Chapter 545: The Path of the God Soul, The High Duke's Planning (4K)_2
Only a very few outstanding beings have the chance to step into the Law Realm, and even, to ascend to even higher places.
That's why the Dragon Sleep Valley established honorary titles like the 'Hunting Duke,' the 'Blood and Flesh Wall,' the 'Chomping Insect Swarm,' and the 'Shadow Duke,' which symbolize the titles of world-class strongmen.
Take 'Hunting Duke·Pupil Blade' for example; his combat power is only slightly superior to an ordinary Soul Realm, not by much, but his standard killing move, the 'Pupil Blade,' can very easily slay those in the Heaven and Earth Realm, as effortless as slicing vegetables and chopping melons.
He can swiftly kill a great number of Heaven and Earth Realm beings.
Therefore, he's a world-class strongman and has earned his honorary title.
At this moment, in various places in the Red Mist Land, there are world-class monsters breaking into the Secret Realm.
"I, Pupil Blade, have returned!"
The Pupil Blade Duke roared, his eyes shining with golden light as his petite body swiftly flew into the Secret Realm.
Somewhere,
A giant serpent with a massive body is clack-clacking its way into the entrance of the Secret Realm.
This is the 'Giant Serpent,' a Fallen God's Servant.
"For the great Snake God!"
In the territories of the Dragon Sleep Valley, adjacent to the area of the Ten Directions Island Domain.
A dragon beast with an exceedingly huge body lurked within the dense Red Mist, its eyes blazing like two suns.
—Fire Wing Duke!
He cast his gaze to the south as if to cross the Domain barriers and land on the vast lands and cities.
But he was only in the Law Realm and couldn't cast his gaze across Domains.
"The gate to the Divine Soul Realm has already opened; now is the weakest moment for that Human Lord's Tianyuan City."
In the past period of time, Fire Wing Duke had already made many preparations.
The best strategy, the middle strategy, the worst strategy.
The strategy of failure.
Using the opportunity of the Sky Rift and a certain level of sacrifice and planning, he was confident that his true body could descend upon the Ten Directions Island Domain.
Even so, he was still waiting for a more appropriate moment.
The opening of the World Secret Realm was when both the timing and geographic advantage were in his hands.
"Just wait a bit longer, just a little longer. When the strong from Tianyuan City delve deeper into the Secret Realm, then..."
He could begin to execute his plan to annihilate the Human Lord's Tianyuan City.
Perhaps, he, Fire Wing Duke, wouldn't even need to act personally.
"Human territories..."
In reality, a mere Human Lord simply wasn't worthy of being targeted by their Dragon Sleep Valley.
What if the Heavenly Child Lord had created miracles time and again?
This human, even if he could become the very top of the Law Realm, or even if he could step above the Law Realm, wouldn't have that big of an impact on the overall situation.
If it weren't for this Lord Tianyuan thwarting their plans multiple times, the royal capital wouldn't have known about such a minor lord.
"Annihilating the territory is the middle strategy."
Fire Wing Duke muttered to himself, "This may not be as one-shot as the best strategy, but it's more reliable and there's more chance of success. Moreover, the Miracle Lord's rise in speed is related to 'Heavenly Fortune.' By annihilating this territory and offering the Lord's Altar as a sacrifice, it's equivalent to cutting off some of this human's 'Heavenly Destiny.' From then on, he will no longer be able to proceed as unstoppably."
Many living beings start off advancing rapidly, but after a major setback, even if they can recover later, they tend to become commonplace, no longer possessing that exceptional grace.
Fire Wing Duke planned for such a long time not simply to strangle a human genius lord, but what he wanted more was...
Sacrifice!
"Tianyuan City has developed rapidly and must be a Miracle Territory favored by the world."
"If such a territory were sacrificed, I, the grand duke, would receive countless benefits, and perhaps, in the future, there might even be a chance to reach the Saint Realm."
...
Mu Yuan was unaware that Fire Wing Duke was poised to strike, but if he did know, he would surely welcome this old chap heartily.
He was currently charging headlong through the World Secret Realm.
Even if he only took on the form of Jun, with his own extremely high three dimensions, Perfect Domain Realm, and Perfect Divine Base, there was no one who could match him in a fight.
"Steady, steady."
"The urgent matter at hand is to find a cultivation treasure land that can enhance the God Soul."
He examined his own body.
Atop his impeccable shimmering Golden Divine Base was a God Soul that resembled a golden longsword.
This God Soul was already not weak since it originated from the Perfect Domain Realm and Perfect Divine Base.
But it was far from growing to its limit.
Not even one-tenth there yet.
Theoretically speaking, he was merely a newly advanced soul in the God Soul Realm.
"The stronger the god soul, the more god-soul incarnations it can split, and the more power it can wield when descending."
"Moreover, with the enhancement of the god soul, the perception of the Legendary Realm will be significantly improved, as will the Light of Will and the Light of the Spirit, both of which will undergo a certain degree of enhancement."
The latter represents the manifestation of combat power improvement in the Soul Realm.
Enhanced perception allows avoiding danger, expanding the realm of elements under one's command; the Light of Will and the Light of the Spirit enhance certain resistances.
But unless one possesses an Epic Ability to utilize the Light of Will, indeed, the combat power increase of the Soul Realm compared to the Heaven and Earth Realm is not substantial.
It is a transitional stage.
Even so,
"Before I fully strengthen my god soul to completion, it's impossible for me to break through the Law Realm, even though I already have the key to enter it."
This barrier, said to be even more formidable to break through than the Legendary Realm's natural moat, seemed virtually nonexistent in his eyes.
He could even forcefully break through right now.
But such a breakthrough would be akin to severing one's own roots, cutting off one's own future.
"There isn't much in the way of cultivation treasure lands for the Soul Realm within the Tai Xuan Alliance, and such cultivation treasures are few and far between."
"If I don't want to spend a large amount of time on the Soul Realm, I'll have to find the corresponding opportunities within the Secret Realm."
Be it treasures or treasure lands, either would do!
Among the treasures he had acquired in the past few days, there actually were items suitable for cultivation.
Epic Material 'Extreme Divine Water'!
A consumable that could continuously strengthen one's god soul, its value was not as high as a true epic treasure.
What's most important was that there was too little of it.
What could a portion of Extreme Divine Water accomplish?
It wasn't even enough for one person, let alone, he had a whole bunch of people at home to provide for.
Whirr—
As he leapt over the wave of monsters and entered deeper into the Secret Realm, Mu Yuan dispensed with the power of Wings of the Wind King, Jun, and switched to using 'Sofia's power instead."
Countless Black Crows fluttered and flew towards all directions.
At this point, treasures and treasure lands were much rarer; even employing the power of Sofia, he was unable to swiftly locate treasures.
He had simply picked up an epic treasure 'Law Square Stele·Wind' along the way.
Ding ding~!
The Spiritual Link suddenly trembled, a message incoming.
A division general had found a chance treasure land!
"As expected, having many capable subordinates of my own really makes a difference; I don't need to tirelessly search on my own."
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In this Secret Realm, at this stage, he reckoned there couldn't be many domains that could form more exploration teams than his own.
After all, he had a dozen teams!
The one who discovered the chance treasure land was the Sario team.
The Sario team was composed of nine Great Legendary Realm members, including Sario himself, Bone Two, Bone Three, Bone Four, Qing Shuang, Han Shuang, Gibi, Bai Li, and Sanghun.
They were currently stationed in front of the chance treasure land, having already fended off two groups of explorers trying to snatch the treasure land.
Suddenly,
A ghastly, enormous serpent head emerged from the Red Mist, followed by a serpentine body several times larger than an entire building.
He revealed his form, his large and small serpent pupils glittering like the sun and moon high above, overlooking the figures below.
"It's the Fallen God's Servant·Python, the formidable being that wields the power of gravity and Devouring!"
A Legendary Realm being who had just pierced through the fog and seen the treasure land, but also the shadow of the Giant Serpent, spoke tremblingly.
No sooner had he spoken than he ran off into the distance without looking back.
Python! Among world-class strongmen, he too was a strongman; his projected image was the nightmare of countless ordinary lords.
The number of Miracle Lords that have fallen to Python's mouth could be in the thousands, even tens of thousands, possibly more.
This being is a supreme and terrifying existence!
"It's the Fallen God Servant·Python, rawr!"
Sario shook its tail, speaking spiritedly.
Their team, originally, had targeted the very Python of the Shen Luo Domain; for this, Sario even ecstatically rolled on the graveyard soil and rehearsed several times the mock battles against Python.
Unexpectedly, they didn't find it in the Shen Luo Domain, but encountered it in the Secret Realm instead.
"Wonderful!"
Several Tianyuan powerhouses let out excited roars.