Leis Jing

Otherwise, he would have been even more shocked.

The battle continued, with the Golden Fist Shadow colliding again and again with the purple beastly figure.

To Leis Jing's utter astonishment, Hermes slowly closed his eyes.

But his fists never stopped!

The law fluctuations contained within the Golden Fist Shadow seemed almost tangible.

"Rumble~!"

Then came the final punch!

The Purple Crystal Monster Leader suddenly exploded into a pile of fragments, while Hermes stood beside the remains.

His eyes closed, his body shimmering with strange fluctuations.

"You, big guy..."

Leis Jing was about to speak.

"Jingjing, don't disturb him."

A gentle voice sounded directly in his mind.

"If you still want to be friends with him, just wait quietly for him to come out of his epiphany."

In the valley, Hermes's ultimate technique, Mist Shadow Heavy, had not faded either.

The gravity was no longer increasing, but the Gravity Domain formed by the Yellow Sand Domain and Mist Shadow Heavy was more than most divine beings could withstand.

"Ugh...!"

Trist had begun coughing up blood. He was merely lying on the ground and hadn't been attacked, yet the extreme gravity had nearly taken half his life.

Every muscle in his body trembled!

Every bone began to creak.

"Am I... going to die?"

Trist felt utterly aggrieved.

"Fuck... I don't even know who killed me?"

He knew that the powerful man fighting the Purple Crystal Monster had no intention of killing him.

Every bone in his body had shattered, and Trist felt his skull was about to be flattened.

Once his skull broke, the Divine Spark fused within it would inevitably be damaged. Under this terrifying gravity, even the soul inside the Divine Spark wouldn't survive.

Indeed, Divine Sparks were among the hardest substances in the Coiling Dragon World.

Only rare, special treasures such as Supreme Artifacts and Supreme God Tokens could surpass them.

But the souls inside Divine Sparks weren't so tough. As long as a Divine Spark was exposed, even a Lowgod could easily disperse the soul within it.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Trist was already waiting to die when the terrifying pressure on him suddenly vanished.

Then came a burst of laughter that made the surrounding space tremble.

"I did it! I finally mastered the fusion of three Mysteries!"

Hermes was truly overjoyed.

"How long has it even been? From becoming a god, to fusing two Mysteries and becoming a Middle God, and now to mastering the fusion of three Great Earth Law Mysteries—it's only been a few thousand years."

At that moment, he finally understood the significance of the talent limit of Fourfold Fusion shown on his Talent Panel.

"How is this cultivation any different from riding a fucking rocket?" That was Hermes's most honest reaction.

When someone was happy, everything looked more pleasing.

Now, Hermes no longer felt as envious and resentful toward Leis Jing as before.

Sure, having a Sovereign God for a mother was incredible, but Old Black wasn't so bad either.

There was still a chance he could become a Paragon one day.

"Whoosh~!"

A bottle of Divine Power Potion flew out of Hermes's Space Ring.

It splashed down like a shower!

Droplets fell over Trist's battered divine body.

"Sizzle~!"

That three-eyed merchant hadn't been wrong. Though this wasn't a potion made from actual divine power, its restorative effect was nearly as good.

It was like condensing the elemental energy of Hell into a thousandfold essence. As long as Trist's divine body wasn't completely destroyed and he still had even the faintest trace of conscious thought,

he could recover.

"Phew~!"

Once he had recovered about half his strength, Trist could draw energy from the Divine Power Ocean to heal the rest of his injuries.

He didn't need the Divine Power Potion anymore.

A moment later,

Trist's divine body had recovered most of the way, and he could at least move normally again.

He immediately stood up and bowed to Hermes, ready to thank him for sparing his life.

"Thank you, sir!"

Then he froze.

"Middle God..."

Trist could clearly sense that Hermes was only a Middle God.

But he didn't dare say anything. He just stood there, dumbfounded.

"No need to make such a fuss. What's your name?"

Bamer flew over to Trist at once and spoke.

He gently helped the poor man who had been trapped in the Purple Crystal Mountain Range for hundreds of thousands of years.

"Sir, you're a Middle God, yet already a Five-star Demon, and you even have a Six-star Demon as a follower?"

Trist sent the message telepathically.

At the same time, he stared in disbelief at Hermes, who was standing face-to-face with Leis Jing.

"My name is Leis Jing. What's yours?"

In the end, Leis Jing was the first to break the silence.

"My name is Hermes. I'm from the Great Earth God Realm. Nice to meet you, Leis Jing."

Hermes knew that Leis Jing was youthful and loyal. As long as he was strong enough, it would be easy to become friends with him.

Making friends with Leis Jing was definitely worthwhile.

"The Great Earth God Realm? I've never even left the Purple Crystal Mountain Range!"

After hearing Hermes introduce himself, Leis Jing indeed looked wistful.

From the day he was born until now,

Leis Jing had never left the million-mile stretch of the Purple Crystal Mountain Range.

Let alone traveled to another realm.

On top of that, Hermes had just beaten a Purple Crystal Monster Leader with the strength of a Seven-star Demon to death with his bare hands.

Now, Leis Jing looked at Hermes with admiration.

That was the advantage of strength.

If Hermes had been no stronger than Trist, struggling to survive while pursued by Purple Crystal Monsters, Leis Jing probably wouldn't have given him a second glance.

"Really?"

Hermes had no reason to pass up this wealthy friend.

"Ha ha ha, I've collected quite a few Projection Crystal Balls from the Great Earth God Realm. I'll give you some to watch."

With Hermes deliberately ingratiating himself, Leis Jing was soon drawn in.

With the Purple Thorn Sovereign God's boundless power, Leis Jing could have as many Projection Crystal Balls as he wanted.

But compared to Hermes, even the Purple Thorn Sovereign God didn't measure up.

Hermes collected Projection Crystal Balls not only to gather information about powerful beings, but also for fun.

That's right, for fun!

Back in his previous life on Blue Star, Hermes had spent years immersed in the endless videos and other media online.

After being reborn in the Coiling Dragon World, he had wanted to collect large numbers of Projection Crystal Balls from the moment he became self-aware.

The Projection Crystal Balls he'd seen from Hell and the Great Earth God Realm could already be called "technology."

Projection Technology!

Although Projection Technology was based on nothing more than Level 7 Water Magic,

its applications had become wonderfully varied. It wasn't just for recording battles between powerful beings.

"Wow, this is great!"

The Projection Crystal Balls Hermes had gone out of his way to collect all had something special about them.

For a kid like Leis Jing, there had to be battle projections, but what mattered even more was that they were novel.

"By the way, didn't you say you'd mastered the fusion of three Mysteries?"

Hermes had been deliberately trying to get close to Leis Jing, but Leis Jing had been doing the same with him.

"Jingjing!"

The Purple Thorn Sovereign God's voice sounded directly beside Leis Jing's ear.

He was used to it by now.

"Test this Hermes from the Great Earth God Realm. Ask him if he's a Sovereign God's emissary."