“How did this happen?”
The Holy Maiden of Light was filled with grief and sorrow. Never would she have ever imagined that the great six-winged angel that was mighty-looking and awe-inspiring one moment would immediately submit to Meng Lei the next.
He completely didn’t meet their expectations at all!
What were they to do now?
What should the Light Church do?
Where should they go from now on?
Meng Lei asked dispassionately, “Are you going to come out here on your own, or do you want me to drag all of you out?”
They didn’t respond, however.
The higher management officers were filled with fear and horror, yet not a single one of them answered Meng Lei. It was hard to tell whether it was because they were too frightened to answer or they were pinning their hopes on the light shield. In any case, no one responded.
“You just don’t give up, do you?”
Meng Lei shook his head lightly. Then, he formed a sword with his fingers and drew a slash across the air.
Slash!
An invisible sword glint appeared out of thin air and shot out, instantly cleaving against the light shield. A slashing sound rang out, and then the light shield that was capable of withstanding multiple attacks from an intermediate deity broke into two without warning. Then, it shattered with a boom and vanished without a trace.
“The light shield... has been broken so easily?”
The Holy Maiden of Light gasped. She knew that Meng Lei was very strong, but she hadn’t expected him to actually be that strong. How terrifying!
In this instant, she suddenly somewhat understood why the angel had chosen submission. When faced against such a powerful entity like Meng Lei, was he supposed to choose death over submission?
“It’s your turn now.”
Meng Lei gazed at the Light Church’s higher management officers and asked, “Which would you like—to live or to die?”
Thud!
Someone dropped onto their knees right away.
“S-sir, I’m willing to submit! I beg only for you to give me a way out!”
“Good!” Meng Lei nodded slightly. “What about the rest of you?”
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
With someone taking the initiative to submit first, the second one naturally also came...
In a short few seconds, all 108 half-deities had gotten onto their knees. Only one person still remained standing—Altacia, the Holy Maiden of Light.
Meng Lei looked at her and said, “They’ve all submitted. Why haven’t you?”
Altacia replied coldly, “I am the Light Church’s Holy Maiden of Light. You may take my life, but don’t even dream of forcing me to submit to you. I will never abandon my faith even if I die!”
“Go to hell, then!”
Meng Lei pointed at her casually. A bloody hole formed in between her brows right away, and she collapsed onto the ground—she had actually died on the spot.
The sight badly frightened the 108 half-deities. They were filled with lingering fears at once—if they hadn’t submitted, they would probably have ended up like the Holy Maiden.
“Aren’t you a little too heartless, kid? You actually killed her?”
Ol’ Amos couldn’t help but diss him. He said, “Why do you not possess any protective feelings for the fairer sex at all? Have you not awakened to your carnal desires yet? But that shouldn’t be!”
“To hell with your ‘carnal desires’!”
Meng Lei rolled his eyes. Then, he said, “I’ll give these Light Church half-deities and the Light Continent all to you, Ol’ President!”
“Really?”
Ol’ Amos’ eyes sparkled.
“Really!”
Meng Lei nodded. He said, “My business here is more or less finished, so it’s about time I leave. Will you leave with me? Or are you going to continue staying here for the time being?”
Ol’ Amos found himself in a struggle at once. After being away from Heaven’s Vault Continent for over 2 years, he wanted to go back and take a look around, of course. He especially wanted to go back and visit his younger sister.
But the problem was that the Light Church had only just been dissolved, and the Light Continent had only just come into his possession. There were so many half-deities that he needed to subdue. On top of that, there was the Light Continent itself, too...
It was exactly the time for him to show his skill and shine. How would he possibly bear to leave? What a struggle!
Meng Lei knew what Ol’ Amos was thinking the moment he saw the troubled look on his face. Rendered somewhat speechless, he said, “Ol’ President, your mindset has become somewhat inflexible.”
“What’s wrong?”
Ol’ Amos was puzzled.
Meng Lei said, “Wouldn’t everything be solved if you just build teleportation magic circles on the two continents? Wouldn’t traveling between the continents become just a matter of seconds after that?”
“Teleportation magic circles? Darn, why did that slip my mind?” Ol’ Amos smacked his forehead with a look of annoyance on his face. “By the way, you’re the master of this existential plane?”
“The man himself!”
“That’s great!”
Ol’ Amos was awfully excited. He said, “I’ll leave the matter of building the teleportation magic circles to you! This shouldn’t be a problem for you since you’re the master of the existential plane, right?”
Had anyone else dared to order him about like that, Meng Lei would have given them a tight slap across the cheek a long time ago. With Ol’ Amos, though, Meng Lei instead obediently did what he was told.
Of course, building teleportation magic circles was indeed a very simple task for him. He took only five minutes to build the teleportation magic circles connecting the two continents. An excited Ol’ Amos then gave it a test run and went back and forth between the two continents. True enough, it was indeed very convenient.
Ol’ Amos couldn’t help but marvel, “You built them so quickly! As expected, the master of the existential plane is indeed very powerful!”
“Of course!”
Meng Lei was terribly smug.
At that moment, Lorenzo, the six-winged angel, suddenly spoke up. He said, “The summoning duration is up, Master. I have to leave soon. Do you have any orders for me?”
Meng Lei replied, “Just one—do your best to collect things like Divinity Crystals, Laws of Nature Origin Crystals, and gold coins. The more, the merrier, get it?”
“Yes, Master!”
Lorenzo answered respectfully as he undertook the task.
“Go!”
Meng Lei waved.
“Take care, Master!”
Lorenzo bowed slightly. Then, he transformed into a golden ray of light and shot into the dimensional gate.
Meng Lei closed his eyes and began to carefully trace the divine spirit mark that he’d left on Lorenzo. Then, he detected the presence of an enormous existential plane—the Light Divine Realm.
That’s right, the Light Divine Realm!
As a powerful godly clan that was in no way inferior to the Titan Gods, traces of the Angel Gods could be found all over the vast universe. Be it the Celestial Realm—which was one of the two most supreme existential planes—the ten major Divine Realms, or other low-end existential planes, traces of the Angel Gods could be found in all of them.
And evidently, Lorenzo, the Six-Winged Virtue Angel, was an angel from the Light Divine Realm.
“It’s time I leave, but before I do...” Meng Lei turned to Ol’ Amos, “Do you want to take a tour around the Light Church’s treasury, Ol’ President?”
“A tour around the Light Church’s treasury?”
Ol’ Amos’ eyes lit up, but he shook his head shortly after. He said, “Never mind, this old man is already content with what he has now. I don’t really care that much about mere worldly possessions anymore.”
“Do
n’t you regret it.”
A smiling Meng Lei teased jokingly before vanishing.
“You’ve already given me a lot, brat. It’d be too greedy of me if I hanker after the Light Church’s treasury, too.”
Ol’ Amos shook his head. Then, he turned to the Light Church’s higher management officers and said, “The Light Church has been annihilated. From today onward, all of you will become the Kroc Holy Sect’s higher management officers instead. Any objections?”
“As you wish, sir!”
“Great!”
Ol’ Amos was highly satisfied with their attitudes. After all, these were 108 half-deities! Just how terrifying a force were they?
They would become his best tools for unifying the Light Continent and spreading his faith!
“Listen up! This is my first order—destroy all the Goddess of Light statues in the Light Continent and replace them with my, the Great God Kroc’s, statues...”
Chapter 295: The Ancient Tree of Life, The Ancient God Bloodline
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
As an existence that had stood tall and proud for tens of thousands of years, the Light Church had a much longer history than Heaven’s Vault Continent’s Dragon God Empire, Beast People Empire, and Titan Empire.
One could easily imagine just how wealthy the Light Church must be and how spectacular a sight their treasury must be.
Hills of Laws of Nature Origin Crystals, heaps and heaps of elemental crystals and laws of nature fragments, as well as innumerable magic materials and magic devices...
The Laws of Nature Origin Crystals went straight into the system while he collected the elemental crystals and magic crystals, as well as the Saint Domain magic devices and half-divine weapons, and stored them away.
An awfully jubilant Meng Lei collected them all before coming to the area where special items were stored at last.
Largely similar to the Dragon God Empire’s special items and the Titan Empire’s treasuries, the ones here were also a trove of weird and wonderful things.
True god remains, Demon God hearts, fascinating ores, true god-level divine weapons...
There was a dazzling array of items that came in all kinds and variations.
The system’s voice rang out at this point.
“Ding! Dropped item detected. Will you pick it up?”
“Yes, pick it up!”
“Ding! Pickup successful. You have obtained the Four-Winged Angel bloodline. Will you assimilate it?”
“No, don’t assimilate it.”
“Ding! Dropped item detected. Will you pick it up?”
“Yes, pick it up!”
“Ding! Pickup successful. You have obtained the Ancient Tree of Life bloodline. Will you assimilate it?”
“The Ancient Tree of Life bloodline? What kind of bloodline is that?”
Meng Lei couldn’t help but shift his gaze to the item currently in front of him—it was an ordinary-looking piece of wood that was over a meter long and about the thickness of an adult’s arm.
“This is a branch of the Ancient Tree of Life? The Ancient Tree of Life? What kind of tree is that?”
Meng Lei reached out to pick up the piece of wood to take a closer look, but he discovered that it was incredibly heavy to his astonishment. Even holding it was rather strenuous for him.
“It’s so heavy!”
Meng Lei was astonished. Just how terrifyingly strong must he be when his body was comparable to an intermediate deity’s?
Even grabbing a large mountain was a cinch for him, let alone a piece of wood shorter than two meters!
“What kind of botanical lifeform’s remains is this, exactly? To think a single branch is this heavy!”
Meng Lei promptly consulted Dodola.
Dodola took a casual glance at the branch, and then it said dryly, “Do you have to ask me about something like that, too? Isn’t that just a freaking normal piece of wood?”
“Take a close look at it, Dodola,” Meng Lei said, “This piece of wood is shockingly heavy. Even I find it somewhat strenuous to hold it at my current level of strength. It’s definitely no ordinary dried branch!”
“Eh?”
Dodola was slightly taken aback. It couldn’t help but look at the piece of wood again. As it did, its eyes gradually widened until, at last, it gasped. “Oh my goodness, this... This is a branch from the Ancient Tree of Life. Where did you get this from?”
“From the Light Church’s treasury!” Meng Lei quickly asked, “What kind of plant is the Ancient Tree of Life? Does it have anything to do with the Tree of Vitality?”
“Of course it does!”
Dodola nodded lightly. “The vast universe has birthed many interesting and fascinating lifeforms. With animals around, plants would also exist.
“Among them, the most well-known botanical lifeforms have to be the five Primeval Divine Trees. It’s said that they were born in the Genesis Continent and are very, very old and ancient.”
“The five Primeval Divine Trees!” Meng Lei gasped. “Which five trees are they?”
“The Mother Tree of Earth, the Deep Sea Coral Willow, the Fusang1 Divine Tree, the Ancient Tree of Life, and the Golden Apple Tree.”
Dodola explained, “Among them, the Ancient Tree of Life lives in the Forest Divine Realm and is the oldest, tallest and biggest, and most majestic lifeform there. The Fairy Goddess had propagated the famous Tree of Vitality using a branch from the Ancient Tree of Life itself.”
“I see.”
Meng Lei took a breath. Then, he remarked incredulously, “What must the actual Ancient Tree of Life look like when just its branch alone is already this heavy?”
“It’s huge! Unimaginably huge!”
A smiling Dodola said, “When you leave Heaven’s Vault Continent someday, you can head to the Forest Divine Realm and take a look. It’ll definitely astound you!”
“That day will come for sure!”
Then, Meng Lei left the Tower of Time.
“System, assimilate the Ancient Tree of Life bloodline!”
Whoosh!
A green deluge containing surging life force suddenly gushed out of Meng Lei’s brain and instantly spread throughout his body. It flowed through his limbs and integrated itself into his organs.
All the cells in Meng Lei’s body gradually turned green, which in turn also caused his flesh, blood, bones, internal organs, and skin to turn green. It looked as if Meng Lei was going to turn into a Namek1!
“How amazing! I actually don’t feel any pain at all while assimilating the Ancient Tree of Life bloodline! This is a groundbreaking first!”
Indeed, he had assimilated many different bloodlines ever since the very first time he tried assimilating one—the Fire Dragon bloodline—and every single time, intense pain had accompanied the process, causing him to suffer tremendous pain and agony.
This was the one and only time that he hadn’t experienced any pain. Even Meng Lei himself was rather unused to it!
The assimilation process lasted about ten minutes. At the end of the assimilation process, Meng Lei had completely turned into a tree.
His hair had turned into dense and lush leaves, his body into a thick and sturdy tree trunk, his arms into tree branches, his legs into tree roots...
He was 100-meters-tall and boasted lush, luxuriant leaves.
He brimmed with vitality and stood tall and straight.
The most amazing thing was that Meng Lei was giving off a torrential and surging sense of vitality. All the shelves around them displayed botanical magic materials that had long since withered and dried up were “given a new lease of life”. New shoots sprouted from them and began to grow madly as though they had been injected with steroids.
One meter, two meters, three meters...
Within the short span of a few breaths, a forest had formed around Meng Lei. All sorts of plants grew lushly around him, engulfing Meng Lei, the cause of it all.
“S-such strong life force!”
/> Meng Lei could sense the change in his divine body. Not only had his divine body greatly strengthened, but the life force within him had also become more than 100 times stronger.
A life force that had become 100 times stronger!
Now, this was something extremely astonishing. It meant that Meng Lei’s cell viability had become even stronger, so his rate of recovery from injuries had become faster, and he could last even longer in battles now...
“System, bring up the stats interface!”
Host: Meng Lei
Race: Human (Primeval Bloodline: Primordial Human <16%>, Assimilated Bloodlines: Gods-Slaying Rat, Divine Netherworld Phoenix
Wealth: 6.5 million Divinity Crystals
Physical Body Constitution: Metal-Origin Divine Body (1%)
Spirit: Intermediate-Deity (Elementary-Grade)
Power of Divinity: 200 Divinity Crystals
Laws of Nature:
Double-Elemental Fusion: Some increase
Triple-Elemental Fusion: Wind-Light-Dark (0.1%), Metal-Wood-Earth (0.1%), Earth-Wood-Thunder (0.1%), Metal-Dark-Ice (0.1%)
Quadruple-Elemental Fusion: Ice-Metal-Dark-Fire (0.1%)
Meng Lei marveled, “The Ancient Tree of Life bloodline’s assimilation rate is actually only at 13%?”
“System, how much does it cost to raise the Ancient Tree of Life bloodline assimilation rate?”
“Dear host, raising the Ancient Tree of Life bloodline by 1% requires 100 million Divinity Crystals,” replied the system coldly.
“100 million Divinity Crystals? That’s so expensive!”
Meng Lei’s jaw dropped. “Is the Ancient Tree of Life bloodline also an Ancient God bloodline?”
“Yes, it is, host.”
Meng Lei was rather excited. “To think it’s actually another Ancient God bloodline! I’ve struck gold this time!”
Both the Primordial Human bloodline and the Ancient Tree of Life bloodlines were Ancient God bloodlines. He had two Ancient God bloodlines now!
This meant that he now had an additional form of assurance on his road to becoming an Ancient God. This was simply wonderful!
When Meng Lei got out of his tree form and resumed human form, he noticed at once that thick and lush vegetation had surrounded him. He couldn’t help but frown. Then, he sent the plants that had sprouted from the magic materials into the Tower of Time and planted them into the ground with a grand wave.
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