"An experiment?" Lin Lei immediately recalled that the Destruction Sovereign had once obtained half of the Four Divine Beasts' essence blood from Beirute.
"The energy source of the Divine Beasts lies within their essence blood," Beirute shook his head. "However, manifesting an innate divine ability is not solely due to bloodline — the soul plays a role as well."
"But the soul's uniqueness is also because of the bloodline," Lin Lei frowned. "The members of our family all have special souls precisely because we possess Divine Beast bloodline. And after I absorbed a single drop of essence blood, my innate divine ability improved significantly."
"That's because you're a member of the Four Divine Beasts families." Beirute smiled faintly. "Never mind whether the Destruction Sovereign can reverse-engineer the Four Divine Beasts' ultimate techniques — that doesn't concern us much. Our greatest target right now is the Radiant Sovereign, 'Augustus'!"
"Our enemy isn't the Destruction Sovereign," Qing Huo said with a smile as well.
"The Destruction Sovereign? Any one of the Four Great Law Sovereigns is unfathomably deep," Beirute sighed.
"Grandpa Beirute, who do you think is the strongest?" Lin Lei was quite curious about the Four Great Law Sovereigns.
"That's truly hard to say! In terms of Will of the Heavens, the Fate Sovereign should be the strongest!" Beirute furrowed his brow. "However, the Supreme Divine Artifact the Fate Sovereign possesses is a soul-defensive Supreme Divine Artifact — not an offensive one. So in terms of offensive power, she may be somewhat inferior to the other three Law Sovereigns."
Lin Lei was surprised.
She hadn't chosen an offensive Supreme Divine Artifact? The Fate Sovereign was truly peculiar.
"The Fate Sovereign is someone who stays out of worldly affairs, always researching various ultimate techniques. She probably believes she doesn't need an offensive Supreme Divine Artifact — her strength is already sufficient." Beirute smiled faintly. "Now then, the Destruction Sovereign is also researching ultimate techniques using the Four Divine Beasts' essence blood. By the way, Lin Lei... you're also a member of the Azure Dragon clan. Perhaps you can discover something from the Four Divine Beasts' essence blood."
As he spoke, Beirute turned his hand over and produced four small cyan jade bottles.
"Each of these four bottles contains eighty-one drops of Four Divine Beasts essence blood," Beirute said. "This is roughly a quarter of all the Four Divine Beasts' essence blood."
Essence blood was the quintessence within blood. Even for massive Divine Beasts, having over three hundred drops of essence blood would be astonishing. Each drop contained terrifying energy — otherwise, Lin Lei wouldn't have been able to grow strong enough from a single drop to withstand the attacks of an ordinary Seven-Star Demon.
"Grandpa Beirute..." Lin Lei was somewhat surprised.
"I originally gave half to the Destruction Sovereign, and used some for my own research. What's left is roughly a hundred drops. Take these — eighty-one drops per bottle. I'm hoping you can research and uncover the Four Divine Beasts' ultimate techniques. With your soul power, if you can figure them out... then challenging the Four Great Law Sovereigns would become feasible." Beirute smiled.
The Four Divine Beasts, even with the power of Lower Gods, could threaten Sovereigns through their combined innate divine abilities.
Lin Lei's foundation was far superior to the Four Divine Beasts'.
"Very well, I'll accept them. But researching ultimate techniques — I can't make any promises," Lin Lei said. Yet deep down, he still held a sliver of hope.
Perhaps he could create something.
"Lin Lei, what stage have you reached in your cultivation?" Beirute asked.
"I've fused the profound mysteries of three different Laws, and I'm only one step away from the final breakthrough. But that last step is truly difficult." Lin Lei shook his head with a helpless smile.
"I see." Beirute urged with a smile. "I think you should hurry and find the time to create your divine planes. Creating divine planes will grant you much insight."
"Creating divine planes takes a very long time. You might have a major breakthrough," Qing Huo said with a smile as well.
After all, Lin Lei had only been a Sovereign for a little over three hundred years.
A single act of creating divine planes would take an extremely long time.
"It will certainly take a long time, because I plan to create two divine planes simultaneously," Lin Lei said with a smile.
"Two divine planes?" Beirute and Qing Huo both froze.
The four patriarchs of the Four Divine Beasts families stayed at Dragon Blood Castle for several months. After once again entrusting their matters of vengeance to Lin Lei, they departed the Yulan Plane and returned to the Infernal Realm. Lin Lei himself subsequently informed Dilia, Bei Bei, and the others that he would be going to create his divine planes.
He left behind his original body to research the Four Divine Beasts' essence blood!
Lin Lei's original body was the strongest of his five physical forms and also carried the Azure Dragon bloodline. Using this original body for research was most fitting.
As for Lin Lei's four clones, all of them departed the Yulan Plane and headed into the Spatial Storm.
In the vast expanse of the void, the Spatial Storm blazed like fireworks — brilliant and resplendent.
Lin Lei stood amidst the Spatial Storm, with the Yulan Plane several thousand miles away.
"Lin Lei, creating two different divine planes at once — this is an unprecedented feat," Beirute said with a grin. "We absolutely must witness it properly."
"I've never created a divine plane before," Qing Huo said with a smile as well.
Although all three seemed relaxed, both Beirute and Qing Huo had released their Sovereign consciousness. If any enemy approached, they would flee into the Yulan Plane in an instant.
"Very well, I'm about to begin."
Lin Lei's body abruptly split in two. A Lin Lei in earth-yellow robes and a Lin Lei in cyan-green robes stood side by side — the Earth Sovereign and the Water Sovereign, two great clones.
Seeing this, Beirute and Qing Huo fell silent, quietly watching the scene.
"Rumble~~~~" A stream of earth-yellow energy began to swirl around Lin Lei's Earth Sovereign clone, while a stream of cyan-green energy swirled around his Water Sovereign clone. As time passed, these two streams grew thicker and thicker — more and more of this 'Sovereign Power' accumulated.
Creating divine planes was a gift from the heavens to Sovereigns.
Any who had refined a Sovereign Spark to become a Sovereign could understand — by merely activating the sliver of natural law contained within the Sovereign Spark, one could create a divine plane. This ability was not something achievable through cultivation. It was contained within the Sovereign Spark itself, a natural endowment from the heavens.
During the creation process, the Sovereign did not need to rack their mind in contemplation. They only needed to fully immerse their soul in the act of creation.
Creating a divine plane once was equivalent to one act of enlightenment. Something would always be gained from it!
Different types of Sovereign Sparks naturally differed.
Lin Lei possessed two Sovereign Sparks, which was why he planned to create two divine planes simultaneously.