What was Gu Nan—the person once again at the center of the storm—doing right now?
He was leisurely sitting in his Divine Kingdom and observing the Graceful Heaven trapped inside the Divine Kingdom Treasure Orb. It was continuously blood sacrificed into wisps of blood Qi that then flew into the crimson skull.
Gu Nan originally thought the blood sacrifice could be completed quickly, but it turned out that the hurriedly-completed Blood Sacrifice Formation was flawed after all.
Even though Fang Chaoyun was already dead, Graceful Heaven's residents didn't bow their heads and wait for death. Instead, they upheld the Confucian spirit of "unrelenting self-improvement" and devised all kinds of ways to survive the blood sacrifice.
When the sky cracked and the earth broke apart, they moved to a more stable area; when ferocious beasts ran rampant, they found ways to hunt the beasts and leave a safe area where normal people could live.
These lucky people who survived the blood sacrifice—or rather, it wasn't their turn to be sacrificed yet—displayed amazing vitality.
Such scenes were very reminiscent of the human race in ancient times overcoming obstacles and seeking a path to survival among all the other races.
However… their efforts were futile.
It was impossible for Graceful Heaven, which was trapped inside the Divine Kingdom Treasure Orb, to escape the fate of being completely blood sacrificed—because no one could save them.
And the string in Gu Nan's heart that was always drawn tight ever since he came to this world could finally relax a little.
As long as he completed the Second Round, there would be very few people in this world who could truly threaten his life.
Even if he was facing a powerhouse like Austin, Gu Nan was quite sure he could still escape with his life, and he might not even suffer too many injuries.
In fact, his current survival situation was much better than in the game.
A large number of players in the game chose to build their Divine Kingdoms in secret or even deep in the void because they didn't want to be noticed by the greater gods.
This was because it was extremely difficult for players to hide their identity after the Second Round; being discovered was almost inevitable.
And once they became the gods' public enemy, the player must face a situation where they would be hunted down by all gods. They would become street rats who had to hide themselves at all times.
It could be said that starting from the Second Round, the difficulty of the game would really start to show, suddenly becoming a stealth survival game.
Players must hide their whereabouts while hunting powerful gods and continuously spreading evil to finally break out of the predicament.
But the current Gu Nan was different. The existence of the Myriad Heavens gave him the perfect safe haven for survival. It would not be easy for the gods to come over and hunt him down.
'It's time to consider matters after the Second Round.' The blood sacrifice would take about half a month to complete, so Gu Nan's thoughts turned elsewhere.
Although the Myriad Heavens allowed him to develop more steadily, it also affected his advancement post-Second Round. There were both advantages and disadvantages to this.
After the player's Second Round, points gradually left the self-advancement system and could only be used for Divine Kingdom construction while Evil Value became the main basis for leveling up.
The core principle behind earning Evil Value hadn't changed, but the methods became more diverse.
But no matter what, it would still be related to the gods, so being in the Myriad Heavens would always be a little inconvenient…
While Gu Nan was thinking, Yan Xiaoxiao's voice came from the side, interrupting his thoughts.
"Teacher, a Unified Dao cultivator has come to the Divine Kingdom... No, not a Unified Dao cultivator, but power belonging to Unified Dao Realm," Yan Xiaoxiao's voice was very urgent, and the situation really did warrant such urgency.
Gu Nan suddenly opened his eyes. His figure disappeared from the Evil God Temple and appeared on the border of the Divine Kingdom.
"The power of faith? No, the power of the dream realm." Gu Nan frowned slightly, having already determined the source of this power in the blink of an eye.
He noticed that power was converging here for an attack and also discovered the other party's origin, but he had no way to stop its descent, because this attack was purely composed of laws.
After all, Gu Nan was still Tier 10 and hadn't actually finished the Second Round yet, so there was a qualitative difference in the power of his laws.
He was only able to fight Unified Dao figures thanks to his extremely powerful physical body, but he had no advantage in terms of laws. It was just like how Song Fei was still able to pull him out with a ruler when Gu Nan tried to hide in the shadows.
Now that this Unified Dao-level dream realm descended, its target being his entire Divine Kingdom, Gu Nan could only watch.
Fortunately, he only needed to wait for the Second Round to finish now, so the Divine Kingdom was no longer his focus, and… this power didn't seem to be here to kill, instead having a different aim.
Dream-like power descended from the sky, causing most of the creatures in the whole Divine Kingdom to fall into a deep slumber at the same time, and the entire Divine Kingdom turned silent.
However, no one died from this, but all of them were fast asleep.
Laws at Unified Dao Realm could easily affect a large plane. They were capable of terrifying effects like these.
Of course Gu Nan didn't fall asleep from this, but he was inevitably affected by the power of the dream realm. His thoughts began to dull, and his body gradually became uncontrollable.
If someone wanted to ambush him, this was undoubtedly the best time.
Fortunately, the Evil God physique was powerful. Almost all the debuffs affecting Gu Nan's physical body were assimilated and eliminated by the Evil God physique.
Because the power of the dream realm directly affected one's psyche, this process was delayed, but it still had an effect.
By the time Gu Nan came back to his senses, the dream realm's power had completely enveloped his Divine Kingdom. All creatures in the Divine Kingdom were trapped in the dream realm, and wisps of psychic power were constantly being drawn out.
This scene was somewhat similar to Gu Nan's blood sacrifice of Graceful Heaven, except Gu Nan took away life force while the dream realm only collected mental power.
The process of gathering psychic power was slow and long-lasting. As the mental power gradually gathered, Gu Nan began to notice something unusual.
Laws continued to emerge, a will started to descend, and a brand new lifeform seemed to be born from it.
...
Just as the power of the dream realm descended upon Gu Nan's Divine Kingdom, the Great War between the two worlds suddenly intensified.
This was caused by a sudden escalation from the World of Gods. A large number of high-level gods attacked, catching the Myriad Heavens by surprise.
Even the greater gods began to wantonly intervene. The greater gods who were originally rarely seen could be seen on the frontlines almost every other day.
Even if they were the first to attack every time and thus couldn't gain the upper hand over the Unified Dao cultivators on this side, they were still happy.
This offensive continued for over ten days. It seemed that the gods really were making good on Austin's threat.
The Unified Dao figures had already expected this, but they didn't expect the gods to take action so quickly.
After the initial disarray, the Unified Dao cultivators quickly dealt with the situation calmly, feeling quite relaxed.
After all, they always had the upper hand. If the World of Gods continued like this, it would only exhaust the greater gods' condition.
In just ten days, two greater gods had been injured, one of them even suffering heavy injuries. It was precisely the overly enthusiastic Ruler of War, Eugene.