Chapter 683: Heavenly Realm Passage! Entering the Goddess

If another god had made this request, the Elf Goddess would have assumed the other had ulterior motives.

Generally speaking, every god is cautious about allowing another god into their own divine realm.

The Heavenly Realm is relatively peaceful, not as chaotic as the Abyss, but that is only relative.

What if another god has ill intent?

Yet, for some reason, upon hearing the Flame Lord's words, the Elf Goddess felt not a single trace of worry—only boundless delight.

The Elf Goddess was not a naive, foolish sweetheart easily swept away by emotion.

She had her own judgment of the Flame Lord's temperament and character.

The Flame Lord's deeds were already deeply familiar to the Elf Goddess.

Of course, only those related to the elves.

For instance, lifting the curse from the Night Elf clan—even at the cost of opposing the powerful Shadow God, repeatedly thwarting the Shadow God's schemes.

And again, providing the elves with an endless supply of Sacred Flame, enabling them to rapidly clear the Sacred Flame Forest and build the mighty Sacred Flame Elf Empire.

Moreover, the Elf Goddess knew the Flame Lord had a powerful nation in the south.

When the Sacred Flame Elf Empire was founded and Meng Ying sent He Li as a gift, the Elf Goddess happened to cast her gaze downward and learned of this.

The Elf Goddess understood the Flame Lord quite well.

In her view, the Flame Lord was a powerful, aloof, yet generous and benevolent deity!

And after their last close encounter, the Elf Goddess had felt an irresistible allure emanating from the Flame Lord.

All these factors combined to produce her reaction.

Moreover, the Elf Goddess had long wished to invite the Flame Lord to visit her divine realm.

But as a goddess, how could she bring herself to ask?

"Perfect—but I should be more reserved… Weiweila, you are a goddess."

The Elf Goddess told herself.

Then she said to Lin Yan: "Respected Flame Lord, I, the Green Land Goddess Weiweila, warmly welcome you to visit my divine realm."

"Oh no, did I sound too formal…?"

After speaking, the Elf Goddess felt she had not expressed herself well.

As flame, Lin Yan's communication with the Elf Goddess Weiweila was not through words.

It was through spiritual fluctuations.

The Elf Goddess quickly abandoned her petty hesitation and sent over a coordinate.

That coordinate was the entrance to her divine realm.

But this coordinate was useless to Lin Yan, because Lin Yan was not entering the Elf Goddess's divine realm from the Heavenly Realm—he was entering from the Continent of Gods.

Entering a god's divine realm from the Continent of Gods was, in fact, simpler than entering from the Heavenly Realm.

Because a god can open a channel to manifest power or consciousness, they can also reverse that channel and enter that god's divine realm.

Provided the god does not seal the channel and allows entry.

But this method consumes immense energy.

While communicating with the Elf Goddess, Lin Yan had already been analyzing the channel formed during Weiweila's descent.

Vast amounts of data converged into his Divine Core.

Lin Yan suddenly realized that, in his flame form, the barrier of the Heavenly Realm did not seem to be an issue.

Gods can descend power—even consciousness—from the Heavenly Realm; only their true bodies are too powerful to manifest.

And Lin Yan's flame form could be regarded as a kind of power—allowing him to descend himself.

"Maybe it really could work."

Lin Yan thought.

The Heavenly Realm and the Abyss are indeed different.

And this difference favored Lin Yan.

Thinking of this, Lin Yan sent another spiritual fluctuation to Weiweila.

"Huh? The Flame Lord doesn't need a coordinate—does he know where my divine realm is?"

Weiweila thought.

Then she received another spiritual fluctuation from Lin Yan.

The Flame Lord requested that she open a channel between her divine realm and the Continent of Gods, so he could enter directly.

Weiweila's heart immediately filled with surprise.

"Does the Flame Lord not intend to enter my divine realm in his true form?"

Weiweila thought.

Some gods communicate with others using only divine avatars—like Weiweila's tiny elf form, merely a drop or two of divine power plus a thread of consciousness.

But Weiweila couldn't understand: divine avatars have very limited function. If the Flame Lord merely wished to converse, he could do so directly like this—why bother entering her divine realm as an avatar?

Lin Yan's flame form was extraordinarily unique; even Weiweila could not perceive that the flame was Lin Yan himself—she assumed it was merely a manifestation of his power.

A god's power manifests in many ways, depending on the rules and forces they command: flame, lightning, water, ice, wind, and so on, all are possible.

Yet out of trust in the Flame Lord, Weiweila immediately expended divine power and opened a channel.

Pure energy could pass through this channel without difficulty.

For a god to pass through in their true body, however, was extremely difficult.

This channel could not remain open long; each additional second of its existence multiplied the cost exponentially.

Gods descending power, miracles, or consciousness required no prolonged duration anyway.

So Lin Yan did not waste time.

In the instant the passage opened, Lin Yan surged into it, rapidly ascending toward the other side.

Just three seconds later, Lin Yan felt the barrier of the Heavenly Realm.

Meanwhile, as time passed, the passage Viviola had forced open within the Heavenly Realm's barrier was rapidly shrinking.

Within the Divine Realm, Viviola once again expended considerable divine power to widen the passage again.

Lin Yan did not pause, but plunged directly into Viviola's Divine Realm.