The system’s notification abruptly rang out at this point.
Surprised, Meng Lei then noticed a grayish light ball sitting quietly in front of the crystal ball.
“Yes, pick it up!”
“Ding! Pickup successful. You have obtained the Ten Thousand-Tentacled Serpent bloodline. Will you assimilate it?”
“The Ten Thousand-Tentacled Serpent bloodline?”
Chapter 398: The Void Beast, The Boundless Great Beast
“What kind of creature is the Ten Thousand-Tentacled Serpent, Moro?”
Knowing that it was pointless to pose questions to the system, Meng Lei decided to consult Moro instead. There was nothing that that old antique that had survived the last era didn’t know.
“The Ten Thousand-Tentacled Serpent bloodline?”
Moro turned into a wisp of black smoke and manifested in front of Meng Lei. He remarked in surprise, “Where did you hear about the Ten Thousand-Tentacled Serpent from? Most people aren’t aware of an ancient creature like that.”
“If I’m not wrong, this crystal ball here is likely some kind of organ from the Ten Thousand-Tentacled Serpent. It’s most likely its eyeball,” explained Meng Lei.
Other creatures would never drop the Ten Thousand-Tentacled Serpent bloodline. Only the Ten Thousand-Tentacled Serpent itself or any of its organs would drop its bloodline.
There was no doubt about that.
“You can actually conclude that this is the Ten Thousand-Tentacled Serpent’s eyeball when you don’t even know what it is? You’re seriously a riot!” mocked Moro teasingly.
Then, his gaze fell onto the crystal ball in the box, and he said, “Your blind guess is actually correct, though! This really is the Ten Thousand-Tentacled Serpent’s eyeball.”
What’s there for me to make a freaking blind guess about? I gained that knowledge through my own abilities, alright?
Meng Lei urged huffily, “C’mon, stop saying these useless things and tell me about the Ten Thousand-Tentacled Serpent instead!”
Moro chuckled and started to explain. He said, “You should know that the vast universe has birthed countless powerful lifeforms such as deities, divine beasts, demons, devils, the Undead, and so on. No matter whether these lifeforms are powerful or not, they are all entities produced by the existential planes. Therefore, we also call these creatures Existential Plane Lifeforms.”
Meng Lei nodded slightly. Be it deities, demons, or even mortals, it was the existential planes that gave birth to all these lifeforms. There was no doubt about that.
“However, there’s also one particular life-form in the vast universe that isn’t produced by existential planes but born to the vast Void itself instead,” added Moro.
“Born to the vast Void itself?” A surprised Meng Lei asked, “Can the Void give birth to lives, too?”
What was there in the Void?
There was no air!
No magic elements!
No animals or plants!
There was nothing at all!
There was only endless, boundless darkness, the freezing cold, dead silence, and... Nothingness itself. Can a world like that, one that didn’t have anything at all, actually also give birth to lives?
“Nothing is absolute in this world.”
A lofty smile appeared on Moro’s countenance, and he said, “Even though the Void is a world of nothingness, where it’s immensely difficult to give birth to life, there is a lifeform that exactly originated from the Void itself.”
“What kind of life-form is that?” asked Meng Lei curiously.
“The Void Beast!”
Moro, who was all smiles, explained, “The Void Beast is a fearsome life-form born to the Void. There are very, very few of them, but every single Void Beast possesses incredibly strong and vigorous life force and terrifying power.
“You should know that the Void is a world of nothingness. Food is extremely scarce there, and the environment is also exceedingly terrible. Even people like the Chief Gods greatly dislike the environment in the Void. Thus, you can imagine for yourself just how fearsome the lifeforms such an adverse environment gives birth to are!”
“Exactly how fearsome are the Void Beasts?” asked Meng Lei curiously.
“Void Beasts do not cultivate laws of nature but just their bodies, so they have extremely strong and powerful bodies. There are many types of Void Beasts, though, and there are great differences in strength among the various types of Void Beasts. Among them, the most powerful ones are fully capable of contending with the Supreme Juggernauts.”
A smiling Moro explained, “Of course, Void Beasts capable of contending with the Supreme Juggernauts are extremely rare. There are only a few of them even in the entire universe.”
“They can contend with the juggernauts?” A huge jolt went through Meng Lei as he asked, “How strong must their bodies be?”
“Very, very strong! Unimaginably strong! Compared to the Void Beasts, the Titans, Behemoths, and Giant Elephants are practically babies!”
Moro sighed emotionally and said, “You haven’t seen much of the world, so you wouldn’t know how strong a Void Beast is. Even so, you should have heard of a certain man.”
“Who?”
Meng Lei was puzzled.
“The Boundless King!”
Moro said, “Surely you must have heard of this name before? I’m going to seriously look down on you if you don’t even know this name!”
A wry smile came over Meng Lei’s features at once, and he replied, “Of course I have. I’ve even met his divine spirit fragment and received all the treasures that he’d accumulated throughout his entire life!”
“Eh?”
Taken aback, Moro asked, “You can’t be that savage murderer that obtained the Boundless King’s treasure and even slaughtered a million gods and demons, can you?”
Meng Lei was also taken aback. He asked, “How did you know?”
“Duh! Your notoriety has already spread throughout the whole wide universe after that Boundless Plane battle!”
Moro clicked his tongue in wonder as he marveled, “I was even pretty puzzled at that time and had wondered whether the Boundless King had come back to life. Otherwise, how could the gods and demons possibly suffer such a great loss?”
“That’s because those gods and demons were too weak,” scoffed Meng Lei.
“True! Compared to you, they are certainly weaklings.”
Moro nodded in agreement.
