Rather than having that happen, he might as well enfeoff those existential planes to Bubbles and the others and allow them to spread their own faith, earn and accumulate power of divinity, and strengthen themselves.
Once they became stronger, Meng Lei would no longer need to personally attend to a lot of things. There were a lot of benefits to be had.
Besides!
How would Meng Lei possibly have that much time to manage that many existential planes? He couldn’t even be bothered to deal with the Dragon God Empire, much less 48 existential planes!
Therefore, the ideal solution was to enfeoff them to others. Meng Lei believed that Bubbles and the others would definitely manage the existential planes with great diligence for the sake of power of faith.
“You’ve finally smartened up for once, kid!”
Dodola was full of praise for Meng Lei’s idea. It said, “Not only is establishing a god system beneficial to spreading one’s faith, but it can also encourage the subsidiary gods to open up new grounds and forge ahead, such that they would develop the ambition to expand their territory. It’s a move that kills two birds with one stone!”
“With that coming from even you, then there shouldn’t be anything to worry over anymore!”
Dodola’s response further strengthened Meng Lei’s thoughts of establishing a god system.
After that, the group began to take a leisurely stroll around the 48 existential planes. The existential planes were connected via teleportation magic circles, so they were easily accessible.
Of course, Meng Lei didn’t forget to refine their Hearts of The Existential Planes and take full control of them, either.
The 48 existential planes were rich and diverse in variety and differed from one another. Some were marine worlds, some were dry lands, some were fully covered in forests...
With incredibly vast and wide lands and containing abundant resources, all the existential planes were highly suitable to be used as living beings’ habitats and were exceptionally good power of faith domains. The only thing that displeased them was that... All of them were currently being occupied by demons.
Innumerable demons occupied the existential planes, filling the pleasant environments with foul atmospheres as they ran rampant. It was truly irksome!
“What a waste for demons to be occupying them!”
None of them looked favorably upon demons. Apart from the fact that deities and demons were natural adversaries and thus adopted hostile attitudes toward each other, there was also one other reason for this—it was in the demons’ nature to be cunning, cruel, and bloodthirsty. They didn’t easily worship others, so it was far harder to grow demon worshiper numbers than to grow normal worshiper numbers.
Thus, everyone wanted to kill the demons and migrate other living beings there instead.
To be honest, Meng Lei also wanted to kill the demons. However, it wasn’t because he disliked them, but rather... It was because he was poor!
The rebirth had depleted him of 888 million Laws of Nature Origin Crystals and left him with only 880,000 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals. One could say that he had gone right back to square one overnight and become a penniless pauper again!
Thus, Meng Lei was in a panic. It didn’t feel good to be penniless.
The only thing currently on his mind was to replenish his Wealth. He didn’t feel very confident with an empty purse!
“I should be, no, I definitely will be able to replenish everything that I’ve spent if I kill all the demons!”
The moment the thought occurred to him, Meng Lei said, “Everyone, I’ve decided to establish a god system and enfeoff these existential planes to all of you. Do you have any suggestions?”
Everyone exchanged looks with one another. Then, Bubbles scratched his head and asked, “Are you serious, Master?”
“Duh, of course!”
Meng Lei rolled his eyes.
“Since Master has already made up his mind, then I hope Master can forgive for taking the liberty of raising a suggestion.”
Bubbles lowered his voice and said, “Can we kill those demons? They are simply too detestable. I have no desire to have a bunch of demon worshipers.”
“My thoughts exactly, Master!”
Seisia spoke up and said, “These are good material planes, yet those demons have polluted them. What a huge waste that is!”
“That’s right, Master. Let’s hurry up and kill those demons. Leaving them alive is just a waste of resources!”
“Master, I suggest exterminating all the demons and migrating some humans, Colossal Dragons, or Beast People from Heaven’s Vault Continent over...”
Everyone else also spoke up one after another, with all of them essentially saying the same thing in different forms. They indeed didn’t have any other ideas, either. The fact that their Master was willing to divide and confer the existential planes to them was already a pleasant surprise to them.
What more was there for them to be discontent about?
“Since everyone has the same opinions, then we’ll do just that.” Meng Lei mused for a long while before he said, “We’ll exterminate the demons and migrate other races over!”
“How wise, Master!”
“O my noble Master, your wisdom is like the dazzling and eye-catching stars in the sky, yet also like a lighthouse at sea that lights up our paths...”
Overjoyed, everyone launched into wild bursts of flattery. For a while, all sorts of praises gushed from them like an endless, overflowing river that was out of control.
The next problem was—how should they exterminate the demons?
There were billions of demons in the 48 existential planes. Killing them was no easy task. To quote Zhang Fei[1], “One would have to spend a total of three days and three nights even if they were just killing 700,000 pigs”, let alone that many demons!
However, to Meng Lei, who had already refined all the Hearts of The Existential Planes, this really wasn’t that difficult a task at all. He needed only to think about it, and he would be
