Book 21, The Peak – Chapter 7, Dragonblood Continent
Within the Yn ne, there was no one whatsoever who could kill Linley. No longer under any pressure, his life naturally was quite carefree.
More than three hundred years quietly passed in this peaceful manner. Three hundred-plus years was an extremely long period of time for mortals. During this period of time, countless mortals had died, and countless more had been born.
Dragonblood Castle, however, stood virtually unchanged.
In the world of Deities, the passage of a thousand years was naught but a twinkling.
“Linley, your mood seems to be excellent today.” Delia was taking a walk with Linley through their rear flower gardens.
“Today, I made a slight breakthrough in my training.” Linley smiled.
“Oh? You fused three types of profound mysteries from different Laws?” Delia said in surprised delight.
“No, not that quickly.” Linley shook his head andughed. “The Throbbing Pulse of the World, Circr Softness, Dimensional Attack; although I’ve trained to thest part of fusing these three, I’ve reached a bottleneck. This final bottleneck will be very hard to break through.”
The more profound mysteries were involved in a bottleneck, the harder it would be to break through.
For example, the bottleneck for fusing six profound mysteries. How many experts had be stuck there, unable to be Paragons?
“Then what sort of breakthrough do you mean?” Delia said, puzzled.
“It was in the Profound Mysteries of ‘Explosion’, of the Laws of Fire. ‘Explosion’ is very hard to fuse, but today, I managed to fuse it with the ‘Throbbing Pulse of the World’.” Linley said with a calmugh. “However, I must say, I trained much more slowly during the past three hundred years than I had thought I would.” After all, after bing a Sovereign, he had an ocean of faith energy to support him.
His visualization andprehension speed was definitely far faster than in the past.
These past three hundred years were probablyparable to nearly ten thousand years, pre-Sovereign.
“No rush. Your time is unlimited.” Delia said with a calmugh.
“You are in no rush, but what about Grandpa Beirut and Bluefire?” Linley suddenly stared into a gate of the rear flower garden. He saw a short haired youthugh while walking over. This youth seemed 60%-70% simr to Linley in terms of looks; it was Linley’s son, Wade.
“Father. Mother.” Wadeughed. “Today is a day of a grand celebration for our Dragonblood continent. Aren’t you going to go?”
“Dragonblood continent?” Linley was startled, but then heughed and said self-mockingly, “I forgot that today is the day of the Dragonblood Festival.” Shortly after Linley became a Sovereign, he had a conversation with Beirut and Bluefire. When they just so happened to discuss the ‘Yn continent’ and the ‘Bluefire continent’, Linley, in a fit of excitement, created a continent of his own; the Dragonblood continent.
These threerge continents formed a perfect triangle.
Back then, Linley had even exerted his Sovereign power and made it so that the small inds around the Yn continent and the Bluefire continent were all moved within the Dragonblood continent. The poption of the denizens of the inds, allbined, was close to ten million. In addition, Linley also moved many magical beasts and other living creatures over.
During these three hundred years, because of the vastness of the continent, and because the magical beasts had been released by Linley into the western part of the Dragonblood continent, the humans here faced no natural enemies.
In three hundred short years, the human poption thus exploded from ten million to over a hundred million. But of course, during these three centuries of development, the Baruch Empire had provided a great amount of assistance, such as through the sea trade between the two continents. Although it was described as ‘trade’, in reality, they were providing assistance.
The people who had been moved over to the Dragonblood continent had decided upon September 24th as the day of the ‘Dragonblood Festival’
“Linley, the citizens of the Dragonblood continent all worship you. They treat you as a true divinity. Can it be that you aren’t even going to go take a look at their Dragonblood Festival?” Deliaughed with pursed lips. “Although the poption is just over a hundred million, which isn’t that much, the size of the Dragonblood continent is somewhatrger than the other two continents. This sort of nonstop rate of growth will make it so that in a few thousand years, the poption here will surpass that of the Bluefire continent.”
“Father, quite a few people in our n are going over.” Wadeughed as well.
“Fine, we’ll take a look.”
The Yn continent. The Bluefire continent. The Dragonblood continent. The distance between these three continents, to ordinary mortals, was fairly significant. But to Deities, or even to Saints, they were fairly close. There was only a distance of roughly five thousand kilometers of ocean between each of the three continents. Linley and Delia, in the blink of an eye, left the Yn continent and arrived at the Dragonblood continent.
The number one city of the Dragonblood continent: Baruch City. This city shared the same name as the imperial capital of the Baruch Empire. This city was close to the eastern sealine of the Dragonblood continent, and was also the closest city to the Yn continent.
Because it bordered the sea, it developed very quickly.
This number one city had flourished, developing into an extremelyrge city with millions of citizens. Today was the Dragonblood Festival, and so Baruch City was extremely lively. Large numbers of countryside dwellers had also flocked to the cities, wanting to partake in the festivities. It wasn’t just the zas in front of the temples; even the streets of the city were filled with oceans of people.
Linley, dressed in an azure robe, and Delia, dressed in a white robe. They were walking through the crowded streets. Although the streets were crowded, nobody touched Linley and Delia; in fact, nobody even noticed this odd urrence.
“This ce is bing more and more crowded. There weren’t this many shops thest time I came.” Linleyughed calmly.
“Last time you came was more than two years ago.” Delia said.
“Two years? That was just a short while ago.” Linley’s current mentality had already begun to change.
“Right. When are you going to make your own divine ne?” Delia asked, puzzled. “Last time, Grandpa Beirut said that the process of creating a divine ne involves joining your soul with the ne that you are creating. You will gain a clear sense of the Laws, which will be beneficial to you increasing your power. Aren’t you at a bottleneck, right now? Why not try it?”
Every single Sovereign had the power to create their own divine nes.
Upon doing soon, they would also gain insight into a portion of the Laws.
For example, a water-type Sovereign who created a divine ne would end up creating a water-type divine ne! During the creation process, they would gain insights into some of the Laws of Water that were involved in the creation of this ne. Creating the ne once, or creating it a hundred times, would involve the exact same portion of the Laws; there would be no differences. In addition, creating a divine ne exhausted a great deal of spiritual energy, Sovereign power, and time.
Thus, generally speaking, Sovereigns would only create a single ne.
“The creation of a divine ne isn’t something which can bepleted in just a year or two. Based on Grandpa Beirut’s experience, it will require nearly two thousand years.” Linley said with a sigh.
A ne was simply too vast.
Even Sovereigns would need to spend significant amounts of time creating one.
Beirut had created one, but Bluefire had not. This was because Bluefire had already be a Paragon. He had a thorough understanding of the profound mysteries of the Laws of Fire; even if he created a divine ne, he wouldn’t benefit much.
“A thousand years is, indeed, quite long.” Delia nodded. “When, then, do you n to go create your divine ne?”
“Soon, after making some preparations.” Linley said with augh. “Like Grandpa Beirut, I will create a ne next to the Yn ne.”
While chatting, Linley and Delia reached the wide za of the main temple of Baruch City. The za before the main temple had a circumference of tens of thousands of meters, and it was currently filled with a thronging horde of people who stood there. Right in front of the za was the Holy Emperor of the Dragonblood continent, who was preaching.
“In the name of the almighty true divinity, ‘Linley’...”
A sonorous voice echoed in the air above the temple, and instantly, everyone in the za before the tunnel fell silent. Countless worshipful eyes stared ardently towards the Holy Emperor.
“The charismatic power of a religious sect truly is astonishing.” Linley himself truly did not know whether tough or to cry.
Previously, he had created the Dragonblood continent and moved so many little inds over. Afterwards, he had allowed the descendants of his Baruch n to take responsibility for everything else. This so-called church and what not? It had all been developed by the descendants of the Baruch n. However...Linley was indeed qualified to be worshipped like this.
After all, Linley was alreadyparable to a Chief Sovereign.
In addition, it was extremely easy to spread his religion, because something like the creation of a continent, in the eyes of mortals, waspletely inconceivable. It was an almighty miracle, in fact, and it was countless times more formidable than the ‘Angelic Descent’ miracles that the former Radiant Church had been capable of.
“Linley, the Dragonblood Festival is about to reach its most fevered state.” Deliaughed.
“Just like before! During each Dragonblood Festival, here in the Dragonblood continent, we will select a hundred elites to be sent to the Yn continent. These hundred elites will join the earlier elites and be trained, with some being weeded out. Those who fulfill the qualifications will be permitted to join the Divine Guard of the Holy Land, ‘Dragonblood Castle’!” An armored, bearded man who stood by the side of the Holy Emperor spoke out in a clear voice. “Now, let the selection tournament begin!”
Seeing this, Linley couldn’t help butugh awkwardly.
“It was Taylor who came up with this thing.” Deliaughed as well.
Dragonblood Castle was where Linley lived. That ce had many Highgods, Gods, and Demigods; it was definitely the ce in the Yn continent with the most Deities. Even the guards of Dragonblood Castle had be known as the Divine Guard. If you wanted to join the Divine Guard, you would have to participate in the frenziedpetitions. After all, if one had the chance to interact with Deities, one might easily be greatly benefited or be given tutge.
asionally, a divine artifact, a divine spark, or a Golden Soul-Pearl would be released from Dragonblood Castle.
Dragonblood Castle was definitely a ce which was far more attractive than any institute.
“The selection process for the Divine Guard is far more strict than the student selection process of the former Ernst Institute.” Linley let out a sigh. “Back then, we were sent to the Institute in batches of a hundred. Although this selection process also results in a hundred candidates, it requires everyone to gather in the Yn continent and spend tens of years in the training and elimination process...”
It must be understood that the members of the Divine Guard of Dragonblood Castle would only be changed once every century. Candidates, however, were selected every year. Countless people would go berserk for this chance.
“Actually, there is no need to change the Divine Guard at all.” Delia said with a sigh. “All members of the Divine Guard are experts of the ninth rank, with lifespans of nearly five centuries. They can absolutely stay in the Guard for two or three centuries.”
“Joining the Divine Guard is, after all, the fastest way to be a Saint.” Linley said with a calmugh. “That group of people living within Dragonblood Castle ispletely made up of Deities. Although quite a few became Deities through using divine sparks, given the understanding they have regarding the profound mysteries, if they can provide just a bit of guidance, those members of the Divine Guard might be Saints.”
“Eh?” Linley lifted an eyebrow.
“What is it?” Delia asked, puzzled.
“Someone came to the Yn ne.” Linleyughed. “One of ours.”
In the distant north of the Yn ne. The Arctic Icecap. The teleportation array at the top of that mountain of ice.
A blurry light was glowing, and four figures slowly emerged.
“Greetings to the four of you, milords.” The current nar Overseer of the Yn ne, although still a God, had been changed to a beautiful golden-haired woman.
“Mm.” The leader of the four gave her a nce. “Let’s go.”
The four figures rose into the skies, flying towards the south.
“Elder Brother, do you think the words of the Chief Sovereign of Destruction are true or false?” The only woman amongst the four, ady with long, fiery red hair spoke out. This person was the Matriarch of the Vermillion Bird n of the Four Divine Beasts n.
“Consider the Chief Sovereign of Destruction’s status. How could he possibly deceive us?” The White Tiger Patriarchughed as he spoke.
“That’s not it. Only...I still can’t believe it.” The Vermillion Bird Matriarch said hurriedly.
“Not just you; even I find it hard to believe.” Gison let out a sigh. “But the Chief Sovereign of Destruction can’t possibly be lying. But...Linley, a Sovereign? This is too...”
“Enough talk. Whether he is or isn’t a Sovereign, soon we shall know.” The deep voice of the ck Tortoise Patriarch rang out.
“Have you found Linley through your divine sense yet?” The Vermillion Bird Matriarch said, puzzled. “I’ve searched all three continents, but have found no trace of Linley. I have, however, found quite a few of his family and friends.”
“I can’t find him either...can it be that Linley truly has be a Sovereign?” Gison and the other three looked at each other, all still feeling bewildered.
This news was simply too astonishing, after all. Otherwise, the four n leaders wouldn’t have hastened all the way to the Yn ne.
The four n leaders all moved extremely quickly, and they soon arrived within the borders of the Yn continent.
“There are many experts in the castle up ahead, and quite a few are descendants of my n. That should be Dragonblood Castle.” Gison said, and then the four transformed into four blurs, streaking towards Dragonblood Castle.