Arriving at Blood Peak Continent

From then on, Shelley no longer dared to shut off the divine power barrier to conserve divine power.

This Metal Life was considered fairly high-grade. It could defend against attacks from Four-star Devils, while its divine power barrier could withstand attacks from Six-star Devils for a period of time.

Even against a Seven-star Demon, it could block one or two attacks.

This place was not far from Emperor Wing City. Anyone daring to work as a bandit in the area had to possess at least the strength of a Five-star Devil.

It was not impossible for one or two high-level Devils to be unable to resist the temptation and moonlight as bandits.

Aside from adding a few divine sparks and supplies to Roy's Spatial Ring, these people were unable to stir up much trouble.

After passing Emperor Wing City, however, the frequency and number of bandit encounters dropped sharply.

More than five hundred years later, Roy and Shelley finally crossed the Purple Thistle Continent and arrived at Blood Peak Continent.

Only after entering Blood Peak Continent did Roy discover just how domineering the Four Divine Beast Family truly was.

Roy remembered that Blood Peak Continent was within the territory of Blood Peak Lord God Pash.

Yet here, Roy discovered that it seemed the entire Blood Peak Continent was under the control of the Four Divine Beast Family.

The Prefects of the small cities, Middle Cities, and Great Cities—even those of Azure Mansion and Sky Mountain Mansion—were all members of the Four Divine Beast Family.

That was not all. Blood Peak Continent had only four Sovereign Legions, and every position of Captain or above was held by members of the Four Divine Beast Family.

Of course, one could tell from the names of these Sovereign Legions that they were the Sovereign Legions of the Four Divine Beast Lord Gods.

The Azure Dragon Legion was commanded by its legion commander, Gaisleith Reding, the Patriarch of the Azure Dragon Clan.

The White Tiger Legion was commanded by its legion commander, Gus Earth, the Patriarch of the White Tiger Clan.

The Vermilion Bird Legion was commanded by its legion commander, Tia Nemo, the Patriarch of the Vermillion Bird Clan.

The Black Tortoise Legion was commanded by its legion commander, Mokorei Bowen, the Patriarch of the Black Tortoise Clan.

(The names of the four Four Divine Beast Family patriarchs came from Coiling Dragon: I Became a Sovereign, and Only Then Did the System Awaken. The author is Cong Shuo. Interested readers can check it out. Among the Coiling Dragon fanfics I have read, this one ranks in the top three.)

As for Blood Peak Lord God's Sovereign Legion, it was currently stationed at the various Planar Teleportation Arrays in Hell, responsible for sending people who came to Hell from the Material Plane to the various Tribes or cities.

Only then did Roy realize why so few people joined Laurent and the others' Tribes, and why they had to go to the Planar Teleportation Arrays themselves to receive newcomers.

Blood Peak Lord God Pash was expressing his dissatisfaction with the ancestors of the Four Divine Beast Family.

A continent named after him had been seized by the Four Divine Beast Family. If there had not been four Sovereigns in the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range, Pash would have wanted to storm their doorstep himself.

Sovereigns stood high above all others. What they valued most, apart from strength, was their dignity.

The Four Divine Beast Lord Gods had pressed Pash's face to the ground and rubbed it back and forth, then even wiped their shoes on the ground afterward, claiming that they had dirtied them.

Pash could not defeat the Four Divine Beast Lord Gods, so he could only disgust the Four Divine Beast Family over these minor matters.

The Four Divine Beast Family's arrangements were no secret before a Sovereign. As long as Blood Peak Lord God Pash casually gave the order, the Tribes and cities established by the Four Divine Beast Family outside Blood Peak Continent would receive no new blood, greatly slowing the family's expansion.

After arriving at Blood Peak Continent, Shelley also slowed the Metal Life's speed somewhat.

One day, when Roy finished cultivating and stepped outside the room in the Metal Life, he was immediately startled.

"Good heavens."

Compared with the Purple Thistle Continent, Muya Continent, Bifu Continent, and the Sea of Chaos, the entire Blood Peak Continent was far livelier.

On the other continents, one might not see a Metal Life for three to five years. Here, one could encounter one every three to five days.

Near the cities, Metal Lives flew through the sky in great numbers.

Roy sensed their auras. Aside from differences in strength, most of them were quite similar.

"Has the Four Divine Beast Family conquered the entire Blood Peak Continent?"

"It's not that exaggerated."

Shelley walked over to Roy and chuckled. "Blood Peak Continent still has a Blood Peak Lord God, after all. The four ancestors said that the area extending trillions of miles around where Blood Peak Lord God resides is his private territory. Our Four Divine Beast Family is not allowed to develop its own influence there."

"Heh..."

Roy shook his head.

What a way to put it.

Roy now understood why the Four Divine Beast Family was so arrogant.

Shelley was only a Five-star Devil. Outside Blood Peak Continent, she was still respectful toward the strong.

But after arriving at Blood Peak Continent, her courage suddenly swelled. Even Sovereigns seemed to be beneath her notice.

The only reason they had preserved the last shred of dignity for Blood Peak Lord God was that their ancestors had given the order.

If the Four Divine Beast Lord Gods had not said so, they might truly have established the family's territory right at Blood Peak Lord God's doorstep.

How arrogant was that?

Without saying anything more to Shelley, Roy returned to his room and continued cultivating.

Strength was the strongest and most effective means of safeguarding one's dignity.

The members of the Four Divine Beast Family did not know this. No, perhaps they did know, but they simply did not care.

That was because the Four Divine Beast Lord Gods were their strongest backing.

After cultivating for more than five hundred years, Roy's soul had increased in strength by half.

Under the enhancement of his soul, the fusion of the Profound Mysteries of Laws had also become much faster than before.

Roy estimated that at his current rate of fusion, he would be able to fuse the "Strength" Profound Mystery of Laws with the other four Profound Mysteries of Laws to the bottleneck within thirty thousand years.

The fusion of "Earth Pulse" was somewhat slower than that of the "Strength" Profound Mystery of Laws. However, it could also reach the bottleneck within fifty thousand years.

Of course, this speed would increase as his soul grew stronger.

It took Shelley more than two hundred years to travel from Sky Mountain Mansion to Azure Mansion.

After reaching Azure Mansion, they were not far from the Four Divine Beast Family's Ancestral Land, the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range.

The Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range was where the Four Divine Beast Lord Gods lived. Apart from the Sovereign Ancestors' direct relatives within three generations, only Elders with the strength of at least Six-star Devils had the right to enter.

Of course, the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range opened once every thousand years, allowing the family's younger generation to enter the Bloodline Awakening Pool and awaken their bloodlines. This gave them an additional Divine Clone. Furthermore, the Divine Clone's talent was related to the essence blood absorbed in the Bloodline Awakening Pool. The more Sovereign Essence Blood they absorbed, the higher their talent would be.

Family members of the fourth generation and beyond could only live outside the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range.

Every clan member who reached the strength of a High-level God could claim a portion of supplies and travel to the various continents, other God Planes, or Supreme Planes to develop the family. Once they developed to a certain degree, or recruited talents for the family while outside, they would receive corresponding rewards.

Over the years, the High-level Gods who had left the Four Divine Beast Family numbered at least ten million, if not a hundred million.

It was just that perhaps they had all encountered various obstacles, and none of them had developed very successfully.