The atmosphere in the palace was a little tense. Hearing Marquis Ziyang's words, Xiao Chen's interest in Marquis Palace was piqued. He had never heard of a palace that could rival the Eastern Royal Palace without an emperor. However, he didn't say anything and waited for Marquis Ziyang to continue.
"When Patriarch Xiao was condensing the Desolate Name, the luck came upon you. You must have sensed the path of Marquis, right?" Marquis Ziyang said again.
"Yes, under the blessing of the supreme luck, I was enlightened. After becoming a Titled Marquis, if the luck comes upon me again, I can become a Titled God King." Xiao Chen nodded and replied. However, Xiao Chen didn't know much about it.
"You and I are both Titled God Marquis, and the destiny of humanity we possess is enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with a Purple Gold battle name. This Marquis can tell you that when a martial artist condenses their Purple Gold battle name to the peak, their path of retreat will be cut off. All martial artists who condense their battle name will be unable to advance any further once their battle name reaches the peak of the Purple Gold rank!
Once a Violet Gold Name reached the peak, it would be cut off.
"It's the end."
Xiao Chen thought to himself. No wonder when he condensed his title back then, he could not find out what was beyond the purple-gold battle name. However, he easily understood the path after becoming a Divine Marquis. It turned out that the path of Luck for cultivators after the purple-gold battle name had already been severed.
"On the other hand, Conferred God Kings are able to become Conferred God Kings at the very end of their journey, granting them much greater luck. This is also the reason why Conferred God Kings are much more difficult to achieve than Martial Artists of the God Realm!"
Purple Sun Divine Marquis's voice sounded again. This was a secret that ordinary martial artists of the Desolate Land would not know. This was because even condensing an ordinary Bronze Battle Name would require a massive amount of destiny. It was simply impossible for an ordinary martial artist to condense one.
"On the other hand, a Conferred God Marquis cultivator will be able to advance to Unparalleled God King realm pinnacle. As long as they are able to gather boundless karmic luck and obtain the Conferred God King's Conferred God King, they will be able to subdue Sovereigns!"
What!
This was the second time Xiao Chen was shocked in such a short period of time. This time, it was even more difficult for him to react than before. His entire body trembled violently, and his eyes were filled with disbelief!
An Emperor Crusade!
Taboo Sovereigns were the most powerful existences in the Human World's Hundred Races. They were existences that could support a race's reproduction for countless years.
To put it bluntly, any race that had a taboo emperor would definitely develop rapidly in the following years. Even the other races would have to give way to them.
But now, Marquis Ziyang was telling him that he could defeat an emperor with the body of a king. Even if he was a peak-level king, a consummate king was still a king. Even if he was only a step away from becoming an emperor, the difference was still like heaven and earth.
This wasn't the same as when he was at the peak of the seventh level of the Heavenly Building Realm and fought against the eighth level of the Heavenly Building Realm. It wasn't the same as when he was at the peak of the eighth level of the Heavenly Building Realm and fought against the legendary supreme of the ninth level.
To put it bluntly, an emperor was the supreme being of this world. If Marquis Ziyang hadn't told him this, he would have treated it as a fantasy story!
"Do you not believe it? When this Lord was conferred the title of Marquis, I also did not believe it, just like you."
Although Marquis Ziyang was narrating to Xiao Chen, his heart was also agitated at this moment. Fortunately, there were only the two of them in the hall. If outsiders saw the two great Marquis of the Desolate Border Region losing their composure like this, it would definitely cause a huge uproar.
"The enemies of our Human Race are the Hundred Races. Even though our Human Race is powerful and does not fear any other race, if the Hundred Races work together, our Human Race will still face the danger of being annihilated if we are the slightest bit careless. Currently, our Human Race only has five emperors. Even when we were at our peak, we only had eight.
"As for the Hundred Races, even if not every race has a Sovereign in every generation, the total number of Sovereigns amongst the Hundred Races far exceeds that of our Human Race. If our Human Race doesn't have some foundation, how can we firmly defend the Mortal World since ancient times?"
Xiao Chen nodded in thought. Even though the Hundred Races did not have an emperor in every generation, with the Hundred Races as a foundation, even if only a tenth of the Hundred Races had an emperor in every generation, the total number of emperors would still surpass the Human Race.
If that was the case, if the Human Race did not have an expert, how could they have survived for so long?
"To have the title of Godking, one needs to reach the peak of the Supreme Ruler realm. Just meeting these two requirements does not mean that one has the strength to defeat an emperor. There are many secrets that Marquis does not know about. This is a secret that Marquis only learned about after reading the records of the Marquis Palace."
"Moreover, emperors are publicly acknowledged as the supreme ruler of the world. They possess boundless power. Even if they can defeat an emperor, it only means that they have the battle prowess of an emperor. As for the various heaven-defying abilities of an emperor, they do not have them. However, once they reach that level, it is not something that we can speculate about."
Xiao Chen nodded as he tried to calm down the agitation in his heart. Even if they could withstand the attack of an emperor, they would still be able to stand at the top of the Hundred Races!
"Therefore, every Conferred Marquis is a ray of hope for the Human Race, a ray of hope that they can become a Conferred God King. That is why the Human Emperor has to personally bestow the title upon them, and why the Marquis Palace has to brand the Marquis Mark on them."
Xiao Chen was digesting the shock that Marquis Ziyang had brought him. In the first place, it was a heaven-defying act for a king to challenge an emperor, and there were many taboos in it.
After a long time, he asked, "May I know how many cultivators of the Human Race who have obtained the title of Godking?"
"I don't know!" Marquis Ziyang waved his hand and replied straightforwardly.
"This is a secret of the Human Race, and it is also the foundation of our Human Race to resist the invasion of the Hundred Races. How can we let others know of it so easily?"
"However, the current palace master of the Marquis Palace is a supreme ruler who has obtained the title of Godking."
"Marquis, after you go to the Marquis Palace and brand the Marquis Mark, what else do you need to do?"
Then, Xiao Chen did not dwell on this matter. Such a secret was definitely a top secret of the Human Race, and he was not strong enough to know it yet.
"Branding the Marquis Mark is very simple. When you show your identity, there will naturally be a cultivator to guide you. Similarly, when you become a Marquis, you will have the identity of an elder of the Emperor Dong's Palace."
"However, you will only be an elder in name. Because Marquis is not a member of the tribe, his ancestors are from the Ancestral Court, and he gradually became one of the ninety-nine elders of the Ancestral Court. Moreover, with the blessing of the Conferred Marquis, he was able to kill his way out of the ninety-nine elders and become one of the top ten."
Marquis Ziyang explained to Xiao Chen the difference between the elders of the Ancestral Court of the Emperor Dong's Palace.
"The Marquis Palace is a loose force, and there is no restriction on the origin of those who join, so there is no conflict with becoming an elder of the Ancestral Court."
"May I ask how many Marquis are there in the Human Race?" Xiao Chen asked again.
"There are a total of 189 Marquis in the Eastern Wilderness, which is even rarer than the Supreme Ruler!"
One hundred and eighty-nine!
Xiao Chen was sure that he did not hear wrongly. The entire Eastern Wasteland was vast and boundless, with a population of billions upon trillions of people. However, there were only a mere 189 people who were conferred the title of Deity Marquis. Including him, there were not even more than 200 people!
The number of Marquis was even rarer than the Supreme Ruler!
Although he did not know how many Supreme Rulers there were in the entire Eastern Wilderness, the Human Race must have a deep heritage after countless years of reproduction, and there must be at least a few hundred Supreme Rulers. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Human Race to resist the invasion of the Hundred Races.
"In the five lands of the Human Race, there are less than a thousand Marquis in total. Among them, the North Sea is the rarest, with less than a hundred Marquis. The Middle Earth of the Human World has the most, but there are less than three hundred Marquis. As for the Titled God Kings, the number is probably less than ten times that. However, this is a secret of the Human Race, and it cannot be easily spread!"
Marquis Ziyang sighed. He was also very happy that Xiao Chen could become a Marquis.
Other than Xiao Chen, there was almost no one in the Human World who had become a Legend and obtained the title of Marquis. Just becoming a Legend was enough to stop the footsteps of countless cultivators. This was because the Martial Path was innately forged. Without reaching the ninth rank, there was no hope of becoming a Legend. This was an innate limitation.
And in the entire Desolate Land, there were only a few martial artists who could reach the ninth level of the Martial Path. Most of these martial artists would be concentrated in the powerful Marquis Tribes, or even the Supreme King Tribes. There were very few who could reach the ninth level of the Martial Path.
Even if one managed to reach the ninth level of the Martial Path and became a Legendary Master after going through all kinds of trials and tribulations, it would still be extremely difficult to become a Deity Marquis. One would need to benefit billions of people in order to receive the blessing of the Human Race and have the opportunity to become a Deity Marquis.
However, even if there was a fortuitous encounter, it still depended on whether one had the strength to bear the title. Xiao Chen might have been able to condense the title so easily, but that was because he had a very close connection with the Desolate Border, and he had used the name of the Desolate Border as his title.
With all these restrictions, it was already extremely fortunate that there were 189 Marquis in the entire Eastern Barren Land. Furthermore, this was the accumulation of tens of thousands of years. Every single Titled Marquis of the Human Race was hunted down by the Outsiders.
The path of becoming a Titled Marquis would be many times more difficult than before. In fact, if there was even one Marquis in the entire Eastern Barren Land who had the blessing to become a Titled God King, it would be the blessing of the Human Race!
Even though Marquis Ziyang had already become a Titled Marquis, he did not have any hope of becoming a Titled God King.
But no matter what, the Human Race had one more Titled Marquis, which meant that they had one more ray of hope.