The Four Divine Beasts: Book 6 of the Coiling Dragon Saga Read online

  The Four Divine Beasts

  Book 6 of the Coiling Dragon Saga

  Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi

  Translated by

  Ren Woxing

  Wuxiaworld Limited

  Copyright © 2018 by Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi, translated by Ren Woxing

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  Contents

  Prologue

  I. The Starmist Sea

  1. Black Stone

  2. Ten Years of Harvesting

  3. Saturation

  4. Out To Sea

  5. That Powerful Man

  6. Knifeblade Island

  7. Hidden Expert

  8. Blackstone Prison

  9. Emotions

  10. Ganmontin

  11. So It Was Him

  12. A Great Battle

  13. Unbindable

  14. Drifting For Twenty Years

  15. Miluo Island

  16. Familiar Face

  17. A Confrontation

  18. The Blood-Colored Miluo Insignia

  19. War God, Cesar

  20. With Child?

  21. I Want Him Dead!

  22. All Who Bar My Path Shall Die!

  23. Turning the World Upside Down

  24. Life and Death, Two Paths

  25. Red-Robed Elder

  26. Scryer Records

  27. Secret Area

  28. The Secret

  29. Unable to Leave!

  30. Sledgehammer

  31. Purgatory Commander

  32. The Might of a Sovereign

  II. Indigo Prefecture

  33. Training Speed

  34. Travelling to Indigo Prefecture

  35. Azure Dragon Clan

  36. Seize Them

  37. Baruch

  38. The Weakest, Smallest Branch

  39. The Clan’s Crisis

  40. The Secrets of the Ancestral Baptism!

  41. Eighty Years

  42. Dragonize Pool

  43. Innate Divine Ability

  44. The Might of the Dragon Roar

  45. Greed!

  46. The Challenge

  47. Life-And-Death Duel

  48. No Mercy!

  49. Prestige

  50. ‘Punishment’

  51. Elder

  52. Conclave of Elders

  53. The Grand Elder

  54. Comfort

  55. Receiving the Order

  56. Give Me a Ride

  57. Blood Splattering the Skies

  58. Spiritual Chaos

  59. Bestowal

  60. Freedom

  61. Joining Forces

  62. Surrounded And Attacked

  63. A Battle of Sovereign’s Mights

  Untitled

  64. Bulo, Unwilling to Give Up

  65. The Eight Great Patriarchs

  66. A Tremendous Threat!

  67. Decision

  68. Calmness and Savagery

  69. Most Powerful Attack

  70. Firmament Splitter

  71. Betrayal

  72. A Mysterious Visitor

  73. Nobody There

  74. Wade

  75. Catching a Ride

  76. A Frantic Battle

  77. Spare No One!

  78. Begging for Salvation

  79. Their Proposals

  80. Three Months

  81. Between Life and Death!

  82. Beirut’s Abilities

  83. Two Drops of Sovereign’s Might

  84. Putting on a Performance

  85. Nowhere to Run

  86. Beirut’s Craftiness

  87. Vitality

  88. Dangerous

  89. Unwillingness

  90. Suspicion

  91. A Major Event

  92. Group Battle

  93. The Thorn in Their Side

  94. A Turn Of Events

  95. Supremacy

  For the rest of the Coiling Dragon Saga

  Prologue

  The Infernal Plane was an even deadlier place than advertised, but by luck, grit, and skill Linley has managed to survive one danger after another. It seemed that the Amethyst Mountains would be finally the death of him, but he has survived his encounter with the curious being known as ‘Resigem’. It is time to continue his journey, for the Starmist Sea awaits, as does the Azure Dragon clan within Indigo Prefecture…

  Part I

  The Starmist Sea

  1

  Black Stone

  The Amethyst Mountains were covered by that unfeeling, icy mist. Within the mountain hollow, Delia was currently seated quietly, her eyes closed. Today was as peaceful as always.

  “Delia, Bebe!” Suddenly, a voice rang out. Delia, who had been quietly meditating, couldn’t help but be startled. She immediately opened her eyes and turned to look over.

  Right at this moment, Bebe’s worried voice rang out as well, “Boss, why did you stop training? How is your divine earth clone doing? Did you succeed, or is it…?”

  By the time Delia looked over, she saw that the sky-blue-robed Linley, his original body, was already standing in front of her. “What’s the situation?” Delia walked over, asking with concern.

  Linley felt a surge of warmth in his heart. Nodding, he said, “Everything is fine. My divine earth clone is on the way back and will arrive soon. Delia, Bebe, I’m sorry. I’ve made you worry during this period of time.” Linley didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry right now. He didn’t know if he should say that he was lucky, or if he was unlucky.

  He had just been testing Worldwalking for the first time when he had encountered the juvenile amethyst beast. However, because of this, his power had increased greatly. Indeed, blessings and disasters could be hard to differentiate.

  Suddenly, footsteps rang out from afar. It was Olivier. “Linley, you successfully escaped, right? I can tell just by the look on your face.” Olivier laughed loudly when he saw Linley nod slightly.

  “Boss, you successfully escaped. This is a cause for celebration! Although we might be stuck here a very long time and need to be a bit sparing with the wine, today, we absolutely still have to celebrate this joyous occasion.” With a flip of his hand, Bebe retrieved several bottles of fine wine.

  Wine was extremely precious in the Amethyst Mountains. Here, perhaps not even hundreds of millions of inkstones would be enough to trade for a single bottle of wine. After all, in the Amethyst Mountains, amethysts were simply too common. Wine, on the other hand, was gone after being drunk. The Amethyst Mountains didn’t have any materials that could be used for making wine.

  “Haha, today, drink as much as you like.” Linley laughed loudly. “Even if we drink up all the wine we have, it doesn’t matter!”

  Bebe immediately stared. “Boss, you can be happy, but you can’t be so wasteful.”

  Olivier was somewhat astonished as well. As for Delia, she looked suspiciously at Linley. “Linley, are you preparing to stop drinking after this?”

  “Haha…” Laughing, Linley shook his head. “That’s not it. It’s because I’ve already found a method by which I can take you all out from these Amethyst Mountains.”

  “Leave the Amethyst Mountains?” Bebe, Delia, and Olivier couldn’t help but be stunned. After so many years, nobody who had entered the Amethyst Mountains had been able to leave on their own. Olivier and the others had tested it out as well, but weren’t able to leave the Amethyst Mountains at all. But Linley was now saying…

  Delia, Bebe, and Olivier knew what sort of person Linley was. They knew that Linley wouldn’t lie, but… leaving the Amethyst Mountains? This was simply too unbelievable.

  “Boss? You tellin’ the truth?” Bebe was filled with doubts, and so he asked again.

  “Linley, you’d better not be making me happy for nothing.” Olivier chuckled, but his eyes stared hard at Linley with a hint of expectation in them. If anyone else had said this, Olivier probably wouldn’t even pay them any mind, but this was Linley. Linley wasn’t the sort of person to lie!

  “Linley, you have a way to deal with that astonishing gravity?” Delia went straight to the heart of the matter. If one wanted to leave the Amethyst Mountains, first, one had to deal with that astonishing gravity. The gravity of the Amethyst Mountains was something that not even most Highgods could nullify while flying.

  “Don’t worry. If I said we can leave, that means we can leave,” Linley said with absolute certainty. Hints of excitement appeared in the faces of Bebe, Delia, and Olivier.

  “Boss, how would we leave?” Bebe asked.

  Linley smiled. “Fine. I’ll give you a demonstration, as otherwise you probably wouldn’t believe it.” Linley’s original body was capable of borrowing divine power from his divine body. Immediately, Linley’s body began to circulate with a surge of divin
e earth power, and he immediately activated it based on the insights he had gained.

  Geomagnetic ripples spread out from Linley’s legs, stretching out into the earth. Crackle… At the same time, the ground within a hundred meters began to ripple strangely. Linley smiled as he looked at Delia, Bebe, and Olivier. “What do you think?”

  “Huh?” Delia and the others were astonished. To their amazement, they discovered that the effect their body suffered from the astonishing gravitational force of the Amethyst Mountains had been weakened by more than 90%. Although the remaining amount of gravity pull was considerable, it was no longer enough to prevent the three of them from flying. All three of them easily hovered up from the ground.

  “Linley, what’s this?” Olivier couldn’t help but find this unbelievable.

  “Yeah!” Bebe’s face was filled with astonishment. “Garlan and Jarrod had told me that even if one mastered Gravitational Space, it would be useless here in the Amethyst Mountains. Up till now, nobody has been able to nullify the gravitational force like you.” Although some experts were powerful enough to fly despite the pull of gravity, that was just relying on pure power, unlike Linley who was just using profound mysteries.

  “Do you believe me now?” Linley didn’t explain further.

  “I believe you, I believe you.” Olivier’s face was covered with delight, the many years of unhappiness all washed away.

  “Boss, what about that strange wind region?” Bebe asked hurriedly. That chaotic region was the true culprit behind so many experts being trapped here.

  Linley laughed calmly. “No need to ask. When we leave, I’ll deal with it.” Linley still remembered clearly how the juvenile amethyst beast, Reisgem, had said that he would be able to pass through the area of the strange wind sound by relying on this black stone alone. I have to spend some time giving a thorough review of this black stone, Linley mused to himself.

  After exiting the cave, Linley had been in a hurry to come back and hadn’t analyzed the black stone. However, even that cursory glance he had given it had shown that the black stone had astonishing aspects to it. In particular, it held within it an aura that made one’s heart tremble, and the spiritual energy within it constantly changed. All of these things attracted Linley’s interest.

  “But of course, I still need to spend some time preparing, and get a thorough understanding of the method we’ll use to leave.” Linley laughed. “The Amethyst Mountains are very safe. In the Infernal Realm, it’s very, very rare to find such a safe training area.”

  “Indeed, aside from the white fog here limiting visibility, the astonishing gravity, and the boring, dull lifestyle… it really is quite safe in the Amethyst Mountains, aside from the day of the Fog Wave.” Olivier nodded as well.

  Right at this moment, the returning divine earth clone finally sprouted out from the stone, fusing into Linley’s original body. Delia and Bebe, upon seeing this, finally let out sighs of relief. “Haha, Boss, let’s celebrate!” Bebe, having received two pieces of good news in a row, was naturally in an excellent mood.

  After Linley’s group of four celebrated, Linley began to focus on his analysis of the black stone. “This black stone contains within it an earth-type aura, and it also has a spiritual aura. It really is odd.” Linley carefully inspected the black stone, his heart filled with questions, and then he laughed. “Perhaps the black stone has some connection to amethysts.” Amethyst stones were earth-style stones, but they contained spiritual energy as well. This was quite similar to the black stone.

  “However, the aura of the spiritual energy in this black stone causes my heart to tremble…” Linley said to himself. The black stone also held within it those 108 constantly fluctuating spiritual energy auras. These 108 spiritual energy auras were moving into constantly changing configurations, causing Linley to feel utterly delighted. The configurations he himself had developed thus far were just the basics, but the naturally transforming configurations within the black stone itself were on a deeper level.

  Linley immediately calmed his mind and began to analyze the methods by which one would use this Gravitational Space technique. Although seemingly simple, controlling it for one’s own use was very complicated. It was much like how Linley had seen those 108 spikes on the back of the juvenile amethyst beast, but truly understanding the configuration had required a very long amount of time.

  It was quite difficult, but Linley was quickly absorbed by it…

  “When Boss trains like this, he pays no attention to time at all,” Bebe muttered, not for the first time. In fact, he had complained like this innumerable times.

  Delia laughed and glanced at him. “Bebe, calm down and train. It’s just been twenty years. It went by in a flash! Look at Olivier. As soon as he started meditating, he hasn’t woken up a single time. If you are so impatient, when will you be able to make a breakthrough?” Bebe pouted but didn’t reply.

  “Heeey.” Moments later, Bebe’s eyes suddenly lit up. “The Boss woke up.” Delia hurriedly turned to look towards where Linley was seated in meditation. Right now, Linley’s eyes were open, and his face was all smiles. “So the black stone can even be used in such a manner. I truly am a fool.”

  Linley turned and urged, “Bebe, come over.”

  “What for?” Bebe didn’t quite understand.

  “Get a feel for my Gravitational Space,” Linley said.

  Bebe raised an eyebrow, then immediately walked over. Disdainfully, he said, “Gravitational Space? Give it your best shot. I, Bebe, have a really powerful body. Your Gravitational Space won’t be able to harm me, no matter how powerful it is.” Bebe was fully confident in his strengths. Indeed it was precisely because Bebe had such a tough body that Linley had asked him to come.

  “Get ready.” Linley immediately began to use it. Crackle… Geomagnetic ripples spread out from Linley’s feet, spreading out through the earth and continuously transforming from within it. The strange thing was, the black stone was currently floating within Linley’s sea of consciousness, and the 108 rays of spiritual energy within the black stone were moving in exactly the same manner as the geomagnetic ripples. It was as though the two were moving in accord.

  “Haha, the gravity is quite something, but it’s nothing to me,” Bebe said delightedly, but suddenly, Bebe’s face changed. He frantically shook his head. “Boss, stop messing around. My head feels miserable.”

  Linley immediately halted. “How does that feel?” Linley laughed while looking at him. This was all as Linley had predicted it would be.

  Bebe stared at Linley in surprise. “Boss, just now, my head felt so dizzy. That feeling was just— just like how when I heard the strange wind sound in the Fog Sea. It was that sort of feeling. My head felt extremely miserable. How’d you do it?” Bebe somewhat didn’t dare to believe it.