Ch. 333 Skyfather level Divine Spirit

Divine Realm, as the name suggests, is a kingdom controlled by divine spirits.

Of course, it can also be understood as the kingdom where divine spirits reside.

Each civilization has its own interpretation of a kingdom.

However, there are a few basic attributes that every kingdom will have.

Firstly, there's territory.

Without territory, there can be no such thing as a kingdom.

Secondly, there's power.

Simply having a piece of land doesn't qualify as a kingdom.

Only having absolute control over that land or region can be called a kingdom.

Of course, if you don't like the concept of a kingdom, you can use terms like territory, city, or domain; it purely depends on personal preference.

How you refer to it isn't important; what's important is absolute control over the territory, or what is known as power.

Lastly, there's culture.

Culture doesn't just refer to civilization or language; it includes many things such as customs, rules, laws, and more.

If it's a divine realm, the requirement for culture is lowered significantly.

As long as the divine spirits of the divine realm establish appropriate laws, it suffices.

Within a divine realm, the divine spirits are the supreme beings.

So, things that could be quite troublesome in human nations become very simple.

The words of the divine spirits are the law.

Russell has already projected the City of Sin into the astral plane, completing the first step of establishing the divine realm.

Next, all he needs to do is imprint his soul mark, divine power authority, and other representations of his personal information in the divine realm. Then the divine realm will be considered complete.

While covering the City of Sin with hellish essence and divine power is somewhat similar, imprinting his soul mark and authority on the City of Sin to gain absolute control is not an easy task.

However, as long as one has enough patience and energy, most divine power awakeners who have completed the first step can imprint their soul mark and authority on the fledgling divine realm.

It's just a matter of how long it takes.

For other divine power awakeners, the most dangerous aspect of this step lies in their physical body in the real world.

Because their soul and consciousness have already come to the astral plane's fledgling divine realm, their physical bodies in the real world are temporarily immobilized.

Although this doesn't mean their physical bodies in the real world are completely defenseless, it would be a headache if they were to face trouble from enemies at this time.

So, in ancient times, when a divine power awakener decided to establish a divine realm, they would gather a large group of reliable subordinates.

While these subordinates couldn't assist the divine power awakener in establishing the divine realm, they could provide some protection for the divine power awakener during the process.

And once these subordinates, who were initially there to protect the divine power awakener during the establishment of the divine realm, ascended to the level of a Skyfather, becoming what's known as divine spirits, they would become the divine spirits' saints.

Initially, Russell intended for Diana and others to play the role of saints.

However, because he is currently establishing a divine realm in Hell, he had to abandon this idea.

He didn't choose other demons to guard him, and skipped this step.

In Hell, there are only a few demons that could cause him trouble.

Apart from Mephisto and a few other demon lords, even if his body can only engage in instinctive combat at the moment, it's enough to deal with attacks from other demons.

As for Mephisto and those demon lords, if they were to cause trouble for him at this time, Russell would decisively abandon the establishment of the divine realm.

Establishing a divine realm in Hell wasn't his first choice; his first choice was to establish a divine realm based on New York in the human world.

There are plenty of opportunities to establish a divine realm, but life is only given once, and it's obvious which choice to make without even thinking.

Moreover, even if Russell gives up this opportunity, he would just return to Earth and spend a lot of time preparing for another attempt.

But if Mephisto and the other demon lords were to cause trouble for him at this moment, he would definitely leave them a generous "gift" before returning to Earth.

He's not the kind of person who would be bullied and not fight back.

But for now, he doesn't need to worry too much about this issue.

The other demon lords have been dealt with by him over the past half year, and most of them are still in the process of recovering from their injuries.

When he specifically sought trouble with these demon lords before, it wasn't just to flaunt his strength.

From that moment on, he was already preparing to establish the divine realm.

As for Mephisto, although he is currently uninjured and can use his full strength, he doesn't seem like someone who would cause trouble for him at the moment.

Until now, Russell can still clearly sense the hellish aura that was driven by Mephisto's authority.

However, this doesn't mean he will completely trust Mephisto.

In fact, Mephisto has always been the entity he's most wary of.
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Hell.

City of Sin.

In the vast City of Sin, there is now only Russell.

When he began covering the City of Sin with hellish essence, the demons in the city were curious about what he was doing, mobilizing such a huge amount of hellish essence to cover the City of Sin.

However, when he began the second coverage using Sun Divine Power and Thunder Divine Power to add divine attributes to the City of Sin, the demons in the City of Sin couldn't sit still any longer.

The Thunder Divine Power, embedded with Hellish Authority, was still tolerable.

Although this Thunder Divine Power made the demons uncomfortable, at least it wouldn't directly take their lives.

But the Sun Divine Power was different.

The Sun Divine Power is just like the divine and holy power of heaven, extremely repulsive to evil creatures like demons.

Every demon that came into contact with the Sun Divine Power was, without exception, completely purified by it.

Seeing the demons around being thoroughly purified by the overpowering Sun Divine Power, the remaining demons didn't hesitate and left the City of Sin.

Even Paris, who was loyal to Russell, and the pleasure demons Selena and Heather, also left the City of Sin.

Russell didn't inform any demon about his plan to establish a divine realm.

Even the pleasure demons Selena and Heather, who were close to him, were left in the dark.

This was his main purpose for staying in Hell; he certainly wouldn't disclose his plans to the demons in Hell.

Time passed slowly.

Russell, on the one hand, was on guard against Mephisto suddenly coming to cause trouble, and on the other hand, was imprinting his soul mark and authority on the nascent divine realm formed by the City of Sin.

While multitasking might slightly reduce his efficiency, he chose to do so for the sake of safety.

A slower formation of the divine realm wouldn't have any impact.

But if Mephisto were to attack him, that would be a serious matter.

He didn't know whether Mephisto genuinely hoped for another Skyfather to appear in Hell or if Mephisto simply couldn't be bothered.

Until Russell completely imprinted his soul mark and authority on the nascent divine realm formed by the City of Sin, transforming the fledgling divine realm into his own divine realm, Mephisto did not make a move against him.

Moreover, Mephisto continued to use his authority, causing a vast amount of hellish essence to flood into the City of Sin.

Uh...

Russell did not expect Mephisto to be so benevolent this time, which was a bit unexpected.

However, he quickly pushed this thought aside and earnestly observed his divine realm.

In appearance, his current divine realm looked exactly like the City of Sin.

The only difference was that the City of Sin in Hell was a tangible substance, while the City of Sin in the astral plane was formed from energy.

The City of Sin in the astral plane was completely condensed from Russell's own hellish power and divine power.

Every brick inside was a product of substantialized energy.

After observing his divine realm, Russell didn't plan to rename his divine realm and directly named it the City of Sin.

Then, he let his consciousness and soul return to his body located in Hell.

When his consciousness and soul returned to his body, Russell quickly felt the changes in his body.

Although from the outside, he didn't look any different from before.

But his body was completely different from before.

He had become more majestic with divine power and hellish power, to say the least. Let's not even talk about that and focus on something obvious like blood.

His blood had turned into golden liquid containing a large amount of energy.

Not only his blood, but every organ and structure in his body had undergone similar changes.

If he hadn't read a lot of magical texts before and known that this was a natural transformation after establishing a divine realm, that is, becoming a Skyfather level divine spirit, he would have doubted if he had turned into an energy being.

According to the magical texts, after establishing a divine realm, he was no longer human but a true divine spirit.

So, his body was no longer an ordinary flesh and blood body but a true divine body.

As long as the divine realm was not completely destroyed, as long as the authority symbolizing the divinity was intact, and as long as his divine flame was still burning, he was truly immortal.

Of course, there were ways to kill a Skyfather level divine spirit.

The act of killing gods had been contemplated by people since ancient times.

Although not many had truly achieved this, there were many divine spirits that had been slaughtered in the universe.

Russell clearly remembered Gorr, who was a crazy godslayer.

Speaking of Gorr the God Butcher, he didn't know where this guy was now.

As the King of Symbiotes, Russell was very interested in the All-Black Necrosword held by Gorr.

That was a weapon that had slaughtered a large number of Celestial while in the hands of God of Symbiote Knull, following Knull's glory history. Just looking at the origins and abilities of the All-Black Necrosword made Russell extremely interested.

The All-Black Necrosword was the true first symbiote.

Although the All-Black Necrosword was different from the current symbiote and had its daily form fixed into the form of a sharp sword, it had all the abilities of symbiote.

And the All-Black Necrosword had a very powerful ability.

The All-Black Necrosword could absorb the blood of gods to gain different powers and create different avatars through this.

These avatars, unlike the second-generation symbiote split from the symbiote dragon Grendel, had a small portion of the abilities of the original blood owner.

Although it couldn't achieve a complete replication, it was still a terrifying ability.

It should be noted that the blood absorbed by the All-Black Necrosword was the blood of gods.

To give a simple example, if the All-Black Necrosword absorbed Russell's current divine blood, the avatars created by the All-Black Necrosword would probably have abilities like heat vision or Kryptonian physiology.

Although these avatars' heat vision and Kryptonian physiology couldn't compare with Russell, they were still formidable abilities for other entities.

If he remembered correctly, Russell remembered that the All-Black Necrosword was ultimately completely destroyed by the elder Thor using Thunder Power.

The elder Thor who destroyed the All-Black Necrosword was much stronger than the current Thor.

To put it bluntly, the elder Thor could even dominate the current Thor.

After checking his current body, mainly adapting to his so-called divine spirit body, Russell stood up and stretched his limbs.

The divine realm of the City of Sin had been established, the original authority had turned into divinity, and the divine flame had already ignited in the divine realm.

Now, Russell had basically accomplished all his goals for coming to Hell.

Standing on the tall tower and overlooking the City of Sin, he felt it was time for him to leave Hell.

As for adapting to the Skyfather level power, he planned to do that after returning to Earth.

Lord's Mansion, main hall.

Russell sat on the throne symbolizing the lord, looking at the various demons in the hall.

At the forefront were the delight demons Selena and Heather, who were close to him.

Behind them stood Paris, the cruel demon who had followed Russell for the longest time and considered herself the most devoted.

Behind them were the various demons that had assisted Russell in managing the City of Sin.

After scanning them, Russell slowly said, "You should know that although I am a lord in Hell and a lord with authority, I am not a demon, but a human."

"The reason I came to Hell was to complete a commission on one hand, and on the other hand, it was to establish a divine realm in Hell."

"Now that I have accomplished both of these things, it's about time for me to return to the mortal realm."

Upon hearing Russell's words, the demons, including Selena and Heather, all showed complex expressions.

There was not just one lord in Hell, but they had never joined the service of any other lords in the past.

Not because other demon lords were not strong enough to provide them protection, but because those demon lords simply didn't bother with such matters.

Of course, if they had actively joined, those demon lords would have been happy to accept them.

After all, they were high-ranking demons and considered advanced forces in Hell.

However, they still chose not to join.

The reason was simple—those demon lords had all sorts of peculiar fetishes.

Some of those demon lords were very hot-tempered, some enjoyed killing their subordinates, and some enjoyed punishing them.

Compared to these demon lords, Russell was a rarely seen benevolent lord.

This was the main reason they chose to join Russell.

However, now Russell was telling them that he was leaving.

This would undoubtedly make them feel abandoned, especially after they had just adapted to the order of the City of Sin not long ago.

Of course, another important reason Russell could give them a higher status than other demons was also a significant factor.

Although their rank was still high-ranking demons, during the time they followed Russell, each of them had seen a significant increase in their strength.

Russell was not as stingy as other demon lords. He would reward them with hellish power every once in a while.