“Alright!”
...
“That goddamn human!”
The Tree of Life was boiling mad. Never did it expect things to develop to such a point.
It was a great half-deity, yet not only did it fail to kill a Saint Domain, but it had even allowed him to enter its body.
A disgrace! This was an extraordinary disgrace!
What infuriated the Tree of Life even further was that it could clearly sense that Meng Lei was currently furiously plundering its life essence.
That was its life essence! How dare Meng Lei?!
“I must kill him! I must kill that bastard! Only with his blood can my fury be vented!”
Boom!
A divinity personification formed in an instant and descended out of nowhere before Meng Lei.
It was actually a miniature version of the Tree of Life, except with legs, arms, a mouth, a nose, and eyes.
“Damn you, human!”
The divinity personification’s glowering eyes glared furiously at Meng Lei. How it wished it could dismember him into a million pieces!
“What the hell!”
Meng Lei did an emergency brake at once.
“That’s the personification of the Tree of Life’s divinity. There’s no need to fear it.” Ol’ Amos said as a reminder, “A divinity personification holds less than even 0.0001% of the original form’s power. Release the Gods-Slaying Spear and kill it!”
“Alright!”
The Gods-Slaying Spear appeared out of thin air. Meng Lei hurled it forward forcefully, upon which the divinity personification snorted icily and easily evaded the attack with a flash.
“Turn around!”
With a mental command from Meng Lei, the Gods-Slaying Spear reversed its course at once. The divinity personification was unable to react in time, resulting in the Gods-Slaying Spear piercing right through its head.
Then, something shocking happened:
Buzz!
Dazzling violet lightning erupted from the Gods-Slaying Spear. Then, a terrifying suction force emerged from it and started to absorb the divinity personification with a vengeance.
Gurgle~
The divinity personification began to shrivel up visibly. In the span of a few breaths, it was completely absorbed by the spear, turning into a bunch of green light participles and dissipating.
“What’s going on?”
Meng Lei looked stupefied.
“I-it’s absorbing the power of divinity!” Ol’ Amos couldn’t help but gasp. “To think the Gods-Slaying Spear can actually absorb the power of divinity!”
“Absorbing the power of divinity?”
Meng Lei stared at the spot where the divinity personification had dissipated. A huge jolt couldn’t help but go through him.
“No, this is no longer just plain absorption, but plundering!” Ol’ Amos murmured absentmindedly, “To be able to fully absorb the Tree of Life’s divinity personification in just the span of a short two to three breaths, of what level is that divine weapon?”
Of what level?
No-one knew!
After absorbing the divinity personification into itself, the Gods-Slaying Spear circled about as though it hadn’t had enough yet. Only then did it return to Meng Lei with utmost reluctance.
“What a great treasure! To think it can even do something like that!”
Meng Lei stroked the spear’s icy-cold shaft as he marveled. He didn’t get overly hung up on the Gods-Slaying Spear’s abilities. As the saying went, “Whether it is a black cat or a white cat doesn’t matter; all cats that can catch mice are good cats!”
Meng Lei didn’t give two hoots about the reason why the Gods-Slaying Spear was able to absorb the power of divinity. All he knew was that this additional ability of the Gods-Slaying Spear was definitely something positive.
Or at least, it came right into play at the moment.
“Let’s see how you’re gonna fight me, Tree of Life!”
Meng Lei let out an icy laugh, and then he continued on his way.
...
“W-what exactly was that just now? My divinity personification has actually been absorbed?”
The Tree of Life was dumbfounded.
As a powerful botanical lifeform, it had always been the one plundering, absorbing, exploiting others, and using other lifeforms as food and nutrients all this time.
As the saying went, “What goes around, comes around.”
It was now its turn to be absorbed by others. It certainly didn’t feel good. In fact, the feeling could even be said to be frustrating!
On top of that, the frustration wasn’t even the most important thing here. The key was that the Tree of Life had been presented with information that made it shiver in fear.
This was because...
What the Gods-Slaying Spear had absorbed wasn’t blood, tissue fluid, lifeforce, or magic power. Rather, it was... The power of divinity!
It fed on the power of divinity!
That was simply too frightening!
As a half-deity that had only just achieved half-deification through faith, the Tree of Life had only taken a tiny little step forward on the road to deification. It had neither kindled the divine fire nor had it formed a state of divinity yet, much less establish a divine nation.
To put it nicely, the Tree of Life was no different from a little newbie that had only just embarked on the road to deification.
To put it bluntly, it was the weakest and wussiest half-deity! How weak was it?
Without kindling the divine flame, one wouldn’t be able to convert the endless, infinite power of faith into the power of divinity.
This was too fatal of a flaw!
What was the power of divinity?
Power of divinity was electricity, fuel, an energy source, a driving force. It was the rice and pork that one ate every day.
If a human were iron, then rice would be steel.
If one skipped a meal, they would be drained of energy.
This was the case for humans, as well as deities.
Wouldn’t a half-deity without the power of divinity be the weakest god, then?
In the songs and tales frequently sung by bards where humans managed to slay gods, the ones that were slew were usually gods like that!
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