“Tell me, where is Meng Lei?”
The golden-robed elderly man’s voice was like rolling thunder as he spoke in a cold voice and questioned those who were kneeling on the ground.
Someone answered in a trembling voice, “G-Grandmaster, I heard that Meng Lei is currently challenging the Dragon God Tower!”
“He’s actually in the mood to challenge the Dragon God Empire after slaying the Dragon God Empire’s emperor and all its court officials? That knave is too much! Does he think that there’s no longer anyone among the Dragons who can fight?!”
The golden-robed elderly man’s fury blazed even stronger, and then he headed straight toward the Dragon God Academy!
“Is he gone?”
“He’s gone!”
“The Grandmaster has finally left!”
“Phew~ I was scared to death just now!”
At the sight of the golden-robed elderly man’s departure, everyone kneeling in the palace felt as if they had just been granted amnesty.
“Oh no, the Grandmaster has gone to look for Meng Lei!”
The expression on Abbe’s beautiful face changed slightly, and she quietly left the palace.
...
“How can you be a descendant of the Gods-Slaying Rats? The Gods-Slaying Rats are mutated divine beasts, so it’s very hard for them to form colonies. On top of that, their numbers are pitifully low!”
Dodola was awfully astonished. “Moreover, you’re just a normal human from Heaven’s Vault Continent and have nothing whatsoever to do with the Gods-Slaying Rats of the Void. So why would you possess the Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline?”
“That... I wouldn’t know.” Meng Lei half-jokingly said, “Who knows, maybe my ancestors are descendants of the Gods-Slaying Rats.”
“Never mind, there’s no point pursuing the matter. Your Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline is what’s most important.” Dodola was terribly excited. “Never would I have thought that the heir to the Tower of Time would actually have the Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline. The God of Time must be watching over us!”
Meng Lei rolled his eyes at Dodola.
Yeah, right, as if the God of Time could watch over you! It’s I that sent himself to your doorstep, alright?
“Since you can do a complete transformation into a Gods-Slaying Rat, then that means your bloodline must have already completely awakened, right?”
Dodola circled around Meng Lei, marveling at him as it did so. “You currently have a high-grade half-deity’s body, which is about the same as a teenage Gods-Slaying Rat!”
“A teenage one?” Meng Lei was taken aback. “What do you mean ‘teenage’? I’m almost an adult!”
“You are certainly almost an adult, but relative to a Gods-Slaying Rat, you’re just a teenager.”
Dodola laughed and explained, “The Gods-Slaying Rats are an extremely powerful type of mutated rodent divine beast. They can rival a Saint Domain Magical Beast the moment they’re born, while a juvenile one can rival a half-deity.
“Teenage Gods-Slaying Rats can contend against a true god, while those in the young adult stage can fight on par with an intermediate deity.
“When they reach maturity, now that’s what you call monstrous. Even devouring a higher deity wouldn’t be a problem for them!”
“In other words, I don’t need to do anything other than eating, sleeping, and then eating again, and just wait till I naturally mature and I’ll be able to contend against a higher deity? Isn’t that a little too crazy!?”
Meng Lei was rather aghast. Even though he had already heard from the system that the Gods-Slaying Rat was monstrously strong, never would he have ever expected it to actually reach such an extent.
An adult Gods-Slaying Rat... could actually devour a higher deity?
That was practically crazy cool and mighty impressive, alright?
Compared to the Gods-Slaying Rat, the Golden Colossal Dragon, which turned into a Saint Domain Magical Beast upon maturity, was practically trash.
“Yes, totally crazy! That’s why it attracted the heavens’ jealousy and ended up becoming unable to form colonies and can only form through the low chances of bloodline mutation. Otherwise, how are other lifeforms supposed to survive?”
Dodola shook its head and said with a laugh, “However, the Gods-Slaying Rats’ growth cycle is fairly slow. By the time you naturally mature into an adult, probably a few hundred thousand years would have passed.”
“A few hundred thousand years? That’s too slow. Is there any way to speed up the growth process?”
Meng Lei quickly asked for advice.
His Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline assimilation rate had already reached 100%—this meant that he couldn’t buy credit for it anymore. Therefore, the process to enhance his divine body would definitely be extremely slow from now on.
A few hundred thousand years?
Meng Lei couldn’t wait that long!
“The Gods-Slaying Rat is a type of rodent divine beast. There’s only one way to shorten the growth cycle—by eating!”
A smiling Dodola said, “You can eat precious herbs and medicines, Laws of Nature Origin Crystals, elemental crystals, a true god’s divine body, and even divine cores. You just need to eat continuously without stopping, and that’ll do. Simple, right?”
“Eating?”
Meng Lei broke into a wry smile right away. Rearing the system already cost him a lot. Now that he had to rear a Gods-Slaying Rat too, wouldn’t he die of exhaustion?
“Don’t worry, kid. The assets that the God of Time left for you is enough for you to use until you mature into an adult. The precondition is that you can get them, though.” Dodola raised an eyebrow and said, “Just having a divine body is far from enough if you wish to inherit the God of Time’s assets. It mainly depends on your laws of nature comprehension.”
“Laws of nature comprehension?”
A shrewd glint flashed in Meng Lei’s eyes.
“What the God of Time relies on the most is his time-based laws of nature. It’s also the most valuable asset that he has left you. You have to inherit it no matter what.” Dodola said earnestly, “To inherit time-based laws of nature, you must fully comprehend the
