The world is like a chess game, with winds and clouds changing.
Since the end of that Plane War, the Sovereign realm has been thoroughly divided into two major factions.
One side, led by Destruction Sovereign Utred and Destiny Sovereign Off, aims to monopolize ten consecutive victories in the Plane War to obtain more Willpower, attempting to break through to the Supreme God realm.
On the other side, Life Sovereign Vivian could not participate in the Plane War, unable to help Death Sovereign, causing the Death Sovereign's faction to decline.
At a critical moment, Tina resolutely abandoned her future, refined the Earth Lord Godhead Roy gave her, raising her strength to 11.6, reaching the level of a Rule Sovereign.
Although still slightly behind Destruction Sovereign's 12.2, who obtained a Supreme Treasure and a portion of Willpower, she was not without the ability to fight back.
Then, Tina, having become a Rule Sovereign, resolutely announced the alliance between the Star lineage and the Death Sovereign lineage.
Their goal was to break Destruction Sovereign Utred and Destiny Sovereign Off's monopoly of ten consecutive Plane War victories and destroy their ambition of becoming Supreme Gods.
Meanwhile, Life Sovereign Vivian, in the center, worked hard to maintain the balance between the Sovereigns.
With a Supreme God taking responsibility for Life Sovereign Vivian, her faction did not participate in the Plane War. Currently, under Life Sovereign Vivian's coordination, Destruction Sovereign Utred and Destiny Sovereign Off's side and Death Sovereign Lilia and the current Star Sovereign Tina's side have maintained a certain degree of stability.
Of course, while the conflicts between the Sovereigns subsided, the conflicts between the Gods intensified!
In the Seven God Planes and the Four Supreme Planes, all families that opposed the Four Divine Beast Family were systematically destroyed by the concentrated power of the Four Divine Beast Family.
Even the patriarchs of these families, the Sovereign's Emissaries of various Sovereigns, could not escape.
In the end, the only family that could still contend with the Four Divine Beast Family in the God Planes was the Augusta Family from the Light God Plane.
Afterward, the Four Divine Beast Family greatly encouraged their members to reproduce and formed four armies composed of all their clan members who had reached the God realm or above.
These four armies were tasked with one thing: to cultivate, cultivate, and cultivate!
Then, when either the Light God Plane, the Infernal Realm, or the Heavenly Realm achieved seven consecutive victories, they would join the Plane War to intercept them.
Conversely, if the Earth God Plane or the Death God Plane achieved seven consecutive victories, they would face ambushes from Destruction Sovereign Utred and Destiny Sovereign Off.
Currently, Destruction Sovereign Utred and Destiny Sovereign Off's side held a slight advantage over Death Sovereign Lilia and Star Sovereign Tina. However, if either of them received the Willpower reward, the situation would reverse.
Therefore, neither side would allow the other's strongest member to gain another Willpower reward.
During normal times, it was fine. But once the Earth, Death, Destiny, or Destruction Sovereigns achieved seven consecutive victories, the ensuing battles were so fierce they would change one's complexion.
Commanders and soldiers who had lived a little longer would not participate in such Plane Wars.
Generally, the Plane War was a means for commanders to gain Commander Badges.
But battlefields after seven consecutive victories were simply places to hand over badges.
The army that the Four Divine Beast Family had accumulated for several hundred million years would be almost wiped out in a single Plane War.
Fortunately, the Four Divine Beast Family's sheer size allowed them to endure such consumption.
However, as the war progressed, even a vast entity like the Four Divine Beast Family could not withstand such attrition.
Gradually, as the war continued, some members of the Four Divine Beast Family, unwilling to bear the same death sentence for their children as they had, stopped bringing their offspring back to the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range for ancestral rites, thereby separating them from the Four Divine Beast Family.
The patriarchs of the Four Divine Beast Family did not say much about these people's choices.
If, one day, the Four Divine Beast Family were to fight their last clan member, then these people could be considered the continuation of the Four Divine Beast Family!
Under these circumstances, the number of Four Divine Beast Family members in various planes rapidly decreased.
After several hundred eons, starting from the Wind Element God Plane, then to the Light God Plane, members of the Four Divine Beast Family in one God Plane and Supreme Plane after another returned to the Infernal Realm, ceasing to develop further in the God Planes and other Supreme Planes.
Later on, one could basically only find members of the Four Divine Beast Family in the Azure Mansion.
Of course, there were also members of the Four Divine Beast Family on the third planet in the Star Supreme Plane.
However, after several hundred eons, they were also reduced to less than one in a hundred. Any clan member who reached the God realm would go to the Azure Mansion in the Infernal Realm, join the Four Great Legions, and sacrifice their lives for the family.
Having dominated the Seven God Planes and the Four Supreme Planes for over fifteen hundred eons, the Four Divine Beast Family finally fell from their position as the number one family.
The current number one family was the Augusta Family from the Light God Plane.
For several hundred eons, Roy, from the perspective of a Supreme God, quietly witnessed the changes in the world and increasingly understood the terror of "fate."
These were people whose "fate was predetermined," those who could never escape the cage no matter what.
The Four Divine Beast Family was destined for decline after their peak, and countless members of the Four Divine Beast Family would spend their lives in battle, fighting to the death.
The Four Divine Beast Sovereigns were not dead, and the so-called "Eight Great Families" had long been annihilated by the Four Divine Beast Family.
But the "Plane War" still existed as a meat grinder, driving the members of the Four Divine Beast Family towards their "destiny."
However, the current situation was a hundred times better than if Roy had intervened, and a thousand times better than after the original Four Divine Beast Sovereigns died.
In the fate Roy foresaw, unless he continuously intervened, the future of the Four Divine Beast Family would be even more tragic than being holed up in the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range as he remembered.
Interfering with the development of the Four Divine Beast Family would indeed make them stronger, but it would also allow Destruction Sovereign Utred and Destiny Sovereign Off to collect more essence blood from the Four Divine Beast Family, enabling them to successfully research more powerful ultimate moves.
Bound by the Supreme Rule, Roy could not directly deal with Destruction Sovereign Utred and Destiny Sovereign Off, allowing them to become increasingly reckless.
The Four Divine Beast Sovereigns would be personally killed by Destruction Sovereign Utred and Destiny Sovereign Off, and the members of the Four Divine Beast Family would be raised by countless Sovereigns, becoming tools for them to extract blood and obtain the essence blood of the Four Divine Beast Sovereigns.
Even Tina and Gaia had to seek refuge with Death Sovereign Lilia and Life Sovereign Vivian to survive.
Well, this also allowed Roy to see through the secrets of Life Sovereign Vivian and Death Sovereign Lilia.
Now, because they were constantly engaged in the battles of the Plane War, Destruction Sovereign Utred and Destiny Sovereign Off could not collect more corpses of the Four Divine Beast Family members. This left both Rule Sovereigns without a further source of essence blood. They were essentially living off their past achievements, and their research progress had stalled.
The Four Divine Beast Families can still be found throughout Azure Mansion, which is better than it could have possibly turned out.
Although the Four Divine Beast Families, who dominate Azure Mansion, are no longer the foremost family, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call them the second greatest.
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"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom..."
Amidst spatial turbulence, countless currents of it collided, chaotic and unordered.
Occasionally, colliding spatial currents would tear open rifts leading to various material planes. Anything that couldn't be crushed by the spatial turbulence would fall into one of these material planes.
This time, what fell into a material plane was a slightly worn-out short shirt.
The first to find this shirt was a little beggar on the verge of death.
Once the little beggar put on the worn-out clothes, he immediately felt no longer cold.
What's more, when he was later caught stealing food, the little beggar didn't feel any pain.
At that time, the little beggar knew this shirt was a treasure.
Later, the little beggar secretly tested it, finding that neither a cleaver, a wooden stick, nor fire could harm him in the slightest. His courage surged, and he chose to join an underground force.
With his spirit of daring to fight, daring to charge, and fearlessness of death, the little beggar quickly became an elite within the force, receiving significant cultivation and exposure to the most basic methods of training.
Then, the little beggar discovered that this shirt could greatly enhance his Asura speed.
In just a few decades, the little beggar became a revered Saint Realm expert in that plane.
Afterward, he came into contact with the Plane Watcher. Through the Plane Watcher, the little beggar—no, William—witnessed a much vaster world.
A thousand years later, William became a Great Earth Demigod. He entered a Planar Teleportation Array and arrived at the even more expansive Star Supreme Plane.
While traveling in the Star Supreme Plane, William happened to meet Alfonsus, a member of the Four Divine Beast Families on Mercury, the third planet from the central sun. They conversed with great pleasure.
The nine planets of the Star Supreme Plane, according to their distance from the central sun, were Earth, Wind, Mercury, Mars, Light, Dark, Thunder, Void, and Time.
These were named by Roy using the seven elemental laws of "Earth, Wind, Water, Fire, Light, Dark, Thunder" and the two supreme laws of "Space" and "Time."
The friendships between Gods were often forged through combat.
After several sparring sessions, in one battle, William's outer garment was torn, revealing the worn-out short shirt he had been wearing all along.
In an instant, both William and Alfonsus froze.
William froze because he was contemplating how to explain to his friend why he hadn't been injured and how to conceal the miraculous nature of the shirt.
Having been a God for so many years, William naturally knew that the shirt he wore was far beyond anything a "Divine Artifact" could compare to.
If anyone discovered the shirt's miraculous properties, it wouldn't be impossible for them to attack him to steal it.
Unless absolutely necessary, he did not want to turn against this friend.
However, before William could speak, Alfonsus spoke first.
"William, how many people have seen the short shirt you're wearing?"
"Hm?"
Hearing his friend's question, William's heart skipped a beat. He immediately laughed heartily, "Brother Alfonsus, what are you talking about? This is just an ordinary short shirt..."
"I understand."
Seeing William say this, the youth named Alfonsus breathed a sigh of relief.
Clearly, William himself knew that the short shirt was extraordinary, and perhaps, besides himself, no one else had ever seen it.
"William, regarding this short shirt, I'll give you some information. As for what you plan to do afterward, I won't interfere."
Seeing Alfonsus speak so seriously, William knew that Alfonsus must possess some knowledge about the shirt.
William no longer concealed anything. "Brother Alfonsus, although I've had this shirt for many years, I know very little about it. Please tell me about it in detail, Brother Alfonsus."
"William, our Four Divine Beast Families have a total of eight Sovereign Ancestors."
"Countless years ago, our ancestors instructed members of our family to collect worn-out shirts, trousers, and belts—curious items—and to engrave the appearance of these three items into our memories."
"The Sovereign Ancestors once said that whoever obtains news of these three curious items and it is verified will be rewarded with a large amount of Sovereign Power."
"If anyone can present these three curious items, they will become a Sovereign Emissary of the Sovereign Ancestors and receive a Sovereign Artifact."
"William, the shirt you're wearing is very likely one of the 'curious items' the Sovereign Ancestors are searching for. If you wish to become a Sovereign Emissary, I will help you contact our family's Sovereign Ancestors."
"If you don't wish to become a Sovereign Emissary, you had better not appear in the Infernal Realm, the Water Element God Plane, the Wind Element God Plane, or the Star Supreme Plane."
"Because in these three planes, the Infernal Realm has four of our Four Divine Beast Family's Sovereign Ancestors. The Water Element God Plane has one Water Element Sovereign from our family, the Wind Element God Plane also has one Sovereign from our family, and the Star Supreme Plane also has one Sovereign from our Four Divine Beast Family."
Alfonsus's words left William in silence.
This was the first time he had learned that the background of the Four Divine Beast Families was so formidable, with eight Sovereigns behind them, spanning two God Planes and two Supreme Planes.
Even if Alfonsus hadn't said anything, how long could he have kept it a secret?
This was something even Sovereigns desired!
And what Alfonsus had just mentioned was only from the Sovereigns of the Four Divine Beast Families.
Would other Sovereigns also be searching for this shirt?
Meeting Alfonsus was fortunate for him, as Alfonsus also explained the importance of this garment to a Sovereign.
But what if someone else had known he possessed this short shirt?
Would they have attacked him to seize it, all for a chance at becoming a Sovereign's Emissary?
After a long pause, William sighed.
"Alfonsus, contact your family's Sovereign."
"Tell them that if this garment is indeed desired by the Sovereign, I am willing to become their Emissary."
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