"Lilia, let's be practical. Otherwise, you won't get anything."
"Hmph!"
The Death Sovereign snorted, but she also knew that when the power was unequal, the stronger party had the right to be willful.
For instance, when Roy was still at Paragon, the Death Sovereign could have used a favor to forcibly trap him on Netherworld Mountain for tens of millions of years.
It was also like the Destiny Sovereign Off. Believing his strength surpassed Roy's, Off had unilaterally agreed with Roy to target the Death Sovereign's plane battlefield, regardless of Roy's consent.
And that was even after Roy had given him a move first.
Otherwise, given Off's fanatical pursuit of strength, with the last component right before him, not attacking directly was already a concession made out of respect for the Destruction Sovereign Utred and the strength Roy had displayed.
It was only because Roy later assisted the Death Sovereign and postponed the challenge agreement until after his breakthrough that the Butterfly Dance Chain was saved.
Now, Roy held the dominant position in terms of strength. If the Death Sovereign still didn't provide an answer that could satisfy both parties, Roy would have to be forceful!
"I want to know what the Life Supreme God meant by those words she said to you?"
After a period of contemplation, the Death Sovereign looked up and stared seriously at Roy.
Twenty Eons ago, the Star Sovereign Roy had snatched the Supreme God Token and two other Supreme God tokens from the Destiny Sovereign Off, becoming the first to complete a Supreme God task.
To this day, the Death Sovereign still remembered the question the Star Sovereign had asked the Life Supreme God.
"Can I reach, or even surpass, the realm of a Supreme God?"
With what kind of emotions did the Star Sovereign ask that question back then?
Upon hearing the Death Sovereign's question, Roy gave her a surprised glance.
This was actually a question that wasn't impossible to answer.
"Lilia, are you sure you'll release Shelley once I answer your question?"
"I swear by the name of the Death Supreme God, if the Star Sovereign can resolve my doubts, I will relinquish my right as a High God over Shelley Nimo. Should I break this oath, I will be stripped of my position as Death Sovereign by the Death Supreme God!"
"How about it?"
Seeing the Death Sovereign swear so solemnly, Roy's expression softened slightly.
"Alright."
Before explaining to the Death Sovereign, Roy first asked her a question.
"Lilia, do you find any significant similarities between a Lord Godhead and a Godhead?"
"Hmm?"
The Death Sovereign's expression shifted slightly.
As Roy, the Star Sovereign, had said, a flash of inspiration struck the Death Sovereign.
"You mean?"
Roy nodded slightly.
He naturally wouldn't mention his memories from his previous life, nor the main universe and its affiliated universes, to the Death Sovereign. He could only deduce the process from known information and provide an acceptable answer.
"For those below the God-level, obtaining a Godhead that resonates with their attributes, and after a period of refinement, completely refining the Godhead, they will become God-level experts."
"It's the same for High Gods. Upon obtaining a suitable Lord Godhead, they can become High Gods through a drop of blood refinement."
"Similarly, both Godheads and Lord Godheads have certain limitations."
"The limitation for a Godhead is that one must be in the Saint Realm, having comprehended a trace of the Profound Mysteries of Laws, to refine it."
"The limitation for a Lord Godhead is that only those who have cultivated to the High God level without refining a Godhead can successfully bind it."
"Those who become Gods after refining a Godhead will have no further progress beyond continuing to refine their Godhead."
Roy glanced at the Death Sovereign Lilia and continued, "After obtaining a Lord Godhead, I once asked the Four Divine Beast Lord Gods, and from them, I learned that refining a Lord Godhead, just like refining a Godhead, allows no further progress afterward."
"Furthermore, refining a Lord Godhead is even more stringent than refining a Godhead."
"Because after refining a Demigodhead, you can still refine Mid-level and High-level Godheads to increase your upper limit."
"Refining a Lord Godhead truly means that whatever level of Lord Godhead you refine is the level of High God you become."
"So that's how it is."
The Death Sovereign suddenly understood.
She recalled that after the Star Sovereign became a High God, he had sent his Water Element Divine Clone to Star Island. By chance, his clone had witnessed the Star Sovereign Roy using the four-element High God Power, leading him to conclude that Roy was not a High God.
Seeing Roy fight so fiercely with the Destiny Sovereign Off, the Death Sovereign had initially thought that Roy had refined a Lord Godhead.
However, after Roy asked that question to the Life Supreme God, the Death Sovereign realized that Roy hadn't refined a Lord Godhead; instead, he had made further progress!
From the Life Supreme God's answer, it was clear that those who had refined a Lord Godhead had no chance of reaching the realm of a Supreme God.
"So, Paragon is not the limit for Gods, is it?"
"Of course not!"
Roy nodded. What he said wasn't exactly deceiving the Death Sovereign.
As far as he knew, if the protagonist Linley, after his four-element soul mutation, continued to cultivate, mastering all four elements – earth, wind, water, and fire – to Paragon, combined with the fusion of the four elemental divine powers and the integration of the four elemental Profound Mysteries of Laws...
Overthrowing a Sovereign was not impossible.
Of course, theory was theory. Whether theory could be put into practice was a problem for other gods, not for him, Roy.
In any case, Paragon was certainly not the limit for a god.
"Paragon is just the beginning!"
"Heh..."
Perhaps even Roy himself couldn't have imagined that it was precisely because of his own words, coupled with his own precedent, that the Sovereigns who came after would treat Paragon with such great courtesy.
After all, no one could guarantee whether the Paragon before them would one day reach the level of the Star Sovereign!
...
"Lord Sovereign, do you have any instructions for me?"
Shelley flew from beneath the Netherworld Hotel towards the Netherworld Mountain Hall. After entering the Sovereign's palace, she respectfully asked the Death Sovereign sitting above.
"It's not me looking for you, it's him."
"Huh?"
Hearing the Death Sovereign's slightly irritable tone, Shelley looked up in confusion and immediately saw Roy standing beside the Death Sovereign.
"Lord Roy!"
"Am I dreaming?"
"Of course not."
Roy smiled and walked up to Shelley. "Come on, Shelley, I'll take you home."
"This..."
Shelley glanced at the Death Sovereign questioningly. She was the Death Sovereign's envoy; was it all right to leave with Roy like this?
Seeing that Shelley still cared about him, the Death Sovereign's heart felt a little relieved. He waved at Shelley, "Go, go. The Star Sovereign has paid the price. From now on, Shelley, you are no longer my envoy."
"Thank you, Lord Sovereign."
After the Star Sovereign tore through space and took Shelley away, the Death Sovereign suddenly felt a bit desolate in his Sovereign's palace.
As the Death Sovereign's mind moved, a nine-headed, black-eyed, silver snake, over two meters thick and five to six hundred meters long, crawled down from a giant Netherworld Fruit Tree. It rode the wind and broke through the thunder, soaring to the summit of Netherworld Mountain. It transformed into a white-clothed young woman with silver hair and entered the Death Sovereign's Sovereign's palace.
"Inavie, greetings, Lord Sovereign."
"Mhm, Inavie, from today onwards, you will manage the palace for me here."
"As you command, Lord Sovereign."
...
Roy's reappearance shocked the Sovereigns for tens of thousands of years.
But afterwards, the Star Sovereign did nothing, so everyone stopped paying attention.
It was no different from before.
Except for the addition of one person in the Sovereign's palace, Roy spent most of his time studying magic arrays and contemplating how to break through to the next level.
The Nebula Stage mainly involved establishing a connection between oneself and heaven and earth.
After the Nebula Stage came the Flowing Star Stage.
According to the Xianxia version of Star Transformation, to transform from "Nebula" to "Flowing Star," a large amount of celestial energy was needed to refine the "Nebula."
Roy's divine body itself was extremely powerful, and the elements he generated in his world were naturally extremely powerful.
The amount of celestial energy required to temper these elemental stars from "Nebula" to "Flowing Star" was almost despairing.
Fortunately, these stars were not picky about energy.
Furthermore, the Power of Faith could significantly improve the efficiency of energy refinement.
Thus, the clan members of the Four Divine Beast Families in the material planes began to promote Roy's faith. Fortunately, Roy's current Godhead had a good efficiency in collecting this directed Power of Faith, with basically no loss, allowing Roy's cultivation speed to progress at a considerable rate.
Of course, this "considerable" speed was still measured in "Yan Ji."
As long as he collected enough Power of Faith, Roy would enter the spatial turbulence to generate time, absorbing the Power of the Earth High God from the elemental ocean to refine his Nebulae, while also consuming the Power of Faith to accelerate the refinement speed.
After the Power of Faith was exhausted, he would withdraw from the world state and return to Star Island to continue accumulating the Power of Faith.
This situation lasted for about ten Yan Ji before Roy finally completely refined all the Nebulae in his world, successfully advancing from the "Nebula Stage" to the "Flowing Star Stage."
Naturally, Roy's divine body strength had doubled.
...
In the endless spatial turbulence, a girl with blood-red hair and a purple dress traversed countless material planes. After flying for nearly ten years, she finally stopped her movement.
Then, the girl radiated her Spiritual Sense to its limit. Not detecting any other living beings, she solemnly took out several items from her spatial ring.
They were a tattered purple scroll, a purple iron ring, a magnificent purple flower, and a purple gem emitting a deathly aura.
The moment these items converged, all four items emitted dazzling light.
The light from the broken scroll evenly sprinkled onto the remaining three items.
Instantly, these three items slowly rose and finally merged into a purple ring.
The Ring of Death!
"Rumble..."
A majestic figure appeared in the spatial turbulence, its purple cloak billowing as if in a strong wind. To the naked eye, the inside of the cloak was a void.
Only when this ring was placed on the cloaked figure's finger did the majestic figure fully solidify.
This was a man with purple hair, exuding a powerful aura of death.
The Death Supreme God!
"Since the creation of heaven and earth, this is only the second time I have issued a mission. Congratulations, Lilia, you have completed my task."
"According to the mission's regulations, you may make one request of me, and I will fulfill it as long as I am capable."
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