Mythology: Spiritual Ruler

Not knowing what was happening behind him, the black and white mist just passed by silently. Zeus took one step forward, passed through the invisible portal, and entered the spiritual world again.

Vaguely, he felt as if he had passed through three layers of barriers, two of which were the ones he accidentally broke last time. Finally, when the chaotic light and shadow returned to normal, he stepped on the ground that looked like bluestone.

Looking around, this is an open space without cover. In the distance, a large group of buildings of various shapes stretches endlessly. In the center of them, there is an ancient well that looks like it has been magnified countless times.

Zeus didn't feel any sense of danger from it, but there was an extremely heavy pressure on his heart.

Just like when he once faced his father, this had nothing to do with the strength of his power, but that there seemed to be an insurmountable gap between him and the other party, making it difficult for him to have the desire to fight.

"That's the [Well of Reincarnation]. It's what I was painstakingly building when you broke into the spiritual world a few days ago."

"Throughout the end of the Second Era, I spent a lot of time on it."

The plain and casual voice came, instantly breaking the strong 'sense of presence' of the ancient well in the distance.

Zeus turned around, and there, a very young-looking god was sitting on a bluestone. His appearance is not very clear, or in other words, it is difficult to remember.

Beside him, the beautiful black-haired goddess stood quietly, with a lavender halo lingering around her. That was the Goddess of the Dark Moon, and the God King recognized her at a glance. Although she rarely walked in the world, there were records of her.

"I have taken the liberty to visit you, Lord of the Spirit World. I apologize to you for my previous intrusion into your domain."

Although he apologized, Zeus did not put himself in the lower position.

There may be a gap in strength between the two sides, but the status of the God King is granted by the world. At least in terms of attitude, he will pretend to communicate as equals.

"It doesn't matter, it's just a little thing. After all, you have learned a lesson."

"Speaking of which, the little guy who inherited part of the golden human memory does have prejudices against the gods. After all, when the gods created them, they regarded them as dust."

The tone is calm. Unlike the previous generation, if you look at it from the perspective of the God King, Ryan actually has nothing to say to him.

Most of the power that can be divided up in the world already has its owner, and he no longer sleeps in the core of the world most of the time like in the last era, assisting the spiritual world in digesting the source power. The current God King has no value to him. If the god in front of him is not called Zeus, Ryan would not even have the idea of ​​meeting him.

Perhaps in the original trajectory, the two gods of the dark night had such a mentality. It's just that Ryan can somewhat glimpse the corners from the records of later generations, and knows that Zeus can still turn over with faith.

But it’s hard to say what the specific strength is. Excluding the adulation and deification of rulers by later generations, there were conflicts between Zeus and Nyx twice, but in the end there was no real confrontation, and it is not known who was better.

"Golden Human, no wonder he is so repulsive to gods. I thought this was what you meant."

Perhaps it was because Ryan's attitude seemed more peaceful, which made Zeus feel more relaxed.

"Now the spirit world covers the entire world, and all the gods can detect its existence. Don't you know that there are many lives like before in the spirit world?"

"Quite a few, after all, many years have passed. Some of them are hostile to gods, but most of them have no opinions."

As if he didn't hear the implication of Zeus' words, Ryan said calmly:

"Of course, I don't really care what they think, just as I don't care what they do."

"Following the rules I set, the spirit world will not reject any visitors. You can come and go freely. Facing the malicious creatures here, it doesn't matter if you want to kill them. Everything you encounter here is your own business. "

"That couldn't be better."

The God King nodded. After understanding the attitude of the Lord of the Spirit World towards the gods in this world, strictly speaking, this trip has ended successfully. But for Zeus, who had just been born for less than a century, he still had many questions he wanted to know.

"Speaking of which, not long ago, the sun was severely damaged because of my father, and the whereabouts of the ancient sun god are unknown. I heard that the Titan God once had a conflict with the spiritual world?"

Raising his head slightly, Ryan could see what the other party was thinking. In fact, what he cares about is not the sun, but the true whereabouts of the former God King who disappeared inexplicably.

However, Ryan had no intention of revealing what happened in the abyss. Since the other person openly asked about the sun, respond to him with the sun.

"That's what happened."

Standing up, Ryan showed a smile that puzzled Zeus.

"Since you're so interested in this, come with me."

"It just so happens that no matter what, you are at least a God King. Since you are here, I will give you a gift."

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Walking on the bluestone-paved avenue, the three of them moved forward slowly.

In the Eastern myths of later generations, reincarnation is the most important place in the world and the hub of all spirits, but this is not the case in Chaos.

The world instinctively knows that this is a good thing, but just like the magic network, it does not actually give any extra preferential treatment to this thing that does not exist in destiny. Even because it is an artifact rather than a corresponding god, no one knows that there is such an existence as reincarnation in the world.

Lian simply didn't care whether others knew it or not. He distorted the time of the All-Spirit World and stretched a day into a week. Now, it has begun to operate initially.

As he got closer to the Well of Samsara, what Zeus saw were tens of thousands of souls with lifeless eyes, slowly moving forward like puppets, and jumping into the huge stone well at the end of his sight.

Looking at the stiff movements of these souls, for some reason, a speechless feeling arose in the heart of the God King.

His intuition told him that he would not become like this, but this did not prevent the inexplicable atmosphere from infecting him.

"What's going on? They seem a little inactive?"

Try to make your voice sound normal, Zeus asked in a low voice.

"Because they have passed several levels. In fact, this is already the core of reincarnation."

Lian did not respond, but Lyanna explained:

"In the places closer to the periphery, except for those spirits with strong wills that have been stranded on the surface of the spirit world, the souls absorbed by reincarnation have their memories washed away by Eirene, the goddess of autumn and the end, one of the three custodians of the [All-Spirit World]."

"Although the [Well of Samsara] can also do this, in this way, those memories will be erased by the power of reincarnation into the most primitive energy and integrated into the spirit world itself. Compared with some energy, the memory of living beings is obviously more valuable."

"Erase memory?"

Zeus was convinced. In the past, people only knew that the souls of living beings would return to the spirit world after death, but except for the heroic spirits who served as star gods in the sky, few gods knew the fate of other souls.

Most of them thought that the souls would continue to survive in the spirit world until they exhausted everything and returned to nothingness. But today, Zeus felt that he had discovered a big secret. It turned out that after death, the living beings would be deprived of their memories and put into this artifact called [Well of Samsara].

In Chaos' simple cultural values, memory is very noble and mysterious, which is also reflected in the myths of later generations, and even caused many sages to explore. Depriving memory is an unimaginable punishment for them.

"So what mistakes did they make?"

Although they were just some mortals, Zeus couldn't help but ask. He didn't care about the fate of mortals, he just wanted to know whether the Lord of the Spirit World enjoyed torturing living beings.

"No, they will welcome a new life."

Lyanna's calm voice continued to come, which was why she was unwilling to communicate with the gods in the outside world.

There were few secrets in the outside world for the spirit world, but they found it difficult to understand everything in the spirit world.

"We judge their achievements in their lifetime. Of course, because of their different races, statuses, and positions, it is difficult to evaluate them as 'good' or 'evil'."

"In short, with a few exceptions, those who have made extraordinary achievements among their kind or whose souls are stronger will receive higher evaluations, and vice versa."

"And based on the criteria for judgment, the other two custodians of the [World of All Spirits] will give them different gifts and decide where they will be born in the next life."

"Finally, they will step into the [Well of Samsara], as you can see." Pointing to those souls, Lyanna said: "They will be separated from their previous lives, born from death, and start a new life."

"In order to ensure the interval between the two lives, memories cannot be retained. Otherwise, hatred will continue from generation to generation, and all living beings will find it difficult to get rid of it."