“Let’s go, Dodola!”
After ensuring that everything was foolproof, Meng Lei and Dodola set off for the capital together.
There wasn’t much time left before Dark Canopy of The Heavens would commence, so Meng Lei couldn’t afford any delays on the way there. Otherwise, he would definitely have ransacked all the places he passed by while on the way there.
Meng Lei didn’t stay idle in spite of that, however.
“I have 940 million Divinity Crystals now. There are a lot of things I can do with that!”
Meng Lei scanned through his stats interface, looking for options that he could buy credit for. He wanted to do everything he could to improve his combat strength so that he could make it into the Boundless Plane.
Host: Meng Lei
Race: Human (Primeval Bloodline: Primordial Human <26%>, Assimilated Bloodlines: Gods-Slaying Rat <Youth>, Divine Netherworld Phoenix <Youth>, Hundred-Armed Giant <Youth>, Ancient Tree of Life <23%>, Frost God <Juvenile>, Grim Reaper <Juvenile>)
Wealth: 940 million Divinity Crystals
Physical Body Constitution: Metal-Origin Divine Body (1%)
Spirit: Higher Deity (Elementary-Grade)
Power of Divinity: 200 Divinity Crystals
Innate Special Abilities: Teleportation, Dark-Elemental Transformation, Transfer, Absolute Zero, Rise From The Ashes, Thunder-Elemental Transformation, Mysterious Ice of The Depths, Grim Reaper’s Eye
Others: Some increase
“I can’t buy credit for any of my bloodlines at the moment, so I won’t bother with them... Next up is my divine body.
“My metal-origin divine body... Raising its assimilation rate requires one million Divinity Crystals for every 1%, so if I want to boost it to 100%, I’ll need a total of 100 million Divinity Crystals.
“Here comes the problem—is there any purpose to boosting my metal-origin divine body’s assimilation rate to 100%?”
Meng Lei fell into deep thought.
100 million Divinity Crystals was no small sum. He would be suffering a huge loss if he boosted his metal-origin divine body’s assimilation rate to 100%, only to find out that it didn’t provide much help to his combat strength.
Meng Lei was somewhat in two minds about it. He asked, “System, how many Divinity Crystals would it cost to enhance my divine body with Super Enhancement?”
“Ding! The host’s divine body is currently on par with that of a mid-level higher deity’s and will rival that of a high-level higher deity’s after enhancement,” the system replied coldly, “Thus, the enhancement cost is estimated at 900 million Divinity Crystals.”
“900 million?!”
Meng Lei couldn’t help but gasp.
Ascending from a limits-level intermediate deity to an elementary-level higher deity required only 3 million Divinity Crystals while ascending from an elementary-level higher deity to a mid-level higher deity required 60 million Divinity Crystals.
However, ascending from a mid-level higher deity to a high-level higher deity actually required 900 million Divinity Crystals!
What a ridiculous price!
“That’s too expensive.”
A wry smile appeared on Meng Lei’s countenance. In the end, he still ended up boosting his metal-origin divine body’s assimilation rate instead.
Whoosh!
His Wealth decreased by 100 million Divinity Crystals in an instant.
At the same time, an incredibly sharp wave of power also instantly spread throughout Meng Lei. It flowed into his limbs and every part of his body.
Buzz...
A powerful surge of golden light suffused the area all around Meng Lei right away. Filled with an austere and razor-sharp aura, he looked just like an ultimate peerless weapon that had been unsheathed.
The sudden change in him alarmed Dodola, who turned to him with a look of astonishment on its face and exclaimed, “M-metal-elemental Power of Origin[1]!”
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Chapter 339: Metal-Origin Body, A Great Improvement In Strength
Power of Origin was the most fundamental and the most intrinsic form of power that constituted the vast universe itself. Power of Origin and laws of nature were complementary to each other, and they jointly formed the vast universe.
If laws of nature were the rules and guidelines by which all things in the universe operated, then Power of Origin was the very material that all things in the universe were formed from.
The former was intangible lines and frames, whereas the latter was a tangible form of energy and matter.
They were opposites but were just as powerful as the other.
Great waves churned in Dodola’s heart as it wondered to itself, “For such a surge of metal-elemental Power of Origin to suddenly erupt from Meng Lei, could it be that his metal-origin divine body has reached a level of Great Mastery?”
Origin divine bodies were extremely rare. How many among the trillions of living beings in the vast universe even owned origin divine bodies? Only a handful!
And yet, apart from being rare, origin divine bodies were also extremely hard to cultivate. From the point of awakening to the point where one reached Lesser Mastery and subsequently Great Mastery, every step along the way could be said to be fraught with great difficulties.
This was because one needed to constantly assimilate Power of Origin into themselves to enhance their bodies during the entire cultivation process. But where were they supposed to find that much Power of Origin to assimilate into themselves?
The process might be difficult, but once they could cultivate it to the point of Great Mastery, their divine body would then become one that was fully formed from Power of Origin and would be incredibly powerful!
Yet Meng Lei had actually cultivated his metal-origin divine body to the point of Great Mastery without showing even so much as a sign or two?
The metal-elemental Power of Origin around Meng Lei started to surge more and more fervently as Dodola’s mind ran wild. The sharp aura of slaughter emanating off him also became stronger and stronger.
Toward the end, Meng Lei’s entire self had become as though it was fully made out of gold. Every single cell,
