Several days later, Hell, Sea of Chaos:
"Master, the Four Divine Beasts swept their divine senses across the four Higher Planes and the Seven Divine Planes. They probably found nothing. The four of them even personally ordered the Four Divine Beasts Clan to search for special divine beasts—the stronger, the better. But no one knows what they're planning."
After Pash, Sovereign of Blood Peak, arrived at Wukun City, where Sovereign of Destruction lived, he enveloped the entire palace with his divine sense and spoke.
Whether they were High Sovereigns or Middle and Lower Sovereigns, their abilities might differ greatly, but they all used the same energy: Sovereign's Might.
Thus, Sovereigns could sense one another's divine senses. Even a Paragon High Sovereign's divine sense could be detected by a Lower Sovereign. And if a Sovereign used Sovereign's Might to protect an area, no other Sovereign could probe inside with their divine sense.
"Special divine beasts?" Utrecht's voice came from the depths of the darkness.
"It's strange. They were just talking about their descendants, and now they're trying to capture other divine beasts," Pash said, puzzled as well.
"We know too little right now. We'll have to find a way to investigate further. It's perfectly ordinary for Sovereigns to study divine beasts." Utrecht couldn't guess the reason either, so he could only count on Pash.
Although the Four Divine Beasts lived on Blood Peak Continent, under the Sovereign Agreement and the tacit understanding between them, each Sovereign had their own territory, located in the Divine Plane that corresponded to their element.
As a result, Blood Peak Continent fell under Pash's jurisdiction. Only he could sweep the entire continent with his divine sense at will. No matter how overbearing the Four Divine Beasts were, they had nothing to say about it.
After all, they were merely living on someone else's territory. That said, under normal circumstances, Pash wouldn't go looking for trouble with a group of Sovereigns.
Because Sovereign of Destruction coveted the Four Divine Beasts' Combined Innate Divine Ability, he had Pash handle many related matters. Otherwise, if even he, Sovereign of Destruction, used his divine sense to scan Tianji Mountain Range, his intentions would be far too obvious.
"If the matter is important enough for the Four Divine Beasts to take such care, then even though they've assigned the search to the Four Divine Beasts Clan, I'm afraid only a few core members know what's really going on. Those people are also descendants the Four Divine Beasts value. Making a move against them could spark a conflict between the Sovereigns," Pash said, sounding troubled.
No Middle or Lower Sovereign wanted to get caught up in the secret struggle between Sovereigns. But he had no choice. The Four Divine Beasts lived on his territory.
And he didn't dare refuse Sovereign of Destruction's request. Still, if it put lives at risk, he could at least make his concerns known tactfully.
After all, no matter how overbearing a Sovereign was, they generally wouldn't force their subordinates to do something extremely dangerous. Sovereigns had their pride, too.
"Then what do you suggest?" Utrecht asked. Though he was domineering, he wasn't unreasonable.
"Perhaps we could ask Dunnington to step in and find an opportunity to bewitch some of the Four Divine Beasts Clan's core members?" Pash said.
"The Four Divine Beasts Clan's core members are generally at least Seven-Star Fiends with Quadruple Fusion. Add the protection of their Innate Divine Ability, and I suspect Dunnington is the only person in all the Higher Planes who could manage it."
Soul Seed Soul Bewitchment was a unique method of the Rules of Death. Even the Rules of Life and Rules of Fate, though they were no weaker in matters of the soul, couldn't achieve the same thing.
There were several experts in the Rules of Death across the Higher Planes and Divine Planes who could bewitch Seven-Star Fiends with Quadruple Fusion. But when it came to bewitching Seven-Star Fiends of the Four Divine Beasts Clan, Dunnington—the one and only Paragon High-God of the Rules of Death in all creation—was probably the only one capable.
Even the seven Death Sovereigns might not be able to do it. Soul Seed Soul Bewitchment was an ability of the Mysteries and had little to do with Willpower.
And Dunnington, the Paragon High-God of the Rules of Death, was Sovereign of Destruction's Sovereign Envoy.
"Dunnington might not agree to do something like that. He won't want to offend the Four Divine Beast Sovereigns," Utrecht said with a faint smile. "Paragon High-Gods are incredibly proud. He won't do everything I ask, either."
Even a Sovereign of the Laws couldn't necessarily get a Paragon to do whatever they wanted.
After all, the benefits a Sovereign could offer a Paragon were of little importance to them.
Moreover, Sovereigns admired Paragon High-Gods and treated them as equals and friends. They generally wouldn't force them to do anything.
"Then I'll head back first and keep an eye on things in secret," Pash said.
"Good. Have the Fiend Castles keep watch, too. See if you can find out what the Four Divine Beasts Clan is up to," Utrecht added.
Sovereigns built their own organizations for moments like this. The Fiend Castles covered Hell, and investigating many matters could be more convenient for them than using a Sovereign's divine sense.
"Yes, Master." Pash bowed, then flew swiftly back to his continent.
A few hours later, Pash had flown hundreds of billions of miles back to his Lianyun Mountain Range. He spread his divine sense across the continent and found several envoys he trusted, the administrators of the Sovereign's army, and the master of a Fiend Castle. He told them to keep an eye on the Four Divine Beasts Clan.
"I don't even know what the Four Divine Beasts Clan is looking for. How am I supposed to find it?" Pash sighed helplessly.
The people he had just summoned were just as confused. They had no idea what the Sovereign of Blood Peak wanted, but they didn't dare ask too many questions. Pash was helpless, too. He couldn't explain, so they could only keep watch for anything unusual.
Sean, far away on the edge of the Material Plane on Zhongyuan Continent, naturally knew nothing about what was happening in Hell.
The only thing he needed to do now was devour divine sparks to strengthen his body. At the same time, he had to do his best to comprehend the Darkness Element Profound Mystery and, if possible, fuse it with the Shadow Clone Profound Mystery before it reached mastery.
In the blink of an eye, several more years passed.
The Spatial Turbulence outside remained just as violent. One day, Sean slowly opened his eyes.
"I'm just one last step away from mastering the Darkness Element Profound Mystery, but I still can't take it." Sean frowned.
They said the elemental Mysteries were the most basic and easiest to comprehend. Most Lowgods of the elemental laws in the world had become gods by comprehending these Mysteries, only to get stuck on other Mysteries and fail to become Middle Gods.
But Sean was the opposite. He had first relied on his God-Eater Rat bloodline to master the Shadow Clone Profound Mystery, and now he was stuck on the Darkness Element Profound Mystery.
Still, the Darkness Element had already begun to fuse with the Shadow Clone Profound Mystery.
And because he now had two divine bodies, his Saint-level True Body had spent these years studying the Laws of Earth. In this planar space, his speed at cultivating the Laws of Earth was more than a hundred times greater than in the Material Plane.
These past few years had also let him make a start on the Earth Pulse Profound Mystery. He was still far from mastery, but he was now trying to fuse the Earth Element with the Earth Pulse Profound Mystery while still at the Saint-level.
"Looks like no matter how talented you are, you can't comprehend the Mysteries just by cultivating in seclusion. The same goes for fusing them." Sean had more or less figured out why he couldn't break through the bottleneck.
Even Paragon High-Gods on the Higher Planes, despite their astonishing talent, had grown stronger through countless battles to the death. It was almost impossible to comprehend or fuse the Mysteries by spending every day cultivating in seclusion.
It seemed the Laws of the World used this method to eliminate countless experts, then used the Plane Battlefield to specifically weed out the top Asuras, keeping their numbers under control.
Sean even suspected that, in the future, the Materialization Ability in his mind might be limited by the number of Fusion Profound Mysteries he had mastered.
But he hadn't reached that level yet, and the books in his mind wouldn't tell him about it.
Regardless of whether such a limit existed, he still had to reach a high level in fusing the Mysteries. Otherwise, even with the abilities of a God-Eater Rat, he wouldn't be able to become a peak Commander.
Bebe had been able to strike fear into all the Commanders on the Plane Battlefield in the original story because he had several powerful allies fighting alongside him. Without them, he wouldn't even have been able to catch sight of anyone.
Without fused Mysteries, no matter how powerful a Super Divine Beast was, it could never reach the peak.
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