Above The Sky
Chapter 2022 - 26: King of the World
They truly could not imagine that the seemingly terrifying demon plan, and the internal research on the Domain of Void in Fiery Flame Land, was actually for a cradle to protect everyone after the apocalypse.
What shocked more people was that they had no idea that the Ashen King and the Pupationer had conducted such joint research with the Four Great Orthodox Churches.
Had they already considered survival after the future apocalypse? Were those terrifying researches of Fiery Flame Land developed for such a ’noble’ purpose?
No... no kidding!
In what different world did they, the past kings, live?!
This was exactly the effect Ian wanted.
He would not belittle the Ashen King, nor would he allow everyone to misunderstand his intentions. But sometimes, the mere truth is enough for sensitive people to realize that, from beginning to end, their future is not in their hands.
It is only natural. Those without power, of course, do not have the right to control the future. This is a universal iron law, even the morality of the Star God or the votes of the Perpetual Motion Machine will not change this point, and Ian Silverpeak is fundamentally no different from the Ashen King.
But he will offer a possibility, a seemingly choice-filled possibility, allowing everyone to participate... giving everyone the illusion of ’choice’, letting them feel a ’sense of participation’ in changing the future.
[This is the flame he left behind]
Just like now, facing everyone, Ian took out the two flames left by the Ashen King, the Top Seat’s Blood.
The Top Seat’s Blood, from the Abassalom Bloodline, was slowly dimming, turning into a mass of pitch-black chaos... this was the original form of the Top Seat’s Blood from the Abassalom Bloodline.
It is not the Undying Hellfire, only in the hands of the Ashen King is it the Fire of Ending that can annihilate everything. If in the hands of the Tianhong King, it would be Boundless Heavy Waters... it is a kind of catalyst, no matter what Bloodline it is, as long as it meets the standard, it can catalyze it to the extreme.
Just as the Top Seat’s Blood of the Nemasis Bloodline is the Blood of Endless Vitality that can accelerate transformation, the Top Seat’s Blood of Fiery Flame Land is so versatile, it can sustain a variety of different Fifth Energy Level Bloodline inheritances.
[Although the Ashen King was defeated, before his defeat, he surpassed the limits of his Bloodline and, apart from the original Top Seat’s Blood, created a unique Top Seat’s Blood belonging to the ’Undying Flame Spirit’]
Ian calmly raised his other hand, the white Reincarnation Flame burning, he surveyed everyone present, in the silent world one seemed to hear the breath.
Feeling this awe and longing, Ian slightly smiled: [I do not covet any Top Seat’s Blood]
He threw down the two Top Seat’s Blood, amidst the exclamations of the crowd, the pitch-black chaos and white flame circled around him: [I do not monopolize any power]
[I admire the Ashen King. He is a strongman, living in a boring world without me, but it’s a pity he was too old to witness the future I am going to create. We fight for our own Path of the Dao and future, and he entrusted everything to me]
[But just as I brought back the Top Seat’s Blood of the Sunbirds, I will not occupy the two Top Seat’s Blood of Fiery Flame Land either]
[As the King of Fiery Flame Land, I can promise, these two Top Seat’s Blood belong to all the people of Fiery Flame Land]
[Whether it is Lower Flame Domain or Upper Feiyan Land, as long as you are excellent enough, recognized by me at the Fourth Level, you can come to me and seek these two Top Seat’s Blood]
[The premise is, you are indeed excellent enough]
"Ho-how could it be so... generous?!"
Ian so declared, and all the people of the Lower Flame Domain who were saddened, grieved, and confused due to the death and defeat of the Ashen King opened their eyes wide with incredulity.
According to the unwritten rules of Terra, a completely defeated Fifth Energy Level would lose everything—their Bloodline, inheritance, and all honors would be eradicated or at least erased, relegated to the mundane. There have been many fleeting Fifth Energy Levels in history, someone always would gain power from proto-civilization or ancient Sparks, but their splendor often could not last and ultimately they would be absorbed into the major forces.
However, Ian Silverpeak’s approach is different.
He does not completely degrade the enemy’s everything, but rather elevates it highly.
He does not eradicate the enemy’s Bloodline, but instead shows leniency.
He doesn’t even want the Top Seat’s Blood, just being excellent enough allows obtaining it.
The Silverpeak Seer stood on the Sky Ladder cast by light, his declaration proved his strength and confidence, a confidence that came from the heart, believing firmly that he would emerge victorious.
His strength compelled all the people of Fiery Flame Land who had been somewhat hostile towards him to kneel, for those two flames of the Top Seat’s Blood were enough to burn away all reason.
It is greed.
It is ambition.
And also... the most precious treasure, the most merciless diurnal cycle that is called hope.
It is the treasure that the Fifth Energy Level Seer, Ian Silverpeak, hung in the Sky.
"Ian Silverpeak..." Even this generation’s King of Inferno Abyss, the third grandson of the Ashen King, could not help but kneel on one knee in submission to the seer in the sky. He could hear the bias in Ian Silverpeak’s seemingly fair and just words towards his Bloodline, because the Top Seat’s Blood of the Abassalom Bloodline is universal, but that white Top Seat’s Blood of the Undying Flame Spirit can only be utilized by them.
No.
After a fleeting moment of relief, this generation’s King of Inferno Abyss suddenly became alert again: "The reason for this battle was the intention of Silverpeak Domain to spread the Fifth Energy Level Bloodline... in the future Fiery Flame Land, the Undying Flame Spirit will certainly play an indispensable role, our advantage is fundamentally not an advantage!"