Seeing the Fiend medallion, Linley’s eyes couldn’t help but light up. This was the proof that he was now a Fiend.
“Secondary Fiend medallion?” Linley was somewhat surprised. This so-called ‘secondary’ Fiend medallion was actually a blue medallion, but this blue medallion was something that Linley had never seen Fiends wear before.
The black-robed man laughed calmly, “The secondary Fiend medallion is kept at our Fiend Castle. Once your secondary Fiend medallion becomes an object with no owner, we will know that you are dead.”
Linley now understood.
This was only a toy used to judge if someone was still alive or not.
He immediately bound them with blood, then retrieved the Fiend medallion, pinning it to his chest in accordance with requirements. Linley directly fused this ‘Fiend medallion’ with his ‘Pulseguard Armor’. After all, his clothes were nothing more than a variant of his Pulseguard Armor.
Outside the Fiend Castle.
“Linley, in the future, will you remain at Royalwing City?” Regina asked Linley. “I owe you two hundred thousand inkstones. In a while, I’ll pay you back.” Regina didn’t like owing others money.
“No need. We’ll be leaving Royalwing City soon,” Linley said directly.
“Leaving? Where are you going?” Regina said hurriedly. “Far away?”
Linley, Delia, and Bebe exchanged glances, then Bebe chortled towards Regina, “Regina, the three of us want to roam the Redbud Continent, and then float across the Starmist Sea and roam this boundless Infernal Realm. You tell me, will we be going far away?”
Regina was utterly shocked.
Even many Highgods in the Infernal Realm had never visited other continents.
After all, each of the five continents of the Infernal Realm were extremely large, more than enough for them to carve out their own little world. Without a special reason, generally speaking, people wouldn’t risk heading to other continents.
“Then I… but I…” Regina didn’t know how she was supposed to repay the two hundred thousand inkstones.
“Heh heh, no rush. When we meet again, you can pay us back.” Bebe laughed as he spoke.
“Alright. Thank you for your help this time, truly.” Regina looked at the Fiend medallion on her chest. She couldn’t help feel all the more grateful. She had become a Fiend… this was something she had dreamed about for many years.
Linley, Delia, and Bebe made their farewells to Regina, and then went to a restaurant to first enjoy a celebratory victory feast, then returned to their residence. The room fees that Linley’s group had paid had been calculated by the year.
Within the courtyard of Linley’s residence, the three were seated around a stone table.
“Right now, we need to have a good reckoning of our exact amount of wealth,” Bebe said excitedly. With a wave of his hand, seven interspatial rings fell to the table, emitting a clear, crisp sound as they did. These seven interspatial rings, under the light of the blood-red sun, gleamed with reflected light.
“I have some also.” Delia laughed as two more interspatial rings fell onto the stone table.
Seeing this, Linley couldn’t help but laugh.
On this trip to Moon Lake Castle, at first, under the commands of the Fiends, Linley’s group had served as cannon fodder and suffered two attacks from Godslayer Arrows. Bebe had thus collected four God corpses, while Delia had collected two. Afterwards, they had engaged in multiple battles…
And not long ago, outside Royalwing City, after receiving the declaration from Wyrnessin, everyone had begun battling each other.
The nearly hundred remaining Gods had battled to the death, with only roughly thirty remaining. Linley’s group alone had killed more than ten. Naturally, they had collected these corpses as well.
“Boss, you have the most,” Bebe said.
With a flip of his Linley’s hand, eleven interspatial rings fell to the stone table. Of these eleven interspatial rings, three of them had been acquired inside Moon Lake Castle, while the other eight had been acquired in the chaotic battle. But the most valuable of the eleven rings was… the black moon ring!
“This black moon ring’s wealth is most likely greater than the others combined!” Linley sighed.
This was the moon ring of the deceased black-robed guard.
The black-robed guards were all Highgods. In addition, they were fairly elite ones. Naturally, their wealth would be significant as well.
“We’ve already investigated the wealth within this black moon ring. The amount of inkstones and azurites alone are worth ninety million. There are also some Golden Soul-Pearls and other usable items which have a total value of over a hundred million inkstones,” Bebe said excitedly. “Right now, let’s investigate the other interspatial rings.”
They had investigated the ring of the black-robed guard early on.
But the other rings, aside from just two or three of them, had yet to be investigated.
“Let’s begin to count our inventory.” Linley and Delia were a bit eager as well.
On the table, there was a pile of interspatial rings. Linley’s group divided them into three piles and began to bind them with blood, investigating the contents within. They withdrew large amounts of inkstones as well as some other consumables.
“Good man! Whew, which God was the original owner of this interspatial ring? He has so much money!” Bebe called out in surprise.
Linley and Delia immediately raised their heads to look over.
“How much?” Linley said eagerly.
“Boss, this God’s wealth is over ten million,” Bebe immediately said. “And his interspatial ring has quite a few God sparks inside.”
Although the Gods who took part in the Fiend trials were generally all fairly powerful Gods, most of them had at most a few hundred thousand inkstones. Only a few had more than a million. As for those who had more than ten million, they were extremely rare. Linley himself had investigated four interspatial rings, but the most wealth he had discovered was just 200,000 inkstones.
“Bebe, stop counting. Keep taking inventory for the next interspatial ring.” Linley laughed.
Right at this moment, Delia let out a cry of surprise.
“What is it?” Linley and Bebe both looked over.
Delia’s face was all smiles. “Linley, guess how much the items in this interspatial ring are worth, all together?”
Bebe immediately guessed, “Ten million?”
Delia smiled and shook her head.
“Is ten million too low or too high?” Linley hurriedly asked.
“Of course it is too low. It isn’t just ten million,” Delia said.
Linley couldn’t help but be shocked. “How much is there inside?”
Delia smiled. “The inkstones and azurites in here, all combined, are worth eight hundred thousand.”
“Eight hundred thousand?” Bebe stared. “And you said it was more than ten million?”
Delia laughed. “I’m not done. Although the inkstones and azurites are only worth that much, however, this interspatial ring has…” Delia laughed and flipped her hand, revealing two black gems… divine sparks!
They could sense the aura from these divine sparks.
“Highgod sparks, and two of them?” Linley breathed in amazement.
Delia laughed and nodded. “Right. One is wind-type, while the other is darkness-type.”
Linley couldn’t help but be overjoyed, but then he was astonished. “Two Highgod sparks. How did a God get them?”
Delia couldn’t help but tease him, “Linley, forget about him; don’t we ourselves have a Highgod spark? And we’ve just arrived in the Infernal Realm recently, but we’ve already acquired the Highgod spark of that black-robed guard. So why can’t others acquire them?”
“Makes sense.” Linley had to accept it.
What he could do, others could also do. Only… this was a huge benefit to Linley’s team.
A while later, Linley and the other two finally comp
leted a rough inventory estimate of all of the interspatial rings. But of course, they didn’t carefully look at some of the other toys. Linley’s group only did a general accounting of the more easily calculated inkstones, azurites, divine sparks, and other items.
“We roughly have a total worth of 120 million inkstones! But of course, that doesn’t include the four Highgod sparks we have,” Linley said.
The four Highgod sparks were the one from the Yulan continent, the black-robed guard’s, and the two from the interspatial ring.
“Delia.” Linley looked at Delia. “I originally wanted to go buy a wind-type Highgod spark for you, but I didn’t expect that we would acquire one for ourselves. You had best hurry up and fuse this one.” Linley directly gave the wind-type Highgod spark to Delia.
Since Delia had embarked on a path of fusing with divine sparks, Linley would naturally let her reach the Highgod-level as soon as possible.
As for Linley and Bebe, they relied on gaining insights, which wasn’t something that could be achieved in a day.
“Alright.” Delia nodded slightly.
The nearby Bebe flipped through some things he hadn’t paid close attention to earlier. After all, when taking inventory, they didn’t carefully go through everything. For example… Linley and the other two hadn’t closely reviewed any of the books.
“Boss, take a look and see what this is.” Bebe was suddenly rather surprised and pleased.
Puzzled, Linley turned to look. He saw Bebe holding a thick book in his hands, and on the cover of the book was the words, ‘A Brief Summary of the Profound Mysteries of the Seven Elemental Laws’.
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Seeing the words on the cover, Linley couldn’t help but feel startled.
A Brief Summary of the Profound Mysteries of the Seven Elemental Laws?
Linley’s greatest problem right now was that he didn’t know anything at all about many of the profound mysteries of the Elemental Laws. Although it was said that others weren’t capable of teaching him regarding the profound mysteries, and that he had to gain insights on his own, if he at least had some general guidance, his training path wouldn’t advance in a wrong direction.
“Bebe, let me look at that,” Linley said hurriedly and eagerly.
“I knew Boss would want this.” Bebe laughed, then tossed over the book.
Delia had fused with a divine spark, and so she didn’t need to gain insights into any profound mysteries. Naturally, she didn’t need to read this book either. As for Bebe… given his lazy nature, he didn’t have the mental energy or discipline. As soon as Bebe saw the book, though, he understood that his Boss would definitely love it.
Holding the book, Linley immediately began to flip through and read the ‘Compilation on the Elemental Laws of the Earth’.
The Laws of the Earth had in total six profound mysteries. These were the ‘Essence of the Earth’, ‘Strength’, ‘Worldwalking’, ‘Vitality’, ‘Gravitational Space’, and the ‘Throbbing Pulse of the World’. This book had some basic introductions regarding each of the six profound mysteries, as well as the powers they held.
It even contained some information about simple ways of using them.
“The Throbbing Pulse of the World should be used like this?” Linley read on, shaking his head. “The person who wrote this book clearly only knew just a tiny bit regarding the Throbbing Pulse of the World.”
As someone who had trained in the Throbbing Pulse of the World, Linley could naturally tell that the person who wrote this book either knew just very little, or was just trying to cover up how little he knew.
The so-called ‘usage methods’ were extremely simple and very weak ways of using the Laws.
Linley completely ignored this sort of information regarding how to apply the Laws. Linley cared more about the descriptions of the other profound mysteries of the Laws.
“So that’s the case!” Linley, seeing the description of the ‘Strength’ profound mystery, sighed in agreement. “Originally, I thought that the Laws of the Earth included a ‘Massive’ type profound mystery, but it seems that’s just one aspect of the ‘Strength’ profound mystery.”
The Profound Mysteries of Strength was the highest-level physical attack type profound mystery of the Laws of the Earth, and it was very complicated.
While reading the book, Linley didn’t notice the passing of time.
“So that was the Worldwalking ability.” Linley sighed in praise. “Back in the past, the O’Brien Empire’s ‘Monolithic Sword Saint’, Haydson, had already just touched upon the edges of the profound mysteries of Worldwalking.”
In the past, with a single step, Haydson had been able to travel dozens of meters. Linley had been shocked greatly at the time.
Actually, this was the simplest usage of Worldwalking; it couldn’t even be described as having reached a ‘basic’ level of mastery.
Worldwalking allowed a person to completely fuse himself into the boundless earth elemental essence of the world. It wasn’t that Haydson had teleported; rather, he had merged himself into the earth elemental essence, and then moved through it to another location before reappearing.
Back then, Haydson had been too weak, and the amount of time he could remain merged with the earth elemental essence of the world was very short.
For a true expert, when the Worldwalking ability was used, one could completely disappear and remain merged with the earth elemental essence of the world for a long time.
After finishing reading regarding the six types of profound mysteries of the Laws of the Earth, Linley began to flip through the ‘Compilation on the Elemental Laws of the Wind.’
The Elemental Laws of the Wind had the most types of profound mysteries, nine in total. They were the ‘Essence of the Wind’, ‘Doppleganger’, ‘Sound Waves’, ‘Music’, ‘Windwalking’, ‘Spatial Wind’, ‘Dimensional’, ‘Fast’, and ‘Slow’; nine profound mysteries.
Although there were nine, when different experts used them, they would produce effects of different power.
In addition, all profound mysteries of the Elemental Laws were fuseable. Any two of them could fuse. Any three of them could fuse… and different fusions would create different types of marvelous, powerful attacks.
“So that’s what the Spatial Wind is all about.” Linley’s eyes shone as he read.
“Dimensional. This is the most powerful physical attack type profound mystery of the Laws of the Wind.” Seeing the description of the ‘Dimensional’ profound mysteries, he couldn’t help but feel stunned.
A long time later…
“Huh?” Linley glanced at his surroundings, puzzled. “How come its dark now?”
“Boss. It’s night.” Bebe and Delia both began to laugh. “You’ve been reading for half a day.”
Linley raised his head, and saw that in the sky, there was indeed a sliver of a knife-thin Violet Moon.
“Haha…” Linley couldn’t help but begin to laugh as well. “This book really is good. Although reading it hasn’t helped me gain any insights at all into the Elemental Laws, at least its given me a general idea.” Linley understood that in the end, insights depended on one’s self.
“I can’t read it, I can’t keep reading it,” Linley said with a sigh. “I haven’t even completed mastering the profound mysteries of the Laws that I have currently gained insights into. I can’t be hasty.”
Actually, the profound mysteries of the Laws weren’t so simple.
Reading this was one thing, but if one truly wanted to attempt to gain insights in accordance with it, perhaps one would even be able to make any headway at all. For example, it might say that the ‘Worldwalker’ ability required one to become completely merged into the earth elemental essences of the world… but how would you do that? There was no way to use words to describe such a thing. This was a form of insight that one might have into the Laws!
The next morning, Linley’s team headed to Redbud Castle.
“Before headi
ng to the Indigo Prefecture, we at least have to gain some basic information regarding the geography of the Infernal Realm. Only then will we be able to work out a pathway.” Linley currently only knew that the Infernal Realm had five enormous, virtually endless continents, as well as the Starmist Sea and the Chaotic Sea.
To get to the Indigo Prefecture of the Bloodridge Continent…
Linley only knew that they had to first leave the Redbud Continent, then pass through the vast Starmist Sea before finally reaching the shores of the Bloodridge Continent.
Within the main hall on the first floor of Redbud Castle, Linley’s group hadn’t noticed any book selling counters last time. They first went to ask some of the customer service representatives, from whom they learned that actually… Redbud Castle had items for sale in more places than just the counters.
There were some standalone rooms as well.
The books were placed in a standalone room at the sides of the main hall. Linley’s team went into the room. There were very few people who were here looking at books.
“So many books!” Bebe sighed in amazement as he looked at the books.
“Search carefully. Let’s find information regarding the geography of the entire Infernal Realm,” Linley said.
The three began to carefully search. There were quite a few books that described the geography of the Infernal Realm. Some focused on describing the Nightblaze Prefecture, while others described the massive Redbud Continent. But as for describing the entire Infernal Realm, Linley found only a single book, which was just a simple atlas-type book.
What Linley needed wasn’t just a map; it was something that would describe the threats and the risky areas of the Infernal Realm.
After all, the three of them weren’t all that powerful yet. If they were to fall into a dangerous area, it would be disastrous. It was best to learn of these things beforehand.
“Linley, Bebe, come over and take a look,” Delia called.
Linley and Bebe immediately walked over. Currently, Delia was holding a dark red book that was five or six centimeters thick. On the cover of the book were four words: “Infernal Realm, General Summary”. Bebe pursed his lips. “A thin book like that? This book that I have that only describes the Nightblaze Prefecture is as thick.”
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