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Magic materials that could qualify to be displayed here were all highly valuable and rare materials. Rather than letting them wither, he might as well plant them in the Tower of Time.
Meng Lei then continued to check out the other treasures.
“Ding! Pickup successful. You have obtained the Six-Winged Angel bloodline. Will you assimilate it?”
Chapter 296: By Our Lord’s Decree, The Secret Of Heaven’s Vault
“Ding! Pickup successful. You have obtained the Six-Winged Angel bloodline. Will you assimilate it?”
“No, don’t assimilate it!”
“Ding! Pickup successful. You have obtained the Light Divine Technique Secret Art ‘By Our Lord’s Decree’. Will you assimilate it?”
“By Our Lord’s Decree?”
Meng Lei paused for a while. Although Pope Hayes had been beaten to the ground easily, his divine technique had left a deep impression.
A pinnacle-level lesser deity that could cast an intermediate deity-level Divine Technique, the boost in power was that great!
“I must check it out!”
In a split second, a barrage of information surged into his mind. After quite a while, Meng Lei finally finished absorbing the knowledge, and a hint of amazement flashed across his eyes.
By Our Lord’s Decree—a light-elemental divine technique of the Angel Gods which was several times, even up to dozens of times powerful, that of ordinary light-elemental spells!
If the ordinary light-elemental divine technique was like normal light-elemental magic, then the ‘By Our Lord’s Decree’ was like the light-elemental Dragon-Language Magic—their power was on a different level!
“It’s good!” Meng Lei nodded. “With this secret art, my divine techniques will be more dynamic!”
“Ding! Pickup successful. You have obtained the Divine Light Eagle bloodline. Will you assimilate it?”
“The Divine Light Eagle bloodline? Now, what bloodline is it this time?”
The system did not respond, so Meng Lei could only ask Dodola.
Dodola was indeed an all-knowing encyclopedia.
“The Divine Light Eagle is a light/wind double elemental divine beast, which can become comparable to a lesser deity when it becomes an adult.”
“Only lesser deity level at the adult stage? That divine beast is trash, don’t assimilate.” Meng Lei shook his head promptly.
...
After a round of browsing, Meng Lei could not pick up any more decent stuff, and he left the half-plane where the Light Church treasury was.
“Ol’ Amos, shall we return?”
“Yes, sure!”
Ol’ Amos nodded. “I have laid out tasks which I believe they will finish successfully. So I’m basically an absentee manager.”
“Nice to hear that.”
Meng Lei concurred with Ol’ Amos’s course of actions—subordinates should settle matters like spreading faith. There was no need to personally attend to them.
After this, Meng Lei brought Ol’ Amos back to Heaven’s Vault Continent and returned to the old Dragon God Empire palace, which was now the Meng Lei Empire palace.
The palace was almost the same as before. It was just that the current master was Meng Lei instead of the Dragons. How people had changed, despite the environment remaining the same.
“I was here for quite a lot back then, where I had seen the Dragon Emperor and brought the kids of the Fire Dragon Magic Academy here for the empire-wide exchange competition.”
Ol’ Amos sighed emotionally and went on. “I would never have imagined that the Dragons would be chased out of the palace, and humans would take over as master of this empire. You never know what will happen next!
“Change is the only constant, the wheel of fortune turns!”
Meng Lei smiled. “Things are constantly evolving. How can there be empires that last forever?”
“That’s true.” Ol’ Amos nodded.
Meng Lei smiled and said, “Let’s go, Ol’ Amos. Let’s hang around in the palace before going back to Dragon Island.”
“Alright.”
Puhaman brought a bunch of people to see Meng Lei as soon as he entered the palace. “Greetings Master!”
It was nothing to Meng Lei, but Ol’ Amos was frightened as he stared at Puhaman and the rest.
“Such... Such terrifying divine power. Each of them was stronger than me, similar to the Light Church’s pope... They’re all lesser deities?
“Meng Lei, they’re all lesser deities?”
Ol’ Amos could not help but ask.
“Yeap, all lesser deities!” Meng Lei replied with a smile.
“Gosh! so many of them!” Ol’ Amos gasped, “One, two, three... Twelve! Twelve lesser deities! This... It’s unbelievable!”
As Ol’ Amos was sizing them up, they did the same. They were wondering, Who is this old fellow beside Master?
“Let me introduce you. This is my teacher, Amos Kroc,” Meng Lei said calmly.
“Amos Kroc?”
Everyone else was puzzled except for Thaniel, whose body was shaking. “You’re Amolin’s elder brother?”
“You’re...” Ol’ Amos looked at Thaniel.
“I’m Thaniel the Black Dragon half-deity!”
Thaniel had a perplexed face. “Amos, weren’t you dead? Why...”
“Haha, I have two lives!” Ol’ Amos laughed and said.
“I see...” Thaniel nodded his head slightly and understood immediately.
“Ol’ Amos is the person that I respect the most. I want all of you to treat him like me, understand?” Meng Lei said as he swept a glance across everybody.
“Yes, Master!”
“There’s no need for such formalities, Meng Lei.” Ol’ Amos was frightened.
“They’re all lesser deities, while I’m not even a true god. How could I possibly ask them to treat me like you!?”
“There’s nothing improper here.”
Meng Lei waved his hands with a smile and asked, “How was the matter with the migration? There should be a rough plan, right?”
“Master!”
Puhaman stepped forward. “We have discussed, and we agreed to develop the 48 existential planes in the shortest time possible. The best solution is still migrating Beast People races that have decent reproduction rates, like Pig Men, Rabbit Men, Doghead Kobolds, and others, before we migrate the rest.
“Plus, the Beast People Empire had suffered heavily. And as fear and uncertainty gripped the empire, now is the best opportunity to establish our faith among them!”
Everyone nodded their heads in agreement.
“That’s a good plan. I’ll leave it for you all to settle, don’t disappoint me.”
Meng Lei raised his head slightly and continued. “Once this is settled, it’ll be the time to divide and confer existential planes and create a god system.”
“Yes, Master!”
Everyone was excited at the thought of such a historical moment—they would obtain existential planes and construct a god system!
By then, they would all become gods under Meng Lei’s system, and they would enjoy an endless amount of faith. How great would that be?
“Did anything happen these few days while I was away?” Meng Lei asked.
“Master, everything is fine in Heaven’s Vault Continent,” Puhaman said while he bowed.
The rest nodded slightly too—with so many lesser deities here, it would be difficult for anything troublesome to occur.
However, Thaniel hesitated a while before he said suddenly, “Master, the Dragon God had looked for me!”
“Dragon God?” Meng Lei raised his eyebrows.
“What did he want?”
“He wanted me to destroy the teleportation magic circle in the Far Northern Icelands so he could take over the 48 existential planes that the Dark Demonic Dragon left behind. Still, this isn’t the point!”
Thaniel did not dare to hide anything as he continued.
“The point is, the Dragon God told
me that he had already reported Heaven’s Vault Continent’s secret to the Dragon God race!
“He said that it was a secret so lucrative to countless higher deities that the Dragon Gods will definitely send their army down to Heaven’s Vault Continent!
“By then, the entire Heaven’s Vault Continent will be plunged into great misery and suffering. While Master...”
“Heaven’s Vault Continent’s secret?”
“What secret could this continent possibly have?”
“That’s right, Heaven’s Vault Continent is just a low-end material plane. Why would it have any secrets? This bastard Dragon God must be sprouting ridiculous, shocking nonsense!”
“One that interests countless higher deities...”
Everyone shook their head as they scoffed at the idea, but Meng Lei started to frown and slipped into deep thoughts.
Heaven’s Vault Continent’s secret? A secret that interests countless higher deities?”
What secret would that be?
“Dodola, is the secret that the Dragon God spoke of the Tower of Time?” Meng Lei was baffled.
“Other than the Tower of Time, I can’t think of any other possibilities. And of course, we can’t strike out that Gods-Demons Continent, but that secret can never be greater than the Tower of Time!”
Chapter 297: Grooming And Demon Metamorphosis, The Gods-Demons Continent
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
It was very hard for low-end existential planes like Heaven’s Vault Continent, where resources were sparse, and laws of nature were indistinct, to possess any kind of astounding secrets most of the time. At best, one might find things like half-deity ruins and so on, but that was about it.
However, even these were of absolutely no value to the high and mighty deities, let alone having a secret that could astound a higher deity. The only thing that Meng Lei could think of was the Tower of Time.
Not only was the God of Time a Great Perfection deity that had comprehended and perfectly assimilated five types of basic laws, but he was even an Ancient God that had comprehended time-based laws of nature.
Despite not in possession of Chief God divine cores, Ancient Gods could nevertheless contend against Chief Gods. What kind of powerful existence must they be, then? And how great and noble must they be?
As for the Tower of Time, as a place that stored the God of Time’s legacy and treasures, its allure to the deities in the Void was self-evident.
By obtaining the Tower of Time, they would obtain the Ancient God, the God of Time’s legacy, his treasures, and even the cultivation method for time-based laws of nature.
How alluring was that?
It was no exaggeration to say that even Chief Gods might be tempted, let alone higher deities!
Meng Lei said, “If that’s really the case, then it’s indeed rather troublesome. Never mind, I’m the master of the existential plane. Any deity can forget about behaving so presumptuously here!”
As the master of the existential plane, he was an absolute and invincible existence while in the existential plane. What was there for him to fear?
“You’re oversimplifying things, Meng Lei.”
Dodola slowly shook its head and said, “I’ve certainly mentioned in the past that deities of the Void are unable to descend upon Heaven’s Vault Continent in most typical cases, but nothing is absolute in this world.”
“Could it be that there are other methods aside from secret arts such as the Angel Gods’ immolation and summoning spell?”
Meng Lei broke into a slight frown. He wasn’t concerned about the angels’ immolation spell. Aside from the fact that the immolation spell required extremely demanding conditions in order to be cast, there was also one other most important factor—how powerful the angel summoned through immolation was strongly linked to how powerful the sacrifice themselves were.
The more powerful the sacrifice was, the more powerful the summoned angel would be.
Even someone as powerful as Pope Hayes, who was a pinnacle-level lesser deity, had only managed to summon Lorenzo, a six-winged angel on par with an intermediate deity, whereas those weaker than the pope would only summon angels even weaker than that.
Yet, it was impossible to find anyone stronger than the pope in Heaven’s Vault Continent.
Besides, considering how demanding the conditions for immolation were, whether or not anyone was willing to do it was a problem in itself. Therefore, Meng Lei wasn’t worried about secret arts like immolation at all.
“You’re oversimplifying things, Meng Lei.”
Dodola shook its head and said, “The deities in the Void have a multitude of ways at their fingertips if they wish to descend upon a low-end existential plane. Most commonly, they use two particular methods.”
“What methods are they?” asked Meng Lei gravely.
“The first is to select, provide guidance, and groom someone.”
Dodola explained, “The deities in the Void would select and provide guidance to a native being from Heaven’s Vault Continent. Within 10,000 years, they’ll groom them into a true god, a lesser deity, an intermediate deity, or even a higher deity.
“You should know that it isn’t hard to groom someone into a higher deity. It’s nothing more than just a few divine cores and a fusion laws of nature fragment.”
Meng Lei’s expression changed at once. Was grooming someone into a higher deity difficult? Theoretically, it really wasn’t.
A Saint Domain could already assimilate divine cores.
It required only one lesser deity divine core to groom a Saint Domain into a lesser deity, five to groom them into an intermediate deity, and five lesser deity divine cores and one fusion laws of nature fragment to groom them into a higher deity.
Of course, the person would also need to split their divine spirit during this process. Thus, they would need treasures that could enhance their divine spirit. Things like Crystallized Divine Spirit Extracts, Soul Ice Marrow, and so on would suffice.
Generally speaking, it was indeed very costly to groom someone into a higher deity, but there was definitely no lack of wealthy tycoons among the deities in the Void. As long as they were willing to do it, they certainly could groom someone into a higher deity within a short period of time.
“Is that really possible?!”
Meng Lei gasped. For the first time, the deities’ wisdom had astonished him.
“I told you, as long as the deities in the Void are willing to, they have a plethora of ways that they can descend upon a low-end existential plane.”
Dodola sighed. “The second commonly-used method is demon metamorphosis.”
“Demon metamorphosis?”
Meng Lei was taken aback.
“You should also know that deities in the Void cannot descend upon low-end existential planes while demons can.”
Dodola said gravely, “This is a loophole that they can exploit. The deities in the Void would split their divine spirit and take over a low-grade or same-grade demon’s body, thereby grooming a demonic incarnation of themselves so that they can descend upon low-end existential planes anytime they want.”
“They can do that?”
Meng Lei gasped. “Aren’t deities and demons sworn enemies? Are there deities that are willing to take over a demon’s body and own a demonic incarnation?”
“What’s the big deal about that?”
Dodola scoffed, “I’ll be honest with you. Most typical deities with even a bit of background will groom one—several, even—demonic incarnation of themselves. There are even those who take it a step further and rear numerous demon servants so that they can use them during times of need.”
A mocking Dodola said, “Deities? Demons? How can there be absolute justice in this world? Or absolute evilness? As long as it profits oneself, those sanctimonious deities can bring themselves to do anything!”
“I understand now.” Meng Lei nodded slowly. “I’ve underestimated the deities in the Void.”
Dodola said gravely, “The Colossal Dragon Gods are a powerful godly clan that is in no way inferior to the Titan Gods and the Angel Gods.”
“I get it now.”
Meng Lei nodded slowly.
“What are your plans?” asked Dodola in a low voice.
“Become stronger, I suppose. Only when I’ve become stronger will I be able to handle all the difficulties thrown at me.”
A smiling Meng Lei said, “If all else fails, then I can only bring forward my deification. Nothing can go wrong once I have a higher deity divine incarnation.”
“I can rest assured now that you’ve said that.”
Dodola heaved a sigh of relief at Meng Lei’s response. Meng Lei had already assimilated quite a few types of laws of nature by now. As long as he wanted to, he could ascend and become a higher deity anytime he wanted.
As both a higher deity as well as the master of the existential plane—as long as he didn’t run into a Great Perfection deity—Meng Lei would be an absolute and invincible presence in Heaven’s Vault Continent!
“So, there’s nothing to really be afraid of!”
A relaxed Meng Lei said, “By the way, didn’t you mention the Gods-Demons Continent just now? Is there a Gods-Demons Continent on the Heaven’s Vault Continent existential plane?”
“As the master of the existential plane, you’re really so...” An exasperated Dodola rolled its eyes.
“What’s the big deal about me being the master of the existential plane? How long has it only been since I became one? How am I supposed to know that there’s also a Gods-Demons Continent on this existential plane when the Endless Oceans are so vast?”
Meng Lei snorted and said, “You’re right, though. I indeed haven’t done a proper inspection of Heaven’s Vault Continent existential plane ever since I became its master. I’ll take a look right away.”
The moment the thought occurred to him, Meng Lei released his divine cognition at once. Through the Heart of The Existential Planes, he began to inspect the Heaven’s Vault Continent existential plane.