Even though she knew that the strongest Sovereign of each element was the Chief Sovereign, the cautious habits she had developed during her days as a deity still hadn't changed.
Of course, based on Locke's understanding of the Water Chief Sovereign, perhaps this personality would never completely change in the future.
After all, the best way to break such a habit would be to fight several other Sovereigns and fully adapt to one's own power.
Unfortunately, among the current Sovereigns, conflicts only arose when pursuing Overgod missions. Otherwise, everyone exercised great restraint.
Even Wind Chief Sovereign Bayer and the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns, who had deep grudges against one another, had coexisted peacefully for countless trillions of years without interfering with each other.
Had Light Chief Sovereign Augusta not secretly attacked the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns, their relationship might have continued indefinitely.
The Wind Chief Sovereign feared the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns, but didn't the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns fear the Wind Chief Sovereign as well?
No—rather, all the elemental Chief Sovereigns feared the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns.
The Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns' fused innate divine ability could instantly kill elemental Chief Sovereigns.
That information had been bought with the life of the previous Water Chief Sovereign.
But the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns themselves understood their own situation.
That fused innate divine ability was the only thing they possessed that could threaten Chief Sovereign-level experts.
Over all these years, in order to prevent the other Sovereigns from seeing through their true capabilities, the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns had never attempted to test the possibility of fusing other innate divine abilities.
If the other Sovereigns learned the attack range of that fused innate divine ability, the Chief Sovereigns could simply launch attacks from beyond that range.
Without using the fused innate divine ability, the four brothers were merely somewhat stronger Lesser Sovereigns.
Azure Dragon Sovereign Redding and Black Tortoise Sovereign Bowen possessed bodies with the toughness of Sovereign artifacts, making their strength approach that of Intermediate Sovereigns. Still, they could only guarantee their survival and at most hold back ordinary Intermediate Sovereigns.
As for White Tiger Sovereign Lauis and Vermilion Bird Sovereign Nimo, because their physical strength was somewhat weaker, even though their innate divine abilities were powerful, they were still far from reaching the level of Intermediate Sovereigns.
"Don't worry, Levlenxia."
Life Chief Sovereign Wawaya nodded to Levlenxia.
"For Lord Locke, the position of Water Chief Sovereign truly was a burden."
"If it weren't for maintaining the stability of the Water Divine Plane, Lord Locke wouldn't even care about the position of an elemental Chief Sovereign."
"Ah?"
Levlenxia was soft-hearted, but she wasn't stupid.
The only people who looked down on the position of an elemental Chief Sovereign were the Four Edicts Chief Sovereigns.
Could it be that Lord Locke was one of the Edicts Chief Sovereigns?
Recalling how all the Sovereigns had first paid their respects to Lord Locke before greeting Lady Wawaya, coupled with what Wawaya had just said, Levlenxia formed a few guesses in her heart.
But at the same time, new questions arose.
Weren't there only four Edicts Chief Sovereigns?
What exactly was Lord Locke's situation?
Why was he able to stand above even the Edicts Chief Sovereigns?
The transfer of Chief Sovereign authority proceeded very smoothly.
Seeing this, the other Water Sovereigns could only sigh and bow to the new Water Chief Sovereign, Levlenxia, signifying their renewed allegiance.
...
"Haa..."
Within the Life Realm, Levlenxia lightly patted her chest and let out a sigh of relief.
"Well? Are the other Sovereigns easy to get along with?"
Across from her, Loran asked curiously.
"They're alright."
"With Lady Wawaya around, all the Sovereigns were quite easy to talk to."
Levlenxia said to Loran,
"But An, I was almost scared to death earlier."
Clutching Loran's hand tightly, her face was full of relief.
"So the Water High Sovereign spark I fused with is also called a Chief Sovereign spark."
"Among the entire universe, there are only eleven Chief Sovereigns like me."
"Hahaha, congratulations, Xia."
Hearing Levlenxia's words, a huge weight was lifted from Loran's heart.
Levlenxia was a girl Loran had met in a certain Material Plane while practicing ice sculpture.
At that time, she had even been his model for practicing ice sculpture.
Of course, with Loran's strength, his observations had gone completely unnoticed by Levlenxia.
Later, when Levlenxia encountered trouble, Loran stepped in to help her and guided her onto the path of cultivation.
What surprised Loran was that Levlenxia's talent for cultivation was unexpectedly good.
In only a hundred thousand years, she had cultivated to godhood entirely on her own.
Because Levlenxia disliked conflict by nature, after becoming a deity, she chose not to go to the Water Divine Plane and instead settled in the relatively peaceful Life Realm.
As for Loran's water divine clone, feeling that he was only one step away from reaching Paragon, he remained in Levlenxia's home plane to continue cultivating.
In order to protect Levlenxia, Loran's Death divine clone left the Netherworld and traveled alone to the Life Realm.
After teleporting back and forth seven or eight times, he finally found Levlenxia in front of one of the interplanar teleportation arrays in the Life Realm.
Although not as powerful as his water divine clone, Loran's Death divine clone still possessed Prefect-level strength.
Moreover, neither Loran nor Levlenxia liked causing trouble.
Thus, after spending several million years together in the Life Realm, even after Levlenxia had become a Highgod, they had never encountered any danger.
Not long ago, the two of them happened to run into a battle between two Seven-Star Fiends.
To prevent Levlenxia from being caught in the crossfire, Loran directly tore open a spatial rift and swallowed the two Seven-Star Fiends who had been fighting their way toward them.
Just as the spatial rift was about to close, a water-element Sovereign spark dramatically fell out from within it.
Faced with the temptation of a Sovereign spark, Loran ultimately resisted and gave the water-element Sovereign spark to Levlenxia.
After all, Loran's attainment of Paragon had been inseparable from Levlenxia's support.
Of course, the more important reason was that after becoming a Paragon, Loran could sense an immensely powerful force hidden within his body.
Through his Paragon-level water Laws, he had gained some understanding of that power, causing his strength to increase tremendously.
According to Loran's estimates, if he could fully unlock the power contained within his bloodline, his strength might not be inferior to that of a Sovereign.
Since he possessed a bright future, Levlenxia naturally couldn't be left behind.
Thus, Levlenxia fused with the water-element Sovereign spark in the Life Realm and became the new Water High Sovereign.
Afterward, Life Chief Sovereign Wawaya personally appeared, informed Levlenxia about matters concerning Sovereigns, and invited her to attend the Sovereign Assembly.
Levlenxia's Sovereign true body entered the spatial turbulence together with Life Chief Sovereign Wawaya.
As for her Saint-level original body, it remained with Loran in the Life Realm, recounting everything that had happened within the spatial turbulence.
"Loran, do you know?"
"I always thought the Four Edicts Chief Sovereigns were the strongest Sovereigns, but today I learned that there is one Sovereign who isn't an Edicts Chief Sovereign, yet his status and strength seem to surpass even theirs."
"Many Sovereigns paid their respects to that lord before greeting Lady Wawaya."
Hearing this, Loran's heart skipped a beat.
Before becoming a Paragon, Loran had no idea how powerful the spatial power within his bloodline truly was.
Back then, he could only mobilize a small portion of that power, allowing his attacks to penetrate space and making it impossible for enemies to accurately judge his attack range.
Although it appeared that there was still some distance left, in reality Loran's attacks had already folded part of space, making their actual range much farther than what his enemies perceived.
Even Paragon Teresia had been unable to evade attacks enhanced by Loran's bloodline power and could only endure them head-on.
After becoming a Paragon, Loran could mobilize even more of his bloodline power.
He could even infuse it into his attacks and defenses, producing effects nearly comparable to Willpower.
Only then did Loran truly understand what the title "descendant of a spatial divine beast" represented.
He was merely a descendant and had already reached such a level.
Then as the genuine spatial divine beast Emperor Jiang, just how powerful was his father?
Perhaps Father truly was the strongest Sovereign among all Sovereigns.
"What is that lord's name?"
"All those Sovereigns called him Lord Locke. His name sounds somewhat similar to yours."
Levlenxia giggled as she spoke to Loran, her eyes filled with tenderness.
That had been a Sovereign spark...
Countless people had turned against each other and slaughtered one another over such things.
Yet faced with the temptation of becoming a Sovereign, Loran had given it up for her sake.
How could Levlenxia not be moved by such feelings?
"So it really is him..."
From Levlenxia's words, Loran finally solved the mystery in his heart.
Father truly was the strongest among all Sovereigns.
Then with a portion of Father's bloodline flowing within him, even if he couldn't reach Father's level, becoming a Sovereign shouldn't be difficult, right?
He had heard that the ancestors of the Four Divine Beasts Clan would expend their own divine beast blood essence to increase the bloodline concentration of their descendants.
If he went and asked Father, would Father also consume blood essence to strengthen his bloodline?
If his bloodline concentration increased, his speed in comprehending spatial Laws would definitely rise to another level.
At this thought, Loran's heart began itching.
He wished he could immediately return to the Netherworld and squeeze some bloodline resources out of his old father.
However, if Father learned that he had handed over a Sovereign spark that had practically fallen into his hands, what kind of reaction would he have?
"Oh right, An."
"This Lord Locke was actually the acting Water Chief Sovereign before me..."
(End of Chapter)
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