Chapter 921: Faith

He didn’t know how much time had passed before the white mist around him dispersed. Corpses, blood, the battlefield, and flames appeared before him once again. The general looked at everything around him and rubbed his hair hard. Then, he fell into thought.

After that, his gaze gradually became firm, and he turned around and quickly left. Li Xiaofei’s figure appeared again, watching him leave. This had been his initial attempt at constructing his own small world domain.

It still wasn’t quite right.

Purification shouldn’t be born from forgetting. My small world still needed improvement... Wait, the power of faith shouldn’t be completely erased either. Humans need faith, but the direction of that faith could be changed,

Li Xiaofei pondered.

Just now, he had been experimenting with his domain’s small world. Influenced by the state of religious belief in this world, Li Xiaofei already had a rough idea for his new domain’s small world. He planned to start from the spiritual domain.

He wanted to create a small world that could influence, sway, and transform his opponent’s spiritual faith. The power of faith truly was terrifying. In a world saturated with religious beliefs, even those who usually seemed harmless, weak, and small could burst forth with incredible fighting strength once they embraced faith and chose to fight for it.

𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

A seven-year-old beggar had once raised a hatchet to kill a vicious wolf in defense of his faith. Granting faith could enhance combat power. Destroying faith could annihilate the spirit. An opponent whose faith had collapsed would lose all their fighting strength.

Inspiring faith. Destroying faith. Changing faith. This was the prototype of Li Xiaofei’s Six Gods Realm domain’s small world. Faith itself was also a form of energy and law.

Li Xiaofei walked through this world, carefully observing. This was the world where he had spent the most time. He observed the world, observed faith, with his divine sense.

Then he constantly constructed, revised, and refined his domain like a tireless architectural designer, immersing himself in it with relentless dedication. He didn’t know how much time had passed.

Boom.

A single bolt of lightning flashed through his mind. Li Xiaofei stood still, fully immersed in the world of divine sense. He guided the flow of energy and lines with his divine sense, then constructed a new form. Thus, an imperfect but still viable domain’s small world was born.

This small world was centered on Li Xiaofei, forming a circular space that was only twenty meters in diameter. Yet it was complete. This was entirely different from when he had used white mist to alter the general’s faith.

In that moment, Li Xiaofei realized that he had advanced another minor realm. Six Gods Realm, fourth rotation. He had succeeded!

Li Xiaofei carefully refined and perfected his small world. Then, he decisively dispersed it. Then reassembled it. Then dispersed it again. Then reassembled it. He repeated this process over and over.

After more than half a day, Li Xiaofei finally mastered the process with great skill. He could now instantly form his small world with a single thought. Afterward, he walked among mortals and began testing his domain’s small world.

He pulled people with different beliefs into his small world. Then, he transformed their spiritual worlds using laws. After half a day of experimentation, Li Xiaofei found that he could easily change the faith of these ordinary mortals.

With a single thought, he could make them abandon their original faith and become loyal followers of an opposing faith.

It’s somewhat complete now,

he thought.

Li Xiaofei was quite satisfied with the results of this experiment and muttered, “I’ll name my domain’s small world Faith.”

At that moment, he finally received a message from Wei Xiaotian. His application to enter the Holy Ruins had been approved. He could now set out. Li Xiaofei transformed into a single streak of light and shot into the sky, flying beyond the heavens.

This scene was witnessed by some nearby onlookers. Their eyes widened and their mouths dropped open as they stared at this godlike scene, unable to recover from their shock for a long time.

After a long while, one of them seemed to comprehend something, and a glimmer of ambition flashed in his eyes.

He shouted loudly, “I understand now! Hahaha! This is the true god of the world! I’m inspired! I can feel the divine summoning me. I will establish my own sect! Hahaha...”

Thus, in this world teeming with countless religions, a new faith was born.

***

Death God’s Eye clan, Third Great Camp.

A luxurious and technologically advanced Reaper shuttlecraft soared into the sky from the core fortress. It navigated through countless rifts and emerged on the outer surface. Then, with an irregular burst of acceleration, it suddenly transformed into a single streak of dim blue light and shot toward the vast universe.

“We’re on the outskirts. Even with the speed of the Death God’s Eye and traveling through subspace and wormholes, it would take us a full six months just to reach the outer edge of the Holy Ruins,” Wei Xiaotian explained to everyone.

As a King-level noble, Wei Xiaotian’s alternate identity, Death God’s Eye Delta, held a notable position within the Reaper faction. Additionally, since their application to enter the Holy Ruins had been approved by the ancestral lands, their journey remained smooth and unimpeded.

“Haha, did you see that?” Wei Xiaotian boasted with a grin and said, “Your old buddy Wei is still pretty influential in this world! Wahahaha.”

Li Xiaofei cast a sidelong glance at him. He didn’t know why, but after drinking with Liu Shaji for ten days straight, the once-sly old fox Wei Xiaotian now seemed as dumb as Liu Shaji himself.

Could idiocy be a disease that spreads?

Liu Shaji asked curiously, “Didn’t you say there are hundreds of millions of King-level figures? Why are you so influential? If I remember correctly, didn’t you also just lose a big battle? The whole army was wiped out, wasn’t it?”

He was referring to the time when Death God’s Eye Delta had risked everything to launch an assault on the Xiao Kuang Star Region, only to suffer a crushing defeat.

Wei Xiaotian replied, “Though I lost that battle, I still did a great service for the ancestral lands.”

“Hm? What kind of service?” Liu Shaji pressed for an answer.

Wei Xiaotian smugly declared, “I captured Si Kongxue and her daughter and delivered them to the ancestral lands. Wahahahaha...”

Before the words even finished echoing in the air, a single streak of sword light slashed down on his head. Li Xiaofei truly could not hold it in any longer.

Damn it. He actually had the nerve to bring that up.

Wei Xiaotian quickly pressed the two halves of his head back together with both hands, and the wound instantly healed.

He grumbled angrily, “Can’t we agree not to hit my handsome face?”

Li Xiaofei sneered coldly. Wei Xiaotian took out a mirror and examined himself for a long time. It was only when he found his perfect appearance unmarred that he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He snapped irritably, “Li Xiaofei, I know you’re anxious, but don’t rush. Those two are quite valuable now, and they definitely won’t be harmed...”

Li Xiaofei demanded, “Then why don’t you tell me what the Reapers want with my wife and daughter?”

Wei Xiaotian kept looking at the mirror and didn’t answer. Li Xiaofei’s liver burned with anger. But in the end, he didn’t strike again. He had asked Wei Xiaotian the same question more than once, but the latter always refused to answer. Pressing him would be useless.

Li Xiaofei turned and headed to his bedroom, continuing his cultivation to improve his strength. His two disciples, Gou Dongxi and Li Yiyun, waited and trained in the outer room. Meanwhile, Liu Shaji and Wei Xiaotian drank heartily in the command cabin.

Time passed in the blink of an eye. Two months later, the Death God's Eye arrived at the core star region of the Reaper’s dominion. According to rumors, the ancestral court of the Reapers lay just beyond the Holy Ruins. The closer they got to the Holy Ruins, the denser the population of the Reaper race became.

One could see countless planets drifting in the starry sky like lifeless corpses through the window. The Reapers swarmed in uncountable numbers on these planets, like microorganisms infesting a corpse. These planets had not originated in this region.

Instead, they had been conquered, slain, and dragged here by the Reapers to be their dwellings, just like hermit crabs. This dense cluster of celestial bodies should, by the normal laws of the universe, interact through gravity, causing chaotic orbits and frequent collisions.

But the Reapers who occupied them were all powerful clans and top-tier experts. They used their overwhelming strength to restrain the planets, allowing them to coexist without disaster.

Fleets, planets, stars, meteors... battles erupted everywhere. Yes. Even within the Reapers, clashes broke out among high-level Primal Faction’s Beast Kings. They often fought fiercely in the starry sky.

Chaos was everywhere. Yet a rare harmony of order had been established amidst the chaos. The Death God’s Eye ship gradually slowed as they approached the ancestral lands. Various inspections were unavoidable.

Fortunately, Li Xiaofei and his companions wore the hide of the Mother of All Beasts, so unless they encountered an Emperor-level Reaper, there was no fear of their identities being exposed.

Li Xiaofei had already reached the sixth rotation of the Six Gods Realm. His domain’s small world was fully constructed. The Faith domain had taken shape. The laws of order and transformation were constantly being refined within it. Once it was perfected and reached one hundred percent, it would signify the Six Gods Realm’s great completion.

He no longer focused solely on cultivation. Instead, he began to observe and record all intelligence and information about the Reaper ancestral region’s outer zones. This intelligence was of immense value to the human race. If he could complete this journey and make it out alive, he would be able to deliver this intelligence to the Human Military Command, which would be a great merit.

Meanwhile, Liu Shaji and Wei Xiaotian continued to revel in debauchery day and night. A few times, when Liu Shaji got particularly excited from drinking, he even urged Wei Xiaotian to find a few Reaper bar girls, hoping to explore the physiological structure of female Reapers... He truly had no limits to his mischief.

Another half a month later, the Death God’s Eye ship arrived at the Holy Ruins’ radiation zone. This was now the ancestral land of the Reapers. Unlike the outer zones, there were almost no dead planets in this starry sky, nor were there the massive monster corpses the size of planets. In fact, there was no evidence of battles at all.

A peaceful and serene star system lay before them. It was as if they had suddenly gone from a stinking garbage dump to a scenic park.

“What’s that?” Li Xiaofei suddenly exclaimed.

For he saw, far to the west, a massive single-streak rift stretching millions of kilometers. It was like a wound in the starry sky that could never heal. Even from a great distance, he could feel the sword pressure emanating from that scar. That sword pressure felt oddly familiar to Li Xiaofei.

“A sword scar,” Wei Xiaotian explained. “Someone once slashed open the ancestral land with a single sword strike, leaving a scar that has not healed for five hundred years.”

“Someone?” Li Xiaofei asked curiously, “Did a human powerhouse leave that behind?”

Wei Xiaotian nodded.

Li Xiaofei grew even more curious and asked, “So a human powerhouse actually reached this place? Their strength must have been incredible. Who was it?”