Buzz...
The Soul Ice Marrow was a transparent liquid that looked similar to an ice crystal. It gave off a faint, icy cold glow, and Meng Lei felt chilly just by looking at it alone.
As the Soul Ice Marrow entered his stomach, a bone-chilling iciness rushed straight to his head. Meng Lei felt his mind go blank, and then he lost all consciousness.
At the same time, an endless, chilly, white current also surged into Meng Lei’s sea of consciousness. Within a mere few moments, his sea of consciousness turned into a world of whiteness—it had actually been completely sealed in ice.
Similarly, the golden divine spirit flame in the center of his sea of consciousness wasn’t spared, either. It was also sealed in ice in mid-air, becoming still and motionless.
“Meng Lei! Why have you gone silent again? Aren’t you being a little too disrespectful?”
Rather displeased at Meng Lei’s lack of response even after half a day, Dodola extended its consciousness out of the Tower of Time—only to see Meng Lei sitting cross-legged on the ground, his eyes widened big and round, yet there weren’t any spiritual movements from him at all.
“Is he dead? What the heck!”
Dodola almost wet itself in fear, and it quickly darted out of the Tower of Time to check on him. Only after a moment later did it breathe a sigh of relief. “Oh my goodness! That almost scared me to death! As it turned out, your divine spirit was just frozen. I almost thought you had croaked!
“From the look of things, he’s probably consumed the Soul Ice Marrow. Strange, where did he get that from? Did he steal it from the Tower of Time? That shouldn’t be the case, though. I’ve hidden the treasures in a very secretive and inconspicuous place. Most people can’t get in there at all...
“Never mind, never mind. This guy has always been acting all mysterious. Who knows where he got the Soul Ice Marrow from...”
Dodola then returned to the Tower of Time, though it also set aside a sliver of its divine spirit to watch over Meng Lei.
Given Meng Lei’s divine body’s degree of sturdiness, few within Heaven’s Vault Continent could harm him, but one could never be too careful.
Dodola didn’t want a great heir like Meng Lei to die. The resulting loss would be too great to bear if that were to happen.
...
Bubbles, Klaus, and the other two half-deities returned two days after Meng Lei went into hibernation. They then found Meng Lei, who was in one of the palaces.
Without Meng Lei to look after it, the boiling hotpot had already totally gone cold. Meng Lei himself was seated right next to it.
The four of them bowed and said, “The Golden Dragon-Lions have been completely wiped out, Master. We’ve especially come to report the completion of the mission!”
However, there was no response!
Puzzled, they repeated what they said, but there was still no response from Meng Lei.
This greatly confused them. They then raised their heads—only to see Meng Lei looking at them with his eyes open, yet there was no light within them. He looked just like a puppet!
“Master?”
The four of them carefully called out, “Master?”
Still no response whatsoever.
“What’s going on?”
The four of them were rather confused.
“Could Master be asleep?”
“That’s impossible, right? Sleeping with his eyes open?”
“He’s in the midst of cultivation now. Don’t disturb him!”
Right at this point, a fearsome aura suddenly descended, and a wave of divine spirit energy fluctuations rang out after that, frightening the four of them so badly that they shuddered.
The force of the aura was simply too frightful. In front of it, the four half-deities felt just like ants at the feet of a Colossal Dragon—extremely insignificant.
The same divine spirit energy fluctuation rang out again.
“Your Master is currently cultivating. Before he comes out of seclusion, everyone is forbidden from disturbing him!”
“Yes, yes!”
Not daring to dawdle and show any disrespect, the four of them hastily left the palace. The fearsome aura also disappeared at this point, and they couldn’t help but let out a breath of relief—only to discover that their backs were already drenched in perspiration.
“Who was that just now? That was too scary!”
“Don’t ask! Don’t speculate! A presence like that isn’t something that we can be privy to!”
“Yes, yes! You’re right!”
“What should we do now?”
“Stand guard obediently. Didn’t you hear that Master is currently in seclusion?”
“Alright!”
Just like that, the four half-deities obediently stood guard outside the palace, not daring to take even a step away.
However, as days passed one by one, Meng Lei didn’t come out of the palace. Instead, it was the Golden Archipelago that began to sink into chaos.
Without the Golden Dragon-Lions suppressing them, all the ambitious players emerged one after another. The Golden Archipelago gradually became chaotic and unbearable to behold, entering a state of turmoil.
At the sight of the chaos, the four half-deities knew that this mustn’t continue. If Meng Lei were to come out of seclusion to see the Golden Archipelago in such a chaotic state, wouldn’t he fly into a thundering rage?
“Now that the Golden Dragon-Lions have been wiped out, the Golden Archipelago has become leaderless. The people’s faith has been lost, and the place is currently in social unrest. It is exactly the time to build a new order and new faith.”
Klaus suggested, “Therefore, we must do something now. Otherwise, we won’t be able to answer to Master when he comes out of seclusion!”
Bubbles, Nadja, and Seisia, nodded repeatedly. “We can make use of this time while Master’s in seclusion to spread his faith!”
“That’s right! We’ll strive to convert the 10 billion citizens of the
