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So, why was his divine body so sturdy?
Wind Blade Grave hadn’t worked, and neither was Wind Blade Grand Burial working now, too?
What kind of living being species was Meng Lei, exactly?
“The great Magical Beast God actually can’t even break past Master’s defenses?”
“Just what kind of background exactly does Master come from?”
The 28 divine beasts watching the battle were incredibly astounded. They simply couldn’t imagine why a powerful existence like the Magical Beast God couldn’t even break past Meng Lei’s defenses.
Meng Lei!
Why was their new Master this physically sturdy?
“I don’t believe this!”
The Magical Beast God roared incessantly. Suddenly, it opened its mouth and sprayed out a blast of violet flames. They burned furiously at Meng Lei—it was the divine technique, Violet Flames Scorch The Sky!
Boom!
The violet flames expanded sharply the moment they appeared and came into contact with the wind. In an instant, they had become as tall as 1,000 feet, completely engulfing Meng Lei in no time.
Boom, boom, boom!
The violet flames blazed away furiously. They emitted a terrifyingly high heat, causing even the water in the waterfall and pool to simmer and boil. Large amounts of steam formed and shrouded the surroundings.
The 28 divine beasts withdrew a great distance away. They had no choice but to retreat when facing terrifyingly mighty fire-elemental divine techniques even if they didn’t fear high heat or low temperatures.
“Fire naturally restrains wood. I simply don’t believe that you’re not scared of fire-elemental divine techniques!” The Magical Beast God’s vertical snake pupils bore coldly into Meng Lei, who was currently being engulfed by the flames.
However, the violet flames gradually extinguished as they blazed away, revealing Meng Lei’s form, who had been in the fire for a few dozen seconds. Everyone was stunned the moment they spotted Meng Lei—he was currently wrapped inside a 'shell” formed from green vines just like the shield from earlier!
By right, wood feared fire the most. Once burned, they would definitely be reduced to ashes. Even in the best possible scenario, they would still be turned into charcoal.
Yet this wasn’t the case for Meng Lei’s shell at all. Even after burning away at it for half a day, the violet flames actually couldn’t leave even a scorch mark on its surface. They didn’t leave even a hint of charred blackness!
“How did this happen?”
The Magical Beast God was close to breaking down. How sturdy must the other party be if he feared neither wind blades nor fire?
“I don’t believe this!”
The Magical Beast God’s eyes were bloodshot as it roared, “Divine Technique: Rolling Heavenly Thunder!”
Crack!
A moment later, the thunder-elemental divine technique also left the field in dejection while Meng Lei remained well and intact. It was subsequently also followed by metal-elemental divine techniques, yet they were all in vain.
In the end, Meng Lei was still fine and dandy, but the Magical Beast God had already completely broken down mentally!
Chapter 302: Golden Vines, Meng Lei Pierced
After a round of bombardment, Meng Lei was completely unscathed, and the Magical Beast God nearly broke down first. “What... What kind of monster are you?”
Meng Lei did not answer. He looked at the Magical Beast God and said. “Wind, Fire, Thunder, Metal. It seems I was right, you do have four divine incarnations!”
The Magical Beast God replied coldly, “So?”
“Ordinary cultivation will never be able to get you to such levels. If I’m not wrong, you must’ve obtained four lesser deity divine cores and a treasure that can strengthen your divine spirit. Am I right?” Meng Lei said casually.
Assimilating divine cores to become a deity was easy, but to split one’s divine spirit and cultivate it was difficult.
To split a divine spirit, it must be powerful enough. The prerequisite to split a divine spirit was to have a strong divine spirit.
Hence, it was easy to become a lesser deity. However, to become an intermediate deity was much harder, and to have four or even five divine incarnations as an intermediate deity was even harder.
Splitting a divine spirit was too damaging for it!
Therefore, it was evident that the Magical Beast God must have obtained a treasure that could strengthen divine spirits so that it could be able to split out four divine incarnations as an intermediate deity within 10,000 years.
The Magical Beast God stared coldly at Meng Lei. It neither admitted nor denied the fact, indirectly admitting it.
“Your luck defied natural order. Even I’m jealous!” Meng Lei shook his head lightly. “I’m giving you one last chance. Submit to me or die!”
“I’m the Magical Beast God, how can I submit to a mere human!?” The Magical Beast God’s voice was deep. “So what if you’re powerful? Don’t even think about making me submit!”
“Why is it always like this?”
Meng Lei shook his head lightly again as dozens of vines shot toward the Magical Beast God.
“Hmph! I won’t play with you anymore!”
The Magical Beast God sneered at Meng Lei with contempt as its head sunk into the pool and left immediately.
Meng Lei smiled lightly. “Running away already? That’s too naive!
“Power of Existential Plane... suppression!”
Buzz...
A surging flood of Power of Existential Plane burst out and pressed upon the Magical Beast God instantly, forcing it out of the water.
Splash!
The true features of the Magical Beast God were revealed immediately. It had a head of a snake with the body of a dragon.
Whoosh!
The vines followed closely and wrapped up the Magical Beast God like a mummy. It roared angrily and struggled madly, but it could not move an inch even with the strength of an intermediate deity under the suppression of both the Power of Existential Plane and the vines.
“It’s useless.” Meng Lei shook his head. “Even without the Power of Existential Plane, the vines alone are enough to impede you.”
“Human... What do you want exactly?”
The Magical Beast God glared at Meng Lei.
“Do you know who I am?” Meng Lei asked instead of replying.
“Who are you?” the Magical Beast God asked in a low voice.
“I’m the master of this existential plane,” Meng Lei said casually. “Doesn’t matter if it’s Heaven’s Vault Continent, Light Continent, or your Gods-Demons Continent, and the Endless Oceans—they’re all my territory! Do you think you can build an independent kingdom in my place?”
“Master of the existential plane!?”
The Magical Beast God sneered. “You’re lying! The master of this existential plane is the Fairy Goddess. She refined the Heart of The Existential Plane and became the master 20,000 years ago!”
“Believe it or not, you’re dying anyway!’
Meng Lei did not bother explaining as he activated Life Drawing to absorb the Magical Beast God’s life essence.
“You have a really strong divine body. After I absorb all of your life essences, my divine body will definitely break through to pinnacle-level intermediate deity!”
Gurgle!
Under Meng Lei’s intense absorption, the Magical Beast God’s life essence was like a breached dam as it flooded toward Meng Lei. A warm sensation enveloped Meng Lei, which was more pleasant than soaking in a hot spring.
At the same time, every single cell of his body was like a hungry wolf as they devoured the life essence that surged into his body.
It was the purest form of life essence, greatly beneficial to the growth of the body. A normal body would have a limited appetite, which would stop absorbing to a certain extent.
Meng Lei was different.
He had awakened the Primordial Human blo
odline, assimilated the Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline, the Divine Netherworld Phoenix bloodline, the Hundred-Armed Giant bloodline, and the Ancient Tree of Life bloodline.
These bloodlines were not good-for-nothings—they needed to grow with precious herbs and medicines, as well as massive amounts of life essence.
Thus, Meng Lei’s appetite was terrifying. And as he absorbed crazily, these bloodlines started to grow at an insane speed.
Their growth brought about the upgrade of Meng Lei’s divine body.
Upgrade!
Upgrade!
Insane upgrading!
The feeling of upgrading was wonderful, and Meng Lei almost moaned, immersed in this superb feeling.
The opposite of how Meng Lei felt was the Magical Beast God. It felt that its vitality was sucked away rapidly, and its strength was weakening quickly.
This feeling terrified it and made it alarmed. It knew that at this rate, it would die... it would surely die!
“Magical Beast God, don’t you have three other divine incarnations? Why don’t you summon them?” Meng Lei smiled faintly. “If they came to your aid, they might save your life.”
Three divine incarnations?
I do have them, but how do I summon them when they’re not on this existential plane!?
Until this moment, the Magical Beast God knew deep inside that it was the critical moment of life and death—if it did not risk its life and fight, it would most definitely die!
The Magical Beast God cried, “Golden vines!”
Boom!
A golden vine shot out of the restless pool suddenly, like a golden cobra bursting out of the water straight toward Meng Lei.
Whoosh!
The speed was lightning-quick!
No! Speed could not be used to describe it!
Meng Lei did not even manage to use his vine shield, as he was penetrated in the belly by the golden vine.
“Wah!”
Meng Lei spat out a mouthful of blood as he looked at the golden vine in disbelief.
What is this divine weapon? How sharp is this thing?
“Meng Lei!” Dodola’s voice rang in his ears. “Are you alright?”
“Won’t die from this!”
Meng Lei then asked, “Dodola, you know anything about this golden vine?”
“Nope! But it looked like the tree branches of the Golden Apple Tree, yet the aura isn’t right?”
Dodola shook its head. “You need to be careful. There’s an evil aura throughout this ancient snake, unlike ordinary intermediate deities!”
“Got it!”
Meng Lei nodded as his body went through Dark-Elemental Transformation. He then re-manifested his body not far away. “I didn’t think you would have such a divine weapon.”
“Human! You’re not dead!”
Upon seeing Meng Lei reappear lively there, the Magical Beast God almost coughed up blood in anger.
That strike was already its trump card; still, it could not kill Meng Lei!
Now that survivability was too much!
“You’re still far from killing me!”
Meng Lei waved his arm as a trident appeared. “But, to prevent any accident, I have decided to execute you with immediate effect!”
“Don’t you dare, human!”
The Magical Beast God panicked.
“Hmph!”
Meng Lei teleported and appeared right in front of the Magical Beast God. The sharp trident jabbed in an instant and shot a hole through its head.
“Human... I won’t let you off!”
Chapter 303: Sucked Dry, Golden Little Tree
The Magical Beast God died eventually, or rather, this divine incarnation died.
At the moment Meng Lei decided to kill, there was no more chance that it could survive.
The snakehead was penetrated and died on the spot.
“I gotta strike while it’s hot!”
Meng Lei did not let the Magical Beast God off as he continued to absorb its life essence madly. He finally stopped delightfully when it was sucked till it became a mummy.
“My divine body is getting stronger again. There should be little match for it among intermediate deities!”
Meng Lei clenched his fist slightly, and endless strength surged from his body. Meng Lei had a feeling that he could punch a hole through the Gods-Demons Continent!
“To be able to absorb others’ life essence for my own, the Ancient Tree of Life was the right bloodline to assimilate!”
Meng Lei took a deep breath and kept the Magical Beast God’s mummified body with a wave of a hand. Then he looked at the golden vine that dropped on the ground.
Without sustained power of divinity, the golden vine became a 20 centimeter-long twig with the thickness of a thumb. It had a unique striation, which made Meng Lei feel familiar at first sight.
“This texture... Why does this look so similar to the golden leaf in my sea of consciousness?” Meng Lei mumbled. “Perhaps they came from the same plant?”
Meng Lei wanted to summon that golden leaf and compare with it properly, yet tragically, the golden leaf just would not answer his calls.
But what could he do?
Meng Lei could only refine the golden twig and compare it within his sea of consciousness.
A drop of blood fell, but it could not seep into the golden twig, meaning it failed to recognize the owner.
That also meant that the golden twig was owned previously.
Meng Lei released his divine cognition, and indeed there was a divine spirit mark left by the Magical Beast God.
Without a word, the divine spirit mark was destroyed immediately.
Meng Lei successfully claimed ownership of the golden twig and let it enter his sea of consciousness.
Then, an amazing sight happened!
The stationary golden leaf that was hovering in the sea of consciousness started to move over when the golden twig arrived.
The golden twig flew over too, and the two just combined strangely together!
To be exact, the golden leaf grew onto the golden twig. From afar, it looked like a tree branch with a leaf growing on it.
“What the... They grew into each other!”
Meng Lei was dumbfounded.
What kind of situation was this?
He could tell that the two were very much alike, and they were likely from the same source. Yet, he could never have thought that they would actually combine. It was beyond his expectations.
Meng Lei immediately tried to activate them... and the combined leaf and twig started to move!
“I can activate them!”
Meng Lei was overjoyed and summoned the golden branch at once. He started to check it out in his hands.
The golden twig and the golden leaf had the same striation, so it could be seen that they originated from the same tree.
Now the question was, what was that tree?
“Dodola, you said it was the tree branch of the Golden Apple Tree, right?” Meng Lei asked.
“It looked like that, but the aura was entirely different!” Dodola was puzzled too as it continued. “To be honest, I am quite baffled by this! But it is definitely some good stuff that you should keep!”
Meng Lei nodded. This piece of golden tree branch could penetrate his divine body with such ease. Just how sharp and powerful was it?
It was a so-called high-tier divine weapon! Of course, he should keep it safe!
After keeping the golden branch, Meng Lei looked at the Magical Beast God’s carcass and dug out a divine core from it—the Magical Beast God’s divine core.
“Human, I’ll never let you off! I’ll never let you off!”
Furious screams came from the divine core—it hated Meng Lei to the core!
If hate could kill, it would have cut Meng Lei up into a million pieces and tortured him to death.
“I’ll welcome your arrival anytime.”
Meng Lei scoffed, and his divine cognition ravaged the divine core.
He wanted t
o read the memory of the Magical Beast God and find out what secrets it had.
“Don’t even think about it, human!”
The Magical Beast God clearly understood Meng Lei’s intentions, and its divine spirit started to resist madly.
“You’re not even my match when you’re alive, and you still have the cheek to resist?”
Meng Lei sneered and increased the intensity of his divine spirit offense.
“Arghhhh...”
After some intense ravaging, the Magical Beast God’s divine spirit was smashed into bits all around, and Meng Lei could finally read its memory.
After approximately half an hour...
Meng Lei let out a long breath, and a hint of a slight smile appeared at the corners of his lips.
“This... I really deserved to earn another windfall! How could the Magical Beast God have such a lucky encounter!”
Who was the Magical Beast God?
The Magical Beast God was only a normal Saint Domain python divine beast.
However, it had been extremely lucky to pick up a spatial ring from an underground cave that it had stumbled upon by accident.
The spatial ring had been an ordinary one, but the things stored inside were not ordinary at all. Other than tons of treasure, there were also two lesser deity divine cores.
The Magical Beast God had refined both divine cores and used the treasure that could strengthen the divine spirit to become an intermediate deity!
In the Gods-Demons Continent, an intermediate deity was an invincible presence. The Magical Beast God had relied on its incredible power to subdue all the Magical Beasts of the continent and become the Magical Beast God while looting around without restraint.
Thanks to these treasures and divine cores, the Magical Beast God had split its divine spirit two times in a row while cultivating another two divine incarnations!
From then on, it had four divine incarnations to become an outstanding existence among intermediate deities.
Plus, if not because of the limited treasures to strengthen the divine spirit, the Magical Beast God could have had a fifth divine incarnation and become a pinnacle-level intermediate deity.
“How impressive! Most of the treasures were looted by this fellow!”
Having read the Magical Beast God’s memory, Meng Lei knew how rich it was: