“Don’t bother looking at it anymore. It’s just a broken horn.” Moro urged, “Hurry and open this box instead!”
“Just... A horn?”
Meng Lei’s lips curled up into a mysterious smile. A bunch of blazing hot tricolored flames suddenly burst forth from him. Then, more and more flames started to gather, instantly turning Meng Lei into a man on fire.
“(?◇?)?”
“(⊙o⊙)”
“What’s going on?”
“What’s the matter with you, kid?”
Looks of stupefaction came over both Moro and the Black Phoenix grandmaster’s faces.
He was fine and dandy one moment, and then he had burst into flames the next?
Crackle, crackle!
Just as the two of them were utterly baffled, tricolored scales suddenly started to form one by one on Meng Lei’s skin, and three horns emerged from his head. The one in the middle was straight and sharp, while the other two at the sides curved outward slightly. Tricolored fire spiral patterns covered their surfaces.
Splurt!
Right on the heels of it, Meng Lei’s clothes suddenly split open at the back. A pair of wings covered in hard, tough, scaly armor emerged from within, and they turned into gigantic wings that blotted out the sky in the blink of an eye.
His body hunched over slightly, his hands turned into sharp claws, his feet turned into clawed hooves, his neck lengthened, and a long tail grew from his bottom. His body shape was well-proportioned, and his muscles clearly defined...
“This, this...”
Flabbergasted, both Moro’s and the Black Phoenix grandmaster’s eyes almost fell out of their sockets.
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Chapter 402: Chief God Bloodline, Supreme Divinity Crystals
There was no way Moro and the Black Phoenix grandmaster wouldn’t be astonished. It wasn’t that big of a deal if Meng Lei had transformed into something else, but what was that currently standing in front of them? A Flaming Star Beast!
That’s right, a Flaming Star Beast!
Although its color wasn’t quite right, its form and characteristics completely matched!
“He... He’s a Flaming Star Beast?”
The Black Phoenix grandmaster’s voice was trembling somewhat.
“It must be that ability of his!”
Moro, however, thought of another possibility—Meng Lei’s plundering ability. He had previously personally witnessed Meng Lei stealing supreme laws of nature that two Great Perfection deities had comprehended. What’s so impossible about plundering bloodlines when he could plunder even laws of nature?
“That ability is too scary!”
Moro could only sigh emotionally. He thought to himself, “Not only can it plunder laws of nature, but it can also plunder bloodlines! I really want to know whether there’s anything he can’t plunder?”
Roar!
Just as feelings of astoundment occupied the duo, Meng Lei’s transformation finally ended. The current Meng Lei had turned into a monstrous beast covered in tricolored scales and with three sharp helix horns on its head, a pair of wings on its back, a long tail at its bottom, and well-proportioned muscles all over its body.
Hard, tough, scaly armor;
Toned, taut muscles;
Razor-sharp claws;
Piercing eyes;
A wild and violent-looking form;
And a powerful, surging aura.
All of these were testament to Meng Lei’s great strength!
“So, this is the Flaming Star Beast bloodline? It’s extraordinary indeed!”
Meng Lei could sense the changes in his divine body even if he didn’t look at the stats interface.
Power!
An endless supply of power was gushing out of his body. Meng Lei felt as if he could smash the Nidhogg Continent into bits and pieces with a single punch! This power in him was simply too strong!
One must know that as Meng Lei continued to assimilate more and more powerful bloodlines into himself, his divine body had also been constantly becoming stronger and stronger. The later the bloodlines he had assimilated, the smaller the enhancement they brought to his divine body. It had been a very long time since he had undergone such a dramatic enhancement. From this, one could tell just how fearsome the Flaming Star Beast bloodline was!
He then checked his stats interface.
Host: Meng Lei
Race: Primordial Human (Assimilated Bloodlines: Gods-Slaying Rat
Wealth: 12,709 trillion Divinity Crystals
Physical Body Constitution: Metal-Origin Divine Body, Wood-Origin Divine Body, Thunder-Origin Divine Body
Spirit: Lesser Chief God (Mid-Level Ancient God)
Power of Divinity: 200 Divinity Crystals
Laws of Nature: Time-Based (100%), Destruction (0.1%), Life (0.1%), Spatial (100%), Death (0.1%)
Wanting to know how strong his divine body currently was, Meng Lei asked, “System, how much does it cost to enhance my divine body?”
“Ding! The host’s divine body is currently on par with that of a pinnacle-level lesser Chief God and will rival that of an intermediate Chief God’s after enhancement. Enhancement cost is estimated at 100 trillion Divinity Crystals.”
The system asked coldly, “Will you enhance it?”
“100 trillion Divinity Crystals? That’s not cheap!” Meng Lei shook his head and asked, “How many Divinity Crystals does it cost to boost the Flaming Star Beast bloodline to 100%?”
“Ding! Raising the Flaming Star Beast bloodline by 1% requires 1 trillion Divinity Crystals. Raising it to 100%, therefore, requires 62 trillion Divinity Crystals,” replied the system coldly.
“I’ll buy credit for the Flaming Star Beast bloodline!”
Meng Lei made his choice.
Whoosh!
62 trillion Divinity Crystals instantly went poof from his Wealth.
At the same time, an incredibly wild and violent warm current also gushed into his body. The Flaming Star Beast bloodline in the depths of his blood began to furiously grow and strengthen. This, displayed externally, was that Meng Lei’s body started to become stronger and stronger. His scales became brighter and brighter, and more and more vibrant, while his body expanded further and further...
,000,000 feet, 20,000,000 feet...
Boom!
The alternate dimension could no longer contain Meng Lei. At last, unable to hold Meng Lei’s expansion any longer, the alternate dimension exploded with a grand boom.
Meng Lei became exposed in the boundless Void straight away. Even so, his body continued to expand.
,000,000 feet, 40,000,000 feet, 50,000,000 feet, 60,000,000 feet...
At last, by the time Meng Lei stopped expanding, he had reached 66,600,000-feet-tall!
He had totally become a whale of a monster!
,980,000 meters!
,980 kilometers!
That was approximately 20,000 kilometers!
This meant that the current Meng Lei was 1,000 Himalaya mountains taller than even Earth itself! It was clear just how majestic his current form was!
Roar!
Terrifying sound waves exploded into the surroundings as Meng Lei let out a roar into the heavens. As though they were eggs, all the meteors and floating continents nearby exploded simultaneously.
One could tell a thing or not about Meng Lei’s current strength just by the might of his roar.
“This, this...”
Moro and the Black Phoenix grandmaster were stunned. If one were to say that Meng Lei had just been a weak Flaming Star Beast young in the beginning, then the current him was a Flaming Star Beast adolescent that was starting to shine!
Leaping an infant into an adolescent in just a short few minutes... Wasn’t his growth rate a little too dramatic?
“Just what kind of freak is he, exactly?”
The Black Phoenix grandmaster exclaimed in a low voice. It completely couldn’t figure out its master anymore.
“A freak? Yes! He’s a freak!” replied Moro, who was also astounded.
“What a fearsome body!”
Meng Lei stretched his limbs and claws and moved his head and wings, taking in the sensation of his body that had become even stronger. A satisfied smile couldn’t help but form.
Just as he had expected, his divine body had become comparable to an intermediate Chief God’s after he bought enough credit to boost the Flaming Star Beast bloodline to 100%.
It was just a matter of assimilating a single bloodline for him to ascend from a lesser Chief God to an intermediate Chief God. From this, one could tell just how powerful the Flaming Star Beast bloodline was!
Meng Lei asked curiously, “System, what grade is the Flaming Star Beast bloodline?”
“...”
There was no response.
“That inflexible system!”
Meng Lei rephrased his question. “System, how many Divinity Crystals does it cost to enhance the Flaming Star Beast bloodline?”
This time, the system answered readily.
“Ding! The Flaming Star Beast bloodline is classified as a Chief God Bloodline and will become a Supreme Bloodline after enhancement. The enhancement cost is estimated at 500 Supreme Divinity Crystals.”
“500... Supreme Divinity Crystals?”
Meng Lei blinked twice and asked, “Are Supreme Divinity Crystals a new unit of measurement? How many Divinity Crystals is one equivalent to?”
“Supreme Divinity Crystals are energy crystals formed from Supreme Power of Divinity. 1 Supreme Divinity Crystal = 10,000 trillion Divinity Crystals,” replied the system icily.
“In other words, 500 Supreme Divinity Crystals equals 5,000,000 trillion Divinity Crystals?”
Meng Lei couldn’t help but gasp. “What a ridiculous price! Can’t mess around with something like that! Nope!”
Although the horrifying price tag gave him a shock, Meng Lei had gotten to know the Flaming Star Beast bloodline’s grade—a Chief God Bloodline—like what he had wanted. However, in Meng Lei’s opinion, since Chief Gods were classified into the strong and the weak, Chief God Bloodlines were likely also a broad classification like True God bloodlines.
True gods were classified into lesser, intermediate, and higher deities. Similarly, True God Bloodlines were also classified as low-grade, mid-grade, or high-grade bloodlines.
This was probably also the case for Chief God Bloodlines.
The fact that Flaming Star Beasts would become comparable to Juggernauts upon maturation showed that the Flaming Star Beast bloodline was likely the most powerful grade of Chief God Bloodlines.
After that, Meng Lei familiarized himself with his Flaming Star Beast form before he resumed his human form and returned to where Moro and the Black Phoenix grandmaster were.
Astonishment and incredulity filled their eyes as they stared at Meng Lei as though they were staring at a freak.
“Kid, you’ve... become stronger again!”
Moro clicked his tongue in wonder as he marveled, “Now that you have gained a powerful body that rivals an intermediate Chief God’s and also comprehended two types of supreme laws of nature, even I find it tough to judge just how strong you are now!”
Indeed, it certainly wasn’t easy to judge something like that now!
A lesser Chief God would become comparable to a higher Chief God once they reached a 50% comprehension rate for any type of supreme laws of nature.
When a lesser Chief God fully comprehended any type of supreme laws of nature, they would become comparable to a Supreme Juggernaut.
But what about Meng Lei?
He owned a body that was comparable to an intermediate Chief God’s, and on top of that, he had fully comprehended two types of supreme laws of nature!
Just how strong was he currently? Higher Chief God-level?
No, he was definitely stronger than a higher Chief God. There was no doubt about that!
Yet if one were to say that he was comparable to a Juggernaut...
Was he that strong?
Moro was rather dubious.
“No, not just two,” Meng Lei chuckled and said, “I can fully comprehend another two types of supreme laws of nature any time I want.”
“What did you just say?”
Moro was stunned.
As for the Black Phoenix grandmaster, its current expression was as such: o((⊙_⊙))o!
Chapter 403: The Tragic Fate of Being Soul-Searched, Fatty Hart Is Dead
Nidhogg clan headquarters, Earth Divine Realm...
The Nidhogg clan had suffered terrible losses after the battle just now. Almost all the higher deities had been wiped out, leaving behind only a few insignificant nobodies of varying levels of combat power.
The enormous Nidhogg could be said to be finished. There was no chance of them ever making a comeback.
The ten great godly clans of the Earth Divine Realm would now become the nine great godly clans from now on. Once the news spread, it would surely spark an unprecedented super earthquake, shake up the entire Earth Divine Realm, and trigger an incomparably frightening storm.
Of course, all of these would only come later.
Nobody knew of the events here yet.
If one wanted to know who the ones currently the most excited were, then they were none other than Puhaman and the others.
The riches that a trillion experts’ deaths left behind was astonishing. Even if every person were to leave behind only 100 Divinity Crystals each, it would nonetheless total up to 100 trillion after putting them all together!
100 trillion Divinity Crystals was no small sum to even someone like Meng Lei, much less higher deities like Puhaman, Bubbles, and the others who were flat broke!
“I’ve struck gold!”
“I’ve struck gold now!”
“Hahaha! With so many spatial rings here, I’ve instantly transformed into a billionaire!”
“This is awesome! Being Master’s follower is awesome! The wisest decision that I’ve ever made in my life is to become Master’s follower!”
“Sigh! I’m going to die of envy!”
Emery Philmore watched as Puhaman and the others picked up the divine cores and spatial rings littered all over the mountains, immense envy filling him. How he wished he were also one of them!
It was just a shame that he wasn’t!
Puhaman and the others happily collected the divine cores and spatial rings, filling up their coffers as though they were hardworking little bees.
Just as they more or less collected all the spatial rings in the mountains, a fearsome wave of pressure suddenly descended upon them, followed closely by the second, the third, the fourth...
Boom!
Boom!
Seven strong, surging auras descended from above in a split second, instantly bearing down heavily on everyone. Unable to put up any resistance at all, Puhaman and the others were flattened right onto the ground. Their faces flushed a crimson red, the pressure weighing down on them so heavy that they felt as if they were carrying a primordial divine mountain on their backs.
“Chief Gods!”
“This is the force of a Chief God’s presence!”
“Oh my god! How many Chief Gods must there be in order for them to exert such pressure?”
Puhaman and the others had seen Chief Gods before, so they had naturally also felt the force of a Chief God’s presence before. These seven terrifying waves of pressure were undoubtedly that of Chief Gods’!
To make things worse, they were even more fearsome, more powerful, and more horrifying than what they had felt in the past!
“The other Chief Gods have come!” Shock and horror filled Emery Philmore. “The other Chief Gods must have come!”
“The other Chief Gods?”
It also hit Puhaman and the others by now—how could the other Chief Gods in the Earth Divine
Realm possibly stay indifferent after their master went on a killing spree and slew three Chief Gods?
Now... They had come!
Their guesses were right—the other Chief Gods of Earth Divine Realm had indeed descended upon them, and on top of that, there were seven of them!
The seven Chief Gods stood proudly in the air. They made no effort to constrain their strong, surging, and terrifying force of presence, such that the entire Nidhogg Continent could clearly sense the pressure they gave off.
Their leader was stunningly beautiful—it was none other than the holy and cool beauty, Chief God Vados.
Chief God Vados overlooked the Nidhogg Colossal Dragon Mountains, her delicate brows drawing together into a frown—there actually wasn’t even a single higher deity left in the enormous Nidhogg clan.
“How tragic!”
“That knave is so hateful!”
“The Nidhogg clan is pretty much finished!”
The group of Chief Gods shook their heads. Just how powerful had the Nidhogg clan once been? Yet not only had the Nidhogg Chief God himself perished, but even the experts in the clan had all but been wiped out. The enormous clan existed merely in name now. This simply made one heave emotional sighs too much.
“Where’s that knave?”
Chief God Vados ordered emotionlessly, “Find him at once and bring him back to stand trial in the Chief God Tribunal. He is to be tried by the four great Juggernauts and the Chief Gods.”
“Yes, Your Holiness!”
The other six Chief Gods bowed slightly. Then, they spread their divine cognition into the surroundings in an attempt to locate Meng Lei. However, the puzzling thing was that they simply couldn’t find anyone despite searching the whole area.
“How strange!”
“He isn’t here?”
“What’s going on?”
“Grab one of his accomplices and question them!”
The Chief God from the Frost God clan casually grabbed someone, who just so happened to be Emery Philmore, who had been flattened to the ground. The Chief God asked apathetically, “Where’s the knave that killed the three Chief Gods?”
“O g-great Chief God!”
Emery Philmore had been scared witless a long time ago, so how would he possibly dare to keep things a secret? He said, “I-it seems that L-lord Meng Lei has gone to the peak!”
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