Chapter 26: Hometown
“Hmm~” Dust on Bebe’s body also flew up, these specks of dust were bound by an invisible force and eventually condensed into a stone.
Bebe pressed down on the brim of his straw hat. Excitedly looking at Linley, he said, “Boss, what were you just saying about the mystery of musical sound? And the mystery of sound waves? You said fusing them is the true meaning of sound? What exactly are these things?” Bebe was very puzzled.
Linley smiled faintly.
Although he had only been training for two years, Linley’s soul deduction speed was now a hundred times faster than before his incarnation. Moreover, with both souls comprehending and verifying simultaneously, these two years of training were equivalent to two hundred years of training before his incarnation.
He had already achieved some minor success in the mysteries of musical sound and sound waves.
Of course, he was still far from reaching great success.
“Bebe, when sound is emitted, it is actually a form of wave transmission,” Linley explained. “Since sound waves are waves, they naturally need to vibrate. The number of vibrations per second falls within a certain range, which is why our ears can hear them.”
This was something Linley had realized back when he studied sound at Dragonblood Castle.
Bebe nodded.
“Different sounds we hear can produce some peculiar effects,” Linley immediately began manipulating wind elemental particles, causing them to collide with each other and form sound waves. Suddenly, various sounds rang out in the area.
The beautiful sound was like a lover’s whisper, involuntarily drawing people into its spell.
Bebe also felt slightly affected.
“This is the mystery of musical sound!” Linley said with a smile. “I’m just using elemental particles to demonstrate. If I used divine power, the effect would be much greater. Even divine-level experts would be somewhat influenced. For example, my ‘Gentle Whisper of the Wind’ can produce musical sounds that confuse an enemy’s soul, making them let down their guard temporarily, allowing me to kill them.”
Bebe quickly nodded. “Wow, that’s amazing! And what about the mystery of sound waves?”
“As I said, sound waves are waves—they vibrate. The number of vibrations per second falls within a certain range that our ears can detect. But once the vibrations exceed that range, it’s different,” Linley said with emotion. “I didn’t realize this back then, but after seeing the sound waves formed in this canyon, I understood.”
“Oh?” Bebe was intrigued.
“Watch,” Linley said, using his powerful mental energy to control the surrounding wind elemental particles again.
A peculiar sound wave was produced once more, this time directly transmitting toward the surrounding canyon walls. Abruptly, the canyon walls seemed to tremble with life, vibrating faintly. Gravel and stone dust continuously slid down from the top of the canyon.
“Huh?” Bebe was very surprised.
Linley strengthened his mental energy, and the intensity of the wind elemental fluctuations increased.
“Thump!” “Thump!” Like a drum being beaten, the entire canyon’s walls violently shook. With a “Boom!” the canyon walls on both sides exploded, countless boulders turning into stone dust.
“Wow.” Bebe’s eyes widened in shock.
Originally, due to the canyon’s special structure, the strong winds had formed this kind of sound wave.
Now, with Linley’s demonstration, the canyon’s structure had changed drastically, and such sound waves could no longer form. Instantly, the howling of the wind returned, sweeping up countless stone dust particles into the air. The sky became hazy, and it took a long time for the air to clear.
But now, the canyon was filled with howling winds.
“The Mountain of Death is no longer the Mountain of Death,” Linley sighed.
“Boss, this kind of attack is really powerful,” Bebe exclaimed.
Linley smiled faintly. “It’s only average. I’ve only achieved minor success in the mystery of sound waves. As far as I’ve discovered, the mystery of sound waves can only be used to attack physical matter. As for the mystery of musical sound, it’s only used to affect the soul. But if the enemy doesn’t understand this, even divine-level experts might suffer a bit.”
Sound waves and musical sound are two aspects of sound.
One attacks the body, the other affects the soul.
“I don’t know the true power either, since I’ve only achieved minor success,” Linley said with a smile on his face.
This was why he loved training.
Linley felt that comprehending these mysteries was like understanding and grasping the principles of the world. As he continued to comprehend, one day, without even moving, he could cause the heavens and earth to collapse. But reaching that level—he didn’t know when that would be.
“Bebe, what mystery did you comprehend when you became a god?” Linley asked curiously.
Bebe shrugged helplessly. “Not as impressive as yours, Boss. It’s just for self-preservation, similar to that assassin king ‘Hisse.’ If I have to fight now, I still need to use my innate divine ability.”
Linley understood immediately.
Suddenly—
“Hmm!” The heavens and earth faintly trembled. This subtle vibration spread across the entire Yulan Plane. Countless divine-level experts on the Yulan Continent turned their gazes westward. Linley and Bebe also looked north in surprise.
“Someone became a god?” Bebe asked in surprise.
The descent of the laws of the world was a sign of becoming a god through one’s own power. After all, becoming a god by refining a divine spark wouldn’t trigger the descent of the laws of the world.
“This isn’t the first time. It seems a few years ago, someone in the west also became a god through their own power,” Linley said, looking down with some confusion. His divine sense spread out. “It’s roughly in the area of the former Sacred Alliance. What’s going on? In just a few years, two people have become gods through their own power?”
Becoming a god through one’s own power was very difficult.
Because it was difficult, it was rare and precious. A few years ago, someone had become a god through their own power, and Linley and Bebe had marveled at it. Now, another person had done the same, which seemed too coincidental.
“Boss, let’s go take a look,” Bebe urged.
“The Sacred Alliance?” Linley was slightly stunned, as if remembering something. “Alright, let’s go back and take a look. It’s been a long time since I visited my hometown.”
Linley and Bebe immediately flew up and sped westward.
The fluctuation of the laws of the world from someone becoming a god naturally caught Sadista’s attention. When Sadista spread his divine sense, he also noticed Linley. “Huh? Linley has woken up. Oh, where is he flying to?”
Linley and Bebe were flying very fast. By the time Sadista checked again a while later, they had already reached their destination.
“He went to the Sacred Alliance. Anras!” Sadista immediately sent a divine sense message to Anras, who was still waiting for an opportunity in the far eastern grasslands.
Anras sat cross-legged in a quiet valley, his body covered in dust. At first glance, he looked like a human-shaped stone statue.
Waiting for two years was nothing to him. Upon hearing Sadista’s divine sense message, Anras immediately opened his eyes, and the dust on his body was instantly incinerated into nothingness. Sadista’s command came: “Anras, Linley and that divine beast rat have gone to the Sacred Alliance. Go there first.”
“Yes, Lord Sadista,” Anras said respectfully.
Then, “Boom!” The entire valley suddenly burst into flames. Amidst the towering flames, Anras, surrounded by fire, shot westward like a fire god, disappearing into the western horizon in an instant.
Wushan Town, Linley’s hometown.
“Wushan Town…” Linley stood in the center of Wushan Town, looking around and sighing.
The Wushan Mountain to the east of Wushan Town hadn’t changed much from back then, but the town itself had changed drastically. The once-large Wushan Town was now desolate and abandoned. It was no longer a place for humans but a lair for magical beasts. For example, Linley’s ancestral home was now the den of a group of Windwolves.
“My old friends, the aunties, the uncles…” Linley’s mind recalled the lively scenes of Wushan Town back then. Every morning, children and youths would gather on the open ground east of the town to train, while the adults would start their work.
But…
None of that would ever happen again. Most of them were dead.
“Wushan Town has become history,” Linley sighed. After the Day of Destruction back then, the entire territory of the former Fenlai Kingdom had become a paradise for magical beasts.
Linley frowned slightly and immediately controlled the divine spark within his body to release a vast divine pressure.
Although Linley was using his main body now, his divine clone was still within his soul sea. He could fully use the divine spark from his divine clone. The immense divine pressure, like a tsunami, swept across the entire Wushan Town.
Instantly, the hundreds of magical beasts living in Wushan Town were terrified, prostrating themselves and trembling.
“All of you, get out,” Linley’s divine sense message echoed in the minds of every magical beast.
None of the magical beasts dared to resist. With low howls, hundreds of them quickly fled from the extremely dangerous “Wushan Town.”
“Bebe, let’s go check out our ancestral home,” Linley said.
“It’s my home too,” Bebe said.
Back then, Bebe was also born here. It was in that ancestral home that he and Linley first met, and they became life-and-death partners. Linley and Bebe silently walked together into the dusty, dilapidated ancestral home.
Hess City.
Dylin Cowart had died here back then. This city hadn’t been conquered by magical beasts. On the contrary, Hess City was even more prosperous than before.
In a relatively elegant tavern in Hess City, Linley and Bebe found a quiet corner and sat facing each other, ordering some wine and food.
“Not bad,” Bebe praised.
Linley nodded with a smile. “That’s why business is so good here.” The tavern was quite crowded.
“Huh?” Linley turned his head in slight surprise toward the entrance. A beautiful girl with long purple hair walked straight in. She had faint freckles on her face, which made her look even cuter.
“Belita!”
“Belita, you’re back! Your father has been drinking with us but kept glancing at the door.”
As soon as the girl entered the tavern, voices rang out in succession. Clearly, this beautiful girl was very popular.
“Who is this girl?” At the table behind Linley, a young man asked curiously. The man across from him laughed and said, “This is the tavern owner’s daughter. To be precise, this tavern was designed and built by Miss Belita herself.”
“Oh?” The young man was very surprised.
“Belita’s family was originally noble, but later fell into decline. Belita’s father, that big-nosed owner, is quite proud. Even in decline, he insists on living in a luxurious mansion and hiring servants to clean every part of it. Belita’s mansion is very large, and maintaining such a big mansion costs a fortune. Belita’s father spends money but doesn’t earn any, so naturally, he ran out of money quickly. Later, Belita took the initiative to convert the front yard of the mansion into this tavern. See that back door? Go through it, and you’ll be in Belita’s home. Her home is huge, and she’s the one supporting the entire household.”
“Moreover, Belita is also a powerful mage. I heard she’s already a fifth-rank mage.”
Listening to the chatter, Linley glanced at the purple-haired girl with some surprise.
“Boss, this Belita is really impressive,” Bebe said.
Linley also felt that the tavern was well-designed, both inside and out. That was why he and Bebe had chosen this tavern. He hadn’t expected it to be designed by a young girl. And from the looks of it, although she was young, she was the one managing the entire household.
“Father, I’m not feeling well, so I’ll go rest first,” Belita said to her father, who was drinking.
“Not feeling well? Go rest quickly,” the big-nosed middle-aged man said hurriedly.
With that, Belita walked toward the back door, about to open it and enter her family’s mansion.
“Hmm?” At that moment, Linley frowned slightly.