Hope's Waiting, Mad Barbary

"Buzz, buzz, buzz~~"

The light on the surface of the Heart of Qingya dimmed significantly, and then a faint stream of information surged into the sea of consciousness of Hope.

"Absorb the essence blood of super divine beasts to gestate new super divine beasts."

Hope looked toward the newly born Divine Beast Island on the sea level, his mind filled with a whirlwind of thoughts.

Hope had never imagined that after the fall of the Four Divine Beasts Sovereign, it would be possible to use their essence blood to gestate new life. At this moment, Hope pondered deeply.

If the Heart of Qingya were given the essence blood of other divine beasts, could it also gestate new divine beasts? What exactly was so special about the Qingya Plane itself?

When he first arrived in this world, Hope had considered whether the Qingya Plane possessed any uniqueness. In the entire universe, among the countless Material Planes as numerous as the sands of the Ganges, the appearance of a single Seven-Star Fiend was already considered formidable, and super divine beasts were, without exception, all born from the elemental planes.

However, looking at the entire Qingya Plane, the super divine beast God-Eater Rat had produced one Beirut, who then produced a descendant in Beibei; it had given birth to the Great Perfection-qualified Leilin, as well as Linley, Odin, Adkins, and other kings. It could be considered a truly special Material Plane.

"Sss, sss~~"

Hope pondered for a moment, then slightly raised his right hand to put away the remaining essence blood of the Four Divine Beasts. Immediately, the Sovereign power within his body surged, enveloping the area around Divine Beast Island.

"Rumble!"

As waves of white mist diffused, the seawater around Divine Beast Island was parted by a surge of divine power. All marine life was pushed out of this region, and an invisible barrier formed a thousand miles outside the island, turning into a sealed circle.

Subsequently, a massive amount of steam covered the sea area where Divine Beast Island was located, ensuring that no life from the outside world could see what was inside.

With this, Divine Beast Island, where the new Four Divine Beasts were being gestated, was completely sealed off, and no life in the Qingya Plane could possibly break into it.

"At the current speed, I fear it will take a long time for the gestation to succeed. Since that is the case, I might as well study the magic array of the Four Divine Beasts first."

Hope sensed the life fluctuations of the divine beasts, then sat cross-legged in mid-air beside the Heart of Qingya. He took out the spatial ring of Reding, found a magic array blueprint, and began to study it carefully.

Over countless years, Hope had studied various magic arrays and possessed a complete understanding of them. Even his own strongest ultimate technique was unleashed through a magic array, though Hope's magic arrays could not achieve the fusion of different energies.

Now, the special magic array of the Four Divine Beasts could fuse their four energies into one, which might be helpful for transcending.

Hope thus began his research quietly in the Qingya Plane while waiting for the new Four Divine Beasts to successfully gestate.

Meanwhile, in Hell, on the Bloodridge Continent, in the Tianji Mountain Range.

Outside the Azure Dragon Hall, a cyan figure sat quietly on the ground, seemingly waiting for something.

With long cyan hair and a loose cyan robe, he was the patriarch of the Azure Dragon Clan, Gaislesen.

"Why haven't Father and the others returned yet?"

Gaislesen's cyan hair fluttered as he murmured softly, looking up at the sky with some confusion.

Ever since his father, Reding, had solemnly called him to the Azure Dragon Hall some time ago, Gaislesen's heart had not been at peace, because Reding had told him a piece of earth-shattering news.

The four of them were planning to hunt down the Sovereign of Water and refine his Godhead. When that happened, he, Gaislesen, would become the new Sovereign of the Four Divine Beasts, and one of the eleven strongest beings in the world: the Sovereign of Water.

Gaislesen had been stunned by this windfall falling from the sky. After expressing his stance to his father and the others, he had waited excitedly outside the Azure Dragon Hall.

As the only one among the children of the Four Divine Beasts who knew the detailed plan, Gaislesen was incredibly excited. After all, even Tiya, who had been sent to the Vermilion Bird Continent to confirm the location of the mid-level Sovereign of Water, Palhouse, did not know. This showed the trust the ancestors placed in him.

However, as time passed, the once-excited Gaislesen began to grow somewhat panicked, because the ancestors who had gone to hunt the Sovereign of Water had not returned; a month had already passed.

Logically speaking, battles between Sovereigns were relatively short; a month of fighting should have long since decided the victor.

"Calm down. After the ancestors kill the Sovereign of Water, they will surely enter a period of weakness. They need to rest in the Spatial Turbulence for a while before returning. Don't scare yourself."

Gaislesen took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down, and then closed his eyes to meditate once more. He did not want to, and dared not, think about the worst-case scenario.

Moreover, regardless of the outcome, there was nothing he could do. He could only pray to the Highgods for the ancestors' victory and then wait quietly.

However, Gaislesen could deceive himself, but the other elemental planes would not stop because of this.

One year later, in the Water Elemental Plane, on the Azure Dragon Continent.

At the base of the Four Divine Beasts Clan, a winding dragon path occupied a massive mountain range. On the mountains, mansions stood at intervals, and a large number of patrol soldiers clad in blue armor wandered constantly.

These so-called patrol soldiers were mostly for show. After all, for countless years, no one had ever dared to run wild here, simply because this was the Four Divine Beasts Clan, the branch of the Azure Dragon Clan.

The Four Divine Beasts Clan not only had their ancestral grounds in Hell, but also had a large number of clansmen on the Azure Dragon Continent of the Water Elemental Plane, the Vermilion Bird Continent of the Fire Elemental Plane, the Black Tortoise Continent of the Earth Elemental Plane, and the White Tiger Continent of the Wind Elemental Plane.

The Azure Dragon Continent was, as the name suggested, the territory of the Azure Dragon Clan of the Four Divine Beasts, and no faction dared to be their enemy.

However, today, everything was shattered!

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

A massive ice cloud shrouded the sky, and ice blades fell from the air like rain. A green-haired, burly man in armor stood in mid-air, looking down at the scene below with a cold expression.

"Ah!"

"Elder, help!"

Various shrill screams rang out continuously, blood quickly stained the ground red, and the dragon veins of the entire Azure Dragon Clan began to collapse.

"Barbary, you are bold!"

With an angry roar, several figures in red robes rose into the sky, their eyes filled with monstrous rage as they flew toward the green-haired man.

"Hahaha, do you think it's still the same as before? I am bold? So what if I am bold?"

Barbary let out a wanton laugh, his laughter containing endless fury, the suppression of many years fully released at this moment.

"All clansmen, kill them! Slaughter everyone from the Four Divine Beasts Clan, leave none alive!"

Barbary's voice resounded across the entire heavens and earth, and the dozens of figures behind him moved in unison.

"Boom~~"

A massive amount of water-element Sovereign's Might was unleashed simultaneously. A cyan halo emerged on the bodies of the Barbary clan elders, and then they charged madly toward the members of the Four Divine Beasts Clan.

"You actually dare! Our patriarch will not let you get away with this!"

Seeing this scene, the Azure Dragon clan elder Hoke Reding's expression changed drastically. He and the elders at the station used Sovereign's Might together and charged directly at the opposition.

However, the next second, a phantom flashed by. Hoke Reding felt an irresistible binding force, and then his body was uncontrollably tied up.

"Barbary, you!"

Hoke Reding's pupils shook instantly. The one who had bound him was none other than Barbary, and in Barbary's hand was a long cyan whip, radiating the aura of a Sovereign Artifact.

"Barbary, let me go, damn you!"

Hoke Reding struggled desperately, attempting to mobilize his Sovereign's Might to transform into energy and escape, but it was to no avail.

Although he had used Sovereign's Might, Barbary not only possessed Sovereign's Might but was also bolstered by a Sovereign Artifact, and his own strength was at the Asura level. In the Azure Dragon clan, only the patriarch Gaislesen and the grand elder Gaia could contend with him.

"Barbary, if you dare to do this, are you not afraid of our Four Divine Beasts Clan?"

Hoke Reding's eyes were bloodshot as he watched his clansmen falling one by one below, his voice raspy as he spoke.

"Rest assured, the day of your Four Divine Beasts Clan's destruction is not far off."

Barbary snorted coldly, his eyes filled with undisguised excitement.

"You, what did you say? Could it be..."

Hoke Reding's face turned deathly pale in an instant. At this moment, he thought of a certain possibility.

Barbary was a Sovereign's Envoy. If he suddenly dared to treat the Four Divine Beasts Clan this way, it was very likely that he had received some news from a Sovereign. Perhaps, the ancestors of the Four Divine Beasts Clan...

Hoke Reding's train of thought ended there. Seeing that the people around had been mostly slaughtered, Barbary took the opportunity to finish Hoke off directly.

The battle proceeded quickly. The Four Divine Beasts Clan had never expected anyone to attack them and were completely suppressed by the surprise assault. The strongest among them on the Azure Dragon Continent were merely a few Seven-Star Fiends; they simply could not withstand the full force of the Barbary clan.

In just a short while, all the clansmen at the Four Divine Beasts Clan's Azure Dragon Continent station had fallen!