Chapter 1147

After learning of Lin Yan's immense strength, they chose to lie low and used subtle tactics to make enemies for him.

But the Ancient Gods are unlikely to emerge easily.

So Lin Yan must lure them out.

Getting Weivela to break through to the Fourth Tier is the first step.

This step will make the Ancient Gods believe Lin Yan possesses some special forbidden techniques, elevate their speculation about his past identity, trigger fear in them, and make them sense an even greater threat from Lin Yan!

They can then strike again to eliminate Lin Yan.

But Lin Yan is not yet certain the Ancient Gods will act now, even with just this step.

So Lin Yan has a second step.

That is, to contact Venerable Tianlan and stage a play with her to deceive the Ancient Gods out of hiding!

However, the key to the second step is Venerable Tianlan.

If Venerable Tianlan refuses to cooperate, or if her personality differs from Lin Yan's expectations, he would never have mentioned it.

But in Lin Yan's estimation, if Venerable Tianlan is a powerful Master of Law, she would likely be willing to stage a play with him.

Because the Ancient Gods threaten not just Lin Yan.

They threaten every deity in the Heavenly Realm who has the potential to become a Main God—including Venerable Tianlan!

She has merely progressed slowly and is still far from reaching the point of challenging Main Godhood, which is why the Ancient Gods have not targeted her yet.

After all, the Ancient Gods' power grows too slowly; the stronger they are, the greater the divergence between their power and the current Heavenly Realm's, to the point of being incompatible—they must sleep to prevent their power from leaking away.

So normally, only at critical moments do the most powerful Ancient Gods awaken.

Lin Yan is not targeting the most powerful Ancient Gods.

He is targeting those Ancient Gods equivalent to powerful Masters of Law!

If he can burn down just a few of these Ancient Gods, his Evolution Points will become terrifyingly abundant!

"Are you planning to act against the Ancient Gods? What's your plan? Tell me."

Upon hearing Lin Yan's words, Venerable Tianlan asked with keen interest.

"The Flame Lord has been inside for half a day—no one knows what he's discussing with Venerable Tianlan."

Outside Venerable Tianlan's palace, Goddess Efe said.

Commander Zhuola said: "Perhaps they're discussing the very matter the other deities are arguing about. The impact of these debates is neither huge nor trivial; it's possible the Flame Lord came specifically to communicate with Venerable Tianlan to avoid falling into some deity's trap."

Here, Commander Zhuola's eyes revealed a hint of admiration: "I never expected the Flame Lord, who has gained such fame, to be as arrogant and conceited as some powerful Fourth Tier deities—but his presence carries no lack of authority."

Goddess Efe nodded and said: "You're right, Zhuola. Many goddesses hold him in high regard. I once thought they were shallow beauty-obsessives, but now it seems the Flame Lord's appeal goes beyond mere appearance."

Commander Zhuola was about to speak when she suddenly sensed something and immediately fell silent.

Because Lin Yan had stepped out of the palace.

After leaving the palace, Lin Yan did not pause—he tore open a passage and returned to his Divine Realm with the female Divine Spirit sent by the Goddess of Eternal Night.

His visit to Venerable Tianlan's Divine Realm was utterly silent; no other deity knew of it.

"Efe, he's gone!"

A few minutes after Lin Yan vanished, Commander Zhuola's voice sounded.

"Ah…"

Goddess Efe fell into another daze.

Commander Zhuola gave a slight shake of her head, then said: "Efe, Venerable Tianlan has summoned you inside."

Within the Divine Realm, Lin Yan returned.

This discussion with Venerable Tianlan went smoothly.

Venerable Tianlan found Lin Yan's plan highly interesting.

In Lin Yan's plan, it is he himself who will act against the Ancient Gods.

Venerable Tianlan's role is merely to help Lin Yan lure the Ancient Gods out.

This way, first, all the Ancient Gods' hatred will be drawn to Lin Yan, preventing Venerable Tianlan from fearing retaliation from other powerful Ancient Gods and hesitating to act.

Second, Lin Yan can directly burn the Ancient Gods without leaving them for Venerable Tianlan to deal with.

As for Venerable Tianlan's compensation for cooperation, Lin Yan originally planned to give her one hundred thousand G of Divine Substance.

But Venerable Tianlan refused to accept it.

"I've lived for hundreds of thousands of years—I haven't had anything this fun in ages. Besides, the Ancient Gods will indeed threaten me in the future; eliminating a few early is better. No need for compensation."

Venerable Tianlan said.

Having lived for hundreds of thousands of years, she now carried a touch of returning-to-nature, and it didn't seem feigned.

Within the Divine Realm, Weivela was still preparing.

The Goddess of Eternal Night was fully focused on upgrading her 17th-level Divine Body.

Lin Yan had already gathered all the resources for her.

This time, Lin Yan also obtained many valuable items from Venerable Tianlan.

As a Master of Law, Venerable Tianlan's collection was exceedingly rich.

In addition, Lin Yan dispatched the Little Sprites to purchase numerous resources from the Fairy Venerable and the Flowing Frost Venerable.

All resources needed for Weivela's breakthrough to the Fourth Tier were already prepared!

Meanwhile, in the Heavenly Realm, the debate over who is the First of the Fourth Tier continues.

Lin Yan paid no attention to those debates—now, he waited.

Then, Lin Yan turned his gaze toward the Abyss.

He was now at Level 8 of the Third Stage of Infinite Fire.

Lin Yan had a complete plan to propel his Flame Form to the next stage at the fastest possible speed.

Lin Yan's flame form upgrade wasn't complicated—it required nothing beyond evolution points, and there were no restrictions or bottlenecks whatsoever.

As long as the evolution points were met, it would upgrade on command!

The key to Lin Yan's plan was, first, the Ancient Gods.

Second, the Abyss!

In the Abyss now, three months had nearly passed, and countless Demon Kings had gathered at Moshen Mountain!

In the Abyss, the Demon Gods were all cautious.

Not a single Demon God had descended directly.

Each of these Demon Gods had sent their own faction's Demon Kings.

They would wait until the Moshen Mountain Demon God conference officially began, until the Lord of the Abyss cast his gaze down, before the Demon Gods would all descend.

Because at that time, Moshen Mountain forbade killing!

Otherwise, the Demon Gods of the Abyss would likely turn on each other first.

Moshen Mountain lay very deep within the Infinite Abyss.

It was an impossibly vast, pitch-black mass, its volume equivalent to hundreds of layers of the Abyss.

Though called a mountain, Moshen Mountain was not made of stone.

It was composed of an extremely hard Abyssal metal.

In past eras, whenever the Abyss stirred with major activity, such a massive gathering of Demon Gods would occur.

At this time, the Demon King Yiwet, dispatched by the Succubus Dynasty, had arrived at Moshen Mountain.

The Demon King sent by the God of Darkness had also arrived at Moshen Mountain.

Through Yiwet, Lin Yan saw the situation at Moshen Mountain.

The number of Demon Kings at Moshen Mountain now was not ordinary!

The Abyss was endless; in the lower layers, any major Abyss typically had a Demon King stationed above it.

This was even more true for named Abysses—usually, there was more than one Demon King above a named Abyss.

The number of these Demon Kings could reflect the current state of the Abyss.

That was: there were too many Demons!

If there were this many Demon Kings, imagine how many Demons there must be!

Behind each Demon King stood a Demon Dynasty; each Demon Dynasty, excluding servant demons, counted billions of Demons alone.

And these Demon Kings were densely packed, countless in number.

Had she not reached Moshen Mountain, Yiwet could never have imagined that the Abyss contained so many Demon Kings!

And each of these Demon Kings represented a single Abyssal Demon God!

Thus, in the Abyss now, not only were there too many Demons, but the number of Demon Gods was also far too great!