Sovereigns Gather in the Water Elemental Plane

The battle between the Four Divine Beasts and Hope was not intentionally concealed, so not only the Water Elemental Plane but many Sovereigns from other planes naturally received the news.

Hell, Chaos Sea, Wukun City.

"Hmm? The Four Divine Beasts are fighting Hope?"

The face hidden beneath Utrade's black robe shifted abruptly. He stared at the Water Sovereign who was bowing before him, then his figure flickered, transforming into a beam of black light as he departed the Chaos Sea.

As the Sovereign of Hell, Utrade had always considered the Four Divine Beasts his own property. Now that he heard they had gone to fight Hope, his mood instantly soured.

Netherworld, Nether Mountain, inside the Death Hall.

"Oh? They started fighting so quickly? It seems Reding and the others are about to fall! I wonder what kind of expression Utrade will have?"

The Sovereign of Death sat upright on her throne and stretched lazily. Her blood-red hair fluttered slightly, and a thoughtful smile appeared at the corners of her mouth.

As a Sovereign who had known them since the dawn of the world, the Sovereign of Death understood Hope deeply. At least in her eyes, Hope had always been concealing his true strength. Reding and the others had underestimated him, and it was unlikely they would meet a good end.

After pondering for a moment, the Sovereign of Death rose slowly, transforming into a blood-red stream of light as she flew toward the teleportation array.

Radiant Elemental Plane, Aowei Island.

"What? Reding and the others actually went to find Hope?"

Augusta stood up abruptly. The golden patterns on his forehead emitted a dazzling light, and his expression became one of suspicion and uncertainty.

Augusta had been keeping an eye on the Four Divine Beasts for a long time. Although he himself did not like to conduct research, he believed that the blood essence of the Four Divine Beasts would be helpful to Oufu.

Even if Oufu was currently focused entirely on his own ultimate technique and had no immediate plans to do anything to the Four Divine Beasts, in Augusta's view, the best method was to slaughter them early and take their blood essence, lest Utrade kill them one day.

Therefore, Augusta had been looking for an opportunity—a chance for the Four Divine Beasts to leave Hell. As long as Utrade did not intervene, Augusta was confident he could take the opportunity to kill all four of them. Their so-called innate divine abilities were a joke in the face of the Supreme Artifact of soul defense he possessed.

However, Augusta could never have imagined that Reding and the others would actually go to fight Hope.

"If Reding and the others kill Hope, the Water Sovereign Godhead will inevitably be refined by their descendants, making it much harder to kill them."

Augusta rubbed his temples, thinking with a slight headache.

Unlike the Sovereign of Death, Augusta was not very familiar with Hope and did not know much about him. In his estimation, Hope would likely fall in this battle.

Augusta's thoughts drifted, but his movements were not slow; he transformed into a golden stream of light that tore across the sky.

In the Water Elemental Plane, the light of the teleportation array flickered continuously as people from other planes appeared one after another, then transformed into streams of light and vanished.

"Captain, what is happening today? So many powerhouses are rushing over from other planes."

A youth in blue robes asked, looking puzzled.

In the span of just one day, multiple powerhouses had descended from other planes in succession; it was clearly a rare occurrence.

"Enough, don't ask what you shouldn't. This isn't something we should be inquiring about."

The middle-aged man addressed as the captain frowned and scolded him directly.

The youth immediately shrank his neck, not daring to ask further, though his eyes kept drifting toward the direction where the people had just vanished; clearly, he was not at peace.

"It seems the Sovereigns have arranged some task, which is why so many powerhouses are appearing. The Water Elemental Plane is unlikely to be peaceful for a long time."

After scolding the youth, the middle-aged man sighed inwardly. He stopped resting and began to patrol carefully.

Multiple Highgods had just appeared in succession and vanished at a speed he could not track. It was obvious that multiple Prefecture Lord-level powerhouses had descended. Based on his many years of experience, this situation was likely related to the Sovereigns, leading to the arrival of the Sovereign's Envoys.

Therefore, the small captain who had been preparing to rest now had to sit upright and perform his duties, lest some blind subordinate accidentally offend a "Sovereign's Envoy."

Above the Azure Dragon Continent, a golden stream of light tore across the sky and came to a halt beside a white-haired old man, transforming into a tall, golden-haired figure.

"Augusta, you've arrived."

Seeing Augusta, the white-haired old man smiled like an old friend, the expression on his face appearing incredibly sincere.

However, facing Oufu's smile, Augusta's expression was not pleasant. He spoke coldly:

"Oufu, Reding and the others are not being very well-behaved. I intend to take this time to deal with them."

In Augusta's view, the Four Divine Beasts would fall into a period of weakness after killing Hope. Even if they gave the Water Sovereign Godhead to their descendants to refine, they would not be his match.

If he waited for the Four Divine Beasts to recover and they joined forces with the new Water Sovereign, Gaislesen, it would be much harder to kill them.

Although Augusta was not afraid even with his true strength—after all, he possessed a portion of Willpower granted by Oufu's clone—he did not want to expose it unless absolutely necessary.

"Hehe, Augusta, isn't your conclusion a bit too arbitrary? Are you so certain that Reding and the others can kill Hope?"

Oufu did not commit to Augusta's words but instead asked with a chuckle.

"Do you think Hope can kill the Four Divine Beasts?"

Hearing this, Augusta could not help but frown, his golden eyebrows arching slightly.

In Augusta's view, although Reding and the others were arrogant, they would not easily do something without certainty. Since they dared to take the initiative to kill Hope, they should have had a high degree of confidence.

"Reding and the others certainly wouldn't take risks lightly, but I'm afraid they have underestimated Hope."

Oufu maintained his chuckling demeanor, as if the life and death of Hope and the Four Divine Beasts could not cause his emotions to fluctuate.

"You mean to say that Hope is actually a Paragon?"

Augusta spoke thoughtfully, then fell into deep contemplation.

Although Augusta and Oufu were effectively the same person, due to the characteristics of the Bula Clan, their personalities were completely different, and the two had agreed not to probe each other's thoughts unless absolutely necessary.

Therefore, most of the time, the two of them were no different from any other pair. In the perception of Augusta, aside from collecting two Sovereigns of the Great Perfection and winning ten consecutive Plane Wars, Hope did not have anything particularly special about him.

However, in the perception of Oufu, although Hope's strength could not compare to Utrade and Thanatos, he was a person who liked to hide his true self; he appeared low-key, but he was not as simple as he looked on the surface.

"What is he really like? Won't we know once we take a look?"

As Oufu spoke, he spread out his divine sense and quickly discovered Hope, who had just returned from the Spatial Turbulence.

"It actually really was Hope who won?"

Augusta also spread out his divine sense, and upon seeing that Hope was completely unscathed, his expression shifted slightly.

Above the Cangming Sea, Hope gathered the corpses of the Four Divine Beasts, the Godheads, and the Supreme God Token before returning directly to the Water Elemental Plane, where he waited quietly for the other Sovereigns to descend.

"Oufu, you two have arrived quite quickly!"

Hope suddenly raised his head and looked toward the void not far away, where a golden halo and a white halo were speeding toward him, transforming into two figures.

"Hope, it has only been a few million years, and we are meeting again."

Oufu stood beside Augusta, greeting him warmly first, before speaking with a sigh in his tone:

"Ever since the Sovereign Covenant was established, it has been many years since a Sovereign has fallen. I did not expect that today, things would turn out like this."

"Hope, the corpses of Reding and the other three are already in your hands, aren't they?"

No sooner had Oufu finished speaking than a hoarse voice rang out, and a mass of gray mist descended, condensing into a figure hidden beneath black fog, who spoke in a deep voice.

"Utrade, don't forget, the Four Divine Beasts were also at the Sovereign level; their battle does not count as a violation of the covenant, not to mention that it was Reding and the others who struck first."

After a girl's voice rang out with a light chuckle, a blood-red stream of light flashed by, and a beautiful red-haired girl appeared with a smile on her face, while behind her, a beautiful woman in green robes radiated a gentle aura.

The four Rule Sovereigns had arrived first!