Obtaining It

For most people, Sovereign's Might was something they could only dream of obtaining.

In fact, more than ninety percent of living beings had never even heard of Sovereign's Might.

Even among those who had heard of it, most had never seen it.

A single drop of Sovereign's Might was worth tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of billions of Inkstones.

And according to Gaisresen, this was merely compensation for the Boy Family.

It had to be said: such "sincerity" made even Hector Boy feel tempted to let the Four Divine Beasts Clan plunder them one more time.

Of course, Hector Boy knew that the most important reason he could receive this drop of Sovereign's Might as compensation was that Lord Aier was protecting him!

An invincible Paragon High-God!

If Lord Aier hadn't been a Paragon, judging by the way Patriarch Gaisresen and the other three patriarchs had acted earlier, they seemed ready to attack Lord Aier directly.

At the thought, Hector Boy shuddered and didn't dare think any further.

Although Lord Aier was a Paragon, the Four Divine Beasts Clan had four Overgod ancestors.

Hector Boy really wanted this drop of Sovereign's Might, but...

"Since Patriarch Gaisresen gave it to you, you should keep it."

Seeing Hector Boy look at him, Aier naturally knew what was on his mind and spoke at once.

"It's only Sovereign's Might. It's nothing particularly valuable."

"Yes. Thank you, Lord Aier, and thank you, Patriarch Gaisresen."

After accepting the drop of Sovereign's Might, Hector thanked Aier first, then Gaisresen.

Gaisresen's eyelids twitched several times. It was the first time he had experienced someone thanking another person for something he himself had given them.

Moreover, Aier's remark that Sovereign's Might wasn't particularly valuable left Gaisresen at a loss for words.

If even the compensation for the Boy Family was a drop of Sovereign's Might, what would the Four Divine Beasts Clan have to offer Aier to match his status and strength?

What was there in this world more valuable than Sovereign's Might?

A Sovereign Artifact?

Even his forebears, the Four Divine Beasts Overgods, wouldn't dare casually bestow such a thing.

Of course, Gaisresen knew that to a Paragon, Sovereign's Might really wasn't anything particularly valuable.

If a Paragon said he needed Sovereign's Might, plenty of Overgods would rush to send him some, just to establish a favorable relationship.

In Gaisresen's eyes, maintaining a good relationship with Aier could only benefit the Four Divine Beasts Clan.

If Aier's demands weren't excessive, granting them might well be an option.

But since Aier didn't even think much of Sovereign's Might, Gaisresen truly had no idea what the Four Divine Beasts Clan could offer to move him.

"Lord Aier, may I ask what you would need in order to let this matter go?"

"Patriarch Gaisresen, at my level of cultivation, only the unknown things in this world can stir even a little interest in me."

At Aier's words, Gaisresen and the others fell silent.

It was true. For them, fully fusing all the Profound Mysteries of a single Law was impossible, even if they devoted their entire lives to it.

But a Paragon had already reached the end of the path of cultivation.

Though those words made people want to punch whoever said them, they were the truth.

"I remember that the Four Divine Beasts Clan has treasures that can awaken the bloodlines of its younger generations."

"Ten Dragon-Transforming Crystals, White Tiger Stones, Vermilion Bird Galls, and Black Tortoise Rocks of each kind will do."

If Aier wasn't mistaken, the Ancestral Baptism that awakened the younger generations' bloodlines was a method by which the Four Divine Beasts Overgods used their own blood essence to strengthen their descendants' bloodlines.

The so-called Dragon-Transforming Crystals, White Tiger Stones, Vermilion Bird Galls, and Black Tortoise Rocks were, in essence, the blood essence of the Four Divine Beasts Overgods.

If Aier directly asked for the blood essence of the Four Divine Beasts Overgods, Gaisresen—and even the Overgods themselves—would likely suspect that Aier knew something.

But if Aier asked for Dragon-Transforming Crystals, White Tiger Stones, Vermilion Bird Galls, and Black Tortoise Rocks, they would at most assume that he wanted to research how to awaken the bloodlines of younger generations.

These four kinds of items were the cores of a formation, refined from the Four Divine Beasts Overgods' own blood essence. They only worked when used together with the Ancestral Baptism formation.

They didn't believe Aier could learn anything from these four formation cores.

Thus, Gaisresen agreed to Aier's request without the slightest hesitation.

The blood essence of the Four Divine Beasts Overgods was countless times more precious than Sovereign's Might, even to the Four Divine Beasts Clan.

But as long as the Four Divine Beasts Overgods were still around, the clan would never run short of it.

The news that the patriarchs of the Four Divine Beasts Clan had escorted Aier, Prefect of Liang'an Prefecture, out of the Heavenly Sacrifice Mountain Range soon spread throughout Hell.

At the same time, rumors that Aier was a Paragon spread as well.

In light of the first piece of news, everyone in Hell felt the second was likely to be true.

However, Aier had never displayed a Paragon's power in public, so even with the Four Divine Beasts Clan backing up the rumor, people in Hell still regarded him as a "suspected Paragon."

After leaving the Heavenly Sacrifice Mountain Range, Hector Boy parted ways with Aier and began looking for a new direction for the Boy Family's development.

Now that he had a drop of Sovereign's Might and Aier's protection, Hector Boy naturally had no fear that other forces would covet the Boy Family again.

Even the Four Divine Beasts Clan had bowed before Lord Aier. What force in all of Hell would dare target the Boy Family?

As for Shier, he didn't return to Liang'an Prefecture either. Instead, he took Eric and the others traveling around Hell.

After living in Hell for over a million years, Aier finally understood what it meant to be "free."

Of course, Aier wasn't just sightseeing.

Whenever he came across a treasure or a Heaven and Earth Wonder with a special ability, he collected it, planning to give everything to his original self to refine when he returned.

As for cultivation...

That was his original self's job.

"Boss, bring us a jug of wine and a couple of stir-fried dishes!"

"Coming right up, sir. Just a moment."

Seated by a second-floor window, Aier spread out his divine sense and looked down on the lives of the city's inhabitants.

Compared with his Earth Element Divine Clone, Aier's original self in the Qingya Plane was living just as carefree a life.

After all, to Aier, cultivation was nothing more than his Equipment Slot refining the Godhead and absorbing the Laws and Profound Mysteries.

During that process, whatever his original self did had no effect on the Equipment Slot's refining efficiency.

Thus, Aier had spent these years traveling around the Qingya Plane as well.

Of course, his main destinations were the Orc Continent and the Wild Continent.