Although Chu Xiu’s strength has rapidly improved, he wasn’t arrogant enough to think he could provoke the eight Celestial Kings.

In response to his query, Zhao Jie shook his head, "No, the Path to Divinity is a highly unpredictable opportunity, where luck is perhaps more important than strength."

"Every time the Path to Divinity opens, it changes the current world’s structure."

"The first time was thirty-four years ago, seven years after the Abyss invasion. The Awakened had already begun using their power to gain privileges. After the Path to Divinity ended, seventeen strong individuals who acquired Secret Treasures emerged, and then, in the struggle for Law Fragments, Blue Star officially entered the Dark Turmoil Era."

"The second time was twenty-one years ago. After that, eight Celestial Kings emerged from the bloodshed, jointly ending the Dark Era, and formally established the current structure."

"Since then, human civilization has developed rapidly. After twenty-one years of accumulation, the Secret Treasures emerging from the Path to Divinity this time are sure to surpass the previous two in both quantity and quality. It’s a rare chance for the Awakened to break barriers and reach higher levels!"

After a pause, Zhao Jie continued, "You may not know, but of the current eight Celestial Kings, only four emerged from the first Path to Divinity. Even the strongest among them during the Dark Turmoil Era, termed the ’First Kings’ by later generations, fell in the second Path to Divinity."

Zhao Jie’s words left Chu Xiu feeling astonished. Even the strongest had fallen, showing that the Path to Divinity was not solely an opportunity for the Celestial Kings to dominate.

With the Deep Diving Safety Rope, at least his life was not in danger, so he certainly shouldn’t miss out on such a great opportunity.

After explaining this, Zhao Jie took his leave, indicating that whether it was the reward of Cause and Effect Points, the opening time of the Path to Divinity, or subsequent plans to resist the Outer Realm Demons, someone would inform Chu Xiu in Abyss City.

The rewards should arrive within a month, the action plan is uncertain, and as for the Path to Divinity, it could start in one to three years, so Chu Xiu must prepare early.

Saying this, he activated his departure and soon vanished from this world.

Chu Xiu watched his disappearing figure and murmured softly, "The Path to Divinity..."

To date, Chu Xiu had never personally encountered a Law Fragment.

He had an idea: if the Law Fragment is the embodiment of ’Heavenly Dao’, then could he use it to skip the Nascent Soul and Divinity Transformation stages and start directly with Refining Void and Harmonization?

Of course, this was just a guess. Chu Xiu still thought he should pursue methodical cultivation, but regardless, obtaining a Law Fragment would greatly benefit him.

It’s just that...

"Although the previous Path to Divinity wasn’t dominated by the strong, the twenty-one years have indeed made the Celestial Kings’ monopoly even stronger..."

During the Dark Turmoil Era, everyone competed and plundered, and while the strong rose to the top, the weak also had a chance to catch up.

But now, in a time where Cause and Effect Points are monopolized by the Celestial Kings, the gap between them and others has become too vast and continues to widen.

"To gain anything from the Path to Divinity, I must strive to improve my strength to the utmost during this time!"

"Let’s set a small goal first, to possess Celestial King level power!"

With his mind set, Chu Xiu took a deep breath and approached the Murder Ghost’s corpse to organize the spoils of this journey.

After arranging everything, Chu Xiu shook his head somewhat amusingly.

"How could this guy be so honest in this regard, really listing all the good stuff."

The Murder Ghost’s possessions, the valuable ones, were exactly what he previously offered: eight King Tier Legendary Heroic Spirit Ultimates, seventeen Heroic Spirit Perfections, and 800,000 Cause and Effect Points.

Of course, there were also the two powerful souls and the Mythical Weapon.

All other miscellaneous items combined were worth at most three to four hundred billion Huaxia Coins, which meant little to Chu Xiu at this point.

"Including the government’s reward of Cause and Effect Points, I should be able to complete the Ghost Soldier tier cultivation."

Thinking this, Chu Xiu was about to return to his cultivation.

Just then, a familiar voice suddenly sounded by his ear, "I didn’t expect it would be you."

Chu Xiu turned abruptly, only to see the headless corpse of the Murder Ghost, unexpectedly standing quietly behind him!

Chu Xiu’s face changed abruptly, and with a flip of his wrist, the Chiwen appeared in his hand.

"Don’t be so tense, I mean no harm." The headless figure raised its hands, "I just sensed that my favored ’Proxy’ had died and came to take a look. Didn’t expect to meet an old acquaintance."

Chu Xiu squinted his eyes, examining the headless corpse carefully. Under his destructive Sword Qi, even the part of the body not yet destroyed had fused with the armor it wore in the heat, currently standing in an oddly twisted posture.

That posture gave him a strange feeling, as if the subject in action was not the Murder Ghost’s body but the armor on it.

"Proxy..."

"Are you Az Ilituay Mgos, the God of Pain?" Chu Xiu’s expression became serious.

However, he wasn’t overly worried.

He had already seen that this Outer Realm Demon used some remote projection method through its ’ritual artifact’ to descend.

Its combat strength was not even much stronger than the Pain Incarnation Chu Xiu encountered in the Warrior Tier trial.