Chapter 553: Chapter 0553: Follow-up (Seeking Subscription)

“The feeling of divinity…it’s truly remarkable.”

With a mere thought, Su Lu remedied the crumbling secret realm he had been gazing at.

In the place where his school once stood, a palace built of marble began to rise majestically.

He walked inside and seated himself on the divine throne at its heart, resting his cheek on his fist: “It’s also quite troublesome!”

It’s not often that divinities directly traverse the mundane world.

From their perspective, it’s akin to an ordinary person venturing into a desert. Even at the peak of a Spirit Tide, this realm struggles to contain their true forms, let alone allowing them to wield their full strength.

It’s for this reason that ‘arrival vessels’ and ‘incarnations’ are better choices.

An ‘arrival vessel’ refers to a physical form constructed for the divine using a marvel or a believer, like Shewinado uses a semi-divine artifact to form his body.

An ‘incarnation’ is a simpler concept, requiring only the expenditure of some power to materialize a clone from nothing.

Neither of these concepts is superior to the other, it simply depends on the divinity’s preference.

Su Lu had always preferred shadow clones. Now that he had become a divinity, his shadow clones naturally evolved into God’s Avatars, their maximum limit increasing to four.

“If they were merely projections without much power, then I could certainly create as many as I need, but the strength of God’s Avatar surpasses that of a level six Professional… Four is already more than enough,” he stated.

Without knowing other demigods’ limits, Su Lu had no basis for comparison.

“As I am now, I am the greatest ‘Mystery’! Even a level six cannot look me in the eye… The restrictions are indeed great.”

“If I need to travel, it would be best to do so as God’s Avatar.”

Even though the Blue Star World was his ‘territory,’ Su Lu felt his true form should avoid unnecessary movements. A careless step could easily destroy the flora and fauna.

“It seems my true form will have to reside within this realm for a long time. After all… they are the main force aiding me in digesting the ‘Curse’ …”

A complex emotion appeared on Su Lu’s face.

A ball of light separated from him, taking the form of a young man dressed in a white robe. He respectfully bowed his head towards Su Lu, took a step into the void, and disappeared.

…

Fast forward a bit in time.

The moment Su Lu ascended to godhood and bore the backlash!

He wielded the authority of the world, transferring the backlash to it in its entirety, forming a terrifying curse!

“Ah!”

At that very moment.

Every single inhabitant of the world, every living being… heard a terrifying voice in their ears.

It was the roar of a beast, mixed with an electrical buzzing sound; fully evoking their most primal and violent emotions.

“Is this… a curse?”

“The Curse of the Ancient God, why did it suddenly happen?”

“Something’s not right…”

At the Astronomical Observatory, Gill looked at his own trembling hand in terror, asking: “It’s not the Curse of the Ancient God… Why do I feel… it’s coming from within my body?”

The Curse of the Ancient God pulls on its victims’ spirit bodies from the outside before swallowing them.

However, this curse was different. It originated from within, as if a devil carrying a curse was at the heart of all of them!

“And… It’s not just me. Ordinary people are included too!”

Fighting against nausea and dread, Gill, horrified, clumsily flew into the sky, gazing down on the groaning earth below, fear in his eyes: “It’s not only the professionals, even the common people have been cursed! What’s happening?”

As a ‘grand magician’ and one of the top hundred wielders of the new era, Gill swiftly calmed down: “Spirit Seals are useless! It’s because this is the ‘pollution’ within our spiritual bodies… when did it begin? How was it born? Could it be the work of an omnipotent god?”

His formidable willpower was beneficial in controlling the situation.

After agonizing for ten or so minutes, the roar and wailing gradually subsided, leaving Gill soaked in cold sweat: “Fortunately… Fortunately, I understood that maintaining a clear mind is the first step to handling the dangers of mystery studies.”

He quickly looked at the people around him and, unsurprisingly, saw several professionals who had failed to resist the curse, losing control, and turning into beasts.

What’s more, there were also common folk showing signs of insanity!

‘They’re less polluted than professionals, but it’s still terrifying…’

‘What the hell happened to this world?’

Gill sank deep into his thoughts: ‘I have a feeling that the rates of mental illness will increase dramatically soon. Perhaps I should invest in a few mental asylums?’

…

“Ah!”

Bai Ling rolled around on the grass, feeling as if an indescribable entity was whispering into her ear, her eardrums bleeding.

Her face twisted in agony, blue veins popped out and pulsated beneath her skin, squirming like earthworms. She wished she could pierce her eardrums and rid herself of the sound.

However, her previous mystery studies had taught her that such struggles would be futile!

Finally…

After what felt like an eternity, the whispering died down. Panting heavily, she lay flat on the ground: “Just now… it felt like the legend of the Curse of the Ancient God. But I’m clearly not a professional… Could this be a punishment from Uncle?”

“You’re overthinking.”

A soft voice echoed.

However, Bai Ling didn’t raise her head, but maintained her prone position on the ground.

A sense of fear overwhelmed her as it rolled in with the voice. It was the complete domination of a higher life form over a lower one!

She’d die if she looked!

She didn’t dare to look up or even speak. All she could do was maintain her position and listen respectfully.

“That wasn’t a punishment I gave you.”

Gazing at Bai Ling, Su Lu sighed quietly. Even though it was merely an avatar, and he had tried his best to suppress it, it was still too horrific for her.

Moreover, what she heard was not his original voice, but a sound intentionally translated to reverberate in the air. Otherwise, his words alone would have been enough to kill her easily.

Just when Bai Ling was utterly lost, she heard the second half of what Su Lu said: “…but rather a curse I gave to the whole world!”

“What?” Bai Ling was about to lift her head but halted halfway, her neck making a crisp sound.

“Every living being in this world shares in the curse. The stronger ones bear more, the weaker ones less…”

Su Lu calmly continued, “It’s an irreversible process, especially for professionals… From that moment on, every aspect of spirituality will inevitably contain a curse, which means the stronger one is, the greater the curse… It’s a path filled with despair.”

By his ascension, Su Lu had made the entire world bear his backlash for reaching the seventh level.

All living beings in the world were paying the price for his becoming a god!

“In other words, even if you become a professional, you will still have to fight against the curse, an even stronger curse…”

Su Lu calmly told Bai Ling, “But… within deep despair lies hope. Once you break through to the seventh level, you can completely get rid of it!”

Bai Ling didn’t understand the concept of the seventh level, she could only passively remember what Su Lu had said.

But what she didn’t know was,

This scene was faithfully recorded in the ‘Revelation of the Gods’ — because mortals tried to kill gods, the gods cursed the world eternally as punishment!