Sage Monarch - Chapter 571

Chapter 571: 571

As Yang Qi looked through the various intelligence reports, he nodded in satisfaction . ‘It feels great to be in a position of power again . It makes it so much easier to get information . And the fact that the Special Reconnaissance Division specializes in recon is perfect .  The more my power grows within the army, the easier it will be later on to take over this entire immortal world . ’

To any onlooker, it would look like Yuan Kuohai was running the Special Reconnaissance Division as usual . But the truth was that Yang Qi was its true leader now .

And it was all thanks to his devil seeds .

The devil seeds were impossible to extrude, destroy, or be extracted . They would fuse with the soul of any immortal they entered, making Yang Qi privy to their very hearts . He was the only one who could remove them, thus anyone who had a devil seed in them wouldn’t dare to even think about rebelling against him . No, they would be completely and utterly loyal to him .

Eventually, it would reach the point where he could remove the seeds, and they would still serve him faithfully .

‘Proud Warpatience… I’ll ignore you for now . But once I get King Heaven-Devourer’s talismans, I’ll come for you . ’ After finishing with the intelligence reports, Yang Qi decided that it was time to probe deeper into the Heaven’s Net Consortium .

He had greatly benefited from the demon altar in the Endless Forest . The Chartreuse Sovereign God Armor, Protomammoth Flag, and megamammoth quintessence-blood had allowed him to awaken protomammoth particles within himself . Not only was he now more able to mask his aura and true capabilities, but the deathless godliness ensured that few people could match him in a fight .

‘So, the Heaven’s Net Consortium has a sixth stage Abstrusity-Demolisher—in other words, an immortal paragon . Right now, I'm strong enough to deal with the fifth stage, but probably not the sixth . I might even get killed if a fight broke out . The godliness from two god items helped me a lot, but my overall level is still too low . The energy arts within the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth can’t reach their full potential . And in the end, I'm still only a mortal . Not an immortal . Well, I still need to go poke around for some information . If I can get some of those imperial snakecharms, great . If not, I’ll just leave . ’

Although the reports confirmed that the Heaven’s Net Consortium did have a sixth stage Demolisher, whoever it was came and went like a ghost, making it impossible to determine their identity .

All that was certain was that an immortal paragon had been seen .

What kind of people were immortal paragons? The sixth stage of Demolishing was called Abstrusity-Demolishing, and it involved opening the most abstruse and profound of doors, making one a paragon among paragons . One's energy arts became vastly more profound, and one’s lifespan would increase significantly . Furthermore, it would make one capable of leaving to travel among other immortal worlds .

Normally, not even fifth stage World-Demolishers, immortal marquises, could leave their immortal world without using a teleportation portal .

The planes that were immortal worlds were definitely nothing like the planetary systems of the mortal world . They essentially existed in a different universe .

From what Yang Qi could sense, the immortal worlds were like bubbles hung in the universe, within which immortals existed .

And the bubbles didn't touch each other .

No, there were vast distances between the various immortal worlds, space that was occupied by a cosmic vacuum and deadly universal tempests . Only upon reaching the immortal paragon level could one venture through such regions .

However, not even immortal paragons could surpass the essence of the immortal world they came from . People who made immortal bodies with the magical laws of the Titan Emperor Heaven were fated to be forever connected to that immortal world .

If that immortal world were destroyed, all the immortals in it would also be destroyed . Not even ninth step Dao-Demolishers, sovereigns of heaven, were an exception .

The only way to rise above that limitation was to reach the Godmyth level . However, Yang Qi had already helped Titan Duelbringer and many others to reform their immortal bodies with the magical laws of the Tusita Heaven . As of now, their fate was tied not to the Titan Emperor Heaven, but to the Tusita Heaven .

The Tusita Heaven was a virtually invincible location, a place where Godmyths abounded, and was a place that would last for aeons upon end . It was quite the opposite of the Titan Emperor Heaven, which hovered in the shadow of destruction .

As for Yang Qi, he was tied to the essence of the Hell of Mahānata, the Tusita Heaven, and the Hell of Gloom and Darkness . And as time went on, he would likely perform ensconcements in other immortal worlds and hells . There were millions upon millions of immortal worlds and hells, and performing ensconcements there would ensure that, as long as they weren’t destroyed, neither would he be . Eventually, he wouldn’t need ensconcements of any sort . He would join the legion of gods and be able to create worlds . He would be truly invincible, and eternally deathless .

After taking some time to plan his next move, he left the military plane and headed to the business plane .

There were countless planes that made up the imperial city, which was overall a massive, extremely crowded place . By now, he had a somewhat respectable standing and wasn’t stopped by any passing patrols .

He headed right into the business plane, where he saw all of the countless wormholes with people coming and going with various goods . It almost made him feel like he was back in the mortal world .

Eventually, he found a remote, empty alley a short distance from the Heaven’s Net Consortium . Ducking inside, he murmured, “Lord of gods, transform me to dust . ”

Then he slowly shrank down to the size of a mote of dust, which began floating through the air toward the consortium .

The entire business plane had warding magics everywhere, designed to negate the effects of certain daoist techniques used for transformation . Even divine abilities designed to mimic the functions of heaven and earth would be viciously suppressed .

After all, immortals could change their size at will . If they wanted to be as large as a mountain, they could . If they wanted to turn into dust, they could . However, upon entering the imperial city, such techniques couldn't be used . It was a function of the magical laws that filled the area . After all, if a fight broke out and everyone suddenly became as large as mountains, it would obviously cause chaos .

But Yang Qi had deathless godliness and magical laws from the legion of gods . And the God Legion Seal in his forehead had the Blood of the One God . As such, he could easily surpass the magical laws that governed the imperial city . The ability to keep hidden was the most important tool in his plan to get into the Heaven’s Net Consortium and try to get those snakecharms .

As he approached, he realized that the street that housed the Heaven’s Net Consortium was filled with black-garbed individuals going here and there . It seemed that something big was going on . At the same time, they had the street locked down so that outsiders couldn’t enter .

And it looked like all sorts of goods, especially immortal items, were being brought into the consortium .

‘I bet the incident in the Endless Forest was a big blow to the Heaven’s Net Consortium . They look like they’re preparing to deal with some major enemy . Well, the more chaos they’re in, the better my chances of succeeding . ’ As he proceeded in, he realized that there was some latent power in the air that was crystallizing even outside dust .

Obviously, it was an added precaution to prevent people from sneaking in .

‘Another warding magic? As if something that crappy could stop me . ’ Chuckling coldly, he drew on the transformation powers of the God Legion Paradise, shrinking down to the point where he had no shape at all . Then, using the Wheel of Fate, he slipped through the crystallized dust .

None of the black-garbed individuals or figures in cinnabar noticed him .

Deeper he went, relying on the details from the intelligence reports he had just read to make his way along . Eventually, he reached a place protected by powerful auras and many warding magics, things that would protect against any intruder . Except Yang Qi .

WHIZZZ!

He passed into the inner hall, where he saw a mirror whose light almost fell onto him and revealed him .

Luckily, he had a mirror of his own, the Chiliocosm Mirror . And thus, he fought mirrors with mirrors and continued on . He knew that he was skating on thin ice, and was doing his best to get in and out as quickly as possible . [1]

Eventually, he reached a storeroom filled with high-grade immortal items, as well as sabers, spears, swords, staffs, axes, halberds, hooks, tridents, and shields . There was even immortal armor .

At the same time, there were other types of armor that lacked immortal power or magical laws from the dao of immortals . Yet there was something innately marvelous and powerful about them, as if they had been manufactured by uncannily skilled hands . In fact, they were mechanical suits of armor from the ancient mechanical civilization . Mechas .

Yang Qi could tell immediately that these mechas had been put together by the Mechfolk, who carried on the legacy of that ancient civilization . They were filled with such immense power that even a mortal who suited up in one of them would be able to kill immortals .

It was a level of power that was no less than immortal armor . However, there was a big difference . Immortal armor required a powerful individual to use it . The more powerful the immortal armor, the stronger the person needed to be to wear it .

In immortal dao civilizations, immortal items and magical treasures were designed for use by people who were already powerful . In some ways, they were like embellishments .

But the machines from that ancient civilization didn’t require the user to be particularly powerful . Even the weakest mortal could use them .

The two civilizations were very different in that regard .

However, that only begged the question of how terrifying they would be if combined .

Surprisingly, Yang Qi had found a stockpile of mechas here in the Heaven’s Net Consortium, as well as mechanical weapons of all sorts . He wanted to take them all, but didn’t want to alert the enemy to his presence . Right now, the imperial snakecharms were the most important thing .

He passed through the storeroom and continued toward the altar . With his Lord's Eye, he could already see the altar, and the primal-chaos elder-snake swirling about within it, devouring the essence available from the immortal world . There were a host of experts surrounding the altar, absorbing the Heaven-Devouring True Energy that the snake was producing .

And in the very middle of the group was a young man in a long robe that flickered like primal-chaos itself and was covered with snake-like designs . His eyes were closed, and Heaven-Devouring True Energy swirled within him, making him seem extremely abstruse .

Shockingly, he was an immortal paragon!

1 . Just to be clear, fight mirrors with mirrors is not a common Chinese idiom . But the structure of fight X with Y is (the technical, direct translation is use X to fight/strike/defeat Y) . The most common version is to fight poison with poison, which is both a common saying, and also a trope in wuxia where someone who is poisoned uses another type of poison as a cure .