The Skyrite Mountains

"It's an extremely tall peak, as if it were piercing the sky. Its upper half looks like a heavy sword-a sword-shaped peak."

Rhodes described Stone Sword Mountain's features to Pash. It was not that he did not want to describe it in greater detail, but the original novel had only mentioned it briefly. There were no other descriptions of Youlan Prefecture's landmark, Stone Sword Mountain.

Pash stared at Rhodes, dumbfounded. "Brother, do you realize what you're saying? The Infernal Realm has countless peaks that look like they pierce the sky. How long will it take us to find it? Do you have anything more specific?"

"Nope. That's all the information I have." Spreading his hands, Rhodes simply played shameless.

But he had no choice but to search. After all, if he was lucky, the Four Divine Beasts might still be very weak, and he could capture them outright. Whether he controlled their souls, befriended them, or stored up some Four Divine Beasts essence blood first, it would benefit him in the future, wouldn't it?

Just obtaining Four Divine Beasts essence blood would allow Rhodes to spend the endless years ahead as a master biologist, studying their essence blood and innate divine abilities. After all, once their levels rose, he would not be able to withstand their Fusion Innate Divine Ability.

It was no exaggeration to say that the Four Divine Beasts' Fusion Innate Divine Ability was absolutely the "strongest" divine ability in the Coiling Dragon Universe!!!

How long had Orloff studied it before developing such a formidable ultimate move, one that could even nearly break through the universe? If Rhodes could understand it, could he also break through the universe and become a "Hongmeng Controller"?

Although he would most likely be dissolved by Hongmeng qi after breaking through the universe, now that he had come to this universe, who would not want to stand at its summit and take a look, even if only once?

"Come on, let's get going. Luckily, searching in one direction only takes three years. That's not too long. Go, go, go! Don't waste time!" Pash urged Rhodes to pilot the Metal Lifeform and begin their search.

Only after flying aimlessly eastward for three years did Rhodes realize that he could actually have headed straight north as soon as they reached the continent. Wouldn't it have been better to go directly to the Skyrite Mountains? Why had he bothered looking for Stone Sword Mountain?

I'm seriously so done.

He promptly changed the Metal Lifeform's course and headed north.

Perhaps because they had flown in the wrong direction at the start, they spent some extra time searching for the Skyrite Mountains.

"Rhodes, are those the Skyrite Mountains you mentioned up ahead?"

Peak after peak towered into the clouds as though piercing the heavens, each one astonishingly tall.

"They really live up to the name 'Skyrite Mountains' in the original novel. They really do reach the heavens! Elsewhere, just one peak this tall would be a landmark, but here they come one after another. What a blessed land to have nurtured the Four Divine Beasts!" Rhodes remarked with a sigh of admiration.

Beside him, Pash's eyes lit up instead. "The Four Divine Beasts? What Four Divine Beasts? Are they very strong?"

"As Lowgods, the four of them together could kill you easily. Even I wouldn't dare say whether I could withstand their ultimate move," Rhodes said helplessly.

After all, four Lower Sovereigns working together could rival an Elemental Sovereign.

Why were even the Edict Sovereigns unwilling to provoke the Four Divine Beasts, and why did everyone, including the Sovereigns, acknowledge them as a Sovereign-level power?

Rhodes felt certain that the Four Divine Beasts had joined forces to kill a Sovereign before. As for which Sovereign had been so unlucky, he guessed it was most likely the previous owner of Light Sovereign Augusta's Sovereign Spark. But no one could say for sure whether that was true. Once Rhodes lived to see that time and found out whom they killed, he could tell everyone.

Without the strength to kill an Elemental Sovereign, would a clan with four Lower Sovereigns deserve to be called the number one clan? As for the Edict Sovereigns, they certainly were not afraid to fight them, but it was genuinely hard to say who would win.

After all, given that absurd fusion divine ability in the original novel, Augusta would undoubtedly have died if Orloff had not possessed a soul-defense Overgod artifact. So the Four Divine Beasts must have killed an Elemental Sovereign before. It was also the deterrence provided by the four of them that allowed the Four Divine Beasts Clan to become the number one clan despite its otherwise unremarkable strength in the original novel.

The Skyrite Mountains, where the Four Divine Beasts had been nurtured, were far larger than the Amethyst Mountains in area alone. Those cloud-piercing peaks were also a truly magnificent sight, one that shook the heart.

"We're here. Let's look around first. Whether we can find them is up to heaven." After speaking, Rhodes looked up at the sky. After all, Hongmeng was the heaven of the Coiling Dragon Universe, so he was not looking in the wrong place.

Pash was also very eager to meet the Four Divine Beasts Rhodes had mentioned and see how they could kill him outright while only at the Lowgod level.

The two stopped riding the Metal Lifeform and flew directly to the tops of the cloud-piercing peaks. Even at their highest points, some peaks still spanned a hundred li.

Without mountains this enormous, how could a Giant Dragon passage ten thousand li long be carved into them in the future?!!

The two carefully searched each peak and did discover some interesting little things, all Heaven and Earth wonders of little use. To be honest, Rhodes had originally wanted to establish a faction to search for Heaven and Earth wonders for him. Yet even after he had spent so many years in the Amethyst Alliance, Di'ers and the others had found few worthwhile things.

Instead, he had traded with Lei Jialie for some interesting little items in the Amethyst Alliance's treasury. He would not dare call the Heaven and Earth wonder in his possession, the Thunder Crystal, one of a kind, but it would already be impressive if each element had even one such item.

There might only be two or three objects in all creation that could rival the Thunder Crystal. It was even possible that Hongmeng had sent it to him. Rhodes had been a little afraid before, but two or three thousand years had now passed. If Hongmeng wanted to kill him, he would have been gone long ago.

After all, he had crossed over from another universe. It was like visiting someone else's home without using the front door, sneaking in through a window instead. The owner might not notice at first, but as he took action within the universe, he would be discovered sooner or later.

By now, Rhodes had also let go of his worries. Rather than think so much, he might as well cultivate properly. Perhaps he could find hope of transcendence through his own efforts!!

Three years hurried past as Rhodes and Pash wandered from peak to peak. After all, they were not merely searching for the Four Divine Beasts; they were also hunting for Heaven and Earth wonders as though on a treasure hunt.

Of everything they had found over these years, what excited Rhodes most was a strange stone that could block soul scans. When he had time, he planned to melt and refine it into a mask. Combined with the strange stone found alongside the Thunder Crystal back then, it would prevent anyone in this universe from seeing through his Wind Element clone.

After all, without an affinity for every element or a Soul Mutation, he could only give himself a little extra insurance this way.

In truth, Rhodes's greatest advantage had yet to show itself. The original novel had never explained what effect gaining Willpower would have on a Lowgod or Midgod, but once a Highgod gained Willpower, the change was earth-shattering.

After all, even the weakest people who possessed it were Paragons, and beyond them, only Sovereigns had it.

As for Rhodes, after gaining Willpower, aside from multiplying his strength, it had basically not given him the sense of control over matter, space, and the world that Paragons gained with Willpower in the original novel.

Now it all depended on when Rhodes could break through to Highgod. Once he did, he could easily tear open spatial rifts with his Willpower.

Even the Demon King, with his dual-element Soul Mutation, would be nothing special in Highgod Rhodes's eyes. Such was Willpower. Unfortunately, Rhodes needed to comprehend and fuse more profound mysteries while at the Midgod level. Every gain and loss was predestined.

Time flowed swiftly by like water, and another dozen years or so passed in their search. The two had searched practically every cloud-piercing peak in the Skyrite Mountains, yet discovered nothing.

Having searched east, south, west, and north, the two finally stopped atop the highest peak in the entire mountain range, at the center of the Skyrite Mountains.

"Pash, let's leave after today. Maybe the Four Divine Beasts weren't born here, or perhaps they haven't been nurtured into existence yet. It's such a pity we have no chance to meet them. Let's drink, let's drink. Once we finish, we'll go take a look at the Sea of Chaos or the Demon King's continent, and spar with him again while we're at it. Let's see whether the Demon King has gotten stronger."

"Sure!" Pash had long since grown utterly bored. He immediately lifted a wine jar and drank deeply.

"Third Sister, why do you think Eldest Brother keeps having the two of us watch these two? They look like they're searching for something!"

A young man whose entire bearing exuded steadiness spoke to a tall, strikingly beautiful girl beside him, who wore a red woman's robe.

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