In the past, whenever they faced imminent annihilation of the clan, this was exactly what they would do—making sacrificial offerings of a million people and then preparing another 100,000 male toddlers as sacrificial offerings.
This was how they’d always been doing it for the last tens of thousands of years!
Thackeray took no pity on all these lives. To the Golden Dragon-Lions, all the people in the Golden Dragon-Lions were their livestock and slaves!
Who would care about the deaths of livestock?
“Yes, this offering is pretty good!”
The gigantic Ram-Lion shrank its size. Then, it opened its mouth and easily sucked a toddler into its mouth. Blood flowed incessantly amid loud crunching.
“As long as it’s to Grandmaster’s taste!”
Thackeray was delighted. He instructed, “What are all of you spacing out for? Since it’s to the Grandmaster’s taste, then hurry and prepare some more for the Grandmaster! 100,000... No, 200,000! Prepare 200,000 offerings at once!”
“Understood!”
The Golden Dragon-Lion clansmen got down to it right away.
The gigantic Ram-Lion enjoyed the meal of toddlers with a look of intoxication on its face as if it were eating a feast of delicacies.
No one knew just how the Golden Dragon-Lions had managed it, but the toddlers neither cried nor fussed. They were entirely unaware that they were about to become someone else’s meal.
“There’s more if these aren’t enough, Grandmaster!”
“Grandmaster, these are all our ways of showing filial respect to you!”
“Grandmaster...”
An hour passed very quickly. All 100,000 toddlers ended up in the gigantic Ram-Lion’s belly. The Ram-Lion burped and picked its teeth with a look of contentment on its visage.
With an ingratiating look on his face, a beaming Thackeray asked, “How do these offerings taste, Grandmaster?”
“Pretty good! I’m very satisfied.”
The gigantic Ram-Lion then cast a glance at him and asked, “By the way, what is your name again?”
Thackeray hurriedly answered, “My name is Thackeray, Grandmaster!”
“I’ll keep you in mind, Thackeray.”
The gigantic Ram-Lion nodded slightly before he said, “Tell me about the situation in Heaven’s Vault Continent.”
“Yes, Grandmaster!”
Not daring to be remiss in any way, Thackeray began to talk about Heaven’s Vault Continent’s circumstances in detail. At the end of it, the Ram-Lion sank into contemplative silence.
“The Titans were the ones ruling this existential plane back when I first came. Little did I think that 80,000 years later, Beast People and Colossal Dragons would also emerge.
“These are the vicissitudes of life, indeed. How time has passed! Nevertheless, this is a fantastic opportunity right now!”
The gigantic Ram-Lion turned to Thackeray. “The Dragon God Empire and the Titan Empire’s half-deities have all perished. It is now a time where the higher management of the empires is vacant. Your time has come!”
“Grandmaster, you mean...”
Thackeray perked up.
The Ram-Lion said, “Lead the Golden Dragon-Lions and conquer the Dragon God Empire and the Titan Empire. Fight for power of faith and seize the opportunity to become a god.”
“But Grandmaster, the Titan Spiritual God, and the Dragon God probably wouldn’t agree to that, would they?”
Despite being sorely tempted by the notion, Thackeray was still somewhat hesitant. He was just a normal half-deity and had even just lost a divine incarnation. He didn’t have the guts to challenge the Titan Spiritual God and the Dragon God just yet.
“Don’t worry. I’ll block them off for you.”
The gigantic Ram-Lion said dispassionately, “Deities can no longer approach a material plane with their real body once 10,000 years have passed since their deification, whereas we, the Devils, can descend upon the material plane via a Devil contract.
“With me around, what is there to fear about mere divinity projections of the Titan Spiritual God and the Dragon God?”
“I thank the Grandmaster for his advice! How virtuous of the Grandmaster!”
Thrilled, Thackeray kowtowed on his knees incessantly.
The Ram-Lion said aloofly, “When you’ve become a true god, I shall have another true god descendant, and my Ram-Lion clan shall also become even more powerful.”
“Yes, Grandmaster!”
Thackeray’s spirits were awfully uplifted. Nevertheless, he said, “But the most pressing matter now is still to get rid of Meng Lei, the renegade. He’s the one that poses the biggest threat to us at the moment!”
“A mere native half-deity is not worthy of mention. I can annihilate him with a simple flip of my hand.”
The gigantic Ram-Lion glanced at him. He didn’t take Meng Lei seriously at all.
It was an old-timer Demon Lord that ruled over billions of lives, after all. What did a mere half-deity even count as?
An ingratiating Thackeray quickly said, “The Grandmaster’s powers reach all the way to the heavens! If that knave Meng Lei dares to come, we’ll definitely turn him into ashes and give him a terrible death!”
Boom!
At that moment, a shrill scream suddenly rang out ahead of them. A jolt went through Thackeray, and he shouted, “What has happened?”
“Grandmaster, I’ll go and take a look!”
A Saint Domain darted out. However, he was thrown back where he was again in no time, falling onto the ground and becoming motionless.
Thackeray hastily looked over to see that all the Saint Domain clansman’s bones had been broken—evidently, someone had violently broken him.
“Meng Lei! He’s here!!”
A huge shudder went through Thackeray. He spied a lofty figure weaving through the palace complex as he walked toward them right away. The figure was 1,000-feet-tall, a jet-black color throughout, and had intertwining muscles all over him—it was a Titan!
“Bubbles! Why is he here?”
At the sight of the Titan, Thackeray couldn’t help but let out an exclamation. Upon taking a closer look, he then realized that three people were standing atop Bubbles’ shoulder—and one of them was exactly the person he’d been thinking of day and
