Ascending the Heavens as an Evil God

Chapter 523: Old Hank

The Blasphemer Project was a relatively time-consuming process.

In fact, after players successfully finished the Second Round, the main focus of game design changed from attracting new players to retaining existing players.

The developers hoped to get as many players addicted to the game as possible, so they provided more ways to kill time, such as allowing players to continuously train NPCs and have them hunt gods.

Because the Evil Value blasphemers could harvest from hunting gods was far greater than the amount earned from players killing gods themselves.

Of course, even in this case, players often still ran into the problem of not having enough gods to kill, so their Evil Value was never enough. In the end, they had no choice but to set their sights on the greater gods.

But how could greater gods be so easy to kill?

After the Second Round, even if the player wanted to kill opponents of the same level, it was far from the same as before.

After all, the greater gods themselves were a part of the very laws they ruled over. Just destroying the greater gods’ divine bodies could not completely kill them. Killing a greater god was a very time-consuming and labor-intensive task.

But right now, Gu Nan's advantage over the actual game was that he had a lot of time.

After all, the game was played by players, and a player’s time was not infinite. On the contrary, now… Well, in a sense, the current Gu Nan had infinite time.

So Gu Nan wasn’t in a hurry at all. The Blasphemer Project was slowly advancing, and the corresponding Greater God Dimension required a lot of manpower and material resources to build.

Ideally, the fully-complete Greater God Dimension should be a self-sufficient system that controlled the overall situation of multiple ownerless planes and could throw blasphemers into them at any time. At the same time, it would also be able to obtain resources from each plane.

The present Greater God Dimension was still completely dependent on supply from the Divine Kingdom. At best, it could only be regarded as… the preliminary stage of socialism.

So Gu Nan's current plan was to wait for new developments in the Blasphemer Project and to go to the World of Gods to learn more about its history.

According to Yu Lian, as early as the First Divine War, the Saints from the Myriad Heavens had already started intervening in the World of Gods.

So what was the difference between the history there and Gu Nan's memories? This was worth investigating.

……

"It's your turn."

On the starship heading to the World of Gods, Gu Nan leisurely spoke to Ye Wu while holding a few cards in his hand.

Ye Wu was frowning heavily, wracking her brains. She wasn’t a genius like Yu Lian, who could master everything in seconds. Facing a very strategic game like black cards, she was tortured into misery for a while.

However, the somewhat dull Classmate Ye Wu was still studying meticulously, following Gu Nan's instructions and carefully learning how to… play cards.

Ye Wu, who was often assigned by Yu Lian to study under various bigshots, had actually seen much of the world.

She’d met all kinds of strange teachers. Let alone those who taught by playing cards, there were also those who taught through painting, farming, and even visiting brothels.

Therefore, Ye Wu studied very hard, even trying to understand the rules of black cards bit by bit and wondering whether there was any deeper meaning behind it.

‘Maybe there is a truth hidden in the law of playing cards?’

Gu Nan didn't take Ye Wu's thoughts to heart at all. He just found someone to play cards with because he had nothing to do…

During this trip to the World of Gods, Gu Nan truly changed his appearance. Not only did he change his attire, but even his height and appearance were also modified, all except his personality.

This couldn’t be helped. He was too famous now, and because he just advanced to Unified Dao, too many people in the current generation recognized his appearance.

As long as Gu Nan didn't want to hide his tracks everywhere he went, then it was necessary to change his face.

On the other hand, with Gu Nan's current status, he wasn’t suited for entering the World of Gods alone. That would be putting too big a target on himself. The thirteen greater gods were not fools.

Instead, no one would notice him if he blended in with the crowd.

After they finished two more rounds, Classmate Ye Wu suffered crushing defeat, as expected. If this was strip poker, she might even have to peel off her skin.

"I lost again. I’m so stupid!" Ye Wu wailed with distress, seemingly extremely dissatisfied with her own performance.

However, Ye Wu had always been persistent, and she did not lose heart. While thinking about the rules of the card game, she asked, "Gu… My Lord, where are we going this time?"

"Saint-Groux Continent," Gu Nan seemed to be in a good mood and offhandedly replied, "Regarding the history of gods, the Scholar Temple is probably the place with the most complete information."

Saint-Groux Continent was controlled by the Light Faction and managed by Jones, the God of Knowledge.

In the World of Gods, the most knowledgeable group was mages, while the most knowledgeable individual was definitely the God of Knowledge.

The God of Knowledge, also called the God of Scholars, possessed one of the oldest divine authorities. But as for the godhood itself… that had already changed hands several times over the generations.

However, the God of Knowledge was also one of the very rare cases where the god’s strength would grow with each successive generation’s God of Knowledge.

In the early days of the World of Gods, the God of Knowledge was just a weak god with an obscure divine authority and weak divinity, only having a few believers.

But as history developed, be it gods or mortals, knowledge was constantly accumulating, which invisibly strengthened the God of Knowledge.

Therefore, the current generation’s God of Knowledge had power at least on par with a Tier 9 god. If things continued like this, this god would become a greater god sooner or later.

"Are you two also heading to the Saint-Groux Continent?" A curious voice came from the side, speaking to Gu Nan and Ye Wu.

The two weren’t sitting in their own rooms and playing cards. Instead, they stayed in the lobby of the starship, and their conversations were naturally overheard by people around them.

Because this starship was very small and took a shortcut, it only took less than a few hours to reach the World of Gods, so there were no separate rooms for each passenger.

Gu Nan looked up. The person who spoke was an old man, but his appearance had obvious Caucasian features, and the style of his clothes was also from the World of Gods.

"That's right. You are?" Gu Nan's voice was very calm and his tone was indifferent, not very friendly.

The old man didn't mind and answered with a smile, "You can call me Old Hank. I'm from the Saint-Groux Continent, but I often go to the Myriad Heavens. I usually spend more time there."

Since there were Star Rulers like Daoist Lingyang, who lived in the World of Gods for a long time, in turn, there were naturally also gods who went to the Myriad Heavens.

But this Old Hank was not a god, just a normal Legend Rank expert.

Facing Old Hank's self-introduction, Gu Nan just nodded slightly and showed no intention of responding. Ye Wu quickly introduced herself but only referred to Gu Nan as her teacher.

"So you’re Void Grotto Heaven’s elite disciple!" Old Hank said quickly after hearing Ye Wu's introduction. He was indeed familiar with the Myriad Heavens and even knew to use the phrase "elite disciple".