However, he did not possess the Four Divine Beasts' essence blood, so he naturally made no progress in figuring out how to use similar techniques. Still, by using members of the Four Divine Beast Family, he had spent countless years thoroughly studying the characteristics of the four's Talent Divine Powers.
Researching the characteristics of Talent Divine Powers was also something he had thought of by combining it with his Earth Memory. Aside from him, probably not even Ofu would study such things. After all, even if one figured it out, it would not increase one's strength.
But for Lota, since he had made no progress with other techniques for the time being, studying this would give him a better understanding of the Four Divine Beasts.
Talent Divine Powers had originally been manifestations of the Heaven and Earth Rule, yet they seemed to each possess their own rules.
The Four Divine Beasts' combined Talent Divine Power had two extremely significant effects. The first was its influence over time and space, making it impossible for the target to evade this move.
No one could break this effect. Not even the current Rule Overlords could.
The second was that it formed an extremely peculiar Soul Attack.
This Soul Attack differed from attacks formed through comprehending the Profound Mysteries of laws. It also possessed two special traits, or rather, two conditions for determining death.
The first was a boost in power. This move increased the Four Divine Beasts' attack power by more than ten-thousandfold. Such an enhancement was simply terrifying, surpassing the power of every Ultimate move anyone had researched at the time. Even Lota had to admit the terrifying might of the Four Divine Beasts' move.
On this point alone, no one beneath the Dominators could withstand it. Moreover, this move was nearly impossible to wear down and could only be resisted head-on. It was exceedingly strange.
The second point was the direct extermination of non-perfect souls!
In other words, if a soul had not reached the Grand Perfection Realm and had not undergone the transformation of the Heaven and Earth Rule, then even if it exceeded the limit of what the Four Divine Beasts' move could kill, it would still be judged dead beneath this move because of that condition.
This aspect was somewhat similar to Beirut's Talent Divine Power, God Eater, back when he had been God level. It directly ignored differences in strength.
However, the two were also different. The Four Divine Beasts' combined Soul Attack was a single-target attack, while God Eater covered a target area. But the most terrifying part was that the Four Divine Beasts' Fusion Talent Divine Power ignored Sovereign Sparks in its standard for determining death.
God Eater, however, could not take effect at the Overgod level.
Therefore, in terms of terror, the Four Divine Beasts' Fusion Talent Divine Power was even more formidable. Or rather, the only Talent Divine Power capable of directly determining life and death at the Overgod level in this manner was the Four Divine Beasts' Fusion Talent Divine Power.
As long as a soul did not simultaneously meet the two conditions of being more than ten-thousandfold stronger than the caster's attack and possessing a Paragon soul, facing this move meant almost certain death.
It was precisely because of this that the combined strength of the Four Divine Beasts became second only to Paragon Dominators.
However, as the War of Faith came to an end, Supreme God missions were issued, and Supreme Artifacts successively found owners.
The strength of the Four Great Rule Rulers gradually surpassed that of the other Dominators. Although the Death Overlord had not reached the Grand Perfection Realm, she had obtained a wondrous treasure of heaven and earth, the Heart of the Underworld, allowing her strength to rival that of the other three Rule Overlords.
The Sovereign God Agreement was also formally established during this period.
After the Sovereign God Agreement was established, battles between Overgods were completely quelled. No one knew how many trillions of years had passed since the last battle between Overgods.
After thoroughly researching the characteristics of Leiding and the others' Talent Divine Powers, Lota was not actually that worried about them anymore. Even without a Soul Defense Supreme Artifact, Leiding and the others could not affect him.
In this world, the only one he truly feared was Ofu. After all, even if Ofu merely stood there, Lota could not inflict any harm upon him. Furthermore, Ofu would likely develop the Ultimate move "Transcendence of Reincarnation" in the future, and Lota was not confident that he could block it.
Although he had never seen "Transcendence of Reincarnation," based on the descriptions in his Earth Memory, that move had likely approached the limit of this world.
Perhaps no one but the variable, "Linley," could withstand it.
As for the "Time-Space Distortion" that Uthred would later research using Leiding and the others' essence blood, its only effect on him would be in the aspects of time and space.
The Soul Attack aspect was not the most important part.
Otherwise, in the third contest between Uthred and Ofu from his Earth Memory, Uthred could not have been so confident. After all, Uthred could not possibly expect a Soul Attack to defeat Ofu, who possessed a Soul Defense Supreme Artifact.
What truly gave Uthred the confidence to contend with Ofu was this move's influence over time and space. That enhancement alone was enough to increase Uthred's strength by more than a thousandfold.
Because once this move was used, the most unsolvable aspect was that one could not evade and could only endure the opponent's attack head-on.
Uthred was the Destruction Overlord among the Four Great Rule Rulers. Few people could withstand his attacks under the influence of this move.
Ofu was one of them.
Likewise, although Lota was inferior to Ofu, if he revealed his trump card and erupted with his full power, he was still seventy percent confident that he could block Uthred's attacks under the effects of Time-Space Distortion.
The Origin Human Race born with heaven and earth was extraordinarily special and mystical, far beyond anything the later mixed-blood human race could imagine.
After all, whether it was the various divine beasts taking human form or even Hong Meng's own appearance, they were all in human form. Yet no one had ever deeply investigated the reason behind it.
Even though the lives of this world did not know of Hong Meng's existence, they had never considered why divine beasts transformed into human form. All living beings regarded such transformations as only natural.
Of course, perhaps someone had researched it. But modern humans no longer belonged to the Origin Human Race and possessed nothing special at all. Even if they researched it, they could discover nothing.
Perhaps only Lota, an Origin Human who possessed Earth Memory, had truly considered this question.
In Lota's view, the Origin Human Race was the most mystical bloodline in all heaven and earth.
This bloodline was even so special that the moment even a trace of mixed blood appeared in its inheritance, it would completely destroy the Origin Bloodline. Even if they still belonged to the human race, and even if many possessed excellent cultivation talent, they no longer carried the slightest trace of Origin Bloodline.
One had to know that even the bloodline of a Super Divine Beast would retain some Super Divine Beast bloodline after being mixed with other bloodlines. Among later descendants, there might even be cases of ancestral reversion. It was not impossible for them to recover the bloodline of a true Super Divine Beast.
But the Origin Human Race's bloodline seemed like an exquisite machine that could not endure even the slightest damage. Even if it were only missing a single screw, it would collapse.
As for reverting to the Origin Bloodline through ancestral reversion? That was simply impossible.
Likewise, in Lota's eyes, the strength of the Origin Bloodline was not inferior to any so-called Super Divine Beast.
During the battle among the eleven Dominators of heaven and earth, he alone had been "human," yet in every aspect of their contests, he had not lost to anyone else.
This led Uthred and those guys to believe for a long time that he too was some powerful Super Divine Beast.
Only after they learned that he was merely human did everyone begin to find him somewhat mysterious.
However, the Origin Humans of heaven and earth had almost completely gone extinct. Perhaps because of their bloodline, the Origin Human Race differed from divine beasts. Without actively cultivating, it was difficult for them to become gods upon reaching adulthood like divine beasts.
The Origin Bloodline, so exquisite that it could not be altered, was also a form of restriction upon the original Origin Human Race. Especially when cultivation methods had not yet been clearly established, coupled with the fact that Origin Humans had the same lifespan as ordinary people, most Origin Humans died of old age.
What was hardest to imagine was that even if two humans possessed Origin Bloodlines, as long as they did not belong to the same lineage, their descendants would still be ordinary mixed-blood humans. As for Origin Humans from the same lineage? Lota had never seen one throughout countless years.
This almost doomed the Origin Human Race's bloodline to being unable to continue on its own.
Thus, very few Origin Humans had truly embarked upon the path of cultivation and survived. Coupled with the various chaotic battles of later eras, the Origin Human Race had almost completely vanished.
Since the Sovereign God War, Lota had traveled through the Divine Planes, and his Projection Clones had descended upon countless Material Planes, yet he had never seen another Origin Human.
The Origin Bloodline was Lota's greatest trump card.
When Kakqi saw the Four Divine Beast Sovereign Gods directly kill Bert and the others before leaving, he felt both terrified and excited. This was the Dominator he followed. Even the Four Divine Beast Sovereign Gods could only leave in disgrace.
Lota did not think much about the Four Divine Beasts. If Leiding and the others truly provoked him over these matters, he would not mind taking what Augusta and Beirut would do in the future.
As for whether "Linley" would still appear then, that could only depend on luck.
"Kakqi."
Lota looked at Kakqi, his tone calm.
"Dominator."
At this moment, Kakqi's reverence for Lota had grown even deeper.
"Stay on this Ice Snow Mountain for a while."
Lota continued.
"Yes, I will make the arrangements immediately."
Kakqi answered at once.
When traveling through the planes, Lota still preferred to follow the daily routine of ordinary God level experts, rising at sunrise and resting at sunset.
"Mm."
Lota responded, and the body condensed from Sovereign's Might suddenly dispersed.
The greatest difference between a body condensed from Sovereign's Might and one condensed from divine power was that the body condensed from Sovereign's Might, like the giant face, possessed a portion of an Overgod's authority.
Only after Lota left did Kakqi let out a deep breath. Although the Overgod had not targeted him, that pressure still made him feel as though he were suffocating.
This was completely different from facing an Overgod's Projection Clone.
Kakqi glanced at the God level experts still kneeling in the distance and trembling violently. His expression was far from friendly as he said directly, "Restore Ice Snow Mountain to its former state as quickly as possible."
The leading High God did not dare hesitate and hurriedly said, "Yes, my lord."
They were not fools. The five who had appeared earlier were all great Overgods, supreme rulers of the Divine Planes.
Even the lord before them was a peak expert of the Divine Planes and an envoy of a great Overgod.
Just now, it seemed that the ruler shrouded in darkness had saved them. And judging by the situation, that ruler intended to live on their Ice Snow Mountain for some time!
At the thought of this possibility, everyone's heartbeat could not help accelerating.
For an Overgod to reside here was their supreme honor. For a time, no one even had the mind to dwell on why Bert's group had captured and slaughtered them earlier.
Kakqi nodded, then his body turned into a light ray and flew toward Lost City.
In Lost City, Lota's Projection Clone had already entered the city and settled down.
At this time, an atmosphere of tension still permeated the city. After all, hundreds of High God experts from the Four Divine Beast Family surrounded the area outside the city. No one could relax.
Even the number of people leaving the city had greatly decreased.
City Lord's Mansion.
Demir's expression was somewhat unsightly. He had sent people to keep watch on the movements outside the city, and those guys from the Four Divine Beast Family had clearly surrounded his Lost City.
Anyone who dared leave would be captured by them, while those who refused to cooperate would be killed. They showed no regard at all for him, the City Lord.
"Someone, come."
Demir spoke directly, summoning the guard at the entrance.
"City Lord."
The guard spoke cautiously. He could clearly sense Demir's current mood.
"Are Hilla and the others still in the city?"
No emotion could be heard in Demir's voice.
"Mr. Lille is still at the Xue Na Family. Clan Leader Hilla and her clansmen have not left for the time being."
The guard answered directly.
Apart from remaining here at the City Lord's Mansion, his Divine Clone had followed Lille to the Xue Na Family's residence in the city. This was also to make it easier for the City Lord to understand the situation.
"Inform Lille. Tell him to tell Hilla that they must find a way to resolve the trouble outside the city."
Demir said with an unpleasant expression.
Although he was dissatisfied with the Four Divine Beast Family, he had no other solution. The Four Divine Beast Family was too powerful. As a City Lord, he could not truly oppose them for Hilla and the others.
Not immediately driving them from the city was already the utmost kindness he could offer.
"Yes."
The guard hurriedly relayed the message.
Just then, waves of powerful energy fluctuations came from the direction outside the city.
"What happened?!"
Demir's first thought was whether the guys from the Four Divine Beast Family had begun fighting outside the city.
Those damned guys.
"City Lord!"
An urgent voice suddenly rang out from outside, and a guard hurriedly ran in.
Seeing the guard's frantic appearance, Demir's expression darkened further. He asked directly, "What happened outside?"
The guard did not dare conceal anything and hurriedly said, "Someone is killing the High Gods outside the city! Lewan has been killed as well, and the other High Gods have already scattered and fled."
Hearing the guard's anxious words, Demir was first stunned, unable to believe it. "What? Someone is killing the High Gods outside the city?!"
What sort of person was so fierce as to dare massacre the High Gods of the Four Divine Beast Family?!
Killing those High Gods was not difficult. He could do it as well. But the Four Divine Beast Family was extremely protective of its own. After slaughtering their clansmen like this, one would likely face Seven-star Devils or even Asura experts next.
That was what he feared most.
"Yes. Those High Gods could not even withstand a single move from that lord!"
The guard nodded, his eyes filled with both fear and admiration.
In the Divine Planes, strength was deeply worshipped. In fact, many would rather lose their Divine Clones than miss the chance to spectate an expert's battle from as close as possible.
Such "madness" was also a unique characteristic of this world.
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