Hermes

"Whiz!"

A streak of earthy-yellow light cut across the red-yellow sky, and several figures chased after this stream of light at the same time.

"Where did it go?"

They stopped fighting and instead flew down to inspect the area, yet found nothing.

Except for the golden rocks.

The great mountain remained a great mountain, and everything looked just as it always did.

"How could it just vanish?"

"Bang, bang!"

Several High Gods angrily and randomly slashed at the rock with their divine artifacts infused with divine power, yet they failed to leave a single mark on the mountain body.

"This mountain is strange!"

Suddenly, several golden fist images abruptly emerged in midair.

"Puff, puff, puff!"

The heads of these High Gods burst open like watermelons, and the High-grade Divine Artifacts on them shattered like paper decorations.

For a long time, everything returned to silence.

The fresh blood, shattered armor, and intact weapons on the ground vanished.

And such incidents had already happened more than once.

Great Earth God Realm, Jinyu Prefecture.

The mountain ranges stretching for hundreds of millions of miles nurtured countless bandit gangs.

Slaughter and plunder occurred, with countless lives perishing and countless more rising up.

Losing just a single Earth Flame Essence really did not amount to much.

The Earth Flame Essence was a heavenly treasure naturally born in the Great Earth God Realm.

A place with Earth Flame Essence was bound to be a blessed land rich in Earth Element energy and clear law fluctuations.

Yet no one could resist the temptation and refrain from mining it.

As time passed.

The Earth Flame Essence naturally born in the Great Earth God Realm could long no longer satisfy the demands of the Earth and Fire-element experts.

Slaughter and combat were inevitable!

A golden mountain peak stood majestically upon the plane continent, which was rich in Earth energy.

"Rumble!"

The Earth Flame Essence that had previously vanished instantly appeared inside a space of unknown existence within the mountain's core.

It seemed both real and unreal, like another dimension that did not belong to this world.

"Bang!"

The Earth Flame Essence, which was indestructible and could only slowly melt over time, was chewed up as easily as candy inside Jin's body.

Along with a roar.

The Earth Flame Essence transformed into a ball of red-yellow mist inside Jin's body, then slowly fused into his true body.

[Swallowed Earth Flame Essence, Earth and Fire element talents improved.]

The towering golden mountain, which seemed to have existed since ancient times, was actually a special life form naturally born in the Great Earth God Realm.

At the same time, he was also a transmigrator.

[Name: Hermes]

[Realm: Lowgod]

[Talent Limit: Earth Fourfold Fusion; Fire Three Fusion]

[Ability: Devour All Things]

Although the surname Hei was rare, he was a legitimate descendant of Weizi.

Having transmigrated and been reborn for hundreds of millions of years, purely because he was reborn as a small golden mountain, he had been completely devoid of consciousness for the previous hundreds of millions of years.

This talent panel had been present right from the beginning of Hermes's transmigration.

Although he did not understand the reason, a transmigrator's self-adaptation ability was always extremely strong.

If I am not mistaken, this should have seized the fortune of that fellow Hermes, and my luck is at least good enough that I won't have only an Earth Clone! Hermes thought to himself with quiet fortune.

As a special life form born in the Great Earth God Realm, his Golden Mountain True Body was a full tens of thousands of meters tall and stretched for tens of thousands of miles as well.

Yet in the Great Earth God Realm, this could only be considered a small mountain.

One towering mountain range after another rose straight into the clouds.

The peaks were either bizarre or thick and solid, resembling a group of silent giants; in front of them, Hermes was like a toddler.

But his advantage lay in his toughness.

The small golden mountain seemed to have been cast by gathering the essence of the Great Earth God Realm.

Its degree of toughness even surpassed that of a High-grade Divine Artifact.

Had he not proactively transformed into human form, even High Gods typically could not do much to him.

Indeed, Hermes's soul defense was still only at the Lowgod level, but who could possibly find his soul core?

As long as he was sufficiently cautious, Hermes would not face any danger.

Let alone ordinary God-level experts, even the Sovereigns of the Great Earth God Realm probably had no idea of this golden mountain's background.

Thanks to his transmigration, Hermes knew clearly that the Great Earth Law contained six mysteries.

Earth Element, Earth-walking Technique, Vitality, Power, Earth Pulse, and Gravity Space.

He was currently devoting himself to fusing the mysteries to attain the rank of Middle God rather than merely comprehending them, and for the sake of self-preservation, he had not become a Sovereign's envoy early on like the original character.

Going out into the world to roam as a Lowgod always feels somewhat unsafe! This was Hermes's true innermost thought.

Jinyu Prefecture, Akes City.

Boulder Castle.

"The Earth Flame Essence is lost?"

A High God who looked like a brown-haired brawny man asked in astonishment; he was the initiator of this task commission.

For this, he had paid over ten trillion Earth Crystals.

"Then I certainly won't pay the regular fee for this commission."

"That is only natural!" a female Middle God said. "Boulder Castle's reputation brooks no doubt."

Her appearance was sweet, always making it impossible for people to truly feel angry.

Yet Tak was very unhappy.

The Earth Crystals did not need to be paid, but his hope for a breakthrough was also gone.

"Earth Flame Essence is becoming scarcer, and every time one is born, it is always accompanied by storms of blood and slaughter."

Tak was merely a native High God who had broken through independently, having fused zero kinds of mysteries, and back then he had not even known that mysteries of the same element could be fused.

Once he broke through to High God, trying to fuse mysteries again was practically extremely difficult.

The best strategy was to find the points of affinity between different mysteries during the Middle God or even Lowgod stages.

Then break through to High God.

Finally, he could use the powerful soul power of a High God to deduce and fuse them.

There was always a glimmer of hope.

"The Chongxuan Mountain Range—when was it that the Earth Flame Essence was born?" Tak asked, unwilling to give up.

"No data."

The sweet Middle God replied with a formulaic response.

Sigh, what am I thinking? Tak thought mockingly to himself. Every piece of Earth Flame Essence is randomly born in the Great Earth God Plane.

"It seems that I have no hope of achieving a breakthrough through such bitter cultivation."

"I can only go into battle, go slaughter and pursue that fleeting flash of opportunity!"

"Rumble!"

The golden internal space emitted bursts of roars, and following the Earth Flame Essence, the shattered armor, weapons, and fresh blood all turned into nothingness.

In the end, only a few black Rule Crystals remained.

Hermes tried to activate his ability.

Yet there was no reaction at all!

Still falling just a bit short! he thought inwardly with no small amount of regret.

Though regretful, Hermes was not disappointed either.

Beirut devouring divine sparks and refining divine spark essence to strengthen his divine body was indeed an ability that Hermes envied to the extreme.

Yet his golden space was not bad either; as Hermes swallowed more and more miraculous items, the golden space's devouring ability was likewise continuously strengthening.

Look at this—hundreds of thousands of years had passed, his talent had improved, and the golden space could already devour most substances except for divine sparks.

In the blink of an eye, a millennium passed.

The tasks issued by Boulder Castle were as numerous as the stars, and by now no one remembered that a few God Hunters had perished, nor would anyone care about Tak's despondency.

The river of time swirled and moved forward.

Within the Soul Ocean, which was as vast and boundless as a starry sky, Hermes's Earth Clone sat cross-legged with closed eyes, every inhalation and exhalation blending as one with the surroundings.

His consciousness gradually sank deep into his soul, feeling the pulsation of the Mysteries of Power within his true body.

That was a surging power originating from the origin of life, resembling a giant beast lying dormant in the deep sea, waiting to awaken.

The golden mountain, a mass of metal originally condensed from the essence of earth elements, had actually mutated into a life form.

One could not help but marvel at the miraculous nature of creation.