Chapter 494 (1/2)
Chapter 494: The Soldiers Arrive at the Newst of Myriad Devils
Translator: Radiant Editor: Radiant
The Bloodshed God Palace arranged for each of the countless planets within their territory, to have their many lifeforms put their faith in certain powerful Deities! After placing a ‘Deity Image’ on the planet, they could then condense the faith energy into an item. The various superpowers would then proceed with collecting these items and sending a portion as tribute upward. However, since the legion was unable to pervade every last planet, due to a shortage of manpower, it was impossible for them to truly control this process. Therefore, it was not uncommon for the many World Deity superpowers to spread their roots even deeper all over the many planets! They would then be responsible for collecting faith energy, which was an extremely complex task.
As for the others who sought faith, they would have to be daring enough to steal the faith energy directly from a planet!
Even so, lured by their desire to become World Deities, many late stage Deities, or even peak Deities, would commit to this risk! As a result, enough control over a planet was necessary in order to make sure that faith energy was not pilfered.
The Xia Clan World was a good example. After Xue Ying grasped hold of the Mirage Deity Heart, he was able to block the transmission of faith energy from the Xia Clan World into the external world, which left the World Deity from the Temple of the Earth God anxious, even making him go as far as to send a Deity Avatar down in hopes of regaining the faith energy.
Faith energy…was known to be even more valuable than Deity crystals! Or so was the case for everyone except for people like Xue Ying; if one’s goal was to become a powerful existence, they would absolutely not absorb any faith energy. However, most other World Deities were absolutely willing to do so, since it would aid them in their cultivation. If someone like Xue Ying used faith energy, he could have easily cultivated the “Luminous Sun” to the fourth boundary, and he would have even become a stage three World Deity already.
Faith energy lent itself to bringing about a qualitative change in one’s cultivation.
“The Nest of Myriad Devils controls thirty-two starfields in total? Why is it that the faith energy they’ve collected is so pitiful, then?” Xue Ying sneered.
“The reason is recorded above,” General Mo began. “The starfields under their rule saw frequent cases of Deities stealing their faith energy, while large scale wars in the past resulted in a reduction of human population.”
Xue Ying sighed. “All of those starfields under their control see such things happening frequently, you say? Aren’t they extraordinarily unfortunate? General Mo, have you ever gone over to investigate? Can you confirm that their reports are correct?”
General Mu helplessly replied, “That is… This eastern region of the Calm Sea Prefecture is so vast, and there are so many planets in it. Even if I were to visit each of those planet one by one, would I even be able to conduct a proper investigation? Could I reverse time on every single planet? Such a thing is would not be feasible! Don’t worry though, our intel is complete, with each report containing the name of who went to collect each planet’s faith energy.”
Xue Ying sneered.
His Majesty really was relatively lax in terms of his management of the various strata belonging to the Bloodshed God Palace.
However, the places like the Nest of Myriad Devils which dared to be so excessive in how they went about such matters were still the minority. Most other superpowers would never dare be so upfront! The Nest of Myriad Devils relied on Ying Gu Liang, after all, as well as General Mo who closed an eye on their business, allowing them to report a tribute of faith energy that was much lower than what was expected of them.
“Alright. I’ll be taking these scrolls with me,” Xue Ying said. “There’s no issue with that, right?”
“Naturally,” General Mu replied.
“Let’s go!” Xue Ying waved his hand to store the wooden trunks on his person. Soon after he left the palace hall, an enormous emerald ship appeared in mid-air, upon which Xue Ying and his large group of subordinates then flew onto.
Sou.
The Starfield Flying Ship flew away with great speed, quickly disappearing into the horizon.
General Mo watched it depart from afar.
“General, does His Highness plan to gather the faith energy for himself?” an old man with a long beard asked.
“The Venomous Ying World Deity and Ying Gu Liang have been stuffing their pockets with faith energy for a very long time. Adding everything up, they should have gathered faith energy with an approximate value of eight hundred million Deity crystals.” General Mo sneered. “However, even Ying Gu Liang has to distribute some to that to the officials in charge over at the Bloodshed God Palace, so the brother and sister pair likely only has about five hundred million Deity crystals worth of energy.”
“I personally have no way to deal with those people, but His Highness, Dong Bo… Hehe, His Highness has His Majesty backing him. There’s no better backing anyone could ever have,” General Mo said. “Things should be getting interesting.”