Chapter 264: Chapter 145: 2 Years of Secluded Cultivation
Inside the Star Track Ceremony Tower.
After listening to the terms presented by Snake Woman Selena,
Zorn’s eyes narrowed slightly as he silently pondered.
The cultivation resources offered by the Calamity Court Divine Kingdom were incredibly generous, giving Zorn no reason to refuse.
Back when he was a Player, his Sequence hadn’t been strong enough, and he’d had to fight for every resource.
He had to battle through round after round on the Divine Kingdom’s grand stage.
He constantly fought against powerful masters from every race.
One careless mistake, and you’d get your brains beaten out.
It was a brutal journey of slaughter that Players had dubbed the "Divine Kingdom Ladder Challenge."
But now, Zorn had skipped that entire process.
His perfect World-level BOSS Sequence template was exceptionally powerful.
The treatment he received was on a completely different level.
Zorn knew full well that he only received such treatment because of his outstanding performance on the Divine Kingdom battlefield.
He had single-handedly destroyed the divine tower that the enemy Divine Kingdom had poured all its resources into building.
With his power alone, he intimidated the enemy Divine Kingdom, preventing them from daring to launch a counterattack.
Such a combat record, such strength, truly deserved this kind of top-tier treatment.
After a moment of thought, Zorn nodded slightly.
"Since Legendary Grand Priest Ossirion holds me in such high regard, it would be inappropriate for me to refuse."
"I am willing to serve Lord Ossirion."
With that said, Zorn directly signed the Divine Kingdom contract he had just reviewed.
Once this Divine Kingdom contract was signed, any betrayal of the Divine Kingdom would trigger the contract’s Divine Punishment, resulting in the immediate execution of the traitor.
However, as long as one served the Divine Kingdom loyally, there would be no issues.
After all, the Divine Kingdom invested vast resources into cultivation and had no desire to nurture ungrateful backstabbers and traitors.
It should be known that even with such contracts, traitors were still common as individuals grew more powerful.
In this vast Star Realm, with its millions of Plane Worlds, the relationships of grudge and favor between them were incredibly complex.
Seeing the powerful Evil Spirit Wizard sign the contract,
Snake Woman Selena finally felt a sense of relief.
The Evil Spirit Wizard was highly valued by the Legendary Grand Priest.
If she had botched this matter, she might not have been able to keep her position as a Priest Envoy.
But succeeding was, naturally, a great merit.
"Zorn, you mentioned you plan to cultivate here in seclusion for a while?"
"Exactly!"
Zorn nodded.
"Then what do you plan to do with this tower, Zorn?"
Selena inquired.
This visit wasn’t just to deliver the contract from the Legendary Grand Priest; she also had some tasks from Priest Aster.
"I plan to destroy it."
Zorn said bluntly.
"Destroying it directly would be an incredible waste."
"It would be much better if we could slowly dismantle it and extract the many useful materials inside."
As soon as she said that, Zorn instantly understood her idea.
With Zorn occupying this place, the people from the Star Remnant Divine Kingdom wouldn’t dare attack.
But once Zorn left,
even if the Calamity Court Divine Kingdom left forces behind, they would surely be besieged by the Star Remnant Divine Kingdom.
Zorn himself couldn’t dismantle and utilize the resources here.
But the Calamity Court Divine Kingdom could. After all, they also had a Starry Sky Tower established in this Starry Sky District.
Before Zorn could even speak,
Snake Woman Selena had already taken the lead.
"Priest Aster knows you wish to continue cultivating here for a while."
"But our dismantling process will inevitably cause the Sequence Essence here to dissipate, which will slow your cultivation."
"To compensate for the impact on your cultivation progress, Zorn,"
"Priest Aster is willing to gift you five Upper Rank Calamity Court Sequence Source Fruits."
"You should know, just three Upper Rank Calamity Court Sequence Source Fruits are enough to completely fill your Sequence Experience for Level 11."
Hearing this, Zorn nodded slightly.
"In that case, my thanks to Priest Aster."
"Two years!"
Zorn said decisively.
"I will guard this place for two years."
"When the time is up, I will leave. You’ll have to manage the dismantling progress of this Star Track Ceremony Tower yourselves!"
"If the enemy attacks, I will take action, but you must also organize your own people to defend."
"No problem!"
A smile touched the corners of Snake Woman Selena’s eyes.
This negotiation and collaboration with the Evil Spirit Wizard had gone exceptionally smoothly.
This rare, supreme genius of a Divine Kingdom wasn’t difficult to deal with like those other peculiar Sequence geniuses who were arrogant and temperamental.
Soon, the exchange concluded in a pleasant atmosphere.
For the Calamity Court Divine Kingdom, trading some resources for the chance to dismantle the tower was a massive gain.
As for Zorn, although the effectiveness of his cultivation in the tower would be reduced,
with the compensation from the Priest, it was a deal with no downsides.
The only one who truly suffered a devastating loss was the Star Remnant Divine Kingdom.
If Zorn had merely destroyed their tower, they could have used certain methods to rebuild it after he left.
But now, with Selena and her people tearing the divine tower out by its roots, even its foundational ley lines would be extracted.
They were, without a doubt, completely and utterly screwed.
「Several days later.」
Snake Woman Selena arrived at the Star Track Ceremony Tower with a group of Transcendents.
They began their tower-dismantling journey.
Zorn contained the spreading area of the Evil Spirit Calamity, continuing to maintain the birth of the "Calamity Boundary Land."
The Calamity Boundary Land was the means by which Zorn’s Divine Kingdom absorbed the foundational ley lines of numerous Worlds.
The more Calamity Boundary Lands there were, the faster his Divine Kingdom would grow.
The only regrettable thing was,
the scroll of the Extraordinary wave had not yet unfurled upon this Spirit Realm battlefield, making it impossible to carve a Sacred Mark here.
However, Zorn knew that as time passed, it wouldn’t be long.
Slowly, an epic Mythical Wave would be born.
A brand-new Chapter would also unfold in the many Spirit Realms of the Star Realm.
The end of the wave’s Chapter in the Holy Relic World
would be the day the Star Realm’s epic Mythical Wave Chapter began.
Inside the Star Track Ceremony Tower,
Zorn absorbed Sequence Essence for his cultivation while also digesting resources like Star Trace Sand and the Eternal Night Star Mark.
Of course, cultivating the two Ancient God Curses was also a top priority.
He needed to increase the Sequence strength of his Star Trace Fighter
and allow the Domains of his two Sequences to achieve perfect synergy.
This would make Zorn’s overall strength even more formidable.
Time flew by, day after day.
Around the third month of Zorn’s secluded cultivation,
the Star Remnant Divine Kingdom, having discovered their divine tower was being dismantled, finally couldn’t bear it any longer.
They organized a force of over two hundred Transcendents to try and retake the tower.
Naturally, Selena and her people detected this movement.
At Selena’s invitation, Zorn and the others joined forces to set an ambush on the Star Bridge.
That battle directly shattered the Spirit Realm Star Bridge.
Zorn killed more than fifty people in a row.
He even cut down five or six top-tier masters.
He slaughtered the Transcendents of the Star Remnant Divine Kingdom until they were terrified, fleeing at the very sight of him.
When that terrifying, Upper Rank Level destructive power bloomed across the Starry Sky, every Middle Rank Level Transcendent was struck with terror.
After this battle,
the Star Remnant Divine Kingdom suffered a grievous blow within the Star Trace Spirit Realm Battlefield.
And with Zorn presiding over the Starry Sky,
the Calamity Court Divine Kingdom’s prestige was unmatched for a time.
Even the Transcendents of the Eternal Curtain Divine Kingdom became exceptionally low-key, not daring to directly confront the Calamity Court Divine Kingdom.
Zorn, who single-handedly suppressed the Middle Rank Level Transcendents of two great Divine Kingdoms to the point they couldn’t even raise their heads,
naturally enjoyed numerous benefits as well.
For example, every month Zorn would receive a batch of Star Trace Sand. While it wasn’t a huge amount, it was still more than a dozen portions.
He couldn’t complain about getting free resources.
As he digested these many star-related resources,
the strength of Zorn’s two Sequence Domains continued to climb.
His progress with the Ancient God Curses also steadily improved.
Of course, during this period, some masters from other Divine Kingdoms who had achieved breakthroughs also wished to challenge Zorn.
And Zorn never went easy on them.
Anyone who dared to challenge him would be "respected" with a demonstration of his most powerful techniques.
If they managed to escape after a crushing defeat, he considered them lucky and wouldn’t pursue.
However, out of the seven or eight Transcendents who had challenged him one after another,
only one managed to escape after being defeated.
All the rest died.
Of course, it was a different matter entirely if the challenger was from the Calamity Court Divine Kingdom.
At the one-and-a-half-year mark of Zorn’s secluded cultivation,
a meteor shower of the Eternal Night Star Mark, a once-in-a-century event, erupted in the Starry Sky District.
Hundreds of Eternal Night Star Marks turned into meteors, streaking across the Celestial Dome Curtain.
In the past,
an event like this would have inevitably led to a chaotic battle between the experts of the Three Great Divine Kingdoms.
Not only would it be difficult to capture enough Eternal Night Star Marks, but they would also have suffered heavy casualties.
But this time, things were different.
The moment Zorn’s aura bloomed across the Starry Sky,
the Transcendents from both the Star Remnant Divine Kingdom and the Eternal Curtain Divine Kingdom steered clear of the best spots for snatching the Eternal Night Star Marks.
Only the Transcendents of the Immortal Calamity Court were there, snatching them up over a wide area.
Furthermore, their "snatching" was focused on just that—snatching. They rarely fought or killed one another.
The reason for this was quite simple: Snake Woman Selena had issued a notice in the name of Zorn, the Evil Spirit Wizard.
Between the authority of the Divine Kingdom’s Priests and Apostles and Zorn’s absolute dominance on the Starry Sky Battlefield over the past few years, few within the Immortal Calamity Court dared to defy such a command.
After the meteor shower of the Eternal Night Star Mark ended,
Zorn received 9 Eternal Night Star Marks.
Adding the 3 he had snatched himself and the 3 he had stockpiled previously,
the number of Eternal Night Star Marks in his possession once again reached as high as 15.
Before he knew it,
the two years he had spent guarding the Starry Sky District of the Star Trace Spirit Realm Battlefield had come to an end.
However, the outside world was obviously unaware of the agreement between Zorn and Snake Woman Selena.
Under Snake Woman Selena’s arrangements,
Zorn quietly left the Starry Sky District, escorted by a small squad from the Divine Kingdom.
The reason for this was that if Zorn left quietly, the Transcendents from the other Quantum Divine Kingdoms would not find out for some time.
The illusion that Zorn was still present could continue to intimidate them for a while longer.
This would also allow the Immortal Calamity Court to reap more benefits on the Starry Sky District battlefield.
But regardless, Zorn’s two years in the Starry Sky District had already allowed the Immortal Calamity Court to profit immensely.
In particular, Holy Crowned Priest Aster, who managed this battlefield area, had contacted Zorn multiple times over the past two years.
It was said that Zorn’s absolutely dominant performance on the Spirit Realm battlefield had allowed the Divine Kingdom to obtain a large number of Eternal Night Star Marks, which had even earned the Holy Crowned Priest a commendation from the Divine Kingdom.
Such a monumental achievement was incredibly rare.
