Souls were very unique things, and even soul attacks were hard to develop.
To completely peel off the part of a soul which contained insights into the profound mysteries of a Law…one could imagine how hard it was just thinking about it.
“To reach this level, how deep must one’s mastery with regards to the soul be?” Linley felt this was almost unbelievable.
Beirut himself was capable of making soul-protecting divine artifacts, which meant that Beirut had already reached a very high level of accomplishment with regards to the soul. But even Beirut was not capable of this, and had to pay a huge price to invite others to do it for him.
One could imagine how hard peeling off soul fragments was.
“Lord Beirut’s friends are truly amazing.” Linley sighed to himself.
There was no way one could peel any fragments from the soul of a Deity, so it had to be done to Prime Saints instead.
“Who knows how many Prime Saints were killed for these soul fragments to be acquired.” Linley sighed to himself, but he also understood that in the Infernal Realm, the mighty were respected. In the Infernal Realm, many tribes raised Saint-level magical beasts, then butchered them and retrieved their body parts for sale to restaurants.
In the Infernal Realm, Saints were treated as humans treated wild rabbits in the material realms. They could be killed at leisure.
“Alas. Prime Saints are all people who have gained some insights into a single profound mystery and have reached a bottleneck and are just one step away from completion.” Bebe sighed. “Thus, with regards to these four profound mysteries, I’ve gained insights all the way through to the bottleneck. For breaking through the bottleneck, though, I still have to rely on myself!”
“In the Yulan continent, it only took me twenty years to break through in the Essence of Darkness.”
“In the Infernal Realm, it’s been seven hundred years. I’ve occasionally gained some insights, and broke through to obtain mastery in the ‘Devour’ and ‘Evil’ profound mysteries. Right now, I’ve completely mastered four types, while I’m at a bottleneck for the fifth. As for the sixth…I’m completely blind and have no idea as to what it is about.”
Linley completely understood.
Bebe was a divine beast. As soon as he reached adulthood, he would naturally master one type of profound mystery and become a Deity! This was the first profound mystery, ‘Shadowshape Doppelganger’.
Afterwards, Lord Beirut, knowing that Bebe had no patience, didn’t want Bebe to become a Highgod through fusing with a divine spark. Thus, he had paid an enormous price to procure those four strips of soul fragments to have Bebe fuse them, and thus naturally reach the ‘bottleneck’ stage in those four profound mysteries.
As soon as he gained an insight into one of them, he would reach mastery.
He didn’t need to train at all.
“No wonder. No wonder.” Linley let out two sighs.
Sometimes, one could be angered to death when looking at others. Linley had spent every day and every night training, but Bebe had spent all his time fooling around. When, for some reason, he gained a sudden insight, he would achieve mastery. This was simply too easy.
However, in Linley’s mind, he was still very happy for Bebe.
“Lord Beirut truly has taken exceedingly good care of Bebe.” Linley sighed.
Beirut had a very high status, while Bebe was the second Godeater Rat in his lineage. Beirut naturally viewed Bebe as a treasure and doted upon him to an unbelievable extent. For Bebe’s sake, he had been willing to exhaust himself and run throughout the Infernal Realm to ask friends to help out.
From this alone, Linley could tell how powerful and vast Lord Beirut’s connections were.
“Peeling off soul strips…that’s hard work and careful work. For that powerful figure to actually be willing to do this for the sake of Lord Beirut…” Linley understood now how influential Beirut himself was.
The metallic lifeform continued to speed towards Indigo Prefecture. As for the secret regarding why Bebe had trained so quickly, in the end, Bebe only told Linley and Delia. The others didn’t know. Clearly, in Bebe’s heart, Linley and Delia were closer to him.
After they had reached the Bloodridge Continent, the metallic lifeform had flown on for three years.
“Boss, look. Stonesword Mountain!” Bebe pointed through the translucent window towards the east.
Linley looked carefully. In the distance to the east, there was an exceedingly tall mountain, its peak seeming to pierce through the heavens. The upper part of the peak was shaped like a heavy sword, and at the peak of this sword-shaped mountain, the clouds swirled about.
“Stonesword Mountain. We finally reached the Indigo Prefecture!” Delia said with excitement.
Stonesword Mountain was one of the important landmarks in the maps of Indigo Prefecture.
Linley felt the blood surging throughout his body. “Finally here. We’re finally here! Indigo Prefecture!”
The place which his dreams and his very soul had been focused on.
When in the Yulan continent, Linley had learned of Indigo Prefecture. He knew that his ancestors, the elders of the Baruch clan had all come to Indigo Prefecture. Linley thus had embarked on this one-way trip to the Infernal Realm!
From the Redbud Continent all the way over to here, they had encountered countless tribulations. The battle at the castle of sand. The volcano range. The breakthrough in the Amethyst Mountains. The shocking danger of Miluo Island…and now finally, after passing through the Starmist Sea, they had arrived at the Bloodridge Continent, arrived at Indigo Prefecture!
“Indigo Prefecture!”
Linley took a deep breath. Currently, he was unbearably eager to go meet the ancestors of his Baruch clan.
“Boss, we don’t know the exact location of the Four Divine Beasts clan.” Bebe said.
“It’s simple.” Linley was all smiles. “Let’s first go to the nearest city, Fansi City. The Four Divine Beasts clan should be extremely famous in the Indigo Prefecture. To find the place where the Four Divine Beasts clan live should be quite simple.”
The metallic lifeform sped directly for Fansi City. Fansi City was the first city which Linley’s group would be entering upon reaching the Indigo Prefecture.
After flying for many days.
Linley and everyone else was drinking wine and chatting idly in the living room of the metallic lifeform. As they were about to reach his ancestral clan, Linley was very happy. In this final stage of the journey, Linley was, for once, not training.
“Boom!” Suddenly, a powerful vibration shook out from the skies, shaking Linley’s metallic lifeform.
The metallic lifeform trembled.
“What a powerful wave.”
“Hey, what’s going on?” Linley and the others stood up, looking out through the window.
The metallic lifeform flew very fast, and soon, Linley’s group saw something which utterly stunned them…
In the distant skies, nearly a hundred Highgods were fleeing in panic. They were currently being slaughtered by three white-robed men!
“Haha, you won’t be able to flee!” A white-robed figure laughed loudly.
The three white-robed men all had long golden hair, golden eyebrows, and were as handsome as any fairies which Linley had ever seen. The three white-robed men flashed about at high speed, and the Highgods on the other side all fell down from the skies.
Those Highgods were terror-struck!
“Flee!” With a furious shout, those dozens of lucky survivors immediately dispersed in every direction.
“You won’t be able to!” A calm voice rang out.
One of the white-robed men whose long hair fluttered in the air suddenly had a pair of golden wings that were ten meters long grow out of his back. This enormous set of golden wings was covered with a hazy golden light, and holy energy spread out in every direction.
The golden-winged man, his entire body wrapped up in golden light, seemed so holy and beautiful.
“I sentence you…to death!”
The white-robed man said softly.
A translucent golden ripple spread out in every direction, and those dozens of fleeing Highgods, no matter how fast they had been fleeing, were unable to move faster than this ripple.
Immediately, those dozens of Highgods who had been fleeing in every direction fell down from the skies. Only the original leader of those hundred Highgods remained, and he stared in terror and rage at the three white-robed men in front of him.
“So strong.” Linley, Tarosse, and the others were all stunned.
“He trains in the Edicts of Fate.” Tarosse said in a low voice. “Judging from his power, that white-robed man, if not a Seven Star Fiend, must at least be a Six Star Fiend.”
“Edicts of Fate?”
In the Infernal Realm, Linley rarely encountered experts who trained in the Edicts of Fate, because most of them had gone to the ‘Celestial Realm’ of the Four Higher Planes. The few he had actually seen weren’t very powerful.
“A Highgod that trains in the Edicts of Fate.” Linley was secretly startled.
From mid-air, a bellow rang out.
“Why. We have never offended your Boleyn [Bo’lin] clan. Why must you be so ruthless, to kill us all and spare not a single one of us?” The lucky survivor, the leader, couldn’t help but bellow out in rage.
Those three white-robed men all faintly glowed with golden light.
“Why? Aren’t you on assignment for the Four Divine Beasts clan?” One of the white-robed men laughed coldly.
“Four Divine Beasts clan?” The surviving leader said, stunned.
“All who serve the Four Divine Beasts clan will die!” The white-robed man who had the pair of golden wings said, then he pointed out with his right hand and a ray of golden light shot out.
The leader wasn’t able to dodge in time. The golden light struck into his body, and he fell down from mid-air.
The white-robed man with the golden wings cast a sideways glance at Linley’s distant metallic lifeform, then let out a disdainful snort. “Let’s go.” The three white-robed