In the Divine Realm of Life.
At this very moment, the Life Sovereign was at a critical juncture in the creation of her Dao Body.
The other six Supreme Gods were all paying close attention to her progress.
After all, this was an entirely new cultivation path—no one knew what the outcome might be.
Ignis had been guiding Vivya throughout the process. Although he was the creator of the Dao Body, he was still like a blind man feeling his way across a river.
Thus, the Life Sovereign chose to cultivate her Dao Body through the Purification Profound Mystery of the Light Laws, which shared some commonalities with the Life Laws.
She remained in seclusion.
Meanwhile, the final battle of the Plane War began.
This battle was extremely critical.
If the Fate faction emerged victorious, the Chief Sovereign of Fate would once again be rewarded with a portion of Power of Will.
At that point, two Sovereigns of the Fate faction would both possess Chief Sovereign-level strength.
As such, many Chief Sovereigns were closely watching this war.
Yet Sadius paid little attention to it.
After all, even if the entire Fate faction became chiefs, it wouldn't affect him in the slightest.
Sadius glanced at the Death High Sovereign spark and the Water Low Sovereign spark in his hand.
As a condition for bringing the Death Sovereign to visit other universes, not only had the Water spark returned to him, but he had also acquired her Death spark.
In addition, he held the two High Sovereign sparks under Olivier's control.
The Light Sovereign spark had been reserved for the Life Sovereign, Vivya.
If she succeeded in her breakthrough, she might be able to use it.
Of course, it was possible she wouldn't need it. After all, once her Dao Body was successfully created, and since her Light Laws were cultivated through the Immortal Dao, she might no longer require a Chief Sovereign spark.
Nonetheless, Sadius saved it for her.
As for the Darkness Sovereign spark, Sadius gave it to Bebe—his Godson—since Bebe had long yearned to become a Chief Sovereign.
In truth, this spark would've benefited Beirut more, as his body had already reached the level of a Sovereign artifact.
If Beirut had refined the Darkness High Sovereign spark, he could have directly become a top-tier Sovereign.
However, Sadius' relationship with Bebe was clearly closer than with Beirut.
Thus, Bebe became the Sovereign of Darkness.
As for the remaining Water Low Sovereign spark, Sadius naturally gave it to his eldest son, Luoshen.
Luoshen never imagined that he could become a Sovereign.
Even though it was only a Lesser spark, it was still extremely rare and precious.
As for the four High Sovereign sparks in Linley's possession, Sadius didn't touch them.
He was waiting—for a Five-Element soul mutate to be born in Heaven and Earth.
Linley had no hope of achieving Transcendence anymore, so Sadius needed to find another soul with an uncertain fate.
He wasn't the master of the Hongmeng, so he didn't know who had an uncertain fate.
Still, he could observe the entire universe, monitoring all beings with innate talent in Water, Wind, Fire, Earth, and Aether.
Soon, the result of the Plane War emerged—just like in the original novel.
The Infernal Realm had discovered Bresle, who created the Reincarnation Battle Formation and crushed the Fate faction.
Moreover, without the support of the twelve-winged angel warriors from the Light Divine Plane, the Fate faction was no match for the Destruction faction.
The Destruction faction won easily, preventing the Fate Chief Sovereigns from acquiring any Power of Will.
Though the Plane War ended, the struggle for Sovereign sparks in the Aether Supreme Overgod Realm had just begun.
This was because Aether Sovereign sparks differed from others—they could not be refined simply by dripping blood on them.
A seal lay over the Aether spark's surface, and it had to be dissolved through understanding of the Aether Laws.
The deeper one's comprehension, the faster the seal could be broken.
If one reached Aether Great Perfection, the seal could be shattered instantly and the spark refined in a flash.
However, across the entire Coiling Dragon Universe, no one had yet reached Great Perfection in the Aether Laws.
The strongest, the three-legged golden crow Lu Feng, had only reached the Four-Fusion stage in Aether Laws.
Relying on his innate divine abilities and physical body, he could barely rival a peak-level Shura.
At this moment, all those who had obtained Aether Sovereign sparks were trying to refine them.
Most Sovereigns had already left the Aether Supreme Overgod Realm.
After all, the slaughter among Sovereigns had become too intense.
Compared to the spark, many felt their own lives were more important.
At most, they would only send divine clones or emissaries to participate in the contest.
Everything seemed to be progressing normally…
Until something utterly shocking occurred.
A Sovereign had been slain—by Gods!
The news was staggering.
A Sovereign… killed by God-level beings?
Although it was a group effort by multiple Gods—and the victim was merely a Lesser Sovereign—it was still earth-shattering.
Everyone knew that the gap between God-level beings and Sovereigns was insurmountable.
No matter how strong a God was, even a Great Perfection or a Four-System Soul Mutate, it was impossible to rival a Sovereign.
Even the weakest Sovereign held six or seven portions of Power of Will more than a Great Perfection.
That's a disparity of over a millionfold.
And the Gods who killed that Sovereign weren't even Great Perfections.
Which meant the power gap was in the billions!
How could this be?
Soon, the truth came out.
The Gods who killed that Sovereign were all Soul Mutates.
They had selected the weakest Sovereign and joined forces to deploy a magic formation capable of withstanding a Sovereign's full-force attack.
This made it difficult for the Chief Sovereign to kill them.
This formation had originally been devised during Ignis's Supreme Overgod trial, in collaboration with several master formation experts.
It could endure a full-force strike from a Lesser Sovereign.
Many Sovereigns had wanted to study this formation in the past, hoping to acquire it from those Soul Mutates.
But under Ignis's protection, no one dared force them.
Now, the formation revealed its true might.
With it, Gods could withstand attacks from Sovereigns.
From this moment on, the lofty status of Sovereigns began to crumble.
Of course, while the formation could defend, it could not on its own allow them to kill a Sovereign.
Still, using additional tricks, this group of Gods succeeded in killing one.
Naturally, they had the help of the Destruction Overgod, Ignis.
Back during the Supreme Overgod trial, all the participants had promised:
No matter who succeeded in becoming a Supreme Overgod, that person would support the others.
Ignis honored that promise. He shared his Destruction origin energy with the survivors of that trial.
Thus, while they weren't Great Perfections, their strength rivaled them—lacking only the Power of Will and perfect control over the respective laws.
One Lesser Sovereign of Life was slain.
It was the first time in history that Gods had hunted a Sovereign.
All Sovereigns paid close attention.
Originally, it was agreed that Sovereigns of different levels would not slaughter each other casually.
But Gods hunting Sovereigns?
This had never happened since the dawn of time.
Immediately, many Sovereigns recalled the Four Divine Beasts of the past.
Back then, four Lesser Sovereigns could join forces and threaten even Sovereigns.
Now, a group of Highgods had done something even more absurd—threatening Sovereigns.
If these Highgods became Sovereigns, wouldn't they surpass even the Four Divine Beasts?
The era of Sovereigns was shifting.
Nearly all Lesser Sovereigns banded together, not wanting to be the next prey.
Sadius watched all of this unfold.
"Ignis, you've really stirred the pot. This is a full-on bloodbath among the Sovereigns now."
Sadius chuckled.
"Consider it repaying the favor from back when they helped me become a Supreme Overgod."
"Now that these Lesser Sovereigns have allied, they're not giving any gaps for exploitation."
As the two conversed, they saw something else—
Those Soul Mutates had gone to the Aether Supreme Overgod Realm.
Sadius then realized: they had set their sights on the remaining Aether Sovereign sparks.
Currently, although all seven sparks had owners, none had fully refined theirs.
In other words, those holding the sparks were sitting on treasure, just waiting to be robbed.
Chaos erupted again in the Aether Realm.
Soon, one Aether spark fell into the hands of these Soul Mutates.
One among them was already a Life Sovereign, making their acquisition effortless.
"Big Sis, according to our calculations, once you refine one more spark, the trial for Life Supreme Overgod will trigger!"
That Aether spark ended up with the newly risen Life Sovereign.
This individual was a Soul Mutate of Life and Aether.
Among them all, she had the highest level of comprehension in the profound mysteries.
She had already fused different mystery types.
Her Aether Laws were at the Four-Fusion stage—on par with Lu Feng, the three-legged golden crow.
She hadn't participated in the earlier Aether spark contest only because she had mutated just a hundred years ago.
"If I become the Life Supreme Overgod, I'll certainly, like Lord Ignis, share my origin power with everyone."
"How interesting. Hahaha…"
This scene in the Supreme Overgod Realm brought a smile to Sadius.
The Life Sovereign was still cultivating her Dao Body.
Now, this Life Lesser Sovereign has obtained a second Sovereign spark.
Clearly, it was now a race—between the Life Sovereign and this Lesser Sovereign—to see who would succeed first.
Sadius remained neutral, but the other Supreme Overgods were not.
Especially the Death Sovereign.
She shared a close bond with the Life Sovereign and naturally hoped for her success.
However, she couldn't intervene personally, so she mobilized two Mid Sovereigns of the Life Laws and two Mid Sovereigns of Death.
Together, the four rushed to the Aether Supreme Overgod Realm with one goal—
To slay the newly ascended Life Sovereign.
The only reason they could even make it in time is because the Aether spark took a while to refine.
As for the old agreement between Sovereigns?
That was now a meaningless relic.
Faced against four Sovereigns, the Life Sovereign didn't hesitate—she used a teleportation array to escape back to her native material plane.
Now, she only needed to break the seal on the Aether spark to refine it.
But dissolving the seal wasn't easy.
Its original owner had only reached the Three-Fusion level in Aether Laws.
To fully refine it would require at least a thousand-years.
When Vivya learned of this, she realized her chance at becoming the Life Supreme Overgod was slipping away.
She accelerated her Dao Body cultivation.
At last—one day—she miraculously succeeded in creating the Light Purification Dao Body.
She fused it with the Eternal Life Dao Body she had cultivated previously.
Cultivating two Dao Bodies simultaneously was as risky as soul mutation.
Fortunately, Vivya was well prepared.
Through various rare materials, she narrowly managed to fuse both bodies.
Thus, the first cultivator in the Coiling Dragon Universe with a fused Dao Body was born.
Vivya, the Life Sovereign, had succeeded in creating the Dao Body.
Yet she had no divine clone—her original body alone could cultivate Immortal Dao.
Currently, her Immortal Dao cultivation was at the equivalent of a Lowgod—comparable to a True Immortal in the Immortal Universe.
To reach the level of a Golden Immortal, unlike reaching Highgod, she didn't need to comprehend six mysteries.
She only needed to fuse three.
This was a major difference between the Immortal Dao and the Coiling Dragon Universe's path of divinity.
With Vivya's talent, reaching Three-Fusion in Light Mysteries would be easy.
She had many people who could guide her in the Light Laws.
The trials continued. A thousand years passed.
Vivya's comprehension in the Light Laws finally reached the Three-Fusion level.
Her Immortal Dao cultivation reached Golden Immortal.
She took out the Light Sovereign spark she had long obtained.
If she could refine it, she would become the Life Supreme Overgod.
But whether it could be refined…Vivya wasn't sure.
After all, her Light Laws came not from the Coiling Dragon system but the new Immortal Dao.
According to Sadius and Ignis, the Immortal Dao should eventually produce its own Immortal Kings—It simply hadn't happened yet.
Thus, whether this Light Sovereign spark could be refined remained unknown.
Without hesitation, Vivya dripped her blood on the spark.
The drop hit the spark and rolled down the side.
Refinement failed!
Meanwhile—On a certain material plane…That Life Lesser Sovereigns finally broke the seal on her Aether spark.
She dripped her blood onto it.
In the next moment, the entire plane was bathed in Aether energy.
Simultaneously—The silhouettes of all Supreme Overgods manifested.
"Lunaris, the Supreme God of Life Has Ascended!"
In that instant, all beings heard the proclamation.
The final Supreme Overgod had emerged!
Vivya stood stunned.
How could this be?
She had thought Lunaris—formerly just a Life Lesser Sovereign—would at most trigger the Supreme Overgod trial.
She never imagined Lunaris would directly become a Supreme Overgod.
Lunaris herself was unaware that refining two sparks of the same level would lead to immediate ascension—Just like Orloff.
If one refined sparks of different levels, a Supreme Overgod trial and Hongmeng's acknowledgment would still be required.
By coincidence, the Aether spark Lunaris refined was a Lesser spark.
So when she refined her second spark, she ascended immediately.
After the Life Supreme Overgod ascended to her place, Sadius once again received a message from Hongmeng:
"The second subsidiary universe has opened. That Honored One invites us to enter it."