have almost exceeded that of the Myriad Gods Realm.】

【At 10 billion years old, the Righteous Gods and Evil Gods each recruited a portion of the Ancient Gods, preparing to launch a final decisive battle.】

【Within the vast space of the Astral Realm, more than a hundred Great Divine Power level gods and over fifteen thousand Great Divine Power level gods engaged in a massive melee!】

【Brilliant radiance of Divine Power bloomed in the starry sky like supernova explosions, illuminating the eternal Astral Realm as if it were day.】

【Countless gods fell in this catastrophe. Their glorious Divine Kingdoms plummeted from the heights like falling stars, and their Godheads, which symbolized the gods' Origin, were shattered under the intense attacks.】

【As for those Law-level Ancient Gods, many were directly sent back to the resurrection pool on the spot.】

【Their Origins were severely damaged, and there is no telling how long it will take for them to resurrect.】

【Even rule-grade Ancient Gods, who had never died since the birth of the world...】

【...had more than ten of their number besieged and killed by multiple parties in this war, returning to the Sea of Rules to wait for resurrection.】

【The aftermath of this divine war swept across the entire Astral Realm. The spatial structure was torn apart by Divine Power like fragile glass, revealing fissures into the Chaos Void Realm.】

【Even the balance of time within the Astral Realm became disordered during this battle; the boundaries between past and future became blurred at this moment.】

【Had the Astral Consciousness not constructed protective barriers for the vast majority of Material Planes...】

【...countless Material Planes would likely have been reduced to dust in the aftermath of this divine war.】

【As the gods fell one after another, the divine war was nearing its end, and the Righteous Gods were on the verge of victory.】

【Suddenly, the eyes of the God of Fear, who was being besieged by three Great Divine Powers, abruptly burst forth with a heart-palpitating purple-black light, as if countless distorted Souls were struggling and wailing within his pupils.】

【His divine body began to expand and distort uncontrollably, and the Divine Power swirling around him was increasing at a geometric rate, but the price was that his sanity was collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye.】

【The three Great Divine Powers, unable to dodge in time, were instantly repelled by the God of Fear, whose strength had suddenly surged.】

【Having broken free from the siege, the God of Fear suddenly turned toward his own allies.】

【Immediately following that, the God of Fear's body instantly cracked like broken porcelain, turning into a sky full of purple-black divine light that shrouded several Great Divine Powers and over a thousand Great Divine Powers of the evil camp.】

【At the moment of the God of Fear's self-detonation, the shadows of the entire Astral Realm distorted, as if the shrieks of billions of beings were coming from the void.】

【Faced with the God of Fear's sudden attack, those Evil Gods had no time to react before being enveloped by the purple light he had become.】

【Next, you discover that almost all negative emotions and even dark powers within the Astral Realm begin to converge toward the God of Fear's location.】

【The purple-black divine light transformed from the God of Fear continuously collapsed and rotated, forming a vortex that swallowed everything.】

【"Thump-thump, thump-thump, thump-thump..."】

【Suddenly, the sound of a heartbeat emanated from the location of the God of Fear.】

【This heartbeat was initially as faint as a mosquito's buzz, but in an instant, it transformed into a deafening roar of thunder.】

【Every god who heard this sound felt their Godhead trembling, as if some great horror was being born.】

【"Boom!"】

【With a loud bang that shattered the Void Realm, that continuous heartbeat came to an abrupt halt.】

【In its place was a silence that swallowed everything, as if the entire Astral Realm had been directly frozen at this moment.】

【At the location of the God of Fear, space shattered like fragile glass, and a pitch-black singularity suddenly appeared.】

【This singularity expanded at an alarming rate, evolving in an instant into a boundless pitch-black world.】

【Its boundaries were constantly twisting and writhing, greedily swallowing all surrounding energy and matter like a living thing.】

【Next, you see all the worlds controlled by the God of Fear.】

【Even the worlds controlled by those several Great Divine Power level Evil Gods who had been enveloped by the God of Fear all turned into streams of light and surged toward this pitch-black world.】

【Every swallowed world re-condensed within the pitch-black world, turning into layers of distorted and deformed planes. These planes stacked upon one another, forming a dizzying three-dimensional structure.】

【Some planes burned with unquenchable fires, some were soaked in a foul sea of blood, and others were filled with countless twisting, deformed creatures.】

【As more and more worlds were swallowed, the scale of the pitch-black world expanded geometrically, soon surpassing the largest Material Plane evolved within the Astral Realm.】

【As the pitch-black world continued to grow, just as you knew the name of the Astral Realm the first time you saw it, a name also surfaced in your mind—the Abyss!】