Purchase a Godhead

"Lord Olga, here are two hundred Inkstones."

Aier carefully handed a bundle to Olga, the leader of the Crimson Blood Tribe, then looked at him anxiously.

"Oh?"

Olga took the bundle and scanned it with his divine sense. After confirming the amount of Inkstones, he nodded in satisfaction.

"Not bad."

"Aier, you've been with the Crimson Blood Tribe for a long time, yet you still haven't made a breakthrough after all these years. It seems you've reached your limit."

"Still, I didn't expect you to save enough to buy a Godhead. You've got some tricks up your sleeve."

In Hell, beings below the god level had no "human rights" at all. They were nothing more than "slaves."

Without a powerful backing, they couldn't even enter a city. They could only be used by the various tribes as tools for mining, refining, forging, and farming. Once every ten thousand years, they were given a single Inkstone as a token, just to give these Saints a glimmer of hope and keep them from deliberately seeking death.

"This is an Earth Godhead. Take it!"

Olga took a black, diamond-shaped crystal from his Space Ring and tossed it to Aier.

"Thank you, Lord Olga!"

Aier caught the Godhead, overjoyed. He thanked Olga repeatedly, a fawning smile spreading across his face.

"Enough. Get out of here and refine the Godhead. I'll give you a hundred years. Once you've successfully refined it, report to the guard squad."

"Yes, Lord Olga."

Only after leaving Olga's palace did Aier finally feel at ease.

"After more than a million years, I've finally got a Godhead..."

Aier had been in Hell for nearly two million years, and he had long since realized he wasn't a genius.

The influence of the materialism he'd believed in during his previous life had left Aier with a "barrier to understanding." He couldn't comprehend laws and rules that he couldn't see or touch.

After more than a million years, Aier was still only at the peak of the Saint Realm. Laws and rules were like parallel lines to him, never intersecting with his life.

If he hadn't been lucky enough to be born in a Supreme Plane like Hell, but had instead been born in a Material Plane, he probably would have lived only a hundred years or so.

Of course, that didn't mean Aier was completely useless.

After all, there was a reason Aier had survived in Hell for more than a million years as a Saint.

It was a space within Aier's Soul Space.

Whether it was a transmigrator's cheat or an Innate Divine Ability from this life, it didn't matter.

After placing an item inside this space, Aier could choose between two modes: "Equip" and "Absorb."

By choosing "Equip," Aier could directly gain the item's properties and abilities.

By choosing "Absorb," the space would spend some time devouring the item, directly adding its properties and abilities to Aier.

Over the past million years, Aier had secretly used this ability to absorb quite a lot of Crimson Blood Essence Ore and several damaged divine artifacts. He had raised his body's toughness to a level comparable to a Low-God Artifact, allowing him to survive one crisis after another despite being only at the peak of the Saint Realm. He had also saved enough Inkstones to exchange for a Godhead.

Aier knew that in a city, a Low-God Godhead cost only a hundred Inkstones, so he had paid double the price.

But that wasn't the whole story.

The Crimson Blood Tribe was seven or eight hundred li from the nearest city. The gravity in Hell was hundreds of times stronger than in the Material Plane, and Saints couldn't even fly. At most, they could run a little faster.

If Aier had gone to the city alone to buy a Godhead, he would have had no chance of survival, even with a body as tough as a Low-God Artifact!

After waiting patiently for several hundred thousand years, and getting a little help from some "friends," Aier had finally obtained what he'd dreamed of.

"Equip!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Aier placed the Earth Godhead in his Equipment Slot.

Other Saints needed decades to refine a Godhead.

But when Aier put the Godhead in his Equipment Slot, it took only an instant!

What's more, equipping a Godhead through the Equipment Slot meant Aier didn't have to follow the usual restrictions on refining one.

Once the Godhead was equipped, Aier felt countless insights into the Laws of the Earth flow into his mind.

"Earth Walking..."

Before long, Aier recovered from the flood of insights and understood that the Profound Mystery contained in the Low-God Godhead he had refined was the Earth Walking Profound Mystery, one of the Laws of the Earth.

"Not bad."

A trace of delight flashed in Aier's eyes.

Although the Earth Walking Profound Mystery was one of the lower-level Mysteries of the Laws of the Earth, it provided the least increase in strength in battles between people of the same level.

But Earth Walking leaned toward "speed" and "stealth," which, in Aier's view, made it the best fit for him.

Aier shifted slightly, about to use the Earth Walking Profound Mystery to move faster.

But he quickly caught himself. He had just left the leader's palace, and he didn't know whether Olga was still observing him with his divine sense. What would Olga think if Aier revealed his mastery of the Earth Walking Profound Mystery now?

As the leader of the Crimson Blood Tribe, Olga had absolute control over the tribe.

Apart from his son, most of the god-level experts in the Crimson Blood Tribe had become gods by refining Godheads.

After all, Olga didn't want a genius to appear in his tribe, challenge him, and take everything he had built.

If Aier hadn't been born into the Crimson Blood Tribe and spent more than a million years without even reaching the limit of the Saint Realm, proving that he truly had no talent for cultivation, Olga would have made him refine the Godhead right in front of him.

After returning to his quarters, Aier closed the door and sat on his bed. Only then did he begin to sense the changes in himself.

First, there was the Earth Walking Profound Mystery, which had reached the great-completion stage after he equipped the Godhead.

With the Earth Walking Profound Mystery at the great-completion stage, Aier could absorb earth elements from the outside world and condense them into Earth Divine Power.

In this regard, Aier was no different from others who had become gods by refining Godheads.

Refining a Godhead took Saints only a few decades. The hundred years of leave Olga had granted Aier included the time he would need to refine divine power.

Those who became gods by comprehending the Laws and Profound Mysteries on their own could connect to the Elemental Ocean Plane through their Godhead when the Laws of Heaven and Earth descended, absorbing a large amount of divine power in a short time.

Those who refined Godheads received no such benefit. They could only absorb the elements of the world and condense divine power on their own.

Generally speaking, the divine power absorbed from the Elemental Ocean Plane during the descent of the Laws of Heaven and Earth was about equal to what could be refined by absorbing elements at full capacity for several thousand years.

After testing the Earth Walking Profound Mystery, Aier focused his attention on his "Equipment Slot."

Aier's thoughts stirred, and the Equipment Slot displayed the exact amount of time!

Sixty-four years!

In other words, if Aier used the Equipment Slot to refine this Godhead, it would take sixty-four years!