Chapter 136: A Clash and Deal with the Sovereign of Destruction

Thousands of years passed in a flash, the Divine Plane returned to normal, and the shifts among the Lord Gods had little effect on Divine ranks, except for the Four Beast Clan.

After the Lord God Council, all Lord Gods confirmed that the Four Beasts were dead, and this naturally became known to some Divine‑level Asura families, prompting a full‑scale extermination war against the Four Beast Clan; a dozen powerful families stormed from other Divine Planes into Hell, and several wandering masters also joined.

Even with early preparations, the Four Beast Clan could not match the endless foes and was ultimately driven into the Heavenly Sacrifice Mountains.

What no one expected was the sudden appearance of the mysterious Great Perfection Pa, who instantly slashed a dozen Asuras with overwhelming force, intimidating all clans, and finally a pact was reached under Great Perfection's arrangement.

From then on the Four Beast Clan could stay only within the Heavenly Sacrifice Mountains; no other enemy could enter, but battles outside remained completely unrestricted.

At first the Four Beast Clan relied on that secure base and frequently fought other foes outside the Heavenly Sacrifice Mountains, but they could not match the numbers; after fighting for millennia they had to concede, retreating fully inside the mountains and daring not to leave.

Since then the Four Beast Clan became a joke among the four supreme planes and the seven major Divine Planes, and the scattered Four Beast descendants were relentlessly hunted by countless forces; any trace of their aura meant death, causing many unjust souls, yet on the Divine Plane no one cared.

Qingyuan Material Plane:

Shawn and Bulaier were playing chess across the void.

"Why does Pa Shi deliberately protect the Four Beast Clan? His relationship with the Four Beasts isn't exactly good, is it? I heard Zijing's ties with the Vermilion Bird Lord God are actually fine," Bulaier asked, puzzled.

Shawn smiled lightly and said, "Pa Shi is very cautious, so he wouldn't meddle in such matters. I guess it's because of the Destruction Sovereign's order that he stepped in."

Bulaier asked, "Destruction Sovereign? Does he have a good relationship with the Four Beasts' Lord God?"

"I've heard it's not exactly good; the Four Beasts reside in Hell but only heed the Destruction Sovereign's tone, not his commands, and the Destruction Sovereign rarely seeks them," Shawn said with a grin. "Utreid wants to protect the Four Beast Clan likely to study their combined innate divine technique; that move is unbelievably powerful, far surpassing the amplification of Supreme Artifacts—who wouldn't be tempted?"

Even a mighty Supreme Artifact only amplifies about a hundredfold, and only for physical attacks.

The Four Beasts' combined innate divine technique can amplify ten thousand times, targeting souls, and its temporal‑spatial binding power is even more terrifying than soul attacks; no Sovereign can resist, even a Law Sovereign—once they master it, the Rule Sovereign cannot block it.

Bulaier continued, "Father, you already have the Four Beasts' essence blood; what have you discovered?"

Shawn shook his head, "No. I've studied for ages with no progress; even having seen the Four Beasts' combined technique is useless."

All these years his Life Lord God avatar has been researching Four Beast essence blood on the Material Plane, even arranging to capture many members of the Four Beast Clan and placing them in a Divine Plane he created, allowing the bloodline to continue breeding for his future experiments.

But after tens of thousands of years of research, there was still no progress.

In the original work, the Destruction Sovereign truly possessed remarkable talent; in less than twenty thousand years he discovered "Temporal Chaos," yet, according to Shawn's estimate, that was only the final step—over countless billions of years the Destruction Sovereign had been studying the Four Beasts' ultimate move.

It's even possible that the Light Sovereign's extermination of the Four Beasts was part of the Destruction Sovereign's plan, but no one expected Berrut to intercept it, and the Destruction Sovereign promptly found Berrut to exchange essence blood—making things very problematic.

"Time is infinite; Father can take his time," Bulaier laughed. "Even if the Destruction Sovereign or the Fate Sovereign discovers how to wield the Four Beasts' ultimate move, without essence blood it can't be executed—only theory in the void."

Shawn nodded, "Right, so I'm in no hurry at all."

In the Panlong Cosmos, divine beasts can only wield innate divine techniques using essence blood; without essence blood there is no innate energy, and no amount of theory helps—not just the Four Beasts, but all other divine beasts alike.

Many Lord Gods researching various innate techniques also need to extract essence blood from the corresponding divine beasts.

Integrating another's essence blood into one's own body without conflict is already difficult; borrowing that blood to wield an innate technique is even harder, and only a few uniquely gifted beings can achieve it.

After another tens of thousands of years, on this day, Shawn on the Underworld's Yolo Island was watching a group of Divine‑level beings fight desperately over some of his crafted treasures when a familiar divine consciousness swept by.

"Utreid?" Shawn sensed the surroundings but detected no soul aura, instantly realizing the other was within a spatial turbulence; with a thought, a massive rift opened ahead, and Shawn stepped through.

Inside the spatial turbulence, Shawn quickly arrived beside Utreid and laughed, "Lord Destruction Sovereign, why not come directly to the Underworld and instead use this?"

Utreid smiled lightly, "Some matters are better kept from the other Lord Gods."

"Then speak," Shawn nodded.

Utreid said, "I need something you possess."

Shawn laughed, "I have many treasures: the Four Beasts' Lord God Seal, a Supreme Divine Relic; what do you want?"

"None of those, I want the Four Beasts' essence blood," Utreid said slowly.

"Essence blood?" Shawn pondered briefly, "Have you figured out how to wield the Four Beasts' combined innate divine technique?"

Utreid replied, "No, I'm still researching, but you understand the logic—without the corresponding essence blood, research is too hard. Over countless years I've managed to capture some Four Beast descendants, but they're all of low bloodlines; the high‑blooded ones are tightly guarded by the Four Beasts."

In the recent tens of thousands of years of upheaval within the Four Beast Clan, I seized the chance to obtain a few with richer bloodlines, yet compared to the Four Beasts' own essence blood they're far inferior; without true essence blood, research can't advance at all.

"Indeed," Shawn nodded, acknowledging the research issue, and said, "But the Four Beasts' essence blood is so noble, not inferior at all to a Lord God Seal or the Four Beasts' own essence blood; what will you offer in exchange?"

Utreid said, "I have a mid‑tier Thunder‑lineage Lord God Seal in my hand; that should be enough in value, right?"

"A mid‑tier Thunder Lord God Seal? It was in your possession all along?" Shawn was somewhat surprised.

Some Lord Gods between Heaven and Earth are missing, and Lord God Seals have long gone unrefined; many Lord Gods speculate they must be held by a particular Lord God or even a Sovereign, since aside from Supreme Gods, only Lord Gods can slay other Lord Gods.

Only in rare cases when a Lord God Seal is lost does a fortunate person happen to pick it up.

Utreid laughed, "Yes, during the War of Faith, the conflict erupted; at that time the Lord God Covenant hadn't been established, yet many Lord Gods perished."

"The mid‑tier Thunder Lord God Seal is indeed a treasure, but it's of little use to me," Shawn shook his head.

For a high‑rank Thunder deity, no treasure between Heaven and Earth rivals a Thunder Lord God Seal, but for a Lord God lacking Thunder talent, it's of little value unless he can trade it for a matching Seal from another Lord God—a far less likely chance.

Utreid frowned slightly, "Then how about this: I owe you a favor, okay?"

"Then I want you to use that favor to kill the Light Sovereign. Do you agree?" Shawn asked with a faint smile.

The Destruction Sovereign froze, shaking his head, "That won't do; favors can't be without limits. I can't arbitrarily kill other Sovereigns, and Augusta is backed by Ouf; you really intend to kill Augusta?"

"Not really; I was just saying it," Shawn said. "In that case the favor isn't much use, after all, to be honest, anything you can do, I can basically do myself."

"You're truly confident," Utreid said with a faint smile.

Shawn was indifferent, "Believe it or not, up to you."

"Shawn, regardless, I still intend to obtain the Four Beasts' essence blood," Utreid said coldly.

"What, is this a threat to me?" Shawn said coolly.

"It's not a threat, just a hope that we can reach a peaceful transaction," Utreid continued.

"Hahaha," Shawn laughed. "If I refuse, will you make a move?"

Utreid frowned, "It seems you truly have that confidence. Then, if you can block one of my moves, the matter ends here; if you lose, give me half of the Four Beasts' essence blood—how about that?"

"That won't do; this wager isn't fair—you must at least put up something of comparable value to gamble against the Four Beasts' essence blood," Shawn retorted.

A purple crystal suddenly materialized in the Destruction Sovereign's hand, and he said, "Then how about this mid‑tier Lord God Seal?"

"Fine," Shawn thought it over and agreed, "There's nothing in Heaven and Earth that can compare to the Four Beasts' essence blood."

"Good," the Destruction Sovereign was delighted, and immediately produced a long spear emitting a terrifying aura, the Destruction‑attribute Supreme Artifact.

The black‑robed hunter, Wuteleide's cold gaze fixed on Shawn, brandishing his long spear, surged toward Shawn at near‑teleportation speed, the spear's tip pointing straight at Shawn's chest.

With this move, he did not intend to kill, and Shawn understood that; black light spread over his whole body, and with a flick of his right hand he already blocked the spear.

"Arrogant." Wuteleide was furious inside; this was the method Ao Fu often used to deal with his Supreme Artifact—by slapping it away with a hand, which was a great insult to him.

But there was no way around it; Ao Fu's strength was indeed that great, yet you, Shawn, also play like this?

However, unexpectedly, Shawn did not slap directly at the attacking Supreme Artifact; instead his right hand blocked right in front of the Supreme Artifact, "clang", the sound of metal clashing rang out, Shawn was knocked back by the spear's force, yet his hand remained unharmed.

"Impossible?" Wuteleide's eyes widened in shock; even Ao Fu only used his palm to strike the side of the Supreme Artifact, suppressing it with absolute force rather than directly confronting its edge.

Seeing again the black armor that had just covered Shawn's palm, Wuteleide instantly understood: "Material Defense Supreme Artifact?"

Shawn rubbed his slightly sore right hand and laughed, "Yes, exactly the Material Defense Supreme Artifact."

Even with the Material Defense Supreme Artifact, Wuteleide's move was still too powerful—probably the strongest material attack aside from Ao Fu's transcendence of reincarnation; although his hand was fine, a force still seeped in, making his entire arm feel some pain.

But that's as far as it goes; to truly wound himself with just a material attack is absolutely impossible, even a head‑on clash would be harmless.

"So you've already completed the Supreme Divine Mission," Wuteleide sighed, "I lost. This Lord God Form is yours now."

After speaking, he tossed the Thunder‑type Lord God Form to Shawn; Shawn caught it, stored it away, and laughed, "Haha, Wuteleide, actually, wanting the Four Divine Beasts' Essence Blood isn't impossible either."

"Oh, what must I do to give it to you?" Though he lost the Lord God Form, Wuteleide didn't mind; after all he has no Thunder‑type divine avatar, nor any other divine avatars, so the Lord God Form holds little meaning for him, at most it can be used to grasp a Great Perfection.

Now, for him, the ways to boost his strength are the Four Divine Beasts' Essence Blood, ten consecutive victories on the Plane Battlefield, or a Supreme Artifact; the latter two are out of the question, so only the former remains, and if the Four Divine Beasts' finishing move is successfully researched, its amplification would be the greatest.

Shawn laughed, "I can give you the Essence Blood, but you must issue a Supreme Divine Oath; once you successfully research it, you must also tell me the method of that finishing move, okay?"

Relying on one's own research of the Four Divine Beasts' Combined Heavenly Talent Divine Technique, Shawn actually isn't very confident, but Wuteleide succeeded in the original work, so the possibility is very high.

"Impossible," Wuteleide quickly refused, "If you also master this move, I would be in mortal danger."

Shawn retorted, "Then if you master the Four Divine Beasts' Combined Heavenly Talent Divine Technique, wouldn't I be equally in danger?"

Wuteleide fell silent immediately.

Shawn continued, "How about this: issue another Supreme Divine Oath; once both of us have mastered this move, under any circumstance neither may use it against the other, okay?"

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(End of chapter)