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 1225: A Big Con

"A hundred...?" The grand elder from the Dragon Society involuntarily laughed. "Very ambitious, Grand Elder Hong Lie. Why not just resort to highway robbery?"

"It's not ambitious at all," Hong Lie replied. "In fact, it's a very low sum. Jadefall's Master personally asked me to watch out for Yang Qi, so if I help frame him, I'll have to deal with her revenge. Unless you're telling me the Dragon Society will stand in to protect me."

"He's a nobody!" Meng Guo growled. "Do you think that the Dragon Society is in the habit of just throwing our resources away?!"

"In that case, I guess we're done here. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about what we talked about today. We can just pretend it never happened. By the way, Yang Qi is planning to stay in seclusion for ten years. We've already arranged for a comfortable study for him in the Scripture Pavilion."

The Scripture Pavilion had a lot of influence of its own. For example, disciples who worked there could get access to higher levels to learn techniques or work on their enlightenment. If Yang Qi was going to be in seclusion for ten years, there was no amount of plotting or scheming that could do anything to him.

"Fine, fine," said Meng Guo. "I had no idea you were such a shrewd businessman, Grand Elder. Unfortunately, I don't have the authority to agree to a payment of a hundred Paramount god pills. I'll need to ask my superiors about that. Please wait a moment."

With that, he flew up into the air and vanished without a trace.

Bai Yin and Hong Lie simply waited. About four hours later, Meng Guo returned. "They agreed. However, we can only agree to give you half the pills up front. The other half we'll give you after the task is complete."

"How very generous of you. I almost can't believe you're willing to spend that much just to frame a nobody. On the black market, you could spend this much to get the head of a Greater God."

"The deal is done!"

Before handing over the bag of medicinal pills, though, Meng Guo said, "Remember, you can't breathe a word of this to anyone. And you need to accomplish the deed within three days. If you can't, you'll have to return the medicinal pills. Got that? The Dragon Society won't let this matter drop if you mess things up."

"That's fine," the grand elder said with a faint smile. "As a grand elder in charge of managing the Scripture Pavilion, if I couldn't handle an official disciple, then how could I do anything? Three days? No problem, we'll get it done. But once we do, you'd better not get stingy and withhold the rest of the pills. If you do, I'll make sure the truth comes out and Yang Qi gets justice. I'm not going to offend Jadefall's Master for no reason!"

"Don't worry. As long as you do the job, you'll get your medicinal pills right away."

With that, Meng Guo handed the bag of pills over to Hong Lie.

Hong Lie laughed heartily. "With these pills I finally have the hope of becoming a Greater God!" Taking out one of the pills, he saw that it was as big as a longan fruit and looked as if it were made from amber. It even contained a starry sky of its own. "This is a Double-Nines God-Dragon Starry-Sky Pellet, right?"

"That's right. Those are Double-Nines God-Dragon Starry-Sky Pellets, personally concocted by our leader Dragon Floret. In order to concoct them, he killed a Greater God of the Dragonfolk and used his blood and core vitality along with all sorts of other rare medicinal ingredients. Then he purified it with his Paramount will. Normally speaking, the Dragon Society only hands out pills like those as a reward for immense services rendered."

"Once this matter is over, you'll definitely be rewarded," Bai Yin said with a smile. "I've heard that Dragon Floret wants to use Yang Qi as a threat against Jadefall. Your Dragon Society has influence with the Law-Enforcement God-Palace, so any disciple who gets convicted of a crime will be under your control, am I right? Once Yang Qi is in custody, Jadefall won't be able to do a thing to fight you, and you'll get her pet."

The elder with the godhood rating of six snorted coldly. "Hmph! Very smart, boy."

"Let's go," said Hong Lie. "We'll send news within three days. In the meantime, prepare the pills you owe us."

With that, he and Bai Yin flew off.

Grinding his teeth, the elder said, "You're really handing those pills over, just like that? Those were all Double-Nines God-Dragon Starry-Sky Pellets!"

"Calm down," said Meng Guo. "Bai Yin was right. As long as we accomplish this mission, we'll be handsomely rewarded. And if our leader can use the blood of that pet to reach the Unbounded level of will convergence, we can completely take over the entire House of God Ordainment. Besides, do you really think it will be easy for them to keep those pills? When the time comes, we'll exterminate them and take them back. Anyone who has the gall to screw with the Dragon Society deserves to die!"

"But he's a Common God! We can't just kill someone like that, can we?" Killing Bai Yin might not be a big deal, but killing a grand elder would be very difficult to cover up.

"Even Greater Gods who get in our way will be killed! Believe you me, once our leader breaks through to the Unbounded level, it's a given that he'll become the houselord of our House of God Ordainment. When he has the real power, people will have to submit to him and prosper, or oppose him and perish. And you and I can both rise to the top with him!" He flicked his sleeve. "You're dismissed. Let's see what happens over the next three days."

Meanwhile, Bai Yin and Hong Lie had arrived back at the second floor of the Scripture Pavilion.

Once inside, Hong Lie's appearance suddenly shifted, and in the blink of an eye, he was someone else. Yang Qi!

"Brother Yang Qi, you were amazing," Bai Yin said, clicking his tongue in amazement. "I can't believe you fooled a Common God! Truly incredible! You're definitely far stronger than me. Where did you get the aura of a Common God?"

"You flatter me. I just so happen to have a Common God friend who gave me some godhood aura. That's what made the disguise perfect." The truth was that he had used his Life-Death Void-Destruction God-Lightning to disguise himself. And considering he had Paramount will convergence, he could pass himself off as a Greater God if he wanted to, much less a Common God.

Having been aware of the plot, he'd recruited Bai Yin to help and the two of them had successfully conned the Dragon Society.

"It's a good thing Meng Guo didn't attack us. You wouldn't have been able to keep up the disguise then. And although we're stronger than the average Lesser God, we'd end up dead if we fought a Common God." Bai Yin was still shivering from fear.

"I'm very impressed by your spirit of loyalty and self-sacrifice, Bai Yin," Yang Qi said, his eyes glittering. "You're even willing to stand by my side in defying the Dragon Society. Aren't you worried about the consequences? In three days, they'll realize they were fooled, and you'll be in great danger."

"Ah, what's there to be scared of? We got paid under the table. Besides, I've never grovelled in my entire life." He chuckled darkly. "They can't very well accuse us publicly, so why shouldn't we con them? Do you really think they'll tell everyone they bribed us with medicinal pills to frame someone for a crime?"

"Obviously not," Yang Qi said. "But they could try some underhanded tricks."

"Look, you're not afraid of the Dragon Society, so why should I be?" Bai Yin shrugged his shoulders casually. "I'm a man who wants to form monarch godhood. If I was a coward, how could I ever succeed with that?"

"Alright!" Yang Qi said, clasping his shoulder. "As a matter of fact, Bai Yin, you made a really good decision here. One of these days, I'll make sure you understand why. You're really going to benefit from this. I guarantee you that your fate is going to transform significantly."

"Hmm?" Bai Yin looked at Yang Qi as if he didn't know him. "How come you sound like an important person all of a sudden? Hey. Where are you from anyway?"

"I'll explain everything later," Yang Qi said, waving his hand dismissively. "Now, let's split up these medicinal pills. How about fifty/fifty?"

"That works for me. By the way, what are you planning to do with so many medicinal pills designed to boost godpower? To form monarch godhood, we need to improve our fleshly body and psychic power. Godpower won't really help. I mean, my virtual godhood is already completely full."

"In that case, give the pills to me," Yang Qi said. "I need as many as I can get. And I'll make it up to you by purifying you in body and soul."

Crack!

Before Bai Yin could do anything, Yang Qi's hand had latched onto his head, rendering him completely immobile. Then he felt immense godpower flowing through him as cracking sounds rang out, making him feel like he was falling apart as countless noxious liquids emerged from his pores.

Then a burning fire raged through him, crystallizing his godpower and pushing his psychic scale higher and higher. The impurities were burned away and, in the end, Bai Yin was surrounded by golden light, including a halo floating behind his head. And he pulsed with a magnificent aura.

Yang Qi retracted his energy arts, and a short time later, Bai Yin opened his eyes. "My body. It's been rebuilt on a fundamental level! I never even imagined that something like this could be possible. I'm so strong!" Looking at his hands in wonderment, he continued, "With a physical form like this, I have a much better chance of developing Paramount will convergence and forming monarch godhood!"

"I don't think so," Yang Qi said. "Monarch godhood isn't as simple as that. Truth be told, Bai Yin, forming monarch godhood is simply too difficult. But if that's your choice, then do as you will. In any case, after remolding your body just now, you have the capacity for a lot more godpower. That said, you're still light years away from reaching the Paramount level. The further you go along this path, the more you'll understand. Once you've reached enlightenment on the topic, you'll see how difficult monarch godhood is."

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Chapter 1226: One Step Away

Double-Nines God-Dragon Starry-Sky Pellets didn't have the same level of godpower as Chaos-Cavern Grand-Magnate Pills, but fifty-five of the former were at least the equivalent of about three or four of the latter.

Yang Qi had helped Bai Yin to purify himself in body and soul, but kept all of the pills. Overall, Bai Yin actually came out on top of it all. Meanwhile, as he focused on the transformations occurring in his fleshly body, Yang Qi took all fifty-five of the Double-Nines God-Dragon Starry-Sky Pellets and popped them into his mouth, resulting in an instant surge of power.

Energy flows rushed through him like dragons, releasing enough force to cause an ordinary person to explode. However, his cultivation base still lacked the godpower, so the merest twitch of his virtual monarch godhood sucked in all of the power. Then, a moment later, he exhaled a stream of pill energy that was nothing more than a collection of impurities.

"Dear lord, are you trying to kill yourself!?" Bai Yin exclaimed in shock. Even a Lesser God would need many months to consume and assimilate that many pills. Probably even a year.

Yang Qi was a Quasi-God, and in the end, was only human. Normally speaking, if someone like that consumed fifty-five Paramount god pills, they would simply explode.

However, no such explosion occurred. From what Bai Yin could sense, Yang Qi's sea of energy was like a black hole that sucked in all of the godpower without cease.

Winds screamed as Yang Qi breathed in and out, his interior seemingly a void.

After exhaling all of the impurities, he rose to his feet, his monarch godhood so close to completion that he was only one step away from finishing.

Unfortunately, that final step wasn't going to be easy, and would require incalculable amounts of energy. In fact, not even fifty-five more pills like those he had just used would possibly be enough.

However, after accomplishing everything he had, Yang Qi could now see that his monarch godhood was fist-sized and featured nine orifices, twenty-four types of energy, thirty-six acupoints, and formed a three hundred and sixty degree circle.

After he made that step, he could fully connect with the boundless heaven and earth, and reach godly ascension.

"Dominate Everything under Heaven!" Slashing his hand down like a knife, he sliced open the void in front of him, creating a vortex that erupted with a spatial tempest. However, before the tempest could do anything, he grabbed it, pacifying it and turning it into a pitch-black wind dragon that writhed back and forth in his grip.

"You can manipulate spatial power!" Bai Yin blurted. "You—"

"It doesn't matter," Yang Qi cut him off. "There's no need to say it out loud. As I said before, as long as you stick with me, I'll change your fate." A tremor passed through Yang Qi, and the vortex vanished as though it had never existed.

Bai Yin looked up in thought for a moment, but was confused and couldn't quite grasp what Yang Qi meant. However, one of Bai Yin's strong points was that when he knew he couldn't understand something, he didn't waste any time trying to figure it out.

"You know, we're going to have to deal with the aftermath of all this eventually," Bai Yin said. "Grand Elder Hong Lie obviously has no idea that you impersonated him and made a deal with the Dragon Society. In three days, they'll definitely come looking for him. What do we do then? I can't see how any good will come of it."

"It doesn't matter. We can just wait and see how things play out. Grand Elder Hong Lie isn't going to take responsibility for my actions when I impersonated him. So there will definitely be some sort of altercation. In fact, you need to deny involvement as well. Just say you never accepted any payment, and that someone was impersonating you."

"Well, that's obvious. Who would possibly admit to being involved in a deal like that? Besides, my cultivation base is a lot better than before. I'm someone else entirely now." He chuckled. "Best of all, this was a private deal, which means they have no contract or any other evidence to rely on."

Yang Qi also chuckled. "Let's see how Meng Guo handles the situation. Alright. For the next three days, we have to stay hidden here in the Scripture Pavilion."

And they did just that. Over the course of those three days, nothing noteworthy happened. As for the two men from the Dragon Society, Yang Qi kept an eye on them by means of the devil embryo. And what he saw was that they were simply waiting in keen anticipation.

Sadly for them, after the three days passed, nothing happened...

Deep in a mansion grotto somewhere.

BAM!

Meng Guo smashed the table in front of him. "The three days are passed! How come we haven't received any update? Hong Lie took those pills, but didn't follow up on his end of the bargain. Was he just scamming us?"

"Perhaps there were some complications that came up," said the elder from the Missions Sanctuary. "There must be some sort of explanation. In any case, we need to bring Hong Lie here to explain things. I'll get in touch with him right away."

"Yes," the grand elder said. "Let's meet up in the same place as before."

A short time later, the elder arrived at the Scripture Pavilion only to find that the second floor was closed. Eyes glimmering with hatred, he ascended to the third floor, where he sent someone to ask for an audience with Grand Elder Hong Lie.

About an hour later, Hong Lie arrived, and when he saw who was waiting for him, his eyes flickered with surprise. "An elder from the Missions Sanctuary? What are you doing here at the Scripture Pavilion? If you want to browse the books, you could just ask for help from one of the disciples. There isn't any need to disturb my cultivation for something as mundane as that."

Grand Elder Hong Lie was obviously a bit irritated at having been disturbed, and that was especially the case considering he was a Common God and the visiting elder was a mere Lesser God.

Seeing the attitude of Hong Lie, the elder from the Missions Sanctuary ground his teeth in fury and said, "Come on, Hong Lie. Don't pretend you don't know who I am. You accepted a payment of medicinal pills from the Dragon Society to do a job for us, and the three-day time limit has passed. Have you lived up to your end of the bargain?"

"What are you talking about?" Hong Lie replied in confusion. "When did I take any medicinal pills from you? The Dragon Society? Wait, you work for the Dragon Society? How could I possibly have agreed to do anything for you people? I've been in seclusion for several months straight!"

"What the fuck, you old codger! How dare you play dumb!" Despite his outrage, the elder obviously couldn't do anything rash, and definitely couldn't take any action. Struggling to remain calm, he said, "Let me remind you of what went on. Grand Elder Meng Guo from the Dragon Society and myself had a nice discussion with you, in which you agreed to help us. And Meng Guo was acting on the authority of Dragon Floret himself!"

"The leader of the Dragon Society?" Hong Lie said. He was no fool, and as soon as he heard Dragon Floret mentioned, he knew that this was no minor affair. Snorting coldly, he said, "Fine, lead the way."

They left the god kingdom and headed out into the remote mountains.

When Meng Guo caught sight of Hong Lie, he shouted, "It's been three days, Hong Lie! What's going on here!? We wanted you to frame Yang Qi, what's taking so long? Don't tell me you intentionally took our medicinal pills and did nothing!"

"What? Frame Yang Qi? For medicinal pills?" Furious but at the same time confused, Hong Lie said, "Don't make the mistake of thinking your Dragon Society is invincible, Meng Guo. I've got powerful backers too. What makes you think I would ever take medicinal pills from you?"

"Alright, fine!" shouted Meng Guo, his fury rising to apoplectic proportions. "Apparently you aren't afraid of dying, Hong Lie! I've never heard of anyone who dared to run a scam on the Dragon Society. It was three days ago on this very spot that you took over fifty Double-Nines God-Dragon Starry-Sky Pellets as a down payment for framing Yang Qi. You had three days, and the time period is up. So why hasn't Yang Qi been framed?"

"Did you experience cultivation deviation, Meng Guo? Did you go insane? For the past three days, I've been in seclusion in the Scripture Pavilion. There are plenty of people who can corroborate that. There are even some other grand elders with whom I discussed various daoist techniques. Furthermore, why does your Dragon Society want to frame an unimportant disciple like Yang Qi? And why would you go to such lengths to pull it off?"

"Dammit! You old bastard! How dare you try to weasel out of this." Meng Guo was going crazy from anger to the point where he wanted to simply kill Hong Lie right here and now.

Unfortunately, that wasn't an option. He couldn't just kill an important elder with powerful backers like Hong Lie.

"You'd better think this through clearly," Meng Guo grated. "There's still time to go back and frame Yang Qi for a crime. I can even give you a few more days to do it. But if you insist on being stubborn, the Dragon Society won't let you off the hook."

"Are you threatening me?" Hong Lie said, his eyebrows shooting up in anger. "I never took any medicinal pills from you. And now you're trying to frame me? Look, I'm not going to deal with a lunatic like you. The Dragon Society might be powerful, but you have no right to simply cause problems for me for no reason. This is the House of God Ordainment! You can't just do whatever you want here."

The Dragon Society was indeed powerful, but they still couldn't order the law enforcement team to go arrest someone without evidence; that would be an abuse of power. The House of God Ordainment had very strict rules about that, and although there had been disciples in the past who tried to manipulate the system to their advantage, when they were found out, they were imprisoned and forced to cripple their own energy arts.

If the law enforcement team of a huge organization like this could be easily manipulated for personal reasons, it would lead to mass chaos.

For hundreds of thousands of years, the House of God Ordainment had worked this way. Although it was definitely possible to frame someone for a crime, the laws couldn't be openly manipulated to that extent.

Hong Lie turned on his heel to leave, furious at having been dragged out of seclusion only to be accused of such absurdities.

Looking over his shoulder, he said, "I'm going to pretend none of this ever happened. And if you insist on pressing the issue, I'll report the matter to the highest elders of the Scripture Pavilion. And if that happens, the council of chief elders will make the final decision about what happens."

With that, he flicked his sleeve and flew away, leaving Meng Guo and the other elder standing there wide-eyed with shock.

1. This passage literally says that the person would "explode directly into becoming a fried chicken". It sounds okay in Chinese, but doesn't quite carry across in English lol.

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Chapter 1227: Killing Inten

"Dammit, dammit...!" When Hong Lie was out of sight, Meng Guo couldn't hold back any longer and unleashed a blast of godpower, detonating some nearby boulders and sending debris showering down onto the surrounding trees. He was obviously so mad he was in a killing mood. "That bastard. How dare he! He took our payment and then did nothing!"

"What do we do now?" said the elder with the godhood rating of six. Obviously, he didn't have any good ideas at the moment.

"We have to report what happened. There's nothing we can do now other than wait to be punished." Meng Guo knew full well that he had made a huge mistake. And considering how much he had cost the Dragon Society, it was a given that he would be punished for it.

Upon hearing the word 'punishment', the elder's face fell for a moment before his expression turned cold. "Look, I'm not taking responsibility for any of this, Meng Guo. I'm not a member of the Dragon Society. I just work for you, that's all. This whole thing is Yang Qi's fault. I didn't do a single thing. And if it weren't for him, I wouldn't have done any of this for you."

"What did you just say?" Meng Guo growled, glaring at the elder with bloodshot eyes. "It was with your own mouth that you vowed to join the Dragon Society after all of this was over. And that's a big opportunity. Don't tell me you're going back on your word now."

"I did say that I would join the Dragon Society after all of this was over. But now it's obvious the mission was a failure. And I'm not a member yet. Furthermore, I don't want any payment for my services. Considering I'm no fool, there's no way I'll just accept punishment for no reason." He chuckled coldly. "I think you should try harder to get Hong Lie to pay up."

"Y-y-you!" Meng Guo shouted. "I can't believe you're sneaking away at a critical juncture! Aren't you afraid you'll get yourself killed?"

"Killed? I'm an important elder from the Missions Sanctuary, and a Lesser God with a godhood rating of six. Would you really dare to kill someone like me? Do you think your Dragon Society runs our sect or something? That's a joke if I've ever heard one." He let loose another cold laugh. "I agreed to help your Dragon Society, and maybe I failed in the end, I still worked hard to make it happen. And I never even got paid. In fact, not only am I not getting paid, but now I'm even being threatened with punishment. Are you fucking kidding me? Do you really think I'm stupid?"

The elder was now worked up enough that he was really turning hostile.

"Alright, fine," Meng Guo said, suddenly looking at the elder as calmly as if he were looking at a corpse. "It seems you really aren't afraid of getting killed. Sadly for you, anyone who betrays the Dragon Society has no choice but to die!"

"Don't push things too far! The only thing that happened was you failing a mission. If your Dragon Society dares to kill me over this, you're all finished! I've already made detailed records of all of this, so if I die, there's plenty of evidence that'll implicate you. I have a friend who'll hand it all over to the council of chief elders. Heed my warning, Meng Guo! You may be a Common God, but you won't escape punishment from the sect if you break any rules!"

"You!" Meng Guo shouted furiously. "You're quite the troublemaker aren't you? Well, you just wait. Even if you don't end up dead, you'll suffer for this!"

With his words hanging in the air, Meng Guo turned and flew off.

'I'm not that easy to kill! Who would've thought it's so difficult to turn a profit from the Dragon Society. And on top of not getting paid, they're threatening to punish me. Fucking Dragon Society. Although, how did that Yang Qi get Hong Lie to switch sides?"

Lost in thought, the elder turned to leave.

Swish!

But then, without any warning at all, a beam of sword light appeared and stabbed right through him, slicing into his godhood and piercing his sea of consciousness. At the same time, a bubble popped into being around him.

It was an assassination!

And whoever was assassinating him was so ferocious and ruthless that he could kill with a single blow.

As the sword energy slashed through him and his godhood, damaging his psyche as well, he saw a black-cloaked man appear in front of him, face hidden in the deep hood of the cloak.

Voice gurgling weakly, the elder said, "Dragon Society?! You actually had the gall to kill me?! I won't let you get away with this!"

BAM!

He exploded, flames consuming every last bit of him.

He was dead. Finished.

Then the black-cloaked figure faded away.

Some distance away, in a hidden location, the black-cloaked figure appeared again. The cloak faded away, revealing a smiling Yang Qi. "Down to the last moment, he believed it was the Dragon Society. Hmph. His energy will only bolster my own godhood. Unfortunately, it's not going to be enough to have any meaningful effect."

In the moment of the assassination, Yang Qi had activated the devil embryo to search the elder through and through. Unfortunately, the man didn't have any wealth or treasure on him. It was all in his private chambers, which meant Yang Qi wouldn't benefit much from killing him.

'As a Fateless One, it's easy to assassinate people like that. No one can predict my actions like they'd be able to if I were an ordinary person.'

Secretly killing people wasn't easy to do in the House of God Ordainment. Once word spread, it would generally be possible for Consummate or Perfect Gods to analyze the workings of heaven and dig up clues to identify the culprit.

Thanks to being a Fateless One, though, Yang Qi couldn't be investigated in that way.

This was the same elder who had taken Yang Qi's antidotal pill without giving him a single merit point in exchange. Yang Qi's hands were tied back in the Missions Sanctuary, and he had been waiting for a moment just like this to kill the man.

When Yang Qi made a killing move, he didn't show mercy. He could suffer in silence for however long it took, but when the time came to make a move, he struck with deadly force!

A moment later, he vanished.

In the House of God Ordainment's god kingdom, there was a certain mountain covered in a lush bamboo forest, and was wreathed in clouds year-round. Meng Guo was currently climbing the mountain. He didn't dare to fly in the air, so it took him about an hour to reach the palace at the peak.

"Elder Brother, I screwed up. Hong Lie took the medicinal pills, but didn't do the deed. And now he's denying involvement."

"Get in here!" a voice growled, and a vortex sprang up and dragged Meng Guo inside.

A moment later, Meng Guo found himself inside a mansion grotto, facing a young man in a white robe, with long white hair and white fingernails. He seemed untainted by even a speck of dust, and was the picture of elegance.

His gaze was so sharp that Meng Guo felt uncomfortable, and it was made only worse when the young man said in the coldest of voices, "Despite the immense resources our Dragon Society gave you, and the time you had to work with, you still couldn't handle a measly Quasi-God?"

"I really don't know what's going on!" Meng Guo said. "It's all the fault of that Hong Lie! Please, Elder Brother, give me another chance. Who could've guessed that he'd be so undaunted of our Dragon Society and would just take our reward then refuse to follow through with the agreement?"

The white-haired young man snorted coldly. "You want another chance? Our leader is waiting impatiently for results! The birthday of the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty's emperor is coming soon, and our leader needs the blood of that pet beforehand! He needs it to form his Unbounded will and crush all of his competition. And you want him to keep waiting? For how long?! Are you saying you want the leader to personally handle this brat? That's completely ridiculous! Do you think I should do it myself or something?"

"Please, give me a chance, Elder Brother. I know I can pull it off. Worst case scenario, we can resort to calling on the law enforcement team. We can frame him for some random thing and call in the crime to have him arrested."

"Frame him for some random thing? And what happens when they investigate the situation? If you casually report a crime to the law enforcement team, and they find out the truth, then I'll be in big trouble! When you frame someone for a crime, you can't leave any loose ends. Make sure everything is in perfect order, then call the law enforcement team. Got it?!"

"R-right, of course," Meng Guo stammered. "I'll make sure that the losses our Dragon Society have suffered are completely made up for. And I'm also going to make sure that Hong Lie from the Scripture Pavilion gets what's coming to him!"

"Listen, scum, if I have to, I'll send some people from the law enforcement team to help you. But you can't just randomly arrest him without good cause. Got it?" The white-haired youth thought for a moment. "This Yang Qi seems particularly clever, but not even the cleverest mouse can outsmart a cat"

It was at this point that whooshing sounds could be heard as several experts landed on the mountain peak and rushed over to the white-haired young man. All of them were elite disciples, and down to the last one, they all looked flustered.

"This is bad! Something big is happening!"

"What do you mean? Why do you look so discombobulated!? You're from the law enforcement team, you shouldn't have anything to be afraid of!"

"You don't understand, Elder Brother. An elder from the Missions Sanctuary was just killed. And right before he died, he sent a message implicating the Dragon Society. A few of his friends are already submitting evidence to the council of chief elders, who're going to file a case against the Dragon Society and start a formal investigation! And Grand Elder Meng Guo is named in the evidence. There are even witnesses who say the victim was seen with Meng Guo right before he died."

"What did you just say?" Meng Guo blurted in shock. "Impossible. Completely impossible! I would never kill someone. How could I be getting the blame for this?"

"What exactly did you do, Meng Guo!?" yelled the white-haired youth.

"I can explain, Elder Brother! It was like this: I just said a few threatening things. But that doesn't mean I killed him! He was refusing to work with our Dragon Society, so I had to put him in his place. This is a setup! I'm being set up! I know this looks bad, Elder Brother, but you have to help me here!"

"Help you? How?" The white-haired youth thought for a long moment. "No, you brought this on yourself. You wanted to get on the good side of the leader, so you came up with a plan to frame Yang Qi and use him against Jadefall. The Dragon Society is filled with straightforward and upright people. How exactly did a traitor like you sneak into our midst!?"

"What? But, Elder Brother..." Meng Guo looked completely devastated. "Elder Brother, don't tell me you're abandoning me?" Of course, he knew exactly what the white-haired young man was doing.

BAM!

The white-haired youth chopped his hand out and hit Meng Guo, causing numerous explosions inside his body. Then blood oozed out of his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, and he collapsed, dead.

"Get him out of here. Meng Guo killed an elder from the Missions Sanctuary, so I executed him." Eyes glittering with frigid light, the white-haired young man waved his hand dismissively. He had just dispatched a Common God with a single blow, which just went to show how incredibly mighty he was.

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Chapter 1228: White-Haired Young Man

The white-haired young man was incomparably vicious, and hadn't hesitated to simply execute Meng Guo, a Common God. After all, the young man was a Greater God, so he had every right and authority to kill someone like Meng Guo who had broken the law and 'resisted arrest'.

The matter was settled just like that. By shifting all blame to Meng Guo, then executing him, the white-haired young man ensured that the Dragon Society wasn't implicated. After all, without Meng Guo there to provide testimony and evidence, there was nothing linking his actions to the society in general.

The students present exchanged awkward glances.

"Elder Brother, you didn't really need to execute Meng Guo. He might be a murderer, but you're definitely going to be punished for this. He should've at least had a trial."

"All of you saw what happened when you tried to arrest him. He immediately started fighting back. And if he'd taken a hostage, things would've been even worse. Thankfully, I executed him before that could happen. I might be punished for it, but in the end, it won't be anything to worry about."

Not even Greater Gods could just kill people without facing any consequences. That said, the past couldn't be changed. Therefore, he would just accept whatever punishment he was dealt.

"Yes, of course," the disciples said, leaving with Meng Guo's corpse.

Looking down at the bloodstained ground, the white-haired youth smiled faintly. 'There's no way that elder was killed by Meng Guo,' he thought. 'He wasn't gutsy enough to do something like that. If my suspicions are correct, it was actually Yang Qi. Unfortunately, I doubt there's any evidence to be found. He obviously wanted Meng Guo blamed for the murder of that elder. With the evidence coming in, there was no way Meng Guo would ever have been able to explain his way out of the situation. And someone as useless as that is only fit for death! Not only did he screw up his mission, but he got himself wrapped up in tricky complications. If the council of chief elders investigated, and he blabbed about the Dragon Society trying to frame Yang Qi, things would get really bad. Better to make him a scapegoat. Ah, Yang Qi. You really know what you're doing. A mere Quasi-God like you ran circles around a Common God from our Dragon Society...

'I really have to meet you and see what you're like. You've offended the Dragon Society, and for that you'll die. Did you really think you could just mess with us and not pay the price? If so, you've made a big mistake. Perhaps if you'd just fallen in line and done what the Dragon Society wanted, you would've lived through this. But instead, you tried to be clever and frame us. For that, you'll die, and no one will possibly be able to save you.'

He was really in a killing mood.

The Dragon Society had suffered an unexpected failure in this venture.

Later that night...

Yang Qi was on a mountain attached to the Scripture Pavilion, using the God Legion Seal to work on breathing exercises and refine his energy. He was slowly working on his monarch godhood, and was closer than ever thanks to the fifty-five Double-Nines God-Dragon Starry-Sky Pellets.

Although his requirements grew the further along he was, he was still confident that, because of the God Legion Seal, he would ultimately succeed.

WHOOSH!

A few figures flew up to meet him, including Brahma, the Shepherd, and Doom.

"You really did something remarkable this time, Yang Qi," the Shepherd said. "Not only did you win a bunch of medicinal pills, but you also got the enemy to slaughter each other. We heard about the drama today. That was your doing, right?"

"That's right, it was me," Yang Qi replied. "However, it won't be possible to keep the truth from the upper echelons of the Dragon Society. It won't be long before danger comes my way. The Dragon Society won't just take this lying down."

"With your monarch godhood, you're completely domineering," Doom said admiringly. "Who would dare to cause problems for you? Although, according to what I heard, the person assigned to deal with you is the White-Haired Boxer King from the Dragon Society."

"The White-Haired Boxer King?" Yang Qi said, his eyes widening slightly. "Who's that?"

"A Greater God, who also happens to be a powerful person in the Law-Enforcement God-Palace," said Brahma. "Not only is he tasked with enforcing the law in the sect, but he's also one of the eight primary leaders in the Dragon Society. He's virtually invincible, and completely ruthless, having executed too many people to count. He's a natural-born martial arts genius, and when he fights, he's a horror to see. It would be hard to find another Greater God who could stand up to him."

Yang Qi smiled. "Oh? That just makes me want to try him out and see what his cultivation base is like. By the way, how are things going with the Sage Monarch Consortium?"

"Business is doing well," the Shepherd said. "We started putting those medicinal ingredients to market, and they're fetching astronomical prices. Unfortunately, it's impossible to do that without attracting at least some attention, and we don't have any truly powerful experts to keep us safe. Once you complete your monarch godhood, Yang Qi, you'll soon become an actual god. If we could have a Lesser or Common God as an official leader, it would make things a lot easier. Even better, a Greater God. If we had a Greater God, then no one would dare to cause any trouble for us."

"That's easier said than done," Yang Qi said. "Even after forming my monarch godhood, I'll only be a Lesser God. I'll have immense fighting prowess, but each rise in level requires immense godpower, and by extension, a big collection of medicinal pills."

"What exactly is monarch godhood like?" Doom asked. "I'm curious to learn more about it. And what will the God Legion Seal be capable of when you're a god? Right now, it's hardly at one ten-thousandth of its full potential."

"You'll find out when the time comes. Suffice it to say, when I become a god and unleash the true power of the God Legion Seal, I'll dominate everything under heaven. By the way, there's something else I need you to keep an eye out for. Mahātmā Jade. It's a boundless magical treasure that can improve psychic power that was broken into pieces many years ago. Once I complete it, it will complement the God Legion Seal. I'm currently in the early Paramount level, but if I could get another piece of the Mahātmā Jade, I could rise to the mid level. If I get two pieces, I'd reach the late level or even the peak. In fact, I might even be able to break into the Unbounded level."

"We'll try to get you some leads on the Mahātmā Jade," the Shepherd said. He knew more than anyone that even if they got pieces of the jade, they wouldn't be able to do anything with them. Yang Qi was now their destined owner.

Yang Qi wasn't particularly interested in magical treasures, the exceptions being the Mahātmā Jade, Great Necropolis, and Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart.

Other than them, everything else was superfluous and could be discarded.

After discussing some daoist techniques and other matters, the group dispersed.

Returning to the Scripture Pavilion, Yang Qi found Bai Yin flipping through a book. Looking over, Bai Yin said, "Those important people outside just now... were they your brethren?"

"Yes, they were," Yang Qi replied. "Actually, I wanted you to catch a glimpse of them."

"Impressive. I couldn't even assess them. Your brethren are all gods! The lot of you will definitely accomplish some amazing things in the future."

"You flatter me," Yang Qi said. Reaching over, he pulled a book off one of the nearby shelves, a jade-bound tome describing research into pill concocting. It was entitled The Calcifying Methods of the Exalted Celestial's Dao of Alchemy.

By now, Yang Qi had read through more than half of the books on the second floor, yet he was still interested in continuing his reading.

After reading through the book, he picked another, this one a scroll made from human skin that was taken from a bookshelf filled with content from the dao of devils. It was a record of ancient devil items, as well as techniques of devil alchemy, including ways of devilizing humans.

Yang Qi read it, and suddenly had new inspiration. Without hesitation, he sent godpower pouring into this godhood in a novel form of cultivation from the book.

Next, he found a devil record bound in bronze, with the title Book of Mahātmā: Volume Three Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty.

"Book of Mahātmā?" Yang Qi murmured.

"Yeah," Bai Yin said, "It's like an encyclopedia of the dao of devils, similar to the Great Classic of God Ordainment. There are a total of five hundred and forty thousand volumes, describing just about everything you can imagine from hell. I'd say it would be pretty difficult to acquire a complete collection. Our sect has destroyed a lot of devil churches, but despite that, we only have a few thousand volumes. Sadly, there aren't any interesting techniques in the volumes we have. That's why they're relegated here to the second floor of the Scripture Pavilion. See that bookshelf over there with all the bronze books? They're all part of the collection." He pointed at a bookshelf some distance away.

Heading over, Yang Qi started searching through it until he found the first volume, the opening chapters of which discussed how the True Devil had created hell to begin with. Subsequent content went into history and warfare, written in the form of an epic saga.

Yang Qi began skimming through it, until he happened to notice a reference to the Mahātmā Jade.

"The Mahātmā Jade was created by the boundless will of the True Devil," he murmured as he read. "It combines heavenly transformations, earthly death, quintessence vitality, godly punishment, sage tribulation... and all sorts of other almighty concepts. It is neither corporeal nor psychic, neither of the void, nor of thought... It represents the quintessence of the dao of devils, and surpasses actual devils. It can contend with the God Legion Seal and can only be controlled by truly great sages and mahātmās. Any others who try to use it will die..." After some further details regarding the exact process by which the Mahātmā Jade was created, the text continued, "The god world was thrown into chaos, and the seventy-two monarchs joined forces with the True Devil and the Demon Master to fight the Sovereign Lord and the Heavenly Court. During that time, the Mahātmā Jade and the God Legion Seal were both shattered, and subsequently scattered into the god world. Only someone with immense destiny can collect either of them and make them whole again. The complete Mahātmā Jade represents the passage of countless tribulations, after which comes rebirth, and then an entirely new level. Thus are the tribulations of this magical treasure.

"What a pity," Yang Qi said. "The Book of Mahātmā doesn't say exactly where the different pieces of the Mahātmā Jade ended up."

"What, you're interested in the Mahātmā Jade?" Bai Yin said, walking over. "That's a precious treasure from the dao of devils, and is considered very inauspicious. I've heard that someone in the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty has a piece, but even after immense research, nothing ever came of it. Anyone who has contact with it is cursed and ends up dying. That said, it's still considered an invincible treasure. Like it says in that book, it's on the same level as the God Legion Seal. If I had to pick between the two, I would definitely go with the God Legion Seal. That thing would be worth dying for."

"You know about the God Legion Seal?" Yang Qi asked.

"Of course I do! Who in the god world doesn't know about it? It's the identifying mark of the ruler of everything. Supposedly, whoever has it will become the next lord of the god world. Of course, nobodies like us could never hope to have a treasure like that."

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Chapter 1229: Eternal-Life God-Dynasty

"The Eternal-Life God-Dynasty has some of the Mahātmā Jade?"

Yang Qi ignored Bai Yin's drooling over the God Legion Seal. There was no way that Bai Yin could possibly even dream that the most coveted item in all of the god world was actually right in front of him.

He knew that Yang Qi's energy arts were unfathomably high, but there were plenty of details he wasn't privy to. For example, he had no idea that Yang Qi had already reached Paramount will convergence and begun working on monarch godhood. And it was a given that he had no idea about Yang Qi's God Legion Seal or Mahātmā Jade.

In the end, Bai Yin was still on the lower scale of impressiveness in relation to the god world as a whole. There was no end to the number of people in the god world who came across good fortune, so from Bai Yin's perspective, Yang Qi, despite being somewhat mysterious, still wasn't some heaven-shaking, earth-shattering figure. Otherwise, Yang Qi wouldn't be skulking in the shadows and hiding from the Dragon Society.

Yang Qi closed the bronze-bound Book of Mahātmā. As for the other books about the dao of devils, he ignored them; he was already familiar enough with hell that he didn't need more information.

The only thing that mattered to him now was the Mahātmā Jade.

If it was true that the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty had some of the Mahātmā Jade, he definitely had to go investigate. He already possessed the sheepskin scroll, and as such, was the only person who could cultivate the True-Devil Unspoiled-by-Myriad-Kalpas-and-Tribulations Body. By extension, there was no one else who could unlock the profundities of the Mahātmā Jade.

Besides, with the God Legion Seal, it was possible to keep the Mahātmā Jade under control without hurting himself in the process.

Considering he was in the early Paramount level, making progress was going to be hard. In fact, not even thousands upon thousands of years of cultivation could necessarily lead him to the mid Paramount level.

But with the Mahātmā Jade, he could achieve breakthroughs instantly. In the future, he might even be able to seek enlightenment of the Annulled level of will convergence.

Unfortunately, it wasn't going to be easy to get that Mahātmā Jade from the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty.

The Eternal-Life God-Dynasty was actually more powerful than the House of God Ordainment. After all, sects like the House of God Ordainment offered them fealty, and actually boasted the presence of a Paramount God.

Paramount Gods generally had Unbounded will.

And how terrifying was that? All of heaven and earth could exist within the thoughts of a person like that, and their mind could contain the past, present, and future, plus the god world and the void. Such an entity could rip apart the space of the god world and create god kingdoms with ease. They could control reincarnation, and all of the transformations of the void.

'It seems I don't have many options here. It's lunacy to think I could get that Mahātmā Jade right now.' When Yang Qi had desired some treasure in the impure lands, he could just infiltrate whatever organization possessed it, then eventually steal it. But that wasn't possible here in the god world. Given the level of his cultivation base, he couldn't sneak into god kingdoms, much less steal things within them.

In the god world, he was a weakling.

After thinking about the matter for a while, he decided to worry about it later. He would surely have other opportunities to find pieces of the Mahātmā Jade. And the more pieces he collected, the easier it would be to find the others. Eventually, he might even be able to create a spell formation or altar that he could use to summon other pieces directly to him.

"I really don't get you," Bai Yin said. Guzzling some alcohol, he stretched lazily and continued, "Considering how strong you are, not even you can form monarch godhood. It's actually a bit depressing. I guess if I can't form monarch godhood within three years, it'll prove I'm destined to fail. At that point, I'll just become a god. I suppose people just need to abide by the restrictions set upon them by heaven and earth. Apparently, I'm not supposed to be the main character of this heaven and earth." Murmuring to himself, he slowly fell asleep.

Yang Qi looked at him and shook his head. No matter how much Bai Yin wanted monarch godhood, it simply couldn't happen. Even Yang Qi's immortal-slaying clone, with the help of King Immortal-Slayer's will, only had a slight chance of succeeding.

Things had finally calmed down, and Yang Qi wasn't in any danger. He could finally rest a bit. He hadn't needed sleep since he had arrived in the god world. But upon seeing Bai Yin laying there comfortably on the book shelf, Yang Qi decided that he had earned some relaxation. Allowing the God Legion Seal to automatically function on its own, he sank into rest.

His psychic fluctuations reached a perfect resonance, and he slept.

A day later, when the light was bright, he opened his eyes and saw Bai Yin's face right in front of him.

"What are you doing?!" Yang Qi blurted, scrambling back and jumping to his feet.

"I thought you didn't need to sleep," Bai Yin said suspiciously. "During the entire time you've worked at the Scripture Pavilion, I've never once seen you sleep. So what were you doing just now?"

"Having some nice rest, that's all." Yang Qi examined himself and found, to his surprise, that his psychic power had actually improved a bit.

He truly didn't need to sleep, but apparently, relaxing his heart and mind had helped him to enter a state of nothingness in which, slowly but surely, his psychic power had improved.

From the moment he had achieved Paramount will convergence, his psychic power hadn't grown at all. Therefore, any growth was very welcome.

His time in the god world had been completely spent in tense and dangerous situations, so whenever he had free time, he had always spent it on cultivation. And it was very clear that this increase in psychic power was only because of the rest.

Obviously, resting could be very dangerous. If someone made a move against him when he was asleep, he would be powerless to defend himself. People who cultivated the dao had to be on constant guard, paying attention to even the slightest ripples in vital energy.

That was the only way to prevent being cursed, plotted against, ambushed, or the like. Falling asleep was like putting one's life in the hands of anyone who came along. It was like how people in the impure lands who slept every day were essentially putting their lives in the hands of whatever deities they believed in.

Yang Qi made up something to tell Bai Yin, then chatted a bit. Afterward, he spent more time assessing the changes that had occurred. In the following days, he worked on his cultivation, read books, and generally didn't waste any time. He had a very disciplined way of life in this regard. Thus, the days went by. The Dragon Society never caused any problems; however, in the course of Yang Qi's cultivation he could sense that there were prying eyes trying to spy on him, despite him being in the Scripture Pavilion.

The Dragon Society had suffered a big loss and was now trying to make a move against him from the shadows.

'It's a pity I had to kill Meng Guo,' Yang Qi thought. 'It would've been nice to have him alive to provide a window into what's happening in the Dragon Society.' Thankfully, he had already severed ties with his close companions. Now that the Dragon Society was plotting against him, the last thing he wanted was for them to hurt the people he cared about.

Besides, the Sage Monarch Consortium was already doing well on its own.

Obviously, killing Meng Guo had destroyed the devil embryo as well. Yang Qi had hoped to avoid anyone discovering the devil embryo, so he hadn't activated it. He hadn't been sure of who exactly killed Meng Guo, but he knew the person was strong enough to slaughter a Common God with a single move.

It was only later that he learned that the culprit was a holy child from the Law-Enforcement God-Palace, and also a high-ranking member of the Dragon Society.

As it turned out, the White-Haired Boxer King, a Greater God, wasn't just an elite disciple, but rather a holy child.

In Yang Qi's mind, he had the image of a young man with white hair, his hands clasped casually behind his back, mighty and dignified like an ancient mountain. He was not only extremely strong, but also had a very powerful position. Yang Qi couldn't even use his heavenly workings calculations systems to assess the man.

Nearly two months passed in which Yang Qi was certain he was being watched. However, he never left the second floor of the Scripture Pavilion, and thus, his enemies couldn't do anything to him. And he was very careful to follow all the rules and be cautious in anything he did. Because of that, extortion and blackmail were also off the table as weapons to use against him.

Bai Yin knew what was going on as well, and was on his best behavior to ensure there was nothing that could be used against him.

One particular day when Yang Qi was in the middle of a session of cultivation, he felt his godhood vibrating as though it wished to break through. Yang Qi knew that he had reached the extent of the bottleneck, and as a result, he smiled and rose to his feet. "The time has come. Let's see exactly how strong this White-Haired Boxer King is like."

With a whoosh, he flew out of the Scripture Pavilion and headed to a nearby teleportation portal. Taking out a godstone, he activated the formation and disappeared.

When he reappeared, he was on a distant continent filled with pestilential energy, and surrounded by a toxic aura.

It was the Toxic Continent. And of course, he could sense eyes on him.

Smiling faintly, he walked off the teleportation portal and flew out over the bogs of the Toxic Continent. Before long, he had reached the Pill-King's temple ruins. Everything looked familiar.

Meanwhile, there was still some sort of energy following him, and he was very curious to see what it would do.

Stopping in place, he smiled and said, "Why exactly are you following me, Sire? Are you waiting for an invitation or something? You're the White-Haired Boxer King, right? That's my guess. I don't think anyone else would have an aura like this."

Soft clapping sounds could be heard as a majestic figure walked out of the toxic mists, which didn't even come close to touching him; it was the white-haired young man. Staring at Yang Qi, he said, "Very strong. I should've realized there was something fishy about you. How exactly did you know that I was following you?"

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Chapter 1230: Testing Each Other Ou

The White-Haired Boxer King was standing right in front of Yang Qi and looking at him imperiously, as though Yang Qi's fate rested completely in his hands.

It was the immense confidence of someone who had come out victorious in thousands upon thousands of battles. Only someone who had killed countless enemies could carry himself like this, and it would cause most people who stood in front of him to tremble reflexively.

Yet that pressure didn't do anything to Yang Qi. He was an Ascendant, and was actually a lot more impressive than the White-Haired Boxer King. In the impure lands, he had slaughtered his way toward the level of a god, and was infinitely superior to any disciples that could be found in the sects of the god world.

To Yang Qi, the White-Haired Boxer King's confidence made him seem like little more than a frog in a well. Whatever battles he had fought through, they were definitely like children's games compared to what Yang Qi had experienced.

"What did you just say, White-Haired Boxer King?" Yang Qi said, tapping his fingers together. "I didn't quite understand."

"Don't play dumb, Yang Qi. Only the two of us are out here. There's nobody else to interfere. So just tell the truth. Did you kill that elder from the Missions Sanctuary? Furthermore..." Before finishing the sentence, he released some true energy that caused a whirlwind to spring up, ejecting all of the toxic mist half a kilometer away in all directions.

"Furthermore," he continued, "were you the one who conned our Dragon Society out of fifty-five Paramount medicinal pills, namely, Double-Nines God-Dragon Starry-Sky Pellets? If I'm not mistaken, you impersonated Hong Lie and worked with Bai Yin to scam those two pieces of trash you were dealing with. It was a very treacherous and formidable plan, I'll give you that."

Obviously, the White-Haired Boxer King was interested in getting some information from Yang Qi rather than simply attacking him.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Yang Qi said, plastering a confused expression onto his face. "I came here to the Toxic Continent to look for medicinal pills, and found some. Then I went to the Missions Sanctuary, only to have one of the elders from your Dragon Society pull a fast one on me. Even though I completed the mission, he refused to give me any merit points. But in the end, I just chose to suck it up. As for anything else related to the matter, I have no idea..." There was no way Yang Qi would give any information to the White-Haired Boxer King. If he did, the man could instantly summon the law enforcement team and have him arrested.

Standing there calmly, the White-Haired Boxer King said, "Feel free to deny it, but I know you're responsible. Look, I came here today to make some matters clear. Remember, I work for the Law-Enforcement God-Palace, so if I want to have you arrested, there are countless ways I could make it happen. In fact, by merely talking disrespectfully to a superior the way you are now, I could have you taken in. Got it? I'm not here today as your opponent, but rather to discuss business."

"You're a bigshot, and I'm a nobody. And I haven't done anything wrong. So why would you want to talk business with me?" Yang Qi had no reason to believe him, therefore, he made sure to answer in a way that didn't reveal any information. That way, if his conversation was heard by anyone else, it would be clear that he hadn't done anything wrong. "Incidentally, I'm not a talented businessman by any means. So what business are you talking about? Considering you have the Missions Sanctuary under your thumb, you must realize that all I'm interested in doing is living my life as an ordinary disciple."

"Still playing dumb?" The White-Haired Boxer King frowned. "Are you really going to force me to make a move on you?"

"What? You want to kill me? I didn't commit any crime, or even do anything you could consider inappropriate. In contrast, you snuck around behind my back and are actually threatening to kill me. Do you really qualify to enforce the laws of the House of God Ordainment? That's called knowing the law and breaking it anyway, and there are few crimes worse than that."

"Let's make this simple. What do you want? Whatever it is, the Dragon Society can get it for you. I know you have a special relationship with Jadefall, and we want some blood from her pet. If you can help us get it, we'll pay any price. For example, is there some girl in the sect you've taken a fancy to? We'll make sure you get in bed with her. Or do you want some special magical treasure? We'll get it for you. In fact, if you have a grudge against someone, we can have them killed. I know you've had your issues with the Yue Clan. There are some important people in the sect who are from the Yue Clan, but a word from the Dragon Society will keep them silent. Or if worst comes to worst, we could just kill them all."

"Oh really?" Yang Qi said. Inwardly, he was chuckling coldly, but on the outside, he tried to look as righteous as possible as he said, "Yes, I've had issues with Yue Tianlin. But they're nothing more than the squabbling of lower-ranking disciples. It seems to me like you people from the Dragon Society are actually trying to get me to break the rules of the sect. Did you really think that, just because of a minor beef with another disciple, I'd want his entire clan exterminated? Wouldn't that just weaken our sect? Why would I possibly want to do that? No, I'm not that kind of person, understand? Jadefall's an important person, but I'm not. I just met her by chance and helped her with a minor task. How exactly does that enable me to get the blood of her pet? Incidentally, Yue Tianlin and I have turned weapons of war into gifts of jade and silk. Furthermore, it's a matter that relates to the strength and unity of our sect. Even if Yue Tianlin came trying to cause trouble for me, I'd do everything possible to resolve the situation."

"Well said," White-Haired Boxer King replied. At first, he had seemed a bit impatient when Yang Qi started talking, but now he seemed to have calmed down. "Such lofty words could only be spoken by someone with a truly wicked and villainous heart. Are you really refusing to work with the Dragon Society?"

"A nobody like me doesn't qualify to work with the Dragon Society," Yang Qi replied calmly.

"A nobody? Would a nobody notice me spying on them? I bet you want to form monarch godhood, don't you? What if the Dragon Society helped by giving you the resources you needed? We could help you purify your body."

"I do want to form monarch godhood, but I won't do it by asking for help. Furthermore, I refuse to do anything that violates the rules of the sect."

"What did you just say?" the White-Haired Boxer King growled.

"I don't think I could've been clearer. You want me to break some sect rules, and I'm saying I won't. If your leader wants the blood of Jadefall's pet, he can go get it himself. What's the point in wasting time on games like this?" Yang Qi knew it would be impossible to forcibly take the blood of the purrling.

"I get it," the White-Haired Boxer King said. "You're obstinate. Very obstinate. Alright, well considering I know you stole those fifty-five Double-Nines God-Dragon Starry-Sky Pellets to bolster your godpower, it's obvious you're in need of godpower. And that means you can use a Ten-Directions Many-Heavens Pill! This pill was concocted personally by the leader of the Dragon Society! It contains his personal enlightenment of Paramount will convergence, and contains all sorts of uncharacteristically rare medicinal ingredients."

He produced a bottle containing a single medicinal pill. The pill pulsed with a mist that created a bizarre and grotesque world around it. From what Yang Qi could sense, the pill energy of that world contained all sorts of godpower, as well as a crystallized core.

It was a Paramount medicinal pill that was definitely ten times stronger than the Chaos-Cavern Grand-Magnate Pill, with incomprehensible levels of godpower in it.

In fact, Yang Qi was ninety percent certain that if he could get that pill, he would be able to complete his monarch godhood. Unfortunately, considering it was in the hands of the Dragon Society, it might as well have been poison.

"What do you say?" the White-Haired Boxer King said. "It's a good medicinal pill, don't you agree? Work with us, and you can have it. I'll even give it to you up front, before you accomplish the task. Considering how devoted you are to righteousness, I know you won't just take it and refuse to keep your word. All you have to do is nod in agreement, and the pill is yours."

"No," Yang Qi replied. "Are you deaf or something? I'm not interested in medicinal pills. As I already said, I just want to live a normal life. I'm not interested in getting wrapped up with the likes of you."

"Damn you!" The White-Haired Boxer King had run out of patience. He had tried everything he could think of to entice Yang Qi. However, all Yang Qi did was refuse him and talk about sect rules. He'd had enough. "In that case, I think you should just die!"

RUMBLE!

Without hesitation, he launched a fist strike. "Thousand-Worlds Imperial-Polarity Fist!"

A thousand worlds appeared, along with a massive blast of wind like the roar of a dragon. Godpower surged, powerful enough to change the face of heaven and earth, cause the sun and moon to sink into oblivion, and send all of creation into nirvanic rebirth.

It was an indescribable attack that would cause most people to lose their minds just from seeing it. And in the blink of an eye it was right in front of Yang Qi.

Obviously, the White-Haired Boxer King could deal with the consequences of killing a mere Quasi-God official disciple.

However, as the fist strike neared Yang Qi, it passed through him as though he didn't exist! It was like a breeze passing through the leaves of a willow tree.

"I knew there was more to you than you were letting on!" Smiling, the White-Haired Boxer King continued, "I refuse to believe you could survive my Thousand-Worlds Imperial-Polarity Fist without using some sort of secret weapon. Only a Greater God could meet an attack like that, and you're no Greater God! So how long will you last?"

"You're really ignoring sect rules and attacking me, White-Haired Boxer King? I've already made a recording of this. You'd better back down, otherwise I'll send the evidence of your foolish actions to the elders in the Law-Enforcement God-Palace."

"Who will you give it to? I'm a holy child of the Law-Enforcement God-Palace! I'm more important than the elders. The fact that someone as weak as you can fight me only goes to show that you have big secrets. And the sect will be very interested in getting that information! So get over here, traitor!"

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Chapter 1231: What a Greater God is Capable of

As the White-Haired Boxer King continued unleashing a flurry of fist attacks, he said, "I have plenty of reasons to arrest you. Whatever secrets you have, I can force them out of you for the safety of the House of God Ordainment. I'm your superior, and I have the power to decide what's right and wrong here. You obviously have some big secrets, otherwise you wouldn't be able to stand up to me!"

The White-Haired Boxer King was right. He was a powerful person in the House of God Ordainment, and although he couldn't just do as he pleased in any situation, it would be easy for him to come up with an excuse for why he arrested Yang Qi, then subsequently tortured him for 'important' information.

It was a risky tactic, and if the truth were to come out, he would be punished. But in the end, he wasn't worried about that. Besides, he was convinced that Yang Qi was hiding something, and that attacking him would force him to reveal his secrets.

The fact that Yang Qi could use the power of a Quasi-God to fight back against his attacks was reason enough to prove that, and to justify using torture to further the interests of the sect.

"I do have secrets, White-Haired Boxer King," Yang Qi said. "And since you want to see them, I guess I should show you. Take a look at something called the Purrfect God Art!" A tremor passed through Yang Qi as a huge bubble appeared around him; when the fist strikes hit it, it bent inward, but didn't break. In other words, it was impossible to hit Yang Qi directly.

"What?!" the White-Haired Boxer King blurted. "A bubble?"

He stared at it for a moment, then said, "Is that a bubble from Jadefall's invincible pet? How can you use it?"

Yang Qi snorted. "This is my secret, and it's the reason I can stand up to you. Didn't you say you wanted to arrest me and force me to reveal my secrets?" Truth be told, this had been his plan all along. "Jadefall knows that your Dragon Society has been trying to get to me, all because of her pet. You see, she left a scrap of godpower on me that I can activate at any time to become completely invincible. You can't do anything to me now. So now that you know my secret, you can go tell it to the council of chief elders."

Of course, the leaders of the House of God Ordainment knew a bit about the purrling. They knew that anyone who opposed it would end up dead, or at least severely injured. And if the purrling had left some godpower on Yang Qi, it made sense that he could do this.

"A purrling bubble," the White-Haired Boxer King murmured, shocked. However arrogant he was, he knew full well that he wasn't a match for the purrling. After all, Wang Xiantian of the Preheaven Society had once tried to forcibly take the purrling, only to sustain grievous injuries that he still hadn't recovered from.

Wang Xiantian was almost a Consummate God, whereas the White-Haired Boxer King was only a mid Greater God, which was a massive difference.

"What do you think, White-Haired Boxer King? You can't do anything to me right now. And although I can't do anything to you, I can say this: stop arguing with me. I don't want to work with you, so stop trying to force me."

Yang Qi was already certain of how strong the White-Haired Boxer King was, and knew that vanquishing him in a fight would be very difficult. That said, there was no way the White-Haired Boxer King would be able to defeat Yang Qi easily.

And if a real fight broke out, and Yang Qi decided to use his secret weapons, he could kill the man. That said, he didn't want to waste the godpower to do that. It would definitely set his cultivation base back by decades, and make him an enemy of the House of God Ordainment.

Until he formed his monarch godhood, Yang Qi didn't want to waste even a scrap of godpower.

The main reason Yang Qi had done all this was to assess the White-Haired Boxer King's strength and see how it measured up to his own. He was now certain that, despite not having completed his monarch godhood, he could definitely hold his own against mid Greater Gods. If word spread about that in the sect, it would cause a big stir. However, Yang Qi had successfully convinced the White-Haired Boxer King that it was all because of the purrling, and not Yang Qi himself.

"Fine. Since you have some of the godpower of the purrling, I guess we don't need its blood after all. We can just use you. We'll extract that godpower and give it the leader. You can wear out iron shoes in a fruitless search, then find what you're looking for without even trying!

"Maybe you can stand up to my fist technique, Yang Qi, but you obviously don't understand how terrifying Greater Gods can be. Our Paramount will convergence enables us to draw on the spatial power of the god world. Spatial Manacles! Spatial God Pillars!"

RUMBLE!

Spatial rifts streaked into existence around Yang Qi, creating what looked like a cage. Within the rifts were raging spatial tempests that could wreak havoc that would crush god items into dust.

This was what Greater Gods could do when they manipulated space.

Expression flickering, Yang Qi caused the bubble to shrink down, then pop out of the cage before it could fully form. "Not even spatial tactics can stop a purrling bubble, White-Haired Boxer King. You wasted your trick. You really can't do anything to me. Soon enough, you'll be trying to explain to the council of chief elders why you inexplicably attacked an innocent disciple, you psycho!"

"You're going to accuse me of a crime? You, a puny Quasi-God? I could wipe you out of existence without any effort at all! I could kill you like a chicken!" The White-Haired Boxer King threw both of his hands out as he drew on a truly powerful divine ability that caused a stream of saber energy to rumble out. "I wasn't using my full strength just now. Let's see if you can handle the power of my Space-Severing God-Saber Incantation!"

Spatial saber energy shot forward, seemingly locked onto Yang Qi's soul as it slammed into his defensive energy.

RUMBLE!

His defensive energy started to crumble, and spatial power seeped through the cracks toward him. Shouting, he drew on the Heaven-Devouring God Dao to devour the saber energy.

"You're doing everything you can to kill me, aren't you White-Haired Boxer King?!" Inside, Yang Qi was laughing, but on the outside he had a very serious expression as he dodged his opponent's attacks. Although it seemed like he was in a very dangerous situation, he was actually in complete control, and every bit of godpower that reached him, he devoured with King Heaven-Devourer's abilities.

King Heaven-Devourer specialized in devouring everything, including destiny, godpower, and the psyche...

Considering Yang Qi had intentionally drawn the White-Haired Boxer King out to test his strength, it was a given that he was prepared for a fight. In fact, considering how he could benefit from a situation like his, he had actually been worried that a fight wouldn't break out.

One of the things he lacked was godpower for his monarch godhood. And if a Greater God went all out trying to kill him, there would definitely be godpower in the blows levied against him. And that would only benefit him.

Yang Qi might not be able to deal with a Consummate God, but he wasn't worried at all about a mid Greater God like the White-Haired Boxer King.

In fact, in order to use the spatial manipulation magic that he was using, he would also have to draw on his essence, which was something that not even Yang Qi would dare to do.

If the White-Haired Boxer King knew that all the effort he was going through to kill Yang Qi was actually helping form his godhood, he would definitely cough up blood.

'You moron,' Yang Qi thought. 'I really fooled you. I'm in a bottleneck, so I intentionally provoked you, and now you're attacking me, letting me use King Heaven-Devourer's abilities to improve my position. In what other situation could I have found a Greater God willing to work so hard to help me?'

Although he was laughing inside, on the outside he actually forced himself to cough up some blood. Forcing the bubble around him to seemingly weaken, he shouted, "Are you really going to kill me, White-Haired Boxer King? How dare you!"

"So what if I kill you? Nobody will ever know the truth. They'll just think you got killed somewhere in the Toxic Continent. Thousand-Emperors Space-Piercing Slash!"

All of a sudden, a thousand sabers appeared, slashing through space and leaving behind nothing but afterimages as they became a net that shot toward Yang Qi and his bubble.

'Great!' Yang Qi thought, absorbing the saber light and causing his monarch godhood to tremble. Godlight flowed through his meridians, which actually felt wonderful. However, continuing with the act, he let blood spray from his mouth, and caused his face to turn deathly pale. Of course, it was all thanks to his Life-Death Void-Destruction God-Lightning.

If the White-Haired Boxer King had somehow been able to reach the Consummate God level, he would have seen that Yang Qi wasn't actually being hurt at all. He was actually very comfortable and secure within his bubble, and was absorbing all of the godpower that came his way.

"That bubble still isn't gone?" growled the White-Haired Boxer King. From his perspective, it looked like Yang Qi was unconscious, yet the bubble hadn't dissipated. Rage filled his heart.

"How could that godling be so powerful? It can do all this with just a bit of godpower left behind in this brat? How come I can't break through it? At least he's injured. I need to get that bit of godpower for my own use! Then I'll be stronger than even Dragon Floret!" He chuckled darkly. "Ah, Dragon Floret, you might be the leader of the Dragon Society, and I might be your subordinate, but I'm not willing to live like that forever."

Clenching his hand into a fist, he launched another mighty attack.

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Chapter 1232: Borrowing Nourishmen

"Heaven-Dao Reincarnation-Cycle Severing!"

"God-Dragon Strangle-Murder Devil!"

"Wind-Reversing Cloud-Shocking Slaughter!"

"Immortal-Butchering Ghost-Severing Sword!"

"Black-White Natural-Heaven Attack!"

"Lightning-Displacing Three-Thousand Detonations!"

"Mega-Boulder Heaven-Smashing Bash!"

"Black-Turtle Sea-Boiling Upturn!"

"Grand-Extermination Predestination-Summoning Slap!"

"Cold-Wave Rage-Flame Transformation!"

The White-Haired Boxer King used one move after another, all of them consummate and invincible fist techniques. Each blow, each strike, each attack... were all uncharacteristically rare, and were considered secret magics in the House of God Ordainment. Together, they formed something like a rumbling river of destruction that smashed into Yang Qi.

The nature of these attacks revealed how immensely powerful the White-Haired Boxer King's godhood was. It shone like a sun within him, rotating billions of times per second and causing godhood to flow out in seemingly never-ending fashion. And of course, all of that power was flowing right into Yang Qi's godhood.

It was another immense baptism for him.

The White-Haired Boxer King was blessing Yang Qi with his own essence and cultivation base. He was drawing on the vitality of his own godhood and life essence to power his attacks to destroy the bubble protecting Yang Qi. Yet every time it seemed like the bubble would burst, the White-Haired Boxer King's hope would turn into disappointment.

Of course, it was all because of the formidability of the purrling, not Yang Qi. After all, even within the protection of the bubble, Yang Qi was actually coughing up blood and seemed to be on the verge of collapsing into unconsciousness.

"I refuse to believe that I can't break through these defenses!" the White-Haired Boxer King shouted, forcing his godhood to rotate even faster. In fact, in the blink of an eye, it was circulating at ten billion times per second! Thanks to the consummate influx of power, his next attack caused a huge black hole to appear and slam into Yang Qi's defenses, detonating them!

"Finally broke through!" the White-Haired Boxer King yelled, laughing heartily as he reached out toward Yang Qi. However, in that exact same moment, the bubble popped into being again, nearly trapping him inside.

As a result, the power of the bubble touched him, causing him to burst into flames.

Instantly, his godpower, energy arts, and psyche were burning away.

'This bubble is incredible!' he thought, lunging backward. Meanwhile, Yang Qi turned, shot into the mist, and disappeared.

'What!?' the White-Haired Boxer King thought. 'He's trying to escape? Well, it's not going to be that easy. I definitely can't let him get away. If he reveals the details of this fight to the council of chief elders, it's going to cause problems.' The White-Haired Boxer King knew that Yang Qi had broken some sect rules and was harboring secrets that could theoretically harm the sect. Unfortunately, it was a bit of stretch to use that as an excuse to harm him.

The main thing he was interested in was getting the purrling's power that Yang Qi possessed. However, if he attacked and killed him, it would be a clear violation of sect rules.

Although the White-Haired Boxer King was important enough that he wouldn't be severely punished, if certain people found out, they would push hard to bring him to justice. For instance, Jadefall.

So if he wanted to pull this off successfully, he needed to capture Yang Qi, destroy any and all evidence, and make sure no one was aware of what he'd done.

'I have to catch up to him!'

The White-Haired Boxer King shot into the mists of the Pill-King's temple ruins. Eventually, he was closing in on the center of the ruins, where he caught sight of the Chaos-Forge God-Shrine.

As soon as he entered, he realized how strong the toxic mist was, to the point where even he had to exercise great caution. As he proceeded, he produced medicinal pills that drove away poisons, using them to create a protective barrier around himself.

'This is the central region of the Toxic Continent, and the toxic mist here is obviously deadly. But how can this brat move around so freely? Maybe I actually knocked him out, and the bubble just floated here with him in it. If he gets dissolved by the toxic mist, that's going to be troublesome, especially if people find out I was chasing him. Although... I should be able to come up with an explanation.'

Not ready to give up, he followed the bubble through the second, third, and fourth floors.

He was on the fifth floor when the toxic mist started getting too much for him to handle. This was where Yang Qi had discovered the corpse of the scholar, which was still floating there serenely. Meanwhile, Yang Qi was feeling very confident about his chances on the sixth floor. After all, his cultivation base had significantly improved in the past several months, thanks to the fifty-five Double-Nines God-Dragon Starry-Sky Pellets he had consumed.

However, he continued pretending to be unconscious within his bubble. Although it might look like the bubble was just randomly floating along, he was actually using his top energy arts to maneuver it behind the White-Haired Boxer King.

Without the toxic mist in the Chaos-Forge God-Shrine, it would have been impossible for him to get close to the White-Haired Boxer King. But given the circumstances, it wasn't very hard at all.

"Lord's Eye!"

An eye appeared on his forehead, which he used to peer at the White-Haired Boxer King and locate the tiny jade bottle he had hidden in his robe. It contained a single god pill, which was none other than the Ten-Directions Many-Heavens Pill. Back when Yang Qi had first become aware of it, he secretly imprinted the bottle with an energy marker, making it much easier to locate again.

It was all in preparation for this moment.

'Purrfect God Art. Dexterous Thievery!'

A bubble shot out, silent and undetectable. Wrapping around the jade bottle, it pulled it right into Yang Qi's hand. It happened so quickly and quietly that the White-Haired Boxer King had no idea what had just happened. His attention was completely focused on protecting himself from the toxic mist, and trying to figure out a way to break the bubble protecting Yang Qi.

At this point, Yang Qi directed the bubble to float up to the sixth floor. Instantly, muffled rumbling could be heard as toxic god lightning smashed into him, seemingly reducing him to ashes.

"Woah!" the White-Haired Boxer King blurted, not daring to go any further. Obviously, the fifth floor was his limit. Seeing Yang Qi 'die', he sighed regretfully. 'What bad luck. The brat is obviously dead, dissolved by the toxic mist. And if I stay here, I'll end up dead too. I have to get out of here.'

With that, he hurried away, convinced that Yang Qi was dead. There didn't seem to be anything he could do to profit now, and the best thing would be to get away from the Toxic Continent as quickly as possible.

'I have to go into secluded meditation as soon as I get back. I'll just pretend I've been in seclusion this entire time. There's definitely no evidence to prove I had anything to do with this. No one will ever connect a measly Quasi-God disciple like him to someone like me.'

With a whoosh, he departed.

After he was gone, Yang Qi appeared, a crafty smile on his face. Hefting the jade bottle, he thought, 'Ah, White-Haired Boxer King, you really got screwed. And you're not going to realize you're missing this bottle until you get back. It's good that my illusion arts lasted long enough to fool you. Now you have to fabricate some evidence to prove you weren't here, which will give me plenty of time to go into hiding and use this Ten-Directions Many-Heavens Pill to form my monarch godhood. It's all thanks to you. You're saving me a good fifty or sixty years of hard cultivation.'

The nascent monarch godhood within him was pulsing, occasionally letting loose sounds like a booming bell, other times sounding like buddhist chants. Occasionally it sounded like hosts of gods offering worship to the Sovereign Lord, or like hosts of mortals engaged in petty business.

For godhood to produce sound like this now was something unprecedented.

Normally speaking, it would have taken decades to purify himself in this way, but thanks to the fight with the White-Haired Boxer King, it was happening almost instantly. Right now, none of Yang Qi's people were Greater Gods. The highest among them was Brahma, who was a Common God, so obviously, none of them could be of much help to him.

'I need to leave the Toxic Continent and try to achieve my monarch godhood breakthrough. It's going to be dangerous, so I can't risk it in a deadly place like this. If the poison seeps into my godhood, I'll definitely die. On the other hand, a god kingdom would definitely pick up on the fluctuations of the breakthrough, and I would also end up dead in that situation.'

He waited for a few hours, until he was sure the White-Haired Boxer King was gone.

Then he slipped back into the teleportation portal. However, instead of going to the god kingdom, he headed out into the mountains. Avoiding Zhang Jufang and the others, he headed into the wilds beyond civilization.

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Chapter 1233: Monarch Godhood Breakthrough

'Ai. Breaking through to monarch godhood is going to be really difficult. I spent a huge amount of effort to get god pills and further my cultivation. Don't tell me that I'm still going to fail at this point.'

As Yang Qi searched for an appropriate mountain to land on, he thought back to everything he had done so far in his attempt to complete his monarch godhood. In the Pill-King's temple ruins, he had consumed a Chaos-Cavern Grand-Magnate Pill. Then he ran a scam to get even more pills, and today he slipped the Ten-Directions Many-Heavens Pill off of the White-Haired Boxer King.

Although he hoped he would succeed, he wasn't one hundred percent certain he would.

Thus, he found this remote place to settle down for a time and work on his cultivation.

Thankfully, he was very familiar with the mountains near the mines. In fact, there was nowhere in the god world that he was more familiar with. The ghostface monkey-god, the serpent goddess, the wolf god, the moon-eating lion king, and the ox god all had devil embryos in them. Because of that, he knew about all of the activities of the Demonfolk in these mountains. And he also knew that there were no experts stronger than a Common God here.

Even if the most heaven-rending, earth-crushing events were to play out in these mountains, no one from the outside would notice.

As he flew along, he looked around with his Lord's Eye. After a few hours passed, he identified a mountain range that resembled a dragon, a tiger, or perhaps a black turtle. The mountains seemed desolate, but there was a swirling destiny there that seemed to imply powerful entities or treasures lurked there.

In fact, as Yang Qi peered closer, he noticed that thirty thousand meters beneath the soil beneath the mountains, there was thriving life force.

It wasn't the vital energy of living ore, but some other type of life force that seemed to indicate dramatic transformations would occur here in the future.

In the Scripture Pavilion, he had read a few geography books, and thus recognized that this location of converged life force was something called an innate lifeland. If a sect were to be established here, and spell formations erected, future generations would definitely produce top geniuses.

That said, most innate lifelands were located a few thousand meters below the surface of the earth, whereas this one was located thirty thousand meters down. Not even Greater Gods would be able to detect such a place. Only Yang Qi could, thanks to the God Legion Seal.

'This place is amazing. Nine dragons spitting water. The full moon shining brightly. The white tiger like metal. The vermillion bird in dancing flame. The black turtle diving into water...' Yang Qi had studied a lot about geography, so as soon as he studied the place, he could see how amazing it was. Waving his finger, he sent out a stream of sword energy that felled some of the trees and hewed open a cistern. Sweet water immediately bubbled forth, releasing the strong aroma of innate life.

'Incredible. It seems like a scraggly and rugged place, but it actually has deep springs of water. This should be a great place to work on my cultivation. Instead of staying on the surface, I'll go down thirty-thousand meters, then use the life force there to help perfect my monarch godhood.'

Exhaling deeply, he used streams of godpower to create something like a shell around him, a defensive barrier that was as strong as steel.

Then he shot into the ground, boring down noiselessly and leaving no trace of his passage.

The world beneath the surface of the ground was a very different place. For the first few meters, it wasn't very noticeable. It was all a tangle of roots, as well as hidden creatures such as snakes, bugs, rats, ants, and the like. Further down, there was a network of waterways and subterranean rivers. Then came a layer of rock, followed by pulsing baleful energy. As he burrowed deeper, Yang Qi used his psychic power to 'see' everything around him for several kilometers.

Things were constantly transforming around him. Sometimes it was hot, sometimes cold. Sometimes it even seemed like there was wind. In the impure lands, there was only earthflame beneath the surface of the ground, but not so in the god world. There were numerous layers, some that had fire, some that had ice. There were sections of metal and rock, and tunnels dug almost as if by earthworms. There were also creatures that lived there, including devils and dragons.

However, the area Yang Qi was moving through was very calm and peaceful.

He went downward for a night and a day until he was thirty thousand meters down. There were deeper depths beyond, but what lay there, he couldn't tell.

Having reached his target destination, he hewed out a cave for himself, roughly thirty meters in height, length, and width. Using his psychic power, he turned the soil into stone bricks to line everything.

He sat down in his subterranean cave and looked at the stone walls, upon which pulsed a greenish energy flow. It was none other than the pure subterranean life force in the area. With energy like that, plants on the surface would flourish; without it, the area would turn into a desert.

It was a huge conglomeration of life force that stretched thousands of kilometers from end to end. Right now, it was the reason the mountains above contained towering, ancient trees. However, after Yang Qi absorbed it, it ensured that, in the years to come, the area overhead would eventually wither up and turn into a desert of bare mountains.

'Don't disappoint me, Ten-Directions Many-Heavens Pill!' he thought, pulling out the pill. Smiling, he exhaled some vital energy to ignite the pill. Obviously, he wasn't just going to consume it directly. He needed to test its medicinal properties first. As the saying went, be careful, and you can pilot the same boat for ten thousand years.

Thanks to the fire, intricate designs appeared on the surface of the pill, which were warding spells put in place by the White-Haired Boxer King to protect it.

With hardly any effort at all, Yang Qi removed the warding spells and continued the burning process until the pill was nothing more than a crystalline expression of godpower, shining with dazzling light.

Wham!

At that point, Yang Qi consumed it, causing his entire body to shine with scintillating beams of light. The light connected with the vital energy of heaven and earth in these depths, and the life force. Innumerable streams of energy started flowing into his nascent monarch godhood, until it rumbled loudly.

It was like hearing all living beings speaking at the same time, and all the musical instruments thrumming together to form a single word.

"Monarch!"

"Monarch!"

"Monarch!"

Yang Qi knew that if he succeeded in this effort, he would be a god. No matter how strong he had been in the past, he hadn't been anything more than an immortal. A human. Not a god. But when he formed actual godhood, his life force substructure would change, and he would become part of the legion of gods. Then, the true nature of the God Legion Seal would be revealed to him. After all, what he had access to right now was only the tip of the iceberg.

'The moment of truth has come.' Even as he absorbed the medicinal strength of the pill, the God Legion Seal was drawing deeply on the essence of the god world.

This was definitely going to be the most important and critical breakthrough attempt in his entire life. If he succeeded, he would no longer be an ordinary person...

In the god kingdom of the House of God Ordainment, in a mansion grotto atop a mysterious mountain peak, the White-Haired Boxer King was adjusting his breathing to heal himself and extrude the poison from within him.

'I didn't get anything after killing Yang Qi, other than revenge. But that's what happens to people who cross the Dragon Society!' At the moment, he was still pretending to be in seclusion, hoping to avoid any fallout from Jadefall from having killed Yang Qi.

As far as anyone was concerned, he had been here this entire time and had never left his mountain.

'That brat Yang Qi didn't even want this amazing Ten-Directions Many-Heavens Pill, not even in his death. Well, he might not want it, but I do. I wasted a lot of godpower in this effort, probably ten years' worth of cultivation. This pill will be perfect to restore my reserves.' With that, he began patting around in his robe.

However, after a moment, his face fell. 'My medicinal pill! Where did it go? It was right here in my robe! How come it's gone? That pill is incredibly expensive! And I only had one of them! Impossible. Impossible!'

Shooting to his feet, he began frantically searching for it, but couldn't find any traces.

Anyone who could have seen the White-Haired Boxer King in this moment would have been shocked. Normally, he kept his composure perfectly, always looking elegant and handsome, which was why so many female disciples fell for him. But right now, he looked like a crazed, stray dog.

'Did I drop it back on the Toxic Continent? A divination should reveal the details!' He immediately performed a divination, but didn't get any results.

SNICK!

He spat out some blood which formed into a mirror, except that it didn't reveal any information at all. It was almost as if he had never even possessed that medicinal pill to begin with.

1. In Chinese, an "immortal" is 仙人 whereas the single-character for person/human is 人. So as you can see, the term "immortal" has "person/human" in it. It makes perfect sense visually to say that he was "just an immortal, a human".

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Chapter 1234: A Monarch Appears

Pacing back and forth, the White-Haired Boxer King thought, 'How come I can't divine its location? I've cultivated my Heavenly Workings Secret Magic to the highest level, and should be able to use it to locate any item I've lost.'

None of his divinations were working.

Finally, he gave up. Expression twisting into a vicious semblance of an evil ghost from hell, he thought, 'Killing that brat Yang Qi lost me a medicinal pill, plus, I didn't gain anything at all from the effort. Is it really possible that I just dropped the pill in the toxic mist? Someone must have plotted against me. But who? Was it Jadefall? No, no. She doesn't have that level of ability. Maybe it was her Master. But her Master is in seclusion.'

Despite wracking his brains, he couldn't come up with any good theory.

It got so bad that he seemed to be on the verge of experiencing cultivation deviation and becoming infected with heart-devils. Just when he was about to plunge past the point of no return, a talisman on his person vibrated, bringing him back to lucidity.

'That was dangerous. I almost experienced cultivation deviation.' His heart was pounding from fear as he pulled out the talisman that had just activated. It currently pulsed with the power of a heart-devil. It was a talisman that Dragon Floret had personally crafted for him for his protection, designed to suppress the power of heart-devils. And it had just saved his life.

'Without this talisman, I definitely would have experienced cultivation deviation.' The White-Haired Boxer King settled down into a meditative state. 'I lost that pill, and there's no more to be said about it. It's not even worth thinking about. Once my cultivation base is back to normal, I'll be able to uncover the truth.'

Although hatred for Yang Qi was still simmering in his heart, he believed him to be dead, and thus not worth thinking about. For now, he tried to put the matter of the medicinal pill in the back of his mind, although it was only minimally effective.

Unfortunately, he had developed a heart-devil, which meant that his cultivation base wasn't going to progress well in the future.

Meanwhile, the Yang Qi that he thought was dead was actually making progress the likes of which no one had ever dreamed of, not even in aeons past.

Ten days passed. Twenty. A month.

Deep underground, Yang Qi was constantly absorbing godpower and life force. He had taken in more than ten thousand ordinary gods combined could handle, but it still wasn't enough. He was like a gobblewock or a chymera who could devour the essence of everything. The voice of the godhood within him continued echoing out, creating images of heavenly palaces, the halls of heaven, the Sovereign Lord, godmammoths, the True Devil, the Demon Master, and countless other entities.

However, in the end, an enormous necropolis appeared and devoured all of those mighty entities.

Three months passed, during which time Yang Qi worked hard on his cultivation. At that point, he had absorbed all of the life force, and only had the power of the God Legion Seal to work with.

The God Legion Seal was now a perfect representation of himself. Instead of being an imp, it was like a giant that could prop up heaven and earth. The surrounding soil couldn't stop the brilliant light shining out from it, as it existed in the depths of a different space-time.

It howled, and godpower surged out like a river, filling Yang Qi and stirring the nascent monarch godhood within him. It began rotating faster and faster, like a millstone spinning in water. It rotated a billion times. Ten billion. A hundred billion. A trillion. Ten trillion. In the blink of an eye, the rotating of Yang Qi's godhood vastly surpassed anything the White-Haired Boxer King was capable of.

RUMBLE!

"Monarch godhood, form!" At a certain point when the three months had passed, Yang Qi threw his head back and howled. As he did, the God Legion Seal, the piece of the Mahātmā Jade, and the sheepskin scroll in the form of ten thousand characters, were all sucked into his virtual godhood.

That was when the godhood began to transform dramatically.

Heaven and earth seemed to tremble; thankfully, he was deep underground. The spell formations he had erected around himself glittered like diamonds, and the mountains above quaked, with some of them collapsing. Rivers were diverted, and wild animals were thrown into chaos.

Meteorological phenomena appeared in the sky overhead, including thunder and lightning. However, no one realized what exactly was happening, as Yang Qi had used the God Legion Seal to suppress the energy fluctuations.

When monarch godhood formed, it would release immense power that would have dramatic effects if it wasn't deep underground. There would have been shocking pillars of light and great dao resonances that would have definitely attracted the attention of top experts.

Thankfully, there were no such disturbances.

In fact, the thunder and lightning actually masked some of the effects.

A rift opened, allowing spatial godpower from deep in the god world to pour into Yang Qi's godhood, causing dazzling light to shine everywhere.

It was a success!

His godhood was completely formed!

It was a monarch among other godhood, and it rumbled with such intensity that heaven and earth bowed to it. But then, as quickly as the moment had arrived, everything went still and calm deep under the earth. All the living things above withered, and everything turned completely still and quiet.

Within Yang Qi, godhood rotated.

It was different from any other kind of godhood, such that not even Yang Qi had ever seen anything like it. A great dao would hang shapelessly in the void, and this resembled that.

This godhood was like a world of its own, but at the same time, like a lonely monarch. It glowed with brilliant colors, but at the same time, was colorless. It was alive, but simultaneously, dead. When Yang Qi breathed, the godhood breathed, and at that point, he realized he had reached godly ascension.

The God Legion Seal settled down in his forehead, and Yang Qi could tell that it was rejoicing. At the same time, something deep within it became unlocked.

Memories rushed into Yang Qi's sea of consciousness like the tide, filled with indescribable brightness.

He wasn't sure of exactly what was happening, so he simply allowed the memories to swirl in his sea of consciousness and would worry later about what to do with them.

CRASH!

A vortex suddenly appeared above his head, and it wasn't remotely illusory. It was real.

He stepped into the vortex and vanished. He was now able to open spatial rifts, which was a level of power that surpassed even the White-Haired Boxer King. The White-Haired Boxer King could create similar rifts, but never would have dared to pass through them. But Yang Qi could, so it was only a moment later that he was on the surface.

'Godpower influx!' He drew on the God Legion Seal, causing a tremor to pass through him as endless godpower flowed through space and into his monarch godhood, transforming his body on the most fundamental level.

After forming his godhood, the next step was to use its power to remold his body into something deathless.

Ordinary Quasi-Gods would only be able to live a bit over a hundred years. Even the strongest among them might last for a few hundred, and that would be miraculous. But after reaching godly ascension, one's longevity would increase by ten times at the least.

When the God Legion Seal absorbed godpower from the god world, it didn't come in drop by drop, but rather in a huge torrent.

In the past, he couldn't do this. But now he could absorb however much godpower he needed or wanted.

'Let's form some godstones!' He waved his hand and godpower erupted from his monarch godhood, instantly causing a mountain of imperial caliber godstones to form!

A collection of godstones like that was something most people would fight to the death over. Even the top experts in the House of God Ordainment would go crazy over something like that.

"God Legion Seal: Form God Kingdom!"

The God Legion Seal flew up, and an illusory god kingdom took shape around Yang Qi. Even as it formed, it sucked in all of the imperial caliber godstones, which vanished without a trace.

'Impressive. Except that it's a huge drain on godpower.' Even a Consummate God who saw Yang Qi doing these things would be left tongue-tied.

However, despite having spent so much power, he simply inhaled, and the God Legion Seal sucked immense godpower into him. It was like a mighty river flowing into his godhood. After only a few breaths, his monarch godhood was full again.

Even Yang Qi was shocked. 'I just made a mountain of imperial caliber godstones, using godpower that even a Consummate God would need decades of cultivation to build up. Perhaps even more than a hundred years. And I filled it back up with only a few breaths? Is this real? I knew that when I became a god, the God Legion Seal would reveal stunning power. But this is simply terrifying!'

"Godnote forging!" A tremor passed through him as countless godnotes appeared, fluttering down to form a tiny mountain. It took a huge amount of godpower, but again, only a short time later, the God Legion Seal had refilled him.

As long as the god world existed, so would Yang Qi!

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Chapter 1235: A New Beginning

Whether it was creating godstones or godnotes, Yang Qi could now do it easily, then recover the lost godpower with very little effort.

For all intents and purposes, he could just keep creating godnotes as long as he wanted. Millions. Billions. Trillions. There would be no end to it.

He was essentially a money printing machine.

Things were already very, very different from before his godly ascension. Back then, it had been far too draining to make godnotes.

Now he was completely rich. In the days to come, there wouldn't be anyone who could match up to him in terms of wealth. Now that he had monarch godhood, he was already in the position to match up to Consummate Gods, and the God Legion Seal would ensure that he would never run out of godpower.

Even more impressive were the additional functions of the seal that he could now access. For instance, he had just created a virtual god kingdom which had absorbed the godstones and godnotes he had summoned. That was a function of the God Legion Seal.

Yang Qi was a god now, but he wasn't able to actually make a real god kingdom. At best, he could make a virtual version. Right now, he was only an early Lesser God, and an actual god kingdom wouldn't come until he was a Consummate God.

As for the other functions of the God Legion Seal now available to him, they would take some time and research to reveal.

'What if I take that mountain of imperial caliber godstones and condense it!? Let's make some holy caliber godstones!'

Exhaling some vital energy and backing it with his monarch godhood, he sent intense flames onto the mountain of imperial caliber godstones, which began slowly shrinking as impurities were forced out.

RUMBLE!

The outflux of vital energy and godpower caused Yang Qi's face to turn a bit pale.

In the shortest of moments, he lost more godpower than a Lesser God could build up in ten thousand years of cultivation. Yet in the blink of an eye, the God Legion Seal restored him to normal.

Now, that small mountain of imperial caliber godstones was only the size of a fist. It was now a holy caliber godstone, and as he pulled it from the god kingdom and into his hand, it thrummed with what sounded like a holy saint preaching the dao or baptizing believers.

Shoddy, normal, greater, noble, imperial, holy, perfect. Those were the calibers of godstones. Among them, imperial caliber stones were considered very high quality, and were the type that many people never even laid eyes on. In the House of God Ordainment, one had to turn in a lot of merit points to get even one. As for holy calibers, they could be encountered by chance, but never searched for and found.

And they would never appear in the mines operated by the sect. They only came about thanks to dramatic and disastrous events.

Yet here Yang Qi had one in his hand.

Unfortunately, he could sense that it wouldn't be a good idea to make more of them. Although he could deal with the godpower loss, in terms of will and psyche, he couldn't sustain the effort over and over again.

'Now let's check my fighting prowess!' With that, he reined in the God Legion Seal. Right now, he wanted to see what his own cultivation base was capable of. Launching a fist strike, he broke open a rift in space, which caused a huge tempest to spring up, accompanied by the wailing of ghosts and weeping of gods.

Not worried at all, he sent out the power of his will to pacify the tempest, then stepped forward into the rift.

Inside, he saw endless darkness, as well as chaotic space-time. It was hard to say what unfathomable secrets were hidden in the god world. One thing he knew was that there were almighty entities who resided in this chaotic space-time, instead of in the actual god world.

The god world obviously wasn't as simple as it seemed. It contained countless other minor worlds within it.

Off in the distance, Yang Qi saw an immense god kingdom that radiated dazzling light that pacified the chaotic fluctuations around it. That was the god kingdom of the House of God Ordainment.

Right now, he couldn't simply go there. He needed to return the normal way, through teleportation portals.

Waving his hands, he opened another portal and stepped out onto a mountain that was fully five kilometers away from where he had been standing earlier.

'Spatial teleportation like this makes it easy to move around very quickly. But it's a big drain on godpower, and requires a very strong psyche. The mental strength required to lock on to the spatial coordinates is immense. No wonder the White-Haired Boxer King didn't try anything like this.' After making some inward assessments, Yang Qi nodded. 'Given my current cultivation base, I should be able to go directly to the sixth floor of the temple on the Toxic Continent. I wonder what treasures exist there. Or should I go back to the sect first? The White-Haired Boxer King thinks I'm dead. There's no way that he could ever guess that, not only am I still alive, but I've actually formed monarch godhood. Although, for the time being I should probably hide my monarch godhood. Given that I'm a god now, I can apply to become an elite disciple. However, that would involve them inspecting my godhood. Maybe I'll just hold off for now. Yeah. The best thing to do now is to head back to the Toxic Continent and see what's on the sixth floor and higher. Maybe I can even reach the ninth floor!'

He had already been gone from the sect for three months, so what was another three? Besides, Bai Yin was there to cover for him, and would say that he was out on a mission. And the White-Haired Boxer King would claim ignorance if anyone asked about him.

It wasn't uncommon for disciples of the House of God Ordainment to vanish for years at a time. There were even situations where a disciple might be gone for a hundred years before returning. So a few months obviously wasn't a big deal.

Using his Devil-God Seal, he hid the evidence of his god aura, making him virtually invisible. Then he entered the god kingdom, went to the teleportation portal, and used it to go to the Toxic Continent.

The place was filled with toxic mist just like always, but obviously, Yang Qi wasn't worried about that. Before long he was in the Chaos-Forge God-Shrine, but this time it looked very different. He could see the internal structure of the place, the innumerable spell formations that made it up, and how they were almost welded to space itself.

Soon he was on the fifth floor.

Just as casually as before, he summoned a black hole that sucked in all of the toxins on the fifth floor, turning them into a crystalline mass that dropped into his palm. It was an object that, if detonated, could easily kill most Greater Gods.

He didn't need something like that, but it would definitely be useful to his people.

If he wanted to kill the White-Haired Boxer King now, he could use a simple fist strike to blow the man up, killing even his nascent divinity.

Unfortunately, none of his subordinates could possibly survive a fight with the White-Haired Boxer King. But with this weapon, they might, although they would likely injure themselves in the process. Yang Qi decided he would have to study it some more, and perhaps strengthen its structure, turning it into a more powerful god item.

It was similar to a gunpowder explosive from the impure lands. If detonated incorrectly, it could hurt or kill the person wielding it. But wielded properly, it could make someone almost invincible.

Yang Qi climbed the stairs to the sixth floor and saw that the dense toxic mist was fully fused with the space around it.

But with his monarch godhood, Yang Qi didn't care. He drew on the God Legion Seal, and golden light shot out, stilling any spatial tempests. Then he waved the sleeve of his God Legion Battle Robe, sucking in all of the toxic mist and clearing the sixth floor.

The place was made completely of dark gold, making it look similar to the Hell of Mahānata. And it looked like there wasn't anything there, not even a single treasure.

However, that was when Yang Qi realized that there were nine pillars holding up the ceiling. And they were covered with cinnabar-colored magical symbols that almost looked like they had been written in blood. In fact, they were flowing. Yang Qi could tell that they were ancient, and had been placed there by some supremely powerful expert. After all, blood that could flow after so many years surrounded by a toxic miasma was obviously incredibly strong.

'What incredibly powerful god put this here? It's such an incredible sealing magic. I guess the treasures here must be in those nine columns.'

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Chapter 1236: Treasures Hidden in Pillars

The pillars were sealed in a way that wasn't affected at all by the toxic miasma. In fact, the seals were so strong that Yang Qi didn't feel like he could actually unravel them.

Chopping out with a knifehand, he used the Seventy-Two Monarchs Energy Art to attack one of the pillars. When the blow hit, fire broke out on the pillar, accompanied by hissing and popping sounds.

However, it was almost as if the magical symbols could sense the incoming attack and instinctively stirred into action, causing blood-colored light to rush out and negate it.

'I just formed monarch godhood and I'm almost completely invincible, yet I can't even undo a warding magic?' Yang Qi was shocked. However, he was more delighted than frustrated. After all, for the warding magic to be this strong meant that whatever was inside was obviously incredible.

And if he couldn't personally break the seal, he could always resort to the God Legion Seal.

As soon as he drew on the God Legion Seal, soft golden light shot out in all directions, surrounding the pillars and boring into them. This time, the blood didn't do anything to stop the light, as if it had encountered its ruler.

"Myriad Gods Bowing to the Lord!"

Countless god-spirits appeared around Yang Qi, and at the same time, an aura of the legion of gods rose up from within the columns.

The God Legion Seal had been formed by countless gods prostrating in worship to the boundless Sovereign Lord. The blood warding spells that protected the pillars contained the power of ancient gods, which was why they reacted this way to the God Legion Seal.

The ancient gods always bowed to their lord.

The blood on one of the pillars flowed until it took the shape of a word in god script that then fell onto Yang Qi's palm. It was the character for 'warding'. It was made of blood, and contained incredible godpower. If absorbed, it would obviously bolster the energy and blood, and transform the fleshly body. However, Yang Qi didn't do that. He would keep it to study later, and then decide if he could use it to make medicinal pills to help his subordinates.

With the warding magic gone, the pillar glowed with dazzling light, then cracking sounds rang out as the godpower revealed a small dimension, inside of which was a jade box.

Yang Qi waved his hand and the jade box flew out to him. There was another warding spell on the box itself, and upon inspecting it, Yang Qi realized that its function was to seal time itself. In other words, whatever existed inside the box wouldn't experience the passage of time.

'A talisman that stops time?' Yang Qi was shocked. In the impure lands, his cultivation base was such that he could alter or even reverse the flow of time. He could even create passages that led to primeval times or the future.

But the god world was different. Only Paramount Gods could possibly harness the power of time here. Did that mean that this box had been left behind by some Paramount God?

Yang Qi broke the talisman and opened the box, which caused a fragrant aroma to drift out, like flower petals. A small, hand-sized flower petal was revealed, almost like that of a lotus, yet clearly from some other type of flower. It was very beautiful.

"A flower petal? And a talisman that can actually stop time?" The talisman that had been sealing the box was now in Yang Qi's hand. Looking down at it, he saw that it wasn't working anymore. It was as if all the godpower inside of it had vanished as soon as he removed it from the box. Or perhaps it had been sucked into the flower petal.

'Don't tell me that there are flower petals like this in all of the pillars?'

He went on to use the God Legion Seal to open up the rest of the eight pillars, finding that all of them contained jade boxes with flower petals in them. And all of them were protected by talismans that stopped time, yet ceased to function after the boxes were opened.

Nine flower petals which, when formed together, created the shape of a flower.

Unfortunately, the combined flower lacked a central stamen.

The flower wasn't complete.

The nine petals were all different, and were inscribed with glowing magical symbols that almost seemed to be naturally occurring.

Yet despite fitting together, the petals didn't actually click into place. For now, all Yang Qi could do was put them back into the boxes to save for later study.

Thinking back, he reviewed what he had taken from the Chaos-Forge God-Shrine. From the first floor, antidotal pills. From the second, sword pellets. From the third, the Chaos-Forge God-Shrine. From the fourth, the medicinal ingredients. From the fifth, the corpse of the scholar. And here on the sixth floor he recovered some flower petals. What would he find on the seventh floor? He couldn't use the scholar's corpse or the strange flower petals. Therefore, it seemed his only course of action was to go up.

The toxic mist on the seventh floor was even more intense, and was like a pure spatial tempest so strong that it took the shape of devil-ghosts that ravenously lunged toward Yang Qi.

A huge skull of liquid black crystal appeared, surrounded by black fire, snapping its jaws at him.

BAM!

He thrust his palm out and hit the skull, causing cracks to spread out all over it. However, the skull inhaled, and spatial power rushed into it, returning it to its previous state.

SPLAT!

Toxic fire erupted from the skull, turning into fiery dragons that rushed with deadly force toward Yang Qi.

'Incredible,' he thought. 'I wonder who created this spatial toxic skull, and how it got so strong?' He opened his Lord's Eye in the hopes of identifying the profound aspects of the skull. Instantly, he could see that when the skull opened its jaw and inhaled, it would draw on the spatial tempests and quintessence in the area to power itself up.

And there were more than one of the skulls here on the seventh floor.

'They must have been created by a top expert from the Chaos-Forge God-Shrine. When that expert's undying will convergence merged with the toxic spatial nexuses around it, the result came in the form of these pitch-black crystalline skulls. If I were to assimilate them, it should dramatically increase my fighting prowess.' Almost immediately, Yang Qi's mind filled with understanding regarding the black skulls.

Long ago, the Toxic Continent had been a god kingdom belonging to the Pill-King God. Eventually, the countless experts in that god kingdom had come under the attack of King Hypertoxin, one of the seventy-two monarchs. Ultimately, they all died. However, their psyches weren't completely destroyed, and they eventually fused with the toxic miasma. That was what led to these crystalline skulls on the seventh floor.

Looking around, he counted thirteen of the skulls, all locked in combat with each other, although none seemed capable of dealing with any of the others. After all, Yang Qi had just attacked one to almost no effect whatsoever. Right now, he was strong enough to dominate even peak Greater Gods, and could possibly even fight early Consummate Gods, but not much beyond that.

"Heaven-Dao Pacification; Radiance Like Fire; Nothing Escapes the Net of Justice; Laws of the God Legion!" Yang Qi drew on the God Legion Seal, causing an immense, heavenly net to shoot out of his left hand and spread out toward the skulls. Jaws snapping, they looked up as if to devour it.

'Be suppressed!' Yang Qi said, and immense power crushed down. However, the crystalline skulls continued to rush forward, forcing Yang Qi to back up.

"Mahātmā Jade; Unspoiled Body; Seventy-Two Monarchs Energy Art; Grand God-Dao of Poison. Be suppressed!" Yang Qi drew on all kinds of consummate techniques from the depths of the God Legion Seal. For twenty hours, the fighting raged, until he finally suppressed the skulls.

During that time, he had completely drained his monarch godhood upwards of three thousand times.

Thanks to that, his fighting prowess was now at the level of an early Consummate God, and that was without using the God Legion Seal, Mahātmā Jade, or sheepskin scroll.

However, that just went to show that not even a Consummate God could deal with these skulls.

In the end, though, Yang Qi immobilized all of the skulls with his Devil-God Seal. Unfortunately, if he removed the seal, they would go right back to their previous state of activity. Right now, he would need to come up with another idea if he wanted to assimilate them.

Perhaps he needed to go work on gaining more enlightenment of King Hypertoxin's abilities.

After all, if he could gain complete control of the skulls and give them as puppets to his people, they could definitely fight a Consummate God. Even in the House of God Ordainment, Consummate Gods were mighty, invincible individuals who commanded universal respect. They could do whatever they wanted including pronouncing the death sentence.

The main reason Jadefall was in such a good position was because her purrling had enabled her to finish a mission that ended up with her Master becoming a Consummate God.

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Chapter 1237: King of Specters

Each skull was as strong as a Consummate God. Thankfully, they didn't possess actual wills of their own, otherwise they would have ripped Yang Qi to shreds. They were formed from the undying quintessence of members of the legion of gods, but that just meant that the God Legion Seal exercised innate control over them, which was why Yang Qi eventually got the upper hand.

Were it not for that, then even if he were much stronger than he was, he wouldn't have been able to seal the skulls.

Any god from the ancient era, which was when the Sovereign Lord existed, would definitely be put under control by the God Legion Seal.

After the Sovereign Lord vanished, many new gods came along, and they were a different story. They had not been connected to the God Legion Seal, and thus they weren't necessarily under its absolute control.

He took the thirteen crystalline skulls, leaving the seventh floor utterly bare of any items.

After a quick search to confirm there wasn't anything left, he headed to the eighth floor.

Surprisingly, there was no toxic mist on the eighth floor. It was almost as if some powerful force had cleansed the place. This floor wasn't particularly large, and the ground seemed to be made from pure green crystal. It was almost completely transparent, free of any impurities at all. And floating in the air in the middle of it all was a single god pill.

It was roughly the size of a thumb, and although it hadn't evolved into a human form, in terms of quality, it obviously surpassed the Chaos-Cavern Grand-Magnate Pill by many times over.

Furthermore, this pill actually wasn't complete. However, it wasn't created by someone with Paramount will convergence. No, it was made by someone even more incredible than that. It was created with Unbounded will. Unfortunately, its creator had died before finishing the pill, yet the pill was still so incredible that it could clear the entire floor of toxic mist, creating something like a kingdom of its own there.

'I finally found something really valuable. A god pill made by someone with Unbounded will.' Despite being only partially complete, Yang Qi knew that not even the House of God Ordainment would have anything like this.

If he handed it in to the sect, he would get an immense amount of merit points. However, he wasn't foolish enough to do something like that, as it would draw too much attention. He was only staying in the House of God Ordainment to be as safe as possible, and over the past two years, he had made significant advancements in that regard. At the very least, the books he had access to in the Scripture Pavilion were worth it. And once he was recognized as a god, he would be able to go to the third floor and read the books there.

Slowly and carefully, he unleashed the power of the God Legion Seal to take hold of the Unbounded pill.

A smile touched his face as his fingers closed around it. However, he didn't immediately consume it. He knew that, given the level of his cultivation base, he wouldn't actually be able to absorb and benefit from it.

'I wonder what miraculous item is going to be on the last floor.' As soon as he put the medicinal pill away, toxic mist rushed back in to fill the room. As it did, he hurried up the stairs to the ninth floor.

This floor was also empty, without any toxic miasma. The entire place bore the scars of fierce fighting, and just by looking at them, Yang Qi could imagine the epic battle which must have been fought here in ancient times.

Chopping his hand out at the floor, he used all the power he could muster to try leaving a mark on it, only to fail.

'This ground is so hard it seems impossible to damage. So what type of people could actually leave such deep marks in it from their fighting?' Sitting down cross-legged, he studied the marks, which he soon realized contained traces of Unbounded will that prevented the toxic mist from entering the area.

Each mark contained profound and mysterious principles of heaven and earth, boundless profundities that would be difficult for even gods to understand. Closing his eyes, Yang Qi sent out his psyche to make contact with the marks.

Crack!

All of a sudden, he touched a mark that had been left behind by a sword. When he did, the psychic power in the mark emerged, taking the shape of a sword that slashed toward him, cutting him in half at the waist.

Shocked, he quickly drew on his energy arts to stitch himself back together.

'So strong!' he thought. 'In fact, too strong. Even just the psychic remnants here are enough to cut me in half! Just how much will I benefit from gaining enlightenment here?!' With that, he continued working with the battle scars. Some would cause his entire body to explode, and some would cut his head off. However, none could harm his godhood, so he could recover from whatever injuries he suffered.

As he studied the marks, it was as if he could see a fight playing out between Paramount Gods of ancient times. And that fight contained profundities of heaven and earth that brought enlightenment to his own skill.

Although Yang Qi's fighting experience would make him invincible among ordinary gods, he couldn't compare to ancient entities like King Immortal-Slayer. After all, he had never truly fought in a war against gods. In the impure lands, he had done a lot of fighting and killing, but that was all among low-level entities. In battles like that, there were plenty of profundities of power that weren't revealed. It was only by participating in the fighting of actual gods that one could accrue truly amazing experience.

Now, Yang Qi was able to benefit from something just like that. Eventually, he sank into a state of contemplation in which he forgot about the passage of time and became oblivious to everything around him.

After an indeterminable amount of time passed, a brilliant light appeared.

It was his monarch godhood, which glowed with radiance and light as it rose up into the air, slowly rotating. Then, shafts of light shot out of it to connect to the scars of battle.

Soon, the Mahātmā Jade floated out to join the monarch godhood. At first, Yang Qi wasn't sure what was happening.

He opened his eyes.

'The Mahātmā Jade is absorbing the psychic power,' he thought. Despite the fact that the jade was transforming, it wasn't complete, which meant that after it absorbed the psychic power from these ancient battle scars, Yang Qi wouldn't have access to them until he had collected the other pieces of the jade.

If he could take that new psychic power, his own power would advance by an unbelievable level.

Even as he watched, the battle scars on the ninth floor slowly faded away.

'I basically didn't get anything useful. On the sixth floor I got those flower petals, which I don't know how to use. The seventh floor had those skulls that I suppressed, but can't assimilate or turn into puppets. The eighth floor had a partially complete medicinal pill that I can't use. And the ninth floor had battle scars that I can't actually add to my own fighting experience.'

Shaking his head, he flew out of the Chaos Forge God-Shrine and started searching around the rest of the Pill-King's temple ruins. After all, there were other shrines and temples in the area. Unfortunately, the others had been mostly picked clean by other experts. Thanks to his higher cultivation base, he was able to locate a few dozen Paramount medicinal pills, a few medicinal ingredients, and some other random items.

The Chaos Forge God-Shrine was one of the main core elements of the ruins, but there were others. Yang Qi wasn't sure exactly how much time he spent searching, but eventually, he decided to stop while he was ahead. Getting too greedy might cause unnecessary complications.

The time had come to leave.

Stepping onto the teleportation portal, he headed back to the god kingdom of the House of God Ordainment.

As it turned out, he had spent about half a year contemplating the battle scars on the ninth floor. It was enough time that the White-Haired Boxer King should have been convinced that he was actually dead.

When he walked into the second floor of the Scripture Pavilion, he startled Bai Yin, who jumped up and said, "Yang Qi? It's you!? You're back! I thought you were dead! Do you know how long you've been gone? It's been nearly a year. Considering I haven't seen you for so long, I assumed you were killed by the White-Haired Boxer King."

"A year? That long?" Yang Qi chuckled. "Isn't it normal for disciples to be gone for that long on missions?"

"That's true," Bai Yin said, clasping Yang Qi's shoulder. "Tell me, how did you escape the wrath of the White-Haired Boxer King? He made an announcement a while back that he was in seclusion. I assumed it was because he had killed you and didn't want to get in trouble for it. Who could have guessed that you're actually fine! I was really worried."

"The White-Haired Boxer King couldn't kill me," Yang Qi said casually. "Furthermore, I'm ready to become an elite disciple."

"You're going to become an elite disciple? Wait, did you reach godly ascension?!" Taking a closer look at Yang Qi, he realized that he had the aura of godhood on him. "Dear lord! You really chose to become a god?" From his reaction, he didn't seem very pleased. "But why? Why would you do that? You coward! Your cultivation base is far beyond mine, so if you can't form monarch godhood, then what hope could I possibly have?"

"I had no choice. The White-Haired Boxer King was trying to kill me, so I had to take advantage of the situation. Becoming a god was my only way to stay alive. Otherwise, you'd be looking at a corpse right now." There was no way Yang Qi was going to tell the truth to Bai Yin. After all, Bai Yin hadn't ascended from the impure lands with him. For now, Yang Qi would keep the secrets of his monarch godhood to himself.

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Chapter 1238: Promotion to Elite

Bai Yin was angrily lamenting over the fact that Yang Qi had reached godly ascension. He felt like all the wind had been taken out of his own sails because of it.

If Yang Qi, despite being vastly more powerful than himself, had finally given up, then what could he possibly do? Perhaps he should just become a god rather than continue pursuing vague goals that could never be met.

Yang Qi could tell what he was thinking. However, after his own experiences of forming Paramount will and then completing monarch godhood, he knew exactly how hard it was. It was only because of the God Legion Seal that he had succeeded.

With monarch godhood, Yang Qi could defeat Consummate Gods despite only being a Lesser God himself. That was a jump of quite a few levels. It involved going from the early Lesser God level to the mid, late, and peak levels. After, one had to pass the early, mid, late, and peak of the Common and Greater God levels. Only then would one be a Consummate God. Counting all the sub-levels, that was a total of twelve levels to jump. The idea of a gap of twelve levels was simply unimaginable.

A Consummate God could normally kill a host of Lesser Gods with a mere glance. It would be similar to pouring a pot of boiling water onto some ants. Yet with monarch godhood, a Lesser God could fight a Consummate God; one could hardly imagine the power, psyche, and will that would be required for that.

For all intents and purposes, Bai Yin could work hard for his entire life and never succeed. It wasn't a matter of how much effort he spent on it, but rather the destiny and fate that existed in the god world.

Yang Qi couldn't help but admire Bai Yin for his tenacity, no matter how unrealistic he was being. And he wasn't going to be the one to burst his bubble. Eventually, Bai Yin would come to realize the truth on his own and decide to give up on aiming for monarch godhood.

"Ai. Just go ahead and apply to be an elite disciple. With your new position, you'll definitely be able to push your cultivation base higher and higher. You'll soon reach the mid Lesser God level, then the late and peak levels. At that point, you'll become a grand elder, and no one will be able to touch you." Bai Yin waved his hand dismissively, and Yang Qi left.

Before long, he was at a wide plane in the middle of the god kingdom, where a huge temple could be seen, which was the location where disciples would come to be promoted to the elite level. Of course, the only way to go from being an official disciple to an elite disciple was to first become a god. And then one had to pass certain tests.

Elite disciples were also broken up into ranks, which corresponded to the Lesser God levels of early, mid, late, and peak. In other words, it came down to a test of godhood.

A godhood rating of one would place one in the early Lesser God level. Four and five were the mid level. Six, seven, and eight were the late level. And nine was the peak.

A godhood rating of ten would make one a Common God.

Of course, that was for average disciples. There were some Lesser Gods who had godhood ratings that surpassed ten, and climbed as high as twelve or even fifteen. People like that who were still Lesser Gods were considered top geniuses who would receive special attention from the sect.

As for Yang Qi, he had spent the better part of a year working on his cultivation in the ninth floor of the Chaos Forge God-Shrine. During that time, he had gained much enlightenment regarding methods to control one's godhood. Because of that, he could make his godhood look to be whatever level he wanted it to be.

Upon arriving at the temple, he saw quite a few disciples coming and going. The House of God Ordainment was huge, and the god kingdom it controlled was so large it defied imagination. Because of that, there were always disciples coming to take the tests for promotion. In turn, that meant having a job in this place was even more lucrative than working in the Scripture Pavilion.

Upon entering, he caught sight of the disciples in charge of the place, who were standing there looking cold and indifferent.

"You two," Yang Qi said. "I've reached godly ascension and am here for my promotion."

"Oh? You reached godly ascension? Well, there are always disciples in the House of God Ordainment doing that. You'll have to wait your turn." Looking Yang Qi up and down, the disciple shook his head. "I'd say you'll have to wait for about a year."

Yang Qi waved his hand, causing godnotes to appear in the hands of both of the disciples. They suddenly looked a lot more polite than before.

"You obviously know how things work, boy. But you want to cut your wait time from a year to a month, you'll need to fork over ten more godnotes."

Yang Qi produced twenty godnotes and handed them over.

"In this case, you'll only need to wait for three days." The two disciples exchanged a glance.

Yang Qi produced twenty more godnotes, and the disciples nodded.

"Excellent. You don't need to wait at all. You can take the test right now. Follow us."

They led him deep into the temple, to a private chamber where three Common God grand elders were waiting.

"A disciple wanting to be promoted?" one of them asked.

"Yes," the disciples replied respectfully. Then one of them leaned over to Yang Qi and said, "These three grand elders deserve their due as well..."

"Alright," Yang Qi said, and he handed them a total of fifty godnotes.

The grand elders nodded. "Not bad. Not bad at all. Let's start the test right now." Even as the words left his mouth, a spell formation in front of him activated and a hexagramic image appeared. Yang Qi walked forward onto the formation, whereupon it began to assess him.

"Godhood rating one. Body substructure, life force power..." The spell formation went on to analyze him in detail. In response, the grand elders nodded, occasionally assessing his godhood themselves.

"Very good," one of the grand elders said. "Congratulations on becoming a god. Now, hand over your identity medallion."

"Alright."

The grand elder took the medallion and sent some godpower into it to scan Yang Qi's information. "Let's see here. Yang Qi. You joined the House of God Ordainment two years ago, and you're currently assigned to the second floor of the Scripture Pavilion."

"What?" one of the grand elders said, a look of surprise on his face. "Your name is Yang Qi?"

"That's right, I'm Yang Qi." Yang Qi looked at the grand elder and knew something fishy was going on. Smiling coldly inside, he surreptitiously sent a tiny stream of devil energy into the man to form a devil embryo.

'This is Yang Qi from the second floor of the Scripture Pavilion? But isn't he supposed to be dead? Wasn't he killed by the White-Haired Boxer King? What is he doing here? This is completely shocking! I have to go report this to the White-Haired Boxer King!' Obviously this grand elder was also an important person in the Dragon Society.

Clearing his throat, he said, "Something important just came up. You two continue with the assessment." Rising to his feet, he hurried out.

The other two grand elders didn't seem fazed. They continued with the assessment, and after about an hour passed, they both nodded.

"You definitely deserve to be an elite disciple. However, to get your promotion, you need to pay the requisite merit points. Unfortunately, you don't have enough merit points in your identity medallion. Look, it's obvious that you're anxious to become an elite disciple, so how about this. I can arrange for you to get those merit points right away. It will cost you five thousand godnotes, that's all. Then you'll meet all the requirements to be an elite disciple. What do you think?"

Yang Qi nodded. "That's fine."

These grand elders were obviously using their position for personal gain, but Yang Qi didn't care. After all, he could make as many godnotes as he needed.

There were plenty of disciples in the sect who had businesses related to providing merit points. For example, some disciples had a pressing need for certain magical treasures and would pay other disciples for them in merit points. Or sometimes disciples would just have too many merit points and would sell them for godnotes.

As long as one had a jade identity medallion to perform the transaction, anyone could make deals like that. And by adding commissions on top, many disciples could make a tidy profit from such business.

Yang Qi handed over the five thousand godnotes, and the deal was sealed.

A moment later, he was an elite disciple, with a new uniform. He was also given some medicinal pills and magical devices, as well as a few other random things. His position was now very different. At the very least, no one would consider simply trying to get rid of him. The penalty for killing an elite disciple was severe.

That much had been obvious from how the White-Haired Boxer King dealt with Meng Guo after learning about the death of the Lesser God from the Missions Sanctuary.

An important person in the sect might be able to turn a blind eye to the death of an official disciple, but not an elite disciple.

Now that Yang Qi was an elite disciple, he should be able to get a much better position in the sect.

For example, a job on the third floor of the Scripture Pavilion.

All he would have to do would be grease the wheels with the right grand elder.

Of course, although the Scripture Pavilion was a nice job, it couldn't compare to working in the Treasure Storage Warehouse, the Medicinal Pill Warehouse, or the Thrall Camp. Yang Qi was already considering trying to get assigned to work at those places.

Meanwhile, in the White-Haired Boxer King's mansion grotto, the same grand elder from before was just now entering for an audience.

"What's going on?" the White-Haired Boxer King said coolly. "Aren't you aware that I'm in seclusion?"

"Sir, I had to see you about that Yang Qi. He just showed up looking for a promotion!"

"Yang Qi? Which Yang Qi?" The White-Haired Boxer King was obviously unconvinced that the man was referring to the same Yang Qi he had 'killed'.

"The same Yang Qi from the second floor of the Scripture Pavilion. The friend of Jadefall. He hasn't been seen for the last year, so we assumed he'd been killed by you. But he showed up today as a god! And I'm afraid that by now, he's probably already an elite disciple."

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Chapter 1239: Jadefall Appears

"What did you just say?" the White-Haired Boxer King said, his eyes blank from shock. "He's not dead? How can he not be dead? I saw him dissolved by the toxic mist. There wasn't even a corpse left behind. How could he be back now? Was he resurrected?"

"I don't know. But he's reached godly ascension. The upside is that when we assessed him, his godhood rating was low. So you don't need to worry about that. He's still a nobody, so killing him should be as easy as squashing an ant."

WHACK!

The White-Haired Boxer King slapped the grand elder on the side of the face, much to the man's surprise.

"Sir, why did you hit me?"

"You think he'll be as easy to kill as an ant? He's much cleverer than that. He fooled even me! This entire thing was a big trick. The brat is obviously far, far stronger than he's letting on, so much so that he could fool me into thinking he was dead. And he even stole a Ten-Directions Many-Heavens Pill from me at the same time. That's the only explanation for why I couldn't divine the location of the pill. The fact that he dares to return to the sect now shows that he's even stronger than before, and isn't afraid of me." The White-Haired Boxer King had already put together all the pieces of the puzzle.

BOOM!

He stamped his foot into the ground, creating a small crater. "Fine. Fine, Yang Qi. You pulled the wool over my eyes. But now I see what happened. Exactly what remarkable ability did you use to do this?" Returning his attention to the grand elder, he said, "That godhood-assessing spell formation of yours is crap! If he could hide from me for over a year, do you really think it'd be hard for him to pass fake information into the formation? I couldn't kill him back then, so it's going to be even more difficult now. And now he's an elite disciple. To get rid of an elite disciple without a good reason is no easy task."

"True, it's not easy to kill an elite disciple." The grand elder didn't dare to say anything further. He was only an early Common God with a godhood rating of eleven. He could call the wind and summon the rain around Lesser Gods, but in the presence of the White-Haired Boxer King, he had to be very careful.

The White-Haired Boxer King was a mid Greater God, making him quite formidable. They were separated by five levels, which meant the White-Haired Boxer King could easily kill him, although how he would fare under the sect rules was a different matter.

Even worse, they were both members of the Dragon Society, which gave the White-Haired Boxer King even more authority over him.

"So what do we do now?" the grand elder asked.

"We do nothing. Jadefall went to the birthday celebration of the emperor of the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty, and while she was there, she earned the good graces of one of the imperial concubines. She was accepted as an adopted daughter, which means she's even more powerful in our sect now. Everyone is giving her triple the normal face! Yang Qi is one of her people, so if we actually kill him, not even our leader Dragon Floret could keep us safe."

"Jadefall is just getting more and more powerful," the grand elder said. "I can't believe she's the adopted daughter of an imperial concubine from the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty. How come everything goes so smoothly for her?"

"Because of her pet, that's all," the White-Haired Boxer King said. "Even the top experts from the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty were intrigued by the thing. I heard that some of them intentionally provoked her, only to meet defeat. No one can last for a single move against her pet. It's just too strong."

"Oh right. Was anyone from the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty able to identify the creature?"

"No. Not even the wise and knowledgeable high priest or prime minister have any idea what her pet is. For now, we just need to bide our time. Jadefall has returned, and it's only a matter of time before she meets with Yang Qi. If we make a move on him now, she would surely come to find out, and we would be in big trouble."

Meanwhile, Yang Qi had returned to the Scripture Pavilion to work on his cultivation and think about what position he wanted to aim for. The ancient records in the Scripture Pavilion had been incredibly useful so far, and he was interested in learning more. So staying put was an option.

Or he could go to the Thrall Camp. Considering he didn't need to worry about running out of godpower, it would be easy to work there.

The Treasure Storage Warehouse would be another good possibility, except that it was already under the control of powerful factions in the sect, which meant it wouldn't be easy for him to have much authority.

The Medicinal Pill Warehouse might work, except he didn't really need medicinal pills. In the end, it didn't seem that he needed to change positions at all. He didn't lack wealth, thus, it was probably best to just remain in the Scripture Pavilion, where he could relax and further his cultivation. That said, he was definitely interested in rising in the ranks of the House of God Ordainment. That would be the best way to get close to the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty, which was where he knew he could get another piece of the Mahātmā Jade.

Even as he was contemplating all these things, someone came to see him. It was Yang Zhan.

"Father, what are you doing here?" Yang Qi asked. At first glance he could see that Yang Zhan had reached godly ascension! He must have come across some good fortune of some sort.

"Hurry and come with me," Yang Zhan said. "I'm going to take you to see Jadefall. She returned some time ago, and has been asking to see you. But you've been gone for the past year. She's really made some major advancement. She was taken in as the adopted daughter of an imperial concubine from the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty, and is now a princess there! It's definitely nothing to look down on. Unfortunately, she now has a lot of suitors, which she finds annoying, so she wants your help to resolve the situation. By the way, how is your cultivation base? I heard that you—"

"Shh!" Yang Qi interrupted. "The less you say out loud the better. My cultivation base has improved significantly, but for now, I don't want to reveal that to anyone. I need to reach an even higher level of enlightenment, and be truly powerful and invincible."

"So you really have reached godly ascension!" Yang Zhan said, looking visibly delighted. "Brahma told me that you achieved Paramount will convergence even when you were a Quasi-God. As a god, you must be even more domineering."

"That's right. I've reached heights no one has ever reached before. There's definitely no one that can pose problems for me now. I know Jadefall has made some major advancements lately. Unfortunately, there are villains everywhere; people have been targeting me in the hopes of taking her down. I'm actually looking forward to meeting some of those people in person. Come on, let's go. It's been a long time since I've seen anyone I know. It's time for a reunion. I got a lot of incredible stuff while I was exploring the ruins in the Toxic Continent."

Yang Zhan nodded. "Let's go. I'll take you right to Jadefall."

"You lead the way!"

They flew out of the Scripture Pavilion and headed to a distant location in the god kingdom. Before, Yang Qi never would have been able to access places like this.

After all, there were locations that official disciples weren't allowed to go to. But now that he was an elite disciple, he could go to many places that had previously been restricted.

In the depths of the god kingdom, there were many experts flying about. Some were Common Gods, others were Greater Gods. Eventually, they caught sight of numerous palaces floating in the air, surrounded by clouds.

"They're all mansion grottos of the Consummate Gods," Yang Zhan said. "Only Consummate Gods are allowed to have residences here. Jadefall lives with her Master in a place called the Jade Daylily Paradise. That said, her Master is in a session of critical seclusion right now in the God-Ordaining Dais, so Jadefall is in charge."

"I read about some of this in the Great Classic of God Ordainment." The clouds looked like they were made from jade, and when they landed on them, they were firm. It was almost as if they were made from nephrite, and emitted a fragrant aroma as they walked along them. They stretched out for hundreds of kilometers in all directions, and were covered with buildings of all sorts.

"Who are you?" an armed female disciple said. The area was patrolled by elite disciples, all of them Lesser Gods. As soon as they saw a newcomer, they would stop them and ask for identification. However, as soon as she realized it was Yang Zhan, she politely offered a salute and said, "Well, if it isn't Mr. Yang Zhan. You're one of Jadefall's guests, right? Please, come this way."

With full courtesy, she led Yang Zhan and Yang Qi into the depths of the jade-colored clouds.

Upon entering one particular palace, the sounds of lovely traditional music reached their ears, as if someone were throwing a banquet.

"Is Jadefall throwing a party?" Yang Zhan murmured.

There were some young women who were attendants standing nearby, and one of them said, "That's right. There are some princes and princesses from the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty here, and Jadefall is entertaining them. And of course, there's some important people from the House of God Ordainment as well." Considering that Yang Qi wore the garments of a mere elite disciple, they obviously didn't think he qualified to attend the banquet. But if Jadefall had issued orders that he come, none of them would dare cause any problems.

They were escorted into the banquet itself, where they saw a host of young women in the middle of performing a dance. Seated at the surrounding tables were all sorts of important guests, who were chatting amongst themselves. There were also some people standing in various parts of the room talking to each other.

Beautiful female disciples drifted through the crowd, serving the guests. Considering how important the guests were, the servers were doing their best to make a good impression; if one of these guests took a liking to them, their days as a lowly disciple could be over.

Yang Qi immediately caught sight of Jadefall. She was in the seat of honor, the purrling nestled in her arms. Two years had passed and she looked better than ever, her aura strong and powerful. The purrling hadn't changed much, and just lay there lazily, looking around with a gleam of condescension in its eyes, as if it viewed the guests as little more than animals.

Then the purrling noticed Yang Qi; its eyes flashed and it started purring loudly.

'The purrling is incredible!' he thought. 'With one glance it realized I have monarch godhood.' In the past, the purrling had always looked at him with vague contempt. But now things were different. It seemed to be looking at him as if he were finally worthy of notice.

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Chapter 1240: An Equal to the Purrling?

The purrling had spotted Yang Qi's monarch godhood.

Yet again, he was convinced that the beast was simply too strong and invincible. Yang Qi was tens of thousands of times stronger than he had been in the impure lands, but he still didn't feel superior to the purrling.

As he and the purrling looked at each other, he suddenly felt that he could hear its voice, praising him for his monarch godhood.

The exchange made him feel as though his energy arts had advanced again, all because of the aura of the purrling. After all, the reason he had been able to combine the Unspoiled Body and the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth was because of the Purrfect God Art. Of course, enlightenment of the Great Necropolis God Art had something to do with it as well.

Those two remarkable abilities were the main reasons he had reached his current state.

"You're finally here, Yang Qi!" Jadefall said in delight. She rose to her feet and glided over to him. "Two years! It's been two years since I saw you last. You've reached godly ascension, I see. I also heard—"

She winked.

Obviously, she had been talking with Brahma and knew that Yang Qi had achieved Paramount will convergence as a Quasi-God. And that meant he had started forming monarch godhood. Although it looked like his godhood was weak and unimpressive, she knew the truth.

She understood more than almost anyone just how amazingly powerful and strong Yang Qi really was.

Jadefall had changed a lot in the past two years, and met some very important people. She knew more than many people exactly how terrifying monarch godhood was. For example, there were many top young ones from the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty who sought to form it, yet none had ever succeeded.

Meanwhile, Yang Qi was assessing Jadefall and could see that she was an early Common God. However, her godhood had undergone some special tempering, which meant she was definitely above average. She actually had one large piece of godhood surrounded by numerous smaller pieces.

'That comes from a unique technique, and is called child-mother godhood.' Yang Qi recognized it from some of the ancient records he had perused. Although it couldn't compare to monarch godhood, it was still something very difficult to cultivate, and required going through numerous transformations. There were actually eighty-one different trials to be passed before one could succeed with it, but the result was godhood that surpassed the ordinary kind by many times over.

There were many types of godhood, and while monarch godhood was considered the strongest, there were other impressive versions, including child-mother godhood, seven-apertures godhood, myriad-colors godhood, shapeless godhood, spirit-communion godhood, and more.

Normal cultivators would have ordinary godhood. But by cultivating special techniques, one could alter their constitution and form unique types of godhood.

It was similar to how, in the impure lands, there were people who cultivated the three thousand unique constitutions.

In that respect, people with monarch godhood were like Fateless Ones.

The other kinds of godhood were like the Eternal Ones, Fortuned Ones, Reincarnated Ones, Devouring Ones, Slashing Ones, Leading Ones, and so forth. And they were all superior to the ordinary type.

Neither Yang Zhan, Brahma, the Shepherd, or even Doom could form special types of godhood. It wasn't because they weren't unique and special, but because they lacked the proper resources. That said, you can still mend the pen after the sheep are lost. If they got the proper resources in the future, it was always possible for them to form a unique type of godhood.

Monarch godhood required one to take action in the Quasi-God level, but other types could be formed over time.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is my good friend, Yang Qi," Jadefall announced. "And now, I'll introduce all of you to him. This is Princess Shan Luo from the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty."

"Greetings," Yang Qi said. The woman being introduced to him was a Greater God who glanced at him as though she were vastly superior to him, obviously viewing him as little more than an animal.

She nodded, barely looking at him. After all, he was a mere Lesser God, so to a Greater God, he was like nothing. And she was a princess from the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty. Even Greater Gods from the House of God Ordainment would treat her with respect, and wouldn't dare to do anything other than treat her as an equal.

Jadefall went around and introduced everyone to Yang Qi. They all nodded without much fanfare. Obviously, they were giving face to Jadefall, otherwise they would have just kicked Yang Qi out.

It was a real disappointment to have a measly Lesser God ruining the banquet like this.

Yang Qi didn't care. He wouldn't make a big fuss over a minor situation like this, nor would he do anything impolite.

After the introductions were over, the festivities continued and Yang Qi sat down near Jadefall. Delicacies and alcohol were served, the latter being god liquor, which was brewed with special medicinal ingredients from the god world. In fact, most types of god liquor were actually created in pill furnaces and were very aromatic.

Unfortunately, the atmosphere in the room was now different. It was a bit tense and awkward.

It was like a case in which a group of royalty were having dinner only to have a beggar come in and start stuffing his face.

The tense atmosphere continued for about an hour before someone finally couldn't take it anymore. It was a Greater God from the House of God Ordainment, a person on roughly the same level as the White-Haired Boxer King. He wore a black robe and was fiddling with a silver dagger as he looked at Yang Qi and said, "Jadefall, this friend of yours is an elite disciple, right? Where exactly does he currently work?"

"The second floor of the Scripture Pavilion," Yang Qi said. "Although, I've been thinking of looking for a position somewhere else."

"Oh? The second floor of the Scripture Pavilion isn't particularly impressive. And it's definitely not suitable for an elite disciple. I have some friends in the Law-Enforcement God-Palace I could talk to. Why not go work there? You could earn a lot of extra profit, if you know what I mean. What do you think?"

From the haughty tone of the man's voice, it seemed like he was offering to give charity.

He wasn't exaggerating about the 'extra profit'. Disciples in the Law-Enforcement God-Palace could make a lot of money, and could even randomly arrest people 'on accident', only to release them for money under the table. All disciples gave them face, because they knew that causing problems for them was a good way to get arrested.

The House of God Ordainment had strict rules, but there were always ways to game the system.

Most ordinary disciples just wanted to avoid trouble, so if they were arrested, they would rather pay a bit of money to get off the hook.

Of course, it wasn't easy to become a disciple in the Law-Enforcement God-Palace. Most applicants weren't necessarily very strong, and had to rely on powerful backers to make any headway. There were also faction struggles to deal with, as well as blackmail.

Yang Qi had considered trying to join the organization, but didn't feel like he had the proper backing. And considering this black-robed fellow was offering him help like charity, it was obvious he wouldn't accept.

"That won't be necessary," he said, making sure to keep his tone neither servile nor overbearing. "I heard there's a test you can take to join the Law-Enforcement God-Palace, if I want to, I'll just apply that way."

"Is that so?" said someone sitting next to the black-robed man. It was another important person from the House of God Ordainment. "You're very confident, boy. Do you know how many people take the test to join the Law-Enforcement God-Palace? And do you know how many people get crippled during the process? Some disciples even die! That test is so hard that it makes the Bloodgore Trials seem like nothing."

Another expert from the House of God Ordainment laughed and said, "Come now, Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger, you're a holy child of the Law-Enforcement God-Palace. You even serve as a proctor on the test. If this boy wants to take the exam to become a law enforcement disciple, why not just administer it right now? If he passes, he's qualified to join. If he fails, well, he'll just have to deal with the embarrassment."

All of the experts from the House of God Ordainment were Greater Gods, and would normally outrank Jadefall. It was only because she was now a princess of the House of God Ordainment that they were forced to try to get on her good side. But brownnosing aside, they were all disgusted by Yang Qi and wanted to see him put in his place.

"That should work," said the black-robed Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger, nodding. Looking back at Yang Qi, he said, "As it happens, I'm one of the proctors of that test. Why don't I assess your skills right here and now?"

Even as the words left his mouth, he sent a stream of silver energy flying out of his finger, which converged into the shape of several tiny silver daggers that then clumped together into what looked almost like a swallow that flew back and forth.

"What kind of a test is it?" Yang Qi asked casually.

"It's simple," Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger said. "This swallow is made from a stream of blade energy. It's a manifestation of the Thirty-Six Stances of the Sweeping Silver Swallow. If you can block it, you pass the test. I have the paperwork to sign you up right here. Alright?"

"Sure. Let's begin." Yang Qi didn't seem at all concerned about what was coming.

"The ignorant are often brave." That was what everyone was thinking. Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger was a holy child from the Law-Enforcement God-Palace, and everyone knew what people from the Law-Enforcement God-Palace were like. They specialized in killing and warfare. And Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger's weapons had surely killed innumerable devil-gods and experts. When people spoke of his skill with his daggers, they would often say, "When gods see him, they fret. When ghosts see him, they cry."

A single scrap of that blade energy would be enough to slaughter countless Common Gods, and likely even kill an early Greater God.

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Chapter 1241: Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger

Seeing that so many people were watching the events played out, Yang Qi said, "That's some pretty shoddy blade energy, Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger. In fact, it won't even be able to hurt me."

His words caused an immediate stir. The visiting nobility from the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty and the top experts from the House of God Ordainment were all visibly stunned. Now more than ever, they despised and hated Yang Qi, and thought him to be a cocky and arrogant punk who deserved to be violently put in his place.

"Shoddy?" Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger said, his eyes widening with rage. For someone to call his blade energy shoddy was an outright insult and humiliation. "I'll show you some shoddy blade energy!"

Rotating his finger, he caused the silver swallow of blade energy to beat its wings and whoosh right over to Yang Qi, giving him no chance to dodge or jump out of the way.

"Purr. Purr..."

A bubble expanded out of Yang Qi, and when the streams of blade energy hit it, their momentum vanished as surely as the statue of an ox tossed into the sea. Then the blade energy remained stuck in the bubble like a fly in amber.

Purr!

The bubble rotated, shrinking down until it was the size of a hand. And right in the middle of it was a conglomeration of blade energy that looked like a swallow, sitting there completely unmoving.

Yang Qi shook his head. "As I said, very shoddy blade energy."

"What?!" Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger blurted, leaping to his feet and glaring at Yang Qi. "That wasn't your power. That was the power of the purrling!"

The people from the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty were first shocked, but then they looked over at Jadefall and came to the conclusion that it really wasn't Yang Qi defending himself, but rather the purrling. After all, only the purrling could have negated Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger's blade energy so easily. Otherwise, there was no way a measly Lesser God could have done anything other than be slaughtered.

"Jadefall," said one of the people from the House of God Ordainment, "Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger was just administering a test. It's not appropriate for you to secretly help out. It's a good thing this is just an informal banquet. If we had been in the Law-Enforcement God-Palace, you would be in big trouble for breaking the rules."

"If the purrling had done anything, it would've been a lot more impressive," Jadefall said. "Yang Qi learned that ability from the purrling. Not even I've been able to do that. The truth is that Yang Qi was the one who helped the purrling hatch from its godspore, and got some of its quintessence in the process. What happened now was all him, and I had nothing to do with it. Besides, I can't order the purrling around. It's my friend, not my pet."

Purr, purr...

Even as the words left Jadefall's mouth, the purrling looked over at Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger and let out two purrs, as if to say, "You think I would waste any effort on a loser like you?"

The derision in its eyes couldn't have been clearer.

Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger was furious, but didn't dare to make a move on the purrling. He knew that if the purrling wanted to, it could kill him without any effort. After all, it was the reason why Jadefall had such a powerful position now.

"I never would've guessed that a puny elite disciple would be able to do something like that," Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger said, glaring at Yang Qi. "Apparently I was mistaken. However, if you think you can use tricks like that to join the Law-Enforcement God-Palace, you're mistaken. Next month, we'll be holding the yearly test to enter the Law-Enforcement God-Palace. If you have what it takes, then you should participate. And now, Jadefall, I'll take my leave."

Swish!

He turned into a stream of silver light that shot into the air and vanished.

"Apparently, Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger is quite a sore loser," one of the princesses from the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty said. Looking at Yang Qi with an intrigued expression, she said, "Your name is Yang Qi, right? Your energy arts aren't bad. Please, allow me to offer a toast."

She waved her finger, and a cup of alcohol lifted off the table and floated through the air toward Yang Qi. It seemed like a very casual move, but Yang Qi could see that the cup was no ordinary object. It was like an ancient mountain of immense size and weight, and it nearly overwhelmed his senses with the pressure it emanated.

This was the result of a secret magic of the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty, something called God-King Mountain-Range Suppression.

However, all Yang Qi did was send out a pulse of psychic power, and the immense pressure vanished. Then he flicked his finger, sending out a bubble that caught the vessel and pulled it over to his hand. Taking it, he drained it in one gulp, then nodded. "That's some nice liquor. Many thanks to you, Princess. I'm eternally grateful."

With the wave of his hand, he sent the cup flying back to the table, encased in a bubble. When it settled down in front of the princess, it actually sank down into the table, causing her expression to flicker. Then, she smiled radiantly. "Well done! You're very impressive for a Lesser God. Considering how strong you are, I'd say you're on the same level as the geniuses we produce in the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty. Jadefall, this friend of yours is amazing. No wonder you want to keep him safe. This was a wonderful banquet. For now, we'll leave. When you have a chance, why not bring this young friend of yours over to the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty for us to entertain him?"

"Absolutely," Jadefall said, her eyebrows raised with delight. "Allow me to see you out."

The banquet was over, and before long, things quieted down. Although many of the guests had already come to view Yang Qi in a new light, there were others that were still convinced he was only impressive because he could use the power of the purrling.

Of course, that was intentional on Yang Qi's part. He didn't want to do anything that would attract too much attention. If he had wanted to, he could have crushed Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger into a bloody paste with a single move. But killing him like that wouldn't have been of any benefit at all.

Instead, he would wait until he could further refine his monarch godhood, and also acquire another piece of the Mahātmā Jade.

Jadefall's mansion was now peaceful and quiet. Looking very excited, she led him into a private chamber where they sat down to converse.

"Did you really form monarch godhood, Yang Qi?" she asked.

"I did. No joke." He smiled faintly. "You can tell it's true from how the purrling reacted to me."

Having heard his confirmation, Jadefall sucked in a breath of surprise. "You're really amazing. We absolutely, positively must not let word of this get out. It would bring absolute disaster. At a certain point, a genius cultivator will become so valuable that he becomes a treasure that people want to take for their own."

"Trust me, I know," Yang Qi replied. "It's similar to the purrling. The purrling has attracted a lot of attention, even from the higher-ups in the House of God Ordainment."

"You're right. There's one particular old-timer, a Consummate God, who wants to take the purrling away from me to study it. When I refused, he got very angry. But I had no choice other than to offend him. In fact, he's Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger's master. His name is Exalted Autarch Martial-Apex. He's extremely powerful, just on the verge of reaching Unbounded will convergence."

"Exalted Autarch Martial-Apex? A Consummate God?" Yang Qi nodded. "I could beat an early Consummate God in a fight, but it would be a lot more difficult fighting one in the mid level. And if I faced one in the late or peak level, I would have no other option but to flee. If I ran into a Perfect God, I would definitely end up dead. In any case, don't worry. I think the purrling would be able to handle a Perfect God. And although it looks on the surface like the purrling hasn't grown in the past two years in the god world, I think it has."

Purr. Purr...

The purrling's reaction to Yang Qi's assessment seemed to be, "You do understand me, boy."

"Jadefall, it seems to me that you're not strong enough. Although, it's not as if improving one's cultivation base is something that can happen overnight. Thankfully, I happened to explore a very dangerous location recently, and I got some good treasures. If I can refine them, they'll make great secret weapons for you and the rest of my people."

"What exactly is it?" Jadefall asked.

"I have some hypertoxic crystalline skulls, infused with undying psyches and toxic spatial nodes." He pulled out a necklace of beads, each of which looked like a black, thumb-sized skull. There were thirteen in total, and they looked completely terrifying.

"Each skull is equivalent to an early Consummate God, and is infused with deadly toxins. It was very difficult to seal them like this. Next up, I want to use a grafting magic to try to convert them into hypertoxic puppets. Everyone who has one will essentially have a Consummate God as a bodyguard. You watch me work, and pay close attention to the godpower fluctuations. It'll be very beneficial to you."

"Alright," Jadefall said, watching him closely.

Yang Qi plucked at the necklace as if it were a stringed instrument, causing tiny sound waves to roll out and enter the skulls. They contained spatial profundities that Jadefall, despite being a Common God, had difficulty understanding.

Obviously, Paramount will was required to do something like this, but Jadefall was still in the peak Terrifying level.

Those sound waves were from multiple sources: the Sovereign Lord's Holy and Far-Reaching Consummate Omnicurse, the True-Devil Unspoiled-by-Myriad-Kalpas-and-Tribulations Body, and the Sage Monarch Grand Magic.

The spirit controls the psyche.

The psyche controls the soul.

The soul controls everything.

In the briefest of moments, Yang Qi's spirit fused with the undying psyches of the skulls, and in that moment, he could sense the brutal, vicious, and deadly emotions that existed within them.

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Chapter 1242: Consummate Toxic Devils

Yang Qi infused his will into the skulls, using a variety of daoist techniques to cleanse and purify them. The wills of Consummate Gods erupted from the skulls, but he kept them in check with the Purrfect God Art.

Soon, the skulls were emitting mournful howls.

Unfortunately, they had undying wills from almighty beings of ancient times, and were not the type that could be easily subdued. They fought fiercely, refusing to become puppets under Yang Qi's control. In fact, they were filled with defiant emotions.

They would defy heaven, defy earth, defy men, defy gods, and defy buddhas.

They wanted to poison all living beings to death and turn all creation into a world of toxicity.

Yang Qi pushed harder with his will in an attempt to crush them, but they only fought back with increasing ferocity. So far, not a single one had come under his control.

"Very tenacious," he murmured. Even after three days and three nights had passed, he made no progress. In fact, the skulls were emitting a toxic gas that filled the area and would have melted the palace if Yang Qi didn't keep it in check.

This place wasn't nearly as tough as the Chaos Forge God-Shrine, so poison like this would destroy it in short order.

These skulls had the power of Consummate Gods, thus they couldn't be easily converted into puppets. Given Yang Qi's strength, all he could really do was seal them. It was similar to the relationship between an emperor and the common people. The common people could generally accept a tax, but if the emperor's forces went around pillaging and murdering, then the common people wouldn't tolerate it and would rise up in revolt.

The skulls could tolerate being sealed, but in terms of being assimilated, they would instinctively resist it.

The skulls howled as Yang Qi tried to devour them with his godpower.

"Heaven-Devouring Grand Magic!" A primal-chaos elder-snake flew out into the open to devour the skulls. However, the skulls simply opened their mouths and emitted a powerful gravitational force in an attempt to devour the snake. Instantly, they began to fight back and forth fiercely.

Yang Qi was going all out, but so far he wasn't making any progress at all in turning the skulls into puppets.

If he failed, then the instant they managed to break free, they would try to devour him.

"Mahākaruṇā of Heaven and Earth; Reincarnation Dao of Gods; Transformations of Yin and Yang; Chiliocosmic Chain Reaction; Many Heavens God Seal; Be Suppressed!"

The Many Heavens God Seal appeared and he shoved it out violently toward the skulls.

At the same time, he exhaled a burst of sagefire that surrounded the skulls, emitting crackling sounds the entire time. Creating sagefire of this level was a big drain on his godpower. In fact, even normal Consummate Gods wouldn't be able to sustain the drainage. Thankfully, Yang Qi had the God Legion Seal.

Specifically, this sagefire was the Flame of Hope, which could fill the void and bring hope to countless living beings in the universe.

The purrling looked on, licking its paws as if in derision, as if the wastage of energy was childish.

Jadefall was very familiar with the purrling after dealing with it for all these years, and knew how it worked. "Purrling, Yang Qi has been trying for three days and three nights, and has wasted a lot of godpower. Why don't you help out?"

"Purr, purr..." It made two purring sounds that seemed to mean: "Helping Yang Qi would be a big waste. If he does it himself, he'll benefit a lot. Subduing those skulls will provide a big tempering effect to his godpower."

In the end, it was a contest of wills.

Seven days and nights passed, and Yang Qi's vital energy was getting stronger. His cultivation base was being pushed to the limit, and as a result, he was actually making good progress. At a certain point, he pushed with explosive force, causing sparks to shower down into the skulls, filling their eyes with the Flame of Hope and causing their auras to weaken.

Yang Qi was finally gaining control.

Those seven days and nights had been a torment for Yang Qi, and had involved wasting an indeterminable amount of godpower. Even if a thousand Consummate Gods joined forces to try to do the same thing, they would fail.

Yet he still hadn't succeeded in dealing with the skulls.

What was worse, Yang Qi could tell that if the right expert came along, someone much stronger than him, that person could take the skulls away from him very easily.

He exhaled some godpower onto the skulls, and five more days and nights passed. The skulls were now a pure golden color instead of pitch black. They were still filled with toxins, but those toxins were being converted into something that belonged to the legion of gods.

Next, he sent some of the energy of the Unspoiled Body into the golden skulls, filling them with countless tribulations and making them stronger and tougher than ever.

He flicked his finger, and a host of tiny, golden godmammoths flew into the skulls, filling them with the immense power of the King of Godmammoths.

The thirteen skulls had been impressive to begin with, but had been slightly lacking in raw power. But now Yang Qi was imbuing them with such immense force that they would truly be invincible going forward.

But Yang Qi wasn't done yet. He began inscribing the skulls with spell formations that were filled with his knowledge of the dao of heaven and enlightenment of the chiliocosm of worlds. Yang Qi was expending blood, sweat, and tears to turn these skulls into a powerful magical treasure.

In fact, it was the first time in the god world that he was forging a treasure.

Magical treasures needed the right materials, and these thirteen skulls had formed naturally, and were a fusion of the wills of almighty experts and spatial toxins. They were like uncut jade, and Yang Qi was like a sculptor.

Purr. Purr...

Yang Qi next used the Purrfect God Art to create thirteen bubbles around the thirteen skulls. Then an image of the Great Necropolis appeared, into which he interred them.

The Great Necropolis God Art could bury the legion of gods. The Purrfect God Art was mysteriously unfathomable.

Now they had been combined into this magical treasure.

As the process continued, Yang Qi realized that, within the depths of the thirteen skulls, there was some unidentifiable object forming.

Around this time, it seemed the purrling finally wanted to join in, and it spat out a series of bubbles that wrapped up the thirteen skulls.

Yang Qi watched as the skulls shrank down until they were the size of dust, impossible to see with the naked eye, but thousands of times stronger than before.

'So strong. Too strong!" Yang Qi looked over at the purrling, still having no idea what it was. In fact, if someone had said it was the King of Godmammoths, he would have been happy to believe it.

That said, there was no way the King of Godmammoths looked like a little pink piglet.

"Got it!"

The purrling had just made the skulls vastly stronger, saving Yang Qi upwards of a thousand years of hard work.

Normally, that's how long it would have taken him to properly refine them into the treasure he wanted them to be.

Now, the skulls landed on his hand, transforming into a string of golden prayer beads.

With the flick of his wrist, he sent the skulls shooting out, which then grew bodies and limbs until they were golden skeletons, bursting with immense power. Their faces seemed filled with fury, grief, sorrow, and joy, all at the same time. They were like devil-gods with no godhood, who would kill enemies instinctively.

And they were comparable to Consummate Gods.

Yang Qi had created a true magical treasure.

"Incredible," he murmured. At his direction, the golden devil-gods ripped at the space around them, creating a black vortex that swept out in all directions.

"It worked," Jadefall said. "Those golden skeletons are about as strong as my Master. You really found some amazing materials to work with."

Yang Qi nodded. "They can be used for self-defense, but not cultivation. My Sage Monarch Consortium needs something just like this."

"Your consortium has been growing," Jadefall said, "and I've been supporting it from behind the scenes while you've been gone." She watched Yang Qi pull the skeletons back into skull form, then said, "You don't need something like that?"

He laughed. "No, I don't. And neither do you. With the purrling on your side, no one will be able to harm you. I'll give these prayer beads to Doom, the Shepherd, and my father. They can use them to defend against Consummate Gods, and accomplish dangerous missions for the sect. Within a few dozen years, a hundred at most, we'll be able to form a Sage Monarch Society within the House of God Ordainment."

"I'd say you're strong enough to do that right now," Jadefall said.

"I could, but what's the point of forming a tiny society?" He shook his head. "I want something big. Oh, by the way, I heard the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty has a piece of the Mahātmā Jade."

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Chapter 1243: Taking the Law Enforcement Disciple Tes

Looking very serious, Jadefall said, "That's right. I heard that the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty has a piece of the Mahātmā Jade, too. Unfortunately, nobody can make any use of it, and no research into it has produced any results. That said, it's still viewed as a priceless treasure, and I'm fully aware that you need it. In fact, it's exactly why I agreed to be adopted by that imperial concubine.

"But listen to me, Yang Qi. You absolutely, positively must not entertain any thoughts of trying to steal the jade from the dynasty. They have countless warding magics and experts guarding it. If you fall into their hands, you'll never escape."

"Don't worry about that. I know I'm not strong enough to try stealing anything from the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty." Although Yang Qi wasn't particularly familiar with the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty, he knew that if they could keep the House of God Ordainment in check, they were obviously formidable.

Right now, he couldn't even break into the House of God Ordainment's treasure storehouse; there was simply too much security.

In fact, that was also the reason why Yang Qi didn't work on his daoist techniques in the sect's god kingdom, nor did he attempt breakthroughs there.

'Now that I know for sure there's a piece of the jade there,' he thought, 'I need to think of a way to get to it. Any other type of treasure, I can do without. But I absolutely must have that jade. By using the principles of mutual augmentation and suppression to combine it with the God Legion Seal, I can break through fate and defy heaven.' After thinking for a moment, he said, "Considering you're the adopted daughter of an imperial concubine, it shouldn't be too hard for me to eventually get into the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty. For now, we don't need to worry about it too much."

"Alright. By the way, are you really considering taking the test to become a law enforcement disciple? The Law-Enforcement God-Palace is a good place to make some extra profit, but considering you can make your own godnotes and godstones, I don't see why that would be important to you."

Yang Qi nodded. "You're right, but think about it for a moment. There are other benefits that would come with working in the Law-Enforcement God-Palace. It's an independent entity among all of the various factions in the sect, and if I can get in there, recruit some disciples onto my side, and eventually gain power, it would be a lot easier to keep you and the rest of my people safe. And the more important I am in the House of God Ordainment, the more likely I'll be received with favor by the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty. In contrast, if we don't get power like that in the House of God Ordainment, then it will be all the more easier for people to frame us for crimes."

"How do you intend to seize power? I'm just worried that if you get in, the other disciples will cause problems for you. It's not uncommon for disciples to pass the test, but cross the wrong people and end up imprisoned. The disciples of the Law-Enforcement God-Palace are all very crafty, and I'm worried that if you get involved in scheming against them, it could negatively affect your cultivation base."

"Why would I get involved in schemes against them?" Yang Qi said. He chuckled. "I can even infect Greater Gods with my devil embryos, turning them into faithful followers. That's the fastest way to do it."

Yang Qi was very adept with the Heaven-God Hell-Exterminating Devil Embryo now, and could easily use it to manipulate a person's faith. He could even use it to secretly make them loyal to him.

Yang Qi was already strong enough in terms of cultivation base and psyche, but when you added in the God Legion Seal, he was completely invincible.

He could even take control of Greater Gods!

Furthermore, the God Legion Seal needed the faith of gods.

It already contained such faith, which was its ultimate foundation. However, after the seal broke apart, a new legion of gods had risen up that had never even seen the seal, nor offered faith to the Sovereign Lord. And Yang Qi was thinking of making a new God Legion Seal.

The simplest way to go about that was to force gods into offering him faith, then sending that faith into the seal. Thankfully, there were a lot of gods in the House of God Ordainment. Even Lesser Gods were still gods, and were considered part of the legion of gods.

It was after becoming a god himself that Yang Qi had unraveled some of the profound mysteries of the God Legion Seal. It was only now starting to reveal its true potential.

He and Jadefall sat there talking for a bit longer before he left. After he was gone, Jadefall called in Yang Zhan, Brahma, the Shepherd, and the others to instruct them about the golden skull necklace. With it, they were far better equipped to deal with any challenges that might come their way.

With the power of a Consummate God to protect them, what did they have to be afraid of? In the god world, Greater Gods were important people, while Consummate Gods were nobility.

Afterward, everyone went their separate ways to work on whatever endeavors they were involved in. All of them were also working to improve their cultivation and gain footholds of power within the House of God Ordainment.

A few days later, Yang Qi showed up at the main square in front of the Law-Enforcement God-Palace.

The place was packed with innumerable disciples, all here to take the test.

Every year, the Law-Enforcement God-Palace administered an examination to choose new disciples. Whoever fought their way to the top would have new work as a law enforcement disciple.

The job of the law enforcement disciples was simple: enforce the law! And they were given free rein to fight and kill however was necessary to make sure that the laws were upheld.

Of course, it was a given that the elders of the Law-Enforcement God-Palace would take advantage of the situation to turn a bit of a profit.

Plenty of people would rely on relationships, bribes, or clever schemes to get into the Law-Enforcement God-Palace. But Yang Qi didn't plan to rely on any such tactics; instead, he planned to rely only on his skill. After all, if one used underhanded means to get in, and people had evidence of that, it was an easy way to get thrown in jail. And right now, he knew that a lot of people had their eye on him.

'There are so many disciples in the House of God Ordainment!' he thought. They had converged on the main square like locusts, covering the ground and giving rise to a hubbub of conversation.

Everyone was very tense considering the rules governing the test. In the past, there had been disciples who performed so poorly that they were beaten within an inch of their lives and imprisoned, or even turned into thralls.

"Everybody line up!" shouted a disciple from the Law-Enforcement God-Palace. "Get into groups of ten thousand, just like in the Bloodgore Trials!"

"Provide your name and pay the ten godnote registration fee!"

Godnotes were flowing into the coffers of the Law-Enforcement God-Palace, and the elders were grinning from ear to ear because of how much they were profiting.

Yang Qi paid his godnotes and got into his assigned group, then listened carefully to the instructions being provided by the grand elder.

"Anyone can participate in the test to join the Law-Enforcement God-Palace," the grand elder said. "Just be aware that there will be casualties. Of course, there won't be as many deaths as in the Bloodgore Trials. After all, you disciples are the foundation of the House of God Ordainment. If you feel that you can't go on any longer, you can always forfeit now. For the first part of the test, you'll head into a unique dimension which we call the Heaven-Devil Zone. There are countless heaven-devil kings inside, and you have six hours to kill them all. Each of you is required to collect three souls from heaven-devil kings. Remember, this dimension isn't a part of the House of God Ordainment. The heaven-devils inside are all devil-gods that originally come from the ancient Hell of Heaven-Devils. It just so happens that our House of God Ordainment figured out a way to enter this place, and decided to use it as a training ground. Six hours after you enter, you'll automatically be teleported out. If you die before then, your corpse will be teleported out, unless you're devoured by a heaven-devil. If there is no corpse to teleport out, you'll never leave. You're free to leave of your own accord now, but once you're in the Heaven-Devil Zone, you'll be stuck there until the teleportations begin."

After the introduction was over, not a single disciple chose to leave.

Truth be told, Yang Qi didn't need this explanation, as the details were recorded in the Great Classic of God Ordainment. He knew that the Heaven-Devil Zone had originally been created by armies of heaven-devils in ancient times, although it had changed over the years.

It was filled with heaven-devils and heaven-devil kings. The ordinary heaven-devils were equivalent to Quasi-Gods, while the heaven-devil kings were like full gods. Although one of the prerequisites to taking part in the examination was to be a god, the truth was that even people like that who ended up mobbed by a group of Quasi-God heaven-devils would likely perish. In the impure lands, the psychic power of the heaven-devils from the Unrestrained Heaven was legendary, and they were known to easily kill immortal cultivators. So there was little need to mention what heaven-devils in the god world would be like.

When the elder saw that no one was backing down, he shrugged his shoulders and activated the spell formation. A furious wind sprang up as the portal activated, and before an incense stick's worth of time could pass, they arrived at their destination.

It was so large that it was impossible to gauge exactly how big it was. Off in the distance were the heaven-devils, most of whom looked like enormous birds with human bodies. They pulsed with devil energy, and were so numerous they were impossible to count. And they seemed to be waiting for something. Yang Qi and the other disciples immediately realized that they were like food that had been thrown out in front of these hungry heaven-devils.

There were some who didn't look like birds. Some were three-headed, six-armed creatures with armor and weapons. Others looked human. Regardless, as soon as they saw the disciples arrive, they howled and began to get in formation.

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Chapter 1244: Easy

The Heaven-Devil Zone was filled with heaven-devils that were rushing toward them like a cloud of locusts. And they weren't advancing individually, but sticking together in formation.

"Everybody scatter!" shouted one of the disciples. "Don't stick together. These heaven-devils are too strong. Focus on taking out the heaven-devil kings. Remember, all you have to do is get three souls and stay safe for six hours until they teleport us out."

Whooosh!

Some of the disciples charged forth to meet the incoming heaven-devils. Those heaven-devils that had developed godhood were called heaven-devil kings, and the only way to pass this test was to collect the souls of three such creatures.

Of course, everyone knew that this was only the first stage of the test. Law enforcement disciples started out as veterans of numerous battles, so it was a given that there would be more parts to the test.

RUMBLE!

Looking out, Yang Qi saw that there was a group of several hundred thousand heaven-devils who were in a formation that made them an enormous devil hand rumbling toward the disciples.

Devil energy surged around it, and flames burned, making it obvious that it was strong enough to kill even gods.

When heaven-devils got into formation, they could produce results that vastly surpassed what humans were capable of. Humans could power huge formations, but because their hearts would never be completely in unison, the results were less desirable. The only exception would be if a sect created an army of thralls to do the job.

When humans became gods, they became more unique and independent than ever, which precluded them from acting like soldiers who simply followed orders. And of course, they would never agree to live and die as a group.

But heaven-devils could do that. They were born as devils, and under the direction of the heaven-devil kings, they could easily form into huge, unified groups that could focus their godpower to deadly effect.

As the enormous devil hand rumbled forth, some of the disciples were too slow, and were crushed to death, whereupon the heaven-devils devoured their godhood.

Bam. Bam. Bam.

As Yang Qi saw the heaven-devils approaching, he realized that the group of disciples around him were like fish food, floating in the water, just waiting for a fish to gobble it up.

There were actually thousands of heaven-devils in this huge group, and even just the cries that escaped their lips were enough to strike fear into the hearts of the disciples.

'The perfect opportunity!' Yang Qi thought. Taking advantage of the chaos among the disciples, he turned into a beam of light and vanished without a trace. When he reappeared, he was right in the middle of the heaven-devils and their roiling devil energy. Waving his sleeve, he sucked in eight heaven-devil kings, and before any of the others realized what was happening, he disappeared again.

Yang Qi wasn't interested in carrying out a mass slaughter here, as it would attract too much attention. He just wanted to finish the mission. Planning ahead in case unforeseen circumstances arose, he took eight heaven-devil kings instead of the required three, then went into hiding.

Meanwhile, the enormous heaven-devil army was spreading out everywhere. Some of them had entered a formation that resembled an ancient bell, whose tolling was so deadly it actually killed some of the disciples. It was no exaggeration to say that this test was deadly.

And there weren't just early Lesser Gods. Yang Qi had spotted some who were in the late level, some in the peak, and even a handful of Common Gods.

Swish!

All of a sudden, a stream of sword light slashed into the bell formation, causing it to crumble. Yang Qi looked over to find a young man of about fifteen or sixteen years of age who was already a Lesser God with a godhood rating of thirteen.

Normally speaking, people with godhood ratings over ten were Common Gods, so the fact that this young man was still just a Lesser God went to show that he was very powerful, and had a lot of potential. Even stranger, when Yang Qi looked at him, it was as if he wasn't a single person, but rather a split between yin and yang, a combination of the sun and moon. Yin begets yang, yang begets yin. Harnessing that principle could lead to vastly superior power.

The young man had a jade sword, and seemed completely at one with it. When he wielded it, the sword light was like strands of silk that slashed this way and that, allowing him to cut his way through the formation right toward one of the heaven-devil kings. Without a hint of mercy, he cut it down, absorbing its soul into his sword.

Unfortunately, that attracted the attention of over a hundred heaven-devil kings who joined forces to launch a massive palm attack, creating a huge devil hand that slammed into his sword light. The sword light instantly went dark, and the young man tumbled backward.

The young man regained his footing and sent forth another beam of sword light.

Unfortunately, the heaven-devil kings shifted their formation, creating a huge eye that glared at the young man in a deadly attack.

'A heaven-devil-eye,' Yang Qi thought. He could tell that the young man was at a big disadvantage, facing so many heaven-devils. And in formation as a devil-eye, they could definitely slaughter even Common Gods.

After all, Yang Qi knew that these heaven-devil kings were actually ghost-eye heaven-devils, which could unleash psychic attacks that would devastate all sorts of living creatures.

Among the seventy-two monarchs, there had been one named King Ghost-Eye, who was an exalted figure among ghost-eye heaven-devils.

Without any further hesitation, Yang Qi blurred into motion, grabbing the young man and vanishing. When he reappeared, it was in a cloudy location with no heaven-devils.

"Who are you?" the young man asked.

"I'm Yang Qi. It seems your sword technique is a cut above the rest, and you even have special godhood. Yin-yang grand-brightness gemini godhood. I just couldn't bear to see you killed by that devil-eye. Those devil kings were all ghost-eye heaven-devils, and in formation, they make a force you couldn't possibly defeat."

"Many thanks." the young man said. "I'm called Cold Jade. You know, there are only limited spots for students to pass this test. For all we know, we might end up as opponents later. Do you really think it was worth it to save me?"

His voice was quite cold and emotionless, as if he were the kind of person who wouldn't easily be moved.

Yang Qi burst out laughing. "Nobody can stop me from becoming a law enforcement disciple. Saving you won't cause any problems for me at all."

"You really talk big," Cold Jade said, looking Yang Qi up and down. Then he shivered. "Those ghost-eye heaven-devils are chasing us."

All of a sudden, a huge eye became visible. It was fully fifteen kilometers from end to end, and looked like an enormous meteor rumbling toward them.

The hundred ghost-eye heaven-devils that made it up were wailing like ghosts or gods, and were moving so quickly that, in the blink of an eye, they were closing in on Yang Qi.

"Get out of the way!" Cold Jade said, then reached out as if to push Yang Qi aside. However, that was when he found that Yang Qi was as immovable as a mountain.

Then, to his shock, he saw Yang Qi reach out with blinding speed to grab the huge eye. When he did, the ghost-eye heaven-devils screamed plaintively as he crushed them with pure strength. A moment later, they had been smashed down into the form of a tiny eyeball that dropped onto Yang Qi's palm.

He casually closed his fingers, and the eyeball disappeared.

Cold Jade was so shocked he nearly passed out. "You... what kind of cultivation base do you have? You just killed over a hundred ghost-eye heaven-devils with a single move? That group was strong enough to kill a peak Common God!"

"A peak Common God?" Yang Qi said. "What do they count for? Here, take a few of these souls. Now you don't have to do any more fighting. Just wait until we're teleported out of here. You're obviously a genius, and you also have a special constitution, so it's a given that you're an apprentice of some important person in the House of God Ordainment."

"My Master is Exalted Celestial Cold Cruelty. A peak Greater God."

"I see. Yes, someone important indeed." He nodded. "Well, I'm planning on forming my own faction. Want to join?"

"You really talk big," Cold Jade replied. "You might be strong, but you're still only a Lesser God. And there are too many factions to count in the House of God Ordainment. Why would you make your own tiny faction instead of joining a group like the Dragon Society or the Preheaven Society?"

Yang Qi laughed again. "Dragon Society? Preheaven Society? They're too trashy. You see, I normally stick to myself. But when I decide to do something, I go all out. When I make my own society, I'll crush all the others. And that includes the number one organization, the Mystery Society."

The Mystery Society was indeed the top group in the House of God Ordainment, and as their name stated, they were very mysterious. In fact, most people didn't even know who their members were. Some people claimed that the leader of the Mystery Society was actually the junior houselord.

Of course, it was only a rumor.

Yang Qi had been a member of the House of God Ordainment for two years now, so he knew a lot about the organization. However, he wasn't completely certain of what kind of cultivation base the houselord had, or the other top old-timers.

"Are you kidding me?" Cold Jade said. He laughed. "So you just randomly ran into me, and you're already trying to recruit me? And you're basically even asking me to rebel? If you were in my place, what would you do? Would you fall for something like that?"

Yang Qi chuckled. It was more obvious than ever that although Cold Jade looked young, he was no less capable than Yang Qi's current subordinates. That was why he was attempting to recruit him.

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Chapter 1245: Another Crown Prince Society

"Are you going to join me, or not?" Yang Qi asked imperiously.

Instead of answering Yang Qi's question, Cold Jade started fishing for information. "Given how strong you are, you should be someone really important in the House of God Ordainment. Except, I've never even heard of you before. Considering how openly you're trying to recruit me, does it mean you plan to found your new faction soon? Wait, you're not some sort of spy, are you?"

"No, I'm not," Yang Qi said. "Have you heard of Jadefall?"

"Jadefall? The one who's now an adopted daughter of an imperial concubine from the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty? She's a very important person. Nearly invincible. Nobody can defeat that pet of hers, and some of the old-timers are even scheming to take it from her." All of a sudden Cold Jade realized what Yang Qi was implying. "Oh, you work for her. So you aren't some sort of mole."

"Now will you agree to join me?" Yang Qi said. "You obviously realize how powerful Jadefall is, and she's only going to get stronger. And she definitely won't join the Dragon Society or the Mystery Society."

"Hmph! Nobody cares about the Dragon Society or the Mystery Society." Cold Jade laughed. "And I suggest you don't bother making your own group. Why not join a truly powerful organization?"

"Which one?" Yang Qi asked curiously. "I thought the most powerful and enigmatic group was the Mystery Society. Beneath them are the Dragon Society, Preheaven Society, Honorable Glory Society, and Brilliant Radiance Society, who are always fighting amongst themselves. And of course, the smaller societies don't really count for anything. What society could possibly look down so much on the Mystery Society?"

"The Crown Prince Society," Cold Jade said. "Considering you're one of Jadefall's people, I'll be perfectly up-front. Compared to the Crown Prince Society, the Mystery Society is like nothing."

"Crown Prince Society?" It was a very familiar name that caused Yang Qi's heart to start pounding. "Where did this Crown Prince Society come from?"

In the impure lands, Yang Qi had struggled with the supposed Crown Prince for a long time. The Crown Prince had possessed one of King Immortal-Slayer's legacy medallions, and if he had lived long enough, he would probably have made it to the god world and become an important person. Except that Yang Qi had killed him.

Now, here Yang Qi was in the god world, and he had run into another Crown Prince Society.

What was its origin?

During his time in the House of God Ordainment, Yang Qi had never even heard of it.

Could it possibly have anything to do with the Crown Prince he knew in the impure lands? Yang Qi had always felt like there was some destiny tugging at him. The Crown Prince, who had been a prominent member of the Demi-Immortal Institute in the Rich-Lush Continent, had been completely wiped out of existence. But for some reason, he felt certain that this new Crown Prince Society must have some destiny-based connection to the Crown Prince he had killed.

"The Crown Prince Society was put together by the crown prince of the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty," Cold Jade replied. "Truth be told, I'm a member of the Crown Prince Society. And since your behind-the-scenes supporter in the House of God Ordainment, Jadefall, is the adopted daughter of an imperial concubine from the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty, there's no harm in telling her the truth. The Crown Prince Society has members in all the major sects, the reason being that the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty has already unified many locations in the god world, and plans to further that effort in the future. Let me ask you, who do you think is more powerful, the crown prince of the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty, or the junior houselord of the House of God Ordainment?"

"The crown prince," Yang Qi replied. The mere mention of a 'crown prince' caused his eyes to glitter. He even felt his Wheel of Fate stirring.

The fact that the Wheel of Fate was turning indicated that this new crown prince would definitely become entangled with Yang Qi in the future. Now, Yang Qi was very curious to meet this person and see what he was like.

Unfortunately, his cultivation base was now far too low to even consider causing problems for this crown prince.

It was a given that the man would be incredibly strong and powerful.

"Very impressive," Yang Qi said. "And how interesting that an outsider could set up his own group within the House of God Ordainment. Presumably he's confident that he'll become a Paramount God?"

"That's right," Cold Jade replied. "He's already at the peak of the Consummate God level, so he'll definitely be a Paramount God sooner or later. The crown prince has an invincible cultivation base, and has already developed Unbounded will convergence."

"What?!" Yang Qi said in shock. "Unbounded will convergence?"

Unbounded will convergence was a sign of true power. A person like that could destroy anyone they wished with a thought. Of course, considering that Yang Qi had developed Paramount will convergence as a Quasi-God, it was a foregone conclusion that he would eventually have Unbounded will.

And someone with Unbounded will convergence would most assuredly become a Paramount God.

In the god world, people with Unbounded will convergence were true potentates who were considered completely domineering and invincible.

"That's right, he has Unbounded will convergence. For all intents and purposes, he's deathless and undying. Eternally invincible. So, what do you think? Your cultivation base isn't bad, so why not join the Crown Prince Society? I'll vouch for you. You see, the Crown Prince Society has only just infiltrated the House of God Ordainment. I'm the first agent. If you join up early, then when the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty truly begins to take over everything, you can obviously play a very important role in the whole thing."

"It seems I made an error in judgment," Yang Qi said. "The Crown Prince Society, huh. Well, I need to think about this..." His original plan had been to recruit people to form a new Sage Monarch Society, and this Cold Jade had seemed like a perfect candidate. But as it turned out, he was already a member of a colossal monster of an organization.

"That's fine. Think it over. But remember to keep the matter to yourself. Don't go talking about it publicly. Not that it really matters. It's not as though the House of God Ordainment could do anything to stop what's happening." Cold Jade laughed. "Although, if you do go blabbing about it, things will go bad for both you and Jadefall. The crown prince is more powerful than anyone throughout all history.'

"I know," Yang Qi said, smiling. "Besides, matters like this are for important and powerful people, not weaklings like me. I'm sure things will work out for you. And don't worry, I'm not stupid enough to go telling the House of God Ordainment about what's going on. It wouldn't do me any good at all, and would probably just end with me getting interrogated."

"Very wise and farsighted of you," Cold Jade said, clapping softly. "In all fairness, you're strong enough that you could be a major player in the Crown Prince Society here in the House of God Ordainment. You could probably even rise within the ranks of the Crown Prince Society in general."

"I'll definitely think about it. As long as it benefits me, I'm willing to do anything." Yang Qi was already wondering if this was his ticket into the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty to look for the Mahātmā Jade.

Glancing off in the distance at the other disciples that were fighting fiercely with the hordes of heaven-devils, Cold Jade said, "Alright, since we don't need to kill any more heaven-devils, let's just wait until the six-hour period is up."

Meanwhile, in the Law-Enforcement God-Palace, a group of people were in the middle of a discussion. One of them was a young man with long white hair and a vicious expression on his face.

"What?! Are you sure Yang Qi is taking the test? He could have strolled his way to heaven, but instead, he barged into hell."

"Did he really cause such big problems for you, White-Haired Boxer King?" asked a young woman with flaming red hair.

"I'm not in the mood for jokes, Crimson-Maiden Inferno," the White-Haired Boxer King said snidely. "Besides, I heard your ex had a run-in with the brat at Jadefall's banquet. He didn't come out on top, either."

"Don't drag me into this, White-Haired Boxer King," said Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger. "Your Dragon Society tried to grab that kid to force Jadefall to give you some of the blood of her godling. But your plan completely failed, from what I can tell. And I was just testing the brat at that banquet. The kid's skilled, so in the end, I called it a day. That said, he won't find it as easy to become a law enforcement disciple."

"What, are you saying you're going to try recruiting him?" the White-Haired Boxer King said. "The boy's ambitious, so there's no way he'll play along and follow orders. In fact, he would probably take advantage of you."

"I guess we'll just have to wait and see how things play out. I can see the killing intent in your eyes. Could it be that you're hoping the brat dies in the test? I can't see how that will be easy to pull off."

"It won't do me any good to kill him. Jadefall would look into the matter, and if she got any evidence at all that I was involved, I'd be in trouble." The White-Haired Boxer King chuckled darkly. "Besides, you two aren't exactly on my side. I'm from the Dragon Society, and you two are from the Brilliant Radiance Society. If I hit him when he's down, wouldn't you two take advantage of the situation?"

"Why make us sound so bad?" Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger said. "That said, the boy did make me lose a lot of face, and I can't just let that slide. The best result would be for him to join the Law-Enforcement God-Palace as one of our subordinates. Considering we're all exam proctors, any of us can perform the final assessment. Who should it be? Me? Or you?"

"What if we do it together?" the White-Haired Boxer King said.

"I want in, too," Crimson-Maiden Inferno said with a charming smile. "He seems like quite the interesting fellow."

The six hours went by quickly. Yang Qi and Cold Jade chatted the entire time. Yang Qi learned that Cold Jade really was about sixteen years old, and was a native of the god world. It was really shocking. In the impure lands, there were old-timers who had lived for millions upon millions of years, but couldn't reach the same level.

Whooosh!

At a certain point, they were teleported out into a temple somewhere. This round of testing was over.

Some people had succeeded in acquiring three heaven-devil king souls. Some had failed, and wouldn't proceed to the next round of testing.

Yang Qi and Cold Jade had both passed, and would continue on.

The next test was one of individual combat. They were put into groups of a hundred, in which only one person would come out on top and go to the next phase of testing.

There was no suspense about how it would play out; Yang Qi easily passed, defeating all his opponents.

Next were tests of will. Participants would face illusions, traps, and spell formations, all of which were very challenging. Except not for Yang Qi.

Over the course of the next three days, he passed all the various rounds of testing, until he reached the final phase: one-on-one exams with official proctors.

1. At this point I want to remind everyone that, as I said many hundreds of chapters ago, the Crown Prince from the early parts of the story did have a name. Crown Prince. That is why I capitalized it. In contrast, the person they are talking about from the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty is A crown prince, not THE Crown Prince. In Chinese there is no such visual distinction, because there's no such thing as capitalization in the language. That said, there is a clear difference between the identity and characteristics of the two characters. Furthermore, we do have distinctions of capitalization in English. On the English side, it makes it a lot easier to tell the difference between the two characters.

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Chapter 1246: Making Things Difficul

Yang Qi had passed all of the tests, and was now going to take the final interview.

This was the most difficult part of the exam. The proctors were all-important Greater Gods tasked with assessing the examinees' cultivation base and fighting ability. It was a common thing for people to fail at this point. After all, everything before the interview was designed to automatically weed people out, ensuring that the proctors didn't need to pay much attention to those aspects.

As he walked into the examination hall, Yang Qi thought, 'I wonder who'll be interviewing me. Don't tell me it's going to be that Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger. He hates me down to his bones. Not that I care. As long as I perform well, it won't matter how much melodrama he tries to stir up.'

Upon entering the hall, he saw a young man with white hair, a beautiful woman with flaming red hair, and Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger.

There were three proctors.

"White-Haired Boxer King," Yang Qi said, nodding in greeting. "I never would've guessed that you'd be one of my proctors."

"That's right," the White-Haired Boxer King said, his eyes flickering with hatred. "Well, now we get to see what you're capable of, Yang Qi. Do you have what it takes to pass this part of the exam?"

"Are you going to be the one to decide?" Yang Qi replied. "Didn't you already test me earlier? You didn't hold anything back, yet failed to kill me."

"That's complete nonsense," the White-Haired Boxer King spat, his expression flickering. "How dare you slander one of your superiors! I ought to arrest you right here and now, and charge you with something that would make sure you never see the light of day again!"

Remaining completely calm, Yang Qi replied, "It's hard to say who wouldn't see the light of day again, you or me. This is the Law-Enforcement God-Palace, right? Maybe I should produce my evidence and hand it over to the elders. That would cause quite the commotion, wouldn't you say? Although, considering this is a test for me to become a law enforcement disciple, as long as you don't make things difficult for me, I can keep that evidence under wraps. We can just pretend nothing ever happened."

"Very cunning, you brat," said the crimson-haired beauty. "Are you saying you have incriminating evidence against the White-Haired Boxer King? If so, hand it over for us to have a look. What do you say? If your evidence is good enough, it might be enough for us to just let you pass immediately."

Yang Qi nodded respectfully. "May I venture to ask who you are?"

She giggled. "I'm Crimson-Maiden Inferno, a Greater God and holy child of the Law-Enforcement God-Palace. And yes, I'm important enough that I could easily allow a puny person like you to become a law enforcement disciple. So what do you say?"

"I agree. I'll use a water-type godly-class energy art to show the circumstances in which the White-Haired Boxer King tried to kill me. I'll even include what was said between the two of us. Take a look, and see if it's enough to allow me to pass the test." Yang Qi pulled out a jade amulet and tossed it over to Crimson-Maiden Inferno.

"Oh?" Crimson-Maiden Inferno said, catching the jade amulet. Sending her true energy inside, she watched the scene play out between Yang Qi and the White-Haired Boxer King. Laughing, she said, "You loser, White-Haired Boxer King! I can't believe you couldn't even beat a measly Quasi-God in a fight!"

"So do I pass the test?" Yang Qi asked.

"Absolutely not," she replied. "Do you really think you can pass the test just because I say so? My words were actually part of the test! Did you actually believe what I said? Ai! Sadly, you've failed. A law enforcement disciple must always remain cool and collected, and shouldn't be trusting. That's the best way to enforce the law. When you're out in the field, chasing down criminals and executing the guilty, do you really think you'll survive without good judgment? I hereby declare that you are unfit to be a law enforcement disciple!"

She looked down at the jade amulet. "And I'm keeping this. If you want it back, White-Haired Boxer King, you'll need to offer me something valuable in exchange." With that, she burst out laughing.

The White-Haired Boxer King chuckled grimly. "That's fine. What do you want? Although, only a lunatic would dare to use evidence as flimsy as that to try bringing me down. Don't bite off more than you can chew."

"I think I'd like a medicinal pill of some sort," Crimson-Maiden Inferno said. As of this point, she seemed to be completely ignoring Yang Qi. Until...

CRACK!

The jade amulet in her hand collapsed into powder, which then faded out of existence.

"What?!" she blurted, looking over at Yang Qi.

"I knew from the beginning that you were testing me," he said with a faint smile. "Do you think I'm that stupid? The amulet I gave you just now was an illusory projection. The real version is with Jadefall. I'm an elite disciple and a god, so if I die, the sect will definitely run a full investigation. And in that case... you'll be out of options, White-Haired Boxer King. Incidentally, I also made sure to record everything you just said, young lady. Although it's not much in the way of evidence, it does prove that I actually passed the test you gave me. If you suddenly try to change things so that I fail, I suppose we'll need to turn this into a more formal dispute."

"How dare you play games with me!" Crimson-Maiden Inferno growled, her eyes flashing with rage. After all, how could someone as powerful and important as her not be infuriated at being toyed with by such a weaker person?

"I wasn't playing games," Yang Qi replied coolly. "I was passing your test, that's all."

"Fine," she said in an ice-cold tone. "Fine! But I'm not going to forget this. Remember well: you've offended Crimson-Maiden Inferno, and people who do that don't end up in good places. Unless they pay plenty of compensation."

"I'm open to that," Yang Qi replied casually. "Why don't we find some time to sit down and chat about it?"

"Alright, I'm taking over the testing now," Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger said, producing a small silver dagger. "Last time at the banquet, Jadefall was there, so I couldn't thoroughly test you. If you fail, and end up dead, the worst that will happen is I'll get a slap on the wrist. There's still time to back out if you want."

Yang Qi stood there with his hands clasped behind his back. "Let's see what you've got. The truth is I don't really care if I become a law enforcement disciple or not, I'm just curious to see what you people are capable of. You see, I benefited a lot during my time in the Pill-King's temple ruins. I succeeded in cultivating some amazing divine abilities, and it's only a matter of time before I become a Greater God."

Yang Qi was finally starting to forge his own path. It was nice to have Jadefall as a backer, ensuring that no one in the sect would truly view him as an ant to be crushed. But up to this point, he had yet to show what he was truly capable of. That was why he was making a scene here. By leading people to believe he had come across good fortune in the Pill-King's temple ruins, it would hopefully prevent people from suspecting the truth, that he was the bearer of the God Legion Seal.

"Grandstander!" Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger growled. Then, without any warning, he swished his dagger out, sending a glittering beam of blade energy flying toward Yang Qi in a ruthless attack.

Yang Qi hardly looked at it. An arm formed of godpower sprouted from his back, which reached out and grabbed the blade energy. The blade energy writhed and flailed like a silver snake, yet it couldn't free itself.

"What!?" the White-Haired Boxer King blurted. He, Crimson-Maiden Inferno, and Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger were all visibly stunned. Obviously none of them had ever considered that Yang Qi would actually be this strong.

"Your dagger is strong," Yang Qi said coolly. "But it didn't do anything to me. Does this count as passing your test, Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger?"

"No, it doesn't!" Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger strode forward, summoning another spinning dagger that slashed toward Yang Qi. "You think my test would be that simple?"

"What does that mean?" Yang Qi said. "That you're intentionally making things difficult for me? It's a good thing I'm keeping a recording of all this. Don't tell me you're not afraid of breaking sect rules."

"Hmph. I'll make things hard for you however I want. What are you going to do about it?" Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger attacked with a host of deadly moves.

Silver blade energy flashed everywhere, making the testing hall seem like a hell of lightning. But Yang Qi just danced back and forth, avoiding every single attack.

"The brat's movement techniques are incredible," the White-Haired Boxer King murmured. "Exactly what good fortune did he come across? Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger isn't going all out, but..." He shook his head. "The kid's even stronger than he was before. It's going to take a lot more effort than this to kill him."

"We can't do that," said Crimson-Maiden Inferno. "The parameters of the exam are strictly enforced, and we're limited to only using thirty percent of our power. The fact that Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger has already surpassed thirty percent is a violation of the rules."

"That's true. Besides, the brat has a powerful backer, so we can't just randomly kill him. But do we really have to let him become a law enforcement disciple? I don't think I'm okay with that. And are you fine with the brat toying with you like he did?"

"It doesn't matter. Let him become a law enforcement disciple. We still outrank him, so we should be able to find plenty of opportunities to deal with him. For example, we can arrange for some really difficult missions for him to go on."

"That's true. As his superiors, we have the right to assign missions. But what if he actually succeeds with the mission? Remember, law enforcement disciples can't be given missions above the Expert level."

In the House of God Ordainment, missions were ranked Novice, Expert, Master, and Elite. Of course, the Elite missions came with incredible rewards, but were almost impossible to finish.

For example, one of the Elite missions was to search for the God Legion Seal. Any disciple who succeeded in that mission would be given unimaginable rewards.

"Well, we can still arrange for a very difficult mission. Remember, even some of the Expert missions are very difficult to finish. For example, the Yaksha's Curse, God Item Unsealing, or God Herb Harvesting."

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Chapter 1247: Harvesting Mission

"Oh you mean...? Send Yang Qi on one of the missions no one ever wants to take? That's not a bad idea." Smiling, the White-Haired Boxer King used his divine will to impart this new information to Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger, who was in the middle of trying to cut down Yang Qi in battle.

A moment later, the silver blade light suddenly faded away.

Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger sheathed his dagger and looked at Yang Qi. "Very impressive, boy. Except I was only using thirty percent of my full strength."

Yang Qi sneered. "Thirty percent? More like fifty percent."

"Hmph! I'm not in the mood to squabble with you." Plastering a fake smile onto his face, he continued, "You pass. I'm not going to make it any harder on you. However, you're not a law enforcement disciple yet. There's one final hurdle. You have to accomplish a mission for the sect. And considering your capabilities, it's going to be an Expert mission."

"An Expert mission? What's the task?"

Yang Qi could tell that they were still making things hard for him. There was no question that they would be sending him on some very difficult mission.

That said, he was happy to comply. Becoming a law enforcement disciple would help him grow the power of his own faction in the sect. Before long, he would be running the Law-Enforcement God-Palace. After all, it would only take a few devil embryos for him to take control.

The White-Haired Boxer King, Crimson-Maiden Inferno, and Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger conferred secretly via divine will. Then, Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger said, "Your mission is to go to the Spritefolk and collect some spritefruits, which are panaceas that can be used to boost the medicinal efficacy of just about any type of medicine. They can also be used to forge god items and weapons, or improve the quality of existing equipment. Finish that mission, and you'll be a law enforcement disciple."

"Here's the briefing. Take a look." Crimson-Maiden Inferno produced a form that contained all the details of the mission. "Go to the medicine gardens of the Spritefolk and take eighty-one extremely rare spritefruits. Mission difficulty level: Expert."

Although the mission briefing made it seem simple, Yang Qi knew that it would be anything but. Thankfully, he remembered reading about spritefruits in the Great Classic of God Ordainment.

They were considered the most precious of treasures, and were compatible with just about any medicinal pill. Add the fruit to the recipe, and the success rate would skyrocket. Unfortunately, the fruits only grew with the Spritefolk, who guarded them jealously and would kill anyone that tried taking them. If the Spritefolk learned the name of any person who even attempted to steal them, that person would be marked for death. The Spritefolk would then do everything in their power to see them dead.

There had even been cases of people who successfully stole spritefruits, only to let their guard down a hundred years later and be killed.

Spritefruit thieves were considered archenemies to all Spritefolk, an enmity that couldn't be erased even if hundreds of thousands of years passed.

Obviously, the consequences for taking this mission were far-reaching.

Even if Yang Qi accomplished the mission, he could be marked for death by the Spritefolk, and would have to spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder.

It was a mission that would obviously come with no end of difficulties. That said, it was the consequences that were troublesome; the actual act of stealing the fruit shouldn't be particularly hard.

In the end, Yang Qi knew that if he refused to accept the mission, these three proctors would claim that he didn't qualify to become a law enforcement disciple.

"I accept the mission," he said. Taking the briefing, he turned and left.

The proctors smiled.

"I'm going to keep an eye on him and see if he tries any funny business," Crimson-Maiden Inferno said. "I wonder how he plans to finish the mission. Maybe he'll even aim for a breakthrough before trying. If so, it won't help. Spritefruit trees will absorb the energy of anyone who picks fruit from them, which will lead the Spritefolk right to them. Not even changing one's appearance would do any good."

"I'm also interested in the brat's secrets," the White-Haired Boxer King said. "Unfortunately, we have more candidates to interview. Crimson-Maiden Inferno, we'll have to rely on you to keep an eye on Yang Qi."

"Okay," she said, and subsequently vanished.

As Yang Qi accepted the mission and left the Law-Enforcement God-Palace, there were numerous disciples who were also leaving, but for a different reason. They had been rejected. Some were sighing in regret, some were severely wounded. There were even corpses being carried out, disciples who had lost their lives in the testing.

Yang Qi ignored them. Such disciples were gods, but they weren't worth his attention. They might as well have been simple mortals from the impure lands.

Stepping into a teleportation portal, he left the god kingdom.

Moments later, he was on a continent that abounded with fresh flowers. The sky was bright and cloudless, and the weather was pleasant.

Yang Qi could sense that there was a power in the depths of the continent that connected it to all of heaven and earth, ensuring that it had a wonderful climate.

The continents in the god world had to deal with very bad conditions. If they weren't frozen in ice, they were baked by intense heat, or battered by rain as sharp as blades.

Only the strong could survive in the god world.

But this continent wasn't like that. Everyone was beautiful, and the scenery was like something out of a painting. Furthermore, instead of a sense of death and blood, Yang Qi felt peace and tranquility.

Standing atop the mountain peak he had just arrived at, he took a deep breath, and it smelled like flowers.

This was where the Spritefolk lived. Yang Qi knew a lot about the Spritefolk, as they existed in the impure lands as well. His aunt, Yang Susu, was actually one of them; one of the reasons he had accepted this mission was that, up to this point in the god world, he hadn't had a chance to search for her.

The best place to start had to be with the Spritefolk. They were one of the big races in the god world; they weren't human, although they resembled humans in virtually every way. In fact, the Spritefolk believed themselves to be an evolved, higher form of humans. They were proud and noble in a way that defied words.

At least, that was how they were described in the Great Classic of God Ordainment.

Instead of immediately trying to steal some spritefruits, he waited a moment, then turned and coolly said, "You might as well stop hiding, Crimson-Maiden Inferno. Is following me around really that fun?"

A moment later, a young woman with crimson hair appeared, who was none other than Crimson-Maiden Inferno.

"Very impressive, boy," she said. She actually seemed much more at ease than she had back in the Law-Enforcement God-Palace. "I'm surprised you noticed me."

"Why are you following me?" he asked. "Don't tell me you're monitoring my progress on the mission. Unfortunately for you, there won't be much to monitor. I'm not going to finish the mission, because I've decided not to become a law enforcement disciple."

"Don't ask questions you already know the answer to!" she said. "You played me back in the Law-Enforcement God-Palace, and now you owe me."

"I played you?" Yang Qi said. "I thought it was a test."

"If I say you played me, then that's what happened. Don't you dare try mincing words with me." Glaring at him coldly, she continued, "Now fork it over."

"Fork what over?" Yang Qi said, looking surprised.

"The compensation! No one toys with me and gets away with it. Everyone knows that Crimson-Maiden Inferno will rain fiery destruction onto anyone who causes problems for her. So you have one choice here. Pay up!"

"I don't have anything to pay you with," Yang Qi said.

"Wrong answer. I know that you took a lot of precious things from the Toxic Continent. Bring them out and give them to me."

Yang Qi burst out laughing. "Do you really think you can just order me around? The White-Haired Boxer King couldn't deal with me in the Toxic Continent, and that was before I improved my energy arts. So what exactly do you think you're going to do?"

"The ignorant are often brave." Smiling snidely, she continued, "The White-Haired Boxer King is only a mid Greater God. But I'm at the peak, although nobody knows it. I'm just on the verge of becoming a Consummate God. Few people know that other than you, so you should feel honored."

RUMBLE!

All of a sudden, streams of power erupted behind Crimson-Maiden Inferno, and a huge, square spell formation popped into being, pulsing with spatial power that locked down the entire area.

"This is my Square-Macrocosm Void-Fire God Formation," she said. "Unfortunately for you, although I'm not a Consummate God yet, I came across some good fortune that allows me to wield the power of that level. I'm not going to kill you today, but I'll definitely put you in your place if you don't hand over that treasure!"

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Chapter 1248: The Fate of Crimson-Maiden Inferno

Crimson-Maiden Inferno was acting extremely overbearing, and was apparently willing to defy sect rules in dealing with Yang Qi.

Looking at her spell formation, his eyes flashed and he said, "Crimson-Maiden Inferno, you're a Greater God, yet you're willing to just defy sect rules!? Aren't you worried about being held accountable to the law?"

"Held accountable to the law?" She threw her head back and laughed. "I am the law! And I'm stronger than you. Besides, I'm not trying to kill you, just take something in compensation. That's no violation of the law, it's a matter of debt collection. You owe me, and I'm forcing you to pay up. Even if the sect somehow found out about this, the worst I would get would be a slap on the wrist."

"Debt collection? I don't owe you a thing, so exactly what debt are you collecting? This is just downright robbery. And robbing a disciple is definitely a crime. The sect rules make that clear."

She waved her hand dismissively. "I'm the one who says whether it's a robbery or debt collection. I'm a peak Greater God, so if I want something you have, I can take it. I have a hundred percent chance of becoming a Consummate God, at which point I'll be even more important to the sect. Even if I do break a few rules here and there, nobody will be able to do anything about it.

Yang Qi shook his head. "So this is how you do things? You bend the rules of the House of God Ordainment for your own personal benefit. That's a defiance of the natural order of things."

"It's not your place to lecture me. I'll do what I want, according to my own principles. Do you really think that some nobody like you is qualified to talk about the destiny of the House of God Ordainment?"

Clasping his hands casually behind his back, Yang Qi said, "So what are you saying? I have no choice here?"

"That's right. You have no choice." She extended her hand. "Hand over that treasure, and you'll escape a lot of pain. But if you refuse to fall in line, you'll end up wishing you could die today. And ultimately, I'll wipe every memory of you out of existence. Remember, someone with Paramount will convergence can completely obliterate someone with Terrifying will. If I want to wipe memories of you out of existence, I can."

Yang Qi laughed. "Crimson-Maiden Inferno, you're a perfect example of the ignorant being fearless."

"Still laughing, even now?" she said, her gaze burning into him. "So that's it? You're still refusing to give me what I want?"

"Yeah, I'm laughing. At you." Looking around to confirm they were alone, he said, "I suppose I might as well show you the truth. You see, I've been suffering in silence here in the House of God Ordainment. But that doesn't mean I'll just forget about the people who've heaped humiliation on my head. You think that being a peak Greater God is impressive, Crimson-Maiden Inferno?"

RUMBLE!

An aura erupted from Yang Qi that seemed to contain a power that could destroy the heavens and extinguish the earth. In the blink of an eye, her spell formation shattered and was replaced by a formation that resembled an enormous necropolis.

He had turned the tables, and taken full control of the situation. With his monarch godhood, he could easily kill a Consummate God, much less a peak Greater God like Crimson-Maiden Inferno.

After all, a peak Greater God was still an entire level below a Consummate God.

"Th-this..." she stammered, and she tried to back up, only to run right into the projection of the Great Necropolis. Looking at Yang Qi in disbelief, she said, "How could you possibly be this strong?"

"Because I have monarch godhood," he said. He knew that he was going to completely put Crimson-Maiden Inferno in her place, and thus he didn't lie to her. Furthermore, his words were such a strong blow that it was as if her entire world started crumbling.

"Monarch godhood?" Her gaze suddenly turned sharp. "Impossible! That can't be! Nobody can make monarch godhood, especially not a measly person like you! You—"

"I'm a 'measly' disciple?" Simply standing there with hands clasped behind his back, he shook his head and said, "It seems you really are a fool. I'm an Ascendant from the lower worlds. I united all of heaven and earth down there, broke through space and time to ascend to the god world, infiltrate the House of God Ordainment, and ultimately formed monarch godhood."

"No... Not even an Ascendant could form monarch godhood. There have been other Ascendants before, and none of them have ever succeeded with monarch godhood!"

"Because I also control the God Legion Seal," he said, striding forward aggressively. "You're the first person to find out about this, so you should feel very honored. You're not a god from the primeval past, but rather a modern god. Therefore, this will be your first time encountering the God Legion Seal. Now acknowledge allegiance and give me your faith. Considering how many of my secrets you now know, there's no way I'll just let you walk away as is."

"The God Legion Seal!" Crimson-Maiden Inferno blurted. She jumped like a startled cat upon hearing him speak the words.

Meanwhile, Yang Qi was standing there waiting for her to make her decision.

A moment passed, and she burst out laughing. "You can wear out iron shoes in a fruitless search, then find what you're looking for without even trying! The God Legion Seal? You have the God Legion Seal? Does that make you think you have the upper hand on me? All I have to do is spread word about your secret, and the entire god world would be after you. And you wouldn't be able to return to the impure lands either. You'll be completely stuck between a rock and a hard place."

"Are you saying you have a backup plan to get out of here?" Yang Qi asked.

She giggled. "You're in over your head. You see, if I reveal your secret, I won't truly die. Maybe you could kill me, but my will remains in my mansion grotto, and is deeply connected to the sect's god kingdom. You can't truly end my life."

"Oh really?"

Seemingly completely confident in her situation, she continued, "Unless you want your secret revealed, Yang Qi, you have to do exactly as I say. First of all, bring out the God Legion Seal and let me see it. And remember, don't try anything funny. If you do, I'll make you regret it to your dying day."

"You really think I'm in over my head?" He shrugged. "Apparently you forgot that Ascendants slaughter their way through countless battles in the impure lands to reach the god world. I've caused blood to fall like rain, unlike you greenhouse flowers of the god world. Do you want a demonstration? Let's see if you remain this feisty after you've seen the truth."

Her face fell as she suddenly realized that something seemed off.

"What...?" she blurted, a look of terror appearing on her face.

"Look at your sea of energy," he said, pointing.

She shifted her senses inside herself and saw a devil embryo in her sea of energy, absorbing all of her godpower. In fact, even the will she had left behind in her mansion grotto was being pulled into it.

"It's a consummate technique from the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth, called the Heaven-God Hell-Exterminating Devil Embryo. The truth is that I infected you with it back during the exam. I know everything you do, even your deepest thoughts. So it doesn't matter what secret weapons you have. I control everything about you. With a single thought, I can turn you into a mindless puppet. You really underestimated what Ascendants are like. Did you really think I'd tell you my most important secrets without being positive I could make sure you didn't squeal?"

"You... I refuse to believe it!"

RUMBLE!

All of a sudden, brilliant light flared in her eyes and erupted out in a deadly attack, like a fire dragon seeking to consume all creation.

"All-Creation Fire-Dragon; Raging-Flame Dragon-God!"

Unleashing her most devastating attack, she shot to the side, hoping to break free and escape.

But Yang Qi just reached his hand back and...

CRACK!

He slapped her hard on the side of the face, sending her tumbling back with blood streaming out of her mouth, until she landed prone on the ground, her godpower in complete chaos.

Walking over, he grabbed her by the hair, hauled her off the ground, and slapped her face again. "Enough silly games, Crimson-Maiden Inferno. The time has come for you to learn how to offer your most sincere sacrifice to the God Legion Seal."

"No!" she shouted, trying to jerk her head free, and yet failing miserably. How could she ever have guessed that she would be defeated so easily, and by a mere slap on the face at that?

"No? In that case, I'll stop being polite." He reached down toward her chest.

"What are you doing?" she shrieked. "Don't you dare touch my chest! No man has ever touched me! You can kill me, Yang Qi, but if you do this I won't ever let you off the hook for it!"

WHACK!

With a single move, he ripped her clothing off, revealing her snow-white breasts, and two rosy nipples.

She let loose with a most devastating scream and immediately covered her chest with her arms. Yet that just made it easier for Yang Qi to rip her trousers off, leaving her completely and utterly naked.

"You immoral pervert!" she screamed, tears leaking out of her eyes. "Don't tell me you're going to... I cultivate the Holy-Flame Chaste-Virgin God Dao! If I lose my virginity, my godhood will weaken and I'll never be able to become a Consummate God. Please, I beg of you! Let me go!"

"You really know how to jabber nonsense," Yang Qi said. Sighing, he waved his hand, sending out numerous golden paper talismans onto her. "With the devil embryo in there, you'll give in whether you want to or not. You're the beginning of the new legion of gods. Now, offer your piety to the ancient seal! Sagely Sacrifice!"

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Chapter 1249: Mental Probing

The talismans sank into Crimson-Maiden Inferno, making it completely impossible for her to move. Of course, Yang Qi didn't do anything untoward to her. But he did use the domineering Sagely Sacrifice to force her to offer her heart to the God Legion Seal.

"Sagely Sacrifice Without Limit; Martial Path that Spans the Heavens; Subjugate the Legion of Gods; Create New God-Spirits; Return Forthwith!"

A beautiful image of the halls of heaven appeared, filled with golden thrones that numbered like the eternal sands. Shadowy figures sat on the thrones, thrumming with ancient auras. Of course, the figures were the primeval legion of gods, horde of devils, and multitudinous buddhas.

All of them were entities that had sacrificed their hearts to the God Legion Seal in the past.

Right now, Yang Qi was creating a new foundation.

RUMBLE!

Thanks to the Sagely Sacrifice, a new golden throne appeared in that throng in a middling position. And it was new, not like the ancient versions, which in turn added something mysterious and enigmatic to the God Legion Seal.

That throne belonged to Crimson-Maiden Inferno.

All God-Lord members of the legion of gods who offered faith to the boundless lord would have a throne in the halls of heaven. This was a new first. With Crimson-Maiden Inferno's addition, the God Legion Seal had a new Greater God to fuel it.

Crash!

Yang Qi could sense the fluctuations of the God Legion Seal, which seemed like an old tree suddenly sprouting new leaves. And his own will and psyche were also thrumming with new fluctuations.

'Oh, I see. How could I have forgotten about this? The God Legion Seal is going to awaken and grow. As long as I continue to subjugate members of the legion of gods, its power will improve, which will benefit my cultivation base and push my psyche to new heights.' All of a sudden, new enlightenment appeared within him.

'Yes, the Mahātmā Jade can be used to reach the Annulled level of will convergence. I have to continue subjugating gods and using their wills to combine with the jade. Although, only time will tell if this will work. In ancient times, there were almighty entities who could dominate everything, but they still failed to achieve Annulled will convergence. The Sovereign Lord, True Devil, Demon Master, and King Immortal-Slayer... They were all half-Annulled, but never fully stepped into that level. For now, I shouldn't worry about that. At least I have proof that by continuing to take advantage of the God Legion Seal and gathering the faith of other gods, then I can break through my bottleneck and reach the mid Paramount level of will convergence."

Yang Qi was currently stalled at the early Paramount level. Even if he practiced cultivation for a thousand years the normal way, he would fail to make progress. He had to subjugate more gods.

"You..." Crimson-Maiden Inferno said, her voice trembling with terror. "What did you do to me? Do you control my mind now? Did you sacrifice me?"

"Yes, I sacrificed you. You have been given to the God Legion Seal, and your soul is now bound to it. You're like the ancient members of the legion of gods. Your life, your death, your very thoughts are now connected to the God Legion Seal. In other words, you belong to me. If I don't exert control, you can live your life as normal. But if I do take control, your very life will be in my hands. You should feel honored to be in the good graces of the God Legion Seal. Going forward, your life is going to change. You're part of my new system. The House of God Ordainment is a system, and the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty is a system, both complete with their own powerful destinies. But those systems are like nothing compared to the God Legion Seal. The God Legion Seal represents the ancient era and the destiny of the entire god world. Although the seal vanished for a time, it's now in my hands. Therefore, I will establish a new system with it. Congratulations, you're the first person to be part of that new system."

Various expressions were flashing across Crimson-Maiden Inferno's face.

Not even she was sure what she was thinking.

But Yang Qi knew that she couldn't defy him. By means of the God Legion Seal, he had access to all of her thoughts, and any actions she wished to take had to be approved by it first.

For example, now that she knew Yang Qi's secret, she wanted to tell the leaders of the House of God Ordainment. And as soon as that thought appeared, Yang Qi knew about it. If the God Legion Seal didn't sense any threats in her thoughts or intended actions, it wouldn't do anything. But if it disapproved, she wouldn't be able to take that action.

That was how powerful the God Legion Seal was.

It could audit each and every thought.

For example, Crimson-Maiden Inferno wanted to put on a new set of clothing. But after those thoughts were audited by the God Legion Seal, Yang Qi rejected them. Because of that, it didn't matter how much she wanted to put clothing on, she couldn't.

Even subconscious thoughts were controlled.

Only someone who could annul their own thoughts by reaching the Annulled level of will convergence could free their thoughts from the auditing of the seal.

Yang Qi had come to understand that the God Legion Seal was another way to gain enlightenment of the Annulled level. Namely, it was a way to control the psyche and will.

Life was about freedom.

Everyone sought it. Even if one wasn't physically free, at least their thoughts could be. And how miserable would it be if everyone had their thoughts audited by another person.

At the moment, Crimson-Maiden Inferno didn't realize what was going on. Until she had numerous thoughts audited by the God Legion Seal, she wouldn't truly understand how powerful the seal was.

"You may leave now, and put on some clothes. Remember, you work for me now. Don't have anything to do with groups like the Brilliant Radiance Society or the Dragon Society. You serve me, heart and soul. For now, I don't have any specific missions for you. Go back and work on your cultivation. Breaking through to the Consummate God level should bring some great opportunities."

"I can't believe that I made such an absurd error," she said. "What exactly are you planning to do, Yang Qi? How can the God Legion Seal control me? What's it capable of? Tell me! Otherwise, why wouldn't I just reveal your secret? After you became public enemy number one, you would be chased down and killed, and I would be free."

"I'm not worried, because the truth is you won't say a word. You can't." Based on her psychic fluctuations, Yang Qi knew exactly what she planned to do. Knowing that he had absolutely nothing to fear, he said, "Putting your faith in the God Legion Seal will even benefit your cultivation base, and do it no harm. In the ancient era, the innumerable gods all wanted to exercise faith in the God Legion Seal. Do you think that would be the case if it hurt their cultivation base?"

"Hmph! I refuse to believe that you can really control me. And since you're letting me go and allowing me to do whatever I want, I'm going back to the sect to tell the truth about you."

"Go ahead. Tell them everything." Waving his hand dismissively, Yang Qi faded from sight.

He wasn't interested in wasting any more time on this woman.

"Damn you!" she cursed. "I won't let this drop, Yang Qi. I refuse to believe you can control me!" Circulating her godpower a few hundred thousand times to confirm her current state, she headed back to the god kingdom.

'I'm going to see Master. She's a Consummate God that's just on the verge of breaking through to the Perfect God level. I'm going to tell her everything!' However, as soon as she was about to do just that, she heard a voice speaking in her head. 'Your thoughts have been audited and are not approved. Now, they will be destroyed.'

RUMBLE!

A beam of golden light appeared in her sea of consciousness, and her thoughts from moments ago faded away.

"What?!" Crimson-Maiden Inferno blurted, dropping to her knees. 'What's going on? Don't tell me my thoughts have been imprisoned.' She sat there in deep terror, her mind trembling on the verge of collapse.

At this point, Yang Qi stopped worrying about Crimson-Maiden Inferno.

Unfortunately, it took a lot of effort for him to use the God Legion Seal to audit and control her thoughts. The mere thought of subjugating hundreds more gods and auditing their thoughts was exhausting. And that wasn't to mention what would happen if the gods were as numerous as the eternal sands.

That said, it was a way to temper the psyche.

Auditing the thoughts of other gods would actually be a big weight on his back. How could he possibly keep track of the random thoughts of so many individuals?

As he considered all of these matters, he noticed a sprawling region of gardens off in the distance. It was none other than the gardens of the Spritefolk.

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Chapter 1250: Spritefrui

The garden was filled with immense trees, each of which rose hundreds of meters into the air, with leafy canopies that spread out to cover several kilometers, making something like worlds of their own.

It was hard to imagine what went into keeping such trees alive.

Strangely, there was only one fruit on each tree. They were roughly fist-sized, and looked like glittering diamonds. They also had numerous tiny holes on their surface that emanated a colorful mist. And they shone with bright light that illuminated all potentially dark parts of the trees.

There were people underneath the trees who lived in the various holes and knots that existed on their trunks.

As it turned out, the Spritefolk consisted of numerous clans, each of which would occupy a single one of these god trees. The sprawling trees created something like a palace or mansion grotto for the Spritefolk who lived beneath them, and in turn, they took care of the tree. As for the fruit atop them, they were like suns, providing warmth and spirit energy to those who lived beneath it.

Thump, thump, thump.

The Spritefolk beneath some of the trees were pounding on drums as they enacted some kind of rite or ceremony.

They didn't look like savages or barbarians by any stretch of the imagination. Yang Qi saw both men and women, old and young. They wore brightly colored clothes, and had faces flushed with excitement as they partook in the ceremony.

In Yang Qi's estimation, there were hundreds of thousands of the trees, which meant that there were hundreds of thousands of clans. And some trees were bigger than others, with the larger ones climbing thousands of meters into the sky. Obviously, trees like that were home to extremely powerful experts.

There was one tree, several hundred meters tall, beneath which stood a group of haughty Spritefolk. "Bring out those despicable humans!"

Some of the captive humans were Quasi-Gods, others were Lesser or even Common Gods.

Also visible beneath the tree was a huge altar that the humans were being led toward.

One of the Spritefolk priests raised his voice and said, "These people dared to steal our god fruit, bringing dishonor to the Spritefolk. Therefore, they will be sacrificed to the god trees to produce more fruit."

"Kill them!" the other Spritefolk shouted. One by one, the humans were hauled onto the altar and beheaded. Yang Qi watched as the blood poured into the tree, allowing it to absorb their souls and destiny.

"I didn't steal any fruit!" one of the Common Gods cried. "We're all innocent. You destroyed our sects! Why are you doing this?"

A young Spritefolk expert stepped forward, clad in a white garment, with a colorful crown on his head. Snorting coldly, he said, "If we say that you stole them, you stole them. Denying it won't do any good. And even if you didn't, you despicable humans are going to be sacrificed as food for our god tree. Your souls, flesh, blood, and destiny are the perfect nutrients. You should feel honored that the trees will absorb you and cleanse you of your sins."

Apparently, this young Spritefolk was someone important. He was a Greater God, and held a shining sword in his hand that he used to execute the Common God that had just spoken up.

And with that, the sacrifice was over.

Voice cold, the young Spritefolk said, "Ladies and gentlemen, we need to make sure our god tree gets stronger and stronger. That's the key to our successful cultivation. War is coming. The Spritefolk is a race favored by heaven above! It is only by waging war that we can prosper and flourish, and it is only in battle that we can slaughter the human gods and sacrifice them!"

"Kill them! Kill them all!" the Spritefolk shouted.

Yang Qi shook his head. 'So the Spritefolk want to wage war, take captives, and sacrifice them to their god trees. The more people they kill, the stronger their trees get. And the fruit grows because of that spirit energy. No wonder the spritefruits are so powerful. And no wonder they have such amazing benefits to medicinal pills.'

Looking at the Spritefolk and their warrior spirit, he couldn't help but chuckle coldly.

Being as stealthy as possible, he stole into one of the trees, which was when he realized that it was protected by a spell formation. However, his cultivation base was so impressive that the spell formation couldn't do anything to him. This was an Expert mission that was generally supposed to be impossible to finish; after all, anyone who tried it would most likely run into the Spritefolk and end up dead.

But considering the level of his cultivation base, it took almost no effort at all for him to get to the spritefruit.

Among the Spritefolk residences beneath the tree, there were Quasi-Gods and gods alike. Some were in the middle of practicing cultivation or martial arts. Some sat in meditation, some interacted with their fellows. They all seemed very fierce, as if they were just itching to go out on a raid. Even the women were no exception.

The Spritefolk women were all seductive and good-looking, as beautiful as flowers. Unfortunately, they also thrummed with a baleful energy that made them seem extremely murderous, like colorful but extremely venomous spiders.

Yang Qi ignored them all. The Spritefolk had a lot of top experts, but none who could cause any problems for him.

He headed toward the nearest tree, appearing right in front of the spritefruit that grew on it, which emanated a soft and warm feeling. But instead of grabbing it, he absorbed the vital energy that flowed from it, and used some of his daoist techniques to analyze its structure.

'Boundless Simulation: Nascent Divinity Creation!'

A spritefruit appeared on his palm; it was illusory, and would only last for about an hour before fading out of existence.

Reaching out, he quickly replaced the real spritefruit with the fake, then flitted over to another tree to repeat the process. In quick succession, he took several hundred pieces.

The mission only called for eighty-one, but considering how marvelous the fruits were, he wanted some for his friends and family.

Soon, the one-hour time period was nearly over, and the time had come to leave. He wasn't interested in tangling with the Spritefolk. Besides, they surely had some consummate experts in hiding somewhere, so therefore, the best thing would be to leave before anyone noticed him.

Even as he left, the first of the fake spritefruits started disappearing, leading to a huge commotion among the Spritefolk.

People were running around left and right, with top experts flying around trying to identify the culprit. Of course, none of them were even aware of Yang Qi's presence.

As he watched the buzz of activity, he thought, 'They have no idea it was me. And it doesn't matter that the trees keep a record of the auras of whoever steals from them. That's simply a record of destiny and fate, so how will it help them find me? After all, I'm a Fateless One...'

With that, he flew back to the hidden teleportation portal and left the continent.

Before long, he was back in the House of God Ordainment's god kingdom, and the Law-Enforcement God-Palace.

The White-Haired Boxer King and Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger were there, along with Crimson-Maiden Inferno. As for the latter, her expression flickered when she laid eyes on him. Thanks to the auditing of her thoughts, she hadn't been able to cause any problems whatsoever. She had struggled at first, but soon came to realize that her fate was now completely tied up with the God Legion Seal, and she belonged to Yang Qi.

It left her with very mixed feelings.

When Yang Qi handed over the eighty-one spritefruits, the White-Haired Boxer King said, "What? You got the spritefruits already? Shocked, he exchanged a glance with Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger, then both of them looked at Crimson-Maiden Inferno.

Voice icy, she said, "So you acquired the spritefruits. That means you've passed the exams and are now a law enforcement disciple. We won't cause any further trouble for you."

'What!?' Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger and the White-Haired Boxer King were both stunned. They had assumed that Crimson-Maiden Inferno would come up with more hoops for Yang Qi to jump through, only to find out to their surprise that she was just letting him pass. The White-Haired Boxer King had been dead set on making sure Yang Qi never succeeded, but as of now, there really wasn't anything he could do. The sect rules were rigid, and he had no way to cause any more problems.

'He's just a low-level law enforcement disciple now,' the White-Haired Boxer King thought. 'That means he has to follow my orders; therefore, I can control him. I can send him on dangerous missions and keep the rewards for myself. He's strong, but he's part of the machine now, and will have to stow his personal ambitions.'

Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger was thinking the same thing. After exchanging a meaningful glance with the White-Haired Boxer King, he said, "Since you got the spritefruit, Yang Qi, there's nothing further we can say. You pass. I hope that in the future, you'll work hard to enforce the law."

He and the White-Haired Boxer King went through some more formalities, giving Yang Qi a uniform and identity medallion.

Starting now, Yang Qi no longer worked for the Scripture Pavilion. He was a disciple of the Law-Enforcement God-Palace, with the authority to arrest other disciples and punish them for breaking the rules. Other disciples had no such rights. At most, they could report crimes to the Law-Enforcement God-Palace, then wait for them to handle things.

It was a huge amount of power, which was why so many people tried to become law enforcement disciples, many of whom even lost their lives in the process. The Law-Enforcement God-Palace was so powerful that even disciples from other divisions who were stronger than the law enforcement disciples would never dare to provoke them.

"Great, I'm a law enforcement disciple now," Yang Qi said. Donning his new garment, he looked at the White-Haired Boxer King and Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger and said, "If the two of you have no other plans tonight, why don't we sit down and have a good chat. I have some gifts I'd like to give you."

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Chapter 1251: Subjugating Gods

When Yang Qi proposed a meeting later that evening, Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger and the White-Haired Boxer King exchanged surprised glances, then they both smiled.

"So, you have a sense of propriety after all, boy," said Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger. "I'm very curious to see what gifts you might offer that could calm our anger."

"Ah, that's easy," Yang Qi said, a faint smile on his face. "Now that I'm a law enforcement disciple, you two are direct superiors, which means you'll have plenty of ways to keep me in line. That's why I'd prefer to turn weapons of war into gifts of jade and silk. It's a given that I'll provide some amazing treasures to settle our little dispute."

"Then I suppose we'll wait and see what treasures you offer," said the White-Haired Boxer King, a vicious smile playing out on his face. "If they aren't satisfactory, we'll be sending you on plenty of dangerous missions to suffer all sorts of humiliations."

"Of course, I wouldn't expect anything else."

With that, he turned and left. Meanwhile, a look of pity could be seen on Crimson-Maiden Inferno's face. She knew full well that the White-Haired Boxer King and Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger were next on Yang Qi's list of targets, and that they would fall under his control this very evening.

Later that night...

Outside of the god kingdom, far out in the desolate mountains, Yang Qi sat on a barren peak, surrounded by cold winds. Of course, it was pitch black, and the cries of various wild animals echoed out in the night.

WHOOSH!

A stream of silver light appeared, which was none other than Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger, who held a small silver dagger in his hand. "Where's the treasure, boy?"

"What happened to the White-Haired Boxer King?" Yang Qi replied. "You see, I have half of an Unbounded medicinal pill that I found in the Pill-King's temple ruins. But I'm not sure how to split it between the two of you. I just hope that after you get it, you won't cause any more problems for me."

Even as the words left his mouth, he held out his hand, upon which rested a medicinal pill, surrounded by a medicinal aroma so strong that it would cause one's hair to stand on end.

"An Unbounded medicinal pill?" Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger said. "Give it to me!"

"Hold on!" someone said. It was the White-Haired Boxer King. Unexpectedly, he had actually arrived earlier and was waiting in the shadows to see what Yang Qi was truly planning to do. Now that he saw half of an Unbounded medicinal pill, he stepped out into the open to prevent Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger from taking it.

"I'll be taking that half pill, Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger," the White-Haired Boxer King said. "You can take one of his other treasures."

"Wrong. I'll be taking the pill," Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger said, obviously not willing to back down.

All of a sudden, they heard the sound of someone clicking their tongue in disapproval as Crimson-Maiden Inferno stepped out. "Even in the face of imminent catastrophe, the two of you are still haggling over a medicinal pill?"

"Don't tell me you want in on the action as well, Crimson-Maiden Inferno," the White-Haired Boxer King said, his expression flickering.

"No, I'm just here to see how exactly Yang Qi subjugates the two of you. How so very tragic. He really fooled you, didn't he? But that's just what happens when you're so set on personal gain. Now that you're out in the open, you're damned no matter what you do. If you'd stayed in the god kingdom, Yang Qi wouldn't have been able to do much."

"What?!" the White-Haired Boxer King said, suddenly coming to the realization that something was off.

Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger was having similar qualms. Glaring at Yang Qi, he said, "What's going on here, boy? Don't tell me you think you're in a position to fight us. Is that why you asked us out here? I doubt you're that stupid. So spit it out. What do you want?"

"It's just as Crimson-Maiden Inferno said: you're facing imminent catastrophe. Do you think I'm braindead or something? Did you really think I joined the Law-Enforcement God-Palace so I could place myself as your subordinate to plot and scheme against at will? No, I joined the Law-Enforcement God-Palace to take it over. And I already have Crimson-Maiden Inferno on my side."

"Is he telling the truth, Crimson-Maiden Inferno?" asked Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger, looking over at her through narrowed eyes.

"I had no choice in the matter," she spat. "I actually want to kill him, but unfortunately, I can't defy his will. And in short order, you'll be just like me."

"Who are you, brat?!" the White-Haired Boxer King said, his voice cold. Despite the circumstances, he was keeping his cool and was already scrambling to come up with a way to deal with the situation.

"Me? I'm an Ascendant from the impure lands. And I'm not inclined to go into more detail. The time has come for both you to be put in your place!"

RUMBLE!

The Many Heavens God Seal appeared, hovering above their heads for a brief moment before sinking down into them.

Next, Yang Qi said, "Eternal Suppression of Rivers and Mountains!"

In the blink of an eye, a rift opened up and numerous golden chains spread out of it.

The White-Haired Boxer King screamed and dropped to his knees, his flesh splitting apart in many places and his meridians shattering.

"Silver-Dagger Surefire-Slaughter Skill!" A tremor passed through Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger as his acupoints opened and immense power flowed into the small silver dagger he held. Then the dagger shot forth with indescribable speed, piercing through space to appear right in front of Yang Qi.

This was the skill he would use when he absolutely needed to kill someone. It contained all of his quintessence energy, and was an invincible attack that could slaughter anything in its path. In fact, it could even be used to take down Consummate Gods.

This flying dagger move was a surefire way to slaughter his enemies.

Sadly, it turned out to be disappointing; as it closed in on Yang Qi, he simply reached out and grasped the blade between two fingers, stopping it in place.

"Impossible! How could he just grab my flying dagger?" Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger looked completely crestfallen. "My Silver-Dagger Surefire-Slaughter Skill is impossible to stop. Even a Consummate God who faced it would end up dead, guaranteed!"

"He's only a Lesser God, but he has monarch godhood," Crimson-Maiden Inferno explained. "I said you two had fallen for his trap. But you think a bit too much of yourselves. Don't worry, I'll weep for you after you've been beaten."

"She's right," Yang Qi said. "The time has come to sacrifice your hearts and minds to the God Legion Seal. You new gods are going to be just like the ancient gods. New thrones are about to appear in the god legion hall."

RUMBLE!

Golden light erupted from within Yang Qi, sweeping over Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger and the White-Haired Boxer King with mountain-toppling, sea-draining force.

They screamed until their voices went hoarse. An hour later, they lay limp on the ground, surrounded by golden light.

"You... Yang Qi, you're..." They couldn't say anything more than that, much less move or take any action.

"Our thoughts... all of them, they're being audited?" Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger said, his voice dripping with terror.

"That's right. From now on, your destiny is tied up with the God Legion Seal. I'm your lord, and your minds and bodies are mine. I control them. I'm privy to all your thoughts, and I decide what you can think and do."

C-C-CRACK!

Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger lost control of his dagger, which fell to the ground.

Now that Yang Qi had monarch godhood, he could deal with Greater Gods as easily as drinking water or eating a snack. He would only need to worry about a protracted fight if he were to face a Consummate God.

Two new golden thrones appeared within the God Legion Seal, representing the seals placed on the White-Haired Boxer King and Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger. Yang Qi was now in complete control of them. That said, considering how many thoughts were flitting about in the minds of the three gods, it wasn't necessarily easy to keep track and control all of them.

Yet, even with just the thoughts of those three gods in his mind, Yang Qi felt as though he could sense anything and everything. As he improved and continued on this path, he would eventually be able to oversee the thoughts of all living beings. He would be reincarnation. He would be the dao of heaven.

In fact, he would surpass the dao of heaven. After all, he would control the thoughts of the legion of gods, and it was the legion of gods who created all living beings.

"Yang Qi... I can't believe this is what you are," the White-Haired Boxer King said. "I really misjudged you. I thought you worked for Jadefall. How could I possibly have guessed that it was actually the other way around? She's your subordinate." He suddenly chuckled miserably. "How ridiculous. I really bit off more than I could chew in trying to take you on."

"What a tragedy," Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger said with a bitter smile. "Why did I have to be so unlucky? Of all the people in the god world, why did I have to be the one to run into you? I can't believe that all of this is happening all because of one measly disciple..."

"You think you're unlucky?" Yang Qi said, clasping his hands behind his back. "There's nothing unlucky about it. You should feel honored! Follow me, and you'll have boundless prospects for the future. For instance, given your constitution, you'll never break through to the Consummate God level. But if you sacrifice your heart to the God Legion Seal, there will be no end to the breakthroughs you can achieve."

"What are you planning to do now, Yang Qi?" Crimson-Maiden Inferno asked. "Are you really going to try to take over the entire House of God Ordainment? You're only a Lesser God. You might have powerful godhood, but your level is still low. You definitely can't take on a Consummate God, much less control one."

"You're right. For now, I can't handle a Consummate God. My current limit is Greater Gods. And it would be meaningless for me to take control of Lesser and Common Gods. You Greater Gods need to serve me well. If you do, you'll be rewarded. If you don't, I'll kill you with a thought."

1. The Many Heavens God Seal originally appeared in . For anyone interested in checking past references, it was also mentioned in the following chapters: , , , , , , , , , , and .

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Chapter 1252: Joining the Crown Prince Society

Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger was ambitious and ruthless, so he quickly calmed down and said, "You beat us, Yang Qi. We're under your control now. If you want us dead, we'll be dead. And you even monitor our thoughts. So what choice do we have other than to follow your orders? What do you want us to do?"

"Nothing specific," Yang Qi replied. "Just help me to build my power structure and start gathering wealth. Whatever resources you have available, bring them to me. I have a few sworn siblings in the House of God Ordainment that I'll introduce you to soon. And I also have a business called the Sage Monarch Consortium that I want you to help expand. Understood?"

"Understood," the White-Haired Boxer King said, not sounding the least bit defiant.

"Good. You can go now." Yang Qi wasn't worried about them trying anything funny. With the God Legion Seal controlling their thoughts, what could they possibly do?

With Greater Gods at his beck and call, his overall position in the sect was much more secure.

That said, Yang Qi could tell that, considering how difficult it was to actually control Greater Gods, his current psyche and will could only sustain a maximum of about ten of them. Any more than that and his control would wane.

If he didn't bother trying to advance his cultivation base, and literally didn't do a single thing, then he might be able to control a hundred. But then he would be virtually defenseless if he had to actually fight someone.

And obviously, he would face cultivation problems. However, later on, when his psyche reached a more developed state and he broke through to the Unbounded level, he wouldn't have such limitations.

'The next task at hand is to get into the Crown Prince Society and see what's going on there.'

With Crimson-Maiden Inferno, the White-Haired Boxer King, and Exalted Celestial Silver-Dagger under his control, Yang Qi felt a bit more at ease. So now he was able to deal with something else that had been weighing on him heavily recently: the crown prince of the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty.

He wanted to get into the Crown Prince Society and see what this crown prince was all about, and whether or not he had any relation to the Crown Prince from the impure lands.

After all, it had oft been said that the Crown Prince in the impure lands was really 'a god from heaven descended into the mortal world'.

Perhaps that Crown Prince was an extension of will sent by the crown prince of the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty. Yang Qi wasn't worried about any ramifications if that was the case. After all, there was no way the owner of that expression of will would have any idea who Yang Qi was.

The extension of will had formed a new body in the impure lands, essentially becoming its own unique entity.

If the crown prince of the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty and the Crown Prince from the impure lands were the same person, it would be easy to explain the entire situation. The crown prince of the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty had obviously sent some of his will to the lower worlds as a unique entity, hoping he would gather certain treasures and ultimately bring them back to the god world.

The lower worlds had contained the God Legion Seal, King Immortal-Slayer's legacy medallions, and countless other god items. And because gods couldn't descend into the lower worlds, the only way to try to collect what remained of the almighty ancient entities was to send down expressions of will.

Generally speaking, even sending an expression of will to the lower worlds was considered impossible, and even now, Yang Qi had no idea how to do it.

By extension, that was why it was so miraculous that Proud Heaven had somehow personally traveled to the god world and returned to the impure lands.

There were many things in the god world that completely confounded Yang Qi's ability to understand.

It was likely that, in ancient times, the god world and the impure lands had been connected. That would explain the existence of the god bastards, and how they had been relegated to life on the Ancient Road to the Gods.

In fact, during his time in the god world, Yang Qi hadn't heard a single mention of the god bastards.

After thinking about the matter for a while, he produced a jade amulet and crushed it. Some time passed, and a figure approached. It was none other than Cold Jade.

When Cold Jade saw that Yang Qi was wearing the robe of a law enforcement disciple, he nodded. "You passed the exam and became a law enforcement disciple. Well done, Yang Qi. That said, I'm not surprised. Considering what you're capable of, it was a foregone conclusion that you'd succeed. Have you finished thinking about my suggestion? Is that why you summoned me? Interested in joining the Crown Prince Society?"

"Yes, I'm in," Yang Qi said.

"Alright!" Cold Jade said, smiling broadly. "In that case, I'll take you to see one of the higher-ranking members. This isn't someone from the House of God Ordainment, by the way. I'll give you my endorsement, then once you're a member, you'll definitely advance by leaps and bounds."

"Okay. Who exactly are you taking me to meet?"

"You'll see soon enough." The two of them flew to a nearby teleportation portal, which led them to another city named Coiling Dragon. It was outside of the House of God Ordainment's god kingdom, but was still considered to be administered by the sect. That said, there were many outsiders there, as the city was a major trading hub. As for the city magistrate, he was a Greater God from the House of God Ordainment, a man named Exalted Celestial Coiling Dragon.

Yang Qi's Sage Monarch Consortium had a branch in this city, and it was doing quite well. Because it was backed by the House of God Ordainment, no one would ever dare to cause trouble here.

Upon entering the city, the guards saw that Yang Qi was wearing the uniform of a law enforcement disciple, and as such, they didn't dare to charge him the entry tax. And once Yang Qi and Cold Jade were walking through the city, everyone scurried out of their way, even some Common Gods. Even ordinary disciples of the House of God Ordainment would be respected here, much less law enforcement disciples.

"This uniform is pretty useful," Yang Qi said. "People seem scared just seeing me."

"Well that goes without saying," Cold Jade replied. "Why else do you think people want to be law enforcement disciples so badly they'll even risk their lives for the chance? Okay, here we are. This place is called the Eternal Mark. It's a restaurant run by the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty. Not even the House of God Ordainment would dare to cause problems here."

The two of them entered the restaurant and were met with an extremely luxurious scene inside. They were now in a sumptuous god kingdom, filled with innumerable beautiful women, with fine wine and gourmet food everywhere. Of course, none of it was cheap. Yang Qi caught sight of a few disciples from the House of God Ordainment handing over stacks of godnotes to order food and purchase the services of the beautiful girls.

He even saw some female Lesser Gods that were nothing more than slave girls.

"What's wrong?" Cold Jade asked, noticing his expression. "The slave girls here are all from organizations conquered by the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty. The most beautiful girls go through special training that makes them so good in bed that afterward, you can hardly breathe. And if you're willing to pay, you can even absorb their godpower and take it for your own. Unfortunately, this place is really expensive. Too expensive for me, even. All the customers here are children of very important people. Either that, or they're extremely powerful in their respective sects."

Yang Qi shook his head. 'I feel bad for these women,' he thought. 'They're basically thralls, trained by the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty to use their own cultivation bases for the benefit of the customers. And eventually, they're just sold. What a miserable fate.'

He knew of certain godly-class energy arts that women could cultivate to form pure yin bodies. Although it made them strong, if they lost their virginity, whatever man did the deed would reap an immense reward. Obviously, the men who patronized this establishment enjoyed ravaging women and absorbing their cultivation bases.

Seeing Yang Qi and Cold Jade enter, a man walked forward and said, "How can we help you, gentlemen?"

He was only a Quasi-God, but from this aura, it was obvious that he was no weaker than a Lesser God.

Cold Jade produced a jade amulet and said, "I'm here to see the exalted Dream."

"Of course!" the man said, looking visibly surprised. Being as respectful as possible, he led them through the corridors into the depths of the restaurant. It was a unique heaven and earth, cut off from the rest of the world and filled with beautiful streams and ornamental rocks. Immortal cranes flew through the air, and the faint sound of zither music reached their ears. Eventually, they came to a stop in front of the zither player, who was a woman, her back to them as she played.

Cold Jade simply stood there respectfully until the music ceased.

"Cold Jade?" a woman asked. "Have you finally recruited someone into the Crown Prince Society? Is it your Master?"

"Exalted Dream, I dare not try to recruit my Master yet. But I did find someone of unusual talent that should be a great member. This is Yang Qi. He just became a law enforcement disciple, and is also a friend of Jadefall."

"Oh? A friend of Jadefall?" The woman looked over her shoulder at Yang Qi, staring at him with eyes that seemed capable of piercing deep into his heart and mind.

'This woman is a Consummate God!' he thought, surprised to find someone like this here. Although she only released the aura of a Greater God, she couldn't hide the truth of her cultivation base from him.

"Yes, I'm a friend of Jadefall," he said. Considering he was dealing with a Consummate God, there was no way he could infect her with a devil embryo. He had to be very, very careful, lest he reveal the wrong information. If she knew the truth about him, she would very likely try to kill him.

"You're strong," she said, looking him up and down. "A godhood rating of nine, early Lesser God. Not bad at all."

Yang Qi had loosened his Devil-God Seal a bit, lest he make himself seem too weak. At the same time, he pretended to be surprised that she had seen through to the 'true' level of his strength.

"What?!" he exclaimed. "You can actually assess me? Very few people can see through my concealment!"

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Chapter 1253: Scheming for the Jade

The 'exalted Dream' laughed softly. "If I couldn't assess you, wouldn't that imply that you're stronger than me? In any case, it's good that you've chosen to join the Crown Prince Society. Congratulations on making the right decision. Henceforth, you're going to rise rapidly through the ranks. You won't regret this."

"Might I inquire how to address you?" Yang Qi asked.

"I'm Dream Daylily," she replied coolly. "Now, step forward. The process to join the Crown Prince Society is very simple. This is a medallion personally crafted by the crown prince. Place a drop of blood on it and swear an oath to be loyal to him. That's it. Afterward, you'll be a member."

She waved her hand, causing an altar to appear, atop which was a small flag. Beneath the flag was a medallion crafted from jade.

Stepping forward, Yang Qi forced out a drop of blood and let it fall onto the medallion. "I hereby swear loyalty to the crown prince and his society. Never shall I betray it."

The blood was absorbed by the medallion, and Yang Qi suddenly felt as if he were being connected to something immense and mighty.

Of course, it was a connection to the crown prince.

The crown prince had already reached the Unbounded level of will convergence, and had used that power to create a warding spell in the medallion. Of course, the warding spell wouldn't work on Yang Qi. He had been expecting something like it, and was prepared.

In fact, he had turned the tables on this crown prince, and planned to use this chance to spy on him a bit, and hopefully discover whether or not he really was connected to the Crown Prince from the impure lands.

If he was, more caution would be required.

Thankfully, even if they were connected, there was no way the crown prince here could know what had played out in the impure lands.

"Very well, the ceremony is over." Dream Daylily was pleased to see how decisively Yang Qi acted, and was already feeling good about recruiting him. "You're now a member of the Crown Prince Society. As such, no one will ever dare to bully you." She waved her hand, and a stream of light shot over to Yang Qi's hand, which resolved into the shape of a handkerchief. "That's the Silkcloud Kerchief, a god item I personally created. If you ever run into trouble, even from a Greater God, you can activate it to resolve the situation."

"Many thanks," Yang Qi said, plastering a look of extreme gratitude onto his face. Of course, the truth was that the thing might as well have been a literal piece of trash to him.

"You'll receive many other benefits as a member of the Crown Prince Society, especially considering your attitude. Some people who want to join suddenly get reluctant when they're asked to pledge their loyalty. Faceless bastards!" She smiled coldly. "But considering your attitude, I can assure you that you won't regret your decision." Raising her voice, she said, "Girls, get in here!"

"Ma'am! What orders do you have?"

Three handmaidens entered. To Yang Qi's surprise, they were all Common Gods, and they were all dazzlingly beautiful.

"This is Yang Qi, a new member of the Crown Prince Society. Take him to pick a girl, and let him drain her dry. Who's considered the most desirable girl right now?"

"Exalted Dream," one of the women said," the most desirable girl right now is one that just finished her training and graduated from the Chapel. Her name is Summer Tearfall. She cultivated the Profound-Jade Sex-Goddess Liquid-Jade Divine Art in her training. She's originally from the Nacrelight Sageland, and was captured with a larger group of women from there during a clash between our organizations. She's a peak Lesser God, but with the Profound-Jade Sex-Goddess Liquid-Jade Divine Art, she could be an amazing asset to any man who bedded her. A Lesser God who takes her virginity could easily become a Common God. That said, she's worth a huge amount of money. In fact, it might even be better to auction her off..."

"Auction her? Is the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty really so low on funds that we need to auction things off?" Dream Daylily chuckled coldly. "Spare no expense here. Call this Summer Tearfall out and deliver her to one of the rooms for Yang Qi to drain."

"Yes, we'll handle it right away." The handmaidens quickly left.

"Hurry up and offer thanks to the exalted Dream Daylily!" Cold Jade said, the envy visible on his face. Back when he had joined the Crown Prince Society, he'd received similar treatment, which was why his godhood was so unique.

Yang Qi offered his thanks.

Before long, the handmaidens returned with a beautiful young woman in tow. She had large eyes and was surrounded by an enticing aroma. That said, her face was expressionless, making her seem almost like the walking dead. It was obvious why; her fate was to be sold, her virginity paid for and her vitality drained. It was obviously going to be a miserable fate. Women like this were essentially thralls designed for the benefit of others' cultivation. Their godpower would be drained away, and in the end, they would simply die.

"Yang Qi, this young woman is Summer Tearfall. She's worth over a hundred thousand godnotes, or perhaps even more to someone who fancies her. She's yours now. Use her to get stronger, and you'll be better equipped to handle tasks for the society."

"Many thanks for the reward," Yang Qi said. "That said, I don't need methods like this to improve my cultivation base, and harming innocents goes against my code of conduct. Therefore, I must reject the offer. That said, I'd like to pay the godnotes to buy her outright."

Even as the words left his mouth, he produced two hundred thousand godnotes, then plopped them down on the table.

"So many godnotes! That's no small sum!" Looking visibly taken aback, Dream Daylily eyed Yang Qi. "Where did you get so much wealth?"

"Simple," Yang Qi said coolly. "I have a business called the Sage Monarch Consortium. You might even have heard of it, oh exalted Dream Daylily."

"Sage Monarch Consortium?" She thought for a moment. "Yes, I remember hearing about a business selling certain ancient medicinal ingredients. Definitely an up and coming consortium. They've even been coming into direct competition with the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty. I'd been planning to strike a blow against it, but if it belongs to you, I won't need to. Things couldn't have worked out better."

"Yes," Yang Qi said. He was quite pleased to have spared some difficulty for the Sage Monarch Consortium. He had been able to tell right away that his business would be in direct competition with this restaurant.

"I'm a member of the Crown Prince Society now, but I haven't made any worthy contributions, and that means I don't deserve any rewards. Therefore, I won't take advantage of this young woman. That said, I still want to buy her. There is virtue in sparing life, so please, just let her leave."

"Leave? I'm afraid that won't be possible. She might have impressive energy arts, but they were specifically imparted to her so that she could give them to others. She can't do anything in a fight. Given her skill and ability, she'd only be recaptured and end up suffering the same fate. Since you run the Sage Monarch Consortium, why not have her work as a servant there?"

"Hurry up and thank the young sir!" the other handmaidens said, cursing Summer Tearfall.

However, her face remained as expressionless as before.

Yang Qi didn't seem to take any exception to her attitude. "I only hope that I can meet the crown prince one day and admire him in all his glory. And if he gave me even a small tip about cultivation, I would be boundlessly grateful."

"Perform some meritorious services, and you'll be able to meet him," Dream Daylily said. "Aren't you a friend of Jadefall's? It would be very simple to get her into the Crown Prince Society as well. If you could pull that off, the crown prince would definitely give you an audience, and he'd surely help you form Paramount will convergence. What do you think?"

"Er..." Yang Qi said, "that might be hard to pull off, but I'll do my best."

"I'll wait for the good news. In the meantime, do your best to recruit other talented people for our society. If you recruit a capable Lesser God, you'll be rewarded in kind. Recruit a Common God, and you'll be doubly rewarded. For Greater Gods, you'll receive even more amazing rewards. Perhaps you'll even be allowed to enter the treasure storehouse in the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty and pick something you like. Considering what you're capable of, you should do well. Of course, the Greater Gods of the House of God Ordainment won't be easy to recruit, but you can try."

'The treasure storehouse of the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty?' Yang Qi thought, his heart pounding a bit. He had to wonder if the piece of the Mahātmā Jade was stored there. The Mahātmā Jade was the entire reason he was going through with this whole scheme. That said, he wasn't in a hurry. Technically speaking, he could instantly recruit Crimson-Maiden Inferno, the White-Haired Boxer King, and Exalted Celestial Silver-Saber into the Crown Prince Society if he wanted to. But that would cause too much of a stir, and draw the wrong kind of attention.

"Very well," Dream Daylily said, "let's call it a day. Going forward, you work for the Crown Prince Society, and do everything in your power to advance its interests. This jade medallion is an authentication device linking you to our society. It allows us to communicate any tasks you might need to complete. Understand?"

Yang Qi nodded vigorously. "Yes! I'll take my leave now, and bring Summer Tearfall with me."

"That's fine."

Yang Qi turned to leave, whereupon he heard Dream Daylily say, "Cold Jade, you stay. You've earned a reward for recruiting Yang Qi..."

Yang Qi didn't bother trying to eavesdrop. Cold Jade had a devil embryo in him, which meant Yang Qi could easily listen in on the conversation he was about to have with Dream Daylily.

After leaving, he didn't go back to the god kingdom, but instead went to the Sage Monarch Consortium's headquarters.

"My respects, Milord!" Zhang Jufang said. He was now a Lesser God. "The Sage Monarch Consortium has been doing great business lately. That said, we've been butting heads with the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty. What do you suggest we do? Back down, or force a conflict?"

"Just keep doing business as normal. The Eternal-Life God-Dynasty won't cause any problems. How are the rest of my people doing? Have any of them been by recently?"

"The exalted Brahma, the exalted Jadefall, the exalted Shepherd... they all come by occasionally. Because of that, no one dares to pick a fight with us. Milord, I also received one of those skulls as a reward, which enabled me to kill a Greater God from the dao of devils who came to cause problems. Later, we actually worked out a deal with some sects from the dao of devils. Some of them should be coming soon to fence some stolen goods."

1. Summer Tearfall: This is a contrived name that conforms to the Chinese system of surname first, given name last. So her surname is Summer and her given name is Tearfall. As for why I chose to translate this instead of transliterate, you'll find out later...

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Chapter 1254: Flower of Time

Business had been booming for the Sage Monarch Consortium ever since Yang Qi plundered the Chaos Forge God-Shrine, taking thirteen crystal skulls that he refined with the God Legion Seal and his Unspoiled Body. With the spell formations he had inscribed with them, they pulsed with the power of godmammoths, and could easily unleash the power of an early Consummate God.

The skulls were even more impressive considering that they were created by the undying will of countless almighty figures from the past, making them much better than average magical treasures. Most treasures could withstand assaults by ordinary energy, but not attacks of will.

For example, if Zhang Jufang were to rely on his other magical treasures, then if a Greater God came along with Paramount will, he would be in real trouble without the skull. But with the skull, he would be able to defend himself.

With it, he could slaughter any enemy under the level of a Consummate God.

Consummate Gods were considered luminaries in the god world, and were usually ambitious and ruthless figures that no one would dare to cause problems for.

Because of that, the Sage Monarch Consortium was able to peddle its medicinal ingredients without the slightest scruple. They were also able to fence stolen goods brought to them by the Demonfolk, and even people from the dao of devils. It was for that reason that they had been butting heads with the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty. However, now that Yang Qi was a member of the Crown Prince Society, he was actually under the protection of the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty, and would be able to partake in plenty more shady business.

"Zhang Jufang, the time has come for me to help you with your cultivation base again. You're going to become a Common God!"

Yang Qi reached out and clamped his hand onto Zhang Jufang's head, who was kneeling in front of him. Power coursed into Zhang Jufang, causing his godhood to grow stronger, and his body tougher. It was actually the Sovereign Lord's Holy and Far-Reaching Consummate Omnicurse, which Yang Qi was using to baptize his godhood and remove impurities from it.

Ever since forming monarch godhood, Yang Qi's Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth and its associated energy arts had all transformed significantly.

As for the Sovereign Lord's Holy and Far-Reaching Consummate Omnicurse, it was getting closer and closer to the level it had been at when it was used by the Sovereign Lord himself.

Zhang Jufang kneeled there, a solemn and pious expression on his face as the power of the technique flowed through him. Impurities were forced out of him, almost like black liquid, which subsequently faded into nothing, having been absorbed into the void.

What was left behind was something far more pure than before, a godhood in which the dao of heaven itself swirled.

Zhang Jufang immediately started kowtowing. "Many thanks, Milord! Your benevolence knows no bounds, and I shall be eternally grateful!"

"Rise," Yang Qi said. "Within less than half a year, your energy arts will advance by leaps and bounds, and you'll reach the early Common God level. Remember to diligently cultivate the techniques I've imparted to you, and you'll do fine." Next, he gestured at the wooden-faced Summer Tearfall standing next to him. "Find a place in the Sage Monarch Consortium for this woman. She'll be an assistant of sorts to you. Got it?"

"I understand, Milord."

With that, Zhang Jufang hurried away.

Now, the only two left in the room were Yang Qi and Summer Tearfall. Seeing that her expression was as blank as ever, he said, "Were you born mute or something?"

A long moment passed, then she said, "Why didn't you drain me? My fate was to cultivate a technique that would result in me being drained. I don't care about anything anymore. Kill me. Torture me. Do whatever you want. My heart is dead, so what's the point of jabbering about it?"

"Your heart is dead?" Yang Qi laughed. "Your sect was destroyed, you were captured, and you were forced to cultivate a technique that would result in you being drained. That's it? What's there to sigh about? In the end, you weren't drained. Furthermore, you actually gained some godpower. I've given you a new life, and want you to work for me. As for your godpower and techniques, they aren't good for fighting, but I'll change that and make sure you can defend yourself. How about it?"

"Really?" she said, a bit of expression returning to her eyes. "Except, I'm not interested in having my godpower for fighting. I just want to be back the way I was before. By the way, my sect wasn't destroyed. The Eternal-Life God-Dynasty could never destroy the Nacrelight Sageland. So if you can just help me recover, and get me back home, then my gratitude will know no bounds."

"That should work," Yang Qi said. "I'd wanted you to help out in my Sage Monarch Consortium, but if you just want to go back to your sect, that's fine. I can find the kindness in my heart to help you."

"I know that you spent two hundred thousand godnotes to free me," Summer Tearfall said, "and I'll make sure that wasn't a waste. Once I'm back in the Nacrelight Sageland, I'll repay those godnotes. Okay?"

"That's fine. We'll treat it as a business transaction. If you want to pay me back, I'll accept. If you don't want to, it's no matter." Yang Qi waved his hand dismissively.

Summer Tearfall was visibly surprised at Yang Qi's nonchalant attitude. She also recalled how he had just helped his subordinate improve his godhood. After thinking about it for a moment, she couldn't help but ask, "Do you mind if I ask who exactly you are? Most people can't just casually pull out two hundred thousand godnotes."

"That's not really any of your business," he said. Then his hand snaked out and clamped onto the top of her head. "You have a warding spell in your sea of consciousness that makes it impossible to use your previous energy arts. I'll help you remove it. Then I'll convert your godpower into something of the pure void, and of primal-chaos. It won't take long until you're fully recovered and can leave to return to your Nacrelight Sageland. I'll also give you a protective talisman that will keep you safe, even if a Consummate God tries to cause trouble for you."

There was a flash of light, then Summer Tearfall sensed something like an explosion in her mind, whereupon everything about her changed. Once again, she became elegant, noble, and refined.

Nodding at what he was seeing, Yang Qi produced a golden talisman that resembled a swirling dragon, which he placed in her hand.

"You can use the talisman three times to escape from a Consummate God," he explained. "After the third time, it will vanish forever. Don't get involved in a fight with a Consummate God. Just run. The talisman isn't good for anything other than that. If you try using it to fight, you'll end up getting killed."

"If you can create a talisman to escape from a Consummate God, then that means you're no weaker than a Consummate God. You're definitely not an early Lesser God, so why are you pretending to be one?"

"Remember, curiosity can get even gods killed," Yang Qi said. "You and I are not on the same level, so you shouldn't be asking questions like that. Everyone has secrets, and prying at them is a good way to end up dead."

"I understand." Surprisingly, Summer Tearfall actually smiled. "Many thanks to you for saving me. I'll never forget the kindness you've shown me. When you have the time, come visit me in the Nacrelight Sageland and I'll do my utmost to entertain you."

"That's fine. Now, take your leave. And considering you have no money whatsoever, take these twenty thousand godnotes. That should cover your expenses on your way back to the Nacrelight Sageland." Yang Qi handed her the money, and she accepted, then gave him a profound look before turning and flying off into the distance.

'She wasn't telling the truth about who she is,' Yang Qi thought. 'I'd say it's highly likely she's actually someone very important from the Nacrelight Sageland. Now that I think about it, I remember reading about that place before.' Closing his eyes, he recalled the information he had gleaned from the Great Classic of God Ordainment.

'The Nacrelight Sageland is made up entirely of women. It's considered a very important church located on the distant Great Continent of Radiance.' As it turned out, the Nacrelight Sageland was a huge sect of similar size and scope to the House of God Ordainment, and had been in opposition to the Eternal-Life God-Dynasty for many years.

Not that Yang Qi cared about that. Saving Summer Tearfall was just planting a seed that may or may not bear fruit in the future.

As he sat there in the Sage Monarch Consortium, he summoned a bottle gourd, out of which flew nine jade boxes and a body.

They were items he had taken from the Chaos Forge God-Shrine, but hadn't yet had a chance to study thoroughly. Inside the nine jade boxes were nine flower petals, whose function he still hadn't identified. As for the body, it was that of a scholar, and he was also unsure of what it did.

In addition to these items, there was also a medicinal pill he had acquired that he was unsure about, as well as the markings he had observed on the ninth floor.

Of course, the wills of the top experts from those battle scars had been absorbed by his piece of the Mahātmā Jade and were inaccessible to him. So for now, all he had to work with were the flower petals and the scholar's body.

'Time to open the boxes and put the flower petals together!' Yang Qi waved his hand, sending some godpower into the boxes, resulting in the flower petals flying out into the open and taking the shape of a strange flower. Yang Qi had never seen a flower like this. Furthermore, it was missing a stamen, which meant that it wasn't complete.

Yang Qi took the flower petals in his hands and fiddled with them for a bit, whereupon he suddenly sensed the power of time itself. Yang Qi thought back to certain things he had read about in the Great Classic of God Ordainment, as well as some of the books he had studied in the Scripture Pavilion.

'Is this...' he thought, then frowned. 'Don't tell me this is the legendary flower of time? One of the ten miraculous and boundless godflowers? In years past, the Sovereign Lord had a garden filled with numerous godflowers. The concubines in his harem palace would always discuss which of them were the best, and the flower of time was definitely one of them.'

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Chapter 1255: Taking Control of the Playing Field

Rumor had it the flower of time could actually control the way time passed in the god world, at least in a small area. It was very useful, especially when forming godhood. If one could insert the flower into their godhood, and use certain special methods, it could actually improve the godhood significantly, and provide immensely better control over one's godpower.

The flower was considered invincible. However, the downside was that this particular flower lacked a stamen, which meant its time powers were incomplete and would be difficult to properly control. Time in the god world didn't pass like time in the impure lands, and tampering with its flow was an easy way to get killed.

As soon as Yang Qi had arrived in the god world, he realized that all of the magical laws of the impure lands, from the Rich-Lush Continent to the immortal worlds, were illusory. In fact, those places weren't truly real. Only the god world was real.

Those worlds were like the virtual reality games played in the future world. One could go inside of them, look around, and see things that seemed real. But they weren't real Only by reaching godly ascension could one 'cultivate truth', thus dispelling all illusions.

For now, he couldn't use these petals belonging to the flower of time. But one day, he would be able to. Furthermore, there wasn't just one flower of time. But they were exceedingly rare, similar to how rare Unbounded experts were. It would be easier to find a phoenix feather or a qilin horn than one of those flowers, and if one was found, it would be worth ten times more than all of the wealth Yang Qi had accumulated with his Sage Monarch Consortium. If a master alchemist could take this flower and use it to concoct a god pill, it would be a spectacular medicine that contained the power of a Paramount God. And finding more petals like these would help Yang Qi quickly improve his lifespan and cultivation base.

The time flow of the god world was the true and real flow of time. It was for that reason that the old-timers in the impure lands could live for millions upon millions of years, whereas lifespans in the god world were generally about a hundred years.

Although Yang Qi had formed monarch godhood, he still couldn't manipulate time. In fact, he was still having difficulty with the space of the god world, let alone the time. If he tried to make a god kingdom, it would be illusory, and would only last for a short time.

And a tiny, temporary god kingdom like that wouldn't do him any good.

Thus, Yang Qi needed to push his cultivation base to even higher levels. Only by commanding an Unbounded will convergence would he be able to manipulate time. And of course, before he could even think about the Unbounded level, he needed to reach the late stage of Paramount will convergence, then the peak.

Right now, he was only in early Paramount will convergence, and breaking through to the mid level wouldn't be easy.

'Now, about this scholar's body...' he thought. The scholar sat there, looking very much alive. He even had a smile on his face as he perused the book scroll in his hand, as if he found the contents amusing.

Yang Qi drew on his monarch godhood, causing it to flow with immense force. Then he looked closer at the scholar, hoping to determine if he was alive or dead. Regardless, this person had obviously been someone astoundingly powerful. His fleshly body, including his skin, muscles, and everything else, was so powerful that, despite the conditions he had been in, it hadn't been hurt at all. He was obviously far stronger than the crystal skulls had been.

Reaching out, Yang Qi put his hand on the scholar's back and sent some godpower into him. Almost instantly, he felt a reaction from the scholar's sea of energy. It began gobbling up the power so rapidly that it seemed like it would go on forever before it would feel sated.

Yang Qi tried again, draining himself of true energy three times in a row during the process, yet the scholar's sea of energy seemed like a bottomless pit.

'Incredible. This scholar was obviously someone immensely powerful. And he's currently in a state that is neither dead nor undead. I wonder what happened to him all those years ago in the Chaos Forge God-Shrine. He doesn't seem like one of the Pill-King God's people. From what I understand, his people were all daoist priests, not confucian scholars. Furthermore, all of those almighty entities of ancient times ended up dying and dispersing into nothing, but this scholar remained behind. He must be some consummate expert.'

Yang Qi shook his head.

He had the feeling that if he kept sending godpower into the scholar, he would eventually gain something. If nothing else, the body should be worthy of study. Entering a state of being neither dead nor undead wasn't an easy task, to the point where not even Yang Qi could emulate it.

What did it mean to be neither dead nor undead?

Death implied being without life. But this scholar wasn't dead. On the other hand, he wasn't alive, either. It was hard to say exactly what he was. Maybe he was dead, maybe he was alive. Maybe he wasn't dead, maybe he wasn't alive. It almost seemed like he had achieved a state of being lifeless and destructionless.

To be able to study someone in that state would lead to huge gains.

Suddenly, he heard someone approaching from behind.

Flicking his sleeve, he sucked the corpse inside, hiding it. Although he was wearing the robe of a law enforcement disciple, underneath it, he still had his God Legion Battle Robe on.

"What's going on?" he said, having identified the intruder. It was Zhang Jufang.

"Milord," Zhang Jufang said. "Some experts from the dao of devils are here. They don't seem very friendly. Apparently they've earned a behind-the-scenes supporter in the form of a Consummate God from the dao of devils. I don't think I should be tangling with a Consummate God, so I decided to report the matter directly to you. Do you want to see them?"

Yang Qi nodded. "Alright. I'm curious to see what these people from the dao of devils are like. Do they really want to do some business, or are they just here to try ordering us around? If it's the latter, I might as well just wipe them out of existence and be done with the matter."

He flicked his sleeve and was instantly outside. The Sage Monarch Consortium's headquarters was huge, and contained all sorts of buildings, including storehouses and meeting halls in which to discuss business.

Upon arriving at the meeting hall where the people from the dao of devils were waiting, he immediately sensed how tense the atmosphere was.

There was a servant girl sprawled out on the floor, dead, her body completely drained of blood in what must have been a horrific death. She was a Quasi-God, and was one of the many employees that the Sage Monarch Consortium had picked up over the past two years.

Obviously, the experts from the dao of devils had killed her. One of them enjoyed feasting on the blood of virgins, and had no qualms about killing them on sight.

Yang Qi's face immediately turned very grim.

At the moment, none of the other handmaidens dared to enter the hall for fear of being killed, therefore no one was waiting on the experts from the dao of devils.

There were about a dozen experts present, and they all looked different. But Yang Qi quickly identified the four most powerful among them, all of whom were Greater Gods. Of those four, one was completely naked, his body plastered with colorful paints that formed vicious and terrifying designs, even on his face.

Another was a tall, emaciated man clad in a green robe. He was so skinny he looked like a bamboo pole, and was ghostly in a way that made it seem like he might vanish at any moment.

The other two were obviously brothers. They were extremely muscular and radiated fiendish auras. At a glance, it was obvious that they must be important people in the dao of devils. As soon as Yang Qi and Zhang Jufang entered the hall, the eyes of those experts locked on to them in a fashion that would make most people shiver.

One of the muscular brothers currently had a bit of blood dribbling down his chin, making it obvious that he was the one who had killed the handmaiden.

"Milord, these are all elite experts from the dao of devils. As for the four Greater Gods, they're all apprentices of a patriarch of the dao of devils, the famous Lone King Heavenbane. The fellow with the colorful paint on him is Man Tu, the Totem Warlord. His fighting prowess is extremely shocking. The man in green is Shaqing Jun, a famous assassin. And the other two are the Tu Clan Brothers, Tu Xing and Tu Xue. As soon as Tu Xue saw that handmaiden, he killed her and sucked out all her blood. As a group, they belong to a group from the dao of devils called the Emptyhell Throne. Their Master, Lone King Heavenbane, is a very important person from the Emptyhell Throne."

"Well, that's interesting," Yang Qi said, nodding. Walking over to the conference table, he sat down.

Meanwhile, the people from the dao of devils were visibly surprised to see Yang Qi. After all, it seemed clear that Zhang Jufang's cultivation base was far beyond his, so how could he be the person in charge?

"What kind of game are you playing, Zhang Jufang?" said one of the experts. "We said to get your boss out here to talk about making a deal with the Emptyhell Throne. So what's this brat doing here?"

"Watch your mouth," Zhang Jufang snapped. "This is my boss!"

"Oh? You work for a wimp like this?" They all started laughing. Obviously, people from the dao of devils didn't follow any conventions or rules, nor did they have the slightest scruples.

"Very well," said the Totem Warlord, eyeing Yang Qi. "If this brat is here to negotiate, then let's get down to business. From your clothing, I can tell that you're obviously the son of someone important from House of God Ordainment. Our Emptyhell Throne has something we want to sell you: a bunch of living slaves. Agreed?"

"You suck the quintessence-blood out of your slaves," Yang Qi replied, "turning them into the walking dead. And now you want to sell them to us for three or four times what they're worth? Do you think we're idiots? Why would we possibly agree to that? Normally speaking, we don't even do business with you people from the dao of devils. Besides, your slaves are usually infected with devilishness that causes them to randomly go crazy."

"Shut up, you!" said the Totem Warlord. "We never agreed to make any concessions, and if you refuse to do business with us, aren't you worried about reprisals?"

"Is that a threat?" Yang Qi said. "Are you trying to force us to do business with you?"

Tu Xing chuckled darkly. "Take it as you will. Our Consummate God patriarch, Lone King Heavenbane, is currently low on funds, and we know that your Sage Monarch Consortium has interfered in the business between the Demonfolk and the dao of devils. In other words, you need to compensate us for our losses."

Yang Qi smiled faintly. "So you want to do business? As long as there's profit involved, we can talk things over."

Upon hearing what they assumed was Yang Qi backing down, the people from the dao of devils looked even haughtier than before.

"You know what's good for you, boy," said the Totem Warlord. "But you still need to pay up to apologize. Hand over a million godnotes."

"Slow down," Yang Qi said. "If you want to do business, there's an open account that needs to be settled first."

"Open account? What do you mean?"

Yang Qi pointed at the corpse of the handmaiden. "You killed my handmaiden, so now you owe me."

1. Man Tu: Man is an uncommon surname which means "barbarian, savage, etc." Tu means "picture, image, etc."

2. Shaqing Jun: Although this is a very unusual name, my sense is that it's supposed to be an actual name. Sha means "kill", Qing means "green", and Jun means "lord, gentleman, ruler".

3. Tu Xing and Tu Xue: Tu is a surname which also means "earth, dust, clay". Xing means "acrid, fishy" and is often associated with the smell of blood. Xue means "blood".

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Chapter 1256: Patriarch from the Dao of Devils

"What did you just say?" Totem Warlord said, visibly shocked that Yang Qi would dare to demand compensation. "We killed some servant who wasn't even a Quasi-God, and you're demanding compensation? Am I hearing things?"

"You're not hearing things," Yang Qi replied coolly. "I want compensation. You took a life, so what makes you think I wouldn't ask for it?"

BAM!

One of Lesser Gods slapped his hand down on the table. "Are you tired of living, boy!? You may be the son of somebody important from the House of God Ordainment, and maybe you did start this Sage Monarch Consortium. But we're from the dao of devils! Unless you run back and hide in your sect's god kingdom, then never come out, you'll end up dead if you cross us!"

"That's right! Over the past few years, the Emptyhell Throne has killed a lot of disciples from the House of God Ordainment."

"Who do you think you are? You're just a Lesser God! That's nothing compared to the god world as a whole. Besides, Eldest Brother Tu Xue is a Greater God. Do you know how vastly separated the two of you are? Have you even thought about that? We're giving you a lot of face by just sitting here and talking to you, yet you're actually being so insulting as to demand compensation?"

"This is a really joke. I can't believe a Lesser God is demanding compensation from a Greater God. You'd better watch out, I might just kill you where you stand."

Most of the experts from the dao of devils were laughing, although some were spitting in contempt.

"Slow down," said the Totem Warlord. "We came here to do business, and this is a city controlled by the House of God Ordainment. We can't afford to offend the wrong people. Tu Xue, you killed a servant girl, so pay up. Give him a godnote."

"A single godnote?" Tu Xue burst out laughing. "I love nothing more than to drain the blood of virgins. Here. Take ten godnotes and bring me nine more virgins."

He produced ten godnotes, which he sent flying toward Yang Qi in the form of a razor-sharp saber.

Yang Qi waved his hand and sucked the godnotes into his sleeve.

"Hmm?" Tu Xue murmured. "Well done, boy. It seems you do have some skills. Sadly, they're complete crap compared to what I can do. Now go find me those nine virgins. I can almost taste them already."

"Your compensation is one godnote?" Yang Qi said, looking completely unfazed. "Do you think this is some kind of game?"

"How much do you want, then?" Tu Xue asked.

"Simple. If you kill a person, you pay with your life. That's heaven's law and earth's principle. You killed this servant girl, therefore you won't leave here alive. Alright? Those are the rules."

"Kill a person, pay with your life?" Tu Xue's jaw dropped as if he had just heard a very funny joke. "I killed some ant-like servant girl, and you want my life in return? Am I hearing things?"

"You're not hearing things. Kill a person, pay with your life. And that's why I say you won't be leaving here alive."

BOOOM!

Rising to his feet, the Totem Warlord suddenly smashed his fists into the table, shattering it. Glaring at Yang Qi, he said, "You're quite the showoff, boy, aren't you? Don't you realize that you're trying to pull a tooth from the tiger's mouth? We're all Greater Gods, yet a puny Lesser God like you dares to run your mouth without any thought at all. I honestly can't believe you'd say something like 'kill a person, pay with your life'. And you would apply that to some servant girl? Even if we killed you, the House of God Ordainment wouldn't do a thing to us."

"It seems to me we need to take this ignorant brat and put him in his place," Tu Xue said, and he and his brother Tu Xing rose to their feet, staring at Yang Qi as if he were already dead.

"I suppose that means you're refusing to pay with your life for killing my servant girl," Yang Qi said, simply sitting there calmly. "You also broke my conference table. That's just making your outstanding bill even larger."

"That's enough," said one of the other disciples. "This brat is a complete and utter psycho. Elder Brothers, there's no need for you to do anything. I'll teach him a lesson right now!" The disciple strode over to Yang Qi and reached out with a hand that resembled a ghost claw, with fingers like pitch-black iron hooks.

RUMBLE!

Yang Qi didn't so much as look at the devil palm heading toward him. He thrust his palm out, and a scream could be heard as the disciple was thrown back into the wall, where he was crushed into a mass of gore that oozed down onto the ground. He was so dead that he couldn't possibly be more dead.

"What?!" the Totem Warlord blurted, his energy arts surging as he first looked at Yang Qi, then at the smear of gore dripping down the wall and onto the floor. Voice icy cold, he said, "Well, who would have guessed that you're so strong, boy?"

"Kill someone, pay with your life," Yang Qi said, brushing off his shoulders. "The time has come to give your life, Tu Xue."

"You know your stuff, boy," Tu Xue said. "But given the level of your cultivation, you're insane if you think you can take my life. However, I admit you're right. If you kill a person, you have to pay with your life. You just killed a disciple from the dao of devils, so what do you think is going to happen next?"

"Disciples from the dao of devils are people?" Yang Qi said. "I think not. I said 'kill a person, pay with your life' not 'kill a devil pay with your life'. Ridding the world of devils and demons is a very virtuous thing to do."

"Damn you!" said Shaqing Jun, the skinny man that looked like a stalk of bamboo. He had remained silent up to this point, but now he turned into a green streak of light that shot toward Yang Qi with incredible speed, aiming directly at his heart.

"You're next," Yang Qi said. Without even looking at him, he thrust his hand out in a very mundane fashion.

BAM!

Shaqing Jun was hit directly in the face, sending him flying back into the wall. However, he didn't die. Gasping for breath, he remained sprawled on the wall as if he had been chained there, or even nailed to it.

"What?!" the Totem Warlord blurted. Tu Xue and Tu Xing were both visibly stunned. It might not have been very shocking for Yang Qi to have killed a lesser disciple, but for him to have defeated Shaqing Jun with a single move was unthinkable.

By way of comparison, it would be like an ordinary human picking up a rock and throwing it off to the side. That wouldn't be impressive at all. But for that same ordinary human to pick up a mountain and throw it away would be terrifying.

Compared to the unlucky disciple who had just died, Shaqing Jun's cultivation base was as superior as that mountain was to a rock.

"The rest of you aren't going anywhere, either. How dare you come here and try to cause trouble for me?" Yang Qi extended his hand, showing no mercy as he resorted directly to the Hand of the One God.

RUMBLE!

His move immediately caused the space in the area to begin collapsing. The disciples from the dao of devils all tried to back away, but the huge energy field Yang Qi had created made it impossible for them to do much of anything.

"Damn you!" the Totem Warlord said.

At that moment, he, Tu Xue, and Tu Xing all realized that Yang Qi was unfathomably powerful.

"D-don't... don't you realize we're the apprentices of Lone King Heavenbane?"

Yang Qi looked back at them. "Your Master is going to be dead soon. Do you really think I'll spare you?"

Then he became a streak of mysterious light that shot right into the Tu Clan Brothers. It was a consummate move from the Hand of the One God, bringing endless night and never-ending darkness. In the blink of an eye, the devil disciples were overwhelmed by pitch blackness.

Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam.

A dozen of the disciples exploded into clouds of blood. Meanwhile, Totem Warlord and Tu Xing were also hit, causing them to slam into the ground with blood spraying out of their mouths. As for Tu Xue, Yang Qi grabbed him with such strength that the man was immediately immobilized.

"You scum," Yang Qi said, shaking his head. "I almost can't believe that I took all of you out with only a single move. You couldn't stand up to just one little move?"

It wasn't as if there had been any suspense in the fight. Yang Qi could destroy any Greater God he encountered, and would only have had trouble if he faced a Consummate God.

Totem Warlord let out some rattling coughs that made it obvious his internal organs had been smashed to pieces. "Who exactly are you? There's no way you're a Lesser God. Only a Consummate God could possibly beat us. We make an absurd error here! We have eyes but didn't recognize gold-inlaid jade! We admit defeat!"

"Let my brother go!" Tu Xing said, coughing up blood. "Our Master is a patriarch from the dao of devils. You don't want to get into trouble with him!"

"I said it clearly already. Kill a person, pay with your life!" Yang Qi stared into the terrified eyes of Tu Xue and continued, "No one is allowed to casually kill people in the Sage Monarch Consortium. Did you really think I would let people from the dao of devils come here, kill someone, and just saunter off? If word spread, my people wouldn't have any sense of security. And who would agree to do business with us? Considering how wildly arrogant you've been, you won't be leaving here alive. Prepare to die!"

Crack!

A sound like an explosion could be heard inside Tu Xue as his godhood shattered.

Then, intense flames sprang out, and although he wanted to run, he was being held firmly in place by Yang Qi. The flames ate him up, and he was dead.

"You killed him!" Tu Xing wailed.

"You'll be next," Yang Qi said, walking toward him, his eyes burning with killing intent. "Anyone who dares to oppose me forfeits their right to life."

"If you kill me," Tu Xing screamed, "my Master will definitely come and kill you!"

"I want your Master, too. You people from the dao of devils disrupt the natural order. No wonder the boundless Sovereign Lord wanted to suppress hell. You people will never be purified." With that, Yang Qi viciously stomped his heel down on Tu Xing's head, causing it to explode in a cloud of blood.

"Don't kill me!" the Totem Warlord cried. "Don't kill me! I'll serve you like an animal!"

However, the moment he finished speaking, a beam of sword light shot from Yang Qi right into his heart, burning his godhood and sending him screaming into death.

Shaqing Jun was the only one left alive. "D-don't... don't kill me! I know we made a mistake! We shouldn't have tried to extort you. But who are you? Tell me so I can die in peace!"

"I really am just a Lesser God." Yang Qi extended his hand, surrounding Shaqing Jun with an expression of power that crushed him down into a little ball of blood and flesh.

All of the disciples from the dao of devils were dead.

Waving his hand, he gathered all of the quintessence energy from the dead disciples, collecting them into a devil śarīra. In some ways, it resembled godhood, but it clearly wasn't godhood.

It was the collected will, blood, and flesh of the people he had just killed, and it would make a very powerful ingredient for a medicinal pill.

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