Chapter 685: Dueling Sacrifices
Several days ago.
After the fishman youngster rested, he immediately used [Believer Perception] to gain first-hand information.
He knew Snow Bird Harbor City Lord’s secret identity and his hidden conspiracy, this caused the fishman youngster’s desire to become a saint level to grow even more.
Snow Bird Harbor City Lord was a gold level, and the fishman youngster saw that he was very strong in battle. Not only that, but he was also Snow Bird Harbor’s local boss with a high position.
To become his enemy, one not only had to consider his combat strength, but also his military might.
“Not just the forces behind him, he has contacts in the Ice Sculpture Kingdom that can leverage many more resources. More crucially, he is also an important member of the Imperial Secret Spy Agency and can borrow that organization’s capabilities.”
“Only by becoming a saint level can I truly gain a qualitative change and be able to influence the entire situation sufficiently”
Holding this opinion, the fishman youngster began a blasphemous prayer.
He was very practiced in the process of blasphemous prayers.
In the prayer cabin, he knelt to the ground, tightened his fists, and hung his head.
“Oh, grand Charming Blue Goddess!”
“Your believer kneels in worship to You with a humble heart.”
“May You bequeath an ear to my pious prayer.”
“You are a grand existence, Your divine power is vast and boundless, vaster and more glorious than the star studded heavens. Your wisdom transcends time and space, You are omnipotent, Your power destroys all enemies, and none can compete with You.”
“You mercifully protect and vehemently bless Your flock.”
“I ask for your continued guidance and let me advance on the inexhaustible road ahead. Please sprinkle Your blessings on me, let me gain even more transcendent strength, let me be wreathed by the saint level.”
“I remember Your teachings, and under Your protection I have overcome all difficulties and challenges. I have glorified Your name with my actions and spread Your divine radiance.”
“Charming Blue Goddess, You are my eternal conviction, I will forever praise You. I hope Your divine power fills my spirit for eternity!”
The wording of this prayer had been meticulously designed, and it had only one request, that was to use a divine blessing to promote to the saint level!
But truth be told, the fishman youngster was uncertain about it.
The theory was possible.
But this time, he also knew that he was asking for too much, far more than the prior times.
Would Charming Blue Goddess consent?
Perhaps it was in accordance with the fishman youngster’s conjecture, and the Charming Blue Godhead would automatically carry out this request?
The fishman youngster was mainly relying on his god level fishman bloodline aptitude.
Very quickly, the fishman youngster noticed that this prayer was different from the others.
Previous prayers he almost instantly got a response, and the divine blessings were unable to hold themselves back. But this time, he waited for two full minutes.
Those two minutes seemed very long to the fishman youngster.
Then, he got a divine oracle.
The divine oracle was also different from prior ones.
The fishman youngster sank into a land of fantasy in a split second.
It was as if he was falling into the deep sea, sinking. Underneath on the seafloor depths, there was a gigantic shadow.
This was a familiar scene to the young man.
In the past, he had dreamed of this scene many times.
Then in that dream-like state, as he fell closer to the shadow, he discovered that it was Tranquil Hill!
The surrounding seawater suddenly vanished, and he helplessly fell through the air.
Very quickly, like a bird with broken wings, he was thrown down onto Tranquil Hill’s peak.
But he didn’t fall to his death, rather he was thrown further into the depths of the hill.
There hid a mysterious space.
The space was not wide, and apart from the fishman youngster, there was only one thing.
It floated in the gloomy air, emitting the color of the rainbow. It looked like a transparent crystal. Its shape was not fixed and constantly shifted, but no matter how it changed, it always looked like a geometric polyhedron.
“It is the Dueling Godhead.” Charming Blue Goddess’ oracle told the young man.
The young man’s heart suddenly quaked.
“Approach it.” Said the divine oracle.
The fishman youngster complied with the words and slowly stepped towards it.
The first few steps were easy. But very quickly, his expression changed and he noticed it was becoming more difficult.
The endless pressure around him forced him back. Stranger was that he obviously took many steps forward, but his distance from the Dueling Godhead remained the same.
“There is a way to approach the Godhead – obtain the Dueling Divinity’s favor,” said the divine oracle.
Immediately afterwards, the fishman youngster’s field of view changed abruptly.
He looked around and found himself in a dueling arena.
Two duelists were fighting, the arena was filled with spectators enthusiastically shouting, and the several thousand people present were soaked with a fanatical ambience.
None of them noticed the fishman youngster, as if he were completely transparent.
The fishman youngster’s field of view changed again.
It was another dueling arena, far larger than the last. The experts dueling here were both gold levels.
The fishman youngster’s field of view changed successively.
He experienced many different dueling arenas, some big and some small. The large arenas could hold tens of thousands of spectators while some small ones could only fit ten.
He witnessed many duels, mainly between two people, but there were also some against beasts and others composed of many people.
There were many duels, each with a clear focus to them.
Whenever these important scenes appeared, the vision would slow down and focus on the prominent entity in that duel.
The fishman youngster quickly concluded that all of the prominent figures that were emphasized were like Xiong Ju, people who complied with dueling rules voluntarily.
In other words, they were Dueling believers!
“No, to be more accurate, aren’t those fanatical spectators also believers too?”
“When it comes to dueling, the vast majority of them can barely be considered pan-believers.”
“This is an enormous foundation of belief!”
The fishman youngster sensed a type of shock, especially because he had used {Believer Perception] many times to sense Charming Blue believers.
There were few Charming Blue believers, and compared to the Dueling believers, they were like withered autumn leaves.
The fishman youngster’s field of view suddenly tilted upwards and he ascended to look down at the vast Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s territory from on high.
Within the gigantic landmass, there were dueling arenas big and small densely packed together, with all sorts of duels happening once or even several times a day in them.
Duels were not just entertainment, but rather an important part of life to the Ice Sculpture citizens. They relied on it to solve many daily disputes and conflicts.
This exceptionally good dueling ambience molded many dueling stars, and Long Fu was one of those famous celebrities.
This fertile dueling soil nourished countless Dueling believers. The power of this belief had been accumulating in this land for hundreds and even thousands of years!
They were concentrated on the Tranquil Hill divine domain, and in the depths of Tranquil Hill a new Godhead came into being.
The Dueling Godhead!
“Isn’t what is referred to as a duel actually a sacrifice to the gods?”
“Zhou Zhang caught ocean beasts and blood sacrificed their flesh and lifeforce. These duels are inherently sacrifices too.”
“They are sacrifices to the Dueling God.”
“Quantitative changes led to qualitative changes, ultimately molding a Godhead!”
The divine oracle gave the fishman youngster a sudden realization.
“There is another thing.”
“The Godhead hasn’t been completely…formed yet, it is almost there.”
The divine oracle continued to tell him things.
This year’s National Ceremony Grand Duel was pivotal!
The Grand Duel was a great national sacrifice and would make an enormous amount of belief that would fill in the last piece of the Dueling Godhead and truly complete it.
A complete Godhead could be bestowed to a transcendent lifeform.
Not all transcendent lifeforms were qualified to bear the Godhead. But when a transcendent individual was able to bear a Godhead, then they could use a portion of the Godhead’s power, thereby obtaining a portion of the gods’ divine power!
“Go and take part in the National Ceremony Grand Duel.”
“Go become the ultimate victor, the final winner.”
“By doing this, you can obtain a large amount of the Dueling Divinity’s favor, thereby being able to approach the Godhead.”
“If you can touch the Godhead, it is possible you can take custody of the Godhead.”
“Someday in the future, if you can constantly reinforce your control over it and ultimately absorb the Godhead, then as a transcendent, you will become historical, becoming an unprecedented…Dueling God!”
The divine oracle’s voice rumbled in the fishman youngster’s heart.
The young man was stunned.
The divine oracle then said, “Take note that before this, you cannot be promoted to the saint level.”
“The saint level is the first step on the road to godhood.”
“Any saint level whose foundation isn’t Dueling in nature will evoke the Dueling Divinity’s rejection and revulsion.”
“This will immensely raise the difficulty of approaching the Godhead.”
“The Surging Wave fishman bloodline being promoted to the saint level will be a water attribute saint domain. If you have it before going in, it is equal to erecting a mountain between you and the Dueling Godhead.”
The divine oracle ended there, and for a long time, the fishman youngster couldn’t calm down from his profound shock.
This divine oracle contained infomration that would leave anyone dumbfounded.
The fishman youngster learned a startling gargantuan secret from it!
“The Dueling Godhead!”
“I want to approach it; I want to obtain it.”
“With it, I can possess a portion of a god’s divine power! Compared to the help a saint level promotion would bring, this is absolutely much more!”