I Will Teach You How to Hunt Gods

Chapter 729 - 26: Nothing Ever Changed

In theory, the King and the Sage both belong to Tier Seven Peak powers, each commanding countless companions and believers, so their strength should be nearly evenly matched.

Although the King is undoubtedly stronger in combat than the Sage, being the leader among the three, with more combat experience and a more resilient body, and the power he controls in the "Lord" Sequence is entirely superior to the other nine Sequences...

However, the gap between him and the Sage wouldn’t be so apparent as to cause a one-sided war.

Their struggle should be a slaughter lasting hundreds or thousands of years, with effects that perhaps persist for millions.

Yet...

What Yun You witnessed was not such a balanced scene, but a one-sided massacre, with the King and his followers slaughtering the Sage.

The reason was simple—due to the involvement of another neutral party.

The Stargazer, the only female among the three wise Death Gods, was also the weakest in terms of combat strength.

In modern terms, the Stargazer was undoubtedly a standard "homebody"; she didn’t care much about external affairs, only wishing to research the power of the First Generation King and her own Special Ability.

She didn’t even recruit any subordinates, merely holding a title within the Death God Organization.

The Stargazer always told her two companions, do as you wish, it has nothing to do with me as long as you don’t disturb me.

Hence, from the Sage’s perspective, the Stargazer would never stand against him. Even... whether experienced firsthand by the Sage or observed by Yun You, they could quite obviously see one thing—the Stargazer... liked the Sage but had never expressed it.

However, during that battle, the Stargazer joined the King’s side, striking against the one she liked.

Peak-level Death Gods exhibited little difference in combat strength and ability among themselves, making numbers the key to determining the fight’s outcome.

Dealing with one King, the Sage could barely maintain equilibrium, but once the Stargazer joined, the Sage and his believers quickly fell.

Eventually... the Sage naturally died in battle.

Yet it’s worth noting that his end wasn’t as later generations described, with his corpse divided by ambitious figures, but instead choosing to self-destruct, letting his body scatter across the world, hoping his power might bring hope to the world and other Death Gods.

This was the Sage’s end.

As for why the Stargazer acted thus... Yun You understood soon enough.

...

Though the Stargazer was a bit of a recluse, like the King and the Sage, she too held her ideals.

She aspired to recreate the might of the First Generation King, wishing to ascend to the legendary Tier Eight.

In her view, neither the path of the Sage nor the King could ever touch the ultimate domain the First Death God wielded, governing all and reshaping rules; the missing core of notes and the secret about complete Soul Power seemed locked by some intangible rule, unreachable by human prowess.

Hence, after countless iterations leading to the same deadlock, a cold yet mad... but in the Stargazer’s eye, the only "correct" idea burgeoned and flourished within her:

Perhaps humanity, as a race, inherently possesses a fatal flaw.

Frail mortal flesh crumbles easily; even when tempered, cannot bear true might.

The First Generation King was the finest example; even such greatness ended with no remains, blasted by his own power to ashes.

Moreover, the human soul is perpetually tainted by endless desires and various negative emotions, failing to achieve true purity and unity.

The King saw all this with his own eyes, no? Despite possessing Savior’s power, the Death God became one who oppressed common folks.

Thus, humans relying solely on themselves can never break through that confinement, nor truly understand and wield the legacy left by the First Generation King.

"The First Generation King left the Death Domain; it can’t just be by chance."

The Stargazer whispered to the ground in her meditation space.

"Perhaps that’s the revelation he left for us, the key to another path."

In the Stargazer’s view, the Death Domain was definitely not a mere Curse; it was the manifestation of humanity’s extreme negative emotions collectively at the First Generation King’s obliteration, embodying the most primitive, wild, and unconstrained aspect of Soul Power.

It possesses power equating to the core of the Death God Sequence, yet drawing closer to the origin; it represents not always destruction, but an alternate form of evolution—it’s the key to breaking humanity’s double shackles of flesh and soul!

Gradually, in the Stargazer’s eyes, those creatures twisted by the Death Domain shifted from monsters to pioneers adapted to new rules.

They abandoned fragile mortal bodies, shrugged off inefficient emotional confines, existed in pure energy or new materialized forms, directly resonating with the Death Domain.

Isn’t this a higher-efficiency survival form?

"The true path is to embrace the Death Domain."

The Stargazer concluded.

"Let humanity actively accept transformation by the Death Domain, discard the destined encumbrance of mortal flesh and chaotic feelings, evolve into stronger life forms. Only then can we fully integrate Soul Power, understand its essence, and finally recreate and even transcend the First Generation King’s magnificent achievements, reaching that complete Tier Eight Peak."