Chu Ran looked at the testing instrument and suddenly thought of Wang Ping'an's garbage evaluation of the God Summoning Society.
Every extreme organization has its reasons.
Did the God Summoning Society eagerly hope to summon a god because they feared the death scythe overhead might fall one day?
Chu Ran threw the cushion into the StarNet lounge.
She walked out of the capsule, lay down on the bed, and closed her eyes. The sound of that unwilling roar seemed to replay in her ears.
Then, become a god for me!
What is a god?
How can a human become a god?
Sun Wukong didn't become the Victorious Fighting Buddha until after he helped Tang Sanzang obtain the true scriptures. Daji, because she harmed all living beings, couldn't be granted the title of a true god even after the Shang dynasty fell.
But they weren't human; they were demons.
They were characters that never truly existed in the past life.
And even after experiencing such a miraculous event as borrowing a corpse to resurrect, I am still human.
Oh, actually, I can't say that. According to the divisions of the past life, I should now be considered a superhuman, or even a cultivator. But even a cultivator, after great success, ascends to immortality, not godhood.
A god should have their own believers.
But after the battle ended, I didn't feel any faith power—instead...
When Jian thanked the unknown creator, it seemed I received a faint faith force.
Chu Ran opened her eyes, sat up, and murmured, "How does this feel like going back to the time when a unknown power was in my heart?"
She had forcibly swallowed the power of the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox and nearly died in the battle. If the starship hadn't severely wounded the S-level Zerg Life Cicada... if the massive vitality within the Life Cicada hadn't fallen on her... if the remnant soul of the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox hadn't injected its last trace of soul power into her and acknowledged her...
She would have died.
It truly proved the saying that manna from heaven is poisoned.
Chu Ran looked at the special artifact on the table. But she wanted to gamble again.
Indeed, gamblers never truly leave the table.
The next day, following the schedule, Chu Ran walked into the classroom for the basics of Divine Tombs and Creations.
According to Jian, all the students at the Third Training Institute had received a notice from the instructors strictly forbidding interference with Chu Ran's normal life. Violators would get a one-week trip to the isolation room.
Fame is precious, but freedom is more so.
Most students didn't want to be locked in isolation for a week, so when Chu Ran sat in the back, the surrounding students were excited but didn't approach. Instead, they occasionally stole glances at her like thieves.
The public class instructor looked somewhat old. When he walked into the classroom and saw Chu Ran, his expression softened considerably.
"First, on behalf of myself, I welcome the new student. Second, to maintain the teaching progress, I will continue with the lesson. The new student can self-study the previous content, and if there are any questions, feel free to come to me anytime."
After saying that, he turned on the projector. "Last class, we finished the seventh Divine Tomb. This time, we begin the introduction to the eighth Divine Tomb."
"Instructor, I still have a question about the seventh Divine Tomb!" A student in the front suddenly raised his hand and shouted.
The old instructor stopped and looked at him. "Speak."
"Is it true that traces of the Divine Ruins were discovered in the seventh Divine Tomb?"
The old instructor smiled helplessly. "I thought your class would skip this question, but you still asked."
"Information about the Divine Ruins is classified within the Human Federation," the old instructor slowly began. "What I can tell you are just some hearsays."
"According to rumors, the Divine Tombs are not the true resting places of gods. The true resting place of gods is in the Divine Ruins. By entering the Divine Ruins, humans can find the power to eliminate the Zerg, but to enter the Divine Ruins, one must first find the key to the Divine Ruins."
"The most widespread saying is that the traces of the Divine Ruins in the seventh Divine Tomb are the key to the Divine Ruins."
All the students listened with great interest. "So, did we get the key to the Divine Ruins?"
"I don't know," the old instructor shook his head. "The only certainty is that no one has ever entered the Divine Ruins."
"Ah..." The first student who asked wilted.
"Alright," the old instructor clapped his hands with a smile. "Now let's get to the main topic. Let's look together at the characteristics of the Divine Stones produced by the eighth Divine Tomb and the creations made from them."