Coiling Dragon: An Unconventional Transcendence.

Space-time itself was silent.

However, after the flow of space-time returned to normal, the Sovereigns who had experienced the reversal all seemed to hear, beside their ears, the sound of a river flowing onward.

It was...

The River of Space-Time.

Ordinarily, with the strength of these Sovereigns, it would have been impossible for them to perceive the existence of the River of Space-Time.

But because of the Space-Time Reversal Locke had used, this region of space had stirred up a ripple upon the River of Space-Time, allowing these Sovereigns to glimpse a trace of the very origin of space-time.

For the other Sovereigns, hearing the flowing sound of the River of Space-Time was of little use.

But for Teresia, who cultivated the Laws of Space, it was an opportunity that came only once in countless epochs.

Merely hearing the sound of the River of Space-Time caused his understanding of the Laws of Space to soar dramatically.

Perhaps, without Locke granting her any more White Tiger Sovereign blood essence, Teresia would be able to break through the bottleneck of twenty percent comprehension of the Laws of Space by himself.

Rip—

As space-time returned to the moment before Linley had rescued Lina, although Linley already knew that tearing open a spatial rift into the Planar Battlefield to pull his mother out would violate the rules established by the Overgods, he still resolutely tore open the spatial rift once again.

Fortunately, because of the reversal of space-time, both his soul, which had been on the verge of collapse, and the Sovereign artifacts that had been destroyed by the Destruction Overgod had been completely restored.

It was as if none of it had ever happened.

"Linley!"

Beirut's voice caused Linley to pause slightly.

"I'm sorry, Lord Beirut."

"I can't simply stand by while my mother is in danger."

After apologizing to Beirut and Bluefire, Linley reached out once more toward Lina inside the Planar Battlefield.

However, to Linley's surprise, although he could clearly see Lina, his hand was unable to touch her.

It was as though the Lina within the Planar Battlefield were merely an illusion.

"What's going on?"

This unexpected situation startled Linley.

This hadn't happened before.

"That's enough, Linley."

Just as Linley was about to act again, Locke's figure appeared beside him, grabbing hold of his wrist.

"Lord Locke!"

Seeing that it was Locke who had stopped him, Linley hurriedly said,

"Lord Locke, my mother is in danger. Please..."

"Calm down, Linley!"

"Do you intend to be killed by the Destruction Overgod again for violating the rules of the Planar Battlefield?"

"But, Lord Locke, she's my mother!"

Locke shouted in a low voice,

"Take a good look at your mother's current state!"

Reminded by Locke, Linley and the other Sovereigns shifted their attention back toward the Planar Battlefield.

They saw that Lina had become like a phantom.

Her attacks passed straight through the bodies of the other lifeforms, while the attacks of those lifeforms likewise passed harmlessly through her body.

Neither side could affect the other.

"I left a strand of the Power of Time on your mother."

"The time your mother currently exists in is no longer on the same temporal dimension as ours."

"So whether your mother attacks others, or others attack your mother, to both sides, the other is no different from a phantom."

Light Chief Sovereign Augusta also heard Locke's explanation, and immediately let out a sigh of relief.

Lina was his Angel, and her soul remained under Augusta's control.

Earlier, Augusta had issued several commands to Lina, only to find them completely ignored.

He had initially thought that Chief Sovereign Locke had somehow done something to Lina—perhaps freeing her from the Angel Rebirth Pool's control without killing her.

But now it seemed that because Lina no longer existed upon the same timeline as himself, the commands he was issuing now belonged to either Lina's future or past.

Naturally, the Lina before him would have no reaction.

"Greetings, Lord Locke."

"Greetings, Lord Locke!"

Seeing that Chief Sovereign Locke had stopped Chief Sovereign Linley from violating the rules again, the Sovereigns hurriedly saluted him one after another.

Especially Beirut and Bluefire.

The two of them had truly been frightened half to death.

Linley was the Yulan faction's greatest pillar.

It was precisely because Augusta feared Linley that he had been forced to temporarily set aside his grudge against Beirut.

Once Linley was killed by an Overgod, Beirut and Bluefire would be finished as well.

Moreover, they were currently within the spatial turbulence.

The Light Chief Sovereign Augusta would never give them time to escape back to the Yulan Plane.

Fortunately, at the most critical moment...

Chief Sovereign Locke had acted.

"Lord Locke, thank you."

Linley sincerely expressed his gratitude to Locke.

If Locke had not intervened this time, although his wind divine clone might still have survived, Beirut's and Bluefire's Sovereign clones would likely have truly perished.

Only now did Linley realize something else.

If he no longer possessed his current strength and only retained a divine clone comparable to a Paragon...

...would he truly have been able to take his mother back from the Light Sovereigns?

"Enough, Linley."

Locke looked at Linley solemnly.

"The reason I saved you is because I believe you possess some potential to cultivate to the level I have reached today."

"But no matter how highly I think of you, I cannot save you time and time again."

"This was the first time."

"And it will also be the last."

"If you ultimately grow to reach my realm, I will be delighted."

"But if you perish before then, I will not grieve."

"I understand, Lord Locke."

Linley's expression became solemn.

He had never imagined that Chief Sovereign Locke would hold him in such high regard.

Judging from the strength Locke had displayed earlier, his power had unquestionably surpassed even the Four Overgods.

Meanwhile, Linley himself had only just reached the level of an ordinary Rule Chief Sovereign.

No matter how confident he was in himself, he had never believed he could one day reach Locke's level.

Yet now, after Locke had personally intervened on his behalf and openly acknowledged that he possessed the potential to attain Locke's realm, a surge of lofty ambition rose within Linley's heart.

He might doubt himself.

But he could not doubt Locke's judgment.

Locke's realm far surpassed his own.

He must have seen qualities within Linley that even Linley himself had yet to discover.

It was much like how Linley, when looking at lifeforms within the Material Planes, could roughly judge at a glance whether they had the potential to reach the Saint-level.

As for whether they could eventually become Deities...

Even Linley himself could not be completely certain.

In Linley's view, perhaps the way Lord Locke looked at him now was much the same as how he himself viewed those lifeforms that possessed a sliver of hope of becoming Deities.

Locke had not deliberately concealed his words.

Naturally, all the other Sovereigns heard them as well.

Immediately, countless envious gazes landed upon Linley.

Previously, they had only speculated whether Chief Sovereign Linley might become the second Chief Sovereign Locke.

Now, the fact that Chief Sovereign Locke had personally stepped in and confronted an Overgod on Linley's behalf was enough to show just how highly he valued Linley.

This...

...was recognition from Chief Sovereign Locke himself!

Unfortunately, they could only envy him.

There was no helping it.

They weren't even Paragons.

Their paths had already reached their end.

Linley, on the other hand, was not only a Paragon...

...he was also the unprecedented possessor of a four-way soul mutation.

Among all the Sovereigns present, perhaps only two people remained unhappy.

The Fate Chief Sovereign Orloff...

...and the Light Chief Sovereign Augusta.

Had Linley truly been killed by the Destruction Overgod earlier, Orloff would no longer have needed to worry about his secret being exposed.

But now...

The one thing that reassured Orloff was Locke's explicit statement that his intervention this time was both the first and the last time he would protect Linley.

Thus, when the time came for him to kill Linley, he would no longer need to fear Locke's attitude.

From Chief Sovereign Locke's perspective, intervening once for Linley already demonstrated extraordinary favor.

At the same time, Orloff secretly congratulated himself for not having attacked Linley earlier.

Otherwise, the one who would have triggered Locke's protective intervention...

...would probably have been himself.

Furthermore, Orloff felt somewhat bitter about Locke's high opinion of Linley.

In Orloff's own estimation, if there truly existed someone capable of catching up to Locke, then that person should most likely have been himself.

Yet judging from the current situation...

Locke clearly didn't think so.

Could it be...

...that soul mutants possessed some other secret he had yet to uncover?

After resolving Linley's crisis, Locke did not remain to watch the exchange between Linley and the Light Sovereigns.

Instead, he returned to the Chief Sovereign Palace in the Netherworld, focusing his consciousness upon the embryonic universe he had created.

Because...

Just now, Hongmeng had finally come looking for him.

...

"What a vast universe..."

A deep, resonant voice sounded beside Locke.

Locke opened his eyes.

The first thing he saw was Hongmeng, dressed in a coarse linen tunic.

It had to be said...

Hongmeng's appearance bore a certain resemblance to the Pangu from Locke's memories—the being who had split open Chaos itself to create the world.

The difference was that after Pangu created the world, he transformed into all things.

Hongmeng, however, had created the method of evolving universes from Hongmeng energy.

In terms of the universe's level, the Primordial Universe created by Pangu was one tier higher than Hongmeng's Primary Universe.

However, Pangu had sacrificed his own life to create that universe.

Hongmeng, on the other hand, not only remained alive after creating the Hongmeng Universe, but had also advanced even further in strength.

Although he still had not reached Pangu's level, he nevertheless surpassed even the Saints of the Primordial Universe.

"Although I already knew from the outside that the universe you created was extraordinary, Second Brother..."

"...only after entering it have I truly realized just how remarkable the universe you've created really is."

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