Chapter 489 -489-Slaying the Aura Overlord

Chapter 489: Chapter489-Slaying the Aura Overlord

BOOM!

The Lightning Tribulation struck the Aura Overlord in an instant.

A savage hole was blasted straight through his body, and his aura rapidly weakened.

Had an ordinary Peak Sovereign suffered such a grievous wound, even if they survived, they would have been forced to divert part of their concentration toward purging the Tribulation Power from their body.

Yet something strange happened.

The instant the gaping wound appeared, the Destiny Halo behind the Aura Overlord began to flash rapidly.

Immediately afterward, the hole in his body vanished into thin air. His aura also returned to its peak, as though he had never been struck by the Lightning Tribulation at all.

Even John could not help feeling surprised by the sight.

In the next instant, he gathered his Tribulation Power once more and unleashed another Lightning Tribulation, intending to destroy the Aura Overlord’s body.

Yet the result was exactly the same as before. The Destiny Halo behind the Sovereign flashed faintly.

His body was perfectly restored, and his aura remained at its peak.

John immediately stopped attacking as understanding dawned in his eyes.

"I finally understand," he murmured. "The halo behind him is the Destiny Halo. It allows him to draw power from his other selves throughout the worlds of reincarnation. That’s how he can instantly unleash strength at the level of a Half-Step Supreme Venerable. If the halo flashed millions of times, doesn’t that mean he borrowed the power of millions of reincarnated selves?"

At the same time, the Aura Overlord had swapped his wounded state with that of another self in one of those reincarnation worlds.

The injuries still existed, but the version standing before John always remained in peak condition.

This method worked much like the barehanded Sovereign’s use of the Law of Time to temper his body.

Perhaps I can combine the two.

Excitement immediately appeared in John’s eyes.

He could draw upon the principles behind those divine abilities and use them to create a Sovereign-rank divine ability of his own.

Once he completed it, the time would come for him to advance to the Sovereign rank!

Combined with the enhancement of the Ultimate Sovereign template...

Just how powerful would he become then?!

John had never imagined that he would reap such an extraordinary reward from this battle.

He had actually found his opportunity to advance to the Sovereign rank.

Just then, the duration of the Divine Domain Barrier came to an end.

The ashen-red world faded away.

The two enemy powerhouses resumed their attacks on John.

Their expressions remained as grave as ever. Neither had any idea that John had gained crucial insight from them while the Divine Domain Barrier was active.

At that moment, the two Sovereigns of the Demon King Council had only one thought...

John was impossibly difficult to deal with!

Despite being a mere God King, he had left the two of them—powerhouses who could be considered Half-Step Supreme Venerables—completely helpless against him.

The longer they fought, the more frustrated they became.

"John cannot be suppressed unless another Peak Sovereign comes in person!" the Aura Overlord exclaimed. "I can crush ordinary pinnacle powerhouses with a single move, yet John has held me off for so long. What a terrifying enemy."

We only need to hold John here until the Demon King Council sends another Peak Sovereign, the barehanded Sovereign thought.

John continued fighting the two powerhouses, deliberately refraining from finishing them off.

At the same time, he began experimenting on his own body.

"The Aura Overlord’s reincarnation ability allows him to borrow power from his other selves throughout the worlds of reincarnation—or swap places with them."

"The barehanded Sovereign uses his temporal divine ability to temper his body..."

"I can combine the two..."

John himself cultivated the Space-Time Law!

He had already raised it to Grade Four!

He could now manipulate units of space-time at the [Second] level.

In other words, John could borrow the power of his past and future selves within a window measured in seconds, with a maximum span of sixty seconds!

That meant...

Each second represented a separate John.

Sixty seconds meant sixty Johns!

John could borrow the power of his selves from the previous sixty seconds and the coming sixty seconds—a total of 120 Johns!

The first difficulty lay in using his present self as the anchor point within the current space-time.

The second was determining how to borrow and mobilize that power.

Of course, this was only theoretically possible.

He had never attempted it in practice.

Now John intended to do exactly that.

He activated his Space-Time Law and located himself within its vast, boundless sea, establishing his present self as the temporal anchor—the fixed point.

Then he searched for his selves from the previous sixty seconds and the coming sixty seconds.

Once he found them...

John attempted to establish a connection through the resonance of their laws.

He clearly sensed the laws of his sixty future selves resonating with his own.

A connection had been established between them.

John was puzzled when his sixty past selves failed to respond, but with no time to dwell on the problem, he decisively ended the search.

"Merge!"

John roared inwardly.

The moment he gave the command, Space-Time Law power surged around him, and his aura began to soar.

The combined power of sixty Johns...

How terrifying would that be?

John’s strength rapidly broke through to the Sovereign rank, then the late-stage Sovereign rank, and finally the Peak Sovereign rank!

BOOM!

Space-time power erupted around John, causing the surrounding space-time to collapse!

At the same time, John sensed that his connection with the Peak Sovereign Bone Relic had become much clearer. Controlling it now felt completely effortless.

He even gained some understanding of the law patterns engraved upon the bone relic—the divine abilities of the Peak Sovereign to whom it had once belonged.

In that same instant, John comprehended countless additional functions and divine abilities of the Sacred Bell of the Void...

He also grasped more of the Sacred Eye of Space-Time’s divine abilities!

It was as though a door to an entirely new world had opened before him!

John could now perceive countless previously unimaginable mysteries.

Reaching the Sovereign life tier represented one of the most critical evolutions a life-form could undergo.

Its significance was comparable to a being below the High God rank breaking through and becoming a High God!

To reach the Sovereign life tier was to stand atop the summit of the myriad universes!

From that height, one could look down upon all living beings!

Although John remained a God King in terms of his actual rank, the level of his divine abilities had already reached the Sovereign rank.

By relying on external power, he had temporarily entered the realm of a pseudo-Sovereign!

The two hostile Peak Sovereigns sensed the change in John immediately.

Both were horrified by his transformation.

How had John suddenly begun showing signs of a breakthrough in the middle of their battle?

Could he actually be advancing to the Sovereign rank while fighting them?

"They say peerless geniuses always manage to break through in battle. I never believed it. Who could possibly spare enough time and concentration to contemplate such things in the middle of a life-and-death struggle? Surviving alone is difficult enough..."

"Breaking through to a higher rank at a time like this? What a damn joke."

"But after meeting John, I finally understand—geniuses like that really do exist!"

The Aura Overlord was exceptionally experienced. Yet despite having lived for millions of years, he had never encountered a genius capable of breaking through in the middle of a deadly battle.

He had never imagined that he would one day become the witness to such a feat!

"Something is wrong with John’s aura."

"His strength suddenly surged, and the ability carries traces of the Destiny Halo. Yet the power surrounding him clearly comes from the Space-Time Law?"

Even the barehanded Sovereign was momentarily baffled.