novelraw Chapter 497 - 491: Fermentation Sleep, Cellar Recovery Pod!
Chapter 497 - 491: Fermentation Sleep, Cellar Recovery Pod!
The crimson figure known as "Ti Sheng" slowly wriggled, surrounded by a misty glow.
The intensity of the light was slowly increasing at a speed not visible to the naked eye.
Suddenly, the red light around Ti Sheng became exceptionally glaring.
His furious voice made the earth’s core tremble slightly, causing a chain reaction that even made parts of the Blood Mist Star shake.
"Damn missionaries! Heretics!"
"How dare they preach wantonly in my Faith Ranch..."
"How do they dare?"
Having been undermined, Ti Sheng was furious and immediately wanted to condense his true form, to directly descend with divine retribution, killing all those outer star missionaries, skinning them, removing their bones, extracting their muscles, vaporizing their bodies, and crushing their bones into ashes!
Believers are the exclusive dominion of deities. Even deities like [God] Gray, who don’t belong to the Divine Format System, regard believers as everything. Not to mention a new generation God of Slaughter like Ti Sheng.
His power comes from his believers!
His future depends on his believers!
Although temporarily losing some believers won’t immediately affect his strength greatly, still...
This is undermining his foundation!
A deity without believers is like a tree without roots; all strength becomes emptiness.
"Wait!"
"Must calm down!"
"Think carefully about how the first-generation God of Slaughter died!"
At this thought, all of Ti Sheng’s anger vanished in an instant.
The first-generation God of Slaughter once had a small faith ranch of his own, though the population wasn’t large, and resources were relatively scarce. The star maintaining the ecosystem was also entering a decline phase. Altogether, the planet had only about eighty million people, but it had considerable exploitation value and could easily last another thousand years.
But that person, who abandoned their true name, perhaps never experienced hardship, couldn’t withstand inner loneliness, and wanted to break through to higher tiers, ascend and elevate, and condense a higher divine position. So, he left his homeland, spreading his fame everywhere.
Indeed, he enjoyed smooth sailing for a few hundred years, but greed made him lose his sanity, making him feel invincible and reckless, thinking he could roam the cosmos unchecked, until finally, he stirred trouble in the Solar System.
And the result?
The new Faith Ranch indeed had better believer resources, but such places had long been divided up by the strong, and he couldn’t intervene at all!
Discontent, the first-generation God of Slaughter initially threw some chess pieces secretly to test the waters but was directly killed by the Earth natives named Ma Ran and Su Qiangwei before he could even display his true skills!
He met his end silently and without a trace.
In the end, he could only entrust his obsession for revenge into divine fragments, casting them into other star systems, hoping for a successor.
As the second-generation God of Slaughter, Ti Sheng spent over three hundred and eighty years just to collect all the divine fragments and reforge the Slaughter Divine Format!
Developing to the present, Ti Sheng not only walked paths on the divine road that the first-generation God of Slaughter never did, but also condensed a lifebound divine artifact, with extremely rich foundations, and his accumulated power of faith was vast, comparable to old-line divine format system deities.
And what was all of this reliant on?
Patience, caution!
A little strength, running out of his territory to wander, most likely ends like the previous generation of God of Slaughter, being directly struck down!
Staying on the Blood Mist Star, nurturing followers, controlling societal progression, suppressing technological development, fooling the populace, changing customs, defining holidays, and engraving the gene of slaughter deep into the genetic information of the planet’s residents...
Doing these things, although somewhat troublesome and inefficient due to no experience to draw from, is...
Safe!
The population on this planet has slowly increased over thousands of years. It started with only a million people, and now, the overall number of red-skin wine people has swelled to a full seven hundred million!
Though people die every day, new wine people are born every day, roughly maintaining this number.
The constraints on population growth, besides the living space, are food.
The Blood Mist Star is unsuitable for planting, farming, food is scarce, utterly unaffordable for tribe propagation.
But...
Ti Sheng is a very resourceful deity.
When he encounters problems, he likes to fully leverage his intelligence to think, research, and ponder.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have stood out among over a hundred million competitors, killing all enemies, seizing all their divine fragments to become the true second-generation God of Slaughter.
Food insufficiency?
Insufficient living space?
Then stir up various powers, let them engage in mutual warfare, incite hatred between each other, wishing to eat each other’s flesh, drink each other’s blood, use each other’s bones as cups, skins as blankets!
The food problem is solved just like that.
The reason is simple — the red-skin wine people have immense life force and digestive ability. Their efficiency in utilizing food and water is originally nearly ten times that of Earthlings. Eating minerals, weeds, and dirt can result in an average lifespan of nearly forty years!
After gathering the divine fragments and receiving the obsession of the previous generation of God of Slaughter, the first major thing Ti Sheng did was modify the genes of the red-skin wine people!
In the Slaughter Divine Format, it records the "ethnic genome" exterminated by the previous generation God of Slaughter.
After consuming immense efforts, energy, and power of faith, Ti Sheng further optimized the red-skin wine people’s genes, directly enhancing their excellent traits tenfold!
Since then, Ti Sheng only needs to expend ten percent of that year’s divine power income annually to maintain the extraordinary genes of the red-skin wine people on the Blood Mist Star from degrading.
These red-skin wine people just need to eat once and then periodically enclose themselves in a closed environment to "ferment," allowing them to survive for several months.
For the red-skin wine people, "fermentation" is equivalent to "sleep" for Earthlings, enabling rapid energy recovery and injury healing.
It’s just that their genes allow them to automatically regulate their metabolism during fermentation.
Any injury, as long as it’s not fatally struck on the spot and there’s food and water reserve in their stomach, can be completely healed after a six-hour "fast fermentation," allowing them to climb out of their cellar lively again.
The cellar, for red-skin wine people, is equivalent to a high-tech recovery capsule.
However...
Everything in the world is relatively constant.
Master Heaven opened a door for the red-skin wine people and simultaneously closed a window.
Their self-healing ability is absurdly strong, and their efficiency in utilizing food and water is formidable, to the extent that Earth Humans feel ashamed in comparison.
However, each rapid fermentation accelerates cellular aging.
Theoretically, a naturally sixty-five-year-old red-skin wine person, starting from age twelve, as long as they continuously challenge formidable foes and repeat the "injury·fermentation·repair" cycle, can naturally age to death within a month!
To Ti Sheng, this is a good thing!
Maintaining a relative balance of the three major nation powers and letting their hatred linger, these red-skin wine people with inherently powerful extraordinary genes are the finest believers!
Ti Sheng believes he did well.
If the Slaughter Divine Format was condensed by himself, with thousands of years of accumulation, by now, he probably would have become a middle rank deity!
What is the concept of a middle rank deity?
Two major tiers stronger than the previous generation God of Slaughter!
However...
Ti Sheng has accumulated enough but cannot advance further. To go one step further, he must complete the obsession of breaking the previous generation God of Slaughter’s obsession — to kill Ma Ran and Su Qiangwei for revenge!