“It’s normal to become tempted by the idea. Becoming the master of a mid-end existential plane is the dream of all deities. This is also another reason why mid-end existential planes and their seeds are so expensive,” replied Dodola with a sigh.
“Dodola, I’ve become somewhat hesitant now.”
Meng Lei gazed at the bottomless Demon Ravine and said, “In the event that Dark Hell Continent already has a master, wouldn’t I be putting myself in peril?”
“That’s exactly what I’m worried about.” Dodola warned, “So, you’d better not take risks so easily. Investigate thoroughly before you make your next move.”
Meng Lei nodded slightly. “In that case, I’ll use a divinity projection to do some scouting first. What a shame that I don’t even have a single divine incarnation!”
“Didn’t you just obtain an Abyss Skeletal Dragon carcass? You can turn that into your demonic incarnation!” suggested Dodola.
“Why did I let that slip my mind!”
Meng Lei smacked his forehead as he let out an exclamation. The Abyss Skeletal Dragon’s body was extremely tough. Aside from its skull that Meng Lei had smashed into bits, every other part of it was still well and intact. He could totally turn it into a demonic incarnation without any problem.
Without further ado, Meng Lei brought out the Abyss Skeletal Dragon carcass and began to work on it.
Creating an alternate incarnation was actually not much different from refining divine weapons. He needed to imprint his divine spirit mark on the target object in both cases and turn it into something that he could control at will and command like a third arm.
Therefore, it wasn’t a difficult task.
The only frustrating thing was that the Abyss Skeletal Dragon’s skull had been broken, so there was no longer a place to hold one’s divine spirit flame. This created quite a fair bit of trouble for Meng Lei.
Fortunately, he had an abundance of dried-up dead bodies, remains, and bones in storage. After a series of selecting, mending, and fixing, he finally managed to replace it with an imitation skull.
One could barely discern any flaws from just its outer appearance. However, in truth, the actual Abyss Skeletal Dragon’s skull was far beyond what the skull he’d constructed could compare with.
It was also the one and only opening that enemies could take advantage of in the Abyss Skeletal Dragon alternate incarnation.
“It’s finally done!”
Meng Lei heaved a sigh of relief. Then, he gritted his teeth and bore with the severe pain, split part of his divine spirit flame, and placed it inside the Abyss Skeletal Dragon’s skull.
After that, he tried to control the Abyss Skeletal Dragon.
Krak, krak, krak...
The Abyss Skeletal Dragon slowly began to move.
It shook its head, swung its tail, raised its claw, took a step...
After testing it out for a while, Meng Lei gradually familiarized himself with the Abyss Skeletal Dragon alternate incarnation and became smoother and smoother at controlling it. Toward the end, he finally managed to control it perfectly.
“All done! I can set out now!”
Under Meng Lei’s control, the Abyss Skeletal Dragon alternate incarnation turned into human form. Dodola and Ol’ Amos also each created a divinity projection. Then, under Bailey Yale’s lead, they entered the space-time rift.
Howl!
The moment they entered, they immediately encountered violent, raging space-time fluxes. Ol’ Amos’ divinity projection lasted only a few seconds before the havoc-wreaking space-time fluxes smashed it into smithereens.
“Ol’ President!” Meng Lei shouted.
“The space-time fluxes here are too strong. He can’t endure them at all!” Dodola shouted, “Let’s go! Speed up and charge all the way out!”
“Okay!”
A few seconds later, the trio finally passed through the space-time rift and arrived at a whole new world.
It wasn’t dim and dark like what they had imagined. Nor was there the bloody scene that they had imagined. Dark Hell Continent, an existential plane that demons had completely occupied, was actually a world brimming with life and vitality that didn’t differ much from Heaven’s Vault Continent!
Or at least, that was what it seemed like from the surface.
“The magic elements here are almost 100 times richer than that of Heaven’s Vault Continent. The laws of nature here can also be detected much more clearly!
“And the gravity, and the dimension’s stability level, too. There’s no comparison between the two at all!”
Meng Lei threw a punch, causing a small hole to be smashed into the dimension. Had he done this in Heaven’s Vault Continent instead, the same amount of force would have smashed a large part of the dimension into bits and pieces instead.
“That’s what a mid-end existential plane is like. Low-end existential planes can’t compare to them at all.”
Dodola had a look of nostalgia on its face as it said, “It’s just a shame that a bunch of demons has actually occupied a mid-end existential plane like this. What a waste of heaven’s gifts!”
“You don’t say!”
Meng Lei agreed wholeheartedly. Then, he turned to Bailey, the Ancient Demon Pig, and asked, “Where are we?”
“This is the Forest of Darkness, Master. It’s within my territory, the Pighead Ridge,” replied Bailey respectfully.
“Let’s go! We’ll take a look around your den first,” said Meng Lei after some thought.
“Yes, Master!”
The trio rose into the air and flew toward Bailey’s den under his lead.
Meng Lei observed the fascinating new world as he flew. As the magic elements there were extremely rich, the forest’s vegetation grew exceptionally lushly and luxuriantly.
Apart from that, an astonishing number of Magical Beasts also lived there. If not for the occasional demon tribes here and there, one could practically see no difference between the Forest of Darkness and Heaven’s Vault Continent’s Magical Beast Forest.
Meng Lei’s divine cognition had already spread into the surroundings a long time ago and was ransacking the demon tribes’ gold coins, Laws of Nature Origin Crystals, Divinity Crystals, treasures, divine weapons...
Meng Lei pilfered from the demon tribes the whole way and made a huge killing. The tribes were poor in general, but as the idiom went, “Many little drops make an ocean”. They added up to an extremely astonishing amount.
As for how much they concretely added up to, Meng Lei had no idea, either. This was just his alternate incarnation, so the system hadn’t followed him over.
He collected riches the whole way as they flew.
Two days later, Meng Lei finally arrived at Bailey’s den.
“So, this is your den?”
The trio arrived in front of a gigantic sinkhole. The sinkhole was astonishingly wide in diameter and measured as wide as 10,000 kilometers. At the bottom of the sinkhole was a vast primeval forest, and living within it was an astonishing number of... Pigs!
A 100,000-feet-deep sinkhole!
With pigs within the sinkhole!
Wasn’t this a freaking naturally-formed pigsty?
“Yes, Master, this is my den, the Demon Pig Sinkhole!”
Bailey said respectfully, “The Yale family has lived here for generations. All these piglets are my children.”
“Alright!”
Meng Lei nodded and instructed, “Let’s go down and take a look!”
“Father is back!”
“Wah! Father!”
Bailey’s return caused a rather significant furor. Innumerable little piglets converged from all directions and passionately welcomed him home.
Bailey then casually brought out piles and piles of good stuff and distributed them to the piglets in the sinkhole.
Chapter 326: Ice Demon Prefecture Guards, Death In A Strike
“Master, these piglets are my children. They will be able to start families once they become adults
,” Bailey Yale explained.
“They’re all your children?”
Meng Lei’s expression became very interesting.
How many piglets were in the sinkhole? It should be no less than a million, right? And they’re all the Ancient Demon Pig’s children?
Well, that is a lot of reproduction here!
“Yes, Master!”
Bailey seemed proud of himself. “In our race, whoever reproduces more will have more prestige, and it means that they are more capable!”
“Some unique standards!”
As he continued forward, Meng Lei saw a bunch of seductively dressed ladies. They were either fat ladies with huge waists or bigger and taller than Zhang Fei...
Each of them looked fierce-looking, but they all looked at Bailey Yale. This made Meng Lei so uncomfortable that he broke out in cold sweat.
Bailey seemed used to it though, and he introduced them to Meng Lei. “Master, they’re all my wives!”
“Can... Can tell!”
Meng Lei wiped his forehead and said untruthfully, “You have so much luck with women!”
“Of course! At our Pighead Ridge, who isn’t envious of me? Envious of my 129,600 beautiful wives?” Bailey said proudly.
“You’re really blessed then!”
Just then, a cold, eerie voice rang.
“Where’s the Demon God Bailey of the Pighead Ridge?”
Upon hearing it, Bailey’s face became awful. “Damn these bastards!”
“Who’s looking for you?” Meng Lei raised an eyebrow.
“Other than the Ice Demon Guards, who else?” Bailey gritted his teeth. “We Pighead Ridge belonged to the Dark Hell Demonic Kingdom’s Ice Demon Prefecture. We have to pay tributes to them every year, and the Ice Demon Guards are the ones collecting them.”
“I see.”
Meng Lei nodded slowly.
“These bastards are bloodsuckers. Half of the tribute I pay enters their pockets. They are so avaricious, but we can only suffer in silence since they represent the prefecture!” Bailey loathed them.
“Let’s go out and check it out!”
They came to the sky above the sinkhole and saw a squad of demons made of ice. They had horns and wore silver armor—the Ice Demons!
There were not many, only 20 demons, and almost all of them were lesser deity-level Great Demon Lords. The one in the front was the strongest, an intermediate deity-level Demon God!
“Demon God Bailey, how are the preparations for today’s tribute?”
The Ice Demon God cast a glance at Meng Lei before ignoring him and continued looking at Bailey Yale as it spoke in a lofty tone.
“All here!”
Bailey took a breath and threw a spatial ring containing the tributes casually.
The Ice Demon God caught the ring and began checking. After a while, it frowned slightly. “Bailey Demon God, the tributes you prepared aren’t enough!”
“Not enough?” Bailey’s expression changed. “Demon God Isiah, the tributes were prepared according to past years’ standards. Why is this not enough now suddenly?”
“Oh my useless brains, how could I forget. Really shouldn’t!” Demon God Isiah smacked its forehead. “You might not know this Demon God Bailey. My Master had ordered to double this year’s tributes!”
“Double?”
Bailey Yale could no longer hold in his anger. “Demon God Isiah, there was no change in the number of tributes for over 10,000 years, so why was it increased all of a sudden? Plus, if the Prefecture Master did increase the number of tributes, please show your official papers!”
Isiah’s expression turned cold, and it bellowed, “Demon God Bailey, are you questioning Master’s orders? You better not make me complain to Master and sentence you for blasphemy!”
“Hmph! Without seeing the official papers, I won’t increase the tributes!” Bailey said coldly. “Please leave Demon God Isiah!”
“How impudent!”
Isiah bellowed, “Demon God Bailey, how dare you question Master’s orders! Come, take him down and bring him back to the prefecture for Master to decide his fate!”
He glared at Bailey coldly. “If he resists, execute him at once!”
“Yes, sir!”
The squadron of Ice Demon Guards responded affirmatively and swarmed toward Bailey. Their eyes were ferocious, provocative, and fearless.
Even though they were lesser deities who were much weaker than Demon God Bailey, they were not afraid whether Bailey would resist them!
They were the Ice Demon Guards who represented the Ice Demon Prefecture, after all. If Bailey dared to resist them, it would be no different than provoking the prefecture and becoming an enemy.
Opposing the Ice Demon Prefecture... meant a death sentence!
“Bastard!”
Bailey clenched his fists tightly, enraged. Flames of rage were suppressed inside as he had the urge to kill all of them.
However, once the Ice Demon Guards charged toward him, he was like a leaking balloon and gave up resistance completely.
“We are sorry, Demon God Bailey.”
The squad swarmed and took down Bailey immediately and seized him.
“No matter how powerful you are, you will still bow down before us, the Ice Demon Guards!”
“I’m really sorry, Master!” Bailey laughed bitterly. “I can’t oppose the prefecture, or else not just myself, my entire family will be wiped out!”
“Bailey, I understand your feelings. But sometimes, too much giving in will only make the situation worse as they will only exploit you even more!”
Meng Lei shook his head and cautioned, “Appropriate resistance is very necessary!”
Upon hearing Meng Lei’s words, Bailey let out a wry laugh.
Isiah’s expression turned icy once again, and his eyes turned savage. “Who are you?”
“The one that will kill you,” Meng Lei said calmly as a terrifying aura swept across like an imposing tsunami wave crashing toward Isiah.
“Great... Great Demon God!”
Upon sensing Meng Lei’s aura, Demon God Isiah’s teeth chattered with horror in its eyes. “You’re a G-Great Demon God!”
“Just die!”
Meng Lei was in no mood to speak with such pawns any longer and sent a slap. Isiah was frightened badly, yelling hoarsely, “No! You can’t kill me! I’m an Ice Demon Prefecture Guard, so if you dare to kill me, the Prefecture Master will not let—”
Crackle!
It did not manage to finish the sentence as Meng Lei’s palm arrived. Demon God Isiah was squashed into bits with a crackle.
“M-murder!”
“Captain was murdered!”
The Ice Demon Guards’ squad was aghast as they shivered in fear. They would never have imagined that someone would actually oppose them and kill their captain. It was absolutely audacious and perverse!
“Hand over all the tributes you have collected, and I won’t kill you.” Meng Lei looked at the guards.
“The tributes are all in the captain’s hands!” said an Ice Demon with a trembling voice.
Meng Lei grabbed casually and pulled out a few dozen spatial rings. As his divine cognition scanned, it sensed huge amounts of tributes.
“Get lost,” Meng Lei said lightly.
“Yes, yes!”
Chapter 327: The Whole Clan Moves Away, Clash of The Powerful
The squadron of Ice Demon Guards left quickly as though they were running for their lives. Bailey panicked at the sight and said, “Master, we mustn’t let them leave! If we do, they’ll bring more Ice Demon Guards!”
Bailey prepared to attack after he spoke so that the squadron of Ice Demon Guards would remain here forever and they could eradicate the source of the problem once and for all.
“It’s fine.”
Meng Lei stopped Bailey with a wave and said, “That’s exactly what I want—them to attract the Ice Demon Guards here. Otherwise, how would I be able to know how strong the Ice Demon Prefecture is?”
“But, Master...”
“There are no buts!”
Meng Lei brought out the dozens of spatial rings that he’d just collected and instructed, “Bring these tributes, as well as your wives and children, with you and leave Dark Hell Continent. Go to Light Continent instead!”
“Leave?”
A jolt went through Bailey, and a lost look surfaced in his eyes. He was born in Dark Hell Continent and had grown up in Pighead Ridge, yet he had to leave the continent now?
At the sight, Meng Lei raised an eyebrow and said, “What? Can’t bear to leave? In that case, why don’t you stay and suffer the Ice Demon Prefecture’s wrath together with me, then? Can you afford to do that?”
Upon hearing his words, Bailey shuddered all over and gave him a wry smile. He said, “Master, I’d better just leave, I guess. The Ice Demon Prefecture’s wrath isn’t something that I can withstand.”
“There you have it!”
Meng Lei waved dismissively and said, “Pass these spatial rings to my true body, and get him to set aside a piece of land in Light Continent for you and your family to temporarily live in.”
“Yes, Master!”
Bailey received the spatial rings from Meng Lei. Then, he said, “Take care, Master!”
“Don’t worry. This is just a demonic incarnation of mine. I can afford to lose it! Besides, it remains to be seen whether or not they can beat this demonic incarnation of mine!”
Meng Lei then waved and urged, “You’d better hurry and withdraw. You won’t be able to leave if it’s too late!”
“Yes, Master!”
Aware of how serious the situation was, Bailey hastily gathered his wives and children and fled. Even the weakest ones among his children were as strong as half-deities, so fleeing wasn’t a problem for them.
A short while later, the originally lively and bustling Demon Pig Sinkhole became incredibly deserted. Meng Lei and Dodola were the only two left.
“Let’s go outside the sinkhole.”
Meng Lei continued to wander about Pighead Ridge. He looted the demon tribes in the forest while he waited for the Ice Demon Prefecture troops’ arrival.
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