Chapter 64: Sacred Domain

  Upon arriving at the headquarters of the Gale Mercenary Group, two mercenaries went in to report and then led Lin Chen inside. They came to a small courtyard, where the leading mercenary gestured towards the wooden door, "Please enter, sir. Our group leader is inside the courtyard. We are just ordinary members and it's not suitable for us to go in."

  "En...", nodded, Lin Chen stretched out his hand to push open the wooden door and walked in. Seeing the captain sitting in the courtyard, Lin Chen's footsteps slightly paused.

  Burak, the pinnacle of swordsmanship, known as one of the strongest men in the empire, leader of the four major mercenary groups' Storm Mercenaries, with a strength of Lv90, such an overwhelmingly powerful existence, was now sitting in the courtyard, slowly burning paper money...

  The number of top-notch powerhouses in the empire may not be many, but it will never be too few. However, the peak of the king level is different. The strong at the peak of the king level are not only powerful to a certain extent, but also their equipment and skills have reached a very high level, which can be called the top professionals of the king level.

  In front of the king-level pinnacle professionals, other king-level professionals are much worse. To say nothing of others, just saying that ordinary king-level professionals and dragon knights have a big gap between them, it's really huge! Although this is a very high professional title for professionals, there are still great differences within it.

  It's just like the term "human", although a newborn baby and a grown-up strong man are both human, but can the combat effectiveness of an infant be compared to that of a grown-up strong man? No...

  "Have you arrived? I really didn't expect you to come at this time......", seeing Lin Chen walk into the courtyard, Colonel Blarke put down a large stack of paper money in his hand and stood up with a smile. Being able to make the King-level peak Blarke stand up to greet him was also a great honor for Lin Chen.

  "Well, just in time, so I came...". Hearing Captain Blake's words, Lin Chen nodded and said. The strength of Lv90 was still quite shocking to Lin Chen.

  "I don't know why Captain Brak summoned me today, what's the matter?" Lin Chen also sat down beside him and asked.

  "It's nothing, I just wanted to take a look at you, to see what kind of person can talk about the ghost world, I'm a bit curious", sitting next to the brazier, Bulake picked up some paper money and threw it in again, laughing as he spoke.

  "Hmm...", I didn't expect Captain Blak to go out of his way to find me for something like this.

  "By the way, about that ghost realm you mentioned, I have a question...", he casually tossed a few paper bills into the flames, and Colonel Brack stared at Lin Chen, asking.

  "What's the question?" Lin Chen asked, hearing that it was about the ghost world. The true and false rumors of ghosts, Lin Chen himself couldn't be sure either. Although years of atheism had told him that ghosts didn't exist, how could he explain it now that he had crossed over into this era of swords and magic? At least this aura, magic and all that, he couldn't explain himself, and when he killed monsters, equipment would burst out, which wasn't something science could explain either.

  "In this system of the ghost world, you mentioned the six paths of reincarnation, where the virtuous can become gods and enter the path of gods. I'm quite puzzled, what exactly is the path of gods?" Colonel Brak gazed into Lin Chen's eyes as he asked.

  I didn't expect Captain Blake to ask himself what kind of question this is, what is the way of gods? Lin Chen wasn't quite clear about this either, but he couldn't say that it was a ghostly matter, and he was just making it up as he went along.

  After a moment of contemplation, Lin Chen thought of the legend about cultivators in his world and replied: "The Way of Gods is actually a state of mind, a state that transcends the mundane and seeks the true self. In short, it means to attain enlightenment, to find one's original heart and understand one's original nature! This is the Way of Gods! Even if such a person dies, they can still enter the Way of Gods and become a deity!"

  "Find your true self! Understand your true nature! Is it the will of God?! Upon hearing these words, Colonel Brak's body shook and he muttered to himself.

  A terrifying aura emanated from Captain Blake's body, an overwhelming presence that caused Lin Chen to involuntarily retreat several steps. Even the flames in the brazier seemed to be suppressed by this powerful aura, as if they might be extinguished at any moment...

  "What...what's going on......?", he didn't expect that one sentence of his would make this king-level peak strongman become like this, Lin Chen also retreated in shock, saying stupidly.

  I just roughly talked about the mental state of cultivators in my own world, and I didn't expect it to become like this.

  "Holy... Holy Domain... He's about to break through to the King level...", At this moment, Yatse's eyes widened and he leaned against Lin Chen's side, his mouth involuntarily whispering in shock.

  "Break through the King level? Sacred Realm?", Lin Chen was taken aback upon hearing Atre's words, and asked in surprise: "Is there a so-called Sacred Realm after the King level? Isn't the highest level just the King level?"

  "No!!!!", Yatse said seriously, staring at Colonel Brak and shaking his head: "Although the king-level strongman is very powerful! But this is only relative to ordinary people. After all, even if it's a dragon clan, as long as they are adults, they have king-level or above strength. In fact, in the eyes of various races on the mainland, those below king-level are just ordinary people. Only when you reach the holy realm can you be considered a true strongman. As for the level division of the holy realm, I'm not clear about it either. I only know this much."

  "So that's how it is, there's a so-called sacred domain above the king level? Lin Chen nodded solemnly for the first time upon hearing such words, and at the same time became even more solemn. This world was originally more dangerous than he had imagined."

  "Find your true self! Understand your own nature!!!", standing still, Blake's mouth muttered Lin Chen's words, the aura on his body surged up strangely, intense fluctuations...

  Lin Chen's words left Blake deeply shocked, and at the same time, he felt that the gate of the sacred domain, which had never been even slightly ajar for him, seemed to have quietly opened a crack.

  A glimmer of insight flashed through Colonel Brack's mind, but he couldn't quite grasp it. His mouth kept mumbling the words over and over, and Brack seemed to understand something, but couldn't quite put it into words.

  Finally, Buluo involuntarily raised his head, staring at Lin Chen and asked loudly: "What is finding one's true self? What is understanding one's own nature?"

  "What is finding one's true self? What is understanding one's own nature?" Lin Chen was also stunned by Braque's words, but after all, he had traveled through the earth and had been exposed to these kinds of things like cultivating immortality and cultivating divinity since childhood, so he wasn't completely clueless.

  "It's just a mountain when you look at a mountain! It's just water when you look at water! That's the true nature!"

  "Look at the mountain, it's just a mountain! Look at the water, it's just water!", this sentence was another thunderbolt in Captain Brack's mind, and at the same time, a ray of insight was tightly grasped by him...

  "What a powerful aura......", the captain of the Blak squad burst out with vigor, and the terrifying aura even caused the cloud layer above the base of the Difeng Mercenary Corps to rotate in a spiral shape. The terrifying aura made almost everyone in the Imperial City tremble with fear.

  "Holy Ground!? Someone is going to break through to the Holy Ground's boundary? Which direction? It's the Gale Mercenary Group!? Is it Blarc? Can he succeed?" On top of a grand hall in the Imperial Capital, an old man wearing crimson robes narrowed his eyes as he gazed at the spiral cloud layer above the Gale Mercenary Group's base, sensing the aura emanating from that direction, and muttered to himself.

  "This time, the Wind Mercenary Corps will become one of the top four mercenary corps... The imperial capital is not lacking in top-notch experts, and at this moment, almost everyone's eyes are fixed on us, thinking to themselves."

  No matter what, even if Blac can't break through the Sanctuary tonight, with his current strength that has reached the threshold of the Sanctuary, he will absolutely be stronger than other peak King-level experts, not to mention after breaking through the Sanctuary...