“I sensed your aura, so I flew over to take a look!” Teddy answered happily. “I thought my senses were playing tricks. I didn’t expect it would actually be you, Boss.”
“I see!”
Meng Lei understood. Teddy had signed an equal contract with him, and they could sense each other’s souls. The closest the distance, the clearer the sensing.
They weren’t far from Magical Beast Village, so Teddy could naturally sense him.
“Boss, how come you are back?”
“I’m back to settle some affairs.”
“Now that you are back, are you leaving again?”
“Maybe!”
“Hum!”
“You are pretty much a Seventh-Grade Magical Beast. It seems that Captain Hudders and the others have raised you pretty well!”
“...”
Meng Lei’s mood improved a lot now that he had a companion to talk to, and the sadness in his heart dissipated quite a lot. “Teddy, go hunt some beasts. I’ll roast meat for you!”
“Got it!” Teddy replied joyfully and flew away happily. Not long after, it flew back with a five-meter long Mountain Porcupine.
“Boss, I want to eat roasted meat!”
“Okay!”
Waves of wind blades appeared, and they soon cut the Mountain Porcupine into many pieces.
A flame appeared in thin air, and after a quarter of an hour, an enticing smell attacked their nostrils!
“Let’s eat!”
Meng Lei took a roasted porcupine leg and threw all of the remaining roasted meat to Teddy.
“Boss, I’ll start eating!”
Teddy cheered joyfully.
Roar!
Then, all of a sudden...
A beast roar resounded. Teddy shriveled, and the dragon scales all over its body immediately stood up—it was on full guard!
“Don’t stress, it’s just a small beast.”
Meng Lei gestured for Teddy to calm down and then continued to nibble at the delicious roasted porcupine leg, totally disregarding the intruding Magical Beast.
“Boss, judging from its aura, it’s at least an Eighth-Grade Magical Beast!” Teddy didn’t lower its guard. “It can’t be treated lightly!”
“Is that so?” Meng Lei chuckled.
Roar!
Foul air pervaded the area before a 30-meter-long alligator-like lizard, with fiery red scales all over its body and a mouth full of canine teeth crawled in.
“It’s the Ninth-Grade Magical Beast, Groundfire Iguana!” Teddy called in a low voice, “Boss, this guy is too powerful. I can’t deal with it. Hurry and hop on my back. Let’s retreat first!”
“Retreat? Why are we retreating?”
Meng Lei mentally shook his head many times. As long as Teddy, a Titanic Dragon-Ape with the purest bloodline reached adulthood naturally, it would become a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast. It would definitely not be weak!
Unfortunately, a ninth-grade magical pet was still too weak to follow Meng Lei.
Teddy can probably consume the Divine Tree’s fruit, right?
Chapter 195: A Half-Deity’s Body, Vast Wealth
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
As of now, Meng Lei had discovered two effects that the divine tree’s fruits held.
The first—enhancing one’s power.
Upon consuming the fruits, Magical Beasts could become Saint Domain Magical Beasts within a short few years. The Uni-Horned Rose Python was an example of this.
Humans could also consume them, of course.
Meng Lei had personally witnessed many contestants, who were stuck at the ninth-grade pinnacle-level, break through the gates of Saint Domain to successfully promote to Saint Domain level after they had consumed the divine tree’s fruits.
Next, the second effect—refining one’s bloodline.
Abbe was an example of this.
According to Abbe, she had only been a Golden Colossal Dragon Person prior to eating the fruits and couldn’t transform into a Golden Colossal Dragon at all.
However, she had managed to do it after consumption because her body’s Golden Colossal Dragon bloodline assimilation rate had gone past 70%.
It was evident from this that the divine tree’s fruits were indeed capable of refining one’s bloodlines. As for other effects it might hold, he hadn’t discovered any for the time being. However, just these two effects alone were already enough to make the divine tree’s fruits an invaluable treasure.
But... Meng Lei still didn’t dare to consume them.
Why?
“According to Ol’ President, the divine tree’s fruits are the same as one’s life essence, so they may contain the Tree of Life’s divinity.” Meng Lei took a breath as he muttered, “If they really contain its divinity, then they would be highly poisonous!”
What was divinity?
It was a kind of mysterious energy that within which laid a deity’s will, personality, beliefs, memories, laws of nature comprehension, principles of conduct, favored factions, and so on.
Plainly put, divinity was akin to a deity’s soul fragments. A great amount of information was contained within them.
By absorbing divinity, mortals could raise their abilities, extend their lifespans, and increase their laws of nature comprehension, thereby greatly reducing the amount of time required for them to achieve deification.
However, there was one deadly risk to absorbing divinity—there was a high chance of the fallen deity coming back to life through the divinity absorbed by mortals and taking over their bodies. After all, a deity’s divine spirit was near-immortal. Just a tiny little divine spirit fragment was enough to give them a chance of revival.
This was absolutely no joke!
Pray tell, should the divine tree’s fruits and its life essence really contain the Tree of Life’s divinity, if even something like that wasn’t considered a poison, then what would be?
Or at least, before he was absolutely sure, Meng Lei dared not eat them at all. Neither did he dare to let his friends or Magical Beast pets eat them. He’d rather they be a little weaker than run a risk like that.
“Divinity... How do I examine it? I should look that up. I have so many divine tree fruits and life essence with me. I can’t just let them go to waste!”
Boom!
The Groundfire Iguana strode over at this point. Its enormous form gave off a fearsome aura, causing
