Now that Snowfall Sovereign had fled, the disorder within the Water Divine Plane's laws worsened further.
Even with the Azure Dragon Sovereign assisting, they could at most hold things together for ten million years.
After all, the capabilities of two Lesser Sovereigns were simply too limited for something as vast as a divine plane.
Though it couldn't quite be called perfect mutual understanding, the moment Locke spoke, the Death Sovereign already knew what he intended.
"So, you're planning to go to the Water Divine Plane and help restore its laws?"
"Mm."
Locke nodded.
"I'm a soul mutate. While I can't absorb Water Sovereign power through a Fate Sovereign spark, I can still channel my willpower into the Water Laws."
"And my water divine clone carries roughly one percent of a Sovereign's willpower—barely enough to be of some help."
"I don't have any objections to that," the Death Sovereign said, frowning slightly. "But what about your cultivation?"
It could be said that within the Coiling Dragon universe, the Death Sovereign understood Locke better than anyone.
Locke possessed an almost obsessive passion for cultivation.
However, restoring the chaotic laws of a divine plane was an extremely time-consuming task.
While doing so, he simply wouldn't have the spare focus to cultivate.
"It's fine. My Saint-level original body is still here, isn't it?"
Locke smiled at the Death Sovereign.
"Besides, I've never done anything like restoring disordered laws before. Maybe this experience will bring me new insights in cultivation."
As he spoke, a streak of white light flew out from his body, forming his Fate Sovereign clone.
After nodding to the Death Sovereign, Locke tore open space in the Netherworld, stepped into the spatial turbulence, and headed toward the Water Divine Plane.
"Rip—!"
Tearing open a spatial rift into the Water Divine Plane, Locke stepped inside.
His divine sense spread out, and very quickly, he located the Frost Sovereign and the Azure Dragon Sovereign.
At present, the two Sovereigns had each chosen a continent, using their Sovereign sparks to restore the laws of their respective regions.
The moment the Frost Sovereign and Azure Dragon Sovereign noticed Locke's presence, they instantly withdrew from their work, their divine senses spreading around him.
If Locke showed any intention of heading toward them, they would immediately abandon the Water Divine Plane and flee at once.
However, to their surprise, Locke didn't move toward them at all.
Instead, he flew directly toward the central continent of the Water Divine Plane.
Upon arriving at the central continent, Locke willed it, and instantly, a vast amount of mist gathered in the air, condensing into a Sovereign's palace.
At the same time, dense mist spread outward around the palace.
This was Locke's first time restoring the laws of a divine plane.
The Death Sovereign possessed the "Netherworld Heart," and the Netherworld's laws never fell into disorder, so she had no experience to share with him.
Thus, Locke didn't hold back at all.
The outer layer of mist distorted direction and perception, effectively refusing all visitors.
Within the inner mist lay Locke's complete ultimate illusion—Eighteen Layers of Hell.
Not to mention ordinary gods—even if the Four Rule Sovereigns came, without a soul-defending Overgod artifact, they wouldn't be able to break into Locke's Sovereign palace.
Inside the main hall, a throne formed from condensed mist took shape, with faint silhouettes of a dragon, phoenix, tiger, and tortoise appearing upon it.
Leaning back, Locke sat directly upon the throne.
With a single thought, his Fate Sovereign spark instantly connected to the Water Laws of the Water Divine Plane.
In that instant, Locke felt his entire body sink, as though he were bearing something immensely heavy.
And the thing he carried seemed to be surging and churning.
This was the conflict between the Water Laws of the Water Divine Plane and the other six elemental laws and four edicts.
At present, Water Laws accounted for only fifty-three percent of the plane.
Under the surging pressure of the other laws and edicts, the Water Laws found it difficult to suppress them and maintain the plane's stability.
Taking a deep breath, Locke released his own Water Laws from his Sovereign spark.
In an instant, he took control over the laws within a certain region of the Water Divine Plane.
"Seems… not that difficult."
Such a thought flashed through Locke's mind.
Then, he began using the willpower within his Sovereign spark to suppress the other laws with the Water Laws under his control.
Gradually, Locke extended his willpower outward.
In the area centered around him, the chaotic laws were quickly sorted out and brought under control.
Only then did Locke begin expanding the area he was restoring.
As the range of his restoration widened, Locke sensed two other presences.
They belonged to the Frost Sovereign and the Azure Dragon Sovereign.
They, too, were restoring the disordered laws on their respective continents.
However, through his perception, Locke discovered that both the Frost Sovereign and the Azure Dragon Sovereign were progressing extremely slowly.
In fact, they hadn't even completed the suppression of conflicting laws within their own territories.
Unlike Locke's perfectly unified Water Laws, the laws they were restoring were somewhat scattered and disorganized.
Clearly, this was because neither of them was a Paragon Sovereign, making it extremely difficult for them to sort out the laws and suppress conflicting ones.
As for Locke—
because his comprehension of the Water Laws had already reached Paragon, he didn't even need to actively organize them.
Simply by releasing the aura of his perfected laws, the surrounding Water Laws naturally gathered around him.
With the presence of perfected laws, all other laws were almost instantly crushed before Locke's Water Laws and quickly suppressed.
Only the Four Edicts, being complete in themselves just like Locke's Water Laws, were not suppressed by his aura.
However, the difference between ownerless perfected laws and those under a Sovereign's control was immense.
Locke even suspected that the Four Rule Sovereigns were deliberately suppressing the turbulence of the Four Edicts across the seven divine planes.
Thus, although it took some time, Locke encountered no real difficulty in suppressing the chaotic laws of the Water Divine Plane.
High above, the White Tiger Sovereign, Vermilion Bird Sovereign, and Black Tortoise Sovereign looked up at the rapidly calming turbulence of the Water Divine Plane and couldn't help but sigh.
Before becoming the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns, the three of them had also stood at the bottom of their respective planes.
Naturally, they had been assigned tasks like restoring divine plane laws before.
At that time, their performance had only been slightly better than that of the current Azure Dragon Sovereign.
But that wasn't because they were stronger than him—it was simply because the state of their divine planes back then wasn't as dire as the Water Divine Plane's current condition.
Yet now, something they had once found incomparably difficult—
in Locke Sovereign's hands, posed no difficulty at all.
The only factor limiting Locke Sovereign's speed in restoring the plane's laws was still his Lesser Sovereign spark.
If Locke Sovereign possessed a Highgod Sovereign spark, perhaps he would need less than a hundred years to completely restore the entire divine plane's laws.
Even now, Locke Sovereign had spent just over two hundred thousand years to restore most regions of the Water Divine Plane, and was even gradually increasing the concentration of Water Laws and Water elements.
It could be said that as long as Locke Sovereign remained, the Water Divine Plane would never collapse.
This situation allowed the three—Eris, Nimo, and Bowen—to finally breathe a sigh of relief.
They discovered that Locke Sovereign seemed almost like their lucky star.
Before Locke became a Sovereign, they had learned from him the secret behind their fused innate divine ability, allowing them to rise from the lowest tier of Sovereigns to the third tier.
Now, thanks to Locke Sovereign's presence, they were once again spared from the possibility of their Four Divine Beasts clan falling into division.
As for how Locke Sovereign was able to restore the entire Water Divine Plane's laws so quickly, the three of them could naturally see the reason.
"…Paragon…"
For the first time, they deeply understood the difference between a Paragon Sovereign and a non-Paragon Sovereign.
In terms of Sovereign spark rank, Locke Sovereign, the Frost Sovereign, and their elder brother, the Azure Dragon Sovereign, were all on the same level.
Yet Locke Sovereign's speed in restoring the laws was a hundred times that of the Frost Sovereign and their elder brother.
Even though Locke was restoring a much larger area, his speed was still faster than the two Water Sovereigns.
Now, Locke had already begun increasing the plane's elemental concentration, while the Azure Dragon Sovereign and Frost Sovereign had yet to finish suppressing the chaotic laws of their own continents.
By the time they completed their work, there would likely be no need for them to increase the Water Divine Plane's elemental concentration at all.
While the Sovereigns were restoring the Water Divine Plane, the gods were unaware of what was happening.
However, they could clearly feel the changes.
Over the past hundreds of thousands of years, cultivating the Water Laws had become noticeably easier across the entire plane, except for Frost Continent and the Azure Dragon Archipelago.
At the same time, the concentration of Water elements throughout the Water Divine Plane seemed to be gradually increasing.
Although the conditions in Frost Continent and the Azure Dragon Archipelago were not as favorable as elsewhere, according to some gods who had lived for millions of years, even those two regions were better than they had been hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Still, compared to the outside world, those two areas lagged far behind.
Under such circumstances, many major factions from Frost Continent and the Azure Dragon Archipelago had no choice but to relocate most of their assets elsewhere, seeking better opportunities for development.
Meanwhile, smaller factions that lacked the ability to cross continents could only remain where they were.
Everyone understood that those who stayed behind would inevitably fall behind others in the future.
But this wasn't absolute.
If someone with exceptional talent grew strong enough and then left Frost Continent or the Azure Dragon Archipelago, they might experience a sudden surge in law affinity and elemental density—just like those who rose from material planes.
In such cases, they could undergo a second great leap in their lives.
(End of Chapter)
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