Free Web NovelChapter 339: Chapter 205: [Sea of Ultimate Destiny]_2
’So, they’re really planning to use a powerful item like an Ancient God Artifact to besiege me, are they?’
’We’ll see just what kind of powerful Ancient God Artifact they bring.’
’After all...’
Zorn slowly extended his palm.
The Cosmic Magic Net had already begun to radiate outward here.
Its numerous networks slowly seeped into this World.
’This ancient Ancient Golden Giant is itself a powerful Ancient God Artifact. Although it’s damaged and can’t be taken from this place, it can still exert tremendous power if used properly.’
Zorn had a reason for letting this group of Middle Rank Gods from the Jade Realm come and besiege him.
For one, he could use the Ancient Golden Giant to slaughter these powerful Middle Rank Gods.
For another, he could use the treasures here, along with himself as bait, to lure the Jade Realm into investing even more valuable assets.
With Zorn’s current strength, he naturally couldn’t snatch a top-tier treasure.
But by borrowing the power of the [Ancient Golden Giant]...
...that was a completely different story.
As long as he could activate even a portion of the [Ancient Golden Giant]’s power...
...Zorn would be fully capable of seizing a top-tier treasure like an Ancient God Artifact.
Traveling through the deathly silent Celestial Dome Curtain.
Before long, Zorn found his target.
It was a flat, silent desert of gravel and rock that stretched for a hundred kilometers in all directions.
In the deepest part of this sea of gravel, which resembled a sea of Death...
...a towering, thousand-meter-tall tombstone stood there, silently radiating ripples of Death.
’A portal to another universe.’
Studying the tombstone of Death, Zorn mused to himself, making no move to approach it.
’At the same time, it is also the vessel of Death for an Ancient God Curse.’
One had to understand...
...that fearsome Ancient God had fallen precisely because it had explored the terrifying "universe" on the other side of this tombstone.
With Zorn’s current strength, going there would be suicide.
If an Ancient God hadn’t died in there...
...Zorn would never have been able to obtain that terrifying Ancient God Curse.
But the Ancient God of this Ancient Divine Kingdom had explored another universe through this ancient tombstone of Death, and had died within it.
It was equivalent to sacrificing itself.
Naturally...
...an old Ancient God Curse now existed within.
What Zorn needed to do was draw it out, inherit it, and master it.
He took a deep breath.
Following his memories, Zorn began to set up the ancient ritual to guide the "Ancient God Curse."
[Sea of Ultimate Destiny]
This was the last Ancient God Curse Zorn sought to master, one with its growth potential maxed out.
Moreover, it was an Ancient God Curse that one could only hope to obtain by sacrificing an Ancient God.
It was basically the most top-tier, growth-type Ancient God Curse in the entire Star Realm Cosmic.
[Sea of Ultimate Destiny] was able to continuously build up its own power by devouring and digesting.
It would only gain offensive methods and characteristics when it reached Level 10.
For many other Forbidden Curses and Ancient God Curses, Level 10 was the end of the road.
But for this one...
...Level 10 was just the beginning.
This was a testament to the Ancient God Curse’s power.
...
「Several days later.」
Ripples appeared in the eternally silent Celestial Dome Curtain, and the vortex within grew increasingly turbulent.
The towering, thousand-meter-tall, rippling stone monument before Zorn also stirred with great waves.
"RUSH..."
A bizarrely shaped Ghost Ship slowly sailed out from within, descending toward Zorn’s Ritual Platform.
As the Ghost Ship descended, parts of it continuously turned to ash.
By the time it had fully landed...
...the Ghost Ship had completely disintegrated, and a quietly spinning seed of the Ancient God Curse, [Sea of Ultimate Destiny], floated silently in its place.
Although its diameter was no more than two meters...
...it seemed to contain an endless ocean within.
"SPLASH..."
Zorn could even hear the rushing sound of ocean waves.
After observing it for a moment, Zorn slowly extended the calamitous tentacles of his Tree of the Magic Ring, absorbing and storing the seed of the [Sea of Ultimate Destiny] inside his body.
’Next, I just need to slowly digest and cultivate the [Sea of Ultimate Destiny].’
Having reached the end of the road in terms of acquiring Ancient God Curses...
...the next step was to focus all his efforts on cultivating them.
He sat cross-legged on the highest peak in this World, one that reached straight into the Celestial Dome Curtain.
Zorn gazed out over the entire World.
The Cosmic Magic Net radiated continuously from his body, spreading out.
If he wanted to control the towering [Ancient Golden Giant] and unleash its power...
...controlling the World from within was the key.
While continuously deepening his control over the [Ancient Golden Giant]...
...Zorn also released his Perception, delicately sensing the entire Ancient Divine Kingdom.
Over the past half a year...
...not only had a large number of Forbidden Curse Spores spread and bloomed within this Divine Kingdom, eroding it...
...but Zorn had also used the Ritual Fire to incinerate the projections of the Jade Magic Ring Tree in multiple locations.
More critically, the fires had already been lit in several places.
Sacrificing the Ancient Divine Kingdom.
This was what Zorn was currently doing.
The moment the vast Ritual Fire completely submerged the entire Divine Kingdom would be the moment Zorn reaped a great harvest.
But even now, it was already showing initial results.
"GURGLE GURGLE GURGLE..."
The converging Time Essence from the sacrifice, as well as the pure Magic Ring Essence from the Jade Magic Ring Tree that was rooted in the Divine Kingdom...
...flowed into Zorn’s body like gurgling streams.
It not only nourished Zorn’s Sequence Level but also promoted the growth of his Tree of the Magic Ring and... an increase in the number of his Calamity Magic Rings.
When the Tree of the Magic Ring was powerful enough...
...it could slowly form Rune Magic Rings on its own as it absorbed the Magic Ring Essence of other Trees of the Magic Ring.
Although the efficiency would be relatively slow, something was better than nothing.
Moreover.
Under these circumstances, as long as Zorn was willing to invest time in secluded cultivation...
...the effect of condensing Rune Magic Rings would increase dramatically.
’By continuously absorbing from the Jade Magic Ring Tree, my Tree of Calamity Magic Ring has also begun to take shape during this time.’
Immersed in his cultivation...
...Zorn also sensed the situation outside through the Cosmic Magic Net.
When he confirmed that the people of the Jade Realm outside were beginning to besiege this place in force...
...Zorn was content to continue his secluded cultivation here.
After all, one of his goals was to attract as many Middle Rank God experts from the Jade Realm as possible to this location.
That way, he could annihilate them all in one fell swoop.
And if...
...those Middle Rank God experts from the Jade Realm could mobilize an Ancient God Artifact, that would be even better.
......
The days passed one by one.
Zorn’s Level as a Legendary Demigod was also steadily increasing.
The number of his Rune Magic Rings was also slowly growing.
However, it was naturally impossible to surpass the Middle Rank God experts from the Jade Realm outside in a short amount of time.
After all...
...those were Middle Rank Gods who had cultivated for tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years.
They all had the solid foundations to become Upper Rank Gods.
They were on a completely different level from a Legendary Demigod like him, who had only cultivated for a hundred years.
If Zorn were given a few hundred years to slowly build up his foundations and increase his strength at the Legendary Demigod tier...
...by then, Zorn could slaughter every last one of the Middle Rank Gods here with his power as a Legendary Demigod alone.
But for now, he still needed to borrow the power of the [Ancient Golden Giant].
「About half a year later.」
The [Ancient Golden Giant] was partially activated.
It began to actively absorb Energy from the outside world.
This discovery left the Jade Realm forces outside overjoyed.
They even intensified their siege of the area significantly.
In addition to that...
...they also dispatched many Divine Spirits with Mastery in Cosmic Gates and Teleportation Gates to try and crack the entrance portal of the [Ancient Golden Giant].
Unfortunately for them!
This was a key portal to another universe.
It was not something they could break in a short amount of time.
「Roughly two years later.」
As the Forbidden Curse Spores and Zorn’s Ritual Fire gradually spread...
...the Calamity Court Realm, which had been at a complete disadvantage in the conflict within the Ancient Divine Kingdom, actually began to slowly regain its footing.
With Zorn fanning the flames, the scales of war in the entire Ancient Divine Kingdom had surprisingly begun to break free from their trajectory of certain defeat.
