Sage Monarch

by Stayrr

Yang Qi was the son of the patriarch of a wealthy family from a small town. Believing himself to be in love, he stole a pill for his lover, only to have the girl betray him, by taking the pill and leaving him behind. Caught, his dantian was crippled and left to die under the lightning. This lightning helped him to recover his lost martial arts and also helped him gain a new, divi

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Chapter 1129: Sage Monarch Grand Magic

The combination of two God Legion Seals was nothing short of heaven-shaking and earth-shattering. Truth be told, ever since the seal was broken into three parts, it had never been re-combined. Now that Yang Qi was combining two portions, what exact level of power would be released?

No one could say for sure.

Even when only a third of the seal appeared in the mortal world, it could be used to call the wind and summon the rain. In the god world, it could draw on the magical and natural laws there to demonstrate even further transformations, and attacks that featured unimaginable levels of power.

The combination of the two seals wasn't just provoking transformations in Yang Qi himself, but also causing incalculable changes to the past, the present, and the future.

All worlds that were inferior to the god world were experiencing transformations.

And there was one person responsible: Yang Qi.

Yang Qi could grasp the sun and moon, trample heavenly bodies, and affect the rotation of the cosmos. He understood the fundamental nature of humans, and even more so, comprehended what it meant to be a god. He knew full well the difference between Lesser Gods, Common Gods, Greater Gods, Consummate Gods, Perfect Gods, Paramount Gods, and the Sovereign Lord.

The God Legion Seal was blasting through the substructure of the Great Necropolis.

Top experts could perceive all of these developments, but couldn't do anything about them. The most dramatic thing to happen was that the Executors of the Ancient Road quickly evacuated their headquarters and left the Great Necropolis. Looking back, they could see golden light streaking through the depths of the necropolis, causing intense booms to ring out as it slammed into what was apparently a greyspace.

Far in the unknown depths, chaotic banging sounds could be heard, almost as if the walls leading to the god world were being struck.

WOOOOSH!

A group of people could be seen looking at the Great Necropolis off in the distance.

One of them looked like an emperor, and his face was ashen. "This is bad. That's the aura of the God Legion Seal. And not just one piece. Someone is combining two pieces. There's nothing else in this world that could possibly release might like that."

This man with an imperial crown was none other than the emperor of the executors.

He was flanked by a few individuals in robes of various colors such as black, white, and green. Despite the various colors of their robes, all of them had the same character embroidered on their chests, in god script: Executor.

In the mortal world, these people were in charge of enforcing the law. No one dared to defy them, because defying them led to death. Yet here they were, clearly afraid. Terrified even. The combination of two pieces of the God Legion Seal would lead to enough power to easily wipe them out.

"Hurry!" the emperor said. "Gather all the experts and return to the headquarters. We have to activate the Gate to the Gods to stop the God Legion Seals from combining. From what I can tell, this isn't a combination of three, but rather two. That means we still have a chance to stop it!"

With that, he blurred into motion, vanishing.

Meanwhile, in the very depths of the necropolis, Yang Qi was forcing the two seals together, causing the golden light to slowly shrink down. The two of them were in a bubble, and inside, two golden imps could be seen, like yin and yang, swirling around each other until they became one. Combined, they were still an imp, but at the same time, resembled a burly, golden man, in the middle of performing a host of martial arts stances, all of them complementary, and each move of which could reveal the grace of heaven and earth and the profundities of space and time.

Roar!

The golden imp immediately flew into Yang Qi's forehead.

Yang Qi was reminded of his earliest days in the mortal world, outside Yanhaven, when the city magistrate's bodyguard Luo Hun had crippled his energy arts. Afterward, he had been struck by lightning, which was what had given him the God Legion Seal and fueled his growth to power.

Of course, he was a very different person now than he was back then. As a youth, he hadn't understood anything. But now he knew of his own dao, the Sage Monarch Grand Magic. And his dao was not the dao of the God Legion Seal.

The hegemon and the hero were both at his back.

This was the ultimate expression of humans. Humans wrote books. Humans advanced and developed.

With his Sage Monarch Grand Magic, he was able to bring the God Legion Seal under his control, instead of having it control him.

Crick! Crack!

All of a sudden, he was back to his ordinary state.

His forehead went back to normal, and the dramatic transformations caused by the two God Legion Seals faded away, having been completely subjugated and crushed by him. From the look of things, he really did have the power to control the God Legion Seal, and was by no means flustered or frightened.

"I've combined the two parts of the God Legion Seal, Proud Heaven. That means it's time for you to die. Presumably you know that I can already sense the location of the third seal. So bring it out!" He began to walk threateningly toward Proud Heaven.

Proud Heaven just stood there laughing. "It doesn't matter whether you got that second piece, or I did. Although you combined them, you've suppressed the godpower of the seal so that it won't control you. Instead of being remolded, your cultivation base has been lowered. The light of the God Legion Seal was about to break out of the Great Necropolis, but you stopped it. And that definitely harmed your meridians and damaged your sea of energy. You might be able to hold on for a bit longer, but in the end, you'll die. Don't you understand that fact? You've profaned the legion of gods! Do you really think you can suppress their glory?!"

"You really know how to run your mouth!" Yang Qi said with a faint smile. "Do you really claim to understand the level I've reached? Get over here!"

It didn't seem at all like he was suffering from the conditions Proud Heaven had just talked about. Instead, he waved his arm, causing golden light to shoot out from his sleeve that became an enormous palm attack. At the same time, two enormous figures appeared behind him, causing everything to shake violently.

Buzzzz.

Instead of meeting the attack, Proud Heaven slapped his hand out toward the nearby sealing mark.

"Do you know why I wanted to fight it out with you right here, Yang Qi? Because I already control part of the godpower of the Great Necropolis. You might be an Inheritor, but sadly for you, that doesn't mean anything to me. You see, I'm already the true Inheritor! Little did you know that when the Great Necropolis ejected all those godpower seeds, there was one of them that could be considered the greatest of all. And I took it. Why else do you think I would give so many other seeds to that scum, Star Swordlife?"

His palm attack landed and the sealing mark shattered, causing countless streams of Great Necropolis godpower to shoot out, creating a huge stone tomb that shot forth to meet Yang Qi's incoming palm.

The enormous face suddenly appeared out in the open again.

"So, Proud Heaven, you actually released me?" Along with the face came the rancorous energy of the legion of gods. However, Proud Heaven quickly grabbed it and threw it into the projection of the Great Necropolis before it could do anything else. Then he spun and launched the God Tombstone Palms at Yang Qi.

"Ten Universes!"

Proud Heaven used his Ten Universes ability combined with the Great Necropolis godpower to defend himself, then launched another strike at the sealing mark.

Suddenly, a heart-shaped medallion appeared in the depths of the sealed area, shining with boundless blood-colored light, as well as the aura of King Immortal-Slayer.

"The ninth legacy medallion?" Yang Qi said. At a glance, he could tell that this medallion was different from the others. Obviously, it wasn't in the future world; it had been sealed here all along!

He wasn't sure how the sealing mark had come to be. And the dramatic turn of events in which Proud Heaven had subdued the enormous face happened too quickly to process. All Yang Qi knew was that Proud Heaven had set all of this up. He had even predicted that Yang Qi would combine the two pieces of the God Legion Seal. However, there was one thing he hadn't predicted, and that was that Yang Qi would suppress the boundless power of the God Legion Seal and use it to gain enlightenment of his Sage Monarch Grand Magic.

Normally speaking, no one should have been able to control the power of the combined seal. But Yang Qi could control it with the Sage Monarch Grand Magic.

Now Proud Heaven had only one option: break the seal, release the face, devour it, and activate the ninth legacy medallion.

"Nine Combine: Let King Immortal-Slayer Come!"

RUMBLE!

The face was still struggling against Proud Heaven, but he simply inhaled, causing the face to shoot toward him and into the ninth legacy medallion.

The ninth medallion was a heart. And the face was an expression of the rancorous energy of countless fallen gods, which was now being sacrificed to that legacy medallion to unlock its power.

"Arrggggh!" the face screamed. "So, Proud Heaven, this heart is what it's all about? I thought you were going to help me be born again! You villain! You were plotting against me this whole time!"

Along with its screaming, it unleashed its most powerful sound techniques, but they did no good.

"Go. Go find your essence. Nine combined, in the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart!"

Proud Heaven shoved his palm out again, and piercing screams could be heard as the heart vanished into nothing. Turning, Proud Heaven chuckled. "King Immortal-Slayer is going to be resurrected, Yang Qi. His will is awakening. Just wait until your backyard bursts into flames. I have to thank you. Without you, I could never have activated the last of King Immortal-Slayer's legacy medallions. Isn't that what you wanted? Well, I just gave it to you."

RUUUUMBLE...

Deep in the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart, dramatic things were already underway.

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Chapter 1130: A Mighty Will

The last legacy medallion, the heart, had been stirred to action by the enormous face, thus sensing the spatial coordinates of the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart and entering it before it could be stopped.

Normally speaking, even if Yang Qi had somehow acquired the ninth medallion, it shouldn't have been possible to fuse all of the medallions so quickly. Unfortunately, Proud Heaven had used some secret magic to pull off a miracle. As fast as lightning, the ninth medallion was inside the chart.

In other words, the fight had suddenly spilled onto a second front!

Yang Qi had combined two parts of the God Legion Seal, giving him the power to keep Proud Heaven in check, who was fighting back with his piece of the God Legion Seal. At the same time, Proud Heaven was forcing all nine of King Immortal-Slayer's legacy medallions to combine, which would summon the will of King Immortal-Slayer to slaughter the immortal-slaying clone and unleash havoc in the world.

Yang Qi had to keep that will suppressed.

If he didn't, it would lead to explosive consequences.

Of course, from the moment he had acquired the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart, he knew that this moment would come. And he had known all along that Proud Heaven might try something along these lines.

RUMBLE...

As soon as the final legacy medallion appeared in the chart, the other eight medallions slipped away from the clone's control and flew out into the open.

Crack!

The pieces combined, and the united medallion finally appeared. Instantly, destructive power appeared in the depths of the chart, causing the godhood stars to dim and begin falling, as though they were being devoured by some immense force.

"Get out of here!" the clone shouted, blurring into motion as he threw all caution to the wind to get all of their people and resources out of the chart. Of course, Yang Qi had made plans for this situation, so things went smoothly. As everyone emerged into the Sage Monarch League, the clone, with his newly formed god body, shot toward Proud Heaven.

Within the chart, a mighty will rose up, along with terrifying power that filled it completely. Looking into the primal-chaos, both Yang Qi and Proud Heaven could see an immense image, so large it was impossible to gauge its full dimensions. It filled the world, both past and future, indicating that the chart now surpassed time and could be entered from any era.

In fact, all of the top experts could see this development.

But none dared to step forward to examine or try to take it. The boundless emperor of the executors, a mid Terrifying expert, could sense power within it that could destroy the god world. When King Immortal-Slayer appeared, it meant a reign of terror and gore was about to be unleashed. And that counted in the god world, much less the immortal worlds. And to the immortal worlds, the mortal world might as well have been filled with nothing but pigs, dogs, cows, and sheep.

The Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart was already so different that Yang Qi could hardly recognize it.

The will of King Immortal-Slayer now controlled it, and as a result, it thrummed with hatred of the god world, as though it were prepared to devour any god it encountered.

Yang Qi could sense immense killing intent, first spreading out to fill the Great Necropolis, then converging in its depths on the immortal-slaying clone.

"Karma! Such intense karma intertwined with my will. Trying to plot against me, I see, my successor. How very unfilial. Since you've accepted my legacy, your fate is sealed. Your destiny is about to be taken by me!"

All of the experts in the Great Necropolis could sense a mighty will that surpassed that of ordinary gods, something that could actually move the Great Necropolis.

The Great Necropolis could sense the danger it was in, and rumbling soon filled it as numerous sealing marks were broken, unleashing godpower to fight the will of King Immortal-Slayer.

Crack! Snap!

When the two mighty wills collided, immense destructive power was released in the depths of the necropolis, directly destroying numerous worlds in the area.

The will of King Immortal-Slayer had one immediate goal: to kill the immortal-slaying clone and take over his body. However, they were all in the Great Necropolis, which was a mighty and mysterious thing that originated in the god world and actually surpassed the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart. It might not care if some tiny ants came inside to explore it, but if a dragon charged in, it wouldn't just stand idly by.

Humans wouldn't care if some tiny parasites existed inside them. Perhaps they could even tolerate some flies on their skin. But if a huge snake suddenly tried to wrap them up, they definitely wouldn't tolerate it.

The will of King Immortal-Slayer was simply too surly and unreasoning.

Thus, it was a foregone conclusion that he would end up clashing with the will of the Great Necropolis.

Although King Immortal-Slayer's will was under attack, it still moved with incredible speed. It quickly swept over the area containing the sealing mark, and despite its weakened state, was still strong enough to overwhelm gods! In the blink of an eye, the area became filled with a rain of blood, with the weeping of ghosts and wailing of gods, and power so destructive it could destroy the heavens and crush the earth. And all of it was focused on the clone.

King Immortal-Slayer didn't have a body now, only a will. In that sense, he was much like an intelligent tsunami that could destroy everything in its path.

Despite that, the clone and Yang Qi were both attacking Proud Heaven, and were simply accepting the attack of King Immortal-Slayer's will.

Obviously, they were willing to fight things out to the bitter end with Proud Heaven.

It came as a complete surprise to Proud Heaven that, even after unleashing King Immortal-Slayer's full set of legacy medallions and unlocking his will, the immortal-slaying clone would do this! Obviously, Proud Heaven had to defend himself lest he be killed along with the clone.

How could he ever resign himself to being killed?

"Let the sealing marks be unraveled! Use the power not even I can wield, to activate the Great Necropolis. Unleash the power to bury gods, bury King Immortal-Slayer, and bury the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart... I am the Great Necropolis, and the Great Necropolis is me! I am the ultimate Inheritor! And I will seal the will of King Immortal-Slayer!"

RUMBLE!

The Great Necropolis was being fully activated.

The area with the sealing mark was like a huge black hole that began tugging at everyone present, including the will of King Immortal-Slayer, the immortal-slaying clone, and Yang Qi.

And the biggest focus was King Immortal-Slayer's will.

Laughing heartily, Proud Heaven said, "This place is one of the Great Necropolis' wind eyes! Do you know what a wind eye is? In the language of the god world, it implies an enormous eye created by a nameless god wind. And once it appears, even gods will be sucked in by it! I originally didn't want to use it on you, but now that King Immortal-Slayer's will has appeared, it seems you're in for a disaster. In the end, I guess it serves my ultimate purpose. After all, I want to control the will of King Immortal-Slayer. With him, I can exercise full control over the Great Necropolis!"

Proud Heaven continued to laugh as the black 'wind eye' sucked everything toward it, causing the Great Necropolis to tremble violently as though it might start moving soon. In fact, it was at this point that a seed of truth appeared above his head. It wasn't the color of ordinary rock, but rather pure white, like jade, or the fat of a sheep.

It was clearly a king among all other types of stone.

Proud Heaven really had taken the ultimate godpower seed from the Great Necropolis, the king of all the others.

No one could possibly imagine what level of control this gave him over the godpower of the necropolis.

Fingers splayed, Yang Qi thrust his hand out toward Proud Heaven.

Proud Heaven responded with his Great Necropolis God Art, using palm techniques that caused numerous enormous tombstones to appear and block Yang Qi's attacks. The two of them fought back and forth briefly, and neither seemed to have the upper hand.

The Great Necropolis continued to shake violently as its will fought the will of King Immortal-Slayer, although no one could perceive exactly how the fight was playing out.

Proud Heaven's control over the Great Necropolis godpower was middling at best, and the will of King Immortal-Slayer was the bane of that power.

King Immortal-Slayer's roars of rage echoed through the necropolis as the two forces fought back and forth. They were like two elephants clashing, while in comparison, the fight between Yang Qi and Proud Heaven was like a competition between ants. The difference was almost too big to describe with words.

However, Yang Qi knew that if he didn't kill Proud Heaven, the man would most likely take advantage of the battle of wills in a sandpiper, clam, and fisherman situation.

Right now was his best chance to kill Proud Heaven.

Therefore, he drew fully on the Sage Monarch Grand Magic and joined his clone in the attack.

Meanwhile, Proud Heaven was drawing on the Great Necropolis godpower to unleash one of its most enigmatic abilities, the God-Ordaining Incantation. One finger to ordain gods, one fist to bury them!

"Interring!"

He threw out his fist, causing numerous projections of the Great Necropolis to fall like a rain of tombstones, each of which had enough destructive power to overwhelm a three thousandth ranked immortal world.

But with two God Legion Seals, what did Yang Qi have to be afraid of? He shot forward, spinning as he vanquished the God-Ordaining Incantation and destroyed all of the projections. Finally, he pushed his palms together in front of his chest, then pulled them apart to reveal a spinning vortex.

"I'm not sure how you got your hands on that king of seeds from the Great Necropolis. But now, your gains are going to turn into losses. I'm taking that God Legion Seal of yours!"

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Chapter 1131: Dramatic Upheavals in Heaven and Earth

By just combining the two God Legion Seals, Yang Qi had already instigated dramatic upheavals in heaven and earth. Although he had immediately moved to keep them under control, Proud Heaven hadn't hesitated to take advantage of the situation.

The Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart instantly went out of control and the will of King Immortal-Slayer appeared, wreaking destructive havoc as it invaded the Great Necropolis and began battling its will.

It seemed to indicate that the Immortal Dao Age was going to undergo a dramatic event, perhaps even an apocalyptic catastrophe. Or maybe it would be born again.

Meanwhile, Yang Qi and Proud Heaven were fighting, with Proud Heaven using Great Necropolis godpower to defend against the power of Yang Qi's two God Legion Seals. However, Proud Heaven also seemed to be focusing inwardly, as though he were also in the middle of cultivating some strange divine ability. He clasped his palms together, then pulled them apart and unleashed a host of fist techniques from the Ten Universes. Apparently, the mere presence of King Immortal-Slayer's will in the Great Necropolis had provided new enlightenment and understanding to Proud Heaven regarding his own abilities.

Yang Qi could sense that Proud Heaven's deep connection to the Great Necropolis was causing his own control of it to wane.

And Proud Heaven was benefiting greatly because of it.

"Many thanks to you, Yang Qi!" Proud Heaven said. "Of course, all of this is going according to plan. The will of King Immortal-Slayer is fighting the Great Necropolis, and thus the essence of the Great Necropolis is growing weaker, which in turn is allowing me to absorb it and gain control! Furthermore, do you know where my God Legion Seal is? I'll tell you. It's right here!"

Proud Heaven suddenly launched another consummate Ten Universes technique, and the sealing mark beneath his feet exploded, allowing dazzling shafts of golden godlight to stab upward as a God Legion Seal flew out into the open. However, this God Legion Seal was surrounded by a projection of the Great Necropolis, which apparently protected it and ensured that Yang Qi's two seals couldn't touch it.

"If you think you can use your two seals to get the third, Yang Qi, you're sadly mistaken. After getting control of the Great Necropolis, I used it to seal the third God Legion Seal, making it impossible for you to take. The Great Necropolis is mine. King Immortal-Slayer's will is mine. Therefore, I'm going to have to ask you to leave!"

Yang Qi's plan had been to use his two God Legion Seals to gain access to the third seal.

Unfortunately, Proud Heaven had prepared for that possibility and sealed it with the essence of the Great Necropolis. And right now, there was no way Yang Qi was able to do anything with the essence of the Great Necropolis.

"Monarch... monarch..." Proud Heaven said. As he did, a voice spoke within the depths of the necropolis, something that could rip mid Terrifying experts to shreds. It was an expression of will that repeated the word "monarch" over and over again with destructive force. It was none other than King Immortal-Slayer's will, trying to destroy the Great Necropolis.

A deadly tempest sprang up, rushing through the pathways of the Great Necropolis and picking up treasures, treasure troves, immortal world, sects, ejecting them all and completely clearing out the Great Necropolis.

Yang Qi felt a mighty force pushing against him, almost as if he were a chunk of food that the Great Necropolis was trying to vomit up.

The power behind that force of 'vomiting' was too much for anyone to stand up to. Yang Qi couldn't possibly worry about fighting Proud Heaven at that moment, so he curled up into a ball and used his Purrfect God Art to protect himself as he was hurled away.

As he tumbled through the Great Necropolis, he collided with immortal worlds, sects, treasures troves, and the like, until light filled his eyes and he was outside the Great Necropolis.

Already, he could tell that heaven and earth were very different from before.

It was a much more violent eruption than anything from before, such that the many heavens were all completely transforming.

Immortal worlds with ranks of two or three thousand were ejected, smashing into the primal-chaos. In fact, there were sections of primal-chaos that had existed for millions upon millions of years that were being destroyed by the energy flows. And there were plenty of treasures and collections of vital energy that were like ice hitting water, and immediately melted into nothing.

In the past, the eruptions of the Great Necropolis had provoked mysterious changes among the immortal worlds. But this time was different. After all, there were immortal worlds ranked three thousand that were flying out, which defied the imagination of most immortals.

Crack!

Yang Qi saw the corpses of gods and immense superpower sects being ejected. In the past, they were like parasites in the Great Necropolis, but no longer. And the destructive force of the eruption was bringing about the death of countless experts.

The Sage Monarch League was also ejected.

Thankfully, there were plenty of extremely powerful experts there. And they had a spell formation that was backed by the power of the one origin, two polarities, three powers, four divisions, five phases, six directions, seven stars, eight trigrams, nine palaces, and ten preeminences. With that level of power it was able to summon a huge bubble that surrounded the immortal world protectively. Although the people inside were shocked by what was happening, they were soon able to restore their calm.

Because of the protection, the Sage Monarch League wasn't damaged at all.

As soon as Yang Qi saw it, he flew over, worried about what could happen if Proud Heaven pursued him.

However, after the Great Necropolis spat out all of the 'parasites', Proud Heaven vanished from sight. At this point, Yang Qi realized that Proud Heaven had outmaneuvered him, and that he also understood the Great Necropolis far more deeply. In fact, Yang Qi speculated that Proud Heaven's trip to the god world had probably involved some sort of contact with the Great Necropolis, which made it that much easier for him to work with it in this situation.

It begged the question of how many other unfathomable assets Proud Heaven had at his disposal.

Jadefall, flanked by others among his subordinates, appeared to meet him.

"What happened? Proud Heaven isn't dead?" she said.

"He's not," Yang Qi replied. "The will of King Immortal-Slayer entered the Great Necropolis, and now I don't know what's happening. I bet Proud Heaven is still there in the necropolis, trying to take advantage of the situation. Of course, that's easier said than done. The wills of the Great Necropolis and King Immortal-Slayer aren't exactly things that can be easily dealt with. For now, let's stay safe, wait patiently, and see how the situation develops. The Sage Monarch League is strong enough that we aren't under any threat. Even with the power of the Great Necropolis, Proud Heaven isn't a match for me; I can take his God Legion Seal away from him if he comes too close."

Although the surrounding vital energy was in chaos, the numerous powerful spell formations that had been constructed in the Sage Monarch League ensured that the vital energy inside was stable and growing stronger by the moment.

Snap. Crack.

As everyone looked at the crumbling chaos that surrounded them, an immense gravitational force sprang up around Yang Qi.

"Annulled Grand Magic!" Yang Qi said. "All treasures, come to me! All immortal worlds, come under my control. All immortal worlds with a rank of three thousand, shrink down and enter the Sage Monarch League!"

In response to his words, the three thousandth ranked immortal world that had been ejected did just that. Being wrapped up by Yang Qi's godpower, they shrank down and entered the Sage Monarch League, which was now filling up with more and more worlds.

"Come to me, treasure troves!" Yang Qi said, sending out his divine will into the many heavens, causing countless hoards of treasures to fly toward him, including collections of godhood.

When the people in the Sage Monarch League saw this, they cried out in loud voices, "The league-lord is completely invincible in all of heaven and earth!"

Although godhood was falling down like rain, no one rushed to try to grab it. They were so in awe of Yang Qi that they didn't dare to violate the various laws that had been set forth in the league. The old way of fighting to the death over valuable items wasn't permitted, and any who violated that law would end up suffering fates in which they suffered torment that made them wish they could die.

Meanwhile, Doom, the Shepherd, and Proud World all stood atop the Preeminent God Pillar. One by one, they spoke out in voices that rumbled like thunder.

"I, Doom, league-lord of the Great Necropolis Alliance, sectlord of the Doom Sect, former wielder of the God Legion Seal, hereby surrender and pay allegiance to League-Lord Yang Qi, and become a member of the Sage Monarch League."

"I, the Shepherd, leader of the Hell of Sages and Mahātmās, league-lord of the Fiend-Devil League, hereby surrender and pay allegiance to Yang Qi."

"I, Proud World, son of Proud Heaven, hereby surrender and pay allegiance to Yang Qi."

The fact that powerful and famous people like these were becoming Yang Qi's followers was shocking. That was especially true of Doom, who had lost the God Legion Seal, but also began cultivating the Unspoiled Body and Sage Monarch Grand Magic. Because of that, it was entirely possible that he would be able to survive in the god world.

The various members of the sects present were all astonished.

From the moment the Great Necropolis had begun ejecting immortal worlds, and the people from the Ancient Road to the Gods had begun to explore the Immortal Dao Age, everything had been a chaotic hodgepodge of good and bad people.

And all of the other immortal worlds who were still interested in fighting each other were now looking over at the Sage Monarch League.

"Who would've guessed that the alliance of savages and the Fiend-Devil League would actually join the Sage Monarch League to follow League-Lord Yang Qi. He's starting to unify everything..."

"Let's see if Yang Qi really will unify all of the immortal worlds. With all these treasures out in the open, will we really be cut off from all of them? Will the Sage Monarch League really take all of the treasures and resources?"

"Not necessarily. Yang Qi might be strong, but he still has to deal with the Executors of the Ancient Road. And I heard that the Royal Palace of Assassins still has a major grudge with the Sage Monarch League."

"Let's see if the Royal Palace of Assassins gets ejected too!"

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Chapter 1132: Unifying the Dao of Immortals

In the Great Necropolis, there were innumerable organizations that were constantly fighting each other. Of course, all the Terrifying experts knew that, of the various top organizations, the Executors of the Ancient Road were the most powerful.

After them came the Sage Monarch League, which had risen to the top as quickly as the rising sun. After them came the Fiend-Devil League, the Great Necropolis Alliance, and the Royal Palace of Assassins.

All of them had mid Terrifying experts who could slaughter anything in their path. In fact, they were so powerful that any of them could have vied for superiority. Yet the leaders of the Fiend-Devil League and the Great Necropolis Alliance were now loyal to Yang Qi and the Sage Monarch League. That meant that the executors no longer occupied the top spot.

It was in that shocking moment that the Royal Palace of Assassins appeared.

They were ejected alongside several immortal worlds ranked two thousand. Their headquarters was a huge palace surrounded by a killing energy of immense proportions. Within it, a host of assassins operated a grand spell formation as they tried to navigate their way through the chaos in their way.

Assassins generally didn't operate in the open, otherwise, how could they retain their reputation as assassins?

But right now, they were definitely out in the open. And considering that they had tried to assassinate Yang Qi in the past, how could he simply let them off the hook?

He quickly sent streams of golden light flying out of the Sage Monarch League, which pierced through the primal-chaos like boundless godpower. Then, everyone could see Yang Qi appear outside like an ancient heaven-god. The primal-chaos couldn't do a thing to stop him, and in fact, the golden light that shone around him created a powerful domain.

Extending his hand, he shot toward the Royal Palace of Assassins.

"Looking to die?!" the assassins shouted, and several of them flew out to meet him, including the King of Assassins, who held a long sword in his hand.

"Aeonic Assassination!"

"Complete Extermination!"

The King of Assassins had personally attempted to kill Yang Qi, but failed, and he knew full well that Yang Qi wouldn't let that go unanswered. But he was still enraged to see Yang Qi so flagrantly attacking the Royal Palace of Assassins as a whole, and simply couldn't allow that.

Sadly for him, he was now far weaker than Yang Qi was.

As the two closed in on each other, Yang Qi sent out a golden hand that flicked out with one finger.

The King of Assassin's sword light shattered, and he was slashed and hacked into a bloody conglomeration of gore. Coughing up blood, he looked at Yang Qi in astonishment and said, "You... Yang Qi, how could you be so strong? Are you a god already? Aggghhhh!"

Everyone watching had expected this to be a raging battle of top experts. None of them would have anticipated that the King of Assassins would be devastated so easily and quickly.

Yang Qi stepped into the Royal Palace of Assassins, reached out, and grabbed the King of Assassins, holding him up like a bedraggled chicken.

His bloodcurdling screams were all that people needed to hear.

"So strong. How could he be this invincible?"

"The King of Assassins once fought with the emperor of the executors and managed to survive. But Yang Qi just grabbed him like an animal. Exactly how strong is Yang Qi? Is he the top expert in all the immortal worlds?"

"I think so. He beat the King of Assassins with a single move. That means he's definitely the top figure in the immortal dao civilization. But how did he get so strong?"

"So that's how it is. Now I get it."

"What do you mean? What do you get?"

"People are saying that Yang Qi is the bearer of the God Legion Seal. And that follower of his, Doom, also used to bear a God Legion Seal, but handed it to Yang Qi. That means Yang Qi has two God Legion Seals. As long as he can get the final piece, he'll be truly invincible."

"If he already has two pieces, the third piece shouldn't be that hard to take."

The countless gathered experts were so impressed that none of them considered defying him; in fact, all of them wanted to join him and ask for protection.

As soon as Yang Qi grabbed the King of Assassins, countless experts poured out of the Royal Palace of Assassins in an attempt to save him. Drawing on the power of the palace itself, they sent a dragon of death shooting toward Yang Qi.

"If you people have a death wish, then I guess that means there won't be a Royal Palace of Assassins going forward!"

Yang Qi waved his sleeve, unleashing a torrent of daoist techniques that exploded every person it touched, transforming them into streams of vital energy that were sucked into the palace itself.

Then Yang Qi waved his hand, and the Royal Palace of Assassins shrank down to a size so small it fit right on his palm. The famous organization of assassins that had dominated the Ancient Road to the Gods for billions of years, striking fear into countless hearts, had been exterminated just like that.

"And now the King of Assassins will become a puppet!" Yang Qi stood there in the middle of the primal-chaos, not making any attempt to hide as he clamped his other hand onto the King of Assassins' head. Instantly, a halo blossomed out as he completely took control of the man's thoughts.

The King of Assassins fought back, but it didn't do him any good. A moment later, he dropped to his knees.

"Milord!"

Everyone could see that he was now a puppet.

RUMBLE!

Right then, something gargantuan emerged from the Great Necropolis. It was a huge gate that led to the end of the Ancient Road to the Gods, a doorway that could reach godly ascension. It was the Gate to the Gods. And there were countless top experts surrounding it, as well as a host of palaces.

The Executors of the Ancient Road had been ejected from the necropolis.

'The Gate to the Gods? How immensely powerful.' As Yang Qi finished taking the Royal Palace of Assassins, he looked over at the Gate to the Gods and marveled in his heart. However, he wasn't afraid. In fact, he was one hundred percent confident that he could take the gate and simultaneously wipe out the Executors of the Ancient Road.

He was without a doubt the top expert under heaven, and the most powerful fighter outside of the god world. Not even Proud Heaven was a match for him without the Great Necropolis and its secrets to draw on. And if the emperor of the executors and his followers weren't a match for Proud Heaven, then how could they possibly cause problems for Yang Qi?

Just when Yang Qi was about to make his move on the executors and their Gate to the Gods, intense rumbling sounds could be heard from the Great Necropolis.

RUMBLE!

The necropolis shook violently as it began to move within the primal-chaos.

All of a sudden, the Ancient Road to the Gods was once again revealed.

Unexpectedly, the majestic aura of godly ascension could be sensed.

'The Ancient Road to the Gods is out in the open again. Godly ascension is possible again!' The road stretched far off into the distance, reaching the heaven above, where a perilous plane of existence existed, filled with boundless destiny and fate.

It was the god world!

Compared to the god world, the immortal worlds were like trash, or specks of dust. Even the three thousandth ranked worlds may as well have been pebbles. The god world was the ultimate goal. It was also the ultimate origin of all other worlds.

'Godly ascension...'

Yang Qi knew that with his invincible cultivation base, he could definitely reach the god world in short order. He could even take his people with him.

Many other people suddenly felt hope. Back when the road had disappeared, their opportunity to reach godly ascension had gone with it. But now that the road was back, everyone brimmed with joy.

The battle between the wills of King Immortal-Slayer and the Great Necropolis had resulted in the necropolis moving. Afterward, another upheaval took place as an enormous chart appeared, like a painting that seemed about to suck in the Great Necropolis.

The painting featured beautiful scenery including mountains, rivers, palaces of jade, and other images from the god world. It was none other than the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart. And it was vastly stronger than it had been when Yang Qi controlled it.

The chart enveloped the Great Necropolis, but the necropolis immediately began fighting back.

Whooooosh!

The necropolis shrank down, and the fighting climbed toward a fever pitch.

Meanwhile, someone stepped out of the Great Necropolis, and it was none other than Proud Heaven. Looking exultant, he said, "The will of King Immortal-Slayer, backed by the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart, invaded the Great Necropolis, only to be sealed. However, the necropolis' powers have been significantly reduced. They're wearing each other down, to the point that the Ancient Road to the Gods has appeared again. Soon, I'm going to get the Great Necropolis, the will of King Immortal-Slayer, and the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart!" He burst out laughing. "Even that extra God Legion Seal won't do you any good, Yang Qi. Your combined seal can't do anything to the Great Necropolis. You don't even know where the necropolis is from, but I do. The Great Necropolis can dominate anything and everything! It will even bring an end to the god world!"

Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh.

The Great Necropolis rapidly shrank down until it was small enough to drop onto Proud Heaven's palm, where it twitched and struggled.

However, Proud Heaven simply closed his fingers around it, sealing his control of it. "I'm not going to fight you now, Yang Qi. I'm heading into the god world to assimilate the Great Necropolis, then use its power to deal with King Immortal-Slayer. When I'm finished, you're dead! And your two God Legion Seals will be crushed like a chicken or a dog!"

Turning, he shot onto the Ancient Road to the Gods.

"I'm going to chase Proud Heaven!" Yang Qi quickly said. "You deal with the Executors of the Ancient Road!" The people of the Sage Monarch League were so strong that they could wage war on the executors without Yang Qi, and still have the upper hand.

Even the immortal-slaying clone alone could deal with their emperor. A fight like this would be good training for all of them.

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Chapter 1133: Chasing Proud Heaven

The Immortal Dao Age was changing, and Yang Qi was the top expert in it. Unfortunately, Proud Heaven took control of the wills of the Great Necropolis and King Immortal-Slayer, then disappeared onto the Ancient Road to the Gods.

Yang Qi immediately gave chase with deadly determination.

He simply couldn't allow Proud Heaven to truly control the Great Necropolis. Yang Qi knew that his plans had clearly come to fruition in a resounding success. With the help of the Great Necropolis, he managed to get King Immortal-Slayer's will under control, and then used that will to shrink the Great Necropolis down to a manageable size.

If Proud Heaven took the Great Necropolis to the god world and continued to assimilate it, then it was highly likely that he would end up combining it with the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart and becoming a new Wretch-God. And if that happened, Yang Qi would definitely die at his hands.

Another reason he was chasing Proud Heaven with such determination was that, despite having taken the Great Necropolis, there was no way he could take full advantage of its powers. He might have shrunk it down, but the will of King Immortal-Slayer was still inside, struggling defiantly. Otherwise, even if Proud Heaven were a god, he wouldn't have been able to dominate the necropolis.

In other words, Yang Qi still had a chance to take it from him.

Yang Qi shot after Proud Heaven like a meteor catching up to the moon, and before long, could see him just ahead. Normally speaking, it was said that once you walked the ancient road, you could never go back. But Yang Qi wasn't an ordinary person. He could look down on the power of the ancient road now; after all, he had two God Legion Seals.

And if Proud Heaven could go to the god world and return, why couldn't Yang Qi?

'You think that just because you took the Great Necropolis, Proud Heaven, you control everything now? Nobody owns the Great Necropolis. I'm the only one who qualifies. So you're going to give it back, along with your God Legion Seal!'

As he sped after Proud Heaven, Yang Qi smiled coldly. 'Be absorbed!'

A golden figure emerged from his forehead, quickly transforming into a golden vortex that began to spin wildly. Proud Heaven suddenly stopped in his tracks as he felt something pulling at him; specifically, the Great Necropolis was now twitching as though it might fly out of his hand.

Although he currently possessed the Great Necropolis, he didn't actually own it, which meant that it could fly away at any moment.

Furthermore, Proud Heaven had inserted his God Legion Seal into the necropolis as a further way to erode its essence and force it to acknowledge him. If he became its ultimate successor, the other Inheritors would never have any chance of taking control of it. Unfortunately for him, the power of the Great Necropolis was so immense that it wasn't possible to do that single-handedly.

On the other hand, there was no disputing the fact that Yang Qi had control over the God Legion Seal. Therefore, once he used his seal to call out to the final third piece within the Great Necropolis, it began to twitch and wriggle.

"You're not going anywhere," Proud Heaven said when he realized what happened. Drawing on his true energy, he summoned an enormous tombstone behind him. Grinning evilly, he said, "I just acquired a huge amount of godpower from the Great Necropolis, Yang Qi. My cultivation base isn't any weaker than yours now. Considering we're evenly matched, there's no need to fight each other to death. Once you reach the god world, you'll see how broad and spacious it is, and how many countless gods there are who will want to kill us. Why don't we join forces and conquer the place together? What do you think?"

"I think you're full of bullcrap. If I kill you, I get everything, including the Great Necropolis, the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart, the will of King Immortal-Slayer, and the final piece of the God Legion Seal. Then I'll turn you into a puppet and use you to conquer the god world. This is your last chance to hand the God Legion Seal over to me."

"You're delusional!" Proud Heaven growled. Drawing on his true energy and the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth, he summoned an enormous projection of a godmammoth behind him. It was powerful enough to trample heaven and earth, crush the sun and moon, and communicate with god-spirits. Instantly, a wild and sinister wind sprang up on the Ancient Road to the Gods.

This was Yang Qi's first time on the Ancient Road to the Gods, and looking around, he could immediately see how large it was. It was another world, and it had immensely powerful magical laws. However, thanks to how close-knit the laws were, it was impossible to get lost. All one had to do was follow the direction of the magical laws, and they would eventually reach the end of the road.

"Time to die!" Yang Qi said as he strode forward, his every footfall shaking the road and causing cracks to spread out on its surface. As he advanced, the King of Godmammoths appeared behind him and lashed out toward Proud Heaven with a whip.

It was the Mammoth King's God Whip!

With two God Legion Seals, Yang Qi had immense enlightenment of the martial disciplines of the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth, and now understood the profundities of the King of Godmammoths.

As the Mammoth King's God Whip snapped out, booms filled the ancient road, and there were even some nearby mountains that shattered from its might.

Next, Yang Qi fully drew on his Sage Monarch Grand Magic.

Of the ten great daos of humans, those of the hegemon and the hero once again appeared, causing Yang Qi to thrum with the energy of a heroic hegemon. In that short moment, Proud Heaven suddenly felt as if Yang Qi had transformed from one attacker into three. Bearing down on him was the Mammoth King's God Whip, as well as the hegemon and the hero, who wielded a saber and spear respectively.

And not even a god could have predicted where exactly the strikes would land.

'Fuck!' Proud Heaven thought. 'I can't believe the kid has reached this level. With two pieces of the God Legion Seal, his abilities are vastly beyond what they were before. Not even I can defeat them! I don't think even a Lesser God could kill him, and probably not even secure a slight victory. The brat may as well be a god himself.'

Proud Heaven exhaled deeply, bending like a bow as he sent the projected tombstone flying forth to meet the Mammoth King's God Whip. Then he lunged forward as viciously as a wolf or tiger, unexpectedly using the Great Necropolis itself as a weapon to attack Yang Qi.

By the time Yang Qi realized what was happening, the energy of the hero and the hegemon were struck, and collapsed. At the same time, the Great Necropolis seemed to transform, being propelled by the power of King Immortal-Slayer to rumble toward Yang Qi.

It was a fist attack that surpassed the level of ordinary gods, and was obviously a secret magic of Proud Heaven.

"You think you can fight me using the power of the Great Necropolis?" Yang Qi said. "That's wishful thinking if I ever heard it!" Thrusting his hand out toward the Great Necropolis, he seemingly prepared to fight force with force. "Who is King Immortal-Slayer anyway? If he defies me, he'll die. I'm a true monarch, while he is a false one. The Sage Monarch Grand Magic is a true king in this world. A Monarch of Myriad Monarchs. I am the Sage Monarch!"

Under this immense pressure, Yang Qi unleashed his Sage Monarch Grand Magic. As he did, the ultimate meaning of kings and monarchs became clear in his mind. After all, he had long since mastered the Seventy-Two Monarchs Energy Art, and could use it to devastating effect.

Thanks to the pressure of the will of King Immortal-Slayer and the transformations to the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart, the moment he attacked Proud Heaven, his life force quintessence reached a higher level and he suddenly understood far more about the Sage Monarch Grand Magic.

Sage, Monarch, Ruler, Emperor, Sovereign, Lord, Hero, Hegemon, God, Nothing.

Yang Qi was like the king of the two aspects of Hero and Hegemon. Suddenly, the projected image of a monarch appeared behind him, a king with a military banner in his hand, severing heads and leaving carnage in his wake. Mountains and rivers are shattered, the wind is filled with catkins. State and country are exterminated, the generals die in war.

That was a king.

A king waged war in all directions, filling the lands with his banners.

The army followed the monarch's commands, marching wherever he indicated, causing blood to flow in rivers. When the king gave an order, corpses would pile up.

That was a monarch.

The saber of a hegemon.

The spear of a hero.

The flag of a king!

"The monarch victorious!" Yang Qi said, clenching his hand into a fist and throwing all of his energy arts into it as he punched out toward the Great Necropolis. "You might have the Great Necropolis, Proud Heaven, but you can't use it, you piece of trash! That thing belongs in my hands! I'm the only one who can unleash its might. Hand it over!"

The king's banner waved behind him, and on either side, the hero and the hegemon channeled their power into it, causing energy to thrum that surpassed the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth and any of the magical devices Yang Qi possessed. It was the perfect match for Yang Qi's cultivation base.

The will of a monarch entered the Great Necropolis, and instantly, King Immortal-Slayer sensed it. "A monarch! So, you've gained enlightenment of the profundities of the kings. It's superficial, but you're on the right path..."

King Immortal-Slayer's will wanted to free itself, but was bound by the Great Necropolis. Yet it was still possible for Proud Heaven and Yang Qi to hear it speak.

"Damn this Great Necropolis. What is this thing? It can actually suppress my will!? Nothing in the world can defeat me, not even the God Legion Seal. Besides, I shattered that seal. And yet this necropolis actually seems stronger than that..."

RIP!

Proud Heaven lunged backward, his face ashen after meeting Yang Qi's attack.

"Well done, boy!" Proud Heaven said, keeping his grip on the Great Necropolis. Unable to control himself, he coughed up a huge mouthful of blood; obviously, Yang Qi's attack had severely injured him.

Yang Qi could immediately confirm that although Proud Heaven was strong, his enlightenment couldn't compare to Yang Qi's enlightenment of the Sage Monarch Grand Magic. It conformed to his own dao and was the bane of other daos, the Ten Universes included.

"Don't fight back unnecessarily, Proud Heaven," Yang Qi said coolly. "And there's no need to pretend to be so hurt. I'm not going to fall for a trick like that and attack you for no reason."

1. There are two lines of poetry here, one is a quote from a poem by , a Song Dynasty poet and politician who is famous for resisting the Mongol invasion of Jiangxi in 1275. He's still a popular symbol of patriotism and righteousness. The second line of poetry seems to be made up by Divine Dreamwalker, as far as I can tell. Both are my own translation, I couldn't easily find an existing translation of Wen Tianxiang's line of poetry.

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Chapter 1134: The Third Seal

"You're too strong, Yang Qi!" Proud Heaven said, his eyes pulsing with venomous hatred. "I should've dealt with you earlier, before it was too late!" Even having taken the Great Necropolis, Proud Heaven couldn't really use it. It was like having a god item in his hands, but sealed away so that it couldn't be touched.

And even if he reached godly ascension, there was no saying whether or not he could actually use the necropolis. That meant that right now his best option was to flee to the god world and spend some time studying it and its godpower.

Unfortunately, Yang Qi was clearly determined to kill him, which meant that he couldn't just turn and run. Yang Qi was too strong, and with his recent enlightenment of his Sage Monarch Grand Magic, he could definitely put an end to Proud Heaven.

Even Proud Heaven had to admit that the Sage Monarch Grand Magic was completely terrifying.

Unparalleled under heaven.

With it, Yang Qi controlled the transformations of yin and yang, the mysteries of ghosts and gods, and the nature of the sun and the moon.

Yang Qi burst out laughing. "Hand it over, Proud Heaven. Give me the God Legion Seal and the Great Necropolis. You have no chance of beating me here in the mortal world. You lost the moment that Doom joined me. Your life is forfeit, and there's nothing you can do to get it back."

Proud Heaven gave a cold harrumph. "You think you've won, Yang Qi? We still have a lot of time on our hands, and you haven't captured me yet. Eight Dharmas of Heaven and Earth. Shifting of Universes. Enter the God World!"

A host of universes popped into being around him, wrapping him up and whisking him further down the Ancient Road to the Gods. He was obviously going all out to reach the god world, which was the only place he could escape Yang Qi. Even if he tried to reach the future of the mortal world, it wouldn't do him any good, as the Ancient Road to the Gods didn't exist there.

"Trying to run? You think I'll let that happen?" The golden figure emerged from Yang Qi's forehead again, and the trumpeting of a godmammoth echoed out. Screaming winds slammed into Proud Heaven, who was shaken so badly that his own God Legion Seal seemed just on the verge of flying out of him.

In fact, golden light actually slipped past the bounds of the Great Necropolis and headed toward Yang Qi.

The third piece of the God Legion Seal really wanted to combine with the others. The combined God Legion Seal was a major force; years ago, it had crushed countless rebels. After all, King Immortal-Slayer was only one of many who had revolted.

If someone with two pieces of the God Legion Seal could be so domineering, it could only be imagined what the complete version would be like.

Not even Proud Heaven putting the God Legion Seal into the Great Necropolis was really an option.

"Magisters! Do the nine of you really need to sit on the mountaintop and watch the tigers fight, then try to reap the spoils when they tire out? If I lose my God Legion Seal, things won't exactly go well for you. You'll definitely chafe under his vicious rule. We ten magisters have worked together for years on end, first to build the future world into what it is today, and then to subjugate the god Brahma. I know that you have Brahma under your control and have been planning on using him against me. So why not bring him out to fight this brat!"

In response to his call, nine figures appeared further down the Ancient Road to the Gods, and behind them was another, taller and mightier figure.

In fact, from the godpower he emanated, it was obvious that he was a living god!

It was the god Brahma.

Long ago, Yang Qi had met Brahma in the form of his head. But apparently, the magisters of the future world had combined his head, heart, and the rest of his body parts. Now they had been put back together, except that his godhood was under the control of the magisters, making him like the walking dead, a mere puppet.

Brahma had been unlucky enough to be held captive for so many years, only to end up like this. Yang Qi couldn't help but feel bad for him.

However, now was not the time to try to communicate with Brahma. If he was under the control of an enemy, that made him an enemy as well.

Of the nine magisters, seven were men and two were women. Of the men, some were old, some were middle-aged, and some were young, but they all seemed very domineering. Both of the women were bewitchingly charming, but at the same time elegant and graceful. All of these people were the kind who commanded immense power.

The ten magisters, the invincible power of an entire age, were now together in one place.

Although Proud Heaven wasn't technically their leader, he was definitely the most powerful among them.

He currently held the Great Necropolis, out of which was seeping the golden light of the God Legion Seal. However, because the other magisters also cultivated the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth, they quickly got it under control.

Standing toward the back of the group was a man in a bronze mask, the very same one that had fought Yang Qi with the Mammoth King's God Whip. Looking over at one of the older members of the group, he said, "Father... this is the same Yang Qi who fought with me over the position of league-lord, and refused to back down. Who would've guessed that he would grow to this level of strength?"

As for the old man, he was the head magister, and unexpectedly, the masked young man was his son.

The head magister could be identified by his robe, which was brown, and emanated an aura of space-time from the future world. In comparison, Proud Heaven was actually inferior in terms of how impressive he was.

"So, you're Yang Qi?" the head magister asked, taking a step forward.

"That's right," Yang Qi said coolly. "And you people are the magisters of the future world? Good. This way I don't have to go to the future world to find you. Considering the future world is a dead end, without access to the Ancient Road to the Gods, why don't the lot of you surrender and pay allegiance to me?"

"Big words," the old man replied with a sneer. Looking at Proud Heaven, he said, "Your plan worked, Proud Heaven. You have both King Immortal-Slayer and the Great Necropolis under your control. But the Great Necropolis is supposed to belong to the future world as a whole, not for you to simply take for your own. Do you understand? Remember, I'm the head magister, the leader among us ten."

"We can talk later about who gets what, Head Magister," Proud Heaven said. "Right now, we're facing a joint enemy, namely, Yang Qi. He has two pieces of the God Legion Seal, which makes him the top figure outside of the god world. If we don't kill him, then even the future world is going to fall under his control."

"This really is the most pressing matter at hand," said one of the female magisters. "Little Brother Yang Qi, it's a real surprise that a tiny savage like you from the immortal worlds could reach this level. And you have two pieces of the God Legion Seal? Not bad. Not bad at all. Why not join our side? I can guarantee that you'll be the eleventh magister of the future world."

Yang Qi laughed disdainfully. "You bunch of chickens and dogs plan to help Proud Heaven? If I wanted to destroy the future world, I could do it with a mere thought. You people are far from being on the same level as he is. It doesn't even matter that you have Brahma under your control." He looked over at Proud Heaven. "Come on, Proud Heaven. Do you really think these fools are going to stop me from killing you?"

"Aiyo!" the other female magister said. "Quite a temper you have. You think the future world doesn't count for anything? Perhaps we ought to teach you a little lesson to show you the truth."

"Stop wasting your breath," another magister said, a burly man. "Grab him and force his God Legion Seals out. Combine the three of them, then we ten magisters can follow through with the original plan. We work together to go to the god world and reach godly ascension. Why would we do anything else? Besides, this brat obviously has a death wish."

"A death wish? I think you're the one with a death wish!" Yang Qi threw his hands out in front of him. "All of you, prepare to die. As for you, Proud Heaven, do you truly believe that you can keep your God Legion Seal under control? Annulled Grand Magic! Break!"

A wind kicked up, and Yang Qi's energy suddenly seemed to double. Golden light shone out from within him, making him seem like an ancient god that myriads of other gods would worship as their lord.

In fact, Brahma suddenly snapped into consciousness. Eyes flashing, he involuntarily said, "My Lord... my Lord..."

RUMBLE!

Suddenly, Brahma erupted with energy. "I can't believe you people bound me as a prisoner! You contemptible mortals! How dare you try to control a god. Do you realize what you've done?!"

"Not good!" Proud Heaven blurted. "You pieces of trash allowed Brahma to wake up! What if the two God Legion Seals can control Brahma?!"

Sadly for them, it was too late!

Brahma looked over and unleashed a palm attack backed with such godpower that the burly magister was immediately sent flying, blood spraying out of his mouth.

Then Brahma's gaze shifted to Proud Heaven, and his eyes radiated hatred. He knew that Proud Heaven was the one who had hurt him the most deeply. Therefore, he didn't hesitate to unleash a fist strike that forced Proud Heaven to retreat in terror.

At the same time, the magisters all launched attacks at Yang Qi.

"True-Devil Unspoiled-by-Myriad-Kalpas-and-Tribulations Body!" The power of tribulations and kalpas rolled off of Yang Qi, crumbling all of the attacks. At the same time, he made a grasping motion. "Come to me, God Legion Seal!"

The God Legion Seal erupted with power, smashing at the vital energy of the Great Necropolis, then breaking out into the open and radiating boundless light.

"Crap!" Proud Heaven shouted. "The God Legion Seal broke free! If Yang Qi gets it, we're all dead! I still haven't unlocked the secrets of the Great Necropolis, so I can't stand up to him!"

"Get Brahma under control!" the head magister said. "We haven't completely lost him. Lord of the Future. Zodiac Divine Ability. Boundless Tribulations!"

A river of stars flowed out of his head. "I'm the Lord of the Future, and I understand the true meaning of what the future is. I control the future, and gods are no exception!"

All of a sudden, Brahma's eyes went slack.

1. Yang Qi fought the man in the mask in .

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Chapter 1135: Nine Magisters, Dead

The nine magisters had appeared with Brahma under their control and surrounded Yang Qi. However, he didn't seem the least bit afraid. Using his God Legion Seal, he awoke Brahma, instantly putting the magisters in a deadly situation. At the same time, he called out to the third piece of the God Legion Seal; if he got it, he would be completely invincible, capable of conquering a chiliocosm of worlds, and definitely able to kill the magisters and Proud Heaven.

"Proud Heaven, let's work together to power our Ten-Secrets Grand-Monarch Formation!" said the head magister. "We were the ones who created the future world, and it was all thanks to our planning that it became great. There's obviously been some misunderstandings between us. What need is there for this infighting? Let's reconcile right now, and then get to the god world!"

"Alright!" Proud Heaven said, viciously grabbing his God Legion Seal. At the same time, a burst of light shot out of the top of his head, becoming like a pillar that connected heaven and earth, as if it might pierce through the Ancient Road to the Gods to reach the immortal worlds.

Simultaneously, all of the other magisters did the same thing, creating a huge spell formation.

"Ten-Secrets Grand-Monarch Formation! Future domination; change the future. We control everything, including your future, Yang Qi. Now hurry up and surrender!"

RUMBLE!

The ten experts transformed into a gargantuan hand that rumbled down toward Yang Qi to crush him. It was a hand that could snatch a person's future away from them, leaving them bereft of all hope and forcing them to comply.

"You bunch of chickens and dogs!" Yang Qi said with a cold laugh. "Don't tell me you really think that teaming up will be enough to fight me." He shot up to meet the hand, simultaneously sending out millions upon millions of streams of light, like a scintillating river that sped right toward the hand.

The hand collapsed.

"Brahma: attack!" the head magister shouted. He then spat out a stream of blood that flowed into Brahma's body. As Brahma stood there like he was ready to trample on the sun and moon, breathing primal-chaos in and out, a kingdom of the five phases appeared in his hands.

"Cardinal Grand Brahman Five Phases Energy Arts? I mastered that a long time ago, and my skill with the four tribulations of Success, Steadiness, Destruction, and the Void have reached the pinnacle. In fact, thanks to the God Legion Seal, I pushed it to a higher level. Brahma, you lost your godhood, and are nothing but an undying spirit now. Do you really need to let them control you? Hurry and wake up! If you work for me, I might be able to help you form your own godhood again, and once again become an actual god. With the God Legion Seal under my control, gods must obey my commands. So, attack!"

Yang Qi clenched his hand into a fist as he also unleashed the Cardinal Grand Brahman Five Phases Energy Arts, and his version was clearly superior to Brahma's. As his energy flowed into Brahma, the god's eyes became clear again, and his godpower began flowing more freely through him. Brahma was mighty, but without his godhood, he wasn't really a true god. He was more like a banished god. That said, he was still strong, with a psychic scale at the mid Terrifying level, and an invincible power index of over nine thousand. If he unleashed all of his fighting prowess, he would be no weaker than Yang Qi, and would be a truly troublesome opponent.

But how could a god actually be controlled by mortals?

After being called out to by Yang Qi, Brahma said, "How dare you try to control me, mortals! Seeds, detonate!"

Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam! Bam! Bam!!

Booms rang out from inside Brahma's body as true energy explosions rocked his insides and godpower flowed through him. Mortal cultivators worked with true energy, but gods worked with godpower. And there were fundamental differences between the two.

The nine magisters' faces went pale, and blood sprayed out of their mouths as the warding spells they had placed inside Brahma collapsed. They were already experiencing a catastrophe that would be difficult to recover from.

The nine magisters had such powerful cultivation bases that they were superior to virtually all of the experts from the Ancient Road to the Gods. They were all mid Terrifying experts, and the reason was that they had implanted Brahma with seeds allowing them to draw on his power. They were like saplings planted in rich soil that could quickly grow into mighty trees. After all, one could only imagine the cultivation advancement that would be possible by drawing on the power, enlightenment, and experiences of a god.

But now that those seeds were being detonated, the 'roots' of those immense 'trees' were being severed.

Their foundations were shattering.

"Ten Dharmas Combined; Ten Universes Mastery!"

RUMBLE!

A strange expression appeared on Proud Heaven's face as the energy of his Ten Universes technique suddenly slammed into the other nine magisters. Screams erupted from their mouths as they realized the catastrophic circumstances they were now in.

"You're trying to take control of our souls, Proud Heaven!?" shrieked one of the female magisters. "How ruthless!"

"Just what do you think you're doing, Proud Heaven?" the head magister said, his voice quivering with terror. "How could you be doing this? When did you get control of our souls?!"

"You scum have been following me for years," Proud Heaven said. "Don't you know what kind of person I am by now? Anyone I work with ends up dying in the end. I, Proud Heaven, am the only future! I'm the true Lord of the Future. The reason I sought enlightenment of the Ten Universes was to deal with the rest of you. Including me, there are ten of us. And now we're going to be combined together in one body. Mine!"

All of these things happened so quickly that not even Yang Qi could react. The nine magisters screamed miserably as they exploded and turned into nine streams of true energy that shot into Proud Heaven. In the blink of an eye, he combined the ultimate powers of the future world.

Yang Qi backed up, grabbing Brahma as he did. That seemed his best option as Proud Heaven was experiencing his boost in power.

Furthermore, he needed to see what exactly Proud Heaven was planning to do.

Perhaps it would be best to take advantage of this moment to launch a fatal blow on Proud Heaven. Wipe him out down to his very soul, and make sure he understood that no matter how strong he became, he would never best Yang Qi. That way, he could kill him without fear of him being resurrected.

After all, when mighty individuals died, but their rancorous will didn't dissipate, it indicated that they were unwilling to die, which would give birth to all sorts of problems with karma. For example, King Immortal-Slayer had been killed, but his rancorous will escaped, and now he was almost fully resurrected. Although it was only his will, it went to show that he was incapable of truly dying.

Yang Qi would only be satisfied if he slaughtered Proud Heaven down to his very soul, without allowing him any delusions of having a fighting chance. If he died in despair, without any hope of resurrection, then all loose ends could be tied up.

RUMBLE!

As Proud Heaven powered up, Yang Qi saw a passage open behind the man that led to the future world.

It was a place filled with glittering stars, planes of existence, and of course science and technology at its very peak. There were powerful battleships, enormous space station fortresses, and endless wormholes. It was an enormous place filled with so much life it was impossible to quantify.

It was a place where both science and cultivation flourished.

The future world.

But right now, Proud Heaven was extracting the power of that universe. Yang Qi watched as planet after planet withered, the living beings on their surfaces screaming as doomsday came. Billions of trillions of planets, with too much life to count, were all destroyed, their power flowing into Proud Heaven.

The young man in the bronze mask shrilly screamed, "Proud Heaven! You animal! You betrayed the magisters and are destroying the future world to power up?! You're bringing about the end of all civilization!"

Gathering his strength, the young man lunged at Proud Heaven.

However, Proud Heaven did nothing but twitch, which transformed the young man into ash.

Yang Qi looked on coldly as the future world experienced its apocalypse. The person responsible for their grisly fate was their own Magister Proud Heaven, a vicious and merciless beast who was willing to destroy the very civilization he had created. What did it mean that he was now being blessed by the power of the future? It was almost like the power of a god was awakening within him.

There were countless planets and innumerable peoples in the future world. Some lived useless lives, while some worked hard on their cultivation in an attempt to stand out among their peers. Some were conniving tricksters, and some were just ordinary people. In the end, it didn't matter; they all died.

It was the ultimate equalizer. When death came, when the apocalypse arrived, everyone met the same end: death.

Proud Heaven burst out into maniacal laughter. "You helped me reach my true goal, Yang Qi! I created the future world and the nine magisters, all with the purpose of absorbing them. And now I have. With the power of an entire age to back me, do you really think you can fight me?"

1. The Cardinal Grand Brahman Five Phases Energy Arts were originally brought up by name in back when Yang Qi was infiltrating the Brahman Society. It was mentioned in numerous later chapters. The four tribulations were originally mentioned in , and also came up a bunch of times later.

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Chapter 1136: Ending One

Proud Heaven was such a ruthless and ferocious character that he was sacrificing the entire future world for his own benefit. He had brought doomsday to the future to make himself stronger. That was how merciless he was. It would have been like Yang Qi destroying every person in the Sage Monarch League and absorbing them. This was the dao of devils. The dao of evil. Or perhaps one could say it was the dao of selfishness.

In the dao of selfishness, one did anything and everything to benefit oneself, with no regard for others.

As long as one could guarantee their own benefit, anyone and anything else in heaven and earth could be sacrificed.

Yang Qi could never be like Proud Heaven in that regard. Yang Qi had his own dao, the Sage Monarch Grand Magic, which was in itself a dharma of extremities.

In fact, the Sage Monarch Grand Magic actually contained the Ten Universes within it.

Because of all this, Yang Qi remained calm as he watched things play out. At a certain point, he suddenly said, "Brahma, go to my Sage Monarch League. This fight is between me and Proud Heaven. I'll wait until he finishes powering up, then put an end to him once and for all. I'll make sure he dies down to his core and is reduced to ashes."

With that, he flung Brahma out of the Ancient Road to the Gods. Brahma was visibly stunned by how obviously stronger Yang Qi was than he. Meanwhile, Yang Qi's voice continued entering his ears via will projection. "Help the Sage Monarch League destroy the Executors of the Ancient Road and seize universal fortune. I'll use that universal fortune to rebuild your godhood, then reach the god world. When that happens, you'll be fully resurrected and become a god again. Right now, you're only a half-dead projection of divine will, and if you want to progress beyond that you'll have to rely on me and the God Legion Seal."

"Very impressive, boy," Brahma said. "Fine, I'll do what you say."

Brahma knew that his hopes of true resurrection lay with Yang Qi, so he shot directly to the battlefield where the Executors of the Ancient Road were fighting the Sage Monarch League.

With Doom, Proud World, and the Shepherd on their side, as well as the immortal-slaying clone, the Sage Monarch League now had some truly powerful mid Terrifying experts.

Unfortunately, the executors had immense resources and were the top force in all of the many heavens and myriad worlds that existed outside of the god world. For all intents and purposes, no one could possibly wage war against them and succeed.

Thankfully, the Sage Monarch League didn't just have a host of top experts. They had numerous puppets as well, such as Mu Renwang, Su Xin, Huangfu Genesis, and the King of Assassins. They were all people who had stood up to the executors in the past, and right now they were causing major problems on the battlefield. In fact, they were driving the executors crazy.

Bitter, intense fighting was already underway.

The executors' top experts were all engaged in the fight, with numerous old-timers operating spell formations to defend against the attacks of the Sage Monarch League. Meanwhile, the experts of the league were powering their own formations, sending immense beams of dazzling godlight shooting through the primal-chaos.

Unfortunately, the executors had the Gate to the Gods, which they were using to keep the league's spell formations in check. If it weren't for all of the vast treasures Yang Qi had plundered, which could now be used to power the formations, the Sage Monarch League would have already been crushed into powder.

This wasn't a battle of scattered scuffles here and there, but a contest between major spell formations. After all, with untold quadrillions of disciples powering even just one spell formation, how much might could it unleash? Even a mid Terrifying expert would have to dodge out of the way of a blast like that.

Enormous spell formations were the ultimate weapons of huge organizations like these. And when two such organizations went to battle, the formations were often the most valuable asset, rather than individual experts.

For instance, an organization that didn't have a mid Terrifying expert, but far more disciples, enough to power an enormous spell formation, could theoretically hold their own. They could possibly even kill the opposing mid Terrifying expert, or at least send them running.

It was similar to how, in the martial arts world of the mortals, a kung fu expert couldn't necessarily stand up to an entire army. That kung fu expert could easily kill any single soldier in the army, but if the army charged him en masse, he would either die or be forced to flee.

The countless disciples in the Sage Monarch League were all assigned to various spell formations, into which they were pouring their quintessence vitality and life essence. In this moment of great danger, everyone had their assigned place and no one was holding anything back.

As the sayings go, many grains of sand piled up will make a tower, and a hundred streams will flow together to make a sea.

The combined might of all of the members of an organization would reveal their true strength!

Of course, the Executors of the Ancient Road had far more latent power at their disposal than the Sage Monarch League. Plus, the Gate to the Gods was the most devastating magical treasure in the mortal world; it even surpassed the top god items. The downside for the executors was that they couldn't match up to the number of disciples in the Sage Monarch League. Nor did they have as many puppets and thralls.

The two sides were mostly evenly matched, with the executors having a slight advantage.

Explosions rocked the primal-chaos, and immortal worlds were being destroyed left and right. It was impossible to say how many lives were being lost on each side as this final battle to surpass all final battles took place. Whoever came out on top would control the past, present, and future, including countless worlds, and even the innumerable hells that existed. All universal fortune would go to the organization that came out on top, and obviously, that organization would be the ultimate ruler of the mortal world.

If Yang Qi's people vanquished the Executors of the Ancient Road, he would be able to completely free himself from the control of the gods and get so much destiny that it would be impossible to quantify.

Even as the executors were struggling into a winning position, the god Brahma arrived.

A true god!

Although he wasn't complete, he was still a god, and wasn't particularly weaker than Yang Qi. Only the God Legion Seal could truly restrain him. As soon as he appeared in front of the Gate to the Gods, he unleashed a fist strike that instantly caused the enormous gate to seize up.

"Damnation!" the emperor of the executors cursed.

One of the other old-timers present shouted, "That's a true god! Sadly for him, he's lacking godhood. And the fact that he's opposing the Executors of the Ancient Road means he's a wretch-god. A depraved god worthy of nothing but death! Attack him with full force! Sacrifice the thralls!"

On one of the enormous worlds they controlled, a massive altar rose up, onto which the disciples tossed countless thralls, all of them bound and trussed. Countless blades rose up, then fell, causing rivers of blood to flow onto the altar.

Bzzzzzzzz!

The power of the blood sacrifice towered into heaven, halting Brahma's advance and sending him tumbling backward.

Brahma roared in defiance. However, that was when the immortal-slaying clone said, "Brahma, come into the Sage Monarch League grand spell formation. If we power it together, we'll definitely crush the executors. You alone are strong enough to power countless formations and unleash their numerous enigmatic abilities. This is a battle of sect versus sect, a war of the top forces of the age. It's not a time for people to show off and try to be heroes."

"Fine," Brahma said. Even in the god world, there were plenty of gods who would groom slaves and believers within their god kingdoms, imbuing them with their own quintessence energy and training them for battle, in case another god invaded. In many ways, the strength of a god lay in the strength of their believers.

It was even like that with Lesser Gods. If two Lesser Gods clashed and had the same godhood, but different numbers of believers, the one with superior numbers would likely win.

In an organization in the mortal world, the disciples were like the believers.

As soon as Brahma entered the grand spell formation, he sent his power into it, and loud cracking sounds could be heard as numerous subsidiary spell formations powered up. He was a god, and could have held his own against either of these organizations. In other words, he was as strong as the majority of the disciples put together.

Even a drop of his animadestiny quintessence vitality would be enough to instantly kill millions upon millions of disciples.

As soon as Brahma appeared, the tables turned. The Executors of the Ancient Road were now being forced into retreat, with many of them fleeing into the primal-chaos in the hopes of finding a place to hide.

As for the Sage Monarch League, they were intent on wiping out the executors, so they immediately gave chase.

Yang Qi could see what was happening, and he nodded in approval. It was now a given that the executors would be wiped out. Brahma had ensured that. Now Yang Qi could focus on the fight with Proud Heaven, who was still powering up.

"You were foolish to let me absorb the power of the future world to get stronger, Yang Qi," Proud Heaven said. "I'm no weaker than you now. If you thought it would turn out any other way, then you're sadly mistaken." Proud Heaven knew that Yang Qi was allowing him to power up, which left him feeling very uneasy. However, he couldn't complain, and he most definitely wasn't ready to give up the fight.

"Power up as much as you want," Yang Qi replied coolly. "You won't have another chance to do so after today. As I'm sure you realize, this fight is a matter of karma. Fight as hard as you can, and don't hold anything back."

"Very impressive, Yang Qi. You have my admiration. In fact, you're the first person I've ever admired. I've manipulated you to no end, even kidnapping your mother and sending her to the god world. Of course, I did that for your own good, to make you stronger. You realize that, right? If I had left your mother in the mortal world, you would have eventually found her.

"Now I'll show you what I left behind in the Primeval Age. I just buried the future, and now I'll bury the past. Doomsday is coming to primeval times. After that, the Immortal Dao Age will be put to an end. And now, the debut of the Ending One."

Proud Heaven burst out into maniacal laughter. "You're a Fateless One, Yang Qi. The best among the three thousand special constitutions. But I've surpassed those three thousand to create my own constitution. I will bring an end to the dao of heaven, and thus, I am the Ending One!"

1. The word I'm translating as "untold quadrillions" literally has the characters for "multiple" "one hundred million" "trillion". Normally speaking, the latter of the two characters when put together will be translated as "astronomical in number, countless, numberless, etc." Considering there are plenty of other words that mean those things, I'm going with a more literal version. I don't think the literal meaning is supposed to be "one hundred million times one trillion", and even if it was, I'm not sure what number that would be. So feel free to criticize or weigh in, any math people out there. In the end, I think it's supposed to sound like a very, very large number, but not just an adjective that means "large numbers".

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Chapter 1137: Escape

A new vortex opened, revealing innumerable immortal worlds and planes of existence in the Primeval Age. Although Proud Heaven and his cohorts had already spread ruin in the Primeval Age, there were still plenty of humans, Demonfolk, and Devilfolk who had survived the war. But now, Proud Heaven was bringing about mass destruction there.

An apocalypse had come as one planet and immortal world after another was destroyed.

Proud Heaven really was particularly cruel and ruthless. During his years in the Primeval Age, he had secretly created numerous vital energy spell formations that, in this critical moment, he was using to devour the destiny of the entire age. He was powering up with the energy of both the past and the future, and it was definitely going to make him domineering and without rival.

And he had already stated his intention to do the same to the Immortal Dao Age.

Thankfully, the Immortal Dao Age was being watched over by Yang Qi, which meant Proud Heaven couldn't do anything to it at the moment. The presence of the Great Necropolis ensured that the Immortal Dao Age was the strongest of the three ages; not even a god could destroy it right now, much less Proud Heaven.

However, that didn't mean that Yang Qi could do anything other than watch as the Primeval Age and the Future Age were destroyed, their dao of heaven put to an end.

Proud Heaven was already pulsing with the boundless power of Ending.

It was none other than the energy of an Ending One.

Among the three thousand great constitutions, the Fateless Ones were the kings, with the Eternal Ones and Fortuned Ones coming in secondary. Never before had there been such a thing as an Ending One.

Normally speaking, the dao of heaven was something that could never possibly end.

But now, Proud Heaven was absorbing the dao of heaven from innumerous immortal worlds. In other words, he was ending the dao of heaven. Thus, he was stepping into his role as an Ending One.

The Ending One.

Crash!

The Primeval Age was put to an end. From Yang Qi's perspective, it was now nothing but darkness and gloom, filled with primal-chaos. Even if one traveled through time to the Primeval Age, they would find that the civilizations and history there had been completely removed. There were no epic sagas to recount their glory. There was only primal-chaos.

It was the same in the future world. There was no glorious history there, no amazing civilization. Science and technology no longer existed. There was only primal-chaos.

Only the present was concrete and safe.

Only it was true and real.

Yang Qi could sense the dao of heaven trembling as if in fear of Proud Heaven, as if it knew that Proud Heaven wanted to put it to an end. Without Yang Qi present, he definitely would. Then he would pierce through the void, reach the god world, and become the mightiest of gods. Unfortunately, that outcome was as unrealistic as flowers in a mirror or the moon in the water.

Two green streaks of light appeared like writhing dragons, swirling around Proud Heaven into the shape of a taiji symbol, which he then devoured.

They were the dao of heaven from the Primeval Age and the Future Age.

What was the dao of heaven? It encompassed natural and magical laws, and existed between that which had a will and that which did not. Proud Heaven devoured the dao of heaven from both the future and the past, and as it turned into true energy, it went on to solidify into godpower. In fact, he was just on the verge of forming godhood. All he had to do now was get to the god world, and his energy arts would advance, allowing him to form godhood and become a Lesser God.

"Yang Qi, did you know that I could have reached godly ascension any time I wanted? But I didn't want to. Do you know why? In the god world, the Lesser Gods are led by the Common Gods. And I refuse to accept an arrangement like that. I want to be a god among gods. My power has reached an apex and my Ending One constitution is heading toward completion. Now I'm going to end you, and afterward, fully end the dao of heaven."

"Fine," Yang Qi said, standing there with his hands clasped behind his back. "You said it, Proud Heaven. Your power has reached an apex. Therefore, the time has come for me to kill you."

"Make your move!" Proud Heaven shouted.

RUMBLE!

Yang Qi took a step forward, moving across the Ancient Road to the Gods like an explosive dragon. In the blink of an eye, he was in front of Proud Heaven, where he threw his arms out like spears, or sledgehammers, or mountains, or seas, or falling suns and moons, or kowtowing gods.

He only used one move, but he didn't hesitate to draw on the top capabilities of the Sage Monarch Grand Magic, unleashing fist strikes that could shatter anything they touched, even godhood. Proud Heaven's body emitted creaking and crunching sounds, like a stone statue being struck with immense force. He had just absorbed the power of the dao of heaven, so his true energy currently burned like the sun.

'How is the brat so strong?' Proud Heaven thought, shocked. He had just absorbed the nine magisters and sacrificed both the Primeval Age and the Future Age, ending their dao of heaven. That had provoked a dramatic transformation within him, to the point where he had assumed he would be able to crush Yang Qi instantly. But contrary to expectation, Yang Qi only seemed to be getting fiercer and fiercer. In fact, this one move almost seemed too much to handle.

"Ten Universes!" he shouted, speeding backward to avoid Yang Qi's attack. Then he struck back, using the Ten Universes. Nature, Void, Cosmos, Nihility, Chaos, Epoch, Civilization, World, Macrocosm, Universe. One universe after another appeared, harrying the dao of heaven and sowing chaos among the workings of heaven.

Yang Qi showed no fear. Head high and chest out, he strode forward. He was like a dragon embodied, with a mouth like a primal-chaos elder-snake and arms like mammoth trunks, his every move pulsing with power.

The God Legion Seal appeared over his head, releasing immense radiance and light, constantly calling out to Proud Heaven's piece of the seal and forcing him to expend effort to suppress it.

Little did Proud Heaven know that during the time he had spent sacrificing the Primeval Age and the Future Age, Yang Qi hadn't actually just stood there waiting for him to finish. Instead, he had been seeking further enlightenment of the God Legion Seal while simultaneously absorbing destiny from the Immortal Dao Age.

When the Great Necropolis had ejected so many countless immortal worlds, including all the top experts from the Ancient Road to the Gods, it ensured that the destiny in the Immortal Dao Age increased by millions upon millions of times. In fact, compared to the Immortal Dao Age, the combined destiny of the Primeval Age and the Future Age were unimpressive at best. And now that the Sage Monarch League had the upper hand in the fight against the Executors of the Ancient Road, his people were more enlivened than ever, which ensured that the flow of destiny entering him was constantly pushing his cultivation base and enlightenment to higher levels.

On top of that, Yang Qi was constantly unlocking more of the secrets of the God Legion Seal. There was no way that two combined pieces of the seal would only provide just a simple boost in strength.

"Innumerable Kalpas and Tribulations!"

The Mahātmā Jade and the sheepskin scroll appeared over his head, and as his quintessence energy flowed into the scroll, characters flowed out of it. Because of his advanced cultivation, his Unspoiled Body instantly broke through to the level of a thousand tribulations.

Meanwhile, his Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth was also advancing triumphantly.

RUMBLE!

Instantly, dramatic transformations began occurring within him. At the same time, Yang Qi unleashed a cascade of attacks onto Proud Heaven.

"Dominating Saber of the Hegemon!"

RUMBLE!

A hegemonic energy flowed out, making his fist like a mountain of the gods as it slammed into Proud Heaven's head. When Proud Heaven saw Yang Qi growing stronger by the moment, he thrust his hands out and revealed the ultimate meaning of Ending. They clashed, and Yang Qi flew backward, seemingly unfazed. At the same time, Proud Heaven staggered backward.

'Damnation!' Proud Heaven thought. 'I've taken in so much of the destiny of the dao of heaven. Two ages full! But not even that is enough to crush Yang Qi? And I still can't take the upper hand? How is that even possible? It must be because of the Great Necropolis. The Immortal Dao Age didn't inherently have much destiny, definitely not compared to the Primeval and Future Ages. But Yang Qi clearly has access to destiny that surpasses that of the two ages I sacrificed.'

The only upside to the situation was that Proud Heaven now had the Great Necropolis in his own hands, and within it, both King Immortal-Slayer's will and the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart.

"Time to go for broke!" he said, unleashing his Ten Universes to their ultimate level. "Ten Universes; Heaven in Chaos; Gods Perish; Ghosts Befuddled!"

Quintessence energy within him ignited, and he was wreathed in intense flames.

Yang Qi backed up. 'He's burning his life force...'

Proud Heaven unleashed an attack that Yang Qi quickly dodged. Then, Proud Heaven spun and shot off in the opposite direction, clearly hoping to make his escape.

He was no longer confident that he would be able to defeat Yang Qi.

Yang Qi quickly sped after him. "Have you no sense of shame, Proud Heaven? You can't fight me so you just run? Do you really think you can run all the way to the god world?"

Proud Heaven laughed. "Follow me if you want, Yang Qi. You have the upper hand here in the mortal world, where I can't use my most powerful assets. If you've got what it takes, come find me in the god world to continue our fight. I'll be waiting!"

With that, he vanished into the misty depths of the Ancient Road to the Gods.

Yang Qi hurried after him, keeping full vigilance. Before long, the chase led them to the end of the ancient road.

There, an enormous cavern could be seen, within which was a glittering, raging light that seemed capable of killing even mid Terrifying experts. Obviously, this passageway led to another world.

This was the end of the Ancient Road to the Gods, the part that led directly into the god world.

Seeing that Yang Qi couldn't catch up, Proud Heaven said, "You stay here!"

Just in front of the passageway, Proud Heaven stopped. The Great Necropolis in his hand was trembling violently and spitting out golden light everywhere.

Yang Qi wanted the third piece of the God Legion Seal, and knew that if it entered the passageway, he would never get it. And who knew what the god world would be like, or if he would ever be able to return once he went there? All enmities and grudges needed to be resolved in the mortal world before he could proceed.

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Chapter 1138: Harmonious God Legion Seals

Yang Qi was reaching out with an energy art from the Unspoiled Body, which of course was the bane of the God Legion Seal. Proud Heaven had the last of the three God Legion Seals and was currently incapable of keeping it under control. Contrary to expectation, it suddenly flew right out into the open!

The last of the seals also looked like a golden imp.

Yang Qi made a beckoning gesture, and the seal flew toward him with lightning-like speed. There was nothing Proud Heaven could do to stop it.

Proud Heaven's face fell. Never could he have guessed that something like this would happen, or that all of his energy arts would be useless in that moment. Unfortunately, he wasn't the true owner of the Great Necropolis, and thus couldn't use it to prevent Yang Qi from reaching out to the God Legion Seal within.

However, once the God Legion Seal flew out of Proud Heaven's control, he knew that there was nothing he could do about the situation.

"Fine, Yang Qi, I shouldn't take advantage of you. Since I get the Great Necropolis and King Immortal-Slayer, I'll let you have my God Legion Seal. But the Great Necropolis and King Immortal-Slayer are mine. Once I'm in the god world, it won't matter. You won't be able to do anything to me there."

Keeping an iron grip on the Great Necropolis, he turned and leaped into the passageway. Intense rumbling sounds echoed out, followed by a shock wave, then he and the Great Necropolis were gone.

Yang Qi was about to give chase when the third piece of the God Legion Seal linked together with his existing composite piece, surrounding him in an impenetrable, swirling field of energy.

The three pieces of the God Legion Seal were finally one.

The seal had been broken long, long ago, and at long last, it was whole again. Yang Qi could now accept the legacy of the triple seal and achieve a baptism that would lead to complete transformation. No one could possibly guess what would result, as throughout all time, even in the god world, only the Sovereign Lord and Yang Qi had ever possessed the complete God Legion Seal.

"Damnation!" Yang Qi growled. The truth was that he wasn't happy at all to have the complete God Legion Seal, and was completely surprised that Proud Heaven had allowed it to happen. He had simply forsaken the God Legion Seal and made his escape. Yang Qi had originally tried to take the God Legion Seal away from Proud Heaven as a way to force him to fight. He had hoped to use the opportunity to then seal Proud Heaven and prevent him from getting to the god world.

Instead, Proud Heaven abandoned the fight, let the God Legion Seal fly over to him, and used that moment to flee.

Golden light pierced into Yang Qi as if to completely transform him. And the power of three God Legion Seals was something he couldn't fight against. Apparently, that light wanted to strip away his Unspoiled Body, but thankfully he was currently being bolstered by the Mahātmā Jade and the sheepskin scroll.

So he unleashed his Sage Monarch Grand Magic and redirected the power of the God Legion Seal into it, causing himself to slip into an even deeper state of enlightenment.

Golden light surged on the Ancient Road to the Gods, pushing everything away, including treasure troves and vital energy, until the entire area was completely empty.

Right now, there was no question about it: Yang Qi was the top expert in the mortal world. As long as he didn't go to the god world, no one would ever have any hope of beating him.

'I get it. So that's how it is. The God Legion Seal truly is powerful.' When the three pieces of the God Legion Seal combined, they were still a golden imp. However, this golden imp was very lifelike and active. In fact, it began to breathe slowly, as if it had a will and dao of its own. Was it about to be resurrected?

Absorbing the power that was being released, Yang Qi simultaneously sent his nascent divinity into the God Legion Seal to explore it and hopefully find out exactly what it was. As he did, an ancient voice suddenly spoke.

"At long last… I've finally been brought back to life... no, I haven't. But I'm awake. The Lord and the legion of gods blessed me with power so that I could become the most powerful entity in the god world. But that power destroyed me. Pure power cannot be controlled... Who was it? Who brought me back?"

The voice was all that remained of the will of the God Legion Seal, and Yang Qi could tell that that it was profoundly weak, but at the same time, extraordinarily strong.

He tried to speak to it. "It was me. I brought you back. I'm the bearer of the God Legion Seal. You were split into three parts, one of which I was given, and the other two I managed to recover. Who are you? Your will is scattered. Why were you ensconced in the God Legion Seal?"

"You..."

As soon as Yang Qi's will touched it, it shouted so loudly that it seemed it might destroy his nascent divinity. It was like the trumpeting of a godmammoth, filled with pure wildness. However, no one but Yang Qi could actually hear it.

"Who am I? Who am I...? How come I can't remember who I am...?"

Yang Qi was very nearly killed by the mere reverberations of the voice. Thankfully, he had been prepared for something like this, and used the Purrfect God Art to protect himself.

"Who exactly are you? Even you don't know who you are? If you don't, how could I possibly know?" In response to Yang Qi's rapid-fire response of questions, the broken remnant of will emitted cracking sounds, as though it might collapse. Then it sank into silence.

"What almighty entity are you the remnant of? Don't tell me you used to be the King of Godmammoths." Yang Qi remained within the golden light, the God Legion Seal sitting there twitching on his palm, fusing with his energy until it seemed to be a part of him.

The seal was turning into an actual golden imp, sitting there with eyes closed, robe flapping as if in the wind. It seemed extraordinary, but at the same time, completely calm and collected. A dense stream of text flowed over its body, all of which were names. They seemed as numerous as the stars in the sky, to the point where they couldn't be numbered. All of them were members of the legion of gods who had blessed the Sovereign Lord, yet Yang Qi didn't recognize any of their names.

Looking over at the passageway to the god world, Yang Qi could see that it was as turbulent as ever, and he couldn't see anything on the other side. It seemed likely that on the other side, there were violent flows of energy which would lead to a random destination in the god world. And likely, return was impossible.

If he went in, would he ever be able to come out? He didn't know.

Unfortunately, although he had the complete God Legion Seal, he had lost King Immortal-Slayer's legacy medallions and the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart to Proud Heaven.

That could definitely be considered a huge loss.

The upside was that King Immortal-Slayer's will had been awakened, and there was no way Proud Heaven would be able to control him. At best, they might be able to reach an agreement of some sort.

For now, Yang Qi didn't worry about the God Legion Seal; he would study it slowly in the days to come. Based on his best guess, he wouldn't be able to unleash its most powerful aspects until he was in the god world.

For now, he wanted to determine what other advances he had made. 'Have my energy arts improved much?'

As it turned out, there were plenty of differences from before.

His psychic scale was now at five hundred, placing him just on the verge of the peak Terrifying level. His power index was at more than nine thousand nine hundred, just shy of ten thousand. He was definitely on the same level as the gods now. Furthermore, there was something brewing inside of him.

It was none other than a growing piece of godhood. For a variety of reasons involving magical laws, it hadn't grown to completion. Godhood could only truly take shape in the god world. It simply couldn't happen in the mortal world.

At the moment, Yang Qi was high-spirited and full of mettle. The first thing he needed to do was completely unify the Immortal Dao Age and establish an iron-clad order that would never be undone. He would completely wipe out the Executors of the Ancient Road, then pick some of his most trusted people to go with him to the god world. He wanted his father and brothers to go there, but right now they wouldn't be able to survive there. Perhaps the best course of action would be to talk to Brahma about the situation.

Blurring into motion, he left the Ancient Road to the Gods. He felt a powerful force trying to prevent him from doing so, but just shrugged it off. It was said that once you walked the Ancient Road to the Gods, you could never turn back. But that wasn't true for someone like Yang Qi, who was already as strong as a Lesser God.

'I wonder if the Ancient Road to the Gods will eventually disappear. It isn't showing any signs of disappearing right now, but I have the feeling it will happen sooner or later. I need to get into the god world before that happens, otherwise I might never get in. Even with the God Legion Seal, I might not be able to break through the barriers and would be stuck in the mortal world. And that would be a big tragedy.'

He needed to take care of the executors as quickly as possible, unite his empire, and pick the people who were to go to the god world, before it became inaccessible.

RUMBLE!

Soon he was deep in primal-chaos, where he saw the enormous spell formation formed by the Gate to the Gods, as well as the formation created by the Sage Monarch League. Unfortunately, the executors had managed to even out the fight.

The Sage Monarch League's formation was a relatively new construction, whereas the Gate to the Gods had been around for millions upon millions of years. As a result, holes were being blasted into the Sage Monarch League's foundation, and Brahma was nowhere to be seen.

'What's going on here?' Yang Qi thought, looking around. 'How did the executors suddenly get more experts on their side?'

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Chapter 1139: Destroying the Executors

The Gate to the Gods was an enormous gateway that had once led from the mortal world to the god world. Back then, the executors had tasked some of their top old-timers with guarding the door. Not even their emperor would be allowed to pass through it without a very good reason. Of course, things eventually changed. Later, it reached the point where the executors wouldn't let anyone through the gate.

Anyone who tried, whether their intentions were good or bad, whether they were immortals or fiend-devils, would be slaughtered without question, and their treasures and quintessence energy taken away.

The executors had long since become freaks; people who, because they couldn't become gods, wouldn't allow anyone else to try to reach godly ascension. Furthermore, they would use the most powerful curses of the gods to plunder the resources of anyone who had prepared to reach godly ascension.

It was impossible to say how many people had fallen to their villainous tactics over the past millions upon millions of years. Unfortunately, there was nothing anyone could do about it. The executors' headquarters occupied the end of the Ancient Road to the Gods. And whenever items spilled out of the god world, the executors were the first to fill their coffers. Whatever scattered items made it past them were fought over by the top experts on the ancient road, who could use them to become stronger, but never actually reach godly ascension.

No one knew how many ambitious people had launched assaults on the executors over the years, only to be slaughtered in bloody massacres.

But everything was changing because of Yang Qi.

The Gate to the Gods had been made part of a powerful spell formation that could part primal-chaos, summon god lightning, and unleash the most brutal of trump cards. In fact, in addition to the god lightning, it could send forth all sorts of primal-chaos soldiers, god mountains, god talismans, and god paintings.

It was called the Primal-Chaos Hundred-Weapons God-Assimilating Grand Formation.

When the formation was activated, it could summon power from the god world, transform primal-chaos into numerous types of weapons, and slaughter any defiant individuals.

It could be used to kill anyone who defied the executors.

"You won't escape the magical net of justice!"

"Die!"

"How dare you challenge the dignity of the Executors of the Ancient Road! You're going to be killed beyond the shadow of a doubt!"

"We're the executors! We enforce the laws of heaven and earth. We control primal-chaos, and we can make it into whatever we want."

"Destroy the Sage Monarch League!"

"Summon the magical net!"

In response to what was happening, numerous old-timers among the executors began shouting in rage.

Countless streams of primal-chaos swirled to create an enormous net that spread out, god lightning crackling across its surface. Then, numerous eyes opened up on the net, which could perceive everything in existence. As it was said, it is difficult to evade the net of justice.

The appearance of that net of primal-chaos seemed to have immediately put the Sage Monarch League at a disadvantage.

However, that was when Yang Qi showed up.

He threw his hand out with fingers splayed and grabbed the entire net, which began to pop and explode. The eyes shattered and the god lightning went wild, crashing into Yang Qi left and right. However, it didn't seem to hurt him in any way.

"Be destroyed!" Yang Qi said, and an enormous primal-chaos elder-snake appeared behind him, a manifestation of King Heaven-Devourer's energy arts. The snake opened its mouth and began devouring the primal-chaos vital energy.

Then, it lunged toward the Gate to the Gods as if to consume it.

However, the gate struggled to fight back.

"Are you really going to defy the heavens, Yang Qi!" a voice howled from within the gate. "The legion of gods tasked the Executors of the Ancient Road with guarding the road. It's the most holy of tasks! By defying us, you defy the gods!"

An old man appeared in front of the gate in nascent divinity form, clad in a yellow robe that pulsed with the energy of an emperor. Pointing at Yang Qi, he said, "Back down, boy, or—"

BOOM!

Yang Qi interrupted him with a fist.

He bent like a bow, causing golden light to converge above his head, which shot forth like an arrow to slam into the surface of the Gate to the Gods. The gate trembled violently, and the light shining off of it shattered, to be grabbed by Yang Qi. Then his golden light swept onward, crushing many of the lower-level executors into streaks of gore.

He was single-handedly destroying their formation!

Just what level of mighty power was that?

To see so many lower-level disciples being massacred caused the old-timers to howl with rage as they tried in vain to unleash the powers of the Gate to the Gods.

"This is a nice gate," Yang Qi said. "I think I'll take it." Although it wasn't on the level of the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart, it would make a great headquarters, as it contained a multitude of minor worlds. Reaching out with his hand, he sent his true energy into the gate to dismantle the warding magics inside.

"Yang Qi, if you think you can single-handedly defy the Executors of the Ancient Road, then you're crazy!" The old-timers were clearly enraged.

Sadly for them, they couldn't actually do anything to Yang Qi.

He was just too strong. His every attack shook heaven and earth, and shattered numerous warding spells in the Gate to the Gods. Before long, only the primary warding spell remained, into which all of the top executors had fled.

"That's not going to do any good," Yang Qi said. "Fighting harder is just going to make you die sooner. Die, all of you!"

Shouting, he launched an attack at the primary warding spell, blasting it apart and sending the executors tumbling out into the open. It was like a rain of humans descending through the primal-chaos. Thankfully for them, they were all top experts, otherwise the destructive primal-chaos would have ripped them to shreds.

The gigantic Gate to the Gods shrank down until it was only about seven inches tall on Yang Qi's palm. It was stone, speckled with both blood and the slashes of blades. There was even moss visible on the surface, and its surface was etched with the history and memories of people from the mortal world who had passed through it.

After all, the Gate to the Gods had been the final obstacle on the Ancient Road to the Gods, and once one passed through it, they would enter the god world.

'What an ancient gateway,' Yang Qi thought. Cocking his ear, he could almost hear how old it was. 'From now on, the Gate to the Gods will be mine. I wonder what it would be worth in the god world.'

Flicking his hand, he sent the Gate to the Gods flying out. "Everyone, get into formation. Get this area under control. The Gate to the Gods is going to be the strongest foundation we could have for the Sage Monarch League."

"Yes sir!"

The experts in the Sage Monarch League knew that the Executors of the Ancient Road were finished. Yang Qi could destroy them single-handedly if he wanted to. Everyone knew that they were participating in establishing a new order, a new empire that would control myriads of worlds.

Looking around, Yang Qi spotted a group of people out in the primal-chaos. They were executors, arranged in formation, except that without the Gate to the Gods to provide power, they were pitifully weak.

Identifying their leader, he nodded and said, "You're the emperor, right? Step forward."

Shivering, the emperor stepped forward and glared at him. "Do you know what you've done, Yang Qi? You've violated universal principles of order! We Executors of the Ancient Road will—"

"I said step forward!" Yang Qi said. Waving his hand, he sent out a stream of golden light that shot directly toward the emperor.

"How impudent!"

"How dare you harm our emperor!"

"Looking to die?!"

"Attack him!"

A host of experts tried to block the path of Yang Qi's golden light, but it did no good. He had completely mastered the martial disciplines of the God Legion Seal, so it scattered anyone that got in the way. As for the emperor, he bellowed in rage and tried to escape, but was quickly caught and dragged back to Yang Qi, who planted his hand on the man's back.

That was how strong Yang Qi was now. The executors had several dozen mid Terrifying experts, yet none of them could stand in his way.

"An emperor?" Yang Qi said. "Look, I'll give you two options. The first is to become my slave, a thrall of the Sage Monarch League. For the rest of your life, you can give your true energy and life essence to my people. Second option: die. Then the executors will disappear into the river of history, never to be seen again. You decide."

"Fine, you win," the emperor said venomously. "We surrender, Yang Qi. But don't forget, the legion of gods will look into this matter."

"They will?" He laughed. "I control the God Legion Seal! The legion of gods will follow my orders. That's what the Lord wants. If you acknowledge allegiance to the legion of gods, then why won't you acknowledge allegiance to me?"

"Such audacity!" the emperor said, shaking his head. "For you to have the God Legion Seal is blasphemy! Don't you know? The fact that you have that seal means that the gods are going to track you down and kill you. None of them will rest at ease while the seal is in the hands of a mediocre person like you. Think about it. If the imperial seal fell into the hands of a farmer in the mortal world, what would happen? An ordinary man who possesses great treasure makes himself a big target!"

Yang Qi shook his head. "So you're saying you refuse to work for me?"

"If you want to kill me, go ahead," the emperor replied. "Besides, we executors can never reach godly ascension. Our lives are tragic to begin with, so go ahead and release me. Men! What joy be there in life? What bitterness be there in death?"

The rest of the executors settled down cross-legged. "That's right! We're the Executors of the Ancient Road! If we die, we die. For us, it will be a release!"

1. This quote about joy in life and bitterness in death has appeared before. It first showed up in , where I included an extensive footnote about it. The link above goes directly to that footnote in case you're interested.

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Chapter 1140: Advancing to the God World

"Look upon death as going home, look upon death as going home..."

All of the executors began murmuring the same words, making the scene suddenly seem profoundly tragic. All of them were prepared to meet death, and none were afraid.

All of a sudden, Yang Qi's view of the Executors of the Ancient Road changed a bit.

They really weren't afraid of dying.

As for the emperor, he burst out laughing. "As they say, one should look upon death as going home. So what do we have to be afraid of? How ridiculous to use death to threaten us, Yang Qi. We're the Executors of the Ancient Road! We don't fear death!"

"That's good," Yang Qi replied. "I have to admire you for that. Sadly, I can't just let you die. You're too valuable. Instead, I think I'll let you enjoy the eternal torment of my Heaven and Earth Furnace."

An enormous furnace appeared behind him, a product of the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth. A primal-chaos elder-snake emerged from the furnace and quickly sucked the executors inside, whereupon their miserable screams rang out.

King Immortal-Slayer's legacy medallions were gone, the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart was nowhere to be seen, and the godhood stars couldn't be used.

However, Yang Qi still had all of the legacy items of the other seventy-one monarchs. In fact, his divine will was so powerful that he could easily reach out to all of the various immortal worlds and pull the remaining legacy items to him, wherever they existed.

However, no such scattered items even existed anymore on any other worlds, which meant that any items he hadn't collected yet could only exist in the god world.

When everyone else saw how Yang Qi dealt with the executors, they sighed. For such a powerful force to be disposed of so quickly and cleanly was something that had never been seen in the mortal world.

As for Yang Qi, his face betrayed neither delight nor sorrow. He remained expressionless as he returned to the Sage Monarch League, where expansion and construction was already underway. All of the executors' remaining treasures had been plundered, and the god Brahma had taken charge.

The immortal-slaying clone approached around this time. Although he'd been freed from certain constraints, the fact that he had lost both King Immortal-Slayer's legacy medallions and the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart had weakened him significantly.

"Everything is taken care of, Yang Qi," he said, "except Proud Heaven escaped. He could definitely cause big problems in the future. What are you planning to do? Are we going to head to the god world immediately?"

"Don't worry," Yang Qi said. "I'll kill Proud Heaven eventually, and take the Great Necropolis back from him. And the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart belongs to you, so I'll definitely help you get it back. I refuse to believe that Proud Heaven will be able to call the wind and summon the rain in the god world, especially now that he's lost his God Legion Seal."

At this point, Sectlord Will Manifestation approached. "We need to call a general meeting, Yang Qi," he said. "Getting our top experts to the god world should be the main priority. If the Ancient Road to the Gods disappears, we'll be stuck here forever. And then what would be the point of any of this?"

"Well, of course," Yang Qi said. "Call the meeting. Everyone who's even close to the mid Terrifying level should come. We're going to have a big session of cultivation, in which we try to get as many people into the mid Terrifying level as possible. No one under that level will do any good in the god world. Brahma, why don't you explain to us exactly what the god world is like?"

Brahma hurried forward. "If you go to the god world as you are, you'll definitely be mobbed as soon as you arrive. After all, you have the complete God Legion Seal. Unless you manage to conceal its power, the other gods will sense it."

"I can conceal its power," Yang Qi said, "so don't worry about that. Furthermore, I don't have any true use for the God Legion Seal. I've broken free from its restraints, making it like a rowboat that I have no need of, having reached the opposite shore. How strong are the magical laws in the god world?"

"The magical laws?" Brahma said, then a thoughtful expression overtook his face for a moment. "They're indescribable and unimaginable. Mid Terrifying experts there are like commoners in the mortal world. They can't fly, can't move heavy stones, can't chop down trees easily, and would have a hard time building a house. And that's not even to mention doing anything magical or superhuman. If you and your subordinates all went there and were attacked by some animals, most of you would die in the fight. The Sage Monarch League might be strong here, but a swarm of godlings would wipe you out there."

"The god world is that incredible?" Yang Qi asked, frowning.

"It is!" Brahma replied seriously. "Because of how you've assimilated so many god items, you might think that the god world isn't that impressive. But once a god item enters the mortal world, it loses a lot of its effectiveness. They can only truly unleash their potential in the god world itself. Think about it. A dragon in the shallows falls victim to the shrimps, a tiger on the plain can be torn to pieces by the dogs. Aren't dragons and tigers incredibly powerful and fierce? Yet if they're in the wrong environment, they can be considered weak. God items are like sharks, and the god world is the ocean. But if you take a shark and throw it on the seashore, then what happens? Just about anyone could kill it. Am I right?"

"That does make sense," Yang Qi said, nodding. Even the God Legion Seal was limited as to what it could do in the mortal world. As Brahma said, it was like a shark thrown on the seashore.

"So I advise you to only take mid Terrifying experts with you," Brahma continued. "And not just ordinary people. That would be the safest course of action. Of course, the best would be for you to go alone."

"Alone?" He shook his head. "I definitely can't do that. If the Ancient Road to the Gods vanished, then how would I bring my people to me? They would lose their chance to reach godly ascension."

"That's true. Gods from the god world can't return to the mortal world, and that would be even truer if the Ancient Road to the Gods disappears. How about this: go ahead and take your most valuable people with you. But leave behind the ones with low cultivation bases. If you brought those to the god world, the tempestuous magical laws would either crush them to death, or damage them so badly they would long to die."

Yang Qi was already aware that people beneath the Terrifying level couldn't survive in the god world.

And early Terrifying experts would be able to do little more than crawl around and gasp for breath. Yang Qi wouldn't be able to care for them, much less establish his own authority or kingdom. In the god world, only Consummate Gods could establish kingdoms. Even Yang Qi himself would be like nothing more than a commoner in the god world. It might have been tolerable if he had the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart, but it seemed unlikely that he would be able to reach out and open a passageway to it once he was in the god world.

That said, in order to truly understand the magical laws there, he needed to visit the place personally.

Yang Qi nodded. "In that case, I need to transform my father and brothers on the deepest level. I can probably take a few dozen people with me, no more. Brahma, I'll obviously be taking you with me. I won't let you down considering how you've helped me. And I doubt it will be difficult for you to truly become a god again."

"I trust you," Brahma said. "The god world is a very dangerous place. There are peak Terrifying experts there who are not yet gods. If they realized what I was, they would definitely rip me to shreds and devour me to gain access to my memories and experiences." He shivered involuntarily. Clearly, the god world was also a place where the weak were the prey of the strong.

With that, Yang Qi called forth his seventeen fellow disciples from the Invincible Society, plus his sworn siblings from the old Rich-Lush Continent. He also summoned his father Yang Zhan, and his brothers Yang Yunchong and Yang Hualong. Without any hesitation, he began to baptize them and help them push their cultivation bases to the Terrifying level.

The God Legion Seal shone with brilliant light that pierced into everyone present. Before long, their eyes shone with radiance and light as, one after another, they showed signs of imminent breakthroughs.

Eldest Brother was the first to break into the mid Terrifying level. After him was Yang Zhan. Unfortunately, Yang Yunchong and Yang Hualong were both stuck in bottlenecks and couldn't proceed past the early Terrifying level.

Brahma sighed. "The God Legion Seal is indeed formidable. It can help people break through this easily? Is it complete? According to the rumors, the complete God Legion Seal was blessed by all the gods of the many heavens, and can make it easy to achieve godly ascension. Unfortunately, you can't yet release its most profound nature."

Next, more of Yang Qi's sworn siblings broke through. Unfortunately, some had constitutions so weak that they could only progress so far before getting stuck.

As time went on, the Sage Monarch League secured its position as the absolute strongest force in the mortal world. All enemies were destroyed, and all resistance was routed. There was no question as to its superiority.

Yang Qi sighed. "It's too bad, Eldest Brother, Second Brother. I really wish I could help you reach the mid Terrifying level. I just can't take you to the god world like this."

"Don't worry about it, Third Brother!" Yang Yunchong said. He laughed. "You've already done well enough as it is. You and father go to the god world and continue getting stronger. We'll stay behind in the mortal world to take care of things here. We're already in an infinitely better position than we were in Yanhaven on the old Rich-Lush Continent. Besides, we'll be safe here. Nothing around here could possibly hurt us."

"That's right, Third Brother," Yang Hualong said, clasping Yang Qi's shoulder comfortingly. "Go to the god world and continue growing. Take all of the mid Terrifying experts with you. Don't worry, we can keep things under control here. Besides, one day you'll be a Consummate God, or even a Paramount God. Maybe you'll even surpass the Sovereign Lord himself. And once you are, perhaps you can open a passageway back to the mortal world for us to join you."

"Alright, Eldest Brother, Second Brother. Maybe you can't achieve your breakthroughs, but I'm still going to plant some of the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth in you, as well as the Unspoiled Body. Keep cultivating my Sage Monarch Grand Magic, and you shouldn't have any problems with them. You'll break through eventually. Remember, once you do, go to the god world, assuming the Ancient Road to the Gods hasn't disappeared. Then we can reunite."

Thanks to Yang Qi's help, there was no way his brothers would need to fear even mid Terrifying experts.

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Chapter 1141: Leaving for the God World

The Executors of the Ancient Road had been wiped out and the Sage Monarch League truly ruled everything under heaven. Yang Qi's brothers, Yang Yunchong and Yang Hualong, were strong enough that they could easily keep an eye on things. And as long as they continued to cultivate the Sage Monarch Grand Magic, their cultivation bases would continually improve. In other words, Yang Qi could leave things in their care without having to worry about a thing.

In addition, Yang Qi had Brahma convey some of his experiences of godly ascension into their seas of consciousness, ensuring that his brothers would progress faster than anyone else in the mortal world.

At this point, Yang Qi began to take roll, calling out all of the mid Terrifying experts that he was planning to take with him to the god world.

The current list was comprised of his immortal-slaying clone, Brahma, Jadefall, Doom, Proud World, the Shepherd, Sectlord Will Manifestation, Peaklords Memory and Celestial, Eldest Brother, Sword Seventeen, Elder Seventh Brother Meng Shafan, Yang Zhan, and Patriarch Annalist. They were the only ones. After all, no one else had been able to reach the mid Terrifying level.

He did have some mid Terrifying puppets, but didn't intend on taking them with him. Puppets were puppets, and they wouldn't be of much help in the god world. In fact, they would probably be a burden.

One thing of particular interest was that Patriarch Annalist had truly advanced by leaps and bounds. In fact, his rise to the mid Terrifying level had come as something of a shock. That said, Yang Qi knew that his self-created All-Eternity Spring-Autumn Annalist God-Dao Scripture had a lot of potential, so it made a lot of sense that he was able to become a mid Terrifying expert.

Everyone in the group took care of important matters before preparing to leave. The Yang Clan was now firmly in control of the Sage Monarch League, with Yang Qi's two brothers having ultimate power and plenty of resources to maintain the status quo. Yang Qi's other sworn siblings, and the old forces that had been loyal to the Holy Mother of the Hanging Mountain, such as Yan Wubing and those like him, were there to help his brothers keep order.

They had access to cultivation resources as well, and were all working hard to ultimately reach the peak Terrifying level.

A massive flow of destiny had converged on Yang Qi, but he had already split it and sent it to his various relatives and sworn siblings.

The time had come to walk the Ancient Road to the Gods.

That road was incomparably large and had once been filled with crouching tigers and hidden dragons. But now it was virtually empty. Some of the experts had been killed, while others had acknowledged allegiance to the Sage Monarch League. In any case, all opposition had been removed.

The Sage Monarch League controlled access to all treasure troves, as well as the immense wealth that had been accumulated by the Executors of the Ancient Road. There was also everything that had been ejected by the Great Necropolis.

The necropolis had changed everything. After swallowing up the will of King Immortal-Slayer, the necropolis had spat out so many treasure troves that it was impossible to determine how many there were out in the primal-chaos. And the Sage Monarch League now had a chance to collect them all. Furthermore, there were numerous hells to conquer; when the job was done, the Sage Monarch League would be like a mortal version of the halls of heaven.

Yang Qi was very pleased to see everything going so smoothly. After all the years of bitter conflict and fighting, he had finally reached the point of being truly invincible in the mortal world. The Future and Primeval Ages were no more. Only the Immortal Dao Age existed. And the destiny and dao of heaven were both there to provide a strong foundation for growth.

"Take care on your journey, Third Brother..."

Yang Yunchong and Yang Hualong waved goodbye as Yang Qi led his group of over a dozen top experts into the depths of the Ancient Road to the Gods. Eventually, they caught sight of the passage that existed at its end. Keeping firm control of the God Legion Seal, Yang Qi waved his hand and summoned an enormous bubble around himself and his people.

"This is the end of the Ancient Road to the Gods," Brahma said. "The way to the god world. Once we step in, everything will spin into motion as we careen through space and time. When we arrive, we'll find ourselves in a random place in the god world. Normally speaking, we would be separated, but considering you have the God Legion Seal and the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth, I don't think we need to worry about that. Connect our souls and impart the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth to all of us. That will unite us and ensure that we don't get separated. The best outcome would be for us to be transported to some remote mountain range where we can set up camp and start working on getting stronger. The sooner one or two of us become gods, the better. Otherwise we'll be in great danger. The fighting in the god world is far more intense and deadly than anything from the mortal world!"

Everyone understood exactly what Brahma was saying.

In the god world, there were plenty of low-level gods who were nothing more than servants or commoners. As for mid Terrifying experts, they were only qualified to be slaves.

Therefore, the most important thing for them to do once they arrived in the god world was to stick together and defend each other. After all, they could even be ripped to shreds by animals of the god world.

"Purr, purr..."

The purrling rested in Jadefall's arms, purring loudly, almost as if in disdain. At the same time, there seemed to be a gleam of anticipation in its eyes, as though it believed it belonged in the god world.

"God Legion Seal: Soul Integration!"

Yang Qi waved his fingers, sending a sealing mark into the foreheads of everyone present. In the past, some of these people had started out as friends, some had been enemies. But in the end, all of them ended up as Yang Qi's core group of trusted and loyal allies. All of them knew that the god world was truly the ultimate destination, and each one was extremely excited to see what it was like.

They were like a group of floodwyrms just itching to swim into the ocean.

"Let's go!" Yang Qi said, taking a last look at the mortal world and everything in it. He was now invincible in the mortal world, which meant that the god world was the only place where he could continue to grow.

WHOOSH!

Turning his back on the mortal world, he plunged into the passage leading to the god world.

RUMBLE!

He pushed the Purrfect God Art to the limit to protect everyone and keep them together. However, as they shot through the passageway, they were shaken deeply, to the point where they felt their souls being tugged at. In fact, their true energy was being destabilized, and rushing away from them uncontrollably.

"Crap!" the Shepherd blurted. "My true energy is being drained away! If this keeps up I'm going to die!"

"Stabilize your nascent divinity!" Brahma said. "Conceal your spirit and energy. Make sure you don't let out any soul fluctuations. You're experiencing the first baptism of the passage to the god world. The power of the god world is flowing through you, and if you can't sustain it, you'll be melted by the magical laws."

The Shepherd complied, doing everything he could to stabilize himself and keep calm. Then he looked at the surrounding power fluctuations in the tunnel, and marveled. If it weren't for Yang Qi's presence, and his protection, the Shepherd knew that he would already have been killed and transformed into nothing but vital energy.

He was a top expert from the Immortal Dao Age, and the leader of all the fiend-devils, but in the god world, he might as well be an ant.

Meanwhile, Yang Qi sensed the frenzied weight of the magical laws around him and knew that they surpassed anything he had encountered in the past, whether that was the Cave Temple of the Vajra Māyādevī or the headquarters of the Executors of the Ancient Road.

Only now was he truly experiencing the boundless force of the god world.

Strange psychic powers assaulted him from all sides, bombarding him with the destructive forces of rebirth, and endless tribulations.

His God Legion Seal glowed faintly, illuminating the area; compared to the wild powers around him, he was like a tiny fish struggling in an enormous tsunami, incapable of making any significant movement.

In the mortal world, a mere thought on his part could transform the world around him, but not here. In fact, just staying safe was an accomplishment of its own.

All of a sudden, the ferocity of the power flows increased, making it seem like they were in a hurricane of god wind. In fact, the wind pierced through their defenses, tugging at their souls as if it was determined to separate them.

"Watch out!" Brahma called. "It's trying to separate our souls. The magical laws of the god world want to keep us apart and send us to different locations in the god world. Give control of your souls to Yang Qi! Let him take charge!"

Everyone knew that it was a very dangerous situation. After all, if they ended up separated in the god world, it would be very difficult for them to survive on their own, and even more difficult to meet up.

Yang Qi drew on the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth, the Unspoiled Body, the Purrfect God Art, the energy arts of the thirty-six masks, and ultimately a technique from his Sage Monarch Grand Magic called the Banner of Monarchs.

In the blink of an eye, he summoned a huge banner that wrapped around the souls of everyone present, putting them under his control.

Instantly, the powers tugging at them lessened.

The forces at play were so intense that everyone felt light-headed. Brahma had it a bit better than the others, but even he was gasping for breath. "I think we might be the first people ever to enter the god world without passing out! There are often mid Terrifying experts who enter the god world unconscious and end up getting captured and enslaved before they wake up. Some unlucky ones end up out in the wild, where the animals eat them before they can regain consciousness."

Some of the others wanted to ask further questions, but they could hardly breathe at the moment, let alone talk.

RIP!

A bolt of god lightning fell, the kind that could destroy anything it touched if it fell on an immortal world.

BUZZ!

Blood sprayed out of the mouths of everyone present as they began to slip into unconsciousness.

Howling, Yang Qi drew further on the God Legion Seal, sending golden light into everyone present, healing them. "You absolutely, positively must not pass out! Once we get to the god world, we'll focus immediately on getting stronger! We can't let ourselves be taken captive!"

Everyone focused on maintaining lucidity, fully aware that their fates rested in the hands of Yang Qi.

Eventually, the winds grew so intense that they were sure they were about to be ejected.

But they had no idea where they would end up.

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Chapter 1142: Fighting for Survival

The trial was over.

Everyone suddenly felt much more relaxed, although their heads were still spinning and they had no idea where they were. Yang Qi was the only one who had maintained his faculties from beginning to end; he wasn't even light-headed.

RUMBLE!

He watched as the tempest around them sent them into a glowing exit aperture, whereupon they began falling at a shocking speed. Below them was a vast ocean littered with scattered islands, all of them covered in dense vegetation.

The world seemed to stretch without end in all directions, making it impossible to assess the world in general. Yang Qi quickly circulated his true energy in the hopes of stabilizing himself and floating in midair, or at least gliding downward.

Sadly, he completely failed.

Circulating his true energy did almost nothing, making him feel almost the same as he did back in his days in Yanhaven in the Rich-Lush Continent, before he reached the fifth phase of Energy Eruption.

SLAM!

He hit the ground and was sent tumbling. Thankfully, he had landed on sand instead of rock, otherwise his head would have been bashed in. He could already sense that his true energy was almost completely out of control.

Meanwhile, other shrieks and screams of pain could be heard as his companions landed around him. The only exception was Jadefall, who had the purrling in her arms, allowing her to safely descend in a bubble.

Despite having slammed hard into the sand, a look of wild joy could be seen on Brahma's face. After catching his breath, he circulated his true energy, looked around, and then burst out laughing. "This is the god world! We're really here in the god world! I'm back!"

Suddenly, he was wracked by a fit of coughing, then continued, "Not bad at all. We got lucky. We actually landed on sand instead of rock. If we'd hit rock, we would already be dead."

"It's this dangerous?" Yang Qi said, sitting there on the sand. "You would expect most people who came here from the mortal world to end up dead. How do people survive?" Struggling to his feet, he looked out at the waves on the ocean around them. He felt immense pressure, and could sense that the magical laws were already weighing heavily on his psychic power.

He made an experimental leap into the air, and found that he only made a few feet up before falling back down.

RUMBLE!

All of a sudden, the tide brought some waves crashing into the shore, which pulled Yang Qi out into the water.

Face falling, Brahma said, "Hurry and get back on land! If you get attacked by the godfish in the ocean, you'll be killed and drained of blood!"

Yang Qi struggled a bit, but managed to crawl back up onto the sandy shore.

Even as he did, a fish leaped out of the water, only about a foot long, but with a mouth full of snapping, razor-sharp teeth. It moved with such speed that it seemed even faster than a martial arts expert.

Yang Qi scrambled to get out of the way, but was too slow, and the fish latched onto his arm. Ripping and tearing sounds could immediately be heard as it started chewing on him.

"How could one tiny fish be so strong?" He quickly drew on the powers of his Unspoiled Body, and thankfully it prevented the fish from biting deeply into him. Then he clenched his other hand into a fist and struck the fish as hard as he could. It let out an odd shriek, but unexpectedly, didn't die.

This shocking level of power was nothing to look down upon.

In the past, Yang Qi could have destroyed an immortal world ranked three thousand with his fist. But here in the god world, he couldn't even kill a little fish?

"That's a fangfish," Brahma explained. "Here, let me help get it off you. They have such incredible biting power that they can even dismember a peak Terrifying expert. I almost can't believe that your body is this strong. It's incredible..."

"Fuck," Yang Qi said, holding the fish firmly in his hand now that it had been pulled off of his arm. "The fish are this strong?"

"This is the god world," Brahma said, laughing. "Unless you're an actual god, you're nobody. Even just breathing will burn a lot of vital energy. We're going to be getting hungry soon, and this fish will provide some valuable nourishment."

Crash!

All of a sudden, another powerful wave hit the shore.

Yang Qi scrambled further up the beach, but lost his grip on the fish in the process, allowing it to leap back into the water, snapping its teeth the entire time as if it wished to shred Yang Qi to pieces.

All of a sudden, Yang Qi felt exhausted, weighed down, and drained of energy.

'How could this be happening? I'm the number one figure in the mortal world. I slaughtered countless godlings there. But here in the god world, I can't even beat a fish?' He couldn't help but feel a bit disappointed.

Everyone else standing on the beach felt similarly weighed down, their faces pale as they wondered if they would even be able to stay alive.

"That wasn't an ordinary fish," Brahma explained, "but rather a fierce fangfish. You people have just arrived, and aren't used to the god world yet. You see, the godlings in the immortal worlds are actually just animals with a bit of the blood of true godlings from the god world. Listen. Can you hear your stomachs rumbling? You're all hungry, aren't you?"

As soon as he mentioned this, everyone realized that they did feel slight pangs of hunger.

"So that's what that is," Doom said. He almost couldn't believe it, considering how strong he was. "Why exactly are we feeling hungry, though?"

Brahma gave a wry smile. "Because your metabolism works countless times faster here than it did in the immortal worlds. Every time you breathe in the vital energy here, your body is forced to break it down, leading to what is essentially a life or death battle inside you. The magical laws in the vital energy are very strong, which means that every breath you take causes you to lose some of your own essence vitality."

"What if we just stop breathing?" Proud World said. He had just cast his sense inward and confirmed that the vital energy he breathed in was causing him to lose his essence vitality.

Brahma laughed coldly. "Not breathe? Then you would suffocate. Go ahead and try if you don't believe me."

Proud World held his breath, but after only a few moments, he started feeling dizzy and light-headed. Then, before he could do anything else, he collapsed onto the ground.

Yang Qi hurried over, propped him up, and tried to send some essence vitality into him. Unfortunately, he couldn't send his true energy out of his body and was forced to actually touch Proud World and make the transfer by contact.

"Incredible..." Brahma said. "You can actually impart your essence vitality to another person, Yang Qi? That's really amazing. In any case, we have to breathe. If we don't, the magical laws around us will destroy our bodies. Allow me to summarize our situation: now that we're in the god world, we're ordinary people with very weak bodies. In fact, we're probably even weaker than ordinary people. We're essentially sickly. The only exception is Yang Qi, who has the God Legion Seal, making him so tough that not even that fangfish could bite through his skin. You know, even the locals would actually bleed if they were bitten by a fangfish."

"So what do we do now?" Yang Zhan said coolly. "How do we survive if we're so weak?"

"By fighting tooth and nail. Thankfully, we ended up on a deserted island in the middle of the ocean. And it seems like there aren't any animals here either. If we had ended up in a populated area, we would have been taken captive immediately. One reason we're so weak is that we're just not used to the magical laws of the god world. Once we get used to them and practice a bit of cultivation, we'll be fine. It should only take a few days. By the way, if we don't reach godly ascension, our lifespan will be very limited. I'm not sure about Yang Qi, but for the rest of you, I'd say you'll only last about a hundred years before you shrivel up and die."

"We understand..." Proud World said. He and the others all felt the same. After all, what was the point of living for even billions of years in the mortal world, compared to living in the god world? The god world was the ultimate destination, and a hundred years was plenty of time to cultivate one's way to strength.

Expression flickering with fear, Jadefall said, "Now I finally realize why you can't go to the god world unless you're in the mid Terrifying level. Someone in the early Terrifying level would probably just drop dead instantly."

Brahma nodded. "Exactly. Early Terrifying cultivators couldn't even breathe here. I'm an actual god, and was very strong in the past, but now even I'm having difficulty. That said, I now have a chance to recover. And I'll make sure to explain everything to all of you along the way. Come on, we need to go find some food."

"I brought some god pills with me," Yang Qi said, "do you think they'll be effective?" He reached into his robe to pull them out, then looked in shock at his hand when all he held was a bit of powder.

"They won't," Brahma replied. "Things like that get destroyed on the way here. Your God Legion Seal should be fine, but any other magical treasures or god items will have been too tainted by the aura of the mortal world. Special items like the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart and the Cruiser of Civilization should be fine. But I think you'll find that you can't actually get into the Cruiser of Civilization right now. You'll have to wait until you're a god before you can do that."

The immortal-slaying clone pulled out a saucer-sized fragment of the cruiser, but couldn't do anything with it.

It had obviously been transformed during their journey, and was temporarily impossible to use. There was obviously no way they could use the Godly Positioning Systems, let alone use the cruiser to fly.

On the upside, Yang Qi was certain that the immense pressure of the magical laws would make their cultivation even more rewarding. Plus, he had a much better starting point considering he had the God Legion Seal.

Right now, the first task at hand was to get used to the magical laws around him.

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Chapter 1143: Fighting for Survival part 2

Crack!

Yang Qi was wading bare-footed in the shallow water on the beach when a fierce fangfish leaped out to bite him. However, he quickly clenched his hand into a fist and hit it on the head as hard as he could, using some of his top fist techniques.

His blow struck true and the fangfish was knocked unconscious.

Meanwhile, more fangfish were closing in on him, an entire school it seemed. Grabbing the unconscious fish, he ran out of the water and up the shore. Some of the larger fangfish wriggled after him across the sand like enormous crocodiles. Thankfully, they couldn't stay out of the water for very long and quickly retreated.

Gong!

Yang Qi smacked the fish onto a nearby rock a few times until it was dead, simultaneously marveling at its powerful life force.

"You're going to have to use your own power to chop it up, Yang Qi," Brahma said. "We don't have any weapons or tools anymore, not even a knife. We'll have to eat it raw. At least we can absorb the quintessence energy from its flesh. One of the reasons we're so weak is that we only have our own true energy inside of us, but no godpower. But the fangfish are natives of this place. Consume them, and we can convert our true energy into godpower, and finally start getting strong again. We have a big advantage compared to ordinary people who first arrive in the god world. After all, you have the God Legion Seal."

Yang Qi quickly did just that, chopping the fangfish up into a bunch of tiny pieces for everyone to consume.

As soon as they ate the fangfish meat, they felt their quintessence energy thrumming and the weakness within them slowly fading away.

"How pitiful," Doom sighed. "In the immortal worlds, we're apex entities who can create worlds with a thought. But here in the god world we're as weak as could be, forced to eat raw meat like savages. That said, I can already sense my true energy converting into godpower."

"Well that's a given," Brahma said. "Yang Qi already imbued us with the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth. Do you know what that means? That's the top technique in the god world! And his God Legion Seal can help harmonize us with the magical laws here. It won't be long before we can start cultivating our energy arts again."

After eating the fangfish, they felt a bit less hungry, and at the same time, realized how dangerous the god world was and how they needed to acclimate themselves as quickly as possible.

Continuing, he said, "Most people need four or five years to get used to the god world and turn their true energy into godpower. But we're different. I'd say we'll only need a few hours, thanks to Yang Qi." Sitting down cross-legged, he circulated his true energy and began working on his cultivation.

Yang Qi did the same, concentrating all effort on slowly turning his true energy into godpower, making sure it conformed to the vital energy of the god world.

The truth was that he was already incredibly strong, and just needed some time to get used to his new surroundings. And the God Legion Seal was constantly absorbing the god world vital energy and helping him to maintain his peak state.

'I see how it is. The magical laws of the god world are so strong that I can't release my true energy outside of my body, much less fly or manipulate space. I'll have to reach the peak Terrifying level first.'

As he performed his breathing exercises, the God Legion Seal quivered as if with anticipation, greedily absorbing the vital energy of the god world. At the same time, his Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth was undergoing transformations as his vital energy and blood grew denser and stronger.

RUMBLE!

A few hours later, he felt much stronger. Standing, he stamped his foot down, causing the ground to shake a bit. Then he launched an experimental fist strike, causing a whizzing sound to ring out.

He was already stronger, and although he couldn't release his true energy outside of him, at least he wasn't as weak as before.

One by one, everyone else opened their eyes and stood, already starting to feel a bit more at ease. As they breathed, they were growing more used to the god world and their bodies were getting stronger. At least now they could walk around a bit without gasping.

"Great," Brahma said. "You're already making progress. It's nearly nighttime, and there's no sun or moon in the god world. Days are simply marked by the alternating periods of light and dark."

It was only at that point that Yang Qi realized there wasn't a sun overhead. And yet light streamed down from above, leading to a very different sensation than in the mortal world.

"Why don't we chop down some trees and build a shelter?" Brahma said. "At least then we won't be caught unawares by any animals. Don't forget, we're commoners now. Actually, we're weaker than commoners! The animals in the god world are extremely fierce. You might as well consider the fangfish an appetizer compared to what's to come. If there's anything more dangerous than that on this island, we could be in a lot of danger."

The island was actually huge, almost like a continent. In fact, it was so large that they had no idea where the other side was. It seemed to be nothing more than an endless jungle.

No one had any doubt that Brahma knew what he was talking about, so they quickly headed over to the tree line to chop down some trees.

"Hai!" The Shepherd targeted a tree about as wide as a bowl, and chopped his hand toward it. Unfortunately, all that happened was that the tree shook and a few leaves fell to the ground. "Damn it all," the Shepherd growled. "I can't believe that my amazing—"

"Look, I told you," interrupted Brahma, "this is the god world. Use the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth to get used to the magical laws. If you do, you should be able to chop down some trees." He circulated his energy until everyone saw his face glowing with golden light. Then he launched a fist strike that hit the very same tree, splitting it right in half.

Panting a bit, he said, "I did that thanks to the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth. Yang Qi, you're the strongest of us all. Why don't you head back to the water and get some more fangfish for us to eat? If we run out of energy, we won't be doing any tree felling. I can help everyone else figure out how to use the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth to get used to the magical laws."

"Alright!" Yang Qi said. Thanks to the God Legion Seal, he had been constantly absorbing the surrounding vital energy, making him much stronger than he was when he first arrived.

He took another experimental leap, and this time he was able to jump about as high as an average person was tall. Nodding in satisfaction, he headed toward the shallows, instantly attracting the attention of the school of fangfish.

This time, he wasn't as afraid as before. Dodging the attack of a small fangfish, he thrust his finger out in a powerful attack that pierced right through its head, killing it instantly.

Not wanting its blood to attract even more dangerous sea creatures, Yang Qi grabbed it before it hit the water and threw it up onto the sand.

During that time, several other fangfish had latched onto his legs. If it had been anyone else, their legs would already be mincemeat. But Yang Qi was too tough. Sending a powerful pulse through himself, he killed the fishes and sent them flying up onto the beach.

It was with casual ease that, over the course of the following hour, he caught upwards of a hundred fangfish. The largest was over two feet long, and pulsed with immense energy.

Meanwhile, Brahma was using his extensive experience to help everyone with their cultivation, assisting them in getting used to the god world. Before long, they felt a bit of familiarity with the magical laws and were able to use the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth to conform to the vital energy, then use it to start chopping down trees. And with plenty of fangfish to keep them energized, they were very efficient.

One tree after another fell, and before long, they were able to piece together a small cabin.

They were already about as strong as a martial arts expert from the mortal world who had been training his fleshly body for a decade or more.

Around this time, night fell.

Unlike the gradual transition that would normally occur when the sun set, this involved a sudden change. One moment it was light, the next moment, it was dark. In fact, it was so dark that it was impossible for them to see their hands even when holding them right in front of their noses.

Everyone suddenly felt as lonely as if they had been cast into an incomparably deep abyss. Yang Qi prepared to draw on the God Legion Seal to provide some light, but Brahma quickly reached out and stopped him. "Are you trying to get us killed?!" he said. "You definitely can't do that. What are we supposed to do if the light of the God Legion Seal attracts some powerful godlings? Everyone, get in the cabin, and stay inside!"

Groping in the dark, they managed to get inside the wooden cabin. To people like this, there was virtually no difference between day and night in the immortal worlds. They could even sweep entire worlds with their thoughts. But here in the god world, they weren't even able to use their divine sense.

"Night here in the god world is completely freakish," Sword Seventeen said. "No stars and no moon? You can't even see your hand in front of your face. I feel like I'm an ordinary person again, and I can't say I like the feeling. I definitely need to reach godly ascension as soon as possible. At the very least, I need to be able to fly. Hey, why don't we start a fire?"

"Yeah, how do we do that?" Sectlord Will Manifestation asked.

Brahma shook his head. "Starting a fire won't be easy. We'll have to wait until we reach the peak Terrifying level. Then we can use our internal true flame to ignite wood. The only other option would be to find an inhabited area where we can get some man-made flame sparks. Other than those two methods, starting a fire is impossible."

"I need to work on my cultivation a bit more," Yang Qi said calmly. "Once I understand more profundities of the God Legion Seal and the god world, I should be able to send my true energy outside my body, and hopefully reach the peak Terrifying level. We've only been here a day, and I've already gained quite a bit of enlightenment."

Aaaaoooooo!

All of a sudden they heard what sounded like the cry of a wolf.

"So, there are some animals out there," Brahma said. At night, we're basically blind, but the animals aren't. I wonder if this little cabin can keep us safe."

Everyone shivered in fear at his words.

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Chapter 1144: Night in the God World

Night in the god world was absolutely pitch black, without any moon or stars.

The howling of the wind made it seem like terrifying creatures might leap out from the night at any moment to grab them. Thankfully, they had shelter, which made them feel a bit safer.

The cabin was quite secure. Brahma had instructed them how to plant the logs deep into the ground to provide maximum defense against any wild animals.

Many people present were grandmasters when it came to spell formations, but at the moment, this structure was the only thing they had to keep them safe. They were now ordinary people who couldn't even use their true energy externally. Because of that, they couldn't carve or craft magical devices, or use the vital energy of the god world to unleash divine abilities, much less create and operate spell formations.

"We'll need to be able to unleash godpower before we can use spell formations," Brahma reminded them. "Right now, we're like Energy Arts practitioners in the mortal world. For the time being, we need to focus on training and cultivation. Normally speaking, only people who are on the verge of godly ascension can work with spell formations. We call people like that Quasi-Gods. They're a step above the average citizen of the god world."

"Yang Qi," Doom said, "how far are you from reaching the peak Terrifying level? From the way you were catching those fish earlier, it seems your cultivation base has already improved. You must be close to a breakthrough."

Yang Qi cast his senses inside and found that his blood vessels and muscles were transforming, becoming more in line with the magical laws of the god world.

"I think I am," Yang Qi replied. "I'm already starting to understand the god world a lot more, and godhood is forming within me. It won't be long before I should be able to reach godly ascension without any problems. Thanks to my God Legion Seal, I can absorb the magical laws around me, and understand their ultimate meaning. With that, I can slowly form a god body and gain the constitution of the legion of gods."

Of course, he was also thinking about how strong Proud Heaven was. If it was so difficult to survive in the god world, how had Proud Heaven returned from the place? What good fortune had he come across?

If Yang Qi wanted to return, he wouldn't even know where to start.

Crash. Crunch.

All of a sudden, noise broke the stillness of the night; it sounded as though some creature was making its way through the forest at the edge of the beach.

Snap!

The animal stopped outside of their wooden cabin and struck the barrier with claws of some sort, as if it wanted to break in. Everyone jumped in shock, and were about to rush out to start fighting when Brahma reminded them, "It's very dangerous at nighttime. You can't see a thing, which means you're an easy target for the wild creatures. Don't worry, it can't get inside. Just wait it out."

There were more scratching sounds and everyone inched closer together, ready to start fighting if the creature somehow broke inside. Some nibbling sounds could be heard, then silence returned as the creature apparently gave up on trying to get inside.

Everyone breathed sighs of relief.

All of a sudden, Yang Zhan yawned and laid down on the ground as if to sleep. "It's so strange," he said. "Even before I was a Master of Energy, I gave up sleeping. Now here I am, a mid Terrifying expert, and I'm about to fall asleep?"

"If you're tired, sleep," Brahma said. "Restore your energy. That's another reason I suggested building this structure. When you're a god, you can do without sleep. But before then, you need to get your rest."

Hearing that, Yang Zhan laid his head over and was snoring a moment later.

By this point, everyone except Yang Qi was feeling tired. After all, he had the God Legion Seal.

"You all sleep," he said, "I'll stand watch. I don't need rest. Hopefully, by the time I gain enlightenment of how the God Legion Seal and the god world interact, you'll all be able to use your divine abilities."

Everyone nodded, although no one could see that. Laying in various positions, they all drifted to sleep.

Yang Qi kept his ear cocked for any noises on the outside, and at the same time focused on his breathing exercises. The true energy in him flowed constantly, getting stronger as he worked. The God Legion Seal also seemed to be breathing, and whenever he circulated his true energy, the seal would absorb some of the magical laws of the god world, using them to turn his true energy into godpower, and by extension, help build his god body.

Brahma had not yet fallen asleep. "Yang Qi, once you reach the peak Terrifying level, you'll be able to send godpower out of your body and use divine abilities. That will be very helpful. I'm getting the sense that this isn't actually an island, but rather a continent."

"You know a lot about the god world. Do you have any idea where we are?" Yang Qi asked.

"The god world is huge," Brahma replied. "So big that not even the Sovereign Lord knew every square inch of it. So how could I possibly know where we are? That said, I'm fairly certain that this continent is controlled by pirates. If we run into them, we could be in big trouble."

"Pirates?" Yang Qi said, unable to hold back from laughing at the idea of pirates in the god world.

"Yes, pirates. They're extremely vicious characters who aren't exactly commoners, but at the same time, can't reach godly ascension. They're very strong, second only to the actual gods. In fact, some are Quasi-Gods. So without being able to use divine abilities, we're definitely not in the position to fight them." Brahma sighed. "Ai, we really need to reach godly ascension..."

Snap!

All of a sudden, they heard a shriek out in the darkness, then a crashing sound. The cabin around them shuddered, and they heard what sounded like wood shattering.

Skin crawling, Yang Qi jumped to his feet.

For some reason, he was certain that there was now a hole in the wooden wall of the cabin, and although he couldn't see anything, he was sure that there was a very peculiar hand reaching inside, trying to grab one of his companions.

Cocking his head and listening very carefully, he then launched a palm strike. It was pure martial arts, backed by the power of his fleshly body, and it was aimed squarely at that strange hand.

A yelp rang out as he made contact with a furry paw and sharp claws. His arm stung from the impact, but at the same time, he heard the crack of a breaking bone. Then the owner of the hand scampered off into the night.

"What was that?" Yang Qi asked, his heart pounding with fear. "It broke into our cabin? This is god world wood that we could only break with the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth!"

"Based on the sound of its breathing, I'd say it was a ghost-face monkey. They're even worse than the fangfish. We definitely need to be careful, as they're so strong that only peak Terrifying experts can deal with them. That said, once it's day again, we won't need to worry." Sighing, Brahma lay down and went to sleep.

Meanwhile, Yang Qi remained awake the entire night.

Eventually, the night passed and day came. There was no dawn, it simply went from darkness to light, almost instantly.

'It's day finally. What a rough night...' That was what everyone was thinking. Making their way out of their shack, they saw bits of fur and blood in various places. Obviously, if they had been out in the open during the night, the consequences would have been too horrible to contemplate.

"Everyone get to work chopping more wood," Brahma said. "We need to strengthen our cabin and accomplish whatever else we can during the daytime. Everyone take one of the fish Yang Qi caught yesterday and eat up."

For breakfast, they ate raw fish. It took a few fish to get full, whereupon they set to work. They still didn't have any tools, so they were forced to use the raw power of their hands and feet to chop wood.

Yang Qi and Brahma did the majority of the work. Some of the trees were so enormous that not even Yang Qi could chop them down with his Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth. At most, he could leave some scratch marks on them.

But as he continued to work, and his true energy flowed faster and faster, his arm eventually glowed with golden light. At that point, he was able to chop down some of the larger trees.

Thus, the day passed, ending with their cabin much stronger than the day before. They used vines to tighten everything down, and thanks to the harrowing events of the night before, they worked hard to have three layers of wood on each wall.

Night fell, and this time they rested a bit more easily in the cabin.

Eventually, the nocturnal animals came out. Quite a few nosed around the cabin, and some even tried to break in, but they all failed.

More nights passed.

They had now been in the god world for three days. Their days were spent chopping wood, catching fish, and working on their cabin. Their nights were spent sleeping.

Brahma also spent time helping them get used to the magical laws. Slowly but surely, everyone was converting their true energy into godpower, which helped them advance their energy arts and improve their psychic scales. Unfortunately, all of them were still far from the peak Terrifying level. But at least they were all coming to be like martial arts experts from the mortal world.

By now, it wasn't very difficult to chop down trees and catch fish.

Their cabin grew larger, and on the third day, Yang Qi managed to kill a rather large python.

It was as thick as an arm and fully nine meters long, and had launched itself like an arrow at the Shepherd. Thankfully, Yang Qi was faster, intercepting it and bashing its head in with a palm.

Brahma recognized the beast as a black weedmountain python, which was so venomous that it could kill anyone under the level of a god.

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Chapter 1145: Rain in the God World

Everyone was surprised that a snake could be so strong, and wondered what would happen if something like it escaped into the mortal world.

Using his hand like a blade, Yang Qi skinned the snake and pulled out its gallbladder. Instead of being soft, as might be expected, it was as hard as a diamond. It was virtual godhood, except completely different from the type they were used to in that it was corporeal.

Considering they had been in the god world for a few days now, they were all in the process of converting their true energy into godpower, and all of them had virtual godhood.

"Virtual godhood will be very useful in increasing our psychic scale," Brahma said. "We can boil that gallbladder into a soup to eat."

"Boil it into a soup?" Jadefall said. "We can't make fire, so how are we supposed to boil it?"

At the moment, the purrling rested in her arms asleep, seemingly unconcerned by any of the dangers around them.

"If I'm not mistaken, it's going to start raining soon. And when the lightning hits the trees in the forest, it will start fires."

Apparently, Brahma was very familiar with how the weather worked in the god world.

RUMBLE!

In fact, even as the words left his mouth, they heard the rumble of thunder, and then a great bolt of lightning fell, smashing into the nearby forest with resounding force.

Almost immediately, they could see scorching hot flames rising up from the point of impact.

"Hurry, the storm is coming!" Brahma said. "Go get some of that fire! Let's hope that our cabin can stand up to the rain. The storms that come off the ocean can be incredible!"

In the past few days, they had set about reinforcing the cabin with rocks, making it even sturdier against the animals. However, Brahma had only continued to ask them to strengthen the place, which before had seemed odd, but now made perfect sense. Considering that everyone here was so familiar with spell formations, it was a given that they would build the structure according to a set plan, and that it was well thought out. As of now, it looked much more civilized than it had when it was just sticks and logs.

Looking up into the sky, Yang Qi saw more lightning falling, and at the same time, could see powerful vital energy fluctuations from the incoming storm. There were also black clouds gathering, filling him with a sense of foreboding.

"Everyone get inside, I'll go get the fire."

He leaped into the forest, flying from tree to tree almost like an ape until he reached a spot where the fire was burning. Based on the intensity of the flame, Yang Qi could tell that this fire was vastly more destructive than anything from the immortal worlds.

Grabbing a rather oily fallen branch, he stuck it into the fire, resulting in hissing and popping sounds as it ignited. Then he hurried back to the cabin.

Even as Yang Qi entered the cabin, more crashing sounds could be heard as the rain began falling in earnest outside.

"Good, you're back," Brahma said, breathing a sigh of relief. "Hopefully the rain passes soon. Otherwise, we might be in trouble."

The crash of rain was so loud that it sounded like top experts were unleashing torrents of sword energy onto their cabin. In fact, it seemed like the rain might break through the ceiling and walls.

"Ah, this is nothing," Sword Seventeen said. "It's just rain, right? What's there to be afraid of? In the mortal world, I used to look for the biggest storms possible to practice my sword techniques in. In fact, maybe I should go outside and do some practicing right now. The natural power of the god world should be great for improving my sword techniques."

With that, he walked toward the door.

"Hold on!" Yang Qi said, blocking his path. It was just then that a raindrop happened to work its way through the roof and drop onto Yang Qi's hand. Hissing sounds rang out as his skin started to dissolve!

It was so painful that Yang Qi let out a yelp.

"The rain is that corrosive!?"

He quickly drew on the power of the God Legion Seal, sending golden light out to repair the melted skin.

Meanwhile, Sword Seventeen was staring at him with his jaw hanging open, shivering at the thought that he had just been about to step out into the rain.

"Rainfall in the god world is nothing short of catastrophic," Brahma explained. "If you're born here, and your genes are connected to the essence of the god world, it won't hurt you. But we just came here from the mortal world and are still tainted with its essence. This rain would be very damaging to us, and would probably kill us."

"How come the ocean water didn't hurt us?" Yang Qi asked.

"Rain's rain," Brahma replied, "and ocean water is ocean water. The rain sits up in the sky, brewing, filling with the preheaven power of the gods. When that power falls to the earth, it becomes ordinary godwater. But the preheaven version needs to be avoided. Eventually, perhaps in ten or fifteen days, we'll have refined enough of the mortal aura within us that the rainwater won't cause major problems. At that point, we might get sick if we ended up soaked, but little more. In any case, the deadly nature of the rain makes it dangerous for anyone who hasn't reached godly ascension. For weak people like that, the only hope is to become believers in some god and enter the protection of their god kingdom.

"Let's build the fire up. It'll keep the cold away, and believe me, the chill in this rain would be harmful if it seeps into you."

They had a lot of wood in the cabin, so they dug a pit and built up a roaring fire that drove away any cold. Soon, they all felt warm and cozy, and their true energy flowed even better than before.

By this point, they were all convinced of the extraordinary nature of the god world fire. At a certain point, Jadefall produced a stone pot they had hewn out, which they used to boil the snake gallbladder into a fragrant soup that soon had their stomachs grumbling.

Right now most of them were wearing the hides of various animals that Yang Qi had killed over the past few days. Their previous clothes had quickly disintegrated, and their god items were gone. The only items they had left were Yang Qi's fragments of the Cruiser of Civilization. And in terms of disintegrated clothing, the only exception was Yang Qi, who, thanks to his God Legion Seal, could wear his God Legion Battle Robe.

Everyone else present had been used to wearing clothing made from true energy, but as commoners here in the god world, they would be naked if they didn't wear beast hides.

For all intents and purposes, they were like savages now.

As the rain crashed and the storm raged outside, their cabin shuddered and creaked, making them worry that it might collapse at any moment.

In fact, they all regretted that they hadn't worked harder in the previous days to make the structure even stronger.

RUMBLE!

As everyone scrambled to keep the cabin from collapsing, they suddenly heard a loud rumbling sound that sounded like something slamming into the shore.

However, they were too focused on keeping their cabin standing to worry about it.

Drip. Drop.

Soon, rainwater was making it through the roof, dropping into the interior of the cabin, forcing everyone to dance this way and that to avoid it. Unfortunately, the leaks got worse and worse, until water was falling everywhere.

Purr. Purr...

A drop landed on the purling, causing it to shiver and let out two angry purrs. A bubble popped into being around everyone. At the same time, Yang Qi used his God Legion Seal to heal them of any injuries they had sustained from the rain hitting them.

They were safe.

The rain continued without cease until, eventually, their cabin collapsed.

Everyone in the group marveled, fully aware that if it weren't for the purrling, they would have been severely injured, or possibly even killed. Thankfully, not a single drop of rain could get through the purrling's bubble.

The screaming winds raged around them, combining with the falling water to create a scene of chaos that was almost nothing but a blur. There were even occasions when the wind lifted up pieces of wood or rock, which would slam into the exterior of the bubble before flying away.

"Incredible," Brahma said, looking at the purrling. "How can this godling have energy arts like this? It's a miracle! What is it? I've seen a lot of things in life, but I've never seen anything like it!"

Yang Qi wasn't as surprised. Further, although he knew the purrling was amazing, the downside was that it wasn't possible to control it. Sometimes it used its amazing powers, and other times it didn't.

Hour after hour passed. Eventually, the rain stopped and the sky cleared. At that point, the bubble vanished.

Landing on solid ground, everyone looked around. Although the sky was now bright and clear, the beach looked like a disaster zone.

"Hey, what's that?" Jadefall said pointing up the beach. Everyone looked over and saw a ship that had apparently run aground into the offshore reef. Scattered corpses could be seen here and there around it, with a few living beings trying to crawl up onto the beach.

1. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, snake gallbladders are believed to be very beneficial to the health. In fact, it's something of a trope to have characters in Chinese fantasy novels grow stronger by eating them.

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Chapter 1146: Pirate Ship

An enormous ship had run aground.

The storm had clearly blown it across the sea until it smashed into the offshore reef, killing quite a few people on board. That said, there were survivors who were now struggling to make it ashore.

It was a very impressive-looking ship.

Instead of being made from wood, it was made from incredibly tough bleached bones. Despite having struck the reef, it was merely stuck in the shallows. The actual structure of the ship was mostly undamaged and would need only minimal repairs to make it seaworthy.

As for the survivors, they were all fierce-looking individuals with sabers in hand.

Even as they cried for help, they emanated wretched, fiendish auras.

"They're pirates!" said Brahma. "Pirates of the god world! They murder for profit, sailing the high seas to sack merchant ships and only coming ashore to capture slaves that they sell to the wretch-god kingdoms. Don't let them see us! If they have a peak Terrifying expert, we're finished. The captain of that ship can definitely use true energy externally, and probably glide through the air. We obviously can't fight a person like that. Furthermore, that ship is clearly made from seawyrm devil-bones. Seawyrms are like floodwyrms, except larger and more dangerous. When the gods kill them, they sell their bones for exorbitant prices for use in ship-building. The result is a ship that can terrify all kinds of godlings with its attack power. And the way it can split the water as it moves makes it incredibly fast. Let's just slowly back away before they notice us."

During the past few days, they had all developed a cautious nature. Considering they had just arrived in the god world, they wanted to avoid contact with any of the locals, especially the dangerous pirates. The last thing they wanted was to be enslaved and sold to some wretch-god.

There were all kinds of wretch-gods in the god world, and they were all extremely vicious and evil. They loved capturing ordinary citizens and draining them of power. To them, even mid Terrifying experts were nothing more than objects to be sacrificed.

"Wait a moment," Yang Qi said, "they've already spotted us. Get ready to fight..."

Just as he had said, some of the pirates had made it to shore already and were heading in their direction, sabers at the ready.

They were speaking in Godtongue, the common language of the god world.

Of course, Yang Qi and his companions could all understand the language, and thus knew exactly what the pirates were saying.

"Look, some savages!"

"Drifters, right up ahead on the beach. It's hard to say who exactly they are, but it doesn't matter. Let's capture them. The ship is only slightly damaged, and with a bit of work it'll be as good as new. If we enslave these savages, we can make a nice profit selling them to a wretch-god somewhere."

"There are more than a dozen of them, including a couple women. I haven't enjoyed myself in a long time..."

The pirates were dressed in tough, serviceable clothing, and the sharp, glittering sabers in their hands were clearly remarkable god items.

Of course, god items sometimes made their way to the mortal world. However, such items were like gourmet delicacies dropped into a cesspool. They didn't compare at all to their original nature and function.

Because of that, the god items that the group had brought with them had all been ground into powder during their journey through the space-time passageway. If the group had possessed tools or weapons, it would have been a lot easier to fell trees, but instead they had been forced to use their hands.

The approaching pirates were all extremely fit and muscular. Obviously, they had either been in the god world for a long time, or were natives. Their bulging muscles looked like rocks, and their pulsing godpower caused their garments to flap around them as they moved.

That said, Yang Qi could tell that they were all in the mid Terrifying level, with psychic scales around three or four hundred. They were like the old-timers from the Executors of the Ancient Road and were obviously not in a position to compare to Yang Qi.

"We're going to have to fight," Yang Qi said. "Be careful!"

Taking the lead, he rushed out toward the pirates. This was going to be his first fight in the god world, and he had no idea exactly what it would be like.

Swish!

The nearest pirate to him had a face full of scars. As Yang Qi neared, he slashed out with his glittering saber, using a very profound saber technique: the initial angle of attack made it seem like it was intended to hack him in two from top to bottom. But the truth was that the move was a feint! At the last minute, a second saber slashed out from behind the pirate's back, heading directly toward Yang Qi's waist to lop him in half!

He had been hiding a second saber behind his back all along!

But was Yang Qi the kind of person who would fall for a trick like that? He had battle experience that stemmed from the God Legion Seal, making him the master of every type of fighting trick there was. In terms of fighting theory, no one could match him.

He twisted with blinding speed, his hand shooting into the saber light and right through the opening the man had left.

Planting one foot, he leaped forward like a snake slipping into a mountain crevice, his hand slicing through the pirate's clothing and instantly stabbing into his chest.

"Aaaiiiieee!" the pirate screamed, his energy instantly draining out of him. Then he toppled backward and flopped onto the ground, a gaping hole in his chest. Meanwhile, Yang Qi stood over him, two sabers in his hands.

They were long and razor-sharp, with complex designs on the blades. Obviously, those designs were spell formations, but unfortunately, Yang Qi could tell that he wouldn't be able to activate such things until he was in the Peak Terrifying level. That said, the sharpness of the blades would be more than enough to kill someone.

With that, he lunged into the pirates like a tiger among a flock of sheep. Saber light flashed as he attacked, using the saber to take advantage of the weaknesses of every opponent he faced.

He was far stronger than any of these pirates, being just on the verge of the peak Terrifying level. His only disadvantage was that he wasn't used to the magical laws of the god world and couldn't release his true energy outside his body.

The average citizens in the god world were in the mid Terrifying level, which meant they couldn't even fly, and were as easy to slaughter as the commoners in the mortal world. Even wild beasts could devour them. In fact, Brahma had recently explained that they were generally referred to as Plebeians.

People who were even a bit higher, for example on the cusp of the peak Terrifying level, could dominate their fellows, and would be strong enough to enslave them. Brahma called people like that the Despots.

Yet even people like that were minor figures.

After all, they were like nothing compared to the true peak Terrifying experts. People such as that, who could release godpower outside of their bodies, were called Quasi-Gods.

And after them were the actual gods with godhood. Lesser Gods were the kind of people who could found their own kingdoms within the god world and would have forces of followers consisting of Plebeians, Despots, and Quasi-Gods.

Gods were the truly powerful entities in the god world.

These pirates were all Despots, and as for Yang Qi and his companions, considering their experiences so far, they could also be considered Despots. Thus, the close-quarter fighting raged.

Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam!

The pirates were immediately shoved back across the battlefield, with several of them falling in death. Yang Qi and his people were the cream of the crop from the mortal world, most of whom had millions upon millions of years of fighting experience. Although they were restrained by the essence of the god world, that didn't do anything to their experience. In fact, when it came to fighting, they definitely had experienced much more in their lives than these pirates.

Compared to them, the pirates were like children playing a game.

After all, the average lifespan for ordinary people in the god world was a mere hundred years.

And although Despots could hope to live past two hundred, it was rare for any to reach a thousand years of age. It was only the gods who could be considered deathless. Could someone who only had a few dozen years of fighting experience really match up to someone who had been a warrior for hundreds of millions of years?

And that wasn't to mention the fact that, thanks to the experience granted him by the God Legion Seal, Yang Qi surpassed everyone else by far.

SWISH!

The Shepherd was using martial arts from hell, unleashing spectacular moves as he twisted and turned across the beach. His hands blurred as he disarmed two pirates and turned their sabers on them, causing two streaks of light to pass through the necks of both opponents. The pirates flopped onto the sand.

"Blood from god world savages!" he shouted, delighted. Unfortunately, his godpower could only flow within his own body, and he couldn't use it to unleash the devil arts necessary to absorb the blood.

"Ah, what a pity. Nothing like that blood could possibly exist in the mortal world. If I could absorb it, I would definitely advance by leaps and bounds. Oh well, after they're all dead, I'll see if I have anything that will work."

As he continued fighting, the saber in his hand almost seemed to possess its own spirit. Any martial arts expert from the mortal world would have been completely flabbergasted at his display of skill.

Meanwhile, Sword Seventeen was laughing heartily. "These god world pirates are trash! They have almost no experience fighting! They might be as strong as us, but they're like flowers in a greenhouse! They're completely useless in a fight; I alone could cut down ten of them without any effort at all."

Brahma nodded and thought, 'These people are nothing to look down on. They rose to the top in the brutality of the mortal world, tempering their willpower and perseverance to the limit. Sooner or later, they're going to be important people here.'

As Yang Qi slaughtered the pirates on the shore and took their weapons, there were people watching from aboard the ship.

"This is bad. Look, how could those savages' martial arts be so advanced?" One of the pirates hurried into the main cabin. "Captain, there are some savages outside with incredible martial arts. They're slaughtering the crew!"

"How dare they kill my men! I need to see what this is all about!"

The captain appeared, clad in a flowing cape, his eyes as sharp as razors. From the immense godpower swirling around him, it was obvious he was a peak Terrifying expert.

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Chapter 1147: Peak Terrifying Exper

The pirate captain's cape flapped in the ocean breeze as he looked down at his men being slaughtered. From the way his eyes flickered, he definitely viewed himself as an important general whose subordinates were little more than dirt beneath his feet.

After all, he was a peak Terrifying expert.

He could control the true energy of the god world outside of his body, making him a Quasi-God.

In the god world, the full measure of rankings went from the Plebeians, Despots, and Quasi-Gods, to the actual gods, the Lesser, Common, Greater, Consummate, Perfect, and Paramount Gods.

The Lesser Gods were all peak Terrifying experts, and as for this pirate captain, all he had to do was completely form his godhood, and he would reach godly ascension; then he would be able to call the wind and summon the rain.

"Where did these savages come from?" he asked.

"We don't know," one of his pirate subordinates said. "They showed up as soon as our men reached the beach. It seems they've been living here for some time. We were thinking of selling them to a wretch-god, but then they started slaughtering our men. They're obviously very strong, with extremely impressive fleshly bodies. They're not like the normal Plebeian savages. Plus, they obviously have extensive fighting experience."

"Those are some incredible moves," the captain murmured. He had been about to make a move when he realized that Yang Qi and his people were slaughtering the pirates with such incredible skill that they were obviously veterans of countless battles, people who had climbed mountains of corpses and swam through seas of blood to reach their current level of skill. The pirates were generally much more skilled fighters than the average person, but in this particular fight, they seemed like children play fighting.

"Captain!" one of the pirates exclaimed, "how could these people have such abundant experience in battle? It almost looks like they're playing with the crew down there. None of them are even hurt! All of us are good fighters, but we can't compare to them at all!"

"They seem as experienced as gods!"

"Don't tell me..."

"There's only one possibility. They're as strong as us, but have vastly more fighting experience. That means they must have ascended from the lower worlds."

The captain listened to the discussion between his men, and his eyes grew even more piercing. Then his expression changed, becoming somewhat delighted as he threw his head back and laughed heartily. "You're right. Thanks for reminding me. With fighting experience like that, these people can only be from the lower worlds. People like that are considered treasures here in the god world. We could sell them at a huge profit! In fact, people from the lower worlds haven't been seen here for years. In the past, Ascendants always fetched astronomical prices, and we just happened to run into an entire group of them."

The other pirates on deck roared with laughter.

From the way they were acting, it was as if they had just run into a mountain of gold and silver.

It was just as the captain had said; people from the lower worlds were considered very valuable. In fact, in the past, there had been certain powerful entities who rose to the god world and became very important.

SNICK!

Yang Qi stamped his foot on the ground, causing a few dozen dropped sabers to fly up into the air and into the chests of a dozen or so nearby pirates, dropping them dead.

Of the hundred or so pirates who had charged them, all were now corpses.

At that point, a round of cheering rose up from the deck of the pirate ship. Initially, Yang Qi was confused. Why would the other pirates be cheering after they had killed so many of their fellows? Were they addled from being caught outside in the recent storm?

Before anything else could happen, Brahma suddenly blurted in a fearful voice, "This is bad! There's a peak Terrifying expert there! The pirate captain! They must be cheering because they realize we're from the mortal world. Didn't I tell you how valuable people from the mortal world are? Only the top figures from the mortal world can come to the god world, and they're always extraordinary people who have the potential to become very important. Some gods like to get their hands on people like that to study them and strip them of their destiny. They even turn them into puppets or out-of-body incarnations, and sometimes even absorb their experiences directly from their minds."

"So you're saying we're all considered invaluable?" Jadefall asked.

"That's right," Brahma said, smiling bitterly. "They're cheering because we're worth a lot of money. Even those hundred dead pirates are like nothing compared to us. They're going to capture us and sell us to wretch-gods, or perhaps one of the noble clans. With the money they'll make, they can stop being pirates and probably even reach godly ascension. The pirate captain is coming, we have to run! He's a peak Terrifying expert, you can tell from how he's gliding off the ship!"

A caped figure shot off of the grounded ship, flitting like an enormous seagull to land on the beach. He was followed by a host of other pirates.

In the mortal world, people in the seventh phase of Energy Arts could fly, but things were different here in the god world. To even be able to glide, one had to be a Quasi-God with virtual godhood. And such people couldn't possibly compare to the actual gods.

Before rising to the god world, Yang Qi had never seen someone with a psychic scale like this man, not even Proud Heaven. After all, Proud Heaven had been in the mid Terrifying level, not the peak.

The pirate captain landed on the sand and looked Yang Qi and his companions up and down. Thanks to the immense energy field surrounding him, all of them were locked in place and couldn't move.

That was how strong peak Terrifying experts were.

"You people ascended from the mortal world, didn't you?" he asked, speaking ordinary Godtongue. "It's been a long time since anyone like you has shown up. I almost can't believe I've run into such a large group of you."

"What do you mean?" Sectlord Will Manifestation said. "I don't follow. We're god world natives, not people from the mortal world. You're mistaken."

It was obvious that they weren't going to just admit to being from the mortal world. They knew how valuable they were, and wouldn't just hand themselves over to certainly horrific consequences.

The pirate captain snorted coldly. "Refusing to admit it won't change anything. We'll just take you captive and have you assessed. Then we'll find out whether you're god world natives or people ascended from the mortal world. Don't worry, we won't kill you. Just cooperate and surrender. Why would we ever hurt anything as valuable as you? Of course, if you fight back, we'll make you suffer."

"We said we're not from the mortal world," Sword Seventeen said. "Why go through all this trouble?"

"Fine. If you refuse to do things the easy way, we'll do them the hard way!" The pirate waved his hand, sending a stream of empyrean godpower out of his sleeve, which swirled like a vicious dragon right toward Sword Seventeen.

"Not good!" Sword Seventeen blurted. He knew he couldn't fight someone at the captain's level, yet his fighting instincts were so sharply honed that he immediately twirled in midair, using his sword technique to throw out the saber he had acquired. In the blink of an eye, he unleashed over a hundred moves, all of them exquisitely executed. Targeting the weakest aspects of the energy being sent in his direction, he slashed an opening for himself and fell back across the sand.

A moment later, the dragon-like stream of energy slammed into the beach, leaving a gaping crater behind.

"Well done," the pirate captain said. "And you're still trying to convince me you're not from the mortal world? My Divine Snake Lance is a top energy art even among Lesser Gods. The fact that you, a mid Terrifying cultivator, could dodge it, just shows how skilled you are. You have a lot of enlightenment of the fundamental nature of heaven and earth, of vital energy, and of magical laws. Only someone who's lived for millions of years could do something like that. And in the god world, people who aren't gods simply can't even dream of living for millions of years."

Sword Seventeen had just used a technique that took advantage of his enlightenment of magical laws and vital energy. It allowed him to use one sword technique to destroy a myriad of laws, and had taken many years to master in the lower worlds.

There was no way someone with a lifespan of a few hundred years could possibly match that.

The difference between him and the god world natives was like the difference between the sky and the land.

"What exactly do you want, Sire?" Yang Qi said. He was well aware that it wouldn't be possible to remain incognito forever in the god world. And it didn't seem possible to pull the wool over the eyes of the pirates. Respectfully clasping his hands, he said, "Since you realize that we've only just risen to the god world, and are certain to become important people, then why not get on our good side by letting us go? We could definitely make it worth your while in the future."

"What did you just say?" the pirate captain said, hardly able to believe his ears.

"I said you should let us go, Sire. It would be to your benefit. One day, when we become Paramount Gods, we'll owe you a favor."

The pirate captain started laughing so hard he nearly had a paroxysm. "Ignorant fool..."

Swish!

Even as he laughed, a stream of saber light shot toward him as fast as lightning. It was a saber Yang Qi had picked up from one of the pirates, backed by the power of the Mammoth King's God Whip.

Yang Qi was the strongest of them all, with power that was equivalent to the peak Terrifying level. Although he couldn't achieve his breakthrough right now, it would happen eventually. And despite not being able to use his true energy externally, he could imbue it into other items and propel them with force capable of smashing god formations.

In a flash, the saber was right in front of the pirate captain's head.

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Chapter 1148: Breakthrough

Yang Qi had just been distracting the pirate captain with his words, looking for the right moment to launch an unexpected attack. He knew that the captain was stronger than him and could use his true energy externally, which meant he was very dangerous.

He was so ferocious that he could kill all the mid Terrifying experts in the mortal world without hardly trying.

But in the god world, he couldn't be considered particularly impressive. And although Yang Qi might have been able to pull off some sort of escape, that wasn't what he was interested in. Besides, if word spread that there were people from the mortal world in this area, they would never be able to rest peacefully. It would definitely lead to no end of trouble.

There was only one option here: slaughter the pirates down to the last man.

RUUUUUUUUMBLE!

Golden light shone brightly as the blade shot forth, making it seem almost as if true energy were being released externally from it. Yang Qi had focused his quintessence energy so masterfully in this attack that it seemed like he might be ready to experience a breakthrough.

'How could this be happening?' the pirate captain thought. 'My defensive godpower can't stop him? I'm in the peak Terrifying level! I can manipulate godpower! There's no way a mid Terrifying cultivator can break my defenses!'

His disbelief was meaningless, the razor-sharp blade making it clear what the facts were.

The pirate captain scrambled backward, incapable of even launching a counter-attack.

"Too slow!" Yang Qi shouted. "You lack fighting experience!"

Without any hesitation, he pressed the attack, not holding back anything. He knew that he was fighting a peak Terrifying expert, a Quasi-God, and that the slightest mistake on his part would end with him being injured or worse.

Thankfully, the man was sadly lacking in fighting experience, otherwise Yang Qi would never have been a match for him.

Yang Qi unleashed a tempest of saber techniques, backed by the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth, making them formidable enough to conquer every obstacle. As a result, the pirate captain was boxed in and incapable of evading the assault.

The shocked captain unleashed his godpower to defend himself, but it did no good. His vital energy shattered like a crystal vase, quickly dissipating into nothing.

"Mammoth King's Flowing Decapitation!" Yang Qi howled, his saber flowing forth in a succession of deadly moves so powerful that the saber apparently couldn't take the force and began to crack.

"Damn you!" the pirate blurted as he realized he couldn't dodge the attack. Instead, he raised his arm to defend himself. Then a thwacking sound could be heard as his arm was chopped off, causing him to tremble in pain.

However, even as the blood spurted out of the wound, he shouted. "Blood Lightning Energy Art!"

RIP!

His severed arm exploded, turning into blood-colored light that shattered Yang Qi's crumbling saber, then transformed into an enormous crimson hand that rumbled on toward Yang Qi himself.

Of course, thanks to Yang Qi's extensive fighting experience, he could anticipate all sorts of possibilities, including this one. Sadly, the magical laws of the god world had his godpower locked down, making it impossible to manipulate it outside his body.

The hand slammed into him, throwing him a full nine meters back across the sand. At the same time, blood-colored light stabbed into him, piercing his meridians and spreading out to restrain him.

Meanwhile, the pirate captain was howling in agony. Now that his arm was severed, he had lost it for good. In the god world, the bodies of gods weren't like bodies in the mortal world, which could continue existing even after being ground into powder.

"I'll never forgive you for this!" the captain shouted, backing up. Waving his remaining hand, he said, "Attack! All of you! Kill them!"

The other pirates, who had just now made it to the shore, nocked arrows to their bows and began firing them up the beach. Arrows immediately began buzzing like hornets that could tear their victims to shreds.

"Watch out!" Brahma shouted. Of course, veterans of countless battles like Yang Qi's companions didn't need such warnings and were already leaping for cover behind various rock outcroppings on the beach.

"Take this!" the frenzied captain shouted, waving his remaining arm and sending a fist-sized projectile of godpower and vital energy shooting out. It slammed into one of the rocks, causing a massive explosion that sent Yang Qi and his people flying to the side, stunned.

"Capture them!" the captain yelled. Obviously, he didn't want to kill someone as valuable as Yang Qi, so he reached out, causing an enormous hand of true energy to wrap around Yang Qi.

Then he sent the godpower inside of him to take control of his body. Unfortunately, he instantly lost control of the godpower as something like a black hole sprang open inside Yang Qi and began ravenously devouring it.

The pirate captain only had the energy arts of a Lesser God, so how could he possibly match up to the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth? If he simply battered Yang Qi with deadly attacks, it would have quickly injured him. But instead he was trying to control him with true energy, only to have that energy taken from him.

That was the result of the God Legion Seal having all types of godpower built into it.

The pirate had unleashed a huge torrent of godpower, therefore, this development provoked an expression of complete shock. He quickly tried to retract his godpower, but it was too late for that. Yang Qi bounded forward, laid hands on him, and sent the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth surging into him.

"Aaaiiiieee!" screamed the captain. He had just been injured, then suddenly found his godpower being sucked away from him, leaving him completely flustered. He had a lot of experience fighting, but obviously couldn't compare to experts from the mortal world who had survived innumerable deadly situations.

Because of that, he couldn't possibly ward off Yang Qi's attack, and could only unleash a bevy of energy arts, in the hopes of landing a blow.

Sadly, his godpower disappeared as surely as if it were entering the belly of a gobblewock.

Golden light shone off of Yang Qi as he absorbed the captain's true energy. Yang Qi smiled viciously as he then burned that energy to purify himself and grow his own power.

He felt as if something inside him was just beginning to emerge and grow strong. His psychic power seemed to be converging, and there seemed to be magical and natural laws that were about to break.

RUMBLE!

The vital energy around him started collapsing, and bright golden light shot out of him, spreading for dozens of meters in every direction.

"What's this?" the captain shrieked in alarm. However, before he could do anything else, the golden light overwhelmed him, causing green smoke to rise off of his skin for a moment before he simply vanished into nothing.

Yang Qi had immense potential built up within him. Just now, he had used the God Legion Seal on the pirate captain's godpower, and had even thrown in the devouring capabilities of King Heaven-Devourer's talismans. That sacrifice had pushed him past his previous limitations. He had broken into the peak Terrifying level!

His reserves were more formidable than an average peak Terrifying expert; now that he had broken through, there was no way that some trashy pirate captain could possibly be a match for him.

Thus, Yang Qi killed him in one move.

Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh.

More arrows filled the sky, but how could Yang Qi possibly care about things like that?

He was now a peak Terrifying expert, a Quasi-God who merely had to wave his hand and summon a golden shield to stop the flying arrows. Now that he could unleash his godpower outside of his body and use his divine abilities, he was able to reveal his true strength.

Furthermore, he could use all of the potential of the God Legion Seal.

The God Legion Seal was complete, and now that it was in the god world, Yang Qi could funnel godpower into it and finally break through the strange barriers that had existed within it back in the mortal world.

Thanks to Yang Qi's transformation, the entire beach was bathed in golden light, and the sand beneath his feet seemed to be on the verge of melting.

"Net!" he said, and golden threads shot out to create an enormous net that spread out to fill the entire area. It descended on the pirates and they screamed miserably as they were firmly immobilized.

"Very good."

Yang Qi flew up into the air, and a pair of holy wings sprouted from his back, allowing him to hover and survey the scene from above. Thanks to the endless amount of godpower available, using the God Legion Seal didn't tire him out now. As long as the god world existed, so would he.

It was as if he had an endless amount of fuel that ensured he would never dry up.

Furthermore, his cultivation base could operate at speeds surpassing that of ordinary gods.

Now that he had broken through, Yang Qi knew that he could devastate any other Quasi-God. And now he realized why Proud Heaven had wanted so badly to have the complete God Legion Seal. It was virtually a cheat item here in the god world, making him invincible in terms of cultivation and fighting.

Now that the pirates were trapped in the net, Yang Qi's companions emerged from cover and stared at him in delight.

"You broke through, Yang Qi?"

"I did. Truth be told, I could've broken through the moment we arrived in the god world. My battle with Proud Heaven unlocked all sorts of enlightenment of my Sage Monarch Grand Magic. I originally intended to wait, except... the pirate king's peak Terrifying godpower burned open a hole that helped me understand one of the first magical laws of the god world."

Brahma nodded. "Yes, the god world has many laws, and breaking through the first one will provide immense power. Unfortunately, my cultivation base still needs some work before I can become a Quasi-God. My past injuries were too severe. But now we have a good opportunity on our hands. Instead of spending time cultivating in the wilderness, we can take these pirates and their treasures. If we can figure out where their base is, we'll have even more resources available for cultivation."

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Chapter 1149: Godnotes

Yang Qi easily destroyed the pirates that had been attacking him.

As for all of the other pirates who had been wrapped up in his net, his energy arts were so powerful that they all immediately lost consciousness.

As a peak Terrifying expert, Yang Qi was truly a fear-inspiring individual, with energy arts and godpower so advanced that he was hundreds, or even thousands of times stronger than experts of the same level.

The complete God Legion Seal truly bolstered his godpower and abilities. In fact, with the help of the God Legion Seal, any godly-class energy art could be used with deadly force.

The golden light of the seal danced back and forth on Yang Qi, remolding him in a way that would have been difficult if he were to rely only on the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth and the Sage Monarch Grand Magic.

"What do we do with the other pirates?"

"What do we do with them?" the Shepherd said. "Kill them all! They know that we come from the mortal world, and if they spread the word, we would be chased down relentlessly. In the god world, it's survival of the fittest. Besides, it's not as if these pirates are good people. No one will mourn them if they die, and they'll be the perfect fuel for my Blood-Hell Soul-Refining Ability."

"Fine," Yang Qi said, nodding. "It would definitely be a disaster if people found out about us. And these pirates are murderers and villains, people who slaughter innocents without thinking. That said, Shepherd, you don't need to continue cultivating that Blood-Hell Soul-Refining Ability. Things like that are insignificant. Without the God Legion Seal, you can't really cultivate the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth, but you can definitely work with my Sage Monarch Grand Magic. In the days to come, it will definitely surpass the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth."

"He's right," Doom said. He had been cultivating the Sage Monarch Grand Magic, and knew how incredibly amazing it was. Even the small taste he had experienced was enough to earn Yang Qi his respect. "Yang Qi, it's great that you've imbued your Sage Monarch Grand Magic with the power of the God Legion Seal. The results are astounding. However, you need to be careful, otherwise you'll experience cultivation deviation."

"That won't happen," Yang Qi said, "at least, not when I use the Unspoiled Body to keep it in check. In any case, we need to leave some of the pirates alive for questioning."

Whoosh!

He reached out, and one of the pirates flew right into his grasp.

'It feels great to reach the peak Terrifying level and finally be able to unleash my true energy again,' he thought.

Meanwhile, the pirate regained consciousness, whereupon a look of dread filled his face. "Mercy! Spare me! Oh great Gods, spare my life! Don't kill me!"

"Presumably you realize that we're from the lower worlds," Yang Qi said. "I killed your captain, and now your life is in my hands. Got it? So tell me. Where are we? Explain in detail."

"I'll talk!" the pirate gushed. "Really, I'll talk. We're on the... the Lightningbolt Continent."

"Lightningbolt Continent?" Brahma said. "How come I've never heard of it? Which ocean district is this?"

"We're in the Blackmare Ocean."

"Blackmare Ocean?" Brahma shook his head. "I've never heard of that either. The god world is just too big for me to know every little location. Not even the Sovereign Lord knew how large the god world is. It's almost like it goes on and on without end. But I know the fundamental laws that govern it. Just ask me whatever you need to know, Yang Qi. You don't need pirates like this. Just go ahead and kill him."

"No, don't kill me!" the pirate shrieked. "Don't you have any sense of honor or justice? Wait, I forgot something. We have a bunch of loot in our ship. And slaves. And even some children of important people!"

"Oh?" Keeping a tight grip on the pirate, Yang Qi flew up onto the bone-crafted pirate ship, which was several kilometers from prow to stern. Once there, he waved his hand to create a bridge of golden light connecting it to the shore.

Everyone else hurried over the bridge to meet him.

Upon seeing this, the pirate's eyes went wide with disbelief. "You can fly? You just broke through to the peak Terrifying level and you're already more powerful than all the other experts? Not even Pirate King Deku could do that!"

Of course, the pirate had no idea that Yang Qi was using the God Legion Seal.

There were some other pirates on the listing deck of the ship. As soon as they saw Yang Qi fly up, they turned to flee, but he waved his finger and they fell down dead, including the one he had dragged up from the beach.

"Rise!" Yang Qi said. Waving his hand, he sent out an immense force that slowly pushed the stranded ship out toward deeper water.

A ship like this would be so incredibly heavy it would defy description. Not even their captain, the Pirate King Deku, had been able to do something like that.

Yang Qi walked into the cabin. It was large, but not large enough that it needed a spatial formation to establish the room. Creating formations in the god world required a lot of effort and resources, so they were generally considered luxuries.

The cabin was packed with goods, foodstuffs, clothing, ores, minerals, tools, and weapons, none of which were particularly eye-catching to Yang Qi. However, there were bags of rice that glowed with such luster that they seemed similar to god pills from the mortal world.

"That's just rice," Brahma said. "There's nothing particularly unusual about it. It's too bad we can't return to the Ancient Road to the Gods and give it to our people. With stuff like that, your brothers would be able to reach the mid Terrifying level in less than a thousand years."

"Yes, I can tell that it can completely change one's constitution," Yang Qi replied. "Unfortunately, the effects of rice like this are going to be limited. It can make you strong, but can't make you a Quasi-God. Reaching that level will definitely take god pills. Let's keep looking around and see if we can find any currency. I'm very curious to see what godnotes look like."

Thanks to the information provided earlier by Brahma, Yang Qi knew that the main currency of the god world was the godnote.

"Look here," Jadefall said after a moment, holding out a godsteel strongbox. Placing it down in front of her, she struck at the lock with a saber, snapping it off. After opening it, she revealed stacks upon stacks of what appeared to be paper talismans, all of them pulsing with godpower.

"Those are godnotes, alright," Brahma said. "They look like ordinary banknotes from the mortal world. Millions upon millions of years ago, the boundless Sovereign Lord established the use of currency, and its use spread so far and wide that it became the standard way to pay for expensive items throughout the god world. The Sovereign Lord later died, but the godnote system remained. If I'm not mistaken, I'd say it's because of the efforts of some of the Paramount God clans. You see, you can find the mark of a Paramount God on every note. Only those clans can mint currency like this."

Yang Qi picked up one of the godnotes and examined it closely. It was three inches wide and seven inches long, conforming to the common ratio of seventy to thirty. It was possible to see a host of talismans swirling inside the note, and even more telling, it was so heavy that it obviously wasn't made out of paper or fabric. Sending some true energy into it, Yang Qi immediately saw the image of several majestic figures in his sea of consciousness, all of whom had the aura of Paramount Gods.

Given that, it was obviously impossible to forge godnotes.

"How much is one godnote worth?" Yang Qi asked. "There must be dozens of notes in that box. Considering it was locked up, it must be worth a lot."

Brahma chuckled. "Godnotes are very valuable. Even just one is enough to buy a lot of goods. You see, godnotes aren't just useful as currency. If you tear them up with true energy, it will release the might of a Paramount God, which can be used to cow countless godlings. And that's just one thing you can do. Suffice it to say, they're very useful. Back in my day, one godnote would be enough to buy a god pill that could propel an ordinary citizen to the level of a Quasi-God."

"Very valuable indeed," Yang Qi said, nodding. "It looks like there are about twenty godnotes here. If we can find a city where they sell god pills, we should be able to improve all of your cultivation bases. We need to get you all into the Quasi-God level as quickly as possible."

Eating wild beasts when stuck in the wilderness was fine. But they eventually needed to get to civilization.

"Yang Qi," Jadefall said, "considering you have the God Legion Seal, can't you copy or forge some godnotes? The seal is so powerful you'd think it could do that. It has the auras of Paramount Gods in it, as well as the spirit of loyalty they showed to the Sovereign Lord."

"I was thinking the same thing," Yang Qi said.

He extended his hand and a stream of true energy appeared, which then converged into something that looked like a godnote. However, on the inside, it was obviously a fake.

Letting it dissipate, Yang Qi shook his head.

"What's wrong?!" Jadefall asked. "It didn't work?"

"No. My cultivation base isn't strong enough yet. The godnotes contain magical laws and many other things I need to study further. And what's more, the aura of a Paramount God isn't easy to replicate. Anyone would be able to tell its fake the moment they picked it up. But once my cultivation base advances a bit more, I should be able to create some good forgeries!"

He smiled confidently.

Of course, everyone sucked in breaths of astonishment. The idea of forging godnotes was completely heaven-defying. Wouldn't it give them a huge advantage in the god world if they could do that?

"I get it," Doom said. "Now I realize why Proud Heaven wanted the God Legion Seal. He would ultimately have been able to create godnotes."

"That's one of the reasons," Yang Qi said. "Sooner or later, the god world is going to be ours."

1. The part about Yang Qi killing all the pirates is actually an addition from me. The author wasn't paying close attention to this part and left all the pirates alive. However, in the next chapter, they're all said to be dead. I actually don't think the author's intention was to have Yang Qi simply execute them all, but this is the easiest way to fix the plot hole.

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Chapter 1150: Young Woman from a Major Clan

The most difficult part of forging godnotes was replicating the aura and will of a Paramount God.

But with the complete God Legion Seal, it wasn't out of the realm of possibility for Yang Qi. And when the day came that he could create massive quantities of godnotes, who could possibly compete with him?

Furthermore, he would be able to create godnotes that surpassed the current versions. After all, these godnotes had the wills of ten or so Paramount Gods, all of whom were considered potentates in the god world. But the God Legion Seal contained the auras of over a hundred Paramount Gods.

Some of them had perished, and some had simply vanished.

But by adding their wills and auras into a godnote, it would create something of immense power and value. For now, though, Yang Qi didn't need to do that. He just wanted to create godnotes that were identical to the ones currently in his possession.

Waving his hand, he sucked the over twenty godnotes into his sleeve. Then he found garments for everyone else to wear instead of beast hides. After all, having them dress like savages would only draw unwanted attention.

The new garments were all extremely tough and durable, although not quite on the level of being powerful magical treasures. Even the dirt in the god world would be considered a marvelous material in the lower worlds.

"Didn't that pirate mention something about some prisoners?" Yang Qi asked. "Let's go see what they were talking about. They must be down below."

Searching around, they found a shadowy staircase leading to the decks below.

"I'll go get some fire," Sword Seventeen said.

"No need," Yang Qi replied. Opening his hand, he summoned a burning fire that illuminated everything around them. The area belowdecks was actually a small prison, which contained over a hundred slaves locked behind bars.

Most of them wore clothing that had once been extravagant and luxurious, but was now worn down to threads.

All of them were unconscious.

Apparently, they had been knocked out when the ship ran aground. Some of them were mid Terrifying experts, in other words, Despots. Apparently, there weren't any Quasi-Gods.

Looking around, Yang Qi noticed that the central cell contained a young woman who was sealed with a paper talisman. From the flows of power, it seemed she was a Quasi-God, except she was restrained with a powerful warding magic.

Waving his hand, Yang Qi summoned a host of energies from within the prison area and converged them into an attack that he launched at the paper talisman. With a crack, the talisman exploded and the young woman jerked awake. Eyes snapping open, she said, "Damn you Pirate King Deku! I'm going to rip all of you to—"

"She's strong!" Doom said, exchanging awkward glances with the others.

"She's a Quasi-God," Jadefall added, "just as strong as Pirate King Deku. How did he capture her?"

Seeing herself surrounded by Yang Qi and her companions, the young woman's jaw dropped. "You people are here to rescue me?"

"That's right," Yang Qi said with a cool smile. "We killed the pirates, and have already released you. Miss, we had no idea you were such a top expert. How did someone as strong as you fall victim to these pirates?"

"Damned pirates!" she said, her eyes flashing with killing intent. "I was on a merchant ship heading out to sea when Pirate King Deku ambushed us, using the Dragon-Sealing God Talisman to capture me. My clan's vessels gave chase, but in the middle of it, a typhoon hit and led to the current situation. Many thanks to you, my saviors. Who exactly are you? You have my immense gratitude. Now please awaken my subordinates so that we can send out a call for help to my clan."

"We're just some wanderers," Brahma said. Having lived in the god world in the past, he knew the conventions of speech, and at the same time, was careful to avoid providing any hints that they had ascended from the lower worlds. "Please forgive us for any offense, Your Ladyship, but nomads like us don't need any reward for rescuing you. It wasn't anything special."

"Regardless, I owe you my thanks." Smiling, she waved her hand in the direction of the other cells, causing a fragrant aroma to sweep over her subordinates that immediately woke them up. The energy art she used seemed familiar to Yang Qi. He could tell that it was a godly-class art, and that it originated with one of the ancient gods of medicine. Obviously, she had cultivated it by means of all sorts of powerful spirit medicines.

The truth was that, although people in the mortal world could cultivate godly-class energy arts, they could never push them to the ultimate peak because they could never get the true quintessence elements required.

It was only possible to do that in the god world.

The transformations of godly-class energy arts relied upon the transformations within the magical laws of the god world.

"Miss..." her subordinates said as they woke up. Many of them were weeping.

"You're okay, Ma'am! This is wonderful. Is that damned Pirate King Deku dead? Our clan battleships will surely catch up soon and cut him down."

"Shut your mouth!" the young woman snapped. "We happened to be rescued by these noble friends who killed the pirates. All of you follow me out of the ship and onto the beach. We'll rest up and send out a call for help to the clan fleet."

"Yes, yes of course," her handmaidens said, and they hurried along to the beach. Of course, the sight of all the dead pirates caused them to cast furtive, admiring glances at Yang Qi and his people. The god world was no exception to the general rule of respect being given to the strong.

As for the young woman, the evidence of the slaughter only went to prove to her how vicious and merciless Yang Qi could be, and she nodded inwardly with approval.

Once out in the open, she pulled out a handheld flare that resembled a rattlesnake. Pointing it up, she released it, sending it flying up into the clouds accompanied by a piercing shriek of a sound.

After sending the message, she turned back and resumed her conversation with Yang Qi. Obviously, she was very perceptive, as she already realized that he was their leader.

"Miss, might I ask your honored name?" Yang Qi asked.

"I'm from the Wang Clan of the Lightningbolt Continent. My name is Wang Juan." From her smile and the confident way she carried herself, she seemed to be a capable and experienced person. "As you may know, our clan is one of the most powerful on the continent. Might I ask which continent you wanderers hail from?"

"We're from the Five Phases Continent," Brahma replied quickly. "Unfortunately, we offended the nobility there, and had nowhere else to go to, so we fled here."

"The Five Phases Continent." Wang Juan frowned slightly. "It sounds familiar, but it must be very far away, so far that it would be difficult to calculate the exact distance. How did you possibly find your way all the way here?"

"Oh, we made use of an old teleportation portal," Brahma replied. "As for our subsequent adventures, we'd prefer to keep the details confidential." He was trying his best to word things in a way that wouldn't attract too much suspicion. After all, this Wang Juan seemed very intelligent. If the pirate captain had been able to determine that they were from the lower worlds, then she would likely be able to pick up on the clues as well.

Yang Qi's other companions knew exactly what Brahma was doing and kept their mouths shut, hoping to learn a bit from the conversation. If nothing else, they were getting used to how people in the god world spoke and interacted.

Considering they were all old-timers from the immortal worlds, people who had experienced just about everything there was to imagine, it wasn't a hard task for them to get up to speed.

From the conversation so far, they had already been able to piece together some basic information.

The Lightningbolt Continent was obviously a large place with many people. As a continent in the middle of a huge ocean, it would have multiple kingdoms, or even empires in it. And there were definitely gods on the continent. Most likely, the patriarch of the Wang Clan was at least a Lesser God, with numerous subjects including Plebeians and Despots.

Wang Juan was obviously an important young one from the Wang Clan, probably someone who had a significant chance of forming godhood and becoming a Lesser God. In the god world, even Lesser Gods were vastly removed from the common people. Not even the Despots or Quasi-Gods could compare to them. The gods were the ultimate rulers of the god world, and it was only with a god in charge of a clan that it could truly prosper and flourish. And the only way the Wang Clan could be so important in the Lightningbolt Continent was if they had a god watching over them.

As for the pirate king that had kidnapped her, he was from the pirate forces who were led by a wretch-god. However, that pirate king was only a peak Terrifying Quasi-God.

There were many Quasi-Gods in the god world, but not all of them could become Lesser Gods.

Now that Yang Qi knew about the Wang Clan and the Lightningbolt Continent, he was already starting to form the next stage of his plan. After all, he could sense that Wang Juan was thinking of recruiting them.

Aaaaoooooo!

Even as they chatted, the sound of a bugle echoed out over the surface of the ocean and a huge battleship appeared off in the distance. It was pure white and sailed across the water without needing a sail.

"That's our Wang Clan battleship fleet!"

Three enormous battleships appeared, all of which were just as large as the pirate ship and pulsing with immense energy. And all of them flew flags that were embroidered with the character Wang, written in the script of the Godfolk.

Of course, this was no harbor, so the battleships couldn't get too close to the shore. After stopping, colorful beams of light shot off the decks of the battleship, hitting the water and turning into a substance as hard as crystal.

Afterward, people from the ship hopped down onto the solidified water and approached.

From what Yang Qi could tell, it wasn't a daoist technique, but rather some unique substance specifically designed to turn water solid, yet didn't make it into ice. Nodding inwardly, he marveled at how amazing the god world was.

1. Wang is a common surname that also means "king." Juan means "beautiful, graceful." Juan is basically pronounced similar to the Spanish name Juan, except with a hard J sound.

2. There is a completely random sentence I'm leaving out in which Yang Qi speculates that the god world isn't a sphere, except he has no idea what shape it is.

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Chapter 1151: Wang Clan

The people of the Wang Clan approached, led by a young man in white clothing with a long, gem-encrusted saber hanging at his waist. The gems were all beautiful godstones that pulsed with godpower fluctuations. The young man had sword-like eyebrows and a sharp gaze that he directed at Wang Juan.

"You survived without harm, Elder Sister Juan? That's wonderful. And who are these people?"

He glanced at Yang Qi's companions, his gaze lingering on Jadefall for a moment. Upon realizing that she was only in the mid Terrifying level, his eyes flickered with disapproval.

But then his gaze shifted to Yang Qi, and upon assessing his aura, he suddenly seemed to go on guard.

Nodding in greeting, Wang Juan said, "Well, if it isn't you, Wang Yi. These are my benefactors. They killed all the pirates and rescued me. The Wang Clan owes them a big debt of gratitude."

"Oh? They killed all the pirates?" Wang Yi looked at them a bit closer. "Despots, I see. Where did you all come from?"

"We're wanderers," Brahma replied quickly, "from the Five Phases Continent. We offended the wrong people there and ended up here, hiding for our lives."

"Wanderers, eh?" His expression changed suddenly. "Well, considering you rescued Elder Sister Juan, our Wang Clan won't treat you unfairly. In fact, if you become attendants of our clan, you can end your wandering."

"My apologies," Yang Qi said coolly, "but we can't agree to become attendants."

The Wang Clan was obviously powerful, but working for them would involve following orders from other people, and Yang Qi wasn't interested in that.

"What?!" shouted one of the disciples flanking Wang Yi. "Don't you bunch of wanderers know how powerful the Wang Clan is? We're a clan of gods! Our glory will never fade, and we—"

"Shut your mouth!" Wang Juan snapped. "These people saved my life! How could we possibly try to make them attendants? They're friends. Guests! Don't you people understand the height of the heavens and the breadth of the earth?" Turning to Yang Qi, she said, "Sorry about that. The people of my clan are used to being arrogant bullies."

"It's no matter," Yang Qi replied. "I'm not interested in bickering. You see, we've grown used to the wandering lifestyle, and aren't interested in relying on charity. That said, we wouldn't mind heading to a city near your Wang Clan to do a bit of business."

"I bet you plundered some godnotes from the pirates, didn't you?" Wang Yi asked with a disapproving expression on his face. "Those pirates took a lot of wealth that belongs to our Wang Clan, including those godnotes. So hand them over!"

"What?!" Jadefall erupted. "Do you have any sort of proof that they originally belonged to you?"

"Enough, Wang Yi," said Wang Juan, looking very displeased. "Those godnotes never belonged to us. And even if they did, we should offer them as thanks for the services rendered. How could we possibly demand them back?"

Wang Juan couldn't help but be frustrated that her fellow clan members were being as short-sighted as rats. The godnotes were valuable, but people like her rescuers were even more valuable. Getting on their good side would be far more advantageous than causing problems and turning them from allies into enemies. In fact, she was inwardly cursing Wang Yi to death for his stupidity.

Wang Yi snorted coldly, but apparently wasn't planning to quibble any further. Waving a hand to his men, he said, "Pull that pirate ship out from the shore and gather up the bodies. The corpses will fetch a high price from the consortiums."

His subordinates jumped into action, collecting all of the scattered sabers and weapons, hauling the corpses onto the pirate ship, then sounding the signal to have the ship dragged out to sea.

Their actions were more than a little domineering. After all, Yang Qi and his people had killed the pirates, so they belonged to him by right of conquest. Besides, the pirate ship wasn't an ordinary ship; it had been built on a framework of godling bones, which meant that it was worth at least two or three godnotes.

That was more wealth than most Despots would ever see, and now it was being snatched away right in front of them.

However, neither Yang Qi nor anyone else said a word. Instead, they stayed on full alert. It was obvious that Wang Yi was a petty and narrow-minded person. Of course, it made sense considering that he had only lived a few dozen years; there was no way an impetuous person like that would truly bother old-timers who had lived for millions upon millions of years.

By this point, even Yang Qi was over ten thousand years old.

After all, it was possible for a thousand years to pass in the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart without hardly a moment passing on the outside.

Wang Juan was struck deeply by the indifferent expression of the faces of Yang Qi and his people, and realized that there was something unique about them. In fact, she was more interested than ever in recruiting them now. She had a good position in the Wang Clan, but wanted to bolster that position. And to do that, she would need capable helpers. Unfortunately, finding qualified people wasn't exactly easy.

"That's just what Wang Yi is like," she said to Yang Qi. "Thank you for not getting into an argument with him. I'll make sure that all of this is worth your while. You're currently honored guests of mine, and I'd like to invite you to the Wang Clan for a visit. I'd be happy to show you some of the sights on the Lightningbolt Continent as well. It seems that most of your friends are stuck in bottlenecks. Thankfully, the cities under the control of the Wang Clan have plenty of spirit pills available that can clear the magical laws from within your bodies and help form a resonance with the world around you. With pills like that, your friends should have no problem becoming Quasi-Gods. Does that sound good?"

"That's exactly what we were hoping to do," Brahma said. "We all need god pills to help reach the Quasi-God level."

A short distance away, Wang Yi snorted coldly. Looking over disdainfully, he murmured, "How could scum like you become Quasi-Gods? I was specially groomed by my clan, going through endless training sessions and brutal combat exercises. And even then, it took huge amounts of spirit medicine for me to reach this level. And incidentally, I just broke through. As for Wang Juan, the only reason she's this strong is that she has a special master and is favored by the clan because of her betrothal to the Proud Clan. She already has the hope of reaching godly ascension, which means that I'm no match for her."

One of the Wang Clan advisors next to Wang Yi stepped forward and said, "Young Sir Yi, it's obvious that Young Lady Juan wants to recruit those wanderers. Their leader has obviously reached a very high level. You can't afford to underestimate him."

"I know that," Wang Yi said. "The fact that these wanderers killed so many pirates shows that they're extraordinary. I'm just pissed that they cleared out all of the pirates' godnotes. Considering how much raiding those pirates were involved in, they must have accumulated a dozen godnotes, or possibly even as many as twenty. That's a huge amount of wealth! Just imagine the resources I could acquire with that much money. You know, my yearly stipend from the Wang Clan is only a single godnote. I can hardly imagine what it would be like to have twenty years of savings to work with."

"That would definitely be a huge sum," the advisor replied. "Unfortunately, the wanderers are under the protection of the young lady now, so there's no way they'll just hand over the godnotes. Let's worry about it after we get back to the clan."

"Good idea. Wang Juan is strong, but there's no way she could ever attempt to win the position of clan leader. She's already engaged to one of the young elites from the Proud Clan, one of the most unimaginably large clans in existence, with subsidiary branches on countless continents. Maybe the Lightning Clan rules the Lightningbolt Continent, but they still have to acquiesce to the Proud Clan. Otherwise, how could the Proud Clan's trading company have begun operations here? Well, at least we can sell the pirate corpses and their ship for a good two or three godnotes. This troublesome venture won't have been a complete waste."

As this conversation between Wang Yi and the adviser was playing out, Yang Qi accepted Wang Juan's invitation and boarded one of the Wang Clan battleships.

The ship hoisted its sails and headed out onto the water. The deeper waters were occupied with all sorts of water-based godlings, and although some attacked the ship, they were easily repelled.

The ship had ballistas that could hit targets several kilometers away, as well as spell formations powered by godstones. Surprisingly, such weaponry actually reminded Yang Qi of the products of the ancient mechanical civilization.

Thanks to information from Brahma, Yang Qi knew that in ancient times, the god world had used godstones as currency. It was only later, when the godstone reserves ran low, that the Sovereign Lord and various Paramount Gods had instituted the use of godnotes. Eventually, godnotes became widespread. However, that didn't mean that godstones were any less useful.

For example, even mid Terrifying experts could use them to power spell formations.

For all intents and purposes, godstones in the god world were like spirit stones in the mortal world.

"We'll arrive at the main harbor of the Lightningbolt Continent soon," Wang Juan said, "which is connected to the capital city. By the way, how many godnotes did you happen to take from those pirates?"

"Not many," Yang Qi replied coolly. "Only about twenty."

"Twenty?" Wang Juan said, gasping involuntarily. "That's a huge amount of wealth. Your group should easily be able to establish a foundation in the Lightningbolt Continent with that. Settling down here would be a lot better than wandering in the wilds. Or you could join one of the major sects, which would be a great way to achieve faster progress."

"Oh? What are the top organizations here on the Lightningbolt Continent? Would you mind explaining a bit, Miss?" Of course, Yang Qi was interested in learning as much about the god world as possible, this continent included.

"Well, that's simple. The Lightningbolt Continent is a small place, but to people like us, who haven't reached godly ascension, it's still enormous. You see, there aren't any major sects here, just factions overseen by the Lesser Gods. The top group is the Lightning Clan, whose patriarch is a Lesser God that's supposedly just on the verge of becoming a Common God. The patriarch of our Wang Clan is a bit behind him. You see, he has a godhood rating of two, whereas the Lightning Clan patriarch has a godhood rating of five."

"Godhood level of two. And five?" Yang Qi had long since come to the realization that godhood was the quintessence of the gods, and determined exactly how strong they were.

1. Wang Yi: Yi means "wing", and is also the name of a constellation, among numerous other definitions.

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Chapter 1152: Godhood Rating

In the god world, the psychic scale and power index measurements were superfluous. Godhood rating was the standard to measure the power of gods.

People who had just become Lesser Gods generally had a godhood rating of one.

As one's cultivation base grew stronger, their godhood rating would climb. From one to two, two to five, five to ten, and so on.

Obviously, gods with a higher godhood rating could dominate those with lower ratings.

When Wang Juan said that her clan's patriarch had a rating of two, while the Lightning Clan patriarch had a rating of five, it went to show how superior the latter was. And that was why the Lightning Clan ruled the Lightningbolt Continent.

Yang Qi was currently forming his own godhood and heading toward the point of being a real god. At the same time, he wanted to understand what other gods were like. For instance, he was very curious to see what Lesser Gods were capable of.

In the mortal world, he had come across plenty of godhood. Unfortunately, all such godhood was tainted and couldn't compare to actual godhood from gods in the god world.

The godhood that existed in gods was alive, whereas the godhood in the mortal world was deathly and broken. Obviously, the two were impossible to compare to each other.

"I see," Yang Qi said. "Are there any other major organizations on the Lightningbolt Continent?"

"Of course," Wang Juan replied. "For instance, the Proud Clan. If the Lightning Clan acts as the feudal hegemon of the Lightningbolt Continent, then the Proud Clan are the administrators from afar. The leader of the Proud Clan contingency here is also a Lesser God with a godhood rating of five. Very formidable. That said, the Proud Clan's main headquarters isn't here. People say they're based in a location much deeper in the god world. Despite that, they have a hand in affairs throughout the god world."

"Proud Clan?" Yang Qi said, feeling a bit shaken. "And who's their clan lord? I don't remember hearing about them on the Five Phases Continent."

"Oh really?" Wang Juan said, sounding a bit doubtful. "Don't tell me the Proud Clan hasn't established an outpost on the Five Phases Continent? That's simply impossible! They're the top clan in the god world, so domineering that it almost defies imagination."

All of Yang Qi's other companions were equally surprised to hear about the Proud Clan, and although none of them showed that on their faces, they were all having secret discussions via divine will. "The Proud Clan? Could it be connected to Proud Heaven? It would make sense. And that would explain how Proud Heaven was able to leave the god world."

Of course, it was all speculation at this point.

However, Yang Qi was already coming up with a plan.

Proud World was Proud Heaven's son, and had his blood. If Proud Heaven really was from the Proud Clan, then by virtue of logic, he would have Proud Clan blood. Therefore, all they had to do was find a member of the Proud Clan here on the Lightningbolt Continent, get a blood sample from them, and compare it to Proud World's blood. If they were similar, it would prove that Proud Heaven was from the immensely powerful Proud Clan.

Yang Qi was already making progress in his attempt to deal with Proud Heaven. After all, he absolutely had to get the Great Necropolis and the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart away from him. Furthermore, he needed to track down his mother, Aunt Susu, and Master.

The Great Necropolis and the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart were both foundational treasures that could shake the god world, so there was no way he could leave them in Proud Heaven's hands.

'Heaven helps those who help themselves! I just barely arrived in the god world, and I've already got some major clues. Unfortunately, if the Proud Clan really has a major presence on so many of the continents in the god world, then I obviously can't take them lightly.'

As the ship sailed on, they continued chatting. Yang Qi and his friends were doing everything they could to act like god world natives. It didn't take long to settle into those roles, and soon enough, they were talking and acting very differently than they had upon first arriving. At this point, it would be very difficult for anyone to guess that they had ascended from the lower worlds.

A few hours passed, and soon it was night time. Because of the lack of moon and stars, it was pitch black, almost like the Hell of Gloom and Darkness. However, the Wang Clan was one of the top clans in the area, so they obviously had ways of dealing with that. The ship had a geomantic compass that they could use for navigation. It also created a bright flame that lit up everything around them. Soon, a harbor became visible, which was obviously the very same harbor Wang Juan had mentioned earlier.

All sorts of fancy and expensive-looking ships were sailing here and there. It was very different from the immortal worlds, where so many people could fly, even many commoners.

In fact, in some ways, Yang Qi actually felt like he was back among mortals.

It was a marvelous feeling. However, there was no doubt that this was the ultimate world among all the many heavens and myriad worlds. Of course, he had yet to see any actual gods.

The commoners he could see in the harbor were all mid Terrifying experts, and they were buzzing about as busily as bees.

'The magical laws here are so strong!' he thought, sighing inwardly. 'Physical matter is so tightly bound to other physical matter that it can't be separated. And every strand of vital energy is so incredibly dense that it's millions upon millions of times stronger than steel from the mortal world.'

In fact, the air in general here was so much heavier that, if you took a bit of energy from the god world and took it to the mortal world, it could easily transform into a sizable mountain.

That was why people beneath the mid Terrifying level couldn't even breathe in the god world.

In fact, natives of the god world were born with mid Terrifying cultivation bases.

"We've arrived!" Wang Juan announced. "It's night, but in Lightningbolt City, you can enjoy yourself from dusk all the way to dawn! Let's go. Men, prepare quarters for my guests, and let them settle down to rest. Tomorrow, I'll throw a big banquet." After docking, Wang Juan led Yang Qi and his people into the city. The city was mostly crafted from ancient stone, mottled with age, but indescribably tough.

There were numerous towering buildings in the city, as well as castles, some of which glowed with soft but brilliant light while others radiated darkness and gloom.

One difference in this city compared to the lower worlds was that there were no spatial dimensions or minor worlds. The sprawling city in front of their eyes was all that there was. Lesser Gods wouldn't waste their godly powers to create such god kingdoms.

As they walked down the street, they were struck by how everything seemed similar to the mortal world. There were shops, restaurants and hotels. The only difference was that the goods for sale were all god items.

"What are you looking to buy?" Wang Juan asked. As they walked down the street, people made way for them, and from the reverent looks in the eyes of many of them, it was obvious how important the Wang Clan was in the city.

"This city is huge," Yang Qi said. In fact, he couldn't even see the end of the street. And there were so many castles lining it that he couldn't count them.

"We need to buy Godsieve Pills in bulk," Brahma said. "After all, those are the best pills to crystallize godpower and break through magical laws. All of us are on the verge of being Quasi-Gods, so with enough Godsieve Pills, we should be able to break through. Where is the main business district of the city?"

Back on the beach where they had first landed, they had lived in a log cabin and devoured raw animal meat to survive. They had been living like wandering beggars. Now that they were in the city, if they could get the proper medicinal pills they could advance their cultivation by leaps and bounds.

"Godsieve Pills?" Wang Juan's eyes glittered. "Those are rare. But with twenty godnotes you should be able to get some. Look, our Wang Clan's main business is trading in medicinal ingredients. Why don't you work out a deal with us? I'll give you a good deal."

"That works," Yang Qi said, nodding. "Miss, would it be too much to ask for you to help us find a place to work on our cultivation?"

"Alright!" She led them to a rather large inn, and as soon as they walked inside, the innkeeper hurried over to greet them.

"My respects, Miss. How can I help you?"

"I want your best rooms for my guests here," she said in a crisp tone. "A private villa with a courtyard, understand? And prepare a banquet with your best dishes."

"Yes, yes of course!" Bowing and scraping, the innkeeper led Yang Qi and the others to their rooms. After all the details were taken care of, Wang Juan said, "I need to report back to my clan. I'll have the Godsieve Pills delivered first thing in the morning. For now, get some rest."

"Many thanks, many thanks!" they said, clasping hands formally as they escorted her out.

At long last they had some peace and quiet. Their quarters consisted of a room deep in the inn, with a peaceful garden in the middle and a host of private chambers. It was elegant and tasteful, but at the same time simple. Clearly, the place had been planned out by a master designer.

There was also a table in the dining chamber, which was currently covered with all sorts of delicious foods. There were crisp vegetables, savory meats, and aromatic rice. There was no way their diet of raw meat out in the wilds could possibly compare to this.

However, instead of eating, everyone was waiting for Yang Qi's instructions.

"Our first order of business is to get stronger," he said with a faint smile. At the same time, he emanated a faint golden light. As a Quasi-God in the peak Terrifying level, he was now strong enough that he could ensure privacy from prying eyes and ears.

After setting all the precautions in place, he continued, "We're different from the people around here, and should be able to achieve breakthroughs more quickly. Plus, I have the God Legion Seal. Over the next few days, I'll help all of you to purify yourselves in body and soul. I'll also spend some time in seclusion, meditating on further profundities. Once all of you are in the peak Terrifying level, things should be a lot easier. From what I've seen so far, Quasi-Gods generally occupy high positions."

"Well that's a given," Brahma said. "In the god world, gods are the leaders, with even the Lesser Gods ruling over countless commoners."

"Alright. Right now, I'm going to help strengthen your godpower with my new enlightenment of the Sage Monarch Grand Magic and God Legion Seal!"

Sitting in the middle of the group, he began performing incantation gestures one after another. At the same time, over a dozen golden hands appeared above him, then settled onto the heads of his subordinates.

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Chapter 1153: Godsieve Pills

Right now, Yang Qi's companions were all woefully underpowered. Until they reached the peak Terrifying level and became Quasi-Gods, giving them the ability to use true energy externally, they would be in a very bad position.

After all, they couldn't even fly right now, nor could they use most god items and spell formations. If they ended up surrounded by some enemy, they would surely end up slaughtered. After all, even bows and arrows could be deadly to them in their current state. To be able to use godpower externally was just as much a hallmark in the god world as the fifth phase of Energy Arts was, back in the mortal world.

Danger abounded in the god world. And while these people were at the top of the food chain in the immortal worlds, here in the god world, things were the opposite. They were at the bottom, almost as weak as slaves. Given their current level, it was impossible to even count how many people could kill them.

Now that they were back on the bottom, they had to work on rising to the top yet again.

"The Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth will enter you, improve your energy arts, purify your body and soul, and cleanse your blood..." Godpower converged in the golden hands Yang Qi had summoned, then flowed into the heads of his people as he drew on the Sage Monarch Grand Magic.

The Sage Monarch Grand Magic was definitely the most marvelous set of techniques in existence, and although Yang Qi's mastery was shallow and far from complete, he had a strong foundation.

Purr. Purr...

The sounds emanating from Yang Qi caused the purrling to look at him with wide eyes, as if it suddenly sensed that he was like something of a brother to it.

He had long since fused the Purrfect God Art with his Sage Monarch Grand Magic. And as his cultivation base grew stronger, and he gained more enlightenment of yin and yang, the sun and the moon, heaven and earth, and time and space, his skills and abilities only grew more refined.

"Converge the godpower. Let the virtual godhood become true and real!"

Crack!

The virtual godhood within Yang Qi suddenly transformed; having absorbed such immense amounts of godpower, it was now as transparent as crystal and contained ten types of energy, which created a perfect peak of power.

"Sage, Monarch, Ruler, Emperor, Sovereign, Lord, Hero, Hegemon, God, Nothing!"

Ten characters appeared within Yang Qi's virtual godhood, all of them written in the script of the Godfolk. They were incomparably true and real, contained all sorts of transformations and interactions, and thrummed with an invincible, destabilizing power. As a result, Yang Qi's tendons, bones, blood, and flesh became numerous magical laws, as if he himself were transforming into godhood.

He was godhood, godhood was him.

It was a very enigmatic transformation.

Ten golden flows of energy swept through the room, and everyone shuddered from the godpower. They even coughed up necrotic blood as the impurities were removed from within them, and they were purified in body and soul.

"Purging!" Yang Qi spat out some blood, which burst into flames and flowed like cleansing water into his followers.

"Bathe the Psyche in Snow..." He twitched, and the flames turned into snowflakes which fluttered down and took away the impurities, leaving everyone clean and fresh. Holy melodies drifted into their ears, and whatever devils existed in their seas of consciousness were subjugated and crushed.

Because they were constantly absorbing the vital energy of the surrounding world, it was a given that they would build up impurities. Even the things they learned by observing their surroundings would create impurities in the seas of consciousness, which they would then need to eliminate.

Sometimes, knowledge could count as an impurity.

Now, with Yang Qi's help, they were cleansing their psyches and bodies, and were drawing closer to the god world, allowing their minds to drift calmly in the ocean of magical laws of the god world.

It was now more obvious than ever how effective the God Legion Seal was.

Streams of power drifted through the god world toward Yang Qi, becoming vital energy that was nearly corporeal.

Reaching out, he grabbed it, causing cracking sounds to ring out as walnut-sized stones appeared in his hand.

Opening his eyes, he saw that everyone had much-improved psyches, and their bodies were now in a much higher state. Smiling, he exhaled.

"I should be able to break through at any moment!" Brahma said. Looking over at Yang Qi, he said, "Yang Qi, what's that in your hand? Godstones? Where did you get them?"

"They're the product of my most recent enlightenment," Yang Qi replied. "During this session of cultivation, I gained more understanding of the profundities of the God Legion Seal. I was able to reach out into the void of the god world and turn its essence into godstones."

"How is that even possible?" Brahma said, visibly surprised. "Godstones come from natural ores in the god world, and form in the very depths of the god world essence. They go through countless heaven-shaking, earth-toppling transformations and generally form a tiny bit at a time over endless years. But you just directly made some? You know, before godnotes, godstones were used as a hard currency. And although godnotes are more widespread and popular, they're so valuable that some people don't use them. Instead, they rely on godstones for everyday purchases. And that's not to mention how godstones work with formations!"

"I know," Yang Qi said. "I noticed along the way that a lot of people were using godstones for minor purchases. In fact, I didn't even see any godnotes. It seems to me that godnotes are for huge transactions. It makes sense considering that although godnotes are bills of cash, they're actually sealed by Paramount Gods and contain immense god vitality. And if I can already create godstones, it's only a matter of time before I can create godnotes."

By this point, it was already daylight.

It was a new day, and their stomachs were grumbling with hunger. Thankfully, the table was already set with food, so they ate and drank their fill. Afterward, Jadefall sighed and said, "Here in the god world, we're like ordinary people again. I can't even remember the last time I needed to eat or drink in the immortal worlds."

"Soon enough we'll reach the point of not needing to eat," Brahma said. "Once we're Quasi-Gods, we won't need food, and can subsist on the vital energy we absorb. Of course, we'll still require medicinal pills."

"Is the exalted Yang Qi present?" said the innkeeper from outside.

"Yes, what's the situation?" Yang Qi said, stepping out to find that the innkeeper was waiting for him, flanked by a burly man in armor. The Quasi-God fluctuations he emanated placed him at around the same level as Wang Juan, and clearly he was some sort of military officer from the Wang Clan.

"I am your humble servant, Wang Xiang," he said, offering a humble salute of greeting. Behind him were a few dozen servants who were all Despots, bearing several bulky chests with them. Scanning the servants, Yang Qi found that they had psychic scales of three or four hundred, which meant that they were all on the same level as the emperor of the executors!

"Hello," Yang Qi said, clasping hands in return.

"These chests contain the Godsieve Pills you need," Wang Xiang said. "It took a lot of effort for the young lady to put together this collection. It will cost a total of eighteen godnotes."

"Only eighteen godnotes for all these pills?" Yang Qi said. "I don't want to take advantage of the young lady. Here, take twenty-five godnotes."

He had a total of twenty-six godnotes, and was only keeping one for himself to use for research purposes. Considering that he could already use the God Legion Seal to produce godstones, and would soon be able to produce godnotes, he knew that he would soon be a very rich person in the god world.

And he would rather not owe Wang Juan a favor.

"Oh?" Wang Xiang said, his expression flickering with surprise and indecision. But in the end, he accepted the godnotes. "It seems I underestimated you. I assumed that you were wanderers who saved the young lady by chance and would try to take advantage of our clan. Maybe you're not like that. However, I should still explain to you that this collection of pills would probably sell for about thirty godnotes. Even with you being generous, the young lady is still taking a loss that she'll have to make up for from her personal savings."

"Oh, I understand. In that case, I'll make sure she profits in the end. You're dismissed." Yang Qi nodded.

Without another word, Wang Xiang turned and left. Apparently, he didn't want to spend any more time than necessary with lowly wanderers like them.

"What a damned snob," Doom said. The Shepherd, Proud World, and the others were also grinding their teeth in irritation. It was definitely hard going from the top of the food chain all the way to the bottom.

Meanwhile, Yang Qi waved his hand, wrapping up all the chests with his true energy and pulling them inside. Upon opening them, they found that they were packed with medicinal pills, all of them the size of dragon eyes and extremely fragrant.

Even just smelling them caused their spirits to rise.

"Not bad at all!" Brahma said with a wide smile. "Godsieve Pills! Most people are unaware of the proper way to use them effectively, but I know how. With these, we should all be able to reach the Quasi-God level. Trust me."

"In that case, let's begin," Yang Qi said. "The reason I helped you purify your bodies and souls was so that you could properly use these pills. Now I'll use the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth and the God Legion Seal to cleanse the pills, extract their medicinal energy, and use it to create a medicinal spell formation. I'll follow all of Brahma's instructions in this regard."

"Great. Let's start building the formation." Brahma began to sketch an outline on the table. "It works like this. Copy the designs onto your body as well, and prepare to start absorbing energy."

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Chapter 1154: Banque

Brahma was actually an ancient Consummate God.

Because of a unique set of circumstances, he had ended up perishing. However, his experience and knowledge related to the god world remained with him, and no one else in the group could possibly match up to him in that regard. Yang Qi had the God Legion Seal, of course, but still had many of its secrets and abilities to unlock.

When it came to the everyday ins and outs of the god world, Brahma understood far more than Yang Qi. The God Legion Seal couldn't help Yang Qi with such matters.

For example, it didn't contain information about how to use Godsieve Pills in a medicine formation.

On the other hand, it required the ability to use godpower externally, which no one else but Yang Qi could do.

He flicked his finger, causing godpower to converge into a point of light, which he then sent over to the chests. The Godsieve Pills in the chests instantly evaporated into medicinal dragons that he took control of with the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth.

The dragons transformed into a host of fist-sized medicine formations, which he then sent into everyone present.

It was a minor skill, but something that required exquisite control over his godpower. That said, the ability to quickly master such a minor skill was something the natives of the god world couldn't do. Only old-timers who had practiced cultivation for millions upon millions of years in the mortal world would be able to pull off something like that.

Everyone settled down cross-legged into meditative states as the Godsieve Pills vanished.

Normally speaking, medicinal pills like this would take three days per pill to assimilate, lest one explode. But with the adjustments of the God Legion Seal, Yang Qi could extract the ultimate medicinal efficacy from them and provide benefits that would be far better than consuming them individually.

RUMBLE!

Almost immediately, everyone's auras began growing stronger.

Crack!

Two hours later, Brahma's godpower reached a peak and he began to transform as he broke through to the peak Terrifying level. However, his flows of godpower seemed thin and weak compared to Yang Qi's.

"Why are they so weak?" Yang Qi said, looking surprised.

"What were you expecting?" Brahma replied. "These results aren't bad at all. Look, I can already release godpower externally. There's no way we could achieve breakthroughs like this in the immortal worlds. Did you think everyone would be as freakishly powerful as you?"

A tremor passed through him as he sent a stream of true energy out of his palm, as thin as spider web. It wrapped around a nearby chair, which subsequently rose up into the air, then dropped back down with a thud.

"As we further our cultivation, our godpower will strengthen and we'll get more powerful."

"Right," Yang Qi said, nodding. "At least you're stronger than the average expert. Going forward, I'll try to find more god pills to help bolster your cultivation base and help you advance by leaps and bounds."

"Is Mr. Yang Qi here?" a voice said on the outside. "Are you still working on your cultivation?"

"How can I help you?" Yang Qi asked, frowning.

"The young lady has invited all of you to attend a banquet," the voice replied.

Yang Qi walked out to find some servants, one of whom bore an invitation card from the Wang Clan.

"Wonderful," Yang Qi said, accepting the invitation. When he tapped the surface, it rang like metal. "Unfortunately, my companions are all in the middle of a session of cultivation. Only Brother Brahma and I are free to attend. Can you lead the way?"

"Of course," the servant replied respectfully. The servant was a Despot and Yang Qi was already a Quasi-God, so there was no way he would speak to him in any other tone.

Brahma walked out, and was joined by Jadefall, who was holding the purrling in her arms.

"I'd like to come as well, Yang Qi." she said. From her energy fluctuations, he could tell that she had also experienced a breakthrough. Even after arriving in the god world, the purrling hadn't taken to eating or drinking anything. Other than crawling around, it didn't seem to do anything, nor did it seem to require any power.

Yang Qi had previously assumed that it would transform once it reached the god world. At the very least, he had expected it to absorb the vital energy; but it seemed to disdain the vital energy of the god world. So far, Yang Qi had only seen it expend energy, never take it in. It was as if it existed on a level that completely defied the normal logic regarding energy conservation.

In the end, though, that only made it more terrifying. Of course, Yang Qi hadn't stopped observing it in the hopes of gaining further enlightenment of its secrets. And he couldn't forget how he had seen the purrling's porcelain godspore being attacked by the ancient gods in primal-chaos, only to have it flee and never be caught.

Even King Heaven-Devourer was among the ones who had tried to consume the purrling, only to fail. It just went to show how completely strange and bizarre the purrling was.

Jadefall had brought it to life. She was a Reincarnated One, and as such was clearly blessed by heaven, which explained how she could achieve such quick cultivation advancement. In fact, her godpower was actually superior to Brahma's.

'Two more Quasi-Gods?!' the servants thought in shock. They all knew that the wanderers who saved Wang Juan were led by a Quasi-God named Yang Qi. But the rest of the wanderers were supposed to be Despots. However, these were clearly two Quasi-Gods, which was nothing short of astounding.

Of course, it wasn't their place to speak, so they simply led the way out.

At the main entrance of the inn, a carriage was waiting, harnessed with four fine horses. They were god steeds, with horns on their heads and hooves that caused miniature tornadoes to spring up when they moved. And their fine, sleek coats looked like they were made of gold.

They took their seats in the carriage, and the horses began to trot smoothly. The ride wasn't bumpy at all as the horses sped along, their hooves not even touching the ground. It felt like they were floating.

It took only a short time to reach a heavily guarded castle. There were Despot guards with sabers and spears at all the entrances, as well as a large number of carriages and sedan chairs parked outside the main entrance. Obviously, other famous people from the city were also attending this banquet.

As soon as Yang Qi, Brahma and Jadefall stepped out of the carriage, another servant approached and said, "Invitation card, please!"

Yang Qi handed him the card, whereupon he was led inside. As soon as the servant announced their names, Wang Juan went over to meet them. Upon looking at Brahma and Jadefall, she said, "You two achieved a breakthrough in one night? How did you do that?"

"Oh, it was nothing," Brahma replied. "We have a special technique. Plus, with plenty of medicinal pills to consume, it wasn't a problem."

"Plenty of medicinal pills to consume?" Wang Juan said, visibly surprised. "I sent you so many medicinal pills that even if all of you consumed one every three days, it should've taken three or four years to reach the Quasi-God level. And that would've been considered fast. Most people would need at least ten years to consume so many Godsieve Pills. Otherwise, the convergence of godpower would be difficult to sustain."

"Like I said, we have a special technique," Brahma said, smiling.

"Could it be that you used to be in a higher level, but somehow experienced a decline? So you're really just recovering?"

Brahma looked at Wang Juan as if he were considering something new about her. Nodding, he said, "That's right. I used to be a Quasi-God in the past. Someone destroyed my virtual godhood, so my progress is naturally faster than normal."

Lowering her voice meaningfully, Wang Juan said, "Are you sure you were only a Quasi-God...?"

"What?!" Brahma said, instinctively unleashing some killing intent. Apparently, Wang Juan realized that he was actually a perished god who had been resurrected.

"There's no need to show killing intent," she said, smiling. "It was a guess, that's all. Your group has a mysterious background, and you're getting stronger far faster than normal. It's going to be hard to avoid speculation. However, I'll do my best to keep your secret. Surely you have enemies, and our Wang Clan can offer you protection. After all, you saved my life, so it only makes sense for us to cooperate, right?"

"We'll follow your lead, Miss," Yang Qi said coolly. Keeping his words as vague as possible, he said, "Right now, we're solely focused on getting as strong as possible. Please consider us friends, not enemies."

"Alright!" she replied. "This banquet is being held in celebration of the death of Pirate King Deku. With him dead, the surrounding seas will be much more peaceful. All of the important people in Lightningbolt City are here, and not a single one of them is lower than the Quasi-God level. Truth be told, some members of the clan didn't want to invite those of you who weren't Quasi-Gods. Considering you've broken through, we don't have to worry about that now."

Yang Qi nodded. "Of course. So, who from Lightningbolt City do you suggest we meet? Perhaps some people from the Proud Clan?"

"Proud Clan? Well, it's a given that they're here. In fact, the most important member of the younger generation will be coming, Proud Radiance. He's the top Quasi-God in Lightningbolt City, and in fact, probably in the entire Lightningbolt Continent. They say that he's invincible, and it will only be a few years before he reaches godly ascension."

"Is that so?" Yang Qi said. "Sounds very impressive. The gap between a Quasi-God and a true god is an insurmountable gulf that many people can't cross. I wonder if he'll actually succeed."

Even as the words left his mouth, a cold snort echoed out from across the room. "Unsurmountable gully? As far as I'm concerned it's a ditch that I can walk across at any time."

Yang Qi looked over to the entrance to find a young man walking in, hands clasped behind his back. He was followed by a group of burly Quasi-Gods, all of whom had cold, calculating eyes.

As for the young man, he wore a wide headband; and although he looked like someone who had gone through many years of bitter cultivation, he was also the picture of arrogance.

This was the top young expert in the Lightningbolt Continent, Proud Radiance.

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Chapter 1155: Proud Radiance

"So, you're finally here, Proud Radiance! Please, just come in and enjoy yourself!" Wang Juan immediately tried to resolve the tensions that had sprung up in the room. She knew that Proud Radiance grew particularly irritated when people talked about the fact that he wasn't a god yet. Obviously, he had overheard Yang Qi's conversation with her, and the last thing she wanted was for a fight to break out.

This was a banquet thrown by the Wang Clan, and she needed it to be a happy occasion.

"I'm fine, thank you very much," Proud Radiance said coolly. "And this must be Yang Qi, right? Wang Juan's supposed rescuer? Well, Wang Juan, I should remind you that you're engaged to my eldest brother Proud Triumphant of the Proud Clan. Sooner or later, you'll be a part of our clan. And over the years, we've spent a lot of effort on helping with your training and education. It wasn't very long ago that Eldest Brother Proud Triumphant reached godly ascension in the primary temple in the Proud Clan. When he returns, he'll take you as his wife. I sincerely hope that your relationship with these shady characters doesn't harm the prestige and honor of the Proud Clan."

Yang Qi had decided to use his actual name and surname in the god world. It was an enormously large place, and it was highly unlikely that anyone had ever heard of him. And if they had, perhaps he could use his name to draw the snakes out of their holes. After all, he needed to find Proud Heaven and take the Great Necropolis and King Immortal-Slayer's will back from him.

"What did you just say?" Wang Juan said, her expression flickering. "There's no need for you to butt into matters relating to me and Proud Triumphant. These benefactors saved my life, so it's only natural that I entertain them at a banquet."

"Benefactors?" Proud Radiance said. "Saved your life? Considering you're my future sister-in-law, I'll show respect to you. But I couldn't care less about these so-called benefactors. When Pirate King Deku used that god item to capture you, I was the one who led the charge to catch him. The only reason your Wang Clan managed to exercise control was because of me. Did you know that?"

"Of course I did," Wang Juan said.

"Good. Then I'll pay off these so-called benefactors of yours and everything will be even." Waving his hand, he sent a godnote flying over toward Yang Qi. However, it spun so rapidly that it was as sharp as a blade. "Take this godnote and get out of here. All debts are paid, and I don't ever want to see you around Lightningbolt City again. Understand? You're wanderers, so get back to your wandering!"

"Oh really?" Yang Qi looked at the godnote speeding in his direction, and could tell that it contained impressive godpower. However, it wasn't as if he was worried about that. Reaching out, he grabbed the godnote between his index and middle fingers, whereupon it burst into flames. Obviously, it had been backed by some sort of fire-type godly-class energy art.

However, Yang Qi's hand then erupted with a green light, which completely suppressed the flames.

"Hmm?" Proud Radiance's expression flickered. He had thrown out that godnote using a secret attack art of his known as the Flamestreak Meteor, which was something few people could stand up to.

Shockingly, Yang Qi had simply caught it. And on top of that, he just stood there casually and suppressed the dangerous godpower on display. Godnotes were inherently dangerous when used in attacks, and Proud Radiance had imbued it with even more godpower than usual, which meant that even if someone did manage to defend against the attack, the note should have been destroyed in the process.

After all, even actual gods could be injured by weaponized godnotes.

Obviously, Proud Radiance's plan had been for Yang Qi to be wiped out of existence.

He was clearly a vicious person who would kill people like scything flax. So why would he possibly be concerned with the life or death of a few random wanderers?

"I'm going to keep this godnote," Yang Qi said. As everyone looked on in shock, he put the godnote away. "Many thanks for this gift, Brother Proud Radiance. It's only proper that I should offer something in return, so please take this godstone."

A walnut-sized godstone appeared in his hand, which he flicked toward Proud Radiance.

Proud Radiance's face fell as he thrust his hand out and sent a flow of energy toward the godstone. However, the godstone merely shuddered and pierced right through the energy flow.

Howling, Proud Radiance drew on all of his godpower to summon a host of vortexes to slow down the stone. Then he reached out to grab it. However, when it hit his hand, the force shoved him backward by three paces, each step leaving a footprint in the incredibly tough floor.

"What? That kid is that strong?!"

"Proud Radiance is the most outstanding figure among the younger generation in the Lightningbolt Continent, but he was bested with only a single move?"

"Not necessarily. Perhaps Proud Radiance was just being careless or inattentive. After all, this wanderer... what was his name? Yang Qi. It should be easy for Proud Radiance to handle a character like him."

All of the attendees were top experts, and it was easy for them to see that Yang Qi had just seized the upper hand.

Crack!

Face nearly green with rage, Proud Radiance crushed the godstone in his hand. Then, he snarled viciously and said, "Impressive godpower. And your energy arts aren't bad. You've been hiding your true strength, haven't you? But I think I need to teach you a lesson about what the martial path is really about!"

"Hold on!" Wang Juan said. "This is a banquet being held by the Wang Clan, and as we all know, harmony is the most prized possession. Proud Radiance, could it be that you think this friend of mine doesn't qualify to attend the banquet? If so, why not test him out? Afterward, you can turn weapons of war into gifts of jade and silk. What do you say?" Inside, she was shocked, and was thinking, 'I can't believe Yang Qi is that strong! How come I couldn't detect that before? If nothing else, it's a plain fact that Proud Radiance is incredibly powerful. Everyone in the continent knows that. But he was obviously put at a disadvantage just now. And Yang Qi looks completely calm, to the point where I have to wonder if he used his full strength. I sure hope they don't actually start fighting. It would be bad if either of them got hurt, let alone both.'

"I'll prescribe by the adage a guest should act according to the host's wishes," Yang Qi said. "This is the Wang Clan's banquet, and I'm not here to fight. In fact, I admit defeat. I am a mere wanderer. And everyone knows that even a mighty dragon cannot overpower a snake in its lair. The Proud Clan is powerful and mighty, of that I'm well aware. You have my sincere admiration. Let's just forget about all this, okay?"

"Absolutely not!" Proud Radiance said coldly. "I want to see what you're capable of. And in front of all of these witnesses, I hereby say that, regardless of who wins or loses, the Proud Clan won't cause further problems for you. The Proud Clan never goes back on its word!"

"I don't think it would be appropriate for us to—" However, before Yang Qi could even finish speaking, Proud Radiance launched an attack. Before he was even close to Yang Qi, his explosive godpower had created the projection of a huge fist sailing through the air. Unexpectedly, he was taking the initiative.

Yang Qi merely dodged to the side, only to find that the fist of godpower turned to follow him, as if it were locked onto him. Clearly, it was a very dangerous situation.

"Nice fist technique," he said, and he wasn't exaggerating. In fact, it was just what he expected the top master on the Lightningbolt Continent to be capable of.

It was a profound and enigmatic attack that seemed impossible to avoid. However, all Yang Qi had to do was tap it with his finger, and cracking sounds rang out as the fist of godpower collapsed.

"Well done!" Proud Radiance said. "You actually managed to deal with my Spirit Turtle Godfist. But let's see if you can dodge the Seven Killings of the Black Turtle Heaven!"

He lunged forward, drawing on his godpower to summon seven 'kill' characters in front of him. They were all written in the script of the gods, and looked almost like they had been slashed into being with swords. They pulsed with killing energy as they shot toward Yang Qi with mysterious variations.

"Seven Killings of the Black Turtle Heaven!

"Ghost God Killing!

"True Dragon Killing!

"Heavenly Void Killing!

"Blood Spirit Killing!

"Great Dao Killing!

"Pierced Void Killing!

"Self Destructive Killing!"

Seven shadowy, humanoid figures appeared, pulsing with roiling killing intent and creating a deadly pillar of godpower fully thirty meters tall that screamed toward Yang Qi. It was obviously a very impressive attack.

"Seven Killings of the Black Turtle Heaven?" Yang Qi murmured. The attack actually had aspects that reminded him of the Ten Universes technique. Obviously, the Seven Killings of the Black Turtle Heaven was a very high-level energy art that had been altered in some way, and that Proud Radiance hadn't truly mastered.

And obviously, the Ten Universes had a part of the Seven Killings of the Black Turtle Heaven in it.

He realized things all with just one glance.

That alone was enough for him to be convinced that Proud Heaven was indeed connected to the Proud Clan somehow. And the quintessence of his Ten Universes was clearly far more advanced than Proud Radiance's Seven Killings of the Black Turtle Heaven, which went to show that Proud Heaven must have a much higher standing in the clan than Proud Radiance.

Yang Qi already knew that the Proud Clan on the Lightningbolt Continent was only an auxiliary branch of the main Proud Clan. In fact, it was likely that they didn't follow the most orthodox teachings of the Proud Clan. After all, the Proud Clan was an immense organization in the god world, with branches on so many continents that they were impossible to count. Because of that, even legitimate members of the clan might not necessarily know where their main headquarters was located.

Yang Qi examined the incoming Seven Killings of the Black Turtle Heaven, and in the time it takes a spark to fly off a piece of flint, he dodged out of the way. Then a purring sound could be heard as a bubble flew out and entrapped Proud Radiance.

It was the Purrfect God Art, a one-of-a-kind remarkable ability in heaven and earth. Because no one could possibly recognize what it was, he wasn't worried about using it in the open.

When the Purrfect God Art came into play, other godly-class energy arts could only sit on the sidelines. Not even the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth could surpass it, let alone some Seven Killings of the Black Turtle Heaven.

Everyone looked on as Proud Radiance unleashed a torrent of energy arts to try breaking free, except nothing worked.

"What magical treasure is this?" he howled.

"It's not a magical treasure. It's an energy art I cultivate." Waving his hand casually, Yang Qi dissipated the bubble and sucked the godpower back inside of himself. He had gained a lot from this little encounter, primarily establishing the connection between the Ten Universes and the Seven Killings of the Black Turtle Heaven. There was no doubt: Proud Heaven was from the Proud Clan.

Meanwhile, Proud Radiance dropped back down to the ground, various expressions flashing across his face as he finally realized that he wasn't a match for Yang Qi.

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Chapter 1156: House of God Ordainmen

Proud Radiance, the top young expert in the Lightningbolt Continent, had been defeated with one move. Everyone in the audience was either stunned, or gasping in shock. The gazes fixed on Yang Qi were those of fear and respect; it didn't matter whether someone had been born or what their background was, as long as they were strong enough, people would respect them.

As for Yang Qi, he was more than pleased with the performance of his Purrfect God Art.

It was becoming more and more refined, to the point where it contained about a third of the fundamental nature of the purrling itself.

Purr. Purr...

All of a sudden, the purrling in Jadefall's arms started purring again, and a look of disdain could be seen on its face. It almost seemed to be laughing at the idea of comparing Yang Qi's Purrfect God Art to itself.

However, it didn't emanate any godpower fluctuations, making it seem like nothing more than an ordinary pet. No one present had any idea that the purrling was actually more powerful than even Yang Qi.

Suddenly, a peal of laughter rang out. "Who would've thought that a young genius like this had come to the Lightningbolt Continent? This is worthy of celebration!"

"Lightning Dragonriser?" said Proud Radiance. "I thought you were out training! What are you doing back?"

A burly, bearded man appeared, taller than the average person, whose every step caused the faint rumble of thunder to echo about him. It was as if destructive god lightning crackled in his very bones, making him seem doughty, stalwart, and as dangerous as a ghost-god or devil-king.

'An impressive specimen,' Yang Qi thought, already impressed by how bold and powerful he seemed. He was obviously strong enough to compare to mid Quasi-Gods, and his godhood was obviously superior to Proud Radiance's.

"This is Lightning Dragonriser," Wang Juan explained, "a powerful figure from the Lightning Clan. However, he's not one of the younger generation, but one of the experts from the older generation. Although he doesn't look a day past thirty, he's actually over a hundred years old. By chance, he happened to acquire some De-Aging Longevity Figwort Root, which gave him an extra century of longevity compared to ordinary people." She had already come to see Yang Qi in a completely different light now that he had vanquished Proud Radiance in a single move. If someone like him wasn't worth recruiting, then who was?

Proud Radiance was certain to become a Lesser God within a few dozen years, so for Yang Qi to have beaten him indicated that there was a one hundred percent chance Yang Qi would become a Lesser God.

"You might be a member of the older generation, Lightning Dragonriser," said Proud Radiance, "but after you lost to my eldest brother Proud Triumphant, you skulked off into hiding. Now, ten years later, you're finally sneaking back onto the continent? Could it be that you're hoping to seek revenge? Sadly for you, my eldest brother Proud Triumphant is already a god! You two are on completely different levels now, and there's no way you'll ever catch up to him."

Lightning Dragonriser gave a cold harrumph that boomed like a bell. "You haven't made any progress with your cultivation base, Proud Radiance, yet your Proud Clan continues to grow here on the Lightningbolt Continent. You people are constantly taking away business from the Lightning Clan. Just don't forget that we run the Lightningbolt Continent, so don't you dare break any rules."

"You think your Lightning Clan can compare to the Proud Clan?"

"The Proud Clan is definitely a domineering clan. But in my ten years away, I happened to join a similarly important sect. The House of God Ordainment! And I've already been promoted to novice disciple!"

Almost immediately, a buzz of surprised conversation rose up.

"What? Lightning Dragonriser is a novice disciple of the House of God Ordainment?!"

"The House of God Ordainment is a legendary sect of immense power. People say that every hundred years or so, they search the continents for the most qualified elites and ordain them as gods! That's the meaning behind the name of their sect."

"That's right. For many years now, the prospect of joining the House of God Ordainment has been a goal for people of all continents. Sadly, even people considered top experts by the public are often looked down on by the House of God Ordainment. By what virtue or ability did Lightning Dragonriser somehow gain favor with them? And how did he become a novice disciple?"

Some of the people present were quite famous in Lightningbolt City, yet even they were sighing at the news.

Meanwhile, Brahma projected his voice directly into Yang Qi's ears in a way that no one else could hear. "The House of God Ordainment is incredible. They've been a huge, important sect for many years now, and are very mysterious. I was once the ruler of the Five Phases Continent, and a Consummate God. You could say that I was an unmatched hegemon of my time. But not even I could compare to the House of God Ordainment. However, they're very secretive and don't often step out into the world. There must be something very special about this Lightning Dragonriser for the House of God Ordainment to take a liking to him. And the elimination rate for their novice disciples is very high. The fighting involved to advance beyond that level is incredibly fierce and deadly. Out of ten thousand such disciples who compete, only one will eventually become an official disciple. And you know what happens to all the others? They die!"

"There's a sect like that?" Yang Qi asked, surprised.

If ten thousand novice disciples would fight to the death to become official disciples, it could only be imagined what such people were like.

The survivors would obviously be top elites.

That said, Yang Qi was no stranger to ruthlessness, so the arrangement wasn't necessarily shocking to him. He and his people weren't winners that were selected from a group of ten thousand contestants. They were the ultimate elites who had risen up in their respective ages. The Shepherd had climbed to his position on the corpses of uncountable denizens of hell, over a course of hundreds of millions of years, facing unending dangers. In comparison, these disciples of the House of God Ordainment who were picked out of a group of ten thousand, well, they were like nothing.

Laughing, Proud Radiance said, "You think you have some amazing prospects for the future, Lightning Dragonriser? Being a novice disciple of the House of God Ordainment is like being a flash in the pan! Are you aware that the Bloodgore Trials in the House of God Ordainment involve ten thousand novice disciples all fighting and killing each other until there's only one left? You think you can survive something like that?"

Lightning Dragonriser laughed. "The only way to find out is to try, and I'm very confident. Once I'm an official disciple, your eldest brother Proud Triumphant won't count for anything."

"Why don't we talk about that after you survive," Proud Radiance said snidely. That said, he knew that if Lightning Dragonriser actually did become an official disciple of the House of God Ordainment, he would certainly be more impressive than Proud Triumphant.

The Proud Clan was powerful, but truth be told, they were on roughly the same level as the House of God Ordainment. And although the Proud Clan extended their influence almost everywhere, their subsidiary branches were often relatively powerless, and didn't even know what the main branch was actually capable of.

Ignoring Proud Radiance, Lightning Dragonriser turned to Yang Qi, clasped hands, and said, "Who would've thought that an expert like this would appear in the Lightningbolt Continent? Salutations!"

Despite the politeness of his words, the truth was that they contained an immensely powerful force that bordered on an attack.

In response, Yang Qi merely clasped his hands formally and prepared to meet the onslaught. It was obvious that Lightning Dragonriser was simply curious to see what he was capable of, and was thus probing him a bit. As he stood there, he secretly sent out some godpower to defend himself.

Bam. Bam. Bam.

Yang Qi felt like his chest, back, head, and even his feet were being pummeled by a powerful fist attack.

However, thanks to being prepared, he was only slightly shaken, and managed to dispel the force of the attack, then used the energy arts of King Heaven-Devourer to consume the resulting fluctuations.

That said he was definitely surprised that his opponent could, with a mere clasping of the hands, send energy to hit his back and the top of his head. And that wasn't to mention the bizarre fact that the bottoms of his feet had also been hit.

Meanwhile, Lightning Dragonriser was similarly taken aback. He had just used a secret magic from the House of God Ordainment, something called the Shadowless Emptiness Godfist. It was a very powerful technique that made the fist and the heart empty, and through true emptiness, brought about true fullness. By the multitude of variations of true energy that resulted, it could make invisible attacks from virtually any angle.

However, when the attack hit Yang Qi, it was like a statue of an ox tossed into the sea, and had no effect whatsoever.

'How could this guy's energy arts be so advanced? And he hasn't reached godly ascension yet? It was by sheer chance that I met an elder from the House of God Ordainment and helped him out with some matters, which led me to learning a few of his moves. That elder said that I'm an outstanding figure among Quasi-Gods, but I couldn't even lay hands on this guy! His energy is as strong as a mountain and as deep as a sea. He's definitely much stronger than me.'

Smiling, he said, "You have my sincere respect, Brother Yang. Your energy arts are extremely profound, more so than I imagined. I find it hard to believe that you're just a mere wanderer. The energy arts of wanderers are usually nothing worth mentioning. How could you possibly be so skilled, Brother Yang?"

"You flatter me," Yang Qi replied with a faint smile, not wanting to reveal any of his secrets.

"If you aren't already a member of some organization, why not join the House of God Ordainment? We're recruiting novice disciples right now, and the Bloodgore Trials will be beginning soon. Given the level of your cultivation base, Brother Yang, you could definitely come out on top of a group of ten thousand opponents. And then you'd be an official disciple of the House of God Ordainment."

"Oh?" Yang Qi said curiously. "But Brother Lightning, aren't you a novice disciple as well? You'll take your place in the Bloodgore Trials as well, which means that if we fought each other, one of us would have to die. Wouldn't that be picking up a rock only to drop it on one's own foot?"

"No, it wouldn't." Lightning Dragonriser replied. "You see, there are going to be something around a billion people joining the Bloodgore Trials. Each individual group only has ten thousand members. With a hundred thousand such groups, there's no way both of us would be in the same one."

"In that case, maybe I'll give it a shot." Yang Qi had known all along that he would need to join some sort of organization. To gain enlightenment, enter the field. To gain further enlightenment, live in the world. To gain the greatest enlightenment, participate in the court. In the god world, the powerful sects were like royal courts. And the House of God Ordainment was one of the powerful sects. He would most likely have access to better cultivation resources there, and would also have the protection provided by a large organization.

Obviously, Lightning Dragonriser was trying to recruit him in the hopes of building up his own base of power. But when soldiers come, send a general to stop them. Right now, Yang Qi didn't think of Lightning Dragonriser as being even close to a threat.

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Chapter 1157: Wretch-God Sneak Attack

Based on the words that had just been exchanged between Lightning Dragonriser and Yang Qi, the top figures in Lightningbolt City could tell that they had just secretly compared strength. And obviously Yang Qi came out on top.

Yang Qi was already coming across as so mysterious and unpredictable that no one present felt confident in being able to keep him in check.

Raising her voice, Wang Juan said, "Today, the Wang Clan is holding a banquet to celebrate the death of Pirate King Deku. Everyone, please cast aside any cares or worries and join together in the celebration! Henceforth, commerce will prosper in the ocean districts, and our city will experience a new boom in prosperity!"

"Don't be so quick to celebrate," Lightning Dragonriser said, immediately throwing cold water on Wang Juan.

"What is that supposed to mean, Lightning Dragonriser?" Proud Radiance said, his expression darkening. "You weren't invited to this banquet, but considering you're from the Lightning Clan, I suppose that can be tolerated. But if you keep stirring up trouble, that could change!"

"I came here with some news, Proud Radiance," Lightning Dragonriser casually replied. "The act of killing Pirate King Deku stirred up the wrath of the wretch-god who backed him! And that wretch-god is leading an army here to kill the gods of the Lightningbolt Continent!"

"Hmph! Wretch-gods? Who cares about them? You think the gods of the Lightningbolt Continent are worried about some wretch-god?"

"In that case, let me provide another piece of news that might rile you out of your repose. The wretch-god has the support of a devil church from distant lands, the Hell-Breaking Church. And this wretch-god has a godhood rating of six! A rating of six is more than enough to crush all the gods of the Lightningbolt Continent!"

"What?" Proud Radiance said, shocked. "Why would a famous devil organization like the Hell-Breaking Church want to cause problems for the Lightningbolt Continent? Are you serious about this?"

"Believe me, or don't, it's up to you. In any case, I just came here today to relay the news. I already explained matters to the Lightning Clan, and they're making preparations for what's to come. You see, I got the details from an elder of the House of God Ordainment. I just hope that the Wang Clan can help defend the Lightningbolt Continent and work with the other gods to fight back this wretch-god. And the Proud Clan had better offer some help, too, otherwise the consequences will be too horrible to contemplate."

"I need to go find out more information about this!" Proud Radiance said, obviously not willing to take Lightning Dragonriser's words at face value. Turning, he left.

"Is this really happening?" Wang Juan said. "It seems we have some important matters to discuss. I'll notify my clan seniors immediately. Ladies and gentlemen, the banquet is hereby canceled. Everyone, head back home and prepare for the worst."

"Let's go. A wretch-god invasion is a big thing."

"Hurry. The wretch-gods from the deep ocean are terrifying. I've heard they want to lay waste to everything. We have to go all out to defend ourselves. Maybe we should just flee the continent."

"No, we can't flee. Where would we go? The Lightningbolt Continent doesn't have teleportation portals! The best thing to do is stand our ground and fight to the death against the forces of the wretch-god. As long as we stand united, we have a chance!"

"That's right. Although we can't interfere when the gods fight, we can at least slaughter this wretch-god's followers. And that will reduce his power!"

A sinister wind was already blowing overhead as the banquet ended and people scattered.

"I apologize, Brother Yang," Wang Juan said. "Who could have ever guessed that a wretch-god would invade the continent? I invited you to my banquet for nothing. Brother Yang, considering how profound your cultivation base is, and the fact that you defeated Proud Radiance with a single move, you're obviously going to make a name for yourself on the Lightningbolt Continent. Why not join us in fighting this invasion?"

"What do you know about this wretch-god?" Yang Qi asked. His initial inclination was to not get involved, but if this invasion involved the entire continent, it was likely he would get dragged into it whether he wanted to or not.

Furthermore, he was interested in siding with Lightning Dragonriser and joining the House of God Ordainment, which meant it would make more sense to get on Lightning Dragonriser's good side. Besides, it was always possible that the battle itself would lead to benefits for him.

And he was very confident in his fighting ability.

"The wretch-god in question is a brutal entity known as the Bloodcorpse God. He established a wretch-god kingdom on an island out in the ocean, where he gathered a host of ruthless believers. Then he recruited the pirates to plunder other islands and locations to bring him tribute or slaves to be new believers. If the Bloodcorpse God is really on the way, he'll likely reach here by tomorrow, or at the latest, the day after."

"Oh really?" Yang Qi said. "In that case, I don't think I can just let him off the hook. I'll wait until the army arrives, then make a more detailed assessment."

"His army is definitely going to besiege us," Wang Juan said. "Our clan will work with the other clans and gods to fight back. When the gods fight, we won't be able to interfere. But we can kill whatever pirates and believers he brings with him, and defend Lightningbolt City in general."

The most important city in the Lightningbolt Continent was Lightningbolt City, which was located right on the shore.

Of course, being located so close to the water made it easy to conduct business. Most clans had a lot of wealth stashed away in the city, which meant that if the city were to be sacked by the wretch-god, the clans would suffer grievously. And of course, the wretch-god would benefit immensely.

Based on Yang Qi's estimation, the population of Lightningbolt City was probably over a hundred million.

In other words, if the wretch-god sacked the city, he would end up killing a hundred million mid Terrifying experts! It was something that would be completely unthinkable in the mortal world. In the Immortal Dao Age, there were only a few hundred mid Terrifying experts total. The sacrifice of a hundred million mid Terrifying experts would be enough to found a new age, or completely transform the dao of heaven.

'Fuck,' thought Yang Qi. 'In the god world, a slaughter like this counts for almost nothing. The average citizens are in the mid Terrifying level, although I'm sure there are quite a few peak Terrifying experts. With a sacrifice like that, the Shepherd could easily become a wretch-god.'

"Brother Yang Qi," said Lightning Dragonriser, "if you're going to help us, then I suggest that we head out on the water tonight and launch a sneak attack on the wretch-god's army. What do you say? They're definitely out there right now. If we can kill his Quasi-God believers, it would leave his army leaderless and take a lot of pressure off of Lightningbolt City. And we could probably get some loot in the process."

"Alright," Yang Qi said. "I'll follow your lead. But first I need to head back and confer with my compatriots. Once you finalize your plan, Brother Lightning, just get in touch with me." He gave a meaningful look to Brahma and Jadefall, who nodded in return.

"That's fine. I'll send you a message later tonight." Lightning Dragonriser took out a paper talisman that glittered as if it were filled with lightning. "This is a messaging talisman from the Lightning Clan. If you ever run into trouble, you can use it to find people from the Lightning Clan to help you."

Yang Qi took the talisman and hurried off.

A short time later, he was back at the inn, where he found that everyone had made their breakthroughs and were making adjustments to their cultivation with his Sage Monarch Grand Magic.

His immortal-slaying clone was surrounded by pulsing immortal-slaying power, and was now in the peak Terrifying level. Furthermore, his senses were now so advanced that he could summon an illusory projection of the final of King Immortal-Slayer's legacy medallions.

Seeing Yang Qi approaching, the clone burst into hearty laughter. "I'm in the peak Terrifying level, Yang Qi. Now I can vaguely sense the will of King Immortal-Slayer, and even interact with it."

"Is that so?" Yang Qi said. Reaching out, he put his hand on the clone, causing the God Legion Seal to appear in the clone's sea of consciousness. And there, it was possible to detect the presence of an immense will struggling with the clone's, a will that bore the aura of King Immortal-Slayer.

"I understand," Yang Qi said, a serious expression on his face. "These are some effects left behind by King Immortal-Slayer. When King Immortal-Slayer's will entered the Great Necropolis, he knew that he had an immense opportunity. If he could use the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart to control the necropolis, he would be unparalleled under heaven. Not only would he restore his previous glory, but he could make the necropolis a part of him and become a paragon in the god world! I wonder who ended up winning, him or Proud Heaven."

"Can Proud Heaven really compare to King Immortal-Slayer?" a few people murmured.

"You absolutely, positively cannot underestimate Proud Heaven!" Yang Qi replied. "His enlightenment of the Ten Universes divine ability is absolutely spectacular. Furthermore, I suspect that he has the support of some powerful gods. And I recently confirmed that Proud Heaven is indeed connected to the Proud Clan of the god world, an extremely important organization."

"I've reached the peak Terrifying level as well," Proud World said. "I can unleash my godpower externally. As a Quasi-God, I can finally hold my head high in the god world. Who would've guessed that the Proud Clan would be so important here? But maybe I can take over the clan and become the new ruler. Wait. No. I'm going to destroy it. Wipe it out of existence!"

Laughing, Doom said, "Wipe out the entire Proud Clan? Brutal! But I say forget it." He had also achieved a breakthrough, thus entering a particularly mysterious state.

All of the people present had risen to the heights of the mortal world, so all they needed was the right resources and they were like fish in water. They could have achieved their breakthroughs normally, but Yang Qi had still baptized them with his God Legion Seal, making them even more compatible with the vital energy and essence of the god world.

"A wretch-god is about to invade this continent, but in the end, it could be a great opportunity for us. Furthermore, my intention is to join the House of God Ordainment, and ultimately get all of you in as well. We should fit in splendidly there."

With that, Yang Qi began elaborating on his plan.

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Chapter 1158: Nighttime Attack

Everyone nodded in approval at Yang Qi's idea of joining the House of God Ordainment.

They had all fought their way up from the mortal world and were fully aware of the benefits of joining a big sect.

When millions upon millions of people joined forces into one group, they became incredibly powerful, such that a single person here or there couldn't possibly stand up to them. True advancement had to be made by means of an organization. And if one could secretly seize the flow of destiny, or even come to lead the entire organization, it was possible to have a truly strong foundation.

There was no way a bunch of random stragglers could form a powerful organization.

Even in the mortal world, where Yang Qi could rely on the God Legion Seal, he had still ended up joining organizations like the Demi-Immortal Institute and the Titan Emperor Collegium. After taking control of the destiny of those locations, he had moved on to the Brahman Immortal World, the Dao Defense League, and the Will Manifestation Heaven Sect.

One step at a time, he had slowly taken control of the destiny of those powerful organizations.

That was what had led him to his current position.

That was the true method to practice cultivation.

The destiny of such organizations would include power, resources, hope, and more. At the very least, the resources required for breakthroughs couldn't be acquired by a group of random stragglers. And if they ran into the wrong powerful opponent, they could be destroyed.

In the end, it was obvious that joining an organization was vitally important.

As they discussed the matter, everyone emphasized how important it would be to stick with Lightning Dragonriser and get into the House of God Ordainment. In terms of the Bloodgore Trials, none of them were particularly worried. How hard could it be to slaughter ten thousand opponents? They were experts who had killed millions upon millions of enemies in their lives, so why would they possibly be worried about some weakling savages from the god world?

As for Yang Qi, there was no way he would underestimate these friends of his.

Once they were in the House of God Ordainment, they would be able to work hard to rise through the ranks, and would surely reach the point of being able to take over or even overthrow the sect.

As they discussed matters, they continued working on their cultivation and Yang Qi helped them stabilize their cultivation bases after their breakthroughs, drawing on the God Legion Seal to do so.

Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh.

Blazing sword light shot out from Sword Seventeen's fingers, easily leaving three-inch gashes in the ground. As for the Shepherd, Doom, Eldest Brother, and everyone else, they all experienced dramatic and profound advancements.

The sky went dark, and everyone was becoming much more familiar with their energy arts and higher levels.

"Ah, what a pity," Brahma said. Chopping his hand out, he created a small, five-colored projection of a hand. It was made of true energy that conformed to the five phases, and it only lasted for a moment before vanishing. "If only we had the resources to produce large amounts of godnotes. I know all sorts of ways to use various spirit medicines to improve one's godpower. With the right medicine, we could experience overnight what most people would take a hundred years to accomplish."

"Just wait until we're in the House of God Ordainment," Yang Qi said. "When my cultivation base is a bit higher, I'll be able to produce godnotes, and then we can buy whatever we want. Remember, Lightningbolt City, and even the Lightningbolt Continent in general, might as well be a little town compared to the god world in general. Even with a lot of godnotes here, we wouldn't be able to get everything we need. We just need to wait until we're part of the House of God Ordainment."

"Are you sure you can trust Lightning Dragonriser, Yang Qi?" asked Yang Zhan. "What if he's plotting against you? We can't rest all of our hopes on him alone."

"Of course he's not trustworthy." Expression flickering with killing intent, he continued, "But I can kill him any time I want. As long as I'm confident enough to use the God Legion Seal, then not even a Lesser God could cause problems for me."

Suddenly, Yang Qi's lightning amulet buzzed and a voice reached his ears. "Brother Yang Qi, the experts of the Lightning Clan are ready. We're being joined by the Wang Clan to head out and launch a sneak attack on the wretch-god's believers. They're camping out on Egret Island, not far from the Lightning Continent."

"We can head out shortly," Yang Qi replied. "Where should we meet up?"

"On the beach thirty kilometers east of here. We're waiting for you."

"Come on, let's go," Yang Qi said to his companions. They all leaped into the air, pulsing with the auras of Quasi-Gods as they glided along. Of course, at the moment, they still weren't capable of true flight.

Yang Qi could have flown if he really wanted to. His godpower was so abundant that he was in no way inferior to a Lesser God.

But if he did something that heaven-defying, it would definitely arouse the attention of the gods here on the Lightningbolt Continent.

They moved with normal speed for a time until they were on a beach of soft, white sand. It felt incredibly comfortable to walk on, and the breeze that swept off of the water was lovely. However, there was no moon or stars, ensuring that everything was as dark as could be.

It seemed like the perfect atmosphere for killing.

Thankfully, there were luminescent pearls on the beach that cast soft light about, revealing a host of experts from Lightningbolt City.

As for Yang Qi, he had a golden flame on his palm that illuminated the area around him.

The first people that caught his attention were the Wang Clan experts, of whom there were several dozen, all Quasi-Gods. Wang Juan was there, but she could only count as average in the group.

Wang Yi was also there.

"You really don't know the difference between life and death, do you?" Wang Yi said upon seeing Yang Qi. "We're going to kill some elite believers in a wretch-god. We need to conserve as much godpower as possible, whereas you waste it without a care in the world to make that fire of yours. What kind of extravagance is this! Well, when your godpower runs out, don't expect us to help you."

"Oh really?" Yang Qi said with a dark smile, extinguishing his flame.

Obviously, he knew exactly what he was doing. He just wanted to make himself seem like someone without much experience, in the hopes of preventing anyone from speculating that he had ascended from the mortal world. It was a given that people from the mortal world would know how to conserve power.

Smiling coldly, he said, "I have a lot of godpower, so I'm not worried about wasting a bit." It could help a lot to have himself come across as wildly arrogant. After all, everyone knew that he had come out on top of conflicts with both Lightning Dragonriser and Proud Radiance. It only made sense that he would be arrogant because of that, and hopefully it would cast the experts' thoughts away from matters relating to the mortal world.

"Come on, Brother Yang, now's not the time for squabbling," said Lightning Dragonriser. "We all want to work together to strike a blow against the enemy. Egret Island is about three hundred kilometers from here, and we aren't planning to take ships there. Ships would be spotted too easily."

"So what are we supposed to do?" Yang Qi replied immediately. "Don't tell me you expect me to fly. Flying would drain just about everyone here of all their energy. There's no way we could make a three hundred kilometer journey in that way."

"Don't worry, we came prepared. We have a windsail for everyone." He pulled one out of his backpack and handed it to Yang Qi. It seemed to be crafted from special feathers that rippled as it moved. When he threw it over his shoulders, it spread out according to some internal framework, settling over him like a cloak.

"Windsails are made from the feathers of a godbird we call a helpwind. Send godpower into it, and you can use it to ride the winds and fly. The amount of godpower you'll spend powering the windsail will be far less than actually gliding on your own. And once you get used to it, it can be used to fly without hardly any effort at all. Windsails are very expensive, Brother Yang, but I don't mind giving some to you and your people. Please just return them when we're finished with the operation."

Other members of the Lightning Clan produced more windsails, which they handed over to the others.

Yang Qi found that the feathers of the windsail contained the power of a wind god, making the item a true treasure. That said, there was no spell formation built into it. If there was a spell formation, it would have been even more amazing.

"Let me explain how to use the windsails," Lightning Dragonriser said, and went on to demonstrate how to control them. Yang Qi and his people were all extremely intelligent and quickly mastered all the methods.

Seeing that they could use them, the other experts present nodded. Not wanting to waste any more time, they opened their windsails like wings and flew out over the ocean. Although there wasn't any light at all, everyone knew which direction to travel, and could communicate with paper talismans if necessary.

Yang Qi opened his Lord's Eye, and upon powering it with some true energy, was able to make out a few of the details that were obscured by the darkness. Thanks to the functions of the God Legion Seal, no one had any idea what he was doing. As he looked ahead of them, he could sense a wretch energy pulsing off in the distance like a tongue of flame.

They flew for about an hour until an island appeared ahead, surrounded by battleships of every size imaginable. Most were festooned with bones and skulls, and even patches of human skin dripping with blood. The rancorous energy they pulsed with was overwhelming.

Countless wretch-god believers manned the ships, most of them armed with sabers. And they had erected altars upon which they were sacrificing men and women alike, cutting their heads open while murmuring enchantments.

It was a particularly brutal and grisly sight.

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Chapter 1159: Wretch-God Believers

The wretch-god believers were vicious to the core. However, they were all brainwashed, and believed that their acts of wretched evil were actually manifestations of holy piety.

Yang Qi watched as men and maidens alike screamed curses as they were beheaded, giving birth to towering rancorous energy. As for the wretch-god believers, they bore expressions of zealous reverence, without a hint of compassion. In fact, they looked as pleased as farmers harvesting a field of golden wheat.

The souls that they were taking from the victims provided them with abundant wretch-god power, and truth be told, it was something the Shepherd might have done, except that he couldn't in the current circumstances, lest he be hunted and killed.

Also, Yang Qi wouldn't permit him to do so. Yang Qi couldn't allow wretched evil to overcome that which was just and righteous. The last thing he wanted was to allow the world to descend into chaos.

Wretched evil thrived on the power of chaos, while righteous justice thrived on the power of order. The truth was that they had started out as one, with righteousness and justice prevailing much later on. Considering Yang Qi's deep understanding of both righteousness and evil, in the end, he had chosen the path of order. That meant that he would suppress the path of chaos. He cultivated the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth, which suppressed the chaos of hell and could assimilate wretch-gods.

"We're here," Lightning Dragonriser said. "There are plenty of Quasi-God experts among these wretch-god believers, and we can't afford to underestimate them. And there are likely disciples from the Hell-Breaking Church. Considering how rich they are, it'll benefit us a lot to fight and kill them. In any case, remember that our main goal here is to destroy their wretch-god altars, slaughter as many wretch-god believers as possible, and weaken the wretch-god himself."

Even as he made his announcement, a group of experts shot higher up into the air, then dropped down toward the enemy. They were disciples of the Proud Clan, and they were obviously taking the initiative in the fight. Yang Qi spotted them and immediately recognized the sword energy of the Seven Killings of the Black Turtle Heaven.

Crack!

One of the battleships made of human bones collapsed into pieces.

Looking around at his people, Yang Qi said, "Everyone stick together. Don't split up, got it? Although this might seem like a simple fight, we have to be careful."

They nodded in response, then spread their windsail wings and headed into the fray. As soon as they arrived at one of the ships, Brahma launched an attack from his Cardinal Grand Brahman Five Phases Energy Arts. It slammed into one of the wretch-god believers, shattering his five viscera.

Cackling loudly, the Shepherd said, "I can finally gorge myself!"

The Shepherd was by no means a virtuous fellow, so he didn't spare any effort on being merciful. As soon as he descended from above, his claws latched onto a wretch-god believer and crushed him to bits. Then the Shepherd sucked in the believer's soul, causing the faint weeping of ghosts and wailing of gods to echo out.

"A mid Terrifying expert, absorbed like that!" The Shepherd almost seemed like he was enjoying an afternoon snack. "What could be better than a soul like that? I could never get stuff like this in hell!"

The Shepherd's quick victory came as no surprise. After all, he had acquired all sorts of godly-class energy arts during his time in hell. In fact, Yang Qi's people all had more godly-class arts on an individual basis than any of the average locals. It only made sense, considering they were apex individuals from the impure lands.

In the Lightningbolt Continent, even Wang Juan only had access to the energy arts of Lesser Gods, which couldn't compare to what people like the Shepherd had. He and his compatriots had godly-class arts that were virtually on the level of those practiced by the Sovereign Lord himself.

That was one reason why people who had ascended from the impure lands were so prized.

The addition of their godly-class energy arts would be a huge benefit to any sect in the god world.

The Shepherd had just reached the peak Terrifying level, and his godpower was currently weak compared to what it could be. Therefore, he was using powerful godly-class energy arts to absorb the souls and quintessence energy of the wretch-god believers. And with the power of the God Legion Seal to back it up, the harmful side-effects could easily be negated, making him vastly stronger.

One after another, he slaughtered the wretch-god believers, transforming them into desiccated corpses. He was even able to use some of King Heaven-Devourer's techniques that Yang Qi had taught him to speed up the process.

Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh...!

The Shepherd was like a butterfly that had just emerged from the cocoon, dancing in the breeze as he cut down the enemy and grew stronger in the process.

Meanwhile, Proud World also couldn't hold back from using some devil techniques to improve his own godpower.

The others weren't inclined to use such techniques, so they simply stuck close to Yang Qi. Together, their group was like a meat grinder that destroyed the wretch-god believers in their path with astonishing speed.

"Be broken!" Yang Qi landed on a battleship and struck out with his palm, sending out godpower that blasted a huge hole in the deck. In response, a Quasi-God shot out, sending out streams of wretched light that resembled centipedes.

However, Yang Qi simply grabbed the centipedes, and they shattered. Then his hand latched onto the neck of the Quasi-God, who he threw over to the Shepherd.

"A Quasi-God!?" the Shepherd shouted in delight. He quickly began devouring him like a gourmet delicacy, causing his own godpower to rise rapidly.

In the blink of an eye, the Shepherd's godpower doubled.

With that, Yang Qi led the way into the ship's hold, where massive amounts of godstones were piled up alongside chests filled with medicinal pills.

Crack!

Yang Qi chopped out with his hand, breaking open one of the chests and causing a host of crimson, walnut-sized pills to spill out.

"Those are Blood-Coagulation God-Recalling Pills," Brahma said. "They're concocted by taking a rare god herb and soaking it in fresh blood. It can improve the energy and blood, and transform the godpower even more effectively than Godsieve Pills. Those are going to be very useful!"

All of a sudden, a voice reached their ears. "What do you wanderers think you're doing? Keeping the loot for yourselves?"

A group of Proud Clan disciples poured into the hold, and when they saw the Blood-Coagulation God-Recalling Pill, their eyes flickered with greed.

"You people can have one pill each. The rest belong to the Proud Clan!"

"In your dreams!" the Shepherd said, and he was just about to make a move on them when Yang Qi reached out to stop him.

"One pill a piece isn't enough," Yang Qi said. "These are our spoils of war, and we're taking all of them. Don't even think of trying to cause problems for us."

"Can you even take all those chests with you?" one of the Proud Clan disciples said. "Proud Radiance has a storage ring that can contain all kinds of items. Do you really think you can just walk off with that much loot?" He burst out laughing.

"That's right! How will you wanderers take the loot away?"

"Our Proud Clan won't do a thing about all these pills. Just eat them all right here and now! As long as they're in your stomachs, of course we won't take them."

"Blood-Coagulation God-Recalling Pills are so powerful that you can only take one per month. There's no way you could survive eating so many at once. And if you want to try, there's nothing the Proud Clan will do to stop you."

Although these Proud Clan disciples didn't dare to actually fight Yang Qi, they weren't going to just stand by while he took so many valuable pills.

"Is that so?" Yang Qi replied. "Actually, this one chest isn't even enough for us." Waving his hands, he pulled all of the medicinal pills over to him. Then he used some true flame energy arts to melt them into a blood-colored conglomeration of medicine that looked like a dragon. Next, he split the dragon into a host of smaller dragons that shot directly into his people.

They all burst out laughing. After all, with their experiences with the Godsieve Pills, and their God Legion Seal powers, how could they have any trouble with such pills?

All of them had small versions of the Heaven and Earth Furnace within them, making it an easy thing to turn medicine like this directly into godpower.

Crack. Crunch.

Sword Seventeen suddenly grew several times larger, and from the cracking sounds that rang out inside him, it was as if he had experienced a growth in his power and cultivation base that would normally take dozens of years. Not even people who had been Quasi-Gods in the god world for decades could measure up to him. It was almost like he was cheating in some way.

"You people..." blurted the Proud Clan disciples, who were stunned by what they were seeing. "You're actually absorbing all of those pills without exploding? Your cultivation bases are improving more than they should in decades! How could you be doing this...?"

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Chapter 1160: Experts from the Hell-Breaking Church

The young elites from the Proud Clan were completely stunned. How could these people possibly be consuming so many Blood-Coagulation God-Recalling Pills? Even Quasi-Gods would have to be careful when dealing with the explosive medicinal strength of such pills, lest their meridians be damaged and their bodies improperly transformed.

Medicine was not the kind of thing that should be casually consumed.

It wasn't as though people in the god world didn't commonly consume pills. Clans often had large stocks of god pills, some designed to increase longevity and others for improving the cultivation base.

Randomly consuming pills usually ended with one of two possible outcomes: either having one's mind wiped out, or simply dying.

But Yang Qi and his people were devouring an entire chest full of Blood-Coagulation God-Recalling Pills, yet nothing was happening other than improvements to their energy arts. The Proud Clan disciples exchanged awkward glances, and were clearly at a loss for words.

"Y-y-you... you people..." They began backing up, looks of fear overtaking their faces.

"You think we're just ordinary wanderers?" Brahma said, clearly displeased. "Let me tell you, we're far stronger than you could ever imagine!"

The truth was that even he was surprised. Normally speaking, he knew that they shouldn't have been able to accept such explosive medicinal power. But thanks to having been refined by the God Legion Seal into pure godpower, it could bolster them immediately.

'No wonder Proud Heaven wanted the God Legion Seal so badly,' Brahma thought. 'It gives the full Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth and can be used to control god vitality, create godstones, and even forge godnotes. And now it's obvious that it can neutralize the dangerous aspects of all kinds of medicinal power. It's like cheating!'

In fact, given this development, it was obvious that with enough medicinal pills to bolster his vital energy, Brahma would unquestionably be able to reach the Lesser God level.

It would lead to incredible benefits and help all of them to advance by leaps and bounds in a way that they could never have done in the impure lands.

The god world was the ultimate destination, and the best place to make real progress. There were challenges, but those challenges were also opportunities.

"Screw the hell off!" Sword Seventeen said, waving his hand and sending out streams of sword energy that wrapped around the young ones from the Proud Clan like strands of silk. "You deserve death for trying to steal from us, but instead I'll just tie you up and throw you out."

His energy arts were so advanced that he didn't even fear Quasi-God experts now.

Whooooosh!

Yang Qi's group flew out into the open, looking for the next ship to attack.

The wretch-god disciples were dropping like flies, and in the shortest of moments the attackers were deep into enemy territory.

"What?!" Wang Yi had led the Wang Clan forces onto one of the biggest battleships, and was in the middle of bitter fighting with the enemy's Quasi-Gods. When he saw Yang Qi's group pouncing like wolves and tigers, and destroying everything in their path, he couldn't have been more shocked. And that was especially the case when he saw the Shepherd casually dispatching the enemy and transforming them into desiccated corpses.

Not even Quasi-Gods could cause them to pause for a moment.

The Shepherd's skill in fighting was second only to Yang Qi's, and his godpower was already vastly beyond what it was before.

Wang Yi and his people felt chills at the thought of what would happen if the Shepherd laid hands on them. They would obviously become withered corpses in the blink of an eye.

"What incredible devil church energy arts!" Wang Juan thought. "How did these people get so strong so fast? They're advancing as if they just finished dozens of years of secluded cultivation."

A gust of wind blasted out as the Proud Clan experts landed on the deck of the ship and reported in to Proud Radiance. Proud Radiance's face instantly turned ashen. "Those heinous bastards..."

"What's wrong?!" Wang Yi asked.

"Those assholes stole a bunch of medicinal pills and consumed them all at once. Their energy arts just increased dramatically." His eyes glittered with a wretched light. "There are barely more than ten of them, and they consumed several hundred Blood-Coagulation God-Recalling Pills."

"You've got to be kidding, Proud Radiance," Lightning Dragonriser said, flying over. Looking over at Yang Qi's group slashing through the enemy forces, he said, "Those pills take a month to properly assimilate. And during that month, you can't engage in any fighting or use any of your godpower. If the medicine isn't properly controlled, it'll explode and destroy your meridians. How could they have possibly consumed so many pills?"

"Believe it or not, I don't care," Proud Radiance said. "There's something fishy about these people. Look at all the things they're capable of! I wonder if they're rebels that escaped from some powerful organization. Maybe they were all injured, and their energy arts crippled, but they've finally recovered. I bet if we took them captive, we could benefit a lot."

"Stow that talk, Proud Radiance!" Lightning Dragonriser said. "They're friends of mine, now, so you'd better not lay a finger on them!"

"I'm just worried that you're inviting the wolf into your house," Proud Radiance said. "Are you really going to bring them to your sect? I know what you're thinking. If you get them on your side, you'll enter the House of God Ordainment with your own faction already established. But what if they're only interested in their own power?"

"I have my own plans, thank you very much," Lightning Dragonriser said. "You really do underestimate me, don't you? Well, don't worry. I know what to do and what not to do."

"I guess we'll see if you can keep them in check," Proud Radiance said. "As for me, I'm not going to just take all of this lying down."

"Take what lying down?" a voice said, and a moment later Yang Qi and his group flew over, all of them carrying chests of medicinal pills.

Blood-Coagulation God-Recalling Pills.

The wretch-god's forces had brought all of these pills with them for their assault on Lightningbolt Continent in the hopes of using them to carry out a very ingenious plan. They hoped to set up wretch-god altars and then burn the pills to create sagefire, which would empower their wretch-god and simultaneously allow them to use spell formations to level Lightningbolt City, killing everyone in it.

Now that Yang Qi had looted their stash, such plans were meaningless.

As he and his people landed on the deck, he was surrounded by such a baleful energy and bloody-soaked aura that as soon as he looked over at Proud Radiance, the young man backed up instinctively, his face draining of blood.

It was obvious that Yang Qi's energy arts had advanced yet again.

"Be broken," Yang Qi said, and the wave of his hand opened one of the chests, causing medicinal pills to spill out. Before they could even hit the ground, they melted into what looked like blood-colored dragons that shot directly into all of Yang Qi's people.

"What do you think, Brother Lightning? Like this technique of mine? To be honest, I have a few tricks that I can use to neutralize the negative effects of medicinal pills. I can reduce the medicinal strength to make them easy to assimilate." Throwing out some more bait, he continued, "It could really strengthen your Lightning Clan, and maybe even make you stronger as the rulers of Lightningbolt City."

"Is that really possible?" Lightning Dragonriser said, clearly astonished. However, seeing what was happening right in front of his eyes, how could he disbelieve? The Shepherd, Jadefall, Sword Seventeen, and even Yang Zhan were all stronger than he was. Their godpower was nothing short of miraculous.

"Facts can vindicate big talk," Yang Qi said coolly.

"If you're really capable of such things, Brother Yang Qi, it would definitely be of immense help to the Lightning Clan. If you could immediately boost our experts, then we'd definitely make sure to keep you absolutely safe. We won't let anyone lay a finger on you." Lightning Dragonriser obviously recognized how valuable someone like Yang Qi could be.

"To be honest, I don't care much about the Lightning Clan," Yang Qi said. "I want to get into the House of God Ordainment. That's where the real resources are. Being there would be a lot better than being stuck in a backwater place like Lightningbolt City that no one has ever heard of. Once we're official students of the House of God Ordainment... just imagine how much we could help you. You would get very strong, very fast."

With the Blood-Coagulation God-Recalling Pills to help his people get stronger, Yang Qi cared less than ever about the current situation. It was as if they had just gone through a session of a hundred years of cultivation. Being at the peak of the Quasi-God level, they were beginning to turn their virtual godhood into the real thing.

With enough medicinal pills, they would be able to reach the true heights of strength.

When Lightning Dragonriser saw all of Yang Qi's people absorbing the medicine, his face lit up with delight, and then he laughed. "That settles it. I originally thought the Bloodgore Trials were going to be difficult. But if you can help improve my godpower, Brother Yang Qi, then I won't have any issues at all."

"That'll be easy," Yang Qi replied. "I can do it right now." He quickly summoned what looked like a blood-colored dragon that shot forth and entered Lightning Dragonriser's chest. Lightning Dragonriser immediately sensed warmth flowing through him as the medicinal power became a spell formation inside of him, provoking constant transformations as it headed toward his dantian region.

Lightning Dragonriser looked more delighted than ever, in part because he realized that he couldn't have avoided Yang Qi if it had been an attack, in which case he would be dead.

'This guy is almost as strong as a god already,' he thought. Drawing on his sea of energy, he felt the medicinal power filling him, causing him to grow stronger with each moment.

Bursting out in hearty laughter, he said, "My godpower is already twice as incredible as before! I don't think any other Quasi-God could be a match for me!"

Meanwhile, Proud Radiance looked on, livid, but at a loss for words.

It was at that point that cackling laughter rang out from Egret Island and numerous sparks of ghostfire appeared, which resolved into the shape of people.

"Watch out! Hell-Breaking Church disciples!"

Everyone began shivering in fear.

As for Wang Juan, she said, "Crap, those really are disciples from the Hell-Breaking Church. We need to get out of here! We can't fight them! We might have hope against one or two, but not that many!"

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