Strength Soars

The carriage returned to White Jade Avenue.

"Brother Liewen, Father, Mother, little brother, I'm back."

Lena entered the residence. Besides Liewen and Kuhn, there was also a beautiful young married woman and a six-year-old boy in the main hall.

The young woman was Lily Robell, the daughter of a minor noble in Yulan City. She was Kuhn's wife from Yulan City. Lena's birth mother had died in childbirth over twenty years ago, and Lily was Kuhn's second wife.

The six-year-old boy was Kuhn and Lily's child, born six years ago. He looked sturdy and bright-eyed.

His name was Franklin Bo Lei, Lena's younger half-brother.

"Father, how did it go?" Lena looked at Kuhn.

Kuhn shook his head helplessly. "So close. What a pity."

Just now, they had been testing Franklin for the Tiger-Striped Warrior bloodline, but his bloodline concentration was still insufficient.

"Those born as Ultimate Warriors are rare to begin with. There's no need to be too upset." Liewen comforted him.

He normally cultivated in his own courtyard and rarely showed himself. Today, he had specifically come out of curiosity to watch the Tiger-Striped Warrior bloodline test.

Heaven was fair. The bloodlines of the Four Ultimate Warriors were extraordinarily powerful, and correspondingly, their birth rates were low.

In the Coiling Dragon World, cultivation made people far more robust. It was not unusual for ordinary people to have seven or eight children.

Yet Kuhn had only two children, Lena and Franklin. In the six years since Franklin's birth, he had been unable to have another child.

Hogg, too, had only Linley and Wharton.

Only Barker and his four brothers were exceptions.

There were few descendants to begin with, and even fewer who met the bloodline requirements.

Before Wharton, the Baruch Clan had not produced a Dragonblood Warrior for over a thousand years.

Moreover, most Ultimate Warriors had poor comprehension of the Laws' Profound Mysteries. Linley was an exceptionally rare exception.

"If only our Bo Lei Clan had a method like 'Drink Living Dragon Blood.'" Kuhn sighed.

Back in Chiyan City, he had heard from Linley that the Dragonblood Warrior clan possessed the secret technique Drink Living Dragon Blood, which allowed descendants with insufficient bloodlines to become Dragonblood Warriors as well.

Over five thousand years ago, when the Baruch Clan was at its peak, it had relied on this secret technique to possess dozens of Dragonblood Warriors at once, dominating the Yulan Continent. Few had dared provoke them.

Since Tiger-Striped Warriors could once stand alongside Dragonblood Warriors, they probably had a similar secret technique. Their decline must have lasted too long, and the technique was likely lost as well, Liewen thought.

That was not impossible. The Undying Warrior Family had declined to the point of even losing the Undying Secret Manual.

If they ever get the chance to travel to Hell and undergo a Clan Baptism, they could awaken the Tiger-Striped Warrior bloodline, Liewen thought to himself.

The so-called Four Ultimate Warriors actually originated from the Four Divine Beasts Clan of the Higher Plane Hell. Tiger-Striped Warriors were descendants of the wind-element Divine Beast, the "White Tiger," among the Four Divine Beasts.

The White Tiger clan had a Clan Baptism that could help its descendants awaken the White Tiger bloodline and directly become wind-element Lowgods.

However, Hell was far too vast and incomparably dangerous. Even if one used a planar teleportation array to reach Hell, there was no guarantee of arriving in the region where the Four Divine Beasts Clan resided.

Without sufficient strength, one would likely die on the journey before reaching the ancestral land of the Four Divine Beasts Clan.

"Some time ago, Mr. Linley went to the Sunset Mountain Range. It seemed he was collecting living dragon blood for the younger generation," Lena said.

"Yes. Linley captured three Saint Realm dragons." Liewen nodded.

Over the past twelve years, Linley and Delia had had two children, while Wharton and Nina had had one.

All three children had reached the age to awaken their bloodlines. None had been born Dragonblood Warriors, so Linley took them to the Sunset Mountain Range, captured three Saint Realm dragons, and used Drink Living Dragon Blood to turn them into Dragonblood Warriors.

When Linley set out from the Land of Chaos and passed through Yulan City, he had even stayed with Liewen for several days.

Over the years, aside from cultivating behind closed doors, Liewen occasionally went to the Land of Chaos to spar and exchange insights with Linley and Desri.

Desri had achieved the greatest mastery of the Laws of Light in the Yulan Continent. Their exchanges had given Liewen considerable insight into the Profound Mystery of "Soul Deterrence," and three years ago, he had successfully taken his first steps into it.

The Profound Mystery of "Soul Deterrence" was a Laws of Light Profound Mystery cultivated by Desri. It belonged to the soul-type Profound Mysteries, and Desri had named it himself, so Liewen simply used the same name.

By now, of the six Profound Mysteries of the Laws of Light, Liewen had begun comprehending three: the Profound Mystery of "Purification," the Profound Mystery of "Light Element," and the Profound Mystery of "Soul Deterrence."

The fusion between the Profound Mysteries of "Purification" and "Light Element" was proceeding smoothly as well. It had already reached 9%. Liewen estimated that in another year or two, he would become a Lowgod.

Back then, he had thought it would take twenty or thirty years to become a god. But after his potential had risen to the level of a Highgod capable of fusing three Profound Mysteries, his cultivation speed had increased as well. In just over a decade, he had reached the threshold of godhood.

As he deduced how to fuse the two Profound Mysteries, his understanding of them deepened as well. The Profound Mystery of "Purification" had already fused into thirty-two rays of light.

The Profound Mystery of "Light Element" had improved even more and had reached its final bottleneck.

Of course, this was also because the Profound Mystery of "Light Element" was a low-level Profound Mystery. It was the simplest of the six Profound Mysteries of the Laws of Light.

Once he crossed this final bottleneck, Liewen would also become a Lowgod.

There were two major bottlenecks in the Laws' Profound Mysteries: one was getting started, and the other was completion.

Going from 0% to 1% was getting started, while going from 99% to 100% was completion.

This bottleneck could be simple or difficult. What was needed was a flash of inspiration.

If he understood it, Liewen might break through the very next second. If he did not, he might remain stuck at this step for thousands or tens of thousands of years.

Experts at the Saint Realm Limit like Desri had all been stuck at that final step for thousands of years.

Cesar, too, had been trapped at the final step for thousands of years before breaking through.

However, given Liewen's current potential, he did not believe he would remain stuck on the simplest Profound Mystery for thousands of years.

Besides the Laws of Light, the cultivation of Fate Law had also brought Liewen many pleasant surprises.

He was now a Fate Saint Magus.

As his spiritual energy reached the Saint Magus level, the soul within his mind underwent a transformation. It became a translucent sphere glowing with a pale platinum light, with his sea of spiritual energy beneath it.

The soul had no fixed form. Depending on one's cultivation path, it could take different shapes.

Linley's soul, for example, was sword-shaped, while Liewen's was spherical.

Liewen was currently the most ordinary kind of Saint Magus. He had basically no comprehension of the Laws of Fate and could only follow the formula, silently reciting magical incantations to cast the fate-element forbidden spell, Fate Law.

Liewen had not yet begun comprehending the Rules of Fate.

The Four Edicts differed from the Seven Elemental Laws. The Four Edicts were each a whole, without divisions into Profound Mysteries. Whether one became a god depended on whether one comprehended enough of that whole. Once enough was understood, heaven and earth would respond.

"Brother Liewen, I heard that the Land of Chaos isn't peaceful now. Mr. Linley's Baruch Kingdom is at war with the Radiant Church and the Dark Church," Lena said.

Liewen had heard about it too. In truth, he had been following the news from the Land of Chaos all along.

Not long ago, a Magic Crystal Mine had been discovered within Linley's Baruch Kingdom.