Death Sovereign

For over a million years, Roy had never inquired about the affairs of the Netherworld's Four Divine Beast Families. However, Shelley's ability to develop the Four Divine Beast Families so well undoubtedly proved her capabilities.

Roy felt completely at ease entrusting Shelley with the task of collecting intelligence from the material planes.

Next, Roy had something he needed to attend to.

After being delayed for over a million years, he hoped they were still there.

Without using Willpower, Roy flew towards Iron Saber Gorge at his current fastest speed. Through the Planar Teleportation Array in Iron Saber Gorge, he returned to the Netherworld.

The Death Sovereign's residence was located on the highest peak in the entire Netherworld—Netherworld Mountain.

With Roy's strength, he encountered no obstacles along the way.

Just looking at Roy's flight speed was enough to deter anyone from harboring ill intentions.

When you become powerful enough, everyone in the world is friendly towards you.

"I see it, Netherworld Mountain!"

At the edge of his vision, a towering mountain peak stood in isolation, piercing the sky. From a distance, the entire mountain shimmered with a faint green light.

As he flew closer, it became apparent that the entire Netherworld Mountain was shrouded in clouds and mist.

From bottom to top, it was divided into three layers: white, gray, and purple.

Indigo lightning bolts descended from the sky, intertwining to form chains that enveloped the entire Netherworld Mountain. Roy could even sense the aura of lightning akin to Sovereign Power within these lightning chains.

Roy charged directly into the lightning chains. Just as he was about to pass through the gaps between these chains, a semi-transparent membrane formed between them. Countless lightning bolts flowed between the membrane and the chains, releasing terrifying power.

Unfortunately, these were nothing to Roy.

Covering his hand with Willpower, Roy extended his right hand and thrust it forward.

"Crack..."

Roy tore an opening in the semi-transparent membrane. The violent lightning struck his hand, causing spatial cracks to appear in the surrounding space. However, this level of power was not even enough to tickle him.

With his right hand loosely clenched, he suddenly tore—

"Crack—Bang!"

The membrane formed by the lightning chains was directly torn apart by Roy.

Suddenly, as if a meteorite had been dropped into a calm sea, countless lightning bolts raged within the chains, lunging at Roy like giant dragons.

Seeing this, Roy spread his fingers and clenched the attacking lightning bolts. Instantly, these chains twisted like giant pythons whose seven inches had been grasped, emitting bursts of roaring sounds and blasting huge spatial cracks in the surrounding space.

Roy was about to repeat his previous move and tear these lightning bolts apart, but at that moment, a fishhook pierced through space and attacked Roy with unparalleled might.

He released his grip, and the lightning bolts immediately merged back into the lightning chains like myriad rivers flowing into the sea, not attacking Roy again.

Clearly, this seemingly natural formation of lightning could be controlled by someone.

Roy extended two fingers and caught the attacking fishhook.

"Boom boom boom boom boom..."

A surging power erupted from where Roy's fingers met the fishhook, tearing a circular hole over ten meters wide in space.

Through this hole, colorful spatial currents could be seen within the spatial rift.

A powerful suction emanated from this circular spatial hole, seeming to devour everything around it.

Even the lightning within the lightning chains could not escape the devouring maw of the spatial rift.

However, this immense devouring power had no effect on Roy whatsoever.

Under the effect of Willpower, even the spatial rifts were under his control.

As long as he didn't foolishly enter a spatial rift, any number of them appearing around him would be of no consequence.

Suddenly, Roy felt the power on the fishhook surge a hundredfold, and his heart leaped in alarm.

Is this using Sovereign Power against me?

Not daring to delay, with a thought, the residual Sovereign Power within his body erupted, nullifying the opponent's sudden attack.

From this exchange, Roy already knew who the owner of the fishhook was.

Judging by the attacks that had erupted so far, excluding the amplification from Sovereign Power, it was about eighty percent of his Paragon Willpower.

This was Lilia, the Death Sovereign's Water Element Divine Clone!

"Swish swish swish..."

The fishhook could not harm Roy, so the fishing line behind it immediately rippled, causing space to undulate like water waves.

Subsequently, these fishing lines circled around and bound Roy. Roy did not resist, merely using Willpower to protect himself, allowing himself to be pulled towards Netherworld Mountain by the fishing line like a fish.

"So scary!"

Within Netherworld Mountain, sealed by the lightning chains, two small green snakes trembled, their eyes filled with fear.

Their location was precisely behind the barrier of lightning chains that Roy had intended to break through earlier.

When Roy had prepared to force his way through, they had thought that this person would be obliterated by the lightning chains outside Netherworld Mountain, just like everyone else before.

But they hadn't expected this person to be so terrifying; those lightning chains that filled the sky had almost been torn apart by him.

If the Sovereign hadn't intervened later, they would have been killed by the residual shockwaves of the lightning, right?

As expected, it's so scary outside!

Only after Roy's figure disappeared from the sight of the two little snakes did they, dragging their trembling bodies, stagger and swim towards the depths of Netherworld Mountain.

They would never come out to play again.

Staying by the Sovereign's side is the safest.

...

"Hoo hoo hoo..."

The fishing line pulled Roy towards Netherworld Mountain. After flying over five hundred kilometers and passing through a mountain gate, he stopped beside a small lake.

"Swish swish swish..."

The fishing line binding Roy loosened, and it was reeled back into the fishing rod by a beautiful, red-haired girl by the lake.

"With your strength, you should have been able to break free from my restraint. Why didn't you?"

The red-haired girl asked Roy curiously.

As the controller of the Netherworld, the Death Sovereign, one of the Four Great Rules, Lilia stood at the pinnacle of the Sovereigns.

Possessing treasures like the "Netherworld Heart," there were no secrets in the Netherworld that she didn't know, if she wished.

Ever since Roy became a Paragon and used Sovereign Power to spread his divine sense, he had already been noticed by the Death Sovereign.

The exaggerated range of Roy's divine sense spread had truly frightened her.

The willpower of a Lower Sovereign and a Paragon differed by ten thousand times.

However, based on the range of Roy's divine sense spread, the willpower of a Lower Sovereign was, at most, a hundred times stronger than Roy's, and possibly even less than a hundred times.

What kind of Paragon was this?

At that time, the Death Sovereign Lilia had been tempted and wanted to go over and forcefully turn him into her Sovereign's Emissary.

Never mind if a forcibly plucked melon is sweet or not, just twist it off first to confirm ownership.

It was just a pity that before she could even get up, this guy ran off.

Fortunately, after more than a hundred years, this guy had returned to the Netherworld.

And judging by the direction, he was heading straight for Netherworld Mountain.

"Greetings, Sovereign."

Roy did not answer the red-haired, blue-clothed girl's question. Instead, he solemnly bowed to her.

This was the Death Sovereign, located at the very peak of the Coiling Dragon Universe. Roy would be an idiot to put on airs as a Paragon in front of her.

Let alone Paragon, she might have already killed several Sovereigns with her own hands.

Roy's action, though not explicitly stated, was an answer to the Death Sovereign's question from another angle.

"How boring."

Seeing Roy act like this, the Death Sovereign lost any desire to spar with him.

With eighty percent of Paragon willpower, other divine clones of Sovereigns could still contend with Paragon beings.

Yes, contend.

The difference in willpower between two levels of Paragon, coupled with the amplification from the complete fusion of six Profound Mysteries of Laws, was enough for a Paragon High-God to easily defeat a Sovereign's divine clone.

This was a power gap of more than twenty times.

However, no Paragon being would be so foolish as to go and beat up a Sovereign's "alt account" when they knew the Sovereign had divine clones – it would only be unnecessarily awkward.

"Speak, what do you want from me?"

The Death Sovereign didn't bother with how Roy knew she lived here.

Sovereigns were mysterious to divine-level beings because the power gap between them was too vast. Deities without willpower could be wiped out by a single impact of a Sovereign's willpower, much like sneezing.

The immense power gap meant Sovereigns had no desire to communicate with deities.

Only Paragon High-Gods possessed willpower and could withstand a Sovereign's "sneeze," thus earning the opportunity for "equal communication" with Sovereigns.

Note, this "equal communication" was from the Sovereign's unilateral perspective.

If a Sovereign wanted to communicate with you equally, then it was equal communication.

If a Sovereign no longer wished to acknowledge you, what were you?

You might say that a Paragon could hide in a material plane, and the Sovereign couldn't do anything to them.

But wasn't that equivalent to being imprisoned by the Sovereign in a material plane?

As long as you appeared in a God Plane or Supreme Plane, with a Sovereign capable of crossing the Infernal Realm in half a day, where could you possibly escape to?

"Sovereign, I wish to request that you inquire about my parents' whereabouts and see if they are still alive."

Roy's parents in the Infernal Realm had died of old age because they couldn't break through to the Saint Realm.

All beings below the divine level, upon death, would have their souls enter the Undead Realm of the Netherworld and become undead.

These lowest-level undead have no memories of their past lives, only the instinct for slaughter and evolution from the depths of their being.

They can grow by killing other undead creatures, with no bottlenecks whatsoever until the Saint Realm limit.

Of course, the possibility of becoming a god is the same as for others; out of a million Saint Realm experts, perhaps one Saint Realm undead can become a god.

Upon becoming a god, their souls are baptized by the laws of heaven and earth, recovering memories of their past lives and living a second life.

"I cannot fulfill your request."

"What?"

Roy looked up. As far as he knew, the Death Sovereign's supreme treasure, the Netherworld Heart, could freely probe everything within the Netherworld. How could it be impossible?

The only possibility was that the Death Sovereign didn't want to help him!

...

The mission was completed twenty minutes ahead of the expected time, so it was sent out early.

Good night, everyone. Lao Liu will write another chapter today for backup tomorrow!

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