As Leylin gave his command, the ritualistic formation activated all around the entire islands that were conquered by the Scarlet Tigers and Church of the Heavenly Serpent. Thousands upon thousands of natives were being used as sacrifices for the summoning ritual together with countless professionals of the native tribes.
Aside from them, in the middle of the small ritual circles, several Divine Beings, High-Rank Legend Professionals and Legend Professionals were being sealed as the runes around them were slowly refining their very own beings as fuel and sacrifice.
The summoning ritual required a tremendous amount of power, and Leylin has been collecting resources across the majority of the World of Gods; without the network of the Scarlet Tigers, Faulen Family, and Church of the Heavenly Serpent, it would be impossible.
Naturally, the last and the remaining ingredient were the powerful native Professionals of the World of Gods and the Divine Beings whose innate Divine Power contained the essence of the World of Gods, which would hide the summoning ritual from the eyes of the Gods.
The people captured by them already started screaming from the pain of their very own souls being devoured by the ritual summoning, as Leylin ordered Tiff and Isabel to take direct control of two nodes in the ritual.
They were already getting very close to the end of the ritual, as they were almost ready to create a small unstable hole in a space-time continuum that would transport Gu Long the moment he was summoned.
"Now!"
Leylin shouted as he took control of the main ritual node as the ritual summoning formation gathered enough energy to activate it...
Suddenly, everything started shining brightly, and Leylin felt a disturbance in the space-time as the ritual really worked, something that he initially was partially scpetic about.
Mainly because this summoning ritual was directly bypassing the Crystal World Barrier that was protecting the entire World of Gods and surrounding planes that were adjusted to the World of Gods; not even peak Rank 8 Magi could do any damage to the Crystal Barrier.
From this point of view, the Gods were really cowards who just holed up in here, never leaving the confines of their World and essentially living in a single world like a bunch of rats, clinging to the survival at any cost.
That was one of many reasons why the Magi disdained Gods, but that was the situation with the Faith Gods. Contrary to what he heard about Innate Gods, whose Godhood was not dependent on worship and Faith, the Faith Gods were inherent cowards.
***
Magus World, Central Continent, Sky City
Many years have passed since Gu Long killed Monarch of Skies Zabofel, conquered the Sky City and took it as his own lair. After he extracted all vital data from Sky City, he entered the deepest parts of the floating city, where he decided to slumber.
He woke up only once, during the time when he went with Leylin Farlier to meet the Snake Dowager, but afterward, he returned to his slumber.
Dragons loved to slumber, but when they were slumbering, they were not just sleeping, but they were also getting continuously stronger. Hibernation of a dragon was another way for them to get stronger.
Like many other species in the endless reality of existence, dragons were getting stronger as they aged. So the older dragon became, the more his strength would grow, at least in the aspect of raw power.
Presently, Gu Long felt spatial and temporal disturbances in his lair; even though he was hibernating, he instinctively felt that something was happening as he automatically woke up from his hibernation.
"So he eventually succeeded... finally, we can start."
Gu Long said as he fully woke up from his hibernation and looked at the space-time crack that appeared in his lair, with it slowly getting bigger and bigger, slowly big enough to accommodate his entire dragon form.
"Let the final dance begin..."
The dragon prince then stood up, imposingly with his humongous dragon form and crossed over to the World of Gods through the vortex leading there. The sole thing that remained for him was acquiring the Bloodline Source of the Devils of the Baator native to this universe.
***
World of Gods, somewhere around the Debanks Islands, unnamed islands
Everyone on the other end of the vortex, everyone could see the silhouette of an enormous dragon that was hundreds of meters in length and several tens of meters tall as he was walking on his four legs.
His wings were not spread and were instead close to his massive body, as everyone felt the overwhelming aura of the dragon. Especially the High-Rank Legend Professionals and Legend Professionals could feel the power of the dragon that came over.
It's raw power was even more overwhelming than that of Leylin, who was already a pretty powerful Divine Being; in truth, this was Gu Long restraining his aura because the dragon prince didn't wish to knock out everyone present.
"Hmm... weird..."
Gu Long said in a deep, draconic voice as he arrived at the World of Gods because he could sense the Laws of the Worlds were different from that of the Magus World. Actually, if not for his Divine Nature and Heritage, he would face very severe repressions from the Word.
"Did you notice that?"
He was interrupted by Leylin, who looked almost identical to his true body back in the Magus World. Just minus his aura was many times milder and he lacked the handsomeness and the entire feeling that he was a slippery snake.
Aside from that, they would probably pass for twins with ease.
"Yes... the natural laws of the World of Gods are directly suppressing my nature as Magician and other power systems within my body while strengthening the Divine Aspects."
Leylin nodded because this was also the first thing he figured out after he reincarnated over.
The entire World of Gods was passively suppressing other power systems aside from that of the Faith Godhood. This was something very commonly seen in many worlds and dimensions, but Gu Long still hated the feeling of it.
It was like having a weight of something extremely heavy on his being, constantly pushing him down.
"You will get used to it after a few years... though I cannot speak for myself, as I never properly faced the suppression."