In other words, Cyrus spent most of its time in slumber and rarely woke up.
“Such a lazy dragon!”
Still, Meng Lei managed to find some useful information from the limited memories.
For example, the details of the 48 material planes, the exact location of the 48 Heart of the Existential Plane...
“After refining the Heart of the Existential Plane, I’ll be able to exert total control over the entire existential plane. Every tree, every river, every brick will all be under my control!”
Meng Lei could not wait any longer to try it out as he followed Cyrus’ memory and found the Heart of the Existential Plane of the Demonic Dragon Continent.
After that, he went into a vibrant, colorful world where laws of nature in the shape of chains covered the entire continent.
The silver Thunder-elemental laws of nature!
The red Fire-elemental laws of nature!
The blue Water-elemental laws of nature!
The golden Metal-elemental laws of nature!
...
Ten types of basic laws of nature formed a densely packed web, filling the colorful world. In the center of this colorful web floated a multicolored rhombus-shaped crystal.
It was iridescent and dazzling.
The ten laws of nature seemed to extend out from this colorful crystal. At the same time, the crystal seemed to be the heart of this colorful world.
“This is the Heart of the Existential Plane!”
Meng Lei sized up the crystal from top to bottom. He was rather curious since it was his first time seeing a Heart of the Existential Plane.
Having examined enough, Meng Lei released his divine cognition, which shrouded the Heart of the Existential Plane.
At that instant, Meng Lei could feel that his divine cognition permeated through the entire Demonic Dragon Continent.
Every single thing in the Demonic Dragon Continent appeared in Meng Lei’s mind.
Every speck of grass growing, every cry of a bird, every sleeping little demon... They were all reflected in his mind!
It was a fascinating experience for Meng Lei, similar to when he had refined and obtained the Tower of Time!
After some examination, Meng Lei discovered something surprising as the Demonic Dragon Continent’s existential plane was quite different from Heaven’s Vault Continent.
Heaven’s Vault Continent was surrounded by vast, endless oceans which occupied more than half of the existential plane. The continent itself was just a small portion.
As for the Demonic Dragon Continent’s existential plane, it had no oceans as it was covered with land. The center of the existential plane had countless rivers and lakes, so water sources were still abundant.
If Heaven’s Vault Continent was like Earth, then the Demonic Dragon Continent was like Mars. One was mainly made up of oceans, while the other was mainly made up of land.
Both were completely different!
“Since the entire existential plane was made up of land, the soil is much more extensive, thus giving birth to more intelligent species.
“It’s just a pity that they were all killed by Cyrus, and Cyrus’ demon army occupied the vast land. The continent then became a paradise for demons!”
Meng Lei learned from Cyrus’ memory that the Demonic Dragon Continent and the other 47 material planes gave birth to many unique species.
The tragic thing was that ever since Cyrus’ rise, every living thing in these material planes was completely erased by the demons. Demons then occupied these 48 material planes, becoming the only creatures to roam the lands.
“That’s ruthless!”
Meng Lei was appalled as he started to refine the Heart of the Existential Plane of the Demonic Dragon Continent. It was quite easy to refine since it had no consciousness.
Meng Lei left his divine spirit mark in it within a few minutes and completed the refinement process.
In an instant, Meng Lei felt that he was the Demonic Dragon Continent existential plane, and the existential plane was him.
If he had the will, he could change anything in this existential plane. He could make mountains float, reverse the river flows, make a forest wither, and could also kill every demon within the material plane!
Everything... with just a thought!
Of course, there was also the Power of Existential Plane.
“So that’s how this power works! The Power of Existential Plane is... just ridiculous!”
Meng Lei sensed everything in the Demonic Dragon Continent. If he battled Cyrus now, Meng Lei was confident that he could suppress it with just a flip of his hands.
The Power of Existential Plane in the material level was too fearsome; suppressing an intermediate deity was just a small matter!
At the same time, Meng Lei was glad that he could teleport. Once the Power of Existential Plane controlled him, then he would have no chance to make a comeback.
“It’s just tragic for Cyrus to meet me. If it was someone else, who could rival it?”
Meng Lei smiled and shook his head as he teleported out of the space that held the Heart of the Existential Plane.
At this timing, Bubbles and the rest had finished dividing the loot as everyone was satisfied with what they got.
“Greetings Master!”
The subordinates greeted excitedly.
Meng Lei smiled and asked, “All done?”
“Thank you for your generosity, Master. We have finished dividing the loot!” Bubbles and the rest bowed, their eyes filled with gratitude.
As lesser deities, it was already difficult to subdue Demon Lords, not to mention Great Demon Lords!
Don’t even think about it!
Yet now, they did it. How could they not feel grateful from the bottom of their heart?
“Now, let’s talk about some proper matters. Cyrus had a total of 48 material planes.” Meng Lei said, “I won’t be able to manage all of them, so I have decided to divide and enfeoff these existential planes to you and help me manage!”
“Enfeoff them to us?”
Everyone was stunned.
“Indeed, I’m planning to divide these existential planes among all of you to manage and spread your faith. Yes, spread your faith!”
Meng Lei smiled again. “I’ve calculated, everyone can get around three to four existential planes on average. You all should be able to accumulate massive power of divinity with them.”
Since they had assimilated divine cores to become deities, it would be difficult for Bubbles and the rest to advance further in their cultivations. Their only route to advance was to assimilate divine cores of higher levels.
Meng Lei did not have any of those divine cores for the time being. Thus, they were not going to think about advancing for some time.
Would spreading faith be useless to them? The answer was negative!
The power of faith would always be useful to every deity, even if they became deities through the assimilation of divine cores.
Suppose there were three to four existential planes as the deity’s power of faith domains. The deity would be able to gather massive amounts of power of faith that could be converted into the power of divinity or strengthen the divine spirit! Hence there were many benefits!
After all, for any deities, the amount of power of divinity and the strength of divine spirit would always determine the combat power of deities! Hence, the power of faith was very important!
The question was, was Meng Lei really willing to enfeoff all 48 existential planes to them? That was 48 existential planes, after all!
It just sounded unbelievable to them.
“There’s no need to doubt.” Meng Lei smiled faintly. “I’m planning to create a god system. After that, all of you will become true gods under my command!”
“Creating a god system?!”
A huge jolt went through everyone.
A god system was a closely linked combination of deities. It was similar to a nation or family where they were closel
y connected.
A god system would consist of a Lord of Gods and a bunch of true gods under it. The Lord of Gods not only ruled the god system, but it would also be prioritized to enjoy the power of faith—the power of faith collected by each true god would be shared equally between the Lord of Gods and the true god.
Thus, it was evident that the god system was a strict hierarchy, which differed greatly from alliances like the deity alliance.
“We stand by your decision, Master!”
Bubbles and the others naturally didn’t have any objections to that.
They were already Meng Lei’s servants. Even if Meng Lei decided to seize all the power of faith of the 48 existential planes for himself, they would not dare to say anything.
All the more, Meng Lei was going to split these existential planes among them, make them gods under him, and enjoy half of the power of faith!
That was simply an enormous act of kindness bestowed upon them!
“Let’s go then! Accompany me to explore other existential planes,” Meng Lei said faintly.
“Yes, Master!”
Chapter 280: System Upgrade, New Functions
Meng Lei hadn’t planned on establishing a god system initially. He had only come up with the idea after he obtained the 48 existential planes.
To him, his main means of gaining strength was still the system. Power of faith was ultimately just supplementary.
After all, the worst thing here was that Meng Lei still hadn’t lit up his divine fire even as of now. Well, that was awkward!
What was divine fire?
Divine fire was a tool that turned power of faith into power of divinity—in other words, it was a power of divinity converter. If power of divinity were electricity, then divine fire would be the power plant!
Even if Meng Lei had vast amounts of power of faith, he wouldn’t be able to convert them into power of divinity anyway without a divine fire.
In other words, even if Meng Lei had 1,000 existential planes acting as his power of faith domains, the vast amounts of power of faith they produced would only pile up and accumulate.
This was a complete waste.
Rather than having that happen, he might as well enfeoff those existential planes to Bubbles and the others and allow them to spread their own faith, earn and accumulate power of divinity, and strengthen themselves.
Once they became stronger, Meng Lei would no longer need to personally attend to a lot of things. There were a lot of benefits to be had.
Besides!
How would Meng Lei possibly have that much time to manage that many existential planes? He couldn’t even be bothered to deal with the Dragon God Empire, much less 48 existential planes!
Therefore, the ideal solution was to enfeoff them to others. Meng Lei believed that Bubbles and the others would definitely manage the existential planes with great diligence for the sake of power of faith.
“You’ve finally smartened up for once, kid!”
Dodola was full of praise for Meng Lei’s idea. It said, “Not only is establishing a god system beneficial to spreading one’s faith, but it can also encourage the subsidiary gods to open up new grounds and forge ahead, such that they would develop the ambition to expand their territory. It’s a move that kills two birds with one stone!”
“With that coming from even you, then there shouldn’t be anything to worry over anymore!”
Dodola’s response further strengthened Meng Lei’s thoughts of establishing a god system.
After that, the group began to take a leisurely stroll around the 48 existential planes. The existential planes were connected via teleportation magic circles, so they were easily accessible.
Of course, Meng Lei didn’t forget to refine their Hearts of The Existential Planes and take full control of them, either.
The 48 existential planes were rich and diverse in variety and differed from one another. Some were marine worlds, some were dry lands, some were fully covered in forests...
With incredibly vast and wide lands and containing abundant resources, all the existential planes were highly suitable to be used as living beings’ habitats and were exceptionally good power of faith domains. The only thing that displeased them was that... All of them were currently being occupied by demons.
Innumerable demons occupied the existential planes, filling the pleasant environments with foul atmospheres as they ran rampant. It was truly irksome!
“What a waste for demons to be occupying them!”
None of them looked favorably upon demons. Apart from the fact that deities and demons were natural adversaries and thus adopted hostile attitudes toward each other, there was also one other reason for this—it was in the demons’ nature to be cunning, cruel, and bloodthirsty. They didn’t easily worship others, so it was far harder to grow demon worshiper numbers than to grow normal worshiper numbers.
Thus, everyone wanted to kill the demons and migrate other living beings there instead.
To be honest, Meng Lei also wanted to kill the demons. However, it wasn’t because he disliked them, but rather... It was because he was poor!
The rebirth had depleted him of 888 million Laws of Nature Origin Crystals and left him with only 880,000 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals. One could say that he had gone right back to square one overnight and become a penniless pauper again!
Thus, Meng Lei was in a panic. It didn’t feel good to be penniless.
The only thing currently on his mind was to replenish his Wealth. He didn’t feel very confident with an empty purse!
“I should be, no, I definitely will be able to replenish everything that I’ve spent if I kill all the demons!”
The moment the thought occurred to him, Meng Lei said, “Everyone, I’ve decided to establish a god system and enfeoff these existential planes to all of you. Do you have any suggestions?”
Everyone exchanged looks with one another. Then, Bubbles scratched his head and asked, “Are you serious, Master?”
“Duh, of course!”
Meng Lei rolled his eyes.
“Since Master has already made up his mind, then I hope Master can forgive for taking the liberty of raising a suggestion.”
Bubbles lowered his voice and said, “Can we kill those demons? They are simply too detestable. I have no desire to have a bunch of demon worshipers.”
“My thoughts exactly, Master!”
Seisia spoke up and said, “These are good material planes, yet those demons have polluted them. What a huge waste that is!”
“That’s right, Master. Let’s hurry up and kill those demons. Leaving them alive is just a waste of resources!”
“Master, I suggest exterminating all the demons and migrating some humans, Colossal Dragons, or Beast People from Heaven’s Vault Continent over...”
Everyone else also spoke up one after another, with all of them essentially saying the same thing in different forms. They indeed didn’t have any other ideas, either. The fact that their Master was willing to divide and confer the existential planes to them was already a pleasant surprise to them.
What more was there for them to be discontent about?
“Since everyone has the same opinions, then we’ll do just that.” Meng Lei mused for a long while before he said, “We’ll exterminate the demons and migrate other races over!”
“How wise, Master!”
“O my noble Master, your wisdom is like the dazzling and eye-catching stars in the sky, yet also like a lighthouse at sea that lights up our paths...”
Overjoyed, everyone launched into wild bursts of flattery. For a while, all sorts of praises gushed from them like an endless, overflowing river that was out of control.
The next problem was—how should they exterminate the demons?
There were billions of demons in the 48 existential planes. Killing them was no easy task. To quote Zhang Fei[1], “One would have to spend a total of three days and three nights even if they were just killing 700,000 pigs”, let alone that many demons!<
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However, to Meng Lei, who had already refined all the Hearts of The Existential Planes, this really wasn’t that difficult a task at all. He needed only to think about it, and he would be able to easily wipe out all the demons.
That was what made an existential plane’s master so fearsome. By using Power of Existential Plane, they could easily kill all the low-end living beings in their existential planes.
“Ding! 1 Longhorned Demon killed, 12 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals gained!”
“Ding...”
As Meng Lei commenced his operation, his Wealth value also began to spike insanely. He gained one billion Laws of Nature Origin Crystals after wiping out the demons on one existential plane.
Going by the rate of 0.1 Laws of Nature Origin Crystal per demon, that meant that he had killed as many as 10 billion demons!
Of course, the actual numbers were undoubtedly even bigger.
If 1 Laws of Nature Origin Crystal equated to 10 billion gold coins, then that meant that 0.1 Laws of Nature Origin Crystal equated to 1 billion gold coins.
That was the amount he earned when he killed a Saint Domain Magical Beast, which was the equivalent of a Demon General among the demons.
Was it possible for every demon on an existential plane to be a Demon General? Obviously not. Worlds would always be populated by low-end beings the most, no matter which it was.
Therefore, more than 10 billion demons had definitely died on that existential plane alone.
Fortunately, Meng Lei had employed a humanitarian way of annihilating them. The demons died instantly without any pain or fear and left the world very peacefully.
“Let’s head to the next one!”
Just like that, Meng Lei traveled around all 48 existential planes and began an all-new way of withdrawing funds from ATMs.
About ten existential planes later, the depleted funds were not only replenished, but he had also broken through the 10 billion milestone.
The system’s icy voice abruptly rang out at this point.
“Ding! It has been detected that the host’s Wealth value has broken through the 10 billion Laws of Nature Origin Crystals mark and now fulfills the system upgrade condition. Dear host, will you upgrade the system?”
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