Judging from the timing of Sovereign Locke's breakthrough, all the Sovereigns were certain that this still was not Sovereign Locke's limit.
After this incident, even if Sovereign Locke's strength beca another thousand tis greater hundreds of millions of years later, no one would feel surprised.
Rather, if Sovereign Locke's strength had not broken through after hundreds of millions of years, that would be what they found strange.
But by then, what level would Sovereign Locke's strength have reached?
Right now, Sovereign Locke's strength was already ten tis greater than that of the three Edicts Chief Sovereigns—the Chief Sovereigns of Life, Destruction, and Fate.
If Sovereign Locke's strength increased another thousandfold at that ti, wouldn't that an Sovereign Locke would be ten thousand tis stronger than the three Chief Sovereigns?
A ten-thousandfold difference in strength…
Just thinking about it caused the Sovereigns to feel despair.
It was like the feeling of helplessness a Lesser Sovereign experienced before a Laws Chief Sovereign, an Interdiate Sovereign before an Edicts Chief Sovereign, or a Laws Chief Sovereign before the Chief Sovereign of Death.
In fact, they did not even dare confirm that this was Sovereign Locke's limit.
If Sovereign Locke completely fused the Water Laws and the Fate Edicts, then the fusion of twelve heterogenous Laws and Profound Mysteries would possess power comparable to the complete fusion of eighteen Profound Mysteries from other Laws.
And this was still only because the Willpower obtained from fusing heterogenous Laws and Profound Mysteries existed within Sovereign Locke's original body's soul.
Thinking this, the Sovereigns suddenly realized that even though Sovereign Locke's original body was not a Deity, with the amplification from Willpower and heterogenous Laws and Profound Mysteries, it still possessed strength comparable to a Laws Chief Sovereign.
One person, three Chief Sovereigns.
And all three were Chief Sovereigns whom nobody could object to.
Other than Sovereign Locke, there truly was no one else like this.
…
After returning to the Netherworld, Locke took out the Soul-Extinguishing Pearl and Bloodshadowfla.
Previously, after Locke obtained the Soul-Extinguishing Pearl from Mira Locke, he had once tried using the Soul-Extinguishing Pearl to sense the locations of the other two Overgod talismans.
However, Locke ultimately failed.
A single Overgod talisman simply could not resonate with the other talismans.
Under such circumstances, even though Locke's attainnts in the Fate Edicts could be considered unmatched within the Coiling Dragon universe, he still could not locate information regarding the other two Overgod talismans across the countless planes.
But now, Locke had already collected two of the three Overgod talismans.
The Soul-Extinguishing Pearl and Bloodshadowfla floated above Locke's palm. Though the two appeared completely unrelated, as talismans of an Overgod, so connection existed between them that even the current Locke could not yet comprehend.
One magic formation after another appeared around Locke.
Within the area covered by the magic formations, vast amounts of Death Edicts erged.
Magic formations were manifestations of the universe's natural Laws within the Coiling Dragon universe.
Although cultivating magic formations could not transform one's life essence the way comprehending the Laws could, a powerful grandmaster of magic formations could use them to accomplish many things others could never even imagine.
The magical battle formations within Locke's Sovereign Army were one example.
The magic formation Locke currently used to draw upon other Laws and Edicts of the universe was another.
In order to create this magic formation capable of drawing upon the universe's Laws and Edicts, Locke had researched information regarding the creation of Divine Planes within the Fate Sovereign spark, and had even spent ten thousand years personally creating a Divine Plane to comprehend the changes in the natural Laws when a plane ford.
Originally, Locke had created this kind of magic formation to prepare for his future cultivation.
After all, if Locke wished to completely comprehend the Spatial Laws, he could not avoid the four elental Laws of earth, wind, water, and fire.
But Water Laws alone could at most allow Locke to comprehend twenty-five percent of the Spatial Laws.
Even adding the ten percent of Spatial Laws granted by the natural Laws when Locke beca a Deity, after excluding overlap, he could at most comprehend thirty percent of the Spatial Laws.
This was the limit of the Spatial Laws that Locke's Water Laws could sense.
If he wished to sense more Spatial Laws, Locke would inevitably have to rely on the earth, wind, and fire Laws.
However, even Locke had not expected that after successfully creating this magic formation, its first use would not be for borrowing the earth, wind, and fire Laws to contact the Spatial Laws, but rather to draw in the Death Edicts.
Under the influence of the vast Death Edicts, the gray Soul-Extinguishing Pearl and the gray Bloodshadowfla slowly moved closer toward each other.
"So, this is it!"
Seeing this scene, white radiance flashed within Locke's eyes. His powerful soul force spread out, instantly capturing a thread of connection between the Soul-Extinguishing Pearl and Bloodshadowfla, using the Fate Edicts to condense it into a white pearl.
Within this white pearl, a greenish-gray mist ford into a triangular shape. No matter how Locke moved the pearl in his hand, the pointed tip of the triangular mist always pointed in one direction.
Locke's Fate Sovereign true body reached out with his hand and instantly tore open a spatial rift in the Netherworld, stepping into the spatial turbulence.
Compared to his Water divine clone, which could sense spatial energy, Locke's Fate divine clone no longer possessed that feeling of moving like a fish through water within the spatial turbulence.
However, the Fate divine clone possessed four portions of Willpower from a Lesser Sovereign more than the Water divine clone did, so its speed was not slower than Locke's Water divine clone at all.
Following the direction indicated by the mist within the pearl in his hand, Locke crossed one plane after another within the spatial turbulence, heading deeper into the chaotic currents.
Naturally, Locke's entry into the spatial turbulence attracted the attention of many Sovereigns.
Especially since Locke's direction was clearly purposeful, everyone could guess that Sovereign Locke had definitely discovered sothing from the gray fla previously ntioned by Chief Sovereign Orloff.
However, whether it was the other Sovereigns or the Four Chief Sovereigns, no one dared cause trouble for Sovereign Locke.
What a joke. By now, which Sovereign did not know that future Sovereign affairs would basically be decided by Sovereign Locke's family alone?
The Chief Sovereign of Death had originally already been the strongest of the Edicts Chief Sovereigns. Now Sovereign Locke had also displayed strength not inferior to hers. Even if the other three Chief Sovereigns were tied together, they still would not be enough for that husband-and-wife pair to beat up.
However, what reassured everyone sowhat was that regardless of how powerful Sovereign Locke and the Chief Sovereign of Death were, both of them remained willing to abide by the Sovereign Pact they themselves had established.
So long as one did not violate the Sovereign Pact, the greatest enemies of Sovereigns were still other Sovereigns on the sa level as themselves.
After all, the Sovereign Pact only stipulated that higher-ranked Sovereigns could not casually attack lower-ranked Sovereigns.
Among Sovereigns of the sa level, even if soone ambushed and killed you face-to-face, it still would not violate the Sovereign Pact.
Rather than spending so much ti paying attention to Sovereign Locke, they would be better off using that ti to make one or two close friends, or consider pledging allegiance to a Chief Sovereign.
That way, in the forr case, if they were ambushed by other Sovereigns, they would have soone who could help them.
In the latter case, Sovereigns intending to attack them would hesitate, fearing that offending a Chief Sovereign might give that Chief Sovereign an excuse to kill them.
Within the Celestial Realm, Chief Sovereign Orloff naturally also noticed Locke's movents within the spatial turbulence.
However, after being defeated by Locke previously, the current Chief Sovereign Orloff no longer dared enter the spatial turbulence to compete with Locke over whatever Locke had discovered through the gray fla.
He was certain that if he dared show himself now, Sovereign Locke would definitely kill him.
Previously, Chief Sovereign Orloff had already sensed Locke's killing intent toward him.
Had the Chief Sovereign of Death not spoken up, the one currently seated in his position might already have beco Sovereign Locke.
Thinking this, Chief Sovereign Orloff closed his eyes.
Not long afterward, the Water Interdiate Sovereign, Sovereign Bibo, returned from the Celestial Realm to the Water Divine Plane, taking over one continent within the Water Divine Plane and working together with the other two Lesser Water Sovereigns to regulate the Laws of the Water Divine Plane and increase the proportion of Water Laws and water elental essence within the plane.
From the return of the Water Interdiate Sovereign, Sovereign Bibo, to the Water Divine Plane, all the Sovereigns understood that this was Chief Sovereign Orloff compromising with Sovereign Locke.
At the sa ti, it was also the Chief Sovereign of Fate proving to Sovereign Locke that he would no longer target him in the future.
The Sovereigns could understand the Chief Sovereign of Fate's actions as well.
Previously, Chief Sovereign Orloff had kept Sovereign Bibo within the Celestial Realm because he did not want Sovereign Locke to kill Sovereign Bibo and instantly beco an existence capable of rivaling them.
But no one had expected that Sovereign Locke had never intended to kill Sovereign Bibo at all. Instead, through secluded cultivation, in rely several tens of millions of years, he had broken through once again, his strength increasing a thousandfold, turning Chief Sovereign Orloff's actions into a joke.
With matters having developed to this stage, everyone now understood that Sovereign Locke had no intention whatsoever of refining a Sovereign spark to increase his strength.
Or rather, if Sovereign Locke truly wanted to achieve even greater success on the path of fused Laws and Profound Mysteries, then he definitely would not place his thoughts upon such "crooked paths."
Those capable of refining Sovereign sparks and becoming Sovereigns were obviously all geniuses capable of independently becoming Deities.
Looking at Sovereign Locke, they naturally thought back to how they themselves had cultivated back when they were still Deities.
If they had not possessed that determination to completely comprehend all the Profound Mysteries of a single Law, then they could never have independently cultivated to the Highgod level.
Many lifeforms from the sa era as them—or even earlier eras—had lost the drive to advance further, ultimately stopping at the God level after comprehending only four or five Profound Mysteries, with no progress at all for countless years afterward.
If Sovereign Locke had even slightly entertained the thought of relying on a Water Sovereign spark to beco stronger, then that determined mindset for cultivation naturally would have broken as well.
At that point, Sovereign Locke achieving even greater accomplishnts upon the path of fused Laws would clearly beco impossible.
If Locke knew what these Sovereigns were thinking, he would probably only laugh together with the Chief Sovereign of Death.
Did this count as, "Once I beca a saint, scholars naturally arose to defend my philosophy"?
In truth, for Locke, regardless of whether he killed Water Sovereigns and used Water Sovereign sparks to increase his strength, it made no difference to him whatsoever.
(End of Chapter)
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