At this point, Horace opened his eyes slightly, his gaze sweeping across everyone present. For a moment there, the people felt a wave of pain that felt like jabbing needles coming from their eyes, and they couldn’t help but shut their eyes in pain.
“Such weak and frail mortals!” Horace scoffed before he asked calmly, “Where’s Meng Lei, the young one?”
“Be careful, Master!” Bubbles hastily warned. “I can’t tell how strong that guy is at all. You have to take absolute care!”
Puhaman also had a grave look on his face as he said, “That’s right, Master. That guy is completely on a different level from the Dragon God just now. You have to take absolute caution!”
“Don’t worry! I know what I’m doing.”
Meng Lei waved them off. Then, he rose slowly into the air and went up to Horace.
“So, you’re Meng Lei?”
Horace looked over, his sharp, knife-like eyes gazing upon Meng Lei.
“The man himself,” replied Meng Lei calmly.
“Little did I think that Heaven’s Vault Continent would birth someone like you 30,000 years later. Truly impressive!”
There was a hint of approving admiration on Horace’s countenance. Then, he said, “But you shouldn’t have challenged the great Titan Spiritual God’s authority. His wrath is not something you can withstand!”
“Talents emerge from every generation in this world, and each of them excels in their own domain for years to come!”
Meng Lei flicked his fingers as he remarked, “Didn’t the Titan Spiritual God also challenge the Fairy Goddess’ authority back when she was ruling Heaven’s Vault Continent?
“Don’t forget that the Fairy Goddess was already a higher deity back then, yet the Titan Spiritual God had dared to challenge even her. On the other hand, I’m just challenging an intermediate deity’s authority. Compared to him, it seems like I’m far more inferior.”
“You sure know quite a lot. But it isn’t necessarily a positive thing to be so knowledgeable. Sometimes, it easily misleads one into making an incorrect judgment, causing one to throw away their lives for nothing.”
Horace said dispassionately, “Go on and attack. On account of your junior status, I’ll allow you to make the first move, lest people accuse me of bullying someone younger.”
“How presumptuous!”
“That guy’s too arrogant!”
“I’ll see whether he still dares to behave so arrogantly when Master beats him up so badly that he’s all but begging for mercy later. Goddamnit, he’s as haughty as a pea-brain. The sight of him pisses me off!”
Bubbles, Puhaman, and the others secretly broke into angry rants. They were extremely displeased with Horace’s tone and choice of words that seemingly placed Meng Lei at a lower position than him for nothing.
The others didn’t find anything wrong with that, though.
Horace was a legendary Titan from 30,000 years ago, as well as a peerless monster that had become a half-deity at 57-years-old. Now that he had returned 30,000 years later, just how strong must he have become?
So what even if he were a little wild and arrogant?
Compared to him, Meng Lei indeed was just a junior.
“What is Horace spouting so much superfluous crap for? Hurry and just cleave him apart with a knife!” The Thunder Titan Emperor was rather impatient by now.
“Allowing me to make the first move?”
Meng Lei’s lip corners quirked upward slightly as he remarked, “During the first time I stepped onto Dragon Island, that’s exactly what those arrogant and conceited Colossal Dragon half-deities had said. In the end, only one of them managed to get away.”
“Is that so?”
Horace raised an eyebrow.
“During the second time I went up the Titan Spiritual Peak and battled the Titan Empire’s temple half-deities, that’s also what those burly Titans had said.”
Meng Lei shook his head and chuckled, somewhat noncommittal to the statement. He said, “Among them were even existences older than you, but their outcomes were instead exceptionally tragic.”
“Are you comparing them to me?”
Horace shook his head and laughed. “Be it the Dragon half-deities or the temple half-deities, they are actually all the same as you—all of you are just frogs living in the tiny little well known as Heaven’s Vault Continent.
“Trapped in Heaven’s Vault Continent, all of you see the sky only from the bottom of the well and foolishly think highly of yourselves. How would you know just how big the world outside is when all you can do is only run about in this existential plane?”
“Oh?”
Meng Lei raised an eyebrow.
“Little fellow, the world outside is a vast one. Don’t be mistaken that you can do whatever you want just because you’ve made a small achievement or two in this existential plane.”
Horace said dispassionately, “I’ll give you one last chance and allow you to make the first move. Otherwise, I’m afraid you won’t even have the chance to attack.”
“Just as well, then. Since that’s the case, then it would only be rude of me to decline any further!”
Whoosh!
Chapter 262: Breaking The Hammer, Sending Meng Lei Flying
In a faraway divine nation, the Titan Spiritual God sat on his throne with a crystal ball floating before him. Displayed within was the event currently taking place at Mount Dragon God’s summit.
“Lowly mortal, you shall pay a heavy price for your foolishness and ignorance!”
Murderous intent filled the Titan Spiritual God’s eyes. It had been eons since he had last been this furious. The last time he was angry had been 50,000 years ago when the Dragon God emerged.
During that time, the Dragon God had led the Colossal Dragons to rise up and drove the Titans to the Titan Ranges, causing him to lose great numbers of worshipers.
The Titan Spiritual God had been incredibly furious over this, but there was nothing he could do. All he could do was to watch helplessly as the Dragon God unified the continent, gathered vast amounts of power of faith, and deified.
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