Chapter 142: World Path, Dragon Race Opening

【Health: 0.01%】

【Mana: 0.01%】

Returning to his personal exclusive room, Meng Yi floated in mid-air, listless; this wave of overload output had pushed his state to a low ebb.

【Prompt: Detected player 'Bai Mo' carrying pollutants.】

【Prompt: 'Will of the Great Devourer' has been obliterated!】

【Prompt: 'Will of the Blood God Khorne' has been obliterated!】

【Prompt: Time remaining until the derivative world view dungeon opens: 2h.】

The Paradise's operating mechanism easily identified the black flesh chunks and Khorne residue that Meng Yi had hidden within his body.

"This is preposterous!"

"Damn this cesspool Paradise, is it blatantly bullying an honest man?!"

Meng Yi flipped like a salted fish, hurriedly taking out the Tyranid flesh chunks and Blood God Khorne residue from the "Star of Infinity."

A pitch-black, wriggling mass of flesh and a dim, flickering stream of information lay quietly before him.

He used the "Evolution Paradise" tools to scan them.

【Name: Rule Concept Pollution Mixture · Evil God Residue · Khorne

Status: "Demon of War and Slaughter" / "God of Victory and Valor"

Integrity: 0.0000... 01 (negligible)

Contained Rule Concepts: War, Slaughter, Death, Deprivation, Victory, Courage, Martial Arts, Honor...

Essence: Localized Buff Essence · 12th Rank, Normal Essence · 9th Rank

Comprehensive Evaluation: SS (Eighth Rank) "Evaluation lowered due to extreme incompleteness!"

Remark: Upon leaving the "Warp" and the "Primordial Warhammer World View," this item is significantly weakened!】

【Name: Rule Concept Flesh Mixture · Evil God Residue · The Great Devourer

Status: Tyranid · Hive Mind Projection Aggregate

Integrity: 0.0000... 01 (negligible)

Contained Rule Concepts: Devouring, Domination, Proliferation, Division...

Essence: Localized Buff Essence: 11th Rank, Normal Essence: 8th Rank

Comprehensive Evaluation: S (Seventh Rank) "Evaluation lowered due to extreme incompleteness!"

Remark: Upon leaving the "Warp" and the "Primordial Warhammer World View," this item is significantly degraded!】

"Sure enough, the same fate as the Void Dragon fragments. No, even more shrunken than old Void."

Meng Yi stored the two trophies into the "Star of Infinity · Experimental Zone."

The earthbound spirits that act fierce in the "Warp" rely entirely on their own foundations to hold up when descending into the material universe.

Losing the home-field buff of the "Primordial Warhammer World View," their moisture was squeezed dry.

In their extremely incomplete state, their comprehensive evaluations dropped again; the Khorne projection residue fell to the eighth rank, and the Great Devourer fell to the seventh rank.

On the contrary, the C'tan, which are the manifestation of material universe rules, lacked the "Warp" shrinkage link, so their weakening was not as severe as the "Warp" earthbound spirits.

"Aaaaaa!!"

The Void Dragon was unhappy. What did he mean by 'the same as him'?

"Kid, this god advises you to watch yourself!"

The wilted old Void detached from Meng Yi's body, raising its limp dragon tail to smash at Meng Yi, only to be grabbed by Meng Yi's raised hand.

"Slip of the tongue! Slip of the tongue!"

Meng Yi chuckled and defended himself.

"My fault, it was my poor choice of words. Old Void, you are definitely not an earthbound spirit now."

The Void Dragon's expression improved slightly; it retracted its tail and patiently wiped the scales on it, its disdain self-evident.

"Kid, we are both battered and exhausted now. What if we get beaten up by other players or dungeon natives in the next dungeon?"

Hearing this, Meng Yi tilted his head and said indifferently: "We are a bit injured and our endurance is a bit weaker, but our limit output is still at the top of the seventh rank."

"Endurance in a protracted war is weaker, but that doesn't mean others' health bars have gotten longer, right?"

"Those who can't withstand our limit output will be insta-killed just the same. Are they even worthy of sitting at the table to eat?"

"Even if we encounter enemies of the same level, we only need to blow up a star to quickly repair our damage."

Meng Yi patted the Void Dragon on the shoulder and said patiently: "Old Void, this is just a second-rank dungeon, not a seventh-rank one. Rest assured, rest assured!"

A lean camel is bigger than a horse; he and the Void Dragon needed to recover from their damage.

Are the seven Guardian sequences with fifth-rank breakthrough combat power just for show?

The Void Dragon raised a claw to scratch its faceplate, thinking Meng Yi's words made sense.

Even if they encountered a fish-frying expert of the level of Xianmo Weiyang, the seven Guardians could buy enough time for them.

Just entering a dungeon, not knowing the depth of the dungeon, not understanding the situation of the players, not building a basic position—why would anyone jump around as soon as they arrive? Isn't that pure suicide?

"Hmm, you're right, I was worrying too much."

The Void Dragon stroked its chin and said slowly: "However, we cannot be as impatient in this dungeon as we were in the 'Promotion Assessment'."

"Hiding in the dark and remaining unchanged to meet all changes, probing the enemy's bottom line before striking fiercely is the correct approach, rather than being caught by the enemy and falling into a passive position."

"I know."

Meng Yi nodded slightly. A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit; they were indeed a bit too eager in the early stages of the Naruto dungeon.

"Two hours is neither long nor short. Let's repair as much as we can."

As the words fell, Meng Yi began to interfere with the microscopic realm, mass-producing atomic fusion and drawing energy to fill the gaps.

His cracked body gradually healed, the chaotic field of the "Star of Infinity" gradually calmed down, and his energy reserves, which had fallen to a low point, slowly rose...

During the time spent waiting, the man and the dragon seized the time to recover their state.

Meng Yi was thinking about a question.

During his duel with the Blood God Khorne, was his state when he unleashed his trump card moves, "Neutron Star · Annihilation Bombardment" and "Neutron Star · Secondary Collapse · Medium Black Hole," enough to reach the seventh-rank breakthrough?

After thinking it over, Meng Yi felt it was a bit lacking.

A seventh-rank breakthrough player's normal state is a seventh-rank breakthrough.

Their normal state, layered with various output levers, exerts combat power rivaling eighth-rank early-stage dungeon natives.

And his limit state could only barely rival the normal state of a seventh-rank breakthrough; the gap between them was evident.

The two-hour preparation period passed in a flash.

Meng Yi felt the recovery speed was too slow, so he threw his only remaining D-rank World Origin Crystal into his mouth like a small snack, chewed it up, and swallowed it.

"Hey! This works!"

【Health: 0.01% → 0.03% → 0.1%】

【Mana: 0.01% → 0.03% → 0.1%】

The world origin contained in one D-rank origin crystal brought him 0.07% recovery progress.

The more intact the body, the faster the automatic recovery speed.

Dense data streams flashed across his deep, pitch-black eyes.

Meng Yi calculated slightly; in as short as five days, or as long as a week, he could return to his peak. This was more than twice as fast as the originally estimated half a month.

"I wonder if I can synthesize miracle condensates myself once I monetize my knowledge and complete the 'Bai Xue Battle Body 4.5 · World Body'..."

Logically speaking, it should be possible.

The "Bai Xue Battle Body 4.5 · World Body" could produce a small amount of world origin.

But the difficulty lay in the fact that Meng Yi didn't know the strange technology of condensing world origin into world origin crystals.

Even if the technical problem was solved, whether the hand-crafted world origin crystals could circulate in the Paradise market was also a problem.

Meng Yi narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth: "The seventh-rank breakthrough player · Shining Polyhedron once recognized my 'World Dao,' which shows that there are quite a few monsters walking the path of body-as-world."

"I speculate that 'high-level players' walking the body-as-world path in the novice village stage have most likely thought about the path of bad money driving out good."

"If there are loopholes in the Paradise mechanism, they will also be patched by the 'Era Administrator'."

"The first batch to eat crab might make a fortune, but the latecomers won't even get to drink the soup."

"Hmph! Damn monster Paradise!"

To get ahead, following the rules definitely wouldn't work.

He had to open up a new track, drill into the holes that the Paradise mechanism hadn't plugged yet, and be the first person to eat crab!

As for whether the players following behind would starve to death after he was full, that had nothing to do with Meng Yi.

"Aaaaaa!"

"Kid, what did that world origin crystal you just ate taste like?"

Noticing the accelerated recovery speed, the Void Dragon opened its data dragon eyes and asked curiously.

"Doesn't taste like much, about the same as chewing on a piece of broken glass."

Meng Yi answered the Void Dragon's curiosity frankly.

Hearing this, the Void Dragon looked at Meng Yi suspiciously, always feeling that the monster wasn't telling the truth, but it didn't pursue the matter further.

The Void Dragon changed the subject and slowly stated something it had been considering recently.

"Kid, your 'Infinite World Tree' can bind to me, so it must be able to bind to more C'tan fragments."

Meng Yi raised an eyebrow and took over the Void Dragon's words, adding: "You mean, bind to more C'tan fragments, rely on the fragments to contact the rules of the myriad worlds, and reverse-drive the growth of the 'Infinite World Tree,' thereby achieving a win-win situation?"

"Clap clap clap—"

The Void Dragon clapped its claws; communicating with a smart person was convenient, getting the point at once.

"That's what I mean. Since you want to walk the path of 'body-as-world,' then what you contain shouldn't be limited to Rule Gods."

"Concept Gods, Law Gods..., and even technology, bloodlines, genes, chakra, nature, faith, curses, psionics, information, energy..., all kinds of life, races, civilizations, myths, systems..., are all part of you."

"Any power within the world is your power and can drive your growth, and your progress will raise the upper limit of the world."

The Void Dragon, which had lived for tens of billions of years, hadn't lived in vain; the plan it deduced was close to the experience card Meng Yi had in the omnipotent zone.

Meng Yi replied in a flat tone: "Hmm, if there's a chance in the next dungeon, I'll give it a try."

Seeing this, the Void Dragon immediately knew that its conjecture had long been in the monster's backup plan; it was truly a case of a dragon worrying unnecessarily.

The two-hour preparation time was exhausted; Meng Yi stuffed the imprisoned dragon inside and regenerated the white coat that had been blown up while fighting Khorne.

"No, I have to lay low when the dungeon starts, so as not to be ambushed by other fish-frying experts who don't talk about martial virtue."

He knew his own situation; white coat + glasses frame = not to be trifled with.

"Must be plain and weak-looking."

Meng Yi thought for a moment and changed back to the attire he had when he just graduated with his Ph. D. in his previous life.

A clean, neat, black-and-white casual outfit, a man in his twenties with decent looks, a slender figure, wearing a scholarly-looking pair of glasses—the image of an adult man with a rich scholarly aura emerged.

"Very good! I said it, fighting and killing has nothing to do with a cultured person like me; it's all the fault of the Warhammer cesspool."

Meng Yi changed his outfit with one click, and the Paradise's prompt sounded quietly.

【Derivative world dungeon creating—creation complete!】

【World Background: Long ago, the life planet gave birth to the first Star Spirit · World Tree.

The World Tree covered reality with an alchemy system, turning the planet it was on into a transcendent star, and created the God race civilization.

Although the various God races were in constant conflict, they were generally still in peace.

Until the birth of the second Star Spirit · Nidhogg, whose appearance would overturn the old order.

Nidhogg's power was not as strong as the World Tree's, but it knew how to endure and lie dormant.

More and more God races borrowed the power of the World Tree to embark on the path of transcendence, causing the World Tree to become increasingly weak.

Nidhogg seized the opportunity to devour the World Tree, destroy the God race era, and establish the Dragon race era with the remains of the God race.

The dragons called Nidhogg—the "Black Emperor" of supreme virtue, supreme power, and supreme honor.

The alchemy system of the Star Spirit · World Tree and the Spirit Speech system of the Star Spirit · Nidhogg made the newborn Dragon race increasingly prosperous.

In order to consolidate its rule, Nidhogg created the "Half-Star Spirit · White Emperor" based on the Star Spirit status.

The era of dual-king rule arrived.

The "Black Emperor" was the leader of the tribe, and the "White Emperor" was the priest of the tribe; the Dragon race spent a peaceful and glorious era.

The number of dragons increased, and the "Black Emperor" encountered the same problem as the World Tree; its peerless power began to decline.

With its heart becoming increasingly arrogant, the "Black Emperor" decided to purge the Dragon race.

Its atrocities drew strong opposition from the "White Emperor," who led one-third of the dragons to betray the "Black Emperor."

The furious "Black Emperor" destroyed the "White Emperor" with supreme power, nailed her to a copper pillar reaching the sky, threw her into the depths of the roaring ice sea, and destroyed the "White Emperor's" blood descendants.

Humans sneaked into the ice sea and signed a contract with the "White Emperor," swallowed the "White Emperor's" gift, and became the Bai Wang's blood descendants hiding in the dark.

The number of dragons began to decrease, and the "Black Emperor's" power returned to its peak.

To prevent the "White Emperor's" betrayal from repeating, the "Black Emperor" weakened the upper limit of its creations and produced a second batch of "Four Elemental Monarchs" with incomplete status.

A long time passed, and the great purge came again.

The "Four Elemental Monarchs" united all dragons, hybrids, and humans to kill the weakened "Black Emperor" on its throne.

In this battle, the Dragon race was severely damaged, and the human race took the opportunity to rise.

Time passed, the tide of the era never stops, and the time for change is coming.

The World Tree's remnant spirit reassembles, the Elemental Monarchs awaken, the "Black Emperor" returns...

【World Difficulty: lv1~lv49 (First Rank ~ Fifth Rank Top)】

【Dungeon Type: Conventional Dungeon】

【Basic Tasks: ① Master the Spirit Speech system or Alchemy system, ② Participate in an action to slay an Elemental Monarch.】

【Task Rewards: Task 1: E-rank World Origin Crystal · 1; Task 2: E-rank World Origin Crystal · 5.】

【Side Tasks: None, please explore by yourself.】

【Return Prerequisite: Complete one basic task to choose to return by yourself.】

"Black King, Bai Wang, Monarchs, God race, Dragon race, hybrids, human race?"

Beside the bustling city street, Meng Yi pushed up his glasses frame.

"Fifth-rank upper limit? That's impossible!"

"Must give the players and natives a little shock from a fish-frying expert."

The whole people of Earth are transcendent, 'spiritual energy' is recovering, and the level of opponents must keep up.

StarCraft elements: Tyranid branch, Necron dynasty, information life form, soul life form, energy life form, rule law God race, transcendent human race, faith heroic spirit...

Add a plant race, beast race, sea race, ancient virus race; there's no reason why Earth's animals, plants, microorganisms, and viruses wouldn't get stronger~

The hybrids who fight for power and act pretentious, the riddle-makers who act mysterious and superstitious—their good days are over~

——

Meng Yi · body-as-world, his style will be reflected more comprehensively, rather than just smashing pits and fighting and killing.

Teaser for the next act:

Beast race Rank 1 · Stellar UO · Great Sun Golden Crow

Information life form + Beast race life form = Digimon

... ===== CHAPTER 143 =====