The Infernal Plane: Book 5 of the Coiling Dragon Saga Read online

  The battle was being raised to a new level!

  “Whoosh!” Rays of blue sword energy pierced through the sky. Wherever the sword energy passed, space itself began to ripple.

  The Infernal Realm was far more stable than the material planes. In the Yulan Plane, Linley could easily cut open the walls of reality, but this was the Infernal Realm. It would be impressive if Linley was able to create even spatial ripples.

  “Grooowl.” An enormous elemental beast appeared out of nowhere. One enormous beast after another appeared in mid-air, biting and tearing at each other.

  “Boom!” A thick blast of lightning slashed through the air, attacking the enemies.

  “Riiiiip!”

  The warriors of the two sides wildly attacked each other in mid-air. When a God was struck by several material attacks at once, he would be disintegrated! In but a single exchange of blows, dozens of God sparks fell down from mid-air.

  “The situation looks bad!” Linley frowned. “The Black Dragon Army numbers less than two thousand, while the opponent’s forces have three thousand.”

  If they kept on fighting head on like this, the Black Dragon Tribe would be at a great disadvantage.

  “Haha, Stirton, today, you will definitely die!” the skinny, golden-robed man’s shrill voice rang out, while the other, tiger-headed warrior also bellowed, “Brothers, kill them! Kill them all! Spare no one!”

  Stirton’s face was savage.

  “All members of the Black Dragon Tribe, annihilate the enemies!” Stirton roared furiously.

  Instantly…

  The nearly twenty thousand members of the Black Dragon Tribe that had been located behind the army all simultaneously drew their weapons and released their most powerful attacks. The entire sky was filled with illusory sword shadows, massive elemental beasts, and all sorts of shadows…

  Over ten thousand attacks instantly filled the skies, attacking the opponents.

  “Kill them!” The members of the Black Dragon Tribe no longer held back.

  Linley, Delia, and Bebe couldn’t help but feel astonished.

  “Linley, quick, help attack.” An explosive shout sounded out from nearby, causing Linley to be startled.

  Turning, Linley saw that Krate, normally so friendly and so fragile looking, now had a savage look on his face. Looking like an enraged lion, he shouted towards Linley’s group, “We’re at the final stages now. If the army is finished, we are also finished. Those people will exterminate us. Kill them all, kill them!”

  Bebe was the first to react. He immediately howled loudly, “Kill!” At the same time, that black dagger appeared in his hands and created rays of black light that shot towards the opponents. This black dagger was the dagger that Beirut had given him.

  Everyone had gone mad. They were struggling for survival!

  “Kill!” Linley and Delia withdrew their weapons as well.

  Not caring about picking out a specific enemy, they swung their weapons towards the direction of their enemies. Linley was wielding his adamantine heavy sword. Dozens of enormous earthen swords appeared and swung outwards. Although superficially, these enormous earthen swords looked like physical elemental attacks, in reality, they had been infused with the Throbbing Pulse of the World.

  “Charge over there and kill those Black Dragon tribesmen!” the enemy leader, that tiger-headed warrior, bellowed out.

  “Charge over and kill them!” Stirton howled as well.

  Previously, everyone had been exchanging long-range blows. By now, however, everyone had lost friends or family, and their eyes had become red with bloodlust. The two sides instantly traversed the distance between them, engaging in a slaughter in mid-air. Hundreds of full Gods directly charged towards the group of Demigods.

  There was a large difference between Demigods and Gods, especially now when hundreds of Gods were charging over.

  “What is Stirton doing!” Linley was extremely unhappy. “The Black Dragon Tribe’s warriors are clearly inferior to the opponents in strength, and yet he still ignores everything else in favor of battle. By now, he should strike out by himself and destroy the enemy commanders. This is the only option!”

  When your forces were inferior to your opponent’s forces, the fastest way to achieve victory was to kill the leaders of your opponents. However, Linley wasn’t Stirton. He had no way of knowing what Stirton was thinking.

  Next to Linley, Krate suddenly stared at a large, tall figure who was falling from mid-air. His eyes instantly turned red, and he let out a fierce cry: “Big Brother!” His big brother had taken care of him when they were in the material planes, and had continued to do so up to this very day. But today, his big brother had died!

  “Kill!” Krate lost himself in rage. His eyes completely red, he wanted to charge towards the enemies.

  “Krate!” Linley shouted explosively at him through divine sense, and this sound caused him to wake up slightly.

  “Quick, retreat, go back. If you die here, there’s no point to it at all,” Linley said frantically. At this point, the armies were engaged in wide-scale warfare. Linley wasn’t able to do anything right now. All he could do was try to protect their lives as best as possible.

  In addition, Linley’s group was located towards the rear. The enemies Gods had yet to reach their position yet.

  “Haha…” A loud laugh rang out from nearby.

  Only a few dozen meters away from Linley, six Demigods of the Black Dragon Tribe suddenly exploded, and their six Demigod sparks were seized by three hands. It was three enemy God warriors, who had instantly killed those six Demigods. Clearly, they had now noticed Linley’s group.

  “There’s Gods here who were too cowardly to join the army?” one of them, a savage-faced, bald man shouted wildly. “Brothers, kill them all.”

  “Kill them all!”

  The enemy side had three God-level warriors. Like starving wolves, they charged towards Linley’s group. The eyes of those God-level warriors were flashing with red light, a bloodthirsty look in them.

  “Delia, protect yourself!” Linley shouted with his divine sense.

  “You are looking for death!” Bebe shouted explosively. He was the first to charge the attackers.

  “Hmph!” The sinister bald man charged towards Linley; clearly, he had noticed that Linley was just a Demigod. “Die, punk!” The spear in the bald man’s hands, covered with yellow dots, pierced straight towards Linley. With a flip of his hand, Linley thrust out with his adamantine heavy sword.

  The yellow mottled spear clashed with the adamantine heavy sword. During that instant, Linley’s adamantine heavy sword suddenly swayed strangely, not blocking the attack of that spear, allowing it to pierce towards himself…

  “Huh?” The bald man stared, astonished.

  “Clang!”

  In Linley’s left hand, Bloodviolet suddenly appeared, and it blocked the tip of that mottled yellow spear.

  “Hmph!” The bald man sneered, “Punk, you have no idea at all that my ultimate attack is a soul attack!” An illusory spear shadow pierced straight into Linley’s body, charging towards Linley’s consciousness. However, as the bald man executed his ultimate attack…

  Linley’s adamantine heavy sword landed on the bald man’s body as well.

  “So what if you are skilled at soul attacks? A Demigod is far too weak to do anything.” The bald man wasn’t worried. But suddenly, his face changed dramatically as Linley’s Voidwave Sword easily pierced through his soul defense.

  The bald man couldn’t help but stare in Linley at astonishment. “Ah, you…” But instantly, his eyes turned dim.

  “The power of my Voidwave Sword is already three times that of twenty years ago!” Linley’s gaze was cold and remorseless.

  When he had been at Mount Copper Gong, Linley had just begun to fuse the Throbbing Pulse of the World with the Essence of the Earth, resulting in its power increasing by several times. Now that twenty years had passed, the Essence of the Earth had already become more than
halfway fused with the Throbbing Pulse of the World. At this level of being more than halfway fused, the ‘Voidwave Sword’ was now at a level of power that was three times that of the past.

  There was no way this bald man possibly block it! And as for the bald man’s attack? Anyone who specialized in soul attacks would be in for a world of trouble upon meeting Linley!

  “Delia, she…” Linley hurriedly turned to look. He saw eight Delias in mid-air, while the God who wanted to pursue and kill Delia was moving very slowly. Bebe suddenly charged right in front of him…

  “Die!” Bebe looked like a delicate, fragile youth, but right now, he was completely merciless.

  “Crunch!”

  The black dagger pierced through that God’s head!

  “Aaaah!” Even up till now, that God stared at Delia, unwilling to accept this outcome. He had never imagined that Delia, a God, had actually gained insights into the most bizarre profound mystery of the Elemental Laws of the Wind; the ‘Spatial Wind’!

  The three Gods had died!

  At this time, Linley collected the divine artifact, divine spark, and interspatial ring of the bald man.

  “Whew.” The eight ‘Delias’ transformed back into one, then flew over, laughing towards Linley. “Linley, what do you think of my teamwork with Bebe?”

  Bebe said in surprised joy as well, “Boss, that technique of Delia’s just now was very powerful. Those two Gods were both affected by it, and their speed lowered dramatically, as though their hands and feet were tied. I seized the opportunity to kill both of them. It was simply too easy.”

  Linley stared at Delia in astonishment.

  “Linley, didn’t I tell you in the past? That year when we wed, I absorbed that Demigod-level wind-style divine spark which had profound mysteries that were similar to the ‘Void Extermination’ spell, right? This is known as the Profound Mysteries of the ‘Spatial Wind’,” Delia explained.

  Linley nodded.

  “I’ve discovered that those three profound mysteries contained within that Nieff’s divine spark aren’t as useful as that single profound mystery.” Delia sighed.

  Linley let out a relieved breath as well.

  The Elemental Laws of Wind did indeed have to do with space and dimensions.

  “This Profound Mysteries of the ‘Spatial Wind’ should be a very powerful type of profound mystery. Most likely, Lord Beirut had spent quite some effort in selecting this divine spark for her.” Linley felt gratitude in his heart. Turning to look, he saw that the battle around them was extremely bloody, and many people in the tribe had died.

  Linley suddenly had a surge of emotion…

  This sort of battle between tribes was a microcosm of the Infernal Realm as a whole. Even life in a tribe was so dangerous; what about the entire Infernal Realm them?

  “We have to survive here in the Infernal Realm!” Linley looked at Delia and Bebe as he murmured to himself.

  8

  Survival of the Fittest

  Stirton stood there in mid-air. Although the battle around him was fierce, he was like a rock amidst the waves. Nobody was able to budge him at all.

  Stirton watched everything coldly.

  The warriors and members of the tribe died, but he didn’t care at all.

  “It is about time!” Stirton muttered softly.

  “Let’s do it!” A hoarse voice suddenly rang out. Three people suddenly charged out from within those black uniformed warriors of the Black Dragon Army. These three black-robed figures moved almost at the same time that Stirton did, charging towards the two enemy leaders.

  The tiger-headed warrior and the skinny, gold-robed man both laughed.

  “Stirton really did have something up his sleeve. Only, I didn’t expect he’d actually have three of them,” the golden-robed man, Klotman, said in a low voice.

  “Fortunately, we made preparations as well,” the tiger-headed man said coldly.

  The golden-robed Klotman narrowed his eyes, a freezing aura shooting forth from them. With a low growl, he said, “Kill!” As his voice rang out, two gray-robed men suddenly charged out from within their troops. These two gray-robed men and the two leaders simultaneously charged towards their enemies.

  The three black-robed men and Stirton!

  The two gray-robed men, Klotman, and Raschell!

  Four on four!

  “You invited Fiends as well?!” Stirton said in a cold voice.

  “You really are rich. You invited three.” Klayton let out a sneering laugh.

  The two sides immediately dispensed with words. Four on each side. Eight in total. These eight people were all Highgods, and Highgods who had become Deities through their own power. Every single one of them had their own special abilities, and they began to wildly fight against each other.

  “Boom!”

  Space itself shook, and terrifying waves of energy blasted out in every direction.

  “What?!” Many people stared over in astonishment.

  Fighting one on one, the four pairs of people fought wildly in mid-air, causing those terrifying spatial tremors to spread out in every direction constantly.

  One’s body transformed into nothingness…

  Another’s transformed into an enormous elemental beast…

  Still another transformed into the shape of a sword…

  A battle between Highgods was exceedingly vicious. The four pairs of combatants fought against each other, and no one dared to draw near. Even those God-level warriors of the two sides that had been fighting all out against each other earlier now came to a halt as if by mutual agreement, and the fierceness of the battle dropped dramatically.

  “Everyone really is pragmatic.” Linley watched this scene unfold.

  Just now, the leaders of both sides had only been watching as those warriors fought against each other. But now that the leaders of the two sides were fighting, the warriors came to a halt as though by taciturn understanding.

  Delia smiled calmly. “It’s normal. Nobody wants to die! Right now, the leaders are fighting each other. Whichever side’s leader survives will be the side that obtains victory. To these warriors, it doesn’t make much of a difference as to who their leader is.”

  Linley watched those four pairs of Highgods battle it out in mid-air.

  He had to admit that the power of a Highgod vastly outstripped that of a God!

  “At the very least, a Highgod has mastered every single profound mystery in an Elemental Law.” Linley sighed to himself. “Only, there’s differences in the level of fusion.”

  Weak Highgods might not have fused any profound mysteries at all.

  Stronger Highgods, by contrast, might have fused two profound mysteries, or three or more for the powerful ones.

  “Two died,” Linley raised his head, watching the battle as he spoke softly.

  The eight Highgods that had been battling each other had already suffered two casualties; it was the golden-robed Klotman and a black-robed man. Just then, during the four-on-four battle, the golden-robed Klotman had been fighting against that black-robed man.

  Klotman, suffering a severe injury in turn, managed to kill the black-robed man.

  But just at that moment, Stirton suddenly transformed into two clones and attacked, killing the heavily wounded Klotman. Although Klotman also had a clone of his own, his clone was only a God. It was destroyed as well.

  “Stirton!” The tiger-headed warrior’s face changed. “I didn’t expect that your wind-style clone has reached the Highgod level as well.”

  “Hmph!” Stirton sneered. “First, Klotman. Next, you.”

  To people like them, they usually wouldn’t choose to utilize fusing divine sparks. They would only become Deities through training.

  “Is that so?”

  A cold look flashed through the eyes of the tiger-headed man. Suddenly, a figure flew out of his own as well. This figure pounced towards his opponent, another black-robed man. This essentially meant that the tiger-headed warrior and that shadowy figure
were joining forces against their opponent.

  “A Highgod clone!” The black-robed man was frightened into an immediate retreat.

  Stirton’s face changed. Looking at the tiger-headed warrior, he said, “Raschell, you hid it really well!”

  “Not as well as you.” The shadow solidified. It was the darkness-type clone of the tiger-headed warrior, Raschell.

  Watching in the distance, Linley had to sigh in amazement. “That seemingly rash and foolish tiger-headed warrior, Raschell, isn’t one whit less sinister than Stirton.” Linley now understood that perhaps Stirton and Raschell had some secret, ulterior motives for allowing their subordinates to do battle against each other.

  Right at this moment…

  “Lord Bertie, how much longer are you planning to wait?” Stirton sent a message with his divine sense.

  Suddenly, in mid-air, a black light solidified, transforming into a silver-haired, silver-robed elder. This silver-robed elder was wielding a long black whip in his hands, and he charged leisurely towards the tiger-headed warrior and those two gray-robed men.

  “Whoosh!” The long whip danced out, causing space to distort.

  One of the gray-robed men let out a cold sneer. The spear in his hands lengthened, and wherever it passed, black flames appeared out of nowhere.

  The long whip and the long spear collided.

  “Hmph.” The silver-robed elder sneered.

  “Ah!!!” The gray-robed man’s entire body began to convulse. He let out a few agonized cries, and then he stopped moving, falling down from the skies.

  This scene terrified many of the onlookers. Everyone had witnessed the power of that gray-robed man; he definitely was a fairly powerful Highgod. But in front of that silver-robed elder, he had been defeated within a single exchange.

  “Bertie of Castle Greensnake!” The face of the tiger-headed warrior, Raschell, changed dramatically. He glanced disbelievingly at Stirton. “Stirton, you…” He didn’t imagine that the chief of the Black Dragon Tribe, Stirton, would actually ask for help from Castle Greensnake.”

  “Bertie?” The other lucky survivor, the gray-robed man, was greatly shocked.