The Era of Gods

Chapter 595: Chapter 595: The Ancient Dominator – The Furious One

This doesn’t mean he would allow the living and the dead to cohabit; even if he truly grasped the Death Divine Job in the future, he would still keep life and death separate.

In this world, the dead cohabitate with the living without issue, but that doesn’t mean it is right. It’s just the influence of the God of Death’s field, but the impact of the dead on the living is still there; it’s just not visible on the surface.

This point can be used for reference but cannot be directly applied.

Entering the Ley Kingdom, Lin Xiao slowed down instead of hurrying. The carriage leisurely traveled through small towns, the wilderness, and slowly moved towards the Furious Gorge dominated by The Furious One.

The Furious Ones are not human, but Evil Spirits, a terrifying existence formed by the aggregation of a great deal of foul aura over a long period and slowly developing a will. Most of the ancient Dominators of this world were born this way.

The most powerful became gods in mortals’ eyes, and the slightly weaker ones were called Dominators, like the powerful beings of Sequence 1 and Sequence Zero. The weakest were referred to as Evil Spirits, demons, and so on.

Of course, since their births are the same, strictly speaking, regardless of strength, all can be collectively called Dominators.

The strength of The Furious One is equivalent to Sequence 3, making them the weakest of the Dominators. Because they govern the ‘Wrath’ rule, they are hence known as The Furious Ones.

Beings above Sequence 3 have already touched and mastered the Rules, which in other worlds amounts to Demigod status. They can bestow the Power of Laws they control to others on a limited basis, naturally gathering those who are unafraid of death or desperate for strength at all costs under their command.

In fact, The Furious One is also one of the many weaker gods of the Ley Kingdom, with their influence radiating from the Furious Gorge as the center to several nearby small towns.

Luckily, the gods in this world directly control Laws without the need for faith; otherwise, these few followers wouldn’t be enough to sustain any god.

From a professional perspective, these ancient gods are the real True Gods. The prospects for faith-based New Gods don’t look good.

But attaining ancient godhood is too difficult, and the slots are too few: only ninety-nine ancient god slots for each Crystal Wall Universe. Most worlds that aren’t powerful enough can’t support the birth of ancient gods, like another universe that Lin Xiao’s Incarnation of God is attempting to conquer, coded CY-00801 Crystal Wall Universe, which isn’t strong enough to harbor ancient gods, and had no ancient god before Lin Xiao’s arrival.

This is also the main reason why faith-based Divine Enthronement is mainstream in the Human Main World. Everyone knows ancient gods are far stronger than faith-based New Gods, but there are simply too few ancient gods.

If you can’t beat me one-on-one, fight me ten-on-one, a hundred-on-one. Even the strongest ancient god can’t take on a hundred or even a thousand alone—that’s the difference.

The residents of Furious Gorge and the nearby towns live under the protection of The Furious One, and many transcendents derive their power from The Furious One. Lin Xiao’s intent to kill The Furious One will naturally impact their vested interests. Mortals he isn’t afraid of, but it’s better to have fewer complications than more—the matter must be handled quietly.

The carriage approached a small town called Burning, not far from Furious Gorge. From a distance, he could see a massive fire basin with a diameter of over thirty meters at the entrance to the town, where flames roared fiercely, with many Flame People-like fire element monsters roaming inside.

As the carriage drew near the huge fire basin, a pillar of fire rose from within, and a giant fire-shaped figure flew out and landed in front of the carriage, extending a hand of flame and demanding:

“Burning Town does not welcome outsiders!”

The strange horse pulling the carriage opened its mouth full of knife-sharp teeth, a tongue like a serpent’s flicked out flexibly, wrapped with lightning that seemed ready to strike.

Lin Xiao pulled back the curtain to look outside and curiously asked Li Mei behind him:

“Is this place unwelcoming to outsiders?”

The radiant Li Mei peeked out beside him, glanced at Burning Town, and shook her head:

“Impossible, it wasn’t like this when I came here last time.”

She looked up at the town beyond the fire basin and said to him:

“Look at the town guards. I guess that something major has happened in Burning Town recently so it has been closed off. We could wait a few days before coming back, or…”

She lowered her voice and said:

“With your strength, you could directly break into the Furious Gorge and kill The Furious One.”

Lin Xiao smiled slightly, hugged her back into the carriage, and said softly:

“Turn right!”

The strange horse grinned, biting the reins and pulling the carriage to the right, leaving the main road and entering the dry wasteland.

There were no trees nearby, only charred stumps and ash-blackened grass and bushes. The air was dry, a condition derived from the careers stemming from The Furious One.

Nearly every True God and Outer God has created a professional system. The stronger the gods are, the more complete the professional system they create. The Furious One’s career system is called The Furious One, with only six levels. Lin Xiao had already learned everything there was to know about these through his casual conversations with Li Mei on the road.

The Furious Ones of Sequence 9 are called Angry Warriors, those of Sequence 8 are called Incinerators, Sequence 7 are named Fiery Magicians, Sequence 6 are entitled Angry Flames Walkers, Sequence 5 are referred to as Furious Apostles, and Sequence 4 are known as Destroyers.

The professionals in the giant fire basin at the town entrance are mostly Incinerators of Sequence 8, whose form of cultivation involves turning into Flame People and gathering within the fire basin.

That is to say, all these wrathful creatures are experts at playing with fire, but their fire is not ordinary flame. It’s the fire of rage ignited from the depths of their souls, extremely powerful.

Despite their strength, everyone knows that the professional hierarchy of the Furious One is stronger than most others at the same rank, but not a single Son of Divine Realm is willing to join this system. Lin Xiao could not sense the presence of any Son of Divine Realm here, not even from humans or other races.

This is because everyone dares not to join this dreadful system, even the boldest children of Godhood.

This is a secret known to all Sons of Divine Realm who have some understanding of this world—the profession of the Furious One is a death system.

The system has a total of six levels, but in reality, outsiders could only see up to Furious Apostle of Sequence 5, with no one ever seeing the Destroyer of Sequence 4.

It’s not that progressing through the ranks is difficult, but that every Furious Apostle who promotes to the Destroyer of Sequence 4 ends up being devoured by the Evil Rage, becoming fodder.

Plainly put, the professional system is specially created by the Furious One as a food source for themselves. Any professional who advances to the Destroyer of Sequence 4 is like ripened food ready for harvest, and the Furious One will then devour them.

As the founder of the profession, the Furious One has absolute control over it. Even if one reaches the rank of Destroyer of Sequence 4, just one rank away from the Furious One’s Sequence 3, they have no power to resist due to the suppression of rank hierarchy.

Fury Flame Gorge is located about five or six kilometers away from the burning town. From a distance, one can see the towering flames engulfing the entire gorge, with such immense power that one can spot the distorted space from outside the valley. Lin Xiao could faintly sense within this twisted Flame Gorge, there lurked… three beings, which to ordinary people might be considered divine, but to him were merely quite powerful creatures.

Without any surprise, one of them was the Furious One.

….”Three?”

The carriage suddenly stopped. Lin Xiao crawled out from the carriage and looked towards the fiery gorge in the distance. Shao Qing turned back to Li Mei and said,

“It’s dangerous inside, do not follow me.”

She obediently nodded, took out a black coat from the carriage for him to put on, tied the straps, and whispered softly,

“Be careful!”

“Hmm!”

He stroked her smooth cheek and waved his hand for the weird horse to pull the carriage away first.

Looking up at the valley where flames were rising, in his senses, the aura of those three powerful entities was quite similar—each carried the same ancient breath, probably all ancient dominators like the Furious One.

He walked towards the gorge, with flaring flames at its edge causing vision to twist. Inside the gorge, there were many Angry Flames Walkers burning.

This was also one of their ways to cultivate. The closer they were to the Furious One, the faster their strength grew. The valley gathered a considerable number of Furious professionals.

He walked along the edge of the burning gorge. Inside, neither the Angry Flames Walker nor the even stronger Furious Apostle could detect him. Even if one occasionally looked up and swept their gaze over his position, they couldn’t see him.

It was only as he approached the deepest part of Fury Flame Gorge, getting fairly close to those three ancient entities, that he could see a huge humanoid flame creature stationed in the molten lava pool at the bottom of the valley, surrounded by flames—an Evil Spirit, an Ancient One, a Dominator: the Furious One.

This was just one of Its many forms, just like Lin Xiao also had a True Body and a human form.

To the left and the right of the molten pool stood two terrifying beings of strange shape. One of them had a lower body scaled like a humanoid creature and an elongated neck growing upward from the upper body, slowly opening like a horn on its neck, with the horn continuously spewing black flames constrained by invisible power, shifting shapes constantly.

The other had four long legs, a bloated body with a dozen thick tentacles swirling and flying, with a huge octopus head.

These two beings simultaneously shot out black and green light beams towards the middle of the molten pool where the Furious One, shrouded in a fiery shield, was located. Meanwhile, they projected a vast gray field that enveloped a large area at the bottom of the valley within it, with powerful fluctuations striking the shield in waves but unable to break through.

“Infighting?”

On his journey, Lin Xiao had already learned from Li Mei about the situation in Ley Kingdom, a nation where many Evil Gods and ancient malevolent dominators converged, and strife and bloodshed were commonplace.

After all, they were Evil Gods and monsters, peace would actually be bizarre.

In fact, it wasn’t limited to just these beings. Even among the three Main Gods there was discord, and their respective churches often attacked and fought each other. Even an ancient dominator once caught in a siege would be at risk of falling.

The strengths of these two unidentified ancient dominators were on par with the Furious One. Despite the geographical advantage, the Furious One was still at a disadvantage when besieged by two others, but it was still far from being overwhelmed. Seeing that the aura on its body was stable, it could probably hold on for quite some time.

Lin Xiao did not go down immediately, but instead sat at the edge of the gorge behind the flames, looking on with interest. He even took out a tea set and boiled water with the high-temperature flames at the edge of the valley.

Although his wish was to kill the Furious One, it didn’t have to be done by his own hand. It would be just as satisfying if the Furious One were killed by another being, as long as he could witness it with his own eyes.

Since there were already two ancient dominators making their move here, there was no need for him to take action himself.