Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Lin Lei easily felt the infinitely vast world brimming with boundless Earth Elements, each particle radiating a亲切 familiarity. At the same time, radiating from Lin Lei’s center, waves of pulsing force surged outward.
“Thump!” “Thump!”...
Strangely rhythmic vibrations spread, causing the Earth Elements saturating heaven and earth to oscillate like ripples. They collided, only to dissolve into the pulsing force.
Earth Pulse, Earth Element.
Lin Lei was focused on gradually merging these two profound mysteries.
“Lin Lei!” Lin Lei, deep in cultivation, was suddenly interrupted by a divine consciousness message. He instantly recognized it as Dilia’s transmission. A hint of a smile appeared on his face. “Dilia, what is it? Miss me?”
“Hmph, who misses you,” Dilia gave a delicate huff. “Lin Lei, let me ask you, just how long do you plan to cultivate in Tongluo Mountain?”
Lin Lei faltered.
He could clearly hear the thread of dissatisfaction in Dilia’s message. In that moment, Lin Lei suddenly realized he had gone too far. “I left Dragon Blood Castle in the year 10066. It’s now 10072… ah, nearly six years have passed. And I haven’t returned even once!”
The years of cultivation flew by unnoticed. It felt as if only a blink had passed before several years vanished.
“Six years. No wonder Dilia is displeased.” Lin Lei felt in the wrong.
“Lin Lei, you’re cultivating, aren’t you? You can do that just as well at Dragon Blood Castle,” Dilia coaxed gently.
“Alright… fine, Dilia. I’ll head back tomorrow,” Lin Lei said immediately. He then sent another message, filled with apology. “Dilia, I’m sorry.”
“I’m not angry. Wait, did you say tomorrow?” Dilia was pleasantly surprised. “I’ll go tell the servants right away. We’ll definitely prepare a lavish feast for you. By the way, Lin Lei, what time will you arrive at Dragon Blood Castle tomorrow? Noon, or evening?”
“Before noon,” Lin Lei decided inwardly.
Truthfully, ever since he had begun merging the ‘Earth Element’ and ‘Earth Pulse’ mysteries, the Greenfire Master, ‘Lei Lin’, no longer needed to instruct him. Staying here at Tongluo Mountain offered him little further benefit.
At the gate of the Elemental Mansion on Tongluo Mountain.
“Whoosh~~” Fierce mountain winds howled recklessly, bending the flowers and grass before the mansion gates, yet they could not stir the towering ancient trees. The master of Tongluo Mountain, the king of the Gebada Plane’s prison, ‘Greenfire’, was seeing Lin Lei and his companion off with his two brothers.
“Lin Lei, even if you didn’t go back, I’d have sent you away before long,” Greenfire, ‘Lei Lin’, teased. “Haha, mainly because in a while, I, along with my eldest and second brothers, will be leaving Tongluo Mountain—and this Yulan Continent—behind.”
Lin Lei had long known Lei Lin intended to leave.
“Mr. Lei Lin, where will you go?” Bei Bei asked curiously.
“Not certain yet,” Lei Lin sighed deeply. “Perhaps I’ll visit the Southern Sea. My old home was once there. Pity, after so many ages, the continent where it stood has long since sunk into the boundless ocean.”
The battle ten thousand years ago had shattered the other four continents, causing them to sink.
“Mr. Lei Lin, if you find the time, do visit my Dragon Blood Castle. You’re always welcome.” Lin Lei and Bei Bei had already offered their thanks. After bidding farewell to the three brothers, they soared away from Tongluo Mountain, flying directly toward Dragon Blood Castle.
After six years away, Lin Lei felt an eager pull toward home.
In the Magic Beast Mountain Range, beneath the cliff face in a secluded valley, human tracks were scarce.
This place had once been a haven for magical beasts, but for the past three years, not a single beast dared approach. Beside a gurgling spring, within a thick patch of grass, a vague human figure could be glimpsed. It was the mid-stage god ‘Niff’ from Hell.
For three years of waiting, Niff had not relaxed his vigilance for a moment.
His divine consciousness constantly spread, blanketing the area, waiting quietly for Lin Lei to appear.
“This Lin Lei will definitely return to Dragon Blood Castle. If he passes through the Magic Beast Mountain Range on the way back, he won’t escape!” Niff rose. A long spear with mottled black spots suddenly appeared in his hand, and he began to move about within the valley.
After all, having waited three years without success, Niff couldn’t be certain when Lin Lei might show up. He couldn’t just waste his time sitting there idly.
What Niff didn’t know, however, was that hidden deep within this very valley was another figure.
“This Niff is merely average among mid-stage gods. But he cultivates the ‘Wind Element Law’. In terms of speed, he’s even slightly faster than Lin Lei. If Lin Lei truly encounters him, it could indeed be dangerous.” The hazy figure watched Niff from afar. Niff had now transformed into a gust of wind, his spear shadows piercing space silently again and again.
“But… danger is good.”
The hazy figure flickered and vanished without a sound.
Niff had stopped training and was once again sitting cross-legged in meditation, but suddenly, his eyes snapped open, his gaze sharp as a blade shooting toward the sky.
“There he is! Lin Lei!”
A flash of wild joy crossed Niff’s eyes. He burst into an excited laugh. “Three years of waiting, he’s finally here!” In reality, the distance between Niff and Lin Lei was still several hundred li. Even if Niff shouted at the top of his lungs, Lin Lei would not hear him.
“For the sake of the Rays, I can die without regrets!” Niff murmured, his eyes burning with unprecedented fervor.
Silently, Niff’s entire being seemed to dissolve like powder, dispersing into formless wind. This gust of wind surged toward Lin Lei at a terrifyingly high speed—far faster than Lin Lei’s current maximum velocity!
Niff was a mid-stage god. After refining his divine spark, he had comprehended three mysteries of the Wind Element Law, with speed and movement being his particular forte.