Chapter 19: Reasons Why the Abyss Cannot Be Deified 2
Tartarus originally absorbed the Chaos Essence and integrated it into the Abyss, naturally enhancing the Abyss's power, not just the completeness of its Godhead.
However, at that time, Tartarus himself had just been born and was in his growth phase.
At the same time, the Earth, Darkness, and Night possessed certain Chaos Essences that the Abyss lacked.
Absorbing these Chaos Essences increased the types of Chaos Essence within the Abyss, but did not enhance its power.
The overall rate of strength growth was not particularly rapid.
Now, having achieved the status of Devouring God,
Tartarus actively devoured the Chaos Essence, clearly sensing a far greater increase in strength than before.
It took him over ten years to completely devour and integrate the black ball of Chaos Essence.
This amount exceeded the amount of Chaos Essence that Darkness and Night had injected into the Abyss over the past century.
It was even approaching one-third of the Chaos Essence that Earth had injected into the Abyss over the past millennia. This significantly increased the completeness of the God of Chaos's godhood.
It was also because he had entered the next stage of his power, peak divine strength.
Tartarus's strength had greatly increased, and his divine consciousness naturally surged.
He also became more sensitive to the true nature of the gods, sensing the essences of the earth, sky, darkness, and night, which he had previously been unable to perceive.
At the same time, his perception of the world also became more acute, sensing some of the essences he had previously been unable to perceive.
Perceiving, analyzing, analyzing, thinking...
Tartarus understood something.
For thousands of years, he had devoured the essence of chaos, and in turn, a little of the essences of other gods. When they came into contact, he would take the opportunity to perceive and analyze their true natures.
Although Tartarus still did not understand the core essences of several gods, he was certain of one thing.
Whether it was the earth, darkness, night, or even lust and the sky...
They all had something in common.
They all contribute to the growth, expansion, and prosperity of the Chaos world.
They enrich Chaos, originally in its pristine state, and further its development into a healthy world.
Their primary sources are also mostly positive life sources.
These gods were deified at birth, possessing divine bodies.
In contrast, the sources contained within the Abyss, just to name a few, the myriad chaotic sources, do not promote the growth and expansion of the world.
The chaotic sources interfere with and destroy the growth of the gods, and naturally also interfere with the growth of the world, destroying all living things.
Destruction, decay, corrosion...all these negative life-destroying sources cause far more negative damage to the world than positive growth.
The Abyss was not deified at birth, most likely representing the negative sources of the Chaos world.
If the deified Abyss had been allowed to wreak havoc when the Chaos world was incomplete, it might have perished before it even fully formed.
Even if it were to become a complete world, the Abyss, filled with all sorts of negative origins, would still destroy the essences of the various gods. A threat to the gods, and naturally to the world itself.
Thus, the Chaos world instinctively suppressed the abyss's successful deification.
Why did the Chaos world give rise to an abyss that not only did not benefit the world itself, but instead caused destruction?
This was something Tartarus didn't quite understand.
But drawing on some knowledge from his past life, he had a rough guess.
The Chaos world's birth, growth, expansion, and increasing strength were necessarily guided by certain unchangeable rules.
Perhaps, it was similar to the concept of yin and yang he knew from his past life.
Where there is yang in the world, there is yin; where there is positive, there is negative.
The earth, the sky, and so on all represent positive.
The abyss represents negative.
The Chaos world gave birth to Gaia, the earth god who fostered the positive essence of world development and growth. Following certain rules, this naturally gave rise to Tartarus, the god of the abyss and hell, who was the negative essence of the world.
Tartarus felt that the birth of the gods also followed certain rules.
When the four gods—Earth, Sky, Darkness, and Night—were born, they all contained the essence of chaos, and new sources of chaos continued to grow.
Even during the hundred years following the birth of Eros, the god of love and lust, Tartarus had questioned him.
Although this god lacked a physical body, a trace of chaos existed within his divine body.
In gratitude for Eros's response, Tartarus accepted the chaos within him, but this, too, would generate new sources of chaos within Eros.
Both the gods and the Chaos world corresponded to the mysterious laws of positive and negative.
At the same time, Tartarus suspected another reason for his inability to achieve deification.
The Abyss was immensely vast, containing countless negative and unstable sources, making his deification more difficult.
Therefore, Tartarus, who had obtained the Book of Creation, saw the method from it: to become the God of Chaos.
Once he achieved this, he would be able to control the source of chaos, practically controlling 90% of the sources within the Abyss, and this interference would naturally disappear.
Then, he could successfully achieve deification.
Unfortunately, he had not yet achieved the status of the God of Chaos and had not fully mastered the source of chaos.
The difference between the early stage of peak divine power and the late stage of powerful divine power might seem like only a stage, but in reality, the difference in strength was enormous.
At the early stage of peak divine power, Tartarus could easily crush both him and Uranus, the Sky God, who were both in the late stage of divine power.
The higher the realm, the greater the difference in strength.
This time, he broke through from the powerful divine power realm to the peak divine power realm, and his strength skyrocketed. 1
The main area of the Abyss has increased nearly a hundredfold.
After thousands of years, Tartarus has gained a general understanding of the Book of Creation's function.
The incompleteness of each godhood is equivalent to possessing only fragments of a certain godhood, without having achieved the corresponding priesthood, much less possessing the corresponding divine authority and power.
Subsequently, the increasing degree of completeness means that each godhood fragment becomes increasingly complete, until it reaches 100% and fully becomes a godhood.
Only then can he truly possess the corresponding priesthood, control the corresponding divine authority, and wield the corresponding divine power.
Currently, he only possesses a fragment of the godhood of the God of Chaos, without the divine power of the God of Chaos, and is not yet the God of Chaos.
The other godhood fragments are not closely related to the Abyss, but the Abyss is composed of ninety percent of the source of chaos. The godhood of the God of Chaos can also be seen as an extension of the godhood of the God of Hell and the Abyss.
Therefore, by achieving the God of Chaos, he can achieve deification.
As for the other fragments of the godhood, even if complete, they wouldn't help him much in his deification of the Abyss.
This harvest was his greatest since his birth.
First, having achieved peak divine power, he was even less afraid of the Sky God.
Unless Sky God Uranus reached the late peak divine power, or even stronger,
Otherwise, Tartarus could make him lose his way.
"The Earth Mother, Gaia, will give birth to new gods. These gods will likely possess the Chaos Element within them and will continue to breed Chaos Element."
"The Sea God, the Mountain God, the Twelve Titans, and their offspring... The more gods there are, the more Chaos Element I can absorb. The amount I can absorb will exceed my current level. I will soon become the Chaos God and achieve the deification of the Abyss!"
Thinking of the future, Tartarus felt a surge of excitement.
Ten years later, he had not only integrated all of the Chaos Element, but also absorbed and integrated other Elementalities and divine powers.
The completeness of the godheads on the other pages of the Book of Creation has also been improved.
[Book of Creation]
Page 1: No changes.
Page 2: No changes.
Page 3: God of Chaos - Godhead (Incomplete - 97%)
Page 4: No changes.
Page 5: No changes.
Page 6: God of Water - Godhead (Incomplete - 3%)
Page 7: God of Fire - Godhead (Incomplete - 2%)
Page 8: God of Earth - Godhead (Incomplete - 2%)
Page 9: God of Wind - Godhead (Incomplete - 4%)
Page 10: No changes.
"There are three points to a God of Elements' fullness. One of them is that consuming the corresponding element increases the percentage. In the future, the ocean will be born with water, the weather will be born with wind, the earth will be born with soil, and the sun will be born with fire."
"May the new God be born soon, or I won't be able to consume the elements as quickly as I want."
"Brother Tartarus, I sense you've awakened. I want to see you. Can I enter the abyss?"
A beautiful young woman's voice rang out from above the abyss.
"Nyx? Enter the abyss?" Tartarus wondered.
From the abyssal ground, the goddess of night, Nyx, appeared, clad in a night veil. She gazed at the abyss below, her eyes filled with anticipation.
"I'm awake. Welcome, Nyx," Tartarus replied. A hole appeared in the once thick abyss, leading straight into the depths.
"Swish!" The body of the goddess of night, Nyx, vanished...