Chapter 97 - CHAPTER 97 – THE DESOLATE GOD REGION (1).

Solanky, after returning to Abope City, made Leon establish himself as the new saint. By his aura alone, the citizens knew that this magnificent being before them was their previous city leader and protector and that he had undergone a tremendous transformation; his power was now unfathomable compared to before. One could see a young, grey-skinned man with white following closely behind the saint, and this man was none other than Solanky, who for the first time revealed his true identity in public. Leon levitated to the city leaders' living quarters, saying, "Treat this young man as you would treat me because he is my honored guest." The beings within the living quarters of the city leader were all elated and shocked because, before the saint left, he was just an early-stage saint-level transcendent, but now he seemed to leap over the next level and reach the very peak. And based on his physical appearance alone, he was comparable to many entities who had just become a transcendent saint emperor. In the beyond realm, only powerful saint emperors and above could have a physical body of several kilometers tall, and any being beneath that level had their physical bodies suppressed to a few hundred meters tall or long. This was because in the beyond realm, the energies needed to refine a massive body were limited, as only spiritual energies were infinite, as the spiritual realm, directly layered on the beyond realm in some places, had special energies and had small portions of energies needed to refine a massive body. This made many saint entities and above refine massive spiritual bodies, which could fully utilize their small form's power. Solanky entered the inner cave of the city leader's residence, which was on a mountain in Abope city. He looked around, and he could see countless treasures, but only one caught his eye, which was a pair of golden boots. He rushed forward and waved his hand and stored those boots in his world space to study them later, as he felt they resonated with his void shadow steps technique. He then spread his spiritual sense throughout the city to find traces of the officiator so he could finish her off with the help of Leon but discovered that the officiator's aura had left the city several days ago, even before his arrival. He then stretched his hand towards a certain direction; after a while, a glass jar flew at top speed from a particular direction of the city, and it appeared directly before him. Solanky smiled and said, "I need to repay you for using your identity. Although you owe me your life and death, to repay me, you can only serve in the city leader's residence as an alchemist." The jar before Solanky exploded; a mid-stage entity could only bow in fear. Solanky tossed out a ring made from precious minerals to this mid-stage entity. He then said telepathically, "This ring is a spatial storage item that contains the wealth of your enemies and over 100 mid-stage and peak-level entities." The mid-stage entity kneeling and bowing stood up in shock and asked Solanky who his enemies were, as he had no idea of what Solanky was speaking of. Solanky appeared directly before him and pointed between his eyebrows, and a wisp of spiritual energy entered the being's mind; the scenes of events that happened replayed like a movie inside the being's head. After that, he knelt before Solanky and kowtowed three times, showing his respect and admiration, because not only did he deal with his enemies, but he had given all the wealth he obtained to him, which amounted to over five million R.E.L.C., which was the wealth of a powerful saint-level transcendent entity. Solanky smiled and sent a voice transmission to Leon that he was about to leave the city to the coordinates of the desolate god's token gathering. Leon offered to escort Solanky to the location; Solanky agreed, and they both teleported out of the city leader's residence and out of Abope City. They then teleported once more to the given coordinates he got from the desolate god's token; the moment they reappeared at the location of the coordinates, they saw thousands of entities gathered on a stone platform, with some sitting and meditating and others standing. Solanky noticed that all the beings on the stone platform were peak-level entities, with no transcendent entity on the platform. Solanky brought Leon along because he thought he would be ambushed by the officiator on his way before he touched the stone platform, which guaranteed his safety. He flew towards the stone platform when he was several meters away from the safe of the stone platform, which was a hundred meters away. He saw a streak of light rushing towards him with killing intent. "Lo and behold," it was the officiator rushing towards Solanky with her palm stretched out, wanting to slap Solanky to death. Immediately, Leon spread out his four wings and dashed towards the officiator at a speed that was almost impossible for the officiator to react to and threw out a punch to meet the palm strike. BOOM! The space shattered, and the officiator was sent flying into the distance, while Leon stood rooted in his position without budging an inch. The officiator could feel her arm and palm go numb for a moment; she then rushed forward once more, but how could Leon allow her to attack Solanky as she pleased? Leon dashed towards her and spun around mid-air to use his tail as a whip to attack the officiator. The officiator brandished a sword to meet head-on with the tail whip BOOM! CLANG! BOOM! BOOM! CLANG! CLANG! The peak entities on the platform and those transcendent entities around all watched the battle in shock and amazement because they never thought a transcendent entity would have a formidable physical body to fight in a head-on battle with a being slightly above them and not be at a disadvantage. Solanky had landed quietly on the stone platform and blended in. A half-step peak turns, standing in the space above the stone platform, and says to himself, "What a cunning young fellow to cause such a commotion and blend in perfectly with the crowd by taking advantage of the situation; he must be a good seed for the desolate god." The officiator and Leon stopped their battle once they both noticed that Solanky had successfully taken his spot on the platform. The officiator, having a lot of mixed emotions, snorted and made a cut in the space beside her and stepped through, closing it behind her. Leon spread his wings and flapped them once, and then he also disappeared from the desolate god's coordinates to head back to Abope City. The peak entities witnessing this battle, except Solanky, had their hearts burning to become transcendent one day. "Everyone is welcome; the trials to enter the desolate god region's core lands will begin soon," the figure above the stone platform materialized from the nothingness above them. Solanky was very shocked because he felt that this being before him was much stronger than the first venerable one and a little stronger than Elisa, who was absurdly powerful. Solanky immediately deduced that this being before was at least a half-step peak turns being, and that was why he couldn't detect him the moment he arrived. The being waved his hand, and the stone platform disappeared and reappeared in a different location; before them was a broken and destroyed galaxy. The being pointed into the distance, and one could see a brilliant star shining. The being then admitted that that was the desolate god's temple, or the core lands. He then said, "Make it to the desolate god's temple in two days; if not, you will be expelled from the space and region, and you will be banned from entering the desolate god's region in a thousand samsaras."