Crossing the Magic Beast Mountain Range

On a bright and breezy day, Karl quietly left Tianfeng Prefecture. Before departing, Karl had carefully selected individuals within his territory who possessed excellent talent and character, bestowing upon them Ninth-Rank aptitude.

This treatment was also extended to his family.

The source of family points goes without saying; there was no limit on the number of people, but they had to possess at least Third-Rank strength to provide points for Karl.

As for the territory, the population had grown from over twenty million to more than fifty million over the course of fifty years of development.

With such a massive base of data, Karl screened only one million of them. Nowadays, these one million people were at least Fifth-Rank warriors, and the majority had even reached the level of Sixth-Rank.

After all, as long as those one million people had not died within those fifty years, each of them enjoyed a minimum 1% cultivation bonus, and some outstanding talents could even receive the maximum boost.

Ultimately, the Wind Shadow Pavilion established by Karl only accounted for a mere two or three thousand spots. These spots were used to filter out true geniuses, serving as the hope for Karl's advancement.

However, those who truly provided the points were still the residents who had been registered in the territory all along.

Crossing the Magic Beast Mountain Range, Karl had witnessed many strange and peculiar magic beasts from the air.

Among the low-level magic beasts, the more common ones were the relatively docile animals, which showed little improvement even after becoming magic beasts.

For example, rabbits, mice, and sparrows; some increased in size several times over after becoming magic beasts, while intermediate magic beasts were much more formidable.

These corresponded to larger creatures such as dogs, wolves, and leopards. Once these magic beasts reached adulthood, they generally possessed the strength to threaten Fourth to Sixth-Rank humans.

As Karl began to approach the core of the Magic Beast Mountain Range, the less powerful intermediate magic beasts began to become rare. Those capable of wandering on the edge of the core zone were all Sixth-Rank magic beasts with inherently stronger natures.

Packs of wolves, starving leopards.

High-level magic beasts corresponded to the strength of Seventh to Ninth-Rank humans. These magic beasts not only possessed superior bloodlines but were also naturally more bloodthirsty. Some gentle magic beasts, such as deer, found it difficult to become high-level magic beasts even if they possessed high-grade bloodlines.

Those not adept at slaughtering found it hard to stand out in the Magic Beast Mountain Range.

For Seventh-Rank magic beasts, the ones Karl saw were still primarily lions and tigers, which were already top-tier predators in the natural world. As for Eighth and Ninth-Rank magic beasts, aside from those with strong innate bloodlines, most possessed a portion of dragon blood.

In Karl's eyes, many of the Eighth-Rank magic beasts resembled the dinosaurs from his past life's memories, while the Ninth-Rank magic beasts were primarily dragon-kin.

It was just that these dragon bloodlines were impure; most were the offspring of Saint Realm dragons mating with ordinary magic beasts.

Karl's speed was extremely fast. The Magic Beast Mountain Range might be fraught with thousands of difficulties for those below the Saint Realm, especially in the core zone where walking carefully for a year or a half was quite normal.

But for a Saint Realm expert, as long as one did not court death by provoking the territory of a Saint Realm magic beast, the Saint Realm magic beasts generally would not pay much attention.

With the Mysteries of the Wind Element, Karl's speed was already incredibly fast. It took him only half a day to cross the Magic Beast Mountain Range from the Holy Alliance and arrive at the central region of the Yulan Continent.

"O'Brien Empire, Yulan Empire."

Karl looked ahead; this was the path Karl inevitably had to choose after leaving the Magic Beast Mountain Range.

The Yulan Empire and the O'Brien Empire were still somewhat distant from each other, but that only applied to their respective capitals. In reality, their territories were completely contiguous. It was only out of respect for the God Level experts on both sides that there were very few conflicts between them.

However, after thinking for a while, Karl ultimately decided to give up. After all, what he needed now was a treasure land for cultivation. If either the War God or the High Priest were a wind-attribute God Level expert, Karl would have been willing to serve as a pawn for a period of time.

This was not a matter of being arrogant just because he had a Golden Finger. In the end, it would still take Karl over two thousand years to become a god. Being able to become a god in the future did not mean Karl could look down on God Level experts now.

Moreover, even if he became a god in two thousand years, he would only be a Low-level Deity. Above that were Mid-level Gods and High-level Gods. Above the High-level Gods were experts who had fused various Mysteries, and at the very peak of the gods stood the Sovereigns. Across several epochs in the Coiling Dragon Universe, there were only a dozen or twenty of them.

It was just that the War God was a fire-attribute Low-level Deity, and the High Priest was a life-attribute Low-level Deity. The experience of these two was of little use to Karl, just as his Wind Shadow Pavilion attracted mostly warriors with some wind affinity.

Walking the path of predecessors to allow oneself to move faster and more steadily—this was the role of a teacher.

From the border of the empire all the way to the capital, Chiyan City, Karl radiated a mysterious aura. Those with low strength only felt the aura was inexplicable, while those with a discerning eye understood that this person was not to be trifled with.

Arriving at Chiyan City, Karl stayed in the city for three days. This was the capital of the O'Brien Empire; one could say that Seventh-Rank experts were everywhere, and Sixth-Rank strength was nothing to speak of.

"As expected of an empire." Karl's expression was somewhat surprised.

During these three days, relying on his Saint Realm strength, Karl had walked through many parts of Chiyan City. He was very surprised to find that in the O'Brien Empire, there were even Saint Realm experts serving in the capital. This shocked Karl greatly.

In the Holy Alliance, once one reached the Saint Realm, they already stood at the pinnacle. The Holy Alliance had several major kingdoms, and behind them were the shadows of Saint Realm experts, but they were merely shadows. They rarely showed themselves; even a Ninth-Rank expert might not see one in their entire life. This resulted in the status of the Saint Realm in the Holy Alliance being extremely high, and possessing multiple Saint Realm experts was enough to intimidate the entire Holy Alliance.

Many regulations that complied with the Radiant Church existed because the Radiant Church's power was immense, and individual Saint Realm experts would not oppose the Church over a few restrictions.

But the O'Brien Empire was different; the War God existed here.

"Perhaps these Saint Realm experts are disciples of the War God."

Karl's Mental Power was not particularly great to begin with; even after the transformation of the Saint Realm, it was still a notch weaker than an ordinary Saint Realm expert. However, Karl could afford to purchase Saint Realm Enhancement Cards for his territory and family members, let alone for himself.

Karl himself had already completed his transformation.

In terms of his physical body, with Physique Growth, Karl naturally possessed a Saint Realm body. In his fifty years of cultivation, he could even ignore the attacks of ordinary early-stage Saint Realm experts based on his physique alone.

In addition to the improvement of his physique, Karl had relied on multiple Saint Realm Enhancement Cards to bring his Battle Qi talent, Mental Power talent, and wind-attribute elemental affinity all to the Saint Realm level.

Furthermore, after multiple talents reached the Saint Realm level, some of Karl's other talents had also improved.

For example, his comprehension, magic talent, and so on; after all, a person's talent was essentially rooted in their body and mind.