Gods, in essence, are a group of outstanding and fortunate individuals who, after unexpectedly gaining power, refuse to relinquish it. They are a group determined to hold onto power forever.

What were the original gods like? No one knows, not even the God King, for even the most ancient God King has only existed for a few dozen True Epoch cycles. They haven't lived through all of history to preserve the traditions that existed at the very beginning of the Great Verse Universe.

They don't know what the ancient, original gods did after obtaining divine power, or how they changed the world.

But they themselves have gradually been branded with an imprint over the long years.

[Eternity]

Ephemeral mayflies cannot pursue eternity; they are too insignificant, turning to dust in the blink of an eye.

Mediocre mortals also cannot pursue eternity. They toil diligently, live in pain, and are oppressed, taxed, killed, and tortured. Many don't think 'I want to be human again in the next life' when they die, but rather 'I never want to come to this world again.'

Yes, this world is full of suffering, every choice brings regret, and there are always endless worries.

Only the wealthy, only those in power, those who possess the wealth of the four seas, who are revered as ancestors, emperors, and monarchs.

Only those who enjoy all the glory and wealth, who know the wonders of life, and who understand the beauty of power.

Only such people will look forward to eternity, will pursue immortality.

Who in this world can enjoy glory and wealth more than the gods, possess more power, and be more superior, standing above everyone else?

There is no one else.

Therefore, no one can desire eternity more than the gods, can desire this supreme divine power and authority to remain with them forever.

Deus, the Sky Dome God King, remembers his memories before and after becoming a god.

In his previous life before becoming a god, he was a well-known emperor who led the development of airships, guided humanity to the sky, built twelve floating cities, and established his supreme authority over the Ylotal Continent, hence being praised as the Sky Dome Emperor.

Thanks to these achievements, he became the Sky Dome God King in the next epoch, and many of his core team members, those friends and subordinates who led the era to its peak, also became gods, becoming members of that epoch's pantheon.

However, as of now, Deus's former team has all perished and been reduced to mortals, reincarnating in this world… Only Deus remains high in the sky, pursuing elusive eternity.

Whenever he recalls the past, Deus can always strengthen his beliefs.

When he was seven years old, his father, the then-imperial prince, took him to the slums. Deus knew very well why his father did this.

Naturally intelligent, he could easily understand the desires of people's hearts and easily comprehend the meaning behind all human behavior, as if reading a fairy tale. When Deus arrived in the slums and saw the numb and hateful expressions of those poor ordinary people, he knew what his father wanted to tell him.

—If you want to be an emperor who will not be overthrown, Deus, then you should not allow there to be poor people in your country, and you should not allow your subjects to have such expressions.

Clearly, Deus understood this.

The reason he later became the Sky Dome Emperor was because he practiced this principle—under his rule, the country was peaceful and the people lived happily, even willingly offering many tributes so that the Emperor could ascend to the sky.

This was also the foundation for him to become a god.

—This is enough for a human emperor to do.

—But is it enough for a god-king to do?

Clearly, it is not.

Other things rot, and eventually die. The power derived from the 'Human Emperor' needs the 'collective of humanity' itself to give him power.

His power is the power of the collective, the accumulation of trust from the system, society, and the people, which is why it has its power.

In other words, first there is the system, then the action, and then the people believe, and the power of the country becomes the power of the emperor.

But the God King is different.

The God King first possesses power, and then acts, and then creates a system.

As for whether the people believe it…

That is irrelevant.

At least, for a God King seeking eternity, what use are the people? They are so fragile, so easily decayed. A generation disappears in a dream, ten generations pass with a single sleep. While the God King is focused on building his palace in the clouds, hundreds of generations have risen and fallen on the earth, kingdoms have changed more than ten times, and countless joys and sorrows have played out.

The country he once created has long since vanished, it is not eternal. No matter how prosperous it is, it will definitely decay.

Too empty.

But… what does it matter?

Emptiness is emptiness, it doesn't matter, as long as he still has the power of the God King, everything else is trivial.

Unable to empathize, unable to deeply understand, the human emperor was already lonely to the extreme, unable to trust anyone except those around him, and the God King is even more so.

Apart from himself and eternity, they cannot find any other goal to pursue for a long time.

In the process of pursuing eternity, Deus looked down upon the earth again and again.

He could always see people like sparks, lighting up and then extinguishing in an instant, which made him extremely fearful.

The God King is already the highest level of existence in this world. Deus simply cannot find any way to become stronger. The mortal emperor can rule over all things, and become a god in the songs of praise of all living beings, but what should the God King, who is already the King of Gods, do?

Whether the gods directly rule, residing on the divine mountain, assisted by demigod heroes, governing the myriad people.

Or entrusting the human king to act as an agent to manage the mortal world, the mortals belong to the mortals, the gods belong to the gods.

Or simply stand by and watch, the gods withdraw the bestowed divine power, severing the connection between heaven and earth, only overlooking the rise and fall of the human world.

All these actions do not affect the power of the gods.

No matter how well they do, no matter how much the gods make all things in the world joyful and praising, the gods will eventually fall. No one can figure out the rules behind all of this.

So, when the gods saw the Eternal Daughter who was born with the element of eternity… how jealous they were.

Without needing to rotate through thousands of lifetimes, without needing to watch the people around them gradually decay, she doesn't need to do anything, she just needs to wait for awakening, and the eternal power that surpasses the God King is destined to be hers.

She is the future Eternal Goddess, although she has not yet awakened, but in the infinite time, she will inevitably awaken, and after awakening, it is inevitable infinity.

So unfair…

That's why they are jealous and vow to obtain it.

"What a stupid idea!"

However, there was such a rebuttal: "The first thing I saw when I came to this world was that in the entire Great Verse Universe, all living beings are notes. If you want to reach eternity, all the notes must resonate together, which means everyone must become a god!"

"How many epochs has it been, and you haven't thought about all living beings becoming gods together? It's not that you can't think of it, but that you are unwilling!"

——A beast.

When Deus heard this voice, the first thought that leapt into his mind was an extreme sense of danger.

If a universe is a village, then the gods who rule the universe are the village chief and the guard team. They control all the rights in the village and naturally have to face the invasion of many beasts and monsters from outside the village.

For Deus and the others, the Primordial Torch Dragon who came from the void without permission is a true beast.

His existence forces everyone to hand over their power to one person in order to fight against the other, engaging in a fierce battle.

But this is too dangerous, and the gods are likely to fall completely. Therefore, the method they prefer is to throw out a few villagers for the beast to eat. Once the beast is full, it will naturally leave.

But this beast named Torch Dragon is greedy and mad. He doesn't bother with that little bit of flesh and blood, he must feed on the authority of the gods.

He doesn't understand compromise, and he doesn't reason.

He doesn't communicate, and he can't be understood.

He doesn't follow the rules, and he doesn't distinguish between advantages and disadvantages.

In short, Torch Dragon is like this… incomprehensible, incommunicable, the most bloodthirsty and terrifying, almost invincible…

A monster.

[It's just gathering the power of all living beings to condense a god… Can this be considered all living beings becoming gods?]

Wandering between many tides of time, but without the energy to change these fragments of the world, resisting the monster from afar.

Deus could sense that the Torch Dragon's angry, indifferent will, mixed with a spirit that he could not understand but seemed to burn him completely, was crashing towards him like a meteor.

A blade of light named Extinction, also named Heavenly Revolution, and even Innovation, was splitting through the heavy mist of history, spanning the song of the Great Verse Universe that runs through the past and future, and slashing towards him!

Deus stood up. This Sky Dome God King is indeed despicable, stubborn, selfish, doesn't understand what experience and lessons are, and doesn't know what empathy is, but when it comes to his own life, he will naturally exert his full strength.

Just as that blazing blade was about to slash down and completely tear open Deus's body, accompanied by the howling of the wind, his body once again turned into a virtual state composed of cloud-like divine power.

Buzz————!!

Ordinary elementalization or virtualization, even if it is a quantum state superimposed with divine power, will decohere, and naturally it cannot withstand the slash of the Extinction Blade, but this time, Deus spared no expense. He condensed the element of eternity into his body, and then condensed it, forcibly solidifying it around the Extinction Blade.

This is equivalent to him using his own body as a scabbard, forcibly locking Su Zhou's Dao weapon, and after that, Deus gritted his teeth and stretched out his hand, firmly grasping the divine knife that had penetrated his body. His eyes, flashing with gray-blue light, lit up and began to analyze Su Zhou's power with all his strength.

The fiercely burning flames surged endlessly, burning Deus's divine power all the time. Su Zhou's anthem overwhelmed Deus's music like a tsunami. If the other party continued to forcibly block the Extinction Blade in this way, the ending would undoubtedly be to be worn away and die.

"Are you stupid?"

Even Su Zhou couldn't imagine what Deus wanted to do at first. Although he could understand that every Hedao, even a cheap one like Deus from the Great Verse Universe, had his own unique power, and the other party already held part of the power of eternity, so even the Extinction Blade would be difficult to wear away and shatter the essence of the other party's Dao.

If it weren't for the element of eternity, Deus's level would have been killed as quickly as You Quan, or even faster than You Quan—the Extinction Blade's Dao-Slaying Blade is not a joke, it is a destructive force that Su Zhou specially tempered to deal with Hedao experts.

[Torch Dragon, I didn't want to go this far]

At this moment, Su Zhou and Deus were almost fighting hand-to-hand. The Sky Dome God King held the blade that pierced his chest and abdomen with one hand, and blocked Su Zhou's heavy punch with the other. He grinned and said: [Originally, this move would be ineffective against you, but since you have changed your essence and integrated into our Great Verse Universe… then it means you have also become a member of us]

[A member that can be influenced by the destiny of time!]

A violent flash of light erupted, and the fluctuating reflections of time around them shattered like moon shadows in the water. Su Zhou opened his eyes in surprise, because under his gaze, Deus self-destructed without hesitation—without leaving anyone time to communicate, accompanied by an incredible explosion and divine power shock, the Sky Dome God King's divine body shattered, shaking open the boundaries of the Extinction Blade's surface and seeping into the 'Dao intent' inside it.

In an instant, the Sky Dome God King completely abandoned the right to fight Su Zhou head-on… On the contrary, he used a supernatural power that Su Zhou was extremely unfamiliar with, a supernatural power he had never seen in other areas of the multiverse!

A Chronal Supernatural Power!

[As long as it is not eternal, not a 'ring', then there is cause and effect]

[Primordial Torch Dragon, your power is because of your past cause, but as long as you cut off this cause and effect, it will be like an interrupted song that will not be able to continue!]

At this moment, one could hear Deus's almost crazy voice coming from the dissipating cloud of mist: [Gradually approaching eternity, I have understood the mysteries of time… If you want to reach infinity, the first step to take in the realm of eternity is to make your past, future and present independent of each other, so that your power exists forever!]

[But conversely, as long as it is not eternal, all living beings, even Hedao, will be affected by cause and effect and time!]

At this moment, Su Zhou could fully sense that there was a strange power, following the Extinction Blade, the essence of his Dao weapon, and in turn, he was retracing his own time—Deus's previous tragic self-destruction and deliberate blade catching were precisely to use the greatest power to penetrate his power into his own time.

And then…

He was going to go back in time!

This Sky Dome God King was going to go back in time to influence the origin of the Primordial Torch Dragon!

"Really…"

Surrounded by the gray-blue storm that was slowly rotating around him, which was the divine body of the Sky Dome God King who had completely given up resisting, Su Zhou raised his eyebrows.

He looked at his last enemy in the Great Verse Universe with an extremely strange gaze: "Are you saying that you want to go to the upper reaches of my time, kill or change me in the past, so that I will not exist at all, or lose a great deal of power, right."

"In other words, it is the 'slaying of the past self' in various fantasy novels… Wow, the outside multiverse does not have this kind of supernatural power, I didn't expect the Great Verse Universe to be so special."

He had indeed never seen this level of temporal supernatural power. After all, in the Sealed Multiverse, if you want to play this trick, not to mention whether the multiverse itself agrees or not, you have to see if other great beings agree or not.

But now it seems that the Great Verse Universe agrees, and Su Zhou's choice to become a part of the Verse gave the Sky Dome God King the opportunity to use this supernatural power.

[Just wait]

At this moment, Deus's tone was full of joy: [I have found your origin through your Dao… My power will follow your Dao and penetrate into other universes!]

[Primordial Torch Dragon, you monster will completely cease to exist, even if the price is the complete disappearance of the element of eternity, I will definitely defeat you!]

Deus's tone was extremely passionate, like a righteous envoy fighting against the demons for the gods of the Verse—in his opinion, perhaps the fact is indeed the case. Without Su Zhou's arrival, there would be no war in this world, and it could be called peace.

All the mistakes are the mistakes of innovation.

Therefore, as long as innovation is nipped in the bud, peace will still be there, and the world can still be peaceful and happy, enjoying eternal immutability.

"Oh."

But in response to this.

The Covenantor of Chaos, the Holder of Undying Blood, the Practitioner of the Inherited Scale, the Inheritor of the Chronal Horn.

The young man named Su Zhou simply put down his hands, shook his head with a smile that was not a smile: "Really?"

He shrugged: "I don't believe it."

There is no doubt that there is no more annoying creature in this multiverse than the current Su Zhou.

[Ignorant!]

Therefore, even Deus, after a great rage, launched his supernatural power without hesitation.

Buzz! Time shook, and the time surrounding Su Zhou began to rewind rapidly. Everything began to flow backwards, like a videotape playing backwards.

Although he didn't know why Su Zhou didn't resist at all, Deus knew that this was probably his only chance to defeat the Primordial Torch Dragon.

Therefore, he didn't hold back anything in his first rewind of time… Deus tried his best to rewind time, to go back to the ancient times, to completely cut off the history and possibility of the Torch Dragon's growth!

And the measure of this first rewind of time…

Is thirty million years ago!