Chapter 357: An Intense Clash, Thunder-Origin Divine Body

Like the Titan Gods, Giant Elephant Gods, Behemoth Gods, and Nature Gods, the Fire Phoenix Gods were also one of the ten great godly clans in the deity faction.

Although the Fire Phoenix Gods’ base was located in the Flaming Divine Realm, traces of them could nevertheless be found throughout the vast universe, and they held astonishingly strong influence and power.

The Divine Netherworld Phoenixes didn’t need any further introduction. As a powerful race that dominated Hell, be it their strength or their savage reputation, they weren’t any bit inferior to the Fire Phoenix Gods at all.

By right, since the Divine Netherworld Phoenixes and the Fire Phoenix Gods were both phoenixes and had similar bloodlines to each other, the two should have a close relationship with each other. However, that was not the case at all. Instead, the two races were mortal enemies!

The Divine Netherworld Phoenixes held great animosity toward the Fire Phoenix Gods, while the Fire Phoenix Gods themselves also wished that they could kill the Divine Netherworld Phoenixes!

The two parties would undoubtedly come to blows and cause a huge battle to break out the moment they ran into each other.

And true enough, upon discovering the approaching Fire Phoenix Gods, the Divine Netherworld Phoenixes currently besieging the Eight-Horned Fire Unicorn quickly ceased their actions and shifted their hostile gazes toward the Fire Phoenix Gods flying toward them instead.

“So it’s that bunch of evil fallen ones!”

“You hypocritical Fire Phoenixes!”

Intense sparks flew everywhere the instant the two parties made contact with each other, and they watched each other with feelings of animosity in their eyes.

“Tsk, tsk! Those two races have actually bumped into each other!”

Dodola said with great interest, “Once the Divine Netherworld Phoenixes and the Fire Phoenix Gods run into each other, they’ll never stop until one party is dead. We’re gonna have a good show now!”

A smiling Meng Lei asked, “Which of the two races is stronger, Dodola?”

“Both of them are fire-elemental divine beasts. The Divine Netherworld Phoenixes have their Netherworld Divine Fire, but the Fire Phoenix Gods’ Inextinguishable Phoenix Flames are also in no way inferior to the Netherworld Divine Fire.”

Dodola clicked its tongue and concluded, “I reckon it’s likely going to be a lose-lose fight!”

“Both are powerful divine beasts, after all!”

Meng Lei marveled at them, only to realize that both parties were already duking it out by now. Energy blasts shot about, and flames sprayed everywhere as blood spilled and feathers flew all over the place...

“They’ve already gone straight to duking it out without even so much as foreplay. Just how great is the enmity between the two of them?” Meng Lei was taken aback. “I thought they would have had at least a brief showdown!”

“Those two races are exactly like that. You’ll get used to it,” Dodola laughed as it watched the show and remarked, “Tsk, tsk. I haven’t seen such an intense sight for so long!”

The sight was indeed extremely grand. The intense clash among the 60-odd divine beasts was practically earth-shattering—the sky within a million kilometers of where they were broke and formed a black hole. Like a great fog, black and red flames suffused the area within 10,000 miles of where they were. It was truly an apocalyptic scene that looked as though doomsday had arrived.

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-stricken 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...”