If they wished to strengthen themselves further, then their only choice was to assimilate even higher-grade divine cores such as Great Perfection and Chief God divine cores. Only then would they go on to further success and move on to the next level.
For the sake of his subordinates’ Great Perfection divine cores and also to earn more Divinity Crystals at the same time, Meng Lei had developed a hunting plan...
Whoosh!
He got right down to work the moment the thought came to him. A crystal glittering with a ten-colored divine radiance suddenly flew out of the underground and reappeared in the sky. Its fearsome divine power and dazzling divine radiance immediately spread into the surroundings the moment it appeared, forming a great weather phenomenon.
“The Chief God divine core!”
“The Chief God divine core has reappeared!”
The sight naturally caught many experts’ attention. They had been searching for the Chief God divine core everywhere, so how could the Chief God divine core’s sudden reappearance possibly escape their notice?
“The Chief God divine core is over there!”
“Mine! The Chief God divine core is mine!”
“Don’t anyone dare fight with me for it!”
Whoosh!
Innumerable experts raced desperately toward the Chief God divine core with everything they got, wishing they had been born with an extra pair of legs in case others got there ahead of them.
If someone were to overlook the area from a high vantage point right now, they would realize that innumerable streaks of light were currently converging from all directions at terrifying speed. The situation was much like innumerable crocodiles swimming toward a zebra that had appeared in the center of a small stream upon detecting the smell of blood.
Soon, hundreds of high-level higher deities arrived within the vicinity of the Chief God divine core. Among them were also numerous super experts that were already infinitely close to becoming Great Perfection deities.
“It’s mine!”
The group of super experts became even more fervent at the sight of the Chief God divine core. Their speed spiked dramatically, and they grabbed brazenly at the divine core.
Boom!
A fearsome attack suddenly came from afar and struck them mercilessly.
Several shrill cries rang out as the hundreds of experts were sent flying.
The less severe cases suffered injuries and coughed up blood, while the severe ones were maimed and paralyzed.
One could say that they couldn’t get any unluckier than that!
“Hmph! How dare a bunch of weak, lowly ants harbor designs on the Chief God divine core, too! You overestimate yourselves!”
A contemptuous snort rang out, and then someone appeared out of nowhere and came right up to the Chief God divine core.
The man had a pair of horns on his head, a pair of wings on his back, a pair of tails on his bottom, and gave off vast, majestic dragon might.
“Armand Nidhogg!”
Initially, the masses had naturally been furious at being ambushed, but when they saw the person that had appeared out of nowhere, fear and alarm filled them at once, followed by despair.
The newcomer was actually Armand Nidhogg, a Great Perfection deity from the Nidhogg Colossal Dragon Gods!
“How are we supposed to even goddamn fight for the Chief God divine core when even a Great Perfection deity has come!?” shouted someone indignantly.
“A bunch of good-for-nothings!”
Armand Nidhogg cast a contemptuous glance at the masses. Then, he grabbed at the Chief God divine core and declared, “Mine! The Chief God divine core is mine now! Once I assimilate it, I shall becom—”
Boom!
A massive hand that blotted out the sky abruptly appeared right at this moment and grabbed at the Chief God divine core. It moved at an even higher speed and was even nearer in proximity to the divine core.
“How bold of you to actually set your sights on my Chief God divine core!”
Armand Nidhogg flew into a thundering rage at the sight. He opened his mouth and released a wave of silver dragon breath at the massive hand, evidently intending to burn and destroy it.
“Hmph!”
Another cold snort rang out as the massive hand hastily drew back and avoided the silver dragon breath. Then, it grabbed at the Chief God divine core floating in mid-air once more.
This time, before Armand Nidhogg could launch another attack, a dazzling red fireball appeared out of nowhere and shot straight toward the massive hand.
Bam!
Unable to avoid the attack in time, the massive hand clashed against the red fireball. Sparks flew everywhere as an earth-shattering explosion broke out.
Another figure then showed up in mid-air. He had a head of crimson red hair, crimson red brows, and even the robe he wore was crimson red in color. He was just like a ball of flames, ready to burn everything into ashes.
Armand Nidhogg’s expression immediately changed at the sight of the newcomer, and he let out a deep roar. “You’ve actually come as well, Miles!”
The newcomer was Miles Dougherty, a Great Perfection deity from Earth Divine Realm’s Dougherty Fire Phoenix Gods!
“Another Great Perfection deity!”
“Oh my god! That’s two Great Perfection deities now!”
“Do we even still have any hope of getting the Chief God divine core?”
The experts were filled with even more despair now.
“Why can’t I come when you’re already here?”
Miles Dougherty looked up, a hint of unconcealable greed and fervency flashing across the depths of his eyes as his gaze swept across the Chief God divine core above him. Then, he let out an icy snort and said, “Chester, aren’t you acting beneath your status if you continue to hide in the shadows when you’re already here?”
The air shifted slightly, and then a burly, muscular man dressed in golden armor appeared.
The many experts became even more filled with despair at the sight of the newcomer. A Great Perfection deity! Yet another Great Perfection deity!
Chester Dawson, a Great Perfection deity from Earth Divine Real’s Dawson Titan Gods!
That was three Great Perfection deities now!
How the hell were they supposed to do this now?
However, subsequent events proved to the many experts there that their imagination was still too lacking, after all, because more and more Great Perfection deities started to arrive as time went by.
A Great Perfection deity from the Angel Gods...
A Great Perfection deity from the Giant Elephant Gods...
A Great Perfection deity from the Nature Gods...
A Great Perfection deity from the Behemoth Gods...
A Great Perfection deity from the Scarab Gods...
The number of Great Perfection deities there had reached a shocking total of eight!
Eight Great Perfection deities! They represented the highest form of combat power apart from Earth Divine Realm’s Chief Gods.
Their presence filled the masses of experts that were constantly growing in numbers with fear and trepidation. It also completely robbed them of their courage in coveting the Chief God divine core, turning them into idle onlookers here to watch the show instead.
“That’s eight Great Perfection deities over there!”
“To think they’ve all shown up!”
“This is the allure of a Chief God divine core!”
“We’re just missing Great Perfection deities from the Frost Gods and the Eternal Gods now! If they show up, this will become a full assembly of Great Perfection deities from all ten major godly clans!”
The many experts surrounded the area, filling up every corner of the place. They watched the eight figures in the center of the battleground, their eyes filled with astoundment.
Great Perfection deities!
Elusive and mysterious Great Perfection deities!
They could hardly even find one usual
ly, let alone eight?
The experts were watching the eight Great Perfection deities, but the eight deities’ gazes were on the Chief God divine core from start to finish—or rather, they kept their attention constantly on the Chief God divine core lest someone snatched it away.
“Everyone, what should we do with this Chief God divine core?”
Jager Raphael, the Great Perfection deity from the Raphael Angel Gods, broke the silence.
“The Chief God divine core is the key to us breaking through our current cultivation stage and moving on to the next level. None of us will leave the matter at that and allow someone else to take it!”
Armand Nidhogg, the Great Perfection deity from the Colossal Dragon Gods, said calmly, “How about this? We’ll let our skills speak for themselves after all and use our fists to decide who the Chief God divine core goes to.”
“That works.”
“I guess that’s the only way.”
The other Great Perfection deities naturally didn’t have any objections. With the Chief God divine core sitting right in front of them, none of them would ever give up. There was bound to be a great fight to the death—this was something undoubted.
“We need to clear out the battleground before the battle, though, lest a third party profits from the situation. Should that happen, we would end up thoroughly embarrassed!”
A hint of killing intent flitted across Armand Nidhogg’s eyes as his gaze swept across the experts in the surroundings.
By a stretch, he could somewhat accept the Chief God divine core falling into the seven other Great Perfection deities’ hands, but he absolutely would not allow that bunch of lowly ants to reap the benefits instead at the end of their battle.
The seven other Great Perfection deities were also on the same page. They unanimously looked in the direction of the onlooking experts in the distance.
“Damn!”
“They’re thinking of killing us!”
“Quickly! Run!”
Chapter 384: Clearing Out The Battleground, Negotiation
The eight Great Perfection deities’ conversation frightened the convergence of experts so badly that their insides were close to rupturing. Not daring to tarry, they made a run for it right away, afraid that they would be in deep trouble should they be even a moment too slow.
“Bastards!”
“Those eight goddamn bastards!”
The experts were truly filled with both fear and hatred. They had clearly already stayed a great distance away and had clearly already given up the fight for the Chief God divine core, yet the eight Great Perfection deities still didn’t intend to let them off. They were simply too vicious!
But now that things had come to such a pass, grumbling was already no longer of any use. All they could do was flee desperately, escape from this place as fast as they could, and secure their lives.
However, subsequent events proved that fleeing for one’s life while being pursued by eight Great Perfection deities was practically a mission on hell-mode.
The eight Great Perfection deities went on the offensive right away. They didn’t bother casting highly powerful, trump card-class attacks. Instead, they merely released their God’s Domains.
Buzz!
God’s Domain spread swiftly into the surroundings, instantly enveloping the whole area within ten million kilometers of where they were and directly trapping the fleeing experts within.
All the experts were trapped where they were, unable to move even a finger. No matter how fiercely they struggled or how hard they tried to launch powerful skills, it was simply futile!
Inside the Great Perfection deities’ God’s Domains, all of them had become lambs awaiting slaughter. The difference in strength between the two parties was simply too great!
“Spare me, sir!”
“Spare my life, sir!”
“Please let me off...”
The experts constantly begged for mercy. Among them were even people from the Angel Gods, the Colossal Dragon Gods, the Titan Gods, and the other few major godly clans, but... It was of no use.
So what even if they were fellow clansmen?
They were nothing in comparison to a Chief God divine core!
Once they became a Chief God, it wouldn’t matter in the slightest, even if the entire clan was wiped out. They could simply just create a whole new clan themselves!
“Die!”
The eight Great Perfection deities didn’t hold back at all. A thought flashed past their minds, and all the trapped experts exploded one after another into mists of blood.
Thousands upon thousands of experts perished in an instant!
The most astonishing thing was that every one of those that had managed to make it here was at least a high-level higher deity or an even stronger super expert. It was truly flabbergasting for so many powerful existences to perish in an instant!
“Isn’t that too vicious of them? They didn’t even spare their own kind!”
Meng Lei, who was hiding in the shadows, was secretly dumbstruck. The eight Great Perfection deities’ ruthlessness had astounded him. Their actions were practically perverse to the extreme!
An unconcerned Moro replied, “They are all Great Perfection deities. These are existences that truly stand at the pinnacle of the power pyramid. They act without reservations and are not inhibited by anything. What’s the big deal about killing a few fellow clansmen?”
Meng Lei broke into a slight frown and asked, “Won’t the Chief God of their clans punish them?”
There were quite a fair number of people from the ten major godly clans among the fatalities. Those were elder-class experts, after all. Wouldn’t the Chief Gods be furious that Great Perfection deities from the same clan had killed them just like that?
“Little fellow, a Chief God is a lofty presence high up above. Why would they bother themselves with such trivial matters?” Moro scoffed. “Besides, only the Great Perfection deities can truly catch the Chief Gods’ attention. To the Chief Gods, those so-called elders aren’t even good enough to be considered lowly ants!”
“Fine!”
Meng Lei shook his head. Then, his divine cognition quietly spread into the surroundings... All the super experts that had just been killed vanished the very next second.
Meng Lei had sent them all into the Tower of Time. That was a total of almost 10,000 super experts, after all. Their lives and assets were undoubtedly a hefty sum of riches. He mustn’t let them go to waste just like that.
“Who’s there?”
Such a large number of corpses disappearing right under their noses naturally caught the eight Great Perfection deities’ attention.
They weren’t concerned about the corpses. Rather, what had truly made them wary was the fact that someone had actually collected so many corpses without them even realizing anything. How strong must the intruder be, then?
Would they pose a risk to the Chief God divine core?
The Chief God divine core was the only thing that the eight Great Perfection deities were concerned about!
“Is it Coola? Or Noah? Since you’re already here, then stop skulking around!” said Armand Nidhogg, the Great Perfection Colossal Dragon God.
There were only a total of ten Great Perfection deities in the Earth Divine Realm, and it just so happened that each of them was from one of the ten major godly clans. Eight of them were already present, so Noah of the Eternal Gods and Coola of the Frost Gods were the only ones not there yet.
Therefore, Armand’s guess was that the newcomer was more likely than not the two of them. It was just a shame that no one responded to him.
“What? Not coming out? Are you still thinking of hiding in the shadows and profiting from the situation as a third party?”
Armand was rather displeased now. He said, “I’ll give you one more chance. Get the hell out here now. Otherwise, don’t blame us if we team up against you!”
Buzz!
The air trembled lightly, and then someone quietly
appeared. The eight Great Perfection deities’ electrifying gazes instantly fell onto the newcomer, but what surprised them was that said newcomer was neither Coola nor Noah. Rather, it was a fresh face that they had never once seen before.
“Who are you?” asked Jager Raphael, the Great Perfection Angel God.
He had sixteen pairs of wings of light on his back, and he gave off a gentle and peaceful holy glow all around him.
“Sorry to disturb you, everyone!”
The newcomer was none other than Meng Lei. He said, “I’m just an idle onlooker passing by the area. Go ahead and fight for whatever it is that you need to fight for. You don’t need to bother yourselves with me.”
“Die!”
Armand didn’t bother saying any superfluous nonsense after hearing what Meng Lei said. He dealt a palm strike in mid-air, intending to wipe out Meng Lei straight away.
An idle onlooker?
They didn’t need idle onlookers here!
So, he could just go to hell!
“Hah, coming to blows the moment you have a disagreement? What a foul temper you have!” Meng Lei shook his head with a soft chuckle. Then, he casually dealt a palm strike with his right palm and met Armand’s attack head-on.
“You’re courting death!”
Armand let out an icy snort inwardly at the sight of how Meng Lei had so effortlessly parried his attack. A hint of anger flashed across his eyes. Apart from the lofty Chief Gods high up above, no one in the whole of the Earth Divine Realm had ever dared to look down on him like that before. Meng Lei was the very first!
“Go to hell!”
Armand increased his attack force, determined to smash Meng Lei into a bloody pulp with one palm strike. However, as the two palms struck each other, Armand felt as if he had crashed right into a primordial divine mountain. Intense pain traveled up his arm from his right palm, and then his entire right arm was blasted apart.
“Aahhh!”
Armand let out a shrill scream as he was sent flying right out like a launched cannon. To the seven Great Perfection deities’ horror, they saw that all that was left of Armand’s right arm now was just ghastly white bones. All flesh and blood on the arm had been completely blasted into a mist of blood!
“How can this be?”
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