Chapter 1238 - 986 I Won

The crowd still stared at Long Yi, not cheering, because they were all waiting for what Long Yi had to say next.

"As I promised you before, you’re all free to leave now. I will escort you out of here, back to that planet," Long Yi said.

Some people sighed in relief, but others were extremely nervous. In their view, they were not safe at all until Long Yi had left!

But now, Little Zi radiated terrifying waves of Divine Status, so what could you do even if you were worried?

The survivors boarded the God’s Association spaceship, and Little Zi immediately activated Divine Power to quickly return the ship to its course. In no time, the spaceship reached the city’s skies.

"I need you all to meet in the square," Little Zi said, her language bearing the suggestion of the mind, bolstered by Divine Power, rendering the mental suggestion irresistible.

The crowd descended from the spaceship and gathered in the city center’s square.

Meanwhile, Little Zi heightened her Divine Status pressure to the utmost: "All Divinity Holders! Come to me at once!"

Two thousand times the Divine Status brought an inarguable suppression; the Divinity Holders hidden in every corner of the city could not resist this command. They sequentially flew into the spaceship and then, without any surprise, their Divine Status was taken away, and they landed on the square below to wait for orders.

At the same time, Long Yi and Ai Lin went to investigate the two association headquarters. Within those lavish associations, Long Yi found nothing of use. Meanwhile, the mental power fluctuations from Little Zi began to expand rapidly. With the help of Divine Power, Little Zi decided to brainwash everyone on the planet!

Briefly put, it was a relatively isolated planet; the people on this planet had almost no contact with any other interstellar bodies, which provided a prerequisite for brainwashing. Besides, Little Zi had already taken away the Divine Status of everyone on this planet. Without the help of Divine Power, mental Magic assisted by Divine Power did not need to be very intense; just a touch of mental magic would take effect under the influence of Divine Power.

Soon, the mental spell that covered the whole planet took effect. Everyone would think that God’s Association and Hand of God were just two adventurer associations, because the original heads of both were big businessmen who sponsored these associations with the aim of searching the entire Plane for Giant relics. The two associations had been at odds since ancient times, and in the course of one battle, a band of pirates appeared out of nowhere and took the opportunity to raid the storerooms of both associations, amazingly looting all of the Giant relics!

That is the basic story structure, and the rest of the details are left to the brainwashed to fill in by themselves.

After accomplishing all this, even Little Zi was exhausted, but she was still thrilled with the unprecedented spell that covered the planet, as it was her first time releasing such a massive spell!

This problem was essentially solved. Afterward, Long Yi and his group returned to the Great Explorer and continued to trigger Divine Status resonance. However, the number of resonant Divine Status displayed this time was scarce, and, as expected, all the Divine Status were collected without any fuss; now, not a single Divine Status existed in the entire Plane anymore.

Honestly, Long Yi didn’t believe it, but the fact was undeniable. The Divine Envoy sister had said that the Divine General split his own Divine Status into just under a hundred thousand pieces, and as the most extensive Lower Plane, it should not have had just this few.

Of course, this matter wasn’t of much importance, as he was more concerned about what was going on with his own Divine Status.

Most of Long Yi’s time aboard the Great Explorer was spent researching Divine Status.

Divine Status, Divine Status, that is the qualification and proof of a god. And there was only one god in this whole Plane, and that god had perished. But now, he, a Giant Pioneer, had inexplicably come into possession of Divine Status!

Long Yi carefully sensed it; this Divine Status was not fake—it really could generate Divine Power! And this Divine Status was also growing continuously, becoming stronger!

Could it be, faith?

Long Yi had noticed before that the faith of the followers in the Ancient Mage Tower made their Divine Status stronger. And now it seemed, faith could not only strengthen Divine Status but even create it out of nothing!

Now, this Divine Status was entirely Long Yi’s own—it couldn’t even be taken away!

Long Yi once recklessly asked Little Zi to forcibly take away his Divine Status. Little Zi tried, but unless she killed Long Yi and destroyed his soul, the Divine Status simply could not be separated from the soul—or rather, the Divine Status was the soul itself!

Regarding the Divine Status, not even the tablets within the Giant contained any research literature, so Long Yi had to rely on his own senses to understand it.

With this, the hunt for Divine Status could be considered successfully concluded. However, the emergence of the God Chasers still took Long Yi by surprise. When the Empress of the demon realm, Yavenny, entrusted Long Yi to investigate the God Chasers, he didn’t really believe that the God Chasers could be of any significance. But it was proven that anything related to the divine should never be underestimated.

The reason Long Yi left the Ancient Mage Tower originally was to go to his hidden Holy Temple, and now he was about to return, but there was still no sign of the Holy Temple. As such, Long Yi spent two days using the strength of rock to create a Holy Temple out of nowhere on an asteroid. The overall style of the temple was modeled after ancient Athenian architecture, with various thick pillars and broken walls. Of course, as the main building of the Temple, it was quite tidy. Little Zi, using Divine Power, created various complicated and exquisite decorations inside, and there were also all sorts of mechanisms. After all these were completed, it was time for Long Yi to return.

When Long Yi and Hayden returned to the Ancient Mage Tower, they were immediately startled by the fervent atmosphere of faith there. Not long before, the Ancient Mage Tower had encountered the vanguard troops of the two great Empires. The Semi-Crazy Demons were naturally no match for them, prompting the knights of the Holy Temple to dispatch immediately. Of course, even the Temple knights were not really a match for the Divine Armor Mages of the two Empires. Just when they were about to be defeated and annihilated by the enemy, the Temple knights began to pray. The Divine Armor Mages didn’t understand why their enemies suddenly stopped fighting to pray, and they didn’t care either, planning to kill them outright. Suddenly, the Temple knights exploded with an extremely strong power, which was none other than Ascension Power. Using the burst of Ascension Power, the Temple knights managed to drag out enough time for the Ancient Mage Tower to escape danger once again.

Hence, the faith in the Ascenders within the entire Ancient Mage Tower had become unshakable.

Nevertheless, Long Yi was no longer inclined to waste time here. Initially, when he arrived at the Ancient Mage Tower as an Ascender, he had always been thinking about how to recover Elma’s memories. Unfortunately, Elma had set traps in his own mind. Any attempt by someone other than him to touch this part of the memory would trigger an alarm. Long Yi did not know what the consequences of triggering the trap would be. If it simply raised an alarm, it would be fine, but if it triggered something that destroyed that part of the memory, it could be serious.

It was for this reason that Long Yi had played the role of so-called Ascender here. But now, Little Zi already possessed more than two thousand times the Divine Status and a shockingly large amount of Divine Power. With these powers, Little Zi would surely be able to release a perfect and flawless mental spell that could even bypass the alarm within Elma’s memories!

Of course, while that’s what Long Yi believed, he wasn’t planning to burn his bridges. He left that plan in the Holy Temple, always leaving himself a way out.

Elma warmly welcomed Long Yi’s return. During Long Yi’s absence, Elma had never been lax. He continued to train persistently, well aware that once Long Yi found the Holy Temple, it would be his time to shine.

And now, Long Yi was back!

"Teacher, did you make any discoveries this time?" Elma asked, his face full of expectation.

"Yes, although there were some minor complications along the way, I ultimately found the Holy Temple successfully," said Long Yi, taking on the role of the Ascender, also known as Hayden.

"That’s really great! We..." Elma was truly eager to go to the Holy Temple.

"Hehe, don’t worry. I’ve decided to take you to the Holy Temple, and I won’t change that decision, but not right now. I’ve tethered the Temple to this Plane, and it won’t disappear again. However, I need to make sure you are fully prepared," Long Yi said.

"Are you talking about combat strength? I haven’t slacked off one bit during the time you were away, Teacher. I’ve been training hard!" Elma said.

"In that case, let me see the results of your training," Long Yi said.

On the training ground, facing ten Temple knights, Elma felt a bit nervous. In fact, he had been sparring with the Temple knights every day during the absence of the Ascender. Even against Elma, the Temple knights showed no intention of holding back, and it was precisely because of this that Elma’s strength had made rapid progress. However, he had only defeated up to six Temple knights at most, and now Long Yi was having him face ten. There was a serious lack of confidence in his heart.

But lack of confidence or not, I must go to the Holy Temple!

Watching Elma’s battle, Long Yi suddenly had a very strange hunch. Since he had known Elma, there had been a huge change in his character, not to mention the changes after getting younger. When he first met Elma, he was just an old man on the verge of death, and Long Yi had gone to great lengths to save him. Elma’s gratitude at that time was definitely sincere, but later things turned out to be completely different.

When did things start to change? Long Yi thought hard and figured it was probably when Elma took him to Monument Star for the first time, where Long Yi defeated Solis and obtained the key to a Plane Teleportation Gate from him.

From that time on, Long Yi and Elma started on a path of opposition, and Elma’s intent to keep Long Yi by his side forever was revealed.

But upon closer thought, this didn’t make sense. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read at m.qidian.com.)