Chapter Twenty
In Roy's opinion, his gains this time were even greater than becoming a Paragon himself.
After absorbing and organizing his haul, Roy walked out of the palace and headed towards the City Lord's mansion in Sanhe City.
"Roy, you said you told us before that it would take at least hundreds of thousands of years for you to advance to High-level God? How did you advance in just over ten thousand years?"
As soon as Roy arrived at the City Lord's mansion, Laurent eagerly grabbed his hand and asked.
"City Lord Laurent, I didn't want this to happen either."
Roy shrugged and said with a wry smile, "The Soul Gold Beads that Vice City Lord Shelley gave me were just too effective. I absorbed too many at once, and then these insights into the Laws all flooded into my soul. I couldn't stop them."
If anyone else heard Roy's words, they might think he was lying.
However, the Four Divine Beast Families possessed Bloodline Awakening Pools. After their clan members reached adulthood, they would enter the family's Bloodline Awakening Pool to awaken their divine beast bloodlines and become gods, gaining the innate divine abilities of the Four Divine Beasts.
All of them had spent time in the Bloodline Awakening Pool, experiencing the sensation of comprehending one Profound Mystery of Laws and becoming a god in a short period.
It could only be said that Roy's affinity with the Law of Earth was far too high. After the Soul Gold Beads increased Roy's soul strength to a level comparable to the moment an adult divine beast bloodline awakened, he was able to achieve this.
"So that's how it is. I've harmed you then."
Hearing Roy's explanation, Laurent and the other three immediately understood. Shelley, in particular, regretted giving the Soul Gold Beads to Roy too early.
Although with the help of the Soul Gold Beads, Roy's soul had been strengthened more than tenfold, and he had successfully comprehended the last two Profound Mysteries of Laws, advancing to become a High-level God.
This also greatly increased the difficulty for Roy to fuse Profound Mysteries of Laws in the future, and it was likely that his future strength would be capped here.
"It's fine."
Seeing Shelley's self-blame, Roy smiled, "My soul strength has greatly increased now. Although the difficulty of fusing Profound Mysteries of Laws has increased significantly after mastering the last two, it's not impossible."
"Moreover, I have now completely fused four Profound Mysteries of Laws. In terms of strength, I'm not weak."
"Four?"
Laurent and the other three exchanged glances, excitement flashing in their eyes.
A High-level God who had completely fused four Profound Mysteries of Laws had reached the strength of a Seven-star Demon, and was not considered weak within the Four Divine Beast Families.
Excluding foreign elders like Roy, the Four Divine Beast Families currently had no more than a hundred elders with the strength of a Seven-star Demon.
This was accumulated over hundreds of billions of years by the Four Divine Beast Families.
On average, it took tens of billions of years for the family to produce one clan member who was a Seven-star Demon.
By cultivating an elder with the strength of a Seven-star Demon for the family, the rewards they would receive could very well allow them to advance further in strength.
"Sister Shelley…"
"Don't worry, my Divine Clone in the ancestral land has already notified the Clan Leader."
Knowing what Laurent and the other two were thinking, Shelley rolled her eyes at them, then said to Roy, "Elder Roy, do you think we should set off for the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range now, or wait until you've finished your affairs here?"
"Thanks to the City Lords, I was able to cultivate with peace of mind, and I don't have any pressing matters to attend to. I'll follow Vice City Lord Shelley's arrangements. I can leave anytime."
"Elder Roy, you should still call me Shelley. Once we officially join our family in the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range, your strength and status will be above mine. By then, it will be my turn to call you Lord Roy."
Roy shook his head, not accepting Shelley's offer.
He understood the difference between an elder from the main family and one from outside.
"By the way, Elder Roy, Sister Shelley, there's a mission at the Demon Castle. You can go to Nichols City together as assessors then."
"Oh?"
Hearing Laurent's words, Roy's brows twitched, "City Lord Laurent, ordinary Demon Assessments don't require assessors. What kind of mission is this that requires assessors?"
"The content of this mission is kept confidential, with only the Demon Castle and the various City Lords knowing about it," Laurent said with a smile. "Between Birel City and Nichols City, there is a tribe called Gers who have been discovered to be refining Soul Gold Granules for cultivation by using the souls of a large number of mortals. Eight years ago, a Saint Realm expert escaped from that tribe, and this news only spread then."
"Now, the Demon Castle has issued a Five-star mission for this tribe. It includes two Five-star Devils leading the way, with over a dozen Three-star and Four-star Devils accompanying them. In addition, this batch of prospective Devils participating in the Demon Assessment will prepare to eliminate this tribe as soon as a Six-star Devil arrives."
"If you go, you can just clear out this tribe."
"I have no problem with it. We can depart at any time."
After listening to Laurent's explanation, Roy nodded.
Even if the Demon Castle hadn't issued the mission, he would have gone to deal with this tribe if he had found out about it.
In the God Plane, some gods, in order to enhance their strength, would develop cruel methods.
For example, Soul Gold Beads were created by gods skilled in souls who refined the souls of mortals into soul essence, and then used soul essence to refine Soul Gold Beads.
Generally speaking, the souls of ten ordinary people could be refined into one portion of soul essence. A million portions of soul essence could be refined into one Soul Gold Granule, and twenty million portions of soul essence could be refined into a Soul Gold Bead the size of two centimeters.
The more than three hundred Soul Gold Beads, each the size of a fist, that Roy had absorbed before, if calculated in terms of human lives, would require at least over a trillion human lives to produce.
Of course, only families with hundreds of billions of years of history, like the Four Divine Beast Families, possessed such "foundations."
Most people would simply establish a tribe, harvest a batch annually, and refine a few Soul Gold Granules.
"Then let's go now. The sooner we resolve this, the fewer people will die."
"Mm."
After greeting Laurent and the other two, Roy and Shelley flew directly out of Sanhe City. Shelley produced a Metal Life, and the two rode it towards Nichols City.
To Roy's surprise, as someone from the Nemo family, one of the Four Divine Beast Families, Shelley's Divine Clone was actually a Wind Element Divine Clone.
However, recalling what Shelley and the others had said during their previous conversation, Shelley had another Divine Clone in the ancestral land of the Four Divine Beast Families. Roy figured that must be Shelley's strongest Fire Element Divine Clone.
It was quite rare for someone from the Four Divine Beast Families, like Linley who belonged to the Azure Dragon Clan, to have their strongest Divine Clones be Earth Element and Wind Element ones.
Traveling from Sanhe City to Nichols City would take over three hundred years, even at the speed of Shelley's Metal Life.
Therefore, during the intervals when they switched piloting the Metal Life, Roy didn't neglect his cultivation.
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