If he had Locke's protection, then forget Augusta—even the Chief Sovereign of Fate, Orloff, probably wouldn't dare charge into the Netherworld.
In fact, if Locke's tone beca a little harsher, he even suspected Augusta might no longer dare move against Beirut.
Of course, the main reason Augusta wanted to kill the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns was to obtain their divine beast essence blood in order to research the innate divine abilities of the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns.
It was just…
Locke rubbed his chin.
When he had no opponents, the Chief Sovereign of Fate Orloff had waited over a thousand calendrical cycles before finally making his move against the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns.
But now, after being humiliated and threatened by Locke to such an extent, the current Orloff would likely be even more eager than the original Orloff to increase his strength.
Under such circumstances, Locke honestly did not know whether the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns would survive until a thousand-plus calendrical cycles later.
The Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns would definitely be killed by the Chief Sovereign of Light.
The timing depended on two factors.
The first factor was when the Chief Sovereign of Fate Orloff would complete the creation of the "Samsara Golden Body," raising his body's toughness to the level of a Sovereign artifact.
At that point, purely in terms of strength, the Chief Sovereign of Fate Orloff would already have reached the level of the current Chief Sovereign of Death and Locke.
The second factor was how many Overgod missions the Chief Sovereign of Fate Orloff completed.
In the Coiling Dragon Universe where Locke did not exist, Orloff was unquestionably the strongest Sovereign. Thus, while the other Chief Sovereigns all chose offensive Overgod artifacts, only Orloff chose a soul-protecting Overgod artifact.
Afterward, the Chief Sovereign of Fate Orloff secretly completed another Overgod mission without informing the other Sovereigns, obtaining a material defense Overgod artifact.
Then, with Orloff's assistance, the Chief Sovereign of Light Augusta also completed an Overgod mission and obtained an offensive Overgod artifact.
At that point, Orloff's set of three Overgod artifacts was complete, making him the "invincible Sovereign" of the Coiling Dragon Universe.
Now, because of Locke's threat, Orloff absolutely would not dare act so arrogantly with his first Overgod artifact and choose a soul-protecting Overgod artifact.
The more likely possibility was that he would choose a material defense Overgod artifact.
Only during the second Overgod mission would the Chief Sovereign of Fate Orloff choose a soul-protecting Overgod artifact.
Although the Chief Sovereign of Light Augusta and the Chief Sovereign of Fate Orloff were technically the sa person, because their personalities and emotions were completely opposite, with Augusta's cowardly personality, if he did not have absolute confidence, he would never obey Orloff's orders and move against the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns.
Thus, in all likelihood, only after the Chief Sovereign of Light Augusta completed an Overgod mission and obtained an offensive Overgod artifact would he make his move against the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns.
When Linley beca a Hongng Controller, Hongng said that he had waited nearly two thousand calendrical cycles before finally waiting for Linley.
From this, one could infer that Overgod missions were probably released roughly once every three hundred calendrical cycles.
Or perhaps the first four Overgod missions were released at shorter intervals, while the later three were released roughly once every five hundred calendrical cycles.
Calculated this way, the ti at which the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns would be killed should be around fifteen hundred to eighteen hundred calendrical cycles.
A difference of two hundred calendrical cycles, for Hongng, could still reasonably be called "nearly two thousand calendrical cycles."
He just didn't know whether Beirut would still make it in ti this ti around to witness the Chief Sovereign of Light hunting the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns and seize the Sovereign sparks and corpses of the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns from Augusta's hands.
After arranging possible future gifts for the children, he might one day have, Locke engraved this information into his soul to avoid forgetting it after too much ti passed.
Next, Locke continued his cultivation.
His Fate Sovereign true body remained within the spatial turbulence outside the material plane containing the Blackstone Robe, waiting for Christina and the others while continuing his cultivation in the fusion of the Water Laws and the Fate Edicts.
anwhile, his water divine clone focused entirely on the fusion of the Water Laws and the spatial Laws.
If Locke's water divine clone completely fused this ten percent of spatial Laws into the Water Laws, then Locke's Water-Spatial fused Laws would not be weaker than his Water-Fate fused Laws.
As for Locke's original body, it focused entirely on comprehending the spatial Laws.
Among the twenty-five percent of spatial Laws connected to the Water Laws, Locke had so far comprehended only five percent.
If Locke could completely comprehend the remaining twenty percent of spatial Laws, then relying solely on the spatial Laws, Locke would be capable of suppressing Interdiate Sovereigns.
Comprehending ten percent of the spatial Laws and becoming a Celestial Deity allowed one to rival Lesser Sovereigns.
Beyond the Sovereign level, the strength of ten percent of the spatial Laws was equivalent to one strand of Paragon willpower.
In other words, comprehending thirty percent of the spatial Laws and becoming a Middle Celestial Deity allowed one to rival Interdiate Sovereigns.
After comprehending fifty percent of the spatial Laws and becoming an Upper Celestial Deity, one could rival Law Chief Sovereigns.
Seventy percent of the spatial Laws could rival Edict Chief Sovereigns.
Ninety percent of the spatial Laws would make one ten tis stronger than the current Locke and the Chief Sovereign of Death.
If Locke completely comprehended the spatial Laws and beca a spatial Paragon, then he would advance to the level of a Godking, comparable to the Overgods of the Coiling Dragon Universe.
Overall, the spatial Laws were the only Laws through which Locke could cultivate to the level of the Overgods.
Neither the Water-Fate fused Laws nor the Water-Spatial fused Laws, regardless of how much stronger they might make Locke during the Sovereign stage, could ever reach the level of the Overgods.
Of course, after Locke fully comprehended the spatial Laws, if he could then completely fuse the Water Laws and the spatial Laws, the increase to his strength would still be trendous.
Ti thus slowly flowed onward amidst Locke's cultivation and his attempts with the Chief Sovereign of Death to conceive life.
…
"Tsk. Although the food ingredients in material planes can't compare to those in the Divine Planes and Higher Planes because of the quality of the materials, this unique texture really is sothing special."
Inside an inn, Locke's Edicts clone slowly tasted the food on the table while evaluating it inwardly.
Within material planes, the ingredients used in inns and taverns were almost entirely ordinary beasts.
Occasionally, adventurers would hunt magical beasts, but small inns like these could never compete for such ingredients.
Of course, those magical beasts were usually only low- or middle-rank magical beasts.
High-rank magical beasts were already beyond the ability of ordinary adventurers to deal with.
anwhile, in the Divine Planes and Higher Planes, Saint-level magical beasts were rely the most basic ingredients.
As for Locke, forget Deity-level magical beasts—even divine beasts were things he had eaten before.
The fusion of the fifth Water Laws Profound Mystery with the Fate Edicts was far more difficult than Locke had imagined.
At the very least, over these past several hundred years, Locke had not found the point of compatibility between the fifth Water Laws Profound Mystery and the Fate Edicts.
Thus, aside from cultivation, Locke would occasionally condense an Edicts clone within this material plane to experience life here.
Christina and the others were progressing much more slowly in their search for the Blackstone Robe than Locke had expected.
There was no helping it. If the three Death Overgod mission talismans were not personally in front of him, even Locke and the Chief Sovereign of Death could not distinguish them, much less Christina and the others.
For them, every tattered gray robe resembling the Blackstone Robe had to be personally inspected.
Only those that could not be destroyed by them had a chance of being the "Blackstone Robe."
But after several decades, although they had destroyed countless tattered gray robes throughout this plane, they still had not found any trace of the "Blackstone Robe."
The pearl Locke had given Christina, the one capable of resonating with the Blackstone Robe, simply did not work properly within the material plane.
While within the spatial turbulence, the gray mist within the pearl had guided Locke through countless planes to lock onto this material plane.
But it seed the pearl's precision only extended to the level of material planes. After Locke tossed the pearl into the material plane, the gray mist completely enveloped the pearl, making it impossible to distinguish the location of the "Blackstone Robe."
Christina and the others only knew that this pearl had been bestowed by Sovereign Locke as the key item for locating the "Blackstone Robe," but since they had never been able to understand the changes within the pearl's gray mist, they simply assud they had not figured out the correct way to use it.
However, they obviously could not ask the Sovereign how to use the pearl.
Thus, they could only use the stupidest thod possible: controlling all the nations within this world and informing them of the appearance of the Blackstone Robe, instructing the powers of this plane to gather every gray robe resembling it.
But unfortunately, over these past decades, although they had collected countless gray robes, not a single one was correct.
Now, throughout this plane, one could barely even see any gray cloth at all.
As for the actions Christina and the others had taken, Locke did not comnt on them.
To him, as long as Christina and the others could find the Blackstone Robe, it did not matter what thods they used.
And although Christina and the others' thods had intimidated the ruling classes above, they had not caused any casualties within this plane. Locke was quite satisfied with that.
Taking several silver coins from his robes and placing them on the table, Locke walked down from the inn's second floor and headed outside.
After walking only a few steps beyond the inn's entrance, Locke paused slightly before continuing onward.
After several turns, Locke's figure arrived before an empty alleyway. He turned around and looked toward the opposite side of the alley.
There stood a youth wrapped entirely in filthy, tattered cloth.
On the arms and legs exposed outside the wrappings, one could see extensive burn scars.
It looked as though this child had once been thrown into a sea of flas to be burned alive, yet sohow managed to escape.
Thud…
Before Locke could even say anything, the youth suddenly knelt before him and slamd his forehead heavily against the ground.
"My lord, I am willing to give up everything I have. I only beg you to teach how to cultivate and grow stronger."
"I beg you, give a chance to offer up everything I have!"
Watching as blood burst from the scars on the youth's hands and feet while he kowtowed, and seeing the bruises on his forehead, Locke fell silent.
He did not know what this youth had experienced to possess such determination.
"Let's not talk about anything else first. How did you know I could teach you to beco stronger?"
(End of Chapter)
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