Chapter 508

The title "Fire of Rules" is now Lv2.

When wearing this title, Lin Yan's flame burns, and the rule's effect is further amplified.

Moreover, if this title reaches its highest level, Lin Yan can also use it to obtain one law.

"Two laws!"

Lin Yan couldn't help but feel envious!

However, the Lv2 title "Fire of Rules" is far inferior to the Lv5 title "Fire of Civilization."

Lin Yan's gaze turned again to the virtual divine core, where the numbers of faith power and dark faith were growing ever larger.

His strength was rising rapidly!

Yet he still couldn't combine chaotic divine power and heavenly divine power to activate a blessing.

It seems the priestesses still need some time to reach the Holy Realm.

It takes considerable time to advance from Ninth Rank Legend to Tenth Rank Holy Realm!

On the Continent of Gods, out of 100 Legends, 60 are destined to never break through in their entire lives.

Thirty have some hope, and with hundreds or thousands of years of time, they might eventually break through through sheer endurance.

Hmm, there's some chance!

Another ten have eight or nine who should break through within about a hundred years.

Only one or two have a chance to break through within a hundred years.

Even the favorites of the gods find it no easy task to break through.

Because the rules are not easily touched.

Without reaching the peak of Legend, one's power is insufficient, even unable to reach the threshold.

Even when reaching the peak of Legend and possessing sufficient power, one must still spend vast amounts of time and energy, and require extremely profound knowledge—that is, comprehensive understanding of every aspect of this world—to see through the surface and perceive the hidden secrets behind the world's operation.

After all, the Continent of Gods is so vast, and Lin Yan is the only one with a system; others are not so fortunate.

In terms of understanding rules, blessings have some effect, but the key still lies in the priestesses' own enlightenment.

So there's no need to rush for now.

But Lin Yan is waiting for the cooldown of the two chaotic divine powers on his virtual divine core to end!

Last time he was only focused on testing, and forgot to try whether he could directly ascend from Ninth Rank to Holy Realm.

If possible, that would truly be a forbidden power beyond all bounds!

Lin Yan set this matter aside for now and scanned his priestesses.

Meng Ying was still diligently practicing magic.

The fox woman Sister Qing Ling was also practicing magic, though she occasionally handled state affairs.

Of course, her duties were few; the Flame Empire had dedicated institutions to share her burdens.

These institutions employed only core believers of the Flame Lord, whose loyalty was guaranteed through the virtual divine core.

Luo Ying actually spent more time on state affairs than Qing Ling; there was no choice—she managed two provinces.

The Crown Princess was also practicing magic.

She had brought out numerous magic tomes purchased from the Eternal Night Empire and established the largest mage tower in the Flame Empire, whose library held over ten thousand volumes.

Magic tomes are not novels; ten thousand volumes is already an astonishing number.

Lin Yan's other priestesses were also seizing every moment to practice magic; their progress was swift, and all were at least Seventh Rank.

Only the new recruit Zhen Na, after receiving the blessing, had risen only to Fourth Rank.

Now Lin Yan's blessings were far more generous—he directly used divine power or high-tier divine power, with excellent results.

Not like at first, when he used only faith power.

Different stages naturally mean different efficiency!

In the north, Princess Chenxi was still gathering elf tribes; it would take more time to finish, given how vast the Continent of Gods was.

Seeing both empires developing steadily, Lin Yan turned his gaze to Succubus Natasha.

It had been a long time since his last direct infusion of power into Natasha; could he continue now?

But Lin Yan still needed to check, to avoid causing her adverse effects.

He didn't want to turn such a beautiful succubus into a grotesque monstrosity.

For other abyss demons, boosting their subordinates' power required no such consideration.

As long as the subordinate wouldn't explode instantly, they'd just pour in all the power at once.

Then let the subordinate digest it slowly.

If they couldn't digest it, they'd just grow a few large lumps—these lumps would store the power, which for these abyss beings was actually beneficial, meaning they could replenish strength even in battle.

As for whether they looked ugly, did they care?

Of course, the cost was still substantial, so those abyss demons weren't generous.

Selfishness is human nature.

Even heavenly gods were selfish.

Can you expect the treacherous and cunning abyss demons to be generous?

They merely needed a few runners.

Sometimes, when bored, the abyss demons might even inflate "balloons" with power just for fun.

"Chieftain, this layer of Red Soil Abyss is empty!"

In a layer of Red Soil Abyss filled with red earth, the succubus Krist came to report.

Natasha hovered in midair, surveying the vast Red Soil Abyss.

Behind her stretched an endless army of succubi, which also controlled an army of demon-hunting ants several times their own number.

This was already the middle layer of the Abyss.

They had chosen to advance by leaping, so their rate of descent was extremely fast.

"The succubi all dodged out of the way?"

Succubus Natasha muttered to herself.

"I'm afraid so, Clan Leader. By now, the news that we're going to attack the Mobis Abyss has spread throughout the entire middle layer of the Abyss. The Mobis Abyss itself has probably even heard of it. Although we believe that, under the blessing of our god and your leadership as Clan Leader, we can take the Mobis Abyss, the other succubi compatriots do not believe it, so they chose to hide!"

The succubus Kelis said.

This was the first succubus to whom Natasha had given the choice of "submit or die." Now she had become a core figure at Natasha's side, possessing the strength of Seventh Rank.

Right after that, one after another, succubi came to report the results of their scouting.

"Clan Leader, in the Red Earth Abyss layer we went to, we didn't find a single succubus."

"Clan Leader, we didn't find any either."

"Clan Leader, we also didn't—"

Dozens of succubi in a row all compiled their scouting results to Natasha.

All the succubi in the middle layer of the Abyss had fled!

They couldn't afford to offend Natasha and her succubus army, but they also didn't want to go to the Mobis Abyss to die, so they chose to hide!

Yes, in these succubi's view, going to the Mobis Abyss was tantamount to going to their deaths!

Succubi were born in the Mobis Abyss.

In the beginning, the entire Mobis Abyss belonged to the succubi; they even had a powerful demon dynasty!

However, the demons from the deeper layers of the Abyss joined forces to attack them. In a very short time, they killed countless succubi, drove the succubi completely out of the Mobis Abyss, and occupied it.

The surviving succubi were not strong, scattered throughout the endless middle and upper layers of the Abyss, their numbers less than thirty percent of what they had been before.

After so many years, the total number of succubi might have recovered considerably, but in the view of the succubi in the middle layer of the Abyss, even at their strongest they couldn't defeat the enemy. Now, with just Natasha's few people, how could they possibly contend against the hundreds of millions of demons in the Mobis Abyss?

What's more, the demons wouldn't even need to act themselves. They could simply send forth servant demons whose numbers far exceeded those of the demons themselves—numbers that could be called endless—to utterly annihilate the succubi!

A few million, a few tens of millions, a few hundred million…

In the Mobis Abyss, those were all just child's play.

In the Abyss, even newly born Abyssal creatures possessed a certain combat ability, and their growth was nothing like that of human infants, which required over a dozen years.

With sufficient food, in less than a month, their strength could swell, making it truly a case where every citizen was a soldier.

After all, it was different from humans.

The Continent of the Gods was vast and boundless, and the number of living beings was not necessarily that much less than that of the Endless Abyss.

But the scale of war on the Continent of the Gods was far smaller than that in the Abyss, and the reason lay precisely here.

For the Flame Empire with a population of seventy million, Sister Qing Ling and Meng Ying only planned to retain an army of one million.

But if it were in the Abyss, that would be an army of seventy million!