Fame Spreads

Liewen settled down in Blackstone City with Lena, resting for several days to recover from his injuries before setting off once more.

Kuhn was in the imperial capital, Chiyan City.

The O'Brien Empire consisted of seven major provinces, with Chiyan City located in the southernmost O'Brien Province.

Blackstone City, where Liewen was staying, was located in the Northwest Province, with the Southwest Province separating the two.

Liewen did not intend to waste any more battle qi flying to his destination. Now that his strength had improved, he no longer feared the experts of the Radiant Church. If the Radiant Church wanted to kill him, they would have to mobilize all their top powerhouses, including the Radiant Pope.

But that was impossible. If the Radiant Church were to send all their experts into the O'Brien Empire, it would be a provocation against the War God. Even if Heidens were given ten times the courage, he would not dare to run wild on the War God's turf.

The O'Brien Empire was the continent's premier military power, and the entire nation valued martial arts.

Within the borders of the O'Brien Empire, the War God was the sole object of faith; no other religion was permitted to spread within the empire.

Even the Radiant Church only dared to send a small number of personnel into the O'Brien Empire in secret, not daring to act with any grand display.

Liewen had mapped out the shortest route from Blackstone City to Chiyan City.

He would first head to the nearest port, take a boat along the Yulan River into the Southwest Province, and then travel by land to Chiyan City.

Liewen specifically hired a mercenary group to handle all the logistics along the way.

A few days later, a ten-man mercenary squad set off, escorting Liewen and Lena.

Naturally, Liewen did not need their protection, but there were many trivial matters on the road that he was too lazy to deal with, so he simply spent money to buy himself some peace.

Moreover, these mercenaries traveled extensively and were very familiar with every part of the O'Brien Empire, which could save him a lot of trouble.

Liewen's party was small, and their travel speed was much faster than an average merchant caravan. He estimated that by the time he reached Chiyan City, he would still have to wait a few months to witness the reunion of Linley and Delia.

Liewen and Lena sat inside the carriage, while the mercenaries guarded the perimeter.

Within the O'Brien Empire, public order was decent, and the mercenaries gradually began to relax.

"Boss, have you heard? A while back, two Saint Realm experts fought on the main road north of the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and the process was captured by someone using a Recording Crystal Ball."

The mercenaries were chatting, and as soon as a young mercenary spoke up, the others began to discuss it heatedly.

"I heard about it too; it's been spreading everywhere lately. But those profiteers set the price too high—one hundred gold coins for a single viewing. If you want to buy the Recording Crystal Ball outright, it costs tens of thousands of gold coins. Aside from those noble lords, who can afford that?"

"Saint Realm experts... I haven't seen a Saint Realm expert in my entire life."

"Alright, focus on your surroundings! Don't let the employer laugh at us!" The one who seemed to be the captain of the mercenary squad finally spoke up.

The mercenaries' discussion drifted into the carriage. Liewen gave a bitter smile; he was low-key by nature and preferred quiet, disliking the spotlight, but after this battle, he feared many people would know his name.

Forget it, I'll focus on my cultivation.

Liewen sat in the carriage, concentrating on comprehending the Laws of Light.

He had hired the mercenary group precisely to save time for cultivation, so he wouldn't have to deal with the trivialities of the journey.

He had already mastered the basics of fusing the Profundity of Purification and the Profundity of Light Element. Next, as long as the fusion reached ten percent, Liewen would be able to become a Lowgod, and once the fusion was complete, he would be a Midgod.

There were two ways to become a god. The first was to become a god independently.

When Liewen fully comprehended one profundity or fused two profundities to ten percent, the world would sense it and descend with the laws of the world, condensing a Lowgod Godspark that suited his soul's aura. His body would also transform into a Lowgod body, and the battle qi within him would turn into Lowgod power.

At that point, Liewen would be a Lowgod.

The second method of becoming a god was to refine a Godspark.

When a god-level being died, their Godspark would remain. If a Saint Realm expert obtained it, they could refine it to become a god.

However, refining a Godspark meant cutting off one's future. At most, one could refine a Godspark to become a Highgod, but fusing the laws and profundities would be basically impossible, leaving one without a chance at the pinnacle.

Liewen did not consider refining a Godspark. He roughly estimated that at his current speed of fusing the Profundity of Purification and the Profundity of Light Element, it would take at most twenty or thirty years to reach ten percent fusion.

In the original story, Linley's fusion of the "Fast" and "Slow" profundities reached ten percent in less than ten years. By comparison, Liewen's cultivation speed was much slower.

Liewen could do nothing about this; his current potential was that of a Highgod who could fuse two profundities, which was incomparable to Linley.

Low potential meant slow cultivation speed.

In the four Higher Planes and seven Divine Planes, many god-level experts spent tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years without being able to fuse two profundities.

This was the limitation of one's own potential.

Aside from the fusion of profundities, his cultivation of the Profundity of Purification was also going smoothly. The step of fusing 256 rays of light into 128 rays was no longer an issue, and he could proceed step by step.

Liewen was confident that he would succeed in at most three years. By then, his strength would improve once more, enough to rival the peak experts of the Saint Realm.

After ten days of land travel, Liewen's party arrived at a port on the Yulan River.

The Yulan River was the largest river on the Yulan Continent. Its main channel flowed through the four great empires: the O'Brien Empire, the Yulan Empire, the Rhine Empire, and the Luo'ao Empire, while its tributaries were densely spread across every region of the four empires.

The Yulan River nurtured the majority of the human population on the Yulan Continent.

Liewen's party planned to follow the Yulan River all the way to the Southwest Province before switching back to land travel.

The mercenaries hired a large riverboat, and after everything was settled, Liewen only had to pay the bill.

Hiring the riverboat to travel from the Northwest Province to the Southwest Province cost Liewen tens of thousands of gold coins.

Liewen's gold coins had long been deposited into a Magic Crystal Card from the Four Empires Bank, which he carried with him.

The Four Empires Bank was a bank jointly established by the four great empires, allowing for the storage of gold coins, and Liewen's own wealth was kept there.

For Liewen now, these gold coins no longer meant much.

"Brother Liewen, come quickly and look, what a wide river!"

It was Laina's first time on a boat, and she was very excited, pulling Liewen onto the deck to watch.

The Yulan River stretched for tens of thousands of miles; in its widest parts, it spanned several miles, while even in its narrowest, it was hundreds of meters across, the water vast and magnificent.

The entire journey was expected to take nearly twenty days to reach the target port in the Southwest Province.

A few days later, the large ship passed by a port near Basil, the capital of the Northwest Province, which was only a hundred miles away from the city itself.

Through the introduction of a crew member, Liewen learned that they had arrived at Basil.

Calculating the time, Linley should be reaching the ninth rank in his human form by now, Liewen thought, standing on the deck and gazing into the distance toward Basil.

After leaving Hess City, Linley had entered the Magical Beast Mountain Range for three years before arriving in the Northwest Province. After saving Sessler, the sisters Rebecca and Laina, and the five Undying Warrior brothers led by Barker, they had gone into hiding in the Northwest Province.

Linley and his group spent nearly six years in the Northwest Province before finally being discovered in the provincial capital, Basil, by Lantan, who had been sent by the Radiant Church to assassinate him.

Lantan and his group of six were all descended angels; although their physical bodies were only at the sixth rank, by pushing their bodies to the point of collapse and unleashing their full power, they could briefly exert the strength of the Saint Realm.

Linley and Lantan fought a great battle outside Basil, which Linley narrowly won. After the battle ended, Linley broke through to become a ninth-rank warrior, and after Dragonforming, he became a Saint Realm powerhouse.

After that, Linley headed to Chiyan to reunite with his younger brother Wharton, and his reunion with Delia also took place in Chiyan.

Liewen sailed along the Yulan River, and half a day after he passed the port near Basil, at dusk, Linley's group also arrived at the same port.

"Brother Mackenzie, there is no need to see us off any further." Linley bid farewell to Mackenzie.

Mackenzie was the ancestor of the Jax family and a Saint Realm expert.

The Jax family were the rulers of the Northwest Province, and Linley's battle with Lantan outside Basil had naturally alerted Mackenzie.

After the battle, Linley and Mackenzie had exchanged pointers and become friends, and in the end, Mackenzie had escorted Linley to the port.

Mackenzie arranged a large ship for Linley's group, and they boarded it to head toward Chiyan.

As soon as they stepped onto the boat, Gates, the "fifth brother" among the Barker brothers, shouted impatiently.

"My Lord, quick, quick, come and look at this memory crystal ball!"