Chapter 952 Great G.o.d’s Brilliance
“The deed is done. I am finally free from the clutches of that clingy b*stard.”
Upon Li Yi safe return, Durarame let out a yelp of joy. It then pointed her finger forward, and with that, the door at the back of the palace swung open yet again.
Now that the deal had been completed, Li Yi was allowed to leave.
Li Yi tossed the broken Transformation Wand onto the ground and hurriedly left the place.
He had finally figured out how Everest and Durarame’s relations.h.i.+p had come to be. As a matter of fact, his travel back to the past had not changed a single thing, as in the end, Everest would still fall in love with Durarame.
However, such matters no longer had anything to do with Li Yi, as the only thing that was important was being able to clear the stage.
After Li Yi exited the Invention G.o.d’s Palace, he was already close to the peak of Mount Pantheon.
There were only three more palaces in front of him, and he only needed to clear two more to face the Ruler of G.o.ds.
Li Yi thought back to the words of the Death G.o.d, that no matter how hard players strived, the most they could become was a demiG.o.d. There was only one way for players to reach G.o.dhood, and that was through the blessing of the Ruler of G.o.ds.
‘Does it mean that I can become a G.o.d if I meet the Ruler of G.o.ds?’
While Li Yi was mulling over his thoughts, he moved on to the next palace.
“Hi, Lil Wing, wait for mee…”
A loud shout could be heard from behind Li Yi, and when he turned around, he spotted the Legendary Summoner, The Mountain sprinting over towards him.
Li Yi was flabbergasted.
‘How can that punk be so fast…’
Li Yi had a.s.sumed his clear times to be quite fast already. Plus, he had also relied on his position as a Legendary Engineer to clear the Invention G.o.d’s Palace earlier. So, how could The Mountain have cleared it that easily?
If Li Yi had relied on his Legendary Engineering rank to clear the stage, then what about The Mountain? Brute force? What a joke, at this point, no normal player would stand a chance against a true G.o.d.
“How did you make it here?”
“I wanted to ask you the same thing. I thought I was already plenty fast, so, how did you make it here?”
Visible confusion could be seen from The Mountain eyes.
The two strode forward, and Li Yi told the truth as it is. “I’m a Legendary Engineer, so I managed to trigger a hidden quest.”
The Mountain scratched his head. “Well, my party which is currently facing the Seven Demon G.o.ds managed to achieve a breakthrough and obtained something called a Great G.o.d’s Brilliance. With it, I managed to clear the previous stages without breaking a sweat.”
“Great G.o.d’s Brilliance?”
The Mountain nodded his head. He stated, “Having a single charge of Great G.o.d’s Brilliance allows one to clear a palace without doing battle. Additionally, my party is doing pretty well, and they’ve managed to activate three charges of the Great G.o.d’s Brilliance for me. So…”
Upon hearing The Mountain’s words, Li Yi went silent.
After all, the Mountain’s party had consisted of the bunch of r.e.t.a.r.ds from the Huashan Sect with Sc.u.mbag w.a.n.g as their leader. From top to bottom, they were plagued with inadequacies such as equipment, levels, techniques, and plenty more…
‘Could such a rag-tag bunch of players even defeat any of the Seven Demon G.o.ds? Could they achieve a breakthrough? Is that f*cking possible?’
“So, what you’re saying is that the Huashan Sect obtained three charges of the Great G.o.d’s Blessing for you? Is that right?”
The Mountain nodded. “Yep, Sc.u.mbag w.a.n.g and the others did.”
“…”
‘Isn’t this too huge of a stretch?’
Sensing that Li Yi was doubting his words, The Mountain displayed his final charge of the Great G.o.d’s Brilliance.
It was a rainbow-colored ring of light, and Li Yi could click it to check its stats. On it, it was clearly stated that it was usable only to clear the stages, and each charge would allow its user to skip a single palace.
“You must be wondering why w.a.n.g’er and his gang have managed to do it, but not your own team, right?”
Li Yi nodded.
The Mountain shrugged. “Same here.”
“w.a.n.g’er and his brothers have been constantly going at it, but until now, they still haven’t cleared the stage. Even so, I’ve already obtained these charges of the Great G.o.d’s Blessing, so don’t you find this a bit weird?”
‘Haven’t cleared the stage? Constantly going at it?’
Li Yi furrowed his brows as he lapsed into thought. Then, he sent a voice message to Zhang Yuan.
“Did you change the members of our party?”
“Yeah, we did. Due to the difficulty of the quest, many thought that it was impossible to clear it. So, after every attempt, there’s bound to be someone who quits the party. However, we’ve been constantly going at it, and we’ve never given up.”
“Don’t invite anyone in for now. Just leave it as it is and keep going at it.”
“Alright!”
Even after much deliberation, the only positive quality that Li Yi could come up about Sc.u.mbag w.a.n.g and his merry lot was their persistence.
Almost every party that battled the Seven Demon G.o.ds had already swapped countless players, only the Huashan Sect had maintained their line-up constantly. Their lineup had been the same since the beginning and there were no alterations made to it whatsoever.
Maintaining the same line-up and doing the challenge over and over again. That had seemed to be the path to obtaining the Great G.o.d’s Brilliance.
“Lil Wing, I’ll head on before you then. See you at the finis.h.i.+ng line, bye!”
The Mountain waved his hand at Li Yi and then he entered the palace. As he still had a charge of the Great G.o.d’s Brilliance on him, in terms of clear time, Li Yi would be hard-pressed to catch up to him in such a short amount of time.
The palace in front of them was called the Life G.o.d’s Palace, and it was one of the three final palaces of Mount Pantheon.
Upon entering the palace, Li Yi was immediately transported to a jungle teeming with life.
Each of the plants here had developed conscious thought. To ill.u.s.trate this, the trees would swing their vines to fend off invaders, while the little flowers and weeds could shoot out pollen and spores as a means of a long-range attack.
Woosh-woosh-woosh…
Moments after Li Yi had entered the forest, he was immediately surrounded by a bunch of flowers and weeds.
“Boom—”
Li Yi activated his Rocket Propellant and shot several meters ahead. He then used his Beast Soul’s Possession — Six Arm Red Macaque and unleashed Thousand Sword Criss-Cross.
Since he was surrounded by enemies on all sides, the best method for Li Yi to handle them was by finis.h.i.+ng them off with a single blow.
Tch-tch-tch-tch—
Thousands of blade auras were let loose, and the surrounding gra.s.s, trees, flowers, and vines were ravaged.
Poof!
Upon unleas.h.i.+ng the ultimate skill, Li Yi reverted to his original form as he had used up his stamina.
Now that Li Yi had stopped his barrage, another crowd of flora came hopping over to Li Yi’s position.
Li Yi raised his bow.
“True Overlord Arrow!”
A flaming phoenix flew outwards, crus.h.i.+ng and devastating plenty of flora…
The forest was enveloped with a thick fog, and it was hard to distinguish directions within it. However, this was of no problem to Li Yi.
With a flick of his wrist, a map appeared in Li Yi’s hands. It was the Living Forest’s map!
With the map as his guide, Li Yi quickly determined the correct direction, and while he continued to fire his True Overlord Arrows, he was also inching towards the exit.
There was no G.o.d within the Living Forest. This was something that Li Yi was sure of, as the Evil G.o.d that the Ruler of G.o.ds had sent into the Void Dimension was actually the leader of all the Life G.o.ds, the Life G.o.ddess.
Since their leader had been chased away, would any other Life G.o.d be treated any better? Of course not, as they had all been sealed and locked up by the Ruler of G.o.ds.
All of this knowledge had come from the Evil G.o.d’s mouth itself after he had reached 100% progress on his Evil G.o.d Summoning Scroll.
The Living Forest was extremely huge, and although there were no G.o.ds here, the flora here was extremely powerful. If Li Yi were to get surrounded by them, he would undoubtedly be exterminated in mere seconds.
Li Yi proceeded very carefully, and after he made it halfway through the map, he activated his G.o.d Mode, completely abolis.h.i.+ng any chance of him being caught by any monsterlings.
After half an hour later, Li Yi finally made it to the exit. However, somewhere near the exit, he spotted a green-skinned demon.
“Croak…”
The green-skinned demon was still alive, and when it saw somebody coming over, it opened its lifeless eyes and let out a grunt.
‘Aragon!’
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