Linley nodded slightly.
The power of that attack had truly been astonishing. Even Elquin, when taking that attack head on, had his Highgod artifact destroyed. Most likely, an ordinary Five Star Fiend or Six Star Fiend would have perished.
“Huh?”
Bebe suddenly looked towards the outside of the cave. “Boss, I feel something going on outside.” Linley’s face changed. Instantly, his two clones merged with his original form. This time, Linley immediately used his original form, and his body became covered with the Pulseguard Armor.
Right at this moment…
A surge of divine sense swept out, instantly encompassing the entire cave.
“Haha… just three Gods!” a loud voice rang out from outside the cave. “The three of you, hurry the fuck up and come out.”
“Get the fuck out here!” instantly, a large number of angry roars rang out.
Linley frowned. It seemed as though quite a few people were shouting from outside, but Linley’s current level of power was far greater than it had been when they had first come to the Infernal Realm, especially after his original body Dragonformed. Linley was confident in the shattered ‘soul-protecting Sovereign artifact’ against ordinary Highgods, especially when he had his trump card, those two drops of Sovereign’s Might.
Of course he was not afraid!
“Let’s take a look,” Linley said.
Bebe, made bold by his talents, accompanied Linley towards the cave exit as well.
Linley headed out, and saw a large group of people floating directly outside. This group was formed into a surrounding circle that had completely sealed off the cave. Linley immediately spread out his divine sense, immediately encompassing all of them.
“82, three of them being Demigods, the rest being Gods!” Linley made up his mind.
All of them were Gods. The current Linley didn’t fear them at all.
“Boss, they actually stumbled onto us.” Bebe’s smirking mouth had a hint of amusement as well. He had been in a fairly bad mood recently. Salomon’s true face and Nisse’s departure had all caused Bebe to be in a foul mood. Only, in front of Linley and Delia, Bebe pretended to laugh and pretended as though nothing was amiss.
In truth, in his heart, he felt quite miserable.
After having stewed for so long, right now, Bebe wanted to let loose and vent!
The leader of this large group was a silver-haired, horned man. He laughed loudly. “What? Just the two of you came out? What about the woman inside? Have her come out as well. Or did you think you would be able to flee?”
“Haha, there’s a woman? Big brother, let me have her,” a horned man with short silver hair next to him said loudly.
“No problem.” The leader laughed loudly.
Immediately, the other bandits all began to laugh loudly.
Linley frowned, and Bebe rubbed his nose as well, their gazes turning cold.
“I will give you a chance,” the leader said arrogantly. “Since you are both Gods… how about this. Offer me your interspatial rings. I will permit you to join us. Don’t worry… in the future, you will have a share in the wealth that we take in the future.”
Linley secretly shook his head.
These bandits truly were interesting. They wanted to take his valuables and also have him join them? However, this was a fairly common sight in the Infernal Realm.
The leader said. “Have you finished consid—”
“Motherfucker, are you done with the bullshit?!” Bebe shouted angrily.
The bandits were all stunned, and then the face of the leader turned cold. “Brothers, since they don’t want their lives, finish them!” The leader waved his hand, ordering his subordinates to charge. Clearly… he didn’t hold these three Gods in high regard.
“Whoosh!” “Whoosh!” “Whoosh!”
Transforming into blurs or streaks of lightning or flashes of fire, dozens of figures charged forward like a swarm of wasps.
Bebe stored his straw hat into his interspatial ring, while at the same time wielding that black dagger. Glancing sideways into the swarm of charging bandits, he grinned savagely, then wildly began to execute his Shadowshape Doppelganger technique, immediately transforming into dozens of images that charged up.
“Haha, die.” A God-level Fiend stabbed into Bebe’s true body, but when the divine artifact sword in his hand struck him, it gave out a ‘Clang!’ sound, not harming Bebe at all.
Bebe delivered a backhand blow with the dagger.
“Swish!” He stabbed directly into the head of that God-level Fiend. Bebe’s eyes were filled with a light of bloodlust.
“Next.”
Bebe’s dagger then stabbed out towards another person, while Bebe himself didn’t even bother to dodge the enemy’s attacks.
A large group charged towards him, stabbing towards Bebe from every area, while the rest charged towards Linley.
Linley wielded Bloodviolet and just stood there. Seeing the group of bandits charge over, Linley’s hand suddenly began to flash with a hazy violet shadow moving at an exceedingly high speed. If one looked carefully, however, one would have a slow sort of feeling.
A visual misperception!
“Slash…”
Two heads were chopped off simultaneously, while the rest of their body was shaken by vibrations into muddy flesh. Two divine God sparks fell down from mid-air, and the violet illusion vanished.
“Too weak,” Linley said to himself quietly. His most powerful physical attack, ‘Bewildering Shadow’, was an attack capable of threatening a Highgod. Against these Gods, it was effortless.
Instantly, eight people on the bandit side had died. The attacking bandits as well as the leader watching behind were all shocked. They hadn’t expected that this time, they had rammed into an iron board. The leader immediately shouted loudly, “Brothers, launch group attacks!”
Instantly, the bandits flew back, gathering together.
Linley and Bebe each stood at one side of the entrance to the cave.
“You killed eight of my brothers.” The leader’s gaze was savage. “Brothers, all together.”
Depending on if they were fighting against experts or weaklings, these bandits would use different methods. The bandits once more swarmed forward like wasps, but in truth, this time was different. They were all moving in an organized, concerted manner.
At virtually the same time, the bandits brandished their weapons.
After having seen the chaotic battle between the Black Dragon Tribe and the other tribes, Linley and Bebe knew exactly how terrifying this sort of concerted group attack could be.
“Bebe, let’s kill them together.” Linley almost instantly entered his Dragonform.
His body became incredibly powerful, and was endowed with astonishing speed and strength. The power in his body exploded forth, and at the same time, he utilized his Profound Truths of Velocity. Linley was like a ray of golden-azure illusory light, charging towards the group of bandits, who weren’t at all surprised by Linley’s transformation.
In the Infernal Realm, there were simply too many races and lifeforms of various types.
“Bang!” “Bang!”
Almost instantaneously, over 20 soul attacks struck out, some that contained material components as well. This was the joint attack launched by the 74 surviving bandits, but Linley’s speed was simply too fast, and his body was too small. He was only struck by two of the soul attacks.
The two soul attacks were merely God-level soul attacks. They did nothing to Linley at all.
As for those five material attacks that struck him, they didn’t break a single draconic scale.
Not just Linley; the same was true for Bebe!
“Not good!” Seeing this, the leader’s face changed.
Linley, his face sinister, let the devilish Bloodviolet sword land its first attack upon the horned man with short silver hair. The horned man didn’t have any chance to flee at all. Bloodviolet swept straight past his head, and his head was
instantly shaken into muddy flesh.
“Bang!”
Linley’s right leg struck out like a meteor carrying trillions of kilograms of force, smashing against a green-haired man’s waist. “BANG!” The explosive force caused the green-haired man’s body to completely explode, leaving behind only a God-level divine spark.
This kick contained the ‘Throbbing Pulse of the World’ as well as the massive strength of Linley’s Dragonform. It was extremely powerful.
“Swoosh!” A man chopped straight downwards with his warblade through the air, directly towards Linley’s head.
“Swish!”
A golden-azure light flashed. It was Linley’s draconic tail. The fierce tail struck out with a “Clang!”, sending the warblade flying while also crushing the God’s head into a pile of pulp.
The Dragonformed Linley was nothing short of a man-shaped weapon, even more terrifying than a Deathgod Golem. After all, not only was Linley’s defense tough, he also knew profound mysteries!
However, Linley’s slaughtering speed was only on par with Bebe, who was in the middle of letting loose his unhappiness.
59
The Essence of Fire
“Slash!”
Crimson blood splattered across the dusty yellow cliffs, and shards of flesh fell down from the skies.
“All of you, die.” Bebe’s face was savage, and his dozens of shadows were everywhere. Through relying on the Shadowshape Doppelganger technique, Bebe was occasionally here, occasionally there as he entered a wild killing spree. Bebe’s eyes were filled with madness. “That bastard Salomon. That bastard!”
“If Salomon hadn’t intentionally caused chaos, how could Ninny and I have been separated?” As he thought this, he stabbed out with the dagger in his hand towards an opponent’s divine artifact, chopping it into two pieces while simultaneously cutting through the opponent’s head, which exploded.
“Ninny, Ninny!”
Bebe’s mind was full of thoughts of Ninny, but as he thought of Salomon, the speed at which he killed grew even faster.
A massacre. Bebe wildly vented his anger. How he wanted to be together with Nisse. Each time he saw Linley and Delia together, he would think of himself and Nisse. Only, this Infernal Realm was utterly vast, and Nisse was heading towards the Jadefloat Continent.
Who knew when they would meet again?
“Kill, kill!!!”
Bebe killed wildly, ignoring all else.
“Flee, flee!!!” The bandits who were not yet dead all began to scream in terror while fleeing in all directions. The leader of the bandits, in particular, had turned ashen pale. He had never imagined that Gods could be this monstrously powerful.
They were being easily demolished!
“Finished. My men are all finished.” The leader felt grief in his heart, but although he grieved, whenever he looked at Linley and Bebe, these two fiendish gods, he was so frightened that his heart trembled. “No matter what, I need to first save my own life.”
The leader ignored everyone else and immediately fled.
After Linley and Bebe killed those closest to them, they discovered that the other bandits had started to flee in every direction. Linley couldn’t be bothered to chase them, but Bebe, caught in the grip of his bloodlust, howled angrily and then emitted a high screech which echoed throughout the heavens.
An enormous illusory Godeater Rat appeared behind Bebe. Bebe opened his mouth wide, staring at the distant bandit leader as well as a man next to him.
“Aaaaaah!” The bandit leader, in mid-flight, suddenly felt that he couldn’t move. Not just him; the God next to him couldn’t move either.
Suddenly, the God-level divine sparks of the two men floated out. Two divine sparks actually flew out of the leader, while another flew out from his subordinate’s head. These three divine sparks flew directly towards Bebe’s mouth.
The two corpses fell down from mid-air.
Linley looked at Bebe with some concern. Very clearly, Bebe was acting rather strangely.
“Bebe?” Linley flew over.
Bebe turned, then shook his head a few times and laughed, “Boss, don’t worry. I’m fine. Just now, I was feeling rather peeved, and so I wanted to give vent to my anger. I feel much better now. These bandits really were blind. They actually dared to come waylay us. They really were looking for death!”
Linley, seeing the look on Bebe’s face, finally sighed in relief.
“These bandits will most likely not dare annoy us again.” Linley laughed as well.
Actually, Linley had been prepared long ago for this day. Every single place in the Infernal Realm was controlled and occupied by a force. In some desolate areas, it was normally just common bandits or small tribes, while in bustling areas, greater forces and powers would be in control.
The mountain range that Linley had chosen was very ordinary.
Linley expected that there shouldn’t be many experts here. After today, in the future, most likely nobody in the area would dare make trouble for them again.
“Oh! I forgot to take the interspatial rings of many of those corpses. Although there wasn’t much money there, we shouldn’t let it go to waste.” Bebe immediately flew down, and Linley couldn’t help but laugh. Seeing Bebe in a better mood, Linley felt happy as well. “Bebe, wait for me.” Linley flew down as well.
This slaughter did indeed awe and frighten the people nearby. The bandit group, originally 82 strong, had only less than 30 survivors after this disaster. This small bandit group frantically began to recruit others, but they didn’t dare to come disturb Linley’s group again. They didn’t even dare to draw near.
And just like that, one year after another passed by like water as they trained quietly.
“Rumble…”
In the sixteenth year of Linley’s training here, the natural Laws descended.
Within the cavern estate, Delia and Bebe both watched with nervous, surprised joy. Linley himself was floating in mid-air, completely surrounded by the strange energy of the natural Laws, while at the same time, powerful fire elemental essences swirled above him, then solidified into a fire-type divine spark.
“The Boss has become a Deity in the fire-element as well,” Bebe said in delight.
Delia was filled with excitement and joy as well.
In training, talent was critically important. If one didn’t have talent in something, no matter how long one trained, one would find it hard to succeed. Linley was exceedingly talented in the wind- and earth-elements, and thus he trained very quickly in them. As for the fire-element, he wasn’t bad either. Only, compared to the wind and the earth, it was rather weaker.
However, given how incredibly powerful his soul currently was, and the fact that he had been training on the metallic creature previously, giving him a total training time of over 20 years…
Linley had finally mastered the simplest type of profound mystery of the Elemental Laws of Fire – ‘The Essence of the Fire’.
This time, Linley once more chose to have his soul split apart. After all, Linley was currently in possession of a large number of amethysts and a large amount of wealth. To strengthen his soul wouldn’t be too hard.
“Crackle…”
A Linley dressed in a fiery red robe and with fiery long hair suddenly appeared out of nowhere. It was Linley’s divine fire clone.
Moments later, the ripples of the natural Laws disappeared, and the divine fire clone merged into Linley’s original body. Within the sea of consciousness in Linley’s original body, his powerful spiritual energy was gently flowing like waves of the ocean, while a rainbow-colored sword-shaped soul hovered above it.
Beneath the rainbow-colored sword-shaped soul, on the surface of his sea of consciousness, three Linley’s hovered. They were a Linley who emitted an earthen yellow light, a Linley who emitted a light green aura, and a Linley who emitted a fiery red aura. The three Linley’s formed a triangle exactly beneath the sword-shaped soul.
Linley opened his eyes, looking at
the delighted Delia and Bebe.
“Boss, you now have three divine clones. With your original body included, that makes four,” Bebe rubbed his nose as he spoke. “Compared to you, I, Bebe, really feel embarrassed. Up till now, I still only have two bodies, my original body included.”
“Bebe, you at least have two. I only have one. Shouldn’t I be even more embarrassed?” Delia teased with pursed lips.
Linley couldn’t help but laugh.
Right now, both Delia and Bebe were exceedingly happy for Linley. With an additional divine clone, that meant he had another life, while at the same time meant that his future accomplishments would be even greater.
“This divine fire clone is only a Demigod clone. It is still very weak. Right now… I still need to rely on my earth and wind clones.” Linley himself knew that for now, four bodies was most likely his limit. After all, Linley didn’t know a single thing about the other Elemental Laws.
Lightning, water, light, darkness, etc. Linley didn’t understand anything about them.
“Without any talent, I’m not even able to sense the Elemental Laws. How could I train in them? Even if I trained for a million years, I would still find it hard to succeed.” Linley began to understand why the more one advanced in training, the harder it became.
Currently, in his understanding of the Laws of the Earth, he had already reached mastery in the Throbbing Pulse of the World and the Essence of the Earth. Over the past sixteen years, his Worldwalker had advanced as well.
“The Laws of the Earth have in total six profound mysteries. I’ve only trained in three. Right now, although it seems like I am advancing quickly, the more I advance, most likely the slower it will become,” Linley understood. After all, the ‘Essence of the Fire’, the simplest profound mystery of the Elemental Laws of Fire, had taken 20 years, despite his soul being so incredibly strong.
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