My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit

"And this is the last key she left in this world, and also a guarantee between her and me," the Earth Consciousness said.

Xue Dili: "..."

Sure enough, this thing was related to the Tenth Apostle.

"Then this mark..." Xue Dili looked at the key in his hand with a lightning-like symbol. To him, the thing looked jinxed at first glance—after all, it might have been Zeus’s former divinity. Just looking at it felt like it was polluting his eyes.

For all he knew, once this thing entered his body, he might slowly turn into a Zeus‑style dog-donkey.

Xue Dili had always felt that the Greek divine seats were like poison; anyone who stayed on a god-seat long enough would end up like that Divine King who cut his own daughter in half—twisted and dog-donkey to the core.

Even Athena wasn’t much better.

To be fair, Athena had helped him a lot, but as for her personally, Xue Dili chose not to comment. She was one of the deranged bitches of Ancient Greece, and the dogshit things she’d done were not few.

Even Athena was like that, and she already counted as a moral role model by Greek standards. That alone showed just how abstract the rest of them were—purely relying on their peers being worse to look decent.

"The demise of the Divine Era was also when I gave them their last chance at life. If I hadn’t, at the last moment, negotiated with Athena and Chaos to grant them an unknown Subspace as their residence, all Gods would have met Death in the end. This was both my expulsion of them and their own attempt at survival," the Earth Consciousness said.

"Otherwise, even if they forced themselves to stay here, they would, in an extremely short time after the Divine Era’s end, completely die of old age. Even that Calico—your aunt—only forced her lifespan to the extreme by collecting and mastering the virus left behind in your Cursed Blood."

"She even had to remain in hibernation for long periods just to live until 3200 years later. Ninety percent of that time, she was in hibernation, and even so, she still reached the end of her life."

The Earth Consciousness gradually explained what had happened after the Divine Era vanished, and it allowed Xue Dili to understand a lot more about its disappearance.

When he even tried to put himself in the shoes of those native Gods of the Divine Era back then, Xue Dili suddenly felt like they really had their single track mind blocked from both ends.

In front, there was Zeus, who stole Ye Gezi’s office, trying to launch a Ragnarok to seize the authority of the Earth Consciousness and become the true Earth Consciousness himself—so that, in that ending, Zeus would be the only God left in the world, killing off all other religions.

Behind, Ye Gezi was fated to become the only God and cast all other pantheons into "Hell."

Chances were the Eastern pantheon wasn’t going to sit still either, quietly brewing some even more hardcore big move in the background.

Just like an opened Pandora’s Box, once the first Ragnarok was triggered, the Divine Era was already sprinting full speed down the road of self-destruction, with no brakes left.

Either the other Gods joined this battle royale and saw who could be the final chicken-dinner champion and seize the Earth’s authority, or they became the targets of the winner’s purge and just waited to die at home.

On top of that, in the rear, the original Earth Consciousness was still watching like a tiger eyeing its prey. Faced with these unfilial brats, the Earth Consciousness chose Absolute Forbidden Magic—no regrets about killing its own kids!

Those Divine Era creatures finally got to experience what it meant to have a one-track mind locked from both ends. To them, it was either getting purged by the victorious only God, or getting purged by the Earth Consciousness. If they wanted to keep living, there was only one option...

Run!

Run from their mother star, run out of this battle royale field, and survive in a new world.

Those Divine Era creatures also came to truly hate the bastard who had started this Ragnarok chicken-dinner game. How could he be so damn selfish!

And the Earth Consciousness, for the sake of them having once been its children, didn’t go for total annihilation. It even gave them a place to settle so they wouldn’t have to drift aimlessly in the Cosmos or Subspace.

Equivalent to changing from drifting at sea to deserted‑island survival; for those Divine Era creatures, this was already the best possible ending.

After his mom laid out for Xue Dili the final destination of the Divine Era creatures and the entire process of the Tenth Apostle’s birth, Xue Dili gradually understood everything.

"Then who exactly is the Tenth Apostle?" Xue Dili asked.

"It is not a specific individual God, but under Athena’s control, using the primordial Chaos as a template, she created a ’monster’ most suitable to become the ruler of that Subspace and capable of suppressing all pantheons. She calls herself..."

"Chaos!"

Xue Dili: "..."

He sucked in a cold breath...

He had finally understood the true identity of the Tenth Apostle.

And this Tenth Apostle was, in fact, really related to him...

By this logic, this "Chaos" could even be considered Athena’s daughter. As for how she became the Tenth Apostle, and how, in that Subspace where all kinds of freaks and fiends were engaged in wilderness survival, she became the chicken‑dinner champion and kept those freaks in line—Xue Dili felt there were probably way too many stories in there.

But from the looks of it now, this No. 10 wasn’t necessarily an enemy; she might even become a temporary ally.

Of course, that might just be his own wishful thinking.

Anyone who could become an Apostle, Xue Dili figured, was probably not as harmless as the Earth Consciousness made her sound. It was entirely possible that, on that land of Divine Era creatures, she was up to some even more twisted business, which was how she gathered enough fruit to give birth to herself as an Apostle.

Even so, Xue Dili firmly etched this intel into his mind, and he didn’t stash away the key related to the Tenth Apostle carefully; he even tossed it to the Mimic Venerable King for a look.

"Lastly, if that Tenth Apostle tries anything against you, you don’t need to endure it. If she still adheres to the agreement she made with Athena and me back then, then we can remain at peace, and I will even extend her some goodwill. But if she tries to betray the agreement, we are not vegetarians either," the Earth Consciousness reminded Xue Dili in the end,

"And this is the final witness of that covenant, and also your credential to directly enter that Subspace. When you feel you’re ready to go to that Divine Era Subspace, you can use this mark to head to that desperate land. When the time comes, everything will be in your hands."

Xue Dili: "..."

He couldn’t shake the feeling that this wasn’t some nice place, but a rotten mess down to the bone—a complete train wreck?

Xue Dili immediately had that sense: it didn’t seem like any good place. That Subspace sheltering Divine Era creatures was probably actually a Paradise for countless freaks and fiends. As for that Tenth Apostle, she might be curious about him—or she might harbor ill intent.

In short, whenever he felt he could handle this shitty mess his mom had dumped on him, that would be when he could head there directly and meet the Tenth Apostle offline.

That was what Xue Dili thought in his heart.

At this time, the Mimic Venerable King put down his research on the lightning mark and said, "As expected, the Spiritual Particle density in your world is so strong that it should have birthed many powerful beings. It’s just that these people have all been expelled by your World Consciousness."

"A planet capable of birthing multiple Apostle Level beings... Honestly, I’m tempted to sign an agreement with your world and have your people come work for the Interstellar Corps. After all, in your world, any random person, as long as they get the chance, starts at Legendary Level at the very least. That kind of talent is something countless races can’t even imagine," the Mimic Venerable King went on.

Xue Dili also understood why Big Cousin Dinosaur had been favored by the Fourth Apostle back then.

And while my cobbled‑together rat bros’ build wasn’t as strong as Big Cousin Dinosaur’s, when it came to approaching a Venerable King, we took it one step further—so if the body wasn’t enough, we’d make up for it with brains.

It was just that this talent was completely wasted on Earth.

But Mom was never going to let the world return to a Divine Era environment now. After all, if it went back to the Divine Era and Spiritual Qi Revival happened... even Xue Dili could imagine what kind of shitshow the whole world would turn into.

A "Sixteen Kingdoms of the Five Barbarians" model would probably be considered the optimistic scenario.