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!
Chapter 201: Smashing the Dragon God Dead, The Tower of Time
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“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 perso
n 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!
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