Pantheon of Myriad Deities

The **Pantheon of Myriad Deities** was the self-governing body created by the **Myriad Deities** who lived during the Age of Myriad Deities. After their deaths, they continuously schemed in order to find a way to resurrect and seize life for themselves again.

## History

A long time ago, the Laws converged to create the first entity within the Boundless Void. This entity had infinite origin power and remained alone in the void for a long time, until it sensed the Apocalypse approaching from outside the Reality Gate and decided it needed servants to help it prepare for battle and fight against the enemy. It used its power to create hundreds of thousands of the Myriad Deities. These Deities grew dissatisfied with their status as servants. However, the entity had created "shadows" of these Deities that were connected to and always stronger than them, without consciousness, and under the entity's complete control; thus, if a Deity rebelled, the entity could use their shadow to kill them.

When the Apocalypse arrived, the entity was weakened until it was forced to fall into a long slumber, and the number of Deities was reduced to a mere ten thousand. The most powerful of these Deities were the Lord of Radiance and the Death God, who found a method to remove their shadows at the last moment. However, the entity prevented this method of removal from being passed down, so the Lord of Radiance and the Death God borrowed the Time Deity's help to entrust this method to a future entity who would hopefully liberate the remaining Pantheon.

Myriad Deities took the opportunity to take over and establish their own era. They created numerous architectural structures and created murals depicting themselves as the conquerors of this enemy.

At a certain point in the future, the Apocalypse descended and destroyed everything. The Myriad Deities were the last survivors. They chose to kill themselves and form a land of the dead, allowing them to take refuge within the Dusty World so the Apocalypses would no longer destroy them. However, this was like a prolonged torture, and resurrection was extremely difficult.

When someone accumulated enough power, they could use a special technique to replace someone in the mortal world. Their goal was to see whether or not they could kill off all living beings, absorbing the power of all things and the Laws of Reality, allowing themselves to escape from their bonds of death and be resurrected. They foresaw that the strongest being in the Realm of Life during the Age of Immemorial would overcome all calamities, become the future Divine King, and reestablish the Pantheon. As a result, they schemed to take over Reneedol's body, because her Twin Wing of Fate foretold that she would become the companion of the strongest one. Then, whoever took over Reneedol would wait for the strongest being to mature, kill them and absorb their power, awaken the Pantheon again, and rule over the Pantheon. However, they also chose this particular time during the Age of Immemorial to return so that they could find out what exactly had first entered through the Reality Gate.

The majority of Deities that returned to the Age of Immemorial were killed by the Apocalypse. Those who remained in the Dusty World were taken control of by the Lord of Infinite Origins to become puppets in battle against Atropos, Shroud, and Gu Qing Shan back in the Age of Immemorial. The Pantheon's world in the Dusty World was destroyed by the Lord of Infinite Origins.

A long time later, Shroud ventured into the Dusty World with Lachesis' fake key to her Divine Artifact of Fate. Once he left, what was left of the Pantheon's world crumbled to dust and ceased to exist.

## Notable Members

* The **Three Sisters of Fate** were powerful Fate-based Myriad Deities who the other Deities were all fearful and respectful of. They preferred to keep their distance from the three sisters.
	+ Clotho, the eldest, was the first to take over Reneedol's body. She was cruel, capricious, and fickle. She had the ability to copy the powers of one entity at a time. When Gu Qing Shan killed her and her sisters divided her power, Clotho cursed them to lose their souls and be devoured by that entity until nothing remained.
	+ Lachesis, the middle, was the most dangerous of the three sisters.
	+ Atropos, the youngest, was the second to take over Reneedol's body. She had the ability to command space.
* **Protection Deity:** the Myriad Deity with the greatest defensive powers. Her divine palace was near the center of the Pantheon's ruins, and became the base where Dusk was able to save living beings from the Apocalypse during the Age of Immemorial.

Because these deities had spent so long in the Dusty World, after replacing someone's soul and returning to the mortal world, they were easily distracted by the joys of experiencing mortal pleasures again, such as eating and drinking.

## Trivia

If translated literally, the Pantheon would have been called the "Hall of 10,000 Deities," and the Myriad Deities were literally the "10,000 Deities." However, since the number 10,000 is frequently used as a substitute for "numerous," it was translated as "Myriad." Only later on in the story would the reader find out that the Pantheon literally had ten thousand Deities.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1496
2. ↑ Chapter 1489
3. ↑ Chapter 1476
4. ↑ Chapter 1456
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 1488
6. ↑ Chapter 1468
7. ↑ Chapter 1692
8. ↑ Chapter 1491
9. ↑ Chapter 1496 Translator's Footnotes