Chapter 481

"Who is this?"

Lin Yan wondered; he didn't remember knowing this person.

For some reason, a figure popped into Lin Yan's mind.

It was the elf goddess who always seemed a little timid when blessing the Tree of Life!

"Could it be her? But how did she end up in the pantheon panel?"

Lin Yan thought.

And after her name was a 10%.

Lin Yan temporarily set aside this mystery and continued pondering the secrets of the pantheon.

"Is this pantheon a chief deity with a vast number of subordinate deities?"

Lin Yan couldn't help but wonder.

The pantheon was currently in a gray state, with much information unknown; it seemed only activation would reveal the truth.

Lin Yan paused for a moment and put the matter aside for now.

Without activation, speculation was pointless.

His gaze swept over his Holy Maiden, then rested briefly on Succubus Natasha's status.

Succubus Natasha was waging war in the Middle Abyss.

The scale of the war was growing larger; thanks to Succubus Natasha's war, Lin Yan's dark faith income surged rapidly.

Additionally, Lin Yan's evolution points income was also substantial—even exceeding what he gained from burning the Abyss himself—causing Lin Yan to level up again recently.

After reaching Infernal Flame, the evolution points required for each level were terrifying, yet his rapid leveling now proved the immense scale of Succubus Natasha's war.

Of course, before reaching the Mobius Abyss, all this was just an appetizer.

Lin Yan withdrew his gaze from Succubus Natasha; in the Middle Abyss, she would not face serious danger.

His vision returned to the Sacred Flame Forest.

After the Tree of Life was planted, the entire Sacred Flame Forest began to revive.

In the following days, the elves continued building their homes.

Additionally, a magnificent temple was constructed.

The elf race pursued perfection, so their temple, besides being solemn and dignified, was also exquisitely crafted.

The temple was built beside the waterfall at the upper end of the gorge; outside stood a large square, and beneath it were several platforms adjacent to the waterfall, all meticulously refined, their edges blooming with flowers and their centers perfectly flat—clearly also used as plazas.

When important announcements were made in the temple, the elves could stand below and listen.

Princess Chenxi, as the Holy Maiden of the Flame Lord, would reside permanently in the temple henceforth.

And she had another identity: Queen of the Sacred Flame Elf Empire.

Due to the Flame Lord's revelation, Princess Chenxi saw the hope of swiftly bringing other elf tribes over, so after consulting with the major chieftains, she decided the official founding of the Sacred Flame Elf Empire would occur only after most other elf tribes had arrived in the Sacred Flame Forest.

This had little impact on Lin Yan.

Because in the Civilization Fire title panel, the Elf Empire was already counted.

Lin Yan's Civilization Fire thus rose to Lv4.

The Continent of Gods was vast, nearly endless; even with airships, it would take at least several months to a year to bring all other elf tribes over.

Of course, elves too far away would not wish to come.

To the elves, a year was a short time.

After all, the Loki Elf Empire had taken nearly a century from colonization to formal establishment.

Time slipped away quietly.

Two more weeks passed, and ten airships departed from the City of Miracles, heading for the Loki Mountains.

These ten airships consisted of seven small, two medium, and one large!

These were the airships the City of Miracles had rushed to build during this period!

Following Lin Yan's revelation, and since the City of Miracles had no immediate use for them, Sister Qing Ling dispatched them to the Loki Mountains.

The distance from the City of Miracles to the Loki Mountains was neither especially close nor far.

After all, Princess Chenxi had first met Lin Yan in the Abyss of Móyuān, which was only a few thousand kilometers from the City of Miracles.

Airships could fly at roughly five to six hundred kilometers per hour over long distances and could fly nearly twenty-four hours a day; at this speed, they could reach the Loki Mountains in four or five days.

For winged beings to fly this distance would take over a month.

And if traveling by land, it would take over a year.

Meng Ying personally oversaw this flight, for ten airships represented immense wealth; even flying high, she feared encountering powerful beings tempted by the treasure mid-air.

As for the Flame Lord's three nations, the Eldest Princess had returned from the Eternal Night Empire, bringing trade edicts for three provinces; one provincial Viceroy was on a business trip to another province, so she had not met him and thus did not bring his trade edict.

But trade expansion would not happen so soon—the trade routes had not yet been built.

Especially between the Houdon Kingdom and the Eternal Night Empire, a great snow mountain lay between them, making passage extremely difficult; one must go west through the Hiling Kingdom, whose western lands were vast forests, and Princess Luo Ying was still sending people to open the trade route.

Indeed, previously, these human kingdoms had had little contact with the Eternal Night Empire.

Given the economic structure of these human kingdoms at the time, demand for foreign trade was actually low—they were agrarian societies in a self-sufficient phase, and they feared potential threats from the Eternal Night Empire if the route opened.

"Holy Maiden, once this trip returns, we'll strike the Hunhe Principality!"

Meng Ying said to Sister Qing Ling as she boarded the ship.

Sister Qing Ling nodded and said, "Go with peace of mind; I'll hold the City of Miracles."

Sister Qing Ling was now an Eighth Rank Forbidden Spell Mage, her power formidable.

Even if Lin Yan could not combine two divine powers to perform blessings, he could still use a single divine power to perform them.

When using Chaotic Divine Power for blessings, some forbidden forces emerged, and the effect was even stronger than using Heavenly Realm deities for blessings.

Combined with the spiritual energy clusters absorbed by Sister Qing Ling, the effect was simply outstanding.

Of course, it cannot be used frequently.

Meng Ying boarded the flying ship and left the City of Miracles.

While Lin Yan's several nations were developing in orderly fashion, somewhere in a forest on the Continent of Gods.

Nightfall came quickly.

"It's dark. Let's move."

From this forest, which had appeared empty, came the voice of an elf.

"Yes, let's go."

Many figures emerged from within the forest.

These figures were all elves.

This was a group of elves preparing to migrate to the Sacred Flame Forest.

Under cover of night, the elf party moved through the forest, heading steadily northward.

They numbered many—at least several thousand.

To avoid detection by humans, they rested by day and traveled by night.

With their magic, even during daylight in the forest, they could conceal their forms perfectly, unseen by human eyes.

They soon left this forest and entered another, thousands of elves moving silently toward the Loki Mountains.

Not long after they departed, a cavalry of several hundred arrived at this forest.

At the front of the cavalry, a man clad in armor held a leash attached to a bizarre-looking beast.

"Go on, baby."

The man patted the beast and released the leash.

The beast dashed into the forest, sniffing everywhere.

Then, its ears perked up.

Soon after, it ran out of the forest and reached the armored man's side, letting out a strange cry.

"I've found you!"

The man smiled.

"Send word at once to the Prince—the elves' trail has been found! Mobilize the army to encircle and annihilate them; they won't escape!"