Hongyang Prefecture, Blue Maple City.
Sadius and his group paid the inkstone fee to enter the city.
They were in no hurry to immediately depart for the Blood Ridge Continent.
Among the group, only Sadius and Dylin had previously participated in the Fiend Examinations.
The Six-Eyed Golden Lion brothers, despite already being Highgods, were still not recognized as Fiends. Thus, Sadius decided to wait until they completed the examination, officially becoming Fiends, before setting off.
With Highgod-level Fiends accompanying them, many situations could be easily resolved with a mere display of deterrence—those Midgod bandits would flee far away, not daring to attempt a robbery.
The three brothers signed up for the examination and had already left the city to complete the task.
Sadius, meanwhile, focused on cultivating in peace.
His Darkness God clone had recently reached the peak of the Lowgod level, and the two profound mysteries it controlled were on the verge of completely fusing.
Moreover, the Earth-Annihilating Slash was at its most critical breakthrough point.
All of his clones were cultivating in seclusion without distraction.
Yulan Continent.
The imperial palace of the Pouant Empire.
A surge of the Heaven' laws descended.
Sadius' Darkness God clone had finally become a Midgod.
Thus, all three of Sadius' divine clones were now Midgods.
The trilinear fusion of divine power had all reached the Midgod stage.
Just in raw divine power alone, he was already a hundred times stronger than an ordinary Midgod.
In Blue Maple City, Sadius slowly opened his eyes.
The Earth-Annihilating Slash had been fully mastered.
Now, it was more appropriate to call it Earth-Oblivion Sword Intent.
Only a few mysteries had yet to fully fuse—namely, the fusion of the Profound Mystery of Darkness with the Profound Mystery of the Earth's Throbbing Pulse of the World, and the fusion of the Profound Mystery of Earth with the Profound Mystery of Destruction.
Once Darkness and the Earth's Throbbing Pulse of the World were completely merged, he could begin attempting the fusion of three disparate profound mysteries.
The power of fusing three disparate mysteries surpassed even the fusion of five compatible mysteries.
Once the fusion succeeded, Sadius' strength would experience a qualitative leap—beneath the realm of Great Perfection and without a master artifact, even a Shura would not be his match.
By the time Sadius finished cultivating, everyone was already waiting.
The Six-Eyed Golden Lion brothers had successfully become one-star Fiends.
Currently, only Cesar, Harsel, and Doehring Cowart were still at the Lowgod level.
But this didn't matter. Sadius did not plan to rely on completing Fiend missions to head to the Blood Ridge Continent.
With his current power, as long as he avoided Mo Si on Miluo Island, he could safely reach the Blood Ridge Continent.
The group gathered some supplies in the city, purchased maps leading to the Blood Ridge Continent, and then boarded their metallic lifeform once more.
The Starmist Sea—territory of the Star Sovereign, one of the Seven Sovereigns of Infernal Realm—was the second largest ocean in all of Infernal Realm, its surface area surpassing that of any continent.
In the Starmist Sea, countless metallic lifeforms flew across the vast expanse.
Soon, Sadius and his group entered the thick mists of the Starmist Sea.
Above them was a faint, drifting mist; below them, a pale violet ocean. Even within the Infernal Realm, this was a rare and beautiful sight.
Traveling from the Starmist Sea to the Skyrite Mountains of the Blood Ridge Continent would take quite some time.
It was still a shorter journey than returning to Mirror Moon Cliff from Ziyang Prefecture. Otherwise, Sadius would have considered using the Material Plane as a waypoint—first traveling to a material plane, then teleporting from there to the Blood Ridge Continent.
He possessed a Sovereign token, personally bestowed by the Redbud Sovereign.
This was not something every Sovereign's Emissary had the right to hold—normally, a Sovereign would only grant it to their most trusted emissaries.
With this token, Sadius could travel to any Material Plane without even consuming an inkstone.
The metallic lifeform sailed through the foggy sea for one or two years, during which everyone cultivated in peace.
As Sadius gazed upon the roiling waters of the sea, a sudden insight struck—the Profound Mystery of Vitality found a resonance point with the Earth's Throbbing Pulse of the World.
Sadius could not help but feel delighted.
Not long ago, he had already found resonance points between the Profound Mystery of Earth, the Throbbing Pulse of the World, and the Profound Mystery of Gravitational Space.
Now, even the Profound Mystery of Vitality was finding resonance with the Earth's Throbbing Pulse of the World.
It seemed he had taken yet another step closer toward the Fourfold Earth Fusion which would severely boost his Amethyst Space divide ability.
Yulan Plane.
Bluefire's God clone had already returned to the Yulan Continent.
Beirut personally examined Bebe's bloodline.
Indeed—the God-Eater Ratbloodline, utterly pure and flawless.
Beirut immediately arranged for Nien's family to live within the Metallic Castle. He intended to personally watch over this child's growth into Divinity.
Naturally, Sadius also learned of Nien's family's return. He personally visited the Dark Forest to see his Godson.
Within just a few short years, Bebe had already reached the Saint-level in strength—such was the innate talent of a God-Eater Ratborn full-term.
"Godfather, take me out to play, please!"
Last time, Sadius had taken Bebe on a trip to the Pouant Empire to experience the delicacies of human society.
This little fellow had become hooked and constantly clamored to visit the Pouant Imperial Capital.
"You need to cultivate properly, understand? Otherwise, Grandpa Beirut won't let you go out and play."
As a super Divine Beast, once Bebe matured, he would naturally comprehend the Darkness profound mystery of Shadow Doppelgänger Technique.
This was the advantage of Divine Beasts—while humans still struggled painstakingly to cultivate, Divine Beasts directly ascended to Divinity naturally.
Indeed, once he matured, he could directly become a God.
Logically, if Bebe trained properly for just a few more years…
But how could such a lively and active child endure staying in the Metallic Castle all day?
Beirut watched Sadius and Bebe interact.
Even he hadn't expected Bebe to instinctively feel closer to Sadius—closer even than to himself, his adoptive grandfather.
Yes, in this lifetime, Beirut had become Bebe's God-grandfather.
He recognized Nien and Liya as his Godson and Goddaughter—after all, they were Bebe's parents.
Bebe was the second God-Eater Rat in countless planes. In Beirut's heart, he was even dearer than a trueborn son.
Thus, Bebe's parents basked in the light of his status; their generation's seniority suddenly elevated by countless levels.
Beirut was a Sovereign; normally, his true children would receive Sovereign artifacts.
But his Godson and Goddaughter did not have this privilege.
He could not give them Sovereign artifacts, but he could still give them a drop of Sovereign power.
Beirut generously gave each of them a drop of Sovereign power, claiming it was granted by the Sovereign when he served as an Emissary.
With Beirut's permission, Sadius took Bebe to Pouant City.
Accompanying them were Bebe's parents and the three Violet-Gold Rat King brothers.
Nowadays, Pouant City has become the greatest city of the Yulan Continent.
It housed two of the most elite academies.
One was the Sadius Magic Academy, where more than half of the new generation of Saint-level magi were trained.
The other was the Dragon Soul Warrior Academy, established in the name of the first Dragon Soul Warrior, Emperor Luoshen of the Pouant Empire.
Sadius' son, Luoshen, was now a Dragon Soul Warrior at the limit of the Saint-level. His power even surpassed that of Jason, the Dragonblood Warrior of the Baruch clan.
However, Jason now had sons and grandsons, and the Baruch clan had fully restored its former glory.
This also made the Baruch Kingdom the greatest kingdom within the Pouant Empire's territory. Sadius entrusted the former lands of the O'Brien Empire to the Baruch Kingdom to govern.
As long as Sadius was alive, the Baruch Kingdom would never harbor any thoughts of rebellion.
Most importantly…Sadius told Jason Baruch that the ancestors of the Baruch clan had once journeyed to the Skyrite Mountains of the Blood Ridge Continent in Infernal Realm.
That was the true root of the Baruch clan.
This revelation stirred in Jason Baruch's family a desire to one day journey to Infernal Realm.