Picking Up Attributes From Today

by Stayrr

In Heaven’s Vault Continent, Colossal Dragons, Titans, Beast People, Fairies, Magical Beasts, and other races reign supreme! Humans are treated like s*aves and lowlifes, while Dragon People act all high and mighty and consider themselves nobility! However, a new addition will rock the boat and overturn the status quo! His name is Meng Lei, and he is a human from Earth that trans

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Chapter 191: Divine Might Personification, A Deity-Slaying Feat

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"The vitality core! Yes, I must find its vitality core! Only then will I be able to kill it!"

With that, Meng Lei began to dig swiftly.

Compared to the tree bark's tough, solid defenses, the Tree of Life's insides were relatively much weaker. In fact, there were even a great number of sap-filled vessels.

Meng Lei had no way of knowing whether the vessels were used for transporting moisture and nutrients or not, but these spacious and convenient vessels that led everywhere certainly provided him great convenience—weaving through them was extremely convenient.

"What fragrant sap! I wonder if it's potable?"

Meng Lei communicated with Ol' Amos while he weaved through the vessels.

"This sap is the Tree of Life's life essence. It contains a rich, surging lifeforce and is an invaluable treasure." Ol' Amos said, "But before you kill the Tree of Life, I'd suggest that you not drink it. On the off-chance that it contains the Tree of Life's divinity, then it would be poison itself!"

I can't drink it? But I can at least take it away with me, right? I'm a penniless pauper that urgently needs to replenish his wealth now!

Gurgle~

Meng Lei brought out a spatial ring and turned into a hardworking little bee as he furiously stored the sap into the ring.

Gurgle~

He filled a spatial ring to the brim!

Gurgle~

The second spatial ring was filled to the brim!

Gurgle~

And then, the third, the fourth, and the fifth!

When he reached the sixth spatial ring, Meng Lei was somewhat astonished. "This spatial ring can store so much! It actually isn't full yet when I've been filling it with the sap for so long? Just how big is the space inside..."

Meng Lei quickly released some spiritual power to check the capacity, upon which he couldn't help but gasp.

"It's... It's so huge! It's pretty much a freaking continent! Ol' President, have you ever seen a spatial ring that spans dozens of kilometers wide?"

"Is it that big?" Ol' Amos was rather astonished. "That's no longer a spatial ring, but a spatial magic device of half-divine weapon level. I daresay that an existential plane fragment is sealed within that spatial ring for sure. Otherwise, it couldn't possibly hold such a huge space."

"This is President Fred's ring!"

Meng Lei couldn't help being moved when he took a close look at the spatial ring's design.

President Fred was actually willing to lend him even a spatial ring of half-divine weapon level!

What kind of level of trust was that?

"Looks like your academy president trusts you very much!"

Ol' Amos was full of praises. "An existential plane fragment is an extremely precious treasure because it'll only form when a material plane is destroyed. It's very hard for a Saint Domain to get their hands on it in most typical situations.

"An existential plane fragment measuring two to three kilometers-wide is worth hundreds—even up to a thousand—Laws of Nature Origin Crystals!

"You can do the math yourself on how precious that spatial ring of President Fred's is."

"I understand now."

Meng Lei nodded silently.

"Let's go. We must hurry and continue on our journey. Follow the life essence. The vitality core is the origin of a botanical lifeform's life essence. The nearer you are to the vitality core, the life essence usually also becomes richer."

"Alright!"

"That goddamn human!"

The Tree of Life was boiling mad. Never did it expect things to develop to such a point.

It was a great half-deity, yet not only did it fail to kill a Saint Domain, but it had even allowed him to enter its body.

A disgrace! This was an extraordinary disgrace!

What infuriated the Tree of Life even further was that it could clearly sense that Meng Lei was currently furiously plundering its life essence.

That was its life essence! How dare Meng Lei?!

"I must kill him! I must kill that bastard! Only with his blood can my fury be vented!"

Boom!

A divinity personification formed in an instant and descended out of nowhere before Meng Lei.

It was actually a miniature version of the Tree of Life, except with legs, arms, a mouth, a nose, and eyes.

"Damn you, human!"

The divinity personification's glowering eyes glared furiously at Meng Lei. How it wished it could dismember him into a million pieces!

"What the hell!"

Meng Lei did an emergency brake at once.

"That's the personification of the Tree of Life's divinity. There's no need to fear it." Ol' Amos said as a reminder, "A divinity personification holds less than even 0.0001% of the original form's power. Release the Gods-Slaying Spear and kill it!"

"Alright!"

The Gods-Slaying Spear appeared out of thin air. Meng Lei hurled it forward forcefully, upon which the divinity personification snorted icily and easily evaded the attack with a flash.

"Turn around!"

With a mental command from Meng Lei, the Gods-Slaying Spear reversed its course at once. The divinity personification was unable to react in time, resulting in the Gods-Slaying Spear piercing right through its head.

Then, something shocking happened:

Buzz!

Dazzling violet lightning erupted from the Gods-Slaying Spear. Then, a terrifying suction force emerged from it and started to absorb the divinity personification with a vengeance.

Gurgle~

The divinity personification began to shrivel up visibly. In the span of a few breaths, it was completely absorbed by the spear, turning into a bunch of green light participles and dissipating.

"What's going on?"

Meng Lei looked stupefied.

"I-it's absorbing the power of divinity!" Ol' Amos couldn't help but gasp. "To think the Gods-Slaying Spear can actually absorb the power of divinity!"

"Absorbing the power of divinity?"

Meng Lei stared at the spot where the divinity personification had dissipated. A huge jolt couldn't help but go through him.

"No, this is no longer just plain absorption, but plundering!" Ol' Amos murmured absentmindedly, "To be able to fully absorb the Tree of Life's divinity personification in just the span of a short two to three breaths, of what level is that divine weapon?"

Of what level?

No-one knew!

After absorbing the divinity personification into itself, the Gods-Slaying Spear circled about as though it hadn't had enough yet. Only then did it return to Meng Lei with utmost reluctance.

"What a great treasure! To think it can even do something like that!"

Meng Lei stroked the spear's icy-cold shaft as he marveled. He didn't get overly hung up on the Gods-Slaying Spear's abilities. As the saying went, "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat doesn't matter; all cats that can catch mice are good cats!"

Meng Lei didn't give two hoots about the reason why the Gods-Slaying Spear was able to absorb the power of divinity. All he knew was that this additional ability of the Gods-Slaying Spear was definitely something positive.

Or at least, it came right into play at the moment.

"Let's see how you're gonna fight me, Tree of Life!"

Meng Lei let out an icy laugh, and then he continued on his way.

"W-what exactly was that just now? My divinity personification has actually been absorbed?"

The Tree of Life was dumbfounded.

As a powerful botanical lifeform, it had always been the one plundering, absorbing, exploiting others, and using other lifeforms as food and nutrients all this time.

As the saying went, "What goes around, comes around."

It was now its turn to be absorbed by others. It certainly didn't feel good. In fact, the feeling could even be said to be frustrating!

On top of that, the frustration wasn't even the most important thing here. The key was that the Tree of Life had been presented with information that made it shiver in fear.

This was because...

What the Gods-Slaying Spear had absorbed wasn't blood, tissue fluid, lifeforce, or magic power. Rather, it was... The power of divinity!

It fed on the power of divinity!

That was simply too frightening!

As a half-deity that had only just achieved half-deification through faith, the Tree of Life had only taken a tiny little step forward on the road to deification. It had neither kindled the divine fire nor had it formed a state of divinity yet, much less establish a divine nation.

To put it nicely, the Tree of Life was no different from a little newbie that had only just embarked on the road to deification.

To put it bluntly, it was the weakest and wussiest half-deity! How weak was it?

Without kindling the divine flame, one wouldn't be able to convert the endless, infinite power of faith into the power of divinity.

This was too fatal of a flaw!

What was the power of divinity?

Power of divinity was electricity, fuel, an energy source, a driving force. It was the rice and pork that one ate every day.

If a human were iron, then rice would be steel.

If one skipped a meal, they would be drained of energy.

This was the case for humans, as well as deities.

Wouldn't a half-deity without the power of divinity be the weakest god, then?

In the songs and tales frequently sung by bards where humans managed to slay gods, the ones that were slew were usually gods like that!

Of course, as a half-deity, the Tree of Life was nevertheless still able to create the power of divinity. However, without the divine fire as a tool, the creation process's efficiency was appallingly low. Every drop of power of divinity required an extremely long amount of time.

Thus, one shouldn't be fooled by the Tree of Life's thick and sturdy trunk and incredible height and size. It really didn't possess that many drops of power of divinity.

To put it bluntly, not only was it the weakest half-deity, but it was also the poorest half-deity.

Precisely because it was poor, how the Tree of Life wished it could use every drop of power of divinity as if it had the capacity of three. How would it possibly have extra power of divinity lying around to squander and waste?

After all, its father was no Li Gang1 or Little Big Brother Ma2, much less the Heavenly Emperor or the Creator.

Therefore, how could the Tree of Life possibly not be filled with fear when faced with a weapon that could consume one's power of divinity?

"What kind of weapon is it, exactly? To think it can actually consume the power of divinity? Could it be a divine weapon?

"And that hammer, too. It's even sturdier than my body! It has to be at least a half-divine weapon!

"That bastard! Why does a Saint Domain like him have that many divine weapons? Is there even any justice in this world?!"

The Tree of Life felt terribly frustrated. How venerable and how powerful was a great half-deity like it?

Yet, it was still an impoverished pauper even to this day. On the other hand, Meng Lei instead had divine weapon after divine weapon. How infuriating!

"What is he trying to do? That location...! Could he be..."

The Tree of Life's countenance changed greatly. It had suddenly realized what Meng Lei wanted to do.

"Damn! His goal isn't the life essence but my vitality core! I have to stop him! I have to!

"Not only does he hold two divine weapons in his possession, but he's even ridiculously strong. Once I allow him to go near my vitality core, I'll be in great danger!

"Divinity Personification!"

Upon realizing the severity of the situation, the Tree of Life was no longer miserly with its power of divinity. It created an even stronger divinity personification and charged toward Meng Lei at all costs!

"Here to deliver food again?"

At the sight of the divinity personification that'd appeared once more, Meng Lei threw the Gods-Slaying Spear over again without any hesitation.

The divinity personification had come prepared this time. It easily dodged the Gods-Slaying Spear, and then it unleashed its skill.

"God's Domain!"

A terrifying energy wave descended and froze Meng Lei to the ground.

"Divine Technique: Deprivation of Life!"

Meng Lei gave an icy chuckle. Then, a great force erupted from all over him, and he knocked away the shackles of God's Domain. The Hammer of Destruction appeared in his hand, and he smashed it ruthlessly at the divinity personification!

"Hmph! This is home ground for me here. How can I possibly let you attack me?"

The divinity personification snorted and evaded the Hammer of Destruction's attacks. To its surprise, however, the Gods-Slaying Spear actually ambushed it from the back and, with a splurt, pierced through its head.

"So what even if it's your home ground?" Meng Lei sneered, "I can kill you insidiously with a pincer attack all the same!"

Buzz!

Lightning dazzled brightly on the Gods-Slaying Spear's surface. Then, as though drinking sweet dew, it began to absorb the divinity personification once more.

"You bastard!"

The divinity personification roared furiously. Nevertheless, amid utmost indignation, it was ultimately still cleanly and totally absorbed by the Gods-Slaying Spear, leaving behind not even a trace of itself.

"Let's continue forward!"

Meng Lei pushed on continuously.

Boom!

The third divinity personification descended. It was obviously an even more solid manifestation than the previous two. Its aura was also more ferocious, and its divine power even more fearsome. The Tree of Life had clearly invested heavily in it.

However, this time round, without even needing Meng Lei's command, the Gods-Slaying Spear that had gotten addicted to the taste shot forward by itself, chasing after the divinity personification and chomping down on it.

"What the hell!"

The Tree of Life was so frightened that it darted about everywhere. It didn't have the leisure to attack Meng Lei anymore.

"Here's my chance!"

It wasn't attacking Meng Lei, but that didn't mean that he was going to let it off. Upon finding an opportune moment, Meng Lei smashed the hammer over.

Bam!

The divinity personification was utterly stunned by the blow.

"Ahhh!"

The Gods-Slaying Spear took advantage of the opportunity and impaled the divinity personification's buttocks in one strike.

"Third divinity personification down!"

Meng Lei chuckled, and then he darted swiftly toward the vitality core.

"Almost there! The life essence is becoming richer and richer! The vitality core must be nearby! Hurry! C'mon! Find it!"

Ol' Amos was incredibly agitated, so much so that even his voice was somewhat shaking.

Meng Lei broke into another mad dash.

Boom!

Dazzling light suddenly erupted ahead. The light was so piercing that Meng Lei couldn't even really open his eyes. He had actually arrived at a massive hollow zone.

It was hollowed out.

The area ahead was straight up hollowed out.

And in the center of the hollowed-out zone, a golden sun-like bead hung suspended.

Spanning 100-meters-wide, the surface was covered in mysterious magic runes. It gave off a surging, gushing sense of vigor as if one would extend their lifespan by a thousand years just by taking a breath of it.

Root-like strands extended from the golden bead, connecting to every area of the Tree of Life.

They led everywhere, crisscrossing and intertwining as though one's neural networks, yet also like a sheep's intestinal tracts.

Dense and packed, innumerable, and infinite!

"The vitality core! That's the Tree of Life's vitality core!

"The most dangerous and most critical moment has come, Meng Lei. You must be careful of its counterattacks. A moment of carelessness will doom you to hell!

"Of course, should you succeed, then congratulations, you shall achieve the great feat of slaying a deity—though just a half-deity!"

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Chapter 192: Perishing Together, Goodbye Meng Lei

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"The golden barrier is gone!"

"Here's my chance!"

"Quickly!"

"Hurry and leave this place!"

At the moment that Meng Lei found the vitality core, the golden shield enveloping the outside disappeared with a boom.

Everyone who was trapped within was overjoyed, and they seized the opportunity to flee.

The Tree of Life didn't stop them. They fled a long way out in one go before they finally came to a stop.

"That was close! We're finally out!"

"That was really too close!"

"A moment of carelessness, and we'd all have been finished!"

"We're still in a passable condition. It's Prince Barbarossa and the others who are in for it..."

Prince Barbarossa and the other 100-odd contestants' appearances were all shriveled up, and their faces filled with wrinkles, making them look even older than an 800-years-old elderly man!

The strong ones were still breathing faintly, barely hanging on—all of them were Saint Domains.

On the other hand, the weaker ones—all ninth-grade—were deader than dead.

"How are they?"

The Golden Colossal Dragon Person barked the question with a grave look on his countenance.

"Captain, out of 108 contestants, only 36 of them are barely managing to hang in there. The rest are all dead!"

"Bastard!"

With an awful look on his face, the Golden Colossal Dragon Person swore. "That goddamn evil deity! To think it's killed so many of the empire's elites. How utterly hateful!"

"Hmph! Isn't all of this Meng Lei's fault?!"

One of the contestants snorted icily and said, "If it weren't for him, why would we be in such a predicament?"

"Exactly! It's all Meng Lei's fault! He has to take responsibility for the 72 contestants' deaths!"

"So many contestants have indirectly died by his hand. It's no different from him killing them himself. He's no longer qualified to participate in the competition. He should be disqualified!"

"That's right! He should be disqualified..."

The Golden Colossal Dragon Person gave the contestants a long, deep look before he said, "At this point of the competition, all of you are the only ones left now. Whether or not the competition goes on is dependent on His Majesty's decision."

Upon hearing that, the contestants' countenances changed slightly, becoming dismayed at once.

"I understand, Ol' President!"

Meng Lei took a deep breath and primed his body to its best condition. The Gods-Slaying Spear quietly appeared in his hand. Then, he leaped into the air and hurled it forward forcefully.

"Go, Gods-Slaying Spear!"

Whoosh!

Lightning weaved around the spear, and the Gods-Slaying Spear turned into a stream of light that shot toward the 100-meters-wide golden bead.

"God's Domain!"

A roar that contained endless fury rang out. The space was locked down in an instant. The Gods-Slaying Spear's speed reduced dramatically until it ultimately became imprisoned and stopped where it was.

"You lowly and cunning human!"

A gigantic human visage appeared in the sky. Its mouth opened and closed as it emanated endless murderous intent and immense wrath.

"How dare you seek to slay a great deity! How utterly audacious of you! I'm going to rip you into a million pieces!"

"Divine Technique: Imprisonment!"

Buzz!

Power of divinity even more fearsome than God's Domain swept toward Meng Lei. Since he had been prepared for it, Meng Lei's form flashed about again and again, and then, he vanished altogether!

"Old tree demon, your divine techniques are certainly fearsome. Once it hits me, I'm finished!" Meng Lei's voice resounded in the surroundings as he went on. "But casting these techniques requires time, and so does hitting me with them. As long as I'm on guard against it, what can you do to me?"

His voice echoed in the void, but his form was nowhere in sight at all; hence the divine technique naturally also missed its target. The Tree of Life was so furious that it was screaming.

"You goddamn little thief! Get out here! Get out here!"

"Get out there? As you wish!"

Meng Lei abruptly appeared in front of the Gods-Slaying Spear, grabbed it in one smooth motion, and then, he vanished right away. By the time he reappeared, he was already on the other side of the golden bead.

"Break!"

With the Gods-Slaying Spear in hand, Meng Lei pumped all the strength in him into it and jabbed it forward ruthlessly.

Slash!

The Gods-Slaying Spear ripped through the air, emitting a sharp and shrill screech as it did so, and stabbed the golden bead.

Clang!

It was as though the Gods-Slaying Spear were stabbing against a firm, solid metal board, spraying sparks everywhere.

Apart from that, it actually hadn't managed to impale the golden bead.

"What the! It's that solid?" Meng Lei was shocked.

"This is normal. Magic cores are where all of a Magical Beast's essence is stored," Ol' Amos explained, "Even low-grade Magical Beasts' magic cores are incredibly hard, let alone an old half-deity demonic tree like the Tree of Life that has lived for an immeasurably long time."

"That's true!"

Realization dawned on Meng Lei.

"Bastard!" The Tree of Life roared, "Divine Technique: Elemental Storm!"

Boom!

An endless amount of wood elements sprayed forth and turned into innumerable formidable tornadoes.

Each tornado's size might not be that big, but all of them were imbued with the power of divinity. The might they carried was countless times stronger than typical tornadoes'!

Should any hit him, while Meng Lei had no idea whether or not they could penetrate his defenses, what he did know was that with his current short and small body, he'd definitely be sucked into them.

When that happened, wouldn't he become a trapped mouse?

"How can I let things go according to your plan?"

Meng Lei began to weave through the innumerable tornadoes. No matter how the storms howled, slashed, or cut, they actually couldn't even... touch Meng Lei at all.

The Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline's powerful superiority in speed was fully displayed at this moment.

Running around isn't going to kill the old tree demon. I have to think of something! A way that I can kill it!

Eh? That's it! There's the Hammer of Destruction!

Meng Lei appeared at the golden bead again with the spear in his left hand and the hammer in his right. He pressed the tip of the spear against the golden bead and swung the hammer down on it!

Boom!

Carrying with it a great, vast force, the Hammer of Destruction struck the Gods-Slaying Spear's end heavily, causing a great force to course through the spear.

Crack!

With a crisp, melodious crack, the Gods-Slaying Spear's tip actually pierced through the solid and sturdy golden bead's defenses to make a small opening.

"Hahaha! It works!"

Meng Lei was immensely excited. He didn't hold back at all with the Qilin Arm1, that he had painstakingly trained for so many years.

Amid loud collisions, the Gods-Slaying Spear was embedded bit by bit into the golden bead. In the blink of an eye, almost half of the tip had gone in.

"Ahhh!"

The Tree of Life let out a shrill cry that sounded just like the wailing of vengeful spirits from hell, making one's scalp tingle and shivers to go through them.

"Hurry! Step on it! Kill that bastard!"

An incredibly stimulated Ol' Amos cheered Meng Lei on.

"Break! Break! Break!"

Meng Lei let out a long howl, displaying even the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer Technique1 that he'd painstakingly practiced for many years. Right away, deafening clings and clangs rang out, and sparks flew everywhere.

"C'mon, break!!"

"Aaahhhh!"

Each of the Tree of Life's screams was louder than the previous, endless and eternal like the gushing rivers, yet also like the overflowing Yellow River, beyond control once the floodgates open.

Crack!

At last, amid crisp cracks that sounded incomparably wonderful, a thin crack appeared in the blazing sun-like golden bead's surface.

The crack became wider and wider, longer and longer. Like a spider web, the cracks spread outward in every direction. In the blink of an eye, they had spread throughout the whole golden bead!

"Here's my chance!"

Meng Lei's blood boiled with passion as he leaped high into the air and swung the Hammer of Destruction down.

"I shall decide the universe's fate with one strike of the hammer!

"Break!!"

Boom!

The incomparably heavy Hammer of Destruction contained a fearsome might. Added to this Meng Lei's incredible strength, everything erupted the instant it came into contact with the golden bead.

Crack!

At last! It broke!

The enormous golden bead broke into half from the middle!

"Ahhh!"

A scream that sounded like the wailing and crying of thousands of vengeful spirits rang out, hysterical and insane... It was the Tree of Life!

"I did it! Ol' President, I did it!"

Meng Lei panted heavily with a look of excitement and stimulation on his face.

"Go! Hurry and go! Leave this place immediately!" Ol' Amos shouted, "The Tree of Life is doomed! But you have to be careful of its final blow before it dies!"

"Don't worry, I know!"

Meng Lei didn't dare dally. He took off at once.

"Leave? Do you really think you can go after you've injured me to this extent?"

A cold, imposing voice that contained great murderous intent and endless hatred rang out. Then, a small golden tree that dazzled a radiant gold abruptly appeared in the empty zone.

It was a tree but looked more like a human—more so than even its divinity personification.

"That's..."

A huge jolt went through Meng Lei.

"That's the Tree of Life's soul. Or rather... Its divine spirit." Ol' Amos' voice shook as he said, "It has already attained half-deification, so its soul has metamorphosed into a soul of higher class that's nearly immortal—the divine spirit."

"Immortal?" Meng Lei shook violently. "Doesn't that mean that it can't die?"

"Theoretically, yes!" Ol' Amos nodded.

"Who cares? Let's just go!"

With even a moment's pause, Meng Lei continued his mad dash.

"You've broken my vitality core and destroyed my divine body, thoroughly cutting off my path to divinity. I'll fight to the death with you!"

The crazed golden little tree charged right up to Meng Lei in an instant and blocked his path.

"What the hell! It's so quick!"

A shocked Meng Lei immediately changed his course and ran off again.

"Die! Die! Die! Die!"

As the little golden tree screamed, its divine spirit's surging power morphed into a hammer that swung ruthlessly toward Meng Lei.

"Look out! That's an attack on one's divine spirit!"

Ol' Amos hastily shouted a warning.

But just how fast was a divine spirit attack?

He'd only just shouted the warning when the divine spirit attack reached Meng Lei, disregarding his body to smash forcefully onto his soul!

"Ugh!"

As though he'd been struck by lightning, Meng Lei threw up a mouthful of blood. His mind buzzed as he blanked out completely...

A single strike alone had gravely wounded him!

"To think your soul is actually this weak and fragile!" At the sight of that, the Tree of Life became rather hysterical as it wailed, "Oh, the resentment in me! If I had realized this sooner, how would I have landed myself in this state!?

"Bastard! Die!"

The Tree of Life went even more berserk and launched an even more raging divine spirit attack.

"It's all over!"

A tragic smile appeared on Meng Lei's lips. His spiritual power had only just broken through the 1 billion point mark—in other words, it'd barely reached Saint Domain.

Even if he used all his remaining Wealth to enhance his soul, it was far from enough.

The Tree of Life's spirit was a half-deity's soul. Its very first attack had already wounded him gravely. How was he supposed to withstand the second blow?

"Am I actually going to die here?"

Meng Lei was unwilling to accept the fact.

Boom!

At this critical moment, a dazzling red light suddenly erupted. Meng Lei looked up in astonishment to see a big, tall, and majestic figure standing in front of him.

Fiery red scales and fiery red wings!

Fiery red horns and a fiery red body!

It was a pure-blooded Fire Dragon!

"O-Ol' President?"

Meng Lei exclaimed in a low voice. He was too familiar with Ol' Amos' aura. It was Ol' Amos' aura!

"After being with you for such a long time, it's time I should leave."

The pure-blooded Fire Dragon turned to him and gave him a kindly smile. "You should know that I had remained single for my entire life. In your words, I'm a lifelong bachelor.

"My biggest regret is that I hadn't left behind any descendants. Fortunately, I met you. Watching you grow, watching you breakthrough, watching you come all this way...

"It has let me experience what it's like to enjoy a life of leisure in old age as one plays with their grandchildren, as well as the joy of guiding the younger generation. This is something that I've never experienced before, and also the happiest moments of my life in the last 20,000 years.

"Alas, all good things must come to an end. The fate between us has reached the end, and this day has finally come!"

With a hint of gratification and comfort at the corners of his eyes, Ol' Amos said, "To be honest, brat, I've known from the very beginning that you're not a descendant of the Krocs, so there's no need for you to be sad after my death. Nor do you need to restore the Krocs' glory and magnificence. From the start to the end, this clan had never been glorious before!

"So, go on your journey happily and create your own glory! I will watch over you quietly in the otherworld.

"Next is the thing that you care about the most—my inheritance. All of my inheritance is in my dragon remains in the Magical Beast Forest. You can look for it after you leave this place. Although it isn't much, they should still be of some help to you.

"Lastly, haven't you been curious all this time about how strong I was during my peak? Here's a piece of good news—your wish has come true! You shall be the first, as well as the last, to see my strongest power!"

With a bright smile, the flames around Ol' Amos suddenly turned into a dazzling golden-yellow!

A Fire Dragon had turned into a Golden Dragon!

Boom!

Majestic divine power emanated from him and enveloped the whole place in it, sweeping through the heavens and earth.

"Divine spirit, ignite!"

Blazing flames suddenly burst forth from the Golden Dragon. As though flames that had been doused with petrol, his divine power instantly surged!

"What's going on?"

The Tree of Life's countenance changed dramatically.

"To be able to kill a half-deity before I die... I have no more regrets!

"This is farewell, brat! Live on well!"

With a kindly and benevolent expression on his face, Ol' Amos took one last look at Meng Lei. Then, he turned into a golden stream of light that shot toward the Tree of Life's divine spirit, breaking into the most radiant, most dazzling brilliance at the very last moment, much like a comet shooting across the sky.

"NOOOOO!"

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Chapter 193: Two Half-Deities, Little Sister Has Come

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Boom!

Accompanied by a dazzling golden light, a violent shockwave swept in all directions and exploded!

Meng Lei took the brunt of the impact. He was sent flying; his eyes rolled, and he fell unconscious!

When Meng Lei woke up again, he didn't know how long it had been. It was all empty and silent around him—even a needle drop would be heard.

The small golden tree had disappeared!

Ol' Amos had disappeared!

Everything had disappeared!

Only the vitality core, broken into two pieces, and countless vessels in disarray were left.

Meng Lei got up quickly, ignoring his dizziness, and yelled frantically.

"Ol' President?

"Ol' President!

"Ol' President, come out!"

There was no response at all.

"Ol' President, come out!

"Ol' Amos, get out here quickly!"

Meng Lei shook the Gods-Slaying Spear hard, wanting to shake the old man out of it. It was from this spear that Ol' Amos had emerged before.

Unfortunately, this time, Ol' Amos didn't come out anymore.

He extended his spiritual power inside but could detect nothing. Ol' Amos had disappeared forever.

"No! No! No!"

Meng Lei shook his head, unable to accept this reality. In the past, Meng Lei would always feel irritated at the old man's non-stop chattering in his ears.

But now that Ol' Amos had disappeared, and he couldn't hear his nagging voice anymore, Meng Lei's heart felt a piercing pain.

"I'm the President of Fire Dragon Magic Academy.

"My name is Amos Kroc.

"You unfilial descendant! Why would I get such an unfilial youngster like you...

"Brat, how come you've broken through again?

"Meng Lei, live well!"

Scenes of their past interactions kept replaying—Ol' Amos's voice, tone, smile, and appearance filled Meng Lei's mind. Only now did Meng Lei realize that the elder who often scolded, criticized, and advised him, had long become a person who he couldn't part with.

But now, the person Meng Lei was closest to in this world... had left forever!

"Why? Why did this happen?"

Meng Lei collapsed onto the ground, his tears gushing out uncontrollably.

After an unknown amount of time, Meng Lei's mood recovered just slightly. He looked at the empty area and stood up.

Time to leave this sorrowful place...

He put away the Hammer of Destruction and grabbed his Gods-Slaying Spear. Meng Lei felt extremely sad; how he wished for Ol' Amos to fly out of the Gods-Slaying Spear once again.

It was a pity that what would happen every single day before was an impossible dream now.

"Ol' President, I'm sorry!"

Meng Lei decisively put away the Gods-Slaying Spear, not wanting to give it a single more look. Looking at it would only make him sadder due to the memories.

"Collect!"

"Collect!"

"Collect!"

More than two hours had passed when Meng Lei exited the Tree of Life.

The Tree of Life still stood high, majestic, green and lush, no different from before. The only difference was that the countless golden fruits in between the leaves had disappeared. Only a handful remained scattered in between, vastly different from the numbers before.

"Where are the fruits? Never mind! If they are gone, let them be gone!

If it were before, maybe he would be extremely angry, but now, he had no mood to even be angry.

"Collect!"

He collected all of the leftover fruits before looking at the tall and majestic Tree of Life once again.

Although the Tree of Life's spirit had already died, Meng Lei was still raging with unappeased hatred at its empty shell.

"It was you who killed Ol' Amos!"

Boom, boom, boom!

Meng Lei ruthlessly bombarded the tree. The huge tree trunk was still standing tall and straight, without the slightest sign of breaking.

"You bastard!"

Meng Lei punched his fist onto the trunk. He felt extremely undignified and really wanted to pull it right out of the earth!

"Meng Lei!"

A surprised call came from behind. He saw Abbe standing not far away, her face red, breathing heavily.

"Abbe!"

Meng Lei struggled to make a slight smile.

"It's so good that you are okay. I thought you..."

Abbe flew over. Although tears were shining in her eyes, her face was full of excitement.

"Yeah, I'm okay." Meng Lei smiled sorrowfully, shook his head, and diverted the conversation. "You didn't leave with them?"

"I was waiting for you to come out!"

Abbe stared at Meng Lei. She could sense Meng Lei's fatigue and sadness. In addition, Meng Lei's eyes were red.

"Meng Lei, what's... wrong?"

"I just... lost someone close to me." Meng Lei was in a lot of pain. "Abbe, I want some quietness, some quietness alone."

Upon saying that, Meng Lei turned to leave.

However, at that moment, a wave of terrible pressure appeared.

Divine power swept in all directions, and the void seemed to solidify!

"This is..."

Two streams of light rapidly shot toward their location, and instantly, they got closer. It was actually a man and a woman.

An old man with black hair and black horns, and a young woman with red dragon horns. These were two half-deities of the Dragon race!

Meng Lei glanced at the duo and couldn't be bothered with them. He needed a good rest.

The black-horned old man suddenly spoke. "You both are also the empire's contestants?"

"Yes, elder!"

Abbe didn't dare to neglect him and hurried to bow and answer in the affirmative. Meng Lei ignored him and directly flew toward Sacas.

This action somewhat angered the black-horned old man, and his facial expression suddenly turned dark. "Boy, stop. I'm talking to you!"

Meng Lei ignored him.

"Elder, he's also a contestant. He is in too much grief because of the loss of a family member. Please, forgive him!"

Abbe hurried to speak to explain for Meng Lei.

"Hmph!"

The black-horned old man snorted coldly. Though he was a bit dissatisfied, he didn't continue questioning. Instead, he looked at the tall and majestic Tree of Life.

"This is the native half-deity?"

The black-horned old man and the red-horned young woman's eyes flickered, and amazement showed in their eyes. Soon, the two frowned, however.

"The divine spirit is no longer there!"

"No more power of divinity!"

"This native half-deity... is dead?"

The black-horned old man looked at Abbe again. "Little girl, who killed this native half-deity?"

"It... It died?"

Abbe was confused.

"Of course! This native half-deity before us is only an empty shell. Its spirit has long died. Naturally, it's dead!"

The black-horned old man said calmly, "Judging from the mess around here, there should have just been a battle here just now. Tell me, who killed it?"

"It's... really dead?"

Abbe's whole body shook violently. She was at a loss for words. She had been here the whole time, so if someone had killed the Tree of Life, it would most possibly be Meng Lei!

But how could Meng Lei possibly have killed a half-deity? Meng Lei was just a Saint Domain expert!

At that thought, Abbe couldn't help but look toward Meng Lei's back profile, with shock and disbelief filling her eyes.

Is Meng Lei already so strong to the degree of being able to kill a half-deity?

"Little girl, you can't possibly insinuate that this boy killed this native half-deity? Nonsense!" The black-horned old man snorted. "How weak is a mere Saint Domain Warrior? How can he be compared to this native half-deity?"

"Maybe I guessed wrongly," Abbe muttered to herself.

The red-horned young woman spoke. "Elder Thaniel, we should investigate first. Maybe we could find some clues!"

"Alright!"

The two approached the Tree of Life and started scrutinizing it. The Tree of Life was so tall, yet it only took the two half-deities one moment to complete the examination.

The duo was shocked at once. The red-horned young woman even disappeared right where she was.

"Not only the divine spirit disappeared, but the vitality core is also gone!" The black-horned old man was a bit angry. "The most precious part of a plant half-deity is its vitality core. My goal was exactly the vitality core!

"But now, the vitality core of the native half-deity actually disappeared! Isn't our trip wasted then?"

Whoosh!

The black-horned old man suddenly turned back and fixed his gaze on Abbe. His eyes were as sharp as blades as he said in a chilling voice, "Little girl, exactly who killed this native half-deity? If you lie, I will definitely not let you go easily!"

"Little kid, who killed it?" the red-horned young woman suddenly asked as well. She grabbed Abbe's shoulder, unable to contain her emotions. "Tell me, who killed this tree?"

Being stared at like this by two half-deities, especially faced with the red-horned young woman's emotional and intense gaze, Abbe felt immense pressure.

"I don't know!"

"Hmph!"

The black-horned old man snorted and immediately turned to look at Meng Lei. He grabbed at the air and pulled Meng Lei, who had already flown off quite a distance, right back.

"Boy, who killed it?"

The black-horned old man yelled the question.

"I killed it. You have a question?"

Meng Lei looked up, his tone stiff.

"You killed it? You really do dare to make yourself look good, stop joking!" The black-horned old man snorted coldly. "You are just a weak Saint Domain! Who are you compared to it?"

"Believe it or don't!"

Meng Lei's tone was aloof.

"You—"

The black-horned old man was enraged.

Then, the red-horned young woman spoke. Her voice was very soft and gentle, with a slight quiver. "Little guy, I checked just now. Two remaining divine spirits were moving in the tree body!

"It shows that it was another half-deity who killed this tree! Tell me, have you seen that half-deity? Where did he go?"

The young woman's eyes shone full of sincerity and attentiveness.

Meng Lei's throat moved slightly, and a look of pain showed on his face. "He died!"

"Died? No! It's impossible! How could he possibly die? You lied! You lied! How dare you lie to me!"

The red-horned young woman's breathing stopped for a moment, and instantly, she turned hysterical. A terrible surge of divine power spread from her body, pressing on Meng Lei so badly that he felt unable to breathe.

"Tell me, where on earth is he?"

"He's dead! He's dead!"

Meng Lei's eyes reddened, and his voice was hoarse. "He sacrificed his own life to kill the Tree of Life in order to save me! He will never appear again..."

Boom!

The red-horned young woman looked like she was struck by lightning—her figure stumbled, and her face paled suddenly!

"Amolin, what's up with you?"

The red-horned young woman's abnormal behavior puzzled the black-horned old man. In his impression, Amolin had always been a person who kept all her emotions and feelings inside. She had never been like this before.

"I'm fine!"

The red-horned young woman waved her hand slightly, took a deep breath, stared deadly hard at Meng Lei, and said slowly and emphatically, "Tell me, what was his name?"

"You are called Amolin?" Meng Lei asked in a low voice, "May I know your family name?"

"Kroc!" The red-horned young woman said with a quivering voice, "I'm called Amolin Kroc!"

"Indeed!"

Meng Lei made out a dry laugh. "He was called Amos Kroc!"

Boom!

The red-horned young woman's vision blackened, and she almost collapsed on the ground. Her fragile body trembled slightly, and her shoulders quivered as she actually started crying intensely!

"Big brother!"

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Chapter 194: Return to Magical Beast Forest, Farewell to Teddy

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"I clearly remember that it was an ordinary night. My family had just finished dinner, and my sister and I were playing in the yard..."

"Suddenly, a comet fell from the distant sky, dragging a long, fiery tail, and piercing right across the night sky..."

"That was only expected. Father's talent in cultivating Battle Aura was rare in the world. My younger sister inherited his talent in cultivating Battle Aura and also broke into Saint Domain at the age of 70..."

Younger sister!

After being around Ol' Amos for so long, Meng Lei knew that he had a younger sister, but Ol' Amos had been under the impression that his younger sister and family were long gone from this world.

After all...

Although the life expectancy of Saint Domain experts was prolonged, it didn't mean immortality. 20,000 years was far too long of a time frame.

If one didn't become a half-deity, they would eventually die!

But clearly, Ol' Amos had guessed wrongly: his younger sister was not only still alive, but also a half-deity!

"Ol' President, how good it would be if you were still alive..." Meng Lei closed his eyes. "You must have been really happy to reunite with your younger sister..."

"Big brother!

"I've been looking for you for the last 24,986 years!

"An entire 24,986 years!

"I thought you had died!

"I had finally let it go!"

"But you suddenly appeared again!

"But why did it end like this?

"Just why did it end like this?"

Amolin, the red-horned young woman, grieved even more than Meng Lei. Her hands covered her face as she wailed and cried.

"Amolin, the dead can't be revived. Don't take it too hard."

Thaniel, the black-horned old man, sighed. As someone from a different time period, he didn't know much about Amolin's life before she had become a half-deity. He didn't expect that Amolin actually had an older brother, and this older brother was also a half-deity.

It was intriguing that both siblings were half-deities!

After a really long time, Amolin finally calmed down. She said with reddened eyes, "Just now, you said my big brother died to save you. I want to know everything about him!"

"Sure!"

Meng Lei gave the black-horned old man and Abbe a look, and a look of hesitation showed on his face.

"Follow me!"

Amolin waved a hand and actually brought Meng Lei to the void, where they fought the Tree of Life earlier.

Ol' Amos' divine spirit waves were still lingering there.

"Now, you may speak!"

"I first met Ol' President at the Magical Beast Ridge. At that time, he was sealed..."

Despite Amolin's rich knowledge and life experiences, her brother's experiences still astonished her.

Of course, these experiences pained her even more.

Getting accidentally killed 20,000 years ago!

Getting sealed for as long as 20,000 years!

Neither human nor ghost!

How much torture and suffering would that be?

"You had better talent and more power than me. You were also infatuated with cultivation, so I believed you could surely achieve the level of half-deity before me!" Amolin's heart broke. "But never in my wildest imagination would I have expected that you would experience such a thing. Who on earth killed you? Who killed you, big brother..."

"Sigh..."

Meng Lei took out the Gods-Slaying Spear. "This is the divine weapon that sealed up Ol' President. I am passing it to you now."

"The weapon that killed my big brother?"

Amolin grabbed the Gods-Slaying Spear, and hatred showed in her eyes. Her divine spirit swept across the Gods-Slaying Spear, as though looking for information about the Gods-Slaying Spear's owner.

Unfortunately, she was disappointed!

The Gods-Slaying Spear's former owner had long died, and the information left inside had also disappeared, with only Meng Lei's spiritual mark left inside.

Find?

Who could she possibly find?

"Never mind, never mind! Keep it properly!"

Amolin threw the Gods-Slaying Spear back to Meng Lei. "Any more last words from my big brother?"

Meng Lei shook his head.

Amolin took a breath. "Take me to this Magical Beast Forest. I'll retrieve my big brother's dead body to bury him in the dragon graves and allow him to accompany our father and mother!"

"Alright!"

Meng Lei didn't reject her.

Back outside, Amolin turned around to the tall and straight Tree of Life, and the hatred in her eyes was replaced by killing intent. Her red lips parted slightly, and one word came out—"Break!"

Buzz...

A terrible wave descended, and the Tree of Life, which Meng Lei couldn't bring down with all his efforts earlier, actually turned into fine dust at this moment, dissipating into the air.

Splash...

The dust particles suddenly became erratic, and like a tall building that had suddenly fallen, dust flew all around, and a mushroom-shaped cloud rose into the air.

"Elder Thaniel, we'll leave first!"

Amolin grabbed Meng Lei. Her figure flashed, and they disappeared right where they were.

Two hours later, the two were already at the Magical Beast Forest.

"So fast!"

Meng Lei was a bit astounded. From the Lost Continent to the Magical Beast Forest, it had actually taken them only two hours. What kind of speed was this?

One had to know that flying from the Fire Dragon Kingdom to Imperial City had taken them five days back then, but a half-deity needed less than two hours. The difference was evident.

Roar!

One beast's roar followed by another resounded, and they saw many Magical Beasts filling the forest, killing, wandering, hunting, resting.

They were lively and prosperous.

"Magical Beasts really reappeared??"

Meng Lei couldn't believe in his eyes. Back then, when the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants' tide was beyond control, almost all Magical Beasts, except Saint Domain ones, had been completely devoured by the ant tide.

However, not much time had passed, yet Magical Beasts were actually... in abundance again? Where did they come from?

"Just this valley!"

Under Meng Lei's guidance, they reached the valley, passed through the hot spring, and reached the lava lake buried underneath the hot spring. The lava boiled with bubbles all over the surface.

Amolin casually waved and grabbed Ol' Amos' dragon carcass out of the lava lake. Upon feeling the familiar aura, Amolin couldn't contain her emotions and burst out crying again!

For a half-deity to cry several times in a day, one could only imagine how deep her love for Ol' Amos was...

"I'm bringing my big brother's body back. As for this spatial ring, I will leave it to you."

"Since my big brother was willing to die for you, his inheritance should rightly be yours!"

"If you encounter any trouble, you can come to find me on Dragon Island with this piece of dragon scale!

"Live properly. Don't let my big brother's death be in vain!"

Amolin then left.

Meng Lei was left standing, stunned, on the water's surface, holding a spatial ring in his hand!

Meng Lei had no mood to check inside the ring. Instead, he took out a jug of wine and started drinking.

"Drawing a knife to break water, the water flows more;

Raising a glass to drink to eliminate worries, you worry more1."

But undeniably, when one is sad and sorrowful, alcohol was the best relief...

After an unknown period of time of continuous drinking, Meng Lei fell asleep. But when he woke up again, he woke from the sensation of being licked!

Something soft was licking his cheek. Meng Lei opened his eyes and saw a tall Magical Beast looking at him with joy!

It was seven meters tall and fully covered with black dragon scales!

It had two wings on its back, and its body was fully muscular!

"Teddy!"

Meng Lei rubbed his eyes.

"Master!"

Teddy flapped its wings and sent out spirit waves of surprise and joy. Meng Lei sensed that its aura was comparable to a Seventh-Grade Magical Beast. Spirit communication was not a problem for it, though it couldn't speak in human language!

Meng Lei smiled and said, "Call me Boss!"

"Okay, Boss!"

"Boss, how come you are back?

"Boss, when did you get back?

"Boss, how come you returned just now?

"Boss, you won't be leaving again, right?

"Boss, Teddy missed you..."

Teddy was so overjoyed that it kept asking questions like a non-stopping cannon, stunning Meng Lei.

He looked into Teddy's eyes, stunned, and noticed shining tears on the rims. Those eyes were full of emotions.

Meng Lei felt a needle stabbing through his heart. In his own eyes, Teddy was a mere magical pet with low power. However, in Teddy's eyes, he was its only family.

Family...

A thick sense of guilt rose in Meng Lei's heart. He couldn't help but touch Teddy's nose. "Sorry, Teddy!"

"Boss, what's wrong?"

Teddy blinked, a bit confused.

"It's nothing, sand in my eyes!" Meng Lei breathed out and sat up straight. "Teddy, why are you here?"

"I sensed your aura, so I flew over to take a look!" Teddy answered happily. "I thought my senses were playing tricks. I didn't expect it would actually be you, Boss."

"I see!"

Meng Lei understood. Teddy had signed an equal contract with him, and they could sense each other's souls. The closest the distance, the clearer the sensing.

They weren't far from Magical Beast Village, so Teddy could naturally sense him.

"Boss, how come you are back?"

"I'm back to settle some affairs."

"Now that you are back, are you leaving again?"

"Maybe!"

"Hum!"

"You are pretty much a Seventh-Grade Magical Beast. It seems that Captain Hudders and the others have raised you pretty well!"

Meng Lei's mood improved a lot now that he had a companion to talk to, and the sadness in his heart dissipated quite a lot. "Teddy, go hunt some beasts. I'll roast meat for you!"

"Got it!" Teddy replied joyfully and flew away happily. Not long after, it flew back with a five-meter long Mountain Porcupine.

"Boss, I want to eat roasted meat!"

"Okay!"

Waves of wind blades appeared, and they soon cut the Mountain Porcupine into many pieces.

A flame appeared in thin air, and after a quarter of an hour, an enticing smell attacked their nostrils!

"Let's eat!"

Meng Lei took a roasted porcupine leg and threw all of the remaining roasted meat to Teddy.

"Boss, I'll start eating!"

Teddy cheered joyfully.

Roar!

Then, all of a sudden...

A beast roar resounded. Teddy shriveled, and the dragon scales all over its body immediately stood up—it was on full guard!

"Don't stress, it's just a small beast."

Meng Lei gestured for Teddy to calm down and then continued to nibble at the delicious roasted porcupine leg, totally disregarding the intruding Magical Beast.

"Boss, judging from its aura, it's at least an Eighth-Grade Magical Beast!" Teddy didn't lower its guard. "It can't be treated lightly!"

"Is that so?" Meng Lei chuckled.

Roar!

Foul air pervaded the area before a 30-meter-long alligator-like lizard, with fiery red scales all over its body and a mouth full of canine teeth crawled in.

"It's the Ninth-Grade Magical Beast, Groundfire Iguana!" Teddy called in a low voice, "Boss, this guy is too powerful. I can't deal with it. Hurry and hop on my back. Let's retreat first!"

"Retreat? Why are we retreating?"

Meng Lei mentally shook his head many times. As long as Teddy, a Titanic Dragon-Ape with the purest bloodline reached adulthood naturally, it would become a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast. It would definitely not be weak!

Unfortunately, a ninth-grade magical pet was still too weak to follow Meng Lei.

Teddy can probably consume the Divine Tree's fruit, right?

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Chapter 195: A Half-Deity's Body, Vast Wealth

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As of now, Meng Lei had discovered two effects that the divine tree's fruits held.

The first—enhancing one's power.

Upon consuming the fruits, Magical Beasts could become Saint Domain Magical Beasts within a short few years. The Uni-Horned Rose Python was an example of this.

Humans could also consume them, of course.

Meng Lei had personally witnessed many contestants, who were stuck at the ninth-grade pinnacle-level, break through the gates of Saint Domain to successfully promote to Saint Domain level after they had consumed the divine tree's fruits.

Next, the second effect—refining one's bloodline.

Abbe was an example of this.

According to Abbe, she had only been a Golden Colossal Dragon Person prior to eating the fruits and couldn't transform into a Golden Colossal Dragon at all.

However, she had managed to do it after consumption because her body's Golden Colossal Dragon bloodline assimilation rate had gone past 70%.

It was evident from this that the divine tree's fruits were indeed capable of refining one's bloodlines. As for other effects it might hold, he hadn't discovered any for the time being. However, just these two effects alone were already enough to make the divine tree's fruits an invaluable treasure.

But... Meng Lei still didn't dare to consume them.

Why?

"According to Ol' President, the divine tree's fruits are the same as one's life essence, so they may contain the Tree of Life's divinity." Meng Lei took a breath as he muttered, "If they really contain its divinity, then they would be highly poisonous!"

What was divinity?

It was a kind of mysterious energy that within which laid a deity's will, personality, beliefs, memories, laws of nature comprehension, principles of conduct, favored factions, and so on.

Plainly put, divinity was akin to a deity's soul fragments. A great amount of information was contained within them.

By absorbing divinity, mortals could raise their abilities, extend their lifespans, and increase their laws of nature comprehension, thereby greatly reducing the amount of time required for them to achieve deification.

However, there was one deadly risk to absorbing divinity—there was a high chance of the fallen deity coming back to life through the divinity absorbed by mortals and taking over their bodies. After all, a deity's divine spirit was near-immortal. Just a tiny little divine spirit fragment was enough to give them a chance of revival.

This was absolutely no joke!

Pray tell, should the divine tree's fruits and its life essence really contain the Tree of Life's divinity, if even something like that wasn't considered a poison, then what would be?

Or at least, before he was absolutely sure, Meng Lei dared not eat them at all. Neither did he dare to let his friends or Magical Beast pets eat them. He'd rather they be a little weaker than run a risk like that.

"Divinity... How do I examine it? I should look that up. I have so many divine tree fruits and life essence with me. I can't just let them go to waste!"

Boom!

The Groundfire Iguana strode over at this point. Its enormous form gave off a fearsome aura, causing Teddy to tense up all over as if it were facing a great enemy.

An anxious Teddy urged Meng Lei, "Hurry and get onto my back, Boss! Let's retreat!"

"Withdraw? Why are we withdrawing?" Meng Lei shook his head lightly. "That luscious piece of meat has delivered itself to our doorstep. How can we let down its good intentions?"

(o)

Teddy was rather stupefied. Then, it turned flabbergasted.

The weeds around them began to grow excessively before turning into several strong yet pliable grass whips that shot toward the mighty-looking Groundfire Iguana.

Roar!

The Groundfire Iguana let out a furious roar. It opened its mouth, and then several bouts of flames sprayed forth from within as it tried to burn the innumerable grass whips.

Alas, it was to no avail. The grass whips penetrated the flames' blockade to wind around the Groundfire Iguana, binding it into a dumpling.

Roar!

The infuriated Groundfire Iguana roared into the sky and struggled fiercely, but the more it did, the tighter the grass whips contracted around it. The final outcome was evident.

Bound by the grass whips, the Groundfire Iguana died of asphyxiation.

"I-it's dead?"

Teddy was rather flabbergasted. "Boss, it's dead?"

"Of course it's dead!"

Meng Lei flicked his fingers several times in succession, turning grass blades and leaves into razor-sharp blades. In just a few minutes, the Groundfire Iguana had been cut into several pieces and placed on the roasting rack.

"Boss, that's a Ninth-Grade Groundfire Iguana. Just like that, it has died by your hand?"

"What's wrong?"

"Are you already that impressive now, Boss?"

One must admit that Meng Lei's casual act of slaying the Groundfire Iguana had thoroughly astounded Teddy.

Like a curious little baby, the little fellow pestered Meng Lei with questions. Even the roast wasn't that attractive anymore.

By the time they were done with the Groundfire Iguana, three hours had already gone by. Seated on Teddy's back, Meng Lei flew toward the Magical Beast Village.

He didn't plan on returning to the Imperial City for the time being. Instead, he intended to stay a couple of days in the village to readjust his frame of mind. As for the suspended exchange competition... He would think about it again in the future.

"All of you'd better put in some strength! Stop being so limp and floppy like a pansy!

"Remember this! The chance to cultivate doesn't come by easily. If you want to get ahead and become someone strong like Meng Lei, then you must train hard! Do you understand?"

"Yes!"

"Great!"

"One, two! One, two!"

A loud, clear whistle rang out at the square in front of the village entrance. Even from afar, one could see a group of adults and children standing in the square, moving according to Captain Hudders' commands and training.

They waved their swords and swung them, again and again!

"Not bad, even the children are cultivating!"

A comforting smile couldn't help but appear on Meng Lei's countenance. Staying in the mountains would never lead anywhere; only by cultivating could one hope to see the vast skies.

The villagers were doing pretty good.

Whoosh!

Teddy's descent from the sky attracted the villagers' attention, and they turned to look. At once, they were delighted, and looks of joy came over their countenances.

"Meng Lei!"

"Big Brother Meng Lei!"

"Big Brother Meng Lei is back!"

They swarmed toward him at once.

"I thought that Teddy had gone Magical Beast-hunting when I saw it flying out in a rush. Little did I expect that it was going to you instead!"

Captain Hudders was elated. He said, "By the way, I heard from Jonah and the others. Weren't you heading to the Imperial City to take part in the exchange competition? Why—"

"There was a small accident during the competition. I went to the Magical Beast Forest to see to something, so I decided that I might as well come back to check on the village." Meng Lei eyed Hudders up and down. Then, he asked with a smile, "Captain, you've become a Fourth-Grade Warrior?"

"Hahaha! All thanks to those high-grade Battle Aura manuals of yours!"

A rosy Captain Hudders said, "Of course, it's also to do with the fact that the meals have been great recently. Teddy has been going to the forest every day, and every time he does, he returns with a Magical Beast.

"Eating mid-grade to high-grade Magical Beast meat every day halves the effort yet doubles the efficiency of cultivation. That's how I'd managed to advance by two grades in such a short amount of time!"

"That's right, that's right!"

Meng Lei turned to the villagers to see that all of them had improved by varying degrees. Almost all the Trainee Warriors of the past had improved a lot and become Second- or Third-Grade Warriors.

As for the ordinary villagers, they had also become much stronger and sturdier than before. They were no longer skinny and sallow with haggard faces; instead, their skin had become supple, and their bodies strong and energetic.

"That's great!"

A smile appeared on Meng Lei's face.

"It wasn't easy for you to come back, Meng Lei. We must show you hearty hospitality today!"

Hudders instructed the villagers loudly, "Training for today ends here! Inform everyone—we'll hold a bonfire feast to give Meng Lei a warm welcome home tonight!"

"Yay! Captain Hudders' the best!"

"Big Brother Meng Lei's the best!"

The village held a grand bonfire feast that night. The aromatic fragrance of meat permeated the village as the villagers sang and danced and ate and drank happily.

As he ate the delicious roast and listened to the villagers' cheerful voices and laughter, Meng Lei's mood gradually improved, and he enjoyed a rare moment of happiness with the villagers.

Late at night...

Despite resting in his run-down house, Meng Lei wasn't sleepy at all. Even though Ol' President was no longer around, life still went on. It was time for him to come up with a clear plan for the future.

"I'm still too weak. If I'd been stronger, Ol' President wouldn't have died. At the bottom of it all, it's still a matter of strength.

"System, bring up the stats interface!"

Whoosh!

Host: Meng Lei

Race: Human (Fire Dragon bloodline 53%, Fire Demon bloodline 48%, Golden Colossal Dragon bloodline 51%, Golden Gods-Slaying Ant bloodline 10%, Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline 10%)

Wealth: 3.2 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals

Physical Body Constitution: Half-Deity (Elementary-level)

Spirit: Saint Domain (1,039,876,198/100 billion)

Magic Power: Saint Domain (1,037,108,765/100 billion)

Laws of Nature: Fire-Elemental (0.2%), Wind-Elemental (0.1%), Thunder-Elemental (0.1%), Metal-Elemental (0.2%), Light-Elemental (0.1%)

Others: Some increase

"'Physical Body Constitution: Half-Deity'? 'Elementary-level'? Where are the numerical values? They're gone?

"Since the numerical values are gone, does that mean that I can't directly improve my Physical Body Constitution through credit redemption anymore?

"Is that so, System?"

The system gave him a definite answer. It replied, "Without concrete numerical values, the host naturally cannot redeem any credit."

"Alright! So be it, then!"

Meng Lei curled his lip in disdain. "Well, as long as I can still redeem credit for bloodline assimilation rate. That way, I can enhance my body all the same.

"But as someone that also has the body of a half-deity, why was I unable to kill the Tree of Life?"

Meng Lei's eyes were cold and dark.

What he didn't know was that even though the Tree of Life was one of the weakest half-deities out there, it had a fairly fearsome half-deity build. Botanical lifeforms had always been known for their tough and durable bodies, as well as their astonishingly high defenses.

A half-deity of a similar level would usually find it challenging to break through a botanical half-deity's defenses. In Meng Lei's case, his body had only just broken through to become a half-deity, so how could he possibly kill the Tree of Life?

"Never mind, I won't think about this anymore."

Meng Lei's gaze then landed on the Spirit attribute after it with a shake of his head.

From a Saint Domain with a Physical Body Constitution value of 34 billion points, he had broken through the 100-billion-point upper limit to become a newbie half-deity with a half-deity build. His improvement was undeniably fast, and the distance he had crossed undeniably great.

But... The disadvantages were too obvious, and that was... His soul!

Or rather, his spiritual power.

It was precisely because his soul was too weak that it had ended up giving the Tree of Life the chance to counterattack and give him one final blow, thereby indirectly causing Ol' Amos' death.

"I have to improve my soul's durability. I mustn't have such an obvious weakness. Unfortunately... I don't have enough money..."

After a moment's hesitation, Meng Lei ultimately still brought out the spatial ring that Ol' Amos had left him. Stored within the ring was Ol' Amos' lifetime's worth of assets.

"Ol' President..."

Meng Lei heaved a sigh. His spiritual power entered the ring, and then, he was stunned at once.

"I-it's so huge!!"

"Huge"? How could the word "huge" even cut it?

One practically couldn't see to the end!

Inside the spatial ring was actually a continent that stretched on for hundreds of kilometers!

Standing tall and proud in the continent were mountains of gold, heaps of magic cores, Magical Beast carcasses, hills of elemental crystals...

The mountains of gold were big and lofty, tall and towering!

The innumerable magic cores came by the billions and more!

All the carcasses were of Ninth-Grade and Saint Domain Magical Beasts. There wasn't any weaker than that!

Multi-colored magic crystals and glittering elemental crystals almost blinded Meng Lei!

"These are Ol' President's lifetime worth of assets? Isn't this a little too much... and a little too incredible?!"

Meng Lei couldn't help but gasp, intense feelings of gratitude welling up within him.

"Thank you, Ol' President. I will put these things to good use!"

"System, collect all the gold coins!"

Whoosh!

As the mountains of gold vanished one by one, his Wealth value on his stats interface also began to spike.

4 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals, 5 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals, 6 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals...

, 30, 40...

In the span of a few breaths, his Wealth had surpassed his previous 73 Laws of Nature Origin Crystal milestone and was continuing to rise at a terrifying speed!

At last, when the number reached 238 Laws of Nature Origin Crystal, it finally came to a stop.

"It has increased by a whole 235 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals! That's 2,350 billion gold coins! Just the gold coins alone have amounted to so much, not to mention that there are still so many Magical Beast carcasses, magic cores, magic crystals, and elemental crystals..."

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Chapter 196: Divine Spirit Flame, The Power of Faith

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

"238 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals! What vast assets! System, redeem 100 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals' worth of Spirit points!"

100 Laws of Nature Origin Crystal = 1,000 billion gold coins = 1,000 billion Attribute Points!

Whoosh!

His Wealth instantly shrank. He was credited with 1,000 billion attribute points, which he added to his Spirit attribute.

Boom!

An icy, surging aura gushed into Meng Lei's mind and began to furiously enhance his soul.

For a while, Meng Lei could feel his soul's durability rising exceptionally quickly!

At the same time, in Meng Lei's vast, boundless sea of consciousness, a silver flame burned quietly, chilly and aloof—it was Meng Lei's soul flame.

Suddenly, endless golden rays appeared out of nowhere, gushing in from all around and straight toward the silver flame suspended in the air.

The golden rays of light were just like petrol, like firewood, and also like natural gas!

Boom!

The moment they came into contact with the silver flame, the silver flame's intensity surged dramatically and began to visibly expand.

Expand, expand, and expand!

Doubling, tripling, quadrupling!

Tenfold, twentyfold, fiftyfold!

Boom!

The silver flame expanded to a hundredfold of its original size and turned into an even brighter and even more radiant flame.

Additionally, it had also... changed in color!

It was no longer silver but gold in color now! Yes, gold!

The chilly, aloof silver soul flame had turned into a brilliant, dazzling golden one.

Just like the blazing sun spanning across the heavens, the golden soul flame gave off a million golden rays that shone upon the land and ruled the sky.

His soul was no longer a soul now; instead, it had metamorphosed into... A divine spirit!

"This feeling... It's simply too fascinating!"

Meng Lei laid quietly with his eyes closed as he took in the changes brought about by his soul's transformation.

Everything felt so natural and simple, yet also so complex at the same time.

The wind was no longer wind—yet still wind!

Trees were no longer trees—yet still trees!

Even the flowing air was no longer air but still air, too!

"Is this what the half-deity realm is like? It's so fascinating!

"Are these golden chains covering the skies and the lands and forming all that exists in this world the laws of nature?

"Well, comprehending laws of nature isn't that hard, is it? It feels as if layers of fog have been lifted, and I can now see clearer and have a more thorough view. Hmm, laws of nature..."

A mumbling Meng Lei withdrew his spiritual power, and then, he entered his sea of consciousness.

According to Ol' Amos, once one attained half-deification, their soul would metamorphose into a divine spirit.

Divine spirits were near-immortal and near-inextinguishable. Even if a deity's divine spirit were crushed into bits and pieces, they could still use their divine spirit fragments to come back to life.

Thus, Meng Lei wanted very much to take a look and see whether his own soul had metamorphosed or not...

"...My soul flame has actually turned golden! And it's much stronger than what it was in the past! Is this what a divine spirit is? As expected, it's something beyond one's imagination!"

Meng Lei was awfully excited, but right after, he became terribly dejected.

"If I had owned a divine spirit earlier, Ol' President wouldn't have... Sigh, never mind! I wonder what these white threads are?"

Dozens, perhaps up to a hundred, milky-white threads had appeared within Meng Lei's view.

It was not known where they had come from, yet they were attached to his golden divine spirit like innumerable antennas.

Rather curious, Meng Lei controlled his divine spiritual power to touch one of the white threads.

Right away, a voice brimming with gratitude played in his mind.

"Big Brother Meng Lei, you're my idol! I want to be someone like you in the future!"

"Uh... Isn't that Monica's voice?"

Meng Lei was mildly taken aback.

Monica, whose full name was Monica Draper, was a little girl in the village with a twin elder sister named Hester Draper.

Apart from Jonah and himself, the two of them were the only ones in the village who were endowed with magic talent. On top of that, their magic talent was even better than Jonah's, with both of them having high-grade elemental affinities.

"Why is Monica's voice suddenly playing in my sea of consciousness?"

Meng Lei found this rather strange. His gaze continued down the white thread, and the sight of Monica currently lying in bed and looking as if she was in deep slumber entered his sight. However, she was also mumbling softly to herself as if she was dreaming...

"This is strange! Too strange!"

Then, Meng Lei picked another white thread.

"Thank you, Meng Lei! Thank you for everything that you've given us!"

...It was Captain Hudders' voice!

"Big Brother Meng Lei..."

And now, it was Jonah's!

"Why am I hearing everyone's voices? Never mind about Captain Hudders and Monica, but Jonah's a long distance away in the capital city right now... Could it be..." Meng Lei's eyes widened as he exclaimed, "...That this is the power of faith?"

Faith was a very miraculous thing. It could make one strong-willed, as well as make one pure...

But in Heaven's Vault Continent, it also had another natural order-defying effect—the investiture of gods!

As long as one had sufficient believers and the believers' faith was pious enough, the one they worshiped could soar right into the heavens with the help of the copious amounts of power of faith, thereby becoming a god and attaining immortality.

"Monica, Captain Hudders, and the others... They believe in me and idolize me?"

Meng Lei was rendered speechless. He hadn't done much for the village; all he had done was nothing more than just small favors that didn't even require him to lift a finger. Never would he have ever imagined that the villagers would actually worship him. He honestly didn't!

"Never mind, there's no harm in it anyway!"

Meng Lei wasn't too hung up over it. He continued to check the other white threads—true to his expectations, almost all of them led to the Magical Beast Village villagers.

"Are there so many people who believe in me? I've heard that there are many benefits to having the power of faith.

"Not only can it strengthen one's divine spirit and allow one to comprehend laws of nature more easily, but it can also be converted into the power of divinity used to enhance one's strength. It's practically like Tiger Balm1!

"But why is it that I don't feel these effects that the power of faith is supposed to bring about at all? Is it because I have too few worshipers?

"Forget it. I don't have the time and leisure to spread my faith around to collect the power of faith. Being able to redeem credit is more than enough!"

Meng Lei exited his sea of consciousness. Then, his gaze landed on his stats interface again.

Wealth: 138 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals

Physical Body Constitution: Half-Deity (Elementary-level)

Spirit: Half-Deity (Elementary-level)

Magic Power: Saint Domain (1,037,108,765/100 billion)

"Both my Physical Body Constitution and my Spirit have gone through a qualitative change, so I'm just left with the Magic Power attribute now. Should I redeem some credit and complete the set...?"

Meng Lei rubbed his chin, unable to quite make up his mind. What would magic power metamorphose into? The power of divinity?

If it really turned out to be the power of divinity, then he would thoroughly become a real half-deity!

He would possess a half-deity's body, a half-deity's soul, as well as the power of divinity, instead of what he currently was—a half-baked half-deity with a half-deity's body and soul but not the corresponding power of divinity.

But the problem was... Redeeming credit to boost his Magic Power attribute required a whole 100 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals! Once he spent that money, he'd become a pauper on paper again!

To redeem? Or not to redeem?

"Never mind, I'll just do it! System, redeem 100 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals' worth of Magic Power points!"

Whoosh!

His Wealth shrank again!

Then, Meng Lei felt as if the magic power in his body was bubbling and boiling. They surged neatly and altogether toward his brain, taking only an instant to gush into it.

For a moment there, Meng Lei felt as though he had been drained, and he felt a great deal frailer.

However, the feeling of feebleness didn't last long. Soon, another fiercer and more torrential rush of energy swept into his brain, instantly filling his limbs and every corner of his body!

The wave of energy was simply too fearsome. Meng Lei could feel endless strength gushing forth from within his body, and he felt as if he could crush a continent with his fist!

He hurriedly did an internal scan of his body—his magic power had disappeared; instead, what had replaced it was an all-new type of power!

It flooded through every fiber of his body, glowing a faint gold and emanating a terrifying might.

Meng Lei couldn't be any more familiar with that mighty aura.

"The power of divinity! It really is the power of divinity!"

Meng Lei hurriedly looked at the stats interface:

Wealth: 38 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals

Physical Body Constitution: Half-Deity (Elementary-level)

Spirit: Half-Deity (Elementary-level)

Power of Divinity: 0.1 Divinity Crystal

"True enough, Magic Power has metamorphosed into the Power of Divinity!

"'0.1 Divinity Crystal'? System, what's a Divinity Crystal?"

The system replied coldly, "A friendly reminder: A Divinity Crystal is the crystallized form of power of divinity. It's the unit of measurement for the power of divinity and is also the currency in circulation among deities. 100 Power of Divinity droplets usually equates to 1 Divinity Crystal."

"In other words, I currently only have 10 Power of Divinity droplets?"

Meng Lei blinked and commented, "Isn't that too little? How can this bit of power of divinity possibly suffice? It makes me feel so insecure! I have to redeem credit! Alright, let's get to 10 Divinity Crystals before we talk!"

"A friendly reminder: 10,000 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals are required per Divinity Crystal."

"10,000 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals? I'm gonna faint! Aren't you being too much of a crook?"

Meng Lei was almost jumping up and down in a fury!

"1 Divinity Crystal = 100 Power of Divinity points; and 1 Divinity Crystal = 10,000 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals.

"In other words, 1 Power of Divinity point = 100 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals, and 100 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals = 1 Power of Divinity droplet?

"Oh my goodness! One Power of Divinity droplet alone requires 100 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals! You f*cking system, aren't you being too unscrupulous!?"

Meng Lei had almost wet himself!

With 100 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals, he could use Limitless Pickup 100 times!

With 100 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals, he could raise his Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline assimilation rate by 10%!

Yet the same amount was only enough for him to redeem one Power of Divinity droplet? Were they serious?

The system didn't respond, leaving behind only a quiet space for Meng Lei.

"What the heck! It's too unscrupulous!"

Meng Lei was fuming mad, yet there was nothing he could do about it. To think he had even been a little gleeful just now.

After all, he couldn't directly redeem credit for his Spirit attribute or his Physical Body Constitution attribute anymore, so all that was left was just his Power of Divinity attribute (0.1 Divinity Crystal).

Despite his Power of Divinity attribute being the only thing left that he could still redeem credit for, this had to happen. He could only redeem 1 Power of Divinity point with 100 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals! Was this daylight robbery or daylight robbery?!

Did justice still exist? Was there still any law and order?

"I thought that I had gotten rich overnight and was on my way to my life's pinnacle, but now... I'm back to being penniless!

"Boosting the Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline assimilation rate requires money, as does boosting the Power of Divinity attribute and my comprehension of laws of nature.

"Every single thing requires money—and not just a small sum at that. They're all large amounts of money!"

All that aside, though, at least he could still redeem credit for those. Meng Lei believed that with his current level of strength if he worked a little harder, he would surely be able to earn enough over time.

The troublesome part was his divine spirit! He couldn't redeem any credit for that! How was he supposed to enhance it, then?

Meng Lei sank into contemplation. Since meditation could raise one's spiritual power, it could also do the same for the divine spirit. The level of efficiency, though... That probably didn't need to be expounded upon.

"There's one more way I can enhance my divine spirit, and that is—to collect the power of faith!

"The power of faith is an all-nourishing elixir when it comes to enhancing one's divine spirit. As long as I can get enough power of faith...

"But all the faith resources on Heaven's Vault Continent have been fully split among other parties. Where am I supposed to spread my faith to? What a headache!"

Just as Meng Lei was lost in his troubled thoughts, his magic communication device suddenly rang. He took it out to see that it was actually President Fred who was calling.

"Where are you now, Meng Lei?"

President Fred had an awful look on his face.

"I'm in the Magical Beast Village."

"The Magical Beast Village?"

President Fred was a little taken aback by his answer, but he regained his senses right away. "Why are you at the Magical Beast Village? Weren't you in the Lost Continent?"

"It's a long story, President." Meng Lei shook his head lightly. Then, he asked in puzzlement, "Is something up?"

"Something terrible has happened! Prince Barbarossa is dead! And so is the 13th Princess whom His Majesty loves and dotes on the most!"

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Chapter 197: Going Onto The Dragon Flesh-Scraping Platform, Falling Out Completely

"Among the 108 contestants who were captured, 72 died on the spot while the remaining 36 also passed away one by one while on the way back." In a low, grave tone, President Fred said, "They're dead! All dead! All 108 contestants are dead! Among which include Prince Barbarossa and the 13th Princess whom His Majesty dotes on the most! They're actually all dead!"

Meng Lei fell silent.

"Meng Lei, answer me honestly." President Fred asked gravely, "Do their deaths have anything to do with you? Is it really like what the surviving contestants claimed? That you're the one that caused their deaths?"

"I caused their deaths?" Meng Lei couldn't help but laugh. "If I tell you that this matter has nothing to do with me, would you believe me?"

President Fred stayed quiet for a moment before he replied, "If you dare give me your word, then I'll believe you."

"Alright! Since President trusts me that much, then I'll tell you."

Meng Lei let out a laugh and replied, "The 108 deaths indeed have a little to do with me, but the main cause of their deaths is still their greed!"

"Their greed?"

President Fred frowned slightly.

"This is what happened..."

Meng Lei hid nothing from him and truthfully recounted everything that had happened.

President Fred fell into silence at the end of the recount.

After a long while, he finally said, "Based on what you've said, you are indeed not to be blamed for this matter. Had they not coveted the divine tree's fruits, they wouldn't have brought down such calamity on themselves... But!"

President Fred changed the course of the conversation and said, "That's not what His Majesty and all the officials think. All of them have pushed the blame onto you. They believe that this wouldn't have happened had you not stolen that native half-deity's possessions. Thus, all blame lies on you!"

"So, they intend to make me the scapegoat no matter what I say?" Meng Lei chuckled contemptuously and scoffed. "What a joke, this tragedy was obviously brought about by the emperor's lapse in judgment and the contestants' greed, yet they want to make me the scapegoat?"

"Meng Lei, His Majesty is the emperor. We can make mistakes, but His Majesty must never make any!"

President Fred chastised him furiously, "Moreover, not only are Sachhen the Golden Dragon-Lion, Miriam the Immortal Fairy, and so on, part of the fatalities, but it includes even Prince Barbarossa and the 13th Princess!

"One's the empire's future emperor, while the other's the most favored princess—His Majesty cannot afford to make such a mistake! Therefore, the only thing that all the officials and nobles can do is to vent their anger on you!"

"So, what do they intend to do?" asked Meng Lei with a scornful laugh.

"His Majesty has already deployed the Royal Holy Knight Order to the Lost Continent to capture you." President Fred shook his head and added, "If nothing goes wrong, you'll be held responsible for the whole matter."

"I'm to be held responsible for it?"

A sharp glint flashed across Meng Lei's eyes as he said, "Just as well! I've been in a terrible mood recently and sorely missing a venting outlet!"

"What do you intend to do, Meng Lei?"

"Return to the Imperial City!"

At Dragon God Empire, conference hall...

Emperor Frederick the 32nd sat high above the others on the throne, his countenance frighteningly dark and sinister.

Academy presidents and teachers-in-charge from the various major academies, a great number of Saint Domains, and all the court officials stood at both sides of the grand hall.

In the center of the grand hall quietly laid more than a hundred corpses. All of them had been wrapped in yellow fabric, their faces hidden from view. However, the occasional glimpse of skin exposed outside the fabric showed signs of extreme dryness and shrinkage.

Evidently, those 100-odd corpses belonged to the 108 contestants who had just lost their lives.

Not a sound could be heard in the grand hall at the moment. Filled with dead silence, the atmosphere in there was frighteningly repressive.

Everyone stayed still and silent, none of them daring to open their mouths.

As time passed, at last, Emperor Frederick the 32nd couldn't stand it anymore. He asked, "Is there still no news from the Royal Holy Knight Order?"

"No, there isn't, Your Majesty."

"It's already been a day and a night since they've set off for the Lost Continent, yet there's still no news from them. Has Meng Lei soared into the heavens or burrowed into the ground or what?"

Frederick the 32nd was enraged. "Send men there! Dispatch more hands at once! Meng Lei must be brought back! I have to get the truth from him face-to-face!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" At once, an official left upon the order.

"Reporting!"

A golden-armored guard ran briskly into the hall all of a sudden. He knelt down and said, "Y-Your Majesty!"

"Are there news from the Holy Knight Order?"

Frederick the 32nd was elated.

"No, that's not it! Meng Lei has come!"

"What?"

"Meng Lei has come?!"

The hall was in an uproar at once.

President Fred, who was among the crowd, was even more astonished. "Isn't Meng Lei at the Magical Beast Village? Why is he here so quickly?"

"Let him in!" ordered Frederick the 32nd hastily.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Before long, led by the golden-armored guard, Meng Lei stepped into the grand hall.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Everyone's gazes simultaneously landed on him. Within their eyes was fury, murderous intent, hatred, confusion...

Frederick the 32nd eyed Meng Lei up and down, an unusual glint flashing across his eyes. Then, he shouted fiercely, "Meng Lei, do you own up to your sins?!"

"Own up to my sins? How have I sinned?" Meng Lei feigned astonishment. "Why the question, Your Majesty?"

"How dare you make fallacious arguments even at death's door!"

Frederick the 32nd was furious. He pointed at the 108 corpses on the floor as he shouted, "Do you know who they are?! Do you know how they died?!"

"These people..."

Meng Lei squatted down, casually flipped over a piece of yellow fabric, and took a look. Then, with a shake of his head, he remarked, "So it's them!"

"You recognize them now, don't you? Since you have, then tell me!"

Frederick the 32nd roared furiously, his voice like dull, rolling thunder, "Why did you kill them? 108 people! That's a whole 108 people!

"Every one of them was an elite of the empire, the painstaking effort of every major academy for the last dozens of years, and even more so the future pillars and Saint Domains of the empire!

"Tell me! Why did you kill them?!"

"I caused their deaths? Aren't you shouting for others to catch the thief when you're the thief yourself and deliberately framing me, Your Majesty?"

Meng Lei burst into loud laughter as though he had just heard the funniest joke in the world. His raucous laughter resounded brazenly in the hall, echoing continuously for a long time!

"How impudent!"

"How dare you!"

"How brazen!"

Everyone glared furiously at him right away. The way they were glowering at him was as if they wanted to eat him up.

"This is the empire's grand conference hall, Meng Lei. With the emperor in front of you, a great many Saint Domains beside you, and all the court officials here, your impudence and arrogance will not be tolerated!"

Duke Eustace stepped forward and ordered, "You need only to answer His Majesty's questions honestly. Do not be unruly and ignorant, or act in a bold and presumptuous manner!"

"Be civil, Meng Lei!"

President Fred, who was so shocked that his heart was pounding, hastily stepped forward and chastised him softly as well.

"Fine!"

Meng Lei nodded slightly. He couldn't just disregard President Fred, after all.

He said dispassionately, "I sympathize with how the 108 contestants have died from unnatural causes, but there are only two real culprits behind their deaths. The first one—themselves!"

"They caused their own deaths? Ridiculous!"

Everyone couldn't help but sneer at his words.

"Had they not coveted the divine tree's fruits, would they have landed themselves in such a state? Therefore, it's their greed that led to the current situation!"

Meng Lei's voice was calm and aloof. He looked straight at Frederick the 32nd and went on. "The second reason is you yourself, Your Majesty!"

"Don't be impudent, Meng Lei!"

President Fred was so shocked that he couldn't help but shudder. He hastily lowered his voice and chided him, "Are you out of your mind? How dare you speak to His Majesty like that!"

"Hear me out, President!"

Meng Lei gazed at Frederick the 32nd, who was seated high above on the throne and said, "It's because you sent us there for the competition when you haven't even gotten a clear idea of the Lost Continent's background and situation. That's what ultimately led to this tragedy!

"Therefore, it's you that caused their deaths, Your Majesty! It's your lack of thorough investigation that caused their deaths! It's your carelessness and lack of vigilance that caused their deaths! What... has it got to do with me?"

"Y-you... You..."

Frederick the 32nd's face had turned a dull purple from his words. He glowered at Meng Lei, his visage pale one moment and green another, his eyes looking as if he wanted to eat Meng Lei up!

"Meng Lei!"

Duke Eustace shouted fiercely, "It's clearly you that had stolen the native half-deity's belongings and ultimately caused the deaths of 108 contestants. How dare you be so bold and audacious as to push the blame onto His Majesty! This is truly perverse behavior and an attempt to confuse the public!

"Your Majesty!"

Eustace looked at Frederick the 32nd and said, "I request that the survivors be summoned into the hall so that they can confront Meng Lei face-to-face!"

"Summon them!"

Soon, a group of surviving contestants walked into the hall. The moment they saw Meng Lei, they acted as if they'd just seen the murderer who killed their fathers and collectively lashed out at him.

"Meng Lei! You bastard! It's you! It's you that killed those 108 contestants!"

"If you hadn't stolen the Tree of Life's belongings, would it have killed them so mercilessly? You have to take full responsibility for the deaths of those 108 contestants!"

"Meng Lei..."

Frederick the 32nd took a deep breath and asked, "What do you have to say now, Meng Lei?"

"What do I have to say? There's nothing much I have to say!"

Meng Lei shook his head and went on. "I've already clearly stated whatever that should be said. Whether all of you are willing to listen or not has nothing to do with me."

"How impudent! Meng Lei, you have caused the deaths of 108 contestants and caused the exchange competition to be halted midway. On top of that, you even raised your voice in the grand hall and acted brazenly without restraint, disrespecting me and taking the court lightly!"

Frederick the 32nd pointed at Meng Lei and declared, "There is no limit to your perverseness! Your intentions are punishable by death!

"Men, capture him! He is to be sent to the Dragon Flesh-Scraping Platform three days later and publicly beheaded as a warning to descendants of the royalty!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

A group of golden-armored guards charged into the hall.

"Please be lenient, Your Majesty!"

At the sight of this, President Fred immediately wanted to beg for mercy but was stopped by Frederick the 32nd.

"Even if he's royalty, a rebel like Meng Lei is, in truth, no different from devil spies like Adolf! Whoever begs for mercy on his behalf shall be seen as having committed the same crime as him!"

"Your Majesty..."

"This is the ring you lent me, President," said Meng Lei as he stopped President Fred, who was intending to continue begging for mercy.

After he returned the ring, Meng Lei said with a laugh, "In Heaven's Vault Continent, it's the strong that are the most revered. If you aren't strong enough, no matter how much you say, it is nothing more than just the tragic lamenting of the weak."

He turned to Frederick the 32nd and, with a smile, said, "The Dragon Flesh-Scraping Platform is probably somewhere meant exclusively for killing members of the royalty, right? So sorry, but I'm not royalty, so you can come at me right away.

"If all of you are that capable, I'm very happy to become Timon Barton the 2nd and perish 'unexpectedly'! If not, and if you can't kill me, then don't hold it against me if I annihilate all of you!

"To sum it up—either you kill me, or I'll kill you!"

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Chapter 198: Stepping On A Black Dragon, A Tempest Colossal Dragon

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"Either you kill me, or I'll kill you!"

Boom!

His words were virtually a Magnitude 10.0 earthquake that shocked and enraged all the high-ranking officials, nobles, and more than 1,000 Saint Domains present.

Madness! He's gone mad!

Everyone gasped in unison as they stared at Meng Lei as though they were looking at a lunatic.

He was but a puny little 16-year-old Saint Domain and a child that hadn't even fully matured!

And yet he dared to utter such things in front of so many Saint Domains in the most dignified place in the empire!?

Just how outrageous was he? Just how arrogant was he? And just how foolish was he?

"How dare a child like you behave so outrageously!"

Frederick the 32nd crushed the throne with a strike of his palm as he roared furiously, "Where are the golden-armored guards?! Why haven't you arrested him? What are you waiting for?!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The dozen or so golden-armored guards responded loudly, and then, they swarmed toward Meng Lei.

"You'd better behave!"

"Get on your knees!"

"Don't put up a fight!"

As sentries guarding the conference hall, every one of them was only a step away from becoming a Saint Domain. With so many of them joining hands, even a Saint Domain would have to bow down to them.

Unfortunately, they were destined for tragedy this time.

Just as the golden-armored guards charged over fiercely, a strong, surging recoil force suddenly burst forth from Meng Lei.

Boom!

The wild, violent force erupted all of a sudden, instantly sending all the golden-armored guards flying backward. Blood sprayed from their mouths as they became still and motionless—all of them had actually died from the impact.

"What?"

"They're dead?"

A huge jolt went through everyone in the hall.

"You... How dare... How dare you?!"

Frederick the 32nd looked infuriated, his visage savage-looking as he roared hysterically, "Take him down! Take him down!!"

"President Fred, so this is the great student that the Fire Dragon Magic Academy has produced!"

Someone rushed forward out of nowhere, giving President Fred a cold, icy look before glaring furiously at Meng Lei.

"You crazy fool who has lost all reason, you've got a lot of nerve! Give yourself up at once!"

"Who are you?" asked Meng Lei as he gazed at the black-haired elderly man with a pair of black horns in front of him.

"The academy president of Black Dragon Academy of the Black Dragon Kingdom... Angus!"

Angus ordered calmly, "You audacious and impudent maniac, get on your knees and kowtow to His Majesty and beg for forgiveness at once. Otherwise, don't hold it against me if I show you no civility!"

"Show me no civility? How are you planning to do that?" Meng Lei flicked his fingers and stated calmly, "I'd like to have a taste of that very much!"

"How audacious!!"

Angus' eyes widened. Rather than anger, he was pleased instead. He declared, "Since you have a death wish, kid, no-one will say anything even if I slaughter you right here and now!"

Whoosh!

Before he'd even finished speaking, Angus had already abruptly charged out, coming right up to Meng Lei in an instant.

There were no extra flourishes to his actions but just a simple and violent punch.

This single punch was more than enough.

"That guy has actually gotten ahead of me!"

The other Saint Domains who were intending to attack stopped in their tracks one by one, secretly more or less a little displeased.

Although they were dissatisfied with how Angus had acted one step faster than them, they nevertheless had to acknowledge his strength. As an old-timer Saint Domain, Angus had already made a name for himself since several hundred years ago. He possessed unfathomably great power.

In particular, he was even a pure-blooded Black Dragon and owned an incredibly strong and sturdy body. There weren't many present who would dare claim certain victory over him. With him attacking, there wasn't much left for the others to do anymore.

The next moment, however, everyone's eyes widened dramatically as if they had just seen a ghost.

Meng Lei neither dodged nor evaded Angus' attack. Instead, he casually stretched his right arm out, and then, with a light grab as though he was just catching a ping pong ball, he caught hold of President Angus' fist.

Roar!

All the momentum, all the power, and all the raging violence—all of it dissipated into the air at this moment as if they had never once existed.

"H-how can that be?!"

Angus was shocked and horrified to the extreme.

"The Black Dragon Academy president is nothing more than just this."

Meng Lei shook his head, and then, his right leg casually kicked forward. With a dull thud, Angus flew backward with a tragic cry like a launched cannon.

He crashed headfirst into the dragon wall1 above the emperor, blasting a hole in the savage-looking Colossal Dragon wall mural made out of gold and embedding his entire self into it.

Silence!

The whole place was filled with dead silence!

Everyone stared at Angus—who was embedded in the dragon wall—in a daze, the look in their eyes blank, vacant, and stunned.

A single strike...

He had sent President Angus flying with just a single strike...?

Among the crowd, President Fred, the Fighting Dragon Academy president, and the others exchanged looks, every one of them seeing the shock, horror, and disbelief in one another's eyes.

"F-Fred!"

The Fighting Dragon Academy president swallowed hard as he asked, "Since when has Meng Lei possessed such strength?"

"I... I don't know, either!"

Fred murmured to himself, an exciting range of expressions on his visage.

Roar!

With a furious roar, Angus extricated himself out of the dragon wall. With blood at the corners of his lips, he glared furiously at Meng Lei as the flames of fury burned in his eyes.

"I've surprisingly underestimated you just now!" Angus wiped the blood off the corners of his lips as he sneered, "But you've successfully angered me now, brat! Dare you go outside the hall with me?"

"Why wouldn't I?" Meng Lei replied as he cocked his eyebrow. Then, he shot out of the grand hall first.

With a cold snort, Angus also followed after him and flew out of the hall.

"Quickly!"

"Follow after them!"

"Don't let him get away!"

At the sight of this, everyone in the hall quickly followed them out. The moment they exited the hall, they spotted Meng Lei and Angus, who both stood proudly in mid-air and staring at each other from afar.

"Brat, I'll admit that you possess strength far beyond the average Saint Domain's. I'll also admit that you're even more of a monster than Timon Barton, who's ranked top in history.

"But... You still have to die anyway!"

Angus let out a furious roar, his voice erupting with a loud boom like rolling thunder—he had transformed.

Roar!

An enormous Black Dragon standing at over 60-meters-tall and covered in pitch-black scales all over abruptly appeared! Its sharp claws glittered with an icy-cold gleam, and sharp teeth lined its jaws.

Pure dragon might erupted and spread to the surroundings like smoke signals of war rushing into the sky. It swept through the entire palace in an instant and spread toward all directions.

"A Black Dragon!"

"That's a pure-blooded Black Dragon!"

"What has happened over there?"

Alarmed, all the other people in the palace looked at Angus in the sky.

"Die!"

Angus opened his mouth, and an inky, pitch-black dragon breath sprayed forth from within, instantly sweeping toward Meng Lei.

A Black Dragon's dragon breath was a very fearsome type of acid that contained astonishing corrosion abilities. It held shocking might, and even a Saint Domain expert would be corroded into mere bones if it got onto them!

"That's all you got?"

Meng Lei shook his head lightly. With a slight dodge, he easily evaded the Black Dragon Breath shooting toward him.

Then, he took step after step toward Angus. His movements appeared slow, but in truth, they were extremely quick. In a split second, he had reached right above Angus!

"Goodbye, President Angus!"

Meng Lei stamped his foot down lightly.

"Oh no!"

Greatly alarmed, Angus immediately wanted to flap his wings and duck. However, the thought had only just arisen in his mind when Meng Lei's foot came lightly from afar and stepped on his head.

Boom!

A great, vast force erupted. Angus didn't even have the time to cry out before his dragon head was blasted apart by the kick, much like a great hammer smashing into a watermelon.

Brain fluid spurted everywhere as blood sprayed all about!

Boom!

Angus' enormous body fell through the sky and landed on the even level square, smashing a huge pit into the square.

The body was still and motionless, evidently thoroughly dead. The head, which had been blasted apart, was an exceptionally painful sight.

(ΩДΩ)!!!

(o)...

o((_))o!

Everyone was stunned and dazed!

"Angus has actually been instantly taken out by a single kick?"

"Just what kind of combat strength is that?"

"O' Dragon God above!"

A brief moment of surprise and stunned stupefaction later, a furor went through the entire square.

As every single person stared at the ruptured dragon head and at President Angus, who had been taken out in an instant, they couldn't help but gasp.

That was President Angus! One must know that he was an old-timer Saint Domain that had already made a name for himself several hundred years ago. Moreover, he was even a pure-blooded Black Dragon of the purest bloodline! He was pretty much already a high-level Saint Domain!

And yet... His head had been blasted apart with just a kick, and he had been killed in a second!

Just what kind of combat strength was that?

Had it been others who had killed him, it wouldn't have been that surprising, but the key here was that the one that had taken his life was just a 16-year-old little brat!

A 16-year-old brat!

Who would believe something like that?

Who would dare to believe something like that?

And how were they supposed to believe something like that?

For a moment there, the emperor, the whole court of officials, nobles, and up to a thousand Saint Domains all stared at that figure standing calmly and quietly in the sky, their eyes filled with disbelief.

"I've heard something before."

Meng Lei, who was facing everyone's gazes that looked as if they were looking at a monster, spoke at this point.

His voice was calm and even, yet it echoed in the sky above the palace and clearly reached every corner of the palace.

"I've heard that brave dragon slayers don't exist in the Dragon God Empire because all those that dared harbor designs on pure-blooded Colossal Dragons have all died.

"Since I've killed a Black Dragon today, does that mean that I've become the one and only brave dragon slayer in the Dragon God Empire?"

"A brave dragon slayer?"

The corners of everyone's lips spasmed at his words. They were fuming mad. He was simply too arrogant and conceited.

"That evil creature! That damned evil creature!"

Frederick the 32nd was so infuriated that he was shaking with rage. Even his countenance was all contorted as he commanded, "Kill him! Kill him! I want him dead! I'm going to cut him into a million pieces and torture him to death! I want him to die a terrible death!"

"This..."

The many Saint Domains present hesitated. Meng Lei had taken only an instant to kill Angus, thereby exhibiting fearsome strength capable of instantly killing a high-level Saint Domain. Were they to attack, wouldn't they just be sending themselves to death's door in vain?

"President Luke, are you going to just watch as that evil creature behaves so presumptuously?!"

Frederick the 32nd bellowed furiously as he turned to President Luke and the others.

Among everyone present, President Luke was definitely the strongest of them all. Who was supposed to attack, if not him?

"I understand, Your Majesty!"

President Luke nodded slightly. With a flash of his form and an aloof look on his countenance, he came right up to Meng Lei.

"Meng Lei, not only do you possess the Fire Dragon bloodline, but you're even a member of royalty. Yet you behave in such a perverse and insane manner, wantonly slaying a pure-blooded Dragon..."

"Alright, alright. You can skip the unnecessary crap. Even my ears are becoming callused from all superfluous rubbish."

Meng Lei waved dismissively and interrupted President Luke, who was filled with righteous indignation. "We'll let our skills speak for themselves."

"How presumptuous!"

President Luke looked livid. Then, a magic staff abruptly manifested in his hand.

Buzz!

Right away, Wind Elements within a few kilometers of where they were swiftly gathered and formed a 10-meters-long cyan wind blade.

"Go, Dimensional Blade!"

With an icy snort from President Luke, the cyan wind blade sliced through the air and shot toward Meng Lei at a lightning-quick speed. It moved incredibly swiftly and was hardly visible to the naked eye!

"As expected of a Saint Domain Great Magician at their pinnacle!"

At the sight of the Dimensional Blade shooting rapidly toward him, a look of approval appeared on Meng Lei's face. Then, he stretched out his right arm and grabbed at it in the most casual of motions.

"What's he doing???"

"Is he taking the Dimensional Blade head-on?!"

"What a lunatic!"

"He's a total lunatic!"

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Chapter 199: A Brave Dragon Slayer, One Hammer Strike Each

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"What a lunatic!"

"He's a total lunatic!"

"Who would dare do that unless they're a lunatic?"

Everyone in the square was shocked by Meng Lei's crazy action.

Dimensional Blade was hailed as the strongest wind-elemental single-target offensive first-class spell. It was also considered one of the best among the many single-target offensive first-class spells out there in terms of offensive power.

This was especially true when it was President Luke, a Saint Domain at pinnacle-level, casting it—its might was absolutely incredible!

Yet Meng Lei actually intended to take it head-on with bare hands!

What was he, if not a lunatic?

"You're going too far!"

President Luke let out an icy snort, a hint of great displeasure flashing across his features.

He was the Dragon God Academy president and a pinnacle-level Wind-Elemental Saint Domain Great Magician, yet Meng Lei was looking down on him so much!

What a great insult to him this was!

What happened next, however, completely overturned everything that President Luke knew.

Meng Lei easily caught the highly compressed and incomparably sharp Dimensional Blade capable of cutting apart everything in the world when it reached right in front of him with a casual grabbing motion.

The Dimensional Blade, which was hailed as the strongest wind-elemental single-target offensive first-class spell, simply couldn't make even a nick on Meng Lei's fair, tender, smooth, exquisite, slender, and delicate hand.

"Break!"

Meng Lei's hand closed around it forcefully with a soft shout.

Crack!

The incomparably compressed Dimensional Blade instantly broke into pieces and turned into innumerable cyan wind elements, upon which they returned to the universe as if they'd never once appeared.

"Noooo!"

"That's impossible!!"

"O' Dragon God above!"

How can this possibly be true?!

"Catching and breaking the Dimensional Blade with his bare hand... Is he even human?!"

President Luke was dumbfounded, and so were the other 1,000-odd Saint Domains and Frederick the 32nd.

Astounded to the extreme, no-one could believe their eyes!

"As they say, it doesn't fulfill propriety if one doesn't return as good as they receive! Have a taste of my Dimensional Blade, too!"

Meng Lei formed a sword with his fingers and lightly drew a line across the air.

Slash!

The air instantly ripped apart. A black fissure slightly over one-meter-long quietly appeared, and then, as light as a feather, it started to extend toward President Luke!

"R-ripping apart the air..."

President Luke looked as though he'd just seen a ghost. He shuddered all over, and even his voice was trembling a little.

Then, his voice was abruptly cut off—the black fissure had quietly appeared and lightly slashed across his neck. A bloody line formed, and then, his head left his body.

Boom!

President Luke's corpse plummeted onto the square with a crash before turning into its true form—it was actually a Tempest Colossal Dragon with cyan scales all over it and over 70-meters-long!

The Tempest Colossal Dragon was a wind-elemental Colossal Dragon and one of the ten major Dragon breeds. Their forte was wind-elemental Dragon-Language Magic.

Meng Lei descended from the sky and landed on top of the Tempest Colossal Dragon carcass. As he gazed at all the Saint Domains that numbered up to a thousand present, he couldn't help but lick his lips.

Since hunting Magical Beasts could earn him gold coins... Would killing people also bring him gold coins?

The answer was... A definite yes!

To be honest, Meng Lei had actually known from the very beginning that he could also earn gold coins by killing people, but he had refrained from doing so.

After all, since he could earn gold coins just by hunting Magical Beasts, why should he kill people? He didn't want to become a cold, ruthless devil that didn't even so much as bat an eyelid when killing someone, just for the sake of money.

But today, Meng Lei had decided to go on a killing spree!

Killing Angus had earned him 7.3 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals, while killing President Luke had earned 9.2 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals.

With so many Saint Domains present, how many Laws of Nature Origin Crystals would that amount up to?

Besides, a vast majority of them weren't even human, but... Magical Beasts!

Were Dragons human? Of course not!

"Your Majesty, didn't you want me to die a terrible death? Why aren't you attacking yet?"

Meng Lei held his hands behind him, and leisurely took step after step toward the emperor as though he was taking a stroll in the park.

"Guards! Guards!"

Frederick the 32nd was so frightened that he shuddered all over and began to shout at the top of his lungs.

"Protect the emperor!"

"Protect His Majesty!"

Everyone quickly stood in front of the emperor, assuming a fighting stance as if they were protecting the emperor. However, their faces were pale, their legs were shaking, and their eyes were brimming with fear.

Meng Lei had badly frightened all of them.

"Meng Lei, stop that!" President Fred stepped forward at this point. "It's not too late yet if you turn back now. If you continue to err so stubbornly, the Dragon God Empire will no longer have a place for you!"

"Turn back? Can I still turn back?"

As he looked into Fred's eyes, which were filled with sadness and heartache, Meng Lei looked up and sighed to the heavens. "President, do you know something? I just lost someone who was dearest to me!"

President Fred was startled.

"To save me, he perished together with the Tree of Life. That's the only reason why these pieces of garbage could leave the Lost Continent alive!"

Meng Lei cast a glance at the dozens of surviving contestants, frightening them so badly that their insides nearly ruptured from fear.

"But look at what happened in the end? Not only are these heartless and cold-blooded ingrates not even the least bit thankful, but they even want me to take the blame! Don't you think they deserve to die?"

"Perished together with the Tree of Life?"

At once, something seemed to occur to President Fred, and he exclaimed, "Could it be that the Dragon King supporting you... has died?!"

"That's right!

Meng Lei nodded heavily as harsh, killing intent filled his eyes. "So, don't stop me! You can't stop me, anyway! I'm going to kill all these ingrates today and let them follow Ol' President to the otherworld!"

"Meng Lei..."

Fred wanted to persuade him further, but Meng Lei had already vanished from where he was. By the time he reappeared, he was already right in front of the emperor and the many other Saint Domains.

"Bunch of ingrates, how do you still have the cheek to live with yourselves in this world? Go to hell, all of you!"

With a flick of his fingers, several ice blades shot forward and instantly engulfed the surviving contestants!

Splurt!

Splurt!

A round of ice blades later, all the surviving contestants had lost their lives. They didn't even have the time to beg for mercy!

After that, Meng Lei turned to Frederick the 32nd as if he'd only done something so trivial that it wasn't even worth mentioning.

"Your Majesty, I feel pretty wronged that you should claim that I've caused the deaths of 108 contestants," Meng Lei said with a slight smile, "So that you do not wrong me, I shall do a little something!"

"W-what are you planning to do?"

Frederick the 32nd roared furiously, "I'm the emperor of the empire! The noble and distinguished Dragon Emperor! If you dare attack me, all the old grandmasters on the Dragon Island will never let you off! There will no longer be a place for you in this whole world!"

"Is that so? I'd like very much to try that, then!"

Meng Lei made a grabbing motion in the air, and then, an ice sword glittering with a cold, icy glint appeared in his hand.

"Guards! Guards!"

Frederick the 32nd retreated several steps, filled with alarm and fear. The group of Saint Domain experts standing in front of him and blocking him from Meng Lei also retreated along with him.

With every step Meng Lei advanced, they took a step back. With another step forward, they took yet another step back!

A single person was actually pressuring a thousand Saint Domains into pathetic retreat! It was practically the most comical sight ever!

"You bold, audacious outlaw! Don't you hurt His Majesty!"

At that moment, a few loud and sonorous dragon roars suddenly traveled over from the sky a great distance away. Everyone raised their heads and looked over to see several Colossal Dragons flapping their wings and flying toward them.

Golden scales, golden claws, golden wings, and golden horns... There were a few Golden Colossal Dragons!

In terms of body size alone, those few Golden Colossal Dragons were a tad inferior to Barbarossa's 100-meters-long dragon form, but the surging, torrential dragon might around them was immeasurably stronger than Barbarossa's!

Evidently, all of them were Golden Colossal Dragon People with extremely pure bloodlines. Although still not as pure as Barbarossa's, their actual strength far surpassed his.

"The elders!"

"It's the ten elders!"

"Your Majesty, the ten elders have come!"

The many Saint Domains were overjoyed.

"That's great! With the ten elders here, I have no need to worry anymore!"

Frederick the 32nd was delighted. Then, a savage look gleamed in his eyes, and he declared, "You evil creature, I want you to die a terrible death today!"

"Those are the ten elders of the senior statesmen's assembly!"

Fred heaved a sigh and tried to kindly persuade Meng Lei again.

"Meng Lei, don't make any more mistakes. The ten elders of the senior statesmen's assembly are all pinnacle-level Saint Domain great experts, among whom the Grand Elder is even a limits-level Saint Domain and an existence that's a step away from becoming a half-deity. You won't be their match at all! Listen to me, and stop while it's still not too late!"

"A limits-level Saint Domain?" Meng Lei licked his lips and asked, "The kind of limits-level expert that has reached 99.999% comprehension of a type of laws of nature and is just a final step away from attaining 100% comprehension?"

"Yes!" Fred said in a low voice, "Every limits-level Saint Domain is incomparably exalted. Even the half-deity grandmasters have to show them some courtesy! You—"

"Awesome! The stronger, the better!"

Meng Lei licked his lips. The stronger they were, the more valuable they would be. Only then would there be a kick in killing them!

Crash!

Crash!

In the twinkling of an eye, the ten Golden Colossal Dragons had reached right above him. The largest was nearing 100-meters-long, and even the smallest was as long as 90 meters.

Each of them gave off vast, mighty dragon might that made everyone present feel immense pressure.

"Where's the knave, Your Majesty?"

The longest Golden Colossal Dragon shouted the question furiously, his voice as though a thunderclap.

"What good timing, elders!" Frederick the 32nd pointed at Meng Lei and shouted furiously, "Kill that wicked fiend at once!"

"Calm down, Your Majesty. When we capture that wicked fiend, we'll hand him over to Your Majesty to deal with!"

The longest Golden Colossal Dragon roared, "Bold and impudent knave, how dare you come and act so wildly in the empire's palaces! You deserve to die a thousand times for your act of treason!"

"Haha, I deserve to die a thousand times for my act of treason?"

Meng Lei laughed into the sky as the Hammer of Destruction appeared in his hand. Then, he appeared out of the blue right in front of one of the Golden Colossal Dragons, raised the hammer, and swung it toward the Golden Colossal Dragon!

"How audacious!"

The Golden Colossal Dragon glowered at him and raised its sharp, savage-looking claws and swiped at him.

Boom!

The Hammer of Destruction collided with the Golden Colossal Dragon's claws. The claws straight-up broke and became all mashed up with a hole smashed right into it!

"Ahhh!"

Following a shrill scream, large droplets of dragon blood splattered through the air and dyed the ground red.

"Take another strike of my hammer!"

Meng Lei quietly appeared above the Golden Colossal Dragon's head with a slight sway of his body and gave it another heavy hammer strike.

Crack!

It was as though a great hammer had smashed into a watermelon! Or a sledgehammer knocking an egg!

With a crisp crash, the Golden Colossal Dragon's head unsurprisingly broke apart!

Howl!

Amid a shrill and miserable dragon roar, the dragon's nearly 100-meters-long body plummeted through the sky and smashed a huge dragon-shaped hole into the square. Just like that, a pinnacle-level Saint Domain had perished!

"Old Ninth!"

"Ninth Elder!"

At the sight of that, the nine remaining Golden Colossal Dragons roared furiously. Their voices were like rolling thunder, their wrath like violent winds and torrential waves, and their killing intent like the howls of the mountains and the roars of the seas!

"You bastard!"

"You evil creature!"

"You knave!"

"Return the Ninth Elder's life!"

"Don't be anxious. Everyone gets their own share!"

With a laugh, Meng Lei appeared right in front of the second Golden Colossal Dragon like a specter and smashed his hammer down again.

Howl!

Then, it was the third Golden Colossal Dragon, the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth...

All of them received one strike each, fair and square!

Everyone got a share each, not a single one receiving more or less than that!

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

For a moment there, it began to rain pork dumplings, no, dragon dumplings!

Nine out of the ten mighty, awe-inspiring Golden Colossal Dragons roaring furiously into the sky just now had fallen onto the ground.

Then, they became still and motionless and turned into dead dragons.

"How did that happen!?"

Frederick the 32nd had totally broken down.

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Chapter 200: Slaughtering Them All, Top In History

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The pinnacle of Saint Domain realm represented the apex. It was easy to advance to the Saint Domain realm, but to attain the Saint Domain realm's pinnacle was an impossibly difficult task.

There were thousands of ordinary Saint Domains in the whole of the Dragon God Empire, so many that one could barely keep count, but there were only a handful of pinnacle-level ones. On top of that, that number was an accumulated result of many years.

Yet now, nine of them had died in such a short time!

Who would be able to accept that?

Nobody at all!

"How did that happen?"

Emperor Frederick the 32nd had broken down completely. No matter how he thought about it, he couldn't understand why Meng Lei, who was just 16 years old, was that strong.

He killed pinnacle-level Saint Domains as if he were just slaughtering livestock.

Just how did he manage to do that?

"You're the only one left now!"

With the Hammer of Destruction hoisted over his shoulder, Meng Lei looked at the longest Golden Colossal Dragon and asked, "What's your preferred manner of death?"

"You... You've actually killed nine of the elders!"

The Grand Elder was shaking as flames of wrath and hatred burst forth from his eyes. Amid his fury was, however, a hint of alarm and fear.

Although the other nine elders weren't as strong as him, they were nevertheless still pinnacle-level Saint Domains.

Instantly killing pinnacle-level Saint Domains? He absolutely wouldn't be able to do that at all!

And yet... Meng Lei had managed to!

What did this show?

It showed that Meng Lei was even more powerful than him and even stronger than a limits-level Saint Domain—a half-deity!

Only a half-deity would be stronger than a limits-level Saint Domain.

The moment that occurred to him, the Grand Elder couldn't help but bellow in a deep voice, "Sir, by acting in such a way that shows no regard for authority, don't you fear the Dragon Island's half-deity's punishment!?"

"That's my business. I don't need your unnecessary concern about that." Then, Meng Lei suddenly laughed and added, "But if you want to worry about something like that, I can give you the opportunity."

"What are you intending to do?" the Grand Elder bellowed in a deep voice.

"I've always had a dream, and that is to roam the heavens while riding a Colossal Dragon. In the past, I was too weak and could only dream about it, but that's no longer the case now."

Meng Lei gave him a leisurely smile and said, "Although you aren't a pure-blooded Golden Colossal Dragon, you're not that far off, either. As long as you form a master-servant contract with me and become my mount, I can spare your life!"

"Form a master-servant contract with you? And become your mount?"

The Grand Elder was so furious that he was shaking all over. "Sir, what you're doing is trampling on a Colossal Dragon's pride! The prideful Dragons will never let you off!"

"So, you're not agreeable to it? Die, then!"

With an icy snort, Meng Lei came right up to the Grand Elder with just a step and swung the Hammer of Destruction down!

"No!"

The Grand Elder's eyes were widened to the point of splitting, yet he nevertheless couldn't dodge the Hammer of Destruction smashing down heavily toward him.

Crack!

Under the hammer, the limits-level Saint Domain great expert was no different from the previous nine pinnacle-level Golden Colossal Dragons—with just a strike, the hammer blasted his head apart, too!

Boom!

The enormous Dragon carcass plummeted onto the ground, causing an intense tremor to go through the ground before everything returned to peace and quiet.

In spite of that, no-one was feeling any peace and quiet in their hearts. In fact... All of them had already lost it!

"Dead? He's died just like that?"

"Even the limits-level Saint Domain Grand Elder is dead?"

"Nine pinnacle-level Saint Domains and one limits-level Saint Domain have died just like that?"

"A devil! He's the devil himself!"

"O great Dragon God, hurry and save your pious descendants..."

"And now, it's all of your turns!"

With the Hammer of Destruction hoisted over his shoulder, Meng Lei gazed at Frederick the 32nd and the many other Saint Domains, nobles, and officials.

"Guards! Guards!"

Frederick the 32nd was as pale as a sheet, so frightened that he was shivering all over. Which part of him even looked like a sovereign now?

"Now... No-one can save all of you anymore!"

Meng Lei had a calm and tranquil look on his visage as he asked, "The higher management officials of Dragon God Empire are all here now, right?"

Frederick the 32nd's voice trembled as he asked, "M-Meng Lei, what exactly are you planning? Be clear about it!"

Meng Lei gave him a calm smile as he replied, "Wiping all of you out at once!"

"Wiping all of us out at once?"

Everyone's countenances changed greatly!

"Divine Technique: Absolute Zero!"

With a flick of his fingers, a golden, chilly air current burst forth and spread forward.

"Run!"

Everyone's insides were close to rupturing from fear as they fled madly. However, the golden, chilly air current was even quicker—in the blink of an eye, it had spread outward and enveloped the entire square!

Creeeak!

Creeeak!

Creeeak!

All that it stood in the chilly air current's path became sealed in ice.

From Frederick the 32nd to every high-ranking official, all of them were frozen to the spot. Then, they turned into golden ice sculptures.

Everyone maintained a pose in the midst of escape while looks of alarm and fear also remained on their faces.

In this instant, everything had become frozen in time!

"Flee? How laughable!"

Meng Lei walked into the crowd of ice sculptures. A sculpture fell onto the ground with a light tap, and then, with a loud crack, it shattered into ice chips!

"Meng Lei! Stop that! Hurry and stop that! They are all higher management officials of the empire! You can't kill them all!"

President Fred, the Fighting Dragon Academy president, and the other four who hadn't been sealed in ice, stared hard at Meng Lei.

"I know what I'm doing, Presidents."

Meng Lei shook his head lightly and pushed the second ice sculpture down. Then, he went on to the third, fourth, fifth, sixth...

By the time Meng Lei had walked from one end of the square to the other end, 99% of the ice sculptures had broken into bits and pieces. Only about a dozen vivid-looking ice sculptures were left standing—and all of them were pure-blooded humans!

Meng Lei released them from Absolute Zero's hold. The dozen or so humans that had been unfrozen watched Meng Lei with fear and trepidation on their countenances. In particular, upon noticing the broken fragments littered all over the ground, they became even more frightened, so much so that their insides were close to rupturing from fear, and they were scared witless!

Dead?

They're all dead?

Oh my god!!!

Meng Lei's gaze swept across them. Then, he turned and walked toward President Fred and the other five academy presidents.

"Look at what you've done, Meng Lei! You're in deep trouble! You've totally stirred up a hornet's nest! The empire will never let you off, and neither will the Dragon Island, not to mention the Dragon God!"

Fred and the others were terribly distressed.

"Then let them come!"

Meng Lei flicked his fingers as he said, "I'll kill one if one comes, and if ten come, I'll kill a dozen! If all of them come, then I'll just kill them all!"

"Meng Lei!!!"

Fred bellowed deeply, "Why have you become like this? How can you let down the spirit of the deceased President Amos?"

"No, you're wrong!"

Meng Lei gazed at President Fred as he replied, "If Ol' President knew about everything I've done, he'd only be happy for me! I know him better than you do!

"He doesn't belong to the Dragons! Much less sworn allegiance to that bunch of rotten, depraved nobles and that so-called Golden Colossal Dragon emperor!

"Therefore, Ol' President wouldn't be angry over those guys' deaths at all! On the contrary, he'd support me instead!"

At this point, Meng Lei sighed and added, "He knows what I want, and he knows the reason why I've done all that. He knows why I have to do so!"

"What are you planning on doing, Meng Lei?"

Fred shouted hoarsely, "You've killed His Majesty, you've killed all the high-ranking court officials, you've killed all the officials and nobles, and you've killed a good half of the Saint Domains in the empire! Tell me, what exactly are you planning to do?!"

Meng Lei gazed into the distance, and then, he slowly replied, "President, I've become a half-deity!"

Then, he left without a second word.

"A half-deity?!"

Fred and the others were astounded!

Despite having witnessed Meng Lei go on a killing spree and instantly kill a limits-level Saint Domain, thereby realizing that he might already have entered that unfathomable realm, having Meng Lei personally admit to it to them nonetheless still astounded Fred and the others to the extreme.

"A half-deity!"

"Meng Lei has attained half-deification?"

"Oh my goodness! He has actually attained half-deification!"

"This..."

It was only after a substantially long while that the six of them finally got over their astoundment and regained their senses.

In a low voice, one of the academy presidents said, "While attaining half-deification is certainly astounding, can he act so recklessly and brazenly just because he has attained half-deification? What kind of position would he be putting the Dragon Island's grandmasters in?"

"Exactly! Does Meng Lei think that he doesn't need to fear the few grandmasters just because he has become a half-deity?"

"That's too egotistical of him!"

"I don't know whether he's being egotistical or full of himself or not, but Meng Lei definitely isn't just purely killing people for the sake of it!"

Fred's voice trembled as he said, "This is him fighting for power of faith! He intends to fight for the power of faith!"

"Fight for the power of faith?!"

A huge jolt went through everyone!

Killing the emperor! Slaughtering the empire's higher management!

With that, one could say that he had thoroughly offended the Dragons, the Dragon Island's half-deities, and in fact, even the Dragon God!

This appeared to be an extremely rash, foolish, and irrational act, but in truth? Of course it wasn't!

Because in just that brief amount of time, Meng Lei had already received rich, handsome rewards!

Wealth: 2,583 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals

After killing over a thousand Saint Domains, he had earned a net profit of 2,583 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals!

Was this transaction worth it?

There was no doubt about the answer—because this many Laws of Nature Origin Crystals was enough for him to do a lot of things.

Such as raising the Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline assimilation rate to 100%;

Such as raising the Golden Gods-Slaying Ant bloodline assimilation rate to 100%;

Such as redeeming 25 Power of Divinity droplets;

And such as using the Limitless Pickup function 2,583 times!

Pray tell, compared to such rich, handsome profits, what did offending the Dragons even count as? What did offending the Dragon Island's half-deities even count as?

Should they dare to attack him, he'd kill them all and turn them all into Laws of Nature Origin Crystals!

As for offending the Dragon God?

Meng Lei remembered that Ol' President had once said this—deities that had already left Heaven's Vault Continent couldn't descend upon the continent in their true form.

At best, they could only send a divinity projection—and divinity projections could only utilize a half-deity's level of strength.

Meng Lei had no fear of half-deities; after all, an adult Gods-Slaying Rat at 100% bloodline assimilation rate... could eat a deity!

Therefore, while it might appear rash, foolish, and irrational, it actually wasn't at all!

With this many Laws of Nature Origin Crystals, nothing in the entire Heaven's Vault Continent fazed or frightened Meng Lei anymore!

Since that was so, then why not fight for the power of faith?

It was exactly like what Meng Lei had told President Fred—"I've become a half-deity!"

The underlying meaning behind those words was... "I've become a half-deity, so I need worshipers!"

And where were his worshipers going to come from?

The Dragon God Empire, of course!

For the sake of obtaining the huge piece of the power of faith "cake" known as the Dragon God Empire, he needed to get rid of the old religion.

Was there a need to leave the emperor and the empire's higher management alive?

The answer was clear and definite—of course not!

"Now that even the emperor is dead, surely the Dragon Island's half-deities will be infuriated? It's best if all of them come over! If I can kill them all, I'll be able to bring the empire under control with peace of mind."

Meng Lei made his way over to the Dragon God Tower while he thought about all that. He wanted to continue earning money in the Dragon God Tower.

The Dragon God Academy was as quiet, peaceful, and harmonious as always. Students were doing whatever they should be doing, completely unaware that the empire's higher management had all been slaughtered. Neither did they know that an unprecedented storm was about to sweep through the entire empire!

"Enjoy the last moments of peace quietly, children!"

Upon reaching the Dragon God Tower, Meng Lei strode forward and entered. In no time, he arrived at the 41st level.

The Saint Domain Magical Beast on the 41st level was the Heavenly Blade Bug and was roughly a mid-level Saint Domain. Meng Lei casually killed it, and then, he continued to head up.

The 42nd level, 43rd level, 44th level...

The 52nd level, 53rd level, 54th level...

The 62nd level, 63rd level, 64th level...

A half-deity's strength was not to be resisted. Meng Lei advanced with a crushing force. It didn't take long before he surpassed the top-ranking Timon Barton and arrived at the 79th floor.

At the same time, his ranking on the Dragon God Genius Ranking also rose to first place, triggering a huge commotion!

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Chapter 201: Smashing the Dragon God Dead, The Tower of Time

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"Top in history!"

"Meng Lei has actually become number one in history!"

"He's too impressive!"

"He's actually successfully surpassed Timon Barton from 10,000 years ago to become the number one in history!"

"To think there's actually a genius like that among the humans!"

"Incredible!"

In front of the Dragon God Tower, looks of astoundment appeared in students' eyes as they gazed upon the name that had successfully reached the summit.

"No. 1: Meng Lei, Human, 16 years old, Level 79"

"Level 79 at 16-years-old! I really don't know how he managed to do that!?"

"Yeah! How did he do that?"

"From Dragon God Tower's 30th level onward, one has to be at least a Saint Domain if they wish to ascend further; from the 60th level onward, it's almost impossible to proceed if they don't have at least the strength of a high-level Saint Domain. At the 70th level, they have to be at least a pinnacle-level Saint Domain!"

"A 16-year-old pinnacle-level Saint Domain?"

"Is he a monster..."

They were astounded and perplexed. They couldn't imagine how it had happened at all.

However, what happened next let them know that... This was just an appetizer!

Five minutes later, he reached the 80th level;

Ten minutes later, he reached the 81st level;

Fifteen minutes later, he reached the 82nd level;

And then, the 83rd level, 84th level...

Meng Lei advanced the whole way with a crushing force without even a moment's rest until he successfully arrived at the 91st level.

By this point, the students in front of the Dragon God Tower had already become totally numb to his exploits. Only one thought remained in their minds—could he pass the trial?

Dragon God Tower, 91st level—this was a scorching hot world.

Ten suns hung suspended in the sky, willfully giving off light and heat. The lands were desolate and barren. There was no grass, no trees, no rivers; the only things there were boiling hot rocks and the crimson red ground.

Meng Lei stepped onto it, only to hear sizzling sounds coming from his feet—his shoes' soles had been melted. The ground's surface temperature was astonishingly high.

"Are there only Fire Elements here? Only fire-elemental laws of nature exist here?"

Meng Lei searched for the magic circle leading to the next level as he walked on the wide, scorching-hot land.

Screeech!

Suddenly, a crisp and clear cry traveled over from the sky. Then, innumerable fireballs descended from above.

Meng Lei looked up to see one of the suns spitting fireballs like a machine gun.

Fireballs came from above and crashed into the ground, causing booming explosions as they did.

At the sight of this, a smile immediately appeared on Meng Lei's countenance, and he flew toward the sun hanging in the sky.

As for the huge fireballs constantly shooting down, he was able to easily evade them. They couldn't get him at all.

Before long, Meng Lei arrived in front of the sun. The so-called "sun" wasn't actually a real sun, but a gigantic bird whose body blazed throughout with flames and whose wingspan was more than 100-meters-wide.

"A Sunbird!"

Meng Lei was filled with marvel at once.

Sunbirds were fire-elemental Saint Domain Magical Beasts. Their prowess in the way of flames far exceeded that of ordinary fire-elemental Magical Beasts; hence they were known as the Holy Beasts of Flames.

Each of these ten Sunbirds in front of him was like pinnacle-level Saint Domain Magical Beasts, perhaps even limits-level ones.

In particular, the combat power they could exhibit in an environment like the 91st level's firmly surpassed that of the ten Golden Colossal Dragons that Meng Lei had killed.

It was just a shame that it was still useless against him.

"Go!"

The Gods-Slaying Spear shot out.

Splurt!

Splurt!

Splurt!

Amid shrill cries, all ten Sunbirds unsurprisingly perished. Before a half-deity like Meng Lei, they didn't even have the chance to put up any resistance!

As the ten Sunbirds plummeted onto the ground, a magic circle also appeared in the middle of the sky.

"Ding! Dropped item detected. Will you pick it up?"

"Ding! Dropped item detected. Will you pick it up?"

"Ding! Dropped item detected. Will you pick it up?"

"Yes, pick them up!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained a Fire-Elemental Laws of Nature Fragment!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. Host's Physical Body Constitution 4,869!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained the fire-elemental first-class spell, Great Sun In The Sky!"

Meng Lei stepped into the magic circle and arrived at the 92nd level.

Ten minutes later, he reached the 93rd level;

Twenty minutes later, he reached the 94th level;

Thirty minutes later, he reached the 95th level;

And an hour later, Meng Lei arrived at the 99th level!

Innumerable students had assembled in front of the Dragon God Tower, and even a large number of teachers had hurried over upon hearing the news.

The 99th level!

Someone had actually gone up to the Dragon God Tower's 99th level! Was he about to reach the summit, too?

If someone were to reach the summit...

This would no doubt be a monumental event never-before-seen in history. Everyone wanted to witness the great history-making moment with their own eyes.

"The 99th level! He's really too impressive!"

"He's about to ascend to the 100th level!"

"With Meng Lei's trial-passing speed, reaching the summit won't be a problem for him!"

"That's true. On average, he needed only ten minutes per level. He's pretty much the only one who could reach a speed like that..."

The people couldn't help but sigh abjectly. Even the 20th to 30th levels were full of stumbling blocks for the average person, but look at Meng Lei—he had gone all the way to the 99th level!

Was there really such a huge gap between one and another?

Dragon God Tower, 99th level...

The Saint Domain Magical Beasts occupying the 99th level were ten limits-level Saint Domain... Golden-Eyed Guardian Lions!

Golden-Eyed Guardian Lions were the offspring of lions and the divine beast Suan Ni1. It bore a lion's outward appearance, its whole body blazed with fireworks-like flames, and it had golden eyes.

While ten limits-level Saint Domain Golden-Eyed Guardian Lions were undoubtedly strong and mighty, they nevertheless posed no threat to Meng Lei. With just ten hammer strikes, he crushed them all.

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained a Metal-Elemental Laws of Nature Fragment!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained the metal-elemental first-class spell, Ultimate Alchemy!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained a Metal-Elemental Laws of Nature Fragment!"

"These are some pretty great rewards." Meng Lei nodded in satisfaction.

Then, just as he was about to step into the Dragon God Tower's 100th level, something unexpected happened.

A majestic-looking man abruptly appeared in the magic circle and blocked Meng Lei's way.

Apart from having a strong, muscular physique, there was nothing remarkable about the man's appearance at all. He was the kind of person that one would lose sight of the moment he was thrown into a crowd.

In spite of that, Meng Lei felt a great sense of pressure at the sight of him, much like what he had felt when he had first seen a Saint Domain Magical Beast—powerless and full of trepidation and fear.

"Who are you?" Meng Lei narrowed his eyes slightly.

"The Dragon God!"

The majestic-looking man gave a shocking answer to his question.

"You're the Dragon God?"

Meng Lei's pupils contracted, and he tensed up severely at once as torrential waves surged and churned in his heart.

Why has the Dragon God appeared here?

"Descendant of mine, why do you not kneel upon the sight of this god?"

The majestic-looking man's voice thundered with every word he uttered. Each word that left his mouth felt like dull, rumbling thunder in a drought—deafening and like a booming explosion.

At the same time, an overwhelming, terrifying divine power also came crashing down on Meng Lei like a great mountain as it tried to force him onto his knees.

"Your Holiness the Dragon God, you're mistaken. I'm not your offspring." With a slight smile, Meng Lei's gaze swept up and down the Dragon God as he said, "If there's nothing else, please step aside. I still need to go up the tower."

"How dare you!" The Dragon God glowered at him. "How dare a mere half-deity disrespect this god?"

"'This god'? You're just a divinity projection. Don't think too highly of yourself."

Meng Lei gave a contemptuous laugh. Then, the Hammer of Destruction appeared in his hand, and he swung it toward him.

"How impudent!"

Enraged, the Dragon God raised his right palm and smacked it down at Meng Lei.

The power of divinity surged in his palm as laws of nature gathered—it was actually a laws of nature attack imbued with the power of divinity.

"Break!"

Meng Lei, however, didn't fear him at all. His Hammer of Destruction met him head-on.

Boom!

As hammer and palm collided, an earth-shattering explosion broke out, and Meng Lei was sent flying.

On the other hand, the Dragon God actually remained as immovable as a mountain and was still standing firmly where he was!

"To think even a divinity projection is also that powerful... As expected of an existence that has attained true godhood."

Meng Lei licked off the blood at his lip corners as an intimidating glint burst forth from his eyes.

"How dare a lowly ant to challenge the great Dragon God! Prepare to accept my judgment!"

The Dragon God slowly rose into the air, surging power of divinity waves emanating from all around him.

Right after that, he raised a finger slightly and pressed down lightly on Meng Lei.

Boom!

The tiny little index finger instantly became a massive pillar connecting heaven and earth. The power of divinity surged from it while laws of nature flowed around it. The terrifying might it held was as if it could pierce through the heavens with just one finger.

"I can't take that head-on!"

Meng Lei could sense the aura of death as he watched the gigantic finger crushing toward him. At once, he contacted the system.

"System, redeem credit immediately! Raise my Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline assimilation rate by 50%!"

Whoosh!

His Wealth instantly shrunk by 500 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals.

Practically at the same time, his Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline assimilation rate also started to skyrocket quickly!

%, 12%, 13%...

%, 22%, 23%...

In an instant, his Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline assimilation rate soared to 60%!

At the same time, sticky, viscous greenish-black flames also surged out of Meng Lei's body and started to fervently modify and enhance his body.

Boom, boom, boom!

"What fearsome power!"

His Physical Body Constitution spiked at a never-before-experienced speed as if he was riding a rocket.

As he took in the endless source of energy in his body, Meng Lei suddenly charged toward the gigantic finger.

"Break!"

The Hammer of Destruction clashed with the gigantic finger, like Mars crashing into Earth. Amid a great, deafening explosion, the gigantic finger exploded with a boom while Meng Lei was also thrown back.

"He's actually parried the blow?"

The Dragon God stumbled slightly and looked at Meng Lei, somewhat astonished.

That blow just now was the strongest attack that he could currently launch, but Meng Lei had actually parried it.

"Hehe! I managed to parry your attack!"

Meng Lei's eyes glittered as a hint of madness flashed across its depths.

"Since I'm going to redeem credits, then I might as well just do it all the way! System, raise my Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline assimilation rate to 100%!"

Whoosh!

His Wealth shrunk again, this time by 400 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals.

Screech!

Meng Lei roared furiously into the sky as the greenish-black flames winding around him manifested into a solid state.

Boom!

Then, the aura around him began to spike dramatically again.

"He's become stronger again?"

The Dragon God sensed a hint of danger.

"Die, great Dragon God!"

Meng Lei gave him a cruel smile before vanishing on the spot.

"Take a strike of my hammer!"

Boom!

The hammer came at him so quickly that the Dragon God couldn't even react in time and was struck in the head by the hammer.

As the idiom went, "Kick a man while he's down!"

Meng Lei didn't hold back at all. He launched into a frenzy of wild strikes and crazed bombardment, hammer strike after hammer strike, and hit after hit.

"Damn! Damn! Damn!"

The Dragon God was so mad that he roared again and again, yet there was nothing he could do about it. Meng Lei simply moved too quickly and was completely suppressing him. He couldn't find an opportunity to counterattack at all!

Under such frenzied attacks, the Dragon God's divinity projection became more and more transparent until it was ultimately crushed into bits and pieces and turned into glowing divine particles that disappeared into the universe.

"Foolish mortal, you will regret this!"

The Dragon God's indignant roar reverberated in the surroundings, echoing long and hard.

"Regret? You're thinking too much." Meng Lei scoffed with an icy smile on his face.

No matter how powerful you may be, what can you do if you can't come to Heaven's Vault Continent?

Then, Meng Lei stepped into the magic circle and reached the 100th level.

"Eh?"

Meng Lei was stunned.

The 100th level was vastly different from the 99 levels before it.

There was no land, no oceans! No ice and snow, no bubbling lava! One could neither see the sky on top nor touch the ground below!

Only endless, boundless misty clouds filled the entire void, and within the void floated a tiny little island.

Meng Lei stepped forward and arrived at the little floating island right away. Underneath his feet was soft grass fields while the fragrance of flowers suffused the air all around him...

"Welcome, new master of the Tower of Time!"

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Chapter 202: Rivaling A Chief God, The New Master

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Dragon Island was a mysterious place.

The magic elements here were ten times richer than anywhere else in Heaven's Vault Continent, and the laws of nature here were several times clearer than anywhere else in Heaven's Vault Continent, hence making it a superb sanctum for cultivation.

Surrounding the Dragon Island was the azure-blue ocean that stretched as far as the eye could see. Innumerable islands decorated the great ocean like stars in the sky.

There were big ones as well as small ones, but with no exception whatsoever, on all these islands lived countless Magical Beasts while in the ocean also lived various marine Magical Beasts.

The tragic thing was that all the Magical Beasts here were the Dragons' food source. They were unable to control their own life and death, let alone their destiny.

They ultimately only had one fate, and that was to be eaten by the Colossal Dragons.

Occupying every island was a pure-blooded Colossal Dragon or a Saint Domain-level Drake. They ruled over the island, as well as the life and death of every living creature on the island.

The size of these islands was a direct reflection of the Colossal Dragon occupants' strength, as well as their statuses in the clan.

The higher their statuses and the mightier their power, the bigger the island they occupied and the richer in variety their food was, and vice versa.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, a stream of light shot across the ocean and came to the area above a large island.

A tall mountain stood erect on the island, and at the mountain's midpoint was a cave. Thunderous snoring could be heard coming from the cave, and it traveled far and wide...

"Grandmaster!"

The golden stream of light arrived in front of the cave, and then, the person dropped to his knees—it was actually a strong and muscular Golden Colossal Dragon Person with a pair of golden horns on his head.

"Something terrible has happened, Grandmaster!"

The Golden Colossal Dragon Person sounded sad and sorrowful.

"Eh?"

There was a sudden momentary pause in the snoring in the cave. Then, right after that, a roar containing endless fury rang out.

"How dare you disturb my beauty sleep! If you don't give me a satisfactory reason for your action today... Hmph!"

"Grandmaster, a knave has murdered the emperor and slain all the Dragon God Empire's higher management officials!"

The Golden Colossal Dragon Person was terribly sorrowful and grieving as he went on. "All the court officials, more than 1,000 Saint Domains, innumerable officials and nobles... All of them have been wiped out..."

"What did you say?!"

A massive dragon head emerged from within the cave, endless killing intent within its eyes as it ordered, "Repeat what you just said!"

"Grandmaster, a knave has attacked the palace..."

"How audacious! How dare you deceive me!" The gigantic dragon head bellowed furiously, "The awe-inspiring name of the Dragon God Empire resounds throughout the whole of Heaven's Vault Continent. Which knave would be so bold as to commit such a treasonous and heretic act?!"

"It's true, Grandmaster! It really is!"

The Golden Colossal Dragon Person hastily explained. Then, he even brought out a magic crystal ball.

Displayed on the surface was a horrific scene of ten Colossal Dragon carcasses lying dead on the ground, an infinite number of ice chips and fragments littered all over the floor, and princes and princesses kneeling on the ground and sobbing bitterly.

"Who was it?! Who exactly was it that dared to kill people of the Dragon race and challenge the Dragon God Empire's authority?!"

The gigantic dragon head roared furiously. Its roar was as though rolling thunder, frightening the Magical Beasts on the island so badly that they could only prostrate on the ground and shiver like a leaf.

"Grandmaster, that knave's name is Meng Lei!"

"Meng Lei?"

In the Dragon God Empire palace...

"Father, you died such a terrible death!"

"Father..."

The square outside the conference hall had turned into a large-scale funeral. More than a thousand princes and princesses, tens of thousands of royal consorts, and hundreds of thousands of eunuchs and palace maids all burst into loud sobbing.

Their weeping was terribly mournful and extremely sorrowful, making anyone that heard them weep and filling anyone that saw them with sorrow. Those that didn't know would have thought that the emperor had met his demise!

At a corner of the square, the Royal Holy Knight Order stared at the whole scene in a daze, their countenances filled with disbelief.

"How did this happen? We were only gone for two days, yet a tragedy like that has taken place in the empire?"

Abbe was also among them. She had been brought back from the Lost Continent by the Royal Holy Knight Order.

She stared quietly at the 12 dragon carcasses and all the ice chips all over the ground, her expression calm and peaceful and without any trace of joy or sorrow.

"I heard that the culprit is Meng Lei?"

The Holy Knight Order's captain, Bruno, asked, "Your Highness, is this Meng Lei the same person that saved you in the Lost Continent?"

"I don't know, either!"

Abbe shook her head lightly. One could barely see any traces of sorrow on her countenance.

"Welcome, new master of the Tower of Time!"

An aged voice rang out, upon which the misty clouds in the surroundings converged to form an easily 1,000-meters-wide gigantic human visage that stood tall and towered in the air.

"The Tower of Time? New master?"

Meng Lei stared at the gigantic human visage as a puzzled look appeared on his countenance. He asked, "Isn't this the Dragon God Tower? Since when has it become the Tower of Time?"

"Dragon God Tower? What nonsense, this tower's name is the Tower of Time!"

The gigantic face's mouth opened and closed as it went on. "It was forged by the great God of Time after exhausting an infinite amount of exotic treasures, the universe's spiritual essence, Divinity Crystals, and Divinity Stones. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Dragon God!"

"The God of Time?" A great jolt went through Meng Lei. He asked, "Who's the God of Time?"

"The God of Time is no human; he's one of the greatest gods in the vast universe!"

The gigantic human visage's voice boomed as it went on. "His greatness is as though the blazing sun in the sky that shines upon the lands; like a lighthouse in the bottomless abyss that guides the path of countless deities; and also like the tall and insurmountable holy mountains that live on for all time..."

Black lines filled Meng Lei's forehead as he asked, "So, can you tell me just how great and noble is this great and noble God of Time? In what way is he great and noble? How does he compare to the Dragon God?"

"The Dragon God? The Dragon God is nothing but sh*t!"

The gigantic human visage was awfully dissatisfied with Meng Lei's question. "The God of Time is the one and only deity in this vast universe and infinite number of existential planes that has mastered time-based laws of nature! His Divine Status is that of a higher deity with Great Perfection-level strength. His combat power doesn't lose out in any way to a Chief God!"

"A higher deity at Great Perfection level? One that doesn't lose out to a Chief God?"

Meng Lei was rather confused. "A Great Perfection-level higher deity is a god, right? Then what's a Chief God?"

"Don't you even know something as simple as that?"

A disdainful look appeared in the gigantic human visage's eyes as it explained, "Like how mountains vary in height and trees vary in length, as higher lifeforms, deities are also classified into different levels and differentiated by their level of strength.

"Based on their level of strength and their divinity class, they are, in ascending order, classified as lesser deities, intermediate deities, higher deities, and the ones most supreme of all and who stand above all the other deities... The Chief Gods!"

"I see!"

Meng Lei understood better now. Then, he asked, "Which class of deities does the Dragon God belong to?"

"The Dragon God? He's just an ordinary intermediate deity. There are billions of them in the Void!"

The gigantic human visage was full of disdain as it scoffed. "He's only impressive in an ordinary material plane. In the Void, he's no different from a pile of sh*t!"

Meng Lei was rendered speechless. If the Dragon God was a pile of sh*t, then what was he?

"Although the God of Time is a higher deity of Great Perfection level because he has comprehended one of the supreme forms of laws of nature—time-based laws of nature—his combat power is on par with a Chief God's."

A look of idolization brimmed on the gigantic human visage as it said, "Thus, he is also known as the God of Time. In some places, they even address him as the Chief God of Time and place him among the ranks of the Chief Gods!"

"Is the God of Time that awesome?" gasped Meng Lei.

Then, he asked, "Just now, you said that the Dragon God Tower is something that the God of Time had exhausted an infinite amount of time and effort to forge, right? Why is it in a place like this, then? And has even become the Dragon God Tower?"

"I'll correct you once more—this is the Tower of Time, not some sh*tty, nonsensical Dragon God Tower!"

The gigantic human visage glared at Meng Lei before it answered, "The reason why the Tower of Time is here is that it ended up crossing turbulent time-space currents after the God of Time's demise and ultimately became lost in this plane until the Dragon God subsequently obtained it!"

"Demise? The God of Time is dead?" Meng Lei was astonished. "Didn't you claim that the God of Time's combat power rivals that of a Chief God? Why did he meet his demise? Who was capable enough to kill him?"

"Mortal, you ask too many questions!" The gigantic human visage's expression suddenly turned icy-cold. "Snooping into a deity's secrets isn't a good habit!"

"Fine!"

Meng Lei curled his lip disdainfully, secretly thinking to himself, "This fellow sure has a pretty bad temper!"

"Just now, you said that I've become the Dragon God T— Cough, the Tower of Time's new master. What do you mean by that?"

Meng Lei was rather puzzled. "Where's the Dragon God? Isn't he the Tower of Time's master?"

"No, no, no! The Dragon God has never once been the Tower of Time's master—although he wishes even in his dreams that he could be."

The gigantic human visage gave a resolute negative answer to that.

"The Dragon God has merely temporarily borrowed the Tower of Time due to his advantage in proximity to it when it was lost in this plane.

"During this long passage of time, it wasn't just once that the Dragon God—that weak, little intermediate deity—had attempted to refine the Tower of Time in order to claim ownership over it and become its new master.

"But evidently, he has never once succeeded, and neither will he ever. All these are just his wishful thinking!"

"But the Dragon God is an intermediate deity, right? Even someone like him couldn't refine the Tower of Time?"

Meng Lei was astounded. "By what virtue was I able to become the Tower of Time's new master?"

"The great God of Time had left a holy decree before his fall—only those who possess magic talent for the five elements—Thunder, Fire, Wind, Light, and Dark—and successfully reach the highest level before they turn 30 years old can become the Tower of Time's new master."

The gigantic human visage's mouth opened and closed as it explained, "You're 16 years old this year. You've successfully reached this place. And you've exhibited magic talent for said five elements during your tower-climbing process. Therefore, you completely fulfill the conditions of inheritance."

"Aren't those conditions a little too demanding?"

Meng Lei was completely dumbfounded.

Reaching the top level before one turned 30-years-old was, by itself, already something that wasn't quite possible, let alone be someone that possessed magic talent for those five elements.

Stacking these two conditions together practically made this a hell-mode challenge. Who would be able to meet such standards?

"It's precisely because it's demanding that you're the only one who managed to achieve it during the last 40,000-odd years!"

Then, the gigantic human visage shook its head and commented, "In truth, that little fellow from 10,000 years ago would have also succeeded, but that dog—the Dragon God—had ordered him killed!"

"10,000 years ago? Could it be Timon Barton?"

Meng Lei narrowed his eyes slightly as he remarked, "So he has indeed been disposed of by the Dragons! What a bunch of shameless people!"

"That's very normal. The Dragon God has been racking his brains to usurp the Tower of Time, so how would he possibly allow others to lay claim to it?"

The gigantic human visage sneered and said, "Didn't you run into him just now, too? If you hadn't been strong enough, you would also have been killed by him and perished mid-way."

"The Dragon God! I'll remember him!"

Meng Lei clenched his fists as a hint of murderous intent flashed across his eyes. "Just you wait..."

"Alright! We can talk about the matter of revenge in the future!"

Then, the gigantic human visage said calmly, "Let me ask you this—are you willing to inherit the Tower of Time and become its new master?"

Meng Lei was silent for a moment before he said, "Before that, you must first answer a question of mine!"

"Say it!"

"What are the advantages and disadvantages of inheriting the Tower of Time?"

A shrewd glint flashed across Meng Lei's eyes as he said, "Be clear about the pros and cons first, and then I'll consider whether or not I want to inherit the Tower of Time."

"The Tower of Time is a high-tier divine weapon that stores all the God of Time's wealth and assets. At the same time, it also contains the God of Time's legacy.

"The most important thing is that the Tower of Time possesses the cultivation method for time-based laws of nature.

"These are the benefits!

"The downside is that you'll offend a bigwig after you inherit the Tower of Time!"

"Great! There are totally no issues since you made things clear. I'm willing to become the Tower of Time's new master!"

"Congratulations, mortal!"

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Chapter 203: Existential Plane Seeds, The Ten Major Divine Realms

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"Congratulations, mortal! You're now the Tower of Time's new master!"

The gigantic human visage in the sky dissipated with a loud boom, and a round, golden, ball-like creature took its place.

It had a nose, eyes, ears, and a mouth, as well as a pair of miniature devil wings and a long devil tail. The only thing missing was arms and legs.

...A little devil?

"You're..."

Stupefied, Meng Lei stared at the peculiar round lifeform that had suddenly appeared, a puzzled look coming over his features.

"I'm Dodola, the Tower of Time's guardian spirit!" The round lifeform introduced itself with a smile. "You can call me Lord Dodola!"

"...Lord Dodola?"

Meng Lei was rendered somewhat speechless. "You may be the tower's guardian spirit, but I'm its new master. By right, shouldn't you be calling me Master instead?"

"Uh..."

Dodola was momentarily taken aback before it scoffed indignantly. "I will never acknowledge you until you become a higher deity! Master? We'll talk about it when you've become a higher deity!"

"What a proud little fellow..."

Meng Lei couldn't help but laugh. Rather than obsessing over a matter as senseless as that, he instead asked, "How can I refine the Tower of Time, Dodola?"

"It's very simple. You just need to enter a contract with me!"

Dodola flapped its miniature devil wings and explained, "Since I'm the Tower of Time's guardian spirit, you need only to enter a contract with me, and the act will be tantamount to having refined the Tower of Time."

"Let's do it!"

"Alright!"

Dodola turned around. Dazzling golden light rose from its back, the light beams converging to form a complex, profound-looking magic circle.

Then, it instructed, "Drip a drop of your blood into it!"

"Okay!"

A drop of blood fell into the magic circle with a flick of Meng Lei's fingers before being absorbed.

Buzz...

Upon absorbing the blood, the magic circle behind Dodola went from a golden color into a blood-red color.

Then, the blood-red magic circle rose into the air before shrinking and ultimately disappearing between Meng Lei's brows.

A split second later, an enormous wave of information flowed into his mind. At once, Meng Lei sensed a strange and fascinating connection forming between himself and the Tower of Time.

He could now visit any of the Tower of Time's levels anytime he wanted to!

He could now check on any of the Tower of Time's levels anytime he wanted to!

He could now kill any of the Magical Beasts in the Tower of Time anytime he wanted to!

He could even change the environment in any of the levels if he wanted to. Moving mountains and filling in seas, sinking continents and creating forests, overturning the skies and flipping the earth...

All it required was a mere thought.

From this moment on, the Tower of Time... had completely become a possession for his exclusive use.

"A 100-levels-high Tower of Time where the first 99 levels are all half-planes..."

As Meng Lei took in the Tower of Time in detail, he couldn't help but exclaim, "Every single half-plane spans an extremely wide area and is actually equivalent to quite a few Lost Continents!"

"What's the big deal about that? Sealing a half-plane is something that ordinary deities can already achieve. In fact, even half-deities can do it. The truly impressive part about the Tower of Time lies in the time-based laws of nature that fill up all 99 half-planes!"

Dodola explained with a light smile, "You must understand that once a half-plane is sealed into a vessel, it becomes isolated from the rest of the world, and time immediately stops in that world. Therefore, it can only be used to store lifeless objects. It's impossible to store living things in there.

"However, this is not the case for the Tower of Time. Living things can be stored in every half-plane here, and they're no different from other normal material planes. This is all thanks to time-based laws of nature. And these time-based laws of nature in the Tower of Time were left behind by the great and noble God of Time!"

"I can even manipulate the time-based laws of nature in the Tower of Time to revive Magical Beasts that were killed. This is too amazing!"

Meng Lei was filled with marvel.

In the past, legend went that the Tower of Time was capable of turning back time and reviving the dead Magical Beasts. From the look of things now, the legends were indeed real.

"The ability to manipulate time is exactly what makes this time-based divine weapon—the Tower of Time—so strong and powerful." Dodola gave him a proud smile and added, "And that's not even the most precious and valuable part about the Tower of Time!"

"Not even that? Then what is?" Meng Lei was surprised. "Could it be the legacy left behind by the God of Time? His wealth and assets? Or perhaps the cultivation method for time-based laws of nature?"

"What we're talking about is the Tower of Time itself, not the objects that exist outside of it!"

Dodola was rendered speechless. Then, it said, "The most precious and valuable part about the Tower of Time lies in the 100th level."

"The 100th level?"

Meng Lei looked around him—aside from the floating island beneath his feet, all there was around him was just an endless expanse of fog. There was nothing else apart from that.

Laws of nature? Practically none!

Magic elements? They were incredibly sparse!

Was this level the most precious and valuable one? He really couldn't tell!

"You can't tell, can you?"

A smug smile appeared on Dodola's lips.

"Not at all!" Meng Lei replied with a shake of his head.

"That's correct, then!" With a sigh, Dodola said, "This level is the exact reason why the God of Time had met his demise back then."

"Just what kind of secrets does this level contain?" Meng Lei was rather confused. "That even an existence as powerful as the God of Time would meet his demise because of it?"

"The reason why this level is totally different from the first 99 levels is that it's just a seed. The nurturing process hasn't started yet." Dodola added, "Once it's successfully nurtured, it shall surpass all the levels before it. In fact, it will surpass every other ordinary existential plane!"

"Is it really that dramatic?!" Meng Lei was rather skeptical. "So, what kind of secrets does this level exactly contain?"

"This level is an existential plane seed!"

As it enunciated every word carefully, Dodola slowly added, "And on top of that, it's a high-end existential plane seed!"

"A high-end existential plane seed?"

Meng Lei was rather lost. What was that?

"In the vast universe and the endless void, new planes are constantly being born, and old planes are dying out every moment. The new replaces the old and lives wither while new ones are born. Destruction and birth, dying out and being born—these are supreme laws of the universe!"

With a sigh, Dodola explained, "Just like how it is for everything else in this world, there is also a limit to existential planes' lifespans. Once they reach the end of their lifespans, existential planes will also die out and become destroyed.

"However, high-end existential planes are an exception to that rule!"

Dodola looked at Meng Lei and said, "High-end existential planes are eternal and immortal. They do not have lifespan restrictions and will never ever die out, much less be destroyed.

"They exist for eternity and are forever immortal! They're totally different from other normal existential planes and are also known as Eternal Planes."

"High-end existential planes... don't die out?"

Meng Lei blinked.

"Yes, they don't!" Dodola nodded heavily. "Because as of now, none of the high-end existential planes have ever died out!"

"Alright!" Meng Lei nodded slightly. "In other words, the 100th level will eventually evolve into a high-end existential plane?"

"Yes!" Dodola nodded.

"Compared to an ordinary existential plane like Heaven's Vault Continent, what makes a high-end existential plane different?" A puzzled Meng Lei asked, "The God of Time actually died because of a high-end existential plane seed?"

Dodola replied dispassionately, "There are too many differences between the two. For example, laws of nature in high-end existential planes are clearer and more distinct, they contain more abundant energy, they span a wider territory, and the lives they birth and nurture are of a higher class.

"Have you heard of the ten major Divine Realms? They are the ten most famous high-end existential planes!"

"The ten major Divine Realms?"

Meng Lei found himself dumbfounded once more.

"You don't even know that?"

Dodola was rendered speechless. "You must be the most ignorant half-deity I've ever met. But on account of your age, I'll forgive you.

"The ten major Divine Realms are the Earth Divine Realm, the Oceanic Divine Realm, the Tempest Divine Realm, the Flaming Divine Realm, the Forest Divine Realm, the Metal Divine Realm, the Thunderbolt Divine Realm, the Light Divine Realm, the Dark Divine Realm, and the Frost Divine Realm.

"These ten high-end existential planes occupy an incredibly wide area that's practically endless and boundless. Every single one of them is bigger than Heaven's Vault Continent by more than a billion times.

"In addition, laws of nature in those ten Divine Realms are incomparably distinct, and the rich power of divinity fills the whole plane.

"Saint Domains are everywhere, and half-deities are lesser beings than even dogs. Every living thing from the Divine Realms is an existence that can dominate and rule over Heaven's Vault Continent if they come here!"

"Is it really that dramatic?!"

Meng Lei swallowed hard.

"Dramatic? Not at all."

Dodola shook its head. "It's exactly because of these conditions that many deities who come from ordinary existential planes are all willing to head to the ten major Divine Realms to cultivate because they can cultivate at a faster speed there.

"If you become a deity in the future, you can also consider heading to the ten major Divine Realms. I don't recommend it, though, because it's extremely dangerous there."

"Head to the Divine Realms..."

Meng Lei licked his lips.

"Legend goes that high-end existential planes also hold another benefit, though no-one can verify its authenticity even as of now." Dodola sighed and said, "My master, the God of Time, lost his life exactly because of this particular legend and ultimately met his demise."

Meng Lei asked, "What legend is it?"

"It's said that high-end existential planes can nurture Chief God divine cores1. Do you know what a Chief God divine core is?"

Dodola's voice was trembling as it said, "It's a divine core that can allow one to go all the way up to become a supreme Chief God!"

"A Chief God divine core?"

A huge jolt went through Meng Lei.

"My old master once said that becoming a Great Perfection-level higher deity is where the journey ends for a deity. When one reaches that stage, they can no longer advance any further, let alone attain Chief Godhood."

With a sigh, Dodola said, "It's only when one assimilates a Chief God divine core that they can become a Chief God. There is no other way.

"And it's precisely because my old master had heard the legend and believed it that he stole a bigwig's high-end existential plane seed and unfortunately perished in the end..."

"Deities cannot attain Chief Godhood through cultivation?" Meng Lei murmured to himself, "They can only attain Chief Godhood by assimilating a Chief God divine core? That's too unfair!"

"It is indeed unfair, but there's no way around it." Dodola shook its head and said, "This is the supreme law!"

Meng Lei heaved a sigh and asked, "In other words, as long as I can successfully nurture this high-end existential plane seed until it matures, I'll have a chance at breeding a Chief God divine core?"

Dodola shook its head and replied, "That's how the legend goes, but whether it's true or not is something I don't know. The Chief Gods high up above are probably the only ones who know."

"How is this thing supposed to be nurtured?"

Meng Lei turned and looked at his surroundings.

"Are you thinking of nurturing the high-end existential plane seed? You might as well just take a bath and go to sleep!" Dodola cast a glance at Meng Lei. Then, it added, "Even if you can make it sprout, you won't be able to guard it anyway. You're too weak!"

Meng Lei rolled his eyes at Dodola. When he thought about it again, though, what it said was true. He might be pretty strong at the moment, but when placed in the vast, boundless universe, he was probably just a weakling.

Disregarding everything else, just the Dragon God alone was already a presence whom he couldn't stand against, let alone other powerful existences.

Thus, he'd better just think of ways to boost his combat abilities instead.

At the thought of that, Meng Lei asked, "Dodola, since I've become the Tower of Time's new master, does that mean that I can get the God of Time's wealth, legacy, and the cultivation method for time-based laws of nature?"

Meng Lei's eyes sparkled as he watched Dodola with a slightly agitated demeanor.

A higher deity's assets! Just how many Divinity Crystals would there be? How much power of divinity? How many Laws of Nature Origin Crystals? How many gold coins?

It felt like he was gonna earn big this time.

"Theoretically, yes," replied Dodola. Then, it changed the course of the conversation and continued. "But my old master has left a holy decree that only those that pass the trial may receive the corresponding rewards.

"Otherwise... Don't even think about it!"

"A trial? There's a trial?!"

Meng Lei rolled his eyes. Then, he asked, "Alright, tell me, what kind of trials has the God of Time left behind?"

"Before we go to the trial, let me first get an understanding of your cultivation situation."

Dodola looked at Meng Lei and asked, "Since your divine body is fairly strong, that means your body must contain some kind of divine beast's bloodline, right? Manifest it, and let me take a look. Which divine beast's descendant are you, exactly?"

Meng Lei nodded and transformed into a Gods-Slaying Rat right away.

"A Black Bear Hamster? No, the aura isn't right...

"A Black Rock Rodent? No, the tail doesn't look like it...

"A Stone-Devouring Rat? No, a Stone-Devouring Rat is gray in color..."

Dodola mumbled to itself for a good half a day as it circled around Meng Lei. Then, it suddenly let out a strangled cry as it exclaimed, "I know! It's the Gods-Slaying Rat! This is the Gods-Slaying Rat's aura! Oh my goodness! To think it's actually the Gods-Slaying Rat! How come you're the Gods-Slaying Rats' descendant!?"

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Chapter 204: Comprehending All Ten Types of Laws of Nature

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"Damn!"

"Damn!"

"Damn!"

Furious roars resounded throughout the sky as surging divine power swept through the entire Imperial City.

Everyone in the Imperial City was flattened onto the ground, shaking like a leaf and overcome with fear and alarm.

"O' Dragon God above! What's going on?"

"Is it the end of the world?"

"O' great and noble Dragon God, please save your lowly children..."

Two figures were currently floating above the Dragon God Empire palace. One of them was an elderly man dressed in brilliant golden dragon robes1 with a purple-tinged golden crown sitting on his head. He gave off a dignified and imposing aura, as well as vast, majestic divine power.

He stared at the twelve dragon carcasses laying on the palace's imperial square, and the ice chips littered all over, his countenance livid and wrathful flames in his eyes.

"How dare they challenge the Dragon God Empire's authority so! Totally treasonous and heinous! They should be ripped into a million pieces, slashed a thousand times, and sentenced to extreme torture!"

The Golden Colossal Dragon Person next to him prostrated on the ground, his heart on tenterhooks and extremely fearful and horrified.

Nevertheless, he was still obliged to speak up because he was the very last elder of the senior statesmen's assembly, as well as currently the strongest Saint Domain with the highest status in the empire.

"Grandmaster, His Majesty has returned to the heavens, and all the court officials have also been decimated. Our highest priority right now is to appoint a new emperor and rejuvenate the court so that we may take control of the situation!"

"Appoint a new emperor?"

The golden-robed elderly man's wrath ebbed a little, and he asked, "Has this generation's emperor left behind any pure-blooded offspring? If he did, then we can appoint him as the new monarch and have him serve as the new emperor!"

"Grandmaster, Prince Barbarossa is also dead," replied the Golden Colossal Dragon Person with wry laughter.

"How hateful!"

The dragon-robed elderly man gnashed his teeth as he ordered, "Head to Dragon Island at once and summon Briggs. Have him hurry to the empire and ascend the throne to take control of the situation!"

"Yes, Grandmaster!"

Not daring to dally, the Golden Colossal Dragon Person hurriedly flew toward the Dragon Island. He knew very well that the Grandmaster, as one of the past Dragon Emperors as well as the one and only half-deity of the Golden Colossal Dragons, his words were the law itself. A single word from him could depose the emperor from his throne, as well as also appoint a new monarch. Whoever he appointed as emperor would be emperor—nobody dared to go against his word at all.

"Tell me, where is Meng Lei?"

The golden-robed elderly man's voice was like rolling thunder as he spoke in a cold voice and questioned those who were kneeling on the ground.

Someone answered in a trembling voice, "G-Grandmaster, I heard that Meng Lei is currently challenging the Dragon God Tower!"

"He's actually in the mood to challenge the Dragon God Empire after slaying the Dragon God Empire's emperor and all its court officials? That knave is too much! Does he think that there's no longer anyone among the Dragons who can fight?!"

The golden-robed elderly man's fury blazed even stronger, and then he headed straight toward the Dragon God Academy!

"Is he gone?"

"He's gone!"

"The Grandmaster has finally left!"

"Phew~ I was scared to death just now!"

At the sight of the golden-robed elderly man's departure, everyone kneeling in the palace felt as if they had just been granted amnesty.

"Oh no, the Grandmaster has gone to look for Meng Lei!"

The expression on Abbe's beautiful face changed slightly, and she quietly left the palace.

"How can you be a descendant of the Gods-Slaying Rats? The Gods-Slaying Rats are mutated divine beasts, so it's very hard for them to form colonies. On top of that, their numbers are pitifully low!"

Dodola was awfully astonished. "Moreover, you're just a normal human from Heaven's Vault Continent and have nothing whatsoever to do with the Gods-Slaying Rats of the Void. So why would you possess the Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline?"

"That... I wouldn't know." Meng Lei half-jokingly said, "Who knows, maybe my ancestors are descendants of the Gods-Slaying Rats."

"Never mind, there's no point pursuing the matter. Your Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline is what's most important." Dodola was terribly excited. "Never would I have thought that the heir to the Tower of Time would actually have the Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline. The God of Time must be watching over us!"

Meng Lei rolled his eyes at Dodola.

Yeah, right, as if the God of Time could watch over you! It's I that sent himself to your doorstep, alright?

"Since you can do a complete transformation into a Gods-Slaying Rat, then that means your bloodline must have already completely awakened, right?"

Dodola circled around Meng Lei, marveling at him as it did so. "You currently have a high-grade half-deity's body, which is about the same as a teenage Gods-Slaying Rat!"

"A teenage one?" Meng Lei was taken aback. "What do you mean 'teenage'? I'm almost an adult!"

"You are certainly almost an adult, but relative to a Gods-Slaying Rat, you're just a teenager."

Dodola laughed and explained, "The Gods-Slaying Rats are an extremely powerful type of mutated rodent divine beast. They can rival a Saint Domain Magical Beast the moment they're born, while a juvenile one can rival a half-deity.

"Teenage Gods-Slaying Rats can contend against a true god, while those in the young adult stage can fight on par with an intermediate deity.

"When they reach maturity, now that's what you call monstrous. Even devouring a higher deity wouldn't be a problem for them!"

"In other words, I don't need to do anything other than eating, sleeping, and then eating again, and just wait till I naturally mature and I'll be able to contend against a higher deity? Isn't that a little too crazy!?"

Meng Lei was rather aghast. Even though he had already heard from the system that the Gods-Slaying Rat was monstrously strong, never would he have ever expected it to actually reach such an extent.

An adult Gods-Slaying Rat... could actually devour a higher deity?

That was practically crazy cool and mighty impressive, alright?

Compared to the Gods-Slaying Rat, the Golden Colossal Dragon, which turned into a Saint Domain Magical Beast upon maturity, was practically trash.

"Yes, totally crazy! That's why it attracted the heavens' jealousy and ended up becoming unable to form colonies and can only form through the low chances of bloodline mutation. Otherwise, how are other lifeforms supposed to survive?"

Dodola shook its head and said with a laugh, "However, the Gods-Slaying Rats' growth cycle is fairly slow. By the time you naturally mature into an adult, probably a few hundred thousand years would have passed."

"A few hundred thousand years? That's too slow. Is there any way to speed up the growth process?"

Meng Lei quickly asked for advice.

His Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline assimilation rate had already reached 100%—this meant that he couldn't buy credit for it anymore. Therefore, the process to enhance his divine body would definitely be extremely slow from now on.

A few hundred thousand years?

Meng Lei couldn't wait that long!

"The Gods-Slaying Rat is a type of rodent divine beast. There's only one way to shorten the growth cycle—by eating!"

A smiling Dodola said, "You can eat precious herbs and medicines, Laws of Nature Origin Crystals, elemental crystals, a true god's divine body, and even divine cores. You just need to eat continuously without stopping, and that'll do. Simple, right?"

"Eating?"

Meng Lei broke into a wry smile right away. Rearing the system already cost him a lot. Now that he had to rear a Gods-Slaying Rat too, wouldn't he die of exhaustion?

"Don't worry, kid. The assets that the God of Time left for you is enough for you to use until you mature into an adult. The precondition is that you can get them, though." Dodola raised an eyebrow and said, "Just having a divine body is far from enough if you wish to inherit the God of Time's assets. It mainly depends on your laws of nature comprehension."

"Laws of nature comprehension?"

A shrewd glint flashed in Meng Lei's eyes.

"What the God of Time relies on the most is his time-based laws of nature. It's also the most valuable asset that he has left you. You have to inherit it no matter what." Dodola said earnestly, "To inherit time-based laws of nature, you must fully comprehend the following five elements' laws of nature—thunder, fire, wind, light, and dark. This is a prerequisite!"

A grinning Dodola gazed at Meng Lei and said, "Tell me about your degree of comprehension for these five elements' laws of nature."

"My degree of comprehension for these five elements' laws of nature?"

Meng Lei couldn't help but look at his personal stats interface.

Host: Meng Lei

Race: Human (Contains Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline 100%)

Wealth: 16,688 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals

Physical Body Constitution: Half-Deity (High-Grade)

Spirit: Divine Spirit (Elementary-Grade)

Power of Divinity: 0.1 Divinity Crystal

Laws of Nature: Earth (0.1%), Water (0.1%), Wind (0.2%), Fire (0.5%), Wood (0.1%), Metal (0.2%), Thunder (0.2%), Light (0.2%), Dark (0.1%), Ice (0.1%)

His stats interface had undergone an overwhelming change, and all of it was brought upon by his Dragon God Tower challenge.

An astonishing number of Saint Domain Magical Beasts occupied the Dragon God Tower's 30th level to the 99th level!

They ranged from elementary-level Saint Domain to limits-level Saint Domain and included those that flew in the sky and those that swam in the water. There was just about every type that could possibly exist, and they came in great numbers.

After passing through all the trials, not only had his Wealth gone through a dramatic spike to reach 16,688 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals, but his ten elements' laws of nature comprehension rate had also undergone varying degrees of improvement.

The most important thing was that the four other bloodlines, aside from his Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline... were gone!

Meng Lei had found this awfully perplexing. The explanation provided by the system was that upon reaching 100% bloodline assimilation rate for the Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline, all the other bloodlines in his body had been automatically removed. Otherwise, its assimilation rate wouldn't be able to reach 100%.

Meng Lei wasn't too hung up over this. Removed? So be it, then. There was nothing to find a pity about it, anyway. If any, the only one that was a bit of a shame would be the Golden Gods-Slaying Ant bloodline.

The Golden Gods-Slaying Ant was a spatial and spiritual type of Magical Beast. Meng Lei had been looking forward to the day where he could boost the Golden Gods-Slaying Ant bloodline assimilation rate to 100% so that he could also obtain a gut—and the extra-large space within—like Little Gold's, but all he could do was just dream about it now.

"What's wrong? Is your comprehension of these five elements' laws of nature very poor?"

Upon noticing Meng Lei's silence, Dodola broke into a slight frown. "Nothing to do about it if it's poor anyway. You're only 16-years-old, and on top of that, your cultivation specialization is your divine body. It's normal for your laws of nature comprehension to be a bit poorer."

"My cultivation specialization is my divine body?" Meng Lei was rendered speechless. "Who told you that? I'm a dual cultivator of magic and martial arts. Neither my divine body nor my laws of nature cultivation has lagged behind, alright!?"

"Eh?"

Dodola was mildly surprised. "Tell me about your current comprehension rate for those five elements, then!"

"I've already comprehended all five elements' laws of nature."

Meng Lei gave Dodola a proud smile. Was something that could be solved with a few hundred Laws of Nature Origin Crystals even anything worth troubling over?

o((_))o?

Dodola received a huge shock. Then, it sneered coldly. "You've comprehended all five? Kid, do I look mentally challenged to you?"

"Nope!"

Meng Lei shook his head.

"How dare you talk big in front of me, then?"

Dodola was furious. "At your age, being able to fully comprehend one type of laws of nature is already considered extremely monstrous.

"Comprehend all five types of laws of nature? Shouldn't you think a little before you talk so big?"

"No, you've misheard me."

Meng Lei shook his head repeatedly.

"See, I've seen through you, haven't I? Don't talk that big in front of me anymore!" Dodola snorted and said, "I've experienced way more than you have. You can just wait to eat your own words if you talk big in front of me."

"What I mean is, it's not five types but ten!" Meng Lei rolled his eyes. "I've comprehended ten types of laws of nature!"

"How dare you talk big again! Is there any end to it?!"

Meng Lei had really angered Dodola this time. "Kid, you'd better be more serious! I'm trying to understand where you stand in your cultivation right now so that I can come up with the best cultivation plan for you. I don't have the time to joke around with you!"

"Lord Dodola, I'm also telling you this very seriously!"

Meng Lei heaved a sigh. Then, he said seriously, "I've really comprehended all ten types of laws of nature. Earth, Water, Wind, Fire, Wood, Metal, Thunder, Light, Dark, and Ice—I've comprehended them all without a single one lacking!"

"Are you serious, kid?"

Dodola's eyes bore into Meng Lei.

"Very much so! I'm not joking!"

Meng Lei was also very serious.

"This... How can this be? That's impossible! You're only 16-years-old. How can you possibly have comprehended all ten basic types of laws of nature? Even in the whole wide universe, no-one has been able to do it!"

"There's nothing impossible for someone with a cheating device!" Meng Lei quietly said to himself, inwardly.

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Chapter 205: A Deity's Path of Advancement, Splitting One's Divine Spirit

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Dodola had begun to somewhat question its own life.

The ten magic elements represented ten types of basic laws of nature. Despite being just basic laws of nature, each type was nevertheless still incomparably complex and profound. Comprehending them was an extremely difficult task that required a lot of time, effort, and energy.

Think about it—during the last 40,000-odd years since the Dragon God Empire's founding, legions of typical Saint Domains had come into existence, but only a handful of pinnacle-level ones existed. The number of limits-level Saint Domains were even more pitifully low.

As for existences that had fully comprehended a type of laws of nature and attained half-deification over the last 40,000-odd years... One could count their numbers on their fingers!

From this, one could tell just how difficult comprehending laws of nature was. Yet Meng Lei had fully comprehended all ten types of basic laws of nature at just the age of 16?

Who would believe that?

Who would dare to believe that?

How were they supposed to?

"Kid, are you sure you're not lying to me?"

Dodola's eyes bore into Meng Lei.

"What do I get out of lying to you?"

Meng Lei shook his head lightly. Then, he contacted the system and instructed, "System, boost my laws of nature comprehension for all ten elements to 100%!"

Whoosh!

His Wealth instantly shrank by 1,000 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals.

Boom!

A split second later, an endless wave of information instantly gushed into Meng Lei's divine spirit like waters from a breached dam, furiously raising his comprehension of the ten elements' laws of nature.

An infinite amount of information flowed through his mind, and Meng Lei closed his eyes and took in each type of laws of nature in detail, taking in the content in every piece of information.

At that moment, the fog shrouding his mind gradually dissipated, and information about laws of nature that was once hidden in the laws of nature ocean became clearly displayed to him.

The heavens and earth were as though a cage, and laws of nature the extensive net.

Different types of laws of nature were like chains that differed from one another—fiery-red fire, cyan wind, thick and heavy earth...

Each type of law of nature was independent of one another, yet also inseparably and closely linked. They supported the cage as one, much like a cage's pillars, ceiling beams, steel bars, concrete...

Pillars were pillars, ceiling beams were ceiling beams, and steel bars were steel bars. They were made of different materials, yet they formed a perfect combination.

After some time, Meng Lei slowly opened his eyes. The look in his eyes had become incredibly deep and profound, and it seemed as if at the bottom of his eyes were flames rising, vegetation growing, oceans surging, and lightning flashing...

"So, this is what the half-deity realm is like!"

Dodola could clearly sense a change in Meng Lei's disposition in this instant. His brilliance and edge had been hidden away, and his entire bearing had become simple and unadorned as if he had returned to his origins...

"Have you really fully comprehended them?"

Dodola's voice was shaking somewhat.

"Yes. I've fully comprehended them."

Meng Lei let out a sigh, as though an aged monk that had been in meditation for 100 years and had seen through all lies and fabrications to attain a state where he was one with the universe.

His aura had become self-contained, taciturn, and reserved.

"Why does someone like you exist in this world?" Dodola let out a strange squawk and exclaimed, "Let's not even talk about how you have a magic talent for all ten elements' laws of nature! To think you can actually comprehend all ten types of laws of nature at 16 years old! This is unheard of! Practically unheard of!"

"Is that so?"

Meng Lei was awfully cheerful.

"You haven't lit up the divine fire yet, right?" As though something had just occurred to it, Dodola's eyes suddenly bore into Meng Lei as it asked, "Tell me, have you lit up the divine fire?"

"Nope!"

Meng Lei shook his head lightly.

"That's great!"

Fervent delight filled Dodola at once. It couldn't be any more thrilled, and it jumped up and down as it flapped its miniature devil wings.

"Do you need to be that happy just because I haven't lit up the divine fire yet?" Meng Lei was terribly bewildered.

"I don't know why you haven't kindled your divine fire yet, but this is a piece of fantastic news! A piece of fantastic news, y'know!? It's inconceivable why a monster like you actually exists in this vast universe, and on top of that, I've even run into you!"

Dodola was in incredibly high spirits. "O' great and noble God of Time, thank you! It's your blessings that have allowed me to encounter a piece of uncut jade like him!"

"Don't be in such a hurry to thank the God of Time yet," said Meng Lei as he rolled his eyes. "Tell me, why are you so excited?"

"Alright! I'll tell you about the profoundness within now, lest you end up destroying yourself!"

The next moment, Dodola's countenance turned unprecedentedly stern and serious. It asked, "Meng Lei, do you know how you should cultivate after you've become a half-deity?"

"Seems like I should first light up my divine fire, then manifest a divine core, and lastly, establish a divine nation." Meng Lei answered, "It's only when a half-deity has divine fire, a divine core, and a divine nation that they are considered a real deity. Otherwise, a half-deity will always stay a half-deity, and never a real deity."

"That's right. That's indeed what it's like for a half-deity." Dodola nodded slightly. Then, it asked, "Then, do you know how you should be cultivating after you become a true god?"

"That... I wouldn't know."

Meng Lei shook his head lightly.

"Listen well now. In this world, deities are divided into two different types—Laws of Nature Deities and Religious Faith Deities!" A smiling Dodola said, "You should know that you belong to the former even if I don't touch on that, right?"

"Yeap!"

Meng Lei nodded.

"Unlike Religious Faith Deities, if Laws of Nature Deities wish to continue enhancing their abilities to become a lesser deity, an intermediate deity, or even a higher deity after they become true gods, their only option is to continue to comprehend laws of nature."

The course of the conversation changed at this point as Dodola went on. "But the miserable thing is that once a deity has kindled their divine fire and manifested a divine core to become a true god, their divine core itself would gain an element, thereby making it very difficult for them to ever comprehend other types of laws of nature."

Dodola explained, "For example, if you become a true god through cultivating fire-elemental laws of nature, then your divine core would be a fire-elemental one. Would it then still be possible for you to comprehend another type of laws of nature after that?"

Meng Lei thought for a moment before he answered, "...Seems like it would be very difficult!"

"It won't just be 'very difficult' but 'extremely difficult'!"

Dodola shook its head as it said, "A fire-elemental divine core can only store fire-elemental power of divinity. Even the divine spirit within the divine core will also be completely linked to fire-elemental laws of nature. Comprehending other types of laws of nature? Dream on!

"This is akin to a piece of good jade. Once it has been carved into an article, it'll no longer be possible to carve it into something else."

"Going by that, how are deities supposed to advance in their cultivation, then?" Meng Lei's brows drew together as he asked, "If one is unable to comprehend new laws of nature after they become a true god, wouldn't that mean that they cannot advance any further?"

"That is why they have to make their choice even before they light up the divine fire!"

"What choice?"

Meng Lei was stunned.

"The choice to split their divine spirit or not." Dodola explained, "Most typical half-deities with even a bit of ambition would choose to split their divine spirit into two before they light up their divine fire. After that, they'll choose one of the two and light it up while the other stays as a divine spirit so that it can continue to comprehend new laws of nature."

"Split their divine spirit?"

Meng Lei was shocked.

"That's right! Split their divine spirit!" Dodola nodded affirmatively. "Splitting the divine spirit is a Laws of Nature Deity's one and only way out. Otherwise, their future paths would be completely sealed off!"

"Fine!"

Meng Lei nodded silently.

"The divine spirit half that is lit up will ultimately become a divine incarnation of themselves, while the other half continues to comprehend new laws of nature."

Dodola went on. "Upon fully comprehending the second type of laws of nature, they'll then have to make another choice—will they light up the divine fire right away, or split their divine spirit once more?

"Typically, fairly ambitious deities will choose to split their divine spirit again, lighting up half and keeping the other half to comprehend new laws of nature. This way—by splitting their divine spirit every time they comprehend a new type of laws of nature—true gods typically will only need to split their divine spirit four times before it's sufficient."

"It's enough to just split it four times? Why?"

Meng Lei was awfully puzzled.

"It works like this—those that have comprehended two types of laws of nature and own two divine incarnations are categorized as lesser deities; while those that have comprehended five types and own five divine incarnations are categorized as intermediate deities," Dodola explained, "And once they become intermediate deities, they won't need to comprehend laws of nature anymore. Therefore, you'll only need to split the divine spirit four times and comprehend five types of laws of nature!"

"It's enough to comprehend just five types? Then how do intermediate deities become higher deities?"

Meng Lei was awfully puzzled.

"Intermediate deities need to assimilate laws of nature in order to advance to become higher deities."

Dodola explained, "This assimilation process isn't purely just the assimilation of laws of nature, but also includes the integration of their divine core, divine incarnations, divine spirit, and power of divinity. You can try imagining for yourself the difficulties involved in assimilating divine incarnations of different elements!"

"First you have to split them, and then now you have to assimilate them?" Meng Lei's eyelid was twitching. "That's really very..."

"...Very frustrating, right?"

Dodola shook its head and laughed. "It can't be helped. That's what the road to deification is like. Not only do you need talent, but you also need to make choices and undergo immense pain and agony.

"Without sufficient ambition, determination, and an indomitable will, it's tough for one to achieve greatness.

"To become an intermediate deity, you must face a choice and split your divine spirit once. To become a higher deity, you must face four choices and split your divine spirit four times."

Dodola said with a sigh, "The pain, agony, and hardships involved are not something that most typical people can imagine!"

"Since I've comprehended ten types of laws of nature, doesn't that mean that I have to split my divine spirit nine times?" asked Meng Lei with a wry laugh.

"Yes, of course!"

Dodola nodded slightly. "Intermediate deities have to assimilate at least two types of laws of nature to ascend and become higher deities. The more laws of nature they assimilate, the stronger they'll become.

"Once you assimilate and combine five types of laws of nature, five divine incarnations, five divine cores, five divine spirits, and five types of power of divinity into one, you shall become a higher deity of Great Perfection level!"

"That sounds like so much trouble!"

Meng Lei couldn't help but gasp.

"Of course it is!" Dodola scoffed, "Had it been that easy, everyone would've become higher deities and attained Great Perfection!"

"That's true." Meng Lei nodded slightly. Then, he asked, "Since I've comprehended ten types of laws of nature, it must be even harder for me to assimilate them, right?"

"It's no ordinary level of difficulty!" Dodola said slowly, "Assimilating two different divine incarnations is already a very difficult task, let alone ten."

"What a long and endless deification journey..." sighed Meng Lei.

"Stop sighing!" Dodola snorted and scoffed. "What are you being so contrary for when others are dying to have potential like yours?"

Meng Lei looked at Dodola and asked, "Is there a possibility that... Instead of being in such a hurry to light up the divine fire, I can think of a way to try and assimilate all ten types of laws of nature first before I light up the divine fire—"

"Don't even bother! It's absolutely impossible!"

Dodola interrupted Meng Lei and said, "If that were viable, the billions of deities in the vast universe would've already done so a long time ago. Why would they still undergo the pain of splitting their divine spirit?"

"Why isn't it viable?"

Meng Lei frowned slightly, perplexed.

"Because assimilating laws of nature is an extremely difficult task."

Dodola said gravely, "It's not as simple as just pouring two baskets of potatoes into one. Instead, you have to integrate and merge two different, complex, and profound laws of nature bit by bit into one. This process is highly demanding on one's divine spirit.

"The only way to do it is to first light up the divine fire and manifest a divine core so that the divine spirit will be strong enough. Only then can you simulate, deduce, and attempt to assimilate them."

"At the bottom of it all, the issue is still about the divine spirit?"

Meng Lei asked softly, "In other words, as long as my divine spirit is strong enough, there's a chance that I can integrate and assimilate all ten types of laws of nature before I light up the divine fire?"

"Kid, you're oversimplifying things!"

Dodola shook its head and explained, "Once a half-deity's divine spirit is enhanced to a half-deity's limit, it'll come to a standstill. No matter how many precious herbs and treasures you consume, and no matter how much power of faith you gain, it won't be of any use.

"Therefore, the concept whereby one assimilates the laws of nature in advance by enhancing their divine spirit doesn't work at all!"

Dodola chastised, "I've seen too many oddball geniuses, monsters, and deities suggest a great deal of strange, peculiar theories, but all of them ultimately still obediently split their divine spirits in the end."

"Fine!"

Meng Lei curled his lip disdainfully. Then, he asked, "So, what I need to do now is to split my divine spirit into ten parts, and then, light up their respective divine fires, manifest their divine cores and produce ten great divine incarnations?"

"Yes, but you need to be aware of this," Dodola said dispassionately, "Your half-deity divine spirit is not very strong. In fact, it's of very average quality. Splitting them into two will already weaken you a great deal, let alone splitting them into ten. Thus, you must think of a way to strengthen your divine spirit. It's best if you can strengthen it to a half-deity's limit before you carry out the splitting process!"

Strengthen my divine spirit? I can't buy credit for that. Does that mean that I can only achieve it by spreading religious faith and collecting the power of faith?

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Chapter 206: Fighting For Power of Faith, A Legendary Emperor

Host: Meng Lei

Race: Human (Contains Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline 100%)

Wealth: 15,688 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals

Physical Body Constitution: Half-Deity (High-Grade)

Spirit: Half-Deity (Elementary-level)

Power of Divinity: 0.1 Divinity Crystal

Laws of Nature: Basic (100%)

Judging from his current personal stats interface, he could no longer buy credit for his Physical Body Constitution, Spirit, and Laws of Nature attributes anymore.

The Power of Divinity attribute was the only one barely hanging on and still maintaining the system's last vestiges of credit-buying glory.

Yet Power of Divinity was simply too expensive. 10,000 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals were only able to redeem 1 Divinity Crystal. He couldn't afford it!

Therefore, how he was going to enhance his strength in the future had become an extremely serious issue.

"In other words, my highest priority now is to spread faith and enhance my divine spirit through the power of faith?"

"The divine spirit is a deity's fundamental roots. Therefore, splitting it causes a great deal of damage to the divine spirit."

Dodola shook its head and said, "At times like this, you'll need treasures to help you repair the divine spirit. Unfortunately, treasures that can repair the divine spirit are simply too rare, so the power of faith has ended up becoming the one and only path. This is also an important reason why so many deities are so passionate about spreading their faith!"

At this point, Dodola said with a smile, "The power of faith is good stuff, y'know. Not only can it strengthen your divine spirit, but it can also convert power of divinity. It's simply too important to a deity!"

"Power of faith..."

Meng Lei nodded slightly. A shrewd glint flashed across his eyes as he said, "Dragon God Empire's power of faith will be mine. Those that stand in my way will be shown no mercy!"

"Wonderful! As a deity, what's the difference between you and a slacker if you do not fight for the power of faith?"

As though someone craving chaos, Dodola said, "Therefore, the first trial that the great God of Time has left for you is—fight for Dragon God Empire's power of faith!

"Trial duration: Three years!

"Trial rewards: Secret!"

Meng Lei was rendered speechless. "Are you sure this is a trial that the God of Time has left for me and not something that you came up with in a spur of the moment and fabricated?"

"What do you mean by 'fabricate'!? I don't like the sound of that!"

Dodola snickered and said, "I'm the Tower of Time's guardian spirit, and I am in charge of safeguarding the God of Time's assets. Of course, I have the authority to set trials. This is also a mission that the God of Time has given me!"

"I can't beat you in an argument!"

Meng Lei shook his head lightly. Then, he said, "If there's nothing else, then I'm going out for now."

"By the way, try your best not to kill the Tower of Time's Magical Beasts anymore," said Dodola suddenly.

"Why?"

Meng Lei frowned at once. Where would he get money from if he didn't hunt the Magical Beasts in the Tower of Time?

Wasn't Dodola freaking cutting off his source of income?

"Maintaining the Tower of Time's time-based laws of nature requires Time Divinity Crystals," Dodola explained, "Ever since the God of Time's demise, the Time Divinity Crystals have been depleting from continuous use. After such a long passage of time, there aren't many left anymore. We have to be thrifty with them!"

Meng Lei was rendered completely speechless. "Then what's the goddamn point in me inheriting the Tower of Time!?"

Meng Lei currently wasn't in a very good mood—he had initially planned on killing some Magical Beasts in the tower whenever he had some spare time so that he could earn some allowance.

Yet now he couldn't kill them anymore!

Just how freaking big of a scam was that?

"I'm too unlucky!" Meng Lei cursed inwardly as he exited the Tower of Time.

"Prepare to die, knave!"

At that moment, a furious roar rang out. The golden light that covered the whole sky shot toward him, instantly engulfing Meng Lei—who had just exited the tower—as well as the golden-armored guards standing duty outside the Tower of Time.

"Ahhh!"

Shrill screams rang out before they quickly faded into silence. By the time the golden light had faded, only a dozen or so corpses that had been turned into swiss cheese remained.

Blood flowed out of their wounds as the odor of blood rushed toward everyone's senses.

"Murder!"

At once, the students and teachers crowding around the Tower of Time received a terrible shock, and they took a few steps back in unison.

"Who is it?"

"Isn't the murderer a little too bold?!"

"How dare he commit murder here!"

Whoosh!

A golden-robed elderly man abruptly appeared. His icy-cold gaze fell onto the mangled corpses in front of the Tower of Time.

"Who's that?"

Everyone stared at the golden-robed elderly man in stunned astonishment.

"He's not there?"

The golden-robed elderly man looked around as murderous intent roiled within his eyes. "Get out here, knave!"

"Who are you?"

Meng Lei quietly appeared, his gaze on the golden-robed elderly man as a hint of killing intent flitted across his eyes.

"I'm Goblen Frederick!" answered the golden-robed elderly man coldly as his eyes bore into Meng Lei.

"Goblen Frederick?"

"That name sounds so familiar. I feel like I've seen it somewhere before?"

"Goblen? I remember now! Isn't that the genius who's ranked third on the Dragon God Genius Ranking!?"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Everyone's gazes shot over to the ranking in unison!

"No. 3: Augustine Kroc, Human, 30 years old, Level 76"

"No, he should be in 4th place now!"

Speechless, everyone hurriedly looked at the fourth place in the ranking.

"No. 4: Goblen Frederick, Golden Colossal Dragon, 29 years old, Level 75"

"So that's Goblen, the one ranked fourth? That's so impressive!"

"Isn't Goblen a historical figure from 30,000 years ago? He's actually still alive?"

"He's lived for more than 30,000 years? Oh my dragon god, doesn't that make him an old bastard[1]..."

The people whispered among themselves as they engaged in wild speculation.

Suddenly, a Golden Colossal Dragon Person with a pair of horns on his head squeezed into the crowd and dropped onto his knees. "Grandmaster! Your unfilial descendant greets the Grandmaster!"

"Grandmaster?"

Everyone was astonished.

"How audacious! Hurry and get on your knees!"

The Golden Colossal Dragon Person shouted furiously and sternly, "The Grandmaster is the Dragon God Empire's tenth emperor and is even one of the five great legendary emperors of the Dragon God Empire...

"The Grandmaster has already become a venerable half-deity and is even the strongest and oldest half-deity with the most highly esteemed status among the Golden Colossal Dragons! Why haven't all of you gotten onto your knees upon seeing the Grandmaster?!"

"The tenth emperor?"

"A half-deity?"

"Greetings, Grandmaster!"

"Greetings, Grandmaster!"

"Greetings, Grandmaster!"

Upon hearing his words, a huge jolt went through everyone, and they hastily prostrated on the ground, bowing and saying their greetings loudly.

Most of them were Dragon God Academy students and teachers, though there were also sightseeing tourists among them.

To them, one must bow and kowtow upon seeing the emperor, let alone when the emperor in question was a legendary one who was also a venerable half-deity! All the more, they had to kowtow!

"I didn't expect anyone to still remember me when such a long time has gone by!"

The golden-robed elderly man nodded slightly, the wrath on his features mellowing slightly. "You may rise!"

"Thank you, Grandmaster!"

Everyone got up one after another, looks of excitement and worship in their eyes. As students and teachers of Dragon God Academy, they didn't lack contact with Saint Domains.

However, half-deities were the only ones that still existed only in legends, biographies, and songs to them. They had never laid eyes on one before. But now, they had finally seen one.

They had seen with their own eyes a living deity, an existence with the strongest combat power in Heaven's Vault Continent.

Who wouldn't be worked up?

Who wouldn't worship him?

Who wouldn't be excited?

"Goblen Frederick, 4th in the Dragon God Genius Ranking?"

Meng Lei was the only one that didn't kneel or kowtow. He gazed at the Dragon God Genius Ranking, a hint of amusement showing at the corners of his lips.

"If memory serves me right, you were ranked third in the past, right? Why have you dropped to fourth place?

"Alright, so it's because I've gone all the way up to first place!" Meng Lei shook his head.

"How dare you!"

The Golden Colossal Dragon Person from before glowered at Meng Lei as he shouted furiously, "There is no place for you to speak in front of the Grandmaster! Get down on your knees!"

"Get on my knees?"

Meng Lei cast a glance at him. Then, a golden beam shot out, and the Golden Colossal Dragon Person's head shot into the air and left his body right away.

"There is no place for you to speak here!"

Meng Lei curled his lip disdainfully before he then turned his gaze to the golden-robed elderly man suspended in mid-air. "You'd better give me a satisfactory explanation for your ambush on me just now!"

"You brazen, audacious renegade!"

Flames of fury rose in Goblen Frederick as murderous intent roiled in his eyes. "You've killed the empire's emperor, slaughtered all the court officials, and killed more than 1,000 Saint Domains! Your sins are grievous, heinous, and unforgivable!

"Today, I shall rip you into a million pieces and cut you with a thousand knives so as to serve a warning to the people!"

"What?"

"What is Grandmaster saying?!"

Goblen Frederick's words could be said to have caused a great commotion.

All the students were stunned!

All the teachers were horrified!

All the tourists were terrified!

Killed the emperor? Slaughtered all the court officials? Killed more than 1,000 Saint Domains?

How could that be? How could Meng Lei possibly be that strong?

Fake! It must be fake! The Grandmaster must have made a mistake!

Everyone shook their heads hard. They didn't dare to believe such a thing at all; it was simply too sensational!

However, Meng Lei's following response mercilessly shattered their fantasies.

"They're just a bunch of rotten, depraved Magical Beasts. So I've killed them. So? What are you going to do about it?"

Meng Lei curled his lip disdainfully, his demeanor calm and unaffected.

"O' Dragon God above!"

"O' Dragon God above!"

"O' Dragon God above!"

"This, this..."

"It's actually... actually true?"

"How dare he? How dare he?!"

A severe jolt went through everyone, who was shocked and horrified to the extreme.

"Die!!"

Goblen let out a low roar, upon which golden light that covered the whole sky burst forth from him and shot toward Meng Lei.

"The same move again? How boring!"

Meng Lei shook his head slightly. With just a step, he had already reached right behind Goblen, and he took the opportunity to swing the Hammer of Destruction toward his lower back.

"See if I don't crush your ancient waist!"

Bam!

His hammer swing was simply too swift, so much so that Goblen couldn't react in time. He took the blow squarely at his ancient lower back and was thrown right out.

Bam!

Goblen crashed hard against the Tower of Time, causing the tower to sway about thrice.

"What the heck!? You'd better not damage it!"

Meng Lei got a huge fright at the sight, and he hastily controlled the Tower of Time with his will.

Then, something shocking happened—the Dragon God Tower, which had stood erect at Dragon God Academy and never moved an inch in 40,000 years, actually rose into the sky!

Then, it rapidly shrank, ultimately reducing in size until it became a little miniature tower that landed in Meng Lei's palm!

(o)!!!

o((_))o!

(@ロ@;)!!!

"O' Dragon God above!"

"This, this..."

"W-why did the Dragon God Tower..."

Everyone was horrified and aghast.

The Dragon God Tower was the divine weapon that protected the empire! For the last 40,000 years, it had stood erect and immovable like a rock!

So why... was it moving now?

On top of that, it had even flown onto Meng Lei's palm?

Were they serious about this?

"You audacious knave put down the Dragon God Tower!"

Goblen Frederick got up from the ground. A bit of blood hung at a corner of his lip, but his aura was full and brimming, and his divine power vast and majestic—evidently, he hadn't suffered much of an injury.

He stared at the miniature Tower of Time sitting in Meng Lei's palm, somewhat hysterical. "Put down the Dragon God Tower at once! Otherwise, I'll fight you to the death..."

"Put down? Why should I put it down?"

Meng Lei waved the Tower of Time left and right in his palm and said lightly, "The Dragon God Tower belongs to me from the start. I had only deposited it here temporarily. Is there a problem with me collecting it now?"

"You renegade! Knave! Treacherous bandit!"

[1] The derogatory term used here also colloquially refers to turtles, which are known for their long lifespans

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Chapter 207: Leave The Princesses Here, Throw The Princes Out

"You renegade! Knave! Treacherous bandit!"

Goblen Frederick was boiling mad.

Meng Lei had killed the emperor, slaughtered all the court officials, and killed more than 1,000 Saint Domains. His actions were atrocious to the point that people would be speechless with abhorrence.

And now, he had even taken the divine weapon protecting the kingdom. Even if he were a bully, he shouldn't be going that far!

"Die, die, die!"

Goblen roared incessantly. His vast, majestic divine power spread into the surroundings, crushing everyone who was watching the battle straight onto the ground and rendering them unable to even raise their heads.

Roar!

Innumerable golden threads suddenly shot out of Goblen to form a huge golden cage, which covered the area around Meng Lei.

"Close!"

The golden cage rapidly closed and imprisoned Meng Lei in an instant.

"You knave! Traitor! And renegade! I'm going to rip you into a million pieces and cut you with 1,000 knives!"

The golden cage started to contract as Goblen roared furiously, its sharp, indestructible golden threads tightening around Meng Lei forcefully.

Had it been anyone else—even a limits-level Saint Domain—they would surely have been turned into minced meat by the golden threads, yet Meng Lei remained well and intact.

"These are fully formed by metal-elemental power of divinity!"

Meng Lei marveled, "They are incredibly sharp and indestructible, but what a pity that they are just going to... Break!"

Boom!

Meng Lei suddenly began to expand with great force. Amid crisp crunching sounds, the golden threads wound around the surface of his body began to snap one by one... until all of them had broken.

A look at Meng Lei revealed that they hadn't left even a single bloody scar on him.

"How can this be!?" Goblen was horrified and aghast. "Is your divine body actually that strong and tough?!"

"If I didn't know a thing or two, how would I have dared to risk challenging you?" Meng Lei waved the Tower of Time in his hand and said, "Didn't you want the Dragon God Tower? I'll return it to you now!"

Then, as his fingers closed around the Tower of Time, he swung his arm back and hurled it over.

"The Dragon God Tower!"

Overjoyed, Goblen quickly reached out to catch it, but just as he was about to catch hold of it...

The Tower of Time instantly enlarged and turned from a 20-centimeters-tall miniature little tower into a huge, sky-scraping tower!

"Oh no!"

Goblen's countenance changed drastically at the sight.

It was just a shame that it was ultimately still too late. The Tower of Time crashed into him just like how a bus would crash into an old man.

Crack!

Amid crisp cracks of bones snapping, blood spurted from Goblen's mouth as he was thrown back. He crashed onto the ground, causing a deep fissure to form in the ground before he finally came to a stop.

"Seeing how you couldn't catch it even when I've given it to you, it looks like you're ultimately not fated to own the Dragon Tower. It can't be helped, then!"

Meng Lei shook his head lightly. With a casual movement from him, the Tower of Time shrank in size again and flew back into his palm.

"You evil creature!"

Goblen soared into the sky and, without a second word, transformed into a huge Golden Colossal Dragon. Golden-yellow in color throughout, it was 1,000-meters-long and had a wingspan of more than 3,000 meters.

Boom!

Fierce, surging dragon might spread out, suppressing all the spectators so much that blood spurted from their mouths as if they had been struck by lightning. The weaker ones even passed out right away.

"You lowly worm! You've enraged me! You've completely enraged me!"

Goblen roared furiously, "I'm going to rip you into 1,000,000 pieces! And cut you with 1,000 knives!"

Roar!

The Colossal Dragon opened its mouth, from which a wave of golden dragon breath spurted—the dragon breath was actually golden, boiling-hot liquid!

Whoosh!

Meng Lei easily dodged the attack. However, the students behind him weren't that lucky. Before they could even scream, they had become a pool of golden fluid.

"R-run!"

"Run!"

The students and teachers at the sides almost died from fright, yet they had been forced onto the ground and couldn't move at all. All they could do was to pray amid their fear and trepidation that they wouldn't become collateral damage.

"What powerful dragon breath!"

Meng Lei's eyes flashed as he kept the Tower of Time and took out the Hammer of Destruction.

"As they say, it doesn't fulfill propriety if one doesn't return as good as they receive. Take a swing from my hammer!"

He appeared behind Goblen with a flash, raised the hammer, and smashed it down ruthlessly.

Meng Lei had put 50% of his power into the blow this time!

Crack!

With a crisp crack, a bloody hole formed, and dragon blood spilled everywhere. Goblen let out a piercing roar and swiped about with his claws as he tried to smack Meng Lei dead, yet he simply couldn't catch him.

"Everyone says that a Golden Colossal Dragon's scales have peerless defenses, but it looks like they're nothing more than just this. This battle has lost all meaning. Let's end this!"

Meng Lei was like a phantom, yet also like a mirage. He appeared here one moment and there the next, his movements as swift as the wind and as quick as lightning.

Crack!

Crack!

He completely suppressed Goblen. Huge hole after hole was left behind everywhere that the Hammer of Destruction passed by.

Large droplets of golden dragon blood sprayed about and dyed the ground—as well as every single spectator's mind—in their color. The sight was shockingly ghastly and incredibly horrifying.

Roar!

"Divine Technique: Protective Golden Body[1]!

"Divine Technique: Imprisonment!

"God's Domain!

"Divine Technique: Golden Flames of Destruction!

"Divine Technique: Indestructible Metal God!"

Goblen roared incessantly and unleashed various trump cards. He didn't even hesitate to use his power of divinity! Nevertheless, these were still powerless to alter the outcome of the battle.

Meng Lei, together with his hammer, came and went like a ghost.

When God's Domain came toward him, he dodged and smashed his hammer about furiously.

When the Golden Flames of Destruction came toward him, he also dodged and smashed his hammer about furiously.

When the destructive dragon breath came toward him, he still dodged and smashed his hammer about furiously.

After the series of attacks, Meng Lei was still completely well and intact, but Goblen was already riddled with holes and his dragon scales broken and cracked. He was a terribly wretched sight to behold.

"It's over!"

Meng Lei liked to fight, but he didn't have a penchant for abusing the weak. Thus, he resolutely launched his final attack.

"Divine Technique: Ultimate Alchemy!"

Buzz...

A dazzling golden light beam descended from above and instantly smashed onto Goblen.

All the areas that the golden light beam struck stiffened right away and turned a golden-yellow color before ultimately actually becoming a dazzling gold.

"This is..."

Upon sensing the changes in his body, Goblen's expression changed drastically. He flapped his wings desperately in an attempt to avoid the golden light beam, only for Meng Lei to smash his hammer onto his head.

The blow dizzied Goblen, making him see stars while his mind blanked out.

Buzz...

The golden light beam swiftly spread out. In a few short breaths, it had fully enveloped Goblen's 1,000-meters-long body, wings, tail, and claws...

Whoosh!

In this instant, Goblen's body was completely frozen, and he could no longer budge even an inch. Then, he crashed straight onto the ground and became still and motionless!

Meng Lei landed in front of Goblen and knocked against his body, producing dull, muffled thuds as he did so. He was awfully pleased with his handiwork.

"This place is pretty cold and cheerless after I took the Dragon God Tower. We'll have you stand in its place, then!"

And then, Meng Lei vanished with a flash.

"I-it's ended?"

The spectators who had been forced onto the ground climbed to their feet, panting heavily as they did so. They felt as if they'd just had a near-death experience and been given a new lease of life.

It had really been too frightening just now.

"This is wonderful! I'm still alive!"

"Sob, I'm still alive! I'm still alive!"

"Mama..."

Badly frightened, most of the onlookers were currently weeping in joy and relief. The bolder ones among them carefully walked over to Goblen.

One of them trembled as he asked, "G-Grandmaster, a-are you alright?"

However, there was no response.

Utterly confused, the person reached out and touched Goblen lightly. His body was cold to the touch and felt fully metallic. How was this a dragon anymore? It was clearly a Colossal Dragon statue!

"O... O' Dragon God above! T-the Grandmaster has turned into a statue?!"

"That old bastard actually doesn't even have a single bronze coin on him!"

Meng Lei sat among the clouds with a spatial ring in his hand—the one that he'd just filched from Goblen.

He had initially thought that killing a half-deity would earn him a handsome sum of money, but little did he expect that not only did the system not sound any notifications, but even the spatial ring was also empty.

"All that work had been for nothing?"

Meng Lei was so furious that he was close to swearing. Even killing a Saint Domain Magical Beast could earn him quite a few Laws of Nature Origin Crystal, yet he hadn't gotten even a single cent from killing a half-deity now.

How infuriating!

"He's still alive even though he took my Ultimate Alchemy attack. That old fogey definitely still has another incarnation of himself.

"Colossal Dragons are avaricious, yet that old fogey doesn't even have a single bronze coin on himself. It's probably because he didn't bring his assets out with him!"

A shrewd glint flashed across Meng Lei's eyes. "No, I must find that old fogey's den! Just how vast would a half-deity's wealth and assets be? I must get my hands on it! As for that old fogey's den..."

Meng Lei narrowed his eyes slightly. "I've heard from Ol' President that Dragon Island is the Dragons' base. The vast majority of pure-blooded Colossal Dragons and Saint Domain Dragon People cultivate in seclusion there. That old fogey's other incarnation and his den are probably on Dragon Island. The problem is... Where's Dragon Island?"

"Meng Lei!"

A cool, aloof voice rang out beside him at this moment.

"Who is it?"

Meng Lei looked up abruptly to see that a pretty figure had shown up in front of him at some point. With jade-like skin and gorgeous looks, who could it be other than Abbe?

"Abbe!"

Meng Lei greeted her with a smile. However, he suddenly realized that something didn't feel quite right—it seemed like he had just slain Frederick the 32nd! W-well, this was awkward!

"Meng Lei, you killed my father!"

Abbe gazed at Meng Lei with a complex look in her eyes. There was pain, agony, and fury in there, but what was present even more so was an internal struggle...

"Do you want to avenge him?" Meng Lei asked with a wry laugh.

"Yes, but I know I'm no match for you. Neither can I make myself do it!"

Abbe slowly closed her eyes as a tear rolled down her cheek.

Meng Lei heaved a sigh while Abbe also fell silent. At once, the atmosphere turned rather heavy.

After quite a while, it was Abbe that broke the silence first.

"I'm leaving, Meng Lei."

"Leaving? Where are you going?"

Meng Lei was taken aback.

"Somewhere far, far away!"

Abbe sighed softly and said, "Perhaps we'll never see each other again after today. Take care!"

Then, she turned and left, a crystal-clear teardrop dissipating along with the wind...

"You—"

Meng Lei wanted to call out to her, but he ultimately sighed and murmured, "Abbe, do take care, too."

Abbe left, leaving behind only a heavy, gloomy view of her back and a sense of guilt that wouldn't disappear.

"I'm sorry, Abbe, but I don't regret what I did. If I could do it all over again, I would still do what I did. Dragon God Empire is mine!"

Then, Meng Lei got up, turned, and flew toward the Dragon God Empire palace.

He had left in a hurry previously and forgotten to do something important, so he wanted to return and get it done.

Meng Lei traveled very quickly. A few minutes later, he had returned to the area above the palace.

However, the scene currently taking place in the palace somewhat caught him by surprise.

"Throw all these goddamn eunuchs out and change them all to palace maidservants!

"Leave the Empress and all the Royal Consorts. Not a single one is to leave! Yes, they're mine, all mine!

"Leave the princesses and throw the princes out!"

[1] The term refers to golden Buddha statues

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Chapter 208: Slaying Another Half-Deity, Slaughtering Another 100 Saint Domains

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A group of strangers had arrived at the Dragon God Empire palace. With dragon horns on their heads, dragon tails on their bottoms, and dragon wings on their backs, every one of them was a Dragon Person.

They numbered roughly 500 and were all Saint Domains. There was no lack of pinnacle-level Saint Domains among them.

There were so many Saint Domains there, yet all of them were revolving around a single person and blindly following his commands—this man was Briggs!

"Listen up now!"

Briggs was dressed in dragon robes and had a crown on his head. He gave off a powerful, majestic aura as he stood proudly in the sky above the palace and overlooked the hundred thousands of people prostrating on the ground.

Among these hundred thousands of people were princes and princesses, the empress and royal consorts, palace maidservants and eunuchs, as well as the Royal Holy Knight Order and the palace guards.

"From today onward, I am Dragon God Empire's newly-appointed Dragon Emperor! My words are the royal decree! Those who dare defy orders will be slain at once and shown no mercy!"

His mighty and imposing speech resounded throughout the palace and outside it. Everyone was filled with trepidation, their hearts nervous and fearful, yet no one dared to question him.

"Now, I will issue my first decree!"

Briggs was awfully smug. He was the son of a great half-deity, and hence he had been born with a half-deity's body.

Just how noble was that?

Just how venerable was that?

Yet he simply had no chance at the throne at all!

Just how miserable was that?

Just how sad was that?

However, his wish had finally come true on this day!

"Throw all these goddamn eunuchs out and change them all to palace maidservants!

"Leave the empress and the Royal Consorts!

"The princes and princesses, too! Throw the princes out and leave the princesses!"

With that, Briggs issued his very first royal decree.

Upon hearing such a near-ridiculous decree, everyone was filled with grief, fury, and indignation, yet there was simply nothing they could do. Not only was the new emperor from Dragon Island a half-deity, but he had even brought 500 Saint Domain experts with him.

With such terrifying power and overpowering might, who would dare defy him? Who would dare challenge his authority?

"Have all of you heard my decree loud and clear?"

Briggs shouted coldly, his voice like the rolling thunder.

"Yes, we heard you loud and clear, Your Majesty!"

Everyone hastily replied aloud.

"Great! Get down to it, then!"

With a big wave, Briggs ordered, "Everyone may disperse, but the empress is to stay. By the way, order the imperial kitchen to make me a few light dishes. I'm hungry!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

As though they had just been granted amnesty, everyone dispersed and left, leaving behind only a gorgeous, dignified, and graceful young lady still on her knees—it was the empire's empress and the palace's previous female master.

Briggs' gaze swept across the empress, and he licked his lips. Then, to the 500 Saint Domains behind him, he ordered, "You're dismissed!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

"Who's that guy?"

Meng Lei stood among the clouds, currently extremely displeased.

He had fought so hard and so desperately, only to receive not even a single cent. And now, someone had snatched his throne, too.

"Does justice still exist? Is there still any law and order?!"

Meng Lei couldn't help but break into a loud rant.

"Who is it?"

A cold shout rang out. Several figures instantly arrived at where he was and surrounded him.

"They've discovered me?"

Meng Lei was a little startled.

"Who are you? Why are you hiding here and sneaking around here?"

A muscular, two-meters-tall Golden Colossal Dragon Person with firm muscles all over his body barked fiercely at him.

"Sneaking around? Are you blind? Am I sneaking around?" Meng Lei was displeased. "I'm openly standing here, alright?!"

"How audacious!!"

With a snort of displeasure, the Golden Colossal Dragon Person ordered, "Arrest him! And hand him over to His Majesty for further instructions!"

"Yes, Lord Clement!"

Then, a few Dragon People charged toward Meng Lei, who didn't resist and instead allowed them to arrest him and bring him over to Briggs.

"Who's that?" asked Briggs casually after he cast a glance at Meng Lei. Then, he continued to ogle at the beautiful empress, the look in his eyes openly lustful. He was just a step short of salivating.

"He's probably a random Saint Domain passing by," replied Clement, the Golden Colossal Dragon Person, respectfully.

"Just kill him then!"

Briggs waved dismissively, completely disinterested in Meng Lei.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" replied Clement. Then, with a wave, he ordered, "Bring him a little further away and kill him!"

"Yes, sir!"

"Let me go! Let me go! Your Majesty, you can't kill me! You can't kill me!"

Extremely horrified and fearful, Meng Lei began to wail at the top of his lungs like a big fat pig whose arms and legs had been caught, its tail grasped, and its mouth gagged.

His screams and shouts were hoarse and heart-wrenching.

"I'm your great benefactor! If not for me, would you have the chance to become the emperor? If not for me, you'd still be a Magical Beast on Dragon Island! You can't repay my kindness with enmity and kill your great benefactor..."

"Eh?"

With a slight frown, Briggs' sharp, blade-like gaze fell on Meng Lei, and he asked, "What are you talking about? How does me becoming the emperor have anything to do with you?"

"Of course it has something to do with me!"

Meng Lei hastily explained, "If I hadn't killed the old emperor, would you have the chance to become the new emperor? Your Majesty, you must give credit where it's due and not repay kindness with enmity. You'll suffer retribution if you do that, and neither will that bullshit Dragon God let you off..."

"You killed the old emperor?"

A mild jolt went through Briggs while the beautiful empress shuddered hard. The 500 Saint Domains' countenances also changed dramatically.

"Who exactly are you?"

Briggs' eyes bore into Meng Lei, hints of murderous intent coming over his eyes.

"Who am I? You don't even know who I am? As expected, the Dragons are indeed a bunch of ingrates!"

A complete change from his previous lowly demeanor, Meng Lei broke into a rant and jabbed his finger right at Briggs' nose.

"I've helped you kill the emperor and given you the opportunity to become emperor, thereby giving you another chance at life! But look at you! Never mind the fact that you didn't even thank me, your great benefactor, but you actually even want to kill me.

"You can't get any crueler and more unscrupulous than that. You can be said to be the most ungrateful person... No, the most ungrateful dragon in the world!"

Meng Lei was completely lashing out now. "Since you're so heartless and ungrateful, then don't blame me for lashing out at you!"

"You're Meng Lei!"

The beautiful empress kneeling on the ground suddenly glared at Meng Lei furiously, alarm and anger coming over her at the same time.

"Meng Lei! You're Meng Lei?!"

Briggs' countenance changed at once. "You're that Meng Lei who murdered the empire's emperor, slaughtered all the court officials, and killed more than 1,000 Saint Domains?"

"You damned beast, how dare you utter your great benefactor's name directly!? You're a perverse one, indeed!"

Meng Lei held his hands behind his back as he declared, "Today, I shall rid the world of an evil and slay a wicked dragon like you!"

"Haven't you been killed by Father? Why are you here?!" Briggs had a horrified look in his eyes.

"Father? Surely you can't be talking about that old bastard Goblen?" Meng Lei said dispassionately, "If it's him that you're talking about, then sorry, but I've already killed him."

"What?"

Briggs' countenance changed drastically at once. The 500 Saint Domains also looked at Meng Lei with looks of alarm and horror on their faces.

One must know that Grandmaster Goblen was a half-deity! On top of that, he was even an old-time half-deity with the mightiest power and most venerated status among the Golden Colossal Dragons. Just how strong and powerful was he?

Yet... He had been killed?

Everyone felt a chill that reached deep into their bones!

"You ungrateful damned beast that repays kindness with enmity, you'd better go to hell and keep your father company!"

Meng Lei let out an icy snort. Then, his palm smacked toward Briggs.

Howl!

With a flash, Briggs instantly dodged Meng Lei's attack. Then, he transformed into a 3,000-feet-long Golden Colossal Dragon.

"Run! I must escape from here immediately!"

Briggs flapped his wings and immediately made a run for it. He didn't harbor any thoughts of avenging his father at all, merely wishing that he'd been born with another two legs.

Revenge?

Oh my goodness!

Meng Lei had killed even his half-deity father, Goblen. How was a second-generation half-deity like him going to be his match?

He'd better just hurry and flee!

"Run?"

Meng Lei laughed and took a step forward.

The next second, he appeared bizarrely above Briggs and stepped onto his head.

"Damned beast, where do you think you're going instead of obediently waiting to be slain by me?"

Roar!

Briggs came to a sudden stop and pleaded in a quivering voice, "S-sir, please spare my life! The one that wants to kill you is Goblen! It has nothing to do with me!"

"Goblen? Is it really alright for you to address your father directly by his name like that?"

Meng Lei's brows knitted together slightly.

"For daring to assassinate you, that knave Goblen is too bold and impudent, perverse, unforgivable, heinous to the extreme, and deserves to die for his crimes!"

A trembling Briggs went on. "It's a disgrace to have a father like him. I've long wanted to sever ties with him and draw a clear line between the two of us. You can verify the authenticity of my claims!"

o((_))o?

Meng Lei was flabbergasted. "Why does someone as shameless and thick-skinned as you even exist in this world? I'm embarrassed to associate with you. You'd better just die!"

Then, the Gods-Slaying Spear shot out of nowhere and instantly pierced through Briggs' head.

"Ding! 1 Golden Colossal Dragon killed, 891 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals gained!"

A system notification sounded in a timely manner.

"That guy doesn't have a divine incarnation?"

Meng Lei was slightly taken aback and somewhat surprised.

Judging from Briggs' size and aura, he was indeed a half-deity. Meng Lei had initially thought that he wouldn't be able to completely kill him with just one strike.

Little did he expect... that he would.

What a surprise!

What he didn't know was that Briggs had been born after Goblen had broken through to half-deity status. Though born with a half-deity's body, his comprehension of laws of nature was actually incredibly poor.

Over the last 20,000-odd years, all Briggs had comprehended was just the Golden Colossal Dragons' inborn laws of nature, metal-elemental laws of nature.

As he held no aptitude for comprehending laws of nature, he had no need to split his divine spirit. As a result, he didn't own any incarnations at all.

Without an alternate incarnation, he naturally died with one hit.

"What a pleasant surprise!"

With a wave of his arm, Meng Lei stored Briggs' carcass into the Tower of Time.

He was currently just a teenage God-Slaying Rat and needed to nourish himself well. Half-deity Golden Colossal Dragon meat would make a pretty good snack.

"H-he's come over!"

"Quick!"

"Run!"

"Split up and run!"

The 500 Saint Domains had witnessed in entirety Meng Lei killing Briggs. They had long since been frightened out of their wits, so they tried to run at once,

"Divine Technique: Ultimate Alchemy!"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

500 golden light beams, not one more and not one less, descended from above and landed on them with pinpoint accuracy.

Buzz...

Power of divinity erupted and instantly turned 500 fully alive Saint Domains into 500 statues, and they became completely still.

"Another 2,800 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals gained! Not bad, not bad!"

Highly satisfied with his gains, Meng Lei then came up to the empress with a flash.

"W-what do you want?"

Fear had caused blood to drain from the empress' face and her legs to shake uncontrollably a long time ago. At the sight of Meng Lei, she almost wet herself in fear!

"Answer two questions for me."

Meng Lei held up two fingers.

"The first: Where's the imperial treasury?

"And the second: Where's Dragon Island?"

"N-no, I can't!"

Her pride as the empress of an empire barely managed to sustain the empress and prevent her from wetting herself in fear. She said, "The imperial treasury is an important place..."

Whoosh!

A golden light beam shot forth and instantly sliced apart the phoenix crown on the empress' head, frightening her so badly that she collapsed onto the ground.

Sloosh...

A murky yellow liquid began to flow...

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Chapter 209: Assimilating Laws of Nature, A Fallen Angel

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A half-plane, as its name indicated, was an incomplete existential plane.

Half-planes could be either existential planes that had yet to mature, fragments of a complete existential plane that had broken or become destroyed, or existential planes whose nurturing process had failed and ended up deformed.

In general, no matter what kind of plane it was, as long as it was incomplete, then one could call them half-planes.

Dragon God Empire's imperial treasury and the Dragons' base, Dragon Island, were located in two half-planes. Their locations were extremely obscure, and only the empire's high-ranking officials knew about them.

"I'll go to the imperial treasury first!"

Meng Lei didn't dally. He followed the empress's directions, who had wet herself, arrived at an obscure underground palace, and found the magic circle that led to the treasury half-plane.

Buzz...

Upon activating the magic circle, the world spun, and then Meng Lei arrived at another world.

Gray, overcast skies and gray, overcast lands!

No magic elements present, incomplete laws of nature, and barely any air!

A half-plane like this evidently wasn't suitable for any life form to live in. As a place for treasure storage, however, it was undoubtedly extremely suitable.

Firstly, there was no fear of moldiness. Secondly, there was no fear of deterioration. Thirdly, there was no fear of bugs or pests. Therefore, it was truly the best choice of location.

"That's..."

Meng Lei immediately noticed several palaces standing tall and straight on the flat grounds with just a glance.

Big, tall, and lofty, they glittered gold like several mountains of gold and gave off a dazzling brilliance.

Meng Lei quickly flew over to the first palace. The gates were tightly shut, and two big words, "Weapon Hall" gilt in gold, were written in calligraphy on the 100-feet-tall gates that were constructed from pure gold. Magic power swirled around the gates—evidently, they had been engraved with a magic circle.

"Weapon Hall?"

Meng Lei made a grabbing motion in the air. At once, the 100-feet-tall gates made out of pure gold broke and dissipated with a boom, turning into gold powder residue that floated in the air and filled up the sky—before being collected by the system.

"Oh my goodness! Two gates alone are already worth 3 billion gold coins! This is incredible! Incredible!"

Meng Lei couldn't help but gasp after taking a glance at the stats interface. Just the gates alone were already this extravagant, let alone the contents within?

He quickly walked into the Weapon Hall, which was separated into two sub-halls, the Saint Domain-Level Magic Devices Hall and the Half-Divine Weapon Hall.

Upon entering the Saint Domain-Level Magic Devices Hall, what filled his sight were sabers, spears, swords, halberds, axes, rods, and staffs... There was a dazzling array of weapons and contained everything one could possibly think of.

Filled with magic power and the fluctuations of elements, every one of them was a Saint Domain-level magic device!

Apart from these were dozens of spatial rings. He picked up a random one to discover that it was actually a spatial ring with an extra-large space inside that spanned as wide as over 1,000 cubic meters.

"If I were to auction this off, surely it can fetch at least a few dozen billions?"

Meng Lei clicked his tongue in wonder as he remarked, "What a shame that it was actually kept in here as part of a collection."

"Collect!"

"Collect!"

"Collect!"

There was no reason why he should let any of them off with so much good stuff here, of course. By the time Meng Lei walked out of the Saint Domain-Level Magic Devices Hall, it was already all empty inside.

He didn't leave behind even the feather duster meant for cleaning off dust, let alone a magic device.

Duh, even the feather duster's handle was forged from pure gold and was very much precious and valuable. Who would bear to discard it?

"The Half-Divine Weapon Hall!"

Compared to the dazzling array of Saint Domain-level magic devices, there were much fewer half-divine weapons there. They numbered only about ten, and most of them were even magic staffs.

"The Sky Staff!"

Meng Lei picked up one of the magic staffs. Wind-elemental power of divinity ebbed and flowed on the cyan-colored staff's surface...

"This is probably forged using a wind-elemental half-deity Magical Beast's rib bones and magic core. Just the material alone is already something extremely rare! It's a pretty good half-divine weapon. Alright, I'll take it."

Almost all the other half-divine weapons were also forged from half-deity materials. Were they to be auctioned off, they would definitely fetch a frighteningly high astronomical price.

"Collect!"

After exiting the Weapon Hall, Meng Lei didn't spare even the palace itself that was made out of pure gold.

The palace fell apart with a snap of his fingers and turned into golden sand that filled up the sky before being collected by the system.

"Just the palace alone is worth one trillion gold coins! The Dragons... are really too goddamn extravagant!"

Then, he came to the second palace.

"Laws of Nature Origin Crystal Hall!"

Meng Lei's breathing turned heavy and ragged at once. Unlike the Saint Domain-level magic devices and half-divine weapons, Laws of Nature Origin Crystals were just like gold coins and could be directly collected by the system.

How could Meng Lei possibly not become worked up?

Whoosh!

The gates dissipated, and a dazzling, multi-colored light shone through the door frame like a brilliant, eye-catching rainbow.

"What rich laws of nature power!"

Then, Meng Lei couldn't help but gasp—with just a glance, he had caught sight of the Laws of Nature Origin Crystals that rested in full, towering heaps and glittered like colorful jewels.

"So many Laws of Nature Origin Crystals!" exclaimed Meng Lei, whose eyes had lit up at the sight.

"System, collect them all!"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

By the time all the Laws of Nature Origin Crystals in the hall were gone, his Wealth had gone through the roof...

786,934 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals!

"I've struck gold! I've struck gold this time!"

Meng Lei raised his head and burst into loud laughter. "Haha! It feels like I'm gonna earn big this time! It's just a shame that there are so many riches here, yet I can't use them to buy credit!"

Operating by the principle that every little bit counted, Meng Lei similarly didn't spare the hall made out of pure gold, either, and earned a pretty little sum out of it.

The third hall was the Elemental Crystals Hall.

Elemental crystals were the product of crystallized magic elements. They weren't as rare as Laws of Nature Origin Crystals, but they were treasures that could quickly boost a Magician's magic power, hence making them highly valuable and fairly precious.

The key here was that the sheer number of elemental crystals in the hall was exaggeratedly huge. Piled together in the palace just like mounds of sand, they amounted to more than just 10,000 tons.

The only thing considered a shame was that the system didn't recognize elemental crystals; hence they couldn't be directly collected by it. What a pain!

After he collected all the elemental crystals, Meng Lei headed to the fourth palace—the Rare Magic Materials Hall.

Although Meng Lei hadn't come into much contact with magic materials before, there were nonetheless simply too many areas where they were needed, such as crafting magic staffs, making magic potions, inscribing magic circles, doing magic experiments...

As a result, the magic materials industry had become one of Dragon God Empire's pillar industries. The tax revenue they brought to Dragon God Empire was far more than just one trillion gold coins.

And now, inside the palace in front of Meng Lei was packed to the brim with various rare and valuable materials. Every one of them could fetch an astronomical price in an auction.

"These also can't be converted into cash, but I can eat some as snacks..."

And then, he packed them all up and took them with him.

The last palace was a storage area for special artifacts. The first thing Meng Lei spied upon entering was a small, golden-yellow calf section of a leg.

The calf looked like, yet wasn't gold. Divine energy waves circled around it as it gave off a fearsome and imposing might, causing Meng Lei to feel as if he were facing a primordial beast.

"Ding! Dropped item detected. Will you pick it up?"

"Yes, pick it up!"

"Ding! 1 Fused Laws of Nature Fragment discovered. Will you assimilate it?"

"A fused laws of nature fragment?"

Meng Lei was slightly taken aback. Could it be a laws of nature fragment that had formed after a few types of laws of nature had fused together with one another?

"Yes, assimilate it!"

Boom!

At once, an enormous wave of information flooded his mind—it was actually information about a "new" type of laws of nature that had formed after two entirely different types of laws of nature had perfectly fused with each other.

The first type represented vitality and thriving growth—this was wood-elemental laws of nature. The other type represented steadfast reliability where those of great virtue could undertake major, significant tasks—this was earth-elemental laws of nature!

"A newly-born Laws of Nature fragment that formed after wood-elemental and earth-elemental laws of nature had... fused together?"

Meng Lei let out a soft exclamation and quickly looked at his stats interface. At once, his eyes widened dramatically, and he almost screamed.

Host: Meng Lei

Race: Human (Contains Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline 100%)

Wealth: 787,869 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals

Physical Body Constitution: Half-Deity (High-Grade)

Spirit: Divine Spirit (Elementary-Grade)

Power of Divinity: 0.1 Divinity Crystal

Laws of Nature: Wood-Earth Fusion (0.1%)

"0.1%! I... can buy credit for my laws of nature comprehension again now!

"And it's even a wood-earth fusion law of nature, too! Oh my god, is this even possible?!"

Meng Lei's heart pounded hard as a bold idea suddenly popped up in his mind.

Was there really no other way to assimilate laws of nature other than to split the divine spirit, light up the divine fire, manifest the divine core, and become an intermediate deity first?

Perhaps it was possible that he could fuse all ten types of laws of nature into one before he lit up the divine fire?

"It's possible! The likelihood definitely exists! But only on the condition that... I can get my hands on more fusion laws of nature fragments first. This way, I'll be able to buy credit for other types of fusion Laws of Nature fragments too!"

Meng Lei exhaled a long breath of air. His gaze involuntarily fell onto the calf.

"For it to drop a fusion laws of nature fragment, the owner must have been at least an intermediate deity.

"An intermediate deity's calf... No wonder it gives off such powerful might!"

The second item was a golden skull. Like the calf, divine energy waves also circled around it while power of divinity fluctuated around it—it was probably also a true god's skull.

Unfortunately, nothing dropped from it this time.

The third item was a pair of wings that strongly resembled a butterfly's. They were paper-thin and crystal-clear, yet incredibly soft and pliable. Meng Lei actually couldn't rip them apart, thereby proving that they had totally come from a true god.

The fourth item was a basketball-sized stone. It had neither power of divinity traces nor laws of nature traces around it. When basing off its outward appearance alone, it looked completely identical to an ordinary stone and was totally lacking any kind of unusual characteristic.

Would an ordinary stone be placed here?

Perplexed, Meng Lei couldn't help but pick up the stone, intending to do a close inspection.

Unexpectedly, the system's icy-cold voice rang out at this point out of the blue.

"Ding! Dropped item discovered. Will you pick it up?"

"Yes, pick it up!"

"Ding! You've obtained the Fallen Angel bloodline. Will you assimilate it?"

"What? The Fallen Angel bloodline?"

Meng Lei was flabbergasted. "Where did that come from? Could it be..."

Meng Lei's gaze couldn't help but fall onto the unremarkable stone. There was no way the system would pick up the Fallen Angel bloodline for no reason!

The only possibility was...

The moment the thought occurred to him, Meng Lei quickly released his divine will and shrouded the stone in it in an attempt to get to the bottom of things.

The strange thing was that the moment his divine will came into contact with the stone, it was immediately deflected by a peculiar energy and couldn't go into it at all.

"As expected, there's something strange about this!"

Meng Lei promptly returned to the Tower of Time.

"Wake up, Dodola!"

Snore...

Dodola was currently fast asleep on the soft fields. A crystal-clear drop of liquid was even hanging at the corner of its mouth. Upon being awakened by Meng Lei, it opened its sleepy eyes and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Do you recognize this?"

Meng Lei tossed the pebble over, which instantly hooked Dodola's attention.

"That's a Devil's aura! And a higher Devil's, no less!"

Dodola's eyes bore into the pebble as it sniffed hard at it like a dog. "Where did you get this?"

"Can you first tell me what this thing is?" asked Meng Lei instead.

Dodola replied affirmatively, "A Devil's egg! This is a Devil's egg!"

"A Devil's egg? Are you sure?" Meng Lei quickly asked.

"Of course! The number of Devils I've killed together with the great God of Time easily totals 100,000, if not 1,000,000. How would I possibly make a mistake about that?"

Dodola bragged haughtily. "This is definitely a Devil's egg. On top of that, it's undoubtedly a higher Devil's, too. There's no way I'll make a mistake!"

"A Devil's egg? No wonder!"

Realization dawned upon Meng Lei. "Since you're so impressive, then why don't you tell me what type of Devil this egg comes from?"

"This... Let me take a look!"

Dodola peered at it. "It's probably been sealed, so I can't tell."

"Hehe! You're lost, aren't you?"

Meng Lei chuckled smugly.

"Look at you acting as if you know!" Dodola rolled its eyes.

"If I'm not wrong, this is probably a Fallen Angel's egg."

"What? A Fallen Angel!?"

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Chapter 210: Entering A Blood Pact, Spatial Laws of Nature

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"Fallen Angel? Are you sure?"

Dodola's eyes bore into Meng Lei.

"Yes, of course!"

Meng Lei was very certain of it.

"If it really is a Fallen Angel, then you'd better hurry and kill it!" Dodola's eyes narrowed as it said, "That thing will only bring endless calamity if you keep it."

"Is it that bad?" asked Meng Lei, who was slightly taken aback by Dodola's statement.

"You don't understand the Fallen Angels!"

Dodola rolled its eyes at Meng Lei as it said, "The Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline in you is a monstrous one, right? The Fallen Angel doesn't lose out to it in any way!

"A two-winged Fallen Angel rivals a half-deity; a four-winged Fallen Angel rivals a lesser deity; a six-winged Fallen Angel rivals an intermediate deity; an eight-winged Fallen Angel rivals a higher deity; and a sixteen-winged Fallen Angel rivals a deity of Great Perfection!

"The Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline may be strong and powerful, but it has neither ever achieved Great Perfection nor dominated the Void, much less own its own private territory. However, the Fallen Angels possess all of that.

"The Fallen Angels dominate the Demon Realm, which is one of the three great devil high-end existential planes. They rule over and own innumerable material planes and elemental planes. The Void is full of traces of them!

"There are a great number of Great Perfection-level experts among the Fallen Angels. In fact, they've even produced Chief Gods before!"

Dodola looked at Meng Lei as it asked, "Do you still find the Fallen Angels average and mediocre now?"

"Are the Fallen Angels actually that powerful?!"

Meng Lei was rather dumbstruck.

"Duh, of course!"

Dodola said dryly, "The Deity Alliance has been fighting the Devils over the last millions of years. Fallen Angels, as one of the Devils' main fighting forces, have killed innumerable deities. How would they possibly be weaklings?"

"I see!"

Meng Lei's eyes gleamed shrewdly as he gazed at the unremarkable pebble. "So, that means that there's a big, fearsome demon developing inside this?"

Dodola nodded slightly and replied, "You'd best think of a way to kill it. Leaving it around is ultimately still a risk. It doesn't benefit you in any way!"

"No, that's not what I think!"

A shrewd glint flashed across Meng Lei's eyes as he said, "Since it possesses such fearsome potential, why not hatch it and groom it into a superbly strong fighter?"

"Groom a Fallen Angel?"

Dodola received a huge fright. "What the heck! You sure dream big! Do you know what you're in for once someone discovers that?

"All the deities in the Void will isolate you! Millions of Devils will regard you with animosity! There'll be no place for you in both good and evil! How are you going to fit in in the future?"

"Who can be that bothered with what happens in the future?" Meng Lei, who didn't agree with Dodola's views, waved it off and said, "Tell me how I should hatch it, Dodola!"

"You're simply too impressive. I hope you won't regret this!" Dodola then said with a light snort, "If you want to hatch it, you'll have to remove its seal first. That seal is unbearably crude, so it's likely a half-deity's handiwork. Undoing it shouldn't be difficult. Don't dirty my bed. Let's go to the 96th level instead."

The 96th level was a dim and dark blood-red world with blood-red ground, blood-red plants, and a blood-red full moon in the blood-red skies.

The place was bloody and sinister, dead silent and terrifying.

"The Dark Elements on this level are extremely rich and suit the Fallen Angel. You can place it here."

"Alright!"

As the seal was a half-deity's handiwork, undoing it didn't pose much of a difficulty to Dodola.

Crack!

Crack!

Several thin cracks appeared on the pebble's surface as the seal broke before they swiftly spread all over the pebble.

Whoosh!

Numerous blood-red rays of light shone through the cracks, and then it exploded with a loud boom.

Voila!

A large egg with a blood-red pattern and shining with a blood-red glow appeared before Meng Lei's eyes.

An evil, demonic aura full of decay and depravity emanated into the surroundings, giving Meng Lei an extreme sense of discomfort.

Buzz...

At the same time, the lifeform inside the egg also seemed to sense the presence of Dark Elements in the surroundings and began to absorb them.

"To think it's actually still alive despite being sealed for so many years. Its vitality sure is strong. Only a scant few higher Devils like the Fallen Angels and so on can possess such strong vitality!"

Dodola took in the feeling closely, and then it suddenly asked, "By the way, how did you know that it's a Fallen Angel?"

"It was a random guess!" Meng Lei gave a patronizing response to shut Dodola up, and then he asked, "How do I hatch it?"

Although Dodola was rather dissatisfied with his answer, it nevertheless still replied, "The seal had shut out the circulation of magic elements. Now that it's been removed, it'll continue to mature on its own. You just need to wait patiently! However..."

"However what?" asked a puzzled Meng Lei.

"I'd suggest that you immediately form a blood pact with it and turn it into your slave."

Dodola explained, "By the time it hatches, whether or not you can even defeat it would become a problem itself!"

"That makes sense!"

Meng Lei agreed wholeheartedly with Dodola. The reason why he'd dared to enter an equal contract with Little Gold and Teddy was that he had the confidence to subdue them if necessary, but this wasn't the case for the Fallen Angel.

Not only was it born a half-deity, but it was even an evil Devil. Turning it into his slave was the most suitable course of action.

"By the way, what's a blood pact?" Meng Lei asked as he scratched his head, somewhat embarrassed.

"I'm gonna faint!"

Dodola was rendered speechless. "Seeing how you were so agreeable to the suggestion and how you'd agreed wholeheartedly with it, I thought that you knew about the blood pact. So you were just putting on a show?!"

Blood pacts weren't difficult to learn. Meng Lei mastered it immediately after Dodola went through it with him once.

Meng Lei bit his finger and made a cut before squeezing out a few drops of blood. Then, using his finger as a pen, his blood as ink, and the laws of nature as a catalyst, he inscribed a magic circle.

Buzz...

A blood pact magic circle, which looked like messy, illegible drawings, covered the surface of the egg. Following the magic circle's activation, the messy drawings turned into a blood-red glow that seeped into the egg.

The next moment, Meng Lei immediately felt a hint of an intimate connection with the tiny lifeform in the egg.

He could completely feel that tiny lifeform's pulse, heartbeat, its desire for Dark Elements, as well as its instinctive desire to hatch and break out of the egg.

"This is so amazing!"

With a wave, Meng Lei brought out the elemental crystals that he'd just collected. Then, he picked out the dark-elemental ones and piled them around the Fallen Angel egg.

"So many elemental crystals!"

Dodola was rather impressed. "Not bad, you're much richer than most typical native half-deities!"

"I just ransacked the Dragon God Empire's treasury." Meng Lei burst into laughter. "You know what I mean..."

"No wonder!"

A laughing Dodola said, "Since you have so many dark-elemental elemental crystals, you can set up a magical energy-gathering magic circle and accelerate the incubation process."

"A magical energy-gathering magic circle?"

A look of confusion came over Meng Lei's features.

"You don't know this, either?"

A magical energy-gathering magic circle was set up in no time.

Upon activating the magic circle, the Dark Elements within several hundred kilometers of where they were swiftly converged in their direction and surged toward the Fallen Angel egg in the center of the magic circle.

The blood-red patterns on the surface of the egg became even brighter and more bewitching. As though crimson-red blood vessels, they started to absorb the Dark Elements in the surroundings even more fervently.

"That's good enough!"

Dodola flapped its tiny little wings and said, "With the nourishment of such rich Dark Elements, it should be able to hatch very soon!"

"Hopefully!"

Meng Lei was looking forward very much to it, too.

"But you must take note of something." Dodola suddenly warned, "It'll need to feed once it hatches. Although Dark-Elemental Magical Beasts can barely suffice too, the best choice of food for it is still Devils."

"It'll need to feed on Devils?"

Meng Lei was dumbfounded.

Dodola explained, "Devils are different from deities. The fastest way for them to boost their combat power is to devour other Devils. High-grade Devils are the best options!"

"Where am I supposed to find Devils for it to feed on?"

Meng Lei was lost for words at once. He didn't even have more than a few Dark-Elemental Magical Beasts at hand, let alone Devils?

What kind of joke was this?

"You can do some research on Dead Souls Magic or Devil Magic when you're free. It should be of some use," suggested Dodola before it vanished into thin air.

"Dead Souls Magic? Devil Magic? Aren't those already lost arts?" mumbled Meng Lei to himself.

"Never mind. I'll think about it again when I'm out."

Then, Meng Lei returned to the outside world and continued to look through the items.

The fifth item was an amber-like sapphire with a blue-haired, fairy-like little human figure inside.

As though a work of art, the human figure looked vivid and real. Upon picking it up, Meng Lei sensed rich water-elemental power of divinity energy fluctuations.

"What's that tiny little human inside? Surely it isn't someone who's still alive and sealed inside again?

"Never mind, I'll just take it with me first."

Just like that, Meng Lei looked through the items one by one. A vast majority of the items were related to true gods and contained rich power of divinity energy fluctuations, making them invaluable treasures.

"What a waste of all these treasures. I can't turn them into cash."

Meng Lei felt terribly helpless. These things were undoubtedly precious and valuable, but the problem was—would mortals spend big money to purchase them?

Even if they wanted to, they might not even be able to afford them.

"Forget it. I'll just take them with me for now."

"The rewards are indeed handsome!"

After leaving the treasury existential plane, Meng Lei headed toward Dragon Island while taking inventory of his newest gains along the way.

Aside from the Laws of Nature Origin Crystals and gold that had been converted into cash, what he had gained the most were various treasures—a great number of Saint Domain magic devices and half-divine weapons, a vast amount of elemental crystals and rare materials, as well as dozens of true god artifacts.

What huge earnings!

However, to Meng Lei, the most precious item he'd gotten was none other than the fusion laws of nature fragment.

Meng Lei was in incredibly high spirits the moment he looked at the "0.1%" behind the wood-earth fusion laws of nature on his stats interface.

Now that he had reopened the credit-buying doors to comprehending laws of nature, how could he possibly not be overjoyed?

Meng Lei asked, "System, how much does it cost to boost my wood-earth laws of nature assimilation rate?

"Ding! Raising Wood-Earth Laws of Nature assimilation rate by 1% costs 100,000 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals."

"1... 100,000 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals?"

Meng Lei couldn't help but gasp, almost wetting himself in shock.

How much were 100,000 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals?

That was 1,000 Power of Divinity droplets! Or 10 Divinity Crystals!

Raising it by 1% required 10 Divinity Crystals? Who could afford that?

Meng Lei cast a glance at his Wealth—787,869 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals.

"I'd thought myself rich just a moment ago, but in the blink of an eye..." Meng Lei let out a wry laugh.

Raising it by just 1% already required 100,000 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals. Wouldn't that mean that 100% would require 10,000,000 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals?

What about assimilating ten types of laws of nature, then? How much would that cost?

"Assimilation? To hell with assimilation!"

Meng Lei cursed inwardly, "Even if I use all my Wealth for Limitless Pickups, I'll never use it to buy credit for laws of nature assimilation!

"Never mind, system! Do 100 Limitless Pickups for me first!"

Whoosh!

His Wealth instantly shrank by 100 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals.

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained Anna the barmaid's underwear!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. Host's Wealth 100 gold coins!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained a broadsword!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained a pair of leather boots from Baturu the Dwarf!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained a Fire-Elemental Laws of Nature Fragment! Will you assimilate it?"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained a Blue Heart Herb!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. Host's Spirit 666!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained a Great Earth Bear's paw!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained Old Jack's walking stick!"

(o)

"What the f*ck! What are all these!?"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained a pair of Unicorn wings!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained the Fallen Titan bloodline! Will you assimilate it?"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained a Ferrotungsten Ironwood Staff!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained the Innate Special Ability 'Teleport'. Will you assimilate it?"

"Ding! Assimilation successful..."

"Wait a moment!!!"

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Chapter 211: Picking Up A Divine Core, Stepping Into Dragon Island

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"What the heck are all these!?"

Meng Lei was so frustrated that he was close to vomiting blood.

One must know that Limitless Pickup was a chargeable function that even cost 10 billion gold coins per attempt. But look at what the system did? What did it pick up for him?

Underwear? A broadsword? A Dwarf's leather boots? An old man's walking stick?

Wasn't the trash system being a little too much of a scammer?

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained the Fallen Titan bloodline! Will you assimilate it?"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained a Ferrotungsten Ironwood Staff!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained the Innate Special Ability 'Teleport'. Will you assimilate it?"

"Wait a moment!"

"Innate Special Ability?"

Meng Lei's eyes widened at once, and he almost jumped into the air. "I've picked up an Innate Special Ability? And Teleport, no less? Oh, mother of mine! Is this even possible?"

What was an Innate Special Ability?

Meng Lei was all too clear on that—it was special abilities that certain powerful lifeforms possessed. For example, the Dragon's dragon breath, the Behemoths' magic immunity, the elemental Fairies' elemental transformations, or Little Gold's extra-large gut space.

All of these were Innate Special Abilities!

Although they varied in power, every type of Innate Special Ability had its own extremely powerful characteristics.

Teleport?

In other words, teleporting from one place to another? Just the sound of it alone was already crazy enough.

"Assimilate it! Assimilate it at once!"

Boom!

Upon the command, peculiar silver energy suddenly surged into Meng Lei's mind, instantly spreading to every corner of his body—into his limbs, into every cell in his body...

A moment later, Meng Lei oddly vanished. By the time he reappeared, he was already 1,000 meters away from where he originally was!

He neither caused any airflow currents nor did he make any whizzing sounds as he moved—he had directly jumped from where he had originally been to a spot 1,000 meters away!

"This is crazy! In just the blink of an eye, I'm already 1,000 meters away? I clearly didn't feel myself moving and had only thought of coming to this spot. And then, I did? So, is this what teleportation is like?"

Meng Lei was thrilled beyond comparison.

He hadn't the slightest idea of how teleportation worked, and neither did he know how to activate it. He'd merely thought of going 1,000 meters away just now, and then... He had!

How strange! Yet miraculous!

It was just like instinct!

"So, this is what an Innate Special Ability is? Where you don't need to even know the theory behind it, yet you simply can achieve it? It's too miraculous! I'll try it again!"

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

He disappeared at times and appeared at times.

Meng Lei didn't get tired of it at all, continuously teleporting here and there.

After a period of experiments, Meng Lei discovered that the furthest he could teleport to was related to the range that his divine cognition could cover.

He could teleport to wherever his divine cognition could reach. It neither depleted his power of divinity nor his stamina. All it depleted was the power of his divine spirit.

"With this teleportation ability, who would be able to catch me?"

Meng Lei was in such a fantastic mood that snot bubbles were forming at his nose. "If I have the spare time, I can head to the three great empires' treasuries and take a walk there, hehe..."

"Ding! Assimilation successful. Host's Wealth 34 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained a piece of superior-quality fur clothing!"

The system notifications finally came to a stop.

Meng Lei swept his gaze across the items—they were all useless pieces of trash. They were either someone's underwear, someone's boots, or someone's walking stick... Totally trash!

"But with this teleportation Innate Special Ability, those 100 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals were simply too well-spent."

Highly satisfied with his gains from the 100 Limitless Pickup attempts this time, Meng Lei felt like he wanted a little more.

"System, another 100 times!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained Grandpa Kells' robe!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful..."

Another 100 Limitless Pickups!

However, he didn't pick up anything good this time. All 100 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals had gone to waste.

"Another 100 times!"

Meng Lei's mule-like stubbornness had emerged.

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained a Fusion Laws of Nature Fragment! Will you assimilate it?"

"Another fused laws of nature fragment?"

Meng Lei promptly gave the order for assimilation. A moment later, he had mastered all the information contained in the fusion laws of nature fragment.

"Metal-dark fusion laws of nature?"

Meng Lei cast a glance at his stats interface—true enough, metal-dark laws of nature assimilation rate had also been activated. Like his wood-earth laws of nature assimilation rate, it was also at 0.1%.

"Wood-earth! And metal-dark! That's four types of laws of nature!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. Host's Physical Body Constitution 2,876!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained a Dark Knight's greatsword!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained a Divine Core. Will you assimilate it?"

"A divine core?" exclaimed Meng Lei as he did an emergency brake. Then, with a flick of his right wrist, he brought out a fascinating crystal that gave off a blue glow. It emanated such an intimidating aura that Meng Lei even felt the urge to prostrate on the ground.

"A divine core! I've actually picked up a divine core! Oh mother of God, this luck of mine..."

Meng Lei examined the divine core sitting in his palm as his heart pounded wildly. A divine core! This was a divine core! A priceless treasure that innumerable lifeforms, innumerable Saint Domains, and innumerable half-deities dreamed of!

And he had actually picked one up?

Wasn't that simply infuriating?

"Judging from the power of divinity energy fluctuations, it's probably a water-elemental divine core. I can totally assimilate this divine core!"

Meng Lei couldn't resist licking his lips. "Once I assimilate it, I'll become a real deity right away. How amazing! The temptation is simply too great! It's just that I wonder what grade this divine core is? Alright, let's ask Dodola!"

"What the heck!? Where did you get that?"

At the sight of the water-elemental divine core sitting in Meng Lei's palm, Dodola got a huge shock. "That's a lesser deity's divine core. Where did you steal that from?"

"I picked it up," answered Meng Lei honestly.

"Picked it up? Do I look mentally challenged to you?"

Dodola had a "Yeah right, as if I'll believe you! You rotten old man!" look on its face.

"Never mind. I don't care where you'd gotten this thing from, but no matter what, you mustn't assimilate it. Remember, you absolutely mustn't. It'll destroy you if you do. Understand?"

"Don't worry. I know what to do."

Meng Lei took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the urge to assimilate the divine core before storing it in a spatial ring. As the saying went, "Out of sight, out of mind"—it'd be fine once it was out of his sight.

"By the way, don't let your friends assimilate that divine core, either," Dodola warned, "Assimilating an unprocessed divine core is no different from seeking death on one's own. They need only to show a moment of carelessness, and the divine core's master will steal and occupy their body right away!"

"Don't worry, I know."

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained Natalie the Devil's horn!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained an Abyss Osteodragon's scale!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained..."

"Trash! All trash! Apart from the divine core, not a single item is any good. I've made a huge loss this time!"

At this point, a great, lofty mountain appeared before him. Mountain ranges rose and fell, overlapping with one another as they stretched on continuously without end. Ancient forests, lush and dense, filled the mountain.

"I've arrived here so quickly."

Meng Lei gazed at the lofty mountain, the corners of his lips lifting. His divine cognition spread out and shrouded the great mountain within.

A fair number of Saint Domains were hidden in the mountain. In fact, there was even a great army of Dragon People standing guard.

"The teleportation magic circle that leads to Dragon Island is right in this mountain. Let me see, where is it?

"...Found it!"

The next moment, Meng Lei arrived at a wide, dark, and deep cave—the teleportation magic circle was right inside.

"That's the teleportation magic circle!"

Meng Lei stepped right into it. A moment later, he arrived at a beautiful, scenic little island.

The island wasn't big. All around it was the azure blue, endless ocean where ripples undulated on the surface. The sky and the ocean shared the same color, and great, crashing waves went through the ocean.

"What rich magic elements! What clear laws of nature! Those Dragons sure know how to pick a good place!"

As he took in the rich magic elements on the island, Meng Lei's divine cognition began to spread outward like a tidal wave.

"How audacious!"

A furious roar rang out, and a pitch-black Black Dragon charged into the sky from an island. It glared furiously at Meng Lei as it roared, "How dare you probe around Dragon Island so brazenly! Do you have a death wish?!"

"Alright, I've decided that it shall be you." Meng Lei took a step forward and came right up to the Black Dragon. He said with a smile, "Hey, big guy, let me ask for some directions!"

"Y-you... How did you appear here?"

Blood drained from the alarmed and doubtful Black Dragon's countenance.

"You don't need to care about that." Meng Lei shook his head and asked, "Tell me, where's Goblen Frederick?"

"How impudent! Is the Grandmaster's name something you can say?"

The Black Dragon was furious. "Damned human, I don't sense any Dragon aura on you. Who exactly are you? How dare you trespass on Dragon Island!"

"How disobedient!"

Meng Lei shook his head lightly. Then, he teleported to a spot right above the Black Dragon's head and stamped his foot down.

Boom!

The Black Dragon let out a sad, shrill roar and crashed mercilessly down onto the island below.

Bam!

The island shook a few times intensely as a huge pit formed from the crash. The Black Dragon was embedded right into it.

"Get out here!"

With a grabbing motion through the air, Meng Lei easily caught the Black Dragon and pulled it out.

The Black Dragon was currently in an extremely pathetic state. Blood was spurting from its mouth, and it had broken a few bones. Its left wing was almost severed at the base, with only a bit of skin and flesh still connecting it to its body.

"S-sir... S-spare me!"

The Black Dragon groaned in pain and agony and pleaded for mercy repeatedly. It knew that it had run into a wall this time and was close to tears.

"You just don't give up until reality has to hit you in the face. Now you're behaving, aren't you? All you Dragons are the same!"

Meng Lei snorted lightly. Then, he ordered, "Answer my question. Otherwise, this island will be your burial ground."

"I'll talk! I'll talk!"

The Black Dragon quickly replied, "Sir, continue forward in this direction, and you'll see a gigantic island about 3,000 miles away. That's Grandmaster Goblen's island."

"3,000 miles? Very well!"

With a flick of Meng Lei's fingers, a wind blade shot out and pierced through the Black Dragon's head.

Even till its final moments, the unfortunate Black Dragon couldn't understand why Meng Lei had still killed it even though it had clearly already answered him.

It simply couldn't rest in peace.

,000 miles was no issue to Meng Lei. After consecutively teleporting a dozen times or so, he easily found the gigantic island that the Black Dragon had spoken of. Meng Lei immediately knew... that he had made the correct decision in coming here with a glance.

"1, 2, 3... 8, 9! There are actually a total of 9 half-deities! As expected, the Dragons' heritage is indeed rich!"

Meng Lei was incredibly wistful about this. As the highest form of combat power on Heaven's Vault Continent, as well as deities that walked the earth, just how rare were half-deities?

Yet the Dragons actually had a total of nine half-deities. Their heritage was simply too rich!

"To be able to dominate Heaven's Vault Continent for 40,000 years without any sign of toppling, they indeed hold their weight."

Meng Lei took a deep breath. Then, he let out a long howl. "Goblen Frederick, did you think that I wouldn't be able to find you just because you're hiding on Dragon Island? Hurry up and get out here to face your death!"

His voice was like rolling thunder that instantly exploded with a boom in the sky above the gigantic island, shocking the birds and beasts and filling the marine beasts with fear and trepidation.

"Meng Lei!!!"

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Chapter 212: Eight Half-Deities, Killing A Dragon King In An Instant

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The tall, lofty mountain towered proudly above the ocean. At the mountain's mid-point was a cave that looked as if a monster's enormous mouth, which was about to devour everything in the world.

That cave was Goblen's den. A thick layer of golden bricks paved the way and covered the walls, which were embedded with all sorts of glittering jewels. They lit up the entire cave and made it glitter with gold, forming a beautiful and spectacular sight.

As one went deeper into the cave, what entered their sight were gold coins piled like mountains, gold nuggets, and gold horse hooves1. All these stacked together into a gigantic dragon's nest—it was Goblen's den.

Surrounding the den was also piles and piles of jewels, elemental crystals, Laws of Nature Origin Crystals...

Every single item was a rare and precious treasure. Any random piece was enough to turn a beggar into a tycoon.

At the moment, aside from Goblen himself, a few other figures were also at the empty space in front of the den.

Comprising both men and women, old and young, every one of them had a strong, surging aura and vast, majestic divine power—they were half-deities!

Not one more and not one fewer, they made up exactly eight people—they were the Dragons' eight other half-deities.

"That knave has killed my metal-elemental divine incarnation and cut off my path to deification!"

Goblen's visage was contorted with rage, and deep hatred shot from within his eyes. "I, Goblen, swear that I will never become a god if I don't cut him into a million pieces!"

"How dare a human be this traitorous and perverse! He should be killed!"

"Since the empire's founding to this date, such horrifying events have never once happened during the last 40,000-odd years. His behavior is heinous to the extreme and unforgivable!"

"What else is there to say? These traitorous renegades should be slashed with a thousand swords and sentenced to capital punishment!"

"Looks like we've still treated the humans too well all these years. How dare those lowly monkeys show such insubordination and disrespect to those above them just because they think they have a bit of power? It's time that we rectify things properly!"

"Kill him! Make his head roll! Make his blood flow unceasingly! Let those cheap, lowly worms know that they, humans, will only be befitting of being slaves for eternity..."

The other half-deities spoke up one after another, sentencing Meng Lei to death with just a few simple words and even decided the attitude that Dragon God Empire would take toward humans.

Goblen was greatly satisfied with the half-deities' stances. He wasn't a match for Meng Lei, so he needed everyone to attack together if he wanted to take revenge.

"Amolin, what do you have to say?"

Upon noticing one of the half-deities' silence, Goblen couldn't help but frown slightly, somewhat displeased.

An alarmed and doubtful Amolin asked, "Grandmaster, are you sure that the culprit is named Meng Lei?"

"That knave killed my metal-elemental divine incarnation. I'd recognize him even if he had been turned into ashes. How would I possibly mistake someone else for him?"

Goblen let out an icy snort and asked, "What, do you have some sort of history with that knave? Do you know him?"

"I indeed know a young fellow named Meng Lei, but he is only a Saint Domain. He shouldn't be the same person as the knave that killed the Grandmaster's divine incarnation."

Amolin shook her head. For some reason, she had a rather foreboding feeling in her.

"No matter who he is and whether or not you know him, for daring to kill my divine incarnation, he has to die," replied Goblen coldly.

"Grandmaster is right!"

The other half-deities indicated their stance one after another.

"Wonderful!" Goblen stood and said, "Since that's the case, then let's head to Heaven's Vault Continent now and slay that knave."

"We'll follow what Grandmaster says!"

"As Grandmaster wishes!"

The other half-deities got up one after another.

"Goblen Frederick, did you think that I wouldn't be able to find you just because you're hiding on Dragon Island? Hurry up and get out here to face your death!"

At that moment, a long thunderous howl suddenly reverberated in the skies and boomed in everyone's ears. The howl was as though rolling thunder, so loud that it almost deafened them all!

"Who is it?" exclaimed all the startled half-deities.

"It's that knave!"

Goblen's wrinkled old face was rather contorted as he spat, "To think he has actually charged all the way to Dragon Island. He's too much!"

All the other half-deities were astonished. "Grandmaster, is the one shouting and ranting outside right now that knave named Meng Lei?"

"There's no mistaking that voice! It's that wicked knave!" replied a teeth-gnashing Goblen as a chilly gleam appeared in his eyes.

"How audacious!"

"How impudent!"

"How presumptuous!"

"How brazen!"

"To think he actually dares to storm Dragon Island. He's utterly belittling us, Dragons!"

"To think he has actually come here before we've even gone looking for him..."

All the half-deities flew into a rage.

During the long passage of time that they, the Dragons, had stood tall and strong in Heaven's Vault Continent, when had anyone ever pursued them all the way to Dragon Island?

Never! Not even once!

Yet someone was actually bold and brazen enough to carry out such a treasonous act.

"This is an insult to us! An impossibly great insult!"

One of the half-deities declared coldly, "This insult can only be erased by that knave's blood!"

"Kill! Kill him! Show him the consequences of challenging the Dragons' authority!"

"Follow me!"

Goblen let out a cold snort, and then he led the rest of the half-deities out of the cave.

"It really is you!"

Amolin was the first to leave the cave. She had spied Meng Lei, who was standing proudly in the sky, with just a glance. A huge shudder couldn't help but come over her as disbelief flashed across her eyes.

"It's been a while, Elder Amolin!"

A smile appeared on Meng Lei's countenance as he greeted Amolin. He held somewhat complex feelings toward Ol' Amos' younger sister.

"Meng Lei, why is it you?"

Amolin didn't understand how Meng Lei had suddenly become a half-deity, but that was no longer of any importance.

The important question was—why was Meng Lei challenging Dragon God Empire's authority? To the extent that he had even charged all the way here to Dragon Island?

Meng Lei replied slowly, "For the power of faith!"

"Power of faith?" A huge jolt went through Amolin as she exclaimed, "Are you intending to fight for Dragon God Empire's power of faith resources? You're out of your mind! Do you know what you're doing?"

"I know very well what I'm doing." Meng Lei shook his head slowly. "You're also a half-deity; you should know how important the power of faith is to us."

"You're out of your mind! The Dragons will never let you off for challenging their authority like this! Neither will the Dragon God!"

Amolin shook her head. She didn't refute Meng Lei's statement, because he was right—to half-deities like them, the power of faith was indeed too important!

It could strengthen their divine spirit, convert power of divinity, help them to comprehend laws of nature, as well as shorten the time they needed to achieve deification.

If it were possible, any half-deity out there would wish to have their own power of faith resources and their own power of faith territory, so that they could collect a vast amount of power of faith every day.

Unfortunately, this was but just an extravagant wish.

Heaven's Vault Continent's power of faith resources had long since been split up among various parties down to the very last bit. The Dragon God, the Titan Spiritual God, the Beast God, and the Fairy Goddess had seized all the power of faith for themselves. There was nothing left for half-deities like them at all.

Therefore, no matter how much they longed for it, they could only suppress the desire. They didn't have the guts to fight the four true gods for power of faith.

Yet that was exactly what Meng Lei was doing. This was an act of great taboo in this world, and a challenge of a true god's authority.

He was purely just having a death wish.

"What's there to fear on the road to deification?" Meng Lei shook his head lightly. "Elder Amolin, you're Ol' President's younger sister, so I won't fight with you. I hope you can stay out of this."

"Even if I were to stay out of this, you won't be a match for them, either." Amolin sighed and said, "Meng Lei, give up. The Dragons' blood flows through your veins, too. As long as you stop now, I can plead for leniency on your behalf—"

"It's useless even if you plead for leniency!"

Goblen led the other seven half-deities and charged toward them. "Amolin, have you become muddleheaded? That knave's sins are so unforgivable, yet you still want to plead for leniency on his behalf?"

"Grandmaster, he's just a child!" Amolin quickly said, "Everyone has moments of folly during their yout—"

"Say no more!" Goblen said coldly, "He killed my metal-elemental divine incarnation and thoroughly cut off my road to deification. We are mortal enemies, and it will never rest until one of us is dead."

"To think it's actually you, little brat!"

One of the seven half-deities, a Black Dragon half-deity, was someone familiar—Elder Thaniel. His eyes, filled with disbelief, bore into Meng Lei as he exclaimed, "It's only been a few days, yet you've broken through to the half-deity stage and even killed the Grandmaster's metal-elemental divine incarnation?"

"A separation of three days makes one a changed man!"

Meng Lei said with a slight smile, "Elder Thaniel, on account of how we're acquainted with each other, I can refrain from fighting you, too.

"The same goes for the other half-deities, too. My target is Goblen alone, and has nothing to do with all of you..."

"You little knave, who do you think you are?!"

A Green Dragon half-deity with a head of green hair and holding a snake staff spoke in a cold and imposing voice. He said, "Nothing to do with us? Did you think you can leave Dragon Island alive today?"

"To have the audacity to charge all the way here, you're really foolish to the extreme and full of yourself!"

"Kid, since you're here, then don't think of ever leaving. Dragon Island will be your final resting place!"

"After I kill you, I'll grind your corpse into fish bait and scatter them into the ocean!"

"To dare charge all the way to Dragon Island, you clearly show no respect for us Dragon Island half-deities. How can we possibly condone you?!"

The Dragon half-deities spoke up one by one, full of murderous intent. At the sight, Amolin couldn't help but sigh again and again. She knew that there was no going back anymore.

"Since all of you have a death wish, then don't hold this against me." Meng Lei shook his head lightly. "Just as well! Dragon Island is a beautiful and scenic place with clear and distinct laws of nature, making it a place that's very suitable as a burial ground for all of you."

"How impudent!"

"How presumptuous!"

"How condescending!"

"Offer up your life, you little knave!"

The Green Dragon half-deity let out an icy snort as he wielded his snake staff.

"Divine Technique: Shadow Snakes!"

He had only just spoken when his head of green hair shot into the sky and turned into an infinite number of green poisonous snakes that went biting toward Meng Lei.

Every snake was highly toxic. Even normal half-deities would be reduced into a puddle of pus and die from the poison upon being bitten even just once. They were incredibly vicious and poisonous.

"That's all you got?"

Meng Lei shook his head and chuckled. Then, he quietly vanished from where he was, causing the poisonous green snakes to miss their target.

"He's dodged it?"

The Green Dragon half-deity's countenance changed slightly.

"Elder Horace, be careful. That renegade's agility is very—"

Goblen hastily shouted a warning, but what a shame that he was ultimately still a step too late.

A cry rang out and then, the Green Dragon half-deity plummeted toward the ocean like a launched cannon.

On the other hand, Meng Lei had actually soundlessly appeared at the spot where the Green Dragon half-deity was originally standing.

"Why do you even bother, everyone?"

Meng Lei gazed at the Dragon half-deities standing near him and said, "Why do you insist on becoming dead Dragons when you can be living Dragons? Are your brains filled with sh*t?"

Then, he vanished again.

By the time he reappeared, he had already arrived at the ocean surface. The Green Dragon half-deity happened to be crashing straight down at this point. Meng Lei brought out the Gods-Slaying Spear and with a casual flip...

Splurt!

Amid shrill Dragon cries, the Gods-Slaying Spear instantly pierced through the Green Dragon half-deity's throat. A spout of blood sprayed from the wound and dyed the ocean beneath them red.

Splash!

The Green Dragon half-deity died on the spot and turned into its true form—it was actually a 5,000-feet-long Dragon King-level Green Dragon with green scales all over it.

"Elder Horace!"

"Noooo!"

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Chapter 213: One Spear Jab Each, A Half-Deity Mount

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The salty sea breeze blew lightly, dispersing the odor of blood lingering in the air. Yet it couldn't disperse the astoundment, shock, and horror in the eight half-deities.

One strike of the spear—that was all it took to instantly kill Horace!

"Just what kind of combat strength is that?"

A Dragon half-deity exclaimed, "Elder Horace had already lit up the divine fire, yet he couldn't even parry a single move from his spear. In that case, we... we..."

He didn't finish the rest of his sentence, but all the other half-deities understood, regardless, and a chill that ran bone-deep ran down their spines.

There were typically three ways of evaluating a half-deity's strength—cultivation level, power of divinity, and their divine body.

The higher their cultivation level, the stronger and more solid their power of divinity, and the stronger and sturdier their divine body, the more powerful they naturally were.

Elder Horace had already successfully lit up the divine fire, thereby placing him at the mid-level half-deity stage. Moreover, he was even a pure-blooded Green Dragon and had even comprehended wood-elemental laws of nature. Therefore, his divine body was undoubtedly strong.

His only disadvantage was his power of divinity.

Like all the other half-deities, because he didn't have enough worshipers to provide him with the power of faith, Elder Horace was definitely deficient in power of divinity. There was no doubt about that.

But even so, as a great mid-level half-deity expert, he had actually been instantly killed with a single spear jab. Was the gap between the two of them really that big?

A half-deity asked gravely, "Did any of you catch a clear view of his actions?"

"No, I didn't!"

"Neither did I!"

"I couldn't sense any power of divinity fluctuations!"

"There weren't any airflow fluctuations, either!"

"How did he manage to get there?"

"Could it be... Teleportation?"

The half-deities' countenances changed at once. Then, they shook their heads. "That's impossible! Teleportation is a spatial Innate Special Ability. It has never appeared in Heaven's Vault Continent before!"

"Then how did he get there?"

"No matter what it may be, let's be prepared to fight with all we've got. Otherwise, we may lose our lives!"

The half-deities nodded, their countenances turning grim and grave. As half-deities of the Dragons, they were prideful beings—but not conceited.

When facing a fearsome existence that could instantly kill Horace, they must give it all they've got.

"He's dead. Now it's your turns!"

Meng Lei licked off the Dragon blood on the tip of the spear as his gaze swept across the remaining seven half-deities. "How do you wish to die? Who's next?"

"Let's go at him together and subdue that knave!"

Then, all seven half-deities attacked simultaneously.

"God's Domain!

Buzz...

Seven terrifying energy waves descended upon Meng Lei, instantly caging the area in the sky where he was and also imprisoning him to the spot.

"Divine Technique: Absolute Zero!"

With a furious roar, a Frost Colossal Dragon half-deity opened his mouth, and a chilly golden current sprayed forth from within, sealing the area where Meng Lei was in ice.

Under the catalyst of power of divinity, not only could Absolute Zero seal everything in ice, but it could also freeze the air.

"With God's Domain and Elder Jacques' Absolute Zero, we'll definitely be able to subdue that knave!"

"We must unleash our strongest attacks next so that we don't give him any chance to even catch his breath!"

"Divine Technique: Tempest of Annihilation!"

Divine Technique: Three Thousand Lightning Strikes!"

"Divine Technique: Ten Thousand Swords Return Home!"

"Divine Technique: Dark Withering Bones!"

"Divine Technique: Withering Snowflakes!"

"Divine Technique: Meteor Drop!"

"Divine Technique: Water God Descends!"

Boom!

Various Divine Techniques were dumped onto Meng Lei as though they came free of charge. The area in the sky where Meng Lei was instantly broke and turned into a black hole.

Gales wreaked havoc, ice chips sprayed about, golden swords flew and shot everywhere, waves churned and rolled, dust and earth flew about...

Power of divinity of various elements clashed and collided madly in the black hole, bombarding the area and turning it extremely chaotic!

It was no exaggeration to say that this was definitely the most dangerous place in Heaven's Vault Continent.

Even a half-deity that had already manifested a divine core would also meet their demise should they be trapped within.

"Sigh, why did he have to do that?"

A hint of lament and pity flashed across Amolin's eyes. Meng Lei was ultimately someone whom her elder brother had wanted to protect, even if it had meant death. As the proverb went, "Love me, love my dog". Because of her elder brother, she didn't wish to see Meng Lei die.

Alas, there was nothing she could do. The severity of the troubles that Meng Lei had caused was simply too great, The seven elders' intentions to kill him were unprecedentedly strong. All she could do was to choose to remain neutral and help neither party.

"What terrifying power of divinity fluctuations!"

"Seems like it's coming from Grandmaster Goblen's island?"

"What exactly has happened over there?"

"Let's head over and take a look!"

Dragon Island appeared to stretch on boundlessly, but there ultimately was still a limit to it. The torrential power of divinity waves had instantly spread throughout the whole of Dragon Island and alarmed everyone there.

"Surely that knave is dead by now?"

After furiously and indiscriminately bombarding the spot for quite a while, the seven heavily panting half-deities finally ceased their attacks.

Then, they tried their best to see if they could detect Meng Lei's presence in the sky that had already been turned upside down from the chaos. Upon discovering that his presence was no longer there, they heaved a sigh of relief at once.

Well, no one could've survived their—seven half-deities'—joint attacks, after all. No one!

"That knave is finally dead. I had certainly broken into a cold sweat from fear just now!"

One of the half-deities, who was still experiencing lingering fears, said, "I was really worried that he would suddenly come charging out and also deal me a jab with his spear just now!"

"You don't say!"

Another half-deity sighed and remarked, "What a pity about Elder Horace. He died too tragically."

"Elder Horace died a worthy death!"

Goblen spoke up at this point and said, "That knave is dead. The empire's crisis has been resolved, and the Dragons' might and authority have been protected. Elder Horace deserves great credit for that!"

"Grandmaster is right!"

The other half-deities very much approved of his statement.

"Dead? Who says I'm dead?"

A mocking voice rang out at this point.

The half-deities' countenances changed drastically, and then they saw Meng Lei standing behind them with one hand in his pocket and the other carrying the Gods-Slaying Spear, watching them cheerfully.

"You... You're not dead!!"

The half-deities felt as if their minds had exploded. They instantly retreated with a burst of speed, fear, anger, and horror in their hearts.

Under the bombardment of such raging power of divinity attacks, he was actually still alive? Was he really human?

"He's actually still alive!"

Amolin, who was just as shocked, stared at Meng Lei with disbelief.

"Do all of you really wish that much for my death?" Meng Lei shook his head lightly. "Your attacks were certainly fearsome. Even a half-deity that had already manifested a divine core might have perished under your siege. Unfortunately, I'm the one whom you've encountered, so you're destined only for tragedy. Dear all, let's fight with all you've got!"

Roar!

Howl!

The half-deities promptly transformed into their true forms—they were actually seven several thousand feet-long Colossal Dragons in varying forms.

Their wings flapped as the force of their Dragon might fluctuated. Their claws were razor-sharp and murderous hostility gleamed in their eyes.

A 4,000-feet-long Frost Colossal Dragon!

A 5,000-feet-long Earth Dragon, Blue Dragon, and Tempest Colossal Dragon each!

And a 6,000-feet-long Thunder Dragon, Black Dragon, and Golden Colossal Dragon each!

"Kill!!"

With a roar, seven Dragon King-level Colossal Dragons charged furiously toward Meng Lei, just like seven lions pursuing a honey badger in the plains.

Razor-sharp claws, cold, gleaming fangs, strong, powerful tails, and dragon breath capable of destroying everything... Every attack contained a fearsome level of destructiveness.

"Switching over to physical attacks? What a bunch of fools!"

Meng Lei almost burst into laughter. "The combination of God's Domain and Divine Technique attacks could more or less still give me a bit of a hard time, but transforming into your true forms... That's practically sending yourselves to death's door.

"Dear all, since all of you are so sincerely giving away your lives, then I shall receive them without standing on any ceremony.

"The first one!"

Meng Lei took a stride forward and quietly appeared above Goblen the Golden Colossal Dragon's head.

Without any hesitation, he raised the Gods-Slaying Spear and stabbed downward. With a splurt, it pierced right through Goblen's head.

Howl!

Goblen let out a shrill roar, his blood spraying everywhere like a waterfall.

"The second one!"

Meng Lei chose the Earth Dragon.

As an earth-elemental Colossal Dragon, the Earth Dragon's defenses were definitely one of the top few among the seven Colossal Dragons.

With a body full of indestructible ocher-yellow scales, and especially when it cast its Divine Technique-level Earth Guardian's Saintly Armor, one could call it... Absolute defenses!

True enough, the Earth Dragon had put on the Earth Guardian's Saintly Armor a long time ago and was protecting itself, lest it ended up like Horace.

"What a shame that it won't be of any use!"

Given Meng Lei's strength and coupled with the Gods-Slaying Spear's sharpness, the spear pierced through the Earth Dragon's head without any surprises, and it died on the spot.

"Elder Carol!"

At the sight of the two who were killed by Meng Lei in the blink of an eye, the remaining five Colossal Dragons were extremely horrified and frightened, causing their swift and forceful attacks to slow down.

They might have slowed down, but Meng Lei didn't show any mercy.

Splurt!

Splurt!

Splurt!

Meng Lei came and went like a ghost, delivering four jabs in succession. The Blue Dragon, Thunder Dragon, Frost Colossal Dragon, and the Tempest Colossal Dragon were successively stabbed dead.

"Collect!"

All of these were superior-grade Dragon flesh, so Meng Lei would never discard them, of course. He stored them in the Tower of Time for preservation so that he could eat them as snacks in the future.

In just a moment, Thaniel the Black Dragon was the only one left in the sky. He stared at the empty sky and then at Meng Lei, who was looking at him. Then, he made a run for it!

Meng Lei went on top of Thaniel's back and asked, "Elder Thaniel, where are you going?"

"I... I..."

Thaniel was so terrified that his insides were close to rupturing. He shook like a leaf in his Dragon form, unable to utter even a word.

"Not in the mood to answer?!"

Meng Lei pressed the Gods-Slaying Spear against the back of Thaniel's head. "You don't need to bother answering anymore, then. Make full use of the time you have and get on your way. You're just in time to group up with your little companions and report to the netherworld together."

"S-spare me!"

Terrified out of his wits, golden-yellow "rain" began to fall and trickle from Thaniel's bottom.

"S-sir, spare... spare me. Give me a way out..."

"Can you have a bit of shame?"

Meng Lei was rendered speechless as he watched Elder Thaniel, who was so frightened that he was "raining". He said, "You don't want me to kill you? Give me a reason why I shouldn't!"

"We... we..."

Thaniel had initially wanted to say that they were acquainted with each other, after all. But at the thought of how arrogant and bossy he had behaved at their first meeting, he couldn't bring himself to say it anymore.

Were he to mention it, what if Meng Lei ended up giving him a jab instead?

"What is it about us?" Meng Lei prompted with a slight smile.

"Amolin?"

Thaniel caught sight of Amolin, who was standing at the side. As though grasping at straws, he said, "Beg for mercy on my behalf, Amolin. I don't want to die..."

Upon hearing what Thaniel had said, Amolin suddenly snapped back to reality and gazed at Meng Lei with a complex look in her eyes.

One jab each!

With just six jabs of his spear, Meng Lei had killed six half-deity elders. This fact had thoroughly astounded her.

She simply couldn't imagine how Meng Lei, who had still been just a Saint Domain a few days ago, had gotten such fearsome power.

Amolin said with a wry smile, "Meng Lei, all the Dragon Island half-deities have been wiped out by you. If it's possible, do spare Elder Thaniel's life."

"Since Elder Amolin has said so, I'll spare your life."

Mount looked at Thaniel and said, "But while you may escape death, you cannot avoid punishment. I'll give you a chance—if you become my mount, I'll spare your life."

"Y-your mount?"

Thaniel's countenance changed dramatically.

"What? Are you unwilling?"

Meng Lei's expression darkened slightly.

"I... I'm willing to submit!"

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