Now that the truth had come to light, Divine Advent Seraph Siya was already in tears.
"Fifth Brother, why didn't you tell me?"
Fifth Prince Changge sighed and said, "The Divine Kingdom is already in turmoil now, by both internal and external threats. It's no longer the peaceful place it once was."
"Siya, the fact that you're still alive is already a blessing."
"The only thing your brother hopes for is that you can continue living well."
At that moment, Lin Mo suddenly felt the weight of a great responsibility on his shoulders.
"It looks like restoring peace between the God Clan and the Ghost Clan will have to wait until I complete the SSS-rank class advancement quest, become the Ghost Emperor, and make it happen myself."
At that moment, Fifth Prince Changge walked toward Lin Mo.
The powerful presence of a High God from the God Clan made Lin Mo instinctively feel an immense pressure.
After all, a level 75 High God was as strong as a level 75 Tier-8 Boss.
Even with Lin Mo's current strength, he was nowhere near that level.
Changge stopped in front of Lin Mo and said earnestly, "I'm entrusting my sister to you. I hope you'll protect her well in my place."
Lin Mo nodded, "Don't worry."
After a pause, Lin Mo got to the point, "Your Highness, could you let me take some Holy Water to forge Siya's Eternal Set?"
Without any hesitation, Fifth Prince Changge immediately led Lin Mo and Ning Xi to the Divine Pool in the Divine Capital.
However, they found that the Divine Pool was nearly dry.
Only a tiny amount of the golden Holy Water remained.
Even so, Changge didn't hesitate at all.
Just as he was about to draw some of the divine water with a special container, Siya suddenly stopped him.
She quickly said to Lin Mo, "Brother Lin Mo, the Holy Water is the lifeblood that keeps our God Clan's territory functioning. Once it completely dries up, the Divine Capital will also be in danger."
Siya said sadly, "It must be because I angered the Ghost Clan twenty years ago. They've attacked repeatedly ever since, and the Divine Capital has suffered constant damage. Every repair consumes a large amount of the Holy Water, so now there's barely any left."
"If we take the remaining Holy Water, the Divine Capital will completely fall, and Fifth Brother and I will never be able to return to the Divine Kingdom."
Lin Mo understood what she meant.
In simple terms, once the Divine Pool completely dried up, the Divine Capital, the only passage connecting the Beast Clan's Inferno City and the God Clan's Divine Kingdom, would be permanently cut off.
That left even Lin Mo conflicted.
Because once the Divine Capital was closed off, he would never be able to take Siya to the Divine Kingdom to complete the S-rank hidden quest Heart Knot.
But if they didn't take the Holy Water, they couldn't forge Siya's Eternal Set.
At that moment, Ning Xi suddenly had an idea.
"Brother Lin Mo, what if we go to the Divine Kingdom first, complete the Heart Knot quest, and then come back for the Holy Water?"
"We might even be able to get the Holy Water directly in the Divine Kingdom."
As the core territory of the God Clan, the Divine Kingdom naturally had an endless supply of the Holy Water.
Lin Mo had already thought of that.
But he also knew something else.
"The permission we have right now only lets us temporarily enter the Divine Capital by bypassing the Platinum rank requirement."
Looking at the golden teleportation array behind the Divine Pool, wrapped in divine aura and clearly leading to the Divine Kingdom,
Lin Mo said, "That rank still isn't enough to enter the Divine Kingdom."
Hearing that, Ning Xi walked over to the teleportation array to try.
Sure enough, she immediately received a system notification.
[Ding~ You have not reached King rank. You cannot enter the Divine Kingdom map.]
A look of surprise appeared in Ning Xi's eyes.
"It actually requires King rank."
Within the second-tier main city region, every map had a rank requirement.
The higher the level and rarity of the map, the higher the required rank.
After all, this was the God Clan's core territory, one of the Supreme Races of Divine Oracle.
Naturally, the Divine Kingdom wasn't somewhere just anyone could enter.
Requiring the highest rank, King, was perfectly reasonable.
"So the only option is to wait until we reach King rank, personally go to the Divine Kingdom, and get the Holy Water?"
Lin Mo had just reached Gold I.
Assuming he maintained a perfect record in all forty daily Super God Arena matches and earned a steady 120 Arena EXP each day, he could advance one minor rank per day, or roughly one major rank every four days.
At that pace, four days to reach Platinum.
Eight days to reach Diamond.
Twelve days to reach Starlight.
Sixteen days to reach King rank.
Time itself wasn't a problem.
After all, the S-rank hidden quest Heart Knot lasted a total of thirty days, and there were still more than twenty days remaining.
But what worried Lin Mo most was this, "The Divine Pool is already almost empty."
"It probably won't last until the day I reach King rank."
Just as Lin Mo was worrying about this, Fifth Prince Changge turned to him and said, "Actually, there is a way to replenish the Holy Water in the Divine Pool."
"For years, I've been searching for a way to restore it, hoping to buy more time, so that if Siya ever returned to the Divine Capital, she wouldn't find herself without a home."
"As far as I know, the Serpent Clan, one of the rare races of the Divine Oracle Continent, possesses a treasure called Ruyi. It can reopen the channel between the Divine Capital and the Divine Kingdom, allowing the Holy Water from the Divine Kingdom to flow into the Divine Capital. If that happens, the Holy Water here will never run dry again."
After a pause, Fifth Prince Changge sighed, "But over these past years, I've searched everywhere and still haven't been able to find any trace of that treasure."
At that moment, Lin Mo said, "Maybe I know where it is."
By pure coincidence, the Serpent Clan Changge mentioned was exactly Lin Mo's next destination, where he planned to search for one of the map fragments needed for the Divine Refining Cauldron.
According to the information Ning Fei had found, one of the Divine Refining Cauldron map fragments was hidden on Serpent King Island.
And Serpent King Island was the core territory of the Serpent Clan, one of the rare races of the Divine Oracle Continent.
Since Ruyi was the Serpent Clan's treasure, there was a ninety percent chance it was hidden on Serpent King Island.
Then again, perhaps it wasn't such a coincidence.
Maybe this was simply how the quest was designed.
After all, finding the Divine Refining Cauldron was for forging Siya's Eternal Set, and obtaining the Holy Water was also for forging Siya's Eternal Set.
The two objectives were connected.
According to Divine Oracle's intended progression, players were probably supposed to first learn in the Divine Capital that they needed the Serpent Clan's treasure, Ruyi, to obtain the Holy Water.
That would then lead them to search for the Serpent Clan's core territory, the Serpent King Island secret realm.
After clearing the Serpent King Island secret realm and obtaining the treasure Ruyi, players would then pleasantly discover that they had also unexpectedly obtained one of the Divine Refining Cauldron map fragments.
However, thanks to Ning Fei's genius with online information, Lin Mo had skipped that entire process of searching for Serpent King Island.
He had already pinpointed its exact location.
With that, Lin Mo's next course of action became perfectly clear.
First, clear the Serpent King Island secret realm and obtain the Serpent Clan's treasure, Ruyi.
And while he was at it, obtain the Divine Refining Cauldron map fragment as well.
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