Chapter 1805: Chapter 827: Passing the Torch

After the seventh round of High Rank Ascension Ceremony ended, the ashes left behind had already piled up and filled the Holy Fire Sacrificial Ground.

One hundred and twenty-eight portions of Element, one hundred and twenty-eight Divine Stones, all shattered into Fragments, were spread all over the ground.

The ritual main body, constructed with extreme complexity to sustain them, had been completely burned out, turned into countless flying ash, so that the Holy Fire Sacrificial Ground, which was always suffused with Golden Light, also became shrouded in gray haze.

Qingyu rose from the ashes; twenty-five portions of Root Origin had greatly increased her upper limit of Spiritual Energy. The limit of forty million thousand ticks was broken in an instant, the boiling golden Holy Fire radiated tremendous heat and converged into Qingyu’s Soul.

At the same time, great ripples surged through the Sea of Source. Rod perceived that the Spiritual Energy of the entire Space was being stirred; the ocean of Spiritual Energy formed a vortex around her, converging into her Soul. Her Spiritual Energy filled rapidly, quickly breaking through one hundred million, and was still continuously rising.

Everyone was shocked by the birth of this Miracle, Rhein in particular.

Only Rod and Qingyu remained calm in expression.

They knew this was not a Miracle.

Ever since the King was gravely wounded, he had lain silent in the Holy Fire for a very long time. During this period, no matter how Qingyu called, the King did not awaken; yet the King’s power merged into the Holy Fire, helping Qingyu time and time again.

This gave her a faint illusion, as if the King had become the Holy Fire.

Precisely because of this, after learning that Rhein had no capability in Healing or recovery at all, she did not immediately tell Rhein about this matter.

She had originally intended, after establishing a stable connection with Saint Longde and gaining a comprehensive understanding, to request that they dispatch High Rank Healing personnel to help the King recover from his slumber; yet she had not expected that, during her promotion, she would obtain the King’s blessing and in one breath reach the end of the Half King realm.

Qingyu turned her gaze toward Rod; the instant their eyes met, she had her answer in her heart.

"Lord Rhein."

An intangible wind blew the ashes aside; Qingyu trod upon the embers and came, landing before Rhein, and said softly.

"There is one thing I must tell you."

Rhein lifted his eyes, looking at Qingyu in puzzlement, not understanding what the King of Trolian had to say at this moment.

Thus, in the following one clock hour, he came to know of a King of Trolian who, in that star‑strewn, eternal river of humanity, could also be called a legend.

At this moment, Rhein’s eyeballs were almost about to break free from the constraints of their sockets; not only his eyeballs—every spherical organ on his body wanted to leave him and emit wild screams, to express his inconceivable shock.

It turned out that the pitifully weak Trolian had been even weaker a few years ago.

Throughout the entire realm, apart from the King, there was no Strong existence above Monarch Level; even a Commander Lawyer became top‑tier combat power here. Crossing the threshold of mortals and stepping onto the Transcendent path was regarded by them as the beginning of invincibility, while feeble King Level Monsters were, in their eyes, an irresistible horror.

Such a withered Trolian, such a negligible human Kingdom, had actually struggled within the terrible darkness for one thousand eight hundred years.

However, in Trolian’s past history, they had not always been so weak.

They too had once known glory, but the Three Great Extinctions cut off their rise, snapped their spine, and pressed them firmly into that narrow mountain hollow of the Dead Ash Mountain Range, forcing them to crawl on the ground, sniffing dust and mud as they clung to life.

Two hundred years.

They had slumbered in insignificance for a full two hundred years, until a Strong one was born.

That was the previous King of Trolian.

He poured out his heart’s blood and exhausted his wits, dragging Trolian out of the mire, then smoothing over all internal strife, gathering every shred of strength, staking everything in a fight to the death, journeying far to Starry Sky City to seize back the Holy Fire of the Starry Kingdom.

From then on, Trolian’s splendor began.

The entire Kingdom advanced by leaps and bounds, its combat power rising step by step, and afterward it crushed the revived Ancient God, took in the survivors of the destroyed Saint Rel Kingdom, and at its Peak, even once occupied more than half of the Gray Soil Continent.

Yet all this came to an end with the Eerie Calamity.

The terrifying Human Demon revived beneath the flow of years, and, following a destined trajectory, came toward the Royal City; the death knell of destruction thus tolled, and Trolian’s fate ought to have reached its end.

But at that very moment, the King stood up once more. He faced the Human Demon head‑on, winning for Trolian’s Strong ones a chance to counterattack, and in the end rewrote fate, bringing Trolian a sliver of life.

However, the King thereby suffered grievous wounds and had no choice but to slumber within the Holy Fire, awaiting his next recovery.

This was the course of the previous King of Trolian. Aside from the legends of the Fire Epoch, Rhein had not heard of such a great Miracle in the past one thousand eight hundred years; the legends he created could likely only be matched by those Ancient sages.

And the reason the King could reverse fate and alter destiny, apart from possessing an indomitable will and wisdom, lay in one most crucial key: he was the Life of Man, the salvation and radiance of mankind, the lingering ripple and afterwave of the Ancient era.

He was the bearer of the Source Heavenly God Throne.

When he heard this, Rhein’s heart almost leaped out of every orifice of his body at once.

The legendary Source Heavenly God Throne was actually in Trolian!

One must know, this is the apex of all Miracles, the ultimate of all inconceivable legends. It has never yet appeared in the world, but its legend has always circulated among mankind, never once interrupted.