Chapter 1037: Chapter 908: The Ultimate Adventure! Setting Sail on the Stormy Sea Route!

Swoosh!

Miss Kongyu had just lifted her skirt and hopped onto the [Sea Soul] when, not far behind her on the sea’s surface, another figure rose up.

Without a doubt, that tall, slender man with blood-red eyes and white hair, breathtakingly handsome and in hot pursuit, was the "Dark Ruler" Kaiamo from the "Peacock Islands."

Seeing Miss Kongyu on the deck, flustered like a frightened fawn, the Demigod licked the corner of his lips:

"Beautiful lady, you are the only woman in the world who dares to rough me up. As expected... so very special."

The girl in the white dress couldn’t help her face changing; only now did she realize that the silver ring on her slender wrist had already dimmed.

[Treasure: Time Gate]

Effect: Parallel time lines, endlessly resetting time, a gate courtyard that can never be walked past...

It can cut a branch off the existing Time to form a closed loop, and then split out several time lines, making multiple targets inside completely unaware of each other’s existence.

With this treasure in hand, even facing an army of a hundred thousand, you could defeat them one by one!

Back in the Animal Kingdom, relying on the [Time Gate], she had almost knocked Milan right off his horse.

But it obviously could not trap a Demigod, especially not a powerful Demigod whose Main Divine Position was [Shadow].

Then again, as for this "Dark Ruler," whether he had taken a fancy to her as a person, or to the space power in her hands, was really hard to say.

Kaiamo acted as if he hadn’t noticed Miss Kongyu’s deeply guarded attitude toward him. He pulled out a bunch of bright red roses from behind his back, his face still full of devotion:

"Darling, for this reunion that spans the whole Material World, after I broke free of your shackles, I even went especially to take a bath."

Those words left Kongyu completely confused, totally unable to figure out what in the world this guy had in his head:

"A bath... what bath?"

Only to see the handsome Demigod tilt his head up at a forty‑five degree angle, sighing softly at the Moon:

"Because I love you till the end of time!"

Hiss—!

The "damage" from that line was simply too big. Not only did Kongyu break out in goosebumps all over, everyone else on the ship also sucked in a cold breath and involuntarily took a step back.

The pretty girl’s teeth were even chattering; she was so embarrassed it was like she could scrape out a three‑bedroom apartment on the deck of the [Sea Soul] with her toes.

She shouted in anger:

"Kaiamo! I already have someone I like! Just give up already!"

This Miss Kongyu, who had always relied on herself to roam the world, really could bend and stretch. She completely abandoned the unyielding toughness she’d shown back then, and now looked for all the world like a little bird wanting to throw herself into the thickest thigh around.

However.

She had barely started to move her feet when the blade‑sharp gazes of Tier 4 Transcendents Olivia, Liweina, and Angie forced her right back.

Her face stiffened slightly, and wisely she did not try again.

Having gotten this far all on her own, Miss Kongyu was clearly a brilliant woman. She quickly realized that if she really rushed over, before she could get rid of Kaiamo, she’d probably be hacked into eight pieces by these three women first.

She could only settle for second best and, going with the flow, grabbed Milan’s arm in one swoop. Several years had passed, and she was still stronger than Milan, leaving him no room to break free at all.

Besides, the reason she had come all the way from the far‑eastern "Peacock Islands" to the far‑western "Golden Kingdom" was precisely because she had locked onto Milan, who belonged to the same "Clock Tower School."

Even if she couldn’t latch onto His Majesty Galliot, who was said to have already achieved [Truth Embodiment], He couldn’t just stand by and watch Milan get beaten to death by a "love rival," right?

Sure enough.

Aiven narrowed his eyes at the white‑haired, red‑eyed Demigod "Dark Ruler." He was certainly no stranger to this Demigod, who was very active in their own colony, the "Peacock Islands."

The "Child of the Shadows of the Mountains" was also a God born directly from faith, with [Natural Divine Position: Shadow] as His Main Divine Position.

Although it was hard to define Him as an Evil God at His Origin, His personality was like that of a confused child, completely unaffected by human concepts of good and evil, right and wrong.

He wouldn’t actively do evil like an Evil God, wantonly slaughtering and destroying, but He was definitely no Good God either.

His way of doing things was often utterly self‑centered; without even realizing it He would bring disaster to mortals, yet He didn’t care in the least, let alone feel any remorse.

His level of troublemaking was no better than a demon child’s.

On the other side.

"Hm?!"

Just now, His eyes had held only Miss Kongyu. Only when the girl made this "over‑the‑line" move did it draw His attention to the others on the ship.

After His blood‑red eyes swept across the crowd, He was actually quite surprised to see, in this remote backwater, several big shots who were renowned both in the "Peacock Islands" and across the whole Material World.

Especially Aiven at their head, as well as a few others on whom Divine light shone brightly.

In a team of only nine, there was one Demigod, two Divine Creatures, and two [Titled Sacred Artifacts] capable of harming Demigods.

And not only were these people powerful, under the order established by the Seven Gods, they were also the veritable supreme secular rulers of the "Peacock Islands"!

After the Sea Hegemon changed hands back then, the East Lenz Company had become, in the identity of a commercial conglomerate, the nominal ruling group of the "Peacock Islands."

The "Tulip Alliance" had also restructured the stock of the East Lenz Company, which had originally been solely owned by Phaletis.

Among them, the Galliot Duchy held forty percent, Phaletis thirty percent, and the Tyrone Kingdom twenty percent; the remaining ten percent was divided among the other three countries, whose main job was to shout "awesome, awesome, awesome."

Duchess Olivia Galliot was the major shareholder and chairwoman of the board, possessing the highest authority in the East Lenz Company, including convening the board and dismissing the CEO.

According to legal doctrine, the three of them—Aiven, Olivia, and Liweina—even held the right to completely suppress the Varna Sect throughout the Peacock Islands.

Even though it might trigger shaky rule, widespread rebellion, hostility from the Gods... and a whole series of disastrous consequences, no one could deny their dominating power.

Met eyes and confirmed: can’t beat them! Can’t afford to provoke them!

I’m out!

The Dark Ruler Kaiamo actually turned around and left without another word.

"Whew! Saved!"

However, just as Kongyu, who was clinging to Milan’s arm, was about to finally let out a sigh of relief—

A swamp-like patch of shadow suddenly surfaced beneath her feet, birthing a powerful suction that tried to swallow her whole.

Although the situation was stronger than the person now, leaving Kaiamo no room to keep playing the "sincere pursuit" act, he was still unwilling to just give up like this.

With Illusion and Phantom, his feints were practically seamless.

However—

Bang!

That patch of shadow was stomped to pieces by the Kraken, King of Sea Monsters, standing beside Milan, as he let out a low shout:

"No need to trouble Your Majesty to act! Hah!"

The King of Sea Monsters had already had enough of this whiny pretty-boy; nine phantom serpentine shadows flashed briefly behind his back.

This was not his Mythical Form, yet surpassed it in effect. If there were a single word to describe it, the most fitting would probably be "proving the Dao through sheer force."

Rumble!

Mountain-crushing power crashed down at lightning speed, shattering Kaiamo—who didn’t dare linger in battle to begin with—into pieces, countless illusory figures scattering in all directions like fireworks.

And he still didn’t give up, leaving behind one last line:

"Beautiful lady, after spending countless days and nights thinking of you, I shall eventually wed you as my fifty-second bride!"

"Uh..."

What could they do.

He couldn’t stand the pitiful look in the pretty girl’s eyes.

Right before departure, the nine-person adventure party gained one more new member—Kongyu, a Peak High-Rank Wizard specializing in the Space Realm.

Only now had the two sides finally reached a calm, mutual agreement: whoever advanced to Crowned Wizard first, the other would unconditionally help him/her seize control of the Clock Tower from the Chaos Worm.

Besides that, Aiven had other considerations.

Previously, the effect of Civilization Relic: Catrio’s Wheel was that time, space, matter, and energy could all be dominated and converted by its master.

Put plainly, as long as you provided a large amount of energy and matter, Catrio’s Wheel could randomly send you to any corner of the universe.

Now, as they were about to explore the Möbius Ring, another piece of Civilization Relics hidden Behind the Door, a specialist in the space-time field might come in very handy.

...

The next morning.

Led by the Ocean Goddess Thetis and the Sky Goddess Kurutena, Aiven’s group, who had spent the night in the Golden Kingdom, arrived before the Gate that had finally revealed its true form.

Two silver-white triangular metal pillars thrust straight into the clouds.

Even Aiven’s Eye of Profound Wisdom and Olivia’s True Sight Demon Eye couldn’t discern the material of that absolutely smooth surface; even with the highest magnification of Microscopic Vision, they could not see its basic structure.

It felt like the relic of an incomprehensible alien civilization.

According to legend—

Behind the Door lay the ultimate secret of this world. When the thirteen Golden Compasses gathered here, they could open a passage leading to another realm, granting adventurers the chance to witness that secret.

If one tried to traverse the Storm Belt that not even True Gods could disperse, they might be lost there forever and never reach the real Endless Ocean, Phorcys.

Standing before the Door, Her Majesty Thetis, her long hair trailing to her ankles, once again confirmed with Aiven:

"Your Majesty Galliot... even if you can’t use any power above Demigod level and cannot unfold your strongest Mythical Form, you still truly intend to enter personally?"

After advancing to God of All Things Fertile, Aiven now stood on the same level as Thetis and Kurutena.

What had once been a joke had become reality in less than twenty years; the Adventurer’s Blood that had been passed down in his family for nearly two centuries was now of no use to him at all.

But the importance of the world Behind the Door had long surpassed what something as trivial as Adventurer’s Blood could constrain.

To put it in grandiose terms, that place might be the future of the billions upon billions of lives on the Herag Star.

After receiving Aiven’s firm answer, Thetis nodded and waved her hand.

Rumble...

The thirteen Golden Compasses shone with dazzling light, gradually merging into one.

"Step onto the Stormy Sea Route, follow the Compass’s guidance, and you shall behold the truth!"

Amid the Ocean Goddess’ somewhat mystic oracle—

The Gate formed by the two metal pillars slowly opened a brilliant golden passage, completely swallowing the Sea Soul.