Within the seven-colored Spatial Turbulence, the once-dazzling space had fallen into a deathly silence, leaving behind only traces of blue and white energy fluctuations.
Hope slowly sheathed his long sword and moved to the side of the Four Divine Beasts' corpses. With a wave of his hand, the four massive divine beast carcasses and their Godheads were instantly swept into his spatial ring.
"Drip!"
Hope retrieved Reding's spatial ring. After a drop of blood fell onto it, he quickly released his divine sense to investigate, revealing a gray piece of paper and a crystal radiating golden energy.
"As expected, this Five-Colored Blood Crystal is the Supreme God Token of Destruction."
Hope looked at the gray paper, a touch of excitement coloring his expression.
The gray paper clearly read: [Wutie Black Sword, Soul Essence, Five-Colored Blood Crystal, fused into the Sword of Destruction, can summon the Supreme God of Destruction to grant one request.]
Ever since the dawn of the world, Hope had been keeping a close eye on the Supreme God missions, attempting to intercept one or two Supreme Artifacts.
However, when it came to actual execution, he found it impossible. The appearance of Supreme God Tokens seemed entirely random, with no patterns in time or location. When the first Supreme God mission of Fate appeared, Hope only learned of it after Oufu had already obtained the soul-defensive Supreme Artifact.
As for the second Supreme God mission of Destruction, by the time Hope heard of it, Utrade had already obtained two of the tokens. The final one appeared in a Material Plane; at that time, the Sovereigns of the elemental planes and the Paragons had not yet emerged, so Utrade had arranged for dozens of Asuras to seize the final token.
Hope had attempted to intervene in the subsequent missions as well, but it wasn't until Augusta obtained the Supreme Sword of Fate that Hope temporarily set the matter aside. He had never expected that, through a twist of fate, he would end up obtaining the Supreme God Token of Destruction.
"Hum~~"
Hope took out the Five-Colored Blood Crystal. In that instant, the patterns on the crystal began to emit a multi-colored light, and the blood-red hue condensed at the core of the crystal, resonating with the golden bead.
As the two continued to pull toward one another, the golden bead settled atop the Five-Colored Blood Crystal, merging into one to form a uniquely shaped crystal.
"Is the Wutie Black Sword the only thing missing?"
Hope quickly stowed the crystal away, murmuring softly to himself before transforming into a cyan stream of water and flying toward the Water Elemental Plane.
On the other side, in the Water Elemental Plane, it was only after Hope and the Four Divine Beasts had charged into the Spatial Turbulence that the other Sovereigns finally regained their composure.
"Heavens! How did Reding and the others dare to do this?"
"Should we notify the Rule Sovereign quickly?"
"Why isn't Palhouse here at a time like this?"
The remaining four Water Sovereigns were in a slight state of chaos, but they quickly pulled themselves together and began to notify the other Sovereigns.
As for entering the Spatial Turbulence to watch the battle, they lacked the courage. After all, the Four Divine Beasts and the Sovereign were near the Water Elemental Plane; if the battle were deep within the Spatial Turbulence, it wouldn't matter if they took a look, but entering now might result in them being caught in the crossfire.
In the Fire Elemental Plane, on the Blazing Continent, a massive fire-red metal lifeform was in flight.
Inside the metal lifeform, two figures sat opposite each other, while a man wearing a robe with red flame patterns stood to the side.
If the Fire Fighter Castle of the Fire Elemental Plane were to see this, they would be struck with terror, for this standing man was a Sovereign Legion Commander, a powerhouse at the level of a Prefecture Lord, and one of the peak experts of the Fire Elemental Plane: Tuls.
Yet, such a powerhouse stood there like a servant; the only person who could make him act this way was a Sovereign.
At the table in front of Tuls, two figures sat facing each other, each holding a wine glass and conversing pleasantly.
One of them, wearing a water-blue robe, was a middle-aged man with a round face—this was none other than Palhouse, who had come to the Fire Elemental Plane in search of a Sovereign Envoy.
Sitting opposite Palhouse was a middle-aged man with short, fire-red hair. The man wore a golden robe covered in flame patterns, and a flame mark on his forehead radiated a scorching light.
The Fire Sovereign—Meige.
"Hahaha, Palhouse, what do you think of this Lusi?"
Meige swept his divine sense over the two Seven-Star Fire Fighters battling below and laughed heartily.
Ever since the Water Elemental Plane had achieved ten consecutive victories millions of years ago, the Water Sovereigns had all received a boost in Willpower. Palhouse, a Water Paragon and intermediate Sovereign, had officially become a powerhouse truly comparable to the veteran Sovereigns after that event.
Therefore, when Palhouse came to the Fire Elemental Plane to recruit a Sovereign Envoy, Meige, as the Fire Sovereign, had personally stepped forward. Although Meige did not fear Palhouse's strength, he still gave him enough face by accompanying him to tour the Fire Elemental Plane in search of a suitable Sovereign Envoy.
"His strength is a bit weak. Let's keep looking."
Palhouse shook his head slightly, showing no interest in the Lusi below.
Although veteran Prefecture Lord-level envoys like Barbary were not easy to find, Palhouse would not just pick any envoy to make up the numbers. Thus, after briefly assessing Lusi's strength, he withdrew his gaze.
"Hahaha, then let's continue looking."
Meige raised his wine glass, downed the special fire-red liquor inside in one gulp, and spoke nonchalantly.
The life of a Sovereign was mostly boring; for Meige, accompanying Palhouse to tour the elemental plane was considered an interesting pastime.
"Hm?"
Palhouse and Meige both raised their brows simultaneously and looked toward a corner inside the metal lifeform.
"Swish!"
A green-haired youth in a blue robe slowly materialized, then spoke with an anxious expression:
"Lord Palhouse, the Four Divine Beasts just arrived at the Water Elemental Plane and started a fight with Lord Hope."
The green-haired youth was named Norris, one of the low-level Sovereigns of the Water Elemental Plane and one of the Sovereigns who had existed since the dawn of the world. He had been a subordinate of Hope long before Palhouse appeared.
At this moment, Norris looked flustered, his tone laced with urgency. He didn't even bother to greet the Fire Sovereign, Meige, and spoke directly to Palhouse.
As a Water Sovereign who had followed Hope in his early years, Norris had been with Hope for a very long time. Seeing the Four Divine Beasts attack the Water Elemental Plane had left him completely stunned, and out of concern for Hope's safety, he had no choice but to notify Palhouse immediately.
"What did you say? Reding and the other three went to fight Hope?"
Meige, standing to the side, had initially frowned at Norris's attitude. After all, he was the Sovereign, and Norris ignoring him to look directly at Palhouse was rather disrespectful.
However, upon hearing what Norris said, Meige stood up abruptly, his expression shifting rapidly before he turned to look at Palhouse.
What puzzled Meige, however, was that after hearing Norris's report, Palhouse did not show any sign of shock. Instead, he wore a very calm expression, leaving Meige completely bewildered.
In Meige's view, given the strength of the Four Divine Beasts, if they dared to fight Hope, they must have had some degree of certainty. Furthermore, they had clearly gone out of their way to avoid Palhouse. If they succeeded, the four of them would inevitably give the Water Sovereign Godhead to either Gaislesen or Gaia.
From any perspective, Palhouse should have rushed over immediately to help and stop the Four Divine Beasts. At the very least, even if Hope were to fall, he should have taken advantage of the Four Divine Beasts being weakened to eliminate them before they could pass the Godhead to Gaislesen or Gaia.
Could it be that Palhouse has absolute certainty that Hope can counter-kill the Four Divine Beasts? But why?
The expression on Meige's face became much more serious as he fell into a brainstorm.
In Meige's eyes, although Hope had gained an extra portion of Willpower through ten consecutive victories in the Plane Wars, Hope possessed no divine beast bloodline and had no special means to bolster his soul defense. In terms of soul alone, he was not necessarily superior to other Law Sovereigns.
Could it be that Hope has actually reached the Perfection?
A guess suddenly surfaced in Meige's mind, and he was shaken, quickly suppressing the thought.
Yesterday, I saw many readers talking about stolen loot, and I am very confused as to why such an idea would appear. If readers hadn't mentioned it, I would never have thought of such a development direction. Has this been written in fan fiction before? I've truly never seen it; such a plot is too ridiculous.
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