Coiling Dragon

by welyjesch

  “Teresia…”

  Linley nodded.

  In the Infernal Realm, if it hadn’t been for the Bloodridge Sovereign appearing, Teresia might nearly have killed Linley for the sake of the nine soul pearls.

  In addition, in the void of chaotic space, if it hadn’t been for Beirut and Bluefire successively blocking Teresia, on that occasion as well, Linley probably wouldn’t have been able to bring the Overgod talisman back to the Yulan Plane.

  “Teresia has acted against me multiple times and wanted to kill me. In addition, there lies an old grudge between Teresia and yourself, Grandpa Beirut.” Linley nodded. “Then…let’s make him the one!”

  “Hmph. Teresia is a mere Lesser Sovereign, and yet he has quite a bit of ambition.” Bluefire nodded as well. “He deserves death.”

  The three Sovereigns of the Yulan Plane, in just a few moments, had determined the fate of a different Sovereign.

  Three days later.

  Linley bid his family and friends farewell. As for the target of this mission, to hunt and kill a Sovereign? Linley only told Delia, Bebe, and a few others. Delia and the others had all been stunned at the decision of Linley and the other two, but Delia and Bebe were filled with sufficient confidence towards Linley, Beirut, and Bluefire.

  “Boss, your actions will determine if I’ll be able to roam about and adventure in the various planes in the future.” Bebe pursed his lips and laughed.

  “Just wait and watch.” Linley laughed loudly.

  “Linley, be careful.” Delia warned.

  “Right.” Linley gently squeezed Delia’s hands, then turned and left.

  This mission, according to their plans, wouldn’t take too long. Linley said a few more words to his family and friends, then left alongside Beirut and Bluefire.

  The Yulan Plane. The vast, endless North Sea region.

  Linley, Beirut, and Bluefire were currently flying leisurely to the north. The three weren’t in the slightest rush at all.

  “Linley, have you gained anything from your five thousand years of analyzing the blood essences of the Four Divine Beasts?” Beirut asked.

  “Not much.” Linley shook his head and laughed. “Because Gates and his four brothers at Dragonblood Castle are of the Black Tortoise lineage, through them, I’ve gained a bit of understanding as to how one should unleash the power of the blood essence of the Black Tortoise. I am also now able to hypothesize at the mechanism by which the ancestor of my Azure Dragon clan, the ‘Azure Dragon’, was able to strengthen his body.”

  The Azure Dragon’s body strengthening mechanism was borrowed from the Black Tortoise’s transformation.

  “However, my body is already sufficiently powerful. After absorbing part of the blood essences of the four ancestors, it would just rise slightly in power by one level.” Linley laughed calmly. At his level, further strengthening his body was simply too difficult.

  “As for the supreme innate divine ability of the Four Divine Beasts, I was unable to develop any insights into it.” Linley sighed. “After all, I never saw the Four Divine Beasts unleash their innate divine abilities. In addition, my understanding and insights regarding the soul were shallow to begin with.”

  “Haha, don’t be discouraged. I’ve been researching for much longer than you, and I’ve even seen the Four Divine Beasts unleash their attacks. I also have a deep level of understanding regarding the soul. And yet, I’m still unable to understand it.” Beirut laughed calmly. “To be able to strengthen your body yet another time is something worth being happy over. Unfortunately, those blood essences aren’t able to strengthen me.”

  The reason why they were useful for Linley was because Linley was a member of the Azure Dragon clan to begin with.

  “Grandpa Beirut, Bluefire.” Linley suddenly smiled in mysterious manner.

  “Eh?” The two looked at Linley, puzzled.

  “Just now, I used my divine sense to scan both of you twelve times. Did you notice anything?” Linley laughed as he looked at them. Just then, Linley had intentionally scanned Beirut and Bluefire with his divine sense, but Beirut and Bluefire hadn’t noticed anything; they had continued to chat with him normally.

  “What? You scanned us with divine sense?” Beirut and Bluefire exchanged glances, shocked.

  “Right.” Linley nodded.

  “This…” Beirut and Bluefire were truly stunned.

  It must be understood that Sovereigns were able to sense it when another Sovereign scanned them. Even if a Chief Sovereign were to scan a Lesser Sovereign, the Lesser Sovereign would still sense it. This was because all Sovereigns, regardless of their level, used Sovereign power as the source of their spiritual energy! Sovereign power was all at the same level.

  Differences in the power of their Will would cause slight differences in power, which would result in different scopes and ranges for their senses.

  But speaking on a qualitative level, Sovereign senses were all the same.

  “Perhaps it is becaused I used my fused Sovereign power to unleash my divine sense.” Linley laughed.

  Fused Sovereign power was a full level stronger than ordinary Sovereign power.

  For him to be able to scan other Sovereigns without them noticing was what he had expected.

  It was much like how, in the Planar Battlefield, when Linley was merely a Deity, the post-mutation Linley could send out his divine sense without other Paragons being able to notice anything.

  “Haha, this, this is wonderful.” Beirut was overjoyed. “Linley, with this being the case, even if you discover other Sovereigns through your divine sense, other Sovereigns wouldn’t realize that they were being scanned! Now, even if we want to act against Teresia, Teresia will have no idea that we are scanning him.”

  “Right.” Linley was very happy as well.

  The strength of his divine sense; this was one of the superiorities of his fused Sovereign power!

  Beirut said jubilantly, “Originally, I was worried that Teresia would flee upon seeing us, and so I was planning for us to travel separately and surround him. But now, it seems, there is no need for that at all.”

  “Haha, let’s go.” Bluefire laughed clearly. “Let’s prepare to go to the Divine Wind Plane!”

  “Let’s head out.” Beirut and Linley both laughed as well as they flew towards the teleportation array.

  The three Sovereigns of the Yulan Plane; this was the first time that they had left the Yulan Plane as Sovereigns!

  Given that they were going to act against Teresia, Beirut naturally had begun to track Teresia’s movements early on. Through the Bloodridge Sovereign, Beirut had learned that Teresia had, five thousand years ago, already returned to the Divine Wind Plane.

  The Divine Wind Plane had been jointly created long ago by the seven Sovereigns of Wind. It was vast and endless.

  In terms of how many Deities they possessed, the Seven Divine Planes weren’t too far off from the Four Higher Planes; the figures were similarly astonishing. Countless Deities filled the nine continents of the Divine Wind Plane, and each day, many Deities would die, and many new geniuses would suddenly gain insights and make breakthroughs.

  For the sake of survival, fight!

  For the sake of glory, fight!

  Countless Deities were struggling and battling across the nine continents of the Divine Wind Plane.

  As for the Sovereigns? They were far above it all.

  It was like watching countless ants struggle and battle. The Sovereigns laughed as they watched the various battles. As they saw it, this was just a game! Occasionally, they might choose an Emissary and intervene in the games.

  The Divine Wind Plane. Qingya Island.

  The silver-haired, hawk-nosed man, ‘Teresia’, was standing in front of a beach, staring into the endless sea.

  Teresia was a very ambitious person. For the sake of growing more powerful, he was willing to do anything.

  He had originally been a surpassing talent of the Dylan Plane [Di’lun]. A true genius, he had easily
become a Deity, and then had come to the Netherworld, one of the Higher Planes, and engaged in constant battles and struggles until he had become a powerful Highgod! Back then, the 77 Sovereign sparks had been scattered across the Four Higher Planes. For the sake of the Sovereign sparks, countless experts had perished in miserable ways over the course of the struggles.

  He had seized a Sovereign spark and had become a Sovereign of Wind!

  After becoming a Sovereign, by relying on the power of faith energy, he had broken through the final barrier and stepped into the realm of Paragon!

  He had never before been defeated. He had always been very self-confident!

  Even after becoming a Sovereign, Teresia had never given up increasing his strength still further. At his current level, there were only three ways by which he could increase his strength. The first was to acquire an Overgod artifact. The second was to fuse with yet another Sovereign spark, so as to have another Sovereign clone. The third was to make it so that the Divine Wind Plane would win ten consecutive victories in the Planar Wars.

  “Eh? What’s going on today. I keep on having a restless feeling in my heart.” Teresia frowned, his narrow, slitted eyes looking about him, his gaze like daggers.

  Unconsciously, Teresia decided to stretch out his divine sense, and in an instant, it covered the entire Divine Wind Plane.

  And as it just so happened…

  Less than a hundred million kilometers away from him, there were three figures that were flying over at high speed.

  A black-robed Beirut, a white-robed, crimson-browed Bluefire, and a sky blue robed Linley!

  The three Sovereigns were flying shoulder-to-shoulder!

  “Beirut, Linley, and that Sovereign of Fire!” Teresia’s face completely changed.

  Book 21, The Peak – Chapter 12, The First Display of Power

  Although he was shocked, Teresia then only let out a cold laugh. He sent out through divine sense, “Haha, Beirut, Linley, and that crimson-browed fellow. What, the three of you actually dare to leave the Yulan Plane? Do you now have something up your sleeve that allows you to go dare battle the Chief Sovereign of Light?” Teresia wasn’t afraid at all.

  He knew that Beirut had, in total, four Sovereign sparks!

  The three in front of him were merely Lesser Sovereigns.

  He, Teresia, was a Lesser Sovereign of Wind. Sovereigns of Wind were skilled in speed to begin with, and he was also a Paragon! Amongst Lesser Sovereigns, it could be said that there was no one who was faster than him.

  “The only one amongst these three who is comparable to me in speed is that Sovereign of Fire.” Teresia was absolutely confident. “If they join forces, they are indeed stronger than me. Unfortunately, if I want to escape, they won’t possibly be able to catch me.” With this self-confidence, Teresia was naturally in no rush to flee right away.

  “The Chief Sovereign of Light? Naturally, we fear him.” Beirut smirked, then sent back with a laugh. “However, you aren’t the Chief Sovereign of Light.”

  “Hmph.” Teresia laughed coldly.

  At the same time, Teresia sent his divine sense to the number one expert of the Divine Wind Plane, the ‘Chief Sovereign of Wind’. “Chief Sovereign, Beirut is leading two Lesser Sovereigns and charging towards me. From the looks of it, they harbor ill intentions.”

  Sovereigns flew at a speed that was hundreds of times faster than Paragons.

  Even in a place as vast as in the Infernal Realm, Sovereigns could traverse the plane in half a day. From this, one could imagine how fast they were. A hundred million kilometers? To Linley’s group of three Sovereigns, less than five minutes would be necessary!

  “Linley, Teresia seems quite confident.” Bluefire chortled as he spoke mentally. “He actually isn’t fleeing.”

  “There is no one amongst Lesser Sovereigns who exceeds him in speed.” Linley sent back. “However…that was in the past!”

  “Now that you, a Fusion Sovereign, have appeared, you have destroyed all the previous rules. If Teresia had immediately fled, there might be hope for him. But now, there won’t be enough time for him.” Beirut chortled as well. Clearly, they all felt as though they could already see Teresia’s end.

  Right at this moment…

  “Beirut, why have the three of you come here!” A cold, icy voice rang out in the minds of Beirut and the other two.

  “Lord Diya.” Beirut immediately sent back.

  Linley was intrigued. The speaker should have been the Chief Sovereign of Wind, Diya. According to legend, the Chief Sovereign of Wind, Diya, was a divine beast; a Jadewing Goldlight Hawk! Jadewing Goldlight Hawks were wind-type divine beasts that were born with tremendous innate speed. After becoming the Chief Sovereign of Wind, his speed had reached a truly monstrous level.

  Those who had been able to acquire the eleven High Sovereign sparks in the past were all tremendously powerful. The likes of the Chief Sovereigns of Death and Destruction were born with tremendous, incomparable power. Others were comparable to Paragons as soon as they became Highgods. The eleven Chief Sovereigns all had their own unique strengths.

  “Beirut, you are also one of my Sovereigns of Wind.” That cold voice rang out. “I don’t wish for internal warfare to begin amongst my Sovereigns of Wind.”

  “Mr. Diya.” Linley sent back. “Teresia tried to act against me on multiple occasions. Back then, if it hadn’t been for Grandpa Beirut and Bluefire, I probably would have died. This time, I have come for revenge. I am only a Lesser Sovereign as well. I trust that this doesn’t violate the pact between Sovereigns.”

  The Chief Sovereign of Wind, Diya, hesitated momentarily, but then sent back with anger, “Linley! You have just recently become a Sovereign. You had best act more properly and in accordance with the rules! This is the Divine Wind Plane. I am the master here!”

  “Apologies…”

  Linley sent back with a smile, and then he stopped paying attention to the angered rebukes that the Chief Sovereign of Wind, Diya, was delivering.

  Beirut sent to Linley, “We are still two million kilometers away from Teresia. We should arrive soon.”

  “Teresia truly is bold!” Linley swept his gaze forward.

  Atop an island mountain. Teresia’s slitted gaze turned cold, and he cursed softly, “Beirut’s group of three is truly insane. Although they won’t be able to catch me, I can’t just wait here for them to attack. Hmph. I’ll first let them be smug for a period of time. Soon, the news that they have appeared in the Divine Wind Plane will definitely make its way to the Chief Sovereign of Light. By then, it’d be strange if Augusta didn’t come!”

  When the two were a million kilometers away from each other, Teresia finally fled!

  “Swoosh!”

  A ray of light shot towards the southeast at high speed! The speed at which it moved vastly surpassed the pursuing speed of Linley’s group. Linley and Bluefire, after all, had to accommodate Beirut, who was the slowest of the three.

  “Haha, Teresia, so you aren’t a fool after all.” Beirut sent with a smirk and a laugh.

  “Hmph, Beirut, you can be smug for now. In a short while, you won’t even have the chance to cry.” Teresia replied disdainfully.

  Linley and the other two, in hot pursuit, exchanged a glance. Beirut sent mentally, “It’s about time. Linley, time to move.”

  “Linley, we’ll just watch from over here.” Bluefire sent as well, laughing.

  “Don’t worry.” Linley was completely confident, and his speed suddenly increased.

  Right at this moment…

  “How can this be?” Teresia’s face changed. “Linley is even faster than me? But I’m a Paragon, he…right, he’s a Paragon as well. But how could he be so fast?” Teresia pondered momentarily, but then he guessed at a possibility…

  “Can it be? Beirut, you madman…you let Linley fuse both of the Sovereign sparks by himself?” Teresia was now truly frantic.

  Generally speaking, if a Sovereign was to fuse with two Sovereign sparks, e
ven though the Sovereign wouldn’t be able to use fused Sovereign power, the Sovereign’s soul would gain another portion of Will.

  “He was a Paragon to begin with; given that he has fused with an additional Sovereign spark, he definitely is a bit stronger than me.” Teresia was now panicked. He fled at high speed towards the southeast. There was a teleportation array in the continent to the southeast, and by traveling through it, he would be able to flee at high speed. However, they were still more than a billion kilometers away from the teleportation array.

  Linley, however, was only a million kilometers away from him.

  In addition, the distance of a million kilometers was rapidly shrinking.

  By the time Teresia had flown an additional ten million kilometers, Linley had already appeared within his line of sight.

  “Chief Sovereign!” Teresia sent frantically.

  “Linley, you want to kill a Sovereign in my Divine Wind Plane?” The Chief Sovereign of Wind, Diya, said angrily.

  Linley just sent two words back. “I apologize!” And then, not slowing down at all, he continued the pursuit.

  In reality, Linley was still hiding the majority of his true power. If he were to use his fused Sovereign power, his speed would be much faster.

  “Beirut is insane, and this Linley is also insane!”

  Teresia could tell that he wasn’t going to make it. He let out a low curse, and then slashed one hand backwards…

  “Crackle…” An enormous tear in space appeared, and Teresia immediately charged into the spatial rift.

  “Hmph.” Linley immediately charged straight into the exact same spatial rift.

  From this, one can imagine how close the two were to each other!

  Beirut and Bluefire, seeing this through their divine senses, shared a laugh.

  “Let’s go take a look as well.” Beirut chuckled as he slashed open a spatial rift, then entered chaotic space alongside Bluefire. Within the void of chaotic space, they were able to effortless find Linley and Teresia through divine sense.

  Within the void. Countless flows of energy of random colors fluctuated randomly.