Chapter 51: Hope of Success

He queried his memory; to the outside world it was only a moment, but Shawn quickly clarified what he needed.

As expected, this free divine angel, like the angel remembered in the Soul Seed, also belonged to a mid‑rank Dark Lord God named Fist; this mid‑rank Lord God was extremely powerful, rivaling the Dark Sovereign, and obtained a 12‑winged Divine Angel Rebirth Pool.

For unknown reasons, the Lord God fell, all the angels regained freedom, but many were hunted down, and only a very few survived.

None of this mattered to Shawn; he needed to locate the material plane of the Dark Lord God Fist, but unfortunately that angel did not know.

The angel that appeared in his memory was named Uril, a angel Fist deeply trusted and the strongest; consequently, Fist gave up one slot for a Lord God envoy and granted him a Lord Artifact.

When this angel and Uril regained freedom, they made contact; the other intended to return to its own material plane, but which plane, that angel did not know.

"Uril should know where the material plane of Fist's birth is."

Shawn guessed that, for now, this was the only piece of information and the only hope.

In fact, many Lord Gods surely know this, but he finds it hard to ask.

Outside world:

After Shawn quickly retrieved the needed memory, he immediately seized the newly entered soul power, converting it to Soul Seed control, and left a command in the opponent's consciousness that everything remained normal as before.

The power of the Soul Pearl just broke through the Angel Rebirth Pool's energy shield; he also did not know whether the angel, upon waking, would notice anything, but his memory revealed that the being had been imprisoned by the Dark Sovereign for countless trillions of years.

If the angel discovered that the energy of the Angel Rebirth Pool inside him had been destroyed and, in the name of freedom, disclosed it, he would likely become the prime suspect.

There is little danger, but breaking the power of the "Supreme God" would certainly pique the Dark Sovereign's interest; if other Sovereigns were informed, Ao Fu, Utrede, and even the Death Sovereign would want to know how it was done. Moreover, this ability could threaten a ten‑win streak on the planar battlefield, making the risk considerably higher.

"How's it going?" the Dark Sovereign, naturally unaware of what had happened, asked.

Shawn shook his head and said, "Useless, cannot probe memory or bewilder souls."

"Just as I expected, the Supreme God's power cannot be breached," the Dark Sovereign replied indifferently, having no great expectations himself.

Shawn added, "Indeed, the Supreme God's power is too wondrous."

At the same time, he pondered that the current situation showed that even if he later successfully Soul‑seeded other divine angels, it would require prolonged Soul‑seeding and could not be done on a large scale, yet fortunately he could Soul‑seed enough of them.

The Dark Sovereign smiled again, "Then that's that; I will now send you back to the Netherworld."

The two once more traversed a spatial turbulence, returning to the Netherworld, where the Dark Sovereign directly delivered Shawn to Nether Mountain;

After the Dark Sovereign departed, the Death Sovereign asked, "Shawn, when you strip soul fragments, what is your success rate?"

"Roughly one success per thousand attempts; it requires extreme caution," Shawn recalled, "But after stripping a few thousand, I feel more practiced; perhaps with more attempts the success rate will rise a bit."

Stripping soul fragments is a delicate art; even with Great Perfection, success is hard.

However, his Great Perfection is the mysterious fusion of death and life, not merely the Death‑Rule Great Perfection, so he does not know whether Dan Ning Dun from the original work is somewhat stronger in this regard.

From his feeling, it is equally difficult; no wonder Berut spent a great price to have Dan Ning Dun perform the soul‑fragment stripping—likely because of Berut's formidable strength and a lingering debt, otherwise others would have no chance.

The Death Sovereign laughed, "Haha, that probability is already decent; with this technique, many Lord Gods will probably come to you for help in the future."

"Lord God descendants?" Shawn asked back.

Lord God descendants are not all talents; even among his own Great Perfection descendants there are many mediocrities.

Talent is innate; if you have it you have it, if not you don't, and good or bad is predestined. The only thing one can control is effort, but if talent is too poor, effort is useless.

The Death Sovereign laughed, "Yes, many Lord Gods have descendants; most don't care much, but direct descendants or occasional favored ones are given more attention;

but if talent is lacking or one is stuck at a bottleneck, your soul‑fragment stripping becomes very useful."

"However, soul fragments can only aid beginners," Shawn added, "and they only assist law‑aligned divine ranks."

The Death Sovereign shook his head, "Helping beginners is already good; bottlenecks require countless opportunities. I've been stuck at the final step for an incalculable number of trillions of years, and many Lord Gods and even many divine‑rank Asuras face the same."

"Lord Gods should be able to make countless material planes revere their descendants, right?" Shawn asked again.

The Death Sovereign laughed, "You do know a lot; faith power is indeed useful, but not that powerful—when hitting a bottleneck it may not work;

and the faith power of a Lord God differs from that of a Lord God's descendant; no matter how much they promote it, the effect is far less than a Lord God who does nothing."

"I see," Shawn nodded;

The faith power of the Lord God tier is practically cheating, though not the Lord God's doing; that's how the laws of heaven and earth work.

If someday he becomes the Death Lord God and still relies on that endless faith power to truly break the Death Rule into Great Perfection, he would possess strength surpassing ordinary Sovereigns.

The Death Sovereign said again, "Alright, your business is done; now it's my turn. I've been eager to try the realm of Death‑Rule Great Perfection—what the experience is like."

"Sovereign, will your Lord God avatar handle it personally?" Shawn asked uncertainly.

The Death Sovereign nodded, "Yes, but rest assured, I won't employ willpower, and neither will you; we will purely contest with mystery."

Shawn hesitated and asked, "Sovereign, as far as I know, you are a special divine beast, your body comparable to a Lord Artifact's strength; without willpower I can't defeat you."

The Four Great Rule Sovereigns, aside from the Life Sovereign, have the other three at Lord Artifact level, and two of them possess Great Perfection;

Thus their strength does not stem from possessing Supreme Artifacts, but from their own power, which gave rise to Supreme Artifacts;

Even if there were no Supreme God missions in this world, the four of them should still be able to crush the other seven rule‑aligned Sovereigns; the only variable might be Augusta, who possesses an extra willpower, and he should also know some of Ao Fu's ultimate techniques and similar bodily strength.

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