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“I see, I see, now I understand. This is a scepter belonging to a Bronze Deity of the ancient deities who was from the western divine world. So this was how the western and eastern ancient deities categorized themselves, nine positions in three ranks, interesting! This is so interesting, but it is a pity that this deity fell too early and doesn’t know much of the matters of the Ancient Celestial Court. Otherwise, I could have also taken advantage and get to know their secrets!” Zhou Bao thought to himself.
There were not many messages from the Bronze Scepter. This was after all just a scepter, a fairy weapon, and not the skeleton of a real and living deity.
Hence, Zhou Bao did not receive much information. However, the little he received was very important.
Elder Qing only knew that before the Ancient Celestial Court, there was an era of ancient deities. However, he only heard about it and did not have much understanding of the era itself. Zhou Bao, on the other hand, had received much more information from the Bronze Scepter. He knew clearly about the basic information of the ancient deities. They were split into five big divine worlds, namely the Eastern, Western, Southern, Northern and the Central. The first two were neighbors. According to the strength of bloodline, the deities were split into three ranks and nine positions. The three ranks were the Bronze Deity, Silver Deity, and the Gold Deity. Each rank also had three sub-ranks, the Upper God, Middle God and Lower God.
This Bronze Scepter belonged to an Upper God of the Western divine world.
The ancient deities were from the primitive times. In other words, they were the descendants of Innate Deitys, Primordial Demons and Primordial Fierce Beasts from primitive times.
The three of them were races born during the Primordial Origin. Truthfully speaking, there were no living creatures that had spiritual intelligence in the Primordial Origin. It was a process, a slow evolvement. In this process, countless numbers of congenital spiritual creatures, resources, pneuma and spiritual intelligence slowly evolved.
The birth of spiritual intelligence meant the end of the Primordial Origin and the start of primitive times. A countless number of living creatures who had spiritual intelligence was born, they were demons that caused chaos. Afterward, as time passed, they were split into three big tribes and ruled the whole primitive times. They were the Innate Deitys, Primordial Demons, and Primordial Fierce Beasts. These three big tribes fought with each other, merged, destroyed and caused the end of the primitive times. They then entered the era of ancient deities. The three big tribes united with each other, and alongside with the living creatures born later, they then created the five big divine worlds and gave birth to the ancient deities.
This scepter belonged to a Bronze Deity of the Western divine world. Although this Bronze Deity was a Lower God, his skills were equivalent to that of a Human Immortal.
Yes, Human Immortal!
A Western deity of primitive times, the lowest rank among the Bronze Deities, while he was a Lower Rank Bronze Deity, he still had the skills of a Human Immortal!
Lord of Heavens could only be called demi-god.
However, this was just a comparison of skills. Gods and Immortals were different. To be exact, it was all about who they were born as. The bloodline of deities flowed all the way back to primitive times. They were the Bloodline heirs of the three big primitive tribes. Hence, they were born with strong skills already. Those who had pure bloodline inheritance were born at least a Bronze Deity. This inheritance referred to those that existed after two deities unite together. If a deity united with a normal living creature, then only half of the blood of their newborn would be from the deities. Although it was still quite powerful, they could not become deities, and could only be called demi-god.
A demi-god was enough to make Zhou Bao anxious. They were born with skills that were of Lord of Heaven Realm. After practicing, they might even become deities.
From a certain perspective, bloodlines decided power, status, and the majority of the era of ancient deities. Practicing was just a supplementary method.
The deities who were born with Divine Sense did not have to practice at all. Who would not want to have the power to rule the world?
“Such an era ended just like that, their history was even erased and abandoned by the Ancient Celestial Court. What does such a deliberate action mean? Perhaps the Ancient Celestial Court was the one who destroyed and buried the ancient deities so that they could build the Heavenly Court? If that’s the case, then the Ancient Celestial Court is too powerful, their great powers are unimaginable!”
Zhou Bao shuddered at the thought of the amount of strength and skills needed to bury the ancient deities. Just how much strength was needed? What was the background of this Heavenly Court of antiquity times?
Of course, Zhou Bao did not know this information. That was because the owner of the Bronze Scepter, a lower rank Bronze Deity, only lived in the era of the ancient deities. After being defeated in a divine war, he did not survive until the era of Ancient Celestial Court. Hence, he knew nothing about it.
The era of ancient deities referred to when the deities ruled heavens and realms. In that era, there were also all kinds of living creatures, but those that had spiritual intelligence were mainly humans.
Humans were born with spiritual intelligence but did not have much power. Hence, they were the ideal slaves for the ancient deities. However, while humans’ living environment was not the best, if they met with a brutal deity, they would be in deep trouble. Zhou Bao was glad that he did not live in that era. In most times, those days were not suitable for humans to live in. As compared to them, Zhou’s way of living was no kick, it was like living in heaven.
Zhou Bao did not have any good feelings towards the deities, but he was interested in their strength. Ancient deities were born with Divine Sense. Their ranks, class, and power were basically all determined once they were born. An old Chinese saying goes like this, “See the future when you’re three”. For these deities, they could see their future once they were born. They did not have much space and opportunity to go higher up in rank. For a Lower Bronze Deity to move up to Middle Bronze Deity, the level of difficulty was equivalent to a normal human being practicing until he reaches the realm of a Human Immortal. It was extremely difficult.
Hence, ancient deities generally did not practice, nor did they have any cultivation method to talk about. Their way of attack was basically using their instincts, strong body and Natal Power. Be it the strong body or Divine Sense, they were all related to Bloodline inheritance and Zhou Bao could never master them. However, he had a fairy weapon that could show him something.
Deities were born with Divine Sense, but it was not easy to go higher up. To increase the strength of their body, they liked to search, forge and refine their own divine devices. Divine devices could refer to the weapons used by the Western Ancient Deities. It could also refer to assistive tools. There were different levels of powers among the divine devices. They were also categorized into ranks and classes just like that of the deities’ skills. They were split into bronze, silver, and gold and each had sub-ranks of lower, middle and upper.
Even the lowest bronze divine device was equivalent to that of Taihao Fairy Weapon.
The ancient deities of the Western divine world did not have the method of refinement like those in the Eastern divine world. Their method was very simple, which was to use their own blood. This meant not just using one’s own blood to refine, but also using a part of one’s physical body to infuse into the divine device. That way, they could gain total control over the divine device.
Because of this, there was a limit on how many divine devices a deity could control. After all, there was only so much one could give and sacrifice from his physical body.
Just like how a Gold Upper Divine King of the Northen divine world gave up one eye for the control over a Gold Upper-rank divine device, the Everlasting Door, if he was offered another Gold Upper-rank divine device, he would not give up his other eye for it.
This way of blood refinement led Zhou Bao to realize a flaw in the system, and what did that mean?
To the deities in the Western and Northen divine worlds, a part of one’s body may remain literal like that. However, to practitioners like Zhou Bao, it not only included his physical body, but also the celestial devices, fairy weapons, living creatures, or anything that had been refined by themselves. This meant that as long as practitioners like Zhou Bao were willing, they could control any type of divine devices that was near them and for as much time as they wanted.
Thinking of this, Zhou Bao took out something: it was a Fiery Eye.
Other than the two Fiery Eyes growing on his body, this fella refined another one as an External Elixir. At the same time, he had three more. Any of the three could become the said part of his body after refinement. One of them had already been refined by Zhou Bao.
It was originally planned to be an External Elixir, but now it seemed like he could infuse it with the Bronze Scepter and let him control it.
Thinking through this, Zhou Bao did not feel any pity. He immediately placed it on top of that cyan lotus flower on top of the scepter.
Once the two items touched each other, a loud humming noise started ringing in Zhou Bao’s mind. The Golden Dharma Power swirling in his giant Dantian suddenly surged. Originally, it was just slightly affected by the Bronze Scepter and some power evaporated. But now, it was triggered and became like boiling water. It flowed violently into the Bronze Scepter through that Fiery Eye.
Likewise, the Bronze Scepter was also triggered. The fine patterns on the body started to light up and gave off a mesmerizing glow. The divine device that had been sleeping for millions of years had suddenly woken up in an instant.
