A Thousand Years: The Little Maid Becomes a God

"Mm, not bad."

Seeing that Chris had gained some insight and closed her eyes to calm herself and begin cultivating, Roy nodded slightly.

With a casual gesture, Roy set up a Defensive Shield around Chris, then returned to the second floor to continue his own cultivation.

For the time that followed, Roy's cultivation was extremely regular.

He cultivated for ten years, spent one year fighting, tempering, and nurturing the Star Bell, then spent a few days explaining the mysteries of cultivation to the little maid.

The cycle repeated endlessly.

A High-level God nurtured divine artifacts at a speed countless times faster than a Low-level God.

Ten years later, the Star Bell advanced to a Mid-level God Artifact.

More than a thousand years later, the Star Bell advanced to a High-level Divine Artifact.

However, by this point, the Star Bell had temporarily reached a limit.

If he wanted to continue enhancing the Star Bell's power, ordinary sparring matches could no longer improve it. What Roy needed was to use the Star Bell in life-and-death battles, or use it to slaughter massive numbers of opponents, allowing the Star Bell to absorb the baleful aura and killing intent of battle. Only then could its spirituality improve and its power rise again.

After sparring could no longer improve the Star Bell, Roy cut out the time he spent sparring with the other elders. Aside from occasionally leaving seclusion to guide the little maid, he immersed himself entirely in cultivation.

Nearly two thousand years of cultivation had doubled Roy's soul in both quality and quantity.

At present, Roy's soul was twice as strong as that of an ordinary High-level God.

With his soul enhanced, even though Roy had not devoted all his Mental Energy to fusing the profound mysteries of the laws, the "Strength" Law Profound Mystery had finally fused with the other Four Law Profound Mysteries.

The move "Five Finger Mountain," created by fusing the five Law Profound Mysteries of "Strength," "Earth Element," "Life Force," "Gravity Space," and "Earth Travel Technique," meant that Roy finally possessed a powerful Asura-level move.

Judging by the strength of the elders outside, Roy could now be considered a supreme expert at the level of an Asura Prefect.

But by Roy's own standards, he had merely taken the first step into the Asura Prefect level.

To truly achieve the perfect fusion of all five Law Profound Mysteries, he still needed to take each of the other profound mysteries as the foundation and separately fuse them completely with the rest. Only when there were no barriers between the five Law Profound Mysteries, when they blended together as one, could he truly remain steadily at the Asura Prefect level.

That day, Roy was cultivating in his room when he suddenly sensed a familiar fluctuation.

The Laws of the World had descended!

With a thought, Roy's body dissolved into Earth Element. The next moment, countless Earth Elements gathered together and formed Roy's figure again.

At that moment, however, Roy's gaze was already drawn to the little maid, Chris.

Where Chris stood, space itself had frozen beneath the power of the Laws of the World. A blue godhead glowed faintly as it floated above her head.

Countless streams of Water-style Divine Power surged forth. In only a few seconds, a Divine Body with ice-blue hair condensed outside the Water-style Godhead. Once the Laws of the World had raised the little maid's soul quality to the godly level and dispersed, the frozen space finally returned to normal.

"Ah, Elder Roy!"

The first thing Chris's Divine Body saw when she opened her eyes was Elder Roy standing before her. After letting out a cry, she transformed into a streak of blue light and merged into her Saint-level Original Body.

"Elder Roy."

Chris rose to her feet and said happily to Roy, "Elder Roy, I've become a god!"

"Mm, not bad."

Roy smiled. "You became a god outside your body, splitting your soul in two. Although the Laws of the World raised its quality to the godly level, its quantity is not much greater than it was at the Saint level. I'll find you some Soul Gold Beads during this time and let your soul recover first."

"Then, I remember Patriarch Tia Nemo telling me that you could enter the Vermillion Bird Clan's Bloodline Awakening Pool at any time to activate your bloodline. Once your soul has fully recovered, I'll take you there to activate it."

"Mm."

After reaching adulthood, members of the Four Divine Beast Family could enter their clan's Bloodline Awakening Pool to awaken their Divine Beast Bloodline, directly comprehend a Law Profound Mystery and become gods, and even awaken a Bloodline Divine Ability.

Chris was a member of the Vermillion Bird Clan of the Four Divine Beast Family.

Back when Chris had become Roy's maid, Tia Nemo had said that Roy could arrange for Chris to enter the Bloodline Awakening Pool and awaken her bloodline to become a god within her body, eliminating the possibility of Chris becoming an "intelligence agent" and selling Roy's information.

It was just that Roy had felt at the time that he had not fallen so low as to sacrifice a young girl's future merely to ensure that his information would not leak out.

If anyone truly wanted to gather information on him, the Four Divine Beast Family had plenty of ways to do so.

Besides, what did it matter if a true powerhouse had all his information thoroughly studied? So long as his strength was sufficient, he could still crush every enemy before him.

Once one became a Paragon, even Sovereigns had to treat them with respect.

With a method to enhance his soul, Roy had limitless confidence in his future.

Paragon was definitely not his limit.

What he needed now was time.

For the coming tens of trillions of years, it would be the era of the Four Divine Beast Family. Such a long time was enough for him to grow.

By then, even if the Four Divine Beast Lord Gods were slain by Augusta, the Light Sovereign, and the Four Divine Beast Family was purged, Roy would have nothing to fear.

After having Chris return to her room to recover, Roy walked out of the castle.

Spreading out his Spiritual Sense, Roy sensed a familiar aura. He immediately rose into the air and flew toward the arena.

"Elder Mars."

A few seconds later, Roy landed at the edge of the arena and cupped his hands toward the middle-aged man in yellow robes beside it.

"Oh? Elder Roy, it's been a long time."

Elder Mars was a Seven-star Demon of the earth element whom Roy had met through Elder Kunyan more than a thousand years ago.

During the Star Bell's advancement to a High-level Divine Artifact, Elder Mars had contributed several thousand battles as well.

"Haha, ordinary battles no longer have much effect on improving the divine artifact, so I put my time into cultivating the Law Profound Mysteries."

"I really envy you. I also want to devote my time to cultivating the Law Profound Mysteries, but unfortunately..."

At this point, Mars shook his head with a bitter smile.

For people like them, who had lived for tens or even hundreds of millions of years, prolonged lack of progress drained their spirit. Cultivating the Law Profound Mysteries became like looking through several layers of dust.

Having lost both the direction and motivation to advance, they had developed a deep estrangement from the Law Profound Mysteries. They found each other equally unbearable, and their achievements in this life had already reached their end.

"Uh..."

Roy did not know how to respond to that.