Chapter 1431 - 927: Completion
Kana turned to look in the direction of the sound.
He saw the first-born, lively little fire spirit, staring at him with its big, round eyes, flickering with a charming, curious flame, gazing intently and full of exploratory meaning.
Its mouth, composed of jumping flames, opened and closed, emitting a marvelous sound like a warm greeting, "whoosh whoosh."
Its small, orange flame body swayed happily left and right with the sound, and the little arms and legs of flame waved freely, revealing its childlike innocence and delightful vitality.
"Heh, what a cute little thing."
Kana was amused by this childlike scene, his lips curled into a smile as he extended his finger, across a gap of space, lightly pointing at the little creature with a touch of affection.
Though the fingertip didn’t make direct contact, it experienced a subtle, rule-layered miraculous touch with the dancing flames.
The fundamental origin of the flame rule seemed to maintain a weak yet unmistakably real and mysterious link with the vast rule origin of the world’s ocean through this exceptionally amiable little fire elf.
Kana understood instantly; he realized that if he wished to delve into contact with this little fire spirit, he could be guided towards a more immersive understanding and exploration of the deep secrets of the flame rule.
However, the moment he sensed this, Kana swiftly and naturally withdrew his finger, his actions smooth as flowing water.
Because if he touched further, he would immediately be drawn by an invisible force into an "event experience" illusion realm composed solely of pure flame rules, to personally experience it.
Though an extremely efficient way to grasp knowledge, Kana currently felt reverent yet reluctant to engage in such troublesome experiences.
At this moment, he was fully focused on stabilizing and deepening his own core rule system, not wanting to overly experience unfamiliar rules that might "contaminate" or distract from the purity of his core authority.
The strength of rule authority isn’t about greedy extremities.
What’s important is choosing a path that aligns with oneself; what’s important is whether these rules can perfectly complement and integrate with one’s core authority, forming a complementary and harmonious organic whole.
Whether there is a clear path leading upwards to higher realms.
This point is crucial for gods pursuing the purity of power.
Rules unrelated to one’s core system, even if mastered, are like collecting a diverse set of weapons that are nearly incompatible with one another.
Having too many unwieldy weapons doesn’t necessarily make a warrior stronger overall and can instead become a heavy burden that hinders movements.
Only by choosing truly suitable weapon combinations that can form a perfect system will one unleash the fiercest combat power on the battlefield.
The path of rules is profound and mysterious, yet strictly adheres to this principle.
In fact.
Many gods, upon ascending to the more advanced stage of medium divine power, often actively begin to streamline their rule systems.
Dividing those less related to the core, or better suited for development as independent branches out, promoting truly loyal and strong followers to become independent subordinate gods.
This requires clear distinction.
Subordinate gods share the authority of the main god; the rules they wield are not unique to themselves but are copies of the main god’s rules, akin to the main god granting permissions for "borrowing."
But subordinate gods are different.
When a god of medium divine power completely separates non-core rules or relatively minor authority, bestowing it upon loyal and powerful followers so they can rapidly ascend to the divine level of an independent divine status, this marks the birth of subordinate gods.
This granting is complete—once given, it’s given.
Although the main god, due to having grasped the rule before, retains related experience and if they wish to reacquire a similar rule in the future, it would be faster than before, it still requires substantial time for cultivation anew.
The rule origin given away, however, becomes the true foundation for the new god, who only needs to continually refine use and deepen understanding based on the rule origin.
A subordinate god is akin to a feudal retainer, whose power authority wholly stems from the main god’s endowment;
A subordinate god is akin to an awarded follower, requiring the main god to sacrifice "territory" of rule authority as a reward to a worthy subordinate.
This separation of rules and conferring of subordinate gods operations is at least something to consider upon reaching medium divine power.
For those with weak divine power and meager divine power, even if the rules they wield are less useful, they can still enhance some combat power.
Thus, Kana, although temporarily elevated to medium divine power by the world’s great power, couldn’t separate his rule origin and confer it upon Bobo in that temporary status.
Hence, he could only adopt the subordinate god approach, sharing part of the authority with Bobo to help elevate his level.
Simply put, the path of godly ascent—the higher one climbs towards higher realms—the more one needs to focus on the core, continuously streamlining their power structure, striving for purity and extremity.
Until eventually reaching that supreme pinnacle—great divine power.
Nevertheless, that realm is far from where Kana should delve deeply at present.
It has become so distant it cannot be measured with conventional timescales.
Though Kana knows well within his heart he possesses the precious opportunity to touch upon that ultimate realm.