Continuous Promotion

"You want to take him on as your emissary?"

Leis Jing was a little unhappy, as if someone had taken away his favorite big toy. He couldn't quite put a name to the feeling.

"Jingjing, don't be rebellious. Do you know how terrifying Hermes is?"

Purple Thorn Sovereign God knew her child's temperament all too well.

"Terrifying?"

Leis Jing's lips twitched almost imperceptibly. "How terrifying can he be?"

"Hmph. So he beat Big Purple to pieces with his bare hands? Big Purple will come back to life after a while anyway!"

Though he wasn't willing to admit it, the fact that he was willing to befriend Hermes made it obvious.

Leis Jing was just putting on a tough front.

"Jingjing, you should know that a Seven-star Demon is nothing special."

"But Hermes can smash a Purple Crystal Monster with the toughness of a High-grade Divine Artifact using his bare hands. What level of Material Attack does that represent?"

Purple Thorn Sovereign God said.

"Mother, Peak Asuras in Hell can do that too."

Leis Jing wanted to prove that Hermes wasn't really all that impressive.

That way, he could keep his "big toy."

Besides, Leis Jing had realized that Hermes wasn't just powerful—he was also quite interesting.

"But Hermes has only fused three Profound Mysteries, yet he's done something Peak Asuras can do."

Leis Jing fell silent.

"I've noticed that Hermes's soul is flawless, yet it doesn't seem to be a Sovereign Artifact."

With her mastery of souls as a Sovereign God, Purple Thorn Sovereign God had easily noticed what made Hermes's soul unusual.

However, she still wasn't sure whether Silver Moon was a Sovereign Artifact.

"Normally, a special lifeform as gifted as Hermes shouldn't have remained so obscure."

Purple Crystal Divine Beasts were naturally adept in matters of the soul, and Zijing was a Sovereign God whose divine power and soul power were one.

There was no way Hermes's unusual nature could escape her notice.

Purple Thorn Sovereign God didn't know that her guess was exactly right.

If Hermes hadn't broken through to Middle God by fusing Profound Mysteries, and left the Great Earth God Realm for Hell so early,

then by now,

he would have been taken in as a Sovereign God's emissary while still a Lowgod, becoming a legendary figure almost impossible to surpass.

"Rumble~!"

A towering golden mountain suddenly appeared in the Purple Crystal Mountain Range.

Its summit reached beyond the Mist Sea, just as Hermes had planned.

Now, at last, his plan had come true!

Beside the mountain stood a castle formed from a Metal Life.

In the mist-shrouded and perilous Purple Crystal Mountain Range, it was certainly a peculiar sight.

"Bamer, is your master still in seclusion?"

Leis Jing, who looked like a Bald Youth, was lying on a dark red rock.

With a blade of grass in his mouth, he looked utterly bored.

"No!"

Bamer wouldn't dare offend this young master. He could only answer respectfully.

"Ugh, I'm bored. The Purple Crystal Mountain Range is just too boring!"

Leis Jing said.

He had wanted to ask Hermes whether he was a Sovereign God's emissary, but he didn't want to come right out and ask.

When Hermes wanted to leave the Purple Crystal Mountain Range, he would naturally come to him for help.

Then Leis Jing could ask him the question without it seeming out of the blue.

Leis Jing's plan was sound.

But he hadn't expected Hermes to play by a completely different set of rules.

After arriving in the Purple Crystal Mountain Range, Hermes had never planned to leave anytime soon!

Not only that, but he had ignored the astonished looks from Leis Jing and the others, transformed into his Golden Mountain True Body, and settled permanently in the Purple Crystal Mountain Range.

The towering Golden Mountain covered a valley that happened to contain the greatest number of Purple Crystal Grottoes in the entire range.

Inside the Golden Mountain, deep in its heart.

A Golden Space that seemed not to exist within this world.

Hermes's consciousness descended.

"Devour! Devour it all!"

At his command, the transparent Purple Crystals shattered one by one, turning into clouds of purple mist.

Purple Crystals were piled up like mountains in the Golden Space as well.

From time to time,

Hermes could even dig up and devour some of the Purple Crystal Mountain Range's unusual ores.

But he always felt that something was missing.

"Just a little more. Why is it still not enough?"

Hermes was getting restless.

He had lived in his true form in the Purple Crystal Mountain Range for tens of thousands of years.

He and Leis Jing had long since become good friends.

Meanwhile, Leis Jing, having failed to carry out his mother's instructions, spent every day tormenting himself.

"I'm done waiting. I'll let the Fire Element Law reach godhood first!"

Hermes had a profound understanding of all six Profound Mysteries of the Fire Element Law.

The only reason he hadn't broken through was that he had deliberately held himself back.

The Fire Element and Fire Body Profound Mystery had already fused to the point where he was on the verge of naturally becoming a god.

"Rumble~!"

The ancient and terrifying Heavenly Law descended in an instant.

Leis Jing scrambled to his feet from the boulder, dropping the blade of grass from his mouth.

"This—is this the Fire Element?"

He had talent in both the Great Earth Law and the Destruction Rule, so of course he knew what Hermes was doing.

A black crystal floated above the slope of the towering Golden Mountain.

"Argh~!"

Hermes let out a scream.

Leis Jing shuddered.

"It really hurts!"

When the world had first come into being, why had so many unlucky people chosen to become gods with their true bodies? It wasn't just because they feared the period of weakness caused by Soul Split.

The pain was unbearable too.

Even after countless years, Leis Jing still remembered it vividly.

Although the Heavenly Law protected them, and splitting one's life-force and soul carried no risk of the soul collapsing,

the sensation of pain so intense it nearly made one's soul fall apart was something Leis Jing would never forget.

"Rumble, rumble~!"

Hermes was no different.

By then, the Golden Mountain True Body was trembling from the pain.

"Bamer, your master really is impressive. Even splitting his soul to become a god can set off an earthquake."

Leis Jing's teasing remark drew no response from Bamer.

"You're all big shots. I can't afford to offend any of you!"

He kept his gaze lowered and his mind calm.

He looked completely at ease.

Not far away, a Wind Element High God sat cross-legged in meditation.

Trist had practically become Bamer's follower.

He still hadn't managed to leave the Purple Crystal Mountain Range, but these tens of thousands of years had been the safest he'd ever experienced.

Leis Jing—the very one who had caused all the deadly dangers—was lying on the boulder not far away.

He showed not the slightest remorse for treating life with such indifference.

While Hermes was in seclusion,

Leis Jing still toyed with the people trapped in the Purple Crystal Mountain Range from time to time.

It was one of the few amusements he could find, and no one could take that right away from him.

Not even his Sovereign God mother.

"Huh? That's not right. Why hasn't Hermes come out yet?"

When the Fire Element Law reached godhood, a red-haired Hermes over three meters tall had appeared, only to vanish moments later.

He'd retreated into his Soul Space.

Leis Jing was bored enough to wait here the whole time. He was determined to wait Hermes out this time.

"Boom~!"

Only a few hundred years later, the Heavenly Law descended once more, and the red-haired Hermes appeared again.

Under the transformation of the Heavenly Rule, a Lowgod Spark radiating a crimson glow rose straight to the Middle God level.

"Does Hermes really have such incredible talent in the Fire Element Law?"

Leis Jing muttered.

Outside the Purple Crystal Mountain Range.

There were eighteen large castles in all. Inside the one with the largest grounds,

"Let's hear what everyone has to say~!"