The Midgod opposite Sadius suddenly stopped attacking.
"You think you're in any position to ask me for help?"
Sadius had the complete ability to kill this Midgod right here and now.
Requesting someone's help wasn't as simple as saying a few words.
"I can give you everything in this fortress."
"If I kill you, everything in the fortress is mine anyway."
The Midgod gave a bitter smile.
Sadius wasn't wrong.
"There are some things you cannot obtain if you kill me."
"Then I don't need them. Less trouble."
The Midgod fell silent for a moment.
"What if it's something truly useful to you?"
"What, you have a Sovereign Artifact lying around? I don't see one on you."
"…What if I said I know a way for a triple-soul-variant like you… to evolve into a quadruple-soul-variant?"
Those words shook Sadius to the core.
"What did you just say?!"
Sadius instantly unleashed his God Realm, isolating even Emilin outside.
Quadruple soul mutation!
This Midgod claimed to have a method to evolve a three-attribute soul variant into four attributes?!
Impossible…
"Don't be too hasty. I know you probably don't believe me. Let me tell you who I am. After you hear it, perhaps you'll believe what I'm saying."
Sadius forced himself to calm down, waiting.
"Actually… I am Extreme Intent Fiend's divine clone. Or rather, he was my divine clone."
Sadius froze in disbelief.
This person… was the former city lord of Extreme Intent City—Extreme Intent Fiend?!
Could it really be true?
"Then why hasn't this divine clone been found by Blackcloud Fiend? If he killed your strongest divine body, how could he let a Midgod clone live right under his nose?"
"Of course he's tried to kill me. For these past ten thousand years, he's never stopped hunting me. After all, as long as I live, he can't obtain the treasures stored in my spatial ring."
A Seven-Star Fiend's accumulated wealth… even other Seven-Star Fiends would covet it.
"But even if he scours all of Infernal Realm with his divine sense, he cannot detect that I'm Extreme Intent Fiend. Even if I stood right in front of him, he wouldn't know I'm the same person."
Sadius was bewildered.
How was that possible?
Even if a person's clones had different Divine Spark attributes, the soul aura was identical.
It was impossible to mistake.
Unless…Sadius suddenly thought of something.
"It's because of my racial talent. My clones have completely different soul auras. If I don't fuse my divine clones together, no one can ever detect that my clones belong to the same person."
Sadius' eyes narrowed.
"You're… Bula Race!"
"You actually know of the Bula Race?! As I thought… you're no ordinary person."
The Midgod didn't deny it.
So Extreme Intent Fiend had been Bula Race all along.
No wonder he claimed Blackcloud Fiend would never discover his true identity.
In the original Coiling Dragon, the Bula Race only appeared twice.
One became Linley's Chief Sovereign emissary.
The other… was the ultimate antagonist, Orloff.
Who would've thought the strongest Rule Sovereign and the strongest Edict Sovereign were the same person?
"Five hundred thousand years ago, I was born on a material plane. I rose step by step, and both my divine clones were hailed by the experts of my home plane as the twin prodigies of an entire million years. No one knew we were actually the same person."
"Later, we left the material plane and came to Infernal Realm. Since he inherited more of our cultivation potential, he rose rapidly—in just a hundred thousand years, he became the famed Extreme Intent Fiend of Infernal Realm. Unfortunately, when we split, we didn't choose an extreme allocation. You probably don't know this, but…a Bula clansman who concentrates all their strengths into one clone can achieve terrifying talent. It wouldn't even be hard for that clone to become A Shura-level powerhouse."
Sadius nodded.
The Bula Race's racial talent was already extraordinary.
Concentrating all advantages into a single clone would make it almost monstrous.
Orloff himself had done that—concentrating all strengths into one, dumping all flaws into Augusta.
That's how he became the most powerful of all Chief Sovereigns.
But Extreme Intent Fiend had not gone that far.
If he had, he could've created one supreme clone to lead the other to grow step by step.
"Ah… too bad. My divine clone was only a Seven-Star Fiend. I accidentally provoked Blackcloud Fiend, whose strength surpassed my clone. After my divine clone was killed, I fled Extreme Intent City with my contracted Divine Beast. I originally planned to re-cultivate to Seven-Star Fiend level, then return to Blackcloud City for revenge. But now… it seems I'll never get that chance."
The Midgod sighed.
"So… what about this method you mentioned, to evolve a triple-soul variant into quadruple-soul?"
"Do you know how the Bula Race is born?"
"I know a little. Bula clansmen sacrifice themselves, draining their life force to spit out an egg. Afterward they soon die, and the egg hatches into the next generation."
"I didn't expect you to know that much. But have you ever wondered… how the first generation of the Bula Race came to be?"
The first generation?
Sadius frowned.
In the original story, there was never any explanation.
Were they birthed at the dawn of creation?
Or were they naturally formed by the plane itself?
Everyone knew Beirut was the first God-Eater Rat, but he wasn't born at the start of creation either.
So how exactly had he been born?
"Don't tell me… it was a mutation?"
"You guessed right. At least for me—it was mutation. My father was an ordinary human, my mother was an elf. As their child, I should've inherited human and elven bloodlines. But instead… I mutated and awakened the Bula bloodline. Of course, as far as I know, the first generation of Bula Race parents weren't always human or elf—sometimes they were entirely different races."
Sadius was deeply curious.
In the original story, Bebe only became the second God-Eater Rat because his mother carried Beirut's bloodline, and he reverted through mutation.
But the Bula Race was stranger still—the parents' races were completely random yet could still produce a Bula child.
"You still haven't told me—how do you make a triple-soul variant evolve into quadruple-soul?"
Sadius reminded sharply.
He wasn't here to listen to the entire Bula genealogy.
The Midgod smiled faintly.
"What if I told you… I can give you the Bula bloodline?"
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