Above The Sky

Chapter 1995 - 20: The World Is Changing

He is only at the Second Energy Level, which makes him an official member of the Ten Kings Bloodline, although his talent is insufficient to become a core Third Energy Level member. However, because of this, his soul can be enshrined in the Eternal Elf’s most core ’Eternal Chip’.

Even if his body is destroyed and his soul shattered, as long as the Eternal Chip exists, he has the possibility of resurrection.

This technology, originating from the same source as the Aether Arms Order, provides him with immense confidence.

However...

As Baluo continued to approach Mount Hyne, the confidence that originally surged within him gradually withered, like flowers in the autumn.

The materialized Spirit Energy Barrier had already become Subspace Labyrinths. If not for the Tenglang Sequence’s mastery of this Dao, he would have long been imprisoned within it. Even with the Vine Corridor bloodline, Baluo was unable to approach the battlefield where the wills of the strong clashed, being forced to gaze from afar at Mount Hyne, now transformed into a trapezoid plain.

But there were no live audience members cursing or urging him.

Because everyone saw, on that mountain plain, three vague figures faintly standing off and communicating.

The grand sound concealed nothing, and anyone near the Forbidden Zone, if they wished to hear, undoubtedly could hear.

The world was changing.

"What is our Silverpeak Seer up to again?"

In the Western Empire, the Holy Setar Empire, ’Emperor’ Carlos Sertar reclined on a very comfortable yet hardly majestic compared to the original throne-like sofa seat, somewhat confusedly asking his nearby confidant: "What a loud voice he and those two fellows from the Fiery Flame Land have... the entire Domain of Void is trembling."

"Your Majesty, what an opportunity!" And this confidant, eyes blazing, looked towards the southwest: "The Silverpeak Seer battling Fiery Flame Land is just the right moment for us to demonstrate the Empire’s might, to subdue that seer and Fiery Flame Land!"

"I can’t beat him, so forget it." But Carlos, looking disinterested, declined: "I’m more interested in how he dares face off alone against two Fifth Energy Levels—let’s see his methods first."

"As for the rest... I’m not inclined to think about it. Subduing the Silverpeak Domain just isn’t feasible, and even if it were done, so what? My son has run off, and the future is left as it may."

Upon these words, the confidant fell silent, for the former Imperial Grandson, now Crown Prince Aina Sertar, had disappeared. Although everyone knew that the unnamed Knight of Light was Aina, his unwillingness to return rendered the knowledge meaningless.

To Carlos, as long as that brat Aina didn’t return, any action was superfluous.

Amid this laissez-faire atmosphere, Carlos looked toward the Fiery Flame Land.

"You better not lose... Ian," he murmured to himself: "I’ve staked heavily on you."

And it wasn’t just them.

Across the land, the Empress of the Eastern Empire also gazed from afar.

"Father and brother... is this the one you’ve chosen to believe in?" she murmured: "So arrogant, so confident... he is an even more haughty fellow than you."

The Four Great Orthodox Churches, Dragon Island, and the City of Knowledge all turned their attention to the southwest of the Terra Continent.

Between the Tranquil Sea and the mountains, for the first time since the Perpetual Engine Declaration, three Fifth Energy Level powerhouses were confronting each other directly, on the verge of ’battle’.

[What are you going to do, Silverpeak Seer?] A weary yet infinitely vital consciousness inquired.

[What you dare not do, are unwilling to do, and cannot do,] a decisive, unwavering voice responded: [King of the Fiery Flame Land, I will do what you cannot imagine.]

[Don’t be too arrogant,] a voice as hot and explosive as a blaze sneered: [It’s no more than spreading the Fifth Energy Level bloodline, if it could be done without side effects, to defeat other forces, we’d have done it already.]

[Arrogant?] The young voice laughed: [No, I am just strong.]

[Whether in technology or mind, strength or vision, I surpass you. So, for you, the unsolvable ’Curse of the Fifth Energy Level Bloodline’ was resolved by me long ago.]

[It’s nothing more than eliminating all ’mutant genes’ within the body and reconstructing a blank slate through a comprehensive gene therapy or purification from the Holy Mountain’s fire.]

[Moreover, aren’t the most arrogant ones you, the monarchs who so disdain your own lands?]

Saying this, the youthful figure from afar extended a hand towards the ruins of Tema City.

In a moment, azure-gold light blazed, infinite water vapor churned between heaven and earth, earth and stone surged, the dual elements of water and earth origin quality resonating with the will of the manipulator under the Ether Sea’s tremors, danced wildly across the world as if alive, raising a grand sandstorm.

And amid this sandstorm, the inhabitants around Tema City marveled as a city’s form sprouted, like building blocks rapidly ’growing’.

Water, soil, stone, steel, all minerals, all materials needed for construction, mixed and condensed within the sandstorm. All materials were therein, filling ravines, smoothing chasms, melding ruptured earth, and unblocking severed rivers.

In that moment, the terrain around Tema City, originally damaged by the descent of strong wills, including the city itself, was restored, with the restoration spreading, expanding, even reaching the vicinity of Mount Hyne.

The world was overturned.

[I’m sorry, Tema City, and the Fiery Flame Land residents around you. My missionaries and I have brought you great trouble, damaging your city and homeland.]