Chapter 82: Grabbing is fast, it's so comfortable!

It is said that in ancient times, on the Xuan Huang Xuan Xuan Huang Da Shijie Shijie Great World grew a tree that was the ancestor of all trees, called the World Tree, standing at the center of heaven and earth, its branches and trunk penetrating the Immortal Realm, allowing cultivators to climb into the Immortal Realm via this tree.

At that time, the Foreign God Clan invaded the Xuan Huang Xuan Xuan Huang Da Shijie Shijie Great World; the Heavenly Emperor, Earthly Emperor, and Human Emperor led countless cultivators in resisting the God Clan.

The World Tree also guarded the Xuan Huang Xuan Xuan Huang Da Shijie Shijie.

Wherever its branches and leaves reached, any God Clan they touched would have all their divine power and essence drained, turning them into desiccated corpses.

Whenever the World Tree drained a God Clan member, it would bear a fruit—either a Divine Ability Fruit or a Longevity Fruit—depending on the God Clan's strength.

Any mortal or cultivator who consumes this fruit can instantly ascend to heaven, achieving Divine Ability and the Longevity Secret Realm.

How heaven-defying is that?

The World Tree can also be called the bane of the God Clan!

But now, Chen Zheng doesn't need the World Tree's trouble at all; he directly refines and absorbs a person, skin and bones, in an instant.

This is even more heaven-defying; no wonder it frightened the five black-clothed people into turning and fleeing.

Unfortunately, running was also a vain hope.

Chen Zheng caught up and refined one of them.

"Ah, so comfortable."

Chen Zheng's eyes showed an expression of enjoyment, and his mana continuously increased within his body.

Before advancing to the Divine Ability Triple Yuan Gang Realm, his mana was thirty-two thousand horses.

Refining the Water Gu Great Heavenly Demon King added four thousand horses.

Now absorbing this black-clothed person added another four thousand horses, bringing the total to exactly forty thousand.

The increase is certainly swift.

This is all thanks to the 'refine' character of the True Demon Ten Thousand Calamities Indestructible Body; anyone whose strength is much weaker than his can be instantly refined.

And they gain the opponent's cultivated Divine Ability.

Just after refining the Water Gu Great Heavenly Demon King, he obtained a Great Cutting Technique, which is one of the Three Thousand Great Dao.

As for those whose strength is equal to or greater than his, refining them is not so easy, requiring at least a quarter hour or several days, varying.

Moreover, as the number of people or things refined increases, it also nourishes himself, equivalent to undergoing tribulation, making the 'refine' character more profound.

That is, the more one refines, the stronger one becomes—a virtuous cycle.

Naturally, it is extremely comfortable.

But while Chen Zheng felt comfortable, the remaining four black-clothed people were furious, their eyes nearly bursting.

One of them, while raging across the sea, hysterically shouted: "Chen Zheng, you dare kill the most exalted great existence between heaven and earth, you utterly..."

"Still being arrogant, die!"

Chen Zheng's eyes turned cold; his body seemed to teleport, arriving directly before that person, he reached out and grabbed, his five fingers sinking deep into the person's forehead.

The 'refine' character activated!

That person didn't even have time to scream before being instantly refined.

"Two people died in one strike; if we go back, we can't explain to our superiors—only by breaking the seal can we fight Chen Zheng to the death!"

Seeing Chen Zheng kill another of their side in an instant, the goatee-bearded man, knowing escape was hopeless, gritted his teeth and shouted at the other two black-clothed men still fleeing wildly.

At the same time.

Black shackles appeared all over his body, all breaking, changing his appearance greatly, and a layer of bone armor emerged on his skin.

The armor was covered in bone spikes, resembling a demon's head, yet without any demonic aura; instead it exuded a noble, sacred aura, as if lofty above, ruling over all beings in the world like a 'god'.

Not bad, it is indeed a god, a God Clan member!

"Finally revealed your true form?"

Chen Zheng watched the suddenly transformed goatee-bearded man, feeling no surprise at all.

Earlier, when he saw the five people talking on the flying boat, he had already guessed.

Otherwise, besides the Foreign God Clan, who would be so arrogant as to constantly speak of conquering the Xuan Huang Xuan Xuan Huang Da Shijie Shijie Great World and making all heavens and myriad worlds kneel?

The God Clan indeed has the capital for such arrogance.

They had already invaded the Xuan Huang Xuan Xuan Huang Da Shijie Shijie Great World in ancient times; if not for the Three Emperors of Heaven, Earth, and Human, and powerful beings like the World Tree, they would have succeeded long ago.

Unfortunately, after that ancient battle, the Xuan Huang Xuan Xuan Huang Da Shijie Shijie Great World saw its immortals wither, the Three Emperors of Heaven, Earth, and Human all fell, and the World Tree was also cut down by the God Clan's supreme being wielding the Axe of Nature, its main trunk seized, while the other fragments scattered between heaven and earth.

Now, the God Clan has risen again.

The batch Chen Zheng encountered is merely the vanguard; if it were the true God Clan army, hardly anyone could resist.

The God Clan is too powerful.

It is also excessively favored by heaven.

From birth they possess the cultivation of the Shen Tong Mi Jing, enjoying a long lifespan; unlike cultivators, they never dare to relax, constantly striving against heaven for life.

Moreover, whether in flesh or the 'God's Power' within their bodies, it is far more abundant than cultivators' mana.

Without exaggeration, each God Clan member is invincible at the same level, crushing cultivators.

Furthermore, Heavenly Demons are war slaves created by the God Clan to help them oppress all races of heaven and earth.

However, in that ancient battle, the God Clan lost, and the Heavenly Demons seized the opportunity to break free from control.

"Kill!"

In the flash of Chen Zheng's thought, the remaining three black-clothed people had already completed their transformation.

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Their attacks are extremely simple; they do not emit their God's Power from their whole body, but instead highly condense it, wrapping it around their body surface to form a transparent film, giving the body a sense of transparent distortion.

The three are like three great killing flying swords, moving at a speed too fast for the naked eye to see, slashing at Chen Zheng's upper, middle, and lower positions around his body.

Like a True Person of Blessing and Longevity of the Heavenly Human Realm facing such attacks, their body would inevitably be cut into four sections!

But Chen Zheng felt no fear, nor did he unleash the strongest attack, the Divine Ability Great Calamity Ancient Cannon; that would be too wasteful, leaving not even scraps of a person.

He simply stretched out both hands, his long arms like a dragon, his five fingers shaped like eagle claws, and with a single, simple grab.

Puff—, puff—…

The two god‑race beings seemed to offer their heads, and Chen Zheng seized each of them by the forehead with one hand.

The last god‑race was no exception; he kicked it in the celestial spirit cover, and its five toes drove in to the root.

Blood spurted like a river!

"Ah…"

The three wore ferocious expressions, flailing limbs, trying to break free, yet between his two hands and a foot, Chen Zheng unleashed fierce flames that drenched them to the core.

Another instant of transmutation.

In an instant, all five god‑race beings were annihilated.

And Chen Zheng's magical power also reached fifty‑thousand horses.

"These shoes are far too worn out."

Chen Zheng glanced at the tattered shoe on his right foot, the five toes that had emerged, shook his head helplessly, and retrieved a new pair of shoes from the Chaos Space.

He'll need to get a pair of Dao‑instrument boots in the future; otherwise a single kick will blow the shoes off—very inconvenient.

Fortunately, while chasing the five god‑race beings, he had already left the Forty‑nine Islands, so he wasn't seen by the floating‑cloud women, preserving his image.

After changing shoes, Chen Zheng turned back toward the Forty‑nine Islands, simultaneously inspecting the loot obtained from the five god‑race beings.

These are five hexagonal rhombus crystal stones, also the god‑race's storage space, called Void Points.

Cultivators store items in Treasure Pouches, Qiankun Bags, and the like, forged from spatial crystal stones.

The god‑race is entirely different; their storage space is a Void Point innate in the depths of their mind.

It is a growth‑type space; as a god‑race ages, the Void Point in its mind expands, allowing more items to be stored.

Some god‑race that have lived for hundreds of thousands or millions of years can use their Void Points to swallow the sun, moon, and stars.

Swish!

Chen Zheng sliced the five Void Points with his yang‑qi, and instantly treasures, pills, and the like spouted out like a fountain from the cracks in the crystal stones—swords, spears, halberds, all dazzling.

"Not bad."

He gave a brief look, nodded in satisfaction, and waved his hand to store the many treasures back into the Chaos Space.

Most of this batch are spirit artifacts.

There are only five treasure artifacts, but their grades are decent: two superior, three intermediate.

Including the Great Swamp Sword obtained earlier from Fu Shou Zhenren, Chen Zheng already possesses three superior treasure artifacts.

Adding the Seven Demons Gourd from Wang Mo Ling, the Wind and Thunder Banner and other treasures from Yao Dian and others, and now three intermediate artifacts from the god‑race, the count of intermediate treasure artifacts reaches seven.

Three superior, seven intermediate, and several lower‑grade; after reaching the Exquisite Blessed Land, he believes he can exchange for many White Sun Pills and boost his strength further.

Ordinary cultivators like Jiang Lingkong and Fu Shou Zhenren, with four or five levels of divine power, would have to struggle a lifetime with little hope of attaining such wealth.

Chen Zheng only stepped out once and obtained it.

He can't help but exclaim, "Stealing is fast!"

(End of Chapter)