The Trees of the Magic Ring in these great realms use Nests that possess Holy Crown characteristics.

They help Holy Crown Level Transcendents significantly advance their cultivation of Holy Crown Level Rune Magic Rings.

This process itself consumes the power of the Tree of the Magic Ring.

Therefore, one usually must pay a hefty price to obtain one or two years of cultivation time.

Moreover, it is often beings at the level of Middle Rank Gods and Upper Rank Gods who acquire this cultivation time. They then bestow it as a reward upon numerous Holy Crown Level Transcendents.

Those Holy Crown Transcendents who have just entered the rank, with neither great potential nor a strong foundation, find it very difficult to obtain the qualifications to enter a Tree Nest to cultivate on their own.

Not only had Zorn obtained the qualifications to cultivate in a Holy Crown Rune Nest himself,

but he had received a complete cultivation cycle—a full ten years.

With the help of the Calamity Court Magic Ring Tree, all the entrants in this cycle were rapidly increasing the number of their Rune Magic Rings.

Zorn, inside the Time Holy Crown Nest, was no exception.

As time passed, Zorn rapidly condensed his Rune Magic Rings.

And Zorn’s speed and efficiency in condensing Rune Magic Rings far surpassed those of the other Holy Crown experts.

After all, he was now a Demigod.

’The Holy Crown standard is generally between 50 and 200 rings.’

’The Legendary rank is between 200 and 500 rings.’

’Two hundred Rune Magic Rings is the watershed between the Holy Crown and Legendary ranks.’

’This Holy Crown Rune Nest can greatly accelerate progress on Rune Magic Rings below the 200-ring mark.’

’I’m currently close to 140 rings.’

’At my current rate of progress, I can probably reach the 200-ring standard in about a year.’

’After reaching 200 rings, the boost from the Holy Crown Rune Nest will diminish significantly.’

’But combined with my own resources and the already decent enhancements, my progress will still be quite astonishing.’

’Ten years.’

Zorn thought to himself.

’With my Demigod traits, reaching 400 rings is very hopeful. As for the exact number I can reach, that will depend on the actual results along the way.’

’Sometimes, one might stagnate at a hundred-ring bottleneck, getting stuck for a year or more.’

’If everything goes smoothly, it might even be possible to reach 500 rings.’

At this thought, Zorn couldn’t help but smile.

’Of course, the journey of comprehending Rune Magic Rings is never completely smooth. For me, it’s certain I’ll get stuck at certain nodes, I just won’t be stuck for that long.’

During Zorn’s secluded cultivation, time flew by.

At the six-month mark, a group of Holy Crown Transcendents began to leave.

At the one-year mark, an even larger group of Holy Crown Transcendents departed.

After all, the price to enter a Holy Crown Nest for cultivation was not cheap.

Most of these less-experienced Holy Crowns only had a year or so of time.

Just as Zorn had predicted, his comprehension efficiency soared in the first year.

Around the end of his tenth month, approaching the eleventh, his Rune Magic Rings had already surged all the way to the 200-ring standard.

From 50 to 200 rings was the Holy Crown Tier.

This was already the Peak of the Holy Crown.

But Zorn clearly had no intention of stopping there.

He continued to consume the Essence of Magic Ring Spirit Fruit, attuning himself to the Holy Crown Rune Nest to increase the number of his Calamity Rune Magic Rings.

rings!

rings!

rings!

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He pushed forward with his Rune Magic Rings at an astonishing speed.

Time also flowed by, year after year.

In the seventh year of Zorn’s secluded cultivation, he was struck by a shockwave transmitted from beyond the Exotic Realm, forcing him out of his state of Rune Magic Ring comprehension.

The entire Calamity Court Divine Kingdom was trembling slightly.

This was a confrontation between the Trees of the Magic Ring of top-tier realms.

Although Zorn already knew that the Calamity Court and the Jade Realm were engaged in a conflict, he had not expected them to unleash the power of their Trees of the Magic Ring against each other only a few years into the war.

The intensity of the war between the two sides seemed far more fierce than he had imagined.

Over the next two years, although the confrontations between the Trees of the Magic Ring continued, none were as intense as the one in the seventh year that had shaken the Divine Kingdom.

Or perhaps... the Calamity Court was now prepared, preventing more of the force from being transmitted into the Divine Kingdom.

Once the intensity of a war escalates, bringing it back down is not so simple.

By the time Zorn had been cultivating for nine years,

The Tide!

It had arrived!

A mournful hum echoed as the surging epic and mythological Chapters, carrying the cosmic winds, slowly blew in.

The scroll depicting the Chapter of the Calamity Court Divine Kingdom also unfurled.

Even though Zorn was inside the Divine Kingdom’s Nest, being constantly nurtured by the Tree of Divine Kingdom Magic Ring like a fledgling bird,

he could still feel the Calamity Court Divine Kingdom surging forth amidst the vast epic and mythological Chapters.

At the same time, Zorn also felt his many legends within the Divine Kingdom converging through the kingdom’s rituals.

A portion of them became Zorn’s own Legendary Sacred Marks, while the rest were absorbed by the Divine Kingdom.

The Divine Kingdom naturally had a specialized team to construct and assemble the powers that appeared within the Chapters of the Tide, such as rituals and Sacred Marks.

On one hand, this was to help exceptionally talented Transcendents who had created legends to build a more solid foundation.

On the other hand, it also helped the Divine Kingdom accumulate a deeper and more profound heritage.

As the vast Chapters of the Tide surged from the Star Realm,

Zorn could finally feel it in his bones: the new Chapter had officially arrived.

And its starting point was the Cosmic Ancient Ruins in the Holy Relic World.

Massive sacrifices began!

After twenty to thirty years,

the Otan Grelle Steam Empire had left the Holy Relic World and officially taken root in the Calamity Court Realm.

The Holy Relic World, in turn, had now been completely carved up by the major powers of the Star Realm.

Not only were its continental territories dismembered, but the projections within the Cosmic Ancient Ruins were also occupied by those great powers.

As far as Zorn knew, the Calamity Court originally occupied two Cosmic Altar Projections.

However, the Calamity Court’s strength was clearly insufficient to maintain control of two Cosmic Altar Projections.

Only after handing over one of the Cosmic Altar Projections to the Hidden Wilderness Sect did they secure a decent cooperative relationship between the two parties.

And now, with the surging of the epic and mythological Chapters,

those great powers had finally begun large-scale sacrifices.

Not only were there projections of Upper Rank Gods making sacrifices, but even projections of powerful Ancient Gods were doing so.

The sacrifices made by the Upper Rank Gods and Ancient Gods allowed Zorn to harvest a rich amount of Time Essence.

And the massive number of sacrifices from all the various powers combined also allowed Zorn to reap a vast quantity of Cosmic Essence.

Zorn could clearly feel his Level cap steadily rising at an extremely fast rate.

His own cultivation was increasing his strength.

Meanwhile, as the Tide surged, Zorn’s many prior arrangements began to pay off, like a rising tide lifting all boats, providing him with a stronger foundation and greater potential.

While the outside world was in turmoil and the Chapters of epic and myth swelled ever higher,

Zorn’s ten years of secluded cultivation had come to an end before he knew it.