Myth: The Ruler of Spirituality

The world exists in a multi-tiered structure, and this is often considered a universal norm. In the vast majority of mythologies, the world is divided into two distinct realms: one that symbolizes the bright aspect and another that symbolizes the dark aspect.

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Even with the continuation of myth, this subdivision of the world can further evolve. Just like the thirty-three heavens of the East and the heaven and hell of the West seem to reflect an issue: as human society becomes more complex with development, so too presumably should the world. A multi-layered structure facilitates its internal growth and the stability of the world itself.

Therefore, what Laine did previously was actually similar.

He attempted to create an "Inner Layer" at the center of the fifth layer of the Spirit Realm, composed not of faith but purely of elements, while realms constructed from emotions, faith, and some elemental power, like the "Seven Hills Paradise," became part of the "Outer Layer," nestled on the periphery of the fifth layer of the Spirit Realm.

With an inner and an outer layer, the chaotic spacetime was anchored in a three-dimensional ring shape, thereby enabling this layer of the realm to support life activities—even life as transcendent as that of the Celestial Clan.

However good the concept, it failed from the start. The "Inner Layers" Laine envisioned should have been six in number, with the elements [Earth][Water][Wind][Fire] spread out in four directions, categorizing the vast majority of elemental powers.

Those hard to categorize were divided into "Positive Energy" and "Negative Energy"—two pure energy realms based on their tendencies, placed in the upward and downward directions, respectively.

The six planes form a three-dimensional diamond surrounding the core of the fifth layer of the Spirit Realm, sustaining the spacetime of the realm and corresponding distantly to the future Outer Layers. In the future, kingdoms of the deity-borne and the illusory stars would be interspersed among them, forming the complete fifth layer of the Spirit Realm.

While the idea was sound, when it came to actualization, Laine discovered it was utterly unworkable, not only because the Spirit Realm did not possess control over elements other than fire, but also because the underlying logic of the world dictated it so.

Just as life and death are not balanced, neither are earth, water, wind, and fire equal. A cycle with clear disparities could not be constructed unless Laine could find a way to make the four elements transform into one another, maintaining balance as life and death do.

This was not entirely impossible; theoretically, if he could move the four elemental planes to the fourth layer of the Spirit Realm, then with the complete cyclical power of the "Well of Reincarnation," stability could be maintained. But since Laine intended to establish the elemental planes to perfect the fifth layer of the Spirit Realm, how could he possibly make that choice.

"Compared to that, the transition between positive and negative is easier to balance. Even just relying on the natural dispersion of the cyclical power from the 'Well of Reincarnation,' combined with the order of the realms bolstered by the 'Codex of Creation,' should suffice to complete this step."

After pondering for a moment, Laine finally gave up the idea of accomplishing it all at once. It seemed that in order to sort out the order of the last two layers of the Spirit Realm, it had to be done bit by bit.

With a gesture, the dark glimmer in Laine's palm spread out, falling below him, where the very manifestation of the world's Negative Energy was taking place. At the same time, the inherent Negative Energy within the Spirit Realm also gathered, evolving into a small realm constructed purely of energy.

The corresponding Positive Energy, on the other hand, settled above Laine. However, compared to what was below, it seemed quite sparse.

This was not just because the Spirit Realm itself did not deeply involve Positive Energy, but also because in Chaos World, although life was powerful and death weak, on the whole, the negative actually outweighed the positive.

Even the number of Primordial Gods clearly displayed this: there existed two Primordial Gods of night and darkness in the world, while day and light had only one of powerful Divine Power—a Goddess of Daylight who was even conceived by the substance of the former, making the disparity quite obvious.

Although the developmental progress of the world had somewhat compensated for this inherent disparity, it still existed. So when the gathering of positive and negative energies was complete, after only a short moment of stability, the glowing orb emitting positive energy started to tremble slightly, seemingly unable to bear the burden, incapable of opposing the Negative Energy realm below it.

But this was after all within the Spirit Realm. Seeing the nascent Positive Energy realm on the brink of collapse, Laine, as before, drew on part of the power of Samsara and the power of the realm. And just as he had anticipated, after flickering violently a few times and under the subtle influence of the nascent Seven Hills Paradise in the distance, the newly born energy realm finally stabilized.

However, it seemed that Laine needed to spend more years here until the forces of both sides were brought closer by the cycles, after which he could entirely leave them to function on their own.

"Phew—what a hassle."

Heaving a sigh, but feeling that his Spirituality symbol had become a bit more complete, Laine still found it all very worthwhile. The Spirit Realm is the embodiment of his power; the scope of the Spirit Realm's coverage and its overall strength are manifestations of the spread of Spirituality in the world.

In his estimation, even without other gains, the mere perfection of the remaining layers of realm each would suffice to bring an increase in symbolic stature equivalent to one level.

The same applied to other realms. If the Lord of the Nine Hells could find a leader with enough 'potential' for each layer of the Nine Hells, perfect the natural emergence mechanism of Demons, and even allow the main forces of different layers of Hell to cooperate, then his power would also rise, thereby escaping his current state at the bottom of greatness.

But the foundations and magnitude of Hell are vastly inferior to the Spirit Realm, so such an increase wouldn't be as high as Laine's.