Lord of the Mists: Book 8 of the Coiling Dragon Saga

by Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi

  Linley’s heart trembled. So the four Overgods were nothing more than tools that this Hongmeng had randomly created.

  “The larger a Cosmos is, the more stable it becomes. I allowed part of the Grandmist to transform into the Five Elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. These five types of energy served as the foundation for the primary Cosmos, and then gave birth to Yin and Yang, two opposing types of energy, as well as the tribulation power of lightning.” Hongmeng laughed. “As for the four secondary Cosmos… they were small, and so they didn’t need the Five Elements. I thus controlled the Grandmist primal energy into four basic types of energy; earth, fire, water, and wind. They then gave birth to light and darkness, as well as the tribulation power of lightning.”

  “The Grandmist… was transformed into earth, fire, water, and wind?” Linley was stunned. He was beginning to understand. The main Cosmos was formed from a foundation of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth; the Five Elements. As for the secondary Cosmos, they were formed from a foundation of four types of energy; earth, fire, water, wind.

  “Although I created the main Cosmos and the four secondary Cosmos, it is very, very difficult for the living creatures within the Cosmos to escape into the outside world.” Hongmeng sighed.

  “Very difficult?” Linley asked, puzzled.

  “Right. The main Cosmos is infinitely vast. There are many, many living creatures that are far more powerful than the Sovereigns of your secondary universe! Amongst them are Godkings and even Exalted Celestials, who are capable of sensing the Laws of Space and the Laws of Time. If they were to go into your secondary Cosmos, they would be capable of shattering the binds of that Cosmos.”

  Linley was stunned. The experts of that Cosmos were actually so numerous? “However, the stability of the secondary Cosmos is inferior to the main Cosmos, and thus I wouldn’t permit lifeforms capable of comprehending the Laws of Time and Space to exist within them. Thus, within the secondary Cosmos, it is impossible to train in space and time; at most, a few innate divine abilities would be able to impact them.” Hongmeng laughed.

  Linley nodded slightly. “However, Linley, your current level of power has surpassed even the most powerful of Exalted Celestials of the main Cosmos.” Hongmeng laughed.

  “Oh?” Linley was rather surprised.

  “Because you have a Grandmist Body!” Hongmeng laughed. “There are two types of powerful bodies. The most powerful is the ‘Inextinguishable Xuanhuang Body’, while the slightly weaker one is the ‘Grandmist Body’. You must understand that the Grandmist energy is the most basic level of energy there is. Even the Exalted Celestials of the main Cosmos who enter this place will be dissolved into Grandmist energy.”

  “Because a Grandmist Body is formed from Grandmist energy to begin with, the Grandmist energy here won’t harm it,” Hongmeng explained.

  “Then where does this ‘Indestructible Xuanhuang Body’ come from?” Linley asked.

  “Afterwards, when you, too, set up a Cosmos and establish a universe, you will naturally begin to generate Xuanhuang energy, which will gather in your body, causing it to once more rise in power. You will then gain the most powerful ‘Indestructible Xuanhuang Body’.” Hongmeng laughed.

  “Me? Create a Cosmos?” Linley was stunned.

  “Yes. Like I did.” Hongmeng laughed. “I care not one whit for the lives and deaths of the living creatures within the Cosmos. I can create countless living creatures at any time. I only care about those who are able to, on their own, break free of the bindings of their universe and surviving in this place. You are worthy of being the brother of myself, Hongmeng.” Hongmeng laughed as he waved his hand, and a single leaf suddenly floated down from the nearby tree.

  The leaf flashed with light. “I’ve imprinted the methods for creating a Cosmos within this leaf. Use your spiritual energy to look into it, and you’ll understand everything.” Hongmeng handed the leaf to Linley.

  Linley looked at Hongmeng, then accepted it. “This…” Countless amounts of knowledge instantly flooded into Linley’s mind. In an instant, Linley’s understanding of the Grandmist region reached an extremely deep level. He even fully understood the various ways by which the Grandmist could be used, such as how it could be divided into the Five Elements, or resolved into earth, fire, water, and wind.

  “So… for me to break through the Cosmos required so many coincidences. It was so difficult.” Linley now completely understood.

  “Right!” Hongmeng nodded and laughed. “You just so happened to have four clones of earth, fire, water, and wind. If you had an extra one, it wouldn’t have worked; if you had one less, it also wouldn’t have worked. And then, you successfully underwent a Soul Mutation! This gave you a chance, but… the four types of energy in the universe are actually four different types of Sovereign energy. You had to be able to control those four types of Sovereign energy and fuse them, and so you had to fuse four Sovereign sparks.”

  Linley laughed and nodded bitterly. He now understood… he had four clones of earth, fire, water, and wind, then underwent a soul mutation, and then became a Sovereign of all four elements. Only then had he been able to fuse the four types of Sovereign energy into Grandmist energy. The difficulty of every single step was exceedingly great.

  “To break free from the main Cosmos is just as difficult.” Grandmist laughed calmly. “This is why, despite the passage of more than a thousand Grand Kalpas, you are the only one to emerge here.”

  “Big Brother Hongmeng, you spoke of more than a thousand Grand Kalpas. How long is a Grand Kalpa, exactly?” Linley could tell that ‘Grand Kalpas’ represented a unit of time, but how long?

  “Each Grand Kalpa represents six quadrillion years!” Hongmeng laughed. Linley sucked in a deep breath. More than a thousand Grand Kalpas represented more than six quintillion years. In his own Cosmos, a Planar War was carried out every trillion years. It seemed as though there had been millions of Planar Wars.

  “How incredible!” Linley sighed in praise. “Big Brother Hongmeng, your four secondary Cosmos all have different cultures. My home Cosmos is the Magic Cosmos. The other three Cosmos are the Machine Cosmos, the Bioform Cosmos, and the Immortal/Devil Cosmos. As for the main Cosmos, it includes everything. Incredible.”

  Linley was now completely stunned. Only now did he realize… that aside from the Elemental Laws, there were many other ways of training that were completely different. There were machines, there were bioforms, and there were even Immortal and Devil cultivation paths.

  “Haha, in the future, you’ll create your own Cosmos as well. When you have time, you can go to my Cosmos and take a look.” Hongmeng laughed. “Oh. Before this, you must take a look at something.”

  “What?” Linley was puzzled. Hongmeng waved his hand, and instantly, a golden banner flew over from countless kilometers away, landing nearby Linley. This golden banner contained an awe-inspiring prestige which made Linley’s heart clench. It was roughly six meters long and half a meter wide.

  “Oh, there are words on the back?” Linley saw them right away. Behind this golden banner there was a word that was roughly the same size as the banner. The word was very unique; Linley was certain that he had never seen this language before. But as he looked at it, he understood the meaning of this words.

  Meng!

  “This is the Golden Grandmist Banner!” Hongmeng laughed. “It, too, was born from the Grandmist space. Look at the first line on the Golden Grandmist Banner.” Linley looked at it. The very first line on the Golden Grandmist Banner had a single word on it.

  Hong!

  Or, to be precise, the upper left corner of the Golden Grandmist Banner had just this single word.

  “Anyone whose name is on this Golden Grandmist Banner will become a controller of the Grandmist region. Upon being a controller of the Grandmist region, you will be able to freely use the energy of any Cosmos, and will be able to calculate the destinies of virtually all living creatures!” Hongmeng laughed. “But if you wish for your n
ame to be on the Golden Grandmist Banner, you have to, at the very least, break through your Cosmos and come to the Grandmist region.”

  “Linley, control a hint of your spiritual energy and send it into the banner,” Hongmeng said. Linley nodded, extending out some of his spiritual energy.

  The Golden Grandmist Banner instantly began to absorb that spiritual energy, and on the first line, next to the ‘Hong’ character, another character appeared: ‘Lin’.

  Instantly, Linley’s mind was once more flooded with information, as well as quite a few divine abilities. “So… there are different levels of Grandmist controllers as well.” Linley began to laugh. “I’m actually the same as you, Elder Brother; we are first rank Grandmist controllers.”

  “Naturally. The Grandmist space is vast and endless, but because of stability reasons, the Golden Grandmist Banner will only, at most, permit us to create a total of four Cosmos like the main Cosmos I created. Naturally, there will only be four first rank Grandmist controllers. The fifth controller will naturally have a lower ranking, and the others will all be limited by us.”

  Linley nodded. Only the highest ranking Grandmist controllers would understand everything. “From today onwards, I have a new name of my own, then… Linmeng.” Linley let out a sigh. “Right. Let the Cosmos that you create in the future be known as the Linmeng Cosmos.” Hongmeng laughed.

  A hint of solemnity appeared on Linley’s face. “Alas, my Grandpa Doehring…” After becoming a Grandmist controller, Linley understood that there was no way a person whose soul had dissipated could be brought to life. But of course, Linley was capable of creating new life. He could create a new, identical Grandpa Doehring, one who even had the same memories as Grandpa Doehring.

  Only, that would only be a duplicate; it wouldn’t be the true Grandpa Doehring.

  “Grandpa Doehring…” Linley silently engraved Grandpa Doehring into his heart.

  After becoming a Grandmist controller, he had learned many things. Linley’s mindset had changed, and he had become far more at ease and natural than before. “Oh, Big Brother, it seems I have to make a trip back.” Linley couldn’t help but laugh.

  “Right. Your family members are going frantic.” Hongmeng laughed. “Right. Your home Cosmos… in the future, you can help me manage it. You are now a Grandmist controller; your divine abilities aren’t much weaker than mine.”

  “But I have no experience. What if I wreck it?” Linley smirked.

  “Then you’ll have to help me create a new one, that’s all.” Hongmeng laughed casually.

  As a Grandmist controller capable of creating a Cosmos, it was true that many of Linley’s abilities were no weaker than Hongmeng’s. Only, as he had yet to actually create a new Cosmos, Linley’s abilities were slightly deficient.

  “Then I’ll go back now.” Linley turned and took a single step. He crossed an unfathomably long distance with that step, then entered the plane of the Infernal Realm.

  In the air above the Chaotic Sea. A sky-blue-robed Linley laughed calmly as he stood there. “So many Sovereigns died. I have to replenish the Sovereign sparks.” With a wave of his hand, Linley began to manifest one Sovereign spark after another. One Sovereign spark after another shot out from his hands, and then, Linley turned to look towards the Skyrite Mountains.

  Taking but a single step, Linley vanished.

  When Linley had originally departed from his home Cosmos, Linley’s family had grown frantic. All of them were now gathered within his estate, and it was so quiet as to cause one to shudder.

  “Boss, Boss…” Bebe’s tears were flowing. “I… I can’t sense my Boss’s spiritual aura any longer. I can’t sense it!”

  Delia stood there, her eyes shut, her entire body shaking.

  Beirut and Bluefire exchanged glances, bitter smiles on their faces.

  “Father!” Wade, Taylor, and Sasha were all agonized as well.

  “Third Bro.” George, Yale, and Reynolds were together as well. They didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry.

  Everyone had held on to hope, but upon hearing Bebe say that he could no longer sense Linley’s spiritual aura, everyone grew despondent.

  “Why did it have to be like this…” Linley’s mother, Lina, was already reduced to a puddle of tears. “It’s all, it’s all my fault, my fault.” The nearby Hogg held her in his arms, sighing to himself, his face ashen.

  Just as everyone was gripped by grief. Suddenly…

  “Eh?!” Bebe’s eyes suddenly lit up. He originally hadn’t been able to sense Linley’s aura at all, but now, he could. Actually, previously, Linley had left this Cosmos, so how could Bebe possibly sense Linley’s existence? But now that Linley had returned, Bebe naturally was able to sense him again.

  Delia was still lost in her memories and her utter grief. However, within her blurred field of vision, a familiar figure suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

  Delia hurriedly wiped her tears away, looking towards the figure carefully.

  “Boss!” Bebe called out jubilantly. He was the first to speak.

  The others stared, wide-eyed, at the person who had appeared out of nowhere. A sky-blue-robed man, with that familiar face!

  “Third Bro!!!” Yale, George, and Reynolds rushed over simultaneously.

  “Linley.”

  “Father!”

  “Big Brother!”

  FINIS

  THUS ENDS COILING DRAGON

  Thus ends the Coiling Dragon Saga, written by Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi and translated by Ren Woxing. A full afterword will be coming shortly!

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  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright

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  Contents

  Prologue

  I. The Crown’s Riddle

  1. Father and Son

  2. An Inescapable Calamity

  3. Power

  4. The Clan’s Changes

  5. Refusal

  6. Overgod Artifact

  7. Olivier

  8. Whither To?

  9. Bonin

  10. Right and Wrong

  11. The Lord Prefect of Skymount

  12. Not Dead

  13. The Secret of the Nine Pearls

  14. True, False

  15. The Sovereign Descends

  16. A Tribulation

  17. Too Hot to Handle

  18. Joke

  19. Parchment

  20. After A Millennium, An Astonishing Change!

  21. Four Divine Powers Fuse

  22. Real and Fake

  23. Red Caltrop Diamond

  24. Status

  25. A Sudden Shockwave

  26. The Struggle

  27. The Critical Point

  28. Toyed With

  29. Begging to be Spared

  30. Overgod Decree

  31. The Chief Sovereign Descends

  32. I’d Rather Die! A Change of Events

  33. Descent

  34. Hiding One’s Strength

  35. Coercion

  36. Nine Supreme Experts

  37. Infiltration

  38. Lionheart City

  39. Relief Sculpture

  40. The Red Caltrop Diamond Emerges!

  41. Two Preparations

  42. Linley’s Terrifying Strength

  43. Utterly Exasperated

  44. Whither To?

  45. Beirut’s True Power!

  46. Beirut, Sovereign?

  47. Battle

  48. Success

  II. The Peak

  49. The Overgod of Life

  50. The Eighteenth Floor of the Necropolis of the Gods

  51. Ten Thousand Years Ago – The Truth

  52. Sovereign Linley

  53. Magic
Compilation, Fusion Sovereign!

  54. Entrusted

  55. Dragonblood Continent

  56. Entreaty

  57. The Next Five Thousand Years

  58. Sword Intent

  59. Hunt and Kill, A Storm Brews!

  60. The First Display of Power

  61. Punishment

  62. The Gathering of the Sovereigns

  63. Covetous Intent

  64. The Verdict

  65. Tenfold Victor’s Reward

  66. Divine Beast, Sable Leviathan

  67. Orloff’s Invitation

  68. Fight, Kill!

  69. Outside of One’s Expectations

  70. Trump Card

  71. Twelve-Winged Angel

  72. Nine Rounds

  73. Revisiting the Divine Light Plane