The Shining Star Above The Heaven-Chapter 895: The Other’s Situation

For mortals, faith energy is something useless because of the obvious reason that faith energy does not affect them whatsoever. However, for any divine beings, faith energy is more important compared to physical territory.

If any divine beings have the ambition to widen their physical territory, their main intent is usually to gather as much faith energy as possible.

After they conquer the land, they can farm the faith energy of the beings living there. Fear and reverence can be included as forms of faith energy, but they are weak. The strongest faith energy still comes from those who worship them sincerely, their believers as a god.

Divine beings will spread their faith across the land to raise the number of their believers and strengthen themselves. But physical territory is not something that is absolutely required to gather faith energy. Even someone outside their territory who holds faith in a god will still provide faith energy, making that god stronger.

Physical territory is only a supporting factor—something that makes things easier because they can manage everything within their territory more freely, without disturbance from other gods.

Usually, other gods did not want to spread their influence into another god's territory because that would be the same as a challenge to the host god.

The exception was gods with an expansionist mindset who liked to expand their influence and had no problem waging war against other gods. They would try to gain as many believers as possible without thinking of the consequences.

Aldrian was a special being who, although still undoubtedly mortal, had already attained some characteristics of divine beings.

One of them, of course, was his ability to utilize faith energy. At this moment, the faith energy he gathered truly boosted his power greatly. With his current cultivation, which reached the middle pseudo-immortal establishment stage a few weeks ago, he believed he could kill a middle pseudo-immortal stage opponent even without using his domain.

That was something extremely difficult to achieve even in the higher heavens.

Thanks to his reputation, he could gather that much faith energy.

As for the matter of the Red Mist Star, even if he did not expand his empire's territory there, he could still gather far more faith energy. Many people who would live in this world in the future would most likely have positive feelings toward him, and among them, some might even regard him as a god.

That alone was enough gain for him after the war, though he would certainly welcome any additional benefit.

"I see… that is truly commendable, Your Majesty. As expected of you," Emperor Rozwald said with a smile.

They continued to converse for a while before they dispersed. There were still some things they needed to handle in the aftermath of the war.

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Later, Aldrian also received reports from the other alliance forces in the other worlds. Basically, there were no problems on their side, and most of them had already conquered their entire world. That was because the sizes of those worlds were much smaller compared to the Red Mist Star, allowing them to conquer them much more quickly.

There were ten main planets in the Fallen Star Cluster, and the alliance forces had attacked seven of them. For now, with the Red Mist Star included, four had already been conquered. As for the remaining planets, it was only a matter of time before they were conquered entirely. They reported that their progress was good, and they had already taken most of the planet's land.

Aldrian was satisfied with the news, and he hoped they would succeed before he cut off the communication. There was also something he wanted to do now that he finally had a moment of peace after the war.

He intended to locate the world's faith energy gathering place. For the last few weeks, he had already tried to find it using his comprehension of faith energy. Because the world's faith was different from the faith of normal beings, he had to use a different method to search for that place.

The world's faith energy was more abstract compared to normal faith energy, and the gathering place was most likely located deep underground.

He decided to utilize the support of the earth laws to locate the place and trace the faith energy. The earth element was the largest element that shaped the entire world, so he thought he could use it to find the exact location of the faith energy gathering place.

The result was that he could actually sense large faith energy spreading across the land. The faith energy did not seem to have a clear flow, but its presence was scattered throughout the ground.

However, Aldrian knew that the faith energy must have some kind of flow leading toward the gathering place. For the past few days, he had found clues about that location as he began to detect the movement of the world's faith energy much more clearly.

He hoped that today he could finally start his journey to that place.

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While Aldrian was busy with his own matters, in another world a war was still raging. On this planet, which was about twenty percent smaller than the Red Mist Star, the force from the Arantes Star was striking the devils hard.

They had already conquered ninety percent of the land, and at this moment they were attacking a large fortress, the strongest stronghold of the devils in this world. If this stronghold fell, then the rest would be much easier to conquer.

The fortress was already destroyed in most parts, and the alliance force continued to push forward. Among the alliance troops was a veiled woman whom the devils actively tried to escape from. She has cultivation at low pseudo immortal establishment stage, and although she wore a veil, anyone could still see her beauty.

However, right now her beauty was not what anyone focused on. Instead, they focused on her strength, strong enough that even the devils chose to evade her. With a sword in her grasp, she could kill many devils with each technique she unleashed.

Her movements were fast and firm, yet still held a graceful quality that made her sword technique resemble an art—an art of killing.

"Kill Sword Maiden first and abandon the others! Don't let her keep wrecking havoc!" one of the devils shouted, looking at the woman who was, in fact, the Sword Maiden. A devil at low pseudo-immortal stage then quickly dashed toward the Sword Maiden. With his cultivation, he believed he could kill her easily.

The Sword Maiden knew that an enemy at this level was still dangerous for her, and that he could kill her. But she did not seem worried and continued killing the devils in front of her without mercy.

The devil unleashed his fire technique, sending a spear-shaped flame toward the Sword Maiden. However, before the spear could even approach her, a sword strike rushed in from the side, and another strike followed immediately at the devil himself.

The first strike destroyed the fire spear, while the second was so fast that the devil did not even realize he had been hit. A moment later, his body split cleanly into two.

Not far from the Sword Maiden, an old man with long hair and a short white beard held a sword in his grasp. He floated fifty meters above the ground. His aura was sharp like a sword, and his eyes showed a focused expression. He was the one who had unleashed that strike.

His expression, filled with focus, shifted into a smile as he turned to look at the Sword Maiden. His gaze was full of satisfaction, like a master looking proudly at his disciple.

He then swung his sword again to the side without even looking in the direction of his strike. It was a simple and fast motion, yet it was enough to create a long spatial rift that swallowed two devils.

Only their lower bodies remained, falling to the ground. Just like that, two devils at the pseudo-immortal stage were dead.

The battle continued for another half hour before the alliance force finally conquered the fortress entirely. With this stronghold fallen, the rest of the devils would be much easier to take care of.

The alliance force then began their post-battle procedures, creating purification formations and so on. While many people were working, the Sword Maiden observed the troops, and the old man from earlier approached her.

The Sword Maiden looked at him and slightly lowered her head.

"Master, thank you for your support," she said.

The old man smiled. "How could I let my disciple be harmed by those dirty beings? Not on my watch." He then let out a sigh. "It must have been a tiring month for you, fighting nonstop like that."

"Not really, Master. In fact, I'm glad that I'm here not long after my breakthrough. I can test my newfound power much more easily. There is no better chance than this," she replied.

Her master smiled and looked in another direction.

"Anyway, at this speed, I think we can say that we will end this war much faster. I also received a report that Aldrian the Great and his force have already finished their war in the Red Mist Star."

Hearing that, the Sword Maiden raised her eyebrows, then nodded in understanding. It was not surprising for the strongest world to fall quickly with his presence there.

"Ah, I really hope I can talk to Aldrian the Great face to face after this war. Maybe I could find enlightenment that finally will push me to a higher comprehension," her master said.