Arranging Residence

Camilla made such meticulous preparations.

She even considered countermeasures for her property falling into enemy hands after her fall.

Linley could not open the notes for the time being, unless he threw caution to the wind and forced them open directly.

Yet doing so would render them pointless.

Once he chose to forcefully crack the notes, the space ring hidden within the interlayer would be automatically destroyed, and everything inside would scatter into the spatial turbulence, leaving him with nothing.

Through Linley's careful experimentation over the years, he realized that opening the notes required a person to possess both Life Element and Death Element divine power simultaneously.

This was merely the basic condition.

It also required a strict, seamless reversal along the architectural principles of the magic array in order to steadily and safely lift the seal!

The magic array seal left behind by Camilla was truly a tricky problem for Linley.

The sheer difficulty of cracking it gave him a headache!

Fortunately, Linley could cheat. He had the assistance of magnetic field power!

Relying on the omnidirectional permeation effect of the magnetic field power, Linley could describe his understanding of the detailed structure of this sealed magic array as being as clear as observing a blazing fire.

As long as Linley put his mind to it, he could replicate it identically elsewhere, and he could also find God-level powerhouses who excelled in this area to try analyzing and cracking it.

As long as he grasped the principles, perhaps the replicated magic array would not need to adhere to the method of cracking with life and death divine power, and could instead use divine power from two other elements. Such a modification would not affect Linley's cracking of the seal. At the end of the day, what he wanted was merely the problem-solving methodology.

Linley looked at the notes for a moment before putting them away, thinking to himself: With the divine power provided by the Life God Avatar and the Death God Avatar, I can try refining the Blood Amplification Potion and the Soul Burning Potion!

Although the space ring could not be retrieved for the time being, it did not affect the use of other contents.

The Blood Amplification Potion could promote physical strengthening, and using it in battle could amplify strength, defense, and explosive power severalfold. Its drawback was that one would quickly become exhausted and weak after the medicine's effects wore off.

The Soul Burning Potion was even more exaggerated. The original intention behind its refining was actually to prepare it for God-level beings who were refining a godhead, attempting to eliminate the flaws and trigger the descent of the laws of heaven and earth to baptize the soul for transformation.

This idea was simply too defying of the heavens. Camilla tried countless times, and the result naturally ended in failure.

Thus, Camilla took a step back and changed her train of thought. At the cost of burning her soul, she would enhance her soul's comprehension of laws and rules in a short period of time to make them clearer, and she could also increase the explosive power of soul attacks during combat. It belonged to a desperate-struggle potion where one suffered a thousand losses while inflicting eight hundred.

After a cursory glance, Linley knew this item had many flaws, and it was entirely possible to kill oneself if one wasn't careful. However, he appreciated Camilla's train of thought even more; it indeed possessed aspects worthy of reference and study.

Blood Soul Snake essence blood... Shore Flower sap... Iridescent Crystal Lotus leaves...

Pure soul energy... Phoenix Tears, Nether Toad secretions...

The Life God Avatar and the Death God Avatar each took out some materials and began to refine, purify, and fuse them using divine power for various experiments. This process itself could also be considered a comprehension of the rules and cultivation.

Time flowed like water...

On this day, the firmament outside Red Stone City saw rising billows of air as clouds rolled and unrolled. A rhombus-shaped metal life was seen speeding over, landing steadily on a nearby open space.

Some people queuing to enter the city cast envious and awe-inspired gazes one after another. Most God-level beings with metal lives were Demon powerhouses.

Sure enough, the metal life was put away, and a mid-level God youth in blue robes wearing a Demon Medal commanded several hundred Saint Domain beings to queue up to enter the city, while he himself led five women through the Demon passageway.

"They aren't Demons..."

The soldier responsible for guarding the gate frowned and was just about to reprimand them when he suddenly saw the leading Demon youth wave his hand, tossing out five ink stones with a light smile, saying, "This is their city-entry fee."

The soldier put them away and no longer blocked them, tacitly accepting his behavior of cutting the line with people.

Someone in the queuing crowd was unhappy and protested, "Hey, what right does he have to cut the line? This isn't fair."

The soldier glared coldly at the person who spoke, saying indifferently, "Just by virtue of him being a Demon."

Demons could enter the city for free and didn't even need to queue. This was privilege. Aside from that, people following Demons also enjoyed certain preferential treatment. As long as they paid one ink stone, even if they cut the line, the city-guarding soldiers would usually turn a blind eye and not make a big deal out of it or have an unpleasant falling out with the Demons.

Besides, the quality of Linley's metal life was not bad at all. These soldiers, who had been on guard duty at the city gates for many years and possessed rich experience and insight, could still discern a thing or two, and even less would they block him over such trivial details.

"Remember, in Hell, strength is the rule!"

The person who had been scolded and reprimaned turned pale and lowered his head, not daring to speak any more. The others grew even more silent upon seeing this, their hearts instead stirred with a yearning for Demons.

Linley did not care about the small episode at the city gate. He led his five women into the city a step ahead.

"This is a restaurant... that side is a bar..."

Walking down the spacious and bright street, Linley wore a smile as he casually introduced the places to them.

"So magnificent..."

"There are so many God-level powerhouses..."

Diana and the others all wore excited yet cautious expressions, their brows brimming with a sense of shock.

In the Tianlan Tribe, God-level powerhouses still possessed considerable status and prestige.

Yet here, God-level powerhouses were everywhere on the streets. Such a vastly disproportionate gap left people somewhat dazed and bewildered for a moment.

Linley took in the expressions of the five women completely, a phrase forming in his mind: Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden.

One could not entirely blame them for acting all startled and wide-eyed like country folk who had never seen the world; strength truly determined class, status, and vision.

When he first arrived, his own heart had actually been quite shocked and novel as well. With God-level powerhouses filling the streets, this kind of visual and psychological impact was difficult to describe with any language or text.

Casual passersby picked at random here, if thrown into a material plane, would all be once-in-ten-thousand-years super geniuses and prominent figures whose stories were sung and chanted by traveling bards.

Linley thought to himself: It's just a pity that the one thing Hell is never short of is precisely these so-called geniuses!

Back in the Tianlan Tribe, there were some Saint Domain beings from material planes. Linley had asked about their past experiences, and their majestic, high-spirited heroic deeds were countless!

Things like superior elemental affinity and superior spiritual force were standard configurations for people like them; they were not rare at all!

Yet when these geniuses arrived in Hell, they immediately experienced what it meant to fall from grace!

They fell from being lofty, favored children of the heavens, grand nobles, kings, and emperors down to pitiful ants struggling bitterly at the lowest rung of survival!

Linley led the people all the way to the front of a residence, pushed the door open, pointed to the spacious and pretty front courtyard, and said with a smile, "This is one of my houses. You will live here from now on."

The few of them filed in and closed the door along the way. The bustling noise from the street outside immediately faded away a lot.

They passed through the carved wooden door and entered the manor courtyard.

Coming into the view of Diana and the others were bluestone-paved paths, with pine and cypress trees that stayed green all four seasons planted on both sides.

At the end of the path was a pond with rippling blue waves, where a gentle breeze stirred layer upon layer of ripples.

Beside the pond were white jade-carved railing handrails, delicate and smooth.

Rockery stones were piled up in varying postures, as though master artisans had blended perfectly with nature, arranged in an orderly fashion.

Walking along the winding path, both sides featured neatly arranged flower beds with captivating fragrances, as well as a pavilion furnished with exquisite stone tables and chairs for people to rest briefly.

Everything here exuded elegance and art.

"Lord, this house must be very expensive, right?"

Diana gazed at the exquisite, elegant environmental layout, as well as all sorts of luxurious and regal furniture, small hills, green trees, flowers, and ponds...

Her memory couldn't help but recall her life back in the material plane.

All of this made her heart burn with heat, her cheeks flushed as she beamed with a brilliant smile, feeling fortunate that she had chosen to follow the right man early on. This was the life she wanted.

Linley nodded, saying with a relaxed and casual tone, "It's all right, only sixty million ink stones."

This display of flexing was executed with great success!

Diana and the other women were all struck dumb with shock. Sixty million ink stones was an astronomical figure they simply could not imagine.

On the other side, Corey's mid-level God avatar also led the Tianlan Tribe Saint Domain beings who had entered the city to settle into the three buildings Linley had purchased.

The living conditions here were naturally far inferior to the luxury and comfort of a private residence, but their advantage lay in a more generous spatial utilization rate, allowing more people to be accommodated.

For the Saint Domain beings at the bottom of the food chain, this was already more than enough, and could even be considered somewhat luxurious. The living environment was vastly better than that of the Red Stone Mountain Range.

Moreover, not all rooms were of mediocre quality; there were still a small number of high-grade rooms provided for the tribal upper echelons like Thomas to live in.

Yes, that sixty-million-ink-stone residence of Linley's was solely for himself, his women, and any children he might have in the future.

With many eyes and ears about, it would inevitably be inconvenient for him to exercise and develop his magnetic field power on ordinary days. Rather than courting trouble, it was better to arrange things properly from the very beginning.

After settling the accommodation for the tribal Saint Domain beings and warning them about some precautions within the city, Corey, Thomas, and several others came over to Linley's side to gather.

Everyone ate some roasted meat, drank alcohol to celebrate, and chatted animatedly in a lively manner. Every person's face bloomed with happy, relaxed smiles.

"How refreshing! This life is comfortable!"

"Haha! We can now be considered to have taken root in Red Stone City!"

"All of this is thanks to Linley!"

"Come, come, come! Everyone together, a toast to Boss Linley!"

"You're all too polite, drink, drink, drink!"

After the lively celebration, Thomas and the others bid farewell and returned. Everyone's lives began to trend toward stability and various daily routines.

Living inside Red Stone City was very safe, but Linley did not indulge in ease and comfort. Every day's time was planned out clearly and distinctly.

Developing magnetic field abilities, cultivating laws and rules, occasionally studying alchemy and magic arrays...

Linley's life was orderly, stable, and harmonious. Just like that, nearly a hundred years passed day by day.

The sudden delivery of an invitation letter caused a ripple to stir within Linley's calm, wave-free rhythm of life.

Only one chapter today; adjusting the stock of drafts.