The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon

Attilan shrugged helplessly, gathering a high concentration of water elements to envelop the burning hellfire, and spent a full half hour extinguishing this extraordinary hellfire.

"Clearly, before this devil left hell to carry out his mission in our world, his superiors left this hellfire in his soul. When he revealed the truth about the mission, the hellfire would ignite his soul."

Aude Kirst frowned, manipulating the surrounding earth elements to cast a spell, causing the earth to crack open and collect the few remaining remains of the unfortunate soul bewitched by the devil.

Aude Kirst said with a hint of emotion:

"We promised to restore your freedom, and although we failed to do so, we will collect your body according to the rules of you humans and erect a monument for you, which can be considered as your reward."

Attilan's actions were already very timely, but this hellfire came too suddenly and was too violent. The hellfire used the two souls connected together and full of demonic energy as fuel for its burning.

It ignited at the slightest touch, and once it ignited, it was extremely rapid.

If this poor man's body had not been transformed into a half-devil body by the devil, he would not have been able to withstand the burning of the hellfire and would have turned into ashes long ago.

Unlike now, where he can still leave behind a small half of his body burnt into coke.

Just as Aude Kirst was about to close the gap in the earth, Attilan raised his hand to stop her.

"We may not be able to let him rest in peace just yet. This devil's body needs to be taken back to let Father and my teacher take a look. Maybe they can see something we don't know."

Aude Kirst glanced at the coke with disgust and asked:

"It's already burnt like this, I guess my father won't be able to see anything... right?"

Attilan smiled and stepped forward, standing in front of the coke.

"If we don't bring back these devil's remains, how can we prove that we really eliminated a devil?"

Attilan was actually a little disgusted too. He still needed to use his dimensional pocket to store food, so he couldn't put this thing in his dimensional pocket. Although the coke had been dispelled of its demonic energy by his purification water and wouldn't contaminate the things in the dimensional pocket.

But this thing doesn't hurt people, it disgusts people.

Who would use a dimensional pocket that has contained a corpse to store food?

Space-type items are very expensive!

Attilan could only summon the vine whips around the hillside to weave a basket to hold the coke.

"Let's go, we'll go straight back to the Crystal Palace."

Aude Kirst raised her eyebrows playfully at Attilan and asked:

"Where's your princess? Are you just going to leave her to those three idiots and not care about her? Although the River Valley Kingdom's strength is not as good as the Eastern Kingdom, it doesn't mean that the River Valley Kingdom is really vulnerable."

"Aren't you afraid that the little prince will kill your princess?"

Attilan looked curiously at the capital city where dense torches were lit up not far away.

"We just fought fiercely with the devil in the capital city, but no one came out to stop us. Yet you're telling me that the River Valley Kingdom like this has powerful professionals?"

To be honest, Attilan felt that even if the River Valley Kingdom once had powerful professionals, most of them had probably been sold to the devil by the little prince who didn't care about his family's assets.

Attilan could sense several relatively fresh existences among the dozen or so souls released by the devil from the soul bag, most likely killed not long ago, and their strength was not weak.

"The little prince should have killed off the powerful guys among the professionals who were loyal to his elder brother and second sister. He probably didn't hold back even against those loyal to his father in order to ascend the throne as soon as possible."

Even if the River Valley King briefly regained consciousness and expressed his intention to let the little prince succeed him, he said it would be after he died, not to let the little prince succeed him now.

"After observing your command skills, I clearly realized one thing, that is, the generals appointed by Father are indeed a bit unintelligent. It's not that they don't have brains, it's just that they don't know how to use them."

"Tell me, what turned them into what they are now?"

Attilan smiled. What else could it be? Of course, it was the super power they possessed. When your power is strong enough, you can easily tear apart the conspiracies woven by the enemy.

Just like a spider's web can catch insects, but it can't stop humans.

"Those soldiers, because of their reckless command style, those who survive do indeed possess good strength. Dealing with the River Valley Kingdom's army is completely not a problem."

When infiltrating the River Valley capital, Attilan also took a look at the strength of the patrol teams. Not bad, a patrol team of ten people should be able to kill a Centaur low-level soldier.

And he brought a full six thousand of such Centaur low-level soldiers.

The River Valley Kingdom only has a population of over three hundred thousand, and they simply can't muster an army of one hundred thousand to besiege and kill this elite force brought by Attilan.

"Let's go back. Maybe by the time we come back again, the princess has already taken control of the capital and become the regent princess."

Attilan carried the basket and flew in front, but halfway through, Aude Kirst suddenly didn't want to fly anymore, so she transformed into her high elf form and landed on Attilan's back.

"It's too far, I'm not as hardworking as you. You actually wanted to fly back non-stop in one breath, it's simply not our dragon's style."

Attilan shook his head helplessly. What is the dragon's style?

Don't forget, they are elemental dragons. Being chased to the point of escaping for days and nights without rest like he is now is probably the norm for elemental dragons.

And it's not just flying, space teleportation, burrowing, and diving are the norm for escaping.

Aude Kirst, after all, has been a princess since she was a child, unlike him, an orphan. If he wants to change her views, he still needs to let her personally experience the thrill of being chased.

When Attilan returned to the Crystal Palace and took out the devil's remains in front of Sestis, Sestis was moved by it.

Upon receiving the message from Attilan and Aude Kirst, he thought it was just the two little fellows being suspicious, but now it seems that devils have really infiltrated the Elemental Dragon Realm and want to stir up trouble.

"Father, the devil mentioned the Pillar of Souls, but before he could say what they wanted to use the Pillar of Souls for, he was suddenly burned to ashes by the hellfire."

"What is this Pillar of Souls?"

The golden light in Sestis' eyes flickered on and off.

"Pillar of Souls, it's been a long time since I heard of this thing."

Sestis moved his claws, stirring up waves on the water surface below the Crystal Palace.

"According to legend, the Elemental Dragon God, in order to transform the world he came from, used an unknown number of powers to turn into pillars supporting the world, giving this world the ability of internal circulation."

"What does internal circulation mean?"

Audreyquis curiously moved closer to her father, nuzzling the mist emanating from the Ocean Dragon Soul.

Attilan's eyes lit up, and he also quietly moved his steps closer to Sestius.

Sestius simply smiled as he watched their little actions.

“With the ability of internal circulation, the world beneath our feet can continuously absorb external power to strengthen itself, instead of just being a link in the energy cycle of the entire universe like other worlds.”

“You also know that our universe is constantly absorbing the power of the void to grow stronger, but the power of the void is violent and uncontrollable. The process of converting the power of the void will bring disasters to the living beings in the universe.”

“Specifically, in the material world, it manifests as disasters such as floods, meteorites, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes. And the process of us creatures rebuilding the destroyed environment is actually digesting the power of the void.”

Attilan stroked his chin, feeling that this so-called universe was like a person. Void energy was like a person eating nutritious but difficult-to-digest food, and they, the creatures within the universe, were roughly equivalent to bacteria in the human body.

With them, the universe can better digest void energy. Once their numbers become too large, they may cause the universe to collapse.

A world with internal circulation is like a womb, which can be described using the analogy of a mother and fetus. But it is estimated that only those who reach the level of a god can be considered a fetus. Once they grow to the strength of a God Above Gods, it will be time for the fetus to be born.

When a God Above Gods absorbs void energy again, they can create a universe that belongs to them, which is considered the process from cub to adulthood.

“Then why is our world still so desolate?”

Sestius's gaze was deep.

“Naturally, it's because the internal circulation has been broken. In this world, there are only two places that still possess internal circulation: the Celestial Realm and the Bottomless Abyss.”

“The Elemental Dragon God tried to build a third one around the various elemental planes, and then he failed.”

“Alright, let's not talk about this. The wreckage you brought back is burned very cleanly. I didn't find anything suspicious. As for the issue of the soul pillar, although the internal circulation has been broken, no one knows the specific location of the soul pillar.”

“Perhaps only the Elemental Dragon God and his Dragon Queen know.”

Attilan curiously asked:

“Then, godfather, how was the internal circulation broken in the first place?”

“Since it revolves around the elemental planes, it naturally cannot avoid the four key elements of earth, wind, water, and fire. And the pillars corresponding to these four elements will naturally be easily found.”

“Building an internal circulation is difficult, but breaking it is very easy. It's like the pillars supporting a house. As long as one or two are knocked down, the entire house will collapse.”

Attilan nodded thoughtfully, and was about to ask where the four elemental pillars were, so he could also admire the divine power of the Elemental Dragon God back then.

But Sestius waved his hand and said:

“You are not suitable to know too much about those things. Regarding the issue of devils, you can ask Jaina, maybe she knows something.”

Alright, Attilan could only pack up the devil's wreckage, go out, and prepare to take off.

He helplessly turned his head to look at Audreyquis.

“What are you waiting for? Aren't you coming up?”

Audreyquis immediately jumped onto Attilan's back with a grin, patting his dragon scales.

“You are quite aware. Let's go. This princess likes your attitude. I might consider letting you be my partner.”

Pigsy carrying his wife, Attilan rolled his eyes. Consider it? In the entire younger generation of elemental dragons, besides him, who else could Audreyquis look up to?

Even if there were someone more powerful than him, it couldn't be an Ocean Sub-dragon. Even if there were other Ocean Sub-dragons, they couldn't be as powerful as him.

Carrying his future wife, Attilan returned to his loyal Bearman Forest.

“Teacher's wife, look what I brought back!”

The Vine Woman slowly walked out, opened the basket, and glanced at it casually.

“A piece of charcoal that can't be lit?”

Attilan said solemnly:

“This is a devil!”

“Isn't it still a piece of charcoal?”

Attilan lowered his head helplessly.

“I want to ask the beautiful teacher's wife, is there any way to use this piece of charcoal to find other devils hidden in this world?”

The Vine Woman directly hit Attilan's head.

“Who do you think I am? A natural demigod? To be able to find hidden devils with such a cleanly burned piece of charcoal? You also know that they are hidden.”

“You don't think you're the only smart one, and other people haven't thought that there might be devils infiltrating this world, do you?”

Audreyquis curiously widened her eyes.

“So there really are devils?”

The Vine Woman nodded.

“You will eventually become partners with Attilan, so I won't hide it from you. There are indeed devils, and we suspect that there is a devil who has infiltrated our druids.”

“We are already working on screening them, and we believe there will be results soon.”

Attilan grinned and moved closer to the Vine Woman.

“Teacher's wife, how come I don't know that we have the means to screen for devils?”

“We didn't have it before, but now we do. It's the Sun Kumquat you brought back. I referred to the cultivation method of the Sun Kumquat and improved the cultivation technique of the Golden Apple.”

“I cultivated a kind of sub-grade Sun Apple. As long as someone eats an apple, whoever shows abnormalities has a problem. I have already sent a batch of Sun Apples to Bloodstained.”

“To assist him in detecting who has been replaced by a devil.”

That's right, I almost forgot that Bloodstained, that unlucky fellow, was eroded by the power of death, and he also has a Tiefling wife. Most importantly, he has a father-in-law who is suspected to be a Hell Lord.

He really seems like someone who would be targeted by devils.

Attilan looked around stealthily and suddenly spoke softly.

“Teacher's wife, Lady Laroone and Hana ate the Sun Apple, right? No problem, right?”

The Vine Woman directly hit him.

“What are you thinking? How could they have a problem? I told you to care more about the students. Is this how you care about the student council president?”

Attilan smiled awkwardly.

“Besides Master Bloodstained's School of Decay, should we also check our forest?”

The Vine Woman frowned and said:

“We don't have that many Sun Apples for the time being. With me and Old Rascal guarding the forest, nothing should happen.”

Attilan nodded in agreement. Devils aren't fools either. They know where to cause trouble.

“The Northern Kingdom should be a disaster area for devils. There should be more than one devil there.”

Just then, the old centaur, whom they hadn't seen for a long time, appeared, rubbing his lower back.

“Attilan, you're finally back. Quickly get me some Water of Life. I'm getting old, and my body is really not doing well.”

The old centaur took a bite of the Sun Apple in his hand and suddenly said with a strange expression:

“Is this apple bad? Why does it taste so weird?”

The Vine Woman directly released flower vines and tied up the old centaur. Attilan couldn't understand what was going on.

“Old Centaur, I didn't expect you, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, to actually be a spy!”