Bauhinia Mountain Range
Coiling Dragon World, Hell.
A strange, purple crescent moon hangs here year-round, its pale purple light casting an ominous, cold glow over everything.
The clouds were mostly leaden gray and dark purple, with occasional dark red thunderclouds rolling by. The lightning was inky black or dark gold, silent yet carrying a space-tearing pressure.
Richard's Wind Element Divine Clone had been traveling for decades, encountering countless bandits along the way.
They even encountered large and extra-large gangs led by Five-Star Demon and Six-Star Demon several times.
Of course, all of them became victims of his sword, contributing to his grand scheme of wealth.
I finally managed to acquire the Soul Defense Divine Artifact I'd been longing for after passing through a major city.
It cost him nearly 100 billion Ink Stone to buy it, almost emptying his inventory of Ink Stone at the time. Fortunately, a large group soon sent him money, which soothed his wounded wallet.
The Soul Defense Divine Artifact is now encased in the outer layer of his soul, providing it with a solid defense.
His soul was safe until this Soul Defense Divine Artifact was destroyed.
The Soul Defense Divine Artifact acquired at such a great cost is naturally no ordinary item. Even Asura -level expert skilled in soul attacks would not be able to break through this Soul Defense Divine Artifact with a single blow.
That's enough. As long as he has some breathing room, even if he can't beat them, he can still run away. All he wants is someone who can withstand a single blow from an expert specializing in soul attacks.
As for withstanding the soul attack of Paragon High-God, or multiple soul attacks from Asura- level expert skilled in soul attacks, only Sovereign Artifact can do that.
Upon reaching the outer area of the Bauhinia Mountain Range, we found ourselves in a region jointly controlled by eighteen families under the Bauhinia Sovereign. Family outposts and Amethyst Beast patrols were established around the mountain range to intercept unauthorized individuals.
These Eighteen Great Clans are powerful and influential, possessing numerous Asura- level experts.
Most importantly, families like theirs, which have close ties with the Chief God, possess considerable Sovereign’s Might, making them untouchable even for Ji Cha. Therefore, he keeps a low profile and is unwilling to cause trouble easily.
There's no need to cause trouble, nor is there any need to venture into the mountains. The eighteen families do not completely forbid outsiders from entering the Bauhinia Mountain Range.
Getting in is simple: pay 5,000 Ink Stone to enter, or you can enter without paying, but you'll have to pay 3 Amethyst as a deduction when you leave.
Many Mid-level God and even High-level God come here to try their luck, waiting for the Amethyst to drift down from the Fog Sea.
The Fog Sea is a natural barrier for the Bauhinia Mountain Range. Ordinary God Level experts can easily get lost if they venture deep into it, and even High-level God are no exception. Only the administrators know the safe routes.
Amethyst is a core strategic resource of the Bauhinia Continent, with its mining and circulation exclusively controlled by the eighteen families. It is a well-known specialty of Hell, and is widely known even in other Divine Plane.
This crystal functions similarly to the Soul Gold Bead, slowly nurturing the soul of a God Level expert, and is much cheaper than the Soul Gold Bead.
The downside is that it's not easy to absorb and refine. Even for High-level God, the absorption efficiency isn't high, and the effect of one bead is not as good as that of Soul Gold Bead; it takes multiple uses to catch up.
After paying five thousand Ink Stone, Richard followed the flow of people into the interior of the mountain range. Most of those who came here were Mid-level God, with fewer High-level God.
Low-level God are relatively few, but not entirely nonexistent.
Many Mid-level God choose to come here to try their luck. They don't enter the Fog Sea, but try their luck at the edge, or venture in a little bit without going deep. If they are lucky, they can get three or five Ink Stone and earn ten or twenty thousand Ink Stone.
This return is already quite good for an ordinary Mid-level God.
Richard's exposed Wind Element Divine Clone resembled Mid-level God trying their luck.
As for the High-level God, their divine sense has a wider range of detection, and can even penetrate deep into the Fog Sea. As long as they are careful that their divine sense can cover the mountains behind them, they can return the way they came.
The Fog Sea is special; it can confuse the five senses of even God Level powerhouses. Even High-level God will have their senses confused when they enter it, and can only use their divine sense to determine their location.
Once one's spiritual sense is completely covered by the Fog Sea, one will be lost within the Fog Sea, unable to distinguish up from down from left from right, and whether one can escape depends entirely on luck.
Even now, many High-level God and Mid-level God are still wandering in the Fog Sea. These God Level powerhouses have long since lost their minds after countless years of being lost. Some attack anyone they see, while others are in a daze and have no reaction to the outside world.
Once inside, Richard headed straight for the Fog Sea, unafraid of getting lost.
If we really can't get out, we can just return to the Tara Plane through the Chat Group and start over.
Thus, the surrounding group of God Level powerhouses saw a Mid-level God rush straight into the Fog Sea without slowing down.
This scene left even these God Level powerhouses completely stunned.
So reckless? Didn't you see how cautious they were?
Another person who's obsessed with money.
Many elderly people who had lived here for a long time shook their heads and stopped paying attention. Although such reckless people were rare, and it was hard to imagine how they had lived to such an old age, one or two could still be encountered every tens or hundreds of thousands of years.
The world is so big, there are bound to be wonders.
Richard didn't care what the people outside thought; once inside, he switched to using his Death Divine Clone as the dominant being.
After all, the Death Divine Clone is at the level of High-level God, and its divine sense can probe further.
Of course, it wasn't to find a way. He had already crossed the limit of his return distance shortly after he rushed in, and now he couldn't tell which way was which, so he couldn't go back.
He did this so that he could find out the whereabouts of the Amethyst in advance, making it easier to avoid and intercept it.
When the Amethyst gushed out from the depths of the Fog Sea, it carried enormous kinetic energy, so great that it could easily penetrate the defenses of Mid-level God, and even high-level Material Defense Divine Artifact might not be able to withstand it.
Every year, quite a few unlucky people don't get any Amethyst; instead, they get killed by Amethyst.
The deeper one goes into the Fog Sea, the greater the kinetic energy of the Amethyst becomes; in fact, many lost High-level God have been killed by the Amethyst.
Upon arriving here, Richard became cautious.
His divine sense detected a flash of purple that passed by in an instant, and in the next moment it was thrown past him in another direction. He reacted quickly and used his Divine Power to scoop it up.
A purple crystal the size of a date pit appeared before his eyes; this was the Feudal Lord Amethyst.
Richard tried letting his Wind Element Divine Clone absorb it, and it was indeed very inefficient, with too many impurities that could not be refined.
This tiny piece of Amethyst would probably take several years to refine slowly.
In the original story, Linley was able to refine this thing quickly because he had a cheat code.
Since it comes with a damaged soul defense Sovereign Artifact, it can naturally refine it quickly.
However, he also has cheat codes.
Let's try sending it to the original body. With the original body possessing the Origin World, it should be able to easily refine this thing, right?
So, while the main body of the being was wandering in a certain world, it received a red envelope from the Wind Element Divine Clone.
I tried it, and it can indeed be refined easily.
After receiving feedback from the main body Wind Element Divine Clone knew that it was possible to try collecting a large quantity of this item.
Anyway, any extras can be sold for money, so there's no loss.
This stuff is everywhere in the core area where the Bauhinia Sovereign resides in seclusion; you can collect as much as you want.
However, he did not give up collecting the Amethyst that flew past him on the rest of the journey.
These things don't always appear one by one; sometimes they come in a bunch, several, ten, or even dozens stuck together.
Richard had encountered many such cases while staying in the Fog Sea, including several unlucky souls killed by Amethyst. He casually obliterated their corpses and collected their Godhead and Space Ring.
They've already performed the rituals for their souls. Taking their Godhead and Space Ring along the way isn't unreasonable.
After checking the contents of the Space Ring, I found that everyone was fairly evenly poor. Those who could come to the Bauhinia Mountain Range to make money were not experts. Even if they were High-level God, they were just ordinary High-level God and didn't have much money.
But these guys had been lost in the Fog Sea for so long, and by the time they died, they had obtained quite a lot of Amethyst —some had a few thousand, some had tens of thousands, and some even had hundreds of thousands.
Richard was fairly satisfied with this windfall; after all, he'd just picked it up casually, so what was there to be unhappy about?
He also encountered God Level powerhouses who had suffered mental breakdowns, Richard casually helped them escape their suffering.
After wandering in the Fog Sea for decades, the Amethyst amassed quite a fortune before finally stumbling upon a secluded place during one of its aimless wanderings. Judging from the way the Amethyst spewed out from there, this should be the hermitage of the Bauhinia Sovereign.
There are also quite a few God Level powerhouses who have stumbled upon this place by chance in the Fog Sea.
"Another one."
"It's almost here. The day those Amethyst Beast emerge is fast approaching. I wonder if I can make it through this time."
"I don't want to die yet. I'll go back into the Fog Sea and give it my all. Maybe I'll get lucky and make it back to the outer reaches."
"Then I might as well stay here and endure it. I've already survived two major Amethyst Beast riots."
These people were discussing Reisjing leading his Amethyst Beast on a hunt. Reisjing usually cultivated in the core area, but every now and then he would go hunting and catch some unlucky creatures to take back for fun.
This occurs at no fixed interval; it may happen once every few thousand years, or it may happen every tens of thousands of years.
It may also appear during Fog Sea Riot or Amethyst eruptions.
Of course, if a powerful figure visits, Reisjing will also take the initiative to appear and spar with them.
Richard certainly wasn't planning to wait for his next appearance; who knew how long that would take?
He switched to Wind Element Divine Clone, proactively displaying his power.
When I went to retrieve the Amethyst, I used most of my strength. Seven-Star Fiend- level power should be enough to attract that guy's attention, right?
In fact, it quickly caught Reisjing's attention, but he didn't rush to show himself and secretly observed Richard for a while.
He found it particularly amusing that Richard was already so strong, was personally retrieving the Amethyst. He watched Richard busy retrieving the Amethyst for a while before showing himself.