Chương 107: Taking Stock of the Harvest

In the end, Richard still managed to snatch several mid-level gods by force of his own.

They were only allowed to take five items.

Even when the others argued with him, he wouldn't budge and even made a gesture as if he was about to take action again.

This left them with no choice but to accept it.

With grim expressions, the group selected five items from their respective spatial rings and took them away.

Richard saw it; these guys had really accumulated quite a lot.

That pope and the king of monsters also have divine titles; that pope even has two.

There were also some treasures that Richard didn't recognize.

Anyway, they're allowed to take five items, and five is five; he won't steal them. Unless they can produce a main artifact or even a main godhead.

Otherwise, Richard wouldn't have violated his principles.

He collected all the spatial rings and examined them one by one. Not bad, not bad, another day of skyrocketing wealth.

Now he has plundered the strongest people in the entire Tara plane, and it can be said that most of the wealth in the entire plane is concentrated in his hands.

The lower-level gods had already fled when the mid-level gods suffered losses. The mid-level gods had never done this before, so what were they waiting for?

Even if the mid-level gods win, is it a good thing to see them in such a sorry state? What if they see more things they shouldn't have seen and are then murdered to silence them?

Some even felt unsafe and didn't even return to their old hideouts, instead heading straight to the Arctic ice fields and using a teleportation array to leave this plane.

These guys were fast runners, otherwise Richard would have robbed them too.

The process sounds complicated, but it actually doesn't take long, less than a few minutes. The advancement of the Water God Avatar and the Life God Avatar is not yet complete.

After that, no one bothered them anymore.

Only after his water god avatar and life god avatar became intermediate gods did he leisurely leave.

After that day, the entire circle of god-level powerhouses in the Tara plane was in an uproar.

All sorts of rumors are spreading like wildfire; don't assume that god-level powerhouses don't gossip.

They only put on airs in front of outsiders, but who would put on airs when facing their close friends of the same rank?

Even Karina couldn't resist gossiping with Richard.

Everyone knows that another mid-level god has appeared. This person has established himself as the strongest as soon as he appeared, causing the other mid-level gods to suffer considerable losses.

Everyone was speculating about where this person had come from.

The most common guess now is that they escaped from a dimensional prison.

Any god-level powerhouse who has lived long enough knows something about the dimensional prison.

It's no wonder they're making wild guesses; the most likely explanation is that a mid-level god who suddenly appears without any growth trajectory has escaped from a dimensional prison.

Mid-level gods don't just spring from a rock. Even with the best talent, they still need to cultivate for thousands or tens of thousands of years. It's impossible for them to have no reputation at all.

Several mid-level gods shared this view, and Steven, the dimensional guardian, even went so far as to re-examine the sealing magic array of the dimensional prison, looking for any loopholes.

The appearance of a mid-level god is already a headache for everyone; if an upper-level god were to appear as well, that would be a real disaster.

Unfortunately, he didn't know the addresses of all the sealing magic circles; he only knew a portion of them.

After checking all the known sealing formations, no flaws were found, so the other party definitely did not come from the vicinity of these known sealing formations.

Everyone is waiting, watching the movements of this strongest being. His actions will inevitably have a profound impact on the entire plane, perhaps even reshuffling the existing power structure and reshaping it into a new order.

Of course, several mid-level gods secretly wished that this person would leave the Tara plane immediately.

Go ahead, the Supreme God Plane welcomes you. The Tara Plane is too small to accommodate someone as powerful as you.

But as the days went by, there was still no news of this powerful figure. All that was known was that he was still in the Tara plane, because Steven had never seen him before.

The mid-level gods dared not use their divine sense to scan on such a large scale as before, because if they disturbed this one again, they would have no money to compensate.

The frequent reports of godhood recently have also been explained.

This powerful figure is training subordinates.

They just didn't know how many divine sparks this person still possessed. They were only envious and jealous of those who had become gods, but they dared not covet the divine sparks this person held.

People don't believe that the guys who have become gods recently did so through their own abilities; most of them became gods through their divine status.

Think back to how much suffering they endured to become gods, and how long they were stuck at the limit of the Holy Realm.

These guys actually became gods so easily with just a divine spark. How can those god-level powerhouses feel at ease about this?

He could only console himself that these guys must have signed a harsh contract, and who knows how many years they would have to serve that unknown powerhouse. They certainly wouldn't have the same freedom as him.

When Richard learned that these guys had guessed he was a powerful figure from the dimensional prison, he couldn't help but marvel at their imagination.

See? As long as you're strong enough, these guys will give you a reasonable explanation without you having to explain yourself.

Let them be a dimensional prison, as long as they don't guess my true identity.

Maybe I'll really have to go to the dimensional prison someday, and when I come out, I'll truly be considered to have walked out of the dimensional prison.

In that case, these guys won't be considered wrong.

He hadn't forgotten the weak point in the space connected to the dimensional prison that he knew about, but he had temporarily put it aside because he felt that his current strength was insufficient.

The dimensional prison has existed for so long, who knows what kind of experts are inside?

It's best to be cautious and wait until you reach the rank of a high god before exploring this further.

Let's take stock of what we've gained this time. His wind, water, and life elements have all been promoted to mid-level gods.

Among them, the rules of life yielded the greatest reward, for it was, after all, a god-king level position, containing the most profound fundamental laws.

He had only grasped a portion of it before breaking through to the intermediate god level. If he had grasped it all, it would have allowed him to make significant progress in the intermediate god realm, saving him a lot of effort in his breakthrough to the upper god level.

Secondly, there's the water element. The three first-level godhoods—the sea god, the water god, and the ice god—have brought him considerable gains in the water element, making it comparable to, and even surpassing, the life element in terms of breadth.

This time, he thoroughly grasped the profound mysteries of ice's sharpness and deeply integrated them with the profound mysteries of water element. Only a few steps remain before complete fusion.

In addition, I have gained a lot of insights into the profound mysteries of roundness and gentleness, and the profound mysteries of water-based techniques.

He actually gained the least from the wind element. However, because he had the deepest accumulation in the wind element, he was able to break through to the mid-level god.

In the world of Panlong, the wind element is closely related to time and space. Among the nine profound mysteries, four—fast, slow, wind space, and dimensional blade—are all related to time and space.

In the world of Douluo Continent, wind is simply an element. Time and space also have corresponding elements.

Therefore, in terms of wind-based laws, after transforming them into the profound mysteries of the Panlong world's laws, the gains were not significant.

However, he was already close to fully comprehending the mysteries of the Wind Walk Technique, and this time he completely comprehended it and merged it with the mysteries of the wind element.

Among the seven elemental laws in the Panlong world, the other six elemental laws are all six kinds of profound mysteries, but only the wind element has nine kinds of profound mysteries.

Other elemental laws only require a complete understanding of the mysteries of two laws to become a mid-level god, while the wind element requires a complete understanding of all three laws, or the fusion of two mysteries.

But so far, among all his divine incarnations, the wind element remains the dominant one.

There's nothing we can do about it; the fusion of wind elements is just too mysterious.

In addition, the rules of fate and death have become gods, further reducing the burden on his main body. These two systems can now be handled by his divine avatar.

Thanks to the existence of the divine avatar, and thanks to the Hongmeng master for setting the world rules.

Otherwise, if he had to comprehend all these laws and rules through his own body, he would go crazy.

Besides these gains in the laws, his wealth from plundering the Douluo God Realm and the wealth of several mid-level gods has also increased dramatically, and now he doesn't even know how many spatial rings he has filled.

Fortunately, the spatial ring can be used to create endless nested dolls, otherwise he would have had a headache about how to carry all these things.

This wave of looting is basically enough for him to use up to the level of a high-ranking god.

The variety of top-grade minerals, rare medicinal herbs, elemental crystals, magical beast cores, and specialties from various planes under the Douluo God Realm are countless.

The knowledge passed down through generations is piled up like small mountains. The Douluo God Realm has dozens or even hundreds of different planes, each with its own extraordinary system.

These traditions are basically collected by the divine realm.

Now, there is also the knowledge inheritance collected by the four local mid-level gods, including various magic arrays, god-level potions, artifact forging, and so on.

Richard spent more than a month just organizing this inherited knowledge.

Then, upload what needs to be uploaded to the chat group, and leave a backup for the family if it can be preserved as a legacy.

Now the Hegel family is completely unable to keep up with his pace of growth; he can easily provide enough resources for the family to develop for many years.

He no longer had any expectations for his family. He used to hope that his family could grow up quickly and he could help them out.

I'm finding those Sacred Realm beasts quite useful now. They're still usable for now, and if my strength lags behind in the future, I'll bestow divine status upon a few of them, allowing them to become gods and continue working.

As for family matters, just let things take their natural course.

Not long after that, Hogger finally completed the refinement of his divine essence and became a god.

Hogg also went to a deserted island overseas, where Richard himself helped guard it, and no god-level powerhouse dared to come and investigate.

There wasn't even anyone left to probe with divine sense.

Whoever becomes a god is none of their business.

Richard hadn't expected to gain so much in the Douluo World, so he didn't think much about it when he gave the godhood to Hogg.

As a result, the series of godhood fluctuations that occurred after he returned from the Douluo Continent world attracted the attention of all the god-level powerhouses in the world.

Now that Hogger has become a god, he can only continue to keep it a secret, and even has to temporarily hand over the family affairs he was in charge of.

The reason is easy to find: seclusion.

It's not uncommon for powerful beings in the Saint Realm to go into seclusion for hundreds or even thousands of years.

Who can say for sure what will happen hundreds or thousands of years from now? Maybe Richard's strength will exceed expectations by then, and he won't need to hide it anymore?