Chương 14: Sudden Wealth and Water-Based Godhood

With a heavy heart, he tried to bind the two spatial rings with his blood. If this guy had other clones, then he could forget about getting the Soul Golden Pearl.

Richard breathed a sigh of relief, relieved that he had easily succeeded in recognizing the master. Indeed, destiny was on his side. Even the heavens approved of him acting on behalf of Heaven.

Upon seeing the two spatial rings, Richard had only one thought in his mind: he was rich.

Looking at the countless golden beads in the space, Richard roughly counted them using his mental power; there were at least a million.

Wow, if I remember correctly, a Soul Gold Bead costs 100, 000 in Hell? This is a treasure worth over 100 billion Inkstones?

I knew this guy was using scarcity marketing, but I didn't expect him to have stockpiled so much. It must have taken tens of thousands of years to refine this stuff, right?

Richard tried to put himself in the other person's shoes and immediately understood. Indeed, as a precious treasure for enhancing the soul, it couldn't be sold cheaply. Scarcity increases value; if too much is sold, it becomes worthless.

If others knew that he could forge hundreds of thousands of these artifacts in ten thousand years, their prices would plummet to rock bottom. They'd be worth less than even lower-level divine artifacts, because all the gods in the entire plane combined couldn't forge even tens of thousands of lower-level divine artifacts in ten thousand years; they'd struggle to even produce ten thousand.

Come to think of it, it's quite normal for a god-level powerhouse in this plane to be unaware of the preciousness of the Soul Golden Pearl because he's a country bumpkin. So why didn't the plane's guardian come to cause trouble for him? Although the Soul Golden Pearl is a specialty of Hell and the Underworld, even if someone from the Celestial Realm has never seen or heard of it, right?

But that's fine too. If that person had cut off the root of the leek early on, what chance would I have now?

This is what getting rich overnight looks like. Richard certainly wouldn't need that much himself, but he could sell some later in the God Realm to earn initial capital.

As for the remaining items, there are several hundred lower-level artifacts of various kinds. There are relatively few material defense artifacts, only a few dozen; the rest are material attack artifacts. As for the soul defense artifact, there's only the one outside.

Richard was already very satisfied. Soul defense artifacts were incredibly precious, and it was already unbelievable that this guy had managed to get his hands on one. Richard figured it was highly likely that this guy had crafted it himself. He was quite a talent. This wasn't meant as sarcasm; the guy could craft both soul gold beads and soul defense artifacts, even if they could only be considered low-grade soul defense artifacts. In the divine realm, he would definitely be considered a talent.

This guy went to the God Realm. As long as he can enter the city, he can become an honored guest by joining any major power. Of course, he is more likely to become a soul slave, since his strength is too weak.

It's worth mentioning that this guy possessed two mid-level material attack artifacts, though it's unclear how he acquired them. One was a longbow with three arrows, and the other a longsword. Because Richard acted too quickly, neither artifact had a chance to be retrieved from his spatial ring.

Richard was only relieved that the other party hadn't obtained the mid-level material defense artifact, otherwise he might have been in serious trouble.

The longsword was nurtured by water-based divine power, which is excellent. It will be the main weapon for water-based gods in the future.

The longbow was nurtured by wind-elemental divine power, making it perfect for Richard. Richard held it in his hand, playing with it with great affection.

Because for a long period during his early training, he used a bow and arrow, combined with wind magic and battle aura, employing a kite-like tactic.

Although he also practices swordsmanship, for someone as valuing his life as he is, wielding a knife and slashing at an opponent? That's impossible. He would only practice his swordsmanship on an enemy if he was certain of winning, in a way that was a reverse-level victory.

Richard only has one life, and he can't gamble on surviving every close-quarters combat engagement.

At that time, Richard's talent in wind and water magic was top-notch, as was his talent in mental strength. However, the cultivation speed of mages in the mid-to-late stages is far inferior to that of warriors.

Therefore, Richard initially focused on magic training while maintaining some warrior training. After he turned sixteen and his body had developed sufficiently, and he had largely exhausted the advantages of his magic talent, he decisively shifted his main focus to warrior training. By the time he reached the Saint Realm in warrior training, his magic had not yet reached level seven.

He later picked up magic training again in order to comprehend the laws.

Before level nine, his primary weapon was the bow and arrow. However, at level nine, the physical abilities of warriors became incredibly exaggerated, to the point that they were practically inhuman. As the lethality of bows and arrows decreased significantly, he switched his primary weapon to a longsword.

Even after reaching the Holy Land, he couldn't find a divine longbow and could only continue using a longsword.

Throughout, his greatest strength has always been speed, precisely so he can run fast when escaping. His wind and water talents are similar, so why does he focus on wind? Isn't it because wind makes him fast? And then he adds water's defense and illusion magic.

It can be said that before becoming a god, his attack power was the weakest among his six attributes, while his speed and defense were stronger than his attack power.

After all, whether or not you can kill the enemy isn't that important; you can only deal damage if you're alive, so staying alive is the top priority.

It's all tears when I think about it. I endured all that hardship and finally made it to godhood.

Let's set aside the emotional journey we went through growing up.

Richard continued to explore the contents of the spatial ring.

Cultivation insights, divine-level secret medicine formulas, tips for comprehending the profound mysteries of laws, divine-level magic arrays, techniques for crafting soul artifacts, soul poisons capable of killing even gods, rare spiritual herbs, rare ores, etc., are all accumulated by the other party over hundreds of thousands of years, which is a foundation that is countless times deeper than Richard's Hegel family.

Space rings nested within space rings. Just to hold these things, there were about ten space rings.

Compared to the things mentioned above, the mountain of gold coins and gems was insignificant.

Richard's success in this operation can only be described as a single act of cunning leading to a lifetime of wealth. Truly, murder and arson bring riches, while building bridges and roads leaves no trace.

He then turned and left; this continent was about to descend into chaos. Originally, the sacred domains here were all enslaved by the soul of that god-level powerhouse. But with the death of that god-level powerhouse, these sacred domains were freed. Having been enslaved for so long, it was hard to imagine what these people were capable of, and he had no intention of interfering.

Two days later, on a deserted island, Richard prepared to use the Soul Orb.

The main body and the divine avatar each sat on one side, and each used only two pills to heal their original soul injuries, and even made some progress.

Richard did not stop, and continued to use the Soul Golden Beads, using several more to raise his soul to the limit of a lower god.

Richard then began to comprehend the laws of water, which resonated with the insights of the two kings of the ocean and water.

A few months later, he grasped that insight again and successfully comprehended the profound mystery of the water element. During this period, he also successfully entered the profound mystery of the sharp edge of ice. Combined with the profound mystery of the mist illusion he had already comprehended, he had comprehended half of the six profound mysteries of the water element law, but unfortunately, he had not yet integrated them.

As the laws of heaven and earth descended, Richard, who was of the water element, became a god and once again felt the pain of his soul being torn apart.

With the completion of the divine avatar clad in a light blue robe, this attempt at becoming a god came to an end.

Richard used his wind-elemental divine clone to quickly leave, only stopping at another island a day later.

Having one divine clone as a public face is enough; there's no need to expose the other divine clones.

After spending several more days on this small island healing the wound that had torn his soul with the Soul Golden Pearl, he turned back to the Olisis Empire.

Half a year has passed since they left, but for a god-level expert, this amount of time is basically no different from going out for a short walk and coming back.

Sure enough, when he returned to Silver Collar, nothing happened. Perhaps no one even noticed he had gone on a long trip.

Richard summoned Hogg and Della, bestowing upon each of them a material defense artifact, whereas he had already given them a material attack artifact at the end of the banquet.

However, he didn't have many material defense artifacts before, since the god-level experts who came to the banquet gave material attack artifacts instead of divine artifacts.

As for the lower-level godhood of death, it was not bestowed upon her. Della has already begun to comprehend the laws of water, and it would be best if she could become a god on her own. As for Hogg, if he cannot become a god independently before leaving the material plane, then a godhood will be bestowed upon him at that time.

He then instructed the two to use the artifacts with caution. Della was fine; as a Saint Realm peak cultivator who had comprehended the laws and a core figure in a god-level force, using a material attack artifact was not a problem. However, she should hide the material defense artifacts and not use them unless absolutely necessary.

Hogger, on the other hand, was just an ordinary Saint-level being; even using a material attack artifact was risky for him.

However, Richard needed the two of them to do the work, so after thinking about it, he gave each of them a Soul Gold Bead. This would be more than enough to raise their souls to the limit of the Saint Realm, and with the divine artifact, they should be able to survive as long as they didn't encounter a god-level expert.

He also gave the family a copy of the resource books that could be used by those below the God level, instructing them to increase their efforts in cultivating the next generation and to consider recruiting talents from outside the family, or even Saint-level experts.

He's almost a mid-level god, yet he only has two Saint-level subordinates at his disposal. It's heartbreaking to think about.

Why did he abandon that small continent? It was simply because he had too few talented subordinates. If he had dozens of Saint-level experts and three to five Saint-level experts at their peak, he wouldn't have left and could have directly ruled that small continent.