Whoosh!
Two ripples invisible to the naked eye streaked across the sky above the Star Mist Sea.
Pash took Redding and his three siblings and flew at full speed toward Crimson Island, following the coordinates Laius had provided.
Sovereign Zijing and Leiyuan accompanied Pash.
Their friendship of tens of thousands of years was no empty thing, especially when Redding had handed the Destruction Sovereign Spark to Zijing and her husband without a second word.
Though Pash was escorting them, Zijing and her husband were still worried and chose to go with them.
If their luck turned bad and they encountered a Sovereign-level expert, the two of them could join forces to keep the others safe.
Fortunately, the journey passed without incident.
With the two Sovereigns traveling at full speed, they crossed more than half the Star Mist Sea in less than an hour and reached Crimson Island, a place that a God Level expert might not reach even after flying at full speed for hundreds of years.
As soon as they landed, they used their Might of the Will to move to the island lord's residence, where Laius's Destruction Element Divine Clone had already been waiting for some time.
As they entered the residence, Laius recalled the Destruction Element Divine Clone he had left on the island.
Their gazes were instantly drawn to the objects on the table.
A long wooden box a palm's width across lay on the table, with four clear, translucent crystals resting quietly inside.
The crystals looked exactly like the Sovereign Spark Redding and his siblings had obtained on the Zijing Continent. The only difference was that the four Divine Sparks each gave off a different light.
Earth, fire, water, and wind-no more and no less. They matched the attributes of Redding and his three siblings perfectly.
Redding raised a hand and pulled, and the wooden box flew across several meters into his palm.
Without saying much, Redding took the four crystals out of the box and distributed the Sovereign Sparks to his three siblings according to their respective attributes.
Drip!
Redding and his siblings cut their fingertips and squeezed out four drops of blood, letting them fall onto the Sovereign Sparks in their hands.
Rumble!
A wave of elemental fluctuations surged forth, stronger than when Pash and Zijing had refined their Sovereign Sparks. As Redding and his siblings refined theirs at the same time, four distinct auras-supple and cool, sharp, scorching, and heavy-poured from their bodies, colliding and intertwining with one another.
Refining a Sovereign Spark took only an instant. A breath later, four new Sovereigns had been born into the world.
Feeling the endless Might of the Will in his mind, Redding smiled.
It worked!
Redding had not expected it to go so smoothly, becoming one of those who wielded supreme authority in the world.
He and his siblings had obtained four Sovereign Sparks with scarcely a hitch.
Compared to the melee they had fought on the Zijing Continent, obtaining these four Divine Sparks in the Star Mist Sea had been incredibly easy, almost as if they had picked them up for free.
This was mainly because, under Redding's guidance, Crimson Island had expanded with all its might over the years and become the most famous market in the entire Star Mist Sea. It guaranteed safety and quality and offered everything from divine artifacts to wondrous treasures, drawing countless God Level experts by reputation.
Another reason was that the Highgod who had obtained the four Sovereign Sparks was incompatible with every one of their attributes. If he had been able to refine even one, he would never have sold them off so cheaply.
With all these reasons combined, Redding had obtained the four Sovereign Sparks with ease.
After refining his Sovereign Spark, Redding swept out with his divine sense, gauging the soul strength of Zijing and Pash beside him.
Lower Sovereign. The moment he scanned Zijing, Redding was able to judge the rank of the Sovereign Spark he had refined. He then swept his gaze over Laius and the other two on the other side.
As expected, all four siblings had refined Lower Sovereign Sparks. Somewhere in the unseen, it seemed as though an invisible hand had taken control and arranged everything.
Not only the Sovereign Sparks refined by the Four Divine Beasts, but also the ranks of those refined by Pash and Zijing were exactly as Redding remembered.
Fate?
At that thought, Redding's Fate Element Divine Clone seemed to break through some restriction, and its power suddenly rose by a large margin.
Compared to Redding's Water Element Divine Clone, which had refined a Sovereign Spark, however, the Fate Divine Clone's improvement seemed rather insignificant.
Having obtained six Sovereign Sparks in succession, they were all in high spirits, and Redding already had the beginnings of a plan.
Normally, each element had seven Sovereigns: one High-level Sovereign, also known as a Sovereign, two Mid-level Sovereigns, and four Lower Sovereigns.
When Redding and his siblings joined forces and used their Fusion Innate Divine Ability, they were as powerful as a Sovereign-level expert. When no Sovereign-level expert took part in a battle, the four could also serve as four top-tier Lower Sovereigns.
With the addition of Pash, another Lower Sovereign, and Zijing, a Mid-level Sovereign, their combined strength was now not much weaker than that of the Sovereigns of a normal element.
Even if the Four Rules Sovereigns joined forces to establish rules in the future, Redding's group was now large enough to form a Sovereign faction.
After all, aside from the Four Rules Sovereigns, almost none of the other Sovereign-level experts could make all six Sovereigns nominally under them obey completely.
Some newly promoted Sovereign-level experts had even been born so late, after a chaotic struggle, that all the Sovereigns under them had pledged themselves to other Sovereigns, leaving them commanders without troops.
The only troublesome point was that both Pash and Zijing had refined Destruction Element Sovereign Sparks. The Destruction Element Sovereigns all answered to Uhtred, the Sovereign of Destruction, so by bringing Pash and Zijing into his own Sovereign faction, Redding was undoubtedly poaching from Uhtred.
Redding was not worried, however. The era of Sovereigns had only just begun. Sovereign Sparks belonged to whoever had the ability to claim them, and the strongest had the final say. If Uhtred insisted on causing trouble, Redding did not mind letting him taste the power of the Fusion Innate Divine Ability.
Refining a Sovereign Spark took only an instant. As soon as the Sparks were refined, Pash, Leiyuan, and Zijing immediately asked, "How is it?"
His eyes gleaming, Laius was the first to answer. "So this is a Sovereign's Might of the Will. It really is powerful. I feel like I could kill my former self, before I became a Sovereign, hundreds or thousands of times over with a single thought."
A trace of emotion flashed through Laius's eyes as he said this.
The immense Might of the Will contained in the Sovereign Spark in his mind made Laius feel the gulf between a God Level expert and a Sovereign. Even the strongest Highgod was less than an ant before a Sovereign; with a single thought, the Might of the Will could annihilate a God Level expert hundreds or thousands of times over.
At his side, Bowen followed up on Laius's words. "I feel that my Divine Clone has also received a boost from a portion of Might of the Will. It isn't much, but it should be enough to deal with God Level experts."
Although Pash and Zijing had been the first to refine Sovereign Sparks, neither had a Divine Clone, so naturally they could not experience the boost a Sovereign Spark gave one.
Of the group, only Leiyuan had not refined a Sovereign Spark. When he heard that a Sovereign Spark also boosted Divine Clones, his interest was immediately piqued. He said to them, "How strong is it? Let me try?"
Laius, standing nearby, sent his Destruction Element Divine Clone flying out of his body with a thought.
Leiyuan flipped his hand, and a long staff, a Highgod Artifact, instantly appeared in it. He turned his gaze to Laius's Highgod clone.
Over the tens of thousands of years, Laius's Destruction Element Divine Clone had improved, but compared to his Wind Divine Clone, its progress had not been particularly fast. Its strength was roughly equivalent to that of a Highgod who had fused three profound mysteries.
Compared to Leiyuan, who had already begun fusing five profound mysteries, Laius's Destruction Element Divine Clone was not particularly strong.
But empowered by Laius's Might of the Will, this Destruction Element Divine Clone gave Leiyuan a faint sense of threat.