"Lord Locke, Lord Death Chief Sovereign."
The Sovereigns who arrived afterward first paid their respects to Locke before greeting the other Chief Sovereigns.
That's right. This time, Destruction Chief Sovereign Utreid and Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff had both come as well.
Locke glanced at the woman standing behind Life Chief Sovereign Wawaya and narrowed his eyes.
It seemed that Wawaya's decision to convene this Sovereign Assembly was related to this woman.
However...
Glancing at Lilia beside him, Locke closed his eyes and spread out his soul power.
Very quickly, after confirming something, Locke withdrew his soul power.
None of the Sovereigns present, not even Death Chief Sovereign Lilia, noticed the soul power Locke had released.
"Everyone, I apologize for summoning all of you while you are busy with cultivation."
After confirming that all the Sovereigns had arrived, Life Chief Sovereign Wawaya began speaking gently. Her warm tone caused all the Sovereigns to feel a trace of comfort in their hearts.
Unlike the other Chief Sovereigns, Wawaya and the Life Sovereigns under her command disliked conflict.
Of course, disliking conflict did not mean fearing it.
Even after experiencing the first Sovereign War, not a single one of the seven Life Sovereigns had fallen. That alone demonstrated the unity and strength of the Life element Sovereigns.
"Not at all, Chief Sovereign. You're too courteous."
Since Life Chief Sovereign was giving everyone face, they naturally had to accept it.
Everyone here was a Sovereign. Who among them didn't know each other's situations?
At their current level, cultivation had already reached a dead end. Their so-called busyness merely consisted of searching for things that could still interest them.
Most of the time, Sovereigns had nothing to do and simply spread their divine sense across countless Material Planes, observing the joys and sorrows of mortal life.
Everyone knew that among all Sovereigns, the only person who could truly be busy cultivating was probably Lord Locke.
Of course, Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff also counted.
Without Lord Locke for comparison, Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff would absolutely have been the object of admiration for all Sovereigns.
After all, being able to create a cultivation technique capable of raising one's physical body to the level of a Sovereign artifact left no room for doubt regarding Orloff's talent and brilliance.
However, all the Sovereigns now knew about Locke's talent and his attainments in dual-element fused Laws.
At present, many Sovereigns were guessing how far Locke's fused Laws had progressed.
More than fifteen trillion years ago, Lord Locke had already completely fused four water-element Profound Mysteries with the Edicts of Fate. During his battle with Destruction Chief Sovereign Utreid over Dunnington, the Paragon of Death, Locke had also revealed a body whose toughness had reached the level of a Sovereign artifact.
Now another fifteen trillion years had passed.
Had Lord Locke made further progress in fused Laws?
Unlike them, who had to reveal every bit of progress they made in order to intimidate other Sovereigns, Lord Locke's current strength and status had already reached the very summit among Sovereigns.
Wasn't it true that in the hearts of all Sovereigns, Lord Locke's status had long surpassed that of the Four Chief Sovereigns?
Whenever they paid their respects, they always started with Lord Locke.
Thus, even if Lord Locke achieved another breakthrough, he wouldn't reveal it as he had in the past.
Still, based on Lord Locke's talent, everyone speculated that he had likely already reached the bottleneck of fusing the fifth water-element Profound Mystery with the Edicts of Fate.
As for whether he had already broken through that bottleneck, no one knew.
"Before this Sovereign Assembly officially begins, let me first introduce someone to everyone."
"Levlenxia."
At Wawaya's call, the young woman standing behind her stepped forward and bowed respectfully toward Wawaya.
"Lady Wawaya."
"Everyone, this is the newly ascended Water Sovereign, Levlenxia."
All the Sovereigns turned their gazes toward Levlenxia.
Judging from Life Chief Sovereign Wawaya's attitude, this Sovereign Assembly had clearly been convened because of this newly ascended Water Sovereign.
Since she had gained Wawaya's attention, everyone naturally began guessing.
Could this newly ascended Water Sovereign named Levlenxia perhaps be a Paragon IntermeBayerte Sovereign?
After all, if the Wind Paragon Lesser Sovereign Teresia hadn't accidentally barged into the Water Divine Plane governed by Lord Locke, perhaps people wouldn't have remembered him so deeply either.
As for ordinary Lesser Sovereigns or regular IntermeBayerte Sovereigns, they simply weren't worthy of such attention from Life Chief Sovereign Wawaya.
Truthfully, if such a situation had occurred more than ten trillion years ago, everyone would have understood.
At that time, three of the Four Chief Sovereigns had openly or secretly opposed Lord Locke, unwilling to let his water divine clone fuse with a Sovereign spark for fear that his strength would surpass even theirs.
But now, doing such a thing no longer held any meaning.
After all, Lord Locke's water divine clone might already possess power comparable to the Four Chief Sovereigns.
To Lord Locke, a Sovereign spark had become something optional.
With a water Sovereign spark, Lord Locke might become even stronger.
But even without one, he still remained second only to Lord Death Chief Sovereign, who possessed an Overgod artifact.
"The Sovereign spark she fused with is a Water High Sovereign spark."
The Sovereigns nodded, now understanding this new Sovereign's rank.
So, she was a High—
"Hm? A High Sovereign spark?"
At this moment, every Sovereign reacted.
High Sovereign sparks were also known as Chief Sovereign sparks.
Each element possessed one and only one High Sovereign spark.
Whoever fused with that spark naturally possessed the greatest strength within that element and became the ruler of both that Divine Plane and its Sovereigns.
In other words, this newly ascended Water Sovereign was one of the eleven Chief Sovereigns in the entire universe.
The reason no one had guessed she possessed the Water High Sovereign spark earlier was because Lord Locke had governed the Water Divine Plane for so many years that everyone had unconsciously accepted the equation:
Lord Locke = Water Chief Sovereign.
Only now, with the appearance of a new Water Chief Sovereign, did everyone remember that Lord Locke had once said he was merely acting as a temporary Chief Sovereign.
His purpose had only been to maintain the stability of the Water Divine Plane together with the other Water Sovereigns until a true Water Chief Sovereign appeared.
At this moment, the expressions of some Sovereigns became rather strange.
Especially the Water Sovereigns.
As they looked toward Levlenxia, there was obvious scrutiny in their gazes.
Now that a Water Chief Sovereign had appeared, did this mean that Lord Locke would no longer be the Water Chief Sovereign?
Previously, as subordinates under Lord Locke, they had always been treated with extra respect by Sovereigns of other elements.
If their ruler was replaced by this young girl, would others still hold them in such high regard?
If they were bullied by other Sovereigns in the future, would this new Chief Sovereign stand up for them and help them recover their dignity?
Hopefully she wouldn't turn out like Wind Chief Sovereign Bayer—selfish and concerned only with himself...
Although all six Wind Sovereign positions had already been filled, only one Wind Lesser Sovereign had truly joined Wind Chief Sovereign Bayer's camp.
And even that was because the Sovereign had been newly ascended and had pledged allegiance before fully understanding Bayer's character.
After later learning about Bayer's glorious history from other Sovereigns, he wanted to withdraw but didn't dare act.
As someone who had voluntarily submitted to Bayer, if he betrayed him, Bayer would have every justification to kill him.
Among the remaining four Wind Sovereigns, one Wind Intermediate Sovereign had joined Light Chief Sovereign Augusta, while the other two Lesser Sovereigns had respectively joined the Earth Chief Sovereign and Fire Chief Sovereign.
As for Teresia, he had simply declared himself to be under Lord Locke.
Although this was merely Teresia's own claim and Lord Locke had never acknowledged it.
Still, in everyone's eyes, a Paragon Sovereign like Teresia was indeed qualified to stand beneath Lord Locke's banner.
As for themselves, Sovereigns who weren't even Paragons—
they didn't even possess the courage to speak loudly in front of Lord Locke.
The inferiority was simply too great.
Of course, if Lord Locke were willing to accept them, they would gladly follow him.
"Hahaha, this is truly wonderful news."
After Life Chief Sovereign Wawaya announced Levlenxia's Sovereign rank, Locke laughed and spoke.
"Greetings, Chief Sovereign Levlenxia."
"I am Locke, the previous acting Water Chief Sovereign."
"For all these years, I've been looking forward to your appearance so that I could finally free myself from the affairs of the Water Divine Plane."
"At last, my wish has been fulfilled."
"I have already withdrawn the Sovereign clone that had been stationed in the Water Divine Plane, along with the Sovereign palace there."
"From now on, the Water Divine Plane is entrusted to Chief Sovereign Levlenxia."
"Ah? This..."
Levlenxia became flustered and instinctively turned to look at Life Chief Sovereign Wawaya.
Among all these Sovereigns, the only one she truly knew was Lady Wawaya.
In her understanding, a Water Chief Sovereign must possess tremendous status and influence among Sovereigns.
As a newly ascended Sovereign, had she just caused an acting Chief Sovereign to lose his position and status?
Wouldn't that create enmity?
During her days as a deity, although Levlenxia had cultivated independently to become a Highgod, she had only fused two Profound Mysteries and was merely a Five-Star Fiend.
Even after becoming a Sovereign and using the massive amount of faith energy within the Sovereign spark to complete the fusion of five Profound Mysteries, she still didn't believe herself to be particularly powerful among Sovereigns.
(End of Chapter)
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