The city was complete. As the finished city appeared before them, smiles of satisfaction appeared not only on Redding's face, but on the faces of the others as well.
Looking at the enormous city before him, Redding felt a sense of stability for the first time.
It was a feeling Redding had never experienced since his rebirth. If he had to describe it, it was like working hard in his previous life and finally having a house of his own.
Standing beside him with his arms folded, Leiyuan turned to Redding. "Redding, since it's a city, it ought to have a name, shouldn't it?"
Redding nodded slightly. "You're right. Shall we all come up with one together?"
Nemo chuckled. "Big brother, this city is where we siblings will make our home. How about Four Divine Beasts City?"
Bowen and Laius voiced their agreement with Nemo's suggestion.
Sovereign Zijing interrupted. "That won't do. This city will need to attract outside God Level experts to settle here. Calling it Four Divine Beasts City would be a little too narrow-minded."
As Pash continued to nurture the city walls with Sovereign's Might, he suggested, "Since the six of us Sovereigns built it together, how about Sovereign City?"
Laius waved a hand. "It doesn't sound good. Besides, quite a few God Level experts have refined Sovereign Sparks. If they built cities and called them Sovereign City too, wouldn't it be unoriginal?"
They all had their own ideas, each wanting to give the new city a name they liked.
In the end, none of them could convince the others, so they turned to Redding.
Redding supported one elbow with one hand and rubbed his chin with the other. "Let's call it Heavenly Mystery City."
That settled it.
Unable to convince one another, they finally agreed on the name Heavenly Sacrifice City.
Water Sovereign Power gathered at Redding's fingertip. Using his hand as a brush, he carved a plaque above the city gate and wrote three bold, powerful characters on it: Heavenly Sacrifice City.
In the blink of an eye, two hundred thousand years passed.
To God Level experts, life was eternal, and time was the least valuable thing they had.
After two hundred thousand years, Heavenly Sacrifice City, which Redding and the others had built together, had gone from an empty city that attracted no interest to a great city with tens of millions of permanent residents.
The hundreds of thousands of years had left no trace on its walls.
Drawing on the memories of his previous life, Redding followed their example and introduced "Inkstone" made with Sovereign's Might as currency in Heavenly Sacrifice City. He also established a Fiend Castle and the city's garrison.
Because only Sovereigns could make "Inkstone," it was not nearly as prone to inflation as the Divine Sparks God Level experts had previously used as currency.
With "Inkstone" as an anchor, Redding and the others easily stabilized prices throughout Heavenly Sacrifice City. Under their efforts to maintain stability, the entire city developed at an astonishing speed.
In just two hundred thousand years, the city's residential districts had filled with God Level experts, and the houses Redding had originally planned had become almost impossible to find.
Hotels, markets, all kinds of items that enhanced strength, and entertainment facilities flourished throughout Heavenly Sacrifice City.
The prosperity of Heavenly Sacrifice City even drew Sovereigns from two neighboring continents to follow its example.
During that time, it wasn't as though no Sovereigns had considered targeting Redding and the others.
After all, taking something by force was much faster than building it oneself.
But after witnessing the strength of Redding and the others, those Sovereigns decisively abandoned their ill intentions.
With the various Sovereigns still unaware of their own ranks, they naturally did not dare provoke the Four Divine Beasts' faction when they saw that Redding's side had a full seven Sovereigns.
The Sovereign Spark Leijia had obtained in the Life Divine Realm had also been taken to the Infernal Realm by Redding and given to Leiyuan to refine.
It had to be said that Leiyuan was truly lucky. The Earth Elemental System Sovereign Spark Leijia had obtained in the Life Divine Realm turned out to be a Mid-level Sovereign Spark.
Zijing and her husband were both Mid-level Sovereigns. With the Four Divine Beasts keeping their Fusion Innate Divine Ability hidden, the couple had become the strongest fighters in their faction.
That day, Redding was comprehending Fusion Profound Mysteries in his residence in Heavenly Sacrifice City.
Suddenly, an authoritative voice rang out in his mind.
All Water Sovereigns, proceed to the Spatial Turbulence at once to create the Water Divine Plane. There must be no mistakes!
The authoritative voice, carrying a trace of pressure that even Sovereigns found hard to resist, reached the minds of the Sovereigns.
Redding's eyes snapped open. Before he could rise, a message from Laius and the others sounded in his mind. "Big brother, are we going to the Spatial Turbulence?"
Redding replied by divine sense, "Yes. Gather the brothers, and have Zijing and Leiyuan wait for us in the Spatial Turbulence too. We'll set out together."
Over the past two hundred thousand years and more, Sovereigns had occasionally fought and killed on the continent. But their ranks were not far apart, and most of the first to refine Sovereign Sparks were super divine beasts with an exceptional ability to stay alive. Unless several joined forces against one, or a Sovereign-level expert crushed a Lower Sovereign, it was not so easy for a Sovereign to fall in a battle with another.
After all, a Sovereign's Might of the Will could cover most of an Overgod Plane. If another Sovereign wanted to attack them, their vigilance allowed them to escape into the Spatial Turbulence in an instant.
Redding and the others, who had established Heavenly Sacrifice City, occupied the Blood Peak and Zijing continents thanks to their numbers. Among the Sovereigns of the Infernal Realm, they had something of a reputation as its foremost power, and no Sovereign dared provoke them.
Even Uhtred and the other Sovereign-level experts living in the Infernal Realm remained silent.
With the aid of their Might of the Will, the Four Divine Beasts and Pash gathered beside Redding in an instant.
As for Zijing and her husband, they preferred staying in the Zijing Mountains to staying in Heavenly Sacrifice City. Leiyuan's Destruction Element Divine Clone usually remained in the city, serving as a point of contact for them.
After giving Leiyuan's Divine Clone a few brief instructions, Redding tore open the space around him and stepped into the Spatial Turbulence with Laius, Pash, and the other two.
Life Divine Realm.
When the Laws of the Universe carried the order throughout the universe and into the minds of all the Sovereigns, Vivian immediately went to find Leijia.
Ever since Leijia had invited Vivian to join his faction, she had settled down with him for good.
Vivian was detached by nature and disliked fighting. After refining her Sovereign Spark, she was practically a homebody, apart from regularly discussing the cultivation of profound mysteries with Leijia.
To Leijia's surprise, the Sovereign of Death from the Netherworld had come looking for Vivian several times over those hundreds of thousands of years.
After meeting her a few times, Leijia realized that Vivian and the Sovereign of Death were genuinely close.
After learning that the Sovereign of Death possessed a Lightning Sovereign Spark, Leijia did not hesitate to trade her the Dark Sovereign Spark he had.
For Vivian's sake, the Sovereign of Death did not refuse.
Unlike Vivian, who disliked fighting, the Sovereign of Death was skilled at it. The Netherworld had the fewest Sovereign-level experts, only two in all. Aside from the Sovereign of Death, the other was the Wind Sovereign, who had refined a Wind Element Divine Spark.
This first-generation Wind Sovereign did not possess a particularly powerful Divine Beast Bloodline. Before the Sovereign of Death, who held the Heart of the Netherworld, the poor Wind Sovereign was suppressed so thoroughly that he could not fight back.
The vast majority of the Netherworld's Sovereigns had joined the Sovereign of Death. She had forced the Wind Sovereign to hide in a corner of the Netherworld. If the Wind Element had not excelled in speed, leaving this Sovereign-level expert unafraid of being killed by her, he would probably have taken the few Sovereign underlings beneath him and moved to another Overgod Plane.
Thanks to the understanding Leijia and Vivian had developed over many years, the moment they met, they exchanged no unnecessary words. They immediately tore open the space around them and stepped into the spatial rift.
In the Infernal Realm, Uhtred stood with his hands behind his back. The moment he heard the voice of the Laws of the Universe, he stepped into the Spatial Turbulence without hesitation.
The Sovereign of Death and the Wind Sovereign of the Netherworld, the Four Divine Beasts and Zijing and her husband of the Infernal Realm, the Sovereigns of Fate and Water of the Celestial Realm...
For a time, nearly all the Sovereigns of the Four Overgod Planes chose to enter the Spatial Turbulence at once.