Silvermoon City

Hodan's plan was to scheme for the Azure Dragon Ring and the Purple Blood Soft Sword. The Azure Dragon Ring, of course, went without saying; as a Sovereign Artifact, it possessed immeasurable value even if it were damaged. Furthermore, its inherent ability to instantly refine Amethyst could save countless amounts of wealth and time. At the same time, one could use the Azure Dragon Ring to refine Amethyst into Soul Golden Beads, earning the price difference to purchase whatever was needed.

One had to know that even Sovereign Power had a price, roughly one hundred trillion per drop, it was just that no one was willing to sell it. In the original story, Salomon of the Boyi Clan used the wealth his clan had accumulated over hundreds of millions of years to pay Aiken of the Bauhinia Continent to refine it into a single drop of Sovereign Power.

Therefore, with endless wealth, Sovereign Power was not actually in short supply, provided, of course, that one had the strength to protect that wealth. Otherwise, it would undoubtedly be like a child holding gold while walking through a bustling market.

As the signature weapon of the Purple Blood Fiend, the Purple Blood Soft Sword had been nurtured by him for countless years, so its power was certainly not to be underestimated. Although the price was unknown, it was certainly not low.

Hodan prepared to plot for these two pieces of equipment by using soul control on a mortal to sneak into the residence of Baruch and steal the Azure Dragon Ring. Although Hodan did not know the Death Law, and his Fate Rule was currently only at the Saint-level limit, to those below godhood, gods were high and mighty; no matter how many mortals there were, they were merely ants. Relying on Hodan's strength as a Mid-God, soul-controlling a mortal who had not reached the Saint-level was truly as easy as could be.

As for the Purple Blood Soft Sword, it served as the seal for the plane node. Hodan figured that the sword in his own possession, which was also a High-God Artifact, would suffice. In the Coiling Dragon World, Hodan's father had originally been a peak Five-Star Fiend, an existence close to a Six-Star Fiend. This divine sword had been nurtured by his father with divine power for tens of millions of years and had been through many slaughters, so the sword had nurtured quite a bit of baleful aura; it should be enough to suppress the plane node.

Hodan flew in a hurry. At the speed of a Mid-God, even under the gravity of Hell, he had flown for a full month. For Hodan, he had never traveled for such a long time in his life. Fortunately, he was already within the jurisdiction of Silvermoon City, which regularly cleared out the surrounding areas. Moreover, the Fiend Castle would also issue fiend missions from time to time to clear out these bandits, so Hodan did not encounter any.

After a month of flying, Silvermoon City came into view. Silvermoon City was a large city with a radius of eight thousand li. Because it was close to the Plane Teleportation Array, its commerce was quite prosperous. Before Hodan even approached Silvermoon City, he saw many streams of people gathering and heading toward the city.

The silver-white city exuded an air of luxury and antiquity.

It was one of the ten major cities within a radius of over a billion li in Yingxue Prefecture.

"Is this Silvermoon City?" Hodan's eyes lit up.

Hodan looked at this large city with some excitement; a city with a radius of eight thousand li was something one would absolutely never see on Earth. After all, the diameter of the Little Broken Ball was only a little over twenty thousand li.

The city walls were a hundred zhang high. Thinking about it, it made sense; most people in Hell were god-level and could fly, so low walls would be useless. Although Hodan had been to places like Beijing and Xi'an to see ancient cities, he had never seen such a tall and ancient one. The aura of time radiating from the city walls deeply shocked Hodan.

"Finally arrived at Silvermoon City," Hodan said silently in his heart.

It was the first time Hodan had seen a large city in Hell, and he felt very fresh. While following the flow of people, he looked at this magnificent, ancient silver city.

"So many people!" Hodan stared at the bustling crowd around him and exclaimed. This scene gave Hodan the feeling of catching a train during the Spring Festival travel rush.

There were too many people wanting to enter Silvermoon City, all coming from all directions. Long queues had formed outside the city. At this time, no one dared to barge in. Hodan also very obediently queued up to pay the entry fee.

During this time, Hodan saw three black-robed figures enter without paying the entry fee. Hodan knew that those people were either from the Black Annihilation Army, the Prefecture Guards, or they were Fiends, because only these three types of people did not need to pay an entry fee to enter the city.

Hodan pondered when he should also take the test to become a Fiend. Not only would it be convenient to enter the city without queuing, but bandits outside would rarely provoke Fiends, which would save Hodan a lot of trouble in Hell.

Soon, it was Hodan's turn. Hodan paid an Inkstone and entered Silvermoon City.

Hodan walked along the wide streets, looking around at the large buildings. A sense of antiquity and magnificence rushed toward him. Every building was built like a sculpture. Hodan could feel that the years Silvermoon City had existed were definitely a heart-trembling number, certainly far longer than the history of Earth.

The civilization of a different world made Hodan linger, but he still did not forget what he had to do.

Hodan followed the crowd to the most prosperous and noisy part of Silvermoon City.

Appearing before Hodan were three castles. To the far left, there was a huge castle formed entirely of black sand. As a god-level expert, Hodan's eyesight was naturally excellent, and he discovered at a glance that this castle was formed by the gathering of countless black sand. Most strangely, a large amount of black sand was still flowing slowly.

Yet, this castle remained completely unscathed. Hodan knew this was the Black Sand Castle, which was the black market in Hell. Anything could be traded inside, but it was too dark and the factions were mixed. Hodan was only a small Mid-God, so it was best not to go to such a place.

However, one could occasionally find some good things inside. Just like Elder Muli of his own clan, who had found a pitch-black seed in the Black Sand Castle.

It was fortunate that the seller did not know what it was. At that time, Muli had not yet become an elder of the clan. Muli had originally just intended to plant some exotic flowers and plants in his own courtyard, but what he ended up finding was a seed of the Thunder Spirit Tree.

Under the careful care of Elder Muli, it bore Thunder Spirit Fruit, which improved his aptitude for Thunder Element cultivation and also strengthened his bloodline, which was what allowed Muli to become an elder of the clan.

Unfortunately, it was unknown whether the seed was congenitally deficient or if its origin was lost due to being stored for too long, but the Thunder Spirit Tree withered after bearing fruit. Moreover, the pit of the fruit could not sprout either.

Otherwise, given the relationship between Hodan's parents and Elder Muli, they would have paid a price to beg for one for Hodan.

To the far right of Hodan was an ancient castle built entirely of black ore. The castle was held up by sculptures resembling black clouds, making it appear exceptionally tall and towering in the surroundings. Hodan knew that this was his destination for this trip, the Black Annihilation Castle, where he would trade for cultivation resources.

And directly in front of Hodan—

It was an ancient purple castle that was a hundred meters tall, only this purple had turned black. This castle had a giant sculpture on it; the face was very blurry, but the enchanting red single eye on that face was very eye-catching.

Hodan knew that was the Fiend Castle. If Hodan wanted to take the Fiend examination, he could pay the fee there to participate. And Fiends generally went to the Fiend Castle for trades and missions as well.