All of Hodan's Divine Clones returned to Flame Mountain. He had to hurry, after all. More than a thousand years had passed since Linley entered Hell.
Even traveling from here to Tianji Mountain Range at Paragon speed would take ten years.
Hell was simply too vast. The journey from the Kalosha Continent to the Bloodpeak Continent crossed an entire landmass, and he still had to traverse the boundless Starry Fog Sea.
"Big Brother Huoxie, I'm back." Before he even reached Flame Mountain, Hodan's divine sense transmission had already spread across the entire area.
"Well, look at you! You finally came back. I thought you'd run off with all that wealth!" Huoxie's teasing voice rang out, and his figure appeared before Hodan like a phantom.
"How could I? Though I really did consider running off, since this is all that's left of the Sovereign's Might." Feeling awkward, Hodan took out the remaining hundred drops.
Huoxie looked at the hundred drops in Hodan's hand but didn't reach for them. Instead, he stared at Hodan solemnly. "How did you use up dozens of drops of Sovereign's Might? (Huoxie thought it took eighty trillion Inkstones to refine one drop.) Did you provoke a Paragon?"
Given Hodan's strength before he left, the only reason he would have needed that much Sovereign's Might to escape was if he'd provoked a Paragon. He must have even invoked Huoxie's name. That Paragon had likely been wary of Huoxie, and, combined with Hodan's use of Sovereign's Might, that was how Hodan had gotten away.
"No, nothing like that," Hodan denied. "I only used it to reach Paragon."
"Oh, good." Even if Paragons couldn't become friends, they generally didn't become enemies either. After all, it would be miserable if a Paragon kept targeting you, your family, or your friends. Hearing