Chapter 1221: Chapter 969: Seizing Divine Status
"How does it feel? Are you adjusting well?" Long Yi asked.
"Not bad. I don’t feel any discomfort," Ai Lin nodded in response.
Having lost his Divine Status, the suppression Long Yi had on the Elder had also dissipated. The Elder sat there, deflated, his eyes out of focus. Once in possession of a double portion of Divine Status, he had thought himself a god, believing he could control everything. In fact, when Long Yi had challenged the entire Ancient Powerhouses, he already had Divine Status. He was confident that he could completely overpower Long Yi, but he did not join the alliance of Ancient Powerhouses, for he didn’t want anyone to know about his Divine Power. He even hoped for Long Yi to come to his planet, where he could directly kill Long Yi and obtain his powerful secrets. Later on, when he acquired a second Divine Status, the double portion filled him with confidence, and he looked forward to Long Yi’s arrival even more.
Now, when he was about to obtain his third Divine Status, Long Yi appeared. Perhaps it was the Divine Power that sharpened his insight, but he immediately guessed that the two must be Long Yi and Ai Lin. Thus, he couldn’t wait to have Long Yi come to his planet. He originally thought Long Yi’s interest in the tetrahedron was a mere hobby at best and even if he had Divine Status, it would be no more than a single portion. But to his surprise, Long Yi had just upgraded!
Without the Divine Status, he had lost everything.
"Actually, I’m very curious, how did you obtain Divine Status?" Long Yi asked, looking down.
"Whether I tell you or not, I’m going to die, so why should I waste that time?" the Elder said.
"Hmm, as some idiot once said, I’ll give you a quick death and promise not to torture you. Otherwise, you should know that the feeling of having your soul interrogated by a Female Demon is very unpleasant, right?" Long Yi said.
The Elder sighed and said, "I once stumbled upon this thing. The consciousness fragments that emanated from it allowed me to research a certain magic that could open the tetrahedron and merge with the Divine Status inside."
Having said that, the Elder took something out of his private space. Long Yi burst into laughter when he saw it—it was another Crystal Stone, with the same red energy inside the Crystal Stone!
Another fragment of a God Chaser!
Long Yi took the Crystal Stone, crushed it with one hand, and the fragment of God Chaser swiftly merged with the previous one in Long Yi’s mental realm. The energy fluctuation immediately grew stronger.
"So, do you have anything else to say?" Long Yi asked, looking down.
"Me?" The Elder lifted his head, looked at Long Yi with a strange smile, and said, "Perhaps you think that having four times Divine Status makes you strong, but you don’t know that there are even stronger Divine Statuses hidden in every corner of this universe. Once you encounter them, your Divine Status will be suppressed and taken away in an instant! And you will be at the mercy of others, just like I am now!"
Upon hearing the Elder’s words, Long Yi did not proceed with his actions. Instead, he became very curious, "How do you know this?"
The Elder gave a bitter smile, "Otherwise, where do you think my second Divine Status came from?"
So, there were people in this universe who were stealing Divine Status!
My God!
After dealing with the Ancient Powerhouse and cleaning up the battlefield, Long Yi and Ai Lin quickly returned to the Great Explorer. Little Zi was waiting there. Long Yi shared the news with Little Zi, who was also quite astonished.
"Intelligent interface, reanalyze the Divine Status signals that were returned to us last time. Use a single multiple of Divine Status for the new benchmarks!" Long Yi commanded.
The intelligent interface immediately recalculated every Divine Status resonance on the plane star chart. The lowest was only one, but the highest reached more than three hundred!
"Well, this might be more urgent than we thought," Long Yi said.
"After all, we’re not the only ones eyeing these Divine Statuses!" Little Zi said, looking at the value of over three hundred.
"Which means, we better hurry, or the lesser Divine Statuses will be all divvied up, and we may not stand a chance against those with higher multiples of great Divine Status," Ai Lin said.
"No more idle talk! Let’s go!" Long Yi roared, and the Great Explorer sped off at full throttle, heading deep into the cosmos.
The Great Explorer recalibrated its route, prioritizing destinations below four times Divine Status and nearest in distance. Thanks to the Great Explorer’s exceptional speed, within just a few days, Long Yi’s Divine Status reached sixteen times. And each time Long Yi acquired a new Divine Status, the Great Explorer would replan the route, prioritizing targets with higher multiples. Struggling for Divine Status was actually quite simple; if your multiple was much higher than the opponent’s, you just needed to show up nearby, and they would lose all their power from afar, then obediently hand over their Divine Status— they wouldn’t even dare to see who you were.
Those who lost their Divine Status could not regain it for a long time.
Of course, Long Yi’s approach was relatively civilized—he simply took and left. It seemed not everyone had the same intention, as he was once late to a location. He discovered a village running with blood, brimming with Divine Power, clearly the site of a battle. Someone who once held Divine Status was torn apart, his corpse scattered everywhere.
Apparently, not everyone was as good-natured as Long Yi.
Long Yi had always wondered how those with Divine Status managed to hunt each other down. They did not have the kind of radar that could sense Divine Status like he could. However, as Long Yi acquired more of the Divine Status, he gradually understood that with enough Divine Status, one could sense the Resonance of other nearby Divine Status. The more Divine Status you have, the larger the range of this sensing ability becomes.
Later on, Long Yi carefully distinguished the attributes of Divine Status on his radar. In fact, not many of those who hunted each other for Divine Status existed; most Divine Status was sealed within Tetrahedrons. However, the number of these sealed Tetrahedrons was constantly decreasing, while the multiples of some people’s Divine Status were on a steady rise.
Long Yi was grateful he chose to set out at this time to search for the Tetrahedrons; had he been slightly slower, perhaps all the Divine Status would have been snatched up by others.
Compared to those people, Long Yi had a huge advantage, which was the ability to accurately pinpoint the location of each Divine Status. Whereas the other Divine Status hunters could only wander aimlessly and rely on luck.
As time went by, Long Yi’s Divine Status had reached over a hundredfold. He had swept through one-tenth of the Divine Status defined as Tetrahedrons on the Lower Plane’s star map.
"This won’t do, the pace is too slow," Long Yi shook his head, sitting in front of the star map in contemplation.
"This pace isn’t slow, look at those with higher multiples of Divine Status, they haven’t changed much in this period," Ai Lin said.
"No, it’s too slow, especially now that the three of us are acting together and only I am absorbing the Divine Status each time. We must act simultaneously!" Long Yi said.
"How do we act at the same time?" Little Zi widened her eyes.
"I’ve thought about it for several days and conducted a series of experiments. A few days ago, I commissioned the intelligence interface to make some things," as Long Yi spoke, he took Ai Lin and Little Zi to the cabin beneath the great ship Explorer. Here, three small, ten-meter-high ships were quietly stationed. The ships were silver all over, their surfaces covered in Runes - Giant symbols - neatly arranged with Cosmic Stone fragments inside.
"Remember the various knowledge you researched on the Cosmic Accelerator before? I’ve applied that knowledge to these miniature ships; they can launch themselves in a short time, akin to a Cosmic Accelerator!" said Long Yi.
"My God, you’re really crazy," Ai Lin said as she looked at the sleek surface of the ships.
"Then how do we get in?" Little Zi looked at the seamless structure that seemed to have no gaps.
"Because I was rushed for design time, I couldn’t make an opening cockpit, so we’ll have to teleport inside. Fortunately, we have plenty of Cosmic Stones, so energy is abundant. Right, Silverlight?"
As he spoke, Long Yi patted one of the ships, and that ship slowly transformed into a Giant silver Dragon!
"Silverlight? It’s you! I wondered what you’ve been mysteriously busy with lately!" Ai Lin exclaimed in surprise.
"Hehe, I wanted to give you a surprise!" said Silverlight with a laugh.
"Those two ships..." Little Zi pointed at the other two.
"They’re also made of Shadow Silver, consider them my Avatars, although they lack intelligence and only follow simple commands. But they can manage something like allowing you to teleport inside," explained Silverlight.
"The stability of Shadow Silver in an energy state made me choose Silverlight for help. Luckily with Silverlight’s assistance, otherwise, I really wouldn’t have found any way to accomplish this in such a short time," Long Yi said with emotion.
"So, when do we depart?" asked Ai Lin.
"Don’t rush, let me do the final preparations now!" Long Yi said.
The so-called final preparations naturally involved the distribution of Divine Status. As Long Yi’s Divine Status multiplied, he had discovered many of its special abilities, such as being able to separate multiple Divine Status. Now Long Yi split his own Divine Status and gave some to both Ai Lin and Little Zi. This allowed Ai Lin and Little Zi to each possess thirtyfold Divine Status.
"Make sure to memorize the star map, try to avoid areas with Divine Status hunters, and focus on securing all the Divine Status within the Tetrahedrons first," Long Yi instructed.
"Don’t worry, we’re not foolish," Little Zi winked at Long Yi.
"Also, if you truly encounter danger, I have already set up a special program inside the great ship Explorer that can instantly recall all the miniature ships. If there is real danger, do not hesitate to summon and take evasive action immediately!" Long Yi said.
"Got it!" Ai Lin nodded.
"Then, let’s depart!"
The three teleported inside the miniature ships which slowly flew out of the cargo hold and into the vastness of space. Energy was continuously drawn from the Cosmic Stones and injected into the Array, and moments later, three streaks of light rushed toward three different directions. (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit qidian.com to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile readers please go to m.qidian.com to read.)
