"According to your speculation, once a plane achieves ten consecutive victories in the Planar Wars, it may trigger a reward from the Planar Battlefield."
"At present, nearly twenty Planar Wars have already been fought."
"Both our Netherworld and the Celestial Realm have already reached nine consecutive victories."
"Based on the matchmaking rules of the Planar Battlefield over these years, the Netherworld's opponent this time will be the Celestial Realm."
"If nothing unexpected happens, one of the two planes will definitely obtain ten consecutive victories in this Planar War."
"Do you want to go take a look?"
"The Planar Battlefield..."
After hearing Death Chief Sovereign's words, Locke sighed slightly.
Back then, in order to give Death Chief Sovereign an additional strand of willpower from ten consecutive victories in the Planar Battlefield, he had delayed refining a Sovereign spark to become a Sovereign. When he could no longer suppress his strength, he had assembled the strongest Sovereign Army and even passed down magical formation techniques to the soldiers in advance.
Unfortunately, in the end, none of these preparations had been needed.
On one hand, Death Chief Sovereign's strength had greatly exceeded Locke's expectations.
With Locke's assistance, she had ultimately stripped away the influence of faith energy and reached Paragon in the Edicts of Death. As a result, even outside the Netherworld, her strength exceeded that of the other three Chief Sovereigns of the Edicts by a thousandfold.
And this wasn't even taking into account Death Chief Sovereign's offensive Overgod artifact.
As for the Planar Battlefield...
Locke's Sovereign Army had yet to participate in a single Planar War as a whole.
Of course, the Netherworld's nine consecutive victories were also largely due to Locke.
As a Paragon Sovereign, when he married and when his child was born, he had transformed his complete Laws into blessings and spread them throughout the skies of the Netherworld for all water-element lifeforms to comprehend.
Thanks to Locke's actions, the Netherworld's water-element experts were in no way inferior to those of the Water Divine Plane.
After settling in the Netherworld, many of these experts participated in every Planar War.
With their help, the Netherworld marched from victory to victory, and now stood tied with the Celestial Realm at nine consecutive wins.
Judging from the current situation, even if Locke's Sovereign Army did not participate in the Netherworld's side this time, the Netherworld still had a very good chance of defeating the Celestial Realm and becoming the first plane to obtain the reward for ten consecutive victories.
"Lilia, do you want to obtain the reward for ten straight victories in the Planar Battlefield?"
Locke looked toward Lilia.
If Lilia wanted victory, Locke would definitely have his Sovereign Army join the Netherworld's side and further increase their chances.
With the addition of Locke's army, it would be difficult for the Netherworld to lose.
"Hah, forget it."
Death Chief Sovereign knew what Locke was thinking, but to her, one additional strand of willpower was no longer something important.
"With my current strength, whether I gain another strand of willpower or some other Sovereign gains one makes no difference to me."
Those words sounded arrogant, but they were indeed true.
The ones closest to Death Chief Sovereign in strength were the other three Chief Sovereigns of the Edicts.
Yet even Life Chief Sovereign Vivian, Destruction Chief Sovereign Utreid, and Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff were still a thousand times weaker than Death Chief Sovereign.
Well, after Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff successfully created the Samsara Golden Body and elevated his body strength to the level of a Sovereign artifact, the difference between him and Death Chief Sovereign had narrowed to merely a hundredfold.
Even if he obtained another strand of willpower, he would still remain ten times weaker than Death Chief Sovereign.
Thus, Death Chief Sovereign did not place much importance on obtaining this additional strand of willpower.
Of course, not valuing it did not mean she intended to hold back in this Planar War.
Since the Netherworld already possessed over a sixty percent chance of victory, there was no need for Locke's Sovereign Army to participate. Otherwise, others might think she and Locke were bullying people.
"Alright then."
Seeing Lilia's attitude, Locke said no more.
As Death Chief Sovereign had said, even if the Celestial Realm obtained this additional strand of willpower, so what?
Who among them could fight her?
Besides, Locke also possessed a Fate Sovereign clone.
If the Celestial Realm won this Planar War, Locke's Fate Sovereign clone would also gain another strand of willpower.
No matter which side won, neither Locke nor Death Chief Sovereign would lose out.
It was precisely because of this that neither of them paid much attention to the outcome of this Planar War.
"Then let's go watch this Planar War together."
Many experts had entered the Planar Battlefield and fought there before.
Locke also wanted to take this opportunity to see whether there were any individuals with exceptional aptitude in the Earth Laws.
If there truly were, Locke would not mind sending down an avatar to offer guidance and see whether he, as an "uncertain factor in destiny," could influence these geniuses who were never destined to become Paragons and perhaps enable them to reach that level.
If he succeeded, Locke himself would gain another set of complete Laws.
In that case, he could also begin cultivating a Fire Paragon, instead of waiting for Bulo or Bluefire Reisgem more than a thousand calendrical cycles later.
"Fine. I'll call you when the time comes."
Death Chief Sovereign saw nothing strange about Locke wanting to watch this Planar War.
After becoming Sovereigns and reaching the end of the cultivation path, many Sovereigns, after enduring endless boredom, sought out things that could bring novelty into their lives.
The once-every-hundred-million-years Planar War was considered a fairly entertaining pastime among Sovereigns.
Because Locke had spent so many years in secluded cultivation, he was one of the few Sovereigns whOrloffrequently missed watching the Planar Wars.
As a result, many of the Sovereigns who had appeared over the last ten trillion years had only heard of Lord Locke's prestige from other Sovereigns and had never personally seen him even once.
To these newly ascended Sovereigns, Locke was practically a "legendary existence."
No one dared to question the Four Chief Sovereigns of the Edicts.
After all, the strength displayed by the Four Chief Sovereigns exceeded that of elemental Chief Sovereigns by a thousandfold. Every one of them was a Paragon, and their bodies had reached the level of Sovereign artifacts.
A group of Sovereigns who had not even become Paragons naturally had no choice but to look up to them.
But Locke Chief Sovereign inspired a different attitude.
People could say that the elemental Chief Sovereigns had simply been lucky, but no one claimed that Locke Chief Sovereign had reached his current position through luck.
Indeed, Locke Chief Sovereign was a dual-element soul mutator.
Yet over more than ten trillion years, these Sovereigns had discovered many soul mutators.
Aside from allowing divine power of the same level to fuse and increasing their strength tenfold, none of them could replicate Locke Chief Sovereign's path.
Not one among them had even reached Paragon, much less achieved Sovereign-level power through fused Laws.
From this, it was evident that what was terrifying was Locke Chief Sovereign himself—not soul mutation.
Locke Chief Sovereign was the only person who, with the body of a Lesser Sovereign, had stood shoulder to shoulder with the Four Chief Sovereigns of the Edicts, while his status and strength even vaguely surpassed theirs.
Furthermore, from what the other Sovereigns said, the newly ascended Sovereigns learned that Locke Chief Sovereign's water divine clone, despite not refining a Sovereign spark, still possessed power comparable to an elemental Chief Sovereign.
This meant that even without obtaining a Sovereign spark, Locke Chief Sovereign could possess Sovereign-level power while remaining merely a god.
Who would not revere such an existence?
...
Although Locke had already decided to watch this Planar War, witness the first reward for ten consecutive victories, and see whether any earth- or fire-element geniuses with outstanding talent appeared so that he could decide whether to personally nurture them—
there were still more than forty million years before the Planar Battlefield opened.
There was still plenty of time.
At that moment, Locke suddenly realized that he had not seen his son, Loran, for several trillion years.
Spreading out his divine sense, he found that Loran's death divine clone was no longer inside Death Chief Sovereign's palace.
"Lilia, where's our son?"
Unable to find Loran, Locke transmitted his voice to Death Chief Sovereign through his divine sense.
"Oh? So, you still remember that you have a son?"
Hearing Locke's message, Death Chief Sovereign rolled her eyes.
If she did not know that Locke had been immersed in cultivation all this time, she might have suspected that he had forgotten he even had a child.
After all, what kind of father goes trillions of years without seeing his son?
Even the Four Divine Beast Sovereigns met their descendants every few tens of millions or trillions of years and supplied Gaisresen and the others with resources for developing the clan.
Those resources included Sovereign power, Sovereign blood essence, and various treasures of heaven and earth.
Without the resources provided by the Four Divine Beast Sovereigns, the Four Divine Beast Clan could never have developed to its current scale.
"Heh heh..."
Locke laughed awkwardly.
He hadn't expected that he would end up cultivating for so long.
"That little fellow Loran left Mount Abyssal long ago, around three trillion years ago."
"At present, neither of his divine clones is in the Netherworld. If you want to find him, you'll have to search the other Divine Planes and Higher Planes yourself."
Seeing that Lilia's mood wasn't particularly good, Locke wisely refrained from provoking her further.
His soul power spread out, first locking onto the space of the Celestial Realm. Then he used Spatial Transfer and instantly moved himself there.
Among gods, not even Dunnington, a Death Paragon, could kill Loran.
Only Sovereigns posed a threat to him.
Aside from the newly ascended Sovereigns, the older generation all knew that Loran was the son of Locke Chief Sovereign and Death Chief Sovereign.
Even if Loran offended them, out of respect for Locke Chief Sovereign and Death Chief Sovereign, these Sovereigns would gladly give the two of them face and would not make things difficult for him.
(End of Chapter)
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