Chapter 493

After losing three companions in succession, no matter how strong-willed the King of Water Element was, he could not help feeling somewhat disheartened.

More importantly, he was truly afraid.

The step from powerful divine power to great divine power was simply too dangerous. Searching his own heart, he was already among the beings closest to the pinnacle of all gods; compared to back then, he was hardly any worse off. Why did he have to take another step forward and charge at the highest summit?

Besides... even if he became a great divine power, so what?

Were great divine powers really so wonderful? Of the four great divine powers, only one was left before long. Their survival time had not even matched that of the four Elemental Kings!

With such thoughts in mind, the King of Water Element kept himself in line for a long time and made no further moves.

"Wait!" Sui Xiong interrupted his account and asked, "You just said that of the four great divine powers, only one was left before long?"

"Yes."

"But why exactly?" Sui Xiong asked curiously. "I've always been curious about this, but no one knows the reason. I thought I'd never learn the truth unless I went to ask the Lord of Order. I never expected there to be someone here who knows!"

The King of Water Element fell silent for a moment before saying, "It is not really much of a secret. The ancient gods probably all know about it... Broadly speaking, it was not very different from the situation of us four Elemental Kings."

"You mean they were also pursuing a higher realm, and then died one after another?"

"More or less." The King of Water Element clearly had no intention of keeping the great divine powers' secrets. Today, he