Chapter 9: Deification! The Evil Devouring God 1
Tartarus had no idea how profoundly his birth had shaken the world of Chaos.
Judging from its current strength, the Earth was stronger than the Abyss. The divine pressure unleashed at his birth didn't pose much of a threat to Gaia, the Earth God.
When Erebus, the God of Darkness, and Nyx, the Goddess of Night, were later born, Earth and the Abyss were forever separated, profoundly altering the world.
But as the Abyss, he felt no pressure.
Eros, the God of Love and Lust, posed no pressure at all to the previous four gods.
Now, the birth of this new deity, the Sky God, had caused a profound stir in the world of Chaos.
The Earth shook, the Abyss trembled, and the night and darkness trembled violently. It seemed as if the entire world of Chaos had been shaken.
Before his true birth, the Sky God had already made Tartarus, the master of the Abyss, inexplicably sense a divine might that oppressed the earth.
A flicker of black light appeared, and Nyx, the goddess of night, appeared above the abyss.
She looked upward: "Brother Tartarus, I feel the overwhelming pressure of a powerful god. This new god's power is greater than mine."
"More powerful than mine, too. This overbearing and tyrannical power threatens me," said Erebus, the god of darkness, appearing silently nearby.
"Let's go and take a look," Tartarus replied.
Then he channeled his divine power.
Deification!
Far away from the two gods, beyond their reach.
In one area of the Abyss, a powerful devouring force erupted.
A twisting vortex, as deep as a black hole, appeared, and a figure slowly emerged from within.
At first, the figure was a bit blurry, not solid enough. 2
As he stepped outward, his figure grew more solid... 1
Specifically, this should be Tartarus's apotheosis as the Devouring God.
He had already sensed it when he felt the Devouring Divine Power just now.
The God of Chaos's godhead was not yet complete. As the Abyss, he could not yet create from the Abyss's body the divine body (divine body) that controlled the Abyss.
However, the Devouring God's godhead was complete.
Now, he was not only the God of Hell and the Abyss, but also the Devouring God.
He could create from the Devouring Divine Power the divine body that controlled Devouring.
His current Devouring power was far weaker than that of the Abyss.
Naturally, the Devouring God's divine body possessed far less divine power than the Abyss God's body. Unfortunately, the Abyss could not yet be deified.
However, the greatest benefit was that after Devouring's deification, he possessed a divine body and could move freely.
He was going to the earth to witness the birth of the Sky God.
This was the first God King of the Chaos World, more powerful than any other deity of his time, the first King of the Gods.
A powerful being whose strength surpassed that of the Primordial God.
With just a few steps, the figure emerged from the black hole, completely solidified.
The deep black hole behind him dissipated, and with it the powerful devouring force that emanated from it.
The Devouring God, the deified divine body, was fully born!
At this moment, Tartarus felt a strange sensation.
It was as if he possessed two bodies, two perspectives, and two divine consciousnesses.
The first was that of the God of Hell and the Abyss. His divine power and divine consciousness were immense, allowing him to completely control the abyss, perceive everything within it, and see everything above it.
The second was that of the Devouring God, after his deification, when he had transformed into a divine body. His divine consciousness was not strong, and while his divine power was not weak, it was far inferior to that of the Abyss. He felt a deep desire, a desire to devour everything before him, everything his divine consciousness perceived.
Over the centuries, Tartarus had roughly categorized the strength of the gods.
Based on the strength of divine power, from strong to weak, it can currently be divided into: Peak Divine Power, Great Divine Power, Medium Divine Power, and Weak Divine Power.
Each stage can be divided into early, middle, and late stages.
Currently, Gaia, the God of Earth, was far stronger than the four primordial gods and was at the pinnacle of power, in the late Peak Divine Power stage.
Abyss, Darkness, and Night, all three of them, were in the Great Divine Power stage.
He sensed that, as the Abyss's true form, he was in the late Great Divine Power stage, approaching Peak Divine Power, stronger than Night.
Darkness and Night were likely in the middle Great Divine Power stage.
And now, the Devouring God had deified himself, but had not yet devoured or grown, and was in the early Middle Divine Power stage.
Eros, the god of love and lust, is at a lower level of divine power.
In the future, demigods born from the union of gods and humans will most likely be weaker than lower levels of divine power.
Gods can grow. Thousands of years ago, Tartarus sensed that Gaia was roughly in the late stage of powerful divine power, while he himself was at the early stage of powerful divine power.
However, as the Source of Chaos dwindled and became undisturbed, and the Chaos World, in its quest for global expansion, naturally endowed the Earth with greater growth potential, after all, the growth of the Earth would lead to greater prosperity and growth.
The Earth's rapid growth was the reason it far surpassed the Abyss. But the Abyss had also grown considerably.
The strange feeling of dual perspectives and dual divine consciousness lasted only a moment before disappearing.
At this moment, Tartarus felt as if...
The Abyss was his body, and the Devouring God's divine body was like one of his hands, or even a finger.
The Abyss was his body, the Devouring God's limbs, the two inseparable, freely controlled.
To explain it using the Eastern cultivation methods of his previous life, he now possessed a divine clone of the Devouring God (the Devouring Clone).
Sensing his entire body.
Tartarus's newly born Devouring Clone was a teenager, with a tall, muscular figure, long black hair, and a handsome face with a hint of sinister detachment.
Beneath his sword-like brows, his eyes were as dark as ink, like two deep, swirling black holes, intent on devouring everything he saw.
"Let's go and see together."
Tartarus spoke, his voice reaching the ears of Nyx and Erebus.
Under the control of the Abyss, the Devouring Clone, far away from the two gods, suddenly appeared before them.
"Brother Tartarus, have you become a god?" The Night Goddess, Nyx, expressed surprise, yet within that surprise, there was a hint of joy.
The Abyss now possessed a divine body!
She thought of the words spoken at the birth of Eros, the body of love and lust.
However, she instantly realized something was amiss.
Erebus, the god of darkness, was keenly aware. He gazed upon Tartarus's devouring clone with a pair of gloomy eyes, as if trying to penetrate its mystical structure.
"It is Tartarus, but it is not the deification of the Abyss. It is the deification of another divine power," Erebus said.
"It is different. Although it is much more powerful than Eros, compared to the Abyss and us, its divine power is too weak. What's going on?" Nyx asked.
Tartarus spoke calmly, "Feel the primordial essence of the abyss; its mysteries lie within. After prolonged observation, a new divine authority has emerged from the abyss. The abyss is not deified; it is merely an incarnation of mine."
After a pause, his words became mysterious: "The sky is about to be born! From now on, Chaos will prosper, but also face turmoil. Let's go and see it together!"
"Sky! Prosperity? Turbulence?"