Picking Up Attributes From Today c1-406

by Panda Reunion, 团圆小熊猫

  That was a Chief God divine core—the step to a meteoric rise that she would never give up on.

  “Hand over the Chief God divine core at once!”

  The two Nagas yelled as well.

  “Seems like you want to do this the hard way!”

  Meng Lei sneered as he appeared before the Manro Empress in a flash.

  “So fast!”

  The Manro Empress’ expression changed quickly, but a sharp, throbbing pain came from her abdomen before she could react. In the very next moment, she flew off backward.

  Meng Lei moved about like a ghost as he appeared before the two old Nagas consecutively and kicked them hard, sending them flying out into the distance.

  “Peasants who overestimate themselves.”

  Meng Lei snorted softly and prepared to teleport away. Just then, a shrill sound sliced across the air, and a figure shot in front of Meng Lei.

  It had a pair of sharp horns, a long tail, round ears, blood-red eyes, purple-black lips, and pale-white skin.

  Meng Lei was startled to see this person—it looked exactly like Frieza from an anime, almost as if it was the actual one.

  They look so similar!

  Frieza was just a fictional character who could not have appeared here. The one in front of him should be a Frost God deity, a Great Perfection one.

  “Where’s the Chief God divine core? Where is it?”

  Frieza gazed upon Meng Lei and the three Nagas with its blood-red eyes, full of thirst and desire. He was already a Great Perfection deity at the end of his cultivation progress with no chance of progressing further. However, everything would change if he obtained a Chief God divine core. He would be able to make that leap to become a supreme Chief God, standing at the top of the universe. Hence, the Chief God divine core was a great temptation.

  “Great Perfection deity!”

  The three Nagas looked incredibly awful. They knew that their hopes of getting the Chief God divine core was diminishing quickly with the appearance of the unfathomable expert Meng Lei, and now a Great Perfection deity.

  “Look at what you’ve done, old man!” snarled the Naga old woman. “The Chief God divine core was already in my hands. If it weren’t for you, we wouldn’t have ended up in this state.”

  “Hmph! You still have the cheeks to blame me?” retorted the Naga old man. “I’ve given in and tolerated you for my entire life, and in the end, you’re treating me like this. I’m absolutely blind to be with you!”

  “You—”

  The two old Nagas complained about each other, and ‘Frieza’ was annoyed. He snorted, and a terrifying aura that reached into the heavens and went deep into the earth pressed over.

  “Say it! Where’s the Chief God divine core?” Frieza said coldly.

  “He snatched the Chief God divine core!”

  The Manro Empress coughed up a mouthful of blood as she pointed at Meng Lei. Her sparkling eyes were suppressed with rage.

  If I can’t have it, I won’t let you get it either!

  “Yes! He indeed snatched the Chief God divine core!” The Naga old man spoke too.

  “The Chief God divine core is with you?” Frieza looked at Meng Lei immediately with greed in his eyes. “Quickly! Give it up now!”

  “The Chief God divine core is in my hands, but why should I give it to you?” Meng Lei said calmly, “You’ve got to come up with a valid explanation, right?”

  “Explanation? Bwahaha!” Frieza let a peal of boisterous laughter. “Hand over the Chief God divine core, and I’ll spare your life! Or else, you’ll die a tragic death!”

  “Kill me? You might not have the capacities for that!”

  Meng Lei scoffed, took a step, and appeared before Frieza. Their eyes met, and Frieza was stunned by Meng Lei’s speed.

  So fast!

  In the next moment, Meng Lei’s fists struck his abdomen.

  Boom!

  Boundless power spread throughout Frieza’s body, and he was sent flying with a muffled grunt. A figure flashed behind him like a ghost, and Meng Lei stomped Frieza’s head.

  Meng Lei sneered and shook his head as he looked at Frieza. “Everyone can talk the talk, but you’ll only end up as a miserable joke without enough capabilities!”

  Gasp!

  The three Nagas were traumatized. They stared at Meng Lei as if he was a monster. That was a Great Perfection deity, yet Meng Lei had completely dominated him.

  Who the hell is he? The Manro Empress thought quickly, The only ones who can suppress a Great Perfection deity would be a Chief God. Perhaps he’s one of them?

  Chief Gods were the existence far above, elusive, and nowhere to be found. Those who could see them were far and few. Yet, they were great beings, and there would always be statues, drawings, and others to know of their appearances.

  Hence, many experts had ‘seen’ Chief Gods. At that moment, however, the Manro Empress could swear that she had never seen a Chief God like Meng Lei.

  “Curse you! Curse it all!”

  Frieza steadied himself and glared at Meng Lei dead in the eye. His murderous intent was clear—since when had he ever been humiliated like this?

  It was utterly unacceptable!

  “Die!”

  Frieza roared, and a cold purple current burst off, turning into a majestic purple frost dragon that crashed toward Meng Lei.

  It was the Frost Gods’ Innate Special Ability, Mysterious Ice of The Depths!

  There was nothing more to mention about the power of the Mysterious Ice of The Depths. Other than its extremely low temperatures, it could freeze virtually anything, including dimensions.

  As expected, the purple frost dragon emanated incredibly low temperatures, which froze and imprisoned everything in its path.

  “Damn!”

  Upon detecting the purple frost dragon’s terrible might, the three Nagas’ expressions changed dramatically, and they retreated a distance away. This frost dragon was too terrifying, so they did not want to be embroiled.

  “I’ve finally met the authentic Mysterious Ice of The Depths!” Meng Lei did not dodge. Instead, a smirk dashed across his face. “It’s just a pity...”

  With that said, Meng Lei pointed his finger and tapped on the frost dragon’s nose. The purple frost dragon broke in pieces with a crackle as if it was hammered hard.

  “You think that’s it? Think again! Freeze!”

  Frieza seemed to have expected the outcome. Innumerable broken pieces of ice swarmed Meng Lei and closed in on him swiftly.

  Crack, crack, crack...

  An icy purple prison was formed, sealing Meng Lei within. Frieza let out an icy snort, and purple currents shot out to reinforce the block of ice.

  After quite a while, the icy prison was enhanced, and Frieza breathed a sigh of relief. “Don’t think about getting out when you’re locked into my Mysterious Ice of The Depths! Now, time to leave this place before anything else!”

  As he spoke, he fixed his gaze on the Manro Empress and the two Nagas with vicious intent.

  “Damn!”

  “He’s going to silence us for good!”

  The three Nagas were terribly frightened and fled immediately. They had no courage to face a Great Perfection deity since they were simply inferior to him.

  “Thinking of fleeing? It’s too late!”

  Frieza sneered and snapped his fingers. Three purple ice needles shot off, and they pierced through the back of three Nagas’ heads, killing them instantly.

  Their outraged eyes were widened big and round, filled with resentment and chagrin. They only wanted to snatch the Chief God divine core, so how did they end up losing their lives...

  Chapter 382: Death Laws of Nature, Assimilating the Divine Core

  Frieza brought Meng Lei away with him.

  Shortly after they left, several streaks of light shot to where they had previously been. Every one of them had a strong and forceful aura around them and gave off vast and mighty divine power—they were evidently all high-level higher
deities and Great Perfection super experts.

  “Three Naga dead bodies!”

  “And the aura of residual power of divinity!”

  “It’s likely the Frost Gods!”

  “The Frost Gods have taken the Chief God divine core!”

  “Find them! The Chief God divine core has to be...”

  The group of experts immediately launched an inch-by-inch search, vowing to find the Chief God divine core no matter what. After all, they would never give up something like a Chief God divine core!

  However, what none of them knew was that Frieza hadn’t really left. Instead, he had taken Meng Lei with him, hiding dozens of millions of kilometers underground.

  “The most dangerous place is usually also the safest place. I’ll stay right here and hide within plain sight. Who would be able to find me that way?

  “When I’ve assimilated the Chief God divine core and become a supreme Chief God, everything will be set in stone, and all of you shall prostrate at my feet!”

  Frieza brought out the ice cell imprisoning Meng Lei, intending to kill him, but before he could do anything, the ice cell broke on its own.

  “How can this be?”

  Frieza was stunned.

  “What? Are you very surprised?” Meng Lei had a big smile on his face as he said, “Surely you didn’t think that you really could trap me? What the heck, someone the likes of you actually thinks he can trap me? What were you thinking?”

  “Mysterious Ice of The Depths!”

  Frieza snapped back to reality in no time and brazenly launched an attack. However, before he could cast his Mysterious Ice of The Depths, Meng Lei had frozen him to the spot.

  Meng Lei was also using Mysterious Ice of The Depths, but the difference lay in the fact that not only was his Mysterious Ice of The Depths tricolored, but it was also a powerful ultimate-grade special ability. Frieza struggled desperately after he was sealed in ice by Mysterious Ice of The Depths, but he couldn’t do anything about it at all.

  “Why did you capture him, kid?”

  Moro appeared out of thin air and stared at Meng Lei in puzzlement. In his opinion, there was no need for Meng Lei to go to the trouble of pretending and allowing Frieza to capture him.

  It was too much trouble!

  He could easily just kill Frieza instead. After all, the two of them were in two completely different leagues in terms of combat power.

  “I naturally have my own motives in doing so,” replied Meng Lei with a hint of a smile.

  “Your motives? What motives?” asked Moro curiously.

  “Because he has the fifth type of supreme laws of nature on him!” Meng Lei could hardly hide the greed in his eyes as he said, “Didn’t you sense it? This guy’s a real Great Perfection deity. He’s already comprehended a sliver of death laws of nature!”

  “So what even if that’s the case? It’s ultimately still just a mere sliver. It isn’t enough to cause a qualitative improvement in his combat power, so he’s just a notch stronger than most average Great Perfection deities, that’s all,” scoffed Moro.

  Given Moro’s perceptiveness, he could naturally tell that Frieza had already assimilated metal, dark, ice, wind, and earth laws of nature and started to comprehend death laws of nature.

  But so what even if that was the case?

  It wasn’t like they could make use of it anyway!

  “You’ll understand in no time!”

  Meng Lei chuckled, and then he gave the order to plunder.

  Boom!

  A wave of information about death laws of nature instantly gushed into Meng Lei’s mind. He hurriedly gathered his thoughts and began to digest it quickly.

  A long while later, Meng Lei slowly let out a pent-up breath, and a joyful smile formed at the corners of his eyes.

  “Haha! It’s complete! I’ve completed all five types of supreme laws of nature!”

  “What are you talking about?”

  Moro stared at Meng Lei with a puzzled look on his face.

  “How many types of supreme laws of nature are there exactly, Moro?”

  Meng Lei threw him a question instead of answering him. He asked, “Aside from the five great supreme laws of nature—time, spatial, life, destruction, and death—are there any other types of supreme laws of nature?”

  Although Moro was awfully puzzled as to why Meng Lei would suddenly ask such a question, he nevertheless shook his head and denied the possibility. He answered, “There are only these five types of supreme laws of nature. There isn’t any other.”

  “That’s great!” Meng Lei exhaled and said, “This also means that I’ve already started to comprehend all five types of supreme laws of nature, so what I need to do now is to earn Divinity Crystals, buy credit, and bring them all up to completion!”

  “What exactly are you mumbling about, little fellow? Why is it that the more I hear what you’re saying, the more confused I am?” asked a somewhat displeased Moro.

  “Haha!”

  Meng Lei chuckled lightly. Then, a laws of nature chain suddenly formed at his fingertip. It gave off a ghastly white glow like that of a dead man’s pale, bloodless complexion.

  “D-death laws of nature!”

  A huge jolt went through Moro. He rubbed his eyes hard, unable to stop himself from exclaiming, “You... How come you’ve comprehended death laws of nature?”

  Meng Lei pointed at Frieza and replied, “I plundered it from him.”

  Gasp!

  Moro couldn’t help but gasp at his response. “You actually have that kind of ability? Could it be that... This was also how you had obtained the other four types of supreme laws of nature that you’ve previously comprehended?”

  “Well, I guess so!”

  Meng Lei nodded slightly. Then, he casually killed Frieza, sent his carcass into the Tower of Time, and tossed it to the little golden tree. As for its divine core, he also tossed it into the Tower of Time after he erased its divine spirit.

  Ol’ Amos, Puhaman, and the others were currently chatting idly in boredom with one another on the Tower of Time’s 99th level. They could swear that these few days since their arrival at the Earth Divine Realm were the idlest and most leisure period they had ever spent after becoming Meng Lei’s followers. With nothing to do all day, they were utterly bored to tears!

  They sorely lacked power of divinity, so they didn’t want to stay idle like this. They wanted to get down to work, to spread their faith, to enrich their power of divinity, but unfortunately...

  Whoosh!

  All of a sudden, a ghastly white divine core suddenly fell from the sky and landed in Ol’ Amos’ palm.

  Just as puzzlement came over everyone, Meng Lei’s voice abruptly rang out. He said, “Ol’ President, this is a Great Perfection divine core. Why don’t you assimilate it?”

  “What?”

  “A Great Perfection divine core?!”

  His words caused a great furor to go through the deities.

  Everyone’s gazes fell onto the divine core sitting in Ol’ Amos’ palm at the same time, the look in their eyes one of open hunger. A Great Perfection divine core! That was a Great Perfection divine core!

  As long as one assimilated it, they would be able to rise and become a Great Perfection deity in a single leap!

  A Great Perfection deity!!

  “Mine! This is mine!”

  Ol’ Amos snapped back to reality and hastily held the divine core close to himself as he watched the others warily, the look on his face as though an old mother hen protecting its chicks.

  Snatching it from him?

  He wasn’t worried about the others snatching it from him, of course. This was purely just instinct. After all, a Great Perfection divine core was simply too precious, so much so that he couldn’t help but act with extreme caution.

  Everyone quickly urged, “Hurry and assimilate it, Ol’ President!”

  Although they also desired the Great Perfection divine core, none of them tried to snatch it from Ol’ Amos.
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  That was something that Meng Lei had specifically handed to Ol’ Amos. How would they possibly have the guts to snatch it from him? Wasn’t that tantamount to committing suicide? It wasn’t as if they were tired of living!

  “You don’t need to envy him, guys. Everyone that deserves one will eventually get one!”

  Meng Lei’s voice rang out once more and put their hearts at ease once and for all.

  Everyone’s hearts began to burn with fervency at once. First a lesser deity divine core, then a higher deity divine core—Master had never disappointed them before!

  And now, a Great Perfection divine core... He wouldn’t disappoint them this time, either, of course. Now that the first one had come, next would be the second, the third...

  Everyone was filled with anticipation the moment they thought of that.

  Suddenly, a puzzled Fatty Hart asked, “How strong exactly is old bro when he can get his hands on even a Great Perfection divine core?”

  “Uh...”

  Everyone looked at one another and hazarded a guess.

  “Great Perfection-level?”

  “That seems a little off! How can Master hunt and kill Great Perfection deities and obtain Great Perfection divine cores if he’s only Great Perfection-level himself?”

  “That seems to make sense!”

  “Could Master be... a Chief God?”

  “A... A Chief God?”

  “S-surely not?”

  Chapter 383: Assembly of The Great Perfection Deities, Divine Core Ownership

  “Deep as the oceans, the path of divine core assimilation reaches once begun; from here on out, ascension is all but a stranger”—this saying was no joke.

  The moment once one deified by assimilating a divine core, it was basically impossible for them to ever break through their current cultivation stage and ascend to a higher stage by their own efforts. Only by continuing to assimilate even higher-grade divine cores could they become more powerful.

  This was exactly the situation that Puhaman and the others were currently in.

  They had become lesser deities by assimilating lesser deity divine cores and subsequently became higher deities by assimilating higher deity divine cores. As a result, ascension had become merely an extravagant wish for them now.