The Nidhogg Chief God didn’t put up any struggle during the whole process. Neither did he show any look of pain or agony. In fact, he didn’t even frown.
Wasn’t he in pain?
Of course not!
Time was needed in order for pain receptors to pick up pain and send the relevant signals through the nerve endings. Similarly, time was also needed for one’s thoughts and consciousness to run and operate. However, the Nidhogg Chief God’s time had already reached an absolute state of stillness, so he naturally wouldn’t feel any pain—or to be more accurate, he wasn’t in time to feel the pain yet!
After that, Meng Lei also went on to gouge out the Titan Chief God’s and the Angel Chief God’s Chief God divine cores, thereby completely taking for himself what the three great Chief Gods had depended on the most to become the strongest entities in the universe and to stand above the rest of the world.
“You can actually lock down the time around a Chief God, kid?”
Moro had been dumbstruck throughout the whole process. He asked, “How did you manage to do that? Could it be that... Your comprehension of time-based laws of nature has undergone a qualitative breakthrough?”
Meng Lei had successfully locked down the time around a Chief God! On top of that, he had even locked down the time around three Chief Gods at one go!
Now, this was simply too dramatic!
Although all three Chief Gods were just lesser Chief Gods and had zero comprehension of supreme laws of nature, their divine bodies and divine spirits were incredibly strong and powerful. Moreover, they also possessed Chief God divine cores. Thus, they had an exceedingly great influence on the time and space around themselves.
Locking down the time around them... This was simply too difficult a task!
Yet Meng Lei had achieved it, nonetheless. On top of that, he had even done it skillfully, easily, and effortlessly. This was simply too shocking. Moro couldn’t help but be astonished!
“I’ve already fully comprehended time-based laws of nature,” replied Meng Lei unhurriedly.
The gentle golden light in his eyes gradually faded, and the time around them resumed its flow. The three great Chief Gods’ shackled thoughts and consciousnesses also began to function once more.
At once, the sight of their divine bodies, the bloody holes in the areas between their brows, and Meng Lei, who was standing right in front of them, entered their line of vision.
“What’s going on?”
The three Chief Gods were rather bewildered. They hastily released divine spirit energy waves to check the surroundings, and the moment they did, they turned pale with horror—Meng Lei was actually holding their Chief God divine cores in his hand!
“What exactly is going on ?”
“Why are our Chief God divine cores in his hands?”
The three Chief Gods were utterly flummoxed. They had clearly been attacking Meng Lei just now, yet Meng Lei had already gotten hold of their Chief God divine cores the very next moment. They were absolutely certain that nothing had happened during this entire process!
Perplexed and horrified, they couldn’t understand what had happened and found it hard to accept the current situation.
“Are you very surprised?” asked Meng Lei calmly as he played with the Chief God divine cores he was holding.
“What exactly did you do to us?!” shouted the Nidhogg Chief God.
“I suppose there’s no harm in telling you,” Meng Lei said calmly, “I cast Time Freeze just now and stopped your flow of time. However, my flow of time remains active in the meantime. Get it?”
“T-Time Freeze!”
Realization dawned upon the three Chief Gods, and they instantly understood what had happened. The Nidhogg Chief God couldn’t help but exclaim, “The laws of nature that you’ve comprehended are actually time-based laws of nature?!”
“That’s right.”
Meng Lei nodded lightly.
The Angel Chief God’s voice trembled as he asked, “For you to be able to instantly lock down three Chief Gods’ flow of time, to what extent has your comprehension of time-based laws of nature exactly reached?”
“I’ve already fully comprehended time-based laws of nature.”
Meng Lei didn’t hold back any information. There wasn’t any need for him to do that anyway.
“Y-you’ve already fully comprehended it?!”
The three Chief Gods were thunderstruck.
A Great Perfection deity could already contend with a lesser Chief God after comprehending a bit of supreme laws of nature. Upon reaching a 50% comprehension rate, they could even contend with an intermediate Chief God. When they reached a full comprehension rate, they could contend with a higher Chief God!
Since Meng Lei had already fully comprehended time-based laws of nature, then that meant that he could already contend with a higher Chief God, whereas they were only lesser Chief Gods at the bottom of the tier. How could they possibly contend with Meng Lei?
The Titan Chief God broke into curses and shouted, “Nidhogg, you fool! You’ve totally screwed us over!”
He hated the Nidhogg Chief God with practically every fiber of his being right now.
He really wished he could go back in time and brutally kill the Nidhogg Chief God’s grandfather when he was only nine years old. This way, the frightening situation he was currently in would never have happened.
“F*ck you, Nidhogg!”
The Angel Chief God, who was just as furious, looked as if he wanted to tear Nidhogg into two with his own hands.
“Is there any use in complaining now? Hurry and think of something!” The Nidhogg Chief God was close to a mental breakdown by now.
Never in his wildest dreams would he have ever thought that there would come a day where he, a great Chief God, would end up in such a predicament. He was a Chief God! How could he let himself die?
“You bastard!”
Despite being so furious and hateful that they were practically gnashing their teeth, both the Titan Chief God and the Angel Chief God knew that no amount of complaining or verbal abuse would help the situation in any way right now. The most pressing matter at the moment was to return to their divine bodies as soon they could. This way, they would survive!
At the very least, they would still be able to retain their positions as Chief Gods!
“Mister... No, sir, esteemed sir!”
The Angel Chief God did a huge 180-degree reversal and adopted the sincerest attitude he could ever adopt.
He said, “We were blind to have affronted you earlier. Please be magnanimous and let us off, sir! You’ll definitely have our gratitude!”
“That’s right, sir, please let us off! As long as you’re willing to spare our lives, we’ll satisfy any of your requests!”
The Titan Chief God also spoke up, his tone of voice fearful and panic-stricken to the extreme.
“Sir, I have innumerable precious and exotic treasures and existential plane fiefs. As long as you let us off, I’m happy to offer them up on a silv—”
“Do you actually think that your treasures and everything else you own will fall into someone else’s hands after your deaths?” Meng Lei let out a contemptuous scoff and said, “Dream on!”
“No, you can’t kill us! By the Chief God Treaty’s rules, Chief Gods are prohibited from killing one another. Otherwise, they’ll become all Chief Gods’ public enemy...”
Chapter 395: Time Replay, The Godly Clans’ Treasuries
“No, you can’t kill us! By the Chief God Treaty’s rules, Chief Gods are prohibited from killing one another. Otherwise, they’ll become the public enemy of all Chief Gods! The four great juggernauts will never let you off!”
The three Chief Gods were in a total panic—or rather, they were close to despairing.
They were lofty Chief Gods. They still had a long, great life ahead of them. They still had innumerable rare and exotic treasures that they had yet to enjoy...
They didn’t want to die!!
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bsp; But they were utterly powerless against a Supreme Great Perfection deity that rivaled a higher Chief God. Thus, they could only pin their hopes on the Chief God Treaty right now!
“The Chief God Treaty?”
Meng Lei raised an eyebrow.
“The Chief God Treaty is a set of laws used to restrict all Chief Gods.”
A smiling Moro explained, “There are as many as a total of 144 Chief Gods in the ten major Divine Realms and the supreme Celestial Realm. I mentioned this just now, but assimilating Chief God divine cores is the fastest means for a Chief God to strengthen themselves. To prevent powerful Chief Gods from hunting and robbing low-level Chief Gods of their Chief God divine cores, the four Juggernauts had jointly proposed the Chief God Treaty.
“The treaty prohibits Chief Gods from killing one another and robbing one another’s Chief God divine cores. Once discovered, the four juggernauts are free to unite all the Chief Gods and jointly strike them down.”
“I see,” replied Meng Lei with a slight nod. “I didn’t expect such a rule to exist.”
“What, are you scared now?”
Moro watched Meng Lei mockingly and said, “There’s nothing wrong even if you’re scared. After all, we’re talking about the four juggernauts uniting all the Chief Gods to jointly suppress someone. Anyone would be scared!”
“Scared? That word has never existed in my dictionary!” Meng Lei gave Moro a calm smile and said, “There isn’t anyone in this whole wide world that scares me just yet!”
“Tsk, tsk! Gutsy, aren’t you!”
Moro burst into loud laughter.
Meng Lei chuckled in response as well. Then, he attacked furiously with his divine spirit power and destroyed the three Chief Gods’ divine spirits. He could also have used the Grim Reaper’s Eye to kill the trio, but he chose not to do so.
Divine spirits destroyed by the Grim Reaper’s Eye would be broken down and directly turned into the purest of divine spirit power. Should that happen, Meng Lei wouldn’t be able to read the other party’s memories.
A Chief God’s memories was a treasure trove itself. Meng Lei didn’t want to let it slip by him!
“No, no! You can’t kill me!”
“I’m a Chief Go... Aaahhh!”
“Without your Chief God divine cores, all of you are nothing!”
Meng Lei crushed the three Chief Gods’ divine spirits and began to read their memories in no time. Information began to flood his mind...
A long while later, Meng Lei finally released a pent-up breath. True to his expectations, a Chief God’s memories was indeed a treasure trove. It didn’t let him down at all.
The three major godly clans’ treasuries!
And the three Chief Gods’ personal treasuries, too!
These two types of treasuries alone would already contain an infinite amount of riches!
“I currently have 4,209 trillion Divinity Crystals. With another 800 trillion Divinity Crystals, I’ll be able to buy credit for the third type of supreme laws of nature. By the time I fully comprehend three types of supreme laws of nature, who would be able to kill me?”
Meng Lei could no longer wait to ransack the three godly clans’ treasuries!
But before that, I’ll have to revive Puhaman, Fatty Hart, and the others first!
The moment the thought occurred to him, gentle golden light began to spill from Meng Lei’s eyes once more, reversing the flow of time in the surroundings. As though a movie being played backward, the scenes in the void around him swiftly rewound. Soon, it returned to the moment before Puhaman, and the others were killed.
Only then did Meng Lei stop.
“Whew~”
Meng Lei panted heavily, beads of cold sweat forming on his forehead. His complexion had also turned rather pale. Evidently, turning back time just now hadn’t been easy.
Indeed!
Despite having fully mastered time-based laws of nature, manipulating such supreme laws of nature nevertheless took a huge toll on his divine spirit, his power of divinity, and his divine body.
Meng Lei could sense that just that momentary usage of his powers just now had already taken an exceedingly great toll on his divine spirit power, his power of divinity, and his divine body. His body and his soul felt as if they had been emptied!
“My divine body and my divine spirit are still too weak.”
Meng Lei muttered under his breath, “I must improve my divine body and my divine spirit when I’ve accumulated enough money. This way, it’ll be a lot easier to manipulate supreme laws of nature.”
Since time had returned to those few seconds before the three Chief Gods launched their ambush, Puhaman and the others naturally also came back to life.
However, their consciousnesses and their thoughts were still stuck at this moment. Therefore, they were completely unaware that they had died once. Neither did they have any knowledge about what had happened after that.
Meng Lei couldn’t be bothered to explain, either. When all of them had picked up the scattered divine cores and spatial rings, the group embarked on their journey once more.
“Where do we go next, Master?”
Puhaman bowed as he asked. There was joy on his face—he had picked up a total of 29 divine cores and 37 spatial rings just now.
The divine cores aside, every single spatial ring contained vast amounts of Divinity Crystals. This was undoubtedly an amazing windfall, so how could he possibly not be overjoyed?
“We’ll head to the Venus Colossal Dragon City first,” replied Meng Lei.
Then, he cast the Great World-Breaching Transfer Technique straight away. The void was torn apart, forming a pitch-black dimensional channel that Meng Lei went straight into.
Whoosh!
By the time they reappeared, they had already crossed a great distance spanning a few hundred light-years and arrived right above the Venus Colossal Dragon City.
“This is... Venus Colossal Dragon City?”
“Weren’t we in the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range just a moment ago? How come we’ve already reached Venus Colossal Dragon City in the blink of an eye? This... Am I hallucinating?”
Astonished, Puhaman and the others rubbed their eyes hard, unable to believe their eyes.
Fatty Hart even pinched himself hard on the thigh, causing him to grimace in pain.
“Hiss! It really is Venus Colossal Dragon City!”
“How did you do that, old bro?”
“Oh my goodness! We’ve crossed a distance of over 200 light-years in just an instant...”
“It’s the Great World-Breaching Transfer Technique,” replied Meng Lei casually, “You’ll also be able to do it after you’ve comprehended spatial laws of nature.”
“The Great World-Breaching Transfer Technique?”
“Spatial laws of nature?”
“Let’s just forget about it!”
“It’s impossible for us!”
Everyone was rendered speechless at once. One must know that spatial laws of nature was a type of supreme laws of nature. Comprehending spatial laws of nature? Them?
That was too big a fantasy. They didn’t even dare to dream of something like that. They’d better just wash up and go to bed instead.
“A bunch of slackers!”
Meng Lei shook his head. Then, he went to the city lord’s residence and ransacked the treasury there. His Wealth spiked by 500 trillion Divinity Crystals, bringing the total to 4,709 trillion Divinity Crystals.
“Next up is the Nidhogg clan’s headquarters!”
Meng Lei cast the Great World-Breaching Transfer Technique and made his way there with nary a moment’s pause. As he had already fully comprehended spatial laws of nature, his Great World-Breaching Transfer Technique’s Transfer distance limit had greatly increased. Thus, he could cross a distance of thousands, even 10,000, of light-years in an instant.
If not for the fact that too great a distance would result in too huge an amount of power of divinity consumed, even crossing hundreds of thousan
ds, or even a million, of light-years in an instant, wouldn’t be any issue for Meng Lei!
This was what made the Great World-Breaching Transfer Technique so fearsome!
Or rather, this was what made spatial laws of nature so fearsome!
More than an hour later, Meng Lei finally arrived at the Nidhogg clan’s headquarters, the Nidhogg Colossal Dragon Mountains.
The enormous mountain range, which stood in the Nidhogg Continent’s very center, stretched on and undulated for light-years. Several mountain peaks reached high into the clouds, their stature majestic, tall, and straight.
Nidhogg clansmen inhabited every single mountain. After thousands upon thousands of years, the Nidhogg clan population had ultimately developed to an exceedingly dramatic state, and almost all of these people were living in the Nidhogg Colossal Dragon Mountains.
After reading the Nidhogg Chief God’s memories, Meng Lei now knew that there were a total of 70,824,987 mountain peaks of varying sizes in the whole mountain range. Every mountain peak stretched on for a few light-years.
The Nidhogg Chief God occupied the highest peak. The clan treasury was also located there. As though he knew the place like the back of his hand, Meng Lei easily found the treasury.
When he arrived in front of the cave where the clan treasury was, he cast his Transfer Innate Special Ability straight away. For a while, the treasures in the treasury vanished into thin air one by one.
At the same time, his Wealth attribute in his stats interface also began to increase at an insane rate, breaking through the 5,000 trillion mark in no time and continuing to grow at high speed...
Chapter 396: Higher Chief God, The Chief God Tribunal
The Earth Divine Realm was boundless, with the ten godly clans ruling vast territories. The place ruled by the Eternal Gods was known as Eternal Island.
Although it was called an island, the Eternal Island’s size was no less than any continent. It was surrounded by the sea, rich in magic elements and clear laws of nature, which were superior over any other places in the Earth Divine Realm.
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