Chapter 44: Devouring the Sovereign's Might

"You're welcome; you're my messenger, so it's natural that I have to deal with other Lord Gods targeting me." Death Overlord smiled, then added, "By the way, the people inside this Purple Mist will soon die; I must ensure that the phantoms they recorded earlier do not leak out."

I will assign the Lord God's army from the Nine Nether Realm to handle this, but you must ensure that the members of the Lord God's army do not engage in any smuggling.

"All of them will die?" Shawn was startled, but still said, "Fine, I'll take care of it."

For a Lord God, regardless of how many divine-level beings there are, they can be killed at will; that's the Great Perfection, perhaps a bit special.

Death Overlord added, "This is also for your sake; the conflicts you have with the Lord Gods are best kept from the outside world; and the affairs that occur among the Lord Gods later, you should not tell anyone, not even your family."

"But these people probably also have divine avatars, right?" Shawn asked.

Death Overlord laughed, "That's fine; without concrete evidence, those rumors can be easily suppressed by the Demon Castle or other plane Lord God castles;"

As long as no actual phantoms appear, it's fine. If the phantoms spread on a large scale, we will have no way to deal with it.

"That's good," Shawn nodded;

In the original work, the final Supreme God mission became known worldwide, likely because it involved the Supreme God and Mord's information was detailed, making it hard for the Lord Gods to suppress.

Ordinary matters, however, are easily suppressed by the Lord Gods.

Death Overlord stretched lazily, revealing a perfect figure, and said, "Shawn, since your issue with the Four Beast Clan has been resolved, what do you plan to do next?"

"Lord Overlord, do you have any other missions?" Shawn asked,

Death Overlord shook his head, "No, I don't. If you have any personal matters, attend to them. When you have free time, return to Nether Mountain for a spar; it might aid my mysteries."

"Alright, no problem; I'll go to Nether Mountain as soon as possible," Shawn agreed.

Now that the conflict with the Four Beast Clan is settled and he's no longer worried about being hunted by the Lord Gods, he naturally intends to return to his own material plane; on that plane, possessing two Great Perfection divine avatars makes him invincible;

This also allows him to study the relationship between his soul pearl and the Lord Artifact without worry.

Hell, Tianji Mountain Range:

The Four Beast Clan went straight to Gaisileisen's great hall and tossed Buweit onto the ground, the latter trembling.

Gaisileisen, seeing his father's and others' displeased expressions, hurriedly asked, "Father, what's wrong?"

"Bru and the others have been rescued; I placed them in the Nether Realm's Blood Dragon Valley to await their revival, but they still carry soul poison within them," the Azure Dragon Lord God said, his face still grim. "However, in the clash with Death Overlord, we were utterly defeated and lost face before the Nether Realm Lord God."

"What's the situation?" Gaisileisen quickly asked.

The Azure Dragon said, "It's like this."

After roughly recounting the events, the Azure Dragon, still furious, looked at Buweit and said, "It's this fool who deceived you, causing the four of us to lose all face."

Buweit, trembling, said, "Ancestor, Buweit deserves death, but considering I once..."

"Useless," the Azure Dragon's eyes narrowed, a surge of Lord God's power gathered but quickly dissipated, and in a cold voice said, "Killing you won't ease my hatred. Aren't you after the Lord Artifact? This is a material defense Lord Artifact; acknowledge the master."

"What?" Buweit was stunned, while Gaisileisen and several other Lord Gods showed no surprise.

The Azure Dragon said again, "Acknowledge the master."

"Yes." Buweit was confused but complied.

"Very well." As soon as the Azure Dragon finished speaking, a space fissure several meters wide appeared in the hall; before Buweit could react, he was thrown directly into it.

The White Tiger laughed, "Brother, why waste a Lord God's messenger slot?"

The Azure Dragon scoffed, "It doesn't matter; Lord God's power can still employ Asuras, and I intend for this waste to drift in spatial turbulence for countless years before choosing self-destruction. Once the Lord Artifact lifts the acknowledgment, I'll know."

Gaisileisen sighed inwardly and said, "Father, since the matter has passed, let it be;

The sole surprise is that Shawn actually achieved Great Perfection; otherwise this wouldn't have occurred. In the countless billions of years of this world, there have been only a handful of such beings; who could have imagined we'd encounter such an existence.

"This is already the second time," the Vermilion Bird frowned, "Could it be that my Four Beast Clan is clashing with the Great Perfection Ascendant God?"

Great Perfection is nothing to a Lord God, but ordinary Great Perfections are backed by Overlords, who value Great Perfection greatly;

Moreover, many Overlords already intend to strike at the Four Beast Clan's combined innate divine abilities, making them even more eager to protect their offspring.

The Black Tortoise Lord God said, "Just consider yourselves unlucky; that's that. In the future, don't provoke Great Perfection."

"Understood." Gaisileisen could only agree;

He didn't want to provoke Great Perfection, but it was a coincidence that the person he was hunting became Great Perfection; who could avoid that?

The Vermilion Bird added, "The soul poison lingering in Bru and the others' souls that Shawn left is quite potent; we must find a way to eliminate it."

"Right." The Azure Dragon Lord God also agreed.

A few of them taking a bit of punishment didn't bother them much, but if they couldn't purge this poison, their faces would be even more tarnished.

Over the next several years, Shawn remained in the Nine Nether Realm, working with the Lord God's army that Death Overlord had transferred, investigating all divine-level beings within the Purple Mist;

Phantoms outside were destroyed outright, and other spatial rings or possible storage artifacts were all gathered.

Eventually, after everything was completed, the Lord God's army would continue to garrison here for billions of years; no one may enter or leave without a Lord God's command, to prevent any unnoticed phantom leaks from spreading outward.

After a dozen years, Shawn's mission was finished, and he proceeded directly to the teleportation array deep in the Nether Sea.

Different divine planes have varying numbers of teleportation arrays; for example, Hell has seven, each controlled by a Lord God, but the Nether Realm has only two, for reasons unknown.

The Nether Sea's array lies tens of thousands of meters beneath the ocean floor; with the Nether Realm's gravity, ordinary sanctuaries would be crushed outright. Compared to land-based magical arrays, this place is indeed far more dangerous.

In the deep sea, Shawn quickly flew to the vicinity of the array;

"Halt, travelers." A squad of Ascendant God soldiers looked at Shawn and asked, "This is the Moonlit Sea Valley deep in the Nether Sea, where the Nether Realm's teleportation array resides; unauthorized persons must not approach."

"I wish to use the array," Shawn said, "to go to the material plane."

"Material plane?" the Ascendant God squad leader exclaimed, "The price to go to the material plane is—"

"I know," Shawn interrupted.

The sentence contained a hint of soul influence; a squad of a dozen Ascendant Gods momentarily became soul-fogged, but quickly recovered.

Realizing the person before them was a super-stronger, they immediately became courteous.

Shawn tossed a spatial ring containing a trillion Nether Stones; the reason he didn't use a Lord God token was to prevent his material plane from being later discovered.

Of course, if a Lord God were watching now, there would be nothing he could do.

"Sir, which material plane are you heading to?" a soldier hurried forward, flattering.

Any Ascendant God capable of returning to a material plane is either a peak master or from a great clan; in any case, they are far stronger than ordinary beings.

Shawn said indifferently: "Azure Origin Material Plane."

Azure Origin Plane Transfer Array:

Black light flashed, an intermediate deity bowed and said: "Greetings, Lord Shawn."

"Golden Fire?" Shawn glanced at the plane guardian, then his figure vanished directly.

Without informing anyone, Shawn's multiple divine avatars merged, and he arrived at a solitary island in the southern part of the Azure Origin Continent.

Afterwards, he took out the primary divine artifact from his spatial ring; with a thought, a soul pearl emitting golden-yellow light flew out from his head.

Suddenly, the golden energy surrounding the soul pearl condensed into strips, directly wrapping around a primary divine artifact longsword on the ground.

The longsword emitted a trembling sound like a resonant hum; Shawn clearly felt that the soul pearl was devouring the primary divine artifact's power.

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