The Lord of Yelan Mountain

In the Magic Universe, there were nearly as many Material Planes as grains of sand in the Ganges.

The Valen Plane was an unremarkable one among these countless planes.

Yelan Mountain had once been an obscure peak on the Western Continent. But thanks to its master, the Night Orchid Sword Saint—Luo Ya—and his distinguished status, it had long since become renowned throughout the sixteen nations of the Dark Alliance. In the Black Moon Kingdom, it was an unrivaled holy land in the hearts of countless people!

At the summit of Yelan Mountain stood a mysterious, pitch-black castle. The legendary genius Sword Saint, the Night Orchid Sword Saint, lived there.

In the castle's study, an old, green-haired butler approached the young man seated in the principal chair, who was resting with his eyes closed. He bowed with exceptional deference. "Lord Luo Ya."

The young man had simple, short black hair. Only after hearing the butler did he leisurely open his eyes and roll his neck. His voice was tinged with laziness. "What is it?"

Ever since arriving in the Coiling Dragon World, Luo Ya had risen from an ordinary mortal to where he was today. He had long since adapted to all the rules of this world, though he had naturally kept some of his old habits.

Having read the original countless times, he knew the world's story well. Unfortunately, the plane he had transmigrated to wasn't the Yulan Plane, but a Material Plane that had never appeared in the original—the Valen Plane.

The Valen Plane had two continents, east and west, and each was far larger than the Yulan Continent from the original story.

Accordingly, the Material Plane also had more Saint Realm and god-level powerhouses.

Besides Laura, the Plane Overseer, the strongest figures in the Valen Plane included two Midgods, who each ruled one of the two continents. Beneath them were around a dozen Lowgods. As for Saint Realm powerhouses, there were naturally far more.

So even though Luo Ya had reached the Saint Realm and was already an experienced Saint Realm powerhouse beginning to comprehend the profound mysteries of the laws, he still wasn't complacent. He spent most of his time cultivating on Yelan Mountain, hoping to become a god-level powerhouse as soon as possible.

After the old butler Foster bowed slightly, he continued respectfully, "My lord, His Majesty Brian is here."

"Brian?"

Luo Ya raised an eyebrow. Brian was the current king of the Black Moon Kingdom. Of course, he owed his throne to Luo Ya's support.

"Shouldn't he be busy being king? What does he want with me?" Luo Ya furrowed his brow, suspecting the fellow had another problem he wanted Luo Ya to deal with.

At first, Luo Ya had been quite interested in worldly power, but over time, he grew tired of it. Especially after Miss Laura, the Plane Overseer, came to see him thirty years ago, he had learned for certain that the fantasy world he'd arrived in was the very Coiling Dragon World from his memories.

In the Coiling Dragon World, Saint Realm powerhouses were already nearly immortal, and possessed power on par with that of gods.

They could melt enormous glaciers, stir the boundless seas into a furious roar, shatter mountains that soared into the clouds, destroy cities with populations of a million, and send endless meteorites raining down from the sky!

Compared to mortals, Saint Realm powerhouses were already invincible, supreme beings!

But, naturally, Luo Ya knew from the original story that for true powerhouses, the Saint Realm was merely a starting point.

Beyond the Saint Realm lay the even more powerful gods, and above them, the true Sovereigns who looked down on all living things!

Likewise, compared to the dazzling Supreme Planes, the Valen Plane was just a little fishpond.

Now that he knew this world was the Coiling Dragon World from his memories, Luo Ya was naturally unwilling to spend his whole life stuck in a tiny Material Plane like this.

Especially since he also had a "cheat" that had come with him when he transmigrated. It was only natural that he had even greater ambitions!

He hoped to keep climbing the path of cultivation until he reached the peak, standing at the pinnacle of this world and leaving behind a legend of his own in the vast Divine Planes and Supreme Planes!

Unfortunately, for now, he was still only in the Saint Realm. Going to a Divine Plane or Supreme Plane as a Saint would be tantamount to courting death. Luo Ya would need to reach at least god-level, or even Midgod, before he had the confidence to venture into those boundless Supreme Planes, teeming with powerhouses.

Though Luo Ya sat in the study with a furrowed brow, he still answered seriously. "Bring him in to see me."

In this life, his parents had already passed away by the time he transmigrated. They had left him a considerable inheritance, but the problem was that he had been just a child and couldn't manage it.

Fortunately, his parents' good friend, Baron Harriman, and his family had taken him in. Later, they also ensured he inherited all the wealth his parents had left behind.

When Luo Ya displayed astonishing potential during his magic aptitude test at the age of six, Baron Harriman had taken particular notice of him and invested heavily in his future.

Luo Ya had lived up to his expectations. He completed his studies quickly and graduated from Merlin Magic Academy without a hitch.

Not long after graduating, Luo Ya left the country to travel and gain experience. When he and Baron Harriman next met, Luo Ya had already become an astonishingly powerful Saint Realm powerhouse. And he hadn't advanced as a Saint Magus—he had become a Saint Warrior instead.

To repay the Harriman family's kindness, Luo Ya had also granted their wish, making them powerful nobles in the Black Moon Kingdom. Harriman himself had even become the kingdom's chancellor, while his third daughter had become the queen of the Black Moon Kingdom.

Brian was Harriman's third son-in-law and the new king of the Black Moon Kingdom. Brian himself had only been the third prince. Naturally, he had taken the throne thanks to the Harriman family—or, more accurately, Luo Ya's support.

To thank Luo Ya for backing him, Brian had even specially created the exalted title of "Protector Sword Saint" for him, giving him a status in the Black Moon Kingdom equal to the king's. But this so-called "Protector Sword Saint" was just a grand-sounding title that was more trouble than it was worth, so Luo Ya had flatly declined it.

Still, in the end, Luo Ya had promised him that if the Black Moon Kingdom or the Harriman family ever encountered trouble, he would step in once more.

"Debts of gratitude are the hardest to repay. I hope that after I help him this time, Brian won't come bothering me again." Though Luo Ya owed the debt to the Harriman family, Harriman had bound himself to Brian when he married off his third daughter.

Naturally, any trouble Brian or the Black Moon Kingdom encountered became trouble for the Harriman family too.

Although Luo Ya found dealing with worldly affairs rather troublesome, he still decided to step in once more, as long as it was within his power.

After all, the strong always repaid kindness.

Even the Paragon High-Gods in the Divine Planes took the favors they owed seriously, let alone Luo Ya.

"Maybe once I've repaid this debt and put my mind at ease, my cultivation will go more smoothly." Wasn't that why he had settled on this remote, uninhabited mountain in the first place—to make cultivation more convenient?

"With this mysterious Black Hole space, I'll surely master the Devour profound mystery of the Laws of Darkness sooner or later." Luo Ya set aside his scattered thoughts and immersed his mind in his Soul Ocean. A deep-blue vortex shaped like a black hole spun within it.

It was thanks to this mysterious Black Hole, which had come with him from the Blue Star world, that Luo Ya had made astonishing progress in magic and battle qi, becoming a ninth-rank powerhouse at a young age. Later, in a single moment of enlightenment, he had grasped the Force of the Heavens and Earth and advanced straight to the Saint Realm!

But after the Saint Realm, cultivation no longer relied solely on magic power and battle qi. One had to comprehend the unfathomable elemental laws, or the even more mysterious and elusive Four Supreme Rules.

After trying many times over the years, Luo Ya had confirmed that he had only two cultivation affinities: darkness and water.

And because of the mysterious Black Hole space in his soul, the first profound mystery he comprehended wasn't a lesser one like Dark Element. Instead, it was the relatively advanced Devour profound mystery of the Laws of Darkness.

His affinity for Dark Element was superlative, and he could comprehend profound mysteries by sensing the rhythm of the "Black Hole space." Naturally, this made his cultivation twice as effective with half the effort.

Though he had been comprehending the Devour profound mystery for less than thirty years, he had already grasped seven or eight tenths of it and was nearing a bottleneck.