Chapter 397: Chapter 203: Spreading! The Faith Virus!

The next day

A rebellion erupted in several mines, countless mining slaves awakened to powerful abilities, mastering the powers of light or shadow, possessing formidable physical qualities, and an iron will, fiercely resisting everywhere.

Although the Great Shang Kingdom had fallen, the prelude to resistance was already underway. More and more mining slaves celebrated the light and shadow, joining the ranks of the rebels, even bringing more people to believe in the light and shadow.

In the process of resistance, they would harvest a considerable number of blood stones. Although they could not use them, they could directly offer them to the Lord of Light and Shadow, allowing him to convert them into powerful strength, granting them greater power.

In a cave, Ye Mingqiu sat inside, casually flipping through a book learning knowledge, which was a book about divine traits, relatively precious knowledge.

Not many books cover divine traits.

"Thud!"

A blood stone fell, landing in a pile of blood stones, while the Blood Spear happened to be embedded in the pile, greedily absorbing the energy of the blood stones, further enhancing its strength and energy.

Ye Mingqiu turned another page. His previously calm expression was broken upon seeing a certain sentence, revealing a puzzled and confused look.

[Divine traits are extremely precious, a symbol of the strength hierarchy of divinity. The only ways to acquire them are to become a deity, to be born as an offspring of a deity, or to steal a deity’s power. Other than that, there is no method to acquire this trait.]

No way?

Ye Mingqiu did not understand. Clearly, he could acquire divine traits through the nine-star title. Why did the book state that there was no other way to obtain divine traits? Had the author never seen a nine-star title with divine traits?

Perhaps that’s the case. After all, divine traits and nine-star titles are not things ordinary people can come into contact with, so it’s understandable that the author didn’t know.

He continued reading further.

[First attempt to acquire divine traits through experimentation]

[I captured a divine race offspring, attempting to gain changes through his lineage. The power of divine traits is too enticing, and despite the massive risks, I wanted to try to see if I could succeed...]

[I failed. Whether through bloodline transplantation or organ transplantation, the attempts failed, and my body seemed to suffer some kind of curse. Although I’m still alive, I endure suffering worse than death every day. I don’t know what’s happening, but it undoubtedly relates to that divine offspring’s divine blood and organs.]

[Second attempt to acquire divine traits through experimentation]

[I learned a lot of special knowledge from the last lesson. It’s not just about the issues with divine bloodlines, but also the rejection reactions—this is an intriguing subject.]

[I attempted to vivisect that specimen, to detect the source of the divine traits, but ultimately failed because no matter what I tried, I couldn’t find the answer. This experiment lasted several years, and through repeated failures, I gradually became despondent, even establishing a relationship with the specimen...] 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Vivisect...

Established a relationship?

Ye Mingqiu’s hand trembled slightly while holding the book, marveling at the author as a character, and this seemed to build upon the first attempt.

Ssss...

This feeling is somewhat hard to evaluate...

He continued looking further ahead, where the book recorded the various methods the author used to experiment, attempting to acquire divine traits, and this note was the secret note given to him by Tang Ruobing, advising him not to spread it.

Before reading the book, he didn’t actually know the extent of this secrecy, but after seeing this, he felt that the book indeed had a lot to offer.

Turning another page.

[Spiritual realm experiments on divine traits and titles]

[As everyone knows, the spirit realm will grant titles to spiritualists based on their achievements, and the upper limit of this title is fairly high. So, I wondered if obtaining the strongest nine-star title would allow one to gain divine traits?]

[....omitted....]

[Experiment result: failed]

[The nine-star title could not grant spiritualists divine traits. This seems to be a mechanism of the spirit realm, or perhaps a limitation of divine traits themselves; a normal human indeed cannot obtain divine traits, not even through the nine-star title.]

[However, if spiritualists...]

The key part of the note was smeared and labeled with the word [Forbidden].

Ye Mingqiu slightly furrowed his brow. If a nine-star title couldn’t grant divine traits, then where did his Lord of Light and Shadow obtain them? Could it be that he originally had them, but they were awakened in the form of a title by the spirit realm?

This doesn’t seem very likely. Apart from his slightly strong combat instincts, fast skill proficiency growth, and somewhat high soul potential, and the ability to allocate points on his panel, there wasn’t anything special about him.

Compared to this answer, Ye Mingqiu had a more plausible hypothesis—that is, directly and perfectly seizing a part of a deity and integrating it, then merging it into the profession during advancement, thereby mixing a part of the strength model in the professional occupation model.

With an incomplete model in possession, the difficulty of acquiring divine traits again would reduce significantly.

In short, it’s the process of changing a one-time acquisition into multiple gradual acquisitions, ultimately mastering this trait through repeated efforts.

[Third experiment, commencing]

[Through special arrangements, I killed a deity. It must be said that there are many differences between a true god and their offspring; their sizes are quite different, and there’s a slight difference in the texture of the skin...]

[After a brief in-depth understanding, I gradually gained insight into this corpse and attempted to use my method to steal the power unique to the god. I couldn’t help but marvel that perhaps humanity’s absolute rationality is itself a blasphemy to gods, so I blasphemed the deity...]