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The terrifying sight badly frightened the Eight-Horned Fire Unicorn occupying the inside of the volcano. No matter what, it was still a divine beast that was comparable to a high-level Great Demon God, yet it was so frightened that it was hiding within the lava, too scared to even show its face. What a coward!
“They sure are ruthless!”
Meng Lei noticed that an Immortal Fire Phoenix had grabbed a Divine Netherworld Phoenix by its neck and was using its sharp beak to peck relentlessly at the other party’s head. It was as if it wished it could thoroughly mash the Divine Netherworld Phoenix’s neck into a pulp with its beak!
Dodola laughed and replied, “This is exactly what it’s like whenever those two races run into each other.”
Meng Lei nodded lightly. After watching the battle for a while more, he promptly decided to attack. He was very poor at the moment, so he didn’t have the time to waste on any delays here. He had to make full use of the time he had to make money!
“Freeze!” Meng Lei uttered.
Buzz!
God’s Domain instantly spread into the vicinity and locked down the dimension. The Divine Netherworld Phoenixes and Immortal Fire Phoenixes that were originally engaged in fierce battle instantly froze on the spot.
“Go!”
Green-gold spears that filled the sky shot out with a flick of Meng Lei’s fingers and harvested all the Divine Netherworld Phoenixes’ and Immortal Fire Phoenixes’ lives. As usual, the carcasses were given to the little golden tree while the divine cores went to Meng Lei himself.
“Ding! 1 Divine Netherworld Phoenix killed. 67 million Divinity Crystals gained.”
“Ding! 1 Immortal Fire Phoenix killed. 66.5 million Divinity Crystals gained.”
“Ding...”
“And you, too, Eight-Horned Fire Unicorn!”
Meng Lei didn’t forget about the Eight-Horned Fire Unicorn hiding in the lava lake and also took its life.
During the next few days, Meng Lei traveled about everywhere and hopped from battle to battle in various Boundless Plane regions.
Boundless Great Beasts... Kill!
Visitors from foreign existential planes... Kill!
Over the span of a few days, Meng Lei had already harvested an unknown number of lives. His Wealth value skyrocketed at an insane speed and reached a shocking 100 billion Divinity Crystals.
100 billion!
This was an extremely excessive number!
Yet relative to the astronomical sum of 5,000 trillion Divinity Crystals, this bit of money was clearly rather inadequate.
Meng Lei didn’t dare to slack off, and he continued to hunt. Of course, his expectations had also risen by now. He couldn’t be bothered to hunt those who were weaker than higher deity-level because he wouldn’t earn much from those.
After all, even an ordinary higher deity was only worth 3,000,000 Divinity Crystals, while those weaker than that were worth even less. Hunting them was a complete waste of time.
Harvest!
Harvest!
Harvest!
Meng Lei was just like a hardworking farmer. He hunted tirelessly despite the hardships as if he didn’t know what fatigue was. This gave the little golden tree in the Tower of Time a huge treat.
Although the golden little tree’s growth was very slow, it nevertheless showed visible growth after devouring innumerable powerful dead bodies.
True enough, it had already grown from the initial two meters to its current height of more than 20 meters!
This was a tenfold growth!
However, what filled Meng Lei with a sense of resignation was that aside from having a richer life force, the little golden tree still looked the same as ever and didn’t show much of a difference.
...
Meng Lei appeared in the sky above a tribe on this day. The extremely big and tall buildings, which were formed from stacks of rocks, gave off a raw and unrestrained air.
This was a tribe of Giants, but unfortunately, the tribe had encountered a massacre.
Dead bodies littered the wilderness. Buildings and houses had collapsed, leaving behind only rubble. Blood was everywhere, and the place was an utter mess.
“Yet another tribe of Giants has been slaughtered!”
Meng Lei couldn’t help but shake his head as he overlooked the wreckage that was the tribe from above. Like the humans on Heaven’s Vault Continent, the level of strength among Boundless Giants was not a uniform one.
Powerful Boundless Giants could rival high-level Great Demon Gods, while weak ones were barely even Saint Domain-level. In a small tribe, even the most powerful person there was just intermediate deity-level or thereabouts. It was only in mid-range tribes that one could find higher deities...
This was obviously a small tribe with few tribesmen and low overall combat power. When faced with the ferocious experts from foreign existential planes, it would be stranger if they had managed to avoid the fate of being slaughtered instead.
“In a cruel world like this, being weak and powerless is an original sin itself. You’re destined to be slaughtered by others if you’re weak and powerless.”
Meng Lei sent the dead bodies in the ruins into the Tower of Time. Then, he continued to teleport and move ahead. Before long, he arrived at yet another tribe.
Like the previous one, this particular tribe had also been massacred. All 10,000-odd Giants in the whole tribe had been killed, leaving behind not even a single survivor.
“H-help!”
Just as Meng Lei was about to collect the dead bodies, he suddenly heard a weak cry for help.
He hurriedly looked toward where the voice had come from and detected a weak life force underneath a pile of straw.
“A survivor?”
Meng Lei was rather astonished. The straw was reduced to dust with a casual wave from him, revealing a small Giant underneath.
The term 'small” was only in relation to adult Giants because he was actually over two-meters-tall.
He was a Giant child!
Or rather... A toddler!
However, there was a life-threatening wound on the child’s abdomen. It started on the left of his chest and went all the way to his right hip, almost severing him in two.
The amazing thing, however, was that violet electric currents were constantly forming at the fatal wound and healing it, allowing the child’s life to be preserved.
“That’s—”
Meng Lei felt an extremely familiar sensation at the sight of the violet electric currents on the child, whereas Dodola had already let out an exclamation.
“O God of Time above! This, this, this... This is a thunder-origin divine body!”
“So it really is a thunder-origin divine body!”
A huge jolt went through Meng Lei all over. As someone that also owned an origin divine body, he was extremely sensitive to Power of Origin. The moment he saw the violet electric currents, he had already realized that it was definitely also a form of Power of Origin. Little did he think that it was really true!
At once, Dodola suggested, “Meng Lei, that child is definitely a genius. Quick, save him!”
“Alright!”
The child was someone that owned an origin divine body, after all. Meng Lei didn’t wish to see him perish. At once, he took out a tree branch, squeezed out the life essence in it, and fed it to the Giant child.
The branch was an Ancient Tree of Life branch that Meng Lei had obtained in the past. It contained strong, rich life essence, so its healing effect was much stronger than the Tree of Vitality’s.
True enough, the wound on the child’s abdomen started to wriggle non-stop after he consumed the few drops of life essence. Then, it started to visibly close and heal.
In the short span of just a few minutes, the wound had completely healed. It was as if it had never once been there. The child opened his eyes, upon which he then noticed Meng Lei.
“D-don’t kill me! Sob...”
Badly frightened, an incredibly fearful and horror-str
icken look appeared in the child’s eyes, and he sobbed and whimpered.
“Don’t be scared, little boy. Uncle here isn’t a bad person!”
Meng Lei gave him what he thought was a smile brimming with kindness and took out a divine fruit. Then, with a smile that looked like the big bad wolf’s, he said, “Here, have a fruit. Uncle won’t hurt you...”
Chapter 358: A Monarch’s Treasure, Congregation Of Experts
Faint clouds hang high in the sky, southbound geese yonder fly—autumn.
Two figures—a big one and a small one—raced across the boundless plain in low altitude before they finally arrived above a tribe.
It was a large tribe with tall structures, occupying vast land, which contained countless herded Boundless Great Beasts and dried meat being hung around.
It was a rare tribe in the Boundless Plane, where resources were aplenty while buildings were magnificent.
Tragically, like other tribes, dead bodies littered the wilderness while most buildings had collapsed. It was evident that it had gone through a massacre.
“These damn devils!”
A giant gnashed his teeth as hatred was written all over his tender face. He was the giant child Meng Lei just saved—Samo.
A cute name indeed.
“Men or women, old or young were all slaughtered mercilessly. This is tantamount to the devil’s descent!” Meng Lei had great emotions.
“Uncle, can you help me take revenge?”
Samo looked at Meng Lei with hopeful looks in his eyes.
“Revenge?”
Meng Lei raised an eyebrow before saying righteously, “I have descended upon the Boundless Plane to destroy these extraterrestrial demons and save your world!”
Samo possessed the thunder-origin divine body, and Meng Lei planned to bring him under his control. Hence, he needed to establish an image as a symbol of justice in Samo’s heart.
“Thank you, Uncle! You’re such a nice person!” Samo said gratefully.
“I’m not that nice. I just hate to see the atrocities committed by those evil extraterrestrial demons!” Meng Lei felt more and more guilty the more he said those. “Let’s move on and keep going. We must catch up to them as soon as possible!”
“Yes!”
Meng Lei kept the bodies with a wave of hands and continued his journey with Samo.
After hurrying for the entire trip, they finally reached another tribe of Giants. However, this tribe was suffering from the most horrific disaster in their history at that very moment.
A bunch of Colossal Dragons had descended upon this tribe, carrying out their inhumane massacre.
These Dark Demonic Dragons—other than one high-level Great Demon God—were all mid-level Great Demon Gods.
They were spitting black flames to burn the tall structures, massacring the Boundless Giants.
Despite this tribe’s strongest giant’s best efforts, there was nothing he could do as he got trampled on by the Dark Demonic Dragons like a toy.
The other Boundless Giants were either trembling as they awaited their inescapable fate or getting burned into blackening dry corpses. It was a horrific sight to behold.
“Uncle!”
Samo looked at Meng Lei and begged.
Meng Lei took a step into the skies above the tribe, with his voice thundering across the place.
“You damned extraterrestrial demons, how dare you kill the innocent and slaughter the weak!”
The Dark Demonic Dragons who were ravaging the tribe were taken aback slightly as they looked up in the sky to see Meng Lei towering over them. They were amused immediately.
“Where did this worm come from to be a busybody? Die!”
A Dark Demonic Dragon roared and sprayed out a black dragon breath.
“Be careful, Uncle!”
A frightened Samo screamed as he could sense the threat of the deadly dragon breath from afar. It contained terrifying destructive powers as it was just like boiling lava plus poisonous acid—blazing hot and highly corrosive.
A drop of that would burn and corrode Samo into nothing in which not even the bones would remain.
“Hah!”
Meng Lei calmly extended his right hand with a light clap. A gigantic palm a few million feet long appeared out of nowhere and pressed toward this Dark Demonic Dragon.
Boom!
The gigantic palm crashed down and decimated the black dragon’s breath in an instant before crushing this Dark Demonic Dragon and turned it into a meat sauce.
“Yay! Uncle is so mighty and powerful!” Samo shouted in great excitement.
“No! Bartulu!!”
“He killed Bartulu!”
“Die!”
Meng Lei’s action opened Pandora’s box as he enraged the rest of the Dark Demonic Dragons.
They bellowed and roared as they charged at Meng Lei, trying to tear him into pieces.
“You all have overestimated yourselves!”
With a wave of the hand, thousands of spears shot out and flooded more than 30 Dark Demonic Dragons, turning them into swiss cheese.
“Ding! 1 Dark Demonic Dragon killed. 61 million Divinity Crystals gained!”
“Ding! 1 Dark Demonic Dragon killed. 63 million Divinity Crystals gained!”
“Ding...”
“S-so powerful!”
Samo widened his eyes in disbelief—the ability to wipe out over 30 powerful extraterrestrial demons. How powerful was that?
“Uncle, you’re so incredible!”
Samo’s eyes were brimming with idolization.
“Work hard with your cultivation, and you’ll be as great!” Meng Lei patted Samo’s head and smiled. “Let’s proceed down and check it out!”
“Yeap!”
The two landed on the ground. The Boundless Giants that survived looked at Meng Lei with terror-stricken faces, while that strongest giant of the tribe hurriedly dragged his body to block off Meng Lei.
He was known as Pico. After getting trampled on previously, he was already heavily injured. However, his resilient eyes still stared at Meng Lei and Samo vigilantly.
In Pico’s eyes, Meng Lei was an enemy much more terrifying than the Dark Demonic Dragons!
“Don’t be nervous. I’m not here to hurt you.” Meng Lei signaled for them to calm down.
“Hey, Mister, this uncle is here to help protect us!
“It was he who saved me and killed every extraterrestrial demon along the way to save us Boundless Giants! Uncle is a good person!”
“Good person?” Pico was taken aback for a moment as he looked at Samo with a puzzled look. “You’re a Boundless Giant!”
“Yeap!”
Samo nodded.
“Kid, he fooled you!”
Pico looked at Meng Lei with hostility. “He’s different from us! He’s an extraterrestrial demon like those dragons who will only slaughter us. He won’t help us!”
“Fool you?” Meng Lei scoffed. “Why do you think I need to lie to all of you?”
“Hmph! Who doesn’t know that all of you demons will do anything for the Monarch’s treasure?”
Hatred filled Pico’s eyes. “Let me tell you this, I have no clue where the Monarch’s treasure is! Even if I knew, I wouldn’t ever say it! You disgusting demons!”
“Monarch’s treasure?” Meng Lei perked up. “What’s the Monarch’s treasure?”
“Stop acting!” Pico said coldly, “You thought I’d tell you where it’s hidden just like that? You can stop daydreaming!”
“I don’t care whether you believe it or not.” Meng Lei sneered. “Samo, I’m going to continue hunting those extraterrestrial demons down in other places. Are you staying here or leaving with me?”
Samo took a glance at Pico and shook his head. “Uncle, I’m leaving with you!”
Although Pico and the rest were all Boundless Giants, he did not know any of them. Hence, he would prefer to follow Meng Lei.
“Let’s go then.”
Meng Lei smiled in satisfaction and disap
peared from this tribe along with Samo.
“...”
...
“Samo, what’s the Monarch’s treasure?” Meng Lei asked on the way.
Samo did not doubt him, so he explained, “The Monarch’s treasure is the treasure left behind by the greatest, strongest ever Boundless King in the legends. It’s said that it was the Boundless King’s lifelong riches!”
“Then do you know where it’s hidden?” Meng Lei asked casually.
“I don’t know,” answered Samo as he shook his head.
“The Monarch’s treasure is just a legend. Naturally, no one would know its exact location. Wait! Maybe the Great Prophet might know something about it!”
“Great Prophet?”
Meng Lei was puzzled.
“The Great Prophet is the greatest Boundless Giant on the Boundless Plane. He lives in the Monarch Mountain, guarding the statue of the Boundless King for his entire lifetime!”
Awe flashed across Samo’s eyes. “The legends said that the Great Prophet’s ancestor was the Boundless King’s right-hand man, following the Boundless King in his domination over the vast universe!”
“I see.”
After half an hour, they arrived in another tribe. Still, Meng Lei and Samo were a step too late.
This huge tribe did not survive the disaster as it was massacred. Meng Lei kept the bodies with a wave of hands and continued forward.
Onward...
Kill...
Onward...
Kill...
Of course, Meng Lei did not travel forward blindly as he moved in the direction of the center of the continent.
After some devious questioning around the continent, he already had the rough idea that the Monarch Mountain was in the middle of the continent.
Meng Lei believed that the experts of each existential plane were heading to Monarch Mountain as well. After all, no matter how tough the Boundless Giants were, they could not withstand the harshest questioning of all—reading their spirit memory!
Anything the giants knew or not would have been known to the experts of other existential planes. Hence, the Monarch Mountain would be unavoidably exposed to everyone.
The truth spoke itself as Meng Lei had expected. Experts from each existential plane had gathered at the Monarch Mountain. By the time Meng Lei reached the mountain, most of the experts were there already.