The sky was clear for tens of thousands of miles. Faint emerald-green light of ascension drifted like flowing sunset clouds above the vast teleportation square.
The square, which had just received a cross-plane teleportation, still held a dense, heavy God-level aura. It was the lingering resonance left by the tremors of a Higher Plane's laws, gentle yet immense, silently displaying the depth and stature of the Life God Realm as a Higher Plane.
Shiheng and his companions stood quietly in the center of the square, their auras unsteady and their divine power nearly exhausted.
Never mind maintaining the normal circulation of their divine power-even stabilizing their Divine Cores and securing the foundations of their divine souls had become barely possible.
Oakes's Death Clone rested against the void, his expression calm and unruffled. He raised his hand slightly, a wisp of fragmented, lustrous white light passing over his fingertips. An ancient-looking Storage Ring forged from black iron and refined steel slowly floated out of nothingness.
Supreme Higher Planes such as Hell and the Life God Realm held countless powerful beings and rigid hierarchies.
Any reasonably wealthy Highgod, Seven-Star Fiend, or Seven-Star Tree Cultivator invariably kept several Metal Lifeforms in their storage Divine Artifacts year-round.
Metal Lifeforms were extremely common Divine Artifacts used for transport and travel in Higher Planes, comparable to the carriages indispensable to the wealthy and powerful of the mortal world.
When ordinary cultivators traveled across regions and made long journeys through the void, relying on their own divine power for the entire flight not only consumed that power but also made them more likely to encounter bandits and other dangers.
Metal Lifeforms, however, used divine metal as their framework and laws as their core. Fast and comfortable to ride in, they were the first choice for countless Higher