After Rhodes and Hathaway spent several hundred years pouring their hearts out to each other, Rhodes watched Hathaway take the Teleportation Array back to the Netherworld. Now that Hathaway had left, Rhodes also began preparing to enter secluded cultivation.
Before that, however, Rhodes planned to get together with Pash, Lei Ding, and the others. After all, he had not seen them for several million years, and gathering from time to time could strengthen the bonds between brothers.
Besides, they were all Sovereigns now. Apart from taking that final step to become Paragons, why would they need to stay in seclusion every day? With nothing to do, they ought to enjoy life more. How much room for improvement did they have left?
Oh, you say they could still improve their physical strength?
Indeed, many Sovereigns whose original bodies were Divine Beasts could use certain methods to strengthen their Divine Bodies to the level of Sovereign Artifacts. But that required an incomparably long time, and not every Divine Beast could reach that level.
Even Linley had only been able to rapidly raise the strength of his Divine Body to the Sovereign Artifact level by continually refining Azure Dragon Essence Blood. The strengthening effect of the Mixed Divine Power formed by fusing four types of divine power was another major reason.
Thus, with the path ahead of Sovereigns essentially blocked, enjoyment was the main theme of the long years to come. After all, there were hardly any beings in the entire universe like Orloff, who knew nothing of enjoyment and spent every day doing research!
Leaving Sovereigns aside, even many powerful Deities did the same. Hadn't Mosi of Tear Luo Island set up some "Battle Arena" on his island, where he watched Lowgods, Midgods, and powerful Highgods fight endlessly, then used Soul Control