“Strong! Fearsome! Supreme! Every adjective that can be used to describe greatness and nobleness can be used on them!”
Dodola turned to Meng Lei. It said, “It’s said that this batch of beings are the ancestors of all living beings that came after, and the Primordial Humans are exactly one of them.”
Meng Lei asked, “What happened after that?”
“Later on, this group of beings reproduced, strengthened, and developed to the pinnacle of their existence before a great war broke out in the end. The war lasted until it broke the World Genesis Plane,” replied Dodola leisurely.
“They broke the World Genesis Plane?”
Meng Lei was dumbfounded. The eruption of the great war didn’t come as a surprise to him. Conflicts went wherever people were; this was unavoidable anywhere in the world.
What did surprise him was that they had actually broken even the World Genesis Plane! Just how intense must that war have been?
“Yes, that’s right! The World Genesis Plane was broken, and it splintered into countless fragments.”
Dodola nodded lightly as it went on. “The two largest fragments evolved and developed into the two most supreme existential planes of now—the Netherworld and the Celestial Realm—while the other fragments respectively evolved into the other high-end existential planes and innumerable ordinary existential planes!”
“What happened to those beings?” asked Meng Lei curiously.
“The ones that died, died; the ones that were wiped out, were wiped out; and the ones that managed to flee, fled. The lucky ones who managed to survive relocated to the Netherworld, the Celestial Realm, and other existential planes before ultimately gradually increasing in numbers to become the living beings of now.
“Among which, the human race is the descendants of the Primordial Humans. It’s just that as time went by, the humans’ bloodline also became thinner and thinner, just like other races. Thus, they are no longer as powerful as the Primordial Humans.”
“So the Primordial Humans really are the humans’ ancestors!” murmured Meng Lei to himself.
His current body was a human and contained the human ancestors’ bloodline—this was undoubtedly true.
However, what Meng Lei hadn’t expected was that the humans’ ancestors actually had such an influential background!
That was rather surprising!
“Legends are ultimately just legends, so just take it as a story. Don’t you take it as the truth!”
A smiling Dodola said, “Pure Primordial Humans have ceased to exist since a long time ago. In fact, the World Genesis Plane itself is a legend, not to mention the living beings that it had birthed!”
“Just a legend, huh...”
Meng Lei couldn’t help but look at his stats interface.
Race: Human (Primeval Bloodline: Primordial Human <16%>, Assimilated Bloodline: Gods-Slaying Rat <100%>)
Evidently, the Primordial Human bloodline truly existed, thereby proving that the Primordial Humans had definitely once existed!
Or rather, they had once appeared before.
This was enough to serve as an explanation for some questions!
“‘Primordial Human bloodline <16%>’! In other words, I can buy credit for it?”
A contemplative Meng Lei asked in a low voice, “How much does it cost to buy credit for the Primordial Human bloodline, system?”
“Ding! Raising the Primordial Human bloodline by 1% requires 100 million Divinity Crystals,” replied the system coldly.
“100 million... Divinity Crystals?!”
It instantly left Meng Lei flabbergasted. He’d guessed that it would be very expensive, but he hadn’t expected the price to be that ridiculous. “Expensive” could no longer cut it; it was totally an astronomical sum!
1 Divinity Crystal = 10,000 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals
In that case, how many Laws of Nature Origin Crystals would 100 million Divinity Crystals be?
Meng Lei couldn’t be bothered to do the calculations anymore. In any case, he couldn’t afford it!
“This indirectly reflects how insane the Primordial Human bloodline is, however! If I can buy enough credit to boost it to 100%, I can probably walk the world unhindered?”
With a shake of his head, Meng Lei exited the Tower of Time. His gaze fell onto the blood-black stone.
“My assimilation of the Divine Netherworld Phoenix bloodline had failed just now, but it should be able to succeed now, right?”
“System, assimilate the Divine Netherworld Phoenix bloodline!”
“Ding! Assimilating the Divine Netherworld Phoenix bloodline now!”
Boom!
Inky, pitch-black flames suddenly arose and instantly engulfed Meng Lei, burning his clothes into ashes everywhere they went.
Boom!
Severe pain assaulted his nerves like tidal waves that could topple the mountains and overturn the seas. Meng Lei felt as if the flesh and blood all over him were on fire!
Blazing every inch of him!
Roasting every piece of him!
Boiling every part of him!
Wisps of black smoke arose from the top of Meng Lei’s head. Thousands upon thousands of black flames cruised through his limbs and body like innumerable nimble and agile dragons, modifying every cell, every inch of flesh and blood, every organ...
Screeeech!
All of a sudden...!
A crisp, loud, and sonorous cry abruptly rang out, and the hologram of a gigantic bird appeared above Meng Lei. An inky black all over and covered in black plumes, it had a cockatoo-like head and a snake-like neck, as well as a strong jaw and a raised back...
It craned its neck and let out a sonorous cry into the sky!
Sound waves rolled as vast, mighty divine power spread into the surroundings!
Splurt!
Splurt!
Amid bone-chilling splurts, black plumes began to sprout from Meng Lei. In just a split second, he was already covered from head to toe in black feathers!
Right on the heels of it, a pair of wings sprouted from Meng Lei’s back. Then, as if a balloon being inflated, it began to grow in size. In just a short two to three breaths, they had become three to four meters long!
The black flames gradually subsided back into his body at this point, while the pain and agony also slowly ebbed
