At the beginning, after fighting the evil god of death, it was his divinity of 'fighting', 'killing' and 'destroying' that was suppressed by Joshua along with the Chaos Memory.

Compared to the chaotic memories that can be weakened by the 'Continent of Discord', the thing of divinity seems more ethereal and more difficult to solve.

However, through the communication with the knowledge receiver, as well as his own thoughts on the path after the legend and the realm of the sage, Joshua found that he may have found the essence of the gods, the truth of divinity, and may even have found the realm above the legend and between the realm of the sage.

What is divinity?

It is the mind of intelligent life, the reflection in the initial fire.

The currently observable multiverse, all the material and spiritual worlds, all come from the light of the initial fire, and in the initial fire, there is information and power of all things, and all things come from the derivation of the initial fire, and have an essential connection with the source of all things.

Divinity, on the other hand, is the overly powerful reflection of the mind of the intelligent life in the initial fire—this reflection corresponds to the material world, and is connected, and if it can open the gap, infinite divine power will pour out of it.

But the essence of this gap is actually too pure will, too pure faith, a wound torn by the connection between all things and the initial fire.

Infinite divine power is essentially the power to repair wounds, just like platelets flow with the blood, clotting blood to heal wounds, divine power is actually such a thing.

"The primordial transcendent species of the Steel Python and the Primordial Gods are inherently connected with the Initial Fire, so they hold divine power, and they will not suffer the erosion of divinity like the gods who used their divinity to communicate with the Initial Fire and obtain divine power in later generations."

After purifying the chaotic essence, Joshua stayed where he was, he watched the small balls around him spin around him, and began to ponder: "And my divinity has penetrated deep into the depths of the Initial Fire, surpassing most of the Steel Pythons, and even most of the gods. ”

Divinity is the valve that tears the wound and fixes the wound, and they bear the pain of the erosion of divinity, which is to constantly strengthen their faith and will, tear the wound again and again, and penetrate their divinity into the initial fire, the price of gaining more divine power.

Although Joshua has divinity, he did not use divine power and deliberately created wounds, so he was only eroded, and he had not yet reached the point of divine annihilation.

And the master of the world of Sibeya, the time mover Fatrolvi, he has the divinity of time and fate, but he did not become a god himself to use it, he used the divinity to create a wound valve, and used the human soul to create a small dam to store energy and water, and avoid risks while accumulating divine power...... But the cost of doing so is to kill tens of billions of lives.

Essentially, gods, especially those at the moment of annihilation, are standard memetic creatures, and divinity is the core of memetics similar to the nature of chaos.

The goddess of the earth, through the conceptual meme of the earth, obtains the divine power of the earth from the initial fire, and the god of forging and fire, through the conceptual meme of forging and fire, obtains the relevant power from the initial fire - so the essence of the gods is the typical manifestation of the fourth level of the survival mode 'cognition itself', they themselves are a concept, a meme.

Because of this, the Father of Nature will be bound by the meme of nature and elves, and give priority to nature and elves in everything, and even do the thing of desertion, which is really helpless, because he himself is this concept, how can he go against his own ideas?

The true gods who have relative divinity in later generations, such as the gods of justice and power in the previous generation, construct a complete cycle of order through two seemingly opposing and unified divine memes - this is equivalent to using divine power against another divine power, automatically maintaining the opening of the valve, and can also mobilize divine power at will when it has considerable free will.

From the primordial steel python and the primordial gods, the primordial gods who naturally possessed natural powers, to the subsequent father of nature, the ancient gods of the earth goddess who incarnated the concept meme, and the seven gods today, who hold relative divine memes and construct the cycle of order, this is the evolution of generations of gods.

After determining that 'Malicious Chaos' and the evil god were essentially strange memetic creatures, Joshua could finally determine through comparison that the essence of divinity and deity was also similar to it, just relying on the strange supernatural power essence of Malicious Chaos, and relying on the primordial fire, the source of all things.

"Moreover, even if the gods are destroyed, they may not be dead."

Joshua perfected the model of the gods in his mind, and he whispered to himself, "It is very likely that it was just the wound of the divinity that was stretched to the limit and pulled into the Initial Fire - like a fisherman who was pulled into the infinite ocean of divine power by the too deep divine line. ”

It's just the will of the individual, how can it be against the initial fire? It's almost like death.

After thinking about this, Joshua finally figured out some of the permission setting issues in the Glorious Era.

Gods are memetic beings that transcend ordinary intelligent creatures and go further than them, which is why some legends are so powerful that they are comparable to, or even surpass gods, but most of the gods have higher authority than legends.

Just like the Void Behemoth is so powerful that it surpasses civilization, but it is still a beast, no matter how strong the legend is, it has not surpassed the essence of its own survival mode...... It's just that the existence form of God is too unstable and dangerous, and so far, there has been no civilization that belongs to God, and all the ways that gods use divine power are similar to ordinary people with great brute force.

Just as a large number of sages and geniuses died in the process of studying magic at the beginning of the study of magic fighting qi, the current god realm is such a path full of flaws and deficiencies, and it will take a long time and countless gods to die out before one day in the future, to perfect the god cultivation method without sequelae.

And the original plan of the Mycrof civilization's 'All Worlds and Gods' is probably to ascend to the gods and become the first 'memetic civilization' in the multiverse, and to promote the development of the god realm with the power of the entire civilization, and only by reaching this step can it be regarded as surpassing the original life level and becoming a new dividing line between the original 'beast' and 'civilization'.

But is God really already inherently beyond ordinary intelligent life?

Not really.

Leaving aside the many flaws and constraints of the realm of gods, powerful beasts can destroy civilizations, and powerful humans, even legends, can naturally kill gods.

Just as the most powerful beast like the Immortal Bird Void Behemoth, its existence itself is already about to cross the boundary and reach the realm of 'itself is civilization', once it advances and obtains the correct mode of thinking, then it will rely on its powerful power to reverse knowledge and technology, and I am afraid that it will not have much time to be comparable to a powerful civilization in terms of knowledge and technology reserves.

And the strongest group of legendary powerhouses, like him, Joshua, must have explored the essence of the divine gods, if they also cross the line and succeed in becoming memetic creatures, they are naturally the extremely powerful group of memetic creatures - just like the seven gods often said to Joshua that if Joshua becomes a god, it must be an extremely powerful god.

"However, it's not that only divine power can do this."

At this thought, Joshua's eyes shone with a crimson glow, and the light of divinity overflowed from the warrior's body, and finally manifested behind him into a pure wheel of divinity, which rotated endlessly—the Φ-shaped logo of this wheel is the embodiment of Joshua's essence, just like the black ring of the former god of power, the bifurcated eye of the god of wisdom and choice.

Joshua didn't think that God was the only way to memeticize, and this was not speculation, but there was a real basis.

Just as Malevolent Chaos is able to create memetic creatures like evil gods, proving that gods are not the only way to sublimate...... Every sage of extraordinary power himself has probably gone through the process of memeticization of relevant extraordinary powers.

This also proves that every supernatural power probably has a corresponding method of memeticization - but like the ancient, primitive, and longest-studied transcendent power, there are many ways to sublimate into a god, far more than those of other transcendent powers, both in terms of quantity and security.

Even, psionic bugs are likely to be the result of a super civilization that hastily memesized psionic energy and eventually failed.

"I don't know if it's correct though...... However, the direction of the advancement of the legendary powerhouse is probably to become the 'god' of the corresponding extraordinary power and the corresponding extraordinary power itself on the path of the corresponding extraordinary power. ”

Then, there is the creation of a new kind of transcendent power, the 'Sage Realm'.

Of course, Joshua knew that these were just his own speculations, and he did not have any actual evidence to prove, analyze and study, all of this was similar to pure fantasy, and if he really believed it completely, he could only prove his shallowness.

But what does that mean? Make bold assumptions and verify carefully. When you study the unknown, you really need to be bold.

"It seems that there is no way."

So in this regard, the warrior stood in the center of his own world and let out a rather helpless sigh, driving the other silver goblins around him who were sorting out the collapsed wreckage of the crystal obelisk to imitate (repeat) and sigh, and Joshua secretly thought in his heart: "I can only try to catch a few more evil gods in the future." ”

"After all, they're the only otherworldly power memetic creatures I've encountered other than gods."