Chapter 1167

However, as Lin Yan's displayed strength grew stronger and his status in the Heavenly Realm rose higher, the gods of the Demon Soul Pantheon dared not descend their power as much anymore.

Many gods of the Demon Soul Pantheon had already given up.

Some gods took the opportunity to have their own churches withdraw their armies from the battlefield, preserving their strength to establish new bases elsewhere.

The Demon Soul Pantheon, as a powerful pantheon established by the Fourth-Tier Tianlan Zunzhu, still had some gods of considerable strength!

For these gods, as long as they preserved their armies, they could still conquer some kingdoms in a short time, minimizing their losses!

Thus, by the end, the five great empires accelerated their conquest of the Demon Soul Empire significantly.

After the Demon Soul Empire was fully conquered, the five great empires stationed their armies in five directions to suppress the region for the Flame Empire.

The church personnel dispatched by Meng Ying had already begun their declaration offensive more than two weeks prior.

As Meng Ying had predicted, the Flame Empire's measures stabilized the Demon Soul Empire at the fastest possible speed.

On this day, Meng Ying arrived at the Demon Soul Empire via a spatial gate and officially renamed it the Flame Empire.

Now, the Demon Soul Empire became the southern twenty provinces of the Flame Empire.

After securing the Demon Soul Empire, Meng Ying felt immense joy.

She immediately prayed to Lin Yan to report this good news.

In fact, even without praying, Lin Yan already knew.

Because right after the ancient god Niku was completely burned out and the Flame Level rose by one tier, Lin Yan suddenly discovered that the Civilization Flame had quietly reached Lv10!

"Already Lv10?"

Lin Yan murmured in surprise.

The last time Lin Yan checked, it was Lv9, but even then, the Civilization Flame's progress had already exceeded one-quarter beyond Lv9.

Lin Yan couldn't help opening the Civilization Flame interface to take a look.

Soon, Lin Yan understood why the Civilization Flame had risen to Lv10 this time.

On one hand, after continuous construction for over half a year, the prosperity of the former Yongye Empire's western twenty-four provinces had risen by more than one level, providing massive experience.

On the other hand, the northern provinces of the former Star Fall Empire, the eastern provinces of the Zi Yun Empire's western region, and that vast wilderness area had been turned into beast pastures—all of which greatly boosted Civilization Flame experience!

Especially that wilderness area, where all the barbarian tribes had been relocated, contributed a substantial amount of experience to the Civilization Flame title.

Additionally, there was another crucial point.

After the Goddess of Light joined the pantheon, the Loki Forest and the Sacred Flame Forest underwent a fusion!

The two forests merged into one.

This contributed even more experience to the Civilization Flame title!

Finally, the decisive factor: the complete conquest of the Demon Soul Empire.

After the Demon Soul Empire was taken, Meng Ying issued the reclamation edict, and the empire's civilians erupted in excitement.

Because in the Demon Soul Empire, the status of commoners was extremely low; its hierarchy was far stricter than even that of the Zi Yun Empire.

After the Demon Soul Empire was taken, the final bit of experience was complete.

The Civilization Flame rose to Lv10!

"Arrived just in time!"

Lin Yan muttered to himself.

Yes, this unexpected upgrade of the Civilization Flame came at the perfect moment!

Lin Yan currently controlled two laws, and his mastery of them was not low.

But these two laws did not significantly enhance the combat power of his Flame Form.

When Lin Yan fought in Flame Form against the ancient god, he primarily relied on the Space Law.

The Dark Law had merely been along for the ride.

The Space Law served mostly as support.

His Flame Form was already extremely powerful; even without law energy, his combat power was astonishing.

But if he could apply law energy as a boost, the effect would be explosive.

Now, with the Civilization Flame at Lv10, Lin Yan could claim one law.

Lin Yan opened his system.

Soon, Lin Yan learned how to claim a law.

The laws he could claim depended on the laws he currently mastered.

The laws Lin Yan currently mastered were not few at all.

Yet without hesitation, Lin Yan chose the Flame Law!

His Flame Form needed the Flame Law most of all!

This was the law most suited to his Flame Form's combat style!

"Flame Law claimed successfully!"

The system's notification sounded.

Lin Yan quickly saw the mastery level of the Flame Law.

"60%!"

That meant, right after claiming the Flame Law, its mastery level had already surpassed half!

Lin Yan had originally thought the Civilization Flame would be maxed out at Lv10, but now he realized it could still level up further; each subsequent level would provide better bonuses to his realm's development, and every level gained would allow him to claim another law.

But now, leveling up by one level was far harder than the combined difficulty of the previous ten levels.

After claiming the Flame Law, Lin Yan now controlled three laws.

Flame Law, Space Law, Dark Law.

In mastery level: Flame Law at 60%, Space Law at 35%, Dark Law at 58%.

The most useful here are still the Space Law and the Flame Law!

Lin Yan used the Dark Law only once.

Moreover, even with 100% of the Dark Law, one cannot become a Supreme Deity.

It is unknown whether any Supreme Deity controls the Space Law, but no Supreme Deity yet controls the Flame Law!

This is why Lin Yan chose the Flame Law!

After Lin Yan claimed the Flame Law, Venerable Tianlan's expression shifted slightly nearby.

Because she clearly felt a peculiar fluctuation just now.

Lin Yan once again retracted the flame, assumed his divine form, then gestured with his hand and summoned the ancient god Niku's hammer.

Before the eyes of all the gods, Lin Yan struck the ancient god Niku's hammer.

The gods saw the ancient god Niku's hammer instantly shatter into 1g1g of divine substance!

"No wonder the ancient god armor shattered so quickly—apparently the Flame Lord has such a method."

Some gods showed expressions of shock.

Weapons composed of divine substance, once deprived of divine power, could be broken down by them with some time.

For example, the Dark Gold Spear of the Demon Soul Venerable took the Eternal Night Goddess considerable time to dismantle and then reforge.

Provided there was no divine power enhancement.

Items like the ancient god armor worn on the body, or Lin Yan's Flame Gold Shield, were enhanced with divine power.

This pair of hammers naturally had no divine power enhancement, yet no god had ever broken it down so swiftly.

It was no wonder the gods were astonished.

After dismantling the hammer, all traces of the ancient god Niku's existence were completely erased.

"Excellent—decisive, ruthless, very much in the style of this lord in my prime!"

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded.

When the voice spoke, Venerable Tianlan's gaze sharpened!

Immediately, Venerable Tianlan saw a massive passage open.

Then, an ancient god appeared, whose size rivaled a shattered star!

This ancient god was so vast that an ordinary mortal could not possibly take in his full form!

"What a colossal ancient god!"

Below, some gods cried out in astonishment!

"F…four stars!"

Another god shouted.

On the forehead of this ancient god, whose size rivaled a shattered star, were clearly four stars!