MTLNOVEL Chapter 200: Shock
Linley found it impossible to imagine just how powerful a God could be, especially one who was a Paragon, possessed a divine body of Lord God Artifact level, and wielded willpower amplified by a thousand times Soul Power.
The Death Sovereign watched Linley's expression change, feeling an indescribable joy.
Indeed, as she had said, any other Sovereign would have assumed Linley had achieved Paragon within a mere three thousand years.
However, this group of Sovereigns did not include her—the Death Sovereign Lilia!
To uncover the secrets of the Star Sovereign Roy, the Death Sovereign Lilia had once made a request to the Death Supreme God, borrowing the Death Supreme God's perspective to witness Roy's growth from birth to becoming a Sovereign of Laws.
Linley's current situation was vastly different from when the Death Sovereign had first encountered Roy.
With a single glance, the Death Sovereign recognized a certain similarity between Linley's soul and Roy's. Achieving Paragon in three thousand years was something even that individual couldn't accomplish, and the Death Sovereign didn't believe Linley could either.
The only possibility was that Linley's Soul Power had reached a thousand times that of a High-level God.
To increase a person's Soul Power a thousandfold in just a few hundred years, the only explanation was a soul mutation.
As expected, the Death Sovereign's words had completely flabbergasted Linley.
"Lord Sovereign, may I ask who this senior is?"
After regaining his composure, Linley, with a sense of reverence, asked the Death Sovereign.
"Oh, he's also from your Four Divine Beast Family. He dominated several eras back then..."
The Death Sovereign's calm tone conveyed astonishing information.
"Countless years ago, your Four Divine Beast Family was much like it is now, holding dominion over the Blood Peak Continent in the Infernal Realm."
"After that individual appeared, within tens of millions of years, the influence of your Four Divine Beast Family rapidly expanded. You had a presence in the Four Supreme Planes and the Seven God Planes."
"Hmm? The Four Supreme Planes?"
Linley found it strange upon hearing the Death Sovereign's words.
Weren't there five Supreme Planes?
Why would this Sovereign mention "Four Supreme Planes," an apparent mistake?
However, Linley didn't interrupt the Sovereign and instead listened intently to the tales of his senior from the Four Divine Beast Family.
Just listening, Linley could feel the greatness of that senior.
The Four Divine Beast Family in the Infernal Realm was already considered an extremely powerful clan in Linley's eyes.
Yet, during that senior's time, he had enabled the branches of the Four Divine Beast Family in the Four Supreme Planes and the Seven God Planes to rival the current influence in the Infernal Realm.
He was practically the foremost family across all the myriad worlds.
What shocked Linley even more was that beyond the God Planes and Supreme Planes, the Four Divine Beast Family also had a presence in countless material planes.
As of now, the Four Divine Beast Magic Academy still existed in at least tens of millions of material planes.
It was also mentioned that Magic was first deciphered from the Profound Mysteries of Laws by a Four Divine Beast Lord God, who then broke down the mysteries into magical incantations and spread them throughout the material planes.
Through the Death Sovereign's narration, Linley learned many secrets.
For instance, that senior of the Four Divine Beast Family was the first Paragon confirmed below the Sovereign level.
For instance, that senior possessed an incredibly powerful technique that once sealed five Asura-level experts, all clad in full sets of Lord God Artifacts, above Azure City in Azure Mansion for hundreds of millions of years.
Furthermore, that senior had obtained an Earth Lord Godhead and sealed a Sovereign's divine clone in a material plane, where it remained sealed to this day.
That Sovereign had also implored several Paragon High-Gods to go to the Muba Plane and break the technique that sealed him, but all those Paragon High-Gods returned unsuccessful.
For instance, after that senior became a Sovereign, he colluded with the Four Divine Beast Lord Gods to kill the Water Sovereign of that era.
In the Death Sovereign's account, that "senior" of Linley's from the Four Divine Beast Family was a legend among legends.
He was invincible as a God, and remained invincible even after becoming a Sovereign!
However, what puzzled Linley was what ultimately happened to this "senior" of the Four Divine Beast Family?
Why had his whereabouts become unknown?
Linley hadn't even heard a single rumor about this senior within the Four Divine Beast Family.
Had something unfortunate happened to this senior?
Ultimately, however, Linley didn't get to hear about the senior's post-Sovereign life.
This was because the person Linley had asked the Sovereign to help find had already been brought back by the Sovereign's envoys.
Elder Yale, Third Brother George, Dixi, Bebe's parents...
And of course, Linley's father, Hogan Baruch!
...
In the Primordial Space, Roy awoke from his epiphany.
This time, Roy's enlightenment regarding the "destiny" path had elevated his soul.
In terms of cultivation, this translated to a faster compression of the black holes within him.
Furthermore, through Linley's "destiny," Roy felt his comprehension of the "destiny" path had achieved a qualitative leap.
Roy's previous control over "Destiny" was comparable to Hong Meng's current level.
However, even though Roy hadn't created a universe yet, hadn't cultivated the Xuanhuang Indestructible Body, and hadn't reached Hong Meng's realm, he could already encompass two layers of "Destiny." He could use the higher-level "Hong Meng Destiny" to cover the lower-level "Cosmic Destiny."
This manifested in Linley. Within the Magic Universe, Linley was a person whose destiny was uncertain.
But within the Primordial Space, Linley's "Lin Meng" had a "predetermined" destiny.
Naturally, since Roy could weave two layers of "Destiny," he could also see Linley's "Destiny" upon arriving in the Primordial Space.
There were myriad paths, but the destination was the same.
Looking at these countless branching paths that all led to a single endpoint, Roy smiled.
"Is this, in a sense, converging my worldlines?"
"Like a mythical Great Luo, causing the effect before the cause, achieving eternal enlightenment?"
"Because Linley is the controller of Hong Meng, can Linley achieve the Hong Meng Body, enter the Primordial Space, and have his name inscribed on the Hong Meng Golden Ranking?"
Shaking his head, Roy dismissed these thoughts. With a flicker of his mind, he focused on Linley again.
He was curious to see what differences there would be between the Hong Meng Body Linley was about to achieve this time and the one in his memory.
And as he looked, Roy was amused.
He hadn't expected Linley to be inquiring about him.
...
In the Azure Dragon Hall, within the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range in the Infernal Realm.
Gaisleith looked at Linley, the shock in his eyes still lingering.
He never imagined that this newly joined elder of his family had only participated in one Plane War and had already become an invincible Paragon upon his return.
A Paragon at just over three thousand years old – that was even more astonishing than the Fifth Ancestor.
Could this Linley become the next major figure, just like the Fifth Ancestor?
Thinking of this, the shock in Gaisleith's eyes turned into fervent excitement.
"Clan Leader Gaisleith?"
Linley shivered under Gaisleith's gaze, instinctively shuddering and speaking with a frown.
"Hahahaha, my apologies, my apologies, Linley. You've truly shocked me."
Gaisleith snapped back to reality, apologized to Linley, and then let out a sigh.
"Alas, Linley, this is primarily my fault."
"If I had known you would break through to Paragon so quickly, I should have sent you to the Star God Realm then."
"To the Star God Realm?"
Linley was a little puzzled.
He knew of the Star God Realm.
It was one of the Four Supreme Planes, belonging to the Earth Supreme God Realm.
In fact, Linley had some questions in his heart.
Why was it that among the Seven God Planes and the Four Supreme Planes, the Four Supreme Planes had supreme planes, but the elemental planes only had the Earth Supreme Plane? Where were the other six supreme elemental planes?
With these questions in mind, Linley naturally asked Gaisleith.
From the Death Sovereign he met at Netherworld Mountain, Linley knew that Gaisleith was also an ancient powerhouse who had lived for countless years, almost being the history of the Four Divine Beast Family.
"Mm, it's normal for you to have such questions, having been born less than ten thousand years ago."
"Linley, do you know how the Seven God Planes and the Four Supreme Planes were born?"
Linley shook his head.
"Heh heh, in truth, I haven't truly witnessed it either. I heard about it from my father and the others later."
"When the heavens and earth first came into being, there were only countless material planes. People in the material planes believed their own plane was the entire world."
"After an unknown period, the Supreme Gods of Destruction, Death, Life, and Destiny created the four supreme planes – the Infernal Realm, the Netherworld, the Life God Realm, and the Heavenly Realm – and established planar teleportation arrays within the Four Supreme Planes and the countless material planes."
"From then on, people in the material planes could enter the Four Supreme Planes through the planar teleportation arrays, and they learned that beyond their own plane, there were countless worlds similar to theirs."
"After the appearance of the Four Supreme Planes, more and more Gods came to the Four Supreme Planes through the planar teleportation arrays..."
"Later, the Lord Gods were born..."
"I heard from my father and the others that those from the earliest batch who obtained Lord Godheads and became Lord Gods vaguely heard a sentence in their minds, instructing them to jointly open up God Planes with the seven Lord Gods of their lineage."
"And this is the secret behind the birth of the Four Supreme Planes and the Seven God Planes."
"This..."
Linley was greatly shocked.
So, the God Planes were jointly created by the Lord Gods.
And the Supreme Planes were created by the Supreme Gods.
Linley also noticed that what Gaisleith said was the same as what the Death Sovereign in Netherworld Mountain had said: the Four Supreme Planes and the Seven God Planes.
"That Earth Supreme Plane?"
Thinking of this, Linley swallowed his saliva.
"Heh heh..."
Seeing Linley's expression, Gaisleith knew that Linley had pretty much guessed it.
"That's right, the Earth Supreme God Realm was created by the Earth Supreme God."
"Unlike the Four Rule Supreme Gods, who were manifested from rules, the Earth Supreme God was someone who cultivated and advanced all the way."
"Hiss..."
Linley sucked in a cold breath.
The Earth Supreme God was actually cultivated by a person.
Combined with what the Death Sovereign had told him in the Netherworld Mountain, a thought flashed through Linley's mind.
"Patriarch Gaisleith, I heard that a long time ago, our family had an invincible Paragon High-level God..."
"An invincible Paragon..."
A trace of daze flashed in Gaisleith's eyes.
Even now, he still remembered how timid that lord had looked when he first joined the Four Divine Beast Family and stood before him.
Later, that lord became a Paragon, was recognized as a brother by his father and uncles, and became the Fifth Ancestor of the Four Divine Beast Family.
Under that lord's leadership, his father and uncles achieved Paragon Lord God status, the Four Divine Beast Family spread across many planes, and his two younger sisters even became the high and mighty Sovereigns...
Shaking his head, Gaisleith cast aside the thoughts in his mind and smiled at Linley, "That's right, that was our family's Fifth Ancestor, Lord Roy."
"Fifth Ancestor Lord Roy cultivated all the way, becoming a Paragon, and later a Sovereign. My father and uncles said that Fifth Uncle later defeated the Destiny Sovereign Off and became the strongest Rule Sovereign."
"In the end, Roy even became the Earth Supreme God and created the Earth Supreme God Realm and the Star God Realm."
"After that, Lord Roy established a rule: once someone among the Earthly Laws Gods breaks through to Paragon in the Earth God Plane, the Star God Realm will give birth to an Earth Master Godhead. Whoever obtains the Earth Master Godhead can become the new Earth Master."
"Boom!"
Although he had some expectations, Linley was still greatly shocked to truly hear that the Earth Supreme God was actually cultivated by a person.
As for why this Lord Roy was able to cultivate to the Supreme God level, Linley guessed it might be related to the cultivation method for increasing Soul Power that Lord Roy created.
Because, based on the personal experiences of the Death Sovereign and himself, Linley knew that once Soul Power reached a thousand times, one could possess Willpower that surpassed Paragon by a segment.
What about when Soul Power reached ten thousand times, a hundred thousand times, or even a million times?
Could such a person rival a Sovereign, or even a Supreme God?
For a moment, Linley couldn't help but feel admiration.
His current achievements were all due to luck.
But this Lord Roy, relying on his own talent, created a cultivation method that led straight to the heavens. The two were simply incomparable.
Before Linley could recover, Gaisleith was still rambling on with guilt.
"If you, Linley, had achieved Paragon in the Star God Realm back then, our Four Divine Beast Family might have had another Sovereign."
"Sigh..."
Linley smiled.
Gaisleith didn't know his situation and thought he was truly a Paragon.
But in reality, Linley had only fully fused four types of Profound Mysteries of Earthly Laws and was still a long way from Paragon.
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