Chapter 1920: Ascending to the Seventh Ring

Xia De took a deep breath and narrowed his eyes, attempting to spot the Diviner within the blood-colored light from his high vantage point, but he could see nothing.

Behind him, vast clouds of steam mist emerged from an unknown source; the long, mournful wail of a steam whistle sounded, and the tolling of a bell rang out in the void.

The bell tolling when a Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi summons their Ring of Order, while loud to the person themselves, actually fades away abruptly after a certain distance. Therefore, it never happens that Ring Warlocks fighting in city alleys have their bell tolling heard directly by passersby half a street away.

But at this moment, that echoing bell toll gradually spread from the small patch of wreckage above the tree canopy, echoing across the entire island.

Dong— Dong— Dong—

The echoing bell toll seemed capable of shattering all the oppression and confusion brought by that mass of red light; it was grand and sacred, ancient and distant. It was like the bell tolling rung by priests of the oldest era for the arrival of a god, or like the lingering echoes of the past, arriving in the present along with the wind and stories.

That bell toll even calmed the waves outside the island, even suppressed the mania of the monsters, even inhibited the torrential rain that was still continuing outside the island, and even caused the appearance of the other island where everyone was currently located to appear within the cracks in the night sky above Green Lake in the real world.

Megan was right behind Xia De; she felt the bell tolling echoing in the steam mist even more profoundly.

The hand clutching Xia De's sleeve loosened at some point. The man standing with his back to her was clearly right before her eyes, yet it made her feel as if he had already flown high into the sky:

"So, this is what Miss Jia Lin Na meant by the feeling of being unable to grasp him..."

Golden light illuminated the faces of the three people behind Xia De. Rotating golden light spots formed a spiral deep within the dense mist, and then the rotating spiral transformed into a giant brass-colored wheel ring that emerged behind and above his head.

On the surface of that brass, there were faint, fine cracks. And within those cracks, only the Chosen One of Balance, Yiluna, and the Great Witches of Wisdom, Megan and Audrey, could faintly see golden light marks.

None of them knew why Xia De's Sixth Ring of Order appeared with such an entrance effect, just as no one knew why the bell tolling echoing behind Xia De at this moment could induce the space of the entire world to tend toward stability.

Three drops of divinity within his soul, following his realization of "space" and "emotion," radiated a more stable and powerful light. Xia De, eyes closed, took a deep breath. The amount of Spirit required to fully unfold his Domain was something he could not afford in his ordinary state. For this reason, even though all four Spirit Runes of the Sixth Ring were complete, he had not chosen to ascend immediately after obtaining the final Spirit Rune.

This was to wait for this very moment.

Amidst the radiance of the Ring of Order, he turned back to look at the two young ladies behind him one last time, then lightly tapped his toes, and his body floated higher. Megan subconsciously reached out to grab him, only to watch helplessly as he drifted away from her hand.

The dazzling golden brilliance emerging from that Ring of Order, as the ring grew larger and larger, gradually became as radiant as the sun in this long, dark night.

When the position of the floating Xia De was level with the light surrounding the Diviner, the golden light displayed by the Ring of Order had already suppressed that mass of blood-colored light.

"God-Caller!"

Countless people thought of this name at this moment. The blinding and sacred light radiated across the land and water, yet no one could see clearly who was inside that mass of light. The pitch-black night was illuminated once more, but this time the light did not appear because it had plundered other light; he himself was the light, he himself was the only one.

"I said I would not call upon the power of gods, but ascending does not count as calling upon a god."

Amidst the golden and red light, both knew the other was looking at them, but Xia De could not see the figure of "Edwards" within the blood-colored light, and the Diviner likewise could not see Xia De's expression at this moment.

"She" beside his ear laughed gently, and Xia De sighed long:

"Please, prepare for ascension."

【Understood.】

The bell tolling echoing above the island finally shattered the silence of this long night at this moment. Golden ripples rippling outward in circles seemed to make this somewhat strange island slowly retreat to its original appearance.

Miracle, Profanity, Enlightenment, Whisper—the four-colored spiritual light of gold, silver, brass, and iron intertwined on that Ring of Order. The blood-colored giant tree seemed to tremble because of the light and shadow at this moment.

Above that small patch of wreckage in the tree canopy, Yiluna looked up at Xia De's figure, her entire face illuminated by those lights:

"This is the... how many times is this? The sixth time. Every time, it makes me feel, why isn't Xia De a Chosen One?"

The shocked witch beside her could no longer speak. She reached out and tugged at Yiluna's sleeve:

"Is he going to call upon a god?"

Yiluna shook her head in surprise:

"Of course not. Xia De is a man who keeps his word. Can't you see? He is preparing to ascend—ascending from the Sixth Ring to the Seventh Ring."

"You mean, this is what it looks like when a Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi ascends?"

Even a wise witch would encounter things she could not understand. She looked up at the high sky, at Xia De who had opened his arms before the golden ring of light, at that beam of golden heavenly light enveloping him, and at how he seemed to be drifting further and further away from her, and from everything in this world.

The witch's face was also dyed golden by this light, her golden eyes filled with that figure. She subconsciously reached upward, but stopped herself. That figure radiating divine brilliance was branded into their eyes and souls. This touch at this moment caused the entangled and overlapping souls of Megan & Audrey to finally take the final step toward a miracle.

"This is the person we chose."

Audrey's voice came from beside her ear. Megan turned her head to look at the young lady who was holding her hand and was completely identical to her. The sisters did not speak; for the first time in their lives, they stood side by side, looking up at him, and felt fortunate in their hearts that they had learned the clothing miracle in advance.

At this moment, countless phantoms intersected in the center of that massive Ring of Order. Xia De's eyes, dyed golden, finally saw the Diviner within the blood-colored light at this moment. He chuckled, but did not know if the other party had seen his expression clearly.

The golden light and the blood-colored light made contact at the top of the giant tree and then intertwined. That golden light, like the great sun, easily crushed the blood-colored light that had originally occupied the home field.

It seemed that as Xia De's level increased, the light and shadow effects of his every ascension became more bizarre. At this moment, people could no longer distinguish whether it was day or night on the island, nor did they know what had happened at the top of that blood-colored tree.

People on the island looking up could only see that within the four-colored spiritual light, bizarre and magnificent illusions finally emerged.

Miracle - Charm—

The golden-colored Spirit Rune detached from the ring body and appeared on Xia De's left side. The enchanting laughter rang in Xia De's ear. The exquisite and beautiful "mermaid" from the oil painting jumped out from the void, her tail with seven-colored scales lightly slapping the air. Her hand gently caressed Xia De's cheek, and then overlapped with Xia De's body:

【The charm displayed by the soul is the world's attachment to you.】

The first crack penetrated the left eye, and then dense golden cracks spread toward his entire body.

Profanity - Indifference—

The silver-colored Spirit Rune detached from the ring body and appeared on Xia De's right side. The drizzling rain fell once again above the island in a flurry at this moment. Whose sobbing was added to the sound of the rain? The pale-faced dead, wearing a crown and draped in hempen clothes, appeared in the cold rain. The original drowned person reached out toward Xia De, and when the fingertips touched Xia De, the two merged into one.

【Indifference is the greatest respect the reborn have for death.】

The rain grew heavier, but although the rain was cold, touching the body allowed one to feel the temperature originating from the soul.

At this moment, in the night sky suppressed by darkness, three moons bloomed with light simultaneously, and the moonlight then lit up all the stars. The rain did not bring clouds; above the dark clouds was that silver moon that was gradually becoming huge. Above the giant tree under the silver moon was Xia De, and Xia De's entire body seemed to have transformed into gentle silver moonlight.

Enlightenment - Zhong Lou Lover—

The brass-colored Spirit Rune detached from the ring body and appeared in front of Xia De. The old woman Sarah Myers, leaning on each other, and the young knight Mr. Richard Jackman, smiled and nodded at Xia De to express their gratitude. But just as they walked toward Xia De, their figures seemed to transform into those young ladies Xia De was familiar with.

The ladies' hands touched Xia De's body, merging with him along with the brass-colored spiritual light:

"Loyal knight, do not let anyone be sad."

【The bell tolling above the clock tower has rung; are you ready to welcome your lover?】

The clock tower phantom flashed behind Xia De, and the massive Domain was being slowly driven by the power of divinity.

Whisper - End—

The black-iron-colored Spirit Rune detached from the ring body and appeared behind Xia De. The two "Calamity Cards" in his pocket flew out automatically. In the black spiritual light, a brown-haired girl with a blurred face was born. She sobbed as she walked from the air toward Xia De:

"You can reverse all of this, right?"

"Yes."

The phantom of the long-haired Luvia merged with him. The power of the world's end was so cold, yet so fascinating.

【When you have glimpsed the end of time and the end of all things, are you willing to take one more look at her?】

At the other end of the tree top, "Edwards" in the suppressed blood-colored light reached out and pointed at the figure entangled by the four-colored spiritual light. But when the sword transformed from the blood-colored light stabbed at Xia De's body, it was melted by the golden light without a sound.

Golden Miracle, Bai Yin Profanity, Huang Tong Enlightenment, Black-Iron Whisper—the four-colored Spirit Runes surrounded Xia De in a quadrilateral and gradually contracted inward.

The mermaid whose flesh and blood he had once devoured, the drowned person who had bestowed divinity upon him, the clock tower lover who had taught him the power of fusion, and the long-haired girl who was truly intertwined with his soul—the four-colored strange illusions overlapped with his body. Flesh, body, soul, emotion—Xia De in that light at this moment could not even be observed for his general outline. ===== CHAPTER 1921 =====