Hearing this, Ding Yun couldn't help but fall silent.
Gods were not so easily enslaved. Even ordinary mortals had those who would rather die than surrender, let alone gods.
The main gods were relatively easier. Although they could involve themselves with laws, they had not reached the level of controlling them. Thus, after being branded as slaves, even if they wished to die rather than submit, they would be unable to do so due to the influence of the slave mark.
However, compared to the main gods, the supreme gods.
They had undergone another transformation.
Not only could they completely control their core laws, but they could even temporarily merge with the corresponding laws of the universe, achieving a state akin to merging with the Dao, wielding a portion of the universe's primordial power. To use myths and legends of the Great Desolation World as an analogy, supreme gods were akin to saints.
When supreme gods merged with the corresponding laws of their universe, to a certain extent, they and the entire universe were essentially a single entity. Su Bixiao, with her supreme god realm, could at most control gods of the same realm by inscribing a slave mark. It was utterly impossible to control gods at the level of creation gods.
And supreme gods merged with the corresponding laws of the universe.
Their status could be comparable to pseudo-creation gods.
Therefore, temporarily suppressing the slave mark on their true spirits and sweeping some main gods into the Sea of Cosmic Laws, using the might of the Sea of Cosmic Laws to suppress them, and even slowly wear away the slave mark, were all plausible.
However, the price they paid was not small.
The Sea of Cosmic Laws was not easily entered.
The specifications of ordinary universes were basically equivalent to a vast Great Thousand World. The Sea of Cosmic Laws was analogous to the Heavenly Dao origin space within a Great Thousand World. To comprehend the Heavenly Dao and merge with it was called cultivation and merging with the Dao.
But once something went wrong.
They would be submerged by the vast Heavenly Dao rules, completely immersing themselves within it, their own consciousness would then fall, which was called dissolving into the Dao.
Put nicely, it was called integrating into the Heavenly Dao. In reality, it meant death, being absorbed by the Heavenly Dao, becoming an insignificant part of the Heavenly Dao's consciousness space, or rather, nourishment.
The Sea of Cosmic Laws was the same. Comprehending it from the outside and using one's own laws to draw in the laws within the Sea of Cosmic Laws had no significant impact. But once one entered the Sea of Cosmic Laws, the vast laws would almost materialize, quickly submerging all the gods.
At this point, there was a certain probability of holding on.
And perhaps even advancing further.
But in most cases, they couldn't hold on for long, quickly turning into nothingness, leaving only their core laws to merge into the Sea of Cosmic Laws, contributing to it. Although the Sea of Cosmic Laws offered some preferential treatment to the gods, that preference was based on mutual benefit.
If a god voluntarily threw themselves into the Sea of Laws.
The Sea of Cosmic Laws could not distinguish whether they wanted to come in for benefits or to help. It would only develop in a direction most beneficial to itself. And the most beneficial direction for the Sea of Cosmic Laws was, of course, to have those gods return to the mother body. This was a very natural instinct.
Therefore, those supreme gods throwing themselves into the Sea of Cosmic Laws.
Most likely, they truly harbored the thought of dying rather than submitting.
And some main gods must have also known the fate of throwing themselves into the Sea of Cosmic Laws, yet they still resolutely followed. This showed how unwilling they were to become slaves, and how they would immediately seek mutual destruction if an opportunity arose.
It seemed the path chosen by some to enslave the gods.
Was not that easy.
The probability of failure was almost over ninety percent. As long as those enslaved gods found an opportunity, disaster was inevitable.
"So, your mother was directly ganged up on by twenty law sorcerers and two origin sorcerers?
Aunt is truly formidable!
To be ganged up on by so many law sorcerers, and two sorcerers comparable to creation gods, and still hold on until now before dying, and successfully send you out, this is absolutely a miracle. I didn't expect Aunt to be so powerful!"
After understanding the situation, Ding Yun praised her aunt with emotion. Although she died tragically, being ganged up on by so many powerful beings was quite rare. It could be considered a grand and impactful death, one that would absolutely shock that universe.
"Forget it, that's not what happened at all.
I wasn't sent out by my mother; I escaped on my own. Fortunately, you pulled me along, otherwise, I'm afraid I would have met the same fate as my mother and instantly perished, returning to nothingness.
The situation is a bit different from what you imagined.
My mother didn't stalemate or battle those law sorcerers and origin sorcerers for years before perishing.
When those law sorcerers and origin sorcerers first arrived, out of caution, they didn't act immediately. Especially when they discovered they couldn't sense the aura of the other twelve supreme gods, only the aura of my mother, one supreme god, they became even more cautious, fearing some conspiracy on our side, or that the other twelve supreme gods were hidden, lying in ambush, and so on.
Therefore, they did a lot of groundwork and probing beforehand, and my mother could only grit her teeth and follow along, having already made arrangements for retreat, even finding a remote universe with a very weak sorcerer presence.
She planned to escape there.
But because some gods were captured, and at the same time, the slave mark deep within that god's true spirit was discovered by an origin sorcerer and helped to be completely erased, the sorcerers then knew that my mother was merely bluffing. In reality, she had already been deserted by her followers, and only she, a supreme god, was holding the fort.
Following this, the sorcerer faction launched a swift attack.
Perhaps considering that so many sorcerers had come, and to reduce sorcerer casualties, they held back no strength. All the high-level sorcerers who came attacked. To deal with us main gods, they deployed a total of ten law sorcerers.
This is equivalent to ten supreme gods!
As for why I wasn't killed on the spot and managed to escape, besides you bringing me here, the most important reason was probably that my mother always treated me as a subordinate and never revealed to the outside that I was her biological son. Moreover, all the gods she enslaved were forced to call her Mother of Gods, so when I occasionally called her Mother, no one found it strange.
At most, they thought I was a bit of a sycophant.
Therefore, in the eyes of those law sorcerers.
I should have been just an ordinary main god.
Not of much value, and I suffered blows similar to other main gods. The only difference was that I possessed the皓月王座 (Hàoyuè Wángzuò - Bright Moon Throne), a golden finger comparable to a supreme divine artifact.
My survival capabilities were stronger.
This allowed me to barely survive the powerful attacks of that soul law sorcerer and be rescued by you alive."
At this point, Jin Xinxin also complained:
"Honestly, I still don't know if I should blame my mother for being too uncaring towards me, only using me as a tool, or thank her for her lack of concern, which led to no one knowing our relationship, and thus saving my life.
That universe is too dangerous and terrifying.
If I had known, I would have acted alone.
Or followed you..."