He became excited as he recalled what she had said to him. The last thing that she had said was, "The symbol of authority is secured in our grasp, so the Heavenly Battlefield should end soon.’
That was what she said 23 hours ago, so in one hour or so, the Heavenly Battlefield should end.
This made his eyes full of excitement as he said, ’I can’t wait to lay my hands on that mutated Life Ability. I just hope my ancestor doesn’t find out.’
The thought of his ancestor made him furrow his brows with worry and say, ’That old man is too greedy. He is not even a forger, but I am sure that he will want my Life Ability if it becomes a Divine Metac. I wonder what I should do if he finds out.’
After thinking about this problem for a while, he could only say with bitterness, ’I surely can’t resist him. I don’t have the power to do that.’
’Only a divine being can resist him, which means I must get the help of a divine being. But who do I contact for help who won’t want to devour me?’
’At the very least, they have to be rank 7. If they are rank 8, that will be even better. But a rank 8 won’t appreciate my surrender as much as a rank 7 divine being.’
As a cultivator from a prestigious divine family, he knows a lot of secrets about divine beings. One of the secrets he knows is that divine beings can help rank 5 cultivators advance if sufficient benefit is offered.
He had also heard of a rumor of how a rank 7 divine being once helped a rank 5 to ascend in exchange for the servitude of the rank 5 cultivator.
He doesn’t know why a rank 7 will want his servitude, but he doesn’t mind offering it since it is much better than owing his entire life to his divine ancestor. So he is willing to make that trade if it grants him great power and a chance of eternal life.
He was thinking about this when a pillar of light rose from the small world. This shiny and glorious light was accompanied by a wail from the small world. The wail hinted at the fact that whatever was going on wasn’t as glorious as it appeared to be.
As he listened, he was able to determine that the wail was a wail of sorrow from the will of the small world. This was a sound that only those in possession of the fragment of the hearts of a world like his, or complete living hearts of a world like the divine beings, could hear.
After hearing this sound, he knew what it meant without a doubt. So his face broke out into a smile.
This smile couldn’t be seen, though. It was hidden beneath his Armored Shell.
He wasn’t the one who reacted to the sound. The lone rank 5 money cultivator also sighed in relief. As for the divine beings, they each opened their eyes and stood up.
The divine beings were taking the appearance of the pillar of light and the wail of sorrow seriously. This was because it signified that they were about to do the most important thing that they had been sent to do.
With the five of them ready, they took action together. The five of them extended a hand towards the part of the shell of the small world that the pillar of light was shining on. Then they grab a part of the shell and pulled it back.
Their actions caused the portion of the shell where the pillar of light was shiny to be ripped open. The tear was jagged and violent. Even the world felt it and cried out in pain.
Then the will of the world began to plead with them. Again, the sound it was making was something only those attuned to the power of the world could hear.
The five of them were highly perceptive and could hear the pleas for mercy from the small world. But the five of them didn’t care. They continued to rip the world open until the pillar of light became free from the world.
With the pillar of light free, the soldiers of the five sects in the small world could finally leave the world. In order to leave, they only needed to step into the pillar of light, and it would lift them into the sky and lead them to the world beyond.
As the one holding the crown, Loki was the first to appear from the gap in the shell of the small world. He came with a golden crown in his hands.
After he appeared, the five divine beings glanced at him. When they realized that he was at rank 4, not rank 5, their gaze lingered on him.
They didn’t glance at him briefly and ignore him soon after, as they usually do with mortals. This time, all of them focused and stared at him intensely.
At this point, he had already received a message from the sect about how to complete his mission and earn his reward as the most useful soldier. So he knew what to do.
He stepped forward, bowed his head, and offered the golden crown to the designated divine being from his sect and said, "I have done my duty. Please bear witness."
But the divine being didn’t take the golden crown from him. No one appeared to care about the golden crown in his hands.
The divine being from the Myriad Phenomenon Sect looked at him in confusion and said to the others, "Is he stupid, or does he think we are blind?"
Loki didn’t know what to say. But things took an even worse turn. Space was torn open beside the five divine beings, and a shiny white robot with a golden flame burning on its head appeared through the tear.