Chapter 9: Five Thousand Years Up and Down
"Experiments?" Linley immediately recalled that the Overgod of Destruction had once obtained half of the Four Divine Beasts' blood essence from Beirut.
"The energy source of divine beasts lies within their blood essence." Beirut shook his head and said, "However, using innate divine abilities is not solely due to bloodline; it also involves the soul!"
"But the uniqueness of the soul is also due to bloodline." Linley frowned. "Members of our clan, because they possess the bloodline of divine beasts, all have special souls. And after I absorbed a drop of blood essence, my innate divine ability also improved considerably."
"That's because you are a member of the Four Divine Beasts clan." Beirut smiled faintly. "Alright, forget about whether the Overgod of Destruction can research the ultimate techniques of the Four Divine Beasts. That has little to do with us. Our greatest goal right now is the Overgod of Light, Augusta."
"Our enemy is not the Overgod of Destruction." Qinghuo also laughed.
"Overgod of Destruction? Any one of the four Overgods of Laws is unfathomable." Beirut sighed.
"Grandpa Beirut, who do you think is the strongest?" Linley was also very curious about the four Overgods of Laws.
"That's hard to say! In terms of willpower and divine might, the Overgod of Fate should be the strongest!" Beirut frowned. "However, the Sovereign artifact owned by the Overgod of Fate is a soul-defense Sovereign artifact, not an offensive one. So in terms of attack power, he might be somewhat inferior to the other three Overgods of Laws."
Linley was surprised.
He didn't choose an offensive Sovereign artifact? That Overgod of Fate was truly unique.
"The Overgod of Fate pays no heed to worldly affairs and is always researching various ultimate techniques. Perhaps he believes that even without an offensive Sovereign artifact, his strength is sufficient." Beirut smiled faintly. "Now, the Overgod of Destruction is also researching ultimate techniques using the Four Divine Beasts' blood essence. By the way, Linley... you are also a member of the Azure Dragon clan. Perhaps you can research something from the Four Divine Beasts' blood essence."
As he spoke, Beirut flipped his hand, and four small green jade bottles appeared.
"Each of these four bottles contains eighty-one drops of the Four Divine Beasts' blood essence." Beirut said. "This is probably about a quarter of all the blood essence of the Four Divine Beasts."
Blood essence is the essence within blood. Even for a massive divine beast, having over three hundred drops of blood essence is astonishing. The energy contained in each drop is terrifying. Otherwise, Linley wouldn't have been able to rely on a single drop of blood essence to make his body strong enough to resist the attacks of ordinary Seven Star Fiends.
"Grandpa Beirut..." Linley was somewhat surprised.
"I gave half to the Overgod of Destruction back then, and I used some for my own research. What's left is about a hundred drops. Take these eighty-one drops in each bottle. I hope you can research the ultimate techniques of the Four Divine Beasts. With your soul power, if you can succeed... you'll have the confidence to challenge the four Overgods of Laws." Beirut smiled.
The Four Divine Beasts, with their power as lower-level gods, could threaten an Overgod by using their combined innate divine ability. Linley's foundation was far better than that of the Four Divine Beasts.
"Alright, I'll take them. But I'm not confident about researching the ultimate techniques." Linley said, but deep down, he still held a glimmer of hope.
Perhaps he could create them.
"Linley, what level of cultivation have you reached now?" Beirut asked.
"I'm only one step away from fusing the profound mysteries of three different laws. But breaking through is really difficult." Linley shook his head and smiled helplessly.
"I see." Beirut smiled and urged, "I think you should hurry up and go create a divine plane. Creating a divine plane will help you understand many things."
"Creating a divine plane takes a long time. You might make a significant breakthrough." Qinghuo also laughed.
After all, Linley had only cultivated for a little over three hundred years since becoming a Sovereign.
A single creation of a divine plane would take an extremely long time.
"It will definitely be long, because... I plan to create two divine planes at the same time." Linley smiled.
"Two divine planes?" Beirut and Qinghuo were both stunned.
The four clan leaders of the Four Divine Beasts clan stayed at Dragonblood Castle for a few months. After once again entrusting Linley with the matter of revenge, they left the Yulan Plane and returned to the Infernal Realm. Linley himself then informed Delia, Bebe, and the others that he was going to create a divine plane.
He left his main body behind to research the Four Divine Beasts' blood essence!
Linley's main body was the strongest of his five bodies and also contained the Azure Dragon bloodline. It was most suitable for research.
As for Linley's four avatars, they all left the Yulan Plane and headed to the spatial turbulence.
In the vast void, the spatial turbulence was as brilliant and beautiful as fireworks.
Linley himself stood in the spatial turbulence. Thousands of miles away from Linley was the Yulan Plane.
"Linley, creating two different divine planes at once is an unprecedented feat." Beirut said with a smile. "We must witness this properly."
"I've never created a divine plane before." Qinghuo also laughed.
Although the three of them were relaxed, Beirut and Qinghuo both spread out their Sovereign divine sense. If an enemy approached, they would immediately flee into the Yulan Plane.
"Alright, I'm ready to begin."
Linley's body suddenly split in two. One Linley, clad in a earth-yellow robe, and another Linley, clad in a cyan-green robe, stood side by side. They were the Earth Sovereign avatar and the Water Sovereign avatar.
Seeing this, Beirut and Qinghuo fell silent, quietly watching the scene.
"Rumble..." A earth-yellow stream began to swirl around Linley's Earth Sovereign avatar, while a cyan-green stream swirled around Linley's Water Sovereign avatar. As time passed, these two streams grew thicker and thicker, and the amount of Sovereign power increased.
Creating a divine plane was a gift from the heavens to Sovereigns.
Any Sovereign who had refined a Sovereign spark could understand that by simply activating a trace of the rules contained within the Sovereign spark, they could naturally create a divine plane. This ability was not something that could be obtained through cultivation. It was inherent in the Sovereign spark. Naturally, it was a gift from the heavens.
During the creation process, the Sovereign did not need to ponder. The Sovereign only needed to immerse their soul completely in the act of creation.
Creating a divine plane once was to experience it once. And one would gain insights.
Different types of Sovereign sparks naturally had their differences.
Linley possessed two Sovereign sparks, which was why he planned to create two divine planes simultaneously. The two avatars were already a thousand miles apart.
"Creating a divine plane is indeed very tiring. Just gathering enough Sovereign power takes hundreds of years." Linley sighed inwardly. At this moment, the streams around Linley's two Sovereign avatars had already become two mighty rivers. Two streams, like ten-thousand-meter-long pythons, continuously spiraled around.
Linley willed it.
After hundreds of years, the Sovereign power gathered from the Elemental Sea Plane was sufficient.
"Whoosh!"
At the same moment, the two ten-thousand-meter-long python-like streams of earth-yellow and cyan-green abruptly contracted, instantly transforming into two massive water spheres that enveloped Linley's two Sovereign avatars. The two enormous water spheres trembled, and the terrifying energy caused the surrounding space to continuously shatter.
Fortunately, this was in the spatial turbulence, so it wouldn't cause any damage.
"Boom!!!"
The two water spheres compressed to the extreme and then violently exploded! "Crackle..." In an instant, a massive spatial rift spanning millions of miles was torn open. The explosive power was so great it was astonishing. Of course, this was due to the accumulation of too much Sovereign power. The actual explosive power per unit area would at most injure a lower-level Sovereign.
The explosion in the void continued. The spatial rift stretched endlessly.
The earth-yellow water sphere exploded, spraying its contents to the left.
The cyan-green water sphere exploded, spraying its contents to the right.
"Rumble..." Earth elements and water elements began to gather.
The exploded Sovereign power acted like a general. Each point of Sovereign power could control billions of elements. In an instant, within the range of over a hundred million miles covered by the explosion, vast amounts of Sovereign power respectively controlled endless elements, undergoing mysterious changes. The Sovereign power spread over a hundred million miles, while the elements spread over billions of miles.
"This is... the profound mystery of the Power of Life? And the profound mystery of Gravity Space is fused within it? So the profound mystery of the Power of Life and Gravity Space can be fused so perfectly!"
"Ah, the fusion of Misty Illusion, Ice Sharpness, and Water Body is so perfect. Condensing into space? Unbelievable!"
While creating the two divine planes, many profound mysteries of the Laws of the Earth and the Laws of Water were also involved. The ingenuity of their application left Linley stunned. Especially since his soul was completely fused with the divine planes. These divine planes were created by him and contained his soul imprint.
Of course, his insights were very clear.
Various insights surged forth like a spring, and Linley was overjoyed. He couldn't help but become completely immersed...
"Rip!" A rift in the Yulan Plane was torn open, and two figures rushed out.
It was Beirut and Qinghuo.
"Linley has been creating divine planes for over thirteen hundred years. Why isn't he finished yet?" Beirut asked, somewhat puzzled. "He was building both divine planes simultaneously, so they should be finishing around the same time."
"Maybe there's something special about creating a divine plane." Qinghuo said.
The two of them carefully observed the two divine planes that had formed ahead. The divine planes already had a rough outline.
"What!" Beirut was suddenly shocked.
"This Linley..." Qinghuo was also shocked. As they observed the two divine planes, they naturally discovered the most special aspect—
These two divine planes had intersected!
"What is Linley doing?" Beirut quickly said. "That area of about ten thousand miles at the intersection is actually fusing two types of Sovereign power and two types of elements... This!" The two divine planes had already taken shape, leaving only the final world construction. But at this moment, Linley had a sudden inspiration. He actually used fused Sovereign power to form a small divine plane, only ten thousand miles wide, at the junction of the two divine planes.
This divine plane was a fused Sovereign power divine plane!
Having experienced the birth of the first two divine planes, Linley now attempted to do it on his own.
But who would have thought...
Creating a divine plane using the method inherent in the Sovereign spark was easy. But when he tried to create this mere ten-thousand-mile-wide divine plane using his own abilities, it was extremely difficult. For over three hundred years, Linley had only solved the first problem—how to perfectly control two types of elements using fused Sovereign power.
Following a template was easy; creating on one's own was extremely difficult.
The two Sovereign sparks only contained the methods for creating an Earth divine plane and a Water divine plane, not a fused divine plane. Linley could only draw on his own insights and use the profound mysteries he had comprehended to build it.
But in doing so, he made mistakes again and again, corrected them again and again, and gained new insights in the process. Although Linley was building a fused divine plane, he was also cultivating!
"It's been three thousand years! Linley is still building that fused divine plane." Beirut and Qinghuo looked at each other, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
At this moment, Linley was completely immersed.
He was completely unaware of the passage of time. His current goal was—to do everything possible to complete this mere ten-thousand-mile-wide fused divine plane!
Inside the fused divine plane.
On one side, there were raging floods; on the other, towering mountains. Linley was suspended in the sky.
"Haha..." Linley opened his eyes with a smile and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"I finally succeeded!" Linley sensed briefly and knew the time. "It only took me a thousand years to create those two divine planes, but it took me four thousand years to create this fused divine plane." Linley was deeply moved. This time... Linley had actually spent a staggering five thousand years!
At the speed of a Sovereign, cultivating for five thousand years was already astonishing progress.
But Linley, under the high-intensity creation process, had comprehended for five thousand years, and his achievements were even more astonishing.
"I didn't expect that in order to create a divine plane, I would actually fuse five profound mysteries of the Laws of the Earth and four profound mysteries of the Laws of Water." Linley didn't know whether to laugh or cry. His insights were all in service of creating the fused divine plane, so it was only natural that he made progress in the Laws of the Earth and the Laws of Water.
Of course...
Linley's greatest achievement in five thousand years of cultivation was his fusion and comprehension of different laws!