The Lone Fire Ghost King had a preliminary understanding of the unknown world he was in.
It turned out that this realm was one of the Three Thousand Demon God Worlds.
After Pangu slew the Three Thousand Demon Gods in ancient times, he used their corpses to evolve into three thousand great worlds, placing them on the opposite side of the Primordial World.
The Primordial World was the manifest world, and the Three Thousand Great Worlds were the latent worlds, mutually complementary, occupying the same positions but not intersecting.
On the surface, only the Primordial World existed.
In the hidden realm, only the Three Thousand Great Worlds existed.
Even the Six Saints of the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World, and even Dao Ancestor Hongjun, were unaware of the existence of latent worlds on the hidden side of the Primordial World.
However, the latent worlds were aware of the manifest world, the Primordial World.
As long as the hidden side could transition to the manifest side, one could enter the Primordial World.
The Three Thousand Great Worlds of the hidden side were formed from the Three Thousand Demon Gods, not from Pangu alone as the Primordial World was.
Therefore, each of the Three Thousand Great Worlds was in a state of competition.
Wars of world devouring occurred constantly.
After billions of years of struggle, only six great worlds remained from the original three thousand.
All three thousand worlds had merged into these six great worlds, bringing their power level close to that of the Primordial World.
The Lone Fire Ghost King learned that these six great worlds were ruled by six ancient gods who had merged with the world's origin and controlled the world's source.
These ancient gods called themselves "God Above Gods." Although the worlds they merged with were significantly weaker than the Primordial World, since each world's will was occupied by only one God Above God, the strength of these God Above Gods was comparable to the Six Saints of the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World.
There were six God Above Gods.
One controlled the creation of the world, and his great world was known as Paradise; this was the God Above God, Jehovah.
One was a deity with four faces and five hands, the God Above God Brahma.
The remaining four God Above Gods were Odin, Zeus, Ra, and Quetzalcoatl, each occupying a great world.
"The Western mythological world of my past life?"
The Lone Fire Ghost King was surprised to discover that these God Above Gods and their respective worlds were from the Western mythological world of his past life.
Could it be that the various deities in Western mythology were innate beings evolved from the worlds of the Three Thousand Demon Gods?
These six God Above Gods should theoretically have inherited the Dao lineages of many Chaos Demon Gods among the Three Thousand Demon Gods.
The Lone Fire Ghost King understood the developmental process of this hidden world.
The relationship between the Three Thousand Great Worlds and the Primordial World was like that of a mirror world, mutually complementary.
The Three Thousand Great Worlds were the back of the mirror, and the Primordial World was the front.
And as the Primordial World went through the Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation, the Witch-Demon Tribulation, and the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation,
the hidden Three Thousand Great Worlds were also not peaceful, erupting with various conflicts and wars, which could also be called tribulations.
In the beginning, the Three Thousand Great Worlds inherited the Dao lineages of the Three Thousand Demon Gods, giving birth to numerous innate beings.
Unlike the Primordial World, these beings generally pursued paths of cultivation such as Dou Qi, magic, and witchcraft.
Whether it was Dou Qi, magic, or witchcraft, they all ultimately led to the path of godhood.
This godhood was not the godhood of the Heavenly Court of the Primordial World, nor the godhood on the Investiture of the Gods.
Instead, it was the godhood of faith.
By collecting the faith of countless beings and igniting the divine fire, one could become a demigod.
When a demigod condensed a divine personality, possessed a divine office and a divine kingdom, they became a true god.
True gods were classified by their divine personality levels. Those below divine personality level ten were lower gods, or lesser gods.
Those who reached divine personality level ten were middle gods, or intermediate gods.
Those who reached divine personality level twenty were upper gods, or greater gods.
Gods possessed divine kingdoms, and their true bodies were generally within their divine kingdoms. When they ventured out, they relied on avatar techniques.
For example, a lesser god's avatar possessed the strength of a Primordial Earth Immortal. The true body and the avatar had the same cultivation level, but within the divine kingdom, they could exert the strength of a Heavenly Immortal.
The divine kingdom provided a great boost to a god's power. Within the divine kingdom, practitioners whose cultivation was a major realm higher would often have to concede.
However, gods had their weaknesses. As the saying goes, "believe and it exists, disbelieve and it does not." If a god's believers greatly decreased, to less than one-tenth, the god's divine personality level could regress by six or seven levels, or even more than ten levels, dropping from an upper god to a middle god, and then to a lesser god, which was common.
If a god's believers dwindled to less than one in ten thousand, they would fall from godhood, become mortals again, or even perish directly.
The weakness of gods was so obvious that since ancient times, gods who died due to the extinction of their believers were as numerous as stars.
Faith was everything to a god.
An upper god, with a divine personality level of twenty, could escape the limitations of faith by exploring the Heavenly Dao laws of their world, occupying a part of those laws, and thus condensing a Law Body, becoming an ancient god.
Ancient gods occupied the source of laws and even a very small portion of the Heavenly Dao's power. Even if their world was only one-thousandth the size of the Primordial World and possessed only a single Heavenly Dao law instead of all three thousand,
ancient gods, by virtue of condensing a Law Body and coming into contact with the power of the Heavenly Dao, possessed at least the cultivation of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
Some ancient gods who occupied more of the Heavenly Dao's power could rival a Quasi-Saint.
There was an essential difference between ancient gods and lesser gods, middle gods, and upper gods.
Those gods who relied on faith were merely faith gods, igniting divine fire through faith, and perishing due to faith.
Ancient gods, on the other hand, relied on laws and the Heavenly Dao, so faith was not a necessity. Even if their believers were extinguished and all faith was lost, their own strength would not be diminished in the slightest.
Faith gods and ancient gods represented the fundamental division among deities.
When an ancient god appeared in a great world, it often possessed the qualification to open spatial channels and travel to other great worlds.
Thus, wars swept across the Three Thousand Great Worlds.
As ancient gods conquered a great world, integrating its Heavenly Dao laws and the entire world into their original world, they occupied more and more laws and Heavenly Dao power.
Their strength would grow ever stronger.
Meanwhile, as faith gods' faith spread across more great worlds and the number of beings who believed in them increased,
their divine personalities would not remain at level twenty-nine. Some faith gods' divine personality levels could break through level thirty, or even level forty or fifty.
If level twenty gods only possessed Golden Immortal combat power within their divine kingdoms,
level thirty gods possessed Grand Unity Golden Immortal combat power within their divine kingdoms.
Level forty gods possessed Grand Unity Golden Immortal combat power within their divine kingdoms, comparable to weaker ancient gods.
Level fifty gods could possess Quasi-Saint combat power within their divine kingdoms, and even their avatars sent outside possessed Grand Unity Golden Immortal combat power.
Gods with a divine personality level of fifty, although faith gods who lived by faith, already possessed strength comparable to ancient gods.
If the power of faith reached an extreme, it might not be inferior to ancient gods who occupied the world's origin power.
It was just that faith gods had obvious weaknesses, while ancient gods did not, so in the struggle between faith gods and ancient gods, faith gods were often at a disadvantage.
And as the conquest continued, the ancient gods gradually discovered the traces of the God Above Gods.