“You should have inherited the original divine power of every god-bearing creature you killed, yet your soul power remains so weak. That can only mean you did not receive the rewards you deserved.”

“And that also proves that the existence behind you has been secretly withholding the divine power that you ought to have obtained throughout your journey across various worlds. It is not targeting you specifically, but all otherworldly travelers like you.”

“I speculate that the reason It does this is because It has already entered some kind of vicious cycle. Disorder has eroded It to the point that It requires a large amount of Divinity to keep the book functioning, forcing It to do this in order to maintain Its own existence.”

“And precisely because of this vicious cycle, otherworldly travelers like you become weaker and weaker batch after batch. And the weaker you become, the less divine fuel It can obtain… so It is trapped to death within this vicious cycle!”

Lin Xun widened his eyes. Combining this with what the Servant had said, everything suddenly made sense.

“No wonder the Divinity drop rate from killing monsters is so low. Even when Divinity drops, it is always a defective product weakened by one rank by default. So there has been a capitalist standing behind me all along!”

Why was The Book of Salvation such a powerful existence, yet the real world only had two Eternal True Gods, the Master and the Chairman-in-Chief?

It was not because The Book of Salvation could not cultivate stronger existences, but because The Book of Salvation had already fallen into a vicious cycle.

The Book of Salvation needed far too much Divinity to keep itself running, leaving only a pitiful amount of Divinity for the Apostles to strengthen themselves with.

Why did The Book of Salvation eliminate so many Apostles whose potential did not meet the standard? Because the operation of The Book of Salvation itself, those repeated journeys into other worlds, required consuming a huge amount of Divinity.

The Divinity that ordinary Apostles could produce was far from enough to offset the expenditure of The Book of Salvation, which was why The Book of Salvation stuffed all those Apostles without potential into death loops and let them all be filtered out by the game mechanics.

The Apostles repeatedly tested and erred throughout one Salvation journey after another, but was The Book of Salvation not doing the same?

The Book of Salvation was likewise repeatedly testing and erring in its process of selecting the potential of each Apostle, until either it cultivated an Apostle who achieved Transcendence, or it itself fell into a dead loop and perished within that vicious cycle.

The current reality was that The Book of Salvation had only managed to cultivate Eternal True Gods before already falling into a vicious cycle.

A thought could not help but surface in Lin Xun’s mind: ‘Could it be that The Book of Salvation had already cultivated supreme main gods long ago, but that those main gods never achieved Transcendence, and then simply disappeared?’

By now, The Book of Salvation could, within this vicious cycle, cultivate at most Apostles at the realm of Eternal True God…

Before Lin Xun had time to think further, the Servant paused, then his calm words were as shocking as a thunderbolt!

“The first sign of my sincerity is Divinity!”

“Because your authority power is extremely special, an unobservable special authority, the existence behind you can never realize how strong your potential truly is!”

“But the true Lord and I understand. We will not withhold your divine power. The true Lord’s world has no such restrictions. I can use the native creatures of the true Lord’s world to supply you with the divine power needed to rapidly advance you to immortal.”

“And you will not need to do anything at all in order to obtain large quantities of divine power.”

“However, that world no longer has any extra immortal gods left to continue providing you with divine power for further advancement, so after immortal, divine power will no longer be so easy to obtain.”

“Still, I can use the true Lord’s remaining Chaos Authority and, through the unobservable trait working in coordination with your authority power, deceive the existence called The Book of Salvation, allowing you in your future journeys to selectively bypass the withholding of Divinity.”

“I can even, after you succeed in Salvation, once that false rehearsal becomes fixed reality, lock onto the specific coordinates of that world and define the Book Containing Illusion into that unknown world, bringing all the resources of that world, all divine power, into your possession.”

“Apart from the resources needed for the Book Containing Illusion to sustain itself, everything else will belong to you!”

“The existence called The Book of Salvation needs to serve countless people, while the true Lord and I will only cooperate with you, because only you and I know that all others are merely passersby. Only you possess the possibility of reaching Transcendence!”

Lin Xun admitted that he was tempted. The infernal game had repeatedly strangled him at the point of divine items, leaving him unable to advance into a stronger stage.

And the Servant of Knowledge had opened with the ultimate trump card.

Whatever you lack the most, I will give you exactly that!

Others serve a whole crowd of people, but I serve only you. And apart from the minimum wages needed to sustain basic living, I want nothing else!

My only request is that after you make it big in the future, you help me out along the way.

With conditions that generous, who could refuse?

Seeing the tempted look on Lin Xun’s face, the Servant of Knowledge added another log onto this fire that was already about to blaze out of control.

“My second sign of sincerity is… would you like to become the true manager of the Book Containing Illusion?”

“The quality of those otherworldly travelers varies greatly. Most travelers cannot produce more Divinity than what The Book of Salvation expends on them, but a small number of especially talented individuals can achieve production greater than consumption.”

“We possess Chaos Authority, which can to a certain extent obscure the sight of The Book of Salvation.”

“So why should we not take in all those travelers with sufficient potential under your command, have them serve you alone, and let all the divine power they can produce gather onto you?”

“We only need to offer them slightly better benefits than The Book of Salvation, and we can make those travelers give everything for you.”

The Servant’s words left Lin Xun standing there dumbfounded.

“Damn! The game can actually be played like this? Poaching workers from The Book of Salvation and making the other Apostles work for me?!”

After the brief joy, Lin Xun quickly realized several problems. “Can the Book Containing Illusion really reach the same level as The Book of Salvation?”

“And The Book of Salvation is already caught in a vicious cycle, so would not poaching from it just speed up the destruction of The Book of Salvation?”

“If The Book of Salvation is gone, what will happen to the real world?”

Then, without the slightest concealment, the Servant of Knowledge shook his head. “The true Lord in His current state naturally cannot do all that.”

“But now the true Lord not only has Analysis Authority, He also has a part of Chaos Authority.”

“He can analyze the several key authorities controlled by The Book of Salvation without being discovered by it, thereby continuously perfecting Himself and gradually gaining the same functions as The Book of Salvation.”

“The Book of Salvation can no longer break free of the vicious cycle. In the future, destruction is its only fate. Whether or not you take its travelers into your own camp, that fact cannot be changed.”

“And besides, I am not asking you to turn the Book Containing Illusion into a new The Book of Salvation, because the dead loop now shown by The Book of Salvation is the best example.”

“From beginning to end, I have never intended to be like The Book of Salvation, placing all eggs in different baskets. From beginning to end, I only have you alone, and all of my and the true Lord’s expectations are placed on you alone!”

“All my actions, all my goals, are to allow you to see the sight that no god has ever seen, and to cast off the restraints no god has ever cast off.”

“To reach that realm that none can attain… Transcendence!”

No matter how the operational process of The Book of Salvation worked, the fact that it strangled him on divine items, leading to there being only two Eternal True God Apostles in the real world, and leading to Lin Xun’s own failure to advance into godhood, was an undeniable fact.

If all gods were unable to achieve Transcendence and complete true Salvation, then Lin Xun genuinely did see a sliver of possibility in his own Chaos Authority.

This possibility, no matter how slim its chance might be, was enough to make it worth giving everything for, enough to make it worth staking absolutely everything on it!

Lin Xun took a deep breath and met the eyes of the Servant of Knowledge. Under the Servant’s relieved expression, he solemnly nodded.