In an endless space of chaotic energy, a patch of land tens of meters across floated.
On this land, there was a simple thatched hut, and in front of it, a stout, low-lying osmanthus tree.
Beneath the osmanthus tree, a middle-aged man in a linen robe sat before a stone table and let out a soft sound of surprise.
"A Level One Hong Meng Controller, Hong Meng!"
"I didn't expect the first to complete a task to be from an affiliated universe. This is truly surprising."
Hong Meng would place various types of tasks in the main universe and each affiliated universe. As long as someone completed them, they would receive his reward.
In the main universe, for example, the task recipients were God King-level powerhouses. After completing his tasks, they would receive his boon, allowing them to directly comprehend the complete Time Law and become the strongest "Heavenly Venerates" in the main universe.
However, more than one epoch had passed, and no one in the main universe had even accepted his tasks, let alone completed them.
The affiliated universes were all different, but similarly, no one had ever completed any of his tasks.
Currently, the task he sensed was completed by someone from the Magic Universe.
Hong Meng remembered that the target for the tasks he placed in the Magic Universe was the Lord Gods within that universe.
After casting his gaze into the Magic Universe, Hong Meng saw the person who completed his first task through the eyes of the Life Supreme God.
"Oh? A person whose fate is uncertain?"
"And this is... the Soul Golden Core from the Magic Universe?"
"Oh, oh, oh, so that's how it is..."
...
"You may ask."
Only after hearing the Life Supreme God's voice for the second time did the assembled Lord Gods snap out of their stupor, their gazes towards the Life Supreme God filled with terror.
So terrifying!
As expected of a Supreme God formed from the supreme rules, even their voice alone could cause them to lose themselves.
If they were to truly attack them, wouldn't a single word be enough to kill them all?
Looking at the Life Supreme God, Roy took a deep breath.
He knew his situation could be hidden from everyone in the Magic Universe, but it couldn't be hidden from Hong Meng.
As long as Hong Meng willed it, everything about him would be known to Hong Meng.
Past, present, future...
"Supreme God, may I ask, can I reach, or even surpass, the realm of a Supreme God?"
Although the space turbulence was silent except for the dazzling spatial currents, when the Lord Gods heard Roy's question, they all looked at him with strange expressions.
Only the Death Sovereign seemed lost in thought.
All the Lord Gods knew that after refining a Lord Godhead, their strength was basically fixed.
The level of the Lord Godhead you refined determined your maximum potential, with a thousandfold increase at most being the limit.
Take the Four Divine Beast Lord Gods as an example: Paragon in Profound Mysteries of Laws, Paragon in Willpower, and a Lord God Artifact-level divine body.
But then, the Lord Gods remembered the Star Sovereign. He had refined a Mid-level Lord Godhead, yet his current strength was more than tens of thousands of times greater than that of a Mid-level Lord God!
Thus, the Lord Gods fell silent.
Coupled with the Star Sovereign's question, the Lord Gods were even more amazed by his ambition.
While they were still content with the power of a Lord God, the Star Sovereign's sights were already set on Supreme Gods, and even beyond them.
Is this the gap between us?
No wonder his strength increased so rapidly.
At the same time, they became even more eager to hear the Life Supreme God's subsequent answer.
Could the Star Sovereign reach the level he spoke of?
Now, the Lord Gods' emotions were very complex.
On one hand, they hoped to hear a positive answer, as it would mean they still had a direction for progress.
But on the other hand, they also hoped to hear a negative answer.
This was because the one asking the question was not them.
"You can reach the realm of a Supreme God."
Hong Meng's voice, spoken through the Life Supreme God, caused a colossal wave to erupt among the many Lord Gods.
The Star Sovereign can actually break through to the realm of a Supreme God?
While the other Lord Gods were shocked, Roy felt his heart sink.
Hong Meng's certainty that he could break through to a Supreme God, did it prove that his fate was also predetermined?
Fortunately, Hong Meng's subsequent words made the anxiety in Roy's heart completely dissipate.
"As for whether you can break through to realms beyond Supreme God, I do not know, because your fate is uncertain!"
Fate is uncertain!
I, myself, am a person of uncertain fate within the Magic Universe!
A person whose fate is uncertain – this is the most basic requirement for breaking through the universe and reaching the Primordial Space.
If one's fate is already set, no matter how much you struggle, you will only be cycling back and forth within destiny's track. Perhaps, your struggles were already part of your predetermined fate.
At this moment, Roy also understood why Hong Meng said he could break through to become a Supreme God.
Clearly, Hong Meng had seen the mystery within his soul and told him that if he continued down this path, breaking through to the Soul Nascent Soul stage would allow him to reach the realm of a Supreme God.
This also made Roy very happy.
It seemed his foundation could become even stronger!
"Supreme God, after I state my request, I wonder if the Butterfly Dance Chain you used to synthesize the Life Chain can be left to me?"
"Certainly!"
"Thank you, Supreme God."
After bowing to the Life Supreme God, Roy took out his Lord God Artifact – the Star Bell!
"Supreme God, my request is for you to refine this Lord God Artifact into a Supreme Treasure that is most compatible with me!"
"Certainly!"
The Star Bell in Roy's hand slowly floated upwards, transforming into a form three meters tall and one point five meters wide, hovering before the Life Supreme God. Roy then suddenly felt a wave of weakness wash over him, as if a large portion of his blood had been evaporated.
A mist of blood emanated from Roy's body and, under the Life Supreme God's control, merged with the endless Supreme Rules into the Star Bell before the Life Supreme God.
Clearly, Hong Meng had borrowed the method of the Four Divine Beast Lord Gods in refining Lord God Artifacts, using Roy's own blood to forge the Supreme Treasure with the highest compatibility for him.
"Buzz!"
Soon, with a slight tremor of the Star Bell, a powerful surge of energy erupted, shattering the spatial turbulence around it.
"This power..."
The Four Rule Sovereigns' pupils contracted sharply upon seeing this.
This was a Supreme Treasure!
This was still without anyone controlling it. Once wielded, to what terrifying extent would the power of a Supreme Treasure reach?
Just as Lord God Artifacts were to Gods, without a Lord God Artifact of the same level, or if the power difference was a hundredfold, who would dare to act arrogantly before a God possessing a Lord God Artifact?
Similarly, without a Supreme Treasure of the same level, the four of them would all be inferior to the Star Sovereign Roy from now on!
"Your request has been fulfilled!"
After saying this, the Life Supreme God's figure gradually faded, as if it had never appeared.
Before the Life Supreme God faded, Roy seemed to hear the voice of a middle-aged man in his ear—
"I will be waiting for you at XXXX!"
The voice was so ethereal that Roy wasn't sure if he had truly heard it or if it was a figment of his imagination.
Shaking his head, Roy looked up. A hair tie with green butterflies and the Star Bell, emanating boundless power, slowly descended before him.
First, he put the hair tie into his spatial ring. Then, under the envious and jealous gazes of the other Lord Gods, Roy drew the Star Bell, which was in sync with his heart, into his body.
"Buzz!"
After the Star Bell was absorbed into Roy's body, it let out a faint chime. A faint mist of blood dissipated from the Star Bell into Roy's body, strengthening his divine body.
Roy had experienced this situation once before.
That was when the Four Divine Beast Lord Gods had used their own divine blood to forge the Star Bell into a Lord God Artifact. After Roy retrieved it, the Star Bell had used the divine beast essence blood of the Four Divine Beast Lord Gods within the bell to temper Roy's divine body, raising its strength to the level of a Lord God Artifact.
And this time, the Supreme God had used Roy's own blood, mixed with the endless Supreme Rules of Life, to temper the Star Bell into the Supreme Treasure most compatible with Roy.
Naturally, Roy once again enjoyed the feedback from the Star Bell.
Moreover, since the blood was originally Roy's own, the returned blood mist was not wasted at all, being completely absorbed by Roy's divine body to strengthen it.
"So strong!"
After a long while, Roy finished absorbing the blood energy. He flexed his fingers, and the surrounding spatial turbulence began to crack under his movements.
This strength was several times greater than Off's "Samsara Golden Body"!
"What a shame..."
Roy shook his head, feeling somewhat unsatisfied.
If the Life Supreme God had drawn more of his blood, there would have been more left after tempering the Star Bell, and perhaps he could have directly tempered his divine body to the level of a Supreme Treasure.
As it was now, it was probably only about five times stronger than a Lord God Artifact.
This was a huge profit!
...
Even the liveliest of scenes eventually come to an end.
However, although the Lord Gods dispersed from the spatial turbulence, they regrouped under their respective powerful figures.
After this Plane War incident, the Lord Gods all knew there were currently two ways to increase their strength.
The first was to participate in the Plane War and achieve ten consecutive victories for their God Plane!
Among the Lord Gods of the Death lineage, only Death Sovereign, Refining Fire Lord God, Skeleton Lord God, and Nine Nether Lord God received rewards of Willpower for achieving ten consecutive victories in the Plane War.
The other Lord Gods under Death Sovereign's command gained nothing; instead, they lost considerable troops and envoys.
Therefore, everyone knew that in future Plane Wars, even subordinates under the same Sovereign would fight each other, all for the sake of their God Plane achieving victory.
Furthermore, the Rule Sovereigns could not possibly obstruct the path of their subordinate Lord Gods who wished to improve their strength.
The second channel was to complete tasks issued by the Supreme Gods.
For Lord Gods, Supreme Treasures were almost as important as Lord God Artifacts were to Gods.
Once a set of three Supreme Treasures was obtained, even a Low-level Lord God could preserve their life in front of a Sovereign.
How could this not drive the Lord Gods into a frenzy?
Unfortunately, up to this point, only Destiny Sovereign Off had accepted a task from a Supreme God.
Furthermore, the one who completed the Supreme God's task was Star Sovereign Roy, who was directly confirmed by the Life Supreme God to be a Lord God capable of breaking through to the Supreme God realm!
Either of these two figures was someone they couldn't afford to offend. They could only secretly gather intelligence on Supreme God tasks, hoping that the next Lord God to complete a Supreme God task would be themselves.
...
Within Star Island, the Lord Gods of Star Sovereign's lineage were so shocked by Roy's words that their jaws nearly dropped.
This was not their fault; it was simply that what Roy said was too shocking to their worldview.
"I'm saying, I still have an Earth Lord Godhead on me. My four brothers can start preparing to have the family cultivate members of the Earth lineage."
Roy repeated himself. To prove he wasn't lying, Roy even took out the first Lord Godhead he obtained from his spatial ring for the six Lord Gods below to see.
At this moment, Roy felt there was a high probability that this Lord Godhead was a Low-level Earth Lord Godhead.
After all, if he hadn't appeared halfway, this Lord Godhead would have been obtained by Lightning Sovereign Hulley, ultimately making him the only Lord God to openly possess two Lord God Clones.
Hulley's Earth Lord God Clone was a Low-level Earth Lord God!
With his strength reaching its current level, Roy was no longer afraid of others knowing his uniqueness.
To put it arrogantly, even if all seventy-seven Lord Gods were gathered, led by the Four Rule Sovereigns to attack Roy, Roy felt he could drive them all back.
If he was in a good mood, he might let a few go.
If he was in a bad mood, he might simply annihilate them all and replace them with a new batch of Lord Gods!
"Fifth Brother, where did you get that Earth Lord Godhead?"
"Don't you remember? This Lord Godhead is the one I seized from the Muba Plane."
"But Fifth Brother, didn't you refine that Lord Godhead, allowing you to become a Lord God?"
Roy shook his head, "I didn't refine the Lord Godhead."
"This, how is this possible?"
This statement from Roy shocked the six Lord Gods present even more than when he said he still had another Lord Godhead on him.
"Not refining the Lord Godhead, yet possessing strength comparable to a Rule Sovereign..."
"No wonder, I was wondering how Life Supreme God would say you could break through to the Supreme God realm."
Leding Lord God shook his head with a wry smile.
Although it was incredible, the facts were before them, and they had to accept Roy's uniqueness.
Theresia, in particular.
As a former powerhouse who had come closest to Paragon, Theresia knew how difficult it was to achieve Paragon.
After becoming a Lord God and using the Power of Faith within the Lord Godhead to complete the final step, she could even better understand the gap between a Lord God and a God.
But now, Star Sovereign Roy, as a God, had reached a realm even stronger than that of a Lord God. Although she didn't know how Star Sovereign had achieved this, he truly lived up to being the person she admired most!
Upon hearing that Roy had not refined the Lord Godhead, the other Lord Gods sighed with regret.
Clearly, Roy's path was not suitable for them.
They had already refined their Lord Godheads, and besides the Plane War and tasks from Supreme Gods, they had no other channels to become stronger!
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End of this volume!
Next volume: Star Chapter
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