Chapter 550 - The Nine Great Temples
Chapter 550: The Nine Great Temples
After defeating the third monster in the thirteenth oceanic territory, Xuanyuan Qi did not rush in and challenge the next guardian monster. He turned around and paid attention to Jiang Feng.
When he saw that Jiang Feng had easily defeated the first monster within the thirteenth oceanic territory, his face darkened.
He roared deep down, ‘How can he be so damn strong? Not only is he powerful within the game, but he is also so powerful in the real world! Not only did he kill my uncles, he even forced the Xuanyuan family to take a step back. What kind of being is he?’
T/L Note: He’s the author’s son, that’s why.
Jealousy and anger filled Xuanyuan Qi’s heart.
Despite his usual level of high self-confidence, he felt utterly brought down to an all-time low.
Especially after he knew what had happened to the Xuanyuan family about an hour or two ago. After logging out and asking them, he had been thinking about the question all this while.
But despite thinking hard about it, he still could not understand why.
He did not want to give up and said, “Since it’s impossible to suppress you in reality, then I will surpass you in the game and suppress you!”
He clenched both his fists as Xuanyuan Qi said it out loud, and then turned around and headed toward the barrier within the thirteenth oceanic territory.
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Most of the players who were online had already participated in the evaluation.
The Sacred Leaderboards’ placement had also appeared.
Other than Jiang Feng’s group and the others who were still being evaluated, most of them were paying attention to the Sacred Leaderboards’ changes.
As for Jiang Feng and his group, they were still being evaluated.
After reaching the fourteenth oceanic territory, a large number of players were once again thrown into the sea.
There were only about fifty people in the fourteenth oceanic territory.
Jiang Feng finally caught up and was fighting with the guardian boss.
“Shadow Strike!”
After using Shadow Strike, he immediately killed the Rank Four Lesser Sacred Master monster in front of him.
After killing that monster, he became the first one to step into the fifteenth oceanic territory.
Plop!
As soon as he stepped into the fifteenth oceanic territory and was going to head to the sixteenth oceanic territory, the sounds of things falling into the water came from behind him.
Jiang Feng turned around and saw Kitazawa Hinata, Sakaguchi Shouta, Adam, Eve and the others, who could not defeat the guardian monster, all being eliminated
It seemed that their power had only reached the level of a Rank Four Lesser Sacred Master.
Jiang Feng let out a faint smile and continued toward the fifteenth oceanic territory.
“Look, the Shifter Emperor has also entered the fifteenth oceanic territory! Looks like he has the power of at least a Rank Five Lesser Sacred Master!”
“Xuanyuan Qi, Canaan, and the other seven are also not bad! They have all reached the fifteenth oceanic territory!”
“I wonder who among the ten would be able to reach the highest!”
…
“Huff…”
After finally killing the fifteenth oceanic territory’s guardian monster, Jiang Feng managed to get into the sixteenth oceanic territory.
Suddenly, he could sense the gravity on him being strengthened again.
“Looks like the sixteenth oceanic territory is my limit. Unless I activate my Slaughter status or use some other buff, I would not be able to pass through the sixteenth oceanic territory!”
When he was fighting the fifteenth guardian boss, Jiang Feng had given his all. And only then did he manage to defeat it.
Of course, if he activated all his statuses, it would still be very easy for him to go past it.
Plop!
When he entered the sixteenth oceanic territory, he could once again hear the sounds of things dropping into the water.
He turned around and he was surprised.
The nine players that were originally behind him had all failed when they faced the guardian monster.
All of them had fallen into the water.
When he saw what happened, he smiled.
He did not choose to continue forward, but instead jumped into the water and was teleported onto the platform.
He was already in the first place. To him, there was no need to continue afterward.
If he continued on, he would be exposing his own strength. Therefore, he had chosen to give up.
“Why did the Shifter Emperor stop advancing?”
“It is so easy to tell, isn’t it? He was already having such a hard time fighting the guardian monster. And on the sixteenth oceanic territory, all the monsters would be at the same level as the guardian monster. How is he going to fight them? Instead of being thrown into the water, at least he jumped into the water with style!”
“Tch. Garbage. If it weren’t because of his buffs, he would have been thrown into the sea a long time ago. He has a lot of buffs. Without these buffs, the other Inheritors could easily win him!”
…
His choice of not continuing had attracted many players’ discussion on him.
Some were surprised by his power, but some were critical of him.
However, it was not important to Jiang Feng anymore.
When he returned to the platform, the system’s voice entered his ear.
Ding. System Announcement: Congratulations. You have won first place on the Lesser Sacred Master Leaderboard, and have the right to first enter the Nine Great Temples. Will you enter?”
‘Hmm? I can choose to enter the Nine Great Temples now?”
“Enter!”
Jiang Feng had always been interested in knowing what the Nine Great Temples were so he chose to enter it.
Whoosh!
The moment he said that his entire world began to spin as darkness consumed him.
When he opened his eyes again, he had appeared on a platform.
There were nine lotuses around the floating platform.
Under the platform was a bottomless abyss. Further away from the floating platform were nine palaces.
The nine palaces were similar to the nine elemental mountains from the Divine Dominion School.
The difference was that the nine palaces did not represent the nine elements. On their signboards, the nine Demesnes were written on it.
They were the Demesne of Time, the Demesne of Space, the Demesne of Devouring, the Demesne of Origin, the Demesne of Destruction, the Demesne of Reincarnation, the Demesne of Fate, the Demesne of Darkness, and the Demesne of Light.
Jiang Feng did not have to think twice to know that the nine Demesnes were the most powerful beings within the game.
The game was created using the worlds’ mythologies as a background. That meant that at the later stages of the game, Demesnes would be the core of the game’s gameplay.
The reason that they would appear now was to give the players some foundation.
If he was correct, perceiving a Demesne would be extremely important for them to enter Dragonquarry.
Whoosh!
Just as he was observing the nine palaces, a stone tablet appeared before him. There was something written on the tablet.
“There are three thousand Demesnes, and the primal Demesnes are the most powerful Demesnes among the three thousand great Demesnes. And there are nine of them.”
“The nine primal Demesnes then gave birth to innumerable Laws. One can only begin to understand the nine Demesnes once they possess a certain number of laws.”
“Remember. One can only choose one temple in this place, and one can only stay there for five hours.”
“Once the five hours time limit has been reached, one would be teleported away.”
Other than these words, there were also some introductions regarding “Paths[1]” and “Laws.”
Law can be used to increase Sacred Health, Sacred Attack, and Sacred Defense, while Path could be used to increase the perception of skills within that Demesne. These skills would be more powerful than the Greater Sacred Skills.
From the introduction, Jiang Feng also got to know that outside of the temple, one could only begin to perceive a Law when they had reached the power of a Great Saint. But there were no such limitations within the temple.
‘The only reason that King Zhou is so powerful is because of the buff he gained from his Law. If I can stay here and learn to understand and gain some Laws, I would have the power to fight with him!’ Jiang Feng became very excited when he thought of that.
But when he looked at all the nine palaces, he began to hesitate.
All nine of the Demesnes were very powerful, and he was not sure which one he should choose.
[1] The author makes a distinction between Path and Demesne (道/大道） in raw. We’ll see if he retcons it later.