It took almost a year since their arrival but the Void Ocean in front of them was once more glowing with light and life. In fact it looked even brighter in the expanse where it had been completely empty before.
No native life had co back in that year. The krakens and leviathans had tested the area and found no issues at all.
The Master Tiers even said it felt better than any area they had ever been to, including their palace!
The ships now bulged with people as they needed to rest as much as possible. Once they flew out over the Void Ocean, the drain on cultivators would increase dramatically.
The fleet of 100 ships headed out with a large contingent of krakens and leviathans swimming below them. The Elentals were in a dispersed state to save energy while they flew near the ships, resting periodically.
Everyone else cycled within ti limits but it would be truly tested once the coast was out of sight. They would be too far out for all but the native races of the Void Ocean getting back safely.
Unlike flying artifacts, the ships showed no drop in efficiency or speed as they flew which only the Northern Continent cultivators had experienced before.
Lind stood on his own ship, which dwarfed any of the others. He had taken on almost all the dragons and allies close to him and still stuffed more in every rafter of his ship.
The control room and the core room were the only places with any space left! Even his quarters were now held by all his wives on a rotation!
He stood on the deck as the breeze caused his hair to flair outward but he did nothing to stop it. He had done all he could. They were now going to war. The restorative front would et the bridge and the conflict would begin in earnest.
Whether the Bastard would co imdiately or pull so other tactic out of his unfortunately well honed bag of tricks. Karu and he had done their best to deal with most of it but the fact remained the current tiline was different from all the rest.
The final stretch was radically different from any other ti from what she could recall. They had never united any force like they had now. They had not pushed the Bastard to reveal his ultimate plans so early either.
While that might seem hopeful to so, Lind knew it was simply revealing the truth. The Fiends could have killed them all at any ti but it would defeat the one thing the Bastard refused to give up was common to all cultivators.
He did not want to slow down his progress.
The lower quality lifeforce would drop his progress to a trickle. It could take several epochs before he could even reach the peak if he had moved earlier.
The risk, of course, was all his plans being uprooted but Lind had never succeeded to the point he currently enjoyed. His harmony was much more effective, true, yet it was what he started in his mortal realm that changed everything.
The now billions of 6 elentals had been set loose not only in his own Celestial Fields, it had spread across many in the thousands of years since it had spread upward.
While the vast majority of the Divine Lands doubted the effectiveness of his elental theories, the Eastern Continent was taking any weapon it could find.
Thus, even when Lind was only a World Realm, the results were already traveling up the information stream and once he re-established the Celestial Fields, it had more than enough data to be trustworthy.
In the ti it took for him to beco a Divine Realm, the 4 major factions allied against the Fiends at the war front saw massive amounts of previously untapped cultivators explode up their ranks as if Heaven and Earth had simply been waiting for it to happen.
Thus, it was quickly revealed they were also effective to varying extent against the Fiends. Only Lind truly grasped why that was.
If the harmonies were all Mysteries key to the Master Tier, such power would not allow the vile Qi to consu and damage its host. The actual path dictated how effective it could be but at the very least, 6 elentals had power within the realm that very few could overco!
Thus, the army now in his ships was more 6 elental in so form or other and due to this, he was able to entrust them to recharge several of the ship functions without having to address it himself.
As they flew across the skies, he let his aura extrude and leave the fleet far behind. He quickly caught up to the advancing front the renewed the Void Ocean.
It showed no signs of slowing but he frowned as he examined the flow of energies.
Closer to the coast, it clearly pulled directly from the skies and the free energies from the Southern Continent. Yet now, it seed to be pulling from the rest of the Void Ocean but not at the sa ti.
He could just make it out with his Talents in the chaos. He followed traces of energy back to the Void Ocean yet not to the source. It diffused too much but it did not seem harmful.
If anything, it seed to invigorate the many lights now appearing in the Void Ocean.
He doubted it was normally so severe but given the circumstances, it allowed the unique phenonon they now saw.
After ensuring there were no issues in their protection, he moved beyond it. He had learned from his previous attempts so when the attack ca at him, he was prepared.
It glanced off his harmonic Qi without even a ripple. He then advanced fiercely. He had no limit anymore now that he was over the Void Ocean.
Ti beca aningless but he all too quickly saw the dark smudge on the horizon.
He continued to project forward until he finally felt considerable resistance. It was not simply a passive thing from the bridge but actual Fiend arrays. He had to pick his path far more slowly.
Still, it was crude. Compared to the elegant work he was used to seeing, the defenses seed to be limited by sothing. It was clear that defending the whole bridge was impossible.
It was constantly growing so a set array would not work. Weaving would be better but still suffer from the imnse distance. Lind did not underestimate anything as he finally saw the dark crystalline material condense and clink into place.
It would have been beautiful if not for the suffering he sensed even from how far away he was. It was not a chorus of voices but a kind of painful sensation that set his teeth on edge.
It was the very realm crying out in pain.
He was powerless to stop it. He could not even slow it down. He then saw them far more clearly. The ash grey faces of the Fiends.
Normally, they were full of arrogance and endless dark joy at the pain they inflicted but it was all gone. They were normally disturbing to look at in the eyes yet he saw only a hollowness he had seen in those taken by them.
There were no familiar faces among them, none he had faced before. He doubted they were all dead, but he had crippled the Fiends in the Celestial Fields. Maybe they should have thanked him?
He was about to pull back when he finally felt it. An all too familiar aura.
It was fairly far away. As if he could not be bothered to co himself.
[What have you done? How are you coming closer?] The Bastard's voice was actually intrigued. There was no fear or worry. It seed he felt assured of his victory once more.
Lind said nothing. His silence was the best weapon. A sharp laugh filled the air.
[You were once so boastful and full of vigor. You made such eloquent speeches about how you would bring
low. I enjoyed killing you. I saw the mories and felt it.] Lind remained impassive.
Those n were not him. They allowed him to exist but they were not him. For all the fact they shared origins and so much, his path was completely separated from them now.
He chose to turn away. They would face each other soon enough.
[I still have her soul.] Lind froze. He felt it then. An aura that was distinct from any Fiend and he would never ever forget!
His aura beca razor sharp and he felt her!
Lanbao! How?!
He wanted to scream but he held it back. A trap was clear but he did not understand the shape of it.
[After all this ti, you are still so weak. You should abandon them. You were much stronger when you did that. It was more interesting. Still, I have learned over this long dance what hurts you the most.] The soul spiked in pain and despair.
Did she even know who she was after all that ti? Was there anything left of the dragon he had known?
It would not be outside the Bastard's power to leave only a trace to cause him pain.
Yet, the final confirmation ca.
[--ind? Wh–where am I?] Her once proud voice was so weak but Lind remained calm. His body took shape but was still only a projection.
The Bastard appeared with what seed to be a tiny blue snake in his left hand. It was barely alive.
[Still not speaking? Have you finally learned to–?!] Lind's erald gaze locked on Lanbao before turning away and dispersing. His actions finally seed to anger the Bastard. [I will refine her right now! If you walk away, you will never see her again!]
Lind did not stop. He had seen the truth. Lanbao was already gone and a puppet was left in her place. If he tried to save it, he would allow the Bastard a direct path to his army and his own lifeforce.
His newly minted power gave him a chance, not immunity from the Bastard.
He looked coldly over his shoulder and despite no longer having a projection, the ssage was clear.
{You will die by my hand.}
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