Chapter 182 Another Heavens and Worlds?

"So the 'Supreme Realm' Elder Mu mentioned must be the Authority Realm?"

Song Qi nodded and looked down at Wukong.

"By the way, Brother Monkey, what realm are you in?"

Wukong scratched his head in bewilderment.

"What realm?"

"I... I have no idea."

"This is completely different from the classification standard on our side."

Seeing this, the eldest sister walked over and gestured with a smile, extending her hand.

"If you don't mind, I can help you test it."

"Test? Well, why not? Old Sun here is quite curious myself."

With that, he placed his hand upon hers.

"However, if I'm not mistaken, you should be at the intermediate level of the Authority Realm."

The eldest sister smiled slightly and began to sense.

However, after a brief moment, an expression of utter perplexity immediately surfaced on her face.

"Huh?"

"Strange..."

"Well? How is it?"

Wukong asked eagerly, his face full of curiosity.

"Wait a moment, I might have lost my focus just now. Let me test again."

She offered an explanation, then closed her eyes as energy flowed through her body.

She re-entered the testing state.

Yet as time ticked away second by second, her initially calm expression gradually turned into one of profound confusion.

After a long while, she slowly opened her eyes.

"Strange..."

"What is it?"

Song Qi asked curiously.

Could there be something special about Monkey King?

"Well..."

She pondered for a moment before speaking cautiously.

"The power within this entity's body is unquestionably of the Authority level, and moreover, a high-tier existence within the Authority level."

"There is also an astonishingly massive amount of faith power within his body."

"However..."

"I detected no godhead, nor did I find any flow of the power of faith inside him."

"It is as if..."

"It is as if he has never absorbed the power of faith at all."

"That is truly bizarre..."

Hearing this, Wukong looked somewhat perplexed.

"Faith? Are you talking about those offerings of incense given to me by those bald donkeys?"

"What's so great about that stuff?"

"Absorbing it not only fails to increase one's strength by much, but it also corrupts the mind."

"If one has a better choice, who would deign to care for that bit of incense power?"

As he spoke, the Monkey King's tone was full of disdain for incense-burning deities.

Yet the three sisters opposite him were left listening in absolute astonishment!

"That's impossible!"

"If you haven't absorbed even a shred of faith, how could you possibly condense a godhead?"

"Without condensing a godhead, how could you advance further, command divine authority through your godhead, and ascend to the Authority Realm?!"

Hearing this, both Song Qi and Sun Wukong wore expressions of complete bewilderment.

"You can't progress further without absorbing faith and condensing a godhead?"

"Naturally!" the three women said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"The five major factions of the heavens—the Demons, the Church of Light, the Apocalypse, the Zerg, and the Protoss."

"The powerhouses of all these factions follow the path of the godhead."

"Not to mention the Church of Light."

"The Demons place their faith in the Four Demonic Emperors and the Supreme Demon Lord!"

"The primary reason they constantly plunder the myriad realms of the heavens is to seize populations for faith."

"Take the Apocalypse, for instance. The Apocalypse was originally an inferior mechanical creation that somehow gained the ability to think independently, struggling for seventy-four thousand years before ascending to the Origin Realm."

"Later, upon discovering the method of advancement, it founded the Mechanical Church, led countless ignorant worlds into civilization through technology, and step by step nurtured them to become its believers."

"And then there are the Zerg. The Zerg directly ravage the heavens, using countless worlds as their fodder to nurture hundreds of billions of their own kind."

"Although most Zerg are beast-like beings devoid of intelligence, a small fraction of high-tier Zerg are capable of cultivation, rapidly ascending to the Authority Realm by relying on the faith of vast numbers of low-tier Zerg."

"The Protoss are much the same. In the primitive worlds of the heavens, the primary faith of most early civilizations was directed toward the sun, moon, and stars."

"Even in their infancy, the sheer population of living beings across the entire heavenly universe was terrifyingly vast!"

"This staggering number of believers generated boundless power of faith. Bathed in endless streams of faith, many stars originally devoid of intelligence gradually birthed their own godheads, eventually forming a race of their own."

"Every single one of these five major factions reached the pinnacle by relying on the collection of faith and the condensation of godheads!"

"In these myriad realms, anyone with true insight understands that the path of faith and godhead is the ultimate answer to cultivation!"

At this point, the eldest sister wore a look of deep worry and dread.

"Your talent is formidable, but you must not walk down a crooked path."

She was deathly afraid that the young man before her might let arrogance lead him astray onto alternative paths.

In her own world, there were plenty of divine descendants who fancied themselves clever, only to find themselves unable to break through even to the Authority Realm.

She was terrified that if the youth opposite her also strayed onto a misguided path,

wouldn't the world she had been promised go down the drain as well?

However, Song Qi and Sun Wukong paid the three of them no mind.

The two pondered for a moment, then exchanged a glance.

In an instant, each understood the other's intent.

This place was not the heavens they were familiar with!

This was a heavenly universe with a completely different mainstream cultivation system!

Or rather...

This was an undiscovered heavenly universe!

"I have another question."

Instead of dwelling on the previous issue, Song Qi pressed on.

"Among the five top factions you just mentioned, none of them seemed to have anything to do with the human race?"

"Could it be that across the entire heavens, the human race doesn't have a single faction worth mentioning?"

The three women blinked, their lips twitching slightly, clearly feeling rather awkward.

They searched for words for a long time before finally speaking.

"The human race..."

"Because of their inherently weak physical strength, coupled with generally high levels of intelligence, every single human can generate a considerable amount of faith."

"Therefore... in almost all worlds, they are treated merely as consumables used to provide faith."

"Only in a few rare worlds have deities belonging to the human race themselves been born."

Song Qi pondered in silence, harboring no anger, and continued his inquiries.

"Right, regarding the situation in other worlds..."

After more than half an hour...

With all his doubts resolved, he cupped his fists in gratitude.

"Many thanks to the three of you for clearing up my confusion. I now have a general understanding of the situation beyond this world."

"Think nothing of it. If you have any other questions, feel free to come find us."

After some polite pleasantries, they parted ways.

Having struck an agreement with the three Fates, he could no longer slay the other Rule-tier monsters on the Third Continent.

No matter, monsters were off-limits.

But demons could be found everywhere.