The People's God: Sacrificing Trillions to Ascend-Chapter 495 - Choices for Divine Jurisdiction

After spending some time in the Enlarged Civilization, Han Wu and his units had killed tens of thousands of Dark Demon Bugs. They were huge and thick with muscle, so they served as a suitable food source for his core race.

He confirmed that the civilization would become a key supply of nourishment for them. To establish a stable connection there, he started scouting the area for a hidden location and eventually found one: the nest of the Dark Demon Bug Queen. The queen measured 100,000 meters long, and even the senior trio had no hope of defeating her.

Han Wu observed the nest from afar and detected a sliver of the Will of the Enlarged Civilization within it.

Usually, the clone of the Will of a Civilization carried power beyond the limits of their species, and he was certain that the Dark Demon Bug Queen ahead of them fit that pattern.

He first summoned all his Earthsunder life forms and ordered them to surround it.

Xia Tian and his two friends were disheartened when they sensed the presence of eight Earthsunder life forms at once. They couldn’t even defeat their junior with their combined strength, and the realization embarrassed them. Still, with Han Wu serving as their vanguard, they managed to earn a few minor rewards.

The battle broke out when the Dark Demon Bug Queen lifted its head. It almost panicked on the spot when it spotted eight Earthsunder life forms closing in from every direction. It was only a single Earthsunder life form, so how could it defend against eight of them simultaneously?

It tried to flee but failed. Its massive frame, once a point of pride, became its greatest obstacle. Ultimately, the eight Earthsunder life forms pummeled it to death, and the sliver of the Will of the Enlarged Civilization was extracted from its corpse.

However, Han Wu did not absorb it into his divine realm. His core race relied on numbers, and if they all grew 100 times larger, the food requirements would rise a hundredfold. He couldn’t support them under those conditions, so he decided to give it away instead. He passed it to the senior trio and left the decision to them.

The trio had gained a major reward without lifting a finger, and they couldn’t accept it for free. After some discussion, they opened their joint vault and offered Han Wu another sliver of a Will of a Civilization they had once invaded.

At first, he declined. Once he understood its effects, he accepted it with real enthusiasm. The sliver came from the Oviparity Civilization and could hasten the incubation time of oviparous life forms. It was useless to core races that gave birth, but it suited Han Wu perfectly. His locusts were oviparous, so this Will could greatly reduce the incubation time and increase the numbers drastically. It worked far better for him than the Enlarged Civilization ever could.

Han Wu found a safe spot and started refining it. His other units followed his earlier command and started assembling a stable gate within the Dark Demon Bug Queen’s nest.

With so many units working together, the gate reached completion in no time. Han Wu then stationed a Sage life form to guard this place and left 100 million locusts behind to hunt and transport the Dark Demon Bugs’ flesh into his divine realm.

After dealing with everything, he said goodbye to the seniors and returned. The trio looked at the stable gate that Han Wu had built and sighed with admiration. They were supposed to be the seniors, yet the roles had somehow shifted.

Xia Tian tried to lift their spirits. “Let’s stop dreaming and work harder. We still need two more slivers of the Will of the Enlarged Civilization. We should finish the job faster now.”

Ye Ling and Xiang Meng nodded and started their invasion of the civilization. Invading and conquering other civilizations was a common practice in both Imperial College and the Divine Civilization.

The universe birthed numerous civilizations. If the Divine Civilization wanted to grow, it’d need to invade others. At the same time, it was the cradle of new civilizations.

Back in Imperial College, Han Wu quickly took the replacement classes and even worked through the night to refine the Will of the Oviparous Civilization. He finally succeeded, and his divine realm became even stronger now. Moreover, his heavy spending on his Divine Authorities paid off and both of them reached 100%. The time had come to develop his Divine Jurisdiction.

Jiang Ming’s conditions showed that he could not complete a Divine Jurisdiction overnight. He needed to choose a direction first.

Every Major God could receive one Divine Jurisdiction and work on advancing it. Han Wu was different. His Defiance gave him a faint sense that he could choose two, but he faced a simple question: which one should he choose?

He read a lot of books and gained a basic understanding. There were many ways of obtaining a Divine Jurisdiction, but most of those ways fit into three different methods.

The first involved receiving it from their Divine Aspects. For example, a God who excelled in using the Light Aspect could choose it as their Divine Jurisdiction, receive the power of light from other civilizations, and strengthen their Divine Jurisdiction.

The second required creating one. The silver dragon Erebard offered a clear example. Han Wu had helped him reincarnate. In his previous life, Erebard had been exceedingly powerful and held the powerful Water, Wind, Fire, and Earth Aspects. He had combined all four and invented the Chaos Divine Jurisdiction.

The third method relied on inheriting it from a Major God or God King. Many Major Gods obtained their Divine Jurisdictions in this way, but powerful ones were far too few and far between.

There were other options, but most couldn’t be replicated, so Han Wu didn’t consider them. He carefully reviewed everything he had learned so far and searched for the path that suited him.

Han Wu locked himself inside his divine realm for six entire days to study and reflect but emerged without an answer. He still didn’t know which path to take. He had the Death, Darkness, War, Destruction, Life, Light, Peace, and Creation Aspects, but he didn’t know which one he excelled at. Each offered an extraordinary path toward becoming a powerful Major God, but others had already explored them.

Han Wu’s ambition pushed him to look for a path no one had attempted, which left him at an impasse.

At that moment, Qin Shuang messaged him. She wanted to invite him to explore another civilization called the Fulgur Oldwood Civilization.

Han Wu had no plans, so he accepted.