Puhaman was greatly tempted.
“Of course!”
Meng Lei waved in response.
“Thank you, Master! Thank you, Master!”
Puhaman expressed his gratitude repeatedly. He was pretty much only a step short of prostrating and licking Meng Lei’s shoes.
Meng Lei said dispassionately, “Go on. Hurry and assimilate the divine core. The empire’s matters still require your attention.”
“There’s no hurry, Master!”
Although Puhaman wanted very much to assimilate the divine core right away, he suppressed the urge to. Instead, he led Meng Lei to a grand and magnificent-looking palace.
Then, he summoned all the court officials and formally introduced Meng Lei to them.
“Greetings, Your Majesty!”
Without any hesitation whatsoever, everyone hurriedly bowed in greeting. They might be dubious of anyone, but they definitely didn’t dare to be dubious of Puhaman—that guy was the Devil himself!
“Listen up, everyone. Master is the highest authority and ruler of this imperial palace and the entire empire. His word is the royal decree and the oracle itself!”
In a cold and distant tone, Puhaman said, “Everyone, including myself, must unconditionally follow his orders. Those that dare defy his orders will be... Mercilessly killed!”
“Yes, sir!”
Everyone quickly responded.
Only then did Puhaman turn to Meng Lei. He asked, “Master, is there anything else you’d like to supplement?”
“No.”
Meng Lei waved. After looking at everyone and remembering their faces, he said, “You may leave, everyone. Bubbles, Puhaman, the two of you may also leave.”
“Yes, Your Majesty (Master)!”
After dismissing everyone, Meng Lei walked over to the lavish golden throne and plopped his butt down on it. Then, he eagerly glanced at his stats interface.
600 million Laws of Nature Origin Crystals! How should he spend them? Now, that was the question!
“There are four things that I can buy credit for at the moment.
“Primordial Human bloodline (16%)!
“Metal-Origin Divine Body (1%)!
“Power of Divinity (0.1 Divinity Crystal)!
“And laws of nature comprehension!”
[1] A Chinese proverb referring to the ideal of reducing taxes so that the common people can have enough money to develop and produce, thereby, in turn, stabilizing the economy and bringing in higher revenue for the country
Chapter 254: Rain of Light, The Meng Lei Empire
“Awakening the Primordial Human bloodline by 1% requires as much as one 100,000,000 Divinity Crystals. This bit of Wealth I have is just a drop in the ocean. Rejected!
“Enhancing the metal-origin divine body by 1% requires 1,000,000 Divinity Crystals. The price is just as ridiculously high. Rejected!
“I can, however, buy some credit for my Power of Divinity. System, get me Power of Divinity equivalent to 10,000 Divinity Crystals!”
Whoosh!
His Wealth instantly shrank by 100,000,000 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals. At the same time, his Power of Divinity reserves also went up to 10,000 Divinity Crystals.
“As for laws of nature comprehension, I shouldn’t be in such a hurry to buy credit for it. I can do it after I’ve enhanced my divine spirit instead. The price will definitely be even lower at that point.”
Meng Lei hastily ended the credit-buying session. Then, he ordered, “System, give me 10,000 Limitless Pickups!”
“...”
“Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained a Divine Core. Will you assimilate it?”
“...”
“Ding! Assimilation successful. You have obtained a Fusion Laws of Nature Fragment. Will you assimilate it?”
“...”
Meng Lei didn’t go anywhere at all during the next two days but stayed in the palace and did Limitless Pickups instead. In total, he did more than 200,000 Limitless Pickups.
It was hard to tell whether it was because he did too many Limitless Pickups, but Meng Lei’s luck wasn’t too good. Everything he picked up was very mediocre.
Nevertheless, because of the sheer number of pickups he did, he still managed to pick up quite a few good things.
Firstly, he had picked up 26 divine cores.
Although they were all lesser deities’ divine cores, there were thankfully quite a few of them, so he could use them to reward his subordinates.
Next was laws of nature fragments.
A large majority of them were naturally single-elemental ones, with only a handful being fusion laws of nature fragments.
There were 19 double-elemental fusion laws of nature fragments and four triple-elemental ones.
These were considered commonplace. What was astonishing, however, was that he had actually picked up a quadruple-elemental fusion laws of nature fragment—ice, metal, dark, and fire!
Even though the assimilation rate was only 0.1%, it had nevertheless successfully opened the gates to quadruple-elemental laws of nature assimilation for Meng Lei.
This meant that once Meng Lei enhanced the assimilation rate to 100%, he would—in terms of cultivation stage—rival a higher deity who had already assimilated four types of laws of nature. He would then only be... One type away from becoming a Great Perfection higher deity that had assimilated five types of laws of nature.
This meant that once he enhanced it to 100%, Meng Lei would be able to manifest a divine core and become a deity. On top of that, he would go straight to becoming a higher deity that had already assimilated four types of laws of nature!
The tragic thing, however, was that it was simply too expensive to buy credit for quadruple-elemental laws of nature assimilation. He couldn’t afford it at all!
Thirdly, he also got 11 true god dead bodies. Out of which, six were divine beast carcasses, and five were true gods’ divine bodies.
The divine bodies were of mediocre strength, so they weren’t of much use to Meng Lei. However, one did bring him an amazing special ability—Transformation!
Yes, Transformation! The kind that was similar to Mystique’s in the X-men series and allowed people to transform into all kinds of forms.
Although it didn’t provide any combat boost, it was nevertheless still a very useful ability. Meng Lei liked it very much.
Lastly, he also picked up some random knick-knacks. They weren’t of any use at all, and Meng Lei couldn’t even be bothered to look at them.
