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Chapter 819: Chapter 198: The Ultimate Meaning of Holy Numbers Chapter 819: Chapter 198: The Ultimate Meaning of Holy Numbers The Silver-Crowned Dragon and the Supreme Heaven were engaged in a desperate battle.

It was a battlefield beyond the direct gaze and understanding of mortals.

Like a light too dazzling to behold, which could damage one’s vision if stared at directly.

Contact with such intensively fierce killing intent could also destroy a person’s rationality.

Yet those spectators could feel the aftershocks of that battle even from the Material Realm.

Looking up, one could see the sky boiling on one half, while the other half was frozen.

The Silver Dragon roared, clearly gaining the upper hand,

As the Silver Dragon roared flying past, the Crimson Bear suddenly stood upright and swiped at the Silver Dragon with a claw.

But the Silver Dragon nimbly evaded the strike, its tail coiling around the Crimson Bear, lifting it into the air with an intent to throw it crashing down.

However, the Crimson Bear adroitly caught the Silver Dragon’s tail with a backhand grip, tearing off scales from its tail.

Instead, it leaped up, then plunged down towards the eyes of the Silver Dragon below.

But the Silver Dragon suddenly exhaled a breath of frost, striking head-on at the Crimson Bear, slowing its fall dramatically as frost encased its body.

Once the Crimson Bear’s descent was slowed enough, the Silver Dragon swiftly drew back a bit of distance; then it continued to flip forward, its tail swinging like a pendulum, striking down hard on the back of the Crimson Bear’s head, sending it wailing as it plummeted from the sky.

This was a battle symbolic and abstract in its depiction.

And in the Dream Realm, Aiwass witnessed a completely different combat—

Of course, what he saw was not the actual fight, but an image filtered and protected by the Lord of Scalefeather …

yet it was closer to the truth than what the Material Realm could perceive.

One could see Crown Lord, holding the Holy Sword, with armor slightly shattered, nimbly charging and piercing through the abdomen of the Supreme Heaven—with one swift pull of the blade followed by a spinning slash, blood spurted from the Supreme Heaven’s neck!

Scalding blood dripped onto the snowy ground, steaming and melting the snow.

Hail and fire rained intertwined—not the influence of divine power on the Material Realm, but divine blood permeating the Dream Realm.

That was the impact that an injured deity could impose on the Material Realm!

“…

The Bear Celestial Marshal seems weaker than I had imagined.”

Aiwass, standing beside the Lord of Scalefeather at a distance, commented, “I thought they were evenly matched.”

Just then, the actor playing “Supreme Heaven,” Bear Celestial Marshal, suddenly turned his head and glared fiercely at Aiwass.

Aiwass instantly felt a terrifying fear grip his soul—

It felt as if an audience member sitting in the front row criticized a boxer on stage, only for the boxer to suddenly turn and glare back.

The intense murderous aura felt like the boxer might leap down to punch the outspoken spectator.

“—Still daring to be distracted.”

The chilly voice of the Silver-Crowned Dragon resounded.

And the instant before the Knight in the silver-white armor spoke, he had moved behind the Supreme Heaven as swiftly as light.

On the Path between them, a delay in the radiant Pure White burst forth, and blood exploded in all directions from the body of the Supreme Heaven.

Aiwass was instantly startled: “Can they hear us?”

“Of course.”

The Lord of Scalefeather said with a smiling expression, “What’s the point if you don’t appreciate it from the most dangerous spot?

“It’s like a theater company’s performance—if you’re merely watching for the effect, you might as well sit at the back.

If you want to take the front row seat, it’s because you want to see the actors’ faces up close…

and you also want them to see your face clearly and hear what you’re saying.”

“…

I see.”

“By the way, you’re right.”

“About what?”

“‘The Bear Celestial Marshal being weaker’.”

The Lord of Scalefeather said leisurely: “You have a good sense.

”

“Because strictly speaking, the Bear Celestial Marshal is indeed not the Supreme Heaven.”

“The true Supreme Heaven is the ‘King of the Winged Ones’.

During the era when he was still just a Winged Celestial Marshal… he was the protector of the ‘Winged Ones’ clan.”

“Avianfolk, Sirens, Birdmen, Fairies, Angels, Rocs, Gryphons… and hundreds of other Winged Ones are included.”

“…But why is the symbol of the Supreme Heaven a Crimson Bear?”

Aiwass asked, humbly seeking the ancient secret from the era before the Era of the Forbidden Fruit from his own boss.

When Aiwass asked this, the Bear Celestial Marshal seemed lost in a trance for a moment.

The Silver-Crowned Dragon did not miss this opportunity, launching a fierce attack, severing one arm of the Supreme Heaven.

And the Lord of Scalefeather said mockingly, “That’s because of the ‘Heaven Devouring Titan Nibiru’… the most initial and glorious victory of the Supreme Heaven.

“At that time, there was a heaven-reaching behemoth on earth, specifically preying on the Winged Ones.

“Because he was almost the overlord of the land at that time… he grew stronger by devouring powerful creatures; he grew wiser by eating wise creatures.

He swallowed long-lived demons trees, devoured millions of the Scaly Ones, and thus gained a tough shell and strong bones.

“He fancied himself ‘The King of the Earth,’ his only flaw was a lack of wings.

Thus bound by the earth, he couldn’t dominate the sky.

“So he devoured a great many of the Winged One’s clan, in the hope of growing wings.

One after another, the clans of the Winged Ones were eaten to the brink of extinction… what were once the most populous became the least.

His size kept increasing, yet he never grew wings.

“In the end, it was the still mortal Supreme Heaven who managed to kill that giant beast in a death struggle.

He didn’t have such great power or peerless ability.

He relied on traps, on plots, on poison and curse to complete the ‘hunt’… to pull off the feat of the weak overcoming the strong.

“—At that time, the sixth Source River had not yet belonged to the Path of Adaption, it was under the jurisdiction of my predecessor, the ‘Hunting King’.

In that primordial age, the sixth Path was the Path of the Hunt.@@novelbin@@

It was by following the Path of the Hunt that he emerged victorious.”

“He drank the blood of his opponent, ate all his flesh, and wore his hide.

He gained the power from The King of the Earth.”

“…The King of the Earth, huh.”

Aiwass muttered to himself.

In an instant, he thought of the Crowned Celestial Marshal.

With a mortal body achieving the great deed of slaying a dragon, bathing in dragon blood, and being reborn as a new Silver Dragon through a ritual.

And the Supreme Heaven back then, obviously had not completed a similar ritual to the Silver-Crowned Dragon, to take over the other’s body…

The “King of the Earth” is probably the bear skin he wears on his back…

“The one who wears the beast’s hide, has sharp fangs and claws.

Precisely because he inherited ‘The King of the Earth’s’ power, he became the new King of the Earth.”

The Lord of Scalefeather spoke leisurely, “In doing so, he obtained great power—far greater than his own initial power.

“When he became a Winged Celestial Marshal… when he ascended a second time, becoming that ‘Pure Flame of the Supreme Heaven’, he never discarded this cloak.

For this bearskin is the mark of his earliest victory.”

“—The Path of Adaption, the Holy Numbers are six.”

The Hourglass said with a serious expression, “This is the ultimate meaning of ‘survival’.”

“Exactly.”

The Lord of Scalefeather nodded, “The ultimate fall of the Supreme Heaven is also partly because he died six times.

Arthur, however, died seven times.”

“The Holy Numbers is six, that is the number of Adaption, the ultimate meaning of survival; the Holy Number is seven, that is the number of Strength, the ultimate meaning of violence.

And the Holy Number is eight…”

The Hourglass spoke slowly, “That is the number of ‘Transcendence’.

“—The ultimate meaning of Mutation.”

It was because of the Silver-Crowned Dragon’s seventh death that he was acknowledged by the power; his eighth resurrection then resonated with the Power of Transcendence—transcending the Pillar Gods with the body of a Celestial Marshal, achieving the Pillar God’s ‘Mutation’.

Therefore, he could miraculously resurrect from death—because he unknowingly, conformed to the law of the Holy Numbers!

“…So, the Supreme Heaven never completely died.”

And Aiwass too understood, following the words of the two Pillar Gods, “Because of dying six times, he conformed to the ‘Source River of Survival.’ Thus he gained an even stronger life force… Even falling from such heights, he still retained the hope of life…”