The other eight Pinnacle Highgods exchanged glances and, in unison, retreated some distance, watching the show with amusement from afar.
"What's the Light Sovereign doing? Why send a Plane Projection Avatar?" Dannington transmitted to the other Pinnacle Highgods.
"He's probably unwilling to let it go," Ninisha also transmitted.
"I obtained the Red Diamond Crystal, and the Sovereign has already entered the Spatial Tempest, rushing this way through it. He's probably rather flustered," Clementine also transmitted with a hint of mockery.
These Pinnacle Highgods, though outwardly respectful, secretly looked down on some of the Sovereigns.
Pinnacle Highgods relied on their own strength.
Sovereigns? Obtaining a Sovereign Godhead — luck was more important. They simply happened to be born early enough and got lucky.
"What do you all think — will Lin Lei crush the Sovereign's Plane Projection Avatar?" the Water System Pinnacle Highgod, the "round-faced fatty," transmitted.
"I doubt it. Even though it's only a Plane Projection Avatar, it's still the Sovereign's projection. If Lin Lei attacks, that's giving the Sovereign no face at all. Falling out with a Sovereign wouldn't end well," the Fire System Pinnacle Highgod, "Bamo," transmitted.
The Light Sovereign's main body was completely unable to enter the Ocaran Plane. What appeared now was merely a Plane Projection Avatar. The Plane Projection Avatar actually contained only a sliver of the main body's consciousness, borrowing the Sovereign's power to form that projected body.
The Plane Projection Avatar also understood the Profound Mysteries of Laws. However, it did not possess Sovereign's Might!
"Even though it's the Sovereign's Plane Projection Avatar, the avatar has no Sovereign's Might. In terms of strength, it's at most comparable to an ordinary Lord." Lin Lei didn't care in the slightest about the "Light Sovereign" before him — just a Plane Projection Avatar couldn't even defeat a Pinnacle Highgod, let alone compare to Lin Lei.
The massive Plane Projection Avatar stared coldly at Lin Lei.
"Clementine, this Red Diamond Crystal — how did Lin Lei take it?" The Plane Projection Avatar looked toward Clementine.
Clementine immediately gave a bitter smile. "Sovereign, you have no idea what level Lin Lei's strength has reached. He's not merely a Pinnacle Highgod. His body is definitely on the level of Himes and Beirut — comparable to a Highgod artifact. His physical attack power is dozens of times, even a hundred times stronger than ours. There was nothing I could do!"
"Impossible?" The Light Sovereign looked at Lin Lei in shock.
Throughout history, no one whose physical body had reached the pinnacle — comparable to a Highgod artifact — had ever achieved Pinnacle Highgod.
"That's the truth," the Fire System Pinnacle Highgod, Bamo, also said with a smile. "We witnessed it with our own eyes. Not only that — in terms of speed, he far surpasses us as well. Clementine couldn't escape even if he wanted to. There was no choice... he had to hand over the Red Diamond Crystal."
The Light Sovereign looked at Lin Lei.
"May I ask, Sovereign, may I leave now?" Lin Lei said aloud.
"Leave?" The Light Sovereign couldn't help but snort coldly, but considering the capabilities of this Plane Projection Avatar, he could only talk tough.
Bei Bei, standing beside Lin Lei, impatiently curled his lip. "Sovereign, the struggle for this Red Diamond Crystal in the Material Plane is the business of us gods. We fight each other in the Material Plane, and whoever is stronger gets to keep it. Now my boss has it — of course it belongs to my boss. Sovereign, why are you setting up a Plane Projection Avatar here? Trying to force my boss?"
The Light Sovereign's expression turned ugly.
He was in the wrong here!
The other eight Pinnacle Highgods present all had Sovereigns backing them. The struggle in the Ocaran Plane was the business of the Pinnacle Highgods. Sovereigns should not interfere.
If he interfered and pressured Lin Lei, and if other Sovereigns also interfered and pressured the Pinnacle Highgods — what were they supposed to do?
"Lin Lei." The Light Sovereign suppressed the fury in his heart, fixing his gaze on Lin Lei. "I know that Dannington was sent by the Destruction Sovereign. Then you must not be his man. Behind you, perhaps it's the Wisteria Sovereign. How about this — hand the Red Diamond Crystal over to me. I'll speak to the Wisteria Sovereign on your behalf. You give me the Red Diamond Crystal, and consider it me owing you a favor. How about that?"
Hard tactics didn't work, so he tried soft ones.
"A favor?" Lin Lei was about to respond, when suddenly —
"Haha, Augusta, this little trick of yours won't do." A deep, resonant voice rang out as a massive surge of energy once again formed high in the sky. Unlike the Light energy, this energy was pitch-black as ink, filled with a fearsome aura — it was the Destruction Sovereign's power. Then a blurred figure formed once more.
The Light Sovereign's brow furrowed upon seeing this.
"The Destruction Sovereign," Lin Lei thought.
"Lin Lei, I was the one who notified the Destruction Sovereign," Dannington transmitted.
Lin Lei knew that these Pinnacle Highgods who had come all had methods to contact the Sovereigns behind them.
"I'm negotiating with Lin Lei on a voluntary basis. What right do you have to interfere?" the Light Sovereign said.
"Haha..." The Destruction Sovereign let out a hearty laugh. "This is no request — you're simply bullying him with your power. The Light Sovereign orders Lin Lei to hand it over, and if I also order Lin Lei to hand it over, and if the Life Sovereign, Death Sovereign, Darkness Sovereign, and all the others do the same — tell me, how is Lin Lei supposed to choose?"
The Light Sovereign fell silent.
By abruptly manifesting his Plane Projection Avatar, he had already handed them a talking point. He was clearly in the wrong.
In truth, he had done this because the Light Sovereign had originally believed the item was already in his hands. He had been traveling a vast distance through the Spatial Tempest, only to suddenly learn that the item was gone. Naturally furious, he had descended in the form of a Plane Projection Avatar.
"Sovereigns aren't much stronger than ordinary gods, huh," Bei Bei transmitted to Lin Lei.
"Of course. Sovereigns are simply various beings who cultivated to the level of Highgod, then by chance obtained and refined a Sovereign Godhead, instantly becoming Sovereigns. Refining a Sovereign Godhead doesn't change one's personality! Usually, when dealing with us ordinary gods, Sovereigns act lofty and above it all — they seem very detached. But once their own interests are at stake, like this Supreme God's Token, their greedy or domineering natures come out," Lin Lei transmitted.
"This Light Sovereign is certainly domineering," Bei Bei judged, based on his recent observations.
"The Light Sovereign has always been this way. Patriarch Gerseson once discussed this with me," Lin Lei said, recalling his conversation with Gerseson.
Gerseson had even suspected that the four ancestors of the Four Divine Beast Family had been killed by the Light Sovereign, and had described in detail the Light Sovereign's domineering personality.