Leaving Fans City, Lin Lei and the others immediately boarded the metal lifeform and headed toward the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range.
"The Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range is still in the northern region of the Azure Prefecture, nearly two hundred million li from Fans City. Flying there will take over half a year." Lin Lei was fairly relaxed.
Now that he knew where the Four Divine Beast Families were located, Lin Lei had a rough idea: "I suppose it's because this place is so far from the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range that the Borin Family dared to be so arrogant." That was his guess.
"Over half a year, huh." Bei Bei stretched lazily, letting out a long sigh, then looked over at Lin Lei. "Hey, Boss, let's have a competition — whoever fully comprehends the Fifth Mystery first wins. What do you say?"
Lin Lei's own 'Mysteries of Strength' were already in the late stages of cultivation.
As for Bei Bei, his Fifth Mystery of the Laws of Darkness had reached its absolute limit — a single moment of epiphany would trigger a breakthrough. But such moments of sudden enlightenment couldn't be forced. Who knew how long Bei Bei would need?
Lin Lei immediately settled into quiet cultivation.
During cultivation, time passed especially quickly. He only woke up three times along the way, and when he opened his eyes for the fourth time, they were barely over a hundred thousand li from the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range. They would arrive any moment now.
The front section of the metal lifeform had gone completely transparent, allowing the entire group to see ahead through the translucent metal.
"The Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range! The Four Divine Beast Families!" Lin Lei felt his breathing grow unsteady, the blood in his body boiling. Having traveled all the way from the Yulan Continent, he was finally about to return to his own family.
"There it is — that's the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range ahead!" Dilia exclaimed joyfully.
Lin Lei's eyes lit up.
Towering peaks pierced the clouds, each one staggeringly tall. The range had earned its name as the 'Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range' precisely because so many of its peaks reached extraordinary heights.
"That's—"
Lin Lei's eyes went wide. A colossal bird sculpture stood there, wings spread as if about to take flight, its entire body engulfed in flames, nearly as tall as the mountains themselves. Its feathers were fiery red, with azure plumes crowning its forehead, and its overwhelming, domineering aura was something even they could feel from this distance.
"Such a massive sculpture," Lin Lei blurted in shock. "It must be close to a hundred li tall." The highest peaks in the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range only reached a few tens of thousands of meters.
This enormous sculpture rivaled even the tallest of them.
Half a year ago, after reading that book, Lin Lei had gained some understanding of the Four Divine Beast Families, and learned that the Four Divine Beasts were the 'Azure Dragon,' 'White Tiger,' 'Vermilion Bird,' and 'Black Tortoise.' The Azure Dragon and White Tiger he could grasp from their names alone.
But the Vermilion Bird and the Black Tortoise — he had never heard of those before.
After carefully studying the book and its illustrations, Lin Lei came to understand that the Vermilion Bird was something like a 'Fire Phoenix,' but far more powerful — a fire-attribute divine beast of a completely different caliber. The Black Tortoise, meanwhile, resembled the 'Dragon Turtle' he had once seen — a formidable earth-attribute divine beast.
Even the divine beast 'Azure Dragon' was nothing like the two-winged dragons of the Yulan Continent, nor the tyrannical dragon-type creatures. It was a perfect, true divine dragon — an flawless fusion of dominance and nobility.
The supreme being among all water-attribute divine beasts: the Azure Dragon.
"The southern region of the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range should be the Vermilion Bird clan's territory." Lin Lei immediately steered the metal lifeform toward the northeast.
Sure enough, the eastern region of the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range belonged to the Azure Dragon clan.
"This..."
Hovering in midair, gazing at the distant spectacle of the Azure Dragon clan — the 'Radin Family' — Lin Lei was dumbstruck. Even Dilia, Bei Bei, Olivia, and Tarosha were so stunned that not a word came out of their mouths.
A colossal dragon, winding and coiling, stretched for over ten thousand li across the mountain range.
Of course, it wasn't a real dragon.
This enormous dragon-shaped structure spanned tens of thousands of li. The body of the building was carved with scales and simultaneously served as a corridor. The entire passage emanated a blue-green radiance, and from a distance, it looked like a terrifyingly massive Azure Dragon!
"In Hell, to construct a building tens of thousands of li long — it's beyond imagination," Tarosha marveled.
"Look carefully — the entire Azure Dragon body is a single continuous corridor, and around it there are countless castles and manors," Di Lin added loudly.
Lin Lei was completely absorbed and overwhelmed by the scene before him. A 'dragon road' tens of thousands of li long, coiling through the mountains, with castle after castle and manor after manor clustered all around it. This single dragon road wove countless structures into one magnificent whole.
Before the dragon's head stood a colossal golden castle, like a dragon pearl.
"Just this grandeur alone far surpasses any family I've ever seen," Lin Lei thought, awestruck.
The Four Divine Beast Families had once reigned across the four Great Sovereign Realms and the Seven Divine Worlds. Even in decline, they had not forgotten the glory of their former days. The construction of their ancestral seat naturally reflected that legacy.
Though they could already see it, it still took quite some time of flying before Lin Lei and the others finally reached the foot of the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range.
Standing at the base, watching the numerous soldiers patrolling along the distant 'dragon road' — every one of them clad in blue-green armor — Lin Lei felt his heart skip a beat. At a glance, there were at least ten thousand of them.
And every single one they could see was a Highgod!
"So many experts!" Tarosha exclaimed. "Truly worthy of being the Four Divine Beast Families — at least when it comes to Highgod soldiers, they're no less than the Bagshaw Family."
"Now this is what a truly powerful family looks like," Di Lin agreed in admiration.
Solomon's Bowie Family had once seemed impressive, but compared to the Bagshaw Family and the Four Divine Beast Families, they were nothing. Just look at these families — every single soldier in their armies was a Highgod.
"So this is the Azure Dragon clan!" Lin Lei felt his blood surging. "My roots — the roots of my Baruch Family!"
That endless dragon road stirred something deep within him, resonating with the blood in his veins. It was like a wanderer finally returning home — that sense of belonging hit him with overwhelming force.
"Lin Lei." Dilia squeezed his hand.
Lin Lei turned to look at her, and the two shared a quiet smile. After nearly seven hundred years of hardship — from entering Hell as nothing more than a Lowgod, to now being able to kill ordinary Highgods with ease.
After such a long journey, they had finally reached their destination.
The roots of the four Ultimate Warriors!
The legendary gathering place of the Four Divine Beast Families — the Azure Prefecture's 'Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range'!
"Who goes there!" came a thunderous shout from above and ahead.