The Lord of Darkness is a medium-level divine power with a godhood level as high as eleven. His strength has undergone a qualitative change. The godhood level of any incarnation is five, comparable to weaker divine powers.
Moreover, all incarnations can master all their own divine duties, which is equivalent to a true body of a weaker divine power. Lin Xiao's current incarnation will definitely not be able to defeat it.
If you can't win, you have to run away. While it takes some time for the Lord of Darkness to descend without coordinates, Lin Xiao quickly communicated with the teleportation array in the cave he had dug in the second layer of the Underdark. The space twisted and quickly swallowed him up.
A divine hand gleaming with golden light waved before disappearing, erasing the spatial turbulence caused by the teleportation and all traces of its own existence. The underground returned to calm, leaving only corpses on the ground.
After a long time, the infinite darkness in the void quickly gathered and turned into a dark lightning that fell down with a bang. A huge voice roared:
"Who dares to provoke the great Lord of Darkness!"
A pressure that could suffocate a mortal suddenly descended, and an extremely powerful will of terror swept across the ruins. Seeing the corpses of the drow all over the ground, the will of terror instantly boiled like an oil pan. The anger could be clearly felt even ten kilometers away. The creatures hidden in the darkness within the range felt the wrath of God and trembled in fear.
But at this time Lin Xiao had already left, and even the remaining traces had been wiped out, leaving only the Lord of Darkness's impotent rage.
"boom!"
Golden light descended from the sky, sweeping across an area of ten kilometers like a tide. All the plant life on the rocks and underground was swept away by the golden light and quickly annihilated.
Universal extraordinary divine ability - regional divine power shock wave.
When the golden light dissipated, the angry Lord of Darkness blasted out a basin hundreds of meters deep within a ten-kilometer radius centered on the gray dwarf castle.
In the cave, Lin Xiao waited for a whole month before he and Jonila reopened the seal. At first glance, he saw the fire burning in the caveman tribe not far away. The god's own true eye clearly saw the drow who were burning, killing and looting.
Although he wiped out the drow patrol team of Rildela City in one fell swoop, there was more than one drow city on the third underground layer. It was obvious that the drow came from other places.
These cavemen had no power to resist the drow patrols, so they hid in underground caves. However, the drow collected many underground plants and piled them at the entrance of the cave and set them on fire, using fireworks to smoke out the cavemen or suffocate them to death.
A drow wizard summoned water elements to fill the cave with water and poured poison into it. Soon, little underground people covered in black floated up.
No Cryptid resisted, for they were totally unable to resist.
The crypt dwellers were too weak. With a height of less than one meter and a congenitally weak constitution, they couldn't even defeat a human teenager of the same size. They didn't have any decent weapons in their hands, let alone cause any harm to the drow elves.
What Lin Xiao saw at this moment was a one-sided massacre. Jonila on the side clenched the giant axe in his hand, his eyes full of anger.
Lin Xiao sighed, paused the staff in his hand, stretched out his right hand and made a wave with his finger. A crack appeared in the space before his eyes, and a hot breath rushed towards him.
Soon the light gate opened, and a huge flaming head emerged from it. When the fire element saw Lin Xiao in front of him who was about to roar, it immediately shut its mouth.
This is an elite fire element, which in this world is equivalent to a top professional above level 15.
He summoned five or six elite fire elementals and dozens of large fire elementals in one breath, forming a huge moving sea of fire that rushed forward. The flames rising into the sky immediately attracted the attention of the drow raiding team. After a whistle, the raiding drow quickly gathered into a team of about a hundred people, and then slowly retreated.
A group of fire elements. Defeating them would not bring any benefit but would instead result in huge losses. Moreover, there was nothing here that they needed. Any sane drow would choose to leave.
After saving the caveman tribe, Lin Xiao never showed up. He just let the fire element patrol near the tribe to prevent the drow from making a comeback.
The Dark Lord's wrath is probably not yet completely dissipated. If his drow priests recognize him, he will probably come immediately, and then we will be in trouble.
Lin Xiao did not go to other places to rescue other caveman tribes. He was unable to handle it all by himself, so this time they could only rely on themselves.
A month later, the drow's traditional looting period ended, and patrols from different drow cities in the three layers of the Underdark gradually left, leaving behind the desolate caveman tribe.
In the next six months, the underground people will quietly clean up their homes, replant crops, and reproduce their tribesmen. After half a year, when the crops mature, they will face a new round of raids by the drow, and the cycle will continue over and over again.
At this moment, Lin Xiao has made up his mind to establish faith among this weak race, protect them, and eventually use the power of this race to incarnate into a god in this world, and finally integrate into this world and become a member of the Pantheon.
Although the cavemen are quite weak and the power of faith they provide is pitifully small, not even one percent of that of ordinary humans, there are so few of them that even if their total number is more than one billion, no gods are willing to protect them.
Although the power of faith is considerable if the number is large enough, at least there is no problem in maintaining a new god, but the same thing goes, the crypt people are too weak, they have no combat power at all, and their lifespan is short. Even if they are not killed by the drow, their total lifespan is only a little over ten years. If this race is accepted as the main faith race, a lot of gods will be worried about how to protect them every day.
The income is totally disproportionate to the input.
Therefore, if Lin Xiao wants to deify the underground people, he must change this situation, or at least find a way to make the underground people have a certain level of combat effectiveness.
He already had some ideas about this and was just waiting to implement them.
After the drow retreated, Lin Xiao withdrew the summoned fire element, but he did not show up. Instead, he took the tauren Jonila to a place in an underground mountain a few kilometers away from the tribe and dug a cave to live there for a long time. By the way, he collected some dead bodies of cavemen for research.
The book [On How to Gain Recognition of Strange Races in Foreign Lands] explains in detail various ways of first contact, and Lin Xiao chose one of them.
In the next six months, he paid attention to the cavemen rebuilding their tribe, studied their body structure, and made preparations at the same time.
He expanded the cave, set up a magic circle to isolate the breath from leaking out, and then used space magic to widen the interior again. He then took out a complete set of top-level alchemical equipment from the six-color magic cube to study the body structure of the cavemen.
At this moment, he no longer needed to use the Cube of Creation. The knowledge of the Creation Priesthood that he possessed was enough for him to easily see through the deep structure of the cavemen at the cellular level. Given some time, he could change the cavemen's body structure by himself and make them stronger.
However, at this stage he can only strengthen a small number of cavemen to a limited extent. If he wants to transform the entire race of cavemen, he must be deified in this world, and he must have the two priesthoods of creation and cavemen, otherwise he will not be able to bring about the changes on the entire race.
Time passed unknowingly as he was conducting his research. Half a year later, the drow patrol arrived again. However, this time, as soon as they broke into the caveman tribe, Lin Xiao appeared and summoned a blizzard covering several kilometers, which directly scared the drow patrol away.
This time he did not hide himself, but appeared directly in front of the Crypt Man in the image of the Crypt Man.
Countless experiences of predecessors have proven that when developing the faith of a race, if one transforms oneself into the appearance of that race, one can speed up the gathering of faith with the greatest efficiency, especially for a weak race like the Cavemen.
When Lin Xiao transformed into a two-meter-tall super strong caveman and appeared in the caveman tribe, and summoned a powerful blizzard to drive away the drow, at this moment he felt hundreds of lines of faith that were so weak that they were almost imperceptible.
It is because the cavemen are too weak and the power of faith they provide is too small, and also because their faith was not strong enough at the beginning, so now they are just general believers.
But don't worry, it's a long time.
After that, he did not go anywhere else but stayed in this tribe. After driving away several drow patrols one after another, the thread of faith in his godhead gradually became stronger and no longer seemed like it would break at any time like before.
Time passes gradually, year after year.
Lin Xiao has never taken the initiative to spread faith in the caveman tribe, but every six months when the drow raiding teams come to raid, he will come forward to drive the drow raiding teams away. If there are drow raiding teams that refuse to give up, he will not hesitate to use Thunderous Fury to kill them.
This situation lasted for six full years. The original cavemen had become old cavemen, and few cavemen lived past the age of three. However, there were a large number of centenarian cavemen in the tribe who had lived to the age of seven or eight.
At this time, after six years of research, Lin Xiao finally used his own ability to re-modulate the genes of the underground people.
He is still a cryptman, but he used creative means to remove the redundant and useless genes in the cryptman's body, and then extracted useful genes from underground monsters such as drow, gray dwarves, trolls, ogres, and even claw monsters. After re-editing and modifying them, they were integrated into the cryptman's genes, making him as powerful as possible without significantly changing his appearance.
The reason for doing this is mainly to avoid changing the race of the cavemen.
If the modification is too big, the modified underground people will no longer be underground people, and the workload of changing an underground person will be very large.
Although the underground people will not be very powerful after the slight modulation, their most important reproduction speed is retained to ensure that the race will not change. This will make them more low-key and will not attract the covetousness of other gods.
No god is willing to protect the weak underground people, but if the underground people have human combat power and a much higher reproductive capacity than humans, this will definitely attract the attention and robbing of a large number of true gods. At that time, he will not be able to protect this race.
(End of this chapter)