Dragon Roar!
The Azure Dragon's innate divine ability exercised an extraordinarily overbearing control over time.
In the Coiling Dragon Universe, there was no way to train in the Laws of Time. Across the Four Overgod Planes and the various material planes, the only thing capable of controlling time was the Azure Dragon's innate divine ability, Dragon Roar.
As Leijia's Dragon Roar gradually faded, Uhtred felt the force restraining him gradually dissipate as well.
After more than ten breaths, the sluggish sensation binding Uhtred vanished completely. The divine beast's phantom conjured by his innate divine ability behind him likewise disappeared without a trace.
Uhtred put away his divine spear and flew over to Leijia, laughing aloud. "Leijia, that innate divine ability of yours is truly formidable. I felt completely trapped, without the slightest power to resist."
A smile tugged at Leijia's lips. "My innate divine ability, Absolute Slow, can slow an opponent's movements, but it has almost no killing power..."
Leijia did not explain to Uhtred that his innate divine ability, Dragon Roar, affected time. Instead, he went along with Uhtred's interpretation and made up a name. Together with his use of a Heaven and Earth Wonder to alter the Azure Dragon Shadow's form, he hoped to mislead Uhtred about the nature of his innate divine ability.
Perhaps because he had been fully absorbed in the fight, Uhtred had not noticed that Leijia's innate divine ability affected not just Uhtred himself, but the flow of time for everything around them.
Laughing aloud, Uhtred patted Leijia on the shoulder. "Although your innate divine ability has no direct offensive power, I couldn't even resist when you used it just now. An ability like that is even more terrifying than an ordinary directly offensive innate divine ability."
Uhtred was still shaken. The moment Leijia unleashed his innate divine ability, he had felt as though even his soul was about to stop thinking. With his entire body and soul restrained, Absolute Slow truly lived up to its name.
Uhtred knew full well that although Leijia was weaker than him, with the power of his innate divine ability, it was impossible to say who would win if the two really fought to the death.
Hearing Uhtred's praise, Leijia did not put on a show of modesty. He simply smiled and nodded.
To earn praise from one of the future Four Rules Sovereigns was an exceptionally rare thing in itself.
After each praising the other's innate divine ability, the two flew toward the planar teleportation array.
Leijia and Uhtred landed one after the other on the island where the planar teleportation array was located.
Uhtred raised a hand and pointed to a raised platform not far away, covered in intricate magic array patterns. "That's the teleportation array you mentioned. There are three teleportation arrays inscribed on it in total. Over the past thousand years, I've sent people through them, and it seems that even the same array doesn't necessarily send them to the same place every time."
"Of the three arrays, only one destination of one array has a God Level expert guarding it. There's no one at the others. As for the one that does have someone, that person is weaker than either of us."
Following Uhtred's pointing finger, Leijia turned his gaze to the three planar teleportation arrays.
The planar teleportation array covered the entire platform as a single whole, but only three areas on the right side were inscribed with magic patterns. The left side was a broad, smooth stretch of ground without a single marking.
Leijia knew that the era of Sovereigns had yet to arrive and the Seven Divine Planes had not yet been created, so naturally there were no teleportation array patterns leading to the other divine planes.
The magic patterns before them now were entrances to the other three Overgod Planes.
Uhtred smiled at Leijia. "From what I've found, the plane the left array leads to has many undead creatures, but none are very strong. The plane the middle one leads to is the strongest. The God Level guard I mentioned is also at that array's destination. The plane the right array leads to is fairly strong, but its environment is the best."
Uhtred turned his gaze to Leijia. "Which plane do you want to go to, Leijia?"
"The Life Overgod Plane."
As he spoke, Leijia stepped onto the magic teleportation array leading to the Life Overgod Plane.
"The Life Overgod Plane?" Uhtred paused, then looked at the Life Element aura drifting from the magic array where Leijia stood and nodded slightly. At the same time, he took several animal-hide scrolls from his interspatial ring.
Uhtred's tone was stiff, but carried a note of concern. "These are rough maps I drew of that plane. They show the surroundings of the teleportation arrays."
With that, Uhtred tossed the scrolls in his hand to Leijia.
Leijia had long planned to go to the Life Overgod Plane.
The Celestial Realm had that scheming bastard Orloff, whom Leijia did not want to meet for the time being. The Sovereign of Death in the Netherworld was capricious and controlled the Heart of the Netherworld. After considering his options, Leijia felt the Life Divine Realm was the best choice.
Besides, Leijia had a Life Divine Clone. In the Life Divine Plane, his chances of obtaining a Sovereign Spark might be greater.
Leijia raised a hand and caught Uhtred's scrolls, then poured divine power into the teleportation array.
The magic patterns gradually lit up as they absorbed the divine power. As the array activated, a sensation of space tearing grew stronger, and a beam of light completely enveloped Leijia.
Unable to see him, Leijia heard Uhtred's voice from the other side of the light. "If you get tired of staying in that plane, come back whenever you like..."
Although Uhtred and Leijia had not known each other long, Leijia's strength had earned Uhtred's respect.
The sensation of space tearing gradually intensified, and Leijia could no longer make out what Uhtred said after that.
When the intense light faded, only Uhtred remained at the teleportation array, accompanied by the distant sound of waves striking the reefs.
Life Overgod Plane, planar teleportation array.
A dazzling light flared, and Leijia stood on the teleportation array, his back straight.
"This is the Life Divine Realm, the plane created by the Life Overgod?" As the light faded, Leijia surveyed his surroundings. "It really is nice. No wonder Uhtred praised it."
Unlike the grim, hostile environment of the Infernal Realm, the planar teleportation array where Leijia had arrived was densely covered in vegetation. Lush greenery stretched as far as the eye could see, and a deep breath brought with it the rich, fresh fragrance of plants.
Leijia raised a hand and unfolded the scrolls Uhtred had given him. According to what Uhtred had written, there were four planar teleportation arrays in the entire Life Divine Realm. After comparing them for a while, Leijia determined that he was at the third planar teleportation array Uhtred had described.
"According to Uhtred, there's a God Level tribe south of this planar teleportation array, with at least three Highgod experts. There's another God Level tribe to the east, but he doesn't know how many Highgods it has. To the west is the depths of a dense forest, and the north leads to a mountain range. Uhtred hasn't explored either of those."
Supporting one elbow with one hand and rubbing his chin with the other, Leijia murmured, "South first!"
The south was the only place Uhtred had thoroughly explored. Compared with the east, where the number of Highgods was unknown, and the west and north, about which they knew nothing at all, the southern tribe with three Highgods was clearly much safer.
With Leijia's current strength, unless his luck was so bad that he ran into three opponents on Uhtred's level, if he was determined to flee, there were few God Level experts who could stop him when he had his innate divine ability, Dragon Roar.