Chapter 500: 227: True Mainline_2
"The God of Cause and Effect and Destiny, on the other hand, resented me for disrupting the fates of others,"
"The God of all Creatures and Vitality despised me for bestowing talents upon the beasts that were not meant for them."
"The God of Time and Space coldly refused to contact me, afraid I would cause the events stored at fixed points in time to become disjointed."
"They all disliked me. Although this aversion did not escalate to expulsion, it was not at all concealed."
"Only the God of Knowledge and Wisdom tried to enlighten me, to educate me. And the Dark Night and Concealing God, the embodiment of darkness, he did not tire of me, but he never made contact either. He was always very mysterious."
"I wanted to repay the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, he was like my father, my elder brother. But every time I made contact with him, the knowledge he imparted... all became unstable because of my nature."
"I am different, everyone should stay away from me, fear me, resist me. Wherever I go, things become unpredictable, falling out of their original order."
"So, I didn't get along well with them. This strained relationship did not improve as I gradually became more adept at harnessing chaos."
"On the contrary, this difficult relationship made my relations with several other gods increasingly worse."
"The King God spoke up for me, and so the six gods who disliked me no longer did so publicly. But I could still feel the inherent repulsion hidden in their souls."
"My existence made various rules irregular, made the predictable unpredictable."
"This long passage gave Zhou Baiyu the feeling... of a family with nine children, but the youngest child, because of being too mischievous, untamable, unpredictable, and disruptive to the other siblings' work, felt ostracized."
"Of course, I am not one to admit defeat by nature, my character is such... the bigger the mess, the more chaotic, the happier I become."
"The more I am ostracized, the harder I strive to study chaos, thinking that maybe one day I will be able to control it, perhaps the so-called difference and chaos are just rules yet to be mastered."
"When that day comes, I will be able to coexist peacefully with the other gods."
"I have wondered what the King God's purpose was in creating me. Why, in an era where various rules were stable, did he create me to break them?"
"I asked the King God, but he always avoided answering me, merely telling me the time was not right."
"What happened next was the fall of the King God."
"Only on the day of his fall did I learn the truth about myself and the kind of enemy we were about to face."
"I'm not sure how far you have progressed in your exploration of the gods, but since you can read the All Gods' Language, you must have read some basic history in the management of the gods' archives. "
"From here on, I will assume that you already know the major historical events. If not, just ask my disciple Lin."
"Zhou Baiyu hadn't expected that Sister Lin was only a fourth-level, logically speaking, above her, there were fifth-level Advanced Worlders and sixth-level Saints."
"Yet Sister Lin was mentioned by the esteemed God of Games and Entertainment."
"Is this because of Sister Lin's exceptional talent? Or is there something else about the nine intermediates?"
"Zhou Baiyu felt that the mystery was deepening."
"Of course, he also realized that the words the King God had spoken to the God of Difference and Chaos before his fall must also contain a considerable amount of shocking information."
"I hope you keep this secret."
"I hope that amidst the difference and chaos, amid the unknown and uncertain, you will find your own way, a path strong enough to overturn the origin."
"This path, Lin could not achieve, Mel could not achieve, Yu Ji could not either. Of course, I have also witnessed those Great Advanced Worlders and Saints slaughtered by the 'God of Games and Entertainment.'"
"Their understanding of chaos is passable, but being powerful is not enough. To solve my dilemma, to solve the world's dilemma, it takes more than just combat strength."
"Zhou Baiyu noticed that Sister Lin and Mel were both mentioned."
"There was also someone named Yu Ji, who seemed to be a very powerful Mutator."
"Zhou Baiyu frowned slightly."
"On the path of mutation, of course, the more friends, the better. He noticed a key point—"
"In the words of the esteemed God of Games and Entertainment, Sister Lin, Mel, and Yu Ji had a higher status than even the Advanced Worlders and Saints."
"It seems Sister Lin has been concealing things from me. That's to be expected, but if I can gather valuable information this time, I might get some clues from her with the information from the God of Games and Entertainment."
"Perhaps Sister Lin will even bring out some treasures for me."
Zhou Baiyu's heart leaped with joy as he carefully read every single word on the Book of Chaos.
"Now, I will tell you about the words the King God mentioned to me before his fall,"
"The nine of us, before the King God fell, his will appeared in the minds of all nine of us."
"Each of the nine received different information, and I cannot know their information. They probably will choose the most outstanding among their inheritors to inherit this secret."
"And I have chosen you."
"The first thing the King God told me about was my identity—"
"I am not an old god. I am the first new god in history."
Wham!
Zhou Baiyu's mind went blank.
Although he was not certain about the clear definition between new gods and old gods, the concept of the nine major old gods, from the First World to the Advanced World, then to the real world, seemed to be an undisputed fact to all who knew of the gods' past.
The war of the gods, where the nine old gods fought against hundreds of new gods, was also referred to as the Battle of Old and New.
Zhou Baiyu could never have imagined that the God of Games and Entertainment was a new god?
So from here, the God of Games and Entertainment would likely explain the true difference between new and old gods, right?
Also, since the God of Games and Entertainment was extremely powerful, if he was a new god, then the saying that new gods are weak and old gods are strong would no longer hold.
Zhou Baiyu could hardly imagine it.
"This secret, Sister Lin probably doesn't know, and Mel, the great forerunner, doesn't know either, right?"
"Yes... they probably don't know. Even the eight great old gods might not know."
"Damn, this is a major revelation right from the start."
Zhou Baiyu even wondered whether the God of Difference and Chaos's difficulty in getting along with other gods had something to do with the nature of new and old gods.
But among the old gods, there were those like the Dark Night and Concealing God, the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, who did not despise the existence of the God of Games and Entertainment.
At this moment, he felt as if he had understood something.
"The path of the different walker began only after I met Bai Ling and Midel."
"Bai Ling is of corrupt kind, Midel is of the demonic race..."
"Now I think about it, the god of the demonic race is also a new god, and before the great war of the gods, most new gods even came from the corrupt kind..."
"And after I became a different walker, I gained a buff trait—the aura of the God of Difference and Chaos."
"The effect of this buff is that normal people will instinctively dislike me, but the abnormal ones, the demonic race and the corrupt kind, will tend to favor me more easily."
"Now that I think about it, everything seems to be hinting... the God of Games and Entertainment might actually be of corrupt kind!"
Zhou Baiyu felt as if he had stumbled upon an earth-shattering revelation. But he sensed something was off—
If the God of Games and Entertainment was a new god, then new gods couldn't have inheritors, and only after a certain stage in the Divine Endowment night and the war of the gods could new gods have followers.
Therefore, the God of Games and Entertainment shouldn't be a new god. One significant difference between new gods and old gods is that before the war of the gods, new gods were unable to have their own followers.
But before the war of the gods, the God of Games and Entertainment clearly had inheritors like Mel and Sister Lin.
This information doesn't match up.
Zhou Baiyu continued flipping through the pages, and indeed, an even bigger scoop was about to break.
"Our enemy is corruption, and we must cleanse this world of its corruption. The source of corruption is unknown, but we have always known about a crisis prophesied by the King God—an impending threat of the God of Corruption. However, the King God told me a terrifying piece of news."
"Old gods come from the King God, new gods come from the God of Corruption."
"And I, am a fusion product of the King God and the God of Corruption."