Chapter 1384

"The number of gods arriving at Stonekeep Fortress is a bit too high—of course, the Flame Lord has recently been so prominent that even if he might be the target of the Abyssal Overlord, more gods probably have great confidence in him. Hah, foolish!"

High in the sky, a hidden Master of Law let out a cold laugh.

Yet no matter how much that Master of Law sneered, more and more gods in the Heavenly Realm continued pouring toward Stonekeep Fortress.

Above Stonekeep Fortress, the wills of the Goddess of Life and the Goddess of the Ocean calmly observed everything, showing not the slightest reaction.

The gaze of the other Great Gods also rested upon the three fortresses, yet none of them reacted differently to this matter.

As time passed, a black line, stretching endlessly, could now be seen winding through the chasms of the Heavenly Realm.

The demon army is almost here.

In Lin Yan's divine realm, the adorable elf goddess Vivela finally left Lin Yan's palace.

Vivela finally achieved her wish—she became Lin Yan's woman.

Of course, throughout the entire process, she was utterly embarrassed.

As an elf goddess, she had never imagined that… one could do such things with her Lord.

So this was how one truly became the Lord's woman—only after completing that step.

Just thinking of having to do such things with the Lord again in the future made Vivela's face flush hot again and again.

But strangely, her subconscious also held a faint anticipation.

Immediately after, Lin Yan bestowed upon the Goddess of Light, Meiweis, and the others a full set of armor.

As for Dorothy and the others, due to insufficient time, they received only outer armor, not inner armor.

After arming his divine sect's goddesses nearly to completion, Lin Yan turned his gaze once more toward the Continent of Gods.

Now, Lin Yan is the only Great God who possesses a realm on the Continent of Gods.

Other Great Gods once had realms too, but after their realms were destroyed in the aftermath of the great war, none of them rebuilt them.

Thus, the oldest realm on the Continent of Gods today belongs to Venerable Tianlan.

Lin Yan decided to retain his own realm.

At least for now, it is necessary.

Because his realm is tied to the advancement of his Flame Form title.

And title advancement will grant Lin Yan more Laws and greater strength.

Moreover, after this wave of events settles, Lin Yan will gradually guide his Holy Maidens to ascend to godhood.

Right now, his Holy Maidens have all reached Saint Domain strength!

During this period, Lin Yan has bestowed numerous special blessings upon them.

Meng Ying has even reached Saint Domain Third Rank, just one step away from Saint Domain Fourth Rank.

The fox girl Sister Qing Ling has also reached Saint Domain Second Rank.

Mia, Aiwei, Luodi, Luoying, Zhenja, Annie—they have all reached Saint Domain.

Only the later-joined Jian remains at Legend rank, just a small step away from Saint Domain.

Tina, after reaching Saint Domain Fourth Rank, is now attempting to ascend to Saint Domain Fifth Rank.

Princess Chenxi, Anqi, Luomina—they have also taken another step forward on the path to Saint Domain, all now at Saint Domain Second Rank.

Angesite has already begun researching the secret of godhood, just a small step away from becoming a god.

After prayer, Angesite still chose to first become a Dark God—she is deeply intrigued by the source of Dark Power.

The Dark Abyss is highly unusual; the deeper Angesite studies Dark Power, the more she suspects the Dark Abyss may not be so simple.

She has told Lin Yan all these discoveries.

Lin Yan did not stop her choice.

In recent days, vast numbers of Abyssal creatures have been emerging from beneath the Flame Empire.

Especially in the former territory of the Orc Kingdom, the forests contain numerous underground passages; Abyssal creatures have emerged from these tunnels, attempting to build spatial gates from underground to the surface—but they were spotted by the Flame Empire's aerial patrol airships.

Immediately, a squadron of airships rushed over and launched a direct aerial assault, annihilating all the Abyssal creatures.

Now, the number of airship production lines in the Flame Empire has long surpassed one thousand, with vast numbers of airships produced daily.

The number of airships has become truly astonishing!

It has become a true nation of airships!

Meng Ying and the others have formed several hundred airship squadrons, each with one hundred to five hundred airships, all equipped with newly developed crossbows and paired with Explosive Flame—each squadron's aerial strike power is extremely formidable.

In fact, a single airship is far more powerful than any aircraft Lin Yan knew before his transmigration.

Vast numbers of enchanted crossbows with ranges exceeding ten kilometers, combined with Explosive Flame, deliver firepower many times greater than ordinary aircraft.

And crucially, their ammunition capacity is astonishing—crossbow bolts take up almost no space; the cargo holds are stacked with bundles of bolts, unlike aircraft, which can carry only a limited number of missiles.

The endurance of the airships is even more incredible—so long as sufficient magic stones are carried, they can fly continuously for years or even decades without issue.

With such a vast number of airships, the Flame Empire can resolve nearly all wars without deploying ground forces—just sending aerial units suffices.

Even the Tianlan Empire has far fewer airships than the Flame Empire.

And after the cat tribe's Holy Maiden Luodi reached Saint Domain, she gained rare insight into spatial laws and is now researching how to apply spatial laws through magic runes to airships—if successful, the airships will gain spatial teleportation ability, which would be devastatingly effective.

The Abyssal Overlord paid no special attention to Lin Yan's realm.

Since the battle has reached the Heavenly Realm, if Lin Yan perishes, his realm will naturally collapse.

Yet because the Flame Empire sits atop a Magic Abyss, the number of Abyssal creatures surging into it will not be few.

Lin Yan cast his gaze downward, briefly surveyed the situation, then sent divine decrees to Meng Ying and Sister Qing Ling before withdrawing his attention.

The Flame Empire now teems with powerful beings—it no longer requires his special attention.

After completing all this, the seven days had passed.

It was time to go to Stonekeep Fortress.

Within Stonekeep Fortress, after seven days, the number of gods who had arrived was already immense.

The holy spirits brought by these deities were even more numerous.

Nearly half of all the deities in the Heavenly Realm had come to Stonekeep Fortress.

The combined deities of the other two fortresses made up only the other half.

"Have these bastards gone mad? Running straight toward danger."

A hidden Master of Law muttered to himself.

In the void, countless eyes watched over Stonekeep Fortress.

Though the hidden Masters of Law did not join the battle, each had cast their gaze downward.

Outside Stonekeep Fortress, the demon hordes of the Abyss were drawing ever closer, ever closer.

In sheer numbers, the Abyssal army vastly outnumbered the Heavenly Realm's.

After all, the Abyssal army contained an infinite multitude of demons.

Even if all the holy spirits combined, their numbers could not match those of these demon hordes.

A single Heavenly Realm deity's holy spirit might number tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, or as few as a few hundred or thousand—but a single demon dynasty under a first-tier Abyssal Demon God commanded hundreds of millions of demons.

There was no comparison in numbers.

Of course, there was no comparison in quality either—the Heavenly Realm's quality was far superior.

Even a single first-tier deity could kill vast swathes of these demon hordes with one strike.

But this was precisely their purpose.

Cannon fodder existed only to die.

As the demon hordes drew near, several hidden Masters of Law quickly realized that the demon forces heading for Stonekeep Fortress vastly outnumbered those heading for the other two fortresses!

Two-thirds of the demon hordes surged toward Stonekeep Fortress.

The demon forces of the remaining two fortresses combined amounted to only the remaining one-third.

And the distribution of these demon hordes often reflected the distribution of Abyssal Demon Gods!

The distribution of the demon hordes soon caught the attention of ordinary deities.

"Ha! Stonekeep Fortress has become the Abyss's main thrust—soon there'll be clashes between Supreme Gods. Those deities who came to Stonekeep Fortress will surely regret it till their guts rot!"

Laughter came from deities in the other two fortresses.

These deities could not help but feel their own choices had been the wisest!

Meanwhile, in Stonekeep Fortress, the faces of some deities had turned grim.

Though roughly half of the Heavenly Realm's deities were here, they now faced two-thirds of the Abyssal army!

But they had already entered Stonekeep Fortress—now, to leave was too late.

"Boom!"

At that moment, a trembling sound echoed from the sky.