Extra Chapter 4: The Path of Gods:
The awakened Jack has gained control over the ocean and thunder, and can easily create a world-destroying tsunami and thunder. Poseidon also controls the power of the ocean and thunder.
However, some accidents occurred during the process of condensing the godhead.
At the beginning, Jack's soul left his own body and entered Poseidon's body to condense his divinity.
As a result, during the process of condensing his godhood, he found himself trapped in Poseidon's body.
Because Poseidon's soul itself was split from Jack's soul, resulting in the formation of a soul aggregate with Jack as the main body and Poseidon as the auxiliary during the condensation process of the godhead.
It feels like driving a Gundam, and Poseidon is the Gundam's intelligent assistance system.
Of course, this does not mean that Jack's body is useless. After all, his body is still "alive".
Before Jack became a god, he locked his body in the deep-sea disc. The reason why the deep-sea disc was able to "ascend" was because the Heart of the Ocean in his body was at work.
After becoming a god, he also learned many unknown secrets. First of all, this planet is "alive" and her name is Noi.
In the vast universe, a very small number of planets are different from the majority of planets that can only take the technological route from the moment they are born.
A special energy will be born on these extremely few special planets, and the energy properties of different special planets are also different.
This special energy will allow the planet to evolve life instincts, or the instinctive consciousness of living things.
At the same time, the longer a planet exists, the "smarter" its consciousness becomes, and the more intense the special energy on the planet becomes.
After the emergence of instinctive consciousness, the planet will follow its instincts and cultivate certain powerful life individuals to protect itself according to its own situation.
While the planet strengthens these individual lives, it also grants them certain rights, which is the so-called "godhood".
So, God is essentially nothing more than a powerful individual life, a creature bred by the planet's instinct to protect itself.
In addition, the relationship between God and the planet is very special, and the planet's instinctive idea is to cultivate powerful life individuals to protect itself.
But in Jack's view, there is a special "mother-child symbiotic relationship" between "God" and the planet, just like Jack and Noy.
Noi gave Jack the power of ocean and thunder, and a symbiotic relationship between them was established.
According to the information Noy transmitted to Jack, there are two definitions of "God".
One is to absorb the special energy of the planet step by step. When the physical body is strong enough to survive in the universe, it can be called a "God".
The second is to take a shortcut, the shortcut of faith.
The power of faith is a combination of the power of the soul and the special energy of the planet, which can help creatures become extremely powerful in a very short period of time.
The disadvantage is that the number of believers must be maintained and they cannot leave the range of the mother planet. Once they leave, not only will the power of the divinity be unusable, but the body strengthened by the power of faith will also rapidly weaken.
And if one becomes a god through faith, once the mother planet is destroyed, the divine power will be affected.
Once the God of Faith dies, it will cause a certain degree of damage to the will of the planet.
This is why Jack calls this relationship a "special mother-child symbiotic relationship."
However, the God of Faith is not weaker than the god who relies on his own cultivation. In fact, when the God of Faith is within the range of the mother planet, he is more powerful than ordinary gods because of the existence of divinity.
Moreover, after becoming the God of Faith, one can choose to absorb energy and continue practicing. There is no conflict between the two.
Moreover, after becoming a god of faith, there will be no problem with lifespan as long as you do not leave the mother planet. You will be "bound" by the mother planet to a certain extent. It can only be said that each has its advantages and disadvantages.
However, if one wants to cultivate and become a god after becoming a god of faith, some special conditions are required. The most important of these is to have a perfectly suitable body to temporarily transfer the godhood.
Otherwise, the divine nature will automatically consume the power of faith and convert the special energy absorbed into the body into the power of faith.
Moreover, the conversion efficiency is very low, which will cause the power of faith to be insufficient and continuously consumed.
However, once most creatures have tasted the sweetness of the power of faith, they will basically not choose to bury their heads in hard practice again. It is too slow!
Especially for young planets like Noi, the concentration of special energy is too low and the lifespan does not allow it.
Within tens of millions of years after her birth, Noi cultivated two gods of faith and some extraordinary creatures.
There are two gods of faith, one is the King of Light, and Jack doesn't know the specific name of the other one, as Noy didn't tell him.
Jack only knew that the King of Light forced all living beings to believe in him 500,000 years ago, and the other God of Faith naturally disagreed.
So the battle between the two gods broke out without warning.
Since the power that Noi gave away could not be completely taken back, she could only suppress it and try to reduce the scale of the battle.
The final result was that the King of Light was seriously injured and his body was destroyed. It was unknown whether the other god was alive or dead, but it was highly likely that he was dead.
It took Noi tens of millions of years to become a medium-level planet, but it fell back to a low-level planet overnight. The originally huge continent of Ultes should have been affected by the war between the two gods and became such a horrible state. There is not even a single native species left on the incomplete continent of Ultes.
The periodic magic tides and long nights that occur in the world are caused by the Lord of Light recuperating from his injuries and harvesting special energy (magic) and the power of faith.
But now that Jack has become a god, there will no longer be periodic magic tides and long nights on the planet Noy.
After much deliberation, Jack finally decided to take the path of asceticism. There are too many restrictions after becoming a god by relying on the power of faith.
Jack's body, transformed by the Heart of the Ocean, is a perfect carrier for transferring the power of divinity and faith.
After consulting with the current Poseidon Queen Elizabeth VII, Atlantis finally melted the deep-sea disc into a throne of faith. The throne of faith and Jack's body were placed in the deepest part of the Holy Church.
Jack transferred his godhood and power of faith to his own body, while leaving behind a part of his consciousness. When the Sea Kings of all generations encountered problems that they could not solve, they could contact Jack through this body.
Jack and Poseidon found a place not far from the holy city of Atlantis and began their long and boring training career.
Because of Jack's existence and the acquiescence of the consciousness of Noy Star, the special energy (magic) of the entire world began to converge towards the holy city of Atlantis.
Five hundred years later, the place where Jack was had become a mountain range stretching for hundreds of kilometers.
This underwater mountain range was called the Ancestral Mountain by the Atlanteans and was a holy place for the geniuses of Atlantis to practice water magic.
It is said that this was the place where the Divine Ancestor Emperor slept, and practicing here would be twice as effective with half the effort.
(End of this chapter)