Chapter 98 - CHAPTER 98 - THE DESOLATE GOD REGION (2)

Solanky sensed something was wrong. He put up a protective barrier and sat down, focusing all his attention on the land with his spiritual sense. The others followed his lead. They soon realized the land was once full of spiritual energy, and their physical bodies alone could not cross it without first using their senses to examine it.Solanky spread out his senses and realized that every distance on the land he sat on corresponded to the galaxy he saw when they arrived. He opened his eyes and saw a broken land, but when he observed with his spiritual sense, he realised that the broken galaxy wasn't an illusion but a real thing, but it was based on the perspective of the viewer and his or her spiritual sense.He then formed seals with his hands and his spiritual body, which was over 5 trillion light-years, emerged from his physical body, which looked tiny, but compared to the desolate region, it looked like a regular golden six-foot man walking on the Sahara Desert on Earth. He looked minuscule in the grand scheme of things. His spiritual body projection scooped up Solanky and walked towards the brilliant star in the distance. The other beings, seeing this, immediately understood that this place was to test their spiritual sense and the spiritual bodies; they followed suit and walked towards the star with their spiritual bodies, with their physical forms in the hands of the spiritual bodies.Solanky looked back with his spiritual body in shock as he saw a peak entity with a spiritual body of ten trillion light-years going past him. Solanky instantly deduced that his being had a half-step peak turns spiritual sense and consciousness. The half-step peak turns being overseeing this was even more shocked as he thought Solanky was the brightest in this batch's recruitment, but he never thought someone this powerful could perfectly hide her strength and not be arrogant.As the ten-trillion-light-year spiritual walked past Solanky, she smiled at Solanky and made her way forward. The others, seeing this, were all taken aback, as they never thought such a prodigy would be in the batch; they all marked her the most powerful one amongst them, followed by Solanky.Solanky had so many questions running through his mind; the most pressing one was why this being was still a peak-stage entity without breaking through to the transcendent level. Because if she wanted to, she could break through and become a saint emperor; with that spiritual body, she would be far from your regular saint emperor. They walked for hours; even with their colossal spiritual bodies, it took them roughly three hours of walking to get to the brilliant star, which was just a statue of the desolate god Radiance, his majestic brilliance and aura visible from a distance. By using their spiritual bodies, half of them with weaker spiritual bodies were left behind, not because Solanky and the others didn't want to help, but because their spiritual bodies couldn't withstand the pressure of the desolate world each time they advanced towards the statue. Amongst the successful who were able to make it to the desolate god's statue were beings with transcendent saint-level spiritual bodies and above. This was a test put in place by the desolate god to eliminate the mediocre ones, because a peak entity with a transcendent entity level spiritual body is bound to reach the saint level and above, no matter the bottleneck they face currently. So the desolate god used this to recruit more beings to side with his desolate region, as he was eager to study geniuses and help them break through their bottlenecks and establish a form of karma and relation with them to assist whenever he needed things done in the beyond realm, as true peak turns beings were restricted from acting in the beyond realm.The desolate god was known as the easily accessible True Peak Turns Being in the entire beyond realm and had the most vouches in the beyond realm, although these vouches ended up becoming half-step peak turns beings. The difference between a saint emperor transcendent at the peak and a half-step peak turns was very noticeable, as a single Half-Step Peak Turns Being could obliterate several saint emperor transcendent beings.Solanky and others arrived ten meters before the desolate god statue; the half-step peak turns being appeared before them again and said they could withdraw their spiritual bodies into their physical forms. They did as they were told to, using their spiritual bodies to traverse a vast distance, which had a toll on them; even Solanky and the mysterious woman showed signs of tiredness."You can recuperate your lost spiritual energies here, and congratulations for reaching this side of the galaxy, which is the teleportation site into the real core of the desolate region. What you saw when you arrived was the last location created by the desolate god himself, and we had been occupying it for the past 100,000 years in the beyond realm, which is equivalent to ten trillion years in the desolate god region," the half-step peak turns being said.The beings present were shocked to hear this, except Solanky and the mysterious woman. The half-step peak turns being wasn't that shocked because with their spiritual bodies' power and size, he knew they somehow knew of the time dilation within a true peak turns being's world. The half-step peak turns said, "Let me introduce myself now that you are legitimate members and heirs of the desolate god, you are worthy of knowing my name. I am Elder Tahira, the third elder of the desolate god. You can address me as Third Elder." Tahira looked nothing ordinary, and the outstanding feature of his body was his dark grey curved horns, complementing his humanoid figure, which looked like an average man from Earth.The elder Tahira walked towards the desolate god's statue and touched it; the radiating light dimmed, making it possible for these new members to clearly see what the desolate god looked like. The desolate god had four horns on each side of his head with a long beard with six eyes and a single mouth which had two long canine protruding from his lower jaw with the nose of a boar and no ears. The desolate god looked very terrifying for beings who had never seen a special lifeform or personally modified being. The midsection of the desolate god had six arms and what seemed to be a metallic coating on his chest, which looked like a breastplate. And his low body had two strong, long legs with large feet, which looked like the paws of a bear.The statue shone brightly once again, and a golden halo seal erupted from it and began to spread out rapidly to cover the new members entirely. Solanky, together with the others, could feel the space world around them glitch for an instant. After the glitch repaired itself, they sensed that the world around them had changed, and the hidden higher spiritual realm, which surpassed the spiritual realm of the realms below the beyond realm, was now illusory to them, and the entrance to that world contained a sinister energy that beings below the half-step peak turns level couldn't stand.Elder Tahira said, "You guys shouldn't worry about the higher spiritual planes; it's still too far from you now. Follow the core land of the desolate region and meet the other elders and members of the desolate god region. They are all waiting for your arrival." The third elder gestured forward towards a pathway which seemed to lead to a colossal spherical crystal-like dome which was constructed from precious minerals and artifacts found across the beyond realm. They could hear countless voices speaking in the dome. They walked towards the entrance, and what their senses picked up shocked them.They could sense hundreds of thousands of beings waiting inside the dome, and the oppressive feeling coming from the dome indicated that these beings were at least a saint-level transcendent entity. Elder Tahira was the first to walk through the entrance to the other side. The mysterious woman also stepped through the entrance, followed by Solanky and the rest.The moment they stepped through the entrance, what they saw shocked them; instead of the colosseum with thousands of seats and a center stage, they saw. They were met with a huge space filled with over a hundred thousand stars arranged in concentric circles, with numerous beings seated on these stars.Two other beings approached them to welcome them. Solanky and the others could tell that these approaching beings were all half-step peak turns beings, and the others seated on the stars were transcendent entities.The two half-step peak turns beings introduced themselves as the first and second elders respectively, and the transcendent entities all revealed a sense of expectation to become as powerful as them. The stars in the colosseum started disappearing one after the other. The mysterious woman asked the three half-step peak turns being why the transcendent entities were leaving. The second elder replied by saying, "it is a tradition to welcome new members of the desolate god region in unison and get acquainted with them and avoid bullying ones of own people, and also it obligatory to assist you in the outside world whenever they around to buy you time to escape a perilous predicament, because that is the only unbreakable rule of the desolate god sect."The first elder said, "It is to show gratitude to the desolate god, for assisting them or providing them a rare opportunity to comprehend half-step peak turns techniques and lecture them, which helped them break through their bottlenecks. It is time to meet the desolate god himself."