Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire-Chapter 861 478: I Shall Ascend as Dragon King

"Creator!"
Noah had once heard the Elf Clan's Nature Goddess describe to him a Titan capable of opening a world with sheer strength. At that time, Noah found this scenario unimaginable. How powerful must one be to create a world?
How many rules are needed to support a complete Material World? The Divine positions that the Divine compete for are essentially rules, but they are just one of the many rules that sustain the operation of the world.
The Divine, even the Strong Divine, do not have the ability to open a world with their own power. The Divine's Divine Country essentially relies on faith to support a special half-plane, which requires the anchor of a complete world.
The realms of the true gods often fall into the Upper Planes such as Heaven, Heavenly Mountain, or Hero Domain, while the realms of Evil Gods may fall into the Abyss or even Hell.
Do the Divine not wish for a Material World that fully belongs to them? It's not that they don't want it, they just can't do it. However, the Great Divine Power above the Strong Divine Power, lauded as God above gods, might be able to achieve it.
But even then, it is just a possibility, because in the inheritance information Noah holds, there is no extensive description of such beings, and the Divine can only look up to them with awe.
That is a being that even the current Noah and all the Divine find difficult to comprehend. Nevertheless, Noah's curiosity was piqued, and he asked an additional question,
"Is there anything above the Creator?"
"Of course, there is. I've already said, this path is endless."
"Above creation, what is there?"
"You're asking too much, Dragon Clan. Even if you know now, what can you do? What you should inquire about is Source Fusion."
"Yes."
"If you truly want to understand, come in. I will show you everything."
The mist shrouding the Endless Sea of Forests parted to the sides, revealing a broad corridor. A Giant of earth and wood standing at the edge of the mist invited Noah in. Without hesitation, Noah stepped forward.
It was merely an incarnation carrying his will. Even if it were destroyed, what of it? Compared to knowing how to walk the path ahead, this risk is insignificant.
Even if this Giant, with profound connections to the Titans, appeared overly generous, willing to disclose secrets that even the high-ranking races and Divine knew nothing about.
Seeing Noah prepare to enter the Divine Calamity Forest, Uranos and Tidel also wanted to follow, but the earth and wood Giant turned and refused them,
"The Dragon Clan can enter; he is qualified to understand this path. The rest do not need to enter. This path is too distant for you."
"I am just an incarnation, it's alright."
Noticing Tidel's furrowed brow, Noah casually reassured him, then proceeded toward the Divine Calamity Forest, which had opened a path solely for him.
Step~ Step~
At the moment he entered the mist's shrouded area, even though the familiar feedback from his senses was unchanged and the sensation underfoot remained the same, Noah paused.
In a vague sense of Spiritual Perception, Noah detected something amiss. He felt as if he was like an ignorant mortal inadvertently walking into the open maw of a slumbering Ancient Giant Beast.
"Are you afraid?"
Inside the mist, the Giant turned back to look at Noah. Although the face made of deep brown wood should not bear any expression, Noah sensed the Giant was smiling.
It wasn't a malicious smile but one akin to that of a forerunner watching a follower flounder, filled with playfulness, appreciation, and teasing.
"I'm merely an incarnation. Why would I be scared? I just find this place quite special."
Noah looked around, finding no significant difference compared to the outside world, and little unique among the mountains and plants. He saw curious eyes cast upon him from all directions.
These were the beings living in the Divine Calamity Forest, all of considerable size. Noah also saw creatures resembling Flower Demons, but compared to the little Flower Demon he raised in his youth, the ones here were astonishingly large, even surpassing the fully dragonified Dragon Elf.
But these were not the reasons for Noah's pause because, in his perception, everything around him felt alive.
However, when Noah extended his senses to investigate closely, he discovered it was merely flora and fauna filled with intense Spirituality, nothing particularly worthy of his attention.
"That is because you are currently standing on my body."
Not leaving Noah to guess, the Giant directly revealed the reason.
"Your body? Are you referring to what I see before me?"
Confronted with Noah's confusion, the Giant did not answer further but disassembled right before Noah's eyes. The next moment, accompanied by the rumbling and trembling of mountains and earth, something resembling a colossal pillar made of wood and flesh rose from the ground in front of Noah.
As soon as it appeared, this huge pillar exerted an overwhelming and terrifying attraction on everything around, and everything surrounding it actively adhered to it.
Mountains, grass, rocks, flowing clouds, and howling winds were all drawn in, gathering at this gigantic pillar in front of Noah, forming a structure larger than the disassembled Giant—a "hand."
This was a hand with mountains and land as its flesh, tree roots as its veins. As it began to lift, the nearby mountains echoed in response, and two golden Suns lit up in the mist—eyes awakened by a resurgent being.