Chapter 293: Breakthrough to Deity

Qitian could clearly perceive that within his Divine Kingdom, the last believer had also perished.

His divine nature was collapsing, and his consciousness was heading toward its end.

Yang Fan took a sip of monkey wine, his tone calm:

"I just think you are a bit interesting."

"Furthermore, my first pot of gold in life also came from a monkey-race demigod."

Qitian was slightly stunned, then laughed in a low voice:

"I see… Then I should thank this Karma."

"At least it allowed me to drink these things in the end."

He slowly stood up.

At this moment, there was no fear in his eyes, but rather a sense of relief after long-term suppression.

During the thousands of years he was imprisoned, he could only let his consciousness wander outside the Divine Kingdom, while the real world was dead silent.

He had witnessed countless Divine Kingdom Wars, devourings, and reconstructions, yet he could never truly touch the world.

Freedom had become his only obsession.

And now, this obsession had finally come to an end.

Qitian looked toward the distant shattered sky and suddenly spoke.

"Once I stepped on the golden sea to break the star tides, smiling and pointing at the gods as they dared not stand high."

"Youthful madness swallowed the heavens and earth, a single thought sealed the myriad realms' prison."

"A thousand years of cage ground bones and blood, ten thousand heavy shackles locked the wind and waves."

"If today you ask what I am, I am merely a strand of hair in the wind."

The moment his voice fell, his figure completely blurred.

Like the wind scattering, like dust perishing.

Qitian's consciousness completely dissipated between the heavens and earth.

"This monkey is quite interesting."

Yang Fan uttered softly and casually drained the monkey wine in his cup.

"Pity that those who know my Divine Kingdom coordinates must die."

The next moment, he transformed into a deity's phantom, standing tall in the firmament.

"Greetings, My God!"

Countless believers knelt in unison.

"Immediately complete the reclamation work, then return to the Divine Kingdom."

A Divine Decree descended, and the heavens and earth shook.

Yang Fan waved his right hand lightly, and a Divine Kingdom Core standing fully ten meters tall was taken into his palm, whereupon he crossed the space channel and returned to his own Divine Kingdom.

At this moment, Yang Fan did not immediately return to reality.

The final war in the Alien Divine Kingdom Zone had already ended, and remaining in Primordial Academy no longer held much meaning.

The only thing he needed to do now was a Breakthrough to become a deity.

At this moment, within his Divine Kingdom, a large number of unabsorbed Divine Kingdom Cores were piled up.

Without any hesitation, Yang Fan sat cross-legged, starting from the smallest Divine Kingdom Core, refining and absorbing them one by one.

In an instant, the Divine Kingdom shook.

Fragmented Alien God-Kingdom continents were pulled by an invisible mighty force, breaking away from their original plane and slowly merging into Yang Fan's Divine Kingdom territory.

The Alien God-Kingdom that was originally dead silent completely disintegrated at this moment.

And Yang Fan's Divine Kingdom was expanding frantically.

83 million square kilometers…

85 million square kilometers…

92 million square kilometers…

…

100 million square kilometers!

The vast land continuously extended, rules were reshaped, and Spiritual Qi boiled.

Sitting with his eyes closed, Yang Fan felt his spirit and Physical Body being simultaneously washed by an ultimate and massive World Force.

That was a sense of satisfaction akin to sublimation.

It felt as though everything about him was transforming toward a higher level.

As the area of the Divine Kingdom broke through the critical point of 100 million square kilometers, changes occurred silently.

At that instant, it was as if some sort of boundary was forcibly torn apart.

The boundaries of the Divine Kingdom, which tended to be stable, suddenly trembled, and then began to extend outward frantically.

200 million square kilometers… 300 million square kilometers…

1 billion square kilometers… 2 billion square kilometers…

10 billion square kilometers!

The Divine Kingdom seemed to be completely unlocked, expanding its territory by nearly a hundred times in a short period.

This magnitude of increase far surpassed even the transformation amplitude of a Divine Being breaking through to a demigod, which could be called exaggerated to the extreme.

However, within the newly expanded territory, there were no mountains, rivers, forests, or hills.

There was only a boundless wasteland.

Vast, empty, and primitive.

The Immortal Qi of his Divine Kingdom's original territory flowed freely between the heavens and earth like an invisible tide.

In Yang Fan's perception, that extremely dense Immortal Qi environment was instantly diluted to one percent of its original amount within less than a month in the Divine Kingdom.

But precisely because of this Immortal Qi, those wastelands began to undergo subtle changes.

Fine weeds quietly grew from the surface, like awakened vitality.

The flower and grass seeds from the old land of the Divine Kingdom were rolled up by the wind, crossing the new and old boundaries, and slowly spreading outward.

Everything was undergoing Natural Evolution.

And the more intense changes came from the rule level.

Yang Fan could clearly perceive that the underlying rules of the Divine Kingdom were being completed.

No longer incomplete, no longer restricted.

A more complete and grander system was gradually taking shape.

At the same time, the believers left behind in the Divine Kingdom were also undergoing a chain reaction.

His army of believers had not yet returned, but the believers left behind in the Divine Kingdom had already broken through collectively.

A large number of Foundation Establishment Cultivators stepped into the Core Formation realm without any Bottlenecks.

In the Martial Arts system, quite a few people directly crossed the shackles and ascended to become Martial Kings.

And the most exaggerated was the Mechanical Civilization system.

Over eighty percent of the Second-class Intelligent Life completed the transition as if conditions were ripe and success naturally followed the moment the rules were reshaped, directly advancing to Third-class Intelligent Life.

It was as if the entire civilization level had been forcibly raised by a tier.

Even though his consciousness was still within the Divine Kingdom, Yang Fan could clearly feel the changes in his real Physical Body.

That was a reconstruction from the inside out.

Flesh and blood, spirit, consciousness, and even the essence of life were all sublimating synchronously.

In a short fleeting moment, his overall strength surged by a hundred times, a thousand times.

It was as if he had stripped away from the concept of a human and transitioned into some brand-new form of existence.

Yang Fan's consciousness returned to reality, slowly raising his arm, his eyes growing increasingly bright.

"Is this… a deity?"

He whispered to himself.

"No wonder as long as the Divine Kingdom does not perish, a deity does not die."

"The so-called Physical Body is merely changing a shell."

The deity's Breakthrough did not have any earth-shattering anomalies, and it was even overly calm.

Yang Fan did not walk out of the room, and Gu Le in the outside world was completely unaware.

The entire Primordial Academy continued to operate as usual.

But only Yang Fan himself knew what this moment meant.

His spirit had completely shaken off the Physical Body's shackles and formed a deep binding with the Divine Kingdom.

In a sense, he could exist in both worlds simultaneously.

Even if his real Physical Body was destroyed, his consciousness would instantly return to the Divine Kingdom, and with minimal cost, he could reshape his Physical Body to manifest in reality.

His consciousness could also possess it again.

From then on, the definition of life and death was completely rewritten.

The path of deities truly began.

Yang Fan took a deep breath, forcibly calming his state of mind, and then his consciousness sank into the Divine Kingdom once more.

And during the brief moment he stayed in reality, huge changes had already taken place within the Divine Kingdom.

The expeditionary army had all returned.

But many people showed looks of astonishment at the first instance; they clearly felt that the world had changed.

The Immortal Qi had become thin.

But the next instant, the Breakthrough followed.

Core Formation, Martial King, Third-class Intelligent Life… emerged like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

It was as if the entire Divine Kingdom was upgrading.