21st Century Necromancer

Chapter 896: Chapter 890: The World and the Deities (3000-word chapter)

In front of Inari Taisha, amidst a canopy of lush green trees, countless vermilion Torii gates are arranged in perfect order. They wind along the mountain path, forming what seems to be a tunnel of Torii, or a long corridor, resembling the body of a great dragon.

To the ordinary eye, this might simply appear as a stunning spectacle, a landscape formed by the Torii gates donated by followers of the Inari God over countless generations.

But to Chen Yu, this represents the faith and reverence of countless believers toward the deities. It is a chain—a chain binding the divine to the mortal realm, a fixed anchor point.

When the world’s rules were still incomplete, countless gaps would appear within it. At such a time, the world would instinctively give birth to powerful life forms to fill these gaps. These powerful entities were the primordial deities—the Ancient Gods.

Though the Ancient Gods were pure and powerful, they were ultimately products born to patch the gaps in the world’s rules. Bereft of reason, they merely acted through instinct and primal, beastlike nature.

Thus, the New Gods came into being as a replacement for the Ancient Gods. Either exalted by the worship of living beings to ascend and chosen by the world to become deities, or born from the bodies of the Ancient Gods, inheriting their legacy, the New Gods replaced the Ancient Ones to become the divine.

In short, the New Gods supplanted the Ancient Gods. Possessing wisdom and reason, they not only filled the gaps in the world’s rules but also progressively perfected these rules, patching up the flaws and making the world more complete.