Chapter 18: Bebe Becomes a God
In the year 10045 of the Yulan calendar, the entire Yulan continent was relatively peaceful.
Linley's true body had been in the pocket dimension meditation room, wholeheartedly cultivating the 'Pulsating Pulse of the Earth'. As for his divine clone, it was in Dragonblood Castle, spending the vast majority of its time comprehending the 'Profound Truths of Velocity'. Occasionally, it would also spend time on the profound mystery of Sound.
In terms of the Profound Truths of Velocity, Linley was still far from reaching great accomplishment.
In the summer of Yulan year 10045, the scorching sun baked the earth. Beside a clear, circular lake in the eastern garden of Dragonblood Castle, there was a pavilion. Linley and Hise were sitting inside the pavilion.
"I have to say, the War God's luck is really good," Hise sighed.
"You're talking about the divine spark?" Linley understood immediately what Hise was sighing about. Last year, when O'Brien came to sneak attack at night, he was killed directly by Tarosa, who also obtained a mid-level god spark. The War God had to ask Tarosa for that mid-level god spark in the end.
As a result, Tarosa actually agreed.
"A mid-level god spark! If I had a dark-type mid-level god spark, who could give me one?" Hise sighed endlessly, a trace of envy in his eyes. "Relying on my own cultivation like this, who knows how long it will take me to reach the mid-level god stage."
The further one progressed in cultivation, the more time it took.
"I heard that the War God also paid a price to obtain that mid-level god spark," Linley said.
"You call that a price?" Hise glanced at Linley.
Linley nodded and said, "How is it not a price? Tarosa said that after this matter of the descent of the gods is settled, he would have the War God go with him to the 'Hell' and have the War God be at Lord Tarosa's disposal for a hundred thousand years. Only after a hundred thousand years would he regain his freedom."
"Hmph," Hise said with a disdainful laugh. "Linley, did O'Brien think about it for a few days when he heard Tarosa's request?"
"No."
Linley was clear on this point. "The War God was quite straightforward. He agreed on the spot."
"If it were such a good offer, I would agree too," Hise said with contempt. "First of all, going from a low-level god to a mid-level god, given O'Brien's talent, it's hard to say if he can do it in a hundred thousand years. You have to know, O'Brien became a god by refining a divine spark!"
Linley nodded in agreement.
When one becomes a god by refining a divine spark, the spark was originally formed by the heavens and earth when someone else became a god. The divine spark and O'Brien's soul are not perfectly compatible, which creates some obstacles in cultivation. To reach the mid-level god stage would take much longer than for a strong practitioner who became a god independently.
"First of all, it's very difficult for him to reach the mid-level god stage on his own. Moreover, aside from the Necropolis of the Gods, if he were anywhere else, how could a low-level god obtain a mid-level god spark?" Hise continued. "For a mid-level god spark, just being at someone else's disposal for a hundred thousand years is nothing."
"The most important thing is..."
A trace of longing appeared in Hise's eyes. "That's setting off for 'Hell'. Being at Tarosa's disposal in 'Hell' is nothing. Just entering Hell, not knowing anyone or anything, having a strong leader is the best way to survive. It allows one to adapt faster to the higher plane 'Hell'! Others find it hard to find a leader. He, O'Brien, enters Hell with Tarosa's protection. He's getting the better end of the deal."
Linley was momentarily stunned. Hearing Hise put it that way, it did make sense.
"Going to Hell means leaving home," Linley said with emotion.
Linley, as he was now, still had strong feelings for the Yulan continent.
"Hmph," Hise said. "Nonsense. Life is only interesting when it's exciting. Having reached the divine level, ordinary material planes are no longer very interesting to us. Actually, I wanted to leave for a higher plane after returning from the Necropolis of the Gods this time."
"Leave?" Linley was somewhat surprised.
"When I returned this time, I found a large number of divine-level experts descending," Hise said with a smile. "It seems these days will be quite interesting. Naturally, I decided to stay a while longer. If it weren't for this group of divine-level experts, I would have gone to a higher plane long ago."
"After all, standing at the peak can be lonely. Linley, life is only interesting when it's rich and exciting," Hise sighed. "Linley, you haven't lived long. If another hundred years pass, you'll feel this way. Think about it, Linley. If you were the strongest on the Yulan continent, invincible, and you lived such a peaceful life day after day, wouldn't you get tired of it?"
Linley imagined it and felt a shiver in his heart.
Standing at the peak of the Yulan continent, living a peaceful life... The thought made Linley's heart resist. His mind quickly recalled the various events he had experienced over the years.
"An exciting, eventful life is much more interesting," Linley had to admit.
He was not the type to be content with mediocrity. Clearly knowing that the four higher planes and the seven divine planes were filled with countless experts, if he were content with mediocrity and hid in the Yulan continent plane, like a frog at the bottom of a well, that would be too ridiculous.
"When this matter is over, I will leave for Hell. Linley, you should come with me," Hise persuaded. "In Hell, there are experts from countless planes, all kinds of strange races. And the Four Ultimate Warrior clans have all gone to Hell. Don't you want to see your ancestors?"
The Four Ultimate Warrior clans? Ancestors of the clan?
The first-generation Dragonblood Warrior of the Baruch clan, 'Baruch'! And the second generation, the third generation... one by one, the ancestors who had already gone to Hell.
Linley's heart couldn't help but feel a surge of longing. Then he smiled and said, "Hise, don't tempt me here. I'm not in a hurry. I'll stay here with Delia for now. When the two of us, husband and wife, feel bored, maybe we'll go for a tour of Hell."
"A tour?" Hise was speechless. "What do you think Hell is?"
In the early winter of Yulan year 10045, snowflakes were falling.
Inside the pocket dimension meditation room.
The pocket dimension meditation room had two levels. On the lower level, Olivier and Desri were cultivating. On the upper level, Barker, Black, and the two Six-Eyed Golden Lions were cultivating. Linley himself was sitting cross-legged on the bed on the upper level, cultivating the Pulsating Pulse of the Earth.
These profound mysteries of the laws, from shallow to deep, were all connected.
It was precisely because the profound mysteries of the laws progressed from shallow to deep, interconnected in principle, that Linley used this method of deduction. Of course, Linley wasn't blindly deducing. He was comprehending the 'Elemental Laws' themselves. Occasionally, when his heart was touched, it would lead to a breakthrough in his deduction.
Linley's true body had completely absorbed the nearly one hundred million soul essences.
The last time he absorbed twenty million soul essences, Linley's soul deduction speed had greatly increased. The breakthrough from the 32nd level to the 16th level had only taken one year and three months. Now, having completely absorbed nearly one hundred million soul essences, his deduction speed was several times faster.
His cultivation time had also been shortened several times.
As for the breakthrough from the 16th level to the 8th level, when Pomerant died, Linley had already been cultivating for nearly two years.
Now, he had been cultivating for another year.
More than three years in total.
On the stone bed in the pocket dimension meditation room, Linley, who had been sitting cross-legged in meditation, opened his eyes. A smile appeared on his face. "The Pulsating Pulse of the Earth is indeed extremely complex. Finally, I've broken through to the 8th level of the Pulsating Pulse of the Earth." Linley felt extremely comfortable in his heart at this moment.
"But I wonder, why do I feel that even if the Pulsating Pulse of the Earth hasn't reached great accomplishment, it is still thousands of times more complex and vast than the 'Profound Truths of Velocity' I have already comprehended? The little bit of the Profound Truths of Velocity I have comprehended has already allowed me to reach the low-level god stage." Linley was very puzzled in his heart.
According to what Linley knew.
No matter which profound mystery of the Elemental Laws one cultivates, as long as one reaches great accomplishment, one becomes a low-level god.
As for the Profound Truths of Velocity, it wasn't simply a single profound mystery. It was the result of fusing the two profound mysteries of 'Fast' and 'Slow'. Cultivating the Profound Truths of Velocity to great accomplishment was equivalent to cultivating both the Fast and Slow profound mysteries to great accomplishment. Naturally, the result was different from cultivating a single profound mystery to great accomplishment.
"Don't think too much." Linley immediately closed his eyes and continued cultivating.
But this time, he hadn't been cultivating for long, about ten days or half a month.
"Boss! Boss!" A familiar voice rang out in Linley's mind. Linley immediately stopped his cultivation. Linley was overjoyed and sent a soul transmission: "Bebe, you, you succeeded?"
"En, I succeeded. Boss, I have become a god!" Bebe's delighted voice echoed in Linley's mind.
A surge of excitement and joy welled up in Linley's heart. Bebe, who had grown up with him, had finally become a god.
"That's great." Linley didn't know what to say at this moment.
"Boss, I'm coming over from the Dark Forest right away. You have to wait for me." Bebe had finally reached the adult stage of the Godeater Rat. The excited Bebe immediately flew out of the metal castle in the Dark Forest and headed straight for Dragonblood Castle.
The setting sun was in the west, and Dragonblood Castle was bathed in a hazy red glow.
In the back garden of Dragonblood Castle, the War God and the High Priest were sitting opposite each other across a stone table. Now, both the War God and the High Priest were refining divine sparks. However... neither the War God nor the High Priest would spend all their time refining divine sparks.
"When this matter of the descent of the gods is over, I will go to Hell with Lord Tarosa. What about you?" the War God asked.
The High Priest's heart was also stirred.
She and the War God had actually been competing for many years. Not long ago, in the Necropolis of the Gods, she had succeeded and obtained a mid-level god spark. Now, the War God had also obtained one.
"You go. As for me..." the High Priest said with a smile, "The Necropolis of the Gods is getting more and more difficult. I went through such danger to obtain a mid-level god spark. Who knows how long it would take to obtain a high-level god spark? A hundred thousand years? A million years?"
The High Priest sighed, "After this matter is over, most of the divine-level experts will probably leave the Yulan continent plane. I don't want to be alone here either. At that time, I will choose to go to the Divine Plane of Life."
The four higher planes are Hell, the Celestial Realm, the Netherworld, and the Divine Plane of Life.
Hell was created by the Overgod of Destruction. The Celestial Realm was created by the Overgod of Fate. The Netherworld was created by the Overgod of Death. And the Divine Plane of Life was naturally created by the Overgod of Life.
"You're going to the Divine Plane of Life?" The War God was somewhat stunned, then he smiled with complex emotions. "If that's the case, I don't know when we'll meet again."
"There will still be opportunities to meet," the High Priest 'Catherine' said calmly. The veil covered her face, so no one could see her expression at this moment.
The two divine-level experts, who had been in opposition for thousands of years, were both silent now.
"Wow, O'Brien, Catherine, what are you two doing? Ah, are you having a secret date?" A voice suddenly rang out in the back garden, startling the silent War God and High Priest.
Especially that sentence, which made the two of them somewhat embarrassed.
A seemingly thin youth with short, inch-long hair and wearing a sleeveless shirt suddenly appeared there. This youth had crystal-clear, beautiful skin and a pair of very lively, spirited eyes. Those eyes seemed to be able to speak, and he deliberately stared at the War God and the High Priest.
The youth immediately pointed at the High Priest, showing a surprised expression: "Ha, Catherine, you're blushing!"
The High Priest was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. She was wearing a veil, so no one could see her expression. Since no one could see her expression, she might not actually be blushing.
"Bebe, stop messing around," Linley said as he immediately walked into the back garden.
"Wow, Boss!" Bebe excitedly rushed over immediately.