An intermediate deity’s divine cognition could only reach a maximum range of 1,000,000 miles in radius, but with the help of the Heart of The Existential Planes, Meng Lei was able to inspect the whole existential plane.
Of course, this also required a certain amount of time.
A few minutes later, Meng Lei finally located the third continent—the Gods-Demons Continent—after going one round around the Endless Oceans.
“What the heck! That continent’s huge! It’s actually even bigger than the Light Continent!
“How strange! Why are Magical Beasts the only creatures there? Where are the humans? The Beast People? The Titans?
“Since it’s covered in forests, surely there must be at least Fairies there?”
A round of inspection later, Meng Lei found himself disappointed.
Chapter 298: Four Divine Beasts, Putting A Leash On Them
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There were no humans, no Beast People, no Titans, and no Fairies!
Instead, Magical Beasts were the only creatures there! And there was an infinite number of them!
The astonishing thing was that these Magical Beasts were much stronger than those in Heaven’s Vault Continent and Light Continent. Even Saint Domain and half-deity Magical Beasts lived lives worse than even a dog’s there.
On top of that, there were almost 100 divine beasts!
One must admit that the Magical Beasts on Gods-Demons Continent had astounded Meng Lei. There was an astonishing number of Saint Domain Magical Beasts, innumerable half-deity Magical Beasts, and even almost 100 divine beasts there.
Furthermore—and most importantly—there was even a divine beast that rivaled an intermediate deity there. Now, that was astonishing!
Why would an intermediate deity-level divine beast continue to stay on this existential plane? Could it be that it hadn’t yet been 10,000 years since it became an intermediate deity? What kind of joke was that!?
“Do you see the Gods-Demons Continent’s fearsomeness for yourself now?”
Dodola said with a slight smile, “Aside from the Tower of Time, the Gods-Demons Continent is definitely this existential plane’s biggest secret.”
Meng Lei asked in disbelief, “Dodola, what kind of secret does the Gods-Demons Continent exactly hold? Why are the Magical Beasts there so strong? Their strength is practically beyond any reason or logic!
“Why? Because of the two words ‘gods’ and ‘demons’!”
Dodola explained, “More than 20,000 years ago, innumerable gods and demons suddenly descended upon this existential plane and started a war that swept through the whole continent.”
“Gods and demons descended upon the existential plane? Why?”
Meng Lei looked stupefied.
“I don’t know.”
Dodola shook its head. “There were originally also humans and other races on Gods-Demons Continent, but they all perished in that war between the gods and demons. In the end, only a handful of lucky Magical Beasts managed to survive.
“After the war, Magical Beasts became the biggest beneficiaries of the war. They devoured the gods and demons’ remains and seized their assets and divine cores, resulting in their power receiving a terrifying boost within a short period of time.”
“I see.”
Realization dawned upon Meng Lei. Living conditions didn’t differ much from continent to continent when everyone was all on the same existential plane. Therefore, it was impossible that such a great difference in strength would happen. As it turned out, it was actually all because of the war between the gods and demons.
“More than 20,000 years have gone by, but there should still be a great number of gods and demons remains on Gods-Demons Continent. You can go over and take a look if you’re interested.”
Dodola smiled and said, “Who knows, maybe you’ll find some good stuff.”
Meng Lei nodded slightly. “I’d still have headed over and taken a tour around the Gods-Demons Continent even if there weren’t any gods and demons remains there. This existential plane is my turf, after all.”
“Yeah!”
Dodola didn’t offer any further response after that, and its voice faded away very quickly.
Meng Lei then turned to his subordinates and said, “All of you are to speed up the migration process. At the same time, you must also protect the teleportation magic circle in the Far Northern Icelands. Nothing must go wrong!”
“Yes, Master!”
His subordinates bowed affirmatively.
“Alright, get down to work!”
Meng Lei dismissed them with a wave. Then, he began to take a tour around the imperial palace with Ol’ Amos in tow. Ol’ Amos had stayed in the imperial palace during the last two days. It was only on the third day that he finally left and departed for Dragon Island.
Apart from Ol’ Amos’ younger sister Amolin, everyone else on Dragon Island was a human genius.
By the Meng Lei Empire’s stipulations, Saint Domain experts were allowed to enter Dragon Island, the Divine Titan Temple, and other half-planes where laws of nature were distinct and magic elements were rich to cultivate.
Amolin was currently the only Dragon on Dragon Island. Thus, the so-called Dragon Island actually only existed in name now.
After Ol’ Amos’ departure, Meng Lei went to Gods-Demons Continent by himself, intending to take a good look around.
Located to Heaven’s Vault Continent’s southeast, Gods-Demons Continent was much vaster in territory than Heaven’s Vault Continent. On top of that, the whole continent was fully covered in forests and undoubtedly boasted the three continents’ best living environment on the existential plane.
Meng Lei floated in the air above Gods-Demons Continent. His divine cognition spread into the surroundings like tidal waves, shrouding the whole continent within as he began to inspect it properly.
Meng Lei made a discovery after a mere minute of inspection.
“There’s something out of the norm over there!”
Meng Lei came to the area above a basin. The basin was as though a gigantic bowl embedded in an endless sea of forests.
Lush and luxuriant vegetation filled the basin, the woods inside even denser and lusher than those outside. Additionally, several lesser deity-level divine beasts had also occupied the basin’s central region.
“The magic elements in the basin are far richer than those in the outside world. In particular, the magic elements in the central region are even as dense as solids. It must be because of that thing in the underground!”
Meng Lei’s eyes gleamed as he made a grabbing motion in the air. A huge intangible claw flew out of nowhere and grabbed at the basin’s central region, passing right through the ground upon contact.
It went 60,000 meters underground before finally coming to a stop. Then, it grabbed forcefully at it!
Boom!
Amid a great explosion, the ground within five kilometers of the area began to shake violently as though an earthquake had broken out. Then, it started to rise into the air slowly.
One meter, two meters, three meters...
Earth and soil were tossed everywhere as trees and branches snapped and broke.
“What’s going on?”
The huge commotion alarmed the Magical Beasts in the basin. The four lesser deity-level divine beasts, in particular, even took to the sky and began to inspect the area, upon which they noticed the basin’s central region that had risen into the air, as well as the culprit of all these—Meng Lei.
The four divine beasts flew into a thundering fury at once.
The basin was their den, but Meng Lei was actually making trouble there! Wasn’t this tantamount to bearding the lion in its den?
He was going too far!
There were some things that one could tolerate and some things that one couldn’t!
“You lowly worm, how dare you act so presumptuously here! Die!”
The four divine beasts were respectively
the Five-Colored Sacred Bull, the Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf, the Rainbow Wood Toad, and the Great Earth Bear.
Despite not having transformed into their true forms, they stood at 1,000-feet-tall. Terrifying divine power spread into the surroundings, crushing down on all areas around them and sweeping through heaven and earth.
All the Magical Beasts in the basin prostrated on the ground in fear, frightened to the extreme as they shook like leaves.
They simply couldn’t understand—why had the four great kings suddenly gone into a rage for no reason?
“Die!”
Four attacks—a five-colored deluge, countless wind blades, wooden vines that looked like poisonous snakes, and thundering sound waves—imbued with surging power of divinity swept brazenly toward Meng Lei.
They moved with fierce momentum and blotted out the sky.
As though great mountains crushing down on someone, they were capable of destroying everything.
The corners of Meng Lei’s lips curled upward in response. He reached out a finger, tapped the air, and commanded, “Freeze!”
Buzz...
A mysterious wave of energy spread outward, instantly locking down the air within 100 miles of where they were. The fearsome attacks also froze in mid-air and became still and motionless.
“Disperse!”
The four attacks dispersed with a loud boom upon command, turning into countless glowing particles that dissipated in the air.
“What?”
“How can this be?!”
“Damn it!”
“He’s neutralized our attacks so easily?”
The four divine beasts were flabbergasted. One must know that they were lesser deity-level divine beasts. Although those attacks had been launched casually and without much thought, they weren’t attacks that one could easily just neutralize.
“Who exactly is he?”
“I don’t know who he is!”
“Never seen him before!”
“Not sure!”
Just as alarm and doubt filled the four divine beasts, four green vines grew rapidly from Meng Lei and turned into poisonous snakes that shot toward the divine beasts.
“It’s coming!”
Not daring to be careless, the four divine beasts were about to counterattack right away when something that shocked and horrified them happened. Their bodies... They couldn’t move!
“Damn it!”
“What exactly is going on?”
“Damn! Move! Hurry, mov—”
Blood drained from the four divine beasts’ faces. They struggled fiercely and tried to move, but it was all in vain. They simply couldn’t move no matter what they did.
“Misbehaving? I’ll put a leash on you, then!”
Four vines shot toward them at lightning-quick speed, winding around the divine beasts’ necks along with the momentum and restricting them.
Chapter 299: Life Drawing, Higher-Tier Divine Weapon
The four divine beasts were exasperated.
You destroyed our home, and you’re chaining us now. You have gone too far!
However, Meng Lei did not pay any more attention to them. He treated them like air and focused on capturing the monster beneath the earth.
The earth rumbled as mountain rocks rolled down.
The earth shook vigorously as a humongous being was dragged out of the ground. It was completely soaked in mud, making it difficult to decipher its appearance.
A forceful divine power spread into the surroundings the moment it appeared. The four restless divine beasts looked toward the gigantic creature.
“What’s that?”
“What fearsome divine power!”
“Out from the underground?”
Meng Lei swung his arm casually, and the mud on the gigantic creature flew off. Moments later, a majestic creature was revealed.
It had a body of a gigantic ape, hippopotamus-like mouth, steel needle-like golden fur all over, and thick muscles bulging like boulders—every part of its body was filled with explosive power!
“Golden Behemoth!”
It only took a glance for the four divine beasts to recognize this massive creature. What they were more surprised about was that there was a Golden Behemoth underground which they were completely unaware of!
“An intermediate-deity Golden Behemoth!”
Meng Lei nodded secretly. Even after 20,000 years, this Golden Behemoth’s corpse was still vivid without any signs of decomposition.
Such was a body of an intermediate deity, almost incorruptible. However, a black spear was stuck at the forehead of this Golden Behemoth. This must have killed it.
“This spear is very familiar...”
Meng Lei took out his Gods-Slaying Spear and compared them. He realized that they looked exactly the same—both were surrounded by lightning and nothing different.
“Another Gods-Slaying Spear!”
Meng Lei’s expression became awful. “The one that killed this Golden Behemoth was the same as the one that killed Ol’ Amos previously!”
“Damn it! Just who was it?”
Meng Lei immediately tried dripping his blood to claim ownership and did not face any obstruction. It was clear that the owner of this spear was already dead.
“My dear Ol’ Amos, you can’t even find this guy to take your revenge on anymore. That is simply tragic!”
Meng Lei kept both Gods-Slaying Spears and brought the corpse into the Tower of Time. This corpse was an invaluable treasure.
“As for the four of you...”
Meng Lei looked at the four divine beasts and could not help but think that they seemed pretty magnificent.
The Five-Colored Sacred Bull, Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf, Rainbow Wood Toad, Great Earth Bear looked majestic and extraordinary.
“The heavens are virtuous and cherish all life, so I shall not kill you all,” Meng Lei said casually. “But, your punishment is to hand over your divine spirit origin energy to avoid death!”
“What are you talking about?”
“You want us to submit to you?”
“Forget about it!”
“Dream on!”
“You’re bullying too much!”
The four divine beasts were enraged upon hearing Meng Lei’s words as they glared at Meng Lei with their eyes spewing with fury. They felt violated!
“Unwilling? Then I guess there’s no other way!” Meng Lei shook his head. “I have given all of you a chance. Since you’re not willing to take it, then don’t blame me for anything!”
Splurt!
Splurt!
Splurt!
Splurt!
Countless tiny needles sticking out of the vines penetrated the four divine beasts, poking through their necks and absorbing their life essence violently.
Life Drawing!
The ability to absorb other’s vitality for his own use and enrich his life essence. This was not an Innate Special Ability but an ability of the Ancient Tree of Life!
Gurgle!
“Damn it!”
“Get off me!”
“Let go!”
As they felt their life being drained away endlessly, the four divine beasts started to struggle madly. However, under the might of the Power of Existential Plane, any struggles would be futile.
They could only watch their bodies shrink like a burst balloon. Their energy was drained quickly, and there was nothing they could do about it.
“At this rate, we’ll be sucked into dry corpses and die in his hands!”
“Quickly! Summon our great God. Only he can save us!”
“Yes, yes, yes! Summon our great god...”
The four divine beasts wanted to let out roars, but they could not even open their mouths, let alone calling for their great god.
“It’s all over!”
“We’re dead meat!”
“No! I don’t want to die! I have just become a divine beast. I don’t want to die yet!
As death loomed, the Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf was the
first to yield as it repeatedly begged, “S-spare me! I submit! I submit!”
Meng Lei snorted. He stopped draining the Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf’s life essence reluctantly, and he calmly said, “Yielding just like that? What a wussy!”
Hooowl!
The Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf cried out and released its divine spirit origin energy obediently, letting Meng Lei refine it and control its life and death.
“Good that you know your place!”
Meng Lei let the wolf off.
“Thank... Thank you!”
The Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf looked at Meng Lei with a complicated gaze. It would never have thought that it was a mighty king of the Heavenly Wolves moments ago! At the very next moment, he actually submitted to some random fellow it did not know at all!
It was unimaginable!
“What about the three of you?”
Meng Lei glanced at the Five-Colored Sacred Bull, Rainbow Wood Toad, and Great Earth Bear.
“We submit too!”
As much as they were unwilling to submit to Meng Lei, their lives were in jeopardy. Thus, the three divine beasts finally yielded and gave up their divine spirit origin energy.
“Let’s go then!”
Meng Lei turned around and flew away. The four divine beasts did not dare to delay and followed docilely.
Half an hour later, Meng Lei came to the sky above a lake. The waters were clear and sparkling with ripples along the surface, like a beautiful emerald embedded among the sea of the lush forest. The surroundings were filled with thick bushes and verdant trees; it was picturesque.
“This is a nice place!”
Meng Lei was a little unwilling to destroy such a scenic place, but there’s something in the lake that he must obtain. A few moments later, a trident emerged from the waters.
This trident was a hundred meters long. It was made entirely out of an unknown material, and it emitted surging water-elemental energy waves with incredible divine power.
Meng Lei flicked his fingers for a drop of blood. Surprisingly, he could not refine this trident. Meng Lei was stunned. Did someone own the trident?
His divine cognition entered the trident promptly and shattered the previous owner’s divine spirit mark, and he engraved his own.
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