The Infernal Plane: Book 5 of the Coiling Dragon Saga

by Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi

  “You will regret this!!!”

  The enormous black dragon’s dying roar echoed in the main hall.

  “BOOM!”

  The enormous black draconic corpse slammed into the ground. Loysius’ face was ashen as he withdrew his scimitar. Glancing sideways at the massive corpse, he snickered, “Hmph, his divine ability really is formidable. But you said I’ll regret it? In the entire Nightblaze Prefecture, there’s only a few people that I’m afraid of, and I know all of them. How will you, a dead man, make me regret it?”

  “Big Brother!” The blue-haired, muscular man looked towards Loysius in concern. “Are you alright?”

  His second sister had suffered that divine ability of the master of the castle and had thus perished. Loysius had previously battled with the master of the castle on the fifth level and had taken on the innate ability once before. Now, he had been hit with it again.

  “I’m fine.” Loysius glanced at his brother and squeeze out a smile. “Third Bro, let’s head back. Sadly, Second Sis died.”

  The muscular, blue-haired man was in great pain as well.

  “When we came, Second Sis said that after completing this mission, we will all be Six Star Fiends, at which point, we should find a location where we could build a castle that would belong to us three siblings, and we would quietly train there. But now, we won’t have the chance,” the blue-haired man said softly.

  Loysius let out a low sigh as well. “Let’s go.”

  They didn’t spare a single glance at the other six Fiends, flying away.

  The other six Fiends had been trembling in shock as they watched the battle. When experts went all out like this, the battle would be over after one or two clashes.

  “The power of this Loysius truly is frightening. That scimitar… not even a Highgod-level divine beast could take it.” A Fiend sighed.

  Perhaps in ordinary material planes, divine beasts were extremely rare.

  But in the Infernal Realm, the place where countless experts gathered, there were still quite a few divine beasts. The reason why divine beasts were powerful was because of their ‘divine ability’. No matter which type of divine beast they were, upon reaching the age of maturity, they would be Demigods. Seemingly, there wasn’t any difference.

  However, there were huge differences between different types of divine beasts.

  The difference lay in their ‘divine ability’.

  Some divine beasts had natural abilities that allowed them to launch certain types of spiritual attacks, while others had special material attacks… for example, the Heaven Devouring Beast and the Ba-Serpent both had a type of ‘Devour’ ability. But if the opponent was able to resist the strength of the ‘Devour’ ability, they would be fine.

  But Bebe was different. His ‘Godeater’ ability, the natural ability to devour divine sparks, was definitely an extremely, freakishly powerful type of ability.

  The more freakishly powerful a divine ability was, the rarer that type of divine beast would be in number!

  “Loysius trains in the Laws of Life. The four Edicts are all very hard to deal with. Loysius truly is frightening,” the six Fiends all sighed and said a few words, and then they left the main hall. However, before leaving, one of the Fiends collected the enormous corpse.

  “The corpse of a Highgod-level divine beast is worth money as well. Can’t let it go to waste.” The Fiend laughed as he collected the enormous corpse and put it into his interspatial ring.

  After the six Fiends left.

  Linley’s group of four finally exited the room.

  “Paaagh!” Bebe was somewhat unhappy. “I wanted to collect that body. I didn’t expect that Fiend took it away.”

  Certain body parts of divine beasts were extremely good components for making certain culinary delicacies. The corpse of a Highgod-level divine beast was very rare as well. The parts of such an enormous corpse could be sold off for hundreds of thousands of inkstones, or nearly a million. This was a small fortune.”

  “You were thinking about that?” Linley didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry. “Let’s go. Back to the metallic lifeform.”

  Their rewards on this trip had been quite massive. The most valuable asset they had acquired was actually that Deathgod Golem, as well as the corpse of the black-robed guard. The black-robed guard himself had a divine spark in his corpse, and the interspatial ring he had contained massive wealth as well.

  “Can you… make a trip with me into the castle to take a look?” Regina forced the words out.

  Linley’s team couldn’t help but be startled.

  “I, I just want to take a look and see if there are any gold-robed guards left.” Regina felt rather embarrassed as well. After all, this was as good as asking Linley’s team to head back into danger. Although… logically speaking, Linley’s team, alongside Regina, shouldn’t have any problems in dealing with a gold-robed guard.

  But who knew how many gold-robed guards they would run into, if they did run into any?

  Delia and Bebe looked at Linley, waiting for Linley’s decision. Linley paused for a moment, then looked at Regina and said, “Regina, we can’t possibly run all over the castle with you. How about this. We’re still going to leave the castle, but we can take a bit more of a roundabout route to see if we can run into any gold-robed guards. If we do, we’ll help out, but if we don’t, then there’s nothing for it.”

  “Thank you,” Regina said hurriedly.

  She knew that her request was a bit excessive. For Linley to be willing to agree to do this much was already very good of him.

  Linley, Delia, Bebe, and Regina all headed out towards the upper layers of Moon Lake Castle. They returned to the third, second, and first floors, then left Moon Lake Castle through the windows. Regina truly hoped they would encounter some gold-robed guards.

  However, currently Moon Lake Castle truly didn’t have a single gold-robed guard left.

  In the air above the clear and crystalline reflections of Moon Lake, the poisonous red fog had long since dissipated and disappeared. Right now, there were five Fiend trial participants seated cross-legged in the air above Moon Lake.

  “Someone is coming out.”

  The five saw Linley’s team fly out and immediately went forward to greet them.

  “Hey, what are you guys doing?” Linley frowned and said calmly. Linley had already been ambushed within Moon Lake Castle. Naturally, he wouldn’t be overconfident.

  One of the five spoke. “I want to know, do the four of you have any spare moon rings? We can buy them off of you.”

  “I still want one for myself.” Regina snorted.

  The five, upon hearing this, were somewhat disappointed. They could tell that Linley’s team simply didn’t have enough moon rings.

  “The five of you, no need to wait here outside. There shouldn’t be anyone else else left in the castle,” Linley said. When they came out, they had searched everywhere in the fourth through first floors, giving all of the major locations a glance. If someone was there, they would have discovered them long ago.

  Linley’s team was already one of the last ones to come out.

  After speaking, Linley’s group of four flew directly towards the metallic lifeform. Soon, Linley’s group reached the metallic lifeform, hovering there in mid-air. Through the translucent metal of the creature, they were able to dimly make out the sparse number of human figures within.

  “So few people.” Linley sighed to himself, then entered the metallic creature.

  Within the corridor inside the metallic creature, the silver-haired elder saw Linley’s group and laughed, “Congratulations for surviving and returning.”

  “You made it back alive? Congratulations.”

  As soon as Linley had entered the rear cabins of the metallic creature, he swept the area with his gaze. This rear cabin of the metallic creature had many seats, more than enough to seat a thousand. However, there were far, far too many empty seats, with filled seats so rare. “A thousand came. Not even a
hundred are left alive!”

  Glancing at the nearby Delia and Bebe, Linley felt a surge of rejoicing in his heart as well. At least his wife and his brother had survived. “That silver-haired elder was right. This is indeed worth celebrating.”

  27

  Highest Bidder Takes It

  Infernal Realm. Nightblaze Prefecture.

  A mountain range without any life whatsoever. The stones of the mountain were charred black, and there was some decayed wild grass as well.

  Within this mountain range, there was a lake that was dozens of kilometers in circumference. The lake water was rancid, and it emanated a deathly aura as well. Some white skeletons were floating on the top of the lake. This mountain range was a forbidden area!

  Even Fiends didn’t dare to go near this place.

  “Drip, drip…” The deathly lake water began to bubble.

  “BOOM!”

  Suddenly, the massive surface of the lake was suddenly pulled apart, and the lake waters naturally pulled open, revealing a corridor that was dozens of meters wide which led straight into the depths. Nearly a hundred figures appeared from the depths of the lake. Aside from the leader, who wore a gray robe, the others all wore black robes.

  Nearly a hundred people stood there in the air above the lake.

  The gray-robed leader had pitch-black hair, but the most eye-catching part of him was still his two eyebrows, which drooped all the way down to his chest. If Loysius had been here and seen this gray-robed man, he definitely would have been shocked. Because this gray-robed man looked exactly like the master of Moon Lake Castle.

  “BASTARD!” The muscles around the gray-robed man’s eyes were twitching. He was currently at the edges of an absolute explosion of rage.

  The gray-robed man growled, “It seems that I, Wyrnessin, have been hidden from the world for too long. Those people have forgotten my name. They actually destroyed my divine clone! I told them… that I would make them regret it!” The gray-robed man’s heart was filled with boundless rage.

  He had two mighty divine clones.

  He had first developed his divine clone of Death, while his original body was that of a divine clone of Darkness. In terms of power, his accomplishments in the Edicts of Death had far surpassed his accomplishments in the Laws of Darkness. Despite that, given the power of his divine Darkness clone as well as the many guards he had, he shouldn’t have had any problems.

  But who would have imagined that…

  One of his bodies had been destroyed.

  “Kill them, kill them all!” The gray-robed man’s heart was filled with murderous thoughts.

  He only had two bodies to begin with. Both of them represented a life. Losing a divine clone… of course he would be furious.

  “Master, where shall we go?” a black-robed man behind him said respectfully.

  “My Moon Lake Castle is close to Royalwing City! Based on the Fiend Castle’s rules for choosing Fiend trial assignments, they would definitely select nearer locations,” the gray-robed man said in a low voice. “Those Fiends have most likely boarded the metallic lifeform and begun to head back to Royalwing City.”

  “We will first go to Royalwing City!” the gray-robed man said coldly.

  “Yes, Master (Lord)!”

  The nearly-hundred black-robed men behind him simultaneously called out, with the only difference being in their manner of address.

  “Hmph, no matter what, they’ll have to return to Royalwing City! We’ll stop them outside Royalwing City.” The gray-robed man immediately looked at one black-robed man, whose body suddenly vanished. At the same time, a sinuous metallic creature appeared in mid-air. The gray-robed man and the nearly-hundred black-robed men entered the metallic lifeform.

  “Whoosh!”

  The metallic lifeform split through the air, making haste towards Royalwing City.

  In terms of speed, this metallic lifeform’s speed was far faster than the one that Linley’s group was on.

  Not too far away from Moon Lake, the metallic lifeform Linley was in was currently hovering in mid-air.

  The silver-haired elder flew back to the metallic creature and immediately instructed, “There’s nobody else inside. Head out!” Immediately, the metallic lifeform transformed into a blur, disappearing into the distant horizons.

  Within the metallic lifeform, the silver-haired elder entered the front cabins, saying in a sonorous voice while looking at everyone, “Everyone, stand up for now and gather at the center of the walkway.”

  “Stand up?”

  Although puzzled, Linley and the others all stood up. The nearly hundred survivors in the rear cabins all gathered at the center of the walkway. Suddenly… the metallic creature shrank in size by a large margin, both in length and in width. The seating arrangements changed so that only a hundred appeared.

  When they had arrived, they had fifty rows of twenty seats each.

  Now, they had twenty rows of five seats each. The body was much smaller.

  “There’s very few people here right now. No need for the metallic lifeform to be so large,” the silver-haired elder said calmly. After speaking, he left the rear cabin and returned to the front cabin.

  Currently, there were only a hundred seats, causing the people in the rear cabins to be fairly close to each other now.

  “Heading back.”

  Linley looked out from the translucent metallic window of the metallic creature, feeling relaxed.

  “Boss, when we return to Royalwing City and turn in the moon rings at the Fiend Castle, we will become Fiends,” Bebe chortled as he looked at Linley and spoke. “By then, we’ll be able to wear Fiend medallions. Haha, at least when we enter the city, we won’t have to stand in line to pay the fees any longer.”

  “Pay the city entrance fees?”

  Linley and Delia were speechless when they heard this. To them, what was a single inkstone these days?

  “Who here has moon rings? If anyone has moon rings, I’m willing to pay a price to buy them,” suddenly, a voice rang out from the rear cabin. This voice instantly caused everyone in the rear cabin to look over. The speaker was a soft, sinister looking, handsome man.

  “Pay a price to buy them?” Linley was shocked. “As bold and audacious as this? The staff members of the Fiend Castle are in the front cabin.”

  Bebe frowned. “Uh? He is speaking so loudly. If that silver-haired old man hears it, won’t that be terrible?”

  Regina’s eyes were shining. She was looking at the people nearby. Upon hearing Bebe’s words, she lowered her voice and explained, “Bebe, the only thing that matters in the Fiend trials is whether or not you have the required item. They don’t care how you acquired it. Whether it was by theft or by purchasing, as long as you can turn in a moon ring, that’ll be enough.”

  Hearing this, Linley’s group now understood.

  “The reason the Fiend Castle does this is to encourage internecine strife,” Linley mused to himself.

  Only, this was what the Infernal Realm was like to begin with. Slaughter and battle was the main purpose of this place.

  “If you want to buy it, haha… I do have an extra moon ring.” Suddenly, in the rear cabin, a voice rang out. This voice caused Regina and some others to immediately grow excited, and they hurriedly looked over.

  The person who had an extra moon ring was an extremely muscular bearded man who was just 1.2 or 1.3 meters tall.

  “Dwarf?” Linley raised an eyebrow.

  “What price?” a woman with long golden hair asked.

  “My asking price isn’t too high. A million inkstones. If you want it, pay up,” the muscular dwarf said directly.

  “A million?” Some people immediately exhaled in shock.

  To a Highgod, perhaps a million inkstones wasn’t much. But to a God, a million inkstones was an extravagant sum. Even for the likes of Linley’s group, when they had sold off that Highgod artifact, they had only received 750,000 inkstones.

  But how would an ordinary God acquire a Hi
ghgod artifact?

  Only after one battle and plundering after another would one be able to amass a fortune in excess of a million inkstones.

  “Too expensive.” Regina frowned. She didn’t have enough wealth to purchase it.

  “I’ll take it.” Immediately, that soft-looking, handsome man spoke out.

  Although nearly a hundred had survived, there were still twenty or thirty who hadn’t acquired moon rings. The others, upon hearing someone was offering to buy it, immediately grew frantic.

  “I’ll pay 1.1 million inkstones,” some people hurriedly called out.

  “I offered to pay first,” the handsome man said frantically.

  The muscular dwarf said, “I already said the price. One million inkstones exactly. Here you go. Give me a million inkstones.” The muscular dwarf was very straightforward. He immediately carried out the transaction with the handsome man. The others couldn’t help but feel disappointed.

  Regina let out a sigh.

  It wasn’t that she wasn’t willing to pay; she simply didn’t have the money.

  “Who else has moon rings?” someone called out loudly from the rear cabins.

  At this moment, a white-robed middle-aged man laughed calmly. “I’ll set the same price as that short gentleman. A million inkstones. Whoever wants a moon ring, give me a million inkstones and I will give you a moon ring.”

  “There’s more?” Regina couldn’t help but to look over, but she didn’t have enough money.

  “Swish!” Instantly, several figures immediately charged over.

  “Here you go.” A jade-haired woman immediately shoved an azurite cube that was ten centimeters on each side in the hand of that white-robed middle-aged man.

  “Sell it to me,” some others were calling out. “We’ll give you a million inkstones also!”

  “I already gave him a million inkstones. This moon ring is mine,” the jade-haired woman said hurriedly, while at the same time, she stared at the white-robed man. She was worried that the white-robed man was lying. However, she believed that he probably wasn’t.

  The white-robed man smiled as he accepted the million inkstones, and with a flip of his hand, handed a moon ring over to the jade-haired woman. “All yours.”