Elder Bulo lowered his head to look at himself. The black aura surrounding him had almost vanished.
“Better leave.” Elder Bulo seized the remaining moments to immediately fly towards the east, vanishing. And, just moments after Elder Bulo left, two figures pierced through the skies and appeared here. It was Linley and Phusro.
Linley lowered his head, looking down carefully at the ground.
He had been chatting idly with Phusro, but suddenly, he had sensed an astonishing energy ripple, and so he had immediately hurried over. The remnants of Emanuel’s shattered corpse were still on the ground, and his divine spark and divine artifacts were hovering there as well.
“I still came late.” Linley said. “Emanuel’s already dead.” With a flip of his hand, Linley collected the divine spark and the divine artifact.
“If he died, he died. What’s the big deal.” Phusro said disdainfully.
Linley couldn’t help but laugh.
Died?
Linley didn’t feel the slightest bit of grief for Emanuel’s death. Earlier, at that dangerous moment, Emanuel had intentionally pretended that he didn’t hear Linley’s divine sense. He hadn’t helped, hoping to use Bulo to kill Linley.
“However, with him dead, I’ll have quite a few difficulties once I return.” Linley frowned. Emanuel, in the clan, was connected to quite a few people. “Hmph. We’ll wait and see. It was Bulo who killed him, after all.”
Upon sensing the aura of Sovereign’s Might from this place, Linley was able to guess that this was Bulo’s doing.
“Hey, Phusro. You weren’t finished speaking just now.” Linley turned to look at Phusro and laughed as he spoke.
“Oh. Right. That year, when I arrived at the ‘Muja Continent’, I acquired my Sovereign artifact.” As Phusro spoke, he began to laugh so happily that his eyes half-closed. Clearly, he felt quite delighted.
Muja Continent? Linley knew that this was one of the five continents of the Infernal Realm.
“Linley, have you ever seen a Sovereign?” Phusro said in an intentionally mysterious manner.
Linley shook his head. “No. I’ve only seen a scryer recording of a Sovereign. However, all I saw was an enormous blurry face formed from energy.”
“That’s just an illusion the Sovereign generated. It isn’t the Sovereign’s true body.” Phusro said smugly. “Linley, there’s something you don’t know…when I arrived at the Muja Continent, I met a supreme expert and engaged in a competition with him!”
“Competition?” Linley was stunned.
“Whatever we competed in, I lost!”
Phusro said resignedly. “We competed in material attacks. I lost. We competed in spiritual attacks. I still lost. We competed in speed. I lost…even when we competed in the aspect I am proudest in, my physical strength, I still lost.”
“You lost in everything?” Linley was shocked. At the same time, he couldn’t help but guess what the truth was.
“Only later did I discover…”
Phusro laughed. “He was a Sovereign!”
Although Linley had guessed this, upon hearing this, he was still shocked. After a moment, he laughed loudly, “Haha, Phusro, you actually competed against a Sovereign? Haha…”
“How was I supposed to know that he was a Sovereign? He hid his true power. I only took him to be another Highgod.” Phusro said resignedly. “He didn’t reveal off any of his majestic Sovereign’s presence…only at the end, when he asked if I was willing to be his Emissary or not, did he show off his majestic Sovereign’s presence. Only then did I realize he was a Sovereign.”
“A Sovereign of what element?” Linley asked.
“A fire-type Sovereign!”
Phusro laughed. “I am a fire-type expert. When I competed with him in attacks, we both competed in using fire-type attacks. Linley…I have the feeling that ever since I met you, my luck has been excellent!”
“The first time I met you, I escaped from my countless years of bondage.”
“And then, just a few centuries later, I became a Sovereign’s Emissary.”
Phusro was quite delighted with himself. “This is the Sovereign artifact the Sovereign bestowed upon me. My power was comparable to the Infernal Asuras to begin with. Now that I have a Sovereign artifact…haha, in the entire Infernal Realm, there are very few people capable of surpassing me.”
“Very few who can surpass you? You mean to say, there’s still some people stronger than you?” Linley laughed.
“A few, I suppose.”
Phusro said. “After all, in the Infernal Realm, there’s a number of Sovereign’s Emissaries. There’s also a few extremely rare divine beasts who have extremely powerful innate divine abilities…but actually, the most powerful of all are those Highgods who have become Paragons.
Linley nodded as well.
Paragons had completely mastered and completely fused all of the profound mysteries of one of the Elemental Laws. Fusing five profound mysteries and fusing all six profound mysteries to mastery…although it was only a difference of one profound mystery, the difference in power was tremendously great.
“I’ve been in the Infernal Realm for so long, but I haven’t seen a single Paragon yet.” Linley laughed.
“Neither have I.” Phusro shook his head helplessly. “Based on what the Sovereign said, these Paragon-level Highgods, although in terms of power are of course inferior to Sovereigns, are actually even fewer in number than Sovereigns…”
Linley agreed with this as well.
“I wonder…if one were to fuse all profound mysteries into one and become a Paragon, the most invincible of Highgods…what sort of power one would have.” Linley sighed to himself.
“Linley, I have some things to attend to. I’ll leave for now.” Phusro laughed. “As for your Four Divine Beasts clan, don’t just stupidly go battle for them nonstop. Protect yourself and improve your own power first.” After speaking, Phusro flew away.
Linley chuckled, watching Phusro leave.
“Time to go back.” Linley lowered his head, glancing at Emanuel’s corpse on the ground, then flew towards the Skyrite Mountains