No!
Glancing at her abdomen, the Chief Sovereign of Death rejected her previous conclusion.
If she and Locke were to have a child, then perhaps their offspring would also be capable of cultivating the Laws of Space.
However, the offspring of divine beasts rarely possessed bloodline purity equal to that of their parents.
Thus, although a child born to her and Locke might possess an affinity for the Laws of Space, the possibility of truly becoming a spatial-element deity through the Laws of Space was exceedingly slim.
After learning about Locke's current condition, the Chief Sovereign of Death did not continue disturbing him and returned to her Sovereign palace.
Meanwhile, after Lilia departed, Locke once more drew water-type Sovereign's power and fate-type Sovereign's power into his body, fused them together, and once again tempered his body in an attempt to make it even stronger.
No—not fusion divine power of two elements.
Fusion divine power of three elements!
After a slight attempt, Locke discovered that his spatial divine power could also fuse together with the other two types of Sovereign's power.
Clearly, the strength of spatial divine power was likewise sufficient to rival Sovereign's power.
A gleam appeared in Locke's eyes.
Fusion Sovereign's power whose might exceeded ordinary Sovereign's power by a thousandfold had already elevated Locke's original body to the level of an ordinary Paragon Chief Sovereign.
Under the tempering of this thousandfold-strength Sovereign's power, Locke's body—which had only just been strengthened once already—underwent another advancement.
After realizing that his original body could produce fusion Sovereign's power with a thousandfold increase in strength, Locke's water divine clone brought over the divine spark essence spear that had already been refined halfway by his Fate Sovereign true body, along with the remaining divine spark essence, arriving in the Netherworld from the Water Divine Plane through the interplanar teleportation array so that Locke's original body could refine the divine spark weapon instead.
Looking at his divine clone, Locke suddenly thought of something and couldn't help but laugh.
Whether Deities or Sovereigns, as long as their original body had not fused with a divine spark and had not become a Deity through the body itself, it was uniformly referred to as the "Saint-level original body."
That was because within the Coiling Dragon Universe, divine sparks were the symbol of a Deity.
Even if one fused all the Profound Mysteries of a single elemental system and became a Paragon, and even if one's Saint-level original body could likewise use Paragon-level Profound Mysteries to unleash power surpassing an Infernal Lord, one would still be completely suppressed by the "Domain" of even an ordinary lower deity.
It was like the angels within the Angel Rebirth Pool under the Chief Sovereign of Light. Although they lacked divine sparks, they possessed "angelic hearts" with functions similar to divine sparks, allowing them to resist the suppression of a deity's "Domain." That was why the Chief Sovereigns of Light valued them so highly.
But now, although Locke's original body had not fused with a divine spark, it could no longer be called a "Saint-level original body."
After all, when the original bodies of other Deities and Sovereigns were called "Saint-level original bodies," they truly were merely Saint-level.
But Locke's original body currently possessed the strength of an Intermediate Sovereign. It should probably be called a "Sovereign original body."
Shaking his head, Locke stopped dwelling on the matter.
Within the Coiling Dragon Universe, aside from divine sparks, there was practically no difference between divine clones and the original body.
They all shared the same consciousness.
Afterward, Locke temporarily focused his original body on refining the divine spark weapon, while his water divine clone began fusing the Laws of Water with the newly comprehended Laws of Space, intending to further strengthen his water divine clone.
…
"Lord Locke, Oakes and Ryan request an audience!"
Only after hearing the voices of Oakes and Ryan did Locke slowly open his eyes, emerging from his immersion in refining the divine spark weapon.
Under the refinement of three-element fusion divine power, the pitch-black spear floating before Locke had nearly been fully completed.
Thus, Locke did not stop what he was doing. Sweeping out his divine sense and locating Oakes and Ryan, Locke extended his right hand.
"Spatial Transfer!"
Spatial Transfer could be considered one of the easier techniques within the Laws of Space to master.
Spatial Transfer only required swapping the positions of two spaces.
Spatial Lock, however, required one's comprehension of the Laws of Space to reach a certain level, allowing one to control the surrounding spatial laws and freeze a region of space.
Spatial Shatter was the opposite of Spatial Lock.
It was a technique that controlled the Laws of Space to shatter space itself.
Battles between Heavenly Deities were essentially contests between Spatial Lock and Spatial Shatter.
What they competed in was their comprehension and application of the Laws of Space.
If my understanding and usage of the Laws of Space surpass yours, then a single Spatial Lock from me can greatly restrict you.
Or perhaps you use Spatial Lock to restrain me, but my Spatial Shatter can destroy your frozen space and in turn suppress you instead.
If your Spatial Shatter cannot break my Spatial Lock, then unfortunately for you, you can only fight me while being crushed by spatial pressure, unable to unleash your full strength.
In an instant, a certain region of space before Locke swapped places with the space occupied by Oakes and Ryan, who were standing outside the lightning chains at the foot of Mount Netherworld.
"Hm?"
Their surroundings changed in an instant. Before Oakes and Ryan could even react to what had happened, they saw Locke standing before them.
The two men were startled. Although they did not know what had happened to instantly move them from outside the lightning chains of Mount Netherworld to inside the mountain before Lord Locke himself—
They knew without question that this was Lord Locke's doing.
Immediately, the two hurriedly dropped to one knee.
"Oakes greets Lord Locke."
"Ryan greets Lord Locke."
"Rise, Oakes. Ryan."
"This is the time you've come to see me, so I presume the task I assigned you has already been completed?"
The moment Locke saw Oakes and Ryan, he remembered the matter from before—sending Oakes to exterminate the pirate forces within the Nethersea that had degenerated from the Nine Nether Sovereign's Sovereign Army, only for them to unexpectedly discover the second Death Overgod talisman.
With Ryan's assistance, Bloodshadow Flame should have been obtained by now.
"Forgive us, Lord Locke."
"We had already driven Argenis into a desperate situation. But just as we were about to kill him, a strange spatial vortex suddenly appeared and dragged Argenis into the spatial turbulence…"
"We failed to complete the mission Lord Locke entrusted to us. We ask Lord Locke to punish us."
"Oh?"
Hearing this, Locke glanced at Oakes and Ryan.
Under that gaze, scenes of Argenis being sucked into the spatial vortex simultaneously surfaced within both of their minds.
"This…"
After seeing the image of Argenis being dragged into the spatial vortex from the souls of Oakes and Ryan, Locke couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.
If he remembered correctly, that spatial vortex seemed to be the very trick he had used earlier to toy with the other three Chief Sovereigns and make them believe that the creature born within the spatial vortex had escaped.
But Locke had never imagined that the Chief Sovereign of Destruction's attack against the spatial vortex had not only torn open a passage to some material plane within the spatial turbulence, but had also affected the Netherworld itself. Amid the violent clash between Oakes, Ryan, and Argenis, a trace of the spatial vortex had been drawn over, pulling Argenis inside.
If Locke's guess was correct, Argenis had most likely been transported by that spatial vortex into some unknown material plane.
The only question was whether, after all these years, Argenis still remained in that material plane or had already left it for one of the Divine Planes or Higher Planes.
Naturally, Locke couldn't exactly tell Oakes and Ryan that Argenis escaping was basically his own fault. After coughing lightly, Locke said to them:
"There's no need for this, Oakes. Ryan."
"If the mission had failed because you neglected your responsibilities, then naturally I would punish you."
"But the two of you already performed well enough. Argenis escaping at the end was simply his luck. It has nothing to do with either of you."
"Next, let me see where Argenis is now."
As he spoke, Locke reached out and made a grasping motion toward Oakes and Ryan.
As people who had fiercely battled Argenis, traces of Argenis's aura still lingered upon them.
After grasping those traces of aura, Locke activated the power of the Edict of Fate, tracing Argenis's location backward.
A screen of light formed before the three of them.
At first, it was nothing but chaos.
But after Locke gradually locked onto Argenis's location, the image within the screen slowly became clear.
It was a holy courtyard.
Within the image, Argenis was kneeling humbly outside a pavilion in a garden.
Inside the pavilion sat a white-haired, white-bearded old man with a gentle appearance, speaking to Argenis about something.
"This is… Orloff, the Chief Sovereign of Fate?"
Locke's eyes narrowed slightly in surprise.
But he quickly understood.
As a Fate Paragon, Orloff's accomplishments regarding the soul could be said to be the deepest among the four Chief Sovereigns.
When the spatial vortex had been torn apart by the Chief Sovereign of Destruction and Argenis had been dragged away from the Netherworld, Orloff had clearly sensed a trace of Argenis's aura at that moment.
After all the Sovereigns departed, Orloff had followed that trace of aura to locate the material plane Argenis had been transported to. Whatever he had said afterward, it had ultimately resulted in Argenis appearing before him.
From this alone, one could see just how deep Orloff's schemes truly were.
It was only because this entire affair had been orchestrated by Locke himself that he knew there had never been anything inside the spatial vortex to begin with.
If there truly had been some existence born from the spatial turbulence, then the one who would ultimately have obtained it would undoubtedly have been Orloff.
Suddenly, within the screen, Orloff seemed to sense something. He raised his head slightly toward the sky and smiled faintly.
Then, the light screen before Locke instantly shattered.
"This Orloff…"
Locke frowned slightly.
The moment he learned that Argenis had already arrived within Orloff's courtyard in the Celestial Realm, Locke understood that his attempt to track Argenis through the traces of his aura could never have been hidden from the Chief Sovereign of Fate, Orloff.
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