Chapter 1770: Chapter 1769 - New World Order

Wars usually are marked by parades, celebrations, and other festivities. While many people did do just that, the higher echelons never paused.

Their work of centuries that followed the end of active warfare brought prosperity in the millennia that followed. It was a long time for Immortals and below but for the Divine Realm cultivators, it was but a moment.

Things had changed. Some factions wanted to reclaim what was lost but their main backing had vanished. The Master Tiers had no desire to go back to the old ways.

They had learned what was possible through cooperation and negotiation. It would not last but for the moment, they had other priorities than power.

No one stopped sects or kingdoms from forming, they just had to get by on their own power. The alliances that once ruled the Divine Lands could not seem to come together. The knowledge that the Master Tiers could simply ignore or destroy them made them focus on development and secure their own areas.

It helped that the massive reduction in population made competition far less likely for possibly millions of years. A powerful spirit mine was taken? Go take the next one a whole year away.

A treasure appeared in a forest and was taken? There are 9 more in a decade’s radius to shoot for.

The Divine Lords actually felt a freedom they had not had for as long as they could remember. It freed them up for their new goal.

Find the Bastard. Lind smirked when Aristrossa told him that. The moniker he had used for so long had finally spread.

The ’Great One’ was now alone and actively hunted. Any hint of issues were pursued or investigated.

It should have left him feeling relaxed but it had been 5,000 years. Nothing. Oh, they had confirmed he was alive as he had left a few presents but they were never found in time.

His family were now protected by a new set of artifacts. Liquid Harmonics was the name of the new branch of crafting. It was not only effective against Fiends but had myriad applications.

Harmonic Qi responded to the intent imprinted on it almost better than the natural energy state! It also resolved a problem for others that Lind could not before. A power source for ships and floating cities!

His ships had always been marvels but were inherently limited by quality of resources and compatible harmonic Qi in many of its artifacts.

The grade of weaving was also another hurdle hard to overcome.

Liquid Harmonics resolved that issue massively. A crystal heart reactor combined with liquid harmony Qi could power a hell of a lot more projects than normal refining and Forging had allowed thus far.

Depending on the path of the harmony, it could also have revolutionary effects in healing, defense, and other fields.

The greatest thing about it, however, was it made 6 elementals and Harmonic Dragons necessary for all powers that wanted them. Everyone did so without even a discussion, all powers now treated 6 elementals and Harmonic Dragons as living treasures.

They could walk unmolested anywhere. Anyone that tried to harm them would find vicious retribution drawn down on them.

Lind found it funny. All those millennia ago, he was treated as defective. He had been told he would be lucky to reach the World Realm. Now, the very segment that had been condemned had become so precious even criminals would not dare mess with them!

Again, it would not last. Cultivation would eventually reach the point they were not so critical or something could replace them in the throne of the rise to power, but for the moment, they shined.

Lind had retreated to the Blessed Crimson Range. It was the only request he had made and the Master Tiers affirmed it. He restructured it and made it flow more naturally to the desires of the deceased dral.

Gone were the towers, manipulated space, and other wartime necessities. A flowing city now replaced growing out of the peaks. Bridges that blended so seamlessly from afar that they were invisible until actually setting down on them were everywhere.

The mountains reclaimed their glory and the reverence beasts felt only seemed to increase.

Lind built a teleportation array to a single location, the Emerald Isle. Sun was waiting for him as if he knew he would do it!

The isle was the one place that would be strange for epochs to come. The lower realms normally connected to the Eastern Continent where the old Fiend battle front had been, were already connected to it.

Thus, its population was shifted safely from the still desolate Eastern Continent. It was better, but far from habitable.

Heaven and Earth seemed aware as ascenders were now showing up all over the other 3 land masses they normally wouldn’t.

Some Fiends had ascended, only to find death waiting for them. It had been 2000 years since the last time that happened.

Once the link was set up, the cities filled with people from his old home and others. Many found loved ones that had gone ahead or were finally told if they were lost in the Final Fiend War.

It seemed an almost idyllic peace, but Lind never relaxed. The systematic search of all existing areas had turned up nothing. The Bastard was biding his time.

Whatever target he had set for himself, the conditions were not right.

Was it possible he was waiting for Lind to attempt ascension? He was still working on his first Master Tier Mystery. It was unknown when it would come to him.

The new world order was moving on without his help so he focused on both his goals. The original Bastard was still waiting too. No one could dare ascend so long as that monster was there.

They would just become food for him. Lind had felt like he was close to something lately so he went into seclusion.

It was time to increase his power and hopefully tear the current Bastard out of his hole!

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How long had it been since he was truly alone? How long had it been when no one could be used by him and he had to sneak at all times to stay alive?

His glorious plans to rip out the heart of Lind Frey lay in tatters. He had expected the war to drag out and cause chaos once the frontlines broke. He had fully expected to finally get his chance to claim one of his family!

The thrice cursed bastard had laid a trap around his Immortal wife! He had not even gotten close! How had he known?! An opportunity was not something to always be prepared for!!!!

The Great One had watched in horror as a simple concept brought the entire Fiend race crashing down. Harmonic Qi had always been a problem but its capabilities had been fully explored, or so he thought!

The current Lind Frey was so different. He did not simply make more powerful weapons or applications, he looked outside of power entirely! He had condensed harmonic Qi into a physical form of matter! How?!

The energy requirements should have left him drained and weakened beyond any ability to control it!

That same liquid was now everywhere! If he was not able to fully hide his aura, he would have died a thousand times over!

He had seen it when he sensed a Fiend rising. He had gone to greet them and hide them, but the platform appeared out of the sky and poured the liquid on them!

He had not even seen if it was a man or a woman! They were destroyed that quickly!

The aura of an ascender preceded them, so that platform had been waiting!

He had to survive off of lone travelers and others but that was getting harder as liquid harmonic artifacts were becoming more common! There would come a time when he could not consume!

Thousands of years passed before finally, Lind Frey went into seclusion. A dark smile spread as hope bloomed.

"I cannot get to your family, but you are unaware of what is coming. There is a moment you will be forced to give me. In that moment, even if I die, you are coming with me." He had given up on his ascendence.

There was no path forward there. All that was left was vengeance. Lind Frey had ruined everything over and over! The one thing left was to seal the fate of the Divine Lands.

No Lind Frey meant no hope. His original self was out there, waiting to consume them all. The rules still bound him, as well as the other Eternal Realm cultivators by now, but with Lind gone, all hope dies!

"Enjoy your final seclusion. I will be waiting for you!" He moved on in the shadows of the world and many turned towards the Blessed Crimson Range.

Lind Frey had told them all the truth. Even if the current Bastard dies, another awaits. The only being that could stop him was Lind. It was all they had.

So the Great One’s threat was truly looming over them all even in victory. The only peace would come when the original Fiend was completely dead!