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Meng Lei licked his lips as a hint of greed appeared on his features. “As expected! Dragon God Tower is the most suitable place for me to cultivate!”
Previously, he had earned a hefty sum of money when he had fought back the ant tide at the Magical Beast Ridge. Thanks to that, he had redeemed credit via the system and managed to tremendously improve his strength.
However, ever since then, he hadn’t had many gold coins coming into his pockets. As a result, his strength had also reached a standstill. This greatly distressed Meng Lei—if it weren’t for the fact that he had to participate in the exchange competition, he would have graduated and gone off to hunt Magical Beasts a long time ago.
But it was all good now. Meng Lei had discovered a place that was even more suitable for money-making—and that was the Dragon God Tower!
The Dragon God Tower had a total of 100 half-planes, within which lived countless Magical Beasts and native beings. To others, they were stumbling blocks obstructing them from passing through to higher ground, but in Meng Lei’s eyes, they were glittering mountains of gold.
The value of Eighth-Grade Magical Beasts started from a million gold coins, while Ninth-Grade Magical Beasts could sell for ten million, let alone the Saint Domain ones.
Just a single Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor that had just broken through alone had already created 5.2 billion + 6.1 billion = 11.3 billion gold coins in total for him.
One could simply imagine what the Dragon God Tower meant to Meng Lei.
“The system + Dragon God Tower = The most awesome cheating device!
“Haha! My path to money-making is all-clear and free of obstructions from now on!”
“Gurgle~”
“Gurgle~”
Just as Meng Lei burst into loud, smug laughter, a few bubbles surfaced in the foul-smelling swamps a short distance away.
In the next moment, a fishy, pungent odor rushed toward him.
Meng Lei turned to see a shadow swooping toward him. It moved at an extremely high speed and took only a mere instant to reach him.
Splurt!
A lightning lance flashing with silver electric currents quietly appeared with a casual point of Meng Lei’s finger and impaled the shadow’s gaping mouth in an instant.
The shadow instantly froze in mid-air, its eyes filled with disbelief. The one that had launched an ambush had clearly been it, so why was it that the human’s attack that had been launched later had instead reached it earlier?
It was just a shame that it no longer had any way of knowing the answer to its question anymore because the raging thunder lance had exploded and blown its head into smithereens.
“Ding! 1 Blackwater Leech killed. 1,390,000 gold coins gained!”
“1,390,000 gold coins? Not bad!”
With a wave of his arm, Meng Lei kept the Blackwater Leech’s magic core. Then, he let out the magic carpet and continued forward.
Although he could already fly, Meng Lei felt that it was more prudent that he matured cowardly in a place like this instead. This way, he would be able to bait the Magical Beasts hiding in the shadows into attacking him.
This was the only way he could make money, right?
And in truth, that was exactly how it was. The sight of him steering the magic carpet about was as though a piece of plump, fleshy meat swaggering through the streets, and it attracted the covetous eyes of innumerable Magical Beasts.
“Ding! 1 Blackwater Leech killed. 1,360,000 gold coins gained!”
“Ding! 1 Six-Tailed Poisonous Centipede killed. 1,480,000 gold coins gained!”
“Ding! 1 Blue-Eyed Golden Toad killed. 2,710,000 gold coins gained!”
“Ding...”
Meng Lei slaughtered all the Magical Beasts he encountered the whole way. Eighth-Grade Magical Beasts perished in his hands one after another. When he was about to reach the magic circle leading to the 12th level, he finally encountered a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast.
It was snowy-white, 50 meters tall, and steel needle-like fur covered its body, its hair pointing upside down. Its muscles were bulging and brimming with explosive energy.
Its form resembled a giant ape, yet it had four bewitching blood-red eyes. Even though it had arms and legs, it also had an additional two pairs of fins.
“The Ninth-Grade Magical Beast, Blood-Eyed Hydro-Ape!”
Meng Lei was all smiles at once. The worth of a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast started at ten million gold coins, after all. He could finally earn some money now!
Roar!
The Blood-Eyed Hydro-Ape thumped its chest loudly, producing low, thunderous war drum-like thumps. Its large, savage mouth opened wide as it roared furiously.
The next moment, it raised its gigantic palm and grabbed at Meng Lei.
“Usually, I’d have been able to play with you a little, but I have limited time today. Sorry about that!”
With a flash, Meng Lei vanished from where he was. By the time he reappeared, he was already behind the Blood-Eyed Hydro-Ape. Then, a heavy fist went flying out.
Snap!
The back of the Blood-Eyed Hydro-Ape’s head was broken and crushed by the wild, violent blast. The rushing wave of energy entered its body and instantly ground its brains into bits and pieces, killing it on the spot.
“Ding! 1 Blood-Eyed Hydro-Ape killed. 12,000,000 gold coins gained!”
“Tsk, tsk! Killing Ninth-Grade Magical Beasts brings in money faster indeed!”
Meng Lei gouged out the Blood-Eyed Hydro-Ape’s magic core with a casual grabbing motion, and then he left in a fantastic mood.
As for the carcass of that Ninth-Grade Magical Beast, he would just leave it for the native Magical Beasts of that plane to enjoy. He found it somewhat beneath him now.
Buzz!
The magic circle lit up, and Meng Lei disappeared from where he was. By the time he reappeared, he had already arrived at the 12th level of the Dragon God Tower.
Dense, lush primeval forests were surrounding him now. Towering trees that reached as high as 1,000 feet were everywhere. As far as the eye could see, it was a sea of forests!
Yet, in the center of the forests stood an enormous, lofty, and majestic mountain peak. Wisps of thick smoke billowed from the summit, rushing toward the sky like smoke signals in war.
Additionally, all around the mountain was black lava that had just hardened, as well as dust, limestone, broken rocks, and so on that covered the whole place...
That was an active volcano that could erupt any time!
“Forests and a volcano... The wood-elemental and fire-elemental magic elements in this world are exceptionally active. Looks like it’s a half-plane with mainly wood-elemental and fire-elemental laws of nature.”
At once, Meng Lei let out his magic carpet and flew slowly and leisurely toward the area where the wood-elemental and fire-elemental magic elements were the richest.
Whoosh!
The swift and sharp sound of something slicing through the air rang out. As though a poisonous python, a vine suddenly shot out of the forest and shot toward Meng Lei at a lightning-quick speed.
“Ambushing me?”
Meng Lei chuckled. He neither ducked nor attacked, allowing the vine to wrap around him as it wished. Then, it dragged him down to the surface.
A brief moment later, Meng Lei was dragged right over to a strange tree with a trunk so thick that it would require ten people to circle around it. The strange tree wasn’t very tall; however, innumerable vines draped from its crown-like hair and in a mess.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Several vines covered in sharp thorns extended toward Meng Lei and went stabbing toward him viciously, as though they wanted to pierce into his body and suck him dry.
Clink, clink, clink!
However, the strange tree had made the wrong decision. Its thorns stabbed against Meng Lei as though they were stabbing against steel and iron, causing a series of sparks to fly about.
Apart from that, they didn’t manage to pierce
into Meng Lei at all.
“Ninth-Grade Magical Beast, Man-Eating Tree Ghoul, eh? Even if I allow you to pierce me all you want, you wouldn’t be able to hurt me at all!”
Chapter 147: Level 21, Red Rock Fire Demon
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Even if I stand here and let you stab me, you can’t hurt me!”
Meng Lei sneered, and green vines also appeared on his body. They turned into green pythons and wrapped back toward the strange tree. Then they stabbed into the bark of the strange tree and started absorbing madly.
This was the Wood-Elemental Spell, Life Drawing!
Meng Lei retaliated against it with its own medicine.
“Weren’t you going to suck me dry? I’ll suck you dry first!”
“Gurgle~”
“Gurgle~”
Upon feeling its vitality being drained continuously, the strange tree started struggling. Its trunk shook, and its vines lashed out, attacking the green pythons madly to peel them off its tree body.
Unfortunately, the green pythons that rooted on it were like maggots deep in its bones. However hard it struggled, it simply couldn’t move them in the least. It could only watch them devour its vitality.
Whimper—
Eventually, amid the strange tree’s shrill screams, its vitality was entirely devoured, and it died with indignation and regret.
“Ding! 1 Man-Eating Tree Ghoul killed. 17,300,000 gold coins gained!”
“Pfft! Gotten 17 million gold coins!”
Meng Lei nodded in satisfaction, then dug out a durian-sized, translucent green crystal that glowed with a green luster like a green jade.
“This is the Man-Eating Tree Ghoul’s magic core? Such rich vitality...”
“This is a treasure!” Ol’ Amos’ voice sounded in his head. “The magic cores of Wood-Elemental Magical Beasts are also called vitality cores. They contain a vast amount of vitality and can bring even people who are severely injured and on the verge of death back to life. It is called a divine healing medicine. Thus, the value of one vitality core is several times, even tens of times, that of similar-grade magic cores!
“The Man-Eating Tree Ghoul is a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast, so its vitality core is even rarer. If one brings its vitality core to an auction, it can sell for at least 100 million.”
“100 million? That’s very good then!”
Meng Lei’s eyes lit up. He casually put away the vitality core and continued to fly forward.
Not long after he left, the completely still trees in the surrounding area all reached out with their vines to stab at Man-Eating Tree Ghoul’s body and started to absorb the remaining vitality in its body!
...
“Ding! 1 Jade Wood Butterfly killed. 12,900,000 gold coins gained!”
“Ding! 1 Witherbark Cicada killed. 1,460,000 gold coins gained!”
“Ding! Assimilation successful. Host’s Physical Body Constitution +3870!”
“Ding! Assimilation successful. Host’s Magic Power +2659!”
He went all the way up without any resistance.
By the time Meng Lei reached the magic circle that led to the 13th level, he had casually killed a total of 48 Ninth-Grade Magical Beasts.
48 Ninth-Grade Magical Beasts!
What kind of efficiency was this? One had to know that only a mere half an hour had passed since he had entered the 12th floor!
Such efficiency, such speed!
Whoosh!
He stepped into the magic circle. After a whirl of dizziness, the surrounding environment changed again.
Meng Lei arrived at a vast, endless grassland. Grass, the height of his knees, was very lush. A strong gust of wind blew, and the grass bowed down.
Swoosh...
On the patch of earth not far away, a tornado the height of dozens of meters was raging, bursting into a crazy roar.
The sound traveled more than 100 miles. The whole world was dark!
“Wood and Wind Elements, both are very rich.
“This is the Dragon God Tower’s 13th level? It’s actually very suitable for cultivating wind-elemental magic!”
Meng Lei did some sensing as usual and then continued to push forward.
“Ding! 1 Stormy Flying Elephant killed. 17,000,000 gold coins gained!”
“Ding! 1 Stormy Flying Elephant killed. 18,000,000 gold coins gained!”
“Ding! 1 Cloud Stooping Black Ox killed. 16,000,000 gold coins gained!”
...
Half an hour later, Meng Lei arrived at the 14th level.
“Ding! 1 Gold Backed Mantis killed. 19,000,000 gold coins gained!”
“Ding! 1 Three-Winged Heavenly Thunder Ant killed. 18,600,000 gold coins gained!”
...
The 15th floor!
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The 16th floor!
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The 17th floor!
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The 18th floor!
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The 19th floor!
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The 20th floor!
He pushed through all the way!
Whoosh!
Half an hour later, Meng Lei arrived at the 21st level smoothly.
The environment changed drastically again. The world of ice, which was covered with the moment before, became a world filled with volcanoes and lavas in the next moment.
The sky was filled with thick layers of red clouds, and many purple lightning bolts moved rapidly between the cloud layers.
The sound of thunder had an intimidating impetus.
A boiling hot lava river was running non-stop on top of the earth. If ordinary living things arrived here, they would definitely be baked till their skins were dried.
“The Fire, Thunder, and Darkness Elements are particularly rich. From this layer onward, there should be Saint Domain Magical Beast already, right?”
There was a faint look of anticipation in Meng Lei’s eyes. The easy kills along his whole way before this were only small appetizers, after all.
The Saint Domain Magical Beasts in the higher levels were the feast he was really looking forward to. Therefore, he arrived here in one go non-stop.
“The magic elements over there are the richest!”
Meng Lei found out the direction and then flew over, riding his magic carpet. Half an hour later, the magic circle toward the 22nd level was already in view.
But strangely, he actually didn’t see a single Magical Beast, Not to mention Magical Beasts, not even a hair of a Magical Beast.
“How strange... Can there be no Magical Beasts on this level? But this shouldn’t be happening.”
Meng Lei stopped in mid-air, and looks of confusion filled his eyes as he observed the vast and empty world of lava.
Whoosh!
At that moment, a burning wave of air suddenly came from behind him. Then, he saw a viper completely made of boiling hot lava shooting right at him, as though it wanted to swallow Meng Lei whole.
“Hmm?”
Meng Lei’s ears moved slightly, and he suddenly disappeared from the spot where he was.
Boom!
The lava viper’s failed attack suddenly burst and turned into countless droplets of lava, splashing all around.
Meng Lei eerily appeared at another spot, his eyes locked on a lava lake near him. The corners of his mouth curved upwards slightly. It was from that lava lake that the lava viper had shot out of just now.
Gurgle~
Gurgle~
The lava lake boiled with bubbles. A stone-like head slowly emerged, and on this stone head were actually a horn, a single eye, and a nose!
Splash!
The lava boiled, before a three-meter-tall humanoid creature, with a body made entirely of red rocks and burning flames surrounding it, came out.
“Ninth-Grade Magical Beast, Red Rock Fire Demon...”
Although Meng Lei was stunned, he immediately felt very disappointed. “Why is it still a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast? Where are the Saint Domain Magical Beasts?
Where are they hiding?”
Right when Meng Lei was confused, one red head followed by another emerged from the lava lake. All of them had entirely flame-covered red bodies covered. They were all Red Rock Fire Demons, at least 100, and they instantly surrounded Meng Lei.
Roar!
All the Red Rock Fire Demons roared angrily, opened their bloody red mouths, and spewed out many waves of boiling hot red lava.
The boiling hot lava shot over from all directions and directly blocked Meng Lei’s way, leaving him no space to escape. He could only forcefully take on them.
“128 Red Rock Fire Demons, eh? Still quite a fortune. I will take you all reluctantly, shall I?”
Faced with the lava attacks, Meng Lei was calm and composed. At the moment right before the boiling hot lava reached him, a layer of diamond-like shining crystals suddenly emerged from all surfaces of his body. He turned into a diamond-like man instantly!
That was the Ninth-Grade Spell, Earth Guardian’s Saintly Armor!
Chapter 148: Undying Mud Leeches and Successfully Getting on Ranking
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Boom!
The boiling lava drowned Meng Lei instantly like roaring ocean waves. A terribly high temperature burnt Meng Lei and melted the Earth Guardian’s Saintly Armor, and it seemed like it was going to burn Meng Lei to ashes.
Roar!
The Red Rock Fire Demon saw this and let out triumphant roars, then got ready to retreat into the lava lake to continue sleeping.
Meng Lei’s death was certain in their views, as there was no way he could survive their lava attack. No human could. There were at least hundreds and millions of outsiders who died in their hands.
Yet, in the next moment, the Red Rock Fire Demons were shocked.
Meng Lei actually stood right where he was, completely unharmed. Even the magic robe on him was just as new as before, without suffering the least bit of damage.
“What?!”
The Red Rock Fire Demons were shocked.
At that moment, Meng Lei had already turned into a stream of light and shot right toward the Red Rock Fire Demons.
Bang, bang, bang!
Amid successive collisions, the Red Rock Fire Demons’ heads burst open like watermelons.