The Era of Gods

Chapter 216: Black Dragon

Translator: 549690339 I

After a strangely welcoming greeting from his classmates, they met an incarnation of Senior Su.

Senior Su’s true body was within this plane, but they could not see him, as his true body needed to be stationed at the core of this group of planes to suppress an enemy divine system.

This group of planes, mysterious like countless piecemeal planes and small planes layered upon each other like an octopus, was not Senior Su’s Divine Realm but a group of planes that Senior Su was attempting to conquer. It was occupied by a divine system formed by several native deities, and Senior Su was contending with this small divine system for control of the group of planes.

With absolute strength, Senior Su had seized the central core of the group of planes, and the indigenous deities were driven out of the main plane and fled deep into the tentacle-like group of planes.

Relying on who knows how many tiny planes, they resisted Senior Su’s Divine Realm. Up until now, the two sides were still at a stalemate.

Of course, by now, Senior Su already had the upper hand, occupying more than half of the layered planes both large and small, and nearly half of the remaining were under conquest.

And the location where they needed to descend was within that approximate quarter of the planes that were still being conquered.

Within these planes, a part of them had already been visited by incarnations sent by Senior Su to ensure that there were no demigods or higher existences, not to mention those few indigenous deities. Therefore, they would generally not encounter anything stronger than legendary creatures.

Of course, this was still very dangerous for a Divine Incarnation with only ten points of Divine Power and a hint of Divinity, but since it was a test, danger was expected. It was precisely the time to test them.

Senior Su gave them a simple table with several hundred plane numbers, only plane numbers without any other data. No one knew which plane each number represented. They were to randomly pick a number, which would be the plane where they would descend.

In terms of fairness, Radiance did well. It cannot be claimed to be absolutely fair, but it was relatively fair.

Except for those specially recruited, everyone who got into the elite class had ties with Radiance. You have connections, and so does he. In such a case, if everyone tried to exploit their connections, no one could outdo the others, so nobody was allowed to exercise influence, a teaching personally left by the old principal. While the old principal was still alive, no one dared to defy it.

So someone like Lin Xiao, who came from a less privileged background, could grow within Radiance without having every minor advantage snatched away by others.

There was nothing remarkable about the numbers, and Lin Xiao didn’t think too hard about it. He picked a number at random, eighty-eight, confirmed, and then heard the teacher’s voice in his ear:

“Descent will commence in three seconds, do not resist!”

He relaxed his mind, and after three seconds, a familiar sensation of teleportation came, enveloping him in a twisting space that disappeared aboard the Void Battleship.

A meteor streaked across the sky, followed by a ‘boom’ as a massive crater appeared on the ground.

The meteor fell on a vast plain, lush with vegetation, primitive yet desolate.

Stretching to the south was a huge wetland mostly consisting of large shallow lakes rather than marshes. It looked more like extensive lake groups than swamps, and unlike normal swamps filled with black mud and poisonous insects, these waters were clear and teeming with a variety of aquatic life.

The loud boom startled many birds and beasts in the plains and jungles, creating a series of rustling sounds scattered around.

Meanwhile, strange noises came from the wetland in the distance. A few large lakes near the plain rippled in circles as a giant shadow arched up before diving back into the water, along with a faint, odd, deep roar. The wetland area became eerily quiet, as if nothing had happened.

Time passed slowly.

About an hour later, from the deep pit formed by the meteor crash in the lush jungle of the plains, there came a strange noise. An attractive young man, naked with his privates exposed, climbed awkwardly out of the crater, glanced around the edge, and then retreated back into it.

The surroundings of the crater were scorched black with ash, and the body of an unidentifiable wild beast was charred, probably killed by the impact of his arrival.

“Crap, so this is how I descend.”

Initially, Lin Xiao thought that descent’ meant they would be stealthily transported inside the plane after all, previous lectures had discussed how to sneak in unnoticed by the plane will. In his mind, they should have entered the village quietly.

But unexpectedly…

He was thrown into this plane so brutally like a meteor falling from the sky, without subtlety…

Fortunately, after lying at the bottom of the crater for so long without feeling anything amiss and not being detected by the plane will, he should be safe.

After a while, he climbed out of the crater again and surveyed his surroundings. The crater, only four or five meters in diameter, was surrounded by scorch marks extending over ten meters. A little further away were unidentified shrubs and bushes half the height of a person, and beyond that laid a boundless wasteland with trees rising tens or even dozens of meters high occasionally visible.

He took a deep breath, and a passage of text quickly flashed across his mind:

“Air humidity 75%, air temperature 22.5 degrees Celsius, oxygen levels extremely high…”

He also tried jumping, finding that the gravity coefficient was not much different from that of the Main World.

“This plane isn’t too bad!”

The conditions of this plane were quite favorable for the survival of intelligent species. Indeed, this could be inferred from the thriving vegetation and the faint sounds that he could hear but not see, indicating that there were numerous creatures populating this plane. It was unknown, however, if any civilization existed.

Luckily, the place where he descended was quite remote, judging from the surroundings; it didn’t seem like it was inhabited by any wise species. Surviving here for a decade should pose no problem.

Of course, the first order of business was to find a place to establish a base.

Half an hour later, a handsome young man was sprinting across the desolate wilderness, completely naked. With every run and leap, his outrageously large manhood swayed to and fro, forging a sense of freedom, wildness, and unrestraint in this primal landscape.

Young people are just so full of confidence and vitality.

Before long, he traversed what must have been over ten kilometers and stopped in front of a dense and primordial jungle.

It was a very lush primeval forest with unknown species of trees that grew exceptionally tall. Just the periphery of the forest had trees over ten meters high, and they got even taller toward the center. The tallest trees inside the forest must have reached hundreds of meters.

“What a huge forest!”

Lin Xiao’s first impulse was to move such a large forest into the Divine Realm.

Although his Divine Realm contained the ecosystems of Divine Sanctuary, complete with numerous trees, it lacked an ancient forest of this scale.

As the Divine Realm expanded, the Divine Kingdom fragment that he had inherited was almost completely integrated. Now, the Divine Realm was quite vast, easily rivaling small-sized planes and was more than capable of supporting the lives of hundreds of thousands of Clan members.

A complete ecosystem requires everything, and it would be great if this large forest could be transplanted there in its entirety.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t open the Divine Realm just yet. Doing so would immediately alert the Plane Will to his presence.

If he were to be discovered immediately upon arrival, his first-phase evaluation would definitely be zero points.

Moreover, the ten points of Divine Power that he had could not be expended. This power was currently sealed within his body, and he could only use it in the most critical moments. If he were to use it, he would also be discovered right away by the Plane Will.

The Plane Will was extremely sensitive to Divine Power and the opening of Divine Realms. Other than that, it hardly reacted to anything else his grand entrance from the sky crashing into the Earth didn’t even elicit a response, which was telling.

This meant that as long as he refrained from using Divine Power or opening the Divine Realm and avoided causing any major disturbances, he would generally go unnoticed in the early stages.

Yes, in the early stages.

After all, he was a foreign being from a Different Domain, a non-native to this plane. He might be undiscovered early on, but as time passed, his influence on the plane would increase. Even if he did nothing, his very presence was an anomaly. The Plane Origin might not detect him at first, but like an immune system running a self-check, the Plane Will would scan the plane periodically. And he was like a hidden pest, with each scan adding to his accumulated weight.

Once this weight reached a certain threshold, no amount of hiding would conceal him.

So even if nothing seems to be happening now, and it might seem that he could go undetected no matter what he does in the early stages, it would be a grave mistake to think he could just carelessly enjoy himself. In a few years, he could be discovered.

Thus, it was better to keep a low profile.

Approaching the forest, he faintly sensed a hint of danger lurking within, hinting at the presence of fierce beasts.

He dared not enter, simply walking around the periphery to come to a stop in front of a tree with a diameter of over a meter.

He stretched out his hand to touch the tree, then curled his fingers to gently knock on it, bending his ear as if to listen closely.

“Dong dong!”

Of course, this wasn’t to actually hear anything, rather to carefully perceive the subtle feedback vibrating from the tree as he knocked on it.

Then, through the sensation of that feedback, he applied a special spell to the body of the tree.

As his fist lightly tapped the trunk, an imperceptible strange fluctuation appeared on his knuckles, spreading from his strikes into the tree.

After about a dozen taps, the large tree in front of him suddenly made a loud ‘crack’ sound as a fissure formed at the point of impact. He pushed with force, and the tree crashed to the ground, its breakage adorned with uneven cracks, as if it had been shattered with brute force.

“How magical!”

This ability was gifted to him as follower feedback from the Tower of Truth. Some Wise Goblin believer had mastered a special technique in their daily life that didn’t require any tools. Just using their own spiritual power combined with mana, they originated a unique technique, capable of knocking on wood or rock with their hands. The feedback from the knocks, whether sound waves or something else, utilizing this special technique, they created various degrees of impact applied directly to the internal structure of the material, splitting it from the inside according to the imagined angle.

After acquiring this technique from the Tower of Truth as a feedback from a believer, Lin Xiao found it extremely valuable and had made a point to learn it earnestly..