Bang!
Two figures clashed repeatedly in the sky, until a blood-red figure was sent flying backward and the clashes finally stopped.
"Rhodes, you've grown even stronger over these thousand years. Have you fully fused the fourth Profound Mystery?"
"Yes. After a thousand years, I've finally fully fused four Profound Mysteries of the Lightning Element, and I've found most of the points of convergence for the fifth. Haha, you've made quite a bit of progress yourself, Pash!" Rhodes laughed heartily.
"Yes. Without those Highgods you sent out, Rhodes, I couldn't possibly have progressed so quickly. Hehe, Lei Ding and the others are about to become Highgods too. From the looks of it, they could advance at any moment. And I hear their research into the Fusion Innate Divine Ability is beginning to show results," Pash said excitedly.
After six hundred years of conquest, Pash had finally unified the continent. During that time, there had been an exceptionally powerful deity, no weaker than Aksu of what had previously been the continent's strongest faction, whose strength had been extremely close to Pash's.
Feeling that this man would make a worthy opponent, Pash had returned to the Skyrite Mountains and asked Rhodes to subdue him. From then on, the Hall of the Gods had gained another figure no weaker than Pash, further accelerating the unification of the continent.
For the four hundred years following unification, everyone had devoted themselves to cultivating and improving their strength, awaiting the great showdown ten thousand years later. As deities and Saint-level beings teleported over from the endless Material Planes, the population of the Infernal Realm had grown larger and larger over the years. Lowgods emerged in endless succession, and Midgods were very common. Even Highgods, though still not found everywhere, were no longer limited to a mere two-digit