For the next period, Shelley no longer dared to turn off the divine power shield to save divine power.
This Metal Life was considered relatively advanced, capable of defending against the attacks of a Four-star Devil, and its divine power shield could even withstand the attacks of a Six-star Devil for a time.
It could even block one or two attacks from a Seven-star Demon.
They were not far from Emperor Wing City, and any bandits daring to operate in this area had at least the strength of a Five-star Devil.
It wasn't impossible for an occasional high-level devil to be tempted to moonlight as a bandit.
These encounters, apart from adding some Godhead and supplies to Roy's spatial ring, didn't cause any major disturbances.
After passing Emperor Wing City, the frequency and number of bandit encounters decreased sharply.
More than five hundred years later, Roy and Shelley finally passed through the Purple Thistle Continent and arrived at the Blood Peak Continent.
Upon entering the Blood Peak Continent, Roy realized just how arrogant the Four Divine Beast Family was.
Roy recalled that the Blood Peak Continent was the sphere of influence of the Blood Peak Lord God Pash.
However, here Roy discovered that it seemed the entire Blood Peak Continent was under the control of the Four Divine Beast Family.
The lords of small cities, medium cities, large cities, and even the Azure Mansion and Sky Mountain Mansion were all members of the Four Divine Beast Family.
Not only that, but there were only four Sovereign Legions on the Blood Peak Continent, and positions from captain upwards were all held by members of the Four Divine Beast Family.
Of course, judging by the names of these Sovereign Legions, they were the Sovereign Legions of the Four Divine Beast Lord Gods.
The Azure Dragon Legion was led by Gaisleith Reading, the clan leader of the Azure Dragon Clan.
The White Tiger Legion was led by Gus Ers, the clan leader of the White Tiger Clan.
The Vermillion Bird Legion was led by Tia Nemo, the clan leader of the Vermillion Bird Clan.
The Black Tortoise Legion was led by Mokore Bowen, the clan leader of the Black Tortoise Clan.
(The names of the clan leaders of the Four Divine Beast Family above are from "Douluo Dalu, My System Activated After I Became a Lord God," by the author Cong Shuo. Those who enjoy it can check it out; in my opinion, it ranks among the top three Douluo fanfictions I've read.)
As for the Sovereign Legion of the Blood Peak Lord God, it was currently stationed at the planar teleportation arrays in the Infernal Realm, responsible for escorting those arriving from material planes to the Infernal Realm to various tribes or cities.
It was at this moment that Roy understood why Laurent and the others' tribes had so few members, and why they needed him to personally go to the planar teleportation array to pick people up.
The Blood Peak Lord God Pash was expressing his dissatisfaction with the ancestors of the Four Divine Beast Family.
The continent named after him was occupied by the Four Divine Beast Family. If not for the presence of four Lord Gods in the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range, Pash would have been furious enough to attack them.
Lord Gods were aloof beings who valued strength and face above all else.
The Four Divine Beast Lord Gods had essentially dragged Pash's reputation through the mud and then wiped their shoes on it, claiming they had dirtied their footwear.
Since Pash was no match for the Four Divine Beast Lord Gods, he could only vent his frustration on the Four Divine Beast Family through these minor matters.
The Four Divine Beast Family's arrangements were not a secret to the Lord Gods. If the Blood Peak Lord God Pash simply gave an order, any tribes or cities established by the Four Divine Beast Family outside the Blood Peak Continent would not receive new members, greatly slowing the expansion of the Four Divine Beast Family.
Upon reaching the Blood Peak Continent, Shelley also slowed the speed of the Metal Life.
One day, when Roy finished his cultivation and arrived outside the room in the Metal Life, he was greatly surprised.
"Good heavens."
The entire Blood Peak Continent was much livelier than the Purple Thistle Continent, Muya Continent, Bifu Continent, and the Sea of Chaos.
On other continents, one might not see a single Metal Life in three to five years, but here, they encountered one every three to five days.
Near the cities, Metal Lives flew everywhere.
Roy sensed their auras; apart from varying strengths, most of them were very similar.
"Has the Four Divine Beast Family truly taken over the entire Blood Peak Continent?"
"It's not that exaggerated."
Shelley walked up to Roy and chuckled, "After all, there is still the Blood Peak Lord God on the Blood Peak Continent. The four ancestors said that the area within billions of miles around the Blood Peak Lord God's residence is the Blood Peak Lord God's private territory, and our Four Divine Beast Family is not allowed to develop our influence there."
"Heh heh..."
Roy shook his head.
Hearing that.
Roy finally understood why the Four Divine Beast Family was so arrogant.
Shelley was only a Five-star Devil. Outside the Blood Peak Continent, she maintained a sense of reverence for stronger beings.
But upon arriving at the Blood Peak Continent, her courage suddenly grew, and even Lord Gods seemed to be spoken of dismissively.
The only reason they left a sliver of face for the Blood Peak Lord God was because the ancestors had given the instruction.
If the Four Divine Beast Lord Gods hadn't said anything, they might have genuinely established their family's territory right at the doorstep of the Blood Peak Lord God.
How arrogant was this?
Without saying more to Shelley, Roy returned to his room to continue cultivating.
Strength was the strongest and most effective means of maintaining dignity.
The people of the Four Divine Beast Family did not know, or perhaps they knew but did not care.
This was because the Four Divine Beast Lord Gods were their strongest backing.
After over five hundred years of cultivation, Roy's soul strength had increased by half.
With the enhancement of his soul, the rate at which he fused with the profundities of laws also became much faster than before.
Roy estimated that at his current fusion speed, he would reach the bottleneck in fusing the "Power" Law Profundity and the other four Law Profundities within thirty thousand years.
The fusion progress of "Earth Pulse" was a bit slower than the "Power" Law Profundity, but it would also reach its bottleneck within fifty thousand years.
Of course, this speed would increase as his soul grew stronger.
It took Shelley over two hundred years to travel from Sky Mountain Mansion to Azure Mansion.
Upon reaching Azure Mansion, they were not far from the ancestral land of the Four Divine Beast Family, the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range.
The Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range was where the Lord God ancestors of the Four Divine Beast Family resided. Besides the direct descendants of the Lord God ancestors up to the third generation, only elders with power exceeding that of a Six-star Devil were qualified to enter.
Of course, once every thousand years, the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range would open its gates, allowing the younger generations of the family to enter the Bloodline Awakening Pool to awaken their bloodlines, gaining an additional Divine Clone. The talent of the Divine Clone would be related to the primordial blood absorbed from the Bloodline Awakening Pool; the more primordial blood of the Lord God it absorbed, the higher its talent would be.
Family members from the fourth generation onwards could only live outside the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range.
Every clansman who reached the level of High-level God could receive a portion of resources and travel to various continents or other God Planes and Supreme Planes to develop the family. Once they reached a certain level of development, or recruited talents for the family in the outside world, they would receive corresponding rewards.
Over the years, millions, if not tens of millions, of High-level Gods had left the Four Divine Beast Family.
However, perhaps due to various obstructions they encountered, their development had not been very ideal.
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