Chapter 1

In the chaotic starry sky, amidst countless deities and demons, and the myriad paths of the universe, there are inherent divine powers. From the Dao comes one, from one comes two, from two comes three, and from three come all things, thus the creation of the world...

In the distant Scorpion Star Region, there are countless crystalline planes nurturing tens of thousands of life-bearing planets. The descendants of the ancient Scorpion deities and demons live there, all born with divine attributes, destined to become future deities. Under the blessings of their ancestors, they open divine realms, nurture believers, ignite divine flames, and traverse the stars...

Wu Fan, a reincarnated smuggler carrying memories from his previous life, was unexpectedly born on a life-bearing planet called Hai Lan Xing at the edge of the Scorpion Star Region. This planet, with a land area of 800 billion hectares, is 6,000 times larger than Earth. Although 93% of its surface is covered by oceans, it is home to a diverse array of life forms.

Bu Dang City, a small city in a remote mountainous area of Hai Lan Xing, is far from the sea and lacks the bustling scenes and rich mineral resources. The city was built here because the land is fertile, suitable for growing various food crops, and is used by the authorities as a logistics support base for the life-bearing planet.

Wu Fan was reborn in this city, with parents who were honest and diligent logistics deities. His father was a初级神力的水泽之神, responsible for rainfall and water diversion, and his mother was a风卷女神, similar to the powerful风暴女神 but with a significant difference, responsible for summoning winds and wind currents. Thus, the family could summon winds and rains, but they were among the lowest-ranking labor deities in Bu Dang City, living in a tenement in the slums and barely making ends meet with the minimum divine crystals.

With Wu Fan's birth, he was born with only a trace of divinity, which further closed the door to his future education and advancement.

For deities, divinity almost represents the starting and ending point of a future deity. Normal newborns in the Scorpion Star Region are born with at least three points of divinity, while those with less than three points are considered low-ability children.

Wu Fan was undoubtedly one such low-ability child. According to the divine laws of the Scorpion Star Region, low-ability children cannot enjoy the rights and obligations of future deities and are considered abandoned and despised by the ancestral deities, embodying endless suffering and tragedy.

Therefore, Wu Fan could not enjoy the right to education like ordinary children and had to stay in the slums, setting up stalls to earn money to support his family from a young age.

His younger sister, on the other hand, was born with six points of divinity, a superior attribute. This rekindled hope in his parents, who, along with Wu Fan, worked to support her.

The world of deities is harsh and cruel. Wu Fan, relying on his memories from his previous life, learned the knowledge of this world from a young age. Although he could not attend school, he still learned to read and write.

Over the years, Wu Fan used his parents' divine communication devices to learn over a hundred modern and ancient divine languages and found a special method for opening a divine realm in an unknown divine book.

In the world of deities, besides the path of opening a divine realm and gaining faith to become a deity, there are many alternative paths to divinity, such as physical divinity, qi cultivation divinity, and elemental divinity. For the descendants of deities born with divinity, this is a good choice. Many deities, when their paths of advancement are cut off, choose these alternative paths to divinity.

Wu Fan initially aimed for this alternative path to divinity but unexpectedly discovered this special method for opening a divine realm.

First, he learned mental hypnosis or hypnotic magic, then found a species to serve as his future believers, hypnotized them, and made them thoroughly believe in him. He then used the divinity within his body to absorb the faith and trigger resonance with the divine realm in the chaos.

The more faith he absorbed, the more pronounced the resonance. When his mental power sensed the location of the resonating divine realm in the chaos, he used his divinity to lock and open this resonating point.

Success case one: In the 63,280,000th year of the Scorpion calendar, a 93-year-old man on Xia He Xing, whose divine realm was shattered and his divine flame extinguished, successfully opened a new divine realm, rejuvenated, and became a medium-level true deity.

Success case two: In the 87,130,000th year of the Scorpion calendar, a 79-year-old woman on Zhi Xiao Xing, who was betrayed by her husband and had her divine realm devoured, becoming a fallen deity, unexpectedly survived and developed for forty years, successfully reigniting her divine flame and becoming a high-level upper deity. She then killed her husband, who had become an evil cultivator, and the third party, becoming a legendary female deity.

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Seeing these numerous success cases, Wu Fan decided to give it a try.

He chose the path of life magic to become a deity. Practicing life magic could make him a physician in the slums, a respectable and profitable career.

At the same time, he tried to hypnotize a rapidly reproducing species to use life magic to quickly gain more faith to nurture the only point of divinity within him.

After eight years of life magic practice, Wu Fan finally advanced from a magic apprentice to a junior mage.

The creatures he could obtain in the slums included rabbits, stray dogs, stray cats, and white mice for life magic experiments.

Rabbits, as a common meat, were cheap, but he failed several times, seemingly immune to hypnosis. He then switched to stray cats and dogs. This was a good future species, even though they were stray cats and dogs in the slums, some had noble bloodlines, many of which were pets abandoned by previous deities.

Unfortunately, with only a trace of divinity, it was extremely difficult to make these well-traveled stray cats and dogs believe in him.

Finally, he began to hypnotize a white mouse that had been with him for several years. Surprisingly, it worked, perhaps due to the long time they had spent together. He could clearly feel the faith of the white mouse, though it was faint, like a casual believer, but at least the first step was officially underway.

After confirming that the white mouse was male, Wu Fan began to find him several mates. He chose a gray spiny mouse, a mutant with combat abilities; a golden-haired mouse, an ancient mouse species and the origin of all mice; a black obsidian mouse, the only mutant mouse not afraid of fire and heat; and a scavenger mouse, a hardworking cleaner in the sewers. Wu Fan brought four different types of female mice, mated them with the white mouse, and then locked them in a second-hand biological incubator he bought from a scrap yard...