235: Lin Chen's grand feast for becoming a god

At the same time, in Lin Chen Dao Domain.

Lin Chen's main body was refining the Wanhua Soul Treasure at a constant speed, steadily increasing the strength and essence of his divine soul, preventing a stronger divine soul from further oppressing his divine body and divine power, which would lead to him entering an imbalanced state.

A powerful divine soul with a weak divine body and divine power clearly did not align with Lin Chen's expectations. Therefore, the improvement of his divine soul could only proceed at a constant speed, needing to account for the improvement speed of his divine body and divine power.

According to Lin Chen's current cultivation speed, he would only need three hundred years to advance his cultivation from Lower God to the Middle God level. During this period, his mastery of rules would reach 100%, and he might even grasp a faint amount of Dao Source Power.

Compared to other gods, this was already very fast.

After all, three hundred years was not even enough time for other gods to undergo one closed-door cultivation session. Their progress in cultivation and understanding rules was equivalent; sometimes, their cultivation would reach a certain level, but their mastery of rules would be insufficient, causing them to be stuck in their cultivation.

Lin Chen, however, was the opposite: his mastery of rules was far ahead, but his cultivation was slow to catch up.

Another five years passed.

During this period, Lin Chen participated in six more Ascension to God banquets.

Because he had the Wanhua Soul Treasure to enhance his divine soul, his soul's carrying capacity had been continuously increasing. At the current stage, he could re-derive thirty formatted individuals each year.

This meant that Lin Chen could comprehend thirty new rules each year, deepening his mastery of the Myriad Laws Dao Path and developing it in terms of breadth.

In Lin Chen Dao Domain, there were currently two hundred and fifty formatted individuals sealed, each mastering more than 1% of a rule.

Even in a sealed state, the formatted individuals inherited some of Lin Chen's characteristics, passively increasing their mastery of rules, though the improvement was very small, perhaps less than 1% in ten years.

But none of this was an issue; no matter how slow the improvement, as long as it could improve, it was a good thing. After all, with the Great Accomplishment Late Bloomer talent activating, the larger the base, the greater the improvement, and the time required to reach 100% could also be significantly shortened.

Lin Chen always felt an unconscious sense of urgency.

He could completely lie flat, but he just couldn't. He wanted to push himself, wishing he could achieve Foundation Level in the next moment, and then transcendence in the moment after that. He just wanted to become a Supreme as quickly as possible.

However, this was not a bad thing. After all, no one knew whether tomorrow or an accident would come first. Having enough strength to cope when an accident arrived was far better than being powerless.

At this time, less than half a year remained until Lin Chen's Ascension to God banquet.

As the host, he naturally could not continue to wander outside and needed to arrive at the Ancestral Court Great World in advance to receive the guests who would gradually arrive.

For his highest-grade Ascension to God banquet, all gods of the Federation were invited, and all young generation Ascension to God geniuses and Ninth Order Gods who had been stuck at their current stage for a long time would not miss it.

It was precisely because there were so many guests that Lin Chen's Ascension to God banquet required ten years to prepare.

Most of this time was spent waiting for the invited individuals to arrive on time; the Ascension to God banquet itself did not require much time to set up.

With over ten thousand gods in the Federation, regardless of their purpose, none would miss Lin Chen's Ascension to God banquet.

The number of Federation Ascension to God stage geniuses exceeded three million. These geniuses were fortunate to catch a good time; in a highest-grade Ascension to God banquet, as long as they seized the opportunity, their probability of achieving Ascension to God would greatly increase, and it might even be possible to achieve Ascension to God on the spot.

Every highest-grade Ascension to God banquet held in the Ancestral Court Great World was a minor enhancement for the Ancestral Court Great World, and the world feedback brought by the enhancement of a Dao Accumulation Level Great World would naturally bring great benefits to the attendees.

Upon arriving at the Ancestral Court Great World, Lin Chen, as the protagonist, did not have too many tasks to perform. What he needed to do was receive the steadily arriving divine guests, which was essentially a process of getting to know them.

This time, he was officially stepping onto the stage, no longer a mere domain-level genius, but a decision-maker capable of shaping the Federation's future direction, and also the moment he formally assumed a Foundation Level position.

Therefore, every Federation god, regardless of their cultivation or status, dared not be arrogant when facing Lin Chen; they all communicated with an equal attitude, sometimes even placing themselves in a subordinate position.

Every human who held a Ascension to God banquet in the Ancestral Court Great World would, without exception, become a Human Race Foundation Level, safeguarding the Human Race.

So, even if the attending Federation gods were not entirely clear about Lin Chen's past, treating Lin Chen as a Foundation Level would surely be correct.

"There are over eleven thousand eight hundred Federation gods; this number exceeded my imagination. Among them, more than two hundred are Main God level, and there are even five Half-step Foundation Level individuals."

In half a year, Lin Chen got to know all the Federation gods.

The number of Federation gods differed from what he had understood; he previously thought there were only seven or eight thousand gods in the Federation, but now it seemed he had been conservative.

All Federation gods also got to know Lin Chen and were deeply impressed by him, mainly because of the dazzling youthful aura about him.

Especially after learning some publicly available information about Lin Chen, they held even greater respect for him.

From the initial campaign against the One-Eyed Giant Race, to the subsequent promotion of the Five Regions Great World, then to foiling the Demon Race's conspiracy, and even the recently launched Fire God Mountain and Thunder Pool projects, Lin Chen's presence was evident.

Due to Lin Chen, the increase in human luck exceeded 10%. In just a few decades, the increase in human luck was more than that of the past five thousand years, bringing a more profound impact to the Federation.

Moreover, most of these achievements were accomplished by Lin Chen while he was at the Ascension to God stage. Now that Lin Chen was at the God stage, the things he could accomplish in the future would only become greater and greater.

Lin Chen's Ascension to God banquet was held on schedule.

Ancestral Court Great World, Ninth Heaven of the Celestial Realm.

The grand banquet saw guests taking their seats in an orderly fashion.

Over ten thousand Federation gods were located in the main hall, the Hall of Gods, while other guests were in the outer area, the Square of Gods.

Of the fifty-two Human Race Foundation Level individuals, excluding the Federation Founder, who was a Foundation Level not in This Universe, the other fifty-one all manifested their avatars to send blessings to Lin Chen.

The blessings of a Foundation Level, in a sense, were a temporary truth, though this temporary period was quite long, capable of lasting for a thousand years.

In this highest-grade Ascension to God banquet, food and drink were of the least importance. After Lin Chen, the protagonist, symbolically lectured, the lectures from the fifty-one Foundation Level individuals were the most crucial part.

All attending guests came for this.

After all, Lin Chen was only at the Lower God level; no matter how profound his lecture, it would not have a significant impact on the attending gods. But a Foundation Level lecture was different, especially with fifty-one Foundation Level individuals lecturing consecutively.

Therefore, this Ascension to God banquet was a great opportunity for the attending guests. Regardless of whether they knew Lin Chen or not, they had to attend; in fact, knowing Lin Chen was secondary, listening to the Dao was the primary goal.

After this Ascension to God banquet, the attending Human Race gods and Ascension to God geniuses would form a deep karma with Lin Chen, and the karmic connections between them would become more profound, allowing human luck to be more favorably inclined towards Lin Chen through this connection.

It was also at this time that Lin Chen's Human Race Foundation Level status could be formally established, and the various divine powers inherent to the Foundation Level status could then be instinctively mastered by Lin Chen.