Heartbeat

Aier was not surprised by this.

In the Infernal Realm, there are countless living beings, yet High-Gods can still be considered among the ranks of the powerful.

Many tribe leaders are merely Mid-Gods.

Even within cities, High-Gods who refined godheads can hold positions such as captains of the city guard.

When going to Fiend Castle, the badge of a High-God is at least that of a Three-Star Fiend.

As for Olga, the leader of the Crimson Blood Tribe, as a High-God who became a deity independently, his strength is at least that of a Four-Star Fiend.

There are two Mid-Gods, one of whom is West.

Undoubtedly, as fellow Mid-Gods, the intensity of the divine power aura on West is two to three times stronger than that of the other Mid-God.

The other Mid-God also attained his status by refining a godhead, and his divine power intensity is that of a basic Mid-God.

Aier guesses that West has likely comprehended three types of profound laws, which is why he can elevate his divine power intensity to three times that of a basic Mid-God.

The gap in strength between Mid-Gods is also quite significant.

Generally speaking, for every additional profound law fully comprehended, one's soul power receives a considerable boost, allowing one to increase their divine power intensity by onefold.

A Mid-God who has fully comprehended five profound laws of a single element possesses a divine power intensity six times that of an average Mid-God.

The other four Low-Gods have divine power intensities similar to the intensity Aier condensed when he absorbed elements while equipping his godhead previously.

Clearly, these four are all Low-Gods who refined godheads.

Over the past million-plus years, the Crimson Blood Tribe has had Saint-level experts gather enough Inkstones to exchange for a godhead almost every hundred thousand years.

Just from the news Aier has heard in his memories, there have been thirteen.

In this team, their mission is not to protect West, but to buy time for Morrison to take West and escape should they encounter a powerful enemy.

If Aier had not demonstrated his ability to travel through earth, even if he had eventually obtained West's permission to join the team, his duties would have been no different from those of the four Low-Gods.

Now, however, he has become the most important person in the team after West.

Even Morrison, in an emergency, would have to buy time for Aier to take West and leave.

In fact, in a moment of crisis, as long as West isn't a fool, he would fight personally to buy time for Aier.

After all, only if Aier stays alive can he take West and escape.

The deterrent power of a Fiend is even greater than Aier had imagined.

Along the way, Aier's group was not without encounters with bandits, but these bandits would immediately turn and flee upon seeing the Fiend badge on Morrison's chest.

Bandits, after all, must be cautious to live long.

They would rather conduct dozens or even hundreds of robberies with a hundred-percent success rate than attempt one with an unknown success rate.

They might succeed thousands of times, but there is a high probability they will only fail once.

Therefore, when encountering a team with a Fiend, ordinary bandits really dare not provoke them.

Those who dare to rob a team guarded by a Fiend are not simple existences.

Of course, if one repeatedly robs Fiends and Fiend Castle discovers the bandits' lair, they will be hunted down by high-star Fiends who accept missions from Fiend Castle.

The Crimson Blood Tribe is about seven million kilometers away from Caeles City.

It took Aier and the others nearly two months to arrive at Caeles City.

Only when Aier saw those nearly hundred-meter-high walls for the first time, along with the countless god-level experts queuing at the city gate to enter, did he gain a concrete sense of the number of powerful beings in the Infernal Realm.

Furthermore, around the gates of Caeles City, countless Saint-level experts huddled together off to the side.

These Saint-level experts might be attendants to other god-level experts who, unwilling to pay the one-Inkstone entry fee, left them outside the city.

Because of the Fiend badge on Morrison's chest, Aier's group was spared from queuing and could enter Caeles City directly.

Of course, among the group, only Morrison, who possessed the Fiend badge, did not have to pay the entry fee; everyone else had to pay.

Upon entering the city, everyone in Aier's group breathed a sigh of relief.

In the Infernal Realm, fighting is prohibited within cities.

This is a prohibition set by the Overgods.

Even god-level experts dare not release their divine sense at will, lest they offend someone powerful.

"Let's go, we'll head to Bauhinia Castle first."

This is not West's first time in Caeles City, so his goal is clear: head straight to Bauhinia Castle to sell the Crimson Blood Essence Ore from the ten-thousand-year harvest of the Crimson Blood Tribe and purchase some supplies.

Aier looked at the Amethyst on sale in Bauhinia Castle, his brows twitching slightly.

His soul is still in a weakened state, after all.

Over a hundred years have passed, and even with Aier equipping the Blood-Red Source Crystal, he has yet to fully recover his soul.

By Aier's estimation, he needs at least four or five more Soul Gold Beads to fully recover.

However, for Aier, the cost-effectiveness of Amethyst is no less than that of Soul Gold Beads.

The soul power contained within these two items is not significantly different, but the distinction lies in the fact that a Soul Gold Bead can be refined instantly, allowing its soul power to be fully absorbed by a deity-level expert.

As for an Amethyst, it requires a refining process, and under normal circumstances, most of the soul power dissipates, leaving only twenty percent that can be absorbed.

Precisely because of this, the price of an Amethyst is only one-tenth that of a Soul Gold Bead.

Yet even so, the price of a single Amethyst still requires ten thousand Inkstones.

"Looking at it this way, the value of the Blood-Red Source Crystal is likely even higher than I imagined!"

After seeing the prices at Bauhinia Castle, Aier felt that his estimation of the Blood-Red Source Crystal's value had been off.

In the Bauhinia Castle of Caeles City, an ordinary soul-defense divine artifact costs upwards of seventy million Inkstones.

Therefore, the materials required to forge a soul-defense divine artifact must be worth at least ten million Inkstones!

That is already enough to purchase a High-God spark!

Should he sell it?

Glancing at West, Aier felt a surge of temptation.

Since he was currently inside the city, as long as he did not leave, the treasures he could purchase with ten million Inkstones would be enough to push his strength to the level of a High-God!

Thinking of this, Aier no longer hesitated and walked toward the area where Bauhinia Castle acquired treasures.

"Hello, could you please take a look and tell me how much this is worth?"

Placing the retrieved Blood-Red Source Crystal on the table, Aier asked.

"A Blood-Red Source Crystal?"

Upon seeing this red crystal, the Bauhinia Castle employee's eyes immediately lit up.

As a procurement officer for Bauhinia Castle, one's strength might not need to be high, but one's eye for value must be sharp!

Otherwise, it would be a disgrace to the Purple Thorn Sovereign.

"Excellent quality..."

After picking up the Blood-Red Source Crystal and examining it carefully for a moment, the employee said to Aier, "Sir, for this Blood-Red Source Crystal of yours, we can offer seventeen million three hundred thousand Inkstones."