Gods of Yulan
Book 4 of the Coiling Dragon Saga
Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi
Translated by
Ren Woxing
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Contents
Prologue
I. The Necropolis of the Gods
1. Founding of an Empire
2. Breakthrough
3. Bebe’s Heritage
4. Deity-level Magical Beast
5. Bebe’s Revenge
6. Everyone Assembled
7. The Metallic Castle
8. Three Corridors
9. The Necropolis’ Sculptures
10. Moving Cautiously
11. Plant Lifeforms
12. The Ba-Serpent Awakens?
13. True Awakening! The Impending Calamity!
14. The World of Snow
15. Eight Years in the Necropolis
16. The Flame Tyrant
17. The Tunnel’s Location
18. The Fate-Determining Strike
19. Three Divine Artifacts
20. The Magical Beasts in Action
21. The Queen Mother, ‘Lachapalle’
22. Regrowth
23. Fast, Slow?
24. Myriad Swords Converge, the Pearl of Life!
25. Entering the Eighth Floor
26. The Beholder King
27. A Hospitable Host
28. Thorium Devil
29. Abyssal Blade Demon
30. Grand Magus Saint
31. Necropolis of the Gods, the Eleventh Floor!
32. The Blood Stained Underground
33. Life and Death
34. Death?
35. Fleeing For His Life
36. One Against a Million
37. Divine Spark
38. Desiring a Divine Spark?
39. The Predictions of Beirut
II. The Descent of the Gods
40. Coming Home
41. Becoming a Deity?
42. Dividing the Treasures
43. A Major Event
44. The Apocalypse War of Ten Millenia Ago
45. Slaughtering a Path to the Sacred Isle
46. Judgment Day Descends
47. The Great Six-Point Battle Formation
48. The Descent
49. Lord Chiquitas!
50. One Night
51. New Variables
52. Meditative Training Begins
53. A Visit From Yale
54. A Sudden Change
55. Five Years
56. Mysterious Religions
57. Guidance
58. Controlled
59. Discarding a Piece
60. Soulsilk
61. Linley Becomes A Deity
62. The Elemental Sea
63. Violet Blood, Coiling Dragon
64. Must Go
65. The Coiling Dragon Ring
66. Battle to the Death
67. The Grand Warlock’s Treasure
68. The Disposition of the Divine Sparks
69. Haeru
70. The Deity-Level Expert, Muba
71. Divine Artifacts and Divinities
72. A Wave of Refugees
73. Accepting the Heavy Burden
74. Claws and Fangs
75. Olivier Has Arrived
76. The Great Botha Levee
77. Smiling Meekly
78. Creating a Catastrophe!
III. Gebados
79. Planar Prison
80. Departure
81. The World Changed
82. Ferocious
83. Sound
84. A Legend
85. Willingly Surrender
86. Downfall
87. Timely
88. Foundation
89. Desri’s Divine Spark
90. Desri’s Decision
91. The Millennial Cycle
92. Two Powers Join Forces
93. Unwilling to Admit Defeat
94. Turned Back
95. Mental Message
96. Bebe Becomes a Deity
97. Profound Mysteries, High and Low
98. The Invincible Highgods
99. Four Mighty Gods
100. Intimidation
101. Sadista
102. The Mountain Range of Death
103. The Profound Mysteries of Death?
104. Homeland
105. The Lord of Mount Copper Gong
106. Mount Copper Gong
107. Elemental Training
108. A So-Called Spar
109. The Throbbing Pulse of the World
110. Earth and Wind
111. An Implacable Rage
112. Darkness and Flame
113. Paying Respect
114. Secret
115. For the Clan
116. Attacked On the Way Back
117. Drawing Legs on a Snake
118. Creek, Ocean?
119. An Abrupt Change
120. Beirut’s Power
121. Extreme Joy Turns to Grief
122. Only One Person
123. Indigo Prefecture
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Prologue
The war for the Anarchic Lands is over. The Cult of Shadows and the Radiant Church attempted to join forces, but were crushed by the combined might of the Baruch Empire and its allies. It would seem that a time of peace has come… but fate has other plans in store for Linley Baruch. The Necropolis of Gods is finally stirring, and within it are the secrets to godhood itself…
Part I
The Necropolis of the Gods
1
Founding of an Empire
Beirut!
Linley and Bebe exchanged a glance. Linley still remembered how Bebe had told him that not long after he was born, when he still hadn’t been able to open his eyes, a very warm, intimate voice had told him… he was of the Beirut clan. “Lord Beirut?” Bebe said. “Fine. I’ll go with you.”
Linley looked at Bebe. Bebe’s normally adorable eyes were now very solemn, and held within them a hint… of excitement! Bebe had never known anything about his parentage, and when he had been able to open his eyes, he hadn’t found any rat-type magical beasts nearby.
Bebe had always wondered if that warm, intimate voice had been his mother’s. Unfortunately, Bebe had never seen her. The only clue he had was those two syllables: Beirut.
The Violet-Gold Rat King, Harry, laughed. “Don’t panic. My lord father has invited Bebe to go over to meet him. It definitely isn’t for any bad reasons.” As he spoke, he looked at Bebe. “Bebe, let’s go.” The other two Rat Kings also looked at Bebe, who immediately flew into the air.
“This trip to the Forest of Darkness will take a bit of time, most likely. Don’t get too impatient,” the third of the Violet-Gold Rat Kings, Harvey, said
.
Linley nodded, then said to Bebe, “If anything major happens, let me know right away.” Linley and Bebe could speak at extremely long distances through their spiritual connection. Generally speaking, while Bebe was in the Forest of Darkness he would still be able to spiritually communicate with Linley.
“Got it, Boss.” Bebe cracked a smile at Linley, who smiled encouragingly back at him. The mystery of his parentage was something that had weighed on Bebe’s mind his entire life. Now that he had a chance of solving it, Bebe wouldn’t hesitate at all.
Plumes of snow circled down onto the earth. The discussion in the royal palace was extremely animated.
“So the mysterious King of the Forest of Darkness is named Lord Beirut.” Rebecca held her hands over her heart, breathing excitedly. The five ultimate powers of the Yulan continent, the five Deities, were indeed figures of awe. The power of Deities was far greater than that of the Saints. For example, Stehle hadn’t been able to resist even a finger-flick from Cesar.
“Father.” Taylor’s pure eyes were filled with energy as he looked at Linley. “Is that Beirut really powerful? Even more powerful than you, Father?” Linley and Wharton both laughed. In the eyes of his children, Linley was invincible.
“Lord Beirut…” Linley looked towards the north, as though seeing that expert who stood atop the entire Yulan continent from within his lair in the Forest of Darkness. “According to what those three Violet-Gold Rat Kings said, Lord Beirut is most likely the most terrifyingly powerful Deity in the Yulan continent.” Linley patted Taylor’s head and said lovingly, “Taylor, your father doesn’t have the strength to challenge him yet.”
“Then Father will definitely surpass him in the future,” Taylor spoke with absolute certainty. “My father is the greatest genius in the Yulan continent, and the most powerful Dragonblood Warrior in history.”
“Haha…” Linley didn’t respond. He only laughed, then looked at Wharton and instructed, “Wharton, tomorrow, I plan to go to the private underground room and begin training. I won’t get involved in the founding of the Baruch Empire.” The so-called private underground room was the pocket dimensional room in the core of the magicite mines.
“Big brother, you won’t participate?” Wharton was very shocked. The founding of an empire was a major event.
“Forget it.” Linley looked at Delia. Delia’s mageforce and spiritual energy had been increasing at an unbelievable rate. After reaching the ninth rank as an Arch Magus, her rate of improvement had only been increasing. This sort of improvement rate was simply astonishing to Linley. It seemed as though to Delia, there was no such thing as a bottleneck.
“Delia, I expect when the empire is founded, the Yulan Empire will definitely send envoys over. Your parents or other people might come over as well. You should stay at the palace and wait for them.”
“Fine.” Delia couldn’t help but think of how her parents might look now. She had left her clan only twelve years ago. The clan and Delia had reconciled long ago. Only, because the distance between the two was so vast, they rarely had a chance to meet. This time, with the Baruch Empire being founded, her parents would most likely come.
Linley continued with his instructions. “Delia, the private underground room is over ten meters wide. I’ve already divided it into two layers. After you are finished, you can come find me. At that time, I’ll help you enter the private underground room. You and I can train together. I expect that in a few years, you’ll be able to reach the level of Grand Magus Saint, even before I do,” Linley sighed as he spoke.
Delia’s eyes held a hint of excitement in them. Each time Linley went into seclusion for training, he would disappear for who-knows how long. Delia naturally wanted to be with Linley during that time. “Right. I’ll definitely come looking for you at that time,” Delia hurriedly said.
The next day, Linley flew directly to the magicite mine. After the battle, the magicite miners had began to quite orderly but quite frantically resume the excavations. In a short month, 60 or 70% of the gems in the magicite mine had been excavated, and only a small number of deposits were left. And of course, various large buildings were constructed around the ‘door’.
Linley walked into the tunnels, opened a stone door, and then arrived at the mysterious dimensional door. Linley’s body immediately became covered with a layer of deep azure battle-qi which spun about him rhythmically as he immediately stepped inside.
Crackle crackle. Terrifying knife-like blasts of energy tore at Linley, but Linley’s Pulseguard Defense was fully able to defend against them.
Stepping into the pocket dimension, Linley felt his heart become at ease. Earth, fire, water, wind. All the elemental essences seemed so close. Even the Throbbing Pulse of the Earth became so clear to him. Raising his head… he saw that translucent membrane, and saw the multicolored chaotic space outside of it.
“I’ve already reached the level of 256 layers long ago. I hope this time, I can make a true breakthrough.” Linley immediately sat down cross-legged, beginning to meditate and to attune.
Last time, Linley had an insight, but he had only learned that from the 256 layers, he now needed to consolidate them all into a single vibrational wave. Only then would the Profound Truths of the Earth be perfected. But as to how that would be accomplished, Linley was still very uncertain.
Within that pocket dimension, the flow of time couldn’t be noticed at all. Linley began to train in seclusion.
Yulan calendar, year 10022, December 28th. In two more days, it would be the Yulan Festival. This would be a very historically special Yulan festival, because… on this Yulan Festival, the Baruch Empire would be formally founded.
Baruch City was a hubbub of activity. Outsiders had filled Baruch City to the brim. Ten guards were escorting a simple, unadorned carriage through the streets of Baruch City. Those warriors were all of the fifth rank and higher, and their presence told all that the people inside the carriage were no ordinary people indeed.
A long time later, the carriage arrived at a hotel. The guards immediately halted the horse. “Madame, we are at the hotel,” the carriage driver said respectfully into the carriage.
“Understood.” A calm voice from within the carriage. A jade-white hand pulled open the carriage curtains, then stepped out. This noble lady wore violet clothes, covered by a black cloak. If Linley had been here, he would definitely recognize her…
It was Alice! It had been almost twenty-three years since Apocalypse Day. Back then, Alice had been very young. After twenty-three years, she had now acquired the natural grace and elegance of a noble lady.
“Twenty-three years.” Alice looked at the city, her heart filled with emotion. She knew the name of this city; Baruch City. This city had been founded based on the name of Linley’s clan. The fifth great empire of the Yulan continent would be formally founded in two days, and the name of it would be the Baruch Empire.
“Linley Baruch,” Alice murmured Linley’s name. That year when she and Kalan had met with danger in the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts, Linley had suddenly descended from the skies and saved her. Back then, he had been nothing more than a youth with potential, while she was a beautiful, carefree young girl. As for Kalan, he was the successor to a major noble clan.
Twenty-three years later, Linley had already reached heights that she couldn’t hope to approach.
Alice felt gratitude from the depths of her heart towards Linley. On the Apocalypse Day, it was Linley who had entrusted her to Director Maia, who for Linley’s sake had taken care of her and Rowling the entire time they were fleeing. Director Maia had been very kind to the two girls, eventually making them his adopted daughters.
In turn, Alice had begun helping him take care of the matters of the Proulx Gallery. Rowling wasn’t good at management, but Alice was very talented at managing the various Galleries, and so Director Maia slowly gave more and more authority to her. This time, it was Director Maia who had sent her to come to Baruch City.
The reaso
n was… she was going to start up a new Proulx Gallery, here in Baruch City! Generally speaking, all of the enormous cities had a Proulx Gallery present. In the future, Baruch City would become the center of the Baruch Empire (formerly known as the Anarchic Lands). Naturally, they had to have a Proulx Gallery here.
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