Their Fusion Innate Divine Ability could threaten the Four Rule Chief Sovereigns.
Thus, at the Sovereign Conference, the Four Rule Chief Sovereigns had unanimously decided that each of the Four Divine Beasts Overgods was a Lesser Sovereign on their own, but together, they were considered a Chief Sovereign.
This special status had earned the Four Divine Beasts Overgods the resentment of nearly all the Overgods.
The Intermediate Sovereigns and Law Chief Sovereigns in particular.
If these Intermediate Sovereigns and Law Chief Sovereigns ever found an opportunity to catch the Four Divine Beasts Overgods apart, at least half of the Overgods would be more than happy to attack them.
Still, this had also worked in their favor. The Four Divine Beasts Overgods were inseparable, and that had made the Four Divine Beasts Clan arguably the most united clan in the Coiling Dragon Universe.
Though they were clearly four separate clans—the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise clans—they truly considered themselves members of the Four Divine Beasts Clan.
Even after the Four Divine Beasts Overgods fell, the Four Divine Beasts Clan had fought the Eight Great Clans to the death with nothing but sheer courage.
Of course, even though Aier knew these secrets, he wouldn't expose them.
Are you kidding?
It was one thing if the Overgods knew.
If even the gods believed the Four Divine Beasts Overgods refused to separate because they were afraid of being killed, then without a doubt, everyone who knew this secret would die.
When Gaisresen said that the Four Divine Beasts Overgods didn't live here, Aier felt relieved.
Even as a Paragon, Aier felt immense pressure in the presence of an Overgod.
It was the fear that came from knowing his life and death were no longer in his own hands.
After entering Azure Dragon Hall, Gaisresen took the seat of honor, while Aier sat in a guest seat. Hector Boy stood behind Aier.
"All right, Patriarch Gaisresen. Let's end the pleasantries here."
"How does the Four Divine Beasts Clan intend to resolve the matter with the Boy Family?"
At Aier's words, the smile vanished from Gaisresen's face.
"Lord Aier, how do you want to resolve it?"
"You should know that our Four Divine Beasts Clan has five experts who possess Sovereign Artifacts."
"Father and my uncles also have eight Overgod Envoys under their command."
"Lord Aier, I acknowledge your strength, but thinking you can make the Four Divine Beasts Clan concede all by yourself is a little naïve, don't you think?"
"Naïve?"
Aier chuckled, then reached out and pulled at the space beside him—
RIP!
In an instant, he tore open a spatial rift more than five meters wide beside him. The dazzling Spatial Turbulence seemed poised to surge from the rift and devour everything around it.
Yet under Aier's Willpower, the spatial rift looked like a vividly colored painting, not a trace of its power escaping.
"What?"
At the sight, Gaisresen sprang up from his seat in shock.
BOOM—
As Gaisresen rose, three powerful auras surged from behind him. Each man carried a weapon radiating immense power.
But when they rushed into Azure Dragon Hall, they found that things weren't as they had imagined.
According to the plan they had discussed, Gaisresen, who possessed a Material Defense Overgod Artifact, would be the one to withstand Aier's attacks.
Also, the Azure Dragon Clan's Innate Divine Ability, "Dragon Roar," could alter the flow of time, giving the others a chance to throw Aier into the Spatial Turbulence.
But the three brothers hadn't waited for a signal from Gaisresen to act. Hearing his cry of alarm, they'd rushed in, worried about him.
"Big brother, what happened?"
Delan Lierse asked, then looked toward Aier.
At the sight of him, Delan Lierse froze too.
It wasn't just Delan Lierse. Tia Nemo and Aaron Bowen, standing behind him, also caught sight of the Spatial Turbulence around Aier.
Was the Spatial Turbulence terrifying?
It was!
But it wasn't, either.
Experts at the level of an Asura Prefect could detect spatial rifts with their divine sense.
As long as they weren't directly cut by a rift or sucked into the Spatial Turbulence, they had plenty of ways to avoid it.
But now, the four clan leaders of the Four Divine Beasts had seen Spatial Turbulence that displayed not the slightest hint of power, and their minds went blank.
As children of Overgods, all four of them knew that Overgods stood above the gods because they possessed immense Willpower.
Only Willpower could tame Spatial Turbulence like this.
Aier's display proved that he, too, was a great being who possessed Willpower.
"Y-You're a Paragon?"
After a long moment, a few beads of cold sweat trickled down Gaisresen's forehead as he asked in a low voice.
SWISH—
Aier closed his five fingers, instantly smoothing over the spatial rift.
"As expected of an Overgod's child. Patriarch Gaisresen, your insight is exceptional."
Aier smiled faintly.
Since he'd chosen to speak with the Four Divine Beasts Clan, he naturally had no intention of pretending to be weak and then revealing his strength.
If anything, the Four Divine Beasts Clan, with the Four Divine Beasts Overgods backing them, were the real "tigers."
Since Aier didn't want a major clash with the Four Divine Beasts Clan right now, he needed to make them understand just how serious the consequences of offending him would be.
What if he hid his strength, only for the conflict with the Four Divine Beasts Clan to grow until it provoked the Four Divine Beasts Overgods?
So, in Aier's view, the best option was to show them what he was capable of right away.
With no Overgod involved, Paragons were invincible!
So what if the Four Divine Beasts Clan had thirteen experts who possessed Sovereign Artifacts?
Before a Paragon, numbers were meaningless.
"A Paragon?"
Behind Aier, Hector Boy was no less shocked than the clan leaders of the Four Divine Beasts Clan.
Lord Aier was a Paragon?
With no Overgod involved, Paragons were invincible!
In fact, everyone who had ever fought a Paragon had repeated the same saying—
A Paragon was a Lesser Overgod!
And because Overgods were bound by the Overgod Covenant, in many matters concerning the gods, a Paragon could inspire far more fear than an Overgod.
He never would have imagined that one decision he'd made earlier would bring him into the service of a Paragon.
"So, clan leaders, what do you think now? How should we resolve the matter with the Boy Family?"
"Phew..."
Gaisresen took a deep breath.
Even though he possessed a Material Defense Overgod Artifact, he didn't feel safe at all standing before Aier.
Especially now that his three younger brothers had come out.
If they clashed with Aier now, his three brothers would probably be in grave danger, even if he himself was safe.
He wasn't sure whether his father and the others were keeping an eye on them.
If his father and the others hadn't spread their divine sense over here, then even as Overgods, they wouldn't be able to save the four brothers from a Paragon.
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