Chapter 35 Ideas for Refining a Natal Divine Tool, Continuing to Strike at Tang San's Faith
The optimized "The Innate Secret Method" was widely spread throughout the world, and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was opened as a holy land for body tempering.
This move was not only to cultivate the two Evil Soul Masters, Ye Xishui and Zhongli Wu, to break through to the god level so they could serve as sacrifices under the Angel Sword in the future, but also to increase the probability of future Soul Masters in this world breaking through the limits of mortality and reaching the god level.
The emergence of more local god-level experts is itself an enhancement of the plane's foundation; a plane where multiple god-level existences emerge cannot be compared in terms of potential and stability to one supported solely by the Plane Master.
Secondly, bestowing that Peak Alchemy inheritance from the Divine Seal Plane upon Kong Deming could be considered planting a seed of infinite potential.
The Sun Moon Empire's spirit of research in the field of Spirit Tools is not to be underestimated; obtaining this set of high-level extra-planar systems, which are completely different from local Spirit Tool technology yet more systematic, will surely trigger a world-shaking explosion of technology when the two collide and merge.
In time, creating "Divine Tools" belonging to the Douluo Plane itself is by no means a delusion, and the appearance of a large number of divine-tool-level creations would also be a huge enhancement to the overall strength and foundation of the plane.
At the thought of Divine Tools, Lei Chen's mind couldn't help but fall upon himself.
Speaking of which, as a Plane Master whose status is equal to a First-Rank Deity, he didn't even have a decent Divine Tool at the moment.
His previous brief actions to suppress Tang Hao and Ah Yin and annihilate a few strands of Tang San's Divine Sense were all achieved by forcefully using his realm as a First-level God, purely suppressing others with power.
If he were to clash and fight to the death with a First-Rank Deity of the same level in the future, he would undoubtedly suffer a great disadvantage without a Divine Tool in hand, and his methods would appear exceptionally limited.
Therefore, for Lei Chen, possessing a suitable Divine Tool was also a very important matter.
With his current abilities and the resources gathered in the Douluo Plane, refining eight or ten Divine Tools would not actually be difficult.
Whether it was the Silver Mother of the Deep Sea Sunken Silver, the Essence of the Earth Core Fire Jade, or various Curiosities containing Law Fragments, everything was available in his plane.
However... those ordinary Divine Tools were merely the icing on the cake for him, and the role they could play was very limited.
The kind of Divine Tool that Lei Chen could refine at will might be a dream treasure for ordinary god-level experts, but for him, the Plane Master who governed a whole world, it didn't mean much.
So in Lei Chen's view, rather than wasting time refining these "ordinary Divine Tools," it was better to leave them to Kong Deming and the others to research and create, which would be excellent practice for them.
As for Lei Chen himself, what he truly needed was an "exclusive divine artifact" deeply tied to his own status and authority, capable of perfectly exerting his full strength, much like the Sea God Trident was to the Sea God and the Angel Sword was to the God of Angels.
Such Divine Tools often contained unique laws and growth potential, sharing glory and loss with their master; they were by no means something that could be achieved by simply piling up ordinary materials, and refining such a Divine Tool would not be so easy.
"The refining of an exclusive divine artifact cannot be rushed; it needs to be planned carefully. Fortunately... I already have a few ideas in mind."
Lei Chen's gaze was deep, as if piercing through the endless void to see certain future possibilities.
The matter of refining an exclusive divine artifact concerned his very foundation and required full preparation, choosing the carrier and opportunity that best fit his identity as the Plane Master.
Before officially starting preparations for refining the exclusive divine artifact, there was another urgent matter to handle—continuing to clear the "nails" Tang San had left in this plane and completely cutting off his source of faith.
In the current Douluo Plane, faith in Tang San could roughly be divided into land and ocean parts, and the faith on land was further divided into overt and covert lines.
The overt line, also the largest one, was Shrek Academy. Ten thousand years of reverence and promotion had caused the power of faith gathered by Shrek to be quite considerable, and because its internal buildings and institutions were all named after the "Sea God," most of this power of faith was directed toward Tang San.
Now, Lei Chen had ordered Mu En to remove the statues and change the names, effectively cutting this largest tributary of faith in half.
As for the covert line, it was the reclusive Sea God Family; however, this family's situation was somewhat special. Strictly speaking, the source of their faith was the First Generation Sea God, and for Tang San, they mostly acknowledged and partially honored him as the successor to the sea god divine position.
Additionally, they were few in number and had lived in seclusion for many years, having no influence on the situation of the Continent, so the power of faith they could provide was minuscule. Even if left alone, it would have no impact on the overall situation.
"The faith from the Sea God Family is like a stream to a vast ocean; even if ignored, it won't cause any waves," Lei Chen thought quickly. "However, since I'm doing a thorough cleanup, it's better not to leave any blind spots. Perhaps I can make some arrangements to guide their faith to shift completely..."
A thought flashed by, and Lei Chen already had a plan.
For this insignificant yet symbolically special corner, he only needed a little guidance to ensure everything was foolproof.
"In this way, the faith on land can basically be purged. Next, is the even more vast and more crucial... ocean."
Lei Chen's gaze seemed to pierce through space, casting toward that azure world that occupied the vast majority of the Douluo Star's surface; that was the true headquarters of the Sea God's faith.
The faith of land-based life in the Sea God could naturally not be very stable. In Lei Chen's view, it was just a rootless tree, naturally easy to clear, but in the ocean... it was truly a bit troublesome.
Just as the Soul Beasts of the Far North Land still had deep-rooted faith in the Ice God hundreds of thousands of years after his fall, the faith of the billions of Sea Soul Beasts in the ocean toward the Sea God was the same; it could even be said to have long since merged into their blood, becoming a part of maintaining their racial identity.
The accumulation and stability of this faith were far beyond the superficial reverence of the land Soul Masters generated by Shrek Academy's propaganda.
If Lei Chen forcibly used the authority of the Plane Master to suppress or erase it, that would definitely not be the best move and might even trigger a violent backlash from the ocean's faith. Guidance is better than obstruction; in Lei Chen's view, the key to dismantling the ocean life's faith in Tang San lay in "replacement."
Lei Chen's gaze once again turned toward the Far North Land, and the figure of the Xue Di appeared before his eyes.
Supporting the Xue Di to inherit the position of the ice god and regrouping the faith of the Far North Land for the Ice God was a good example; then for the ocean, perhaps this method could also be emulated.
"The foundation of the Sea God's faith lies in the fact that the ocean needs a ruler to maintain balance and order. Now that Tang San is gone, he can be treated as if he, the Sea God, is as dead as the Ancient Ice God. Naturally, just like with the Ancient Ice God, a'successor' can be chosen for him as the Sea God."